Talk:Yellow liquid

What is this article about?
It's an odd question to ask, but I must ask it because it seems the article has shifted significantly since I created it a couple weeks ago.

I originally wrote this article to document a unique liquid seen in Phase 1 and Phase 9 of Return of Samus, which was distinctly different from water (at least, in the original game) and purple liquid. I named it "yellow liquid" because it has no official name AFAIK, and its direct analogue in the remake Samus Returns is also a uniquely-colored liquid that is visually (but not functionally) different from normal water. Since the same colored liquid appears in the background of Area 6, I also mentioned that as well.

Now, while the Return of Samus side of things is still the same (save for the unexplained removal of Phase 1, which I added back in), the Samus Returns part of the article discusses every single vaguely yellowish or greenish liquid associated with the Metroids. It's true that I did mention a couple of these when I wrote this article, but only in the trivia section (where they are relegated to "interesting to note, but not necessarily that relevant" status). For instance, I did not describe the lime green liquid seen around discarded Metroid husks because that is a notably different hue from the yellow liquid. Now, a lot of this "yellow liquid" article now seems, at best, only tangentially related to the original liquid from Return of Samus.

It's a... different case from Metroid webs. While it's no longer an interactive obstacle in Samus Returns, there is a lot of webbing material in Metroid environments (in the background, on the walls and floors, covering Gamma passageways, etc.) that shows how the concept was significantly expanded upon in the remake. Even then, that article ended up with some other editors adding in speculation and odd links to anything vaguely related to webbing, some of which I ended up removing (such as the greenish liquid covering the first Larva Metroid in the Chozo Memories).

So therefore, I ask... what is this article about? Is it about a unique obstacle in Return of Samus that also appears a couple times in the remake (as a less-functionally unique but still-visually unique liquid)? Or is it a list of every yellow, lime, and green liquid associated with Metroids in the remake, and speculation of how it all may be tied together? --PeabodySam (talk) 15:53, May 13, 2018 (UTC)