Board Thread:Super Smash Bros. Discussion/@comment-5623885-20140710145538/@comment-24229579-20140710193301

Darth Phazon wrote: .vectorDestiny wrote: Darth Phazon wrote: .vectorDestiny wrote: Darth Phazon wrote: Flip The Frog wrote: I still don't think Ridley will be playable. We have TWO Metroid reps now, and Ridley is better off an Asisst or a Stage Boss. Ridley is the main antagonist in Metroid, pal. And Dark Samus is the assist in this game, so...

That is so wrong in many levels. Ridley is just one of the bosses on the game, like Kraid or Dragoon. The actual main fucking villian is Mother Brain, since, y'know, she is the actual leader of the Space Pirates. Then how come she hasn't made an appearance (Other M doesn't count) since Super Metroid? Just because she is the main antagonist that doesn't means that she should be in all the games. Ganon is the main antagonist of the Zelda series, but he doesn't appears in all the games. (Ridley doesn't even appears in all the games, he isn't in Prime Hunters or Metroid II).

Point taken down. Game, set and match. Now stop with this "Ridley will be in" wa wa thing now. Mother Brain was destroyed before the events of the Prime Trilogy, making Ridley temporary commander of the Pirates in Prime 1; he was the leader at the time, not Mother Brain. A little point-out for you: he's the reason Samus started hunting his orginization, and her worst enemy. HE is the one with the most personal connection to Samus, not the Prime Hunters, not MB, not Dark Samus, HIM. He's the one that didn't become an assist trophy: both Dark Samus and Mother Brain became an assist trophy. Ridley, however, won't. No matter how much you may reason otherwise, Ridley still has plenty of a chance for SSB4. He'll get his chance, you'll see. But didn't Ridley died during the events of Metroid Prime? He died in the original Metroid. And that wasn't Ridley, rather a metallic version of him? Ridley has its species and we are not fightning the same Ridley over and over again, making this Ridley not the same as before and being just a replacement.

But if plot related content is a good reason to a character to be in the game, do you know who would be in instead of Ridley? The Chozo, since they have a more deep connection with Samus than Ridley. But you know, plot isn't good reason to the character to be in. Point taken down.