As said, a lot of that comes from a lust for power and brainwashing. Even then that just gives me another reason to dislike Prime 3 because that's pretty lame too.
It's more so that in this game Ridley is humiliated to the point where he becomes a dog in a leash, I can at some extent at least accept that Dark Samus was able to mind control the Space Pirates with a great plan, this is just Ridley getting beaten up and submitting, I just can't see it as justifiable. It also begs the question why he didn't cower and just joined the crew in SSE, instead he came back from the dead to try and take his revenge, at least they got that much right in Brawl. I don't mind him serving a higher power, because he does so with Mother Brain already because of a mutual interest of bending the galaxy to its knees, it's how they're doing it in this game that makes me resent it.
For the underlined, it's more implied that he was trying to prevent the escape considering the Falcon Flyer is
not Samus or Pikachu, and he's clearly focused more on
destroying the Falcon Flyer than seeking out two fighters he encountered before out of a party of seven. (If Meta Ridley is even revived Ridley this time, considering Tabuu revived BOTH to guard the Great Maze).
Aside from that, think of your choice of words. He can't exactly "cower and join the crew" while being
dead instead of "coming back from the dead", now can he?
In my response to BKuppa I've explained how it's less being a lapdog and more being smart enough to pick your battles, though doing a little more research on Ridley's character, I noticed something that the "partnership" ties to. Part of Ridley's character in the manga is essentially Might Makes Right. "Nature sides with the strong" are words
he said. This is essentially how he became loyal to Mother Brain, Dark Samus (from what I understand, he wasn't brainwashed until he became a Leviathan Guardian), and became accepting of Gray Voice being a Commander. They proved themselves to be strong enough to follow.
There's only
one case where someone who has proven their strength to him that he does not side with, and that's Samus. And
that is because of their venomous history.
In Smash, you're proving yourself worthy enough for him to side with. The only out of character factor here is that you can do this with Samus and Zero Suit Samus.
