History Fridge / MetroidDread

* The X Parasites look more like floating gummy sweets than they do in ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion''. Since Samus's metroid DNA is manifesting itself more strongly in ''Dread'', there is a chance that she sees the X as a [[AlienLunch tasty snack]].

* With theis game's release, comes a genius little detail that ties the MercuryStream ''Metroid''s back to ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', even foreshadowing the climax of the game itself. Remember how, to get the Fully Powered Suit, Samus had to pass the Ruins Test in Chozodia? She had to prove herself in combat against a living mural known as the God of War. A mural designed after a valiant Chozo warrior, that looks noticeably different from both Old Bird and Grey Voice, and appears to be a Mawkin. A Chozo deity that attacks with a lightning power that's seemingly more mystical than scientific. An elite Chozo warrior that tests Samus' might in combat, fully ready to kill her if she fails the test, to determine whether she's worthy of its power. A Mawkin using what appears to be a lightning Aeion, considered a god due to its combat power... sound like anyone we know? The Ruins Test is either what Raven Beak sees himself as, or perhaps even an effigy of Raven Beak himself. Samus already surpassed him, right at the very start of her career.

* Why does the Quiet Robe X reactivate the E.M.M.I. units when it turns up to help her at the very end? Some thought this was just the X-Parasite trying to spite Samus, yet it's at complete odds with its later actions. What it's really doing is realizing that Samus is going to ''need'' those power-ups contained within them, re-enabling Raven Beak's "trial" because it also knows this will potentially awaken her Metroid power. Quiet Robe thoroughly knows Raven Beak's plans and operations, and whether because it's his knowledge that the X version is using to spite its captor despite the risk a Metroid Samus poses to it, or because Quiet Robe's mind pushes through, it knows it needs Samus to finish her mission one way or another.

* Raven Beak being revealed to have impersonated ADAM throughout the game adds another layer of context to Samus’ unbridled rage at the mad Chozo. While the ending shows that ADAM was still safe and intact waiting for Samus, we the player and Samus are not aware of this fact yet. As far as Samus knew, Raven Beak destroyed ADAM shortly after their first encounter on Artaria while she was still conscious, meaning she had lost her old friend and mentor a second time, and here was his killer standing right in front of her, having manipulated her by using ADAM’s voice into doing his bidding. Small wonder she snapped on top of everything else that Raven Beak did.

* Ridley's [[AbsenteeActor conspicuous absence]] in the game makes symbolic sense as well as continuity sense (in that Ridley's genetic material is wiped out by ''Fusion''). Ridley died in ''Super Metroid'' along with Mother Brain, and his appearances in ''Other M'' and ''Fusion'' are just copies of him acting as a ghost to haunt Samus. Once Samus realizes that [[KilledOffForReal Ridley is truly gone]] and the one she encounters is just a clone, Ridley's relevance fades away, with ''Fusion'' acting as a whimpering end to the Cunning God of Death as Samus brushes him off as just a corpse and later another X Parasite boss to destroy. This is also why Samus only faces the [[OutOfFocus often-overshadowed Kraid]] in ''Dread'', because he represents what Samus now thinks of the Space Pirates: Pathetic, pitiful creatures on a leash that are beneath her. But while Ridley and Mother Brain no longer return, the evils they represent still live on in Raven Beak, whose personality is a hybrid of the two.

* Raven Beak is a despicable being, but it seems odd that Samus never even gives him the time of day -- while she has ample reason to never sympathize with him or his plan, the levels of visceral disgust she manages seem off for someone who wants to connect to a species she considers her own, or at least her family. But Samus is part-Metroid, which turn out to have genetic hard-coding that makes them react aggressively around Mawkin. By the time she's draining him and his ship, she hates him out of instinct as much as everything he's done. The same applies the other way for Quiet Robe when they first appear: Samus's conscious mind is completely on edge, so she keeps her arm cannon up. But she doesn't scramble for distance or get on her feet immediately as a Thoha tribesman doesn't register as an instinctual threat.

* Once Raven Beak releases the X Parasites from Elun, it's a matter of ''moments'' before every lifeform on the planet has been infected and copied by the X. Samus couldn't have been in Elun for more than an hour, meaning the speed at which X can assimilate an entire planet is ''staggering''. Even more impressive, however, may be the Mawkin's ability to quarantine them in the first place. Just how powerful and coordinated were the Mawkin in their prime?

* It's common knowledge that the silhouette of Samus' Fusion Suit helmet resembles a Metroid, and that the three circles on her back symbolize their nuclei. A new addition in ''Dread'' is the facemask covering her mouth and nose under her helmet - combined with the sharp bottom of her visor, it's actually reminiscent of a hooked bird-of-prey beak, like a Chozo.

* Given the Chozo's tendencies towards [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian Egyptianesque]] art and architecture, it seems like the peaceful, intellectual Thoha tribe might have been named after the birdlike Egyptian god of wisdom, Thoth.

* The penultimate boss of the game is Raven Beak’s right hand man, an Chozo Elite in golden armor, who midway through the boss fight is revealed to be another X-infected host. On its own this may not seem much, until you realize that the Chozo-X is guarding the entrance to the transport pod leading to Raven Beak’s ship, which would seem odd given how careful Raven Beak has been in order to avoid infection...Unless he has somehow discovered a means to tame and control at least some of the X Parasites that have infected his Mawkin brethren into serving as his most elite soldiers. This is even hinted in one of the unlockable images shown in the art gallery which depicts Raven Beak and a group of Mawkin Chozo standing ominously as one of their own is being infected by an X Parasite. While the other Mawkin are clearly horrified at what is happening to their fellow warrior, Raven Beak looks to be calmly observing the infected Chozo as if he has found yet another weapon that he can use for his army.

* There's something poetic about Samus defeating Raven Beak by exploiting a structural integrity in his armor - she's been blowing holes in doors and alloys throughout the entire ''Metroid'' series. Speed Booster Blocks? Open with Speed Booster. Raven Beak's helmet? Open with ''unbridled Metroid fury''.

* The Mawkin laboratory in Hanubia implies that ''every'' organism on ZDR was created (or otherwise experimented on) by the tribe to create bioweapons. Was there ever any life on ZDR to begin with? If so, how badly did they mess up the planet's ecosystem?

* There's something poetic about Samus defeating Raven Beak by exploiting a structural integrity in his armor - she's been blowing holes in doors and alloys throughout the entire ''Metroid'' series. Speed Booster Blocks? Open with Speed Booster. Super Missile Door? Open with Super Missile. Raven Beak's helmet? Open with ''unbridled Metroid fury''.

* There's something poetic about Samus defeating Raven Beak by exploiting a structural integrity in his armor - she's been blowing holes in doors and alloys for her entire stay on ZDR. It's kind of the ''Metroid'' series staple. Speed Booster Blocks? Break with speed booster. Super Missile Door? Break with Super Missile. Raven Beak's helmet? Break with ''unbridled Metroid fury''.

* There's something poetic about Samus defeating Raven Beak by exploiting a structural integrity in his armor - she's been blowing holes in doors and alloys for her entire stay on ZDR. It's kind of the ''Metroid'' series staple.

* Having choked out Samus after their battle, Raven Beak repeats his proverbial {{catchphrase}}, "''hadar... sen olmen''" or "power is everything." Moments later, Samus takes his words as advice and fully draws on her power as a Metroid to absolutely ''wreck'' his shit.

* Having choked out Samus after their battle, Raven Beak repeats his proverbial {{catchphrase}}, "''hadar... sen olmen''" or "power is everything." Moments later, Samus takes his words as advice and fully draws on her power as a Metroid to absolutely wreck his shit.

** ADAM treats the E.M.M.I. Zones like it's a natural part of the E.M.M.I. protocol even though the first E.M.M.I. is encountered outside of the zone and it's evident that the E.M.M.I. zones were created by Raven Beak rather than the Galactic Federation. This is one of your earliest hint you are not talking to ADAM at all, but rather Raven Beak.

** In hindsight, the final E.M.M.I. (07PB) is also the one where Raven Beak likely intended to end his test upon Samus one way or another. Shortly before you face it, Samus has her encounter with an escaped lab experiment and visibly has to resist giving into her Metroid instincts... something that the game makes a point of showing Raven Beak watching. Shortly after that, the final E.M.M.I. forcibly puts Samus in a do-or-die situation where she either gives into her Metroid instincts and drains it, or she is dead. You're not given any chance whatsoever to evade unlike the other E.M.M.I. and this would suggest that Raven Beak decided to give Samus one final push to either get her to show her powers or die.

* If the player sequence breaks past the Kraid boss fight, they can progress all the way until the X outbreak and further. Returning to Kraid's lair in Cataris, his roars can still be heard in the rooms preceding his chamber... but upon entering his room, he's ''already gone''. This time those roars weren't just him having a tantrum, they were him unsuccessfully fighting off the X!