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**Ridley's character trailer tagline in ''Ultimate'', "Ridley Hits the Big Time!", is likely a jab at the aforementioned meme regarding his size. | **Ridley's character trailer tagline in ''Ultimate'', "Ridley Hits the Big Time!", is likely a jab at the aforementioned meme regarding his size. | ||
**In his home series, Ridley was at his smallest in the original NES game ''Metroid'', where his hunched posture makes him only slightly taller than Samus. According to senior localization manager Nate Bihldorff, this was a major inspiration for Masahiro Sakurai when Ridley was scaled down for ''Ultimate''.<ref name=RidleyNES/> | **In his home series, Ridley was at his smallest in the original NES game ''Metroid'', where his hunched posture makes him only slightly taller than Samus. According to senior localization manager Nate Bihldorff, this was a major inspiration for Masahiro Sakurai when Ridley was scaled down for ''Ultimate''.<ref name=RidleyNES/> | ||
*{{for3ds}} is the only game in the series where Ridley makes no appearance whatsoever. | |||
*In ''SSB4'', Ridley is the only non-playable character to have a unique stock icon in the final build of the game. Strangely, the icon derives from his ''Brawl'' design. | *In ''SSB4'', Ridley is the only non-playable character to have a unique stock icon in the final build of the game. Strangely, the icon derives from his ''Brawl'' design. | ||
*In ''Brawl'', Ridley is unable to shoot fireballs as he did as an attack in past ''Metroid'' games, although Meta Ridley is capable of doing so. Ironically, Meta Ridley never had the ability to shoot fireballs, instead possessing the ability to fire a long beam of plasma from his mouth. | *In ''Brawl'', Ridley is unable to shoot fireballs as he did as an attack in past ''Metroid'' games, although Meta Ridley is capable of doing so. Ironically, Meta Ridley never had the ability to shoot fireballs, instead possessing the ability to fire a long beam of plasma from his mouth. | ||