Metroid isn't scary enough

[CaptainExplosion]

Majin-Tenshinhan said:

CaptainExplosion said:

I'd still like scarier monsters in Metroid, especially if Ridley really is dead for good (I don't know if he's in Prime 4).

All Prime games, including 4, take place before Super Metroid happens, so Ridley is most definitely alive and well. 

By the time of Dread, he's dead but has also been cloned twice (Other M, Fusion) so they clearly have no issue using that if they want to bring him back. 

The implication is that when Samus defeats him in Super, he actually did die, though that's never explicitly confirmed to be the case either, as far as I'm aware. It's just that Other M and Fusion, which take place after Super, happened to have clones of him. He could still be alive despite that, I suppose.

He's really good at cheating death, for better or for worse.

And who's to say somewhere someone has Ridley's DNA and ready to clone the sick bastard again?