I Learned Something Disturbing · 9:44pm Aug 28th, 2021
So, I explore the Wiki Metroid for the story, I learn some stuff about this universe, everything is okay in the world...
Then, I enter the page talking about the Crocomire.
For the ones who don't know, or don't remember, Crocomire is this thing:
I already knew about him. I saw his fight, and his gruesome death, at least ten times. I know it by heart. The guy is totally invincible, and the only way to kill him is to fire at his mouth when he opens it to make him step back. Once he steps back enough, he reaches a weakened part of the bridge that crumbles under his weight, making him fall in the superheated lava below. He melts until only his bones remain and the fight seems over. But then, when you reach a wall of spikes, his skeleton bursts out from behind the wall for a seemingly last ditch assault only to fall in pieces.
Already pretty disturbing. Traumatised millions of players.
But what I learned in the wiki makes this whole fight even more disturbing.
So. The Crocomire is a failed Space Pirate experiment that they dumped in Norfair. So far, that's okay. Failed experiments are nothing new. But then I read that the Crocomire is actually NOT hostile.
Yeah. Apparently, he doesn't attack Samus until she attacks him first. The guy was just sitting in his den living his life until Samus comes and begins to blast him because he looks hostile. It's verified, this really happens in the game. Don't attack him, and he does nothing against Samus. He just looks at her like a curious puppy and does his little roars.
Beside the Etecoons and the Dachora, the Crocomire was probably the only creature in all of Zebes that didn't want Samus' death. And he gets in return one of the most terrible death in Nintendo's history, just because he is mistakenly taken for an enemy because of his monstrous appearance.
That's fucked up! 
If I ever do an arc in Zebes, I will have to do something about it. That poor creature doesn't deserve such a horrible fate.
Not like it would change much in the end considering that Zebes blows up... 
Even if Samus wanted to spare it, I don't think she would be able to. Boss enemies usually block her path to the next section, which means she would have to maneuver around it. And it doesn't look like there is enough room for Samus to climb over it, or for it to move out of the way for her.
In other words, the only way for Samus to complete her mission would be to kill an innocent failed experiment...
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That's the thing, the exit is actually at the left, not at the right (we reach this room from a door in the ceiling). But a wall of spikes blocks the way, and the only way to destroy this wall is to make the Crocomire take a lava bath leading to his skeleton opening the path. Of course, Samus has no way to know that this would be the outcome of this fight, so in the universe of the game she really attacks him only because he looks threatening.
Samus is an asshole!
Maybe Sweetie could make Crocomire into a pet? There have been weirder ones.
Maybe sweetie could save it and take it as a pet ( although that depends on if it’s sentient or not because I have only heard of Metroid and any actual knowledge has come from you so…)
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This could be possible. I don't know if it's sapient or not however, it's said nowhere. I guess it's up to us to decide.
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I mean if she befriend it she could ask if it could break the wall. I mean if it could break the wall when just a skeleton then it could break it normally.
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She could, if the Crocomire can understand.
...Oh...sh*t....
man, Here I was thinking it was a cruel death even for a hostile monster...
but...it wasn't even hostile.
that's really sad.