What Nintendo properties do you think would work well as a western cartoon? How would you make them?

What Nintendo properties do you think would work well as a western cartoon? How would you make them?

Metroid

Bounty hunter and outlaw Samus Aran is arrested by the Galactic Federation and pressed into volunteering for a dangerous mission in return for a pardon. She's teamed up with a ragtag team of GF troopers who set off to investigate an attack on a Federation science facility. Along the way we're introduced to all the usual Metroid fodder - the space pirates, Ridley, Mother Brain, etc. The series becomes sort of like the animated Green Lantern series, with the team investigating and fighting various threats to the galaxy, as we learn more about their respective backstories and Samus grows to respect and open up to her team.

What a terrible idea.

Come up with a better one

Wario land

Why not just adapt the games straight up instead of the "arrested and pressed into volunteering for a pardon" and the "ragtag team of troopers" shit? It doesn't need to be that complex, the basic plot of the series would work wonderfully for a Samurai Jack-esque episodic adventure series with plot-lite throughout.

Remake Samurai Jack, but with Samus.
Monster of the week type situations where she's is exploring a new planet/environment while also looking for bounty targets, usually Space Pirates. She is usually racing the clock against other Hunters, and will sometimes end up working with them to complete the goal, or try to sabotage them so that she can get the win.
GFed occasionally calls her in to lead some teams to find out what happened to Colonies or Research Vessels, but never forced into it. She does it because she hates the pirates.
This lets them make more Space Pirate Captains, more general bad guys, and more Hunters that Samus can interact with in an easy to tell format.

less is more, doesnt need to be deep shit dude. metroid's not the most complex series out there

Because its harder to tell a story with a silent protagonist. Even Samurai Jack had people to talk to.

A straight adaptation of the games means Samus has no reason to speak, and thus a very limited window into her character.

>It's a "Sup Forums tries to circumvent the rules to talk about bidya" thread

Metroid would be a shitty cartoon. Isolation and exploration are fun concepts to play, but not to watch.

>inb4 people scream "muh Samurai Jack"

Episodes where he is totally alone with nobody to play off of are very rare in the series, and they work because the other episodes have characters for Jack to interact with. Samus doesn't. You want an actually good Nintendo property to turn into an animated series? Pic related

>that line spacing
You have to go back.

Its call formatting for readability. Its older than google.

He's just a faggot shitposter, ignore him.

Because as much fun as the games are, the "plot" of the series isn't substantial enough to hold up a saltine cracker. Samus running around empty facilities full of monsters makes for a great, tense, fun gameplay experience... but it's a lot harder to keep that working for an entire season of ~20-something minute episodes. Even Samurai Jack knew to balance the quieter, more atmospheric episodes with ones packed with character interaction. For every "Jack and the Three Blind Archers" or "Jack vs the Ninja" there's a "Jack and the Scotsman" or "Samurai vs Samurai"

The efforts by Nintendo to try and cobble together all the random bits and fluffs of plot from the previous games gave us Other M and we all remember how that turned out. If you want to make Metroid work as a series instead of a game, it needs a soft reboot with a more traditional structure... maybe there are better series to model it after, but GLTAS was the first one that came to mind.

A Metroid cartoon would just need to be more like Prime 3 or Hunters with other characters making appearances.
Or stick a more charismatic Adam into her ear, and they can banter each episode as she does missions.

>Or stick a more charismatic Adam into her ear,

BotW. Just play up the multiple love interests/drama and add a dash of Link=player avatar meta, along with some great fight scene and it will be amazing.

Other M was mostly just a letter from Sakamoto saying, "YOU STUPID AMERICANS DON'T UNDERSTAND MY CHARACTER!"
There's plenty of plot to work with if you're not retarded.

>Samus
>Sakamoto's character

Makoto Kano created her.

>teamed up with a ragtag team
This and "buddy cop" are the Sup Forums memes I despise most

And yet, here we are.

This is the result of watching cartoons and reading comics all day. Creative license just goes right out the window.

At this point, I'd prefer a sketch show of a clumsy 4koma Samus making a nuisance of the GFed offices because of her giant shoulder pauldrons.

Eh, technically, it could work if you use a slightly different trope.

Have her be hunted by the GF for having destroyed the secret illegal Metroid cloning facility in Fusion. Have her be on the run, doing good things, teaming up some guest character ally of the week to bounty hunt a special monster character of the week in a special planet of the week, helping the downtrodden, meeting up good GF politicians and police who fight the black ops faction that wants to create weird supermonsters like that gravity controlling mutant thingy, space pirate clone troopers and more Metroids and whatever.
You can have Samus talk during the missions with ship AI Adam, perhaps have a dramatic season finale where he gets blown up by federation cruisers and Samus has to stay hidden in some crime infested alien city planet outside of GF territory and stuff.

But to take out Samus Aran, the fed black ops try to create the ultimate hunter dude to defeat Samus Aran
which is a clone of Adam because he knows her best yadda yadda and they're banking on her having an emotional moment and all that stuff
And the big plot twist will be that the Adam clone is made partially by Ridley cells because of the genetic memory thingy that the black ops dudes are banking on allowing clone Adam to remember everything

But in another plot twist that you all already saw it coming, it will turn out that the clone Adam's personality and memory will later get subsumed by the genetic memory contained within the Ridley cells, turning him fully into Ridley in a human body, who betrays the black ops, recreates the space pirates, and tries to find a way how to get a space dragon body again instead of being stuck in a disgustingly weak human flesh body, and then kill Samus Aran once and for all.

Add more plot twists to shock and keep whatever.

Like for example the secret that
Samus Aran is a girl

This was nightmarishly bad. The more people harp on about a Metroid series the more glad I am one doesn't exist.

Ah yes, right. That gravity controlling monster was called nightmare. Thank you, user.

No he didn't. Hiroji Kiyotake created Samus.

He also created Wario, a character that deserves a cartoon more than Samus does.

Straight adaptation wouldn't work, no, but the Metroid universe has a ton to explore now that we have different alien species to work with after Prime trilogy. The universe opened up.

Samus being a planet-hopping bounty hunter is fine. There's no need to add fluff like "ragtag group of adventurers." Not because "Samus needs to be silent!" but because her role of isolation is important to stick with. That's also why Samurai Jack would be a good source of inspiration.

There's a lot to work with on the side, too. The Federation being very loose in morality, the Chozo and their heritage (why Samus is the way she is and what makes her so special), the machinations of Ridley, Mother Brain and the Space Pirates. The Chozo only creating something like the Metroids once is pretty hard to believe, and there's another possible plot point. Not to mention having multiple locales can make for those character interactions you'd want.

Honestly, though, Metroid would probably work best as a miniseries or something.

Makoto Kano created her, Hiroji Kiyotake designed her. At least we can agree Sakamoto had nothing to do with it.

There's a prequel manga that explains how Samus came to be, and for now, Ridley, Mother Brain and the Space Pirates are dead as of Fusion.

Other M sucked but all the caremad over Sakamoto is way more embarrassing.

If we set it after fusion, sure.

Ridley is dead as of Super, but that dragon will just keep coming back.

>already set in America
>full of references
>can have a slow meandering plot, so tons of one-off comedy episodes
>can be really serious and sad sometimes
>you can easily figure out where you are in the story solely on who's in the party

It's a fucking no brainer.

Agreed; Wario would be the best Nintendo character to do a western cartoon of. He's almost already a western cartoon character anyway with how he gets portrayed in the Wario Land games.