I am very fond of the Metroid franchise, and I have found a connection to Other M and Fusion: http://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/Neo-Ridley "The presence of both an X-infected Ridley and Zebesian Space Pirates onboard the BSL station was considered enigmatic after Fusion's release, given that the Pirates were thoroughly routed and Ridley defeated in Super Metroid. The official Fusion web site indicated that the pirates were onboard the station on a marauding mission, which initially suggested they were not Federation-preserved specimens as has often been conjectured by fans. The events portrayed in the later-released Metroid: Other M, which chronologically takes place before Fusion, clarify this mystery: after Ridley's clone was killed by the Queen Metroid and became a dried, rotting corpse, the Galactic Federation intervened in the game's ending. When Samus returns to the Bottle Ship some time later, the corpse had vanished. The Federation would eventually send the Ridley clone's remains to the BSL station to be preserved.







Considerable evidence supports the conclusions made by Other M; for example, the Ridley clone's corpse in Other M is similar in color to the X-mimic in Fusion. Also, Ridley's clone would have been extremely fragile after being drained by the Queen Metroid, which certainly explains why the frozen corpse shatters when the Core-X leaves it. This theory is further supported by the presence of another specimen, codenamed Nightmare, aboard the BSL station; Nightmare was also originally encountered on the Bottle Ship and could easily have been transferred to the BSL in the same manner as the Ridley clone. The presence of Zebesian Space Pirates in both titles makes it unclear if the previously-mentioned marauding mission (likely to recover Ridley's corpse) was reckoned out of existence, as the cloned variants featured in Other M could have been transferred to the BSL as well. Samus Aran also believed that the Space Pirates were completely destroyed after the explosion of Zebes, making it a more likely explanation." If you have any connections that I'm not aware of, I highly encourage you to let me know!

I've got one for you. I have already mentioned this in another thread that I wrote about some discrepancies within the mysterious metroid series. But there is a link to Metroid Fusion in Metroid Prime 1 as well as the following two games. Here it is. You have collected all the chozo artifacts and returned them to their places. Ridley shows up. After dispatching him, you will be able to go into the impact crater. There you will find the metroid prime. At first, you see him as a horribly mutated creature that is far from a metroid, but after you breach his shell, he turns into a vicious phazon powered metroid that can only be overloaded with phazon. As you stand in the phazon pools to utilize its energy, you slowly begin to overload the creature. In its last few moments, he appears to become a creature similar to a really strong X and swipes Samus' power suit. Later, the metroid prime comes back as dark samus, much like the SA-X

FaithFighter : Wow, that is so crazy! I never thought of that before!

TaySwift13 : Not bad to come up with for someone who just got on board with the franchise this year, huh?

FaithFighter : Nope. Not bad at all! Oh, by the way, I'd be willing to join your G.R.A.C.C.E. group.