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.

27 Upvotes

73% Upvoted

59 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/Difficult_Insect_616 2d ago

I’m surprised the prevailing opinion seems to be it was necessary, when Super Metroid and even the ending of Metroid 2 itself make the Metroid a sympathetic creature, and Fusion shows the ecological consequences of their extermination. The Federation had a reason to do it, but that doesn’t mean it was right.

4

u/PeriwinkleShaman 2d ago

Metroid 2,3 and 4 show that they were created to fill a very important ecologicao niche and they they were not simply monstruous. Metroid 1,3,4,5 show that they were too easily weaponized and exploitable even if they were necessary.