Editing Meta Ridley

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:''For Ridley's regular form, see [[Ridley]].'' {{forfighter|Ridley|SSBU=y}}

{{Infobox Character General

| image        = [[File:SSBU spirit Meta Ridley.png|250px]]

| games = ''[[Brawl]]'' <br> ''[[Ultimate]]''

|firstgame = ''{{s|metroidwiki|Metroid Prime}}'' (2002)

|lastappearance= ''{{iw|metroidwiki|Metroid Prime Remastered}}'' (2023)

|species= Unknown (cyborg)

| console     = [[Nintendo GameCube]]

| caption      = [[File:MetroidSymbol.svg|50px|class=invert-dark]]<br/>Official artwork of Meta Ridley from ''Metroid Prime''.

'''Meta Ridley''' ({{ja|メタリドリー|Meta Ridorī}}, ''Meta Ridley'') is [[Ridley]] cybernetically-enhanced and reborn through {{s|metroidwiki|Space Pirate}} technology. He is far more fierce and powerful than his organic counterpart.

 

 

 

As with [[Ridley]], many of Meta Ridley's attacks are new in ''Brawl''; however, there are a couple attacks that are retained: In ''Metroid Prime'', one of the attacks that Ridley uses is shooting fireballs at Samus. The fireballs that Meta Ridley shoots in ''Brawl'' are designed similarly to how they are designed in ''Metroid Prime''. In ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', right in the middle of the fight between Samus and Ridley, Meta Ridley will grab Samus and try to perform a powerful attack. One of the attacks involves charging up a fireball and firing it at Samus. In ''Brawl'', Meta Ridley charging and firing his fireball is very similar to how he performed it in ''Metroid Prime 3'', only without grabbing a player while doing it.

===Role in [[The Subspace Emissary]]===

[[File:The_Meta_Ridley_Chase.png|thumb|Meta Ridley as he chases down the Falcon Flyer.]]

After {{SSBB|R.O.B.}}, {{SSBB|Captain Falcon}}, {{SSBB|Donkey Kong}}, {{SSBB|Diddy Kong}}, {{SSBB|Pikachu}}, {{SSBB|Samus}} and {{SSBB|Olimar}} make their way out of [[The Subspace Bomb Factory (Part II)|the doomed]] [[Isle of the Ancients]] via the [[Falcon Flyer]], they are pursued by the resurrected Meta Ridley, who is out for revenge on Samus and Pikachu. As such, he serves as the seventh and penultimate boss.

Meta Ridley's attacks can additionally send the Falcon Flyer reeling about. In this battle, he is attacking the ship as well and the player has two minutes to beat him, similar to the battle in ''Metroid Prime 3''. He has completely different moves from Ridley and the player has to jump whenever he hits the ship or the player could fall. He is later defeated and the massive amounts of Subspace Bombs explode, covering the island in Subspace, taking everything in it, including the remains of Meta Ridley. [[Tabuu]] later revives Meta Ridley in [[The Great Maze]] to attack the heroes (oddly, Ridley and Meta Ridley each appear separately in The Great Maze), but is defeated once again, presumably for good.

 

====As a playable character====

 

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| Mega Fire Ball || {{Button|GCN|A|s=32px}} / {{Button|GCN|A|s=32px}}+{{Button|GCN|D-Pad|D|s=32px}} || Meta Ridley flies from the left, then returns with his eyes glowing a fiery red. This signals that he is about to shoot a massive fireball with huge KO potential, even [[OHKO]]ing on Very Hard (depending on player's position) and Intense at low HP. It will hit anyone on the front of the Flyer, dealing up to 54%. Contact with Meta Ridley's beak will deal less knockback and damage as the fireball itself. This move is rarely used, but because of this, it can be thought of as a surprise attack. When controlled by a human he will instantly shoot the fireball without his eyes glowing.

| Falcon Flyer Slam || {{Button|GCN|A|s=32px}}+{{Button|GCN|D-Pad|L|s=32px}} || Meta Ridley flies off the screen to the left, then attacks the Falcon Flyer, making it shake. Anyone standing on the Flyer will take damage (up to 32%). The left side swings beneath the blast zone, however every part of the attack (Meta Ridley's dive and the slam) launches the player away from the blast zone; this results in it only KOing players with intangibility (such as grabbing the ledge or dodging). It's best to jump as Meta Ridley flies away to evade the attack. When controlled by a human, he can only use this attack once.

| Swoop || {{Button|GCN|A|s=32px}}+{{Button|GCN|D-Pad|R|s=32px}} || Meta Ridley roars, and then quickly swoops over the Falcon Flyer, dealing high damage (up to 23% on the down swing, 47% along the length, 14% at the very end) . Again, jumping proves the best defense. When controlled by a human, he won't roar.

| Claw Sweep || Unusable || Meta Ridley flies off the screen to the left, then sweeps low with his claws. On the higher difficulties it can inflict high damage if all hits chain (even approaching 100%) but it has relatively low knockback.

| Rapid Fire Shot || Unusable || Meta Ridley flies off the screen to the left, roars, and then shoots multiple fireballs. The fireballs are swift but can be reflected, and characters with reflecting abilities can jump up to Meta Ridley's face and bounce several fireballs at him, inflicting heavy damage. Other characters will have to sidestep, air dodge, or hang off the edge of the stage to evade this attack. Each fireball can inflict up to 26% and KO as low as 65% on Intense.

| Falcon Flyer Pull || Unusable || Meta Ridley grabs the back of the Falcon Flyer and tries to drag it down below the blast zone while shooting large fireballs. Meta Ridley pulls the Falcon Flyer down slowly, giving players time to jump to avoid being KOd. The fireballs deal up to 40% or 88% if hit point-blank, with the former able to KO below 50% on Intense and the latter being a one-hit KO on Intense. A strong attack, such as a reflected fireball, will shake him off.

| Falcon Flyer Smash || Unusable || Meta Ridley flies up off screen, then drops and lands on the Falcon Flyer, causing it to move off the bottom of the screen. The player ''must'' jump when he uses this or they will be carried past the bottom blast line. Air dodging during the jump is also recommended, if Meta Ridley hits the player while they are still close to the ship, they can be spiked into it and launched towards the upper blast zone, KOing at low percents. If the player is far enough above the ship and are hit by Meta Ridley, they'll take damage and negligible knockback.

!HP Values!!colspan=3|[[File:EasyDifficulty.png|32px|link=Difficulty|Lowest difficulty]]!!colspan=3|[[File:NormalDifficulty.png|32px|link=Difficulty|Below-middle difficulty]]!!colspan=3|[[File:HardDifficulty.png|32px|link=Difficulty|Middle difficulty]]!!colspan=3|[[File:VeryHardDifficulty.png|32px|link=Difficulty|Above-middle difficulty]]!!colspan=3|[[File:IntenseDifficulty.png|32px|link=Difficulty|Highest difficulty]]

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Like all bosses in ''Brawl'', Meta Ridley gains an additional ×0.6 damage resistance modifier when fought in co-op mode, effectively gaining 67% more health. This modifier is applied whenever the second player is in-game, and is no longer applied if the second player loses all their [[stock]]s.

===Glitches===

* During Meta Ridley's attack where he drags the Falcon Flyer down while shooting fireballs, if he is defeated right when he lets go, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1V8_MZQZQ0 the Falcon Flyer will continuously fall], instead of bouncing back up as normal.

===Trophy===

|image=Meta Ridley - Brawl Trophy.png

|desc-ntsc=The meta form of Ridley, revived using the Space Pirates' genetic engineering and cybernetic technologies. His thin chest plate--and weak point--is protected by a highly resistant membrane. Meta Ridley is highly mobile and features a multimissile system, a bomb launcher, and powerful wings. Ice attacks are particularly effective in dealing damage to him.

|desc-pal=The meta form of Ridley, revived using the Space Pirates' genetic engineering and cybernetic technologies. His thin chest plate--and weak point--is protected by a highly resistant membrane. Meta Ridley is highly mobile and features a multi-missile system, a bomb launcher, and powerful wings. Ice attacks are particularly effective in dealing damage to him.

|gamelist={{Trophy games|console1=GCN|game1=Metroid Prime}}

 

 

Meta Ridley's theme song, ''{{SSB4MusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Meta Ridley}}'', returns unchanged from ''Brawl'' and appears as a song on Pyrosphere.

SSB4 50-Fact Extravaganza Black Ridley.png|Black Ridley in the 50-Fact Extravaganza

Meta Ridley appears as an [[alternate costume]] for {{SSBU|Ridley}}, using his design in the original ''Metroid Prime'' as the basis of his model. Meta Ridley also has a silver and green palette swap as a reference to Mecha Ridley, the final boss of ''Metroid: Zero Mission''.

SSBU spirit Meta Ridley.png|268. '''Meta Ridley'''

[[File:Ridley's cut palettes.png|thumb|The two cut Ridley costumes (top) and the final costumes (bottom).]]

*The music that plays during the Meta Ridley fight is {{SSBBMusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Ridley}} instead of {{SSBBMusicLink|Metroid|Vs. Meta Ridley}}, which plays while the fighters are escaping from the [[Subspace Bomb Factory (Part II)|factory]].

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