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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#21151: Mar 30th 2025 at 10:48:47 AM

“Adam was like the critical, controlling dad I never had”

“What about the Chozo?”

“They’re like the good dads I did have.”

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PhoenixAct Since: Feb, 2011
#21152: Mar 30th 2025 at 10:50:29 AM

IIRC, that was one of the things that annoyed people at the time.

Other M pushed Adam as Samus's "father figure", at the expense of the people who actually raised her.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#21153: Mar 30th 2025 at 10:52:42 AM

Yeah, with Other M the lack of mention of The Chozo was conspicious, since it's theoretically an exploration of her as a character and about her backstory. Surely the topic should have come up at least once.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#21154: Mar 30th 2025 at 10:57:17 AM

I can see how the oversight happened since Other M was so big it was at risk of being too big for the disc and it already didn’t have time for the subplots it was trying to do, cough cough the Deleter. But, yes, it’s a stunning oversight considering how huge the Chozo are for Samus’ backstory

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#21155: Mar 30th 2025 at 10:59:18 AM

Gotta say for all the flack people give Other M, without it, we wouldnt have Metroid Dread. Dread feels like a response to all the criticisms Other M had.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#21156: Mar 30th 2025 at 11:01:35 AM

Like how Dragon Ball Evolution caused Dragon Ball Battle of Gods

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#21157: Mar 30th 2025 at 11:01:55 AM

Yeah. Other M is gonna get buried and forgotten.

So it's good we have Dread.

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#21158: Mar 30th 2025 at 11:02:17 AM

[up][up] I keep forgetting that happened lol.

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FrozenWolf2 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#21160: Mar 30th 2025 at 12:45:40 PM

[1]

play the clip!

Bird Dad Rant

CAWWWW

Edited by FrozenWolf2 on Mar 30th 2025 at 12:46:10 PM

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#21161: Mar 30th 2025 at 1:42:43 PM

Samus has two bird dads, a computer mom, two dead human parents, and a computer dad made out of her military father figure. She has many parents but most of them are dead.

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21162: Mar 30th 2025 at 1:46:22 PM

Speaking of Samus' family, according to Blood of the Chozo, Samus also had a younger brother, Solomon. He was four when the pirates attacked. And yes, he's the younger brother, because in this continuity, Samus was six at the time.

Edited by WillKeaton on Mar 30th 2025 at 2:48:32 AM

FrozenWolf2 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#21163: Mar 30th 2025 at 2:09:54 PM

He unfortunately was found by space bats and was groomed into a Dark Enforcer of their subterrain megacities

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
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#21164: Mar 30th 2025 at 2:11:43 PM

What

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The-Azure-Star-Of-Orion Long time lurker from a deep dark hole Since: Mar, 2022 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#21165: Mar 30th 2025 at 2:16:19 PM

[up]Batman, In Space

Edited by The-Azure-Star-Of-Orion on Mar 30th 2025 at 2:16:43 AM

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FrozenWolf2 (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#21166: Mar 30th 2025 at 3:12:37 PM

That was the joke cause Batman has this weird dichnomy between Bats and Birds going on it

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WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21167: Mar 30th 2025 at 3:25:29 PM

I swear I once saw this "My Parents Are Dead!" Batman image redone with Samus in place of Batman, but now I can't find it, so maybe I didn't.

Edited by WillKeaton on Mar 30th 2025 at 4:26:19 AM

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#21168: Mar 30th 2025 at 4:05:18 PM

Yeah, with Other M the lack of mention of The Chozo was conspicious, since it's theoretically an exploration of her as a character and about her backstory. Surely the topic should have come up at least once.

Other M explores Samus' time during the Galactic Federation, which isn't something the manga had cover in depth. After all, the whole story takes place on Galactic Federation facility and Federation-based locations have the least amount of Chozo references. Sure there was Chozo references in Fusion... if you lived in Japan and unlocked the secret endings. And these weren't really connected to the story of Fusion as a whole. Only the instruction manual mentions Chozo creating the Metroid to combat the X Parasites. And that's if you have the manual. Otherwise on the BSL ship, it's all Galactic Federation shenanigans.

So really, all you need for Chozo mentions to go up is for Samus to land on a planet that the Chozo colonized on.

And as we all know, Chozo love to put self-destruct Earth-Shattering Kaboom on the planets they live on.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21169: Mar 31st 2025 at 11:06:53 AM

We should probably talk about The Chosen One trope. I feel this is very often mishandled. Specifically, people say that someone is "The Chosen One" but we rarely ever learn how this whole Chosen One bit gets started. What I mean by that is, a random character will saw that someone is a chosen one, usually mentioning a prophecy, but it's incredibly rare we will find the origin of the prophecy. Did someone have a vision of the future, where they saw the chosen one do the thing they are supposed to do? That would be something, but media often just ignore this, and we never find out where the prophecy comes from. All that to say, I hope that in Beyond we find out who first came up with the notion of Samus being a chosen one, either because someone had a vision showing her helping them, which is kinda likely if the natives of Viewros have psychic powers, or they know she will save them because of time travel shenanigans.

diddyknux (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21170: Mar 31st 2025 at 12:23:07 PM

At least in Metroid Prime 1, the Chozo of Tallon IV DID have visions of "The Hatchling" arriving on the planet and that she would purge it of the Great Poison.

So that's at least one.

Edited by diddyknux on Mar 31st 2025 at 2:23:37 PM

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21171: Mar 31st 2025 at 12:29:14 PM

It's also notable they never used the phrase "Chosen One," which already helps a bunch.

diddyknux (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#21172: Mar 31st 2025 at 12:33:57 PM

Hehe... I guess you could say Samus is The Chozon One.

PhoenixAct Since: Feb, 2011
#21173: Mar 31st 2025 at 1:33:06 PM

My theory is that there's going to be some timey-wimey nonsense going on here.

So the Larmorn know that Samus is going fight whoever the villain is because from their perspective it's already sort of happened, even if they don't know the final outcome.

WillKeaton from Alberta, Canada Since: Jun, 2010
#21174: Apr 1st 2025 at 6:16:38 PM

So, Nintendo Direct tomorrow. We still don't have a release date for Metroid Prime 4 yet. They may not want us to know the date until we also know the date of the Switch 2. For reasons. I have a hunch we'll see Prime 4 brought up as an example of the Switch 2 being backwards compatible with Switch 1 games, and maybe showing how Switch 1 games will be enhanced on the Switch 2.

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#21175: Apr 1st 2025 at 6:22:39 PM

"Nintendo doesn't announce release date for mega popular multiplatform game because it shares release date with new console" is exactly what they did with BOTW.

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