Talk:Characters of the Metroid series

Incorrect information about Adam
The article states that Adam only appears in Other M, however, he also appears in Fusion as the A.I Samus is recieving commands from in the navigation rooms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derfpace (talk • contribs) 21:27, 10 November 2013 (UTC)

No.. I like, WHY?!
Trim this down and merge it back in to the main article for the series. This is a total waste of an article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.243.180.163 (talk) 17:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Uh, not really. The series is expansive enough, with discussion of the characters significant enough that it warrants an article. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 23:00, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Why?
What you have done here frankly makes no sense. So some explanation is needed. Blake (Talk·Edits) 16:56, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
 * 1. Why did Ridley get merged to this page? It has plenty of Creation and Reception.
 * 2. Why is the creation and reception info shared between all the characters instead of in Ridley's section?
 * 1. Because the creation section pretty much completely lacked anything in the way of creation, more so of expansion of the character. Regardless, creation info does not establish real world notability. And the reception, while big, lacked anything that really defined real world notability. While a few references may specifically be about Ridley, most are just passing mention of him.
 * 2. So that the article could have its creation and reception sections strong instead of having all the information sprinkled around the article. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 17:21, 7 May 2010 (UTC)

Chozo
I think the line about "Chozo" being an "anglicized" form of the Japanese term 鳥人族 choujinzoku should be revised. I was pretty sure that in the original game, before any deeper background for the race had been conceived, the statues themselves were simply referred to as Chozo (鳥像 Chouzou ; not sure about the exact Kanji for zou), meaning "bird statue(s)." It's not some strange "diminution" into English of choujinzoku as far as can be seen. Also, since the word 人 can be used for "person/one, people" in general, not just "(hu)man" (cf. usages like Kaseijin "Martian[s]"), 鳥人族 should be trans. "bird-folk clan/tribe/race" or some such instead. Adam Restling (talk) 03:51, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Metroid
Doesn't anyone think that Metroid (as in, the species) should gets it own page, considering that it's eponymous to the games and quite central to the series itself? It's probably even more central than Mother Brain and Ridley, who have their own pages, since, going just by appearances, it's more prominent than both of them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Little Metroid (talk • contribs) 17:48, 18 September 2011 (UTC)

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Table of Appearances Changes
After looking at the table of appearances a few times, I think it needs some changes. Nothing too major but just two things to make it more consistent and helpful.

If no one agrees with these changes then it's fine; they are not necessary but I feel like they definitely will help the article.
 * 1) Firstly, just some consistency with some character placements. Right now, Adam Malkovich and Sylux are put into the protagonists section of the table of appearances, even though in the actual article Adam is considered a Supporting Character and Sylux is an Antagonist. I understand the reasoning to put them here if it's to prevent the protagonists section from only being two characters. Still, I feel like the table should be consistent with their placement in the article. I feel like either move them in the table or in the article. Additionally some characters are not listed in the table (Quiet Robe, X Parasite, Metroids). It seems that maybe the X and Metroids aren't listed in the table since they are species, not characters, but Etecoons and Ing Horde are also species, not characters. For Quiet Robe, I get that he may only appear in one game and may not seem notable but many characters on this list are only in one game and Quiet Robe has a pretty major role in the game he is in. I feel like if the character is notable enough to be in the article then it is notable enough to be on the table.
 * 2) Secondly, while they are not terrible, I feel like the "Recurring" and "Guest" monikers should be reworked. A character is recurring if they make more than one appearance in the game and a guest if they only show up once. The two problems with it are 1. It makes no distinction between a character who makes an appearance in a special cutscene at the end of the game (such as Dark Samus in Prime or Sylux in Federation Force) and a character who is in the main game itself but simply makes one appearance (such as Kraid in Dread). I would say the difference between those is very noticeable.  2. Listing notability based on the number of appearances a character makes in a game is not a very good metric, especially since being considered a main character has nothing with how times a character appears. Kraid is a Guest in Dread, but Main in every other game he's in even though he only appears once in every game he's in. I feel like they should not be based on the number of appearances and should be renamed to "Minor" and "Cameo". Minor is for characters who actually serve a role in-game but are not integral to the story (Kraid in Dread, Etecoons in Super) and Cameo is for characters that only make appearances in special post-credit scenes, flashbacks, etc. (Sylux in Prime 3, Mother Brain in Metroid II).

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