In defence of the Ridley Crybaby scene

fraroc:

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fraroc

2010-10-01 05:50:49 pm

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/960554-metroid-other-m/56262844

This topic makes the whole thing make so much more sense to me.

If you think that samus's character was ruined by the scene, you need to read this. It delves deep withing Metroid canon and provides a logical explanation for the scene.

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tomatobob

2010-10-01 05:57:25 pm

Never stressed

That is a massive wall of stupid and you should feel bad about posting it.

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Turtle

2010-10-01 06:05:48 pm

I like turtles.

The post mentions "badass defensive mode." Surely she would have had the same reaction with Ridley threatening Anthony (whom she had known for a lot longer, by the way)? A much better way to handle it would have been to have Samus see Ridley and then get royally pissed off. She realizes that he's responsible for the deaths of anyone and anything she's ever cared about, and she's not happy about it. Not the "freeze up and be useless" not happy, the "kill him with fire" not happy. So why didn't they skip the crybaby part and go straight into unstoppable rage with a side of Plasma Beam?

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fraroc

2010-10-01 06:11:37 pm

Quote from tomatobob:

That is a massive wall of stupid and you should feel bad about posting it.

shut it

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sabata2

2010-10-01 06:13:26 pm

ANKOKU

@Turt
She doesn't have the Mother-Baby bond with Anthony.

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TheGreenManalishi

2010-10-01 06:49:10 pm

The flesh is spongy and bruised

every character trait given to Samus in Other M is in some way hugely irritating to me.

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MarioGalaxy2433g5

2010-10-01 07:29:47 pm

The one that is I.

...I just gotta say, this is an opportunity for people to make fun of you horribly. They HATE this scene.

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Turtle

2010-10-01 07:29:56 pm

I like turtles.

Quote from sabata2:

@Turt
She doesn't have the Mother-Baby bond with Anthony.

No, but she clearly cares about him.

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sabata2

2010-10-01 07:37:19 pm

ANKOKU

Ehh, not worth arguing over.

Simply put, would you throw yourself in front of a bullet for ANYONE you, even only slightly, care for?
Samus... didn't.

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tomatobob

2010-10-01 07:37:48 pm

Never stressed

Let's talk more about this terrible scene that has been talked about to death, this is a good idea and will surely lead to new ideas and perceptions of it and certainly not more of the same. Why, just the other day I was thinking that Samus actually was traveling to the past to relieve the events of Other M and feaked out at the sight of Ridley because she knew he was going to kill everything again and she could not handle this and ptsd'd the hell out because oh god not again, he's going to kill us all, help oh help save me useless canon fodder! Oh ok thanks you're a bro and a nice guy and I like you quite a lot! This is the only possible canon explanation because the manga said so and also my heart, the end.

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sabata2

2010-10-01 07:41:57 pm

ANKOKU

Tbob: Sarcasm Incarnate.

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MarioGalaxy2433g5

2010-10-01 07:45:56 pm

The one that is I.

I honestly hope that fraroc realized that all he is going to get is sarcasm at this point.

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fraroc

2010-10-01 08:23:27 pm

Read the article, its interesting and actually sheds some positive light on that scene.

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Turtle

2010-10-01 08:40:34 pm

I like turtles.

It is poorly thought out and sheds no light on anything except how stupid the attempted justifications for this scene are.

Quote from tomatobob:

canon fodder

Intentional or not, this spelling error is fittingly hilarious.

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Toozin

2010-10-01 08:49:52 pm

Irken Elite

Why am I so amazing?

Like everyone else on the GFaqs Other M board, poster is stupid and makes bad points.

RT-55J

2010-10-01 10:15:02 pm

urmom got ptsd from giving birth 2 u

RT-55J

2010-10-01 10:15:50 pm

oh wait that thread he linked to doesn't even mention ptsd

ffffuuuuuuuuuu-

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fraroc

2010-10-02 09:07:43 am

why is this site full of hate

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TheGreenManalishi

2010-10-02 09:42:00 am

The flesh is spongy and bruised

The world is full of hate. Because of Other M.

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UchihaSasuke

2010-10-02 11:51:33 am

my umbrella goes directly to Bankai

stupidity invokes rage

how do you feel when you meet someone who can't even turn on a computer and call themselves a "tech expert"?

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2010-10-02 12:29:59 pm

Indie Lover

i did knew a "tech-expert" who didn't knew how to make a e-mail account...

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Zeke

2010-10-02 11:04:29 pm

Time bomb set get out fast!

Geez, what sterling examples of good citizenship we are here at m2k2. Did you guys really not find any merit in that article?

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sabata2

2010-10-02 11:15:58 pm

ANKOKU

I'm sure over half the people who commented on it didn't even read it.

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MarioGalaxy2433g5

2010-10-02 11:33:15 pm

The one that is I.

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Geez, what sterling examples of good citizenship we are here at m2k2. Did you guys really not find any merit in that article?

Article? Its a topic on freaking GameFAQs.

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tomatobob

2010-10-03 12:37:37 am

Never stressed

Quote from sabata2:

I'm sure over half the people who commented on it didn't even read it.

I read it and it was bad. It is based entirely on assumptions that are themselves based solely on the desire to justify the scene in question. Arbitrarily deciding which time Ridley explodes actually counts as him dying doesn't help anything.