Metroid

Raven Beak came across as someone Samus has seen before, but didn't realize until The Reveal that Warrior Chozo in the background was him all along.

When it comes to how involve Raven Beak should be in Samus' backstory, it ought to be him just chatting with Mother Brain... and giving her a few ideas of how to best represent the Chozo legacy.

It would be nice to see more of Raven Beak, but Samus clearly had no idea who he was before their meeting in Dread, and he died pretty hard at the end, so it's kind of hard to fit him into future works.

Edited by WillKeaton on Jan 26th 2024 at 5:41:35 AM

Raven Beak base management spin-off when

You could have him show up in the lore, like the Space Pirates complain about a Chozo warband keeps raiding them

"We thought these damn pigeons were all supposed to be dead!!"

It would be neat to see Ridley and Raven beak meet.

They could clone Raven Beak. Wouldn't be the first time a villain comes back through cloning.

I do think it's plausible that Metroid 6 gets announced before Prime 4 comes out.

• Samus: Hold up, you did what.
• Federation Officer: We salvaged Raven Beak's remains and sent it to our other other other secret space colony lab with poor safety conditions, where all of the most dangerous things in the galaxy are stored for research purposes.

So now Samus has to go fight through a Metroidvania just dealing with all of the different versions of Raven Beak. You've got X-Raven Beak, Clone Raven Beak, Unexplained Ridley, and Phazon Raven Beak!

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 26th 2024 at 10:04:29 AM

I mean, there aren't anymore remains of Raven Beak because he got eaten by an X-parasite.

I guess you could bullshit the Federation scoured the place where Samus and Raven Beak fought but that got blown up.

And I think Samus is smart enough to thoroughly clean any trace of Raven Beak from her armor after Metroid Other M.

Samus "I take a nice soak in lava after every mission now, you jerks" Aran

If only Samus took his severed wings home as a trophy.

A clone hybrid of Raven Beak and Ridley. Ridley Beak.

• Samus: Any other secret experiments on my childhood traumas that you want to tell me about? If you're going to have me keep cleaning up after them, I'd like to know in advance.
• Federation Officer: That information is classified.

The Baby Metroid is alive somehow IDK and Samus is reunited with them while exploring a Federation research lab gone awry or a Space Pirate base or something. Maybe the same game as the Many Raven Beaks game or maybe something else entirely.

But it's, uh, it's been a while. So now Samus just has this whole-ass Omega Metroid that follows her around like a puppy. Possibly rideable.

Space Pirate research log is just like "You would not believe the shit I just saw."

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 27th 2024 at 6:45:44 AM

Space Pirate Log: "So, as it turns out, the Federation cloned our boss, for no clear reason. And then merged him with a chozo with a six-pack. And I thought our science team had vapor for brains."

what if Samus had an evil space pirate twin called Shamus?

Surely, we are cursed.

Remember when Dark Samus mind controlled all those space pirates and we actually see the perspective of the pirates who go from fearing her, to blindly worshipping her?

Like, it’s genuinely one of the most unsettling parts in the entire series.

Well, they weren't really encouraging or rewarding loyalty to begin with. Their ship boarding vessel is colloquially called the "Space Coffin" because of the tendency of its explosives, meant to rupture the target's hull, often just destroying the pod itself.

Edited by diddyknux on Jan 27th 2024 at 9:02:17 AM

Space pirates as tenacious goblins ramshackling their tech together with no self-preservation instinct is an easy impression to get from their pirate logs and I wish the series delved into it more. There's a lot of fun you can have with space goblins.

Ridley and the Pirates are not the Overlord from the titular series. But they're also not not that....

Just say the emmi that raven beak trashed managed to get a cell sample off world to the federation after he beat it up but before Samus finished it off. And that's if it wasn't a raven beak clone that took the ship off planet at the end

Samus absorbed Raven Beak's life essence, and she also had his DNA put into her when she was a kid, I'm wondering if you could use these two facts as an excuse to have Beaky live inside Samus' head as an apparition that only she can see.

She actually didn't absorb any....

...Oh wait. You're not talking about when he got infected with the X-Parasite (which she incinerated). You're talking about before that when she flipped his Power is everything catchphrase on its head by metroiding the hell out of him.

Hmmm. I could buy it.

So, a hallucinatory Raven Beak who pops up periodically like the Hallucination Joker from Arkham Knight?

Maybe with an acid trip boss fight near the end of the game as he tries to take over your mind or something? "That body is 30% mine and I want it back!"

Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 27th 2024 at 9:36:52 AM

Raven Beak: “You would be nothing without me”

Samus: pondering a shinespark puzzle

Raven Beak: “don’t you fuckin ignore me”