Reasons I love Metroid
- The villains call themselves the Space Pirates. Not just any space pirates. THE Space Pirates
- It’s established that destroying planets is the easiest and best way to deal with your problems
- Pinball
- The soundtrack is “the most beautiful, haunting melody you’ll ever hear” and “beep boop”, with no in between
- The most deadly, virulent parasite in the universe looks like fruit gummy
- Official comics repeated show that Samus is addicted to circles
- Samus’ pet raccoons are apparently highly skilled star pilots
- The Japanese tagline for the series is “Metroid Fun-roid”
- Despite all of these things, the series never takes itself anything less than 100% seriously
You thought I was done?? bitch
- The series’ most iconic villain has never been the main villain of any single game. He’s also a Pokemon
- The fourth game has not one but two bosses capable of blowing out the Gameboy Advance’s speaker system
- Magic exists. No one uses it, no one acknowledges it, but it’s there and it’s central to everything anyone does
- The series once took an eight-year hiatus because a game was too good
- The first and last games take place anywhere between two and twenty years apart depending on your sources
- No fewer than five men have taken the role of being Samus’s dad, a job which has a 100% fatality rate
- Every possible interpretation of the phrase “The main character of Metroid is Metroid” is an entirely accurate representation of the series
- Metroid is actually a girl the whole time
