Funny but not helpful
Its not like he generally goes out of his way to look for her.
She keeps showing up where he works and making him explode
edited 3rd Sep '15 4:33:05 PM by Bocaj
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The Cat Knows Where It's At
True but he keeps going back to that job where he knows she has a high probability of showing up and making him explode.
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Well it's not like Exploding is particularly difficult to fix.
I think the third time Ridley's minions regrew him...
Ridley -Kicking and screaming-: NOOOOO I don't want to blow the **** up again! I quit!
-six or seven space pirates trying to drag him to fight Samus: But sir Our pride!
Ridley: I choose to embrace the oldest pirate code... I say we run away!
Ridley kind of beelines to Samus whenever he notices her. Remember the Artifact Temple, or the beggining of Corruption, or even the clone in Other M.
Yeah, Ridley's got a bone to pick with Samus.
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He's her greatest rival and true Archnemesis- He's never been the main villain of any one game, but if Samus had to name who she hated most in the universe it'd be him in a heartbeat.
I sure said that!
I think that's the point, actually.
Yeah, Mother Brain runs the space pirates, and Ridley's just a commander.
But Mother Brain is, in many ways, family. Mother Brain and Samus are both "Daughters" of the Chozo in their own ways, so when Samus fights her it's payback for betraying the Chozo.
When she blows up Ridley? That's payback on a personal level. And, maybe just a bit of revenge for the innocent little girl who tried to be friends with him.
Every mission's a suicide mission!
I dunno about all of that, but I've always thought Samus is an absolutely freaky beast in the bedroom.
edited 3rd Sep '15 7:05:22 PM by Jenaiqueserasera
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He was pretty okay with staying away from Samus for most of Metroid Prime, but it was early in the timeline and I guess he was still feeling sore from their last fight.
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He might have just not seen her.
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Yeah, apart of that moment where Ridley was busy making reentry on the wing in what seemed to be a not fully tested cybernetic body, he doesn't really meet Samus until the Temple. She misses him by some minutes when storming the Phendrana lab, but at the Artifact temple it is a full air strike.
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...Yeah, that's about the level of thoughtful, considered analysis that's a perfectly adequate response to complex character motivations.
Every mission's a suicide mission!
You're denying Samus would be a freaky love partner?
edited 3rd Sep '15 7:51:16 PM by Jenaiqueserasera
"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion."
That doesn't even begin to resemble my point.
edited 3rd Sep '15 7:53:22 PM by unnoun
Its one of those you can't disprove or prove, because outside of maybe a snippet here or there or what we can infer... We don't see Samus off duty... Hell she has barely anyone to interact with to talk about such things. Being the ultimate lone hunter will do that.
Samus -other M aside- seems to be confident enough to go out in a Bright ****ing orange
to seedy deals in backrooms of Jawa owned Porn outlets!
okay that last part is absurd... Its clearly the Catina...
Now you could make the argument that Samus as an Asexual character works best. Yeah she's confident in her body/image/whatever but Samus' allure is she's the invincible War goddess... you can only bask in her presence but never have!
or she goes to the nightclubs to unwind and find her a guy/or girl or... something hung like a Krogan and that bonk like mad -like destroy the room sex- or maybe she goes o drink... or just Dance.
or maybe she goes back to her ship and plays video games between training segments? or Reads some cheesey Fantasy adventure that she's 5 years too old to be reading but likes anyway.
Maybe she looks up restaurants she hasn't eaten at and goes and tries them, She's got the anime like big appetite due to all the gene modifications.
Hell She might live like a space Marine 40k... a strict regiment each day where she hones her mind, and cleanses her soul.
The answer is... The world will never know.
She writes fanfic adaptations of her adventures under a pseudonym.
In fact, the games we play are actually her own embellished stories. The real missions are all either incredibly dull or incredibly unflattering.
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All we know for sure of Samus' personal life is that she sometimes goes to bars in what to modern eyes would be called clubwear.
I like to think she owns a cat or sufficiently cat-like alien as a pet- Something nice and fuzzy to come home to who'll appreciate her but can be left with the automatic food and water dispensers for a while without a problem.
I sure said that!
I had two thoughts
"Samus standing Freezing her ass off trying to cover herself"
Samus: WHY ON GOD'S BLUE TERRA DOES EVERY PLANET HAVE TENCLES THAT ERODE ARMOR AND CLOTHES!!!
or
-Samus busts in-
Samus: Ridley you're hour... of... reckoning is... -slowly turns into a horried face-
-Ridley who is not as big as samus makes him out to be... like only 7 to 8 ft tall... in a giant daper, binkey and cap... with a three breates cat girl in a nurse outfit
Ridley: Sammi Its not what it looks like!
Samus: MY EYES!!!!
edited 3rd Sep '15 8:33:25 PM by FrozenWolf2
Forever not amused.
I suppose it's entirely possible Samus' athleticism translates to other places.
Anyway, I do agree that Samus seems like the type to own a pet based off her own interactions with a certain Metroid.
If you ever played Mass effect 1's pinnacle station -Yes I had an afternoon to kill-
The Reward is this small... I guess apartment on the planet below...
Samus has one of those... lord knows she can't keep pets on the ship... its liable to crash.
"Hey everybody I'm Samus Aran and we're rollin' out, looking for the galaxy's GREATEST diners, drive-ins, and drejklarps!"
"This trip, I try some good old-fashioned Talloric cooking at a Chozo-run family joint hidden way down in the Magmoor Caverns, serving- get this -lava roasted Triclops bites! Then on the Pirate Homeworld, a tatted-up Pirate mess hall chef I once blew the leg off of shows off his own take on the classic Space Pirate recipe: Shriekbat enchiladas!"
"And that's all right here, right now, on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Drejklarps!"
You cannot firmly grasp the true form of Squidward's technique!
A real bad hombre
I always pictured Samus as being ridiculously good at everything but Surrounded by Idiots.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Edison
Forever not amused.
I don't think Samus is the social type though...even though she does go out to bars.
Ridley has managed to kill everything he tried to kill bar Samus. Samus has laid waste to him in repeated instances.
Of course he is salty.