User blog comment:TimeSoul/Ridley/@comment-5623885-20141104013714/@comment-860254-20141108135703

I don't like Ridley. At all. I hate Metroid in general, actually. I hate Fire Emblem too, but I'm still okay with Lucina being in. The reasons I stated are not bullshit and valid to some degree.

And besides, some people give Sakurai way too much credit. He created Kirby: a small, spherical character that eats everything.... oh wait. Pac-Man. How about a greedy king? Like in every myth ever? Or Meta Knight which is Zorro + Pac-Man?

I can understand KI:U, but that wasn't all him. He came up with the pretty-generic plot, and added in some cliche twists. He didn't do all the scripting- something tells me he wrote only about 1/20 of the conversations in the game. He probably didn't even come up with most of the weapons. Why? Because he's just the director. The guy who oversees everything. I think people give him way too much credit. Sure he's talented and all, but he's no Miyamoto who has come up with a multitude of different series - cliched like Mario or unique like Pikmin - and characters.

Of course, he's not the only person who makes up the movesets for the characters chosen, but he probably has a large hand in them. And, as we've seen with some characters (Luigi), he'll just add in some original ideas if he can't think of anything else to give 'em.

tl;dr - no one can be creative enough to give Ridley a completely original moveset. He'd be a clone. Case closed.