apathetic-revenant:

prokopetz:

While modern renditions of the theme song from the 1967 Spider-Man cartoon series often render the first verse as “catches crooks / just like flies”, the original lyrics state that Spider-Man “catches thieves / just like flies”. I kind of appreciate the directness there – like, this is a superhero who has a very clear idea of where his core competencies lie. Spider-Man deals with property crime specifically. Murderer on the loose? Sorry, folks – not his department!

maybe he just has a different method for each kind of criminal. catches thieves like flies, catches arsonists like mosquitoes, catches murderers like those tarantulas catch small vertebrates 

According to the manga, Ridley does have some soft spot for certain cute things. He seems to even be sadly dismissing the thought of taking Samus with him , as being unable (she ran towards Ridley after the explosions, seeing him as an adult alien to go to for guidance.)

Then Samus’s mother showed up screaming for Samus to run and he ate her right in front Samus. So that mood passed quickly, yeah.

(On a side note, Samus’s father sacrificed himself to set Ridley’s spaceship on fire.)

Anyway, those fanworks of him hanging out with Pichu? Completey in character.

great now i’m thinking about Ridley’s parents (are they proud or ashamed of him? Do they even know he’s their son)

planet-bryyo:

I don’t actually have any theories on Ridley’s backstory, and leave it deliberately void in my headcanon-bank because I feel like it’s something that canon might hint at eventually. But if I were to speculate:

  • Ridley’s species, being from a nasty-looking species dragons in a scifi-fantasy-story, are culturally selfish and tend towards being evil. His parents, if alive, might be either proud of his success among the Pirates, or threatened by it.
  • Ridley killed his parents. Legit. What if dragons are just that territorial and see each other as potential threats so they just wipe out anyone who might encroach on their success? Anyone or anything that’s not a dragon doesn’t matter, it’s barely a person as far as dragons are concerned, partially explaining his sadistic nature.
  • Ridley’s species are another member of the Galactic Federation and actually pretty decent as people. A good example of non-humanoid body type species which would be interesting to see more of (imagine major GF worlds like the city in Zootopia where they have to account for all sorts of alien shapes and sizes). They wouldn’t be proud of their psychopathic son who eats people.
  • Ridley isn’t a member of a species, he’s one of a series of experiments put together by the Pirates (or someone else, like the Chozo, but later adopted by the Pirates as an asset) and is therefore either a modified version of a much weaker species, or a totally original creation.

I’m inclined to say if Ridley has parents, they’re either a) just as cruel as him and involved with evil groups too, b) nasty but not involved in anything, staying in their cave on their own, guarding a hoard like dragons do, and he’s that one family member who had bigger ambitions and ran off to join a crime syndicate, or c) they died a long time ago, probably when Ridley was very young, assuming no brood parasitism (or if there was brood parasitism, we’re talking his adoptive not biological parents here) and he got roped into the Pirates because he had nowhere else to go.

I kinda figured Ridley isn’t even the top of the foodchain on his planet, but still one of the scariest and capable of chasing larger predators away from their kills.

His kind would be a horriying combination of the niche of Honey Badgers, Seagulls and birds of prey

honestly one of the funniest examples of brood parasitism is with how some birds don’t even wait for the hosts to leave the nest to lay their egg they just barge right in. it is not out of the question for a really big female dragon to be super bold and just force her way in to drop off her furbaby egg.

planet-bryyo:

ghahfjsad Ridley’s mother drop-kicks her way into the nest, shoves aside the other eggs like she’s dramatically clearing a messy desk and just fuckin drops her egg right there. And then leaves like “your kid now. you didn’t see anything, got it?” to some poor new parent that has no idea whats going on and holy shit was that a real dragon