liquid is also the villain, no one is going to be as offended with him having lines like that because we were never supposed to like him in the first place. and that personality is consistent, it's not like darth vader suddenly NOllercoasting in RotJ after the millionth edit. if ridley turned out to be a ridiculous emo(imagine that with the slowbeef voice...), it'd be mildly disappointing, but wouldn't cause nearly the same negativity as what they did to samus. though really I've always felt like metroid's strength was in it's minimalism, doing a cutscene driven game was more likely than not to result in a train wreck no matter what they did