User blog comment:Darth Phazon/Ridley? IDK..../@comment-24835190-20140429170957/@comment-24835190-20140430213641

Again, that's highly unlikely. Just because Metroid is popular, up until Other M, does not mean that Ridley, a villain in the Metroid series, would ever be playable. Bottom line, Ridley must stay as a stage boss, exclusively on the Pyrosphere stage, never to be playable, and keep the new game safe, for the sake of humanity, end of story. Obviously, you haven't even payed closed attention to the Direct. Nothing any of you can do could make Sakurai change his mind.