The History of the Chozo - What you need to know before Metroid Dread and Prime 4

[@videodvd]

4:23 You didn't mention why Mother Brain was created. Because the Chozo could no longer reproduce themselves and fearing extinction, they made Mother Brain so it could hold all the data and knowlegde the Chozo got through the universe, similiar to the Aurora Units in Prime 3 and the Central Units in Dread. After all, they were modeled based on the original Mother Brain.

[@NinWRTV]

Maybe we will follow this up with a Mother Brain deep dive. Script was already real long so I didn't go as deep into Mother Brain specifics.

[@hector4470]

@@NinWRTV That would be great!

[@mirroredguitarist]

You can't please everyone haha

[@theoversphere7023]

@@NinWRTV man thank you so much my guy can you please also cover more of Metroid prime like space pirates and the planet tallon iv . you did a great job covering things in this video so i can only imagine how good you'll do again in the next lore. subbed

[@eonamiella2124]

Something of note regarding the potential canonicity of the manga. The childhood memories in Zero Mission, the chozo depicted as well as the art style look strikingly similar to the manga, and Zero Mission is canon. Ive never seen anyone comment on this

[@theakiwar9118]

Additionally beings that thrived on Zebes that were never seen before in the manga, ended up becoming Bosses in Zero Mission (Imago, and the worm thingy). I think the manga is semi-canon.

[@cesarswc13]

@@theakiwar9118 I am pretty certain that Nintendo has already come out and said that the Manga is canon

[@friendguy13]

Samus actually isn't a sci-fi name. Samus is the female version of Seamus which is the Irish equivalent to James.

[@JustJulyo]

As a Metroid bandwagonner this was a good refresher

[@thereisnotryv1971]

Have you already played the first 4 games?

[@JustJulyo]

@@thereisnotryv1971 nope, only Metroid Returns, haven't even finished it

[@thereisnotryv1971]

@@JustJulyo oh man. If you plan on it, the other games are all fantastic

[@TheAccursedHunter01]

I really liked the off camera pans of Chozo iconography.

[@g.f.martianshipyards9328]

11:07 I wonder where in the Chozo Ruins that statue is. I'm currently replaying Metroid Prime, but I've never seen this and no idea where it could be.

[@johnrairdin1890]

@@g.f.martianshipyards9328 Multiplayer map from Echoes :)

[@g.f.martianshipyards9328]

@@johnrairdin1890 Thanks! Now I wish that I had an extra wiimote and nunchuck lying around...

[@marche800]

I mean not for not, the Chozo did try to be a positive influence on the universe they just constantly got screwed over everywhere they go.

[@diamondmetal3062]

I have a little headcanon that the reason the X parasites are called as such is because it’s quite simply not a name. It’s supposed to represent that they are a nameless horror to the Chozo, more of a malevolent Lovecraftian force than any normal organism. They may as well have been called the Faceless Blight, or other suitably Lovecraftian names.

[@KaironQD]

Never meet your sentient bird alien heroes.

[@Rivalseeker]

I have a hunch that Chozo in the Metroid Dread trailer is actually an X-Parasite. Those things have proven nigh impossible to contain. Additionally, my mind goes back to when, in Metroid Fusion, Adam suggested to Samus that the X-Parasites were trying to blow up the BSL's main boiler on purpose because Samus was a "threat to X elsewhere".

[@marche800]

I mean while thart might be the case the recent Dread report basically confirms that the Chozo aren't extinct and there are some still around they're just very reclusive, so this could be a real chozo, additionally the X-parasite mention could just be a ruse to attract samus and the federation to the planet.

[@Rivalseeker]

@@marche800 Yeah, I saw the most recent update on the site too. And while I do believe the Chozo aren't entirely extinct, I'm still suspicious that Dread's synopsis is placing a lot of emphasis on the X-Parasites. To respond to your theory, since the Chozo are highly intelligent, I don't think non-infected renegade Chozo on ZDR would risk sending a video to the Galactic Federation willingly. Surely they would consider that their base of operations would be discovered by a galaxy-wide authority made up of many races, and who knows what the consequences would be for the ZDR Chozo? Feel free to reply to me if I missed something. :)

[@jman518192]

The best thing about Metroid is that my powerful female character is canonically part human, part bird, part Metroid, and part parasite and all badass 😂

[@TiziOssidiano]

"They R birds. They created dangerous stuff."

[@RepublicTrooper125]

Heeeeee’s BAAAAAAAAACK!

[@av3nger3]

I think the Chozo in the trailers is benign...but that's me. I interpret the hand-on-chest the Chozo does in Dread report iv as an emotional brace for the memories it has. One clue is the closeup of a dead Chozo that looks just like it in the vol iv trailer.

[@metroidfannumber1234]

i love those chozo towers at 11:20

[@tonyjackson4078]

The biggest thing is Metroid aren't inherently evil, they feed like c4azy but can develop actual sentience like the Metroid that bonded with Samus. Just saying the species aren't just planet devourers.

[@novustalks7525]

I really hope we see the yilla and nkren in prime 4. They've been teased in prime 2 and prime 3 as having connections to the chozo and luminoth

[@millerdiamond708]

evil chozo are like the protoss faction know as tal'darim they both love killing for fun

[@Dissius]

For whatever reason I thought most Chozo were kinda space-hippie spirituals. That most had 'ascended' to be energy or something. Then again I hadn't touched Metroid since the Prime games.

[@Anu_Sol]

Hell yeah Chozos kick ass

[@TheLastZonai]

Yeeeehhh! Love Metroid

[@ShinesparkDiscoKing]

man, im glad someone said something about her parent's basic names lmao!

[@jman518192]

It must be so strange for non Metroid fans that Metroid fans are losing their minds over a bird man 😆

[@militantpacifist4087]

69th like.