#adam malkovich

[hoshizoralone]

happy space holidays from your metroid friends. featuring a glimpse at a past federation space christmas party

[mhexart]

Hands you this

[domuspopuli]

my fave game females ( with eerily similar hairstyles), playing volleyball with their partners in crime ( round shaped roombas)

[dananicolesdrawings]

Metroid Cowboy AU (last two drawn with @domuspopuli 🩷🤠🩷)

[metroid-prime-ribs]

Have a one of these!

[brakken]

friend now departed

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foe that just won’t die

[limitiz-nk]

fanart of Prussian Blue

to @sablegear0

[iridescent-glitter-dragon]

still thinking about how, rushing to escape an exploding planet and fresh off a fight with a guy who had been impersonating Adam for god knows how long, Samus still freezes instantly at Adam’s warning

[coldgoldlazarus]

Adam, by contrast, I think I've pinned down as a pessimist. His characterization in Fusion, the less-shitty bits of OM, and early Dread when a certain someone was still at least attempting to act like he would, all point to the kind of guy who has to plan for the worst possible scenario, but also on some level expects nothing less than that to occur.

In the ZM Manga he seems a little more open, but there's a pretty big chronology gap in between during which that could have changed. (And the whole Ian incident could have been a contributing factor to that change.)

I was thinking of him as a worrier before, but honestly there are so many lines of his that sound borderline defeatist. If it was just RB that would be one thing, but it's a consistent vibe across Fusion as well, especially where the SA-X is concerned. One thing I do think OM showed us that just does make sense with his other characterization, is a reluctance to trust even in Samus to succeed. Just there, in the context of the other story decisions made, it came across as sexist and demeaning, whereas in broader terms I think the intent is that that's just how he sees things in general, and it's not supposed to be a dismissal of her specifically.

But again, I don't think he'd consider himself a pessimist or a doomer, just a tactical realist. Which makes his current status as Samus's support AI/Mission Control kind of hilarious. A pessimist who doesn't think of himself as being pessimistic, working with an optimist who doesn't think of herself as optimistic.

[guilherme-rm]

Some quick zero suit Adams

Any objection, ladies? ;-)

[songsandscreens]

Scenes from Metroid: Fusion (2002) recreated in Metroid: Dread (2021)

I'd been assigned to watch over Biologic's research team, so I once again found myself on the surface of SR388. It was there that I was attacked by a life-form I had never encountered before. It was only later that I learned the identity of my attacker: the parasitic organism we now know as X. Unaware of my condition, I was returning to the station when disaster struck.

Once the X had infested my central nervous system, I lost consciousness and my ship drifted into an asteroid belt. The ship's emergency systems automatically ejected the escape pod before impact. Biologic's vessel recovered it and transported me to Galactic Federation HQ. However, during the journey, the X multiplied within me, corrupting large areas of my Power Suit.

It then came to light that the organic components of my Power Suit had become so integrated with my system that it could not be removed while I was unconscious. Large portions of my suit had to be surgically removed, dramatically altering my physical appearance. However, the X in my central nervous system were too embedded to be removed safely. I was given a minimal chance of survival.

Then, someone found a cure.

They proposed using a Metroid cell to make an anti-X vaccine. It seems that the Federation had managed to preserve a cell culture from the last infant Metroid SR388. The serum was prepared and injected without delay.

The X parasites were immediately and completely destroyed.

As for me, one life ended... yet I survived, reborn as something different.

Pondering this fact, I realize... I owe the Metroid hatchling my life twice over.

____________________

Some unknown agent is at work. Something very powerful... certainly not human. I'll report when I know more.

...

I have learned the identity of our mystery saboteur... Samus, it's an X mimicking you.

I have named it the SA-X. I believe the SA-X came from the capsule containing your infected suit parts. It used a Power Bomb to escape the Quarrantine Bay. That explosion breached the capsules containing all the X that started this disaster. But the SA-X is definitely our biggest worry right now.

The SA-X is mimicking you at full power. You can't face it. If you see the SA-X, just run. Don't think about fighting... You are still very vulnerable to cold, an unexpected side-effect of the Metroid vaccine. Like Metroids, you can be frozen by an Ice Beam. Of course, the SA-X is armed with the Ice Beam.

Stay away. If you see it, just run.

[voltoise]

Days 6-10 but I totally didn't forget to post them here I promise.

[mhexart]

Winding down

[domuspopuli]

happy late Valentine’s Day 😂

[dananicolesdrawings]

Adamus dump (Adam and shading on final picture by @domuspopuli )

[metroid-prime-ribs]

I have a small headcanon that the Chozo's work to adapt Samus to their environments and technology also greatly expanded upon her lifespan.

And because of this extremely long lifespan, each game in the series takes place at least a decade or so apart, with some like Fusion taking place multiple decades after Super. It would be a fun way to explain how the Federation so quickly develops technologies that catch up to the Chozo's equipment the way we see the suit upgrades in Fusion and the EMMI in Dread. Cause to me it doesn't make sense that they are using Afloraltite to power their ships and things when Samus is a child, and by the time she's an adult that tech has been outmoded and the entire system has been revamped to run on the fuel gel that we see in Prime 3. It would make more sense if Fusion takes place 100-200 years after Samus was born.

Plus, it would make the Space Pirate War longer, and the Phazon Crisis longer and make more sense that Adam died and like 10 years later he's an AI doing stuff when the Aurora Units were seen as a breakthrough only a couple years prior.