note The franchise had previously had an even longer eight-year hiatus from 1994 to 20 02, but Word of God states that was due to Super being a Tough Act to Follow.

Franchise Killer: Metroid: Other M was seen as this, as its poor reception put the franchise on a six-year hiatus from 2010 to 2016.

Creator's Oddball: Metroid is tonally much Darker and Edgier than many of Nintendo's other franchises, featuring bleaker aesthetics and having darker themes such as genocide at the forefront rather than as a background element.

By comparison, Super Mario Land alone sold more copies than every Metroid game combined, until Dread came out and finally pushed the franchise's total sales numbers past the 20 million mark. At the same time, while most of the games aren’t flops by any means and at the very least make back their budget, only three games in the entire franchise have ever broken two million copies sold note the original Metroid, Metroid Prime, & Metroid Dread.

Metroid is widely held up as a revolutionary game series, being one of Nintendo's premiere franchises since the NES, and with many well-received entries credited for helping to found an entire genre. Metroidvania along with the Castlevania series, obviously.

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