Just wondering...

2004-05-05 11:05:25 am

I was looking at Maru Mari( I think thats what it's called ) and saw they had houston. I was wondering how they put him in there. Is it possible to be him?

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DominicanZero

2004-05-05 11:15:06 am

直死の魔眼使い

No. Houston is just a comic relief. (Alas, the whole Maru Mari is a comic relief which in one way or another involves Houston.) And since Houston was never officially mentioned in any of the games, you can pretty much rest assured that he's not in the game. ANY game.

'Cept for HBA, of course... :P

Toozin

2004-05-05 11:34:24 am

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I still like to think the corpse outside Kraid's lair is Houston.

Alec

2004-05-05 01:38:53 pm

Quote from Toozin:

I still like to think the corpse outside Kraid's lair is Houston.

Which game does that apply to? Is it only in Super Metroid?

KennyMan666

2004-05-05 01:49:20 pm

Viking

Precursor

Quote from Alec:

Quote from Toozin:

I still like to think the corpse outside Kraid's lair is Houston.

Which game does that apply to? Is it only in Super Metroid?

As far as I know, yes. There's none in Metroid, and I still haven't played Zero Mission.

Stonefish

2004-05-05 04:38:07 pm

Yes, that corpse is only in Super, and for some reason everyone thinks it's that Houston guy.

Pure speculation, methinks.

MetalRidley

2004-05-05 04:42:11 pm

The corpse is wearing silver, though, not blue. Looks a lot like those federation scientists that were with samus on SR388 in Fusion's intro. Maybe that's the fed's hostile environment suit, and the corpse is a fed soldier that got especially far. The ZM manual did say they made several attacks.

Toozin

2004-05-05 05:01:55 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

I just like thinking it's him because that means he's dead in official cannon. Woo!

Syl

2004-05-05 05:38:07 pm

Quote from Toozin:

I just like thinking it's him because that means he's dead in official cannon. Woo!

heh, thats part of my logic as well.

MetalRidley

2004-05-05 07:24:31 pm

I prefer to think he never existed in the canon at all. Where would he get a chozo suit?

Stonefish

2004-05-05 07:39:50 pm

If you're talking aboot those comics from Nintendo Power, it wasn't a Chozo suit he had, just something similar externally.

If you're talking about something else, well, no idea. I probably don't want to know either.

MetalRidley

2004-05-05 08:39:19 pm

In those NP comics, which is where Maru Mari houston was inspired, he was wearing a blue suit almost identical to Samus's. No humans besides those two have that type of suit, but the chozo did. Ok, it could be a replica, but it has some weird things (huge shoulder balls) that it wouldn't make sense to duplicate if they couldn't match the chozo suit's functionality (and they clearly can't).

Houston was a dumb idea and a smear on Metroid's dignity. Simple as that.

Sorry M2k2 houston.

DarkMaster625

2004-05-05 08:49:59 pm

I don't see why he suddenlt got pushed into the story but I think it was to add a little romance and add a person for Samus to flashback to.

Syl

2004-05-05 09:11:30 pm

it explains in the comic that his suit ISN'T chozo, or at least samus states something like
"my suit was made by those birds"
(implying that his wasn't, and that hes too stupid to know any difference)

MetalRidley

2004-05-05 09:22:45 pm

Quote from DarkMaster625:

I don't see why he suddenlt got pushed into the story but I think it was to add a little romance and add a person for Samus to flashback to.

Romance? Screw that! I want loneliness and isolation in my metroid games!

And Syl, I amend my question to: Why would he have a suit that looks identical to samus's? :D

Yoshi348

2004-05-05 11:25:54 pm

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Ready and willing.

I think silly terms like "making sense" were far from the minds of the people who made the SM NP comic.

Stonefish

2004-05-06 04:46:07 am

"The warrior can harness the healing energy of the power bombs" or somesuch...

Isn't she meant to be unconscious ffs? :)

RoboBlob

2004-05-06 03:09:53 pm

I, RoboBlob, master of all time, declare that the corspe outside of Kraid's lair in super metroid was in fact Houston. I have spoken.

Syl

2004-05-06 05:02:51 pm

Quote from MetalRidley:

Quote from DarkMaster625:

I don't see why he suddenlt got pushed into the story but I think it was to add a little romance and add a person for Samus to flashback to.

Romance? Screw that! I want loneliness and isolation in my metroid games!

And Syl, I amend my question to: Why would he have a suit that looks identical to samus's? :D

Because the federation was trying to imitate it? Perhaps those shoulder pads have some uses.

JaggerG

2004-05-06 08:37:52 pm

Shifty Leader

That M2k2 guy

They're giant space heaters. It really helps in ice climates.

MetalRidley

2004-05-06 09:18:16 pm

But houston's suit lacks all of samus's functions, except i guess for life-support. The federation really screwed the pooch when they made his suit, then.