Metroid/Trivia

• Bad Export for You: The Wii U Virtual Console release of Super Metroid in European and Australian territories. It is the 50Hz PAL version being forced to run at 60Hz, which introduces new glitches that aren't present in the Wii U release in other regions and weren't even present at all in the original PAL release.
• Fan Nickname:
  • A handful of rooms in Super Metroid, such as "Noob Bridge" in Green Brinstar, and "Mount Doom" in Black Maridia.
  • Also, Shockness Monster/Serris in Fusion, and El Pollo Loco/Little Birdie/Clone!Ridley in Other M.
  • For Anthony Higgs, MBD or Mysterious Black Dude, so named for his Remember the New Guy? moment in the Other M trailer.
  • Some people like to say that the K.G. in Keiji Misawa's stands for "Killed Guy" for this very reason. Dying is all he really seems to accomplish.
  • The two space pirates that guard Ridley's lair in Super Metroid have been called "Ninja Pirates" due to their characteristic fighting style.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: In the Japanese version of Metroid: Other M, Samus is voiced by Ai Kobayashi, who also voiced Deunan Knute in Appleseed movies. This is also counts as funny at first sight, since Deunan and Samus share similar backgrounds and similar screwed-up pasts.
  • Rundas? That's Christopher Sabat.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For years, Metroid II would not see another release. That is, until the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS came and Nintendo released it!
• Serendipity Writes the Plot: The appearance of the Varia Suit in Super Metroid and onwards is the result of the Game Boy's lack of color. In the original NES game, the Varia Suit was denoted by a Palette Swap. Since the Game Boy was black and white, the suit itself became physically different after being obtained in Metroid II. The design was retained for this game, and the rest is history.
• Urban Legend of Zelda: Many minor ones, but here are some of the most major:
  • The belief that the infamous Justin Bailey code had an actual meaning, instead of being just a random result of password calculations.
  • Replica Justin Bailey codes in Metroid II and Super Metroid. This eventually resulted in fan-made Game Mods in honor of the fruitless searching.
• What Could Have Been: The 2001 E3 preview of Metroid Fusion, at that point simply titled Metroid IV, looked quite different and drew a great deal of criticism for looking like it belonged more on the Game Boy Color rather than the Game Boy Advance. With that feedback, Nintendo went back to the drawing board, and at the next year's E3 ran a preview looking much more like the finished game.
  • Kraid was planned to be included in Metroid Prime, but was ultimately scrapped. A 3D render of how he would have appeared in-game exists, however.
• The Wiki Rule: Metroid Wiki and Wikitroid.
• Word of Dante: In official media, the only Metroid Fusion enemy with "-X" attached to the end of its name is the SA-X. Yet, it seems almost universally accepted among the fandom that creatures infected and/or mimicked by the X parasites follow that naming scheme (Hornoad-X, Geemer-X, etc). It's not clear if this originates from an obscure official source or if it is simply fanon that has become so well known that it's nearly indistinguishable from canon.
• Working Title: For the NES game, it was originally going to be called "Space Hunter".