-when she had previously seen everything on sr388 as a threat that will kill her if she doesn't kill it first. and i think from there you can kinda explore the ramifications of the chozo's warrior training thing and its effects on her. this was supposed to be a whole other tangent i think but w/e

i hadn't thought about that angle before but it makes a lot of sense

sparing the baby metroid is definitely something you can point to re: her moral compass but i kinda interpret that as more of a moment of clarity from being confronted with something that isn't hostile to her-

bean and bark

11. The Choir.

i think the most bizarre thing about it is that even if this is a "american audiences won't take to japanese names" thing, there are some rivals they still gave japanese names (e.g. red devil/raito miyakawa) but they're *different* japanese names from the original (changed to kazuo tanaka) ???