The Complete Metroid Timeline (30th Anniversary) 

old space dragon*

@@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry well man is just a guy name like so calling Ridley a bad man is true.

Ridley: bold of you to walk onto my planet. Samus: bold of you to still be alive.

Tell that to Bowser, and Ganondorf/Ganon ;)

He dies for good in Super Metroid. Other M Ridley is an accidental clone by the Federation, Ridley X in Fusion was a copy created by an X parasite of another clone that was kept frozen on the space station.

In all honesty I personally believe that the final boss in Metroid Zero Mission was meant to portray to the players that Ridley is not only of organic and mechanical parts but is completely clone-able by the space pirates so that at any point in time they can always have a commanding force. So I always presume that every Ridlet seen in every game is pretty much either a complete or incomplete clone. Ridley in Super Metroid, back on Zebes, was the closest to a complete clone. Then gets re-cloned in Other M acidentally, as well as in Fusion. Methinks, like Mother Brain, Ridley has some kind of psycho-electronic connection to space pirates as a commanding force in a similar fashion as to how Mother Brain controls Metroid database facilities. Space Pirates are ALL modified organic-cyborg creatures. They consistently fuse themselves with tech so it's no surprise that ridley is a bio-mechanical lifeform.

To explain Ridley he clearly states in either the manga or one of the game's books that even if destroyed his cells can feed off of other organic material to bring himself back (Much like cell in dragon ball Z). You also see this in metroid other M, but more to the point of eating and growing. Mother brain also calls them simple beasts and I remember somewhere saying how all the bosses have a high IQ. Dragoon is most likely a mother shrimp thing as the young bury it after it is killed in super metroid. To explain Ganon/Ganondorf if you played Skyward sword you'd know how Demise cursed the goddess that no matter what they did he would eventually return to be born again and rise against the supposed good side. This is currently seen in the Gerudo's as they are all female yet once every so often they produce a male or who knows maybe they kill the males when born. Pay attention as Ganon is the product of reality. In real life most people believe that they can breed out a certain behaviour or people. I saw this most prominent in the tv show wayward pines. Where they tried to only allow people who did not cause problems to breed. You cannot breed out DEFIANCE it is a natural part of each human. So even if you killed Ganon in one era who is to say that another person may rise and defy once again? Every person that defies is utterly the same spirit as the last much like we have seen in starwars. Each person may have a different container like the hero may be a chicken, a criminal, a superhero, they may be black, Asian, white, but the spirit remains the same. The only thing you get as follows are different degrees of characters. Like in Batman you have Joker, Riddler, Bain, Croc, Two-face, and Mr, Freeze. They are all the same enemy only different degrees based on ability and motivations. Thus they literally are the same spirit of Defiance.

I think the y are clones and androids with uploaded minds but ridley is no match for samus not sure why they keep bringing him back..

Uhh, Kingdom Hearts, Halo, Mass Effect, Dark Souls. They have some pretty intense stories and lore as well.

The lore of the game is really cool. This video made a good dent, but there are still some more things that are of important mention/just interesting in general. Some of those things are just what are the evolutions a Metroid goes through, how Samus even defeated the Omega Metroid in Metroid Fusion, what's up with the Etechoons and Dachoras (those things the video mentions she rescued), and what Ridley's lifecycle looks like.

+WhisperedFlame How dare you not mention Xenoblade Chronicles?! Sure, it's only one game but come on! Beat story in a game that I know of

+Why do I need a username? I've never played it, and I know nothing about it. I've just heard its name.

Play it If you have a wii u, get it off the e-shop!

It is canon. Takes place after Prime 3 so I've heard.

+JackofAllSpadess thats even worse

I don't question it's canon. Just saying I would prefer a Samus metroid game

Federation Force is going to introduce Sylux and his plot for the future games so im kind of thankful

were did you hear that? I don't doubt you. just have not heard that myself

wow

I'd say crash, Mario already gets so much attention everywhere else I think it would be nice to show the bandicoot some love for once

+Liz Baxter I agree crash please.

Crash is pretty straight forward though, so why not Mario? Also, I've been waiting for years for a true Sonic timeline.

Mario

agreed. let the game have revelations about Samus's identity and not just exploration

i hope they make it either 3d fps like prime or go to the 2d games. DONT DO ANOTHER OTHER M that game didn't know what it wanted to be. i also hope its hard a balls because that's what got me into metriod: dark full plot and super difficult game play.

There are 2 different things that Metroid could go to. Her death battle with Sylux and her confrontation with the Galactic Federation after Fusion. Those are the 2 choices Nintendo has for the next main metroid title. Hope they get it right this time.

+Logan Couture idk, I mean as a Metroid loyal I wouldn't be upset at them trying to expand on the gameplay. It doesn't have to be more of the same, everyone's was scared of Prime but it turned out to be a really good thing. I think the engine on its own in Other M had potential, it just had really bad direction and a narrative focus with the narrative being essentially bad fan fiction written by a middle schooler. However if they refined some of the gameplay elements (take out the recharge, take out the missles, remove the linearity and promote exploration, etc) the formula on its own has a lot of potential to be fun.

3D third person can work well still, it's up to the designers to do a better job than they did with Other M. I still have yet to play it, but for what I've seen is allright but with big flaws in controls (somewhat) too much linearity (unlike Fusion that, while still linear, handled it much better and exploration was still a thing) and story issues (primarily the authorization crap, that just overlaps with bad design sometimes)

if samus doesnt have the fusion suit in prime 4 i'm going to scream

I dont like prime metorid games tbh. I like the old Metroid games

@outlawabyss what the fuck i just gave my opinion, what the fuck is wrong with you

@@keiko3520 Don't take it that seriously, that's just some Randomguy :D What's your favourite Metroid-Game?

@@UltimateRaven41 Thanks man :). My first metroid was fusion and i loved that but then later in the years i picked up Super and Zero mission, but i liked all of three. So i dont have a favorite one i just love the side scroller metroid games

kukelhupf chop suey I see...

Alexandria Ramos WAKE UP

Metroid ll explains it

Yes thats why it didnt kill Samus before The last boss fight and then Healed her in the boss fight.

The way they worded things annoyed me

Michael Thompson If Samus was the first thing I ever saw, I'd probably have a heart attack.

its animal imprinting. the first thing the animal sees thats not hostile to it, it tends to imprint on and develop a connection to in order to stay alive. So the infant Metroid imprinted on Samus (quite the irony to that)

well she grew up with highly advanced bird person foster parents. things were wild from the start.

i've only blown up one space station so far, but it's on my bucket list

Like Skywalker can

I Have blown up various Space Stations and also some Planets I Still with 28 lol

i blew up a toilet station one time.... does that count?

Like +MrMetroid1998 says, they do care for it, that's why they want to make it right. I'd rather not have a game than have a crappy one. Before anyone brings up Other M, overall it was a good game, it just had its moments that don't really fit with how we perceived Samus.

you know what they say commonwealth realm does what nintendon't

You mean Nintendon't

They did care, aside Federation Force, there are some neat Metroid clothing and accessories on Miitomo...

too busy milking Zelda, Mario and Pokemon with Pokemon Go being all the craze right now

Other M in general really sticks out (in a negative way) in the timeline.

Don't forget that samus looks even dumber now, because she discovers how corrupt the federation is in other m, yet she STILL works for them in fusion (which takes place after the former)?

How? If anything it makes EVEN more sense! If you saw your parents eaten alive in front of you as a young child at an age that's most important for developmental health, would it not effect you in any way? Not only that, but PTSD doesn't just magically go away and is EXTREMELY debillatating, soldiers diagnosed with it aren't allowed to fight afterwards, so Samus overcoming it at all enough to fight Ridley is no less than superhuman.

+elvampe13 Because not all of the federation is corrupt, that was just a secret thing a group within the federation did behind their backs, but Samus wasn't able to expose it in Other M, though she did at the end of Fusion which is why Adam mentions how there will be investigations and tribunals because of this. You could even say that Samus kept working with the federation in hopes of exposing them.

+GBDupree because she for all purposes had fought ridley before and didn't have any traumatic episodes until that moment why would it start and stop in between stories it just makes it a wierd episode where she was scared despite fighting bravely against the pirates for so long with no impact on her ability

But I dont know how they improved the Federation Force between Prime 3 andFusion. And we need to know that they have bluprints ( Data Room in Fusion ) of the Ice Beam, Plasma Beam, Power Bombs and probably still have some SA-X parts. Like Samus said only some parts were sent to the BSL. Multiple Federation SA-X could kill Samus.

AGREE!! She's pretty much a female IRON MAN except (personally) way more badass!!(^v^)

+TheMagicKarp151 It is dumb to contain it. But the federation wants power and the X are power. But if those shitheads can contain Nightmare, then they can somehow drain all the Missiles and Powerbombs out of the SA-X and contain it.

I keep hoping there will be a Metroid game where you're on the run from the Federation (because of corrupt leaders, being framed by another hunter, or just something along those lines). Or one where Samus goes looking for the Chozo.

oldspice051 well it could take place right after fusion, where samus completely disobeyed the galactic federation my crashing the bsl station into sr388 instead of letting the galactic federation contain the X and SA-X

plays crab rave on repeat

Yep!

Initiate project red

Ridley joining in Smash Ultimate.

Metroid Dread Coming To Nintendo Switch

2021 E3 - Oh, you thought we were done? here is Metroid Dread. *mic drop*

Samus got bored, built a huge pinball machine and used herself for the ball with flipper controls in her suit?

Literally unwatchable.

TrvialMatter ikr! They include Other M but not Pinball? Intolerable! 🔥

Samus after her lastest bounty of shooting Sylux in the nuts for the 50th time goes to a bar 'one drink please' [Alien Bartender] FFPSGPPGPGPGGGGY! [Samus] yeah i can take it... '5 minutes later 'PARASITE PURGE' [Samus] FUCK... i guess not.

TrvialMatter true dat dude true dat

Thanks for it. 3rd time I'm watching it. It's now in my classics list

Commonwealth Realm , thanks for the video

You do realise this timeline is wrong? Prime 1 in phazon mines has a space pirate log of mentioning the destruction of SR388 which forced them to breed metroids on other similar planets... On top of that... Ridley stayed himself for Zero Mission, Samus returns, and super metroid.. After sm the space pirates upgraded him in prime (logs in crashed frigate) prove that as well. Despite other M being hated, it came after samus returns. Theres a lot of proof against this timeline in the video when the game itself tells you its: Zero Mission > Samus Returns > Other M > Super Metroid > Fusion > Prime 1 > Hunters > P2 > P3 > Also why else would you have the option to use the fusion suit in prime 1? Lol.

You got the Metroid Fusion section incorrect. She called the computer by her XO's Name in a fit of rage when it detained her, THEN it DOWNLOADED the XO's personality profile from the Galactic Federation Central Database and installed it, because computerized XO's had been recently being programmed to do exactly that because of situations exactly like the one she found herself in causing the subordinates to disagree with their XO, which caused them to become deserters, which then caused them to join the Space Pirates, it was a Space Pirates Countermeasure which destroyed SR388 and the X-Parasites. That was not the only segment you got wrong either, I know of at least 3 other games you guys got wrong, in addition to the lack of mention of the Creatures she saved (TWICE) driving her ship to safety when it came under Attack in the hangar, in addition to the fact that she set the collision course BEFORE confronting the SAX which had specifically shown up to correct the course, as it WANTED to get captured by the federation, specifically so it could spread throughout the Galaxy, which is exactly what Samus Aran feared was it's goal (she was right). On top of all of that, you got 3 other games in the series wrong as well.

Plus all the stuff the guy above me mentioned. Fusion was indeed before Prime, it was even mentioned in the Advertisements on TV, in addition to the entry in Nintendo Power, in addition to the mention in both Games.

Zee Bees are very escary to Samus! That's why she carries some bug spray!

She developed an allergy during Zero Mission =P

I SAID THE SAME THING I WAS LIKE Wut

That guy pronounces absolutely everything wrong. Just listen to the stuff on Pokemon.

Zeh behz correct? Not Zee bees?

It sounds like feces.

ZEE BEEZ!

@@Sera_Reading LOL

I used to call it Zeebs when I played prime xD

It's zeb ess lol

u forgot hunters and other M

We do not speak of Other M mortal. Hunters was okay.

No we have to spread the word of how bad other m was

But we all know it sucks. Why let others suffer it's existence?

As a new member to the franchise, I'm really surprised by the games having a solid timeline. I thought Metroid and Metroid Prime were 2 completely different stories!

No that was prime pinball

If it never happened fusion wouldnt make sense at all.Other m was just underrated.I felt other m was the right direction for the metroid series,heck we got metroid 2 remake for 3ds and for me it fell like other m in a lot of ways,and yet bashing after bashing the prime fans are getting a whole new game while I still wait for a classic esque style metroid sequel.

Other M was a great game

No? Fusion makes lots of sense. Fusion introduced adam before other m even happened. Other M was a prequel, which was unneeded. All we needed to know was how adam was a previous commandrer of samus. This was stated in fusion, so other m just developed that idea. Without other m fusion would make just as much sense

No it didn't

It isn't (you can call for her assistance in the game)

oh sorry , i din't see much gameplay

Aw. That would have made for a very interesting story arc. What do they even have, then, for story? "GET THE GAAAAAAAAME!!!!!" I might. ... I just realized. Does that mean her betrayal was... somehow forgiven by the Galactic Federation?

The prime series, and by extension the federation force game, take place before Metroid II. Which is kinda hard to believe honestly, I always thought Metroid II took place a short time after the first game, and I don't think metroids would be considered the galaxy's greatest threat after the Phazon incident (and metroids being fairly harmless in those games too). But its possible that Federation force takes place some other time though, but then the Prime subtitle says otherwise.

+Commonwealth realm For some reason your comment isn't showing up for me on youtube, but it did send an email saying you replied. That is an interesting idea, I could see that working well, but I know they've expressed hope that this game will set up the story for a Prime 4, but it could still take place then.

DREAD.

is anyone excited for Metroid Prime Federation Force??? I prefer nothing

johnnyscifi did you know that Metroid Prime Federation Force was almost completed before Nintendo decided to make it a Metroid game? I was wasn't until that last few months before they of them announcing the game as a Metroid game... It wasn't enough going to be a Metroid game!!!!

Ryan The_Creeper_DJ this is an absolute lie. The new director of IP for the series, who also worked on the other Prime games, said it was something he wanted to do for years, and that production started way back on the original DS but didn't have the power to play smoothly. Also, he wanted a Federation-centric spin off since Prime 2.

Federation Force is going to introduce the new plot for the future prime games like introducing Sylux and his plot against the galactic federation and Samus.

I dunno about MOM being a good thing, I kinda found the entire game to be pointless.

Nintendo should track that guy who made AM2R and hire his ass

+Perfect Dark572 Nope. one guy just made a better Metroid game than a group of legit developers(Team Ninja) and a better game than FForce. a game made by Nintendo . Current Metroid staff should be ashamed of themselves after this

sLasHeRxXx07 FForce and AM2R are two seprate games in two different perspectives how are you going to compare them? one 3d and one 2d?

I'm pretty sure the GF does know about Samus' bond with the infant metroid. That was what inspired them to try and create something that could have a motherly bond with metroids. That was why MB was given a human form, to try and recreate what Samus had.

Blueblade13 Yeah, that’s the vibe I got with MB being a “mother”

And anime

perfect day for it

agree :( or some big news from RetroStudios would be nice

Retro studios has been silent since Donkey kong Country tropical freeze. They are reportedly working on something new. What that something is, is hard to say. But if I had to place a bet. I'd say they're making a 2.5D metroid title for the NX. The team and people responsible for the legendary prime trilogy have all moved on from Retro studios. However. Donkey Kong's recent titles proves the current teams mastery in the art of 2D games.

Not at this stage, Metroid isn't that popular in Japan.

They subtly announced it in Federation Force.

You've got to remember that Other M is before Fusion in the timeline - one of the last thing Samus says during her end-sequence narration is this: "One of them will understand. One of them must." She was quoting what Adam would say during times like that precisely for the reason that she caused a big ruckus. So canon? I'm not sure, but it is likely.

Here is what samus says at the end of fusion, which is the last game chronologically: But how will the beings of the universe view our resolve? I doubt they will understand what we did...the danger we barely averted. They will hold tribunals and investigations. They will hold us responsible.

Perhaps an enemy of the secret black ops group, but not neccessarily the GF in total. But she would still be on trial until everything is cleared up.

It probably isn't canon yet, but it is an inevitability. Whatever high-ranking Galactic Federation official is heading the corrupt arm of the Federation is probably going to convince the rest of the Galactic Federation that Samus is a major threat and will turn them against her, which will most likely lead Samus to seek out whatever remains of the Chozo for refuge while she figures out what her next move will be.

I come from the future it has not happened but we have Dread a new 2d metroid

They deleted it because you were right about something, in Metroid Dread a certain character does use Samus' fused DNA for purposes I will not disclose. Just know you were very close.

Eh...... even though it's a remake, you can say Zero Mission is Metroid 5

No it's not. Zero mission isn't Metroid 5 chronologically, it's Metroid 1. It's not even the 5th metroid game that was released.

+Curse These Metal Hands You're missing my reasoning. Fusion is Metroid 4. Everything else is a spin off. Metroid Zero Mission stays to the old formula. Zero Mission is to Metroid as Assassin's Creed 4 is to Assassin's Creed. Or Devil May Cry 3. Chronologically Assassin's Creed 4 comes before 3. Devil May Cry 3 comes before 1 and 2.

+Curse These Metal Hands It's a convoluted explanation, but Zero Mission is technically Metroid 5, gameplay wise.

+DEGDreams I don't think that's a good comparison because AC4 and DMC3 actually have those numbers in the name, nobody calls Zero Mission "Metroid 5" you've just made that up. Your analogy would mean that The Hobbit is Lord of the Rings 4! No way!

Yeah, the scientist models. I noticed that too lol.

the narrator at the start is the same guy from shoddy cast's storyteller.

I have that same Varia Suit mod for Fallout New Vegas

Same with Zebes I believe

I think they get the pronouciation of the words from Sakomoto, who shouldn't be in charge of Metroid, and his funny ideas of what's canon and what isn't.

Link TheOrdonianHero yes because Samus herself calls it Zebis even though it is spelled zebes. And she says it in other m.

The Accursed Hunter01 How so? Awesome non the less, but explain me please, I wasn't sure on her exact age...

She’s 26

I think of the Samus in Other M as a genetic doppelgänger trying its hardest to act like Samus. Which would explain why Samus act nothing like her character in Other M, and in turn making sense in the timeline.

Correct :)

!!!!!!!! OMG IT IS

That'd be interesting, since he seems to be a really good character to develop on.

TL;DR = I want a new game where Samus fights the Federations as "the bad guys." I've been waiting for a game after fusion where Samus has to take on the Federation. Those past games have clued us on the fact that the Federation is dipping in waters similar to how the pirates have been doing. What if Samus finds out that the Federation has managed to get a hold of something that gets to weaponize the metroids without problems (unlike Other M and Fusion, where things get out of control) and seeing that she works alone, she decides it's time to stop the Federation. The game would go like this: So you have to take on a Federation's Orbiting Military Space Station, destroying it and taking Samus with it down to the planet it is orbiting where they are based in with a Biological Lab (that she didn't know). She can't escape the crash loses her powers (as always) and the crash is what causes the whole place to go chaotic, releasing biological weapons. Knowing this is an opportunity to get more metroids, space pirates come down to infiltrate the destroyed lab and swipe them, but you have to fight them too. So it becomes a 3 way battle: against the fed, the pirates and nature. Finally realizing that the Chozo had built an entire subterranian facility (like they always do), you have access to it because of the destruction of the bases and because it is the only access point to progress to another zone. Of course, this once desolate place begins getting invaded by the 3 parties -- the ruins becoming a developing zone any time you travel through it and then further below.

Probably

Michael Zaite Same thing, the main saga should leave it to the classic 2d style although they put more advanced graphics but it is necessary Metroid 5 and above all I repeat it in 2d, so that we like the most fans.

That wouldn't be too dreadful now would it?

@@MaGiCMushroomClouds It would be great actually. I don't like the 3D FPS Metroids.

DibzNr fusion wouldn’t have made sense if other M wasn’t released

@@o0Go_2_Sleep0o That's why we are getting Prime 4. It is supposed to fill that gap.

Dude........I'm in total agreement about that! I missed out on a lot of the Metroid story line after/during Prime on the gamecube (never finished the game and hardly remember it) but from what I've heard and read, its kind of a big jumbled mess...... This video did clear some of the fog, but not to complete clarity. A 2 to 3 hour, Nintendo directed film, could clear all the clouds and very likely, re-amp the greatness and passion this game once had.

It probably can be a good if it can be done right and I think not a lot of people are really familiar with the series anyway. If they could make it similar to Star Wars or something, it has a good chance of being a great movie. One thing they should at least do with the first movie is have Samus wear her suit for the whole movie and then she could reveal her face or something at the end. I don’t even care if it’s live action. Even animated would be fine as long as it’s good. I’d hate if they go with Brie Larson though...

Yes

exactly. But TLOZ is even worse, the first game is the last one

But I thought "Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link" was the Last.

@@sammyyo461 it was, but it also depends on if you consider BotW to be the most recent entry of the Downfall timeline of Lesser Hyrule

And we do not accept that ridiculous notion!

Aw, the video didn't try explaining where the Metroid Prime creature came from. The most plausible theory is that one of the Metroids brought to Tallon IV by Space Pirates escaped and ''phazed'' through the Chozo's Temple barrier after evolving into the ghost-like Phazon Metroid, and inside is where it further evolved into the Prime creature.

Yoshio Sakamoto said that if Im not wrong

MigueruHyuga and yet his last game, Other M, not only tried making the Prime series non-canon, it also created conflicting lore with the 2D games as well! The prime series did a better job staying consistent with the old games than Other M.

Thats not entirely true. Sakamoto said that the Prime subseries can bew viewed as "optional canon". If you want to include it into your time line, you can.

Tom H I'd love to see that

Im much happier with MP4. Means they can fix timeline shit instead of adding on to the 'end' of it.

Welp, we got we wanted, Metroid Dread is coming