Trivia / Blood of the Chozo

• Colbert Bump: After Metroid: Samus Returns introduced an antagonistic Chozo faction to Metroid canon in 2017 (and Metroid Dread brought that faction into focus in 2021), fan interest in Blood of the Chozo was renewed.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Due to its obscurity and the fact that much of it doesn't exist anymore, many online articles tend to get basic facts wrong when mentioning Blood of the Chozo, frequently treating Samus's backstory as official story material that was later retconned, instead of an unused concept created by a Nintendo Power Source staffer that was never official canon in the first place. This leads to Solomon Aran often being treated as a potential Sequel Hook for later Metroid games, such as in IGN, GameSkinny, and Digital Spy articles. A ScreenRant article even refers to Blood of the Chozo as a Nintendo Power comic rather than an online Play-by-Post Game.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Without a full archive kept by Nintendo, fans interested in Blood of the Chozo turn to the Cerberus Document circulated online by one of its writers.
• Missing Episode: Aside from the Cerberus Document and the short excerpts quoted in Nintendo Power, the rest of this story's over 6,000 posts have never been properly archived and are now lost media.
• Outdated by Canon:
  • In Blood of the Chozo, it's a plot point discussed by Old Bird that Chozo do not naturally possess tongues. This contradicts the earlier Super Metroid comic, where certain◊ panels◊ appear to show Chozo with tongues, but if those are ignored as noncanonical due to the heavy Adaptation Deviation from the source material, the later canonical Metroid: Samus Returns Chozo Memories clearly show the Screaming Warrior Chozo with tongues.
  • If there was any questions about the canonicity of Samus's unused backstory written by the Nintendo Power Source staffer, they should have been laid to rest once the official Metroid manga came out and canonically depicted Samus as three years old instead of six; her parents named Rodney and Virginia instead of Avram and Thea; and no reference at all to Samus having any siblings.
• What Could Have Been: The Nintendo Power article covering Blood of the Chozo mentions that the Nintendo Power Source staffer who created the frame story had also created more story material that went unused. This is followed by a passage that discusses Samus's backstory, including the deaths of her parents Captain Thea Aran and Chief Engineer Avram Aran and the disappearance of her younger brother Solomon Aran, implying that this excerpt was one such unused concept.

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