Funny / Metroid Prime

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In spite of the horrors, funniness ensues.

• A particular space pirate log entry in Prime, which gives clear orders to all soldiers suffering from phazon-related mutations to report to the authorities. Mutations beneficial to combat are rewarded with a raise and bigger food rations.
  • "Science Team has vapor for brains."^ExplanationFrom a Space Pirate log complaining about Science Team's attempts to train Metroids.
  • Metroids are not pets. Metroids are not for target practice.
    • Unauthorized feeding of Metroids is STILL strictly prohibited.
    • This is apparently a big problem for the Pirates: In Echoes, you can scan one Metroid in their base that is moving a bit slower than the others; the scan determines that it ate a pet treat and several Space Pirate rations and has food poisoning.
    • Among the metroid pens is a phazon-laced chamber with three metroids picking at a nearly-dead pirate floating about inside it.
    • One Pirate decided to use a Metroid for target practice anyway.
      Injury Report 07.200.07
      Unit 686 released a Metroid for target practice today: the Metroid then assaulted 686. He should be regaining brain functions in a cycle.
  • Read the Pirate Logs in the Phazon Mines discussing Samus. For further hilarity, in Echoes, they notice Dark Samus, and then they realize that there are two of you.
  • In Prime 3, one of their logs showed just how despairing they were when they found Dark Samus somehow stowed away on one of their ships. It gave us this legendary line:
    "Surely, we are cursed."
  • Read the scan data for the Incinerator Drone. Doing so will reveal that it is primarily a garbage disposal system and has minimal combat programming. In other words, it's attacking Samus because it thinks she's trash.
  • A log in the Phazon Mines talks about trying to capture Samus' ship. Scientists predict that the ship has a cloaking mechanism so advanced, no one will be able to find it unless by dumb luck. In reality, Samus' ship is in plain sight in an open area a couple of rooms away from some aerial pirates, although this fact could potentially be written off as the cloaking device working on everyone but Samus. Even in that case, however, it'd still be difficult to not notice the rain suddenly stopping in midair...
  • A Pirate Log about the Pirates' attempt to replicate the Morph Ball manages to become funny.
    "Aran's Power Suit technology remains a mystery, especially the curious Morph Ball function. All attempts at duplicating it have ended in disaster: four test subjects were horribly broken and twisted when they engaged our Morph Ball prototypes. Science Team wisely decided to move on afterward."
  • The side-to-side scan panels in Save Station D of Phendrana Drifts are rather droll for a group of ruthless pirates.
    "All Holo-technicians report to Main Observatory. Maintenance required on both holomodules."
    "Chief Astrogation Officer feels our current dual holoprojector system is obsolete. Please review and advise."
• Omega Pirate's death. You shoot him, he slumps and collapses on top of Samus.
• After defeating Thardus, Samus appears safe, but then a small rock dings off the back of her helmet. It's OK, he really is dead & she's not hurt, but her body language is of annoyance at the ding. It also helps direct her attention to the Spider Ball powerup now up for grabs.
  • Considering the fact that this particular boss is a sentient mass of rocks, one could interpret the small rock banging on the back of Samus' helmet either as a last desperate attempt to attack her, or as a spiteful "oh, screw you".
• After finally defeating the Chykka, a boss that just keeps getting back up when it seems defeated, scanning the corpse will give you a long list of information about the body's condition that basically amounts, "Yeah, it's down for good now, don't worry."
  Bioscan complete. Target Chykka has been terminated. Lifesigns are at flatline. No regenerative ability in effect. No evidence of symbiotic corpse possession. Resurrection does not appear likely.
• Metroid Prime 1: After the battle with Thardus, as Samus is turning to walk away, a small rock smacks her in the back of the head. (It conveniently makes her turn around and see a brand-new powerup!)
• Go shoot a light beacon with the Annihilator Beam. Watch any Ing in the room gleefully gallop/fly to their death.
• Admit it: At the bottom of the Phazon Mines in I, you got a sadistic chuckle out of unleashing a swarm of Metroids on the Space Pirates.
  • There is also a moment in the Phazon Mines where the player sees a missile-destructible grate on the ceiling. Naturally assuming that there is a powerup stored behind there, the player blows it up... And inadvertently kills the shadow pirate who had been hiding behind it to ambush Samus.
    • Plus, when the enemies respawn you can do it all over again.
• The amazing stupidity of how the Triclops/Mechlops will eat Morph Ball Bombs is considered by many to be amusing. Nearly every instance of the mob AI being Too Dumb to Live could be a CMOF.
  • Admittedly, the idea is that it tries to suck in Morph Ball Samus and the bomb gets sucked in instead. It's still funny to imagine them having an Oh, Crap! moment just before the kaboom...
  • Since they'll grab them if you are out of their range, it makes it seem as if the Triclops are simply too stupid to discern between the Morph Ball and a bomb.
• For some, Meta Ridley's death, in which several Chozo Statues come to life and blast him with Frickin' Laser Beams. Then he falls into the Impact Crater and explodes! The latter is possibly justified by Meta Ridley being a cyborg.
  • There's actually a bit of foreshadowing early on when you find a Chozo Lore entry (Log name: Statuary) that basically says "If you destroy our relics, you'll regret it." During the fight with Meta Ridley, his attacks start destroying statues, so he had it coming.
    Those who respect and honor these relics will know the friendship of the Chozo. Those who deface or destroy them will know our wrath, unfettered and raw.
• Just thinking about what Ridley is and becomes during these games gets funny with its ludicrousness. Before the Prime games he was a Space Dragon in charge of a bunch of Space Pirates. With Prime comes the more pronounced Mad Scientist edge to the Pirates, and Ridley becomes a Cyborg Space Dragon in charge of science pirates. And then in Corruption, he finally becomes a Mutant Radioactive Resurrected Cyborg Dragon Pirate Commander. Think of all that at once.
  • Samus also gets a few dozen CMoAs for STILL BEATING HIM A BUNCH.