My interpretation of Ridley was that he likes roaring and acting aninalistic because it is a more effective way to communicate (and it's fun). I had an idea for Ridley's motives was that he needs to kill a certain amount of beings to stay lucid. Like his bloodlust is so strong that he has to satiate it before he can do anything.
It would be great if Ridley has several speaking lines and portrayed as a stereotypical archenemy type villain where can takes his frustration out on his henchmen if his plans don't go his way, cursing at his closest advisors, having a bad temper (like Megatron from the Aligned Transformers), very determined to gain power and eliminate anyone who gets in his way as well as killing Samus in hopes to conquer the galaxy with or without High Command pulling the strings for most of his operations. He claims himself to be a member of High Command and is willing to make sure his forces obey him without further excuses so they would avoid his wrath. He would be a short-tempered, power-hungry, sadistic, and cruel space pirate general without any self-control for his actions and deserved to be loved by fans.
I deeply agree with this, I very badly want to see Ridley live up to his potential. There is one thing I disagree on though, which is that I DO think he should talk. Sure, he could be handled just fine without the Voice Acting, but after seeing how great it characterized him in the manga... I really want to see words come out of his mouth. It doesn't need to be as much as Raven Beak had, but even just ONE sentence or ONE word (depending on the word) would go a long way. I also think he'd need a better explanation for his return than just "he regenerated from a single cell", both since that's not how regeneration works (unless you're Vandal Savage, and even then that makes no sense) and because Planet Zebes went kaboom. Whatever they do to bring Ridley back, it would most likely need to be QUITE elaborate (Ridley's back up digitized brain copied by the Space Pirate and stored on a hidden pirate base, recovered by a surviving Mawkin and entered into a chozo-built Ridley Robot with the purpose of killing Samus, perhaps).
Honestly even just having him standing infront of some sort of comunicator and ether bowing or looking like he is acepting or giving orders could be enough. I mean imagine some rando pirates bringing up a communicator and seeing and image of riddly in shouting and whoever has it. that's all we need to show he's incharge and not just an animal.
Totally disagree that Metroid villains don't have a personality. Ridley in the games for example is portrayed as being obsessive, munipulative and maybe a bit narcissistic, all shown in a very animalistic and erratic way. From having statues and even a mechanized droid built in his image in his lair on Zebes or be willing to undergo painful surgery not necesarily to keep him alive but to give him and advantage in battle. It's implied he let Samus collect the Chozo artifacts to open the seal to the impact crater for him, even at the expense of the lives of countless space pirates. He is the one that goes through Phazon corruption to guard the leviathan seed in the pirate homeworld. He ambushes Samus on SR388 all by himself even if he was still not fully healed from his cybernetics because he really wanted to stop her from killing the Metroids there and steal the last Metroid larva in the galaxy. Ridley is not the kind of villain that's gonna give you a ten minute speech about how evil he is. He's a genuine intimidating menace and a treat to everything around him that has to be stopped at all costs.
One correction if your cool with it. The entire space pirate command shown in Prime 3 are under Dark Samus' control. Including Ridley. I'm sure he did not willingly bend his knee to her will. She influences him through phazon alone. There's no way he'd follow something that looks like his greatest adversary.
Ridley's a great boss to fight, but my honest opinion is that the series should leave him behind at this point, at least for games that take place after Fusion. I didn't really miss him in Dread because we got a new agile villain, and I felt relieved that they didn't try to shoehorn him in and try to explain why he's alive yet again. Granted they had Kraid, but he hasn't been in a game in a long time so it felt fresh. Let the future of the series be different in a world of rehashes.
I'd like to see Ridley come back, especially in a Prime game, just so he and Samus can have some kind of character dynamic. In previous games he's basically just another monster you fight, Samus beats him, and then you move on. If he ends up as the overall big bad of the game that's even better since he's never been final boss material until he just showed up for the end of Samus Returns but that seemed pretty out of left field (literally) than being set up as the end goal like with Raven Beak.
Well, in Metroid Prime Ridley is kinda potrayed as the "final goal", since Samus only lands on Tallon IV bc she was following him but lost track of him. You do quickly find out that the space pirates do nasty Things there with the Phazon, but opening the crater and sealing it doesnt really become the ultimate goal until later. But yeaaa.... Besides a Tease of a Shadow of Ridley in Phendrana you quickly forget you are actually trying to find him 😂
If we had others like him I want them to just be others of his race, fake us out with Baby bird's and reveal females of the species are more coherent and peaceful, while Ridley was a "bad egg" because he was abducted by pirates and separated from his mother, so we keep getting jumpstart by 1st and 2nd forms but it turns out they are not a threat unless we are acting like unintelligent prey.
The problem is that Ridley had his actual death in Super Metroid, meaning the only way he could come back is through cloning, which has been done, or time-travel, which might be explored in Prime 4
Ridley has been dead since Super, his clone had no guaranteed grasp of language in Other M, Ridley X, and Mecha form also wouldn't be guaranteed to have been capable of speech.
We could get Mecha Ridley 2.0 who's a more advanced android with an AI copy of Ridley's personality. It would allow us to get dialogue without voice acting by having Samus pick up data logs and messages Mecha Ridley is sending to his subordinates.
I would make Ridley like Picolo from Dragon Ball. He can regenerate and is not the only namekian, so we can ger many Ridleys but at the same time, different one from space Pirate home planet.
I hope nintendo doesnt give him a voice in the next game. It would be better if he just made animal sounds but in an alien way. Like he was talking but without an understandable voice
My interpretation of Ridley was that he likes roaring and acting aninalistic because it is a more effective way to communicate (and it's fun). I had an idea for Ridley's motives was that he needs to kill a certain amount of beings to stay lucid. Like his bloodlust is so strong that he has to satiate it before he can do anything.
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It would be great if Ridley has several speaking lines and portrayed as a stereotypical archenemy type villain where can takes his frustration out on his henchmen if his plans don't go his way, cursing at his closest advisors, having a bad temper (like Megatron from the Aligned Transformers), very determined to gain power and eliminate anyone who gets in his way as well as killing Samus in hopes to conquer the galaxy with or without High Command pulling the strings for most of his operations. He claims himself to be a member of High Command and is willing to make sure his forces obey him without further excuses so they would avoid his wrath. He would be a short-tempered, power-hungry, sadistic, and cruel space pirate general without any self-control for his actions and deserved to be loved by fans.
I deeply agree with this, I very badly want to see Ridley live up to his potential. There is one thing I disagree on though, which is that I DO think he should talk. Sure, he could be handled just fine without the Voice Acting, but after seeing how great it characterized him in the manga... I really want to see words come out of his mouth. It doesn't need to be as much as Raven Beak had, but even just ONE sentence or ONE word (depending on the word) would go a long way.
I also think he'd need a better explanation for his return than just "he regenerated from a single cell", both since that's not how regeneration works (unless you're Vandal Savage, and even then that makes no sense) and because Planet Zebes went kaboom. Whatever they do to bring Ridley back, it would most likely need to be QUITE elaborate (Ridley's back up digitized brain copied by the Space Pirate and stored on a hidden pirate base, recovered by a surviving Mawkin and entered into a chozo-built Ridley Robot with the purpose of killing Samus, perhaps).
Daaaamn, that idea for a chozo-based ridley Robot sounds sick as fuck!! Id love that
Honestly even just having him standing infront of some sort of comunicator and ether bowing or looking like he is acepting or giving orders could be enough. I mean imagine some rando pirates bringing up a communicator and seeing and image of riddly in shouting and whoever has it. that's all we need to show he's incharge and not just an animal.
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Totally disagree that Metroid villains don't have a personality.
Ridley in the games for example is portrayed as being obsessive, munipulative and maybe a bit narcissistic, all shown in a very animalistic and erratic way.
From having statues and even a mechanized droid built in his image in his lair on Zebes or be willing to undergo painful surgery not necesarily to keep him alive but to give him and advantage in battle.
It's implied he let Samus collect the Chozo artifacts to open the seal to the impact crater for him, even at the expense of the lives of countless space pirates.
He is the one that goes through Phazon corruption to guard the leviathan seed in the pirate homeworld.
He ambushes Samus on SR388 all by himself even if he was still not fully healed from his cybernetics because he really wanted to stop her from killing the Metroids there and steal the last Metroid larva in the galaxy.
Ridley is not the kind of villain that's gonna give you a ten minute speech about how evil he is.
He's a genuine intimidating menace and a treat to everything around him that has to be stopped at all costs.
One correction if your cool with it. The entire space pirate command shown in Prime 3 are under Dark Samus' control. Including Ridley. I'm sure he did not willingly bend his knee to her will. She influences him through phazon alone. There's no way he'd follow something that looks like his greatest adversary.
Ridley's a great boss to fight, but my honest opinion is that the series should leave him behind at this point, at least for games that take place after Fusion. I didn't really miss him in Dread because we got a new agile villain, and I felt relieved that they didn't try to shoehorn him in and try to explain why he's alive yet again. Granted they had Kraid, but he hasn't been in a game in a long time so it felt fresh. Let the future of the series be different in a world of rehashes.
I'd like to see Ridley come back, especially in a Prime game, just so he and Samus can have some kind of character dynamic. In previous games he's basically just another monster you fight, Samus beats him, and then you move on. If he ends up as the overall big bad of the game that's even better since he's never been final boss material until he just showed up for the end of Samus Returns but that seemed pretty out of left field (literally) than being set up as the end goal like with Raven Beak.
Well, in Metroid Prime Ridley is kinda potrayed as the "final goal", since Samus only lands on Tallon IV bc she was following him but lost track of him. You do quickly find out that the space pirates do nasty Things there with the Phazon, but opening the crater and sealing it doesnt really become the ultimate goal until later. But yeaaa.... Besides a Tease of a Shadow of Ridley in Phendrana you quickly forget you are actually trying to find him 😂
If we had others like him I want them to just be others of his race, fake us out with Baby bird's and reveal females of the species are more coherent and peaceful, while Ridley was a "bad egg" because he was abducted by pirates and separated from his mother, so we keep getting jumpstart by 1st and 2nd forms but it turns out they are not a threat unless we are acting like unintelligent prey.
The problem is that Ridley had his actual death in Super Metroid, meaning the only way he could come back is through cloning, which has been done, or time-travel, which might be explored in Prime 4
They could always do a Mecha Ridley 2.0. Keep him dead but allow his presence to still be felt.
@@chrisdaily2077 Yeah, I forgot to mention the cybernetic versions. That would work too
Ridley has been dead since Super, his clone had no guaranteed grasp of language in Other M, Ridley X, and Mecha form also wouldn't be guaranteed to have been capable of speech.
We could get Mecha Ridley 2.0 who's a more advanced android with an AI copy of Ridley's personality. It would allow us to get dialogue without voice acting by having Samus pick up data logs and messages Mecha Ridley is sending to his subordinates.
I would make Ridley like Picolo from Dragon Ball. He can regenerate and is not the only namekian, so we can ger many Ridleys but at the same time, different one from space Pirate home planet.
I think it is more appropriate to say that Ridley is an enforcer of the space pirates, but I could be wrong
I hope nintendo doesnt give him a voice in the next game. It would be better if he just made animal sounds but in an alien way. Like he was talking but without an understandable voice
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Sadly Ridley in the games is less like Bowser and Ganandorf and more like Petey Piranha
I dunno but I am also not looking for a relationship rn.
He's the worst thing about the franchise. He's barely even a character, and is completely irrelevant to any of the plots