Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4451749-20140111172408/@comment-32390199-20140624210635

As you never have played a Ridley game then you probably don't know there are multiple Ridley's in the Metroid universe. In every Metroid game you fight another Ridley as when Ridley gets killed he reincarnates into another one. Some are huge, some are smaller, some are red others are purple.

The shadow didn't really like a boss character, at least he didn't move that way.

Ridley always could be replaced with another character when he is fighting (Meta-Ridley/ Omega Ridley/ Ridley-Robot)

Why wouldn't Sakurai just show Ridley? Why would he hide him? Sakurai kept deconfirming characters who people expected to be in (Waluigi, Starfy, Skull-Kid, Dillon, Wonder Red) yet he didn't fully confirm Ridley to not be playable, why? Because he is playable.