Metroid: Difference between revisions

* [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]]: Beginning with ''Super'', most [[Final Boss|Final Bosses]] have a weapon used only against them.

* [[Emergency Weapon]]: The stun pistol in ''Zero Mission''.

* [[Eternal Engine]]: Tourian, and most of Fusion.

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Subverted in the manga. Ridley at first seems to avoid trying to kill Samus, but was instead lowering her guard. [[Complete Monster|She's 3 years old]] [[Up to Eleven|at the time.]]

* [[Rasputinian Death]]: Crocomire in ''Super Metroid''.

* [[Recurring Boss]]: SA-X in Fusion, though it's not really a boss until near the end of the game. Ridley may be a better example, considering he appears in almost every game, and twice in ''Corruption.'' Also, {{spoiler|Metroid Prime, the final boss of its titular game, comes back as Dark Samus for the second and third games of the trilogy}}.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: In the manga, Samus' pet Ponchi appears to be about half squirrel, half rabbit, and ''all'' adorable. Also, the Etecoons <ref>(monkey-koala hybrids)</ref> and the Dachoras <ref>ostrich-style creatures</ref> in ''Super'' and ''Fusion''. Played with [http://www.metroid-database.com/mom/choogle.jpg the Little Birdie] in ''Other M'', which turns out to be a [[Killer Rabbit]]. {{spoiler|Specifically, '''''RIDLEY.'''''}}

* [[Roar Before Beating]]: Some of the bosses do this.

** There's also Draygon, the boss of Maridia.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: ''Fusion'' sure seemed to leave one hell of a sequel hook, what with {{spoiler|Samus having ''illegally blown up a Federation outpost'' and become something way other than human. Sure, Samus had her reasons, but all the implications in-game are that the Fed will be ''pissed as shit'' with her now.}}

* [[Sequence Breaking]]: Possibly one of the most well-known examples.

** Even after ''seventeen years'', [[Serial Escalation|people are still discovering new tricks]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMuXUvnk6Hg like this.] (See 14:55 in the video)

* [[Starfish Aliens]]: The main ones are X Parasites, the Ing, and Metroids, but others tend to pop up.

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Samus.

* [[Sub Boss]]: ''Return of Samus'' is the only game that doesn't have at least one.

** The tougher Metroids in that one could qualify.

* [[The Federation|The Galactic Federation]]

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: See [[Samus Is a Girl]] above.

** In most games, the Ice Beam is a useful weapon, but not that powerful. In Metroid Fusion, Samus develops a weakness to cold and loses the Ice Beam. It becomes a weapon of pure murder when used against her, and {{spoiler|it's the last weapon she gets in the game.}}

* [[Trauma-Induced Amnesia]]: {{spoiler|Happens to Samus in the manga. The trauma of watching her homeworld being destroyed and watching her parents die is essentially forgotten until Ridley forces Samus to remember what happened in their first encounter many years later. After remembering the event, Samus suffers a horrendous [[Heroic BSOD]] and begs her comrades to kill her.}}

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