James Pierce

James Pierce James Pierce

Game(s) Metroid: Other M Gender Male Voice Actor(s) Aaron Thomas Race Human

Fission Metroid

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Samus

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James Pierce is the Communications Expert of Adam Malkovich's 07th Platoon. When Adam begins ordering everyone to recon, he assigns James to investigate the Control Bridge. Instead, James travels to Sector 1 without permission, and without Lyle's knowledge.

Adam soon orders everyone to regroup at the Exam Center hidden away in the Biosphere. Samus runs through the vacant grounds and through the building, finally stumbling on James, crouched over and working underneath a control console. After nervously greeting her, the rest of the 07th Platoon, sans Lyle, arrive on the spot.

James asks, "Where's Lyle?" and several believe he's just running late. Maurice takes immediate interest in the computer, but finds that the stored data had been fragmented. As he recompiles bytes of data, he mentions that James will need to hack it if he can't bypass the security protocols. James assures Maurice that he will, but it will "take some time." Unfortunately, after the trouble caused by the Mystery Creature and the discovery of Lyle's body, the 07th Platoon becomes pre-occupied with other matters, and the Exam Center conveniently explodes.

The 07th Platoon's status becomes shrouded after all this until Maurice's body is discovered. Not only is his visor open, but his body had been flash frozen. Someone Maurice knew with a Freeze Gun had killed him.

The Deleter

To keep the Galactic Federation's good name, they had sent an assassin with the 07th Platoon to erase anything linking the Bottle Ship to the GF, including witnesses and his own team. Samus dubs this assassin the Deleter.

The Deleter has already destroyed the Exam Center, and done away with Maurice. However, Samus meets MB, a witness to Maurice's death. As both of them talk, an RB176 Ferrocrusher makes the scene, piloted by the Deleter, and tries to outright kill both Samus and MB. Samus hurries MB away just in time, and deals with the Ferrocrusher herself.

When Samus "defeats" the Ferrocrusher, it suddenly begins moving erratically, either by malfunction or Deleter's design, and creates enough havoc for the Deleter to vanish without notice. Samus, suddenly alone, moves on to other areas, while the Deleter gets to the Pyrosphere.

K.G., also in the Pyrosphere, doesn't know there's an assassin amongst them, due to the all-pervasive electronic interference. He does, however, find out about it through experience. After being flash frozen, K.G. is thrown into lava and incinerated.

Time passes, and the Deleter takes no actions against the 07th Platoon. It isn't until Samus is confronted by Ridley that the Deleter makes his next move. As Samus is panicking, Adam is yelling at her to use her Plasma Beam. Suddenly, he looks over his shoulder and a shell weapon is fired. Adam falls out of contact, and after Samus deals with Ridley, becomes worried.

Samus rushes to return to Adam, but is suddenly distracted by a masked member of the 07th Platoon (seemingly shambling along) in the Main Elevator. It becomes obvious that this is the Deleter as he tries to keep Samus from following him by retracting a bridge and destroying its console, though Samus' Space Jump makes this effort useless.

The Deleter leads Samus to the Bioweapons Research Center, but quickly hides. Samus soon enters, and by coincidence, so does MB. They have their back and forth, and Samus ultimately departs, leaving the Deleter and MB together. Alone. With confidence, although injured, confronts MB. The screen goes dark, and the Deleter manages to get one shot off.

When Samus finally returns to the Bioweapons Research Center, James' body is lying on the ground where the Deleter had confronted MB with his visor smashed in. It's no longer a mystery as to who the Deleter is.

Speculation

While the Deleter's actions were sometimes indefinite, there are some other possibilities that are even scarcely hinted at.

• As the Communications Expert, James is responsible for the team's communication. He may have scrambled his own team's channels and created the electronic interference in order to keep teammates from calling for help, or revealing James' secret purpose in their last moments of life. This would also explain why only Samus' comms worked.
• The data fragmentation on the computer console in the Exam Center may not have been James' doing, and instead automated in case of security breaches. Instead, he may have been planting explosives in order to kill all of the 07th Platoon in one fell swoop. Unfortunately for him, Samus would arrive early.
• As the Communications Expert, it's unlikely James would carry enough explosives to destroy an entire building. He may have gotten the drop on Lyle and killed him for his explosives, then tossed his body aside in a place that the corpse would not be immediately noticeable. It would be by coincidence that Little Birdie finds a snack.
• One of the Desbrachian cocoons in the room James is killed disappears after he's killed. MB may have activated it to kill him, even though she's known to be perfectly capable of handling humans herself.

Trivia

• Although his visor is smashed in, his face seems perfectly fine.

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Galactic Federation Service Record