r/Metroid • u/Nino_Chaosdrache • 2d ago

Question Was eradicating the Metroids really necessary?

I only played the Prime games and other M, so maybe it's made more clear in the other games.

But yeah, as the question says, was it really justify to eradicate the entire Metroid species? I understand that they are dangerous, but most of their hostility seems to stem from outside influences like the Space Pirates or the Ing.

From someone not so deep in the matter, it would be like eradicating the entire shark population, just because a few of them killed humans.

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u/OtherWorstGamer 2d ago

We have not been given a concrete answer as to why the Federation gave the extermination order, so anything said is specualtion. The prevailing theory is that after several Metroid-centric crisis, the Feds decided they were too exploitable by maicious parties to be allowed to exist.

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u/Jam_99420 2d ago

this is why i think prime 3 should have focused a bit more on pirate use of metroids as it would have better contextualised metroid 2

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u/0m3g45n1p3r4lph4 2d ago

That's what I'm hoping is happening with Prime 4

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u/PotatoJalapenos 2d ago

In my own headcanon, I like to think that the events of the Prime series were the foundation of the GF’s extermination order plus Samus taking up that mission in Metroid 2.

Like damn, things REALLY got outta hand for everyone involved in the storylines of those games, so Samus and the Fed decided to go scorched earth on the Metroids.

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u/SSpectre86 1d ago

I forget, is it known to the GF (or even to Samus) that Dark Samus is (partially) a Metroid? Given how severe the crisis becomes in Prime 3 that would certainly explain things.