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| “ | Lyle's down! He looks like a pile of rags... What's gotta happen to a guy to make him look like that?! | „ |
| ~ James Pierce. |
James Pierce, better known as The Deleter, is a supporting antagonist in Metroid: Other M. While acting as the communications expert of the Galactic Federation's 07th Platoon under Adam Malkovich, he is actually an assassin sent to to kill any witness and destroy everything that links the Bottle Ship and its bioweapon research to the Galactic Federation, including his own squad mates.
He was voiced by Tsuguo Mogami (who has also voiced Musashi Miyamoto in Record of Ragnarok) in Japanese, and by Aaron Thomas in English.
Biography[]
He is first seen when he shoots another marine known as Maurice Favreau to death with a Freeze Gun. Moments later, he fights the game's protagonist Samus Aran in the vehicle known as the RB176 Ferrocrusher, but Samus wins the fight. He escapes and kills K.G. Misawa by freezing his body and tosses it into a pool of molten lava, which results in K.G.'s corpse never being found and thus considered M.I.A. (Missing in Action) under military protocol. He disables the bridge to prevent Samus from following him, but Samus managed to thwart this by going against Adam Malkovich's orders by "authorizing" the use of the Space Jump and Screw Attack herself.
Much later, he attempts to murder the mysterious MB (who was going under the name Madeline Bergman at that time), only to end up dead himself, either at the hands of MB herself or a Desbrachian. His body is later found by Samus.
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- The Deleter's true identity was not made known in-game but was revealed in the official strategy guide.
- It is unknown if the Deleter had anything to do with Lyle Smithsonian's death, as the young stage of Ridley dubbed Little Birdie, with its presence in the area where his demise took place being another possibility before it took on the Mystery Creature form, as Little Birdie was noted to have deceived a scientist in thinking it's dead before brutally killing him single-handedly.
- While the identity of the Deleter is never revealed in game, there are several clues that point to James Pierce's identity as the assassin:
- James Pierce is established as the communications expert, which makes him in charge of the 07th Platoon's communications. He might have tampered with the team's communications and caused an electrical interference, as Adam Malkovich notes that they aren't working for some reason, as to prevent any member from making a distress call and reporting him. He wasn't expecting Samus Aran to be involved, so he hardly had any time to sabotage her comms without anyone noticing what he is doing, which explains why only hers worked just fine. It wouldn't be until her confrontation with Ridley that he took advantage of the chaos and caused serious damage to Adam's equipment to cut off contact with her.
- It's extremely unlikely that either Lyle or Maurice are the Deleter, as the former was the first of the group to fall before Samus was made aware of the assassin, and Maurice is already cleared as a suspect as his death at the Deleter's hands was presented onscreen.
- In the case of K.G. Misawa, he wasn't aware that one of their troops is a traitor and the only way he found out was being frozen and incinerated by the lava.
- Though he is the only survivor of the Platoon overall, Anthony Higgs was merely mistaken to be the Deleter by Samus, until he told her to move aside as he was aiming for Ridley in the Geothermal Power Plant, and at the same time, Adam was ambushed by the Deleter and disabled his communications with Samus when she was having an anxiety attack, (which also clears Adam since he can't be in two places at once) and Anthony was with Samus when it happened. Anthony was never seen making any attempt at killing either Samus or Madeline Bergman during their trip back to the Galactic Federation HQ and he genuinely cares about Samus, whom he had a close friendship with her in the past, and the safety of others. Additionally, the Colonel, who is suspected to be one of the ringleaders, does not recognize Anthony to be a member of their group, but rather the 07th Platoon.
- The circumstances that the other members have gone through, with MB making it explicitly clear that the Deleter was a member of their group.
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