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Something I've been wondering - was Quiet Robe's final act a means of giving Samus some semblance of control over her Metroid abilities, or was this Sakamoto's way of putting Samus back to normal and keeping this plot point as a one-off? I don't think we can really tell from what we were given in the game; we'll have to wait for an interview or quite possibly the next game (hopefully sooner rather than later!).
Hell, maybe he hasn't decided himself yet and kept it vague so he could decide later.
So why does Quiet Robe-X do this, only to sacrifice itself for Samus later? Is it working against her or not?
Hell, maybe he hasn't decided himself yet and kept it vague so he could decide later.
I wouldn't have minded this - if it was all we saw Quiet Robe-X do. But taken in conjunction with him reactivating the E.M.M.I., I don't like it, even if he was echoing his final words to Samus as he did so. Why was he acting against her then, but not at the end? It doesn't make sense.It's nonsense, and the whole game is full of this nonsense, right up to the very last moment when Quiet Robe is somehow able to act as himself despite being an X - something that nothing in the series has ever suggested is possible.
On one hand, I agree with these points. But again, reactivating the E.M.M.I goes against this. What would drive him to do so? All they're doing is hunting Samus. That moment struck me as the X continuing to fear Samus, as they had previously in Fusion - where they also demonstrated remarkable cunning and an almost hive-mind like level of coordination. It wouldn't surprise me to see the X collectively try to eliminate the only real threat to them by activating the E.M.M.I.Now that's something I disagree with. Samus does ponder whether the X are capable of rational thought in the fusion briefly, but discards the idea because she's gonna kill them all anyway.
The X are however, absolutely capable of sentience if they've infected a host that had that similar level of intelligence. First, the SA-X understanding and sacrificing itself at the end of fusion to give Samus the ice beam in order to defeat a omega Metroid shows they do have a quite high level of intelligence, though at the time, you could have maybe argued that's self preservation more than anything.
During the story, it's a big point that the way that the X infiltrated ZDR in the first place is that one of the soldiers were replaced with an X clone and they got in that way. If they were immediately violent and/or incapable of following the behaviour of their host to a significant degree, that wouldn't have worked.
Indeed, that the X forms of all the wildlife replicate their original behaviours so thoroughly suggests that's the case for them infecting most creatures. We just never really see many infected creatures that have any reason to be anything but extremely hostile to samus. The particularly intelligent ones we know of, like Kraid, Ridley, Samus Aran-X were m mostly hostile to her in the first place. Samus Aran X is literally a clone of a person who often explodes entire planets in order to wipe out whole species that are a danger to her, after all.
Quiet robe is probably the only person shown infected on screen that would try and search for something other than violence as a situations immediate solution, so it's not that surprising that they behave differently to everyone else shown infected.
So why does Quiet Robe-X do this, only to sacrifice itself for Samus later? Is it working against her or not?