Back in elementary school in one of my friends classes there was this computer with an educational mario game on it like mario chess and stuff. He would talk to you as you play but if you walked away for awhile he would say something while idling.
Once they were doing little presentations and one kid was up there dead silent like nearly shaking because they were so nervous. Not a single person talking.
All of a sudden you hear from the back marios voice yell out “Whats-a takin you so long!”. The kid starts crying and runs outta the room
when i worked at the anime store i kinda grilled ppl who bought bowser merch and they got caught off-guard and looked rly guilty and embarrassed like every time. i loved it so much
“this is one of our nicest dolls, is it a gift for some lucky young mario fan…? oh, no? wow, you must really like bowser…”
I feel like I’m missing something here. I don’t understand
I still love that Ridley’s intro is him straight up murdering Megaman and Mario just to get a reaction out of Samus. He’s such a smug prick and I think this is among the first times he’s been treated as more than just a monster but given a kind of…personality as the leader of the space pirates through his actions.
I think this might be the first time we’ve gotten to see Ridley in a setting that lets him show off his sadism and how much of a jackass he is because the Metroid games just aren’t equipped to do that. More often than not it’s just straight into the action with no time for banter so Ridley’s in full “Kill Samus” mode. The only other time we’ve seen his personality is in the Metroid manga from forever ago and boy howdy.
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