Uh...not really...

here's my theory. even though there's no evidence of it and the game clearly assigns the blame to james, i think the deleter was a terminator robot. sent back in time to destroy samus conner. and even though his brain was uploaded to a computer in fusion, i think adam is still alive and probably just let them borrow his brain for a while to fool everyone into thinking he was dead for no reason. whatsoever. also, i think anthony higgs was ridley.

FINALLY someone agrees with me.

Actually, he has. Here's how it goes, according to Wikitroid:

• Metroid/Zero Mission: He is defeated, not killed. A robot modeled after him is the final boss of Zero Mission.
• Metroid Prime: He is fitted with cybernetic enhancements. Once again, he is defeated, not killed. He survives the fall from that temple area.
• Metroid Prime 3: The disintegration of Ridley was never shown, unlike those of other Leviathan Guardians. Therefore, he survives. Again.
• Super Metroid: He is purely organic in this game, though how is unknown. He explodes along with the rest of Planet Zebes. This is the true death of the original Ridley.
• Metroid Other M: Ridley is cloned by the Feds by using the particles that appeared on Samus's suit. He then evolves from the "Little Birdie" to the furry lizard creature to Ridley's final form. He is defeated by Samus, but escapes, only to be "killed" by the Queen Metroid. The Federation takes his corpse away to BSL.
• Metroid Fusion: Ridley's corpse is infected by the X-Parasite, turning him into Ridley X, or Neo Ridley. He is defeated and presumably killed by Samus.

Seems to add up to me. Convoluted? Yes. Ridiculous? Obviously. But it's a videogame, and I don't care.

I always viewed Ridley as the "Bowser" of Metroid. The b&^% never seems to die...

Well Bowser doesn't explode into flames in the 2D games when you beat him.

Nah, he just gets every inch of his flesh burnt off by lava multiple times. I bet Kammy Koopa cloned him using particles off of Peach's dress.

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Sort of like the "tears" that Phantom Limb leaves on Dr. Girlfriend's "Queen Etheria" costume on The Venture Brothers?

No, he doesn't explode into flames. He gets dropped into a enormous vat of them and slowly burns to death.

But he does return as Dry Bowser sometimes. D:

a death super metroid did the right way with crocomire. can you imagine that happening to bowser in the next game, with mario and luigi looking on in horror at what they've done? i can. easily.

It doesn't matter that much to me, but a few people think Other M deserved a higher score. I think most of the reviews were generous. The bastardization of Samus wasn't the only thing goofy about this game. Other M's story doesn't just exceed science, it ignores it and then replaces it with nonsense. You really have to turn your brain off to stomach the whole thing. By the end of my 10 hour play through I wouldn't have been surprised if Samus had met a genie inside the bottle ship.

If you're referring to the regeneration thing, they regenerated dinosaurs similarly in Jurassic Park.

Maybe they mixed Metroid DNA with Polar Bear DNA. Result? Unfreezable Metroids!

Ridley is a furby.

http://wii.ign.com/articles/112/1126392p1.html

Enjoy~

thank you. i'm pretty shocked at the level of criticism of Other M's "plot holes" and "disregard for science"
if it bugs you, that's fair, but I don't understand it myself. convoluted and ridiculous plots are pretty much a staple of video games.

Yeah, I've played videogames before. Nonsensical is pretty standard. I think everyone was hoping that Other M would do something to progress videogame story telling and were bummed when it didn't.

@Pixelman
I read the article. Good to see that people graduating with useless English majors are able to find jobs somewhere. It's like a bad literary criticism paper written for a high school class.

Yeah but when your game is 10 hours long and loaded with cut scenes the story is sort of all you've got.

I think no story is more the staple of video games. I've liked the convoluted and ridiculous stories by Suda 51 and Hideo Kojima because they were good, but Yoshio Sakamoto needs a ghostwriter. He could also discover that when it comes to a video game story sometimes less really is more.