Ridley?

[DemonFiren]

Maybe he hates her so much he needs to rape her REAL GOOD for compensation. That would be fine by me. Mind-breaking to consensual of course, his first and only victory.

[toddymon]

i think what we need is TROGDOR THE BURNINATOR!! hes way better

[trunks2585]

If you really want to go with the 'why bring him back, he can't beat Samus' NO ONE CAN BEAT SAMUS! HER OWN DARK EVIL VERSIONS CAN'T TAKE HER DOWN. Shit SA-X had better weapons and armor, all the same movements and abilities and that STILL wasn't enough. Hell nothing short of barriers or a giant pile of rocks can stop her....oh wait http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w-baM_N1X0

Bottom line, arguing Ridley is ineffective is pointless, because everything is ineffective, the question is who gives Samus the hardest time before she kills them? Also Ridley is one of their leaders, he's one of the smarter ones out of them all and the pirates have a hive mentality, they know Ridley can lead them. I hope that has explained enough why he keeps getting brought back.

[toddymon]

he dont seem to smart. and if i remember correctly there werent any space pirates in metroid fusion.

[trunks2585]

eh...technically there wasn't, we had some kinda frozen ridley that an x got DNA from to become ridley-x and the other space pirates that you did run into on occasion were also just X parasites, everything was basically X parasites.

[DemonFiren]

Hm. I know what could beat Samus. But for that we need Ganon with all three Triforce parts, General Scales with that SpellStone crud and Bowser with the Star Rod of Wishes.

[toddymon]

nah. i think that kirby would do the trick. or oni link.
to beat a badass you need another badass so. hey, snake is pretty badass!

[Valithan]

I like the colab-villain effort there. Add alittle more to it, and we can get the nintendo villain Voltron! Add in something from Metroid and Andross can be the head. Oh, and instead of having the "blazing sword," it can be Smithy.

[DemonFiren]

Andross as head? No, the Ancient Minister.

Hm. Puzzle: How to get the good guys' girls (or the female heroes)?
Scales somehow always has Krystal by default. Then Fox came along.
Bowser kidnaps Peach, but Mario rescues her every time.
Ridley...no comment. Samus pwns him.
Ganon obtained the Triforce of Power and got Wisdom by screwing Zelda. Good. Now it's all about blowing Link to pieces.
How do we have to combine these to make everyone happy (at least every evil one)?

[toddymon]

i just got my sketch of ridley 65 percent done. all i need to do is add his other wing and put some details on him. and probably redraft him a couple times

[SteelSaurus]

Hope i'm not over stepping or stepping on anyone's toes, but I had a bit of some free time today, so I thought I'd toss in some ridley art. The first one is my rendition/contribution and the second is doing my best to consolidate the pieces from shedra's sketches and ink it.

Beautiful. Once I get my dorm set up, vectoring in full shall begin.

[Thaedael]

Valithan I really like the sketches. If you guys wait until I get my laptop up and running again I can rip you the sprites from super meroid so you have an idea how the different sections were animated etc. My only criticism is the pecks on him, looks almost like breast, then again a female ridley could be... nah keep it male.

[Valithan]

yea, its a bit of a clunky angle for me, but I think if I tone down the size/radius of the pex, and maybe even erase part of the line, so its more of a single chest plate and not separate pectoral plates then it'd reduce the appearance of looking like boobs. I'll see about tinkering with that when I get home tonight.

[SteelSaurus]

Val, I'm jumping the gun a little mostly because I wanted to see a completed Ridley. So here's a little vectoring. I had made it this far when I saw you were doing a little reworking.

[Valithan]

its only minor adjustments you could probably make in the vector. If you shade over the middle of the pectorals like you did with the bicep/tricep division then that'd should diffuse the ridley having breasts look. Other than that, I might've trimmed the ... beak (for lack of better word I guess) down a bit. But since you'd already started on that, feel free to keep going and take any creative liberties (its just a concept sketched after all) or lemme know if you'd like some sketched up alternate parts to slap on their instead.

[SteelSaurus]

It's actually really good over all. I'm playing around with different types of heads and I'm a little biased towards Shedra's Ridley hand. Would it be possible for you to sketch just the torso for me? (The arm is getting in the way).

[Valithan]

Torso pic attached. I also like the hands Sheedra drew, esp for this sort of project — they seem a lot more grabby.

Lemme know if there's anything else I can assist with.

[OwnerOfSuccuby]

Val, I'm jumping the gun a little mostly because I wanted to see a completed Ridley. So here's a little vectoring. I had made it this far when I saw you were doing a little reworking.

Omg. It is cool.

[SteelSaurus]

Alright, here's my Ridley so far. Now for the life of me I can't figure out what went wrong with his dick. It's the same angle as all the others, but why does it not sync with the torso?

[Valithan]

looks really awesome so far Steel. The sync isn't working because all the other toons aren't squatting and leaning forward like ridley. In that position, your pelvis is going to rotate downward, so that position of his dick is be close to parallel with the ground.