Feature: Alien Vs. Metroid

Metroid vs Alien

A Comparison

by TJ Rappel

Many astute Metroid players who are also fans of sci-fi/horror films
have noticed a number of similarities between the Metroid game series
and the Alien movie series — so many that it’s entirely possible that
the concept for Metroid was directly inspired by the Alien films. Here,
then, is a breakdown of some of the more obvious similarities between
the two franchises.

Metroid Alien
  • Sci-fi story featuring tough woman as a main character.
  • Antagonists are gooey creatures that like to attach themselves to your head.
  • Features a miniboss named Ridley.
  • Ending sequence involves her escaping by the skin of her teeth from a complex that’s about to self-destruct.
  • Female lead ends up scantily clad near end of game (if you play your cards right).
  • Sci-fi story featuring tough woman as a main character.
  • Features gooey creatures that like to attach themselves to your face.
  • Directed by Ridley Scott.
  • Ending sequence involves her escaping by the skin of her teeth from a complex that’s about to self-destruct.
  • Female lead ends up scantily clad near end of film.
Metroid II: Return of Samus Aliens
  • Involves going to the source of more of the alien menace, Planet SR-388.
  • Plot is a hunt for all the alien creatures you can find and kill.
  • Final battle with the Queen Metroid.
  • Metroids hatch out of slimy eggs fused to the floor by their own filth.
  • Once again, female lead winds up scantily clad near end of game.
  • Involves going to the source of more of the alien menace, Planet LV-426.
  • Plot is a hunt for all the alien creatures the Space Marines can find and kill.
  • Final battle with the Queen Alien.
  • Facehuggers hatch out of slimy eggs fused to the floor by their own filth.
  • Once again, female lead ends up scantily clad near end of film.
Super Metroid Alien3
  • Displayed a bond between female lead character and alien.
  • Metroid sacrifices itself at the end.
  • Displayed a bond between female lead character and alien.
  • Ripley sacrifices herself at the end.
Metroid Fusion Alien Resurrection
  • Samus is fused together with a Metroid.
  • Ripley’s DNA was fused together with xenomorphs, resulting in Ripley clone.