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I think the reason that Ridley's the leader instead of Kraid is because he's so much more maneuverable. Kraid probably can't fit in most space ships, and is only seen in the largest cave system rooms. He's also probably quite slow, and his size would probably make him a bit clumsy. As a Space Pirate, it would be essential for him to be able to steal and retrieve things, while realistically he would probably just break it. Ridley may be a tight squeeze in most space ships or cave systems, but he's fast, maneuverable, he took down Ceres all by himself and led the attacks on Zebes and K-2L, he was able to retrieve the baby metroid and bring it all the way back to Zebes without breaking the tank until he got to norfair despite his claws and large size, and he can fly in space.
Right, Kraid is a big heavy tank, but if you're a space pirate, as in you raid and steal space ships for a living, how often is Kraid going to be useful in the day to day operations?
You don't need to be small and maneuverable to be a commander. I mean, out of alien species there are probably some the size of rats, by your logic they would make "better" space pirates.
It’s also largely Ridley’s intelligence that would give him the leadership position over Kraid. Kraid is intelligent himself as a leader, but Ridley has both leadership and technological prowess.
From what I remember they mention that Ridley is highly intelligent. So it might be less of a durability thing and more of a tactician thing. Who is strong and smart vs who is the strongest. Power isn’t everything.
I'm laughing so hard at the Captian N comic about Ridley being a judge and Kraid being in jail. That's hilarious and I want to see something just as ridiculous like Ridley and Kraid doing a jailbreak together.
Its a nice name but to fit with the japanese origins of the game's development prior to its western release. Fake Kraid could be called Nureido named in the english version as Fraid. Named after Kureido, Kraid's Japanese name and Nise the japanese translation for 'Fake'. It kind of fits in the same vein as how Wario from the Mario franchise is derrived from 'Warui' the japanese translation for Bad. Its nothing of a big change. But its a thought worth forgetting or bringing up for debate. IDK & IDC people are complicated and so is social media.
I believe that the reason why Kraid appeared in ZDR is because he's a clone of the original Kraid created by Quiet Robe at the behest of Raven Beak via remaining DNA and samples. Raven Beak probably went to Zebes in search of Metroid DNA, but only found Kraid DNA before Zebes was blown up, and probably tried to make the best out of a bad situation.
Makes sense. 🤔 Raven Beak *_did_* make an incursion to Zebes at some point, after his initial genocide of SR388, so I guess he thought he could repurpose whatever he found there into a bio-weapon. However, given the place where we find the Clone Kraid and the event depicted in that one Chozo Memory... *I think it's safe to say the poor space croc was deemed a failure.* I mean, Raven Beak _did_ repurpose him as an obstacle for Samus, but... THE POOR CLONE IS LITERALLY *HANGING OVER LAVA,* with only a measly crane and two cords keeping him up! It's like Raven Beak was ready to just drop him and be done with him at a moment's notice! _Poor clone...!_ :'(
I wonder if Kraid is more brawn than brains and THATS why Riddley takes the cake because his case reminds me of THE BLACK DRAGON in Mortal Kombat where you have members with magic powers, supersonic speed and the ability to control ground based elements and earthquakes but the leader is some australian crook with a cyber eye and an army knife.
Ridley has the title "cunning god of death" (maybe) and kraid constantly exposes the only part of his body that can be harmed by roaring. I think there's good reason ridley is higher up the chain.
"How is Kraid?" Knowing that he was poked by the big pointy sticks wielded by anthropomorphic bird people, chained up in a giant hottub of super-hot magma, then got gobbled up by little flying gummy blobs, probably not that well.
Great video as always Orpheon, I really enjoy the more comedic editing. In terms of Kraid The reason why I think he’s not a leader of the space Pirates is because Ridley fights smarter not harder, Ridley is actually tactical about how he attacks and uses strategy instead of just walking towards the enemy like a brick wall.
Thanks, im glad you enjoyed the video, I tried extra hard to add a bit more humor so im happy to hear it worked. I know Ridley is the leader cause brains, just thought a little roast to him was funny tbh.
Although i gotta Agree Kraid can be a bit of a pain, Ridley has always been that boss who always beats me consistently on my first run in every Metroid Game with him in it, it even happened in Smash Bros before i unlocked him. I've always found Ridley a bit harder to deal with when it's your first time because of how much damage he tanks and how much he can dish out. Also Kraid probably isn't the leader because he's far too big for the conference table. Space Pirates we're probably lucky enough to accommodate room for Ridley but Kraid would likely set them back a lot.
Im very curious to see where Samus' story will go from Dread. There are numerous options available. She has done a couple things to upset the federation but they are frankly mostly minor things, then there are also her new powers, which I assume are currently just being suppressed. What I would love to see for the next major arc be Samus learning how to harness and control her new powers, while conflict breaks out between the Federation and the Krikken Empire.
I once had an idia that could have ben used for after fusion. This was before dread. My idia was a game called metroid renagade. Samus is an outlaw due to her dstruction of the research station and is shot down on an alian world. Addam is downloaded in a chip and is inside Samus armor like Cortana in halo acting as a partner to Samus. Like uther games she starts with basic armor and abillities due to damage from being shot down. Bounty hunters armed with replicated chozo tech hunt her and she can dowload the tech of beaten hunters. She also has to deal with the planet's hostile alian !life.
Actually, the things she has "done to upset the federation" were probably more so intended to be in service of the federation. The Japanese script of Other M makes it clear that the ongoings on the bottle ship weren't sanctioned by the federation but part of a conspiracy of a militaristic splinter group within the federation iirc, and Samus basically ruined their plan. Remnants of the same group are also responsible for all the sus research on the space station in Fusion, so by destroying the station, Samus basically ruined that groups plans again and at the same time probably would've collected a bunch of evidence to allow the federation to get them locked up. So... yeah, she did the fdderation a service, they probably aren't mad at her, as we can kinda tell with Dread soft implying that she's still taking jobs from them or at least related to the federation.
IMO Kraid is a race and the Kraid from SM2 is not the same Kraid in Dread. This also explains the smaller Kraids and resolves some inconsistencies in the cannon.
I personally like to think of Kraid(s) as the Rancors of the Metroid universe. A species of less intelligent large beasts kept by the pirates, technically part of their faction but not really a ranking member, with them having kept more than one of them over the years. Useful for security and enforcement. Explains Kraid's nebulous position within the pirates, why there are multiple specimens on different planets and in multiple sizes, and why a kraid would not be the leader.
America needs to adopt Kanji already so we can write it 死のの喫 and have better chances of ever pronouncing it right, than by manhandling Roman letters into those existing words in this futile attempt at phonetics by example. Or just learn to write IPA. Or just learn to pronounce Latin. OR actually have words in English invented, like it's, what, a real language that you CAN learn? Until then Canadians and Fonzie just have to keep saying A and AAAAA, respectively.
9:57 So, does that mean that Fake Kraid finally evolved into regular Kraid? It is funny that Kraid is one of the few boss monsters in the series that is proven to be part of a species rather than some unique specimen.
To y’all younger gamers. Please play Metroid. All of it. Especially the latest 2D version of everything. Serious epic franchise and a big part of gaming history
Is it weird that I want him in Smash? Somebody made a video of how he could work in Smash. He'd basically be like an in-between of his small Metroid NES size and his canon massive size, dethroning Ridley as the biggest character in Smash. It genuinely makes it feel like you're playing as a legit boss like the brief moments you could play as Giga Bowser and that one time as Master Hand.
We think the reason why Kraid isn't the leader of the spaces pirate is possibly do to his size only being useful in certain cases, and possibly his intelligence not being on the same level as Ridley and Mother Brain. It's possible he just has raw power but very little brain power, especially with Dread (even though he possibly isn't the same one we seen previously).
The implementation of the small Kraid implies that Kraid can reproduce and is actually not the name of an alien but rather the name of a species, which is why he appears in multiple games.
It was great to see Kraid in Metroid Dread after all these years and it would've been interesting to see how Kraid would've moved/fought in Metroid Prime. I hope the next Metroid game has Crocomire in it!
Wait, Crocomire was part of the Space Pirates too?? All this time i thought Samus just coincidentally stumbled into a tunnel to space hell and fought their planet's version of Satan himself, with no correlation with Ridley of Kraid
One theory is that Raven Beak had tabs on Samus the entire time and captured Kraid after his defeat on Zebes in Super Metroid. And chained him in Cataris as a test for Samus to awaken her Metroid abilities.
Mogenar is a massive 3 eyed, first major boss that has projectiles coming from his hands and weird stuff happening with his torso. Kraid is a massive 3 eyed, first major boss that has projectiles coming from his hands and weird stuff happening with his torso. Kraid is from bryyo and mogenar is the closest thing to Kraid in the prime trilogy and no one can change my mind.
I figured the Mawkins went to SR-388 looking for the Metroids after Samus wiped the space Jellyfish out, which is why the X managed to infest them. And since Samus took the Baby Metroid from there almost directly to Zebes for Super Metroid, perhaps the Mawkins caught or cloned Kraid after Super, but before the fateful mission to SR-388 that doomed their people.
Another thing. In prime 3, we see three eyed lizard ppl on the planet bryyo. I’ve heard theories that kraid was a member of said race maybe a mutant version
Lo hice, vi todos los videos de Orpheon en tres semanas. No sé cómo no conocía este canal antes considerando que Metroid ha sido mi franquicia favorita desde al menos el 2005!
@@ImMeztid La verdad no es tanto jeje estoy acostumbrado a hacer eso cada vez que descubro un canal que me gusta, y The Orpheon fue uno de los más rápidos.
Muchas gracias por el apoyo. Espero que los videos por venir puedan entretenerte igual que estos. Estoy considerando hacer uno que otro video no relacionado a Metroid, pero ten por seguro que siendo mi franquisia favorita sigure planeando mas videos.
As super metroid shows us, kraid is a species. Samus encounters 3-4 kraids. The zero mission one is the one from dread, although the nes one having two can increase that, but the super one was the brood mother.
I play zero mission on my phone in which I can fast forward the speed of the game or slow it down, I slow it down all the way, enter kraid's boss room and kill him as soon as the cutscene is over, taking 3 to 4 s. missiles
I think Kraid doesn‘t lead the plrates because he doesn’t have the brains. With that, Ridley doesn’t actually have to be stronger than Kraid; he just has to either make Kraid think that he is, or he has to demonstrate to Kraid why following him is worth his time.
If you have like 2 or 3 etanks in Metroid one, you can literally just run right into Kraid and plug him with misses as fast as possible - he'll die before you run out of energy.
17:25 Agreed. The idea any organization would treat Samus like a liability just doesn't make sense, considering her pedigree. Other M in particular was a laughable premise.
Rather than those shows, I liked the cheesy 80s original Metroid. Ridley and Kraid played the role of comedic relief and it worked well, too bad it isn't as fondly remembered by others as much as me.
Can you do one of these videos for Phantoon? because according to some sources, Phantoon is what caused the Wrecked ship to crash in the first place. And we know the Wrecked ship is of Chozo origin. So i guess we can thank Phantoon for the entire Metroid timeline. I'll let you figure it out.
@@Enemjey if you ever get Apocalypse, which is great, the new meme line is 'kid' Story may not be as cool as vanilla SMT-4 but I do like the follow up to the story and where they took it.
Sm Kraid is kinda a joke compared to ridley though (at least in the speedrun). You need to memrize the flowchart plus adapt to hard patterns all while risking dying. You can quick kill Kraid in his opening cutscene.
Kraid is a beast, not a pirate. It's the reason why there are so many of them. Kraid is like a Rancor in Star Wars, a giant tank, that does nothing but attack when provoked.
Also 15:31, in the Metroid Attraction (I have the game and can speak from fact) you can jump inside Kraid, much like in Metroid Dread, I like to think they actually used some mechanics from Nintendo Land and used some inside of Dread.
*video not vid. I don't understand the concept of wanting to shorten a word that is already short enough as it is. I find it ridiculous. But I do understand wanting to shorten long words. 🤦♂
