Franchise: Metroid
Famicom Mini Collection
Metroid: Zero Mission
Metroid: Other M
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Metroid II: Return of Samus DX
Metroid Prime Hunters
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition
New Play Control! Metroid Prime
Nintendo Land
Metroid Fusion
Super Smash Bros. Melee
Super Metroid
Metroid Prime
Metroid Prime: Federation Force
Metroid Prime: Trilogy
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Metroid Dread
New Play Control! Metroid Prime 2: Dark Echoes
Super Smash Bros.
NES Remix 2
Ultimate NES Remix
Metroid
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
Metroid Dread
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
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In an interview, Metroid character designer Hiroji Kiyotake said that the name "Metroid" came from combining the words "android" and "metro subway."
"There was one more staff member, and the two of us decided on it. We attached 'android' to the "metro subway" and that's how we got 'Metroid'."
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According to Hiroji Kiyotake, the Metroid's home planet, SR388, was named after a popular Yamaha SR 400 Series Motorcycle engine."...while it was called 400cc, you didn't have any choice but 388cc, but it was written like that for the time being, and that's how it came out!"
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Samus' Morph Ball exists only because Nintendo's programmers couldn't animate Samus getting on all fours and crawling through tight spots.
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According to some concept art posted online, Next Level Games were working on a prototype game for the Metroid series but abandoned the idea when they were put to work on Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon.
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There were plans to make a Metriod game for the Nintendo 64, however the series co-creator, Yoshio Sakamoto, said that he was unable to find a way to control Samus, and when he gave an unknown company the right to make the game, they turned it down thinking it wouldn't live up to Super Metroid.
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The Varia Suit upgrade is actually a mistranslation from Japanese. It was supposed to be "Barrier" Suit, but since Barrier is written roughly as Baria (バリア) in Japanese, the translators mistakenly wrote it as Varia instead, and the name stuck.