Who needs a Chozo Power Suit when you have guns like these?

sammy doodle

Other M is ambiguously canon.

Evidence for canon:

It was advertised as "the missing story link" between the obviously-canon Super and Fusion.

It introduced Samus' mole which has gone on to feature in every further appearance.

It is of the same branch of canon as the manga, which is directly referenced in obviously-canon Dread.

It is featured in Dread's gallery to the exclusion of other games which have been explicitly declared non-canon.

Evidence for non-canon:

I don't like it.

Baby Metroid and momma Samus.

Ended up getting sick over Thanksgiving but it gave me some time to flip through my sketchbook. Ended up finding this mother metroid samus design I made a while ago and figured you know I'm feeling kinda monstrous I should post her. So! For all you monster girl needs! Samus!!!

@yamcans00's Skulltober Day 27 - "Peaceful"

"The Last Metroid is in captivity. The galaxy is at peace."

<- Day 26 | Day 27 | Day 28 ->

Metroid's timeline is kind ambigouous - not in the order of events and games; it's refreshingly consistent there, but how much time passes between them. And yet, the one generally agreed-upon exception is that Super seems to follow almost immediately after Metroid II.

But ironically, I think I'm coming around to the idea of hoping we get an interquel between them anyway, even if it ends up messing that up. Whether it be Prime 4 or a different game, I want to see something inserted between just like the Prime trilogy takes place between NES/ZM and Metroid II

One reason for this is that it would actually make the changed ending of Samus Returns slightly less of an issue. I still would be bothered by how the insertion of that big boisterous boss fight at the end wrecks the original game's simple, peaceful ending, mind you. But at the very least, putting some chronological distance between Proteus Ridley and the Ceres Station encounter would kinda fix the problems Ridley's inclusion created for the opening of Super.

Like, dropping off the baby Metroid at an unguarded civilian facility was always a bad idea no matter how you look at it, but before SR it was at least a reasonable decision to make that unexpectedly backfired; whereas now, after Proteus Ridley came screaming out of nowhere, (also how did he even know about Samus's mission on SR388 in the first place?) it feels incredibly shortsighted on Samus's part to just be like "yeah this is fine nothing to worry about, these Ceres guys got it all covered" immediately afterward.

If there was instead a whole other adventure between, that would give more time between Proteus Ridley and Ceres for the incident to fade a bit, especially if Samus spends some of that time looking into the Space Pirates again, and finding nothing to indicate that meeting as anything more than a fluke. On top of that, it could also lead into Ceres a bit better anyway; Samus bringing the hatchling along on her next mission, only for that to end up endangering it (or it inadvertantly endangering others) in some way that convinces her it's better off somewhere safer rather than by her side. (And lending extra tragedy to the mistake that turns out to be.)

But all that like, broader metanarrative continuity-management stuff aside, I also think we should get this just for its own sake. There was potential after Metroid II, for a different sort of game, for a companion. Super, for better or for worse, (IMO it's a bit of both) quashed that notion. But maybe we could have our cake and eat it, with the addition of a new game during that window between, properly giving us a shot at answering Metroid II's setup, without contradicting the subsequent installments; potentially even strengthening them somewhat instead.

Finally, it would just be dang cute.

got invited to an aggie and i aggied the aggie with many aggies

that trucy i drew got me thinking last night... i should draw her at some point!

heca fact: Trucy and Blackquill are my favs from the saga

Okay, I HAD to finish the sketch! Here's the "extended cut" version of Ridley's Ramen Night, this time with Kraid and the Baby Metroid too.

(they may seem ruthless but Ridley takes care of his own)

Baby number two joins the family :)

Was talking about Metroid with my friend Blue, learning about the nature of Dark Samus and being disappointed that this means no Samus-Samus team-ups and hijinks are possible, which got added to my usual TT^TT about the fate of the baby metroid.

SO, new AU! In it, Samus kicks Dark Samus to the curb, steals her suit, and gives it to the baby metroid to wear. If you’re wondering how the hell that works, it’s via standing the armor in front of the baby metroid, opening the visor, the baby metroid nudging the opening, a brief cut away and schlorping sound, and then we cut back and the visor is closing and the baby metroid is in the armor now. I feel no further need to explain or describe how this works on the grounds “Samus can turn into a gods-damned self-propelled ball that’s a fraction of her usual size, physics have no power over these suits.”

We will not be questioning the timeline of when this happened either, on the grounds of, “Do you want a solid timeline or do you want Samus going on cool space adventures with her baby? The cold light of logic or the joy of merc-mom and murder-child bonding?”

We will, however, be answering the question, “Isn’t putting a metroid in a suit made of phazon just going to result in the metroid eating their suit?”

The answer is yes, it does, but they’re doing it slowly and ‘stealthily,’ because their mom told them not to, and also Samus keeps catching them almost immediately because it’s pretty obvious when it happens (“Did you eat your suit’s arm?” “(evasive-but-guilty metroid skree)”), and she keeps replacing the phazon parts with ones made of more normal materials until the whole suit’s been remade and murder-child stops eating pieces because they’re not made of yummy energy anymore.

“What does murder-child eat when they aren’t eating their suit?”

Space pirates, aggressive fauna, and juice pouches. It likes the blue ones best, but is learning to branch out to others as it gets older. This increases some when Samus eventually gets her own metroid abilities and gets a better idea of what they can get energy from.

This situation is also the epitome of the “What’cha got there?” meme, with the added layer of the fact that, when you ask this of Samus Aran and she looks you in the eye and replies “A smoothie,” you Do Not Ask Again.

last year's holiday cards for friends cont., deck the halls with metroid

Baby Metroid breakdancing - Boriluwa Animation

Restricted Laboratory ~ Metroid Fusion

Ridley: Humans will definetly swim in the ocean even though there are definetly many corpses in it. They will not, however, swim in a pool with one corpse in it. Ergo, humans have a corpse to water size ratio.

Ridley, turning to the camera and putting on a lab coat: So, today on Science with Ridley we will-

Luigi and Samus with their little friends

None of this art is mine. Art will always be credited.