Metroid and Fridge Brilliance
Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 9:51 am
In celebration of Other M's coming EU release, I've decided to share with you a delicious piece of copypasta that I just found on TVtropes, regarding one of the best Metroid games in the series; Metroid Fusion.
I highly recommend that you read this, seeing as if you've played the game, it only serves to make the experiences that you had therein that much sweeter;
(Spoiler'd because filled to the brim with BIIIG spoilers)
[list][*]In Metroid Fusion, Samus maintains that the X are evil and destroys them to save every race that exists. Adam mentions that the X are gaining intelligence. Eventually they stop worrying about themselves individually and instead seek to preserve their race by blowing up the station and killing Samus, the only person in the galaxy who can stop them and the Metroid, the only race that can kill X. No X ever seems to care about anything other than X, however. Fast-forward to the end. Samus plans to destroy the station, the planet the X came from and the X entirely. The X counter-attack with the only X powerful enough to kill her: SA-X. After she beats SA-X, the X stop attacking her altogether, they don't even try to slow her down on the way to her ship. Then, during the battle between Samus and an Omega Metroid, the SA-X arrives and saves Samus, which allows her to escape. The X are pretty much doomed at this point and so is the Omega Metroid, so if they wanted to take out their enemies, all they had to do was wait. I believe that the act of offering itself as a power-up to Samus could have been three things: 1. Respect and possibly compassion to another race, indicating that the X had evolved beyond total Xenophobia. 2. A way to preserve itself as a legend instead of complete obliteration. 3. Returning Samus' suit as a gesture of courtesy. Samus does not to notice this but I think the X were developing signs of intelligence beyond assimilation or Always Chaotic Evil. Another reason Metroid Fusion is my favorite Metroidvania game. -Ekul
[*]It could have even been a Taking You With Me situation.
[*]The SA-X was trying to steal Samus's ship so that the X could survive. Only no one counted on the Eticoons/Dachora actually doing anything. And most likely, the Omega was holding a much larger "This is a Metroid. KILL IT" sign than Samus was.
[*]I had my moment a while ago when I played that game. I always assumed that she wanted to eliminate the X because it was her job as a bounty hunter to carry things through. I then realized that, as a bounty hunter, she had no obligation to do so once Adam told her to stay put and wait for the Federation. She disobeyed, but possibly not out of her own humanity. Its possible that the Metroid vaccine in her body had infected her just like the X did, and that she had become part Metroid. Playing through, I noticed that colliding with the Metroids that inhabit the Restricted Section while you try to escape does no damage to you (it just slows your jump). I thought it an example of Mercy Invincibility at first, but realized that those very Metroids may have recognized her as one of their own. It makes more sense when you figure out that the Metroids were designed to fight the X by the Chozo. How do you make a better predator than the Metroids? By combining it with the very thing that wiped them out. The X may have realized this and chose to live on as a part of Samus despite being absorbed harmlessly and turned into "food". The reason the Omega attacks you is nothing less than the fact that its going to die no matter what, and that it wanted to establish itself as the ultimate predator again by killing Samus first.
[*]Or it could have been, you know, just a wild animal.
[*]It wasn't until my third playthrough of Fusion that I realized that Adam was a subversion of HAL-9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's even an "open the doors" line as a Shout Out! -Duke
[*]Not just that, but the first time that you get a hint that something might be wrong with your new CO is a great homage to 2001 as well. After Samus restores her Plasma beam, Adam starts acting confused, and pauses for a moment, saying 'Wait... Wait a second... More trouble. Hold on.' and isolates a new problem in ARC sector. HAL acts similarly when Dave begins to question him too much, saying 'Just a moment, just a moment.' and isolating a problem with the AE 35 unit. Now you have to ask yourself 'How exactly did the Nightmare escape?
[*]And late in the game, Adam tells you that there are 10 SA-X patrolling the station looking for you. However, this is at the point of the game where you can go anywhere and pick up all the items you missed earlier, and if you do, you don't ever run into any SA-X. Why? Because Adam was lying to Samus and trying to scare her into leaving the ship. [/list]
Think of it what you want to. I'm just 'spreading the butter' as all...
I highly recommend that you read this, seeing as if you've played the game, it only serves to make the experiences that you had therein that much sweeter;
(Spoiler'd because filled to the brim with BIIIG spoilers)
[list][*]In Metroid Fusion, Samus maintains that the X are evil and destroys them to save every race that exists. Adam mentions that the X are gaining intelligence. Eventually they stop worrying about themselves individually and instead seek to preserve their race by blowing up the station and killing Samus, the only person in the galaxy who can stop them and the Metroid, the only race that can kill X. No X ever seems to care about anything other than X, however. Fast-forward to the end. Samus plans to destroy the station, the planet the X came from and the X entirely. The X counter-attack with the only X powerful enough to kill her: SA-X. After she beats SA-X, the X stop attacking her altogether, they don't even try to slow her down on the way to her ship. Then, during the battle between Samus and an Omega Metroid, the SA-X arrives and saves Samus, which allows her to escape. The X are pretty much doomed at this point and so is the Omega Metroid, so if they wanted to take out their enemies, all they had to do was wait. I believe that the act of offering itself as a power-up to Samus could have been three things: 1. Respect and possibly compassion to another race, indicating that the X had evolved beyond total Xenophobia. 2. A way to preserve itself as a legend instead of complete obliteration. 3. Returning Samus' suit as a gesture of courtesy. Samus does not to notice this but I think the X were developing signs of intelligence beyond assimilation or Always Chaotic Evil. Another reason Metroid Fusion is my favorite Metroidvania game. -Ekul
[*]It could have even been a Taking You With Me situation.
[*]The SA-X was trying to steal Samus's ship so that the X could survive. Only no one counted on the Eticoons/Dachora actually doing anything. And most likely, the Omega was holding a much larger "This is a Metroid. KILL IT" sign than Samus was.
[*]I had my moment a while ago when I played that game. I always assumed that she wanted to eliminate the X because it was her job as a bounty hunter to carry things through. I then realized that, as a bounty hunter, she had no obligation to do so once Adam told her to stay put and wait for the Federation. She disobeyed, but possibly not out of her own humanity. Its possible that the Metroid vaccine in her body had infected her just like the X did, and that she had become part Metroid. Playing through, I noticed that colliding with the Metroids that inhabit the Restricted Section while you try to escape does no damage to you (it just slows your jump). I thought it an example of Mercy Invincibility at first, but realized that those very Metroids may have recognized her as one of their own. It makes more sense when you figure out that the Metroids were designed to fight the X by the Chozo. How do you make a better predator than the Metroids? By combining it with the very thing that wiped them out. The X may have realized this and chose to live on as a part of Samus despite being absorbed harmlessly and turned into "food". The reason the Omega attacks you is nothing less than the fact that its going to die no matter what, and that it wanted to establish itself as the ultimate predator again by killing Samus first.
[*]Or it could have been, you know, just a wild animal.
[*]It wasn't until my third playthrough of Fusion that I realized that Adam was a subversion of HAL-9000 of 2001: A Space Odyssey. There's even an "open the doors" line as a Shout Out! -Duke
[*]Not just that, but the first time that you get a hint that something might be wrong with your new CO is a great homage to 2001 as well. After Samus restores her Plasma beam, Adam starts acting confused, and pauses for a moment, saying 'Wait... Wait a second... More trouble. Hold on.' and isolates a new problem in ARC sector. HAL acts similarly when Dave begins to question him too much, saying 'Just a moment, just a moment.' and isolating a problem with the AE 35 unit. Now you have to ask yourself 'How exactly did the Nightmare escape?
[*]And late in the game, Adam tells you that there are 10 SA-X patrolling the station looking for you. However, this is at the point of the game where you can go anywhere and pick up all the items you missed earlier, and if you do, you don't ever run into any SA-X. Why? Because Adam was lying to Samus and trying to scare her into leaving the ship. [/list]
Think of it what you want to. I'm just 'spreading the butter' as all...