We know Weavel fought Samus on Zebes during Zero Mission, which led to him being rebuilt as a cyborg. But the only Space Pirates we see in that game are Kraid, Ridley, Mother Brain... and the Zebesian Space Pirates, who also have a more powerful palette swap.
So the only takeaway is that Weavel was one of these guys; Hunters was released a little over two years after Zero Mission, so I assume the writers should've known that game's lore as well, maybe even read the manga (or skimmed it, IDK if the translation was available around that time, though TBF maybe some knew Japanese).
...Problem is, Weavel is specifically stated to have fought Samus in Brinstar. And Space Pirates don't actually show up in Brinstar, save for in an earlier version of Zero Mission. In terms of lore, we do have the Zero Mission manga, in which the only appearance of Space Pirates in Brinstar fighting Samus is when she lures them into getting attacked by the native Skrees.
Could you fucking imagine if Weavel was one of these dinguses? His battle with Samus is implied to have been something brutal but instead it's just him getting Skree'd. I guess the Skrees must've eaten most of Weavel's body, whichever Space Pirate he is, before he got rescued. Lmao. If we had to choose between these two, I’d say it’s the one on the left; The one on the right looks like his brain is getting blended, which goes against Weavel’s brain being one of the only parts of him left intact. Meanwhile, Lettie seems to be injured between his neck and shoulder, which is more of a feasible survival.
As a complete joke suggestion there’s also Deorem, the only boss in Brinstar. But not only does the manga have Samus refer to it as part of the Zebesian ecosystem, it’d also be really absurd if its brain and spinal cord was proportionally small enough to fit into Weavel’s cybernetic frame. Are we supposed to reconcile these aspects by saying the Space Pirates recruited and promoted local wildlife??? Then again Draygon and Phantoon exist in Super and have statues alongside Kraid and Ridley. What is Metroid lore.
In the end, it's kind of an obvious contradiction that could've easily been avoided by just NOT name-dropping Brinstar. Hunters developer Richard Vorodi did suggest that if Metroid 1 got another remake, he’d have Weavel actually properly show up, but it seems a bit optimistic to assume he would be hired for that game’s development, given it’s a 2D entry.
For now, let's just say that Weavel is a Zebesian. And we also know he was a general, too! There are two variants of Zebesian in Zero Mission; The common red ones, and the elite gray ones vulnerable only to Samus' beam attacks. Given his ranking, I'm inclined to say Weavel is the latter.
Not only that, but I like to HC he's one of the two elite Zebesians you fight at the very end of the game; Literally the last two enemies you ever fight in Zero Mission. They can screw you up at the end of the escape sequence, hitting surprisingly hard and being in a cramped environment. I’ve died a few times to these specific guys, dreading them in playthroughs!
And with the other pirate leaders -Kraid, Ridley, and Mother Brain- out of commission at the moment, I think it makes sense that Weavel is Samus' final opponent, trying to cut her off as the last obstacle (and a decent one) in the path to a completed Zero Mission. In fact, Weavel was probably the guy in charge of the Mother Ship following Mother Brain's destruction, since we know Ridley has been transferred to the Frigate Orpheon in orbit above. With Mecha Ridley mostly just an unthinking weapon, that would make Weavel the game's final, unstated antagonist.
In true poetic fashion, we still wouldn't be able to identify Weavel specifically, because he once again is part of a Space Pirate pair. But that just makes the choice out of these two elite Zebesians specifically feel all the more right to me.
This is a kind-of script, synopsis, for this idea I had: It feels more logical that the Federation would've attempted to send their own saboteurs to Zebes before hiring Samus. Even if she supplied knowledge on Zebes' layout, I think they'd try that first.
This is Samus, so maybe in her selflessness, she insisted on being allowed to try first before handing over that information; She wouldn't want anyone else to die. But I could also see her understanding that the Federation would find this preposterous, because even if she was a former officer, Samus is still one person.
So maybe they tried sending in a more conventional force... And when that disastrously failed, they decided to send Samus in. Because the Space Pirates already know they’re trying, why not? And the first team failing could be a good way to set up how dangerous Zebes is, and necessitate Samus being the one to do it.
But how did this first mission, predating the Zero Mission, go? What do we call it? I've decided on Negative Mission, since anything below Zero is Negative. I also entertained "Negative-1 Mission" but that seemed a bit too silly. So this hypothetical episode, as follows;
Metroid: Negative Mission
It’s a dark room; Three expert pilots are personally debriefed by Admiral Castor Dane. Dane explains that Zebes is a natural fortress, the planet’s surface comprised of mostly barren, thick bed rock. Most life occurs within sprawling cave networks below, carved out millions of years ago by the now-extinct Deorem.
A source has given them valuable intel on Zebes’ internal layout; All of the passageways on the surface leading to the caverns far below. Including one passageway not known by the Space Pirates occupying the planet.
Their mission is simple; To infiltrate Zebes and investigate, and confirm, this hidden entrance. From there, the group will set up a camp, collecting other data as they stay hidden from Space Pirate scouts surveying the planet’s surface. One of them will fly back to the Federation to confirm the mission’s success, before more teams are sent in.
Once the group has amassed enough, they will sneak through Zebes’ caverns using the passageway. Armed with Ice Missiles to destroy any Metroids they come across, the unit’s mission is to assassinate the biomechanical supercomputer known as Mother Brain located deep within Tourian, thereby ending the Space Pirates’ control over the Metroids. It is a dangerous mission, Dane warns them; The pilots confirm they are ready for it, and hope to meet up with the remaining operatives chosen for this heavy task.
Dane also reminds them that their success determines whether or not the rest can follow. It also means they are the first, and only, to die if things go wrong. Unperturbed, the pilots promise the admiral they will face their fates with bravery. Dane seems charmed by their enthusiasm, but as he turns and walks away, has a heavy heart; That’s what they all believe at first, it’s what I thought.
Cut to three Federation stealth crafts flying to Zebes to sneak past the Space Pirate blockade. With stealth fields active, they’re invisible; They tense at the sight of the blockade, but go past all of the large ships and fighters, easy. They relax a bit, having cleared past every ship.
But Pilot A detects something ahead of her craft for a split-second. Something hits the windshield, and slides past; Two seconds later, Pilot A gets readings of her ship’s energy levels suddenly depleting. What she hit was a Metroid, and before it slid off her craft, it managed to latch on with its fangs and is now draining the ship of its energy. Metroids can see right past any cloaking, sensing energy through mysterious means.
Pilots B and C are unable to help as they try to maneuver past the Metroids; Pilot A begins to curse, and Metroids begin lining up in front of the stealth crafts, hoping to snag on. The pilots realize the Metroids are being used as goddamn space mines! Two more latch onto Pilot A’s craft despite her best efforts; Two latch onto B’s, but fortunately one lands on the bottom of his craft, in front of a cannon.
He attempts to shoot it off, to no avail; The Metroid is just out of the way. He strains the turret to the left, shoots again. The shot just barely grazes the Metroid, shaking its gelatinous body. One more shot… There! The force of the blast sends the Metroid careening ahead but out of Pilot B’s flight path as it shrieks, unharmed yet frustrated.
Pilot C narrowly avoids a Metroid, which briefly snags itself by a fang onto the wing, clawing through and disrupting the stealth field slightly; She does a spin and shakes off the angered Metroid.
Meanwhile Pilot A’s losing power fast. The others say to calm down, head for the atmosphere; Air friction during atmospheric entry can be used to pry the Metroids off. Unfortunately for Pilot A, who is beginning to panic, the stealth field has begun to sputter out; And now it has.
The Space Pirate blockade notices a foreign spacecraft, fighters immediately deploy as cruisers direct heavy fire. Pilot A weaves around, unable to make a straight line for Zebes, and begins to panic. The others fret but there’s nothing they can do; Pilot B has to prioritize heading for the atmosphere to get rid of the remaining Metroid, and Pilot C is by no means precise enough to shoot the Metroids off of A without blowing up her ship.
A pleads C to try but it’s too late; Space Pirate fighters have engaged. Pilot A flies around, C curses and deliberates, but with a heavy heart has to keep going as A begs. A’s screen warns her that the engine is losing power fast, as will life support syste-
The AI doesn’t get the chance to finish when everything goes dark. No more power, the Metroids drained it all. Because of inertia, Pilot A’s craft keeps shooting forward at the same speed. One of the fighters contacts a commander; Should we keep them alive, to interrogate? No, dismisses the commander; What could this Federation dog tell us that we don’t already know?
Pilot A squirms and sweats in the speeding quiet of her ship; She hears a scraping, sliding noise as one of the Metroids shifts back into view over the cockpit, its mouth pulsating hungrily. Crying and begging god, she closes her eyes, and Pilot A pulls the manual eject; The cockpit splits open, sending the Metroid flying off with it, just as the Space Pirates fire. The ship doesn’t blow up; Reactor is too dead to explode. It just liquefies into molten metal, sending the other two Metroids flying.
Pilot A whirls around in space, panicking as she tries to regain his bearings. She wails in despair and horror as a Metroid latches onto her face, covering the visor as she sees that same pulsating mouth; It drains him dry, and other Metroids join as she thrashes.
Pilots B and C dive through the atmosphere. B’s Metroid shrieks as it loses its grip, briefly hanging on by a mere fang before it flies off. Pilot B sighs in relief, Pilot C says good job.
Cut to a dark chamber; A bubbling vat as a thing inside begins to pulsate. Electricity arcs between its spines; It hears “Good job” and knows intruders have arrived. Mother Brain overhears Pilot B warning C that his ship’s about to run out of energy.
Cut back to Pilot B as his ship’s engines sputter. With no other choice he pulls the manual eject; His seat shoots out, parachute deploys, as the ship falls to the surface below. Pilot C tells B to send a signal when he lands, so C can pick him up-
Cut back to Mother Brain; A bolt arcs between two spines, and suddenly the transmissions are cut off. Taken aback, B tries to respond, but hears nothing from C. C doesn’t hear anything from B, and tries to reach out, nothing. She curses; Atmospheric interference? She has no choice but to land far below, Pilot B watches despairingly.
He waits, floating from his parachute, just the sound of it billowing in the wind. Pilot B slows his breaths, trying to calm down from his previously racing heart. His seat has built-in thrusters, but it’s best to save that energy, you never know what might happen.
He hears something above; A dreaded cry. A Metroid. He looks up but all he can see is the parachute obscuring whatever’s directly above; There’s no way, he murmurs. How did it follow him so fast? Pilot B begins to breathe fast and heavy again, and decides screw it. He clumsily, hastily reaches for his blaster.
B shoots one of the tethers; This unbalances the parachute, causing him to fall fast and lurch around, spinning. He tries to stay calm, focus, shoot the other tethers. This makes the descent more and more chaotic. One more left, and then four fangs suddenly protrude from the other side of the parachute; The Metroid!
B severs the final tether and drops, fast. The parachute unfurls, wrapping around the distressed Metroid as it cries out. The seat’s backup thrusters fire, righting Pilot B as his descent continues, still quickly. A meter shows fuel running out fast. He looks up uncertainly; The tangled-up Metroid is becoming smaller in the distance.
Cut back to Pilot C, who lands near a cliff that blends in with the rest of the surface from above. She gets out, deploying the stealth hovercraft. Ice Missiles, check; Regular Missiles, also check! As Pilot C drags things out, she steps on the ground. Deep below, something feels it, like a heartbeat.
C has everything, she’s suited up and geared. She tries again to contact Pilot B, to no avail. Pilot C ducks as Space Pirate fighters fly overhead; They don’t see her, the stealth field is still working. She still waits a bit, and finally breathes. Pilot C gets into the craft, one more step pushing her onto it, and then drives off.
Pilot B is almost about to land when the thrusters burn out; His seat drops the last foot or so, landing harshly on the side as he grunts, taking a moment to simmer in the pain. B rapidly gets out, armed with only his blaster. He looks around frantically above; No Metroid. He ducks under some Zebesian foliage, and tries to contact C, estimating some coordinates; Mother Brain is listening. With no response, B growls and stays where he is.
Suddenly he hears a noise, snaps toward it with weapon ready. It’s some small creature; Seems harmless(?) enough but you can never be too sure. Shakily, B tells it to back off, but it simply regards him with curiosity as it hops forward. B is obviously not ready to shoot this thing, maybe it’s just a cute thing…? He’s not sure, he gets more scared as it gets closer, starts to sniff. He tries to nudge it aside with her foot, comes across more like a kick.
The creature jabs, piercing Pilot B’s foot. He screams, hopping around on the other as he shakes his foot, the creature screeching furiously as it digs into the flesh. He tries to hit it against a rock, and in a panic, attempts to shoot the thing off.
He shoots off the creature, AND a chunk of his foot. Pilot B screams even louder, and now he’s on his back, crying and sobbing, pleading to god or whichever, writhing on the dusty, rocky surface of Zebes, clutching his leg as the foot boils and smokes.
Cut back to Pilot C, scanning the horizon; She’s displeased that there’s dust across this otherwise solid, rocky terrain. It’s creating a track; One the fighters overhead would obviously miss. But Aerotrooper patrols would go a lot slower and closer, and have a keener eye to pick up on it. Pilot C makes one more attempt towards B, as we see her first-person perspective-
BAM! Deorem bursts out of the ground, roaring, its mouth opening briefly. It’s like a flash, the hovercraft is rendered into shards of electricity and metal and a bit of fire as Deorem re-enters the ground. Its body loops through, spikes shifting along its sides.
Pilot B is delirious. The sun is in his eyes, he can barely see through his visor. There’s a horrible taste in his mouth. As he comes back to, he wonders where it all went wrong. Regressing, he mutters mama…?
And then he hears it, again; Why, why again?! That dreaded Metroid cry. His eyes snap open, he leans forward, the glare is out of his visor and he sees it up ahead; The damned Metroid. And it’s locked towards him, descending fast.
Pilot B regurgitates a noise of fear as adrenaline kicks in. He spins around, sending dust flying as he tries to run away but falls, screaming and cursing from his burnt-off foot. He starts crawling away, scraping along the dust. He looks back, shoots at the Metroid with his blaster but the shots bounce uselessly off of its indestructible body. B refocuses on getting away, spotting a crevice; Without thinking, he crawls through.
To his luck, Pilot B finds himself atop a cliff overlooking a larger, lush cavern below. He looks behind; There’s some sort of blue-green color, a mass, growing there? Oh god; It’s the Metroid, squeezing through with its flexible body. B tries shooting in panic, but the shots bounce off uselessly, rippling across the Metroid’s body. He desperately tries to push the Metroid back through the crevice, straining to halt its progress, but it easily pops its body out the other end.
Pilot B is knocked over by this, sliding down a hill past lots of alien foliage into some dark undergrowth. As he groans, Pilot B crawls beneath the cover of the flora, unthinking.
Cut back to the Metroid, following above. The foliage doesn’t rustle, thankfully not giving B’s position away. But it doesn’t matter; It tracks him perfectly, undeterred, like there’s some invisible connection pulling the Metroid to Pilot B. Cut back to Pilot B laying low somewhere beneath the foliage, so utterly terrified, teeth and eyes clenched, hoping and wishing to god the Metroid doesn’t find him as sweat beads roll down his face. He’s too slow and tired, and hopes to hide instead of fleeing.
As if all that foliage is invisible, Metroid lunges straight for Pilot B, fangs open. It latches onto him, a giant leaf wrapped around Pilot B as he struggles and thrashes, just like the Metroid previously wrapped up in his parachute. We don’t see all of him, just glimpses of the limbs, the burnt-off foot, as Pilot B screams. The Metroid hovers into the air, effortlessly carrying B’s body within its maw as he hangs. The leaf goes dark and brittle; Pilot B stops thrashing, his legs beneath the armor frail now. Some of the armor slips off.
Dissatisfied, the Metroid shakes Pilot B’s body like a dog with a chew toy, or a dead animal, wondering it’s got any more life to it. Nope, nothing; The Metroid squeezes it one last time in the hopes of something more, and then tosses aside the corpse. The leaf disintegrates mid-throw as B’s body lands, and we get a shot of it close-up as it comes to a halt, dust sifting through the gaps in the armor, bones cracking and the body so, so thin.
Mother Brain knows, she has sensed both deaths. In orbit, the Space Pirate commander is asking his soldiers if they’ve sighted anymore intruders. Suddenly, Mother’s voice interrupts the transmission; Sweetly talking, she explains there are three. Two have died on the surface of Zebes, and the commander happily confirms that with the third in space, they’ve dealt with the situation.
In a condescending tone, Mother Brain admonishes the commander lightly, as if speaking to a child; Now, now, this is still not something to be proud about. Those intruders shouldn’t have gone this far to begin with; And now one of her children is stuck on the surface, someone needs to give them a ride back into orbit! Whose fault is that? She leads the poor commander with some demeaning questions.
With an unenthusiastic face, the commander apologizes to Mother. Mother Brain insists to him that they need to keep home nice and tidy; They can’t allow pests inside. Begrudgingly, the commander bows and confirms, Yes Mother, my apologies. Don’t be sorry, just be better, Mother happily reminds. She shuts off the screen. The commander has an awful face; He’d love to curse Mother Brain under his breath and kick something. But this is Mother; She’s always listening, they say. She will turn around and ask him to repeat that. The commander is reminded of his own frustrating mother. A bad taste is in his mouth.
Back on Daiban, no response from the saboteurs for a week now. The Federation generals in the meeting agree; It’s a bust. Dane quietly closes his eyes, exhaling; He had a feeling this would happen, it’s why the first three were just pilots selected by him and not elite soldiers, who would’ve been picked by General Alex Miles. Dane was not yet sure if he could risk ground troops until he knew it was possible to get them to Zebes’ caverns. The guilt is weighing on his shoulders, he sent these pilots in as test subjects, expendable guinea pigs.
Commander Adam Malkovich reluctantly suggests that they take into account their source’s suggestion; That she be the one to infiltrate Zebes for them, and assassinate Mother Brain. At the very least, the Federation doesn’t want to lose any more of their own, do they? Miles gets semantic, pointing out this ‘source’ was a Federation officer herself; Technically they’d still be losing one of their own if she fails, contrary to what she suggests.
But yes, Miles backs Adam, and the others begin to agree with this spark. So does Dane, taking responsibility for his initial skepticism towards the source’s capabilities; It is time to hire Samus Aran.
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