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The images are in desperate need of organization, but I have no idea how to get things to look nicer. Anyone know how to make things so the images go something like this?
Metroid
Text
Image
Metroid II
Text
Metroid Prime
Text
Image
And so on. Help? ^^' -- Sparky the Seventh Chaos 18:26, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
We're working on that, it's just Wikimedia lacks Metroid images. All they show is thier logos and fan art. Plus copyright is very strict here, so it's gonna be challenging for us to post an image of Ridley. I've tried looking to see if Ridley are in other Metroid related articles, but none are found.
Can someone please import an image of Ridley, so we can include his photos in this article. (no fan art and cosplay will be nessecary). GeekFreak98 ( talk) 15:20, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
I've removed the two sentences comparing Ridley to a pterodactyl. He exactly matches the physical description of a European dragon. I've added a (brief) note to this effect in the text. -- Christopher Thomas 15:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Matrix Kage: I say Ridley IS a Meta Dragon (My term), and BTW, he DOES have the horns... they're pretty small, but they're there... all of the idiot sprite comics I'VE seen have had Ridz as a lackey... and a stupid one at that... but the E-Manga from Nintendo of Japan shows clearly that he's the leader of the Pirates and VERY layered... first off... he shows a bit of pity for 3-year-old Samus before deciding he had to kill her. Then, in the second chapter, it shows Mother Brain on Zebes, under the control of the Choujin-zoku (Japanese: Bird-people) also known as Chozo (Latin: Carved statue). that was also the first time he died. therefore, that adds to his importance becase they revived him yet another time. This makes... 5 times he's been revived, including Mecha-forms (Spirit from Zero Mission and Mecha Ridley from Super Metroid) plus the X-Parasites infecting and absorbing him. Mother Brain was revived once and upgraded once. So, that's my explaination as to what he is, where he stands, and how these can be seen. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.152.48.159 ( talk • contribs) .
Okay, I know that NCL completely ignored all of the wacky eightiesish Metroid stuff what NoA and their underlings came up with, and all that was for the greater good. =)
Yet, there's one thing that I want to... remember weirdly. Samus' gunship was featured in Captain N. It looked weird.
The point is, one of those comics - either Captain N or some other illustrative Nintendo Comics System bit - also had Ridley in them. It's not in one l33t site which had scans of most of these comics, so my luck is not that good. It's intriguing because this particular two-page comic had the basic history of the Metroid game, featuring more weird speculation on Mother Brain's role etc, and also had cute drawings of Ridley and Kraid in a sort of a cameo role, pacing on the surface of Zebeth with Kraid looking over his shoulder at the invading metroids flying all around.
Anyone remember that one or know the original publication issue? The reason I'm asking because I only got the Finnish edition, kind of hard to tell anything from that, and besides, it's not at my hand right now anyway... =/ -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 01:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I didn't find those comics at all, but I did find some other interesting Ridley appearances - much more remarkable than that little appearance I tried to mention above, though. =) I put some of that to the article. -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 01:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
"Ridley is often seen as a sort of rival against Samus, and likely to have been the one responsible for killing Samus' parents, as briefly seen in flashback cutscenes in Metroid: Fusion."
...the what now? I don't recall there being any flashbacks in Fusion, and SURELY not any related to the space pirates! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.28.235.211 ( talk • contribs) on 00:54, 22 February 2006.
Yo. It appears to me that if samus crippled Ridley in Metroid, and he was cyberneticly enhanced in Metroid Prime, but killed again, Im pretty sure that the super metroid Ridly is not the original. He has no trace of cybernetics on him, so unless they managed to regrow alot of destroyed tissue, ill be damned if hes the original —This unsigned comment was added by Purple Pikmin ( talk • contribs) on 22:23, 31 March 2006.
Well until we see any solid statements that they're not the same, this is merely a theory. Unless you have any proof besides "well he probably died again". If he could survive getting destroyed by Samus once, he can survive twice.
I remember somewhere that the Pirates talked about cloning Ridley, so the Ridley in Super Metroid may just be a clone.
The Metroid Prime instruction manual talks about "recovering Mother Brain, Ridley, and Kraid" after the events of Metroid. So obviously he wasn't dead. This means that Meta Ridley was around WHILE the original Ridley was in recovery. Don't know how this fits into the whole thing, but that's what the book says.
I've marked the page as in need of copyediting, particularly the opening paragraph, Leader of the Space Pirates and Metroid Prime sections. I've attempted to clean up Metroid Fusion, but the language there was so unclear as to make it difficult to determine the intended meanings in some cases. Moppet 07:56, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I reworded the bit about Alien series - at least I haven't heard of any real interviews or anything where the Metroid folks would directly say the games were really inspired by Alien series. However, the similarities are there.
Yet, I think I have heard vague, vague, vague, very vague ramblings about Alien rights holders suing Nintendo and Ridley getting his name as a result. Doesn't sound too plausible to me though (as Ridley was introduced in the first game and with that name too), was that just one of those weird internet rumours? -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 20:19, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
User:210.10.155.138 added a note about Ridley appearing in a Prime 3 trailer, although looking over an ostensible copy of that trailer I didn't see anything matching the description. I added a source citation for the E3 prime3 coverage, but the description could use a better one. Moppet 09:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
As much as I would love to see Ridley appear in this game, I think it's best not to say something like "he's a likely candidate" because it's very hard to estimate a character's chances. Let's say we leave this subject alone for now. Xubelox 07:26, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Seeing as how the official website has not said anything and it's passed the time that Sakurai was expected to update (and someone on GameFaqs even admitted that their friend started it), I'll delete the SSBB stuff again for now. Xubelox 05:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
He prabably in, don't worry.-- YOSHIANDLINK1 00:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Sakurai has confirmed that Ridley's boss music will be used in Brawl, which makes it obvious that he's in. Also Ridley was a trophy in SSBM. Wario was a trophy. He's in Brawl. Meta-Knight was a trophy. He's in Brawl. Pit was a trophy. He's in Brawl. So Ridley is practically confirmed. Ridley76 7:39, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
It looks so tacky and should be replaced with a still image of it. Buzda 04:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
In Super Metroid, Ridley's tail attacks seem to be the only thing that can knock Samus out of the Screw Attack
I don't know if this is noteworthy enough to put in the article, though. Any opinions? Digital Watches 23:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Not really important. -- Niroht 01:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Can someone provide evidence about his name being inspiration for Ridley? If not we should place it as a rumour. 60.241.126.129 22:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Someone brought up over at the villiage pump that this seems an odd choice for the article you get when you type in "Ridley". I would like to move this article to Ridley (Metroid character) or some such, and then move Ridley (disambiguation) here. Just thought I'd throw out this warning. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 15:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
The e-manga makes it quite clear that Ridley is a name and not a species, but in any case, I think Ridley (Metroid) would suffice just fine nonetheless. 199.126.137.209 21:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
ok since when is metroid prime 3 BEFORE super metroid? 67.189.192.245 00:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
What's all this about? I played that part of the game recently and I only saw Meta-Ridley twice on the Frigate; in the grapple beam room, and when you complete your escape. Luigi "Kurai" III 17:19, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, I'm pissed more than ever for hovering my mouse over the image of ridley.
Is there ANY way a new image can get uploaded? 'cause that's some SERIOUS spoilery right there. GreenAiden555 02:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I've beaten the game on the normal difficulty and I never encountered that version of ridley. It must be from something else like the game artwork. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.169.163.21 ( talk) 04:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone besides me noticed a size inconsistency with Ridley? Barring Metroid Classic, Ridley's size seems to have changed from being a little larger than Samus to being large, to being massive. The X version was massive, but the frozen version was only a little bigger than Samus. Bu then in Metroid Prime 3 he's big enough for Samus to fit into his mouth. It's not quite as big as Bowser's size issue, but still. Think it's worth mentioning? Probably not. Three-Tail 04:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
As cool as it looks, it shouldn't be the main image. The Super Metroid art is probably the best way to represent him. The Omega Ridley form deviates considerably from his standard appearance. 75.153.231.20 12:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to give this a couple more days to give people a chance to discuss, then I'm changing it back. The image is a very specific form of Ridley and doesn't represent him well as a whole character. 75.153.231.20 20:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. I don't know how, so if you want to....I say do it.
GreenAiden555
21:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Umm... the infobox says Ridley is orange in Super Metroid, but his Characteristics section says he is purple, Super Metroid included. Shouldn't we change them to reflect each other or something? 207.216.197.154 ( talk) 03:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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The images are in desperate need of organization, but I have no idea how to get things to look nicer. Anyone know how to make things so the images go something like this?
Metroid
Text
Image
Metroid II
Text
Metroid Prime
Text
Image
And so on. Help? ^^' -- Sparky the Seventh Chaos 18:26, Dec 18, 2004 (UTC)
We're working on that, it's just Wikimedia lacks Metroid images. All they show is thier logos and fan art. Plus copyright is very strict here, so it's gonna be challenging for us to post an image of Ridley. I've tried looking to see if Ridley are in other Metroid related articles, but none are found.
Can someone please import an image of Ridley, so we can include his photos in this article. (no fan art and cosplay will be nessecary). GeekFreak98 ( talk) 15:20, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
I've removed the two sentences comparing Ridley to a pterodactyl. He exactly matches the physical description of a European dragon. I've added a (brief) note to this effect in the text. -- Christopher Thomas 15:28, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
Matrix Kage: I say Ridley IS a Meta Dragon (My term), and BTW, he DOES have the horns... they're pretty small, but they're there... all of the idiot sprite comics I'VE seen have had Ridz as a lackey... and a stupid one at that... but the E-Manga from Nintendo of Japan shows clearly that he's the leader of the Pirates and VERY layered... first off... he shows a bit of pity for 3-year-old Samus before deciding he had to kill her. Then, in the second chapter, it shows Mother Brain on Zebes, under the control of the Choujin-zoku (Japanese: Bird-people) also known as Chozo (Latin: Carved statue). that was also the first time he died. therefore, that adds to his importance becase they revived him yet another time. This makes... 5 times he's been revived, including Mecha-forms (Spirit from Zero Mission and Mecha Ridley from Super Metroid) plus the X-Parasites infecting and absorbing him. Mother Brain was revived once and upgraded once. So, that's my explaination as to what he is, where he stands, and how these can be seen. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.152.48.159 ( talk • contribs) .
Okay, I know that NCL completely ignored all of the wacky eightiesish Metroid stuff what NoA and their underlings came up with, and all that was for the greater good. =)
Yet, there's one thing that I want to... remember weirdly. Samus' gunship was featured in Captain N. It looked weird.
The point is, one of those comics - either Captain N or some other illustrative Nintendo Comics System bit - also had Ridley in them. It's not in one l33t site which had scans of most of these comics, so my luck is not that good. It's intriguing because this particular two-page comic had the basic history of the Metroid game, featuring more weird speculation on Mother Brain's role etc, and also had cute drawings of Ridley and Kraid in a sort of a cameo role, pacing on the surface of Zebeth with Kraid looking over his shoulder at the invading metroids flying all around.
Anyone remember that one or know the original publication issue? The reason I'm asking because I only got the Finnish edition, kind of hard to tell anything from that, and besides, it's not at my hand right now anyway... =/ -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 01:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I didn't find those comics at all, but I did find some other interesting Ridley appearances - much more remarkable than that little appearance I tried to mention above, though. =) I put some of that to the article. -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 01:00, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
"Ridley is often seen as a sort of rival against Samus, and likely to have been the one responsible for killing Samus' parents, as briefly seen in flashback cutscenes in Metroid: Fusion."
...the what now? I don't recall there being any flashbacks in Fusion, and SURELY not any related to the space pirates! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.28.235.211 ( talk • contribs) on 00:54, 22 February 2006.
Yo. It appears to me that if samus crippled Ridley in Metroid, and he was cyberneticly enhanced in Metroid Prime, but killed again, Im pretty sure that the super metroid Ridly is not the original. He has no trace of cybernetics on him, so unless they managed to regrow alot of destroyed tissue, ill be damned if hes the original —This unsigned comment was added by Purple Pikmin ( talk • contribs) on 22:23, 31 March 2006.
Well until we see any solid statements that they're not the same, this is merely a theory. Unless you have any proof besides "well he probably died again". If he could survive getting destroyed by Samus once, he can survive twice.
I remember somewhere that the Pirates talked about cloning Ridley, so the Ridley in Super Metroid may just be a clone.
The Metroid Prime instruction manual talks about "recovering Mother Brain, Ridley, and Kraid" after the events of Metroid. So obviously he wasn't dead. This means that Meta Ridley was around WHILE the original Ridley was in recovery. Don't know how this fits into the whole thing, but that's what the book says.
I've marked the page as in need of copyediting, particularly the opening paragraph, Leader of the Space Pirates and Metroid Prime sections. I've attempted to clean up Metroid Fusion, but the language there was so unclear as to make it difficult to determine the intended meanings in some cases. Moppet 07:56, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I reworded the bit about Alien series - at least I haven't heard of any real interviews or anything where the Metroid folks would directly say the games were really inspired by Alien series. However, the similarities are there.
Yet, I think I have heard vague, vague, vague, very vague ramblings about Alien rights holders suing Nintendo and Ridley getting his name as a result. Doesn't sound too plausible to me though (as Ridley was introduced in the first game and with that name too), was that just one of those weird internet rumours? -- wwwwolf ( barks/ growls) 20:19, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
User:210.10.155.138 added a note about Ridley appearing in a Prime 3 trailer, although looking over an ostensible copy of that trailer I didn't see anything matching the description. I added a source citation for the E3 prime3 coverage, but the description could use a better one. Moppet 09:00, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
As much as I would love to see Ridley appear in this game, I think it's best not to say something like "he's a likely candidate" because it's very hard to estimate a character's chances. Let's say we leave this subject alone for now. Xubelox 07:26, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
Seeing as how the official website has not said anything and it's passed the time that Sakurai was expected to update (and someone on GameFaqs even admitted that their friend started it), I'll delete the SSBB stuff again for now. Xubelox 05:09, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
He prabably in, don't worry.-- YOSHIANDLINK1 00:38, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
Sakurai has confirmed that Ridley's boss music will be used in Brawl, which makes it obvious that he's in. Also Ridley was a trophy in SSBM. Wario was a trophy. He's in Brawl. Meta-Knight was a trophy. He's in Brawl. Pit was a trophy. He's in Brawl. So Ridley is practically confirmed. Ridley76 7:39, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
It looks so tacky and should be replaced with a still image of it. Buzda 04:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
In Super Metroid, Ridley's tail attacks seem to be the only thing that can knock Samus out of the Screw Attack
I don't know if this is noteworthy enough to put in the article, though. Any opinions? Digital Watches 23:39, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Not really important. -- Niroht 01:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Can someone provide evidence about his name being inspiration for Ridley? If not we should place it as a rumour. 60.241.126.129 22:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
Someone brought up over at the villiage pump that this seems an odd choice for the article you get when you type in "Ridley". I would like to move this article to Ridley (Metroid character) or some such, and then move Ridley (disambiguation) here. Just thought I'd throw out this warning. ~ ONUnicorn( Talk| Contribs) problem solving 15:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
The e-manga makes it quite clear that Ridley is a name and not a species, but in any case, I think Ridley (Metroid) would suffice just fine nonetheless. 199.126.137.209 21:03, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
ok since when is metroid prime 3 BEFORE super metroid? 67.189.192.245 00:49, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
What's all this about? I played that part of the game recently and I only saw Meta-Ridley twice on the Frigate; in the grapple beam room, and when you complete your escape. Luigi "Kurai" III 17:19, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
Seriously, I'm pissed more than ever for hovering my mouse over the image of ridley.
Is there ANY way a new image can get uploaded? 'cause that's some SERIOUS spoilery right there. GreenAiden555 02:44, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
I've beaten the game on the normal difficulty and I never encountered that version of ridley. It must be from something else like the game artwork. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.169.163.21 ( talk) 04:41, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
Has anyone besides me noticed a size inconsistency with Ridley? Barring Metroid Classic, Ridley's size seems to have changed from being a little larger than Samus to being large, to being massive. The X version was massive, but the frozen version was only a little bigger than Samus. Bu then in Metroid Prime 3 he's big enough for Samus to fit into his mouth. It's not quite as big as Bowser's size issue, but still. Think it's worth mentioning? Probably not. Three-Tail 04:11, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
As cool as it looks, it shouldn't be the main image. The Super Metroid art is probably the best way to represent him. The Omega Ridley form deviates considerably from his standard appearance. 75.153.231.20 12:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm going to give this a couple more days to give people a chance to discuss, then I'm changing it back. The image is a very specific form of Ridley and doesn't represent him well as a whole character. 75.153.231.20 20:11, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Agreed. I don't know how, so if you want to....I say do it.
GreenAiden555
21:32, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Umm... the infobox says Ridley is orange in Super Metroid, but his Characteristics section says he is purple, Super Metroid included. Shouldn't we change them to reflect each other or something? 207.216.197.154 ( talk) 03:48, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
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