Ridley

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Ridley
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CivGeneral fighting Ridley
First appearanceDRAW Your Own Story 11
Last appearance???
No. appearancesA few
Profile
Nickname(s)Giant purple dragon
SpeciesUnknown, though hinted to be a Space Pirate hybrid
GenderMale
Date of birthUnknown
AgeUnknown
AddressNone
OccupationSpace Pirate Leader
NationalitySpace Pirates


Ridley (リドリー, Ridorii) is a high ranking Space Pirate and is one of the most common recurring characters in the Metroid series, appearing in almost every game, often encountered towards the end of the game. Ridley's appearance is considered similar to a skeletal pterodactyl with glowing eyes.

Despite his fearsome and bestial appearance, Ridley is known to be highly intelligent and is shown to even be capable of speaking in the manga. He is known to have a bloodthirsty personality and takes great personal enjoyment in destruction. Ridley is very defiant and persistent, and has always come back to fight again despite the large explosions, extreme heat, and enormous kinetic energy his body usually suffers following his battles with Samus. However, through scans found in the Metroid Prime sub-series, it can be inferred that Ridley is indeed the same being, from the manga to Corruption, despite all of his apparent "deaths". In every game he has appeared in he has been the second to last boss (or 3rd to last boss if there are multiple final bosses, like in Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption) except for Zero Mission. However, if Mother Brain was the final boss he would have been the second to last boss and his robotic counterpart is the game's final boss. The manga also has revealed that Ridley is extremely adept at survival. Ridley was capable of nursing his heavily injured body back to health by devouring dead bodies as illustrated in the manga in a part where he stated that he survived the destruction of his flagship by consuming the bodies and cells of the dead humans in K-2L. However, this does not explain how he is able to continuously be resurrected each time he dies. He appears to explode or disintegrate in many appearances, thus it is impossible for him to ingest anything to nurse himself back to health.

DYOS use

Ridley was encountered on Zebes during a mission to retrieve some armour from the Chozo ruins located there. He seemed to be there just because Samus needed to fight Ridley in every Metroid game.

He also made a cameo appearance in a Leang & Kwai Narration commenting that Samus should have won the catfight against Jill Valentine, because Samus was a "worthy opponent".

He appeared yet again during the siege of Wetickra, downing a helicopter carrying Samus et al., but was crippled in short order and crushed by a tank.

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