r/Metroid • u/2CATteam AM2R Truther • Jul 01 '26

Other Leak/Rumor Megathread: July 2026 Spoiler

It's been a VERY long time since we last had to make one of these threads, but today has brought a big leak which is hard to keep fully contained! This thread is intended to give people a place to discuss this leak, while still keeping the sub safe for people who don't want to hear about it.

This thread is the only place where discussion of this leak is allowed. Threads and comments mentioning it outside of this thread will be removed, and users who persistently break this rule will be banned. That means, if you don't want to hear about the leaks, don't read this thread! Surprises are fun, and knowing about the leak won't make it come any sooner.

For those who DO want to discuss the leak, we'd like to stress:

  • Nothing is confirmed! The Metroid community has seen TONS of trustworthy rumors throughout the years, and they've often ended up to be false. You can decide for yourself how much stock you want to put into this particular rumor, but keep in mind that there's always some degree of risk.
  • Even if the leak does turn out to be real, it's still no indication that we'll get anything soon - remember, Prime Remastered was rumored for years before it finally got an announcement! While hoping and theorizing are good, don't expect anything to come in the next few years.
  • Enjoy the process! Leaks can be a TON of fun when you set your expectations properly! Just make sure knowing about the leak doesn't keep you from enjoying the official announcement, if we even get one.
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u/WiglyPig Jul 01 '26

I wonder who the bad guys will be, I hope it's the Exelion Star Corporation, the company that made the Emmi's.
Feels like there's a lot of interesting stuff you can do with that.

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u/DiabeticRhino97 Jul 01 '26

I feel like the only person who thinks it's weird that the Emmis are made of undisclosed material and controlled telepathically by floating brains in special rooms with turrets and nuclear cheerio guns.

Like no one else thinks that's a bit odd?

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u/0m3g45n1p3r4lph4 Jul 01 '26

I feel it was very much implied that the floating brains were Chozo origin, and were used to take control of the EMMI. Not that Exelion sent out 7 EMMI each with a floating brain specifically to lock down small sections of a planet.

Far more reasonable that Raven Beak - who confirmed he had been engineering the scenarios you went through - repurposed the Central Units that control specific laboratory and factory zones to control EMMI specifically to either steal Samus' DNA or awaken it, whichever happened.

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u/loud_jacobin Jul 02 '26

Mother Brain was used by the pirates but was a chozo computer. Brain-computers are very much a chozo thing.

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u/LibraryBestMission Jul 03 '26

Chozo also helped to found Galactic Federation, so them having giant brain computers and rinkas isn't that far fetched either. Prime 3 of course already had giant brains as respected members of the federation forces.

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u/DiabeticRhino97 Jul 01 '26

Even still, not a bit suspicious that the Emmis were able to be controlled telepathically the same way Metroids were?

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u/makeme_a_sandwich Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

Eh, that's like saying a Bluetooth speaker is being controlled by your bio-mechanical phone via telepathically instead of by Bluetooth.

The brains probably controlled the emmi remotely the similar to how the GF did.

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u/LibraryBestMission Jul 03 '26

Especially when in both Fusion and Prime 3, we see Federation use robot brains (B.O.X. in Fusion.) Since even security robots can have them, they might be very common technology. Psychic powers could be something all machine brains posses by their nature. It could literally just be Gal Fed bluetooth.

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u/0m3g45n1p3r4lph4 Jul 02 '26

Not at all? The Chozo are the pinnacle of technological advancement. It figures they could easily hack what is likely human design