#metroids

[zhjake]

METROID 

[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.

[gayloomba]

polymer clay metroid popsicle pins !

i wanna eat them . :)

[gsunny6]

No one:

Metroids on Tallon IV:

[weatheryear]

Mario

In the early age of video games, you had to look at the box art if you wanted any clue as to what was actually happening. The problem was how to make a few pixels a recognizable character?

Well, you comically over-exaggerate their traits, of course. And this is why Mario is over the top. Of course, in the end, all he is, is a man wearing a red shirt and overalls, with a monogrammed hat.

Monograms were the sign of chic, and most people only had 2 or 3 sets of clothes. My father was raised with the tradition of dressing up to go to the doctor. He couldn't explain the tradition to me, but it makes a lot more sense when you have 1 set of clothes not covered in shit from hard work.

But we also need to focus on the great lie about Italians, that they are "White". People for most of Human history, didn't hate people because of the colour of their skin, but because of their ethnicity. Most people hated their neighbours, whom they likely warred against, often for centuries if not millennia.

The Italians who settled in the US and Britain were poor, and would often come over as low-skilled workers. They didn't share the same values, culture, or work ethic of the WASPs. And that is what mattered the most for discrimination. Italians were treated incredibly poorly, along with the Irish.

And in fact, a fat Italian plumber from Brooklyn was the least likely person to be the hero. We've had female heroes, in Ellen Ripley, and Wonder Woman. We've had black heroes, as their civil rights march was well publicized, and so people actively worked to help them.

Italians? Yeah, well, the main attitude was fuck them. Until Nintendo decided to make one their hero, and likely the first recognizable video game character, of all time.

Well, what about Princess Peach? Isn't it demeaning for a genuinely sweet woman to need to be rescued?

You say the princess because she's a princess. Yes, she is more valuable than you, (man), because she's a princess. This is an incredibly simple way to set up and emotionally wrought narrative. Because, again, early video games had near zero resources to work with. It's really hard to compare them, as it's 10,000 times weaker than an apple watch.

As for why the man should be the hero and not the woman?

Men have more muscles for their height, higher muscle density, higher bone density, higher volume of oxygen, higher lactic acid tolerance, higher stamina, they run faster, and have arms that are roughly twice as strong. They not only have more testosterone, but are at least twice as sensitive to it. Peach should not be a hero. Unless you go the Super Princess Peach route.

Addendum

A year after Nintendo created Mario, they created Samus Aran. The twist of the first Metroid was that Samus is a Girl. Which every - single - feminist commenting of video games has to ignore. Samus was likely the second recognizable video game character, ever, and remains a fan-favourite to this day.

Doesn't this contradict what I said about Peach?

Well, Samus is genetically engineered, and given super-advanced technology, including power armour. Dread actually animated a jump pack, to explain why she can jump so high.

[weatherman667]

Samus by Prywinko

[likeadragonfruit]

Y’all would be scarier if you weren’t so stupid

[vforvalensa]

I hope nintendo makes more games named after a complex emotion like metroid dread or mario wonder. I wanna play donkey kong ennui and fire emblem contempt

[beniial]

[balis77]

Fun fact: Samus' zero suit is a bodysuit in more recent games instead of the tank-top she wore in older games because at this point, she's been spliced with so many species' DNA you really don't want to see what the rest of her skin looks like.

[hoshizoralone]

useless lesbian and her beloved children

[mcnostril]

There is a cool and popular tweet about Samus Aran microwaving spoons but we could not find it so I had to reconstruct it from memory*

*I have never seen the thing in question so I had to invent a memory first.

[dstears]

Samus Aran wearing that Virgin Destroyer Sweater that was a meme a while back (and also her Power Armor from Metroid Dread).

(Sweater designed by Dishwasher1910 on twitter, NSFW warning)

[guilherme-rm]

Samus DNA test

[mechabutchzilla]

And it was.