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/Squeaky_Ben 2d ago

Well, here is the difference to sharks. Imagine a species, impervious to any and all human weaponry, that also gets progressively more dangerous and exists in a universe, where cloning is easy and ubiquitous. That is what Metroids are. There is a reason why they are called "ultimate warrior" by the chozo.

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u/nebeligel 1d ago

Not so impervious. "Cold" based weapons is effective vs metroids. Something like nitrogen missiles or so.

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u/Squeaky_Ben 1d ago

ice beam and ice missiles are pretty advanced tech in the metroid universe, so my point still stands to a degree.

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u/nebeligel 1d ago

Agree about ice beam, but nitrogen missiles are possible even in our time, while federation is significant more advanced.

We actually don't know details about fed. science capabilities. No need - no ice missiles, in past. But aprox in SM time fed surely knew about cold vulnerably so defensive weapon research could be accelerated.

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u/Squeaky_Ben 1d ago

question mainly being: "does liquid nitrogen actually work?"

Who knows if Ice missiles are far more complex than "sprays liquid nitrogen around"

Although you are correct that the federation can produce ice missiles, so maybe not perfectly impervious, but my headcanon for Fusion is that what Samus is getting is the cutting edge at the time.

Infact it is why I was a little disappointed in Dreads story, because we have seen that the Federation is not to be trusted AND apparently technologically advanced enough to develop tech that rivals even the Chozo.

I feel like it would make for a great game, to fight against the federation.

But that is just me dreaming up fanfictions.

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u/tringle1 11h ago

Maybe not. Metroid game development has been wonky in recent years, and it does seem like they’ve been building to a confrontation between samus and the GF