Editing Meta Ridley

| 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.

Meta Ridley returns in ''{{iw|metroidwiki|Metroid Prime 3: Corruption}}''. When the Space Pirates attack {{iw|metroidwiki|Norion}}, Samus sees Ridley wipe out several Galactic Federation Marines. He briefly harasses her as she goes through an exposed rail while in Morph Ball form. When she goes to activate a reactor, Meta Ridley pounces her and they begin a free fall battle down the reactor shaft. Again, Meta Ridley is defeated and Samus is saved at the last minute by fellow bounty hunter {{iw|metroidwiki|Rundas}}. Ridley, however, still survives. When Samus goes to the {{iw|metroidwiki|Pirate Homeworld}} to destroy the [[metroidwiki:Leviathan|Leviathan Seed]], a large living meteor that corrupts planets with {{iw|metroidwiki|Phazon}}, she finds that Ridley is guarding the core.  He is now enhanced by Phazon and appears as {{iw|metroidwiki|Omega Ridley}}, but is defeated nonetheless. In ''Metroid: Samus Returns'', Ridley is in a new form called "Proteus Ridley", a transitional state between his Meta and organic forms. He ambushes Samus on SR388 in an attempt to steal the last Metroid, though fails and is defeated again. By the events of ''[[Super Metroid]]'', he has fully regenerated to his organic form.

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.

[[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.