Forum:Houston Theories

Okay, so here's the theory I've had for a long, long time. It's all Super Metroid, so bear with me.

I think that the NP comic was originally part of some kind of canon, and then was altered to be more friendly to the child reader. There's this guy, Houston, that's in the comic. If you haven't read them, go to the Super Metroid link and follow it to the comic scans. Er, or look here: http://mdb.classicgaming.gamespy.com/sm/comics.htm

Okay, so here's the think. Houston exists. Leave that in your brain. Accept that he followed Samus to the planet, and then tried to sneak around behind her stealing the bounties (for the sake of the argument, we'll leave it at the "space pirate claws"). He decides, she's going too slowly, so he rushes ahead. Maybe he thinks his crappy knock-off suit will beat the pirates, maybe he thinks he's the stealth. Either way, he fails.

Because he's laying in a heap outside of Kraid's room, being eaten by parasites. You can run right past him.

That's the theory I've had since I originally played that game and saw his body laying there, and I tried to figure out who he was.

I was saddened to discover that Hunters comes long before Super, because if it was the other way around, Houston could have been Sylux with a lot of justification. But even still, there's still a dead guy, waiting for someone to see him outside Kraid's little hidey-hole.

Anyone else ever think that way?

KS