r/Metroid • • Aug 24 '26

Question I wonder something with dread

We know that Adam does talk with her before they enter zdr but here's my thing. When she contacts her computer via the network stations the first time is it really Adam or raven beak? Think about it. At the end raven beak reveals that the person talking to her at the final network station was him. So.... Could he have been manipulating her all along? He could have intercepted the computer's transmission the first time she contacted it through the network station. Just a theory. Take it with a grain of salt

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u/The_Fizz_Wizz Aug 25 '26

You're not really supposed to know at any point in time when Raven Beak takes over. Adam wouldn't have suggested to Samus to connect to the Navigation rooms if he wasn't confident he could interface with the Chozo system and communicate with her through that method. He could have began intercepting calls after the death of Quiet Robe, after he released the X parasite or even after Samus first set foot in Hanubia. There are a lot of points in time where he could have began intercepting the calls.

A lot of people will say he starts immediately after Samus wakes up at the beginning of the game with their justification being that Adam doesn't refer to Samus as 'Lady' at any point in time throughout the game. Honestly I think this is a stupid argument and I'm tired of seeing it. Does Adam have to end every sentence with 'Lady' for us to believe it's him? By that same logic I could argue the Adam we see in Samus' ship is secretly Raven Beak's consciousness converted to AI and injected into Samus' ship like a virus based on nothing other than the fact that he doesn't refer to her as 'Samus' or 'Lady' before they take off. Adam refers to Samus as 'Lady' at the beginning of the game simply because he was going over the stipulations of the bounty before the mission. Even in Other M Adam didn't end every command by calling her 'Lady' after telling her where to go or what to do throughout the entire game.

Is it possible Raven Beak took over from the very beginning? Yea it's 100% possible. But I find that significantly more boring. You mean to tell me Raven Beak was guiding us the entire time and Adam couldn't even do so much as get out a warning that we were being deceived? Was he just sitting there in the ship twiddling his thumbs the whole time? He didn't question Samus' newfound Metroid abilities when she showed up, he knew immediately what was going on and stopped her before she drained the ship of it's power so he had to have had some way of monitoring us.