Ridley
Ridley is a fictitious villainous dragon from the Metroid universe. Ridley first made his appearance in the original NES/Famicom disk system Metroid game as a part of the miniboss duo (the other one being Kraid). Ridley is a master of both projectile weapons and melee combat.
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List of appearances:
Metroid
Ridley cannot fly in the first game and only attacks Samus by shooting fireballs.
He made his comeback in Super Metroid where he had apparently learnt to fly and acts more like a henchman of the mastermind Mother Brain and kidnaps the Metroid larva.
Technically Meta Ridley, this incarnation was outfitted with various technological upgrades, making Ridley a cyborg dragon. He had both a 'flying phase' and a 'grounded phase;' flying had him using mostly projectile attacks, and after being grounded due to his force-field wings shorting out, he switched to mostly melee attacks. Ridley was guarding the Chozo temple that kept Metroid Prime/the Worm contained.
In this game, Ridley is kept in sub-zero containment for most of the game, until you witness an X stealing his form later in the adventure. Near the end of the game, you fight Ridley-X, the mimic version of Ridley. It should be noted that this is not the true Ridley, merely a copy of him produced by the parasitic X that stole his DNA. Ridley-X's attack pattern is nearly identical to his Super Metroid incarnation's.
Ridley is part of the boss duo along with Kraid as in the first game although he did inherit some abilities from his appearance in Super Metroid. There is also a robot based on Ridley in this game but it is rather fragile, espcecially when compared to the lifeform it's based on.
Ridley appears as a trophy.
