Re: The Fall of Samus Aran Part II

"Later in the game, Malkovich goes on to sacrifice himself to destroy the Metroid infestation, as Samus is left helpless to do anything, locked in a damaged power suits. She resorts to begging, screaming, and crying at him to convince him to not go ahead with his sacrificial plans."

This is where Steve makes me think he just watched cutscenes of the game, cause not 2 minutes before this, we see that Adam shot her to disable her temporarily and explained that anyone who goes in there is going to die. In fact, the only way to destroy the Metroids, who were unfreezeable, was to activate the modules self-destruct program which involved it detaching from the bottle ship and blowing up. He also said that Samus was the only one could defeat Ridley, and that is why when it came to someone sacrificing themselves, it made more sense for him to do it than her. It was only in about every line of dialogue in that scene.

"The Samus I know would shoot that asshole in the leg and take care of business herself. She would find a way. This Samus? Team Ninja puts her in the position of a feeble, helpless little girl; a bystander to a man’s heroics."

As stated, said "main's heroics" involved dying and as I said above, Adam's reasoning was because only Samus could defeat Ridley, who was still alive at that point. Also, the Samus I know would never do that to anyone on her side, but just in case she would, Adam shot her in the back so that she couldn't stop him from performing his heroic sacrifice.

"But the the most shocking and insulting moment in the game is her confrontation with her old-time nemesis, Ridley. Other M is the last in the Metroid series, meaning Samus has mutilated Ridley’s ass around a dozen times by now."

No, the game is set before Fusion and sets up many moments for it. Also, I like you Steve says dozen when there isn't even a dozen games. In fact, before Other M in the Metroid timeline it rounds out to about 4. 5 if you count both the Meta-Ridely fight and the Omega Ridley fight in Metroid Prime 3. But they are Metroid, Super Metroid, Prime 1, and Prime 3. The first two games had limited story-telling gameplay and the latter two she had ample time to process his revival before fighting him. In Other M, he literally just pops out and starts wailing on Samus.

"But what does Samus do in Other M when Ridley confronts her? She has a panic attack and passes out. Ridley picks her up, and goes on to beat the living pulp out of her fainted body until she is rescued by a male character called Anthony. That is actually what happens."

Considering that Samus makes a special mention of Ridley finally being dead in the beginning, this doesn't come off as much of a surprise. Also, consider this because this was also mentioned in a long laundry list of things Samus had done at the beginning. Ridley was killed, his remains were destroyed on the planet she accidentally blew up, and the only people who could or had any interest in bringing him back were also all dead. Ridley's revival was an accident in this game. Samus had no idea he would back and so her guard was down when he showed up. Two more points: why does Anthony's gender matter and what about Rundus? Rundus saved Samus from Ridley's attack in the beginning of three. He was also male, ableit, an alien.

"[He] goes so far to scream at Ridley: “Don’t you know how to treat a lady?” A lady? This woman has committed alien genocide. She is the most feared person in the galaxy; Ridley is treating her just like he should be."

1) Anthony was being funny. He has also called Samus "princess" in nearly every other encounter with her. But, it wasn't insulting or derogatory, it was because they were friends. Also, calling Samus the most feared person in the galaxy is a bit of stretch. I understand where it is coming from, but how much of that is canon and how much of it is projection. The federation has been bossing Samus around as her employer in nearly every single Metroid game and this and Fusion are the only ones where she actively starts defying them, you know, character development.

"This single line isn’t the character of the game talking, it’s Team Ninja talking through him. This is how they view Samus, and likewise, all women."

That is perhaps the biggest piece of pretentious bull-shit in this whole mess of vomit. The fact that Samus did fight and defeat Ridley, was ready to do it again in the same game, defeated every monster in the game no sweat including a Queen Metroid, and was pretty much the only person the Eliminator couldn't get to, I would have to say that the rest of the game proves this statement wrong. Also again, Rundus. He even says "now you owe me one" and that was by Retro.

"She is just lady, a small orphaned girl one who should be coddled and held onto, and then rammed in the ass since that’s all she is good for."

Again, she killed every single monster in that game. Every single one. Most of which on her own. Also, because Steve didn't play this game and thus he couldn't possibly remember that this was the second time Anthony saved Samus, the first being against the monster that would be Ridley and in fact foreshadowed the second rescue by saying "the next shot is for you" (which also pinned him as a suspect for being the Eliminator).

"Just as offensive is the diction of Anthony, who is black. No, he doesn’t say “We need to find an exit” or “We have to get out of here!” in moments of peril. Instead, he yells “WHERE DA EXIT AT?!” and “YO SAMUS, RUN GIRL!” Because everyone knows that if black space marines were to exist in the future, they’d speak in urban ebonics while pointing at their gold chains. Duh."

I don't remember that. I remember Anthony talking pretty normally and having an ethnicity. I wish the writer would give some specific scene and examples other than the ones everyone who hadn't played the already knew. Also, games, movies, TV shows have done this...Steve needs to get out of that rocks he is under.