History WMG / MetroidFusion

[[WMG: Computer!Adam is attempting to make amends for his behavior in ''Other M''.]]
"Did this 'Adam' care for you? Would he sit in a safe Command Room and order you to die?" Yes. Yes he did. And he's sorry. By helping Samus [[ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight screw the rules]], he's asking her forgiveness.

[[WMG: Computer!Adam is attempting to make amends for his behavior.]]

* Consider what happened in ''Metroid Dread'' with Quiet Robe X being able to willingly sacrifice himself so Samus could control her Metroid powers, it is possible that the scientist either had enough will power, or was desperate enough, to keep control of his mind and body despite the X invading his body and decided that the best way to kill the X was to cause the boiler room to melt down and destroy the entire station.

* The Galactic Federation used Samus' weakness to cold as an excuse to not give her the Ice Beam. Adam already tells you they withheld the Plasma Beam and almost didn't send the Diffusion Missiles because they didn't want Samus to get too strong. This is because they knew the BSL station still had [[spoiler:Metroids]] on board and didn't want her to destroy them. [[spoiler:Once Samus absorbs the SA-X, she handles the Ice Beam no problem, contrary to what the Federation told her (though it is possible she needed the SA-X specifically, and without its data on her old suit she would've died)]].

*** In ''Prime 3: Corruption'' we see that Phazon Metroids are indeed susceptible to Ice Missiles. However, those ones were evolved from Tallon Metroids, which were in turn susceptible to the regular Power Beam too, so they were clearly weaker than an SR-388 Metroid.

** ''Samus Returns'' shows that a Hornoad indeed mutates upon X infection. On the other hand, most of the X enemies in ''Dread'' (save for the hybrids) are exact replicas. The only enemies explicitly mutated seem to be theE Experiment and the Chozo Soldiers at half health.

** ''Samus Returns'' shows that a Hornoad indeed mutates upon X infection. But in ''Dread'' most of them are exact replicas, save for Chozo Soldiers which mutate into monstrosities at half health. Seems like it depends on the X.

* Adam already tells you that the Federation withheld the Plasma Beam and almost didn't send the Diffusion Missiles because they didn't want Samus to get too strong. The Galactic Federation used Samus' weakness to cold as an excuse to not give her the Ice Beam. This is because they knew the BSL station still had [[spoiler:Metroids]] on board and didn't want her to destroy them. [[spoiler:Once Samus absorbs the SA-X, she handles the Ice Beam no problem, contrary to what the Federation told her (though it is possible she needed the SA-X specifically, and without its data on her old suit she would've died)]].

[[WMG: What if the Bosses and Creatures didn't always looked like that.]]
* Given how the SA-X shifted into a horror form, the differences of X-Ridley, even with the corpse, and the zombie Researchers, I believe the X may tend towards changing it's victims into combat forms. The mimicry is an early invasion strategy, and later, it mutates it into some kinda of out and out offense form, or else simply does it for infection site defense.

*** But Samus' Ice Missiles are basically useless against the Omega Metroid at the end of the game. She can't really hurt it until she gets the Ice Beam.

Ridley isn't the only member of his species - just one of the more infamous. The corpse seen in ''Fusion'' was a researcher-dragon who died some time before the start of ''Fusion'', and his body was iced in preparation to send back to his homeworld. This also explains Samus' seemingly subdued reaction to seeing him again after ''Other M''.
* Considering that Ridley looks like a mummified corpse at the end of ''Other M'' and later disappeared, Neo Ridley is most likely that same Ridley. As for Samus's non-reaction, it's most likely that she put the pieces together on the Bottle Ship and already knows that Ridley's corpse was moved to another location. She also found Ridley's corpse before fighting Ridley-X, meaning she had time to process it.

Before the Chozo had created the Metroids, the X had managed to hitch a ride on a saucer-shaped spacecraft, which crash-landed on Earth, in Antarctica. Thousands of years later, in 1982, this strain of X would awaken. The only reason it didn't consume the biosphere of Earth in mere weeks was that the scientists at U.S. Outpost 31 had

After Samus is ambushed by the B.O.X. in PYR for the first time, Adam plays dumb and says it must be malfunctioning. In reality, it was very intentionally playing a Deleter role by sabotaging Data Rooms and eventually attacking Samus. Someone at the Federation was controlling it. However, Samus cracked its shell and exposed its biomechanical parts, allowing the X to take it from the Federation and use it against Samus later in NOC.

* It's looking like ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' may be jossing this, but we'll see.

Before the Chozo had created the Metroids, the X had managed to hitch a ride on a saucer-shaped spacecraft, which crash-landed on Earth, in Antarctica. Thousands of years later, in 1982, this strain of X would awaken. The only reason it didn't consume the biosphere of Earth in mere weeks was that the scientists at U.S. Outpost 31 had flamethrowers on hand.

** Jossed. Her first suit was designed by Mother Brain, while her main suit, the iconic Varia Armor, was actually an ancient war armor she earned in the Chozo Temple in Zero Mission, created centuries, if not millennia, before the Chozo ever encountered the X-Parasite. So much of Fusion's narrative regarding the armor fell apart once the origins of the iconic suit were established in Zero Mission.

* You know how they tried controlling Metroids with MB in ''Other M''? Maybe they thought they could control X in the same way. Imagine a Federation with an army of countless SA-Xs, bent to the will of a Federation AI. (Of course, due to the intelligence of the X this is would never work; the animalistic and emotional nature of the Metroids made them manipulable, but the X were much too proud and self-preserving to ever listen to another Mother Brain).

* You know how they tried controlling Metroids with MB in ''Other M''? Maybe they thought they could control X in the same way. Imagine a Federation with an army of countless SA-Xs, bent to the will of a Federation AI. (Of course, due to the intelligence of the X this is unlikely; the more animalistic and emotional nature of the Metroids made them manipulatable, but the X were much too proud and self-preserving to ever listen to another Mother Brain imo).