History Fridge / MetroidSamusReturns

* How is Ridley still half cyborg at the end of this game, but fully organic at the start of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''? The manga stated that Ridley could regenerate his body by consuming organic matter. At the start of ''Super Metroid'' he attacks Ceres Space Colony, which is full of scientists. We see a few of their corpses lying around at the start, but who can say how many of them Ridley had to devour to become fully orgnaic again.

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* When the Diggernaut is first activated by Samus it just looks at her then walks away yet in every subsequent encounter it tries to kill her, why?
** It may have been ''wanting'' to fight Samus, but had to wait for its systems to power up fully before it could.
** its possible at first it recognized her as chozo based on her power suit but some how was damaged off screen and it could no longer tell
** it's also possible that it wasn't trying to kill Samus at all during the chase. It was probably just doing a routine drilling and Samus just happened to be in the way.
*** As for the final fight with it, it probably saw her as a trespasser, given how the arena appears to be a garage of sorts.

* The Diggernaut makes use of a suction attack against you, which you have to exploit to defeat it. As shown over on YMMV, the Diggernaut encounters are rather divisive, with some calling it ThatOneBoss. [[spoiler: [[StealthPun The Diggernaut sucks.]]]] Well played, MercurySteam.

* Diggernaut being able to OneHitKill Samus during the AdvancingWallOfDoom segment seems like the usual situation where a boss is much stronger before you actually fight it. However, in this case, it actually makes sense in-game. When Samus fights Diggernaut with the Gravity Suit and multiple Energy Tanks, its drill arms still inflict 150 damage. By contrast, Samus only has the Varia Suit and fewer Energy Tanks during the chase segment, meaning it's entirely feasible for Diggernaut to OneHitKill her there.

* Why isn't "the baby's" egg with all the other's in the Queen's room? Because it's a Queen itself! VideoGame/MetroidOtherM explicitly states that the DNA to clone a queen came from "the baby".

* The [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ComfortableAccurateBee-size_restricted.gif mysterious glowing eyes]] in Area 4 seems like some indistinguishable beast in SR388 at first, just doing nothing despite its potency for NightmareFuel. But then, the player gives a closer look and sees that it has...a thin, long head. [[spoiler:And then you get to the end of the game and see an oh so familiar face: ''Ridley!'' He may not have just flown to the planet, as much as he could have gotten there earlier and started stalking Samus through her entire journey. The purple fog may have made his yellow eyes look red - which may have camouflaged his appearance even moreso.]]

** its possible at first it recognized her as chozo based on her power suit but some how was damaged off screen and it could no longer tell