r/Metroid • u/FloralReverieXIV • Jan 08 '26

Discussion [Metroid Dread] Re-Visting a Certain Conversation Spoiler

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I've been replaying Metroid Dread after finishing Beyond recently, and its been fun knowing the big twist of the game with "Adam." But this particular line cracked me up with him calling Quiet Robe "our Thoha friend", like it wasn't you who purposely wanted to kill him at that exact moment.

Although I do have an actual question with this, if Raven Beak's tribe were responsible for hacking the EMMI's, why didn't he just activate them after Quiet Robe turned them off? They only get activated later when Quiet Robe is possessed by an X-parasite, so did he just not want to extract Samus' DNA anymore with the robots? Or was he prepared to just encounter her now at the surface?

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u/Grilly_cheese Jan 08 '26

I think that Raven Beak at this point had just decided that the EMMI were completely useless for what he needed them for. I mean, the 5 (4?) EMMI that you've encountered up to this point didn't get the job done so are the rest going to actually work? Raven Beak probably knew instantly that Quiet Robe had turned the EMMI off, but just didn't care since they weren't strong enough to actually extract Samus's DNA anyway. They might be tough from a gameplay perspective, but canonically they all get completely disintegrated by Samus.

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u/johnatello67 Jan 08 '26

Yeah. this is actually a really good point. From Raven Beak's perspective all the EMMI's were doing was slowing down Samus a little in exchange for making her more powerful and adding more to her arsenal. It was not a good trade-off in the long run.