Once DarkSauron89... I become OmegaRidley89 This is the theme of Omega Ridley original music from Corruption. The pic can be downloaded here : h.imagehost.org...
Ridley: *R* e g e n e r a t i v e *I* n t e n s e *D* e a d l y *L* e t h a l *E* r r a t i c *Y* e l l s r e a l l y l o u d *cough cough* Fusion *cough cough*
This fight was all kinds of awesome! Did anyone else feel that sheer hatred that Omega Ridley had toward Samus before the fight began? No words, just a very, very angry space pirate. This was personal for Ridley.
The rivalry between Samus and Ridley has always been personal. Ridley killed Samus’s parents in cold blood, so she hates him as much as he hates her, if not more so.
Every encounter is personal between the two. Samus wants him dead for killing her parents, and he wants her dead for constantly ruining his plans. Even more so after becoming Meta/Omega Ridley, since she had killed him. Even his clone seems to retain his hate for her as well. The only encounter that wasn't personal was Ridley-X. That Ridley had no idea who Samus was. It only attacked her because it saw a metroid and panicked.
In every other Ridley theme, the time signature switches rapidly between 3/4, 5/4, and a little bit of 4/4. 3/4 represents his creepiness, the utter terror he causes. 5/4 represents his brutal, savage attacks as he claws at you. The little bit of 4/4 represents when he's repositioning, adapting, learning. He stays with the two more uncommon time signatures because that's the side we see the most often. Here though? Ridley's been completely taken over by the Phazon. He can't think straight. And so, the music NEVER CHANGES TIME SIGNATURE. It stays on the most common time signature, which ironically for Ridley, is a completely alien signature!
@trashlambo That was the clone of Ridley’s corpse that was infected by the X-Parasites in Fusion. The OG Ridley died for real back in Super. Until a corrupt group of ex-Galactic Federation scientists decided to clone him from samples of DNA that were somehow latched onto Samus' Power Suit while she was in quarantine, iirc
This is easily the best boss in Prime 3. He feels like a classic Metroid Prime boss, using all the upgrades you recently got to pick away at him Mogenar and Helios are just Hypermode sponges
This is personally my favorite of all the Ridley themes. Ridley's theme is already epic, then the musician basically laces it with Phazon to create this masterpiece. The fight itself is excellent too.
@@NovuscourvousTornflesh yeah other M is an good game and had many redemminh quality too bad the fans were too idiot for make an decent critics and just go with "why samus speak?! why samus had black friend?!"
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry I... do not think that is why people hate other M. People hate it because of the miserable writing, copied plot and setting, bad voice direction from samus, and mediocre gameplay.
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry i hate other m because they made samus stupid, boring and subordinate herself too much to other, which is not in Character.
Not entirely sure... but I'm positive this version of Ridley is... the most dangerous of all.... so the theme is well deserved to be freaking awesome like this
I love it so much... It's recognizable Ridley's theme in there but it was "unnervingly altered to be different, more mindlessly raging forward at the same pace, undeterred and mixed with wobbly space sounds and melodic bits that give a 'mutated' feel..." It's just a lot like Omega Ridley himself, a once cunning Commander now little more than a terrifying beast under the influence of phazon, still recognizable as himself but a lot more in your face than usual, trying to rip you apart.
First time I saw Omega Ridley I was like: "twice, in one game...JUST STAY DEAD ALREADY!" that was my first thought...my second thought was "uhhh...which set of eyes is real? can't tell."
And in the near future....it's GHOST RIDLEY!!!! GR: :D now whatcha gonna do Samus? Samus: Phazon particle acclerator on... GR: ???? Samus: *zaps Ghost Ridley into space dust* I ain't afraid of no ghost...
I love this track a lot. They remixed Ridley's theme in a way such that it still resembles Meta Ridley's theme, but also takes the main melody of his theme and ..heh.. corrupts it.
+Lucky Smooth He means the "Meta ridley variants" are big in comparison to the Omega ridley and you would think that the Metroid prime 1 Meta ridley was like a medium sized monster but nope, that ridley is still bigger than Omega ridley..
@@maikybravo6108 No. The leviathan doesn't have a will. It's only thought is survival instinct. Ridley was infused with phazon but not fully corrupted. If he was fully corrupted he wouldn't be able to regain himself afterwards. The fact he exists in games set after prime 3 indicates it was not a total corruption and something more like what samus had, as that would also explain how he can regenerate after norion and how he manages to repair himself and still exist once phazon is gone
@@novustalks7525 a PED… And you're right, prime isn't the end of the Metroid timeline… I thought it was a hivemind, looking for survival, and sending Samus' friends against her… I need to rewatch the lore 😅
Actually, one theory I heard that I foudn quite interesting, even though it's probably disproved, was that Omega Ridley was to Ridley as Dark Samus was to Samus. More like a Phazon Clone. Besides, It'd be kinda weird if the real Ridley was the guardian for the Leviathan that was destroying the Space Pirate Homeworld.
@@ha9phtfpaehs It's more because Dark Samus and the Phazon have the ability to corrupt others minds. They don't follow Dark Samus beacuse they want to but because they are forced to. Dark Samus was able to take control of the entire Space Pirate Army, and the Space Pirate Homeworld's Leviathan took control of Ridley and use him as a guardian. So no, Ridley and the Space Pirate didn't willingly choose to follow Dark Samus and her Phazon Invasion.
I agree, I liked the Xenoresearch Lab in Skytown in MP3. I actually jumped when that metroid popped out of the corner. Samus could possibly have some sort of flashlight beam for a darker Metroid game.
Bowser never really died because it's Mario. Ridley however has died a few times. He first was beaten in Zero Mission, and left for dead until he was rebuilt as a cyborg he came back in Metroid Prime as Meta Ridley until again he was beaten and presumed dead. then in Metroid Prime 3 he returns, still a cyborg and is again beaten, but returns later in the game empowered and corrupted by Phazon and killed then in Super Metroid he returns as a clone (atleast in my headcanon) and dies then -next-
That's hilarious, because the beginning of this song made me think, "Pokemon Legendary theme, Diamond and Pearl" before I even saw your comment. XD ...And I just had an image of Samus shooting a Masterball out of her arm cannon. I don't know whether to draw a picture of it or grab some brain bleach.
@finalEpsilon92 Don't be so sure, it shows him "exploding" but, while he still has a form, the camera changes to Samus. The explosion may have simply injured Ridley to the point that it knocked a crapload of phazon out of his system and he got away while the camera was honing in on Samus getting further corrupted. Supporting this is that the kill counter doesn't go up after the fight.
I think an awesome scene would've been like where Samus is about to head towards the Space Pirate planet where Samus meets with Admiral Dane and he explains how the planet came to be infected in the first place. Dark Samus hadn't yet converted the Space Pirate's main forces and so she sent the leviathan, the Pirates trying in vain to defend the planet with pirate shields and defense cannons having little effect. Dark Samus herself takes to the planet to finish converting the pirates and their leadership where she encounters and enraged Ridley who thinks its the real Samus. They fight but Dark Samus gets the better of him and becomes enslaved to the phazon and placed in charge of defending the leviathan seed. Later, once Samus reaches the boss room, Omega Ridley comes flying in but Dark Samus is riding on top of him using the phazon grapple lasso around his mouth as her personal steed before doing a spin jump off of him before he lands. Laughing menacingly before disappearing and the fight begins.
Hey guys I found this on a wiki and I was wondering if this was right: "Though he often appears in different forms, through scans found in the Metroid Prime sub-series and events portrayed in Metroid: Other M, it is confirmed that every incarnation of Ridley before both the latter game and Metroid Fusion is indeed the same being (save for the Ridley Robot), from the Metroid to Corruption and Super Metroid despite his multiple defeats, some of which involve his body exploding."
It appears that way. Exactly how is unexplained, although it's quite possible the explosion effect in game is just a way to avoid making a corpse sprite or model. (That's how I always reasoned it)
There was actually a prequel manga released at around the same time as Zero Mission that offered up some kind of explanation: that Ridley has an enhanced healing factor that allows him to survive normally-lethal conditions (like having his skin burned off) and is apparently activated by eating meat. The manga was never released outside of Japan, though, and some of it outright contradicts the games, but that part at least explains how he goes from cyborg in Prime to organic in Super, and why it takes AN EXPLODING PLANET to finally kill him. (And even in that case, I'm not completely convinced he didn't really survive.)
well I think part of it is that the space pirates, with the help of mother brain, essentially regrew ridley's biological body(it's actually not that farfetched, we are already starting to regrow working organs), the meta ridley is when the pirates simply didn't have their home base or mother brain, so they used machinery. sometime later, meta ridley was exposed to phazon, resulting in omega ridley. the ridley from other m was made from DNA found on samus' armor, and I think ridley x is the undead form of ridley's corpse after being killed by the metroid queen.
-continued- in Metroid Fusion he is captured by the Federation and stored in subzero imprisonment aboard the BSL space station where his body is copied by the X parasites and becomes Ridley X. now sometime between Super and Fusion he also returns but I'm not counting that as of now because.. well Other M. was not the best Metroid game and it... opened alot of continuity errors in characters and stories. that and I haven't played it because truthfully I'm scared to knowing what happened to Samus
Actually: Lilltle Birdy-Mystery Creature-Ridley-Meta Ridley (Mecha Ridley was the Meta Ridley prototype)-Omega Ridley-Ridley (Super Metroid)-(Remaining DNA from Samus' suit)-Lilltle Birdy-Mystery Creature-Clone Ridley-Neo Ridley
(In addition to my previous comment). So when the scientists on the Bottle Ship go on to make bioweapons out of cloned Metroids made by the Baby's DNA, they also, unknowingly, made a clone of Ridley. When the Ridley clone was created, it turned up as the Little Birdie, and the Federation researchers, unaware that this was Ridley, simply made him a pet and ignored him. As the game went on, he eventually shed his skin to turn back to his adult form
Lol i knew that i was gonna fight again becuase when i was on Pirates homeplanet i saw Pirates had pictures of Ridly on there monitors inside there lab and in that moment i felt Scary lol
@finalEpsilon92 Well in MP3, they don't show him physically exploding. I got all of that information from the Metroid Wiki, and what it says for sure is that the Phazon may have simply caused Ridley's old skin to grow over his armor, but Nintendo wouldn't let you see that, and Ridley (unseen as I said before) escaped before Samus destroyed the Leviathan Seed. That's what happened before his first death in Super Metroid, and of course the clone is in Other M and Fusion.
Ridley from Zero Mission, Prime 1 and 3, Super Metroid are all the same Ridley. According to Other M, Ridley did not die until Super Metroid. This means that the Ridley in Other M and Fusion are clones.
@finalEpsilon92 Uh, no. The reason his physical appearance changed from the cybernetic enhancements to normal skin may be an effect of the Phazon in Ridley's body. In between MP3 and Super Metroid, the Phazon must have somehow regrown his original skin over his enhancements. The Ridley in Metroid: Other M is the clone, because Ridley exploded back in Super Metroid, and particles of his DNA ended up on Samus's suit, along with the DNA of the baby Metroid.
If some of you actually read up, Ridley has regenerative capabilities. It takes time, but unless you completely destroy him, he won't die. Metroid-Super metroid, and ever game chronologically between, it is the same Ridley. You kill him in Super Metroid, they clone him in Other M, and the clone remains get sent to the research facility for Metroid Fusion, where the X-parasite absorbs his form and becomes him. As of this moment, maybe not in the future, Ridley is dead chronologically. AFAIK
Something else that supports the idea of Super Metroid Ridley being a clone is: There is absolutely nothing physically wrong with that Ridley. No battle scars, no metal plates, no explosion wounds. It's just...Ridley. Then, in Other M, we all know he is a clone. He is then turned to stone by the Queen Metroid and that same stone statue gets cloned by the X, creating the Ridley Parasite X.
That would be a good explanation, however this would contradict the official statement that all Ridleys fought before and in Super Metroid are one and the same being. And the Space Pirates were glad that the Levithan crushed into their homeworld, since it offers an endless supply of Phazon, So it would make sence, since Phazon was the basecomponent of an geneticaly altered army, as well as an energy source
(Final part of my long comment). Later on, the Ridley clone is found dying due to the Metroid Queen draining the life from his body. Sometime later, the Federation takes Ridley's remains to the BSL to be studied, and they have him frozen to keep him from degrading or reviving. Eventually, an X-Parasite gets ahold of Ridley's DNA and turns itself into Neo Ridley. Now idk whether the Ridley clone is truly dead, or if he returns again in the next Metroid. Only time will tell Ridley's fate for sure.
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Ridley at his 'Prime'.
Awesome pfp
I know that you did this a decade ago but that was a really nice joke
Ridley:
*R* e g e n e r a t i v e
*I* n t e n s e
*D* e a d l y
*L* e t h a l
*E* r r a t i c
*Y* e l l s r e a l l y l o u d
*cough cough* Fusion *cough cough*
Fusion was always the hardest ridley fight for me
@@KyuubiMoon cause you had to fight off ruptured eardrums.
@@yerman0564
More like ruptured GBA speakers. Half the time, it seemed like his screams were gonna snap the fucking handheld in half.
Regenerative Immortality DracoLich, Extraterrestrial Yvel
Too bad they killed off the most iconic villain.
Ridley must feel like shit after all of these augmentations.
loved the part where ridley crawls up and roars in samus' face and she's staring him down with confidence
We don’t see that part in the other m
because other m is a LIE!
Eclipse samus is basically the Altoria pendragon of metroid.
What is that game?
Never heard of it
Is it a new mega man?
This fight was all kinds of awesome! Did anyone else feel that sheer hatred that Omega Ridley had toward Samus before the fight began? No words, just a very, very angry space pirate.
This was personal for Ridley.
Agreed.
Ridley's always wrathful, but the phazon made him even more violent.
The rivalry between Samus and Ridley has always been personal. Ridley killed Samus’s parents in cold blood, so she hates him as much as he hates her, if not more so.
Every encounter is personal between the two. Samus wants him dead for killing her parents, and he wants her dead for constantly ruining his plans. Even more so after becoming Meta/Omega Ridley, since she had killed him. Even his clone seems to retain his hate for her as well. The only encounter that wasn't personal was Ridley-X. That Ridley had no idea who Samus was. It only attacked her because it saw a metroid and panicked.
In every other Ridley theme, the time signature switches rapidly between 3/4, 5/4, and a little bit of 4/4. 3/4 represents his creepiness, the utter terror he causes. 5/4 represents his brutal, savage attacks as he claws at you. The little bit of 4/4 represents when he's repositioning, adapting, learning. He stays with the two more uncommon time signatures because that's the side we see the most often.
Here though? Ridley's been completely taken over by the Phazon. He can't think straight. And so, the music NEVER CHANGES TIME SIGNATURE. It stays on the most common time signature, which ironically for Ridley, is a completely alien signature!
That's cool but it seems kinda arbitrary to just go "this represents that" on a complete whim
Fascinating
Phazon, not even once.
It's a hell of a drug.
so would corruption be an addiction to the drug? new view on what happened to the four hunters...O.O
I think Ridley's DNA stores EVERYTHING about him
Including memories of course
OmegaChosen0 exactly what i was thinking, and so long as it is not destroyed, ridley will return
@@ThePokeShapeshifter ...Sigh. It looks like I will have to pull out the antimatter again.
@@zardonic8560 Nah, Dread took care of him
@@Gemidori Not even dread, that was done in fusion
@trashlambo That was the clone of Ridley’s corpse that was infected by the X-Parasites in Fusion. The OG Ridley died for real back in Super. Until a corrupt group of ex-Galactic Federation scientists decided to clone him from samples of DNA that were somehow latched onto Samus' Power Suit while she was in quarantine, iirc
even death fears the might of Ridley, that's why it spat him out time and time again...
I love how Ridley just jump and attacked, no introduction or anything, just goes straight to killing Samus.
What? Meta Ridley is evolving! Congrats your Meta Ridley Evolved Into Omega Ridley!
"THE HUNTER DESTROYED HIM AGAAAAAAAAAAAIN"
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"ADD MORE GUUUUUUUUUUNS"
This is easily the best boss in Prime 3. He feels like a classic Metroid Prime boss, using all the upgrades you recently got to pick away at him
Mogenar and Helios are just Hypermode sponges
...Unless you're playing on hard difficulty, in that case, Mogenar is an actual threat. Helios not so much though.
@@MentallyIdiotic That difficulty curve.
Omega Ridley is also a Hypermode sponge if you're in the right phase.
Feels like in Hypermode Difficulty they just made everything Hypermode Sponges, every single enemy and boss.
this has got to be my favorite version of the ridley theme
This is personally my favorite of all the Ridley themes. Ridley's theme is already epic, then the musician basically laces it with Phazon to create this masterpiece. The fight itself is excellent too.
I like how chaotic this theme is
I just came from Other M's Ridley theme and, god, what a difference. Retro rocks.
other m did a good job too
@@NovuscourvousTornflesh yeah other M is an good game and had many redemminh quality
too bad the fans were too idiot for make an decent critics and just go with "why samus speak?! why samus had black friend?!"
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry
I... do not think that is why people hate other M. People hate it because of the miserable writing, copied plot and setting, bad voice direction from samus, and mediocre gameplay.
@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry i hate other m because they made samus stupid, boring and subordinate herself too much to other, which is not in Character.
In Fusion, for example she at least questioned everything Adam said and had intelligent internal monologues.
This is like the inverse of the usual Ridley theme.
Not entirely sure... but I'm positive this version of Ridley is... the most dangerous of all.... so the theme is well deserved to be freaking awesome like this
This is his strongest incarnation
Samus wouldn't reach the same power level she had in prime three until the end of Dread.
Ridley in Metroid Prime 4: “I'm in the thick of it, everybody knows”
Omega Ridley looks so badass and the theme is so awesome
I love it so much...
It's recognizable Ridley's theme in there but it was "unnervingly altered to be different, more mindlessly raging forward at the same pace, undeterred and mixed with wobbly space sounds and melodic bits that give a 'mutated' feel..." It's just a lot like Omega Ridley himself, a once cunning Commander now little more than a terrifying beast under the influence of phazon, still recognizable as himself but a lot more in your face than usual, trying to rip you apart.
Samus: why can't you just leave me alone, you BEAST?!
Ridley: what can I say? You're the only thing that I know of that I can fight with equally
First time I saw Omega Ridley I was like: "twice, in one game...JUST STAY DEAD ALREADY!" that was my first thought...my second thought was "uhhh...which set of eyes is real? can't tell."
Omega Ridley is my favourite form of ridley so far.
I've noticed that he looks a little 'beat up'. Most likely from the fact that he's a reanimated corpse.
And in the near future....it's GHOST RIDLEY!!!!
GR: :D now whatcha gonna do Samus?
Samus: Phazon particle acclerator on...
GR: ????
Samus: *zaps Ghost Ridley into space dust* I ain't afraid of no ghost...
and then SUN RIDLEY you have to fight him on the sun but you need the varia suit and a heat container 8110953 to be able to even survive
I love this track a lot. They remixed Ridley's theme in a way such that it still resembles Meta Ridley's theme, but also takes the main melody of his theme and ..heh.. corrupts it.
Ridley looks more of a Dark Ridley in this picture rather than a Phazon enhanced ridley. It would've been interesting to see a Dark Ridley in Prime 2
Actually, Ridley was replaced with Quadraxis in Echoes.
+HiddenTalent77 How did you know that?
theres a (supposed) unused music track in echoes, the demo disc i think, thats a slowed down distorted meta ridley theme.
yes and also an unused version of the elite quarters music from the first prime game
+HiddenTalent77 As far as I know, there were just plans for it to appear, but not in Quadraxis's place.
This theme so chaotic and menacing.
Remember people: this game is *ten years* old (as of this comment's posting)
*TEN YEARS OLD*
*AND IT'S STILL BETTER THAN SOME OF TODAY'S GAMES*
Best boss battle in the entire series.
@joeydo08 We dont CLEARLY witness his disintegration. We see an explosion, and that's it. He comes back in Super Metroid, where he definetly dies.
I really miss those days
I always thought of ridley as a dragon, but either way he's awesome!
He's a pirate
Pirates of the Caribbean theme intensifies
She never expected to see him again. That makes the scene all the more better.
Have you noticed that Meta Ridley in Prime 3 is bigger than in Prime 1, and Omega is smaller than Meta in Prime 1? WTF?
+Lucky Smooth He means the "Meta ridley variants" are big in comparison to the Omega ridley and you would think that the Metroid prime 1 Meta ridley was like a medium sized monster but nope, that ridley is still bigger than Omega ridley..
Omega Ridley for ssb5! He isn't too big this time!
omega is huge!
Ridley looks so fucking awesome.
god the amen usage is so brilliant in this song, fucking love it.
Very cool song I like Omega Ridley.
Ridley really never gives up, he is back, altrough his body was destroyed
In metroid fusion he's dead completely. Metroid fusion is the further in the timeline in the series.
Kids.... Dont do phazon ;P
Samus is going to need a fucking pokeball if this keeps up.
Best Ridley battle and one of the best themes
Ahh, I remember when you were DarkSauron89.
That is an awesome pic. It looks like Ridley fused with Starscream!
I'm curious how he'll return after having spontaneous combustion
I love this one, besides being different.
It fits, that's no longer Ridley, it's… Something else…
Something even more lethal
It's the same ridley
@@novustalks7525 well, yes and no, Ridley got corrupted and infused with phazon, making the leviathan's will. Not his own anymore.
@@maikybravo6108 No. The leviathan doesn't have a will. It's only thought is survival instinct. Ridley was infused with phazon but not fully corrupted. If he was fully corrupted he wouldn't be able to regain himself afterwards. The fact he exists in games set after prime 3 indicates it was not a total corruption and something more like what samus had, as that would also explain how he can regenerate after norion and how he manages to repair himself and still exist once phazon is gone
@@novustalks7525 a PED…
And you're right, prime isn't the end of the Metroid timeline…
I thought it was a hivemind, looking for survival, and sending Samus' friends against her… I need to rewatch the lore 😅
HEY SAMMY I FINALLY STOPPED FALLIN'! AHHH!
Actually, one theory I heard that I foudn quite interesting, even though it's probably disproved, was that Omega Ridley was to Ridley as Dark Samus was to Samus. More like a Phazon Clone.
Besides, It'd be kinda weird if the real Ridley was the guardian for the Leviathan that was destroying the Space Pirate Homeworld.
@@ha9phtfpaehs It's more because Dark Samus and the Phazon have the ability to corrupt others minds. They don't follow Dark Samus beacuse they want to but because they are forced to. Dark Samus was able to take control of the entire Space Pirate Army, and the Space Pirate Homeworld's Leviathan took control of Ridley and use him as a guardian. So no, Ridley and the Space Pirate didn't willingly choose to follow Dark Samus and her Phazon Invasion.
@@Coolmar15 fair enough
Pterodactyls had wings on their arms, so...
Dragon space pirate zombie :3
More like a Digimon then: In-Training - Rookie - Champion - Ultimate - Mega.
This was such an epic fight.
When i am a scientist
I will make the bird into Ridley!!!!
so ridley is my pet :D ANY CONTEST! NO ONE CAN STOP ME!
Ridley, Meta-Ridley, Omega-Ridley.....i love his evolutions
I agree, I liked the Xenoresearch Lab in Skytown in MP3. I actually jumped when that metroid popped out of the corner. Samus could possibly have some sort of flashlight beam for a darker Metroid game.
Venom Ridley
Bowser never really died because it's Mario.
Ridley however has died a few times.
He first was beaten in Zero Mission, and left for dead until he was rebuilt as a cyborg
he came back in Metroid Prime as Meta Ridley until again he was beaten and presumed dead.
then in Metroid Prime 3 he returns, still a cyborg and is again beaten, but returns later in the game empowered and corrupted by Phazon and killed
then in Super Metroid he returns as a clone (atleast in my headcanon) and dies
then -next-
JEZUS LUIS THIS GUY IS BRUTAL!
Omega Ridley: Fool I'ma put the smack down on yah
Samus: Challenge Accepted
That's hilarious, because the beginning of this song made me think, "Pokemon Legendary theme, Diamond and Pearl" before I even saw your comment. XD
...And I just had an image of Samus shooting a Masterball out of her arm cannon. I don't know whether to draw a picture of it or grab some brain bleach.
The first time I played Metroid Prime 3, I played on Veteran difficulty and somehow never took any damage.
Bigger & Better
I can totally imagine a Metroid RPG.
This is beast
how many times do i have to fight the same f*cking dragon!? ;)
@astrotoadp6
of course i use the grapple beam. but its harder to grill draygon as to shoot ridley from the sky.
@finalEpsilon92 Don't be so sure, it shows him "exploding" but, while he still has a form, the camera changes to Samus. The explosion may have simply injured Ridley to the point that it knocked a crapload of phazon out of his system and he got away while the camera was honing in on Samus getting further corrupted. Supporting this is that the kill counter doesn't go up after the fight.
I think an awesome scene would've been like where Samus is about to head towards the Space Pirate planet where Samus meets with Admiral Dane and he explains how the planet came to be infected in the first place. Dark Samus hadn't yet converted the Space Pirate's main forces and so she sent the leviathan, the Pirates trying in vain to defend the planet with pirate shields and defense cannons having little effect. Dark Samus herself takes to the planet to finish converting the pirates and their leadership where she encounters and enraged Ridley who thinks its the real Samus. They fight but Dark Samus gets the better of him and becomes enslaved to the phazon and placed in charge of defending the leviathan seed. Later, once Samus reaches the boss room, Omega Ridley comes flying in but Dark Samus is riding on top of him using the phazon grapple lasso around his mouth as her personal steed before doing a spin jump off of him before he lands. Laughing menacingly before disappearing and the fight begins.
The most beastly beast the world ever did see. He's a Pterodactyl space pirate zombie. Enough fucking said.
Yes I know, I was just goofing around heh.
@Evolfurnace he is an undead, nearly immortal mutated space pirate dragon cyborg nuff said.
Hey guys I found this on a wiki and I was wondering if this was right: "Though he often appears in different forms, through scans found in the Metroid Prime sub-series and events portrayed in Metroid: Other M, it is confirmed that every incarnation of Ridley before both the latter game and Metroid Fusion is indeed the same being (save for the Ridley Robot), from the Metroid to Corruption and Super Metroid despite his multiple defeats, some of which involve his body exploding."
It appears that way. Exactly how is unexplained, although it's quite possible the explosion effect in game is just a way to avoid making a corpse sprite or model. (That's how I always reasoned it)
There was actually a prequel manga released at around the same time as Zero Mission that offered up some kind of explanation: that Ridley has an enhanced healing factor that allows him to survive normally-lethal conditions (like having his skin burned off) and is apparently activated by eating meat. The manga was never released outside of Japan, though, and some of it outright contradicts the games, but that part at least explains how he goes from cyborg in Prime to organic in Super, and why it takes AN EXPLODING PLANET to finally kill him. (And even in that case, I'm not completely convinced he didn't really survive.)
well I think part of it is that the space pirates, with the help of mother brain, essentially regrew ridley's biological body(it's actually not that farfetched, we are already starting to regrow working organs), the meta ridley is when the pirates simply didn't have their home base or mother brain, so they used machinery. sometime later, meta ridley was exposed to phazon, resulting in omega ridley. the ridley from other m was made from DNA found on samus' armor, and I think ridley x is the undead form of ridley's corpse after being killed by the metroid queen.
yeah its the same one each time
-continued- in Metroid Fusion he is captured by the Federation and stored in subzero imprisonment aboard the BSL space station where his body is copied by the X parasites and becomes Ridley X.
now sometime between Super and Fusion he also returns but I'm not counting that as of now because.. well Other M. was not the best Metroid game and it... opened alot of continuity errors in characters and stories. that and I haven't played it because truthfully I'm scared to knowing what happened to Samus
Actually: Lilltle Birdy-Mystery Creature-Ridley-Meta Ridley (Mecha Ridley was the Meta Ridley prototype)-Omega Ridley-Ridley (Super Metroid)-(Remaining DNA from Samus' suit)-Lilltle Birdy-Mystery Creature-Clone Ridley-Neo Ridley
Try as I might
they choose to keep on living
WHO CAN BREATHE FIRE!!!!!!!!!
(In addition to my previous comment). So when the scientists on the Bottle Ship go on to make bioweapons out of cloned Metroids made by the Baby's DNA, they also, unknowingly, made a clone of Ridley. When the Ridley clone was created, it turned up as the Little Birdie, and the Federation researchers, unaware that this was Ridley, simply made him a pet and ignored him. As the game went on, he eventually shed his skin to turn back to his adult form
Meta Ridley is in P1, so he DID mention him
Lol i knew that i was gonna fight again becuase when i was on Pirates homeplanet i saw Pirates had pictures of Ridly on there monitors inside there lab and in that moment i felt Scary lol
@finalEpsilon92 Well in MP3, they don't show him physically exploding. I got all of that information from the Metroid Wiki, and what it says for sure is that the Phazon may have simply caused Ridley's old skin to grow over his armor, but Nintendo wouldn't let you see that, and Ridley (unseen as I said before) escaped before Samus destroyed the Leviathan Seed. That's what happened before his first death in Super Metroid, and of course the clone is in Other M and Fusion.
The music has sections that remind you there's phazon present here
There are a lot of ridleys... what next, Chuck Ridley?
The hardest boss that I have ever faced...
ON NORMAL!
Ridley from Zero Mission, Prime 1 and 3, Super Metroid are all the same Ridley. According to Other M, Ridley did not die until Super Metroid. This means that the Ridley in Other M and Fusion are clones.
The Federation cloned him in Other M (brilliant idea) and the corpse was copied by the X Parasites in Fusion.
He isn't figuring anything out. He is expressing an opinion.
The phrase 'no shit sherlock' is used when someone explains something everyone knows.
@finalEpsilon92 Uh, no. The reason his physical appearance changed from the cybernetic enhancements to normal skin may be an effect of the Phazon in Ridley's body. In between MP3 and Super Metroid, the Phazon must have somehow regrown his original skin over his enhancements. The Ridley in Metroid: Other M is the clone, because Ridley exploded back in Super Metroid, and particles of his DNA ended up on Samus's suit, along with the DNA of the baby Metroid.
"EAT EGGNOG, SAMUS!"
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I'm well aware of that, as is probably everyone who's looked into Kraid, and eh, I guess so... It's still not the same though.
1: I know that, but since Hunters has no relevance in the Metroid timeline, i tend to ignore it
2: Nope, its not, check out the timeline on Wikitroid
If some of you actually read up, Ridley has regenerative capabilities. It takes time, but unless you completely destroy him, he won't die. Metroid-Super metroid, and ever game chronologically between, it is the same Ridley. You kill him in Super Metroid, they clone him in Other M, and the clone remains get sent to the research facility for Metroid Fusion, where the X-parasite absorbs his form and becomes him.
As of this moment, maybe not in the future, Ridley is dead chronologically.
AFAIK
Something else that supports the idea of Super Metroid Ridley being a clone is: There is absolutely nothing physically wrong with that Ridley. No battle scars, no metal plates, no explosion wounds. It's just...Ridley. Then, in Other M, we all know he is a clone. He is then turned to stone by the Queen Metroid and that same stone statue gets cloned by the X, creating the Ridley Parasite X.
the only thing i hear during this fight is the constant pewpewpewpew of my nova beam....
It will be followed by Ridlychu and his trainer Dark samus.
The dislikes are Samus and the other hunters
Omega Ridley is Meta Ridley infected with Phazon
With the power of Phazon.
That would be a good explanation, however this would contradict the official statement that all Ridleys fought before and in Super Metroid are one and the same being.
And the Space Pirates were glad that the Levithan crushed into their homeworld, since it offers an endless supply of Phazon, So it would make sence, since Phazon was the basecomponent of an geneticaly altered army, as well as an energy source
(Final part of my long comment). Later on, the Ridley clone is found dying due to the Metroid Queen draining the life from his body. Sometime later, the Federation takes Ridley's remains to the BSL to be studied, and they have him frozen to keep him from degrading or reviving. Eventually, an X-Parasite gets ahold of Ridley's DNA and turns itself into Neo Ridley. Now idk whether the Ridley clone is truly dead, or if he returns again in the next Metroid. Only time will tell Ridley's fate for sure.