#Raven Beak

[hoshizoralone]

samus and her funny bird family comix

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Nintendo, giving Link and Zelda a family:

[molagboop]

Thought Experiment.

[the-cosmic-arcade]

𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗜𝗗 𝗗𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗

[omorales81]

Samus Saturday - art by the kracklin’ Kazumasa Yasukuni! 😻🤯😵 #Nintendo #Metroid #SamusAran #RavenBeak #SamusSaturday #GameArt #FanArt #MetroidDread

[metalvania]

Metroid Dread is the first time we see living Chozo (besides Samus) and that was really cool and I noticed something

All of the Chozo soldiers don't have arm cannons. They all have spears and shields, Except for Raven Beak the final boss and leader of this tribe of Chozo

This implies that arm cannons are considered high status weapons or reserved for leaders of the tribe maybe since only Raven Beak even has one.

[spotart-station-animation]

Some of my favorite spreads I did for the retro dread manual! These were made to help recap the story of Metroid fusion.

Coming up with the new designs for each character was so much fun, especially the X parasite and retro fusion Samus .

[nobody-1881]

Metroid from Ridley’s Perspective

Samus from Ridley’s point of view, is the culmination of Ridley’s sins. Samus is the victim of Ridley’s atrocities, yet is the thing that constantly sends Ridley’s machinations to the trash heap. Ridley kills the Chozo and destroys K-2L, Samus destroys the Space Pirates. Whatever plan Ridley comes up with, Samus is always lurking, waiting, and hunting. And Samus does not stop. Samus isn’t haunted by Ridley, she haunts Ridley. I’m fact, Samus does this to every villain, Mother Brain’s betrayal of the Chozo leads to Samus hunting her down, and because she stole the baby, Samus is able to find her once more. Raven Beak ultimately is brought down by the same threat he released, (Parasite X) and is destroyed because he made Samus more and more Metroid-like. Even Phazon is taken down by Samus, who by the end of Prime 3 is almost like an avenging ghost, gaining power from the other bounty hunters. Samus from the villain’s perspective, is all of their collective bad karma appearing in the form of an Orange demon that will not stop at anything.

[coldgoldlazarus]

That plane post reminded me of a funny thought I had earlier. Raven Beak has a powersuit and arm cannon a lot like Samus's, and even shares a few abilities, but also utilizes a bunch that she has never historically had.

We also know from the manga that the powersuit she has for most of Zero Mission is a newer model custom-designed by the Chozo and Mother Brain. (before the latter's betrayal, anyway.) This one was unable to recognize and fully make use of certain upgrades, but presumably with the trade-off being a slimmer build (lacking the giant 'clunky' (iconic) shoulders and keeping a flatter chestplate, even with the Varia suit equipped) and access to newer upgrade designs that older suits might in turn have trouble interfacing with, such as Raven Beak's fancier abilities. Even the Chozo were not immune to the onward march of backwards compatibility limitations, it seems.

But then she passes the mural test and gets the fully-powered suit, an older design able to use the extra ancient upgrades the prior one could not, and despite design shifts across most of the games, I think it's safe to assume that that's the same base suit she's operating with from there onward. We know it has a certain level of regenerative capability, thus why it still looks pretty untouched after all the punishment it takes, but even then it still gets halfway-disassembled in Fusion, stripping away all the outer armor completely, and taking however long between then and Dread to recover a bit of its original form, while still being distinctly less armored than it used to be, a lot of the same organic bits from Fusion still exposed to open air.

So with all this in mind, there's a certain hilarity in the end of Dread. Raven Beak's sitting here in his hyperadvanced, up-to-date and top-of-the-line powersuit, the equivalent of an F-22 Raptor, thinking he's hot shit. And then Samus rocks up in her old suit, the equivalent of not just a dinky WWII prop plane, but a dinky WWII prop plane that's missing half the fuselage like it was left unattended too long in Detroit, and flies absolute circles around him. Sure, he nearly saves it towards the end of the fight until RAGE, but the fact that it is as much of a proper fight as it is becomes kinda funny (and also very badass on her part) from this perspective.

[limitiz-nk]

@molagboop

Gift also inspiration from molag's post on reddit

complaining about the old bald man with the officials

[metroid-prime-ribs]

Have a one of these!

[luna-the-bard]

Was playing Dread this morning, and had a thought:

There aren’t any cctv cameras shown around (at least not in Artaria as far as I’ve seen), which has me assume that Ravenbeak isn’t constantly surveilling Samus go through the area. Which leads me to a question: what is he doing while Samus is traveling from Networking Station to Networking Station? Is he just. Sitting there?? On his ship?? Waiting for her to get in contact w him??

Which in turn, ladies and gentlemen, prompted me to create this masterpiece:

Enjoy.

[incorrectsmashbrosquotes]

Advanced conversation.

[molagboop]

Noise game.

[mhexart]

Metroid sketches

[atwas-meme-ing]

You know, at first I thought the "Dread" in Metroid Dread was because of things like the EMMI's, and Raven Beak, and Samus having to "accept her helplessness" and run, and not knowing whether she would be able to take on this new opponent of hers.

But no. That wasn't it. She didn't dread facing new enemies. She's a practiced bounty hunter, and she's been on numerous missions involving both the Metroids and the X. She knows she will be able to find a way to fight them. And she must have already accepted the fact that she could die on any mission at any time. That's just the reality of the kind of work she does.

What she would dread is the awakening of her Metroid DNA. Of becoming something she's been taught to hate and hunt. Of becoming a threat to the universe.

But in the end, that's what saved her life. Becoming everything that she is, whether she wants it or not.