WWE Superstar John Cena Kept Asking Nintendo For A New 2D Metroid (Then Got It)

Pictured: Samus Aran floating exterior of a Nintendo constructing. Photo: Nintendo / Kotaku / John Sciulli (Getty Images)

Apparently exterior of being a 16-time WWE world heavyweight champion, a surprisingly first rate rapper, and sometimes intangible to the human eye, John Cena can be an enormous mark for the Metroid sequence.

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According to Dan Ryckert, the Giant Bomb inventive director and former WWE podcast producer, Cena instructed Nintendo representatives he’d like to play a brand new 2D Metroid sport throughout his 2017 photograph shoot for the Nintendo’s “Unexpected Places” Switch commercial.

The kicker: “When Metroid Dread came out years later, he was sent a copy,” Ryckert mentioned on Twitter. “Cena’s people sent an email back saying ‘John loves it.’” .

Krysta Yang, a former Nintendo employees member, corroborated Ryckert’s tweet, saying, “he did say how much of a Metroid fan he was. He’s a really nice guy!”

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This isn’t the primary time that the Doctor of Thuganomics has brazenly talked about his penchant for video video games. Back in 2008, Cena spoke extremely of his love for old-school video games just like the real-time technique basic Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. The then-WWE champion proceeded to chop a promo of kinds on video games like Madden, Tecmo Bowl and Baseball Stars saying the sport was the very essence for what he stands for: “building a huge army and destroying a lot of shit.”

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Kotaku’s reached out to Cena for remark.

Over the years the designs for Cena’s WWE merchandise—y’know those fellow WWE Superstar-turned-Hollywood-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson didn’t admonish for being tantamount to rest room paper—have been impressed by paintings from Super Mario Bros. 3 and different basic Nintendo video games.

Maybe the Samus / Cena appreciation goes each methods, on condition that in Metroid Dread one in all her new skills, Phantom Cloak, permits her to drag off a “you can’t see me” of her personal (useful to keep away from being detected by the dastardly E.M.M.I. robots stalking her). Sure, I may very well be studying an excessive amount of into issues, however inform me with a straight face that, come Cena’s return to the ring, you wouldn’t lose your shit if he added “transforming into a morph ball” to his 5 strikes of doom.