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[[WMG: During the development stages of Other M, Anthony was originally supposed to be Adam]]
This explains why Anthony calls her princess; the nickname was a substitute after he was demoted to a lesser role. During a flashback, Samus mentions how she was offended by most people calling her out for a woman except for Adam but she takes Anthony's remarks playfully as well. Consideirng his friendly nature, the nickname was satirical so Samus didn't mind. Overall, she seems to have a much closer relationship to Anthony than she does to Adam. This explains why there is very little to cement the relationship to the current Adam and Samus. Anthony was meant to be the original Adam. Thus, when he was replaced with the current Adam, the team was forced to insert excessive narration to reveal Adam and Samus's relationship, demoting the development between Anthony and Samus.
* Except that concept art shows otherwise. Samus is described as socially inept or awkward as her parents were killed when she was only three and her childhood was largely spent being trained as a warrior among non-humans of which she was only close to one, whom she thought of as a grandfather figure. She didn't begin to live with humans again until she turned 14 when she would join the Galactic Federation and befriend Ian Malkovich, Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich.
This explains why Anthony calls her princess; the nickname was a substitute after he was demoted to a lesser role. During a flashback, Samus mentions how she was offended by most people calling her out for a woman except for Adam but she takes Anthony's remarks playfully as well. Consideirng his friendly nature, the nickname was satirical so Samus didn't mind. Overall, she seems to have a much closer relationship to Anthony than she does to Adam. This explains why there is very little to cement the relationship to the current Adam and Samus. Anthony was meant to be the original Adam. Thus, when he was replaced with the current Adam, the team was forced to insert excessive narration to reveal Adam and Samus's relationship, demoting the development between Anthony and Samus.
* Except that concept art shows otherwise. Samus is described as socially inept or awkward as her parents were killed when she was only three and her childhood was largely spent being trained as a warrior among non-humans of which she was only close to one, whom she thought of as a grandfather figure. She didn't begin to live with humans again until she turned 14 when she would join the Galactic Federation and befriend Ian Malkovich, Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich.
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[[WMG: During the development stages of Other M, Anthony was originally supposed to be Adam]]
This explains why Anthony calls her princess; the nickname was a substitute after he was demoted to a lesser role. During a flashback, Samus mentions how she was offended by most people calling her out for a woman except for Adam but she takes Anthony's remarks playfully as well. Consideirng his friendly nature, the nickname was satirical soSamus didn't mind. Overall, suffer from character derailment in Other M]]
Samus has always been a delicate flower who wants a big strong man to protect her, but sheseems wants to have a much closer relationship to Anthony than she does to Adam. This explains why there is very little to cement the relationship make sure that man will be up to the current Adam job. Proof? She only gets out of her suit and Samus. Anthony was meant shows some fanservice if you beat the game really fast or get all the power ups, thus you have proven you are capable to be the original Adam. Thus, when he was replaced with the current Adam, the team was forced to insert excessive narration to reveal her! Adam and is simply the only non player who has accomplished such a feat. This of course assumes Samus can ignore the fourth wall, but FanDumb people like me just really need a good excuse to stomach how she was portrayed in that game...
* So Samus is a BestHerToBedHer type? That's... actually not so difficult to stomach.
* At the possible risk of encouraging some fanfic author with an overheated imagination to write really bad slashfic which I will thankfully never see, I wish to point out that between that one cutscene where Ridley temporarily disables Samus'srelationship, demoting the development between Anthony suit by poking her with his, uh, tail, and Samus.
* Exceptthat concept art shows otherwise. Samus is described as socially inept or awkward as ''other'' cutscene where Adam temporarily disables Samus's suit by ''shooting her parents were killed when she in the back'', the idea presented above ''really'' doesn't seem like it was only three and her childhood was largely spent being trained as a warrior among non-humans of which she was only close to one, whom she thought of as a grandfather figure. She didn't begin to live with humans again until all the way through.
** Somewhat supporting the theory that sheturned 14 when she is a BestHerToBedHer type is that canonically, we never see Samus actually ''lose'' to anyone who theoretically would join be interested in her as a romantic partner - even in the Galactic Federation odd chance that Ridley [[FoeYay does have feelings for her]], she never loses to him. However, I was always under the impression that the reason she suited down was the same that someone would kick off their shoes after a long day of work - she's tired and befriend Ian Malkovich, Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich.
just wants to relax.
This explains why Anthony calls her princess; the nickname was a substitute after he was demoted to a lesser role. During a flashback, Samus mentions how she was offended by most people calling her out for a woman except for Adam but she takes Anthony's remarks playfully as well. Consideirng his friendly nature, the nickname was satirical so
Samus has always been a delicate flower who wants a big strong man to protect her, but she
* So Samus is a BestHerToBedHer type? That's... actually not so difficult to stomach.
* At the possible risk of encouraging some fanfic author with an overheated imagination to write really bad slashfic which I will thankfully never see, I wish to point out that between that one cutscene where Ridley temporarily disables Samus's
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[[WMG: During the development stages of Other M, Anthony was originally supposed to be Adam]]
This explains why Anthony calls her princess; the nickname was a substitute after he was demoted to a lesser role. During a flashback, Samus mentions how she was offended by most people calling her out for a woman except for Adam but she takes Anthony's remarks playfully as well. Consideirng his friendly nature, the nickname was satirical so Samus didn't mind. Overall, she seems to have a much closer relationship to Anthony than she does to Adam. This explains why there is very little to cement the relationship to the current Adam and Samus. Anthony was meant to be the original Adam. Thus, when he was replaced with the current Adam, the team was forced to insert excessive narration to reveal Adam and Samus's relationship, demoting the development between Anthony and Samus.
* Except that concept art shows otherwise. Samus is described as socially inept or awkward as her parents were killed when she was only three and her childhood was largely spent being trained as a warrior among non-humans of which she was only close to one, whom she thought of as a grandfather figure. She didn't begin to live with humans again until she turned 14 when she would join the Galactic Federation and befriend Ian Malkovich, Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich.
[[WMG: By the next gamethis Samus' new characterization will all go out the window.]]
This explains why Anthony calls her princess; the nickname was a substitute after he was demoted to a lesser role. During a flashback, Samus mentions how she was offended by most people calling her out for a woman except for Adam but she takes Anthony's remarks playfully as well. Consideirng his friendly nature, the nickname was satirical so Samus didn't mind. Overall, she seems to have a much closer relationship to Anthony than she does to Adam. This explains why there is very little to cement the relationship to the current Adam and Samus. Anthony was meant to be the original Adam. Thus, when he was replaced with the current Adam, the team was forced to insert excessive narration to reveal Adam and Samus's relationship, demoting the development between Anthony and Samus.
* Except that concept art shows otherwise. Samus is described as socially inept or awkward as her parents were killed when she was only three and her childhood was largely spent being trained as a warrior among non-humans of which she was only close to one, whom she thought of as a grandfather figure. She didn't begin to live with humans again until she turned 14 when she would join the Galactic Federation and befriend Ian Malkovich, Anthony Higgs and Adam Malkovich.
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[[WMG: [[NotSoStoic Samus' BSOD in ''Other M'' wasn't the first]], [[SanitySlippage it was the worst]]]]
According to Sakamoto, the ''Other M'' Samus is canon. That would imply that she has a meltdown every time she sees Ridley, we're just too far removed to see it (kinda like ''Literature/CiaphasCain''; everyone thinks that noise he's making is a BattleCry, when it's actually him doing a really good job of disguising a GirlyScream). ''Other M'' was the first time she has a voice actor. How do we know she isn't hissing obcenities through her teeth whenever she's fighting him? Her freezeup wasn't "Oh God, it's ''him!''", it was "Oh, God, He's never going to stay dead!" She's fought him almost twice per game so far (give or take a game or so). She's probably had nightmares about him for weeks afterwards, each and every time. These little cracks finally spilt out when she met him yet again on Bottle Ship. She failed her SAN check due to being so emotionally vulneable and stressed out. She didn't lose it in ''Fusion'' because she knew that Ridley was a clone/zombie, and by absorbing the Core X mimicking him, it would be like taking a big fat bite out of his heart so she's finally rid of the fucker. Sort of a "last hurrah!" deal.
* This actually makes some sense since - in every game past ''Super'', when they started to get enough room for some characterization - she's at least hesitated or frozen for a few seconds when encountering Ridley (or, in the case of ''Corruption'', she went berserk - the way she finished off Meta Ridley in that game was not the act of someone thinking rationally, but looked to this troper more like her screaming at him to just stay dead).
** I can ''sort of'' buy that. On the other hand, when she first found herself about to face Ridley, she broke down badly enough to beg Gray Voice, the Chozo who'd raised her, to kill her before Ridley got to her, so...
* The original Japanese version of the game makes the reason for her [=BSOD=] a lot more clear, it kinda got muddled by Sakamoto's [[ControlFreak meddling]] in the English translation. Basically, Samus' character arc in this game is about her learning to deal with her problems in a more mature way, and realizing that firepower can't solve all her problems. This comes to a head with Ridley, who puts the final nail in the coffin that Samus ''can't be rid of him''. After blowing up Zebes in ''Super'', she was sure that he was gone for good. But here he is, as dangerous as ever. She feels utterly powerless in this moment, like a child (she literally turns into one in the flashback), and can't process her frustration, trauma, and sadness all coming back at once. So yes, in a way this was just the culmination of every fight Samus has had with Ridley, and resulted in her coming to terms with her inability to fully erase the past and realizing she just needs to accept her weaknesses.
[[WMG: Samus's Heroic [=BSoD=] in Other M is justified, because Ridley was only ever vaporized once.]]
The justification is based on a number of sub-[=WMG=]s. First of all, integrating mechanical components into dead bodies to return them to life is a common occurrence in the Metroid universe, or at least the Space Pirate empire and Samus knows it. It's already been done at least once with Mother Brain. Second, despite Ridley's body apparently vaporizing when Samus defeats it in the original ''Metroid'' game, that is not the case, only doing so due to graphical capabilities. Ridley's body survived, and was eventually recovered by Space Pirates following the conclusion of the first game, eventually integrating the mechanical parts that would turn it into Meta Ridley. Notice that whenever the games had the graphical abilities, Ridley was never shown completely blowing up. In ''Metroid Prime'' and ''Metroid Prime 3'', your victory caused parts of it to start bursting, but the last we see of Ridley each time you beat it is the dragon falling off screen.
These allow for two things. First of all, every time Ridley was defeated between ''Metroid'' and ''Metroid Prime 3'', its body was never fully destroyed, and Samus knew it would eventually be rebuilt, not being surprised upon facing Ridley in the next game. Second of all, that means Ridley only ever truly died once: when his body was vaporized in the Zebes destruction at the end of ''Super Metroid'', the only time Ridley is ever caught in a massive explosion that vaporizes all it touches. This is why Samus went crazy upon seeing a revived Ridley in ''Other M''. While every other time she killed Ridley, she knew he'd come back, his death in ''Super Metroid'' was the first time she truly believed he could never come back, since the planetary destruction vaporized his body. Thus, when he appeared in the Bottle Ship, she freaked out, believing there was no possible way he could come back to life after what happened following their last face-off.
[[WMG: Samus's CharacterDerailment in ''Other M'' was an extended high-functioning HeroicBSOD.]]
* Samus isn't a fragile flower or dependent on others most of the time, but Other M picks up right after Samus has taken a real emotional sledgehammer blow when the baby Metroid sacrificed itself for her. The reason Samus seems to lack her independent spirit and stoicism implied by the other games is that she's hit an emotional nadir from losing the only "family" she had for the ''third time in a row'', only now she's not only lost her biological parents and the Chozo, but the closest thing she's ever likely to have to a child. Under that level of depression, she's still able to function but everything about her is just phoning it in; she's lost the ability to muster initiative and operate alone and unsupported like normal, and she tries to deal with it by trying to surround herself with people, like Adam, and to get along with the one remaining parental figure she has left even though Adam's orders restrict her ability to get things done. The depression only deepens when Ridley revives; Samus had been ''sure'' this time she was finally rid of him forever, but now she sees that she can't seem to keep anyone she cares about from dying while the monster that ate her parents ''won't stay dead'' no matter what she does. Hence, freezing up and needing help. In the next Metroid game, she will be able to overcome the depression and undergo CharacterRerailment.
** This is certainly plausible, seeing as Samus does show a number of textbook signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the game. She may have this CharacterRerailment in Metroid Fusion, during which she shows signs of being a DeathSeeker and slightly unhinged before rising to the occasion and completing her rogue mission at the end with renewed resolve to stay alive.
** Dissenting opinion: She sure didn't seem to have any trouble handing the Metroid neonate over to the Federation for an extended and probably not too pleasant spell as a subject of renewable energy research, and there's no suggestion that, had Ridley's visit to Ceres Station not necessitated her hasty return, she intended to see the neonate again ''ever''. While it seems to have regarded Samus as its mother, that's no reason to assume Samus necessarily regarded it as her child.
*** Perhaps Samus didn't start to view it as a surrogate child until after it gave its life for her, making her realize that its affection for her was genuine and throwing her into a form of survivor's guilt.
** And this is something like, what, the twelfth time Samus has fought Ridley in whatever form? And she had a major PTSD breakdown the ''first'' time, and overcame it with Chozo help, and went on to deliver to Ridley the first of many near-death experiences he received at her hands. If she were going to have trouble with the way he kept on not quite all the way dying, why would it take so long to sink in?
*** Because Ridley [[KilledOffForReal truly died]] in Super Metroid, which resulted in [[NoKillLikeOverkill him being blown up into bit, later accompanied by an interplanetary explosion that vaporish what's left of him.]] After losing the Baby Metroid and her adopted home planet, as well as nearly jeopardizing the entire safety of the galaxy, Samus would at least take comfort that at least her arch-enemy is gone for good until she encounters the Ridley's clone in the Pyrosphere, who seems to have the exact same sadistic personality as the original. Not to mention it's hard to lose fear and anxiety permanently, even when you've overcome it several times.
According to Sakamoto, the ''Other M'' Samus is canon. That would imply that she has a meltdown every time she sees Ridley, we're just too far removed to see it (kinda like ''Literature/CiaphasCain''; everyone thinks that noise he's making is a BattleCry, when it's actually him doing a really good job of disguising a GirlyScream). ''Other M'' was the first time she has a voice actor. How do we know she isn't hissing obcenities through her teeth whenever she's fighting him? Her freezeup wasn't "Oh God, it's ''him!''", it was "Oh, God, He's never going to stay dead!" She's fought him almost twice per game so far (give or take a game or so). She's probably had nightmares about him for weeks afterwards, each and every time. These little cracks finally spilt out when she met him yet again on Bottle Ship. She failed her SAN check due to being so emotionally vulneable and stressed out. She didn't lose it in ''Fusion'' because she knew that Ridley was a clone/zombie, and by absorbing the Core X mimicking him, it would be like taking a big fat bite out of his heart so she's finally rid of the fucker. Sort of a "last hurrah!" deal.
* This actually makes some sense since - in every game past ''Super'', when they started to get enough room for some characterization - she's at least hesitated or frozen for a few seconds when encountering Ridley (or, in the case of ''Corruption'', she went berserk - the way she finished off Meta Ridley in that game was not the act of someone thinking rationally, but looked to this troper more like her screaming at him to just stay dead).
** I can ''sort of'' buy that. On the other hand, when she first found herself about to face Ridley, she broke down badly enough to beg Gray Voice, the Chozo who'd raised her, to kill her before Ridley got to her, so...
* The original Japanese version of the game makes the reason for her [=BSOD=] a lot more clear, it kinda got muddled by Sakamoto's [[ControlFreak meddling]] in the English translation. Basically, Samus' character arc in this game is about her learning to deal with her problems in a more mature way, and realizing that firepower can't solve all her problems. This comes to a head with Ridley, who puts the final nail in the coffin that Samus ''can't be rid of him''. After blowing up Zebes in ''Super'', she was sure that he was gone for good. But here he is, as dangerous as ever. She feels utterly powerless in this moment, like a child (she literally turns into one in the flashback), and can't process her frustration, trauma, and sadness all coming back at once. So yes, in a way this was just the culmination of every fight Samus has had with Ridley, and resulted in her coming to terms with her inability to fully erase the past and realizing she just needs to accept her weaknesses.
[[WMG: Samus's Heroic [=BSoD=] in Other M is justified, because Ridley was only ever vaporized once.]]
The justification is based on a number of sub-[=WMG=]s. First of all, integrating mechanical components into dead bodies to return them to life is a common occurrence in the Metroid universe, or at least the Space Pirate empire and Samus knows it. It's already been done at least once with Mother Brain. Second, despite Ridley's body apparently vaporizing when Samus defeats it in the original ''Metroid'' game, that is not the case, only doing so due to graphical capabilities. Ridley's body survived, and was eventually recovered by Space Pirates following the conclusion of the first game, eventually integrating the mechanical parts that would turn it into Meta Ridley. Notice that whenever the games had the graphical abilities, Ridley was never shown completely blowing up. In ''Metroid Prime'' and ''Metroid Prime 3'', your victory caused parts of it to start bursting, but the last we see of Ridley each time you beat it is the dragon falling off screen.
These allow for two things. First of all, every time Ridley was defeated between ''Metroid'' and ''Metroid Prime 3'', its body was never fully destroyed, and Samus knew it would eventually be rebuilt, not being surprised upon facing Ridley in the next game. Second of all, that means Ridley only ever truly died once: when his body was vaporized in the Zebes destruction at the end of ''Super Metroid'', the only time Ridley is ever caught in a massive explosion that vaporizes all it touches. This is why Samus went crazy upon seeing a revived Ridley in ''Other M''. While every other time she killed Ridley, she knew he'd come back, his death in ''Super Metroid'' was the first time she truly believed he could never come back, since the planetary destruction vaporized his body. Thus, when he appeared in the Bottle Ship, she freaked out, believing there was no possible way he could come back to life after what happened following their last face-off.
[[WMG: Samus's CharacterDerailment in ''Other M'' was an extended high-functioning HeroicBSOD.]]
* Samus isn't a fragile flower or dependent on others most of the time, but Other M picks up right after Samus has taken a real emotional sledgehammer blow when the baby Metroid sacrificed itself for her. The reason Samus seems to lack her independent spirit and stoicism implied by the other games is that she's hit an emotional nadir from losing the only "family" she had for the ''third time in a row'', only now she's not only lost her biological parents and the Chozo, but the closest thing she's ever likely to have to a child. Under that level of depression, she's still able to function but everything about her is just phoning it in; she's lost the ability to muster initiative and operate alone and unsupported like normal, and she tries to deal with it by trying to surround herself with people, like Adam, and to get along with the one remaining parental figure she has left even though Adam's orders restrict her ability to get things done. The depression only deepens when Ridley revives; Samus had been ''sure'' this time she was finally rid of him forever, but now she sees that she can't seem to keep anyone she cares about from dying while the monster that ate her parents ''won't stay dead'' no matter what she does. Hence, freezing up and needing help. In the next Metroid game, she will be able to overcome the depression and undergo CharacterRerailment.
** This is certainly plausible, seeing as Samus does show a number of textbook signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in the game. She may have this CharacterRerailment in Metroid Fusion, during which she shows signs of being a DeathSeeker and slightly unhinged before rising to the occasion and completing her rogue mission at the end with renewed resolve to stay alive.
** Dissenting opinion: She sure didn't seem to have any trouble handing the Metroid neonate over to the Federation for an extended and probably not too pleasant spell as a subject of renewable energy research, and there's no suggestion that, had Ridley's visit to Ceres Station not necessitated her hasty return, she intended to see the neonate again ''ever''. While it seems to have regarded Samus as its mother, that's no reason to assume Samus necessarily regarded it as her child.
*** Perhaps Samus didn't start to view it as a surrogate child until after it gave its life for her, making her realize that its affection for her was genuine and throwing her into a form of survivor's guilt.
** And this is something like, what, the twelfth time Samus has fought Ridley in whatever form? And she had a major PTSD breakdown the ''first'' time, and overcame it with Chozo help, and went on to deliver to Ridley the first of many near-death experiences he received at her hands. If she were going to have trouble with the way he kept on not quite all the way dying, why would it take so long to sink in?
*** Because Ridley [[KilledOffForReal truly died]] in Super Metroid, which resulted in [[NoKillLikeOverkill him being blown up into bit, later accompanied by an interplanetary explosion that vaporish what's left of him.]] After losing the Baby Metroid and her adopted home planet, as well as nearly jeopardizing the entire safety of the galaxy, Samus would at least take comfort that at least her arch-enemy is gone for good until she encounters the Ridley's clone in the Pyrosphere, who seems to have the exact same sadistic personality as the original. Not to mention it's hard to lose fear and anxiety permanently, even when you've overcome it several times.
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[[WMG: The Samus in Other M isn't actually Samus]]
So a lot has been discussed about the inconsistencies presented with Other M- the timeline, the way the suit works, the completely bonkers ways that Samus acts.
However...
There are periods of time that take place in between Prime 1, Prime 2, Prime 3...
Dark Samus is going to be around in those periods of time.
So you're a Samus Clone. You have only the most fragmented, rudimentary memories- the ones that stick out the most, but you're still, in your mind, Samus. You get in your Samus ship (take note that Dark Samus does have a spaceship) and you hear a distress call...
So now you've got Other M. She acts that way not because she's the real Samus, but because it's Dark Samus reacting to having these memories now jumping out that she is just being exposed to. She's not the real bounty hunter, she's less than two years old. The real Samus is out there having other adventures while Dark Samus is busy going crazy on a Bottle Ship.
* Problem is that, canonically, Metroid Prime takes place right after the original/Zero Mission, and Prime 3 takes place before Metroid II.
** And making the Samus in Other M a clone thus removes that big continuity problem Nintendo created.
* Wow you fanboys need to chill out, lol. Just accept the story.
So a lot has been discussed about the inconsistencies presented with Other M- the timeline, the way the suit works, the completely bonkers ways that Samus acts.
However...
There are periods of time that take place in between Prime 1, Prime 2, Prime 3...
Dark Samus is going to be around in those periods of time.
So you're a Samus Clone. You have only the most fragmented, rudimentary memories- the ones that stick out the most, but you're still, in your mind, Samus. You get in your Samus ship (take note that Dark Samus does have a spaceship) and you hear a distress call...
So now you've got Other M. She acts that way not because she's the real Samus, but because it's Dark Samus reacting to having these memories now jumping out that she is just being exposed to. She's not the real bounty hunter, she's less than two years old. The real Samus is out there having other adventures while Dark Samus is busy going crazy on a Bottle Ship.
* Problem is that, canonically, Metroid Prime takes place right after the original/Zero Mission, and Prime 3 takes place before Metroid II.
** And making the Samus in Other M a clone thus removes that big continuity problem Nintendo created.
* Wow you fanboys need to chill out, lol. Just accept the story.
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She's obviously been having a less-than stellar couple of weeks, what's one more humiliation on the pile. (this also has the effect that that while her characterization is her own, it's a bit [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated]] for the plot.
* It's not really exaggerated, you (by which I mean everyone who has a problem with the Other M side of Samus) just figured she was a hardened, unfeeling person.
** [[UnfortunateImplications Because we all know the only personalities a woman can have are "submissive emotional/psychological trainwreck" or "hardened and unfeeling."]]
She's obviously been having a less-than stellar couple of weeks, what's one more humiliation on the pile. (this also has the effect that that while her characterization is her own, it's a bit [[CharacterExaggeration exaggerated]] for the plot.
* It's not really exaggerated, you (by which I mean everyone who has a problem with the Other M side of Samus) just figured she was a hardened, unfeeling person.
** [[UnfortunateImplications Because we all know the only personalities a woman can have are "submissive emotional/psychological trainwreck" or "hardened and unfeeling."]]
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* Somewhat confirmed, since Samus could have easily disobeyed Adam at any point. She even starts authorizing her own equipment later into the game. The reason she was listening to Adam was because she wanted to prove a point to herself - see the Analysis page for more info.
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* Somewhat confirmed, since Samus could have easily disobeyed Adam at any point. She even starts authorizing her own equipment later into the game. The reason she was listening to Adam in the first place was because she wanted to prove a point to herself - see the Analysis page for more info.
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Even in the beginning Samus is equipped with '''far''' less than her usual arsenal, maybe she just wants to give herself more of a challenge? when Adam shows up she decides that she will put the decision on him because she can't trust herself not to get pissed and equip everything and break her run?
* Somewhat confirmed, since Samus could have easily disobeyed Adam at any point. She even starts authorizing her own equipment later into the game. The reason she was listening to Adam was because she wanted to prove a point to herself - see the Analysis page for more info.
Even in the beginning Samus is equipped with '''far''' less than her usual arsenal, maybe she just wants to give herself more of a challenge? when Adam shows up she decides that she will put the decision on him because she can't trust herself not to get pissed and equip everything and break her run?
* Somewhat confirmed, since Samus could have easily disobeyed Adam at any point. She even starts authorizing her own equipment later into the game. The reason she was listening to Adam was because she wanted to prove a point to herself - see the Analysis page for more info.
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** Jossed. Ridley is back ''Metroid: Samus Returns'' thank to his JokerImmunity.
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* This could explain why we don't see who the Deleter really was; There was more than one of them, but they might not have been working together, either. A different way to look at all of this is that Adam's plan was to destroy the project because his Metroid report was supposed to be about why they ''shoudn't'' do it, and this was his way at getting back at them for doing something so dangerous. The real Deleter was still the one killing the team, [[FramingTheGuiltyParty but Adam could use him as a cover for everything else]]. Tying back to Samus being an outside element, he never planned on having her getting involved and was trying to keep her safe by whatever means necessary, and his sacrifice could have been a ThanatosGambit where not only does he save Samus, but also even gets rid of himself for the whole mess.
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* [[WebVideo/ZeroPunctuation Yahtzee suspected it just because of]] [[DastardlyWhiplash his mustache]].
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...All the while, Ridley had been blackmailing Madeline Bergman to create a human android based off of Mother Brain, forcing her to vilify the Galactic Federation as a cover-up story, lest she runs the risk of losing her life and the entire [=GF=] being blown to hell. The Little Birdie and the Mystery Creature were both isolated creatures that the [=GF=] sought to domesticate, [[AlwaysABiggerFish prior to the latter killing the former, and Ridley killing the latter.]]
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...All the while, the newly cloned Ridley had been blackmailing Madeline Bergman to create a human android based off of Mother Brain, Brain to neutralize the SA-X and anyone else on the ship to fulfill his sadistic desires, forcing her to vilify the Galactic Federation as a cover-up story, lest she runs the risk of losing her life and life, [[MortonsFork SA-X dying anyway,]] the entire [=GF=] being blown to hell. The Little Birdie and the Mystery Creature were both isolated creatures that the [=GF=] sought to domesticate, [[AlwaysABiggerFish prior to the latter killing the former, and Ridley killing the latter.]]
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[[WMG: Ridley was the mastermind.]]
'''Spoilers unmarked.'''
As an extension to the Samus is SA-X theory, I had thought about it a bit more and had come to a decision - Ridley may have been the BigBad the whole time, or at least had a much, much bigger impact on the story than originally thought.
Having schemed the thought of doing a FrameUp on Samus during the events of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', Ridley had perished before he got the chance, seemingly having this plot go nowhere. However, during his raid on the Ceres space facility, he had located schematics of the Metroid cloning process, banking on the Galactic Federation's antics and figuring that they would carelessly clone ''him'' too.
And they did.
As a posthumous KickTheDog, Ridley pulled one last trick to get at Samus - arranging a sudden ambush by an X Parasite which had destroyed her gunship and left her in emergency care due to the X Parasite attacking her body. During her recovery process, the X that infected her traversed aimlessly - wielding a less efficient Power Suit that it doesn't know how to fully utilize, constantly swimming in Samus' memories (hallucinating the whole "authorization" process, assuming that a random gunship is Phantoon, that random mercenaries are all Adam being a jackass), still developing itself to attempt to muster an adequate replica of Samus' suit (hence the Gravity Suit changes and such). It had aimlessly wandered, slaughtering any monsters (including a pre-infected Nightmare) and traversing through Samus' memories, hallucinating numerous soldiers and personnel in a clearly abandoned ship (Anthony and the group who kills MB being the only real ones), slowly devolving into a murderous being that was deluded into thinking that Sector Zero was full of Metroids - all because it was dwelling on Samus' hate for Ridley, believing that is all she truly is. However, most of the Metroids were already extinguished, while Sector Zero was full of innocent humans, which [=GF=] soldiers had helped escape during the game's events before destroying the sector.
...All the while, Ridley had been blackmailing Madeline Bergman to create a human android based off of Mother Brain, forcing her to vilify the Galactic Federation as a cover-up story, lest she runs the risk of losing her life and the entire [=GF=] being blown to hell. The Little Birdie and the Mystery Creature were both isolated creatures that the [=GF=] sought to domesticate, [[AlwaysABiggerFish prior to the latter killing the former, and Ridley killing the latter.]]
Totally unaware that Samus is the SA-X, Ridley's clone (which had been deformed due to Metroid DNA seeping into his own) toyed with it sadistically, basking into the apparent newly rekindled fear in the "bounty hunter". In his last moments, he had allowed himself to die by the Queen Metroid's hand, [[BloodKnight challenging her to kill him brutally]] and thereby abandoning [=MB=] to her own machinations, as the SA-X wrongfully mistook her as sympathetic.
Once the [=GF=] execute MB for good, and thereby eradicate Mother Brain, the SA-X located a GF gunship, which was full of soldiers who became aware of the FrameUp of Samus, but were exterminated before they could kill the parasite. Ever since, the SA-X kept developing its own form, finishing before the events of ''Fusion''.
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* I can just imagine Samus screaming into her phone at her agent over this...
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[[WMG: It took Adam so long to authorise the Varia suit because he didn't realise he needed to ]]
Adam assumed Samus was already using her suit's defensive upgrades so he never bothered to authorise them until he noticed otherwise.
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She saw him kill both her parents when she was a child. He continues to come back over and over again. Samus is terrified that she will be forced to fight him for the rest of her life. This makes every battle with Ridley a CrowningMomentOfAwesome as she is able to overcome her fears to kick the shit out of him (which is the real definition of courage).
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She saw him kill both her parents when she was a child. He continues to come back over and over again. Samus is terrified that she will be forced to fight him for the rest of her life. This makes every battle with Ridley a CrowningMomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as she is able to overcome her fears to kick the shit out of him (which is the real definition of courage).
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[[WMG: Ridley [[FaceDeathWithDignity faced death with dignity.]]]]
Upon [[spoiler:seeing the Queen Metroid approach him,]] his roar wasn't out of fear, but it essentially translates into "[[BringIt come here and show me how weak you are!!]]", and died off fighting [[spoiler:the queen]]. After all, this ''is'' [[BloodKnight Ridley]] this WMG speaks of, so he would hardly feel something as uncharacteristic of him as terror for his life; he has JokerImmunity after all!
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[[WMG: Things don't add up here because in-universe, this is a movie]]
I mean, when you look at the more cinematic presentation, the fact that Samus has a birthmark on her chin (because she'd be played by an actor), the fact that several parts of the story (the Chozo raising her, for instance) were changed or omitted outright, the fact that Samus is a lot more emotional here, the design changes (Samus's Gravity Suit is indicated by the suit glowing because they thought the purple design looked silly)– Doesn't that seem like the kind of stuff that happens in video game movies?
I mean, when you look at the more cinematic presentation, the fact that Samus has a birthmark on her chin (because she'd be played by an actor), the fact that several parts of the story (the Chozo raising her, for instance) were changed or omitted outright, the fact that Samus is a lot more emotional here, the design changes (Samus's Gravity Suit is indicated by the suit glowing because they thought the purple design looked silly)– Doesn't that seem like the kind of stuff that happens in video game movies?
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* Except every single bit of material shows she's long since gotten over it. Even the argument of "He came back from the dead" doesn't hold water. It's honestly far more plausible that the game was just very poorly written.
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* Except every single bit of material shows she's long since gotten over it. Even the argument of "He came back from the dead" doesn't hold water. It's honestly far more plausible that the game was just very poorly written.
written. Except for Anthony, Anthony is perfect.
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*Except every single bit of material shows she's long since gotten over it. Even the argument of "He came back from the dead" doesn't hold water. It's honestly far more plausible that the game was just very poorly written.
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* Jossed for reasons noted below under the "James was the Deleter" entry.
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Such a strategy is certainly not foreign to the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series. Recall back to the time of ''Echoes'' and ''Hunters''. Like ''Other M'', neither of these games broke the million units sold barrier thanks to certain aspects that alienated customers. So when ''Corruption'' came around, RetroStudios took out or de-emphasized the parts that critics didn't like (limited ammo for all non-Power Beam weapons, excessive linearity, multiplayer, unbalanced difficulty, etc.) while retaining and expanding on the bits that critics ''did'' like (emphasis on other hunters besides Samus, flying around in the gunship, free aiming, etc.). The same is bound to happen with the next game; the disliked bits (Samus' characterization and narration, the linearity, the length of cutscenes, the "authorization" mechanic, etc.) will be expunged or altered, while the well-liked bits (the smooth controls, the refocusing on advanced platforming, the faster pace, the concept of a more complex plot, etc.) will be improved upon.
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Such a strategy is certainly not foreign to the ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series. Recall back to the time of ''Echoes'' and ''Hunters''. Like ''Other M'', neither of these games broke the million units sold barrier thanks to certain aspects that alienated customers. So when ''Corruption'' came around, RetroStudios Creator/RetroStudios took out or de-emphasized the parts that critics didn't like (limited ammo for all non-Power Beam weapons, excessive linearity, multiplayer, unbalanced difficulty, etc.) while retaining and expanding on the bits that critics ''did'' like (emphasis on other hunters besides Samus, flying around in the gunship, free aiming, etc.). The same is bound to happen with the next game; the disliked bits (Samus' characterization and narration, the linearity, the length of cutscenes, the "authorization" mechanic, etc.) will be expunged or altered, while the well-liked bits (the smooth controls, the refocusing on advanced platforming, the faster pace, the concept of a more complex plot, etc.) will be improved upon.
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** [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises So his master plan was crashing the operation with no survivors?]]
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* Considering the massive backlash from the characterization, this is quite possible.
** The only "massive backlash" I've seen was in that Series/XPlay review, and that was just because they hate anything written like a JRpg.
*** Look around the Internet. You'll see things.
*** Heck, just scroll up and click on the JBM link.
*** Even Wiki/ThatOtherWiki with all its restrictions is able to state that Samus's new characterisation is near-universally disliked.
*** This game is universally disliked *even in Japan*. It was supposedly made for Japanese audiences since they didn't really care for the approach the Prime games took, and that was the stated reason for the weird out of character characterizations. But this game flopped hard even in Japan. It sold worse in Japan than the Prime games did there. Other M did not sell well in *any* markets, it is pretty much universally agreed that it is a bad game.
*** http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?page=1&results=200&name=metroid&platform=&minSales=0&publisher=&genre=&sort=GL
*** http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/metroid-other-m
** The only "massive backlash" I've seen was in that Series/XPlay review, and that was just because they hate anything written like a JRpg.
*** Look around the Internet. You'll see things.
*** Heck, just scroll up and click on the JBM link.
*** Even Wiki/ThatOtherWiki with all its restrictions is able to state that Samus's new characterisation is near-universally disliked.
*** This game is universally disliked *even in Japan*. It was supposedly made for Japanese audiences since they didn't really care for the approach the Prime games took, and that was the stated reason for the weird out of character characterizations. But this game flopped hard even in Japan. It sold worse in Japan than the Prime games did there. Other M did not sell well in *any* markets, it is pretty much universally agreed that it is a bad game.
*** http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?page=1&results=200&name=metroid&platform=&minSales=0&publisher=&genre=&sort=GL
*** http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/metroid-other-m
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* Considering Confirmed. The next two ''Metroid'' games, ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeFederationForce'' and ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'', return Samus to her pre-''Other M'' characterization as a silent stoic badass who leaves the massive backlash from the characterization, this is quite possible.
** The only "massive backlash" I've seen wasGalactic Federation in that Series/XPlay review, and that was just because they hate anything written like a JRpg.
*** Look around the Internet. You'll see things.
*** Heck, just scroll up and click on the JBM link.
*** Even Wiki/ThatOtherWiki with all its restrictions is able to state that Samus's new characterisation is near-universally disliked.
*** This game is universally disliked *even in Japan*. It was supposedly made for Japanese audiences since they didn't really care for the approach the Prime games took, and that was the stated reason for the weird outawe of character characterizations. But this game flopped hard even in Japan. It sold worse in Japan than the Prime games did there. Other M did not sell well in *any* markets, it is pretty much universally agreed that it is a bad game.
*** http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?page=1&results=200&name=metroid&platform=&minSales=0&publisher=&genre=&sort=GL
*** http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/metroid-other-m
her prowess.
** The only "massive backlash" I've seen was
*** Look around the Internet. You'll see things.
*** Heck, just scroll up and click on the JBM link.
*** Even Wiki/ThatOtherWiki with all its restrictions is able to state that Samus's new characterisation is near-universally disliked.
*** This game is universally disliked *even in Japan*. It was supposedly made for Japanese audiences since they didn't really care for the approach the Prime games took, and that was the stated reason for the weird out
*** http://www.vgchartz.com/gamedb/?page=1&results=200&name=metroid&platform=&minSales=0&publisher=&genre=&sort=GL
*** http://www.metacritic.com/game/wii/metroid-other-m
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are three things: the whole Metroid cloning process, Nightmare, and Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]] [[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]] Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are three four things: Adam's existence, the whole Metroid cloning process, Nightmare, and Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]] [[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]] Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are two things: the whole Metroid cloning process, and Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]] [[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]] Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are two three things: the whole Metroid cloning process, Nightmare, and Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]] [[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]] Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are two things: the whole Metroid cloning process, and Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways.
Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]]
[[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]]
Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]]
[[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]]
Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are two things: the whole Metroid cloning process, and Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. \n Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]]
]] [[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]]
]] Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled or changed to the point of being unidentifiable flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It oversaw Samus' journey through Zebes in ''Super'' and recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are three two things: the whole Metroid cloning process, [[spoiler:the truth of MB, and that Ridley was also cloned.]] Ridley. That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways.
Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]]
[[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]]
Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
Melissa Bergman? Just a harmless scientist. [[spoiler:SA-X just randomly assumes the "[[BrainUploading truth]]" about MB.]]
[[spoiler:Phantoon?]] Actually a GF ship trying to gun SA-X down because of [[spoiler:it murdering MB.]]
Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after trying to infect Samus and obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it, while the real Samus was busy recovering from her near death experience from the X Parasite. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are three things: the whole Metroid cloning process, [[spoiler:the truth of MB, and that Ridley was also cloned.]] That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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* Beyond the jumbled flashbacks, the rest of the game is ThroughTheEyesOfMadness, hence stuff like the Deleter subplot. It recreated Samus' appearance, just out of its own memory, and just went with it, while the real Samus was busy recovering from her near death experience from the X Parasite. Why?...Because [[ForTheEvulz it felt like it, apparently.]] The only plot points in the game that are 100% real are three things: the whole Metroid cloning process, [[spoiler:the truth of MB, and that Ridley was also cloned.]] That's it. The rest is basically SA-X screwing around and misinterpretating almost everything in different ways. Plus, it probably didn't know much about Samus nor humans in general anyway, therefore, it [[CharacterDerailment gets her character all wrong.]] The redesign of the Gravity Suit also helps, since it probably didn't even know how her ''suit'' works, too. It's only after obtaining the infected portions of Samus' Power Suit parts that it knows what it's doing. Regardless, the battle with the SA-X in ''Fusion'' probably had it saying [[MemeticMutation "the baby the baby the baby the baby"]] non-stop.
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*** Even ThatOtherWiki with all its restrictions is able to state that Samus's new characterisation is near-universally disliked.
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*** Even ThatOtherWiki Wiki/ThatOtherWiki with all its restrictions is able to state that Samus's new characterisation is near-universally disliked.
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Such a strategy is certainly not foreign to the ''{{Metroid}}'' series. Recall back to the time of ''Echoes'' and ''Hunters''. Like ''Other M'', neither of these games broke the million units sold barrier thanks to certain aspects that alienated customers. So when ''Corruption'' came around, RetroStudios took out or de-emphasized the parts that critics didn't like (limited ammo for all non-Power Beam weapons, excessive linearity, multiplayer, unbalanced difficulty, etc.) while retaining and expanding on the bits that critics ''did'' like (emphasis on other hunters besides Samus, flying around in the gunship, free aiming, etc.). The same is bound to happen with the next game; the disliked bits (Samus' characterization and narration, the linearity, the length of cutscenes, the "authorization" mechanic, etc.) will be expunged or altered, while the well-liked bits (the smooth controls, the refocusing on advanced platforming, the faster pace, the concept of a more complex plot, etc.) will be improved upon.
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Such a strategy is certainly not foreign to the ''{{Metroid}}'' ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'' series. Recall back to the time of ''Echoes'' and ''Hunters''. Like ''Other M'', neither of these games broke the million units sold barrier thanks to certain aspects that alienated customers. So when ''Corruption'' came around, RetroStudios took out or de-emphasized the parts that critics didn't like (limited ammo for all non-Power Beam weapons, excessive linearity, multiplayer, unbalanced difficulty, etc.) while retaining and expanding on the bits that critics ''did'' like (emphasis on other hunters besides Samus, flying around in the gunship, free aiming, etc.). The same is bound to happen with the next game; the disliked bits (Samus' characterization and narration, the linearity, the length of cutscenes, the "authorization" mechanic, etc.) will be expunged or altered, while the well-liked bits (the smooth controls, the refocusing on advanced platforming, the faster pace, the concept of a more complex plot, etc.) will be improved upon.
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** There was a scene in MetroidFusion in which the AI actually asks Samus if the "Adam" she's naming the AI after would "lead her into a dangerous area to die" when she tells it of her loyalty to him. The "hell run" is more or less there in order to give some sort of continuity. In order for the AI to question the loyalty from something such as that, the actual event needs to take place. Since Other M takes place before Fusion, it's only fitting that that event would happen before Fusion.
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** There was a scene in MetroidFusion VideoGame/MetroidFusion in which the AI actually asks Samus if the "Adam" she's naming the AI after would "lead her into a dangerous area to die" when she tells it of her loyalty to him. The "hell run" is more or less there in order to give some sort of continuity. In order for the AI to question the loyalty from something such as that, the actual event needs to take place. Since Other M takes place before Fusion, it's only fitting that that event would happen before Fusion.
