The best part is, I think you can actually do what Thief did in Metroid Prime. The Space Jump ability isn't available all the way through a fall, but IIRC there are situations where you can save a little damage that way (or by some other trick like going into morph ball mode).

Skit, those are awesome.

To Skit: you got everyone but BM right. Mainly because you made BM look...badass, actually. He's not suposed to look badass. Ever.

To...who ever the hell else; I now love Fighter in the straightest nongay way ever.

Actually there's no fall damage full stop in Metroid Prime.

What I meant to say, as any fool could have read between the lines*, was that you could sometimes avoid what does happen after a particularly long fall -- getting stunned briefly. Sometimes a second and a half is just too long to wait before dishing out more flaming death.

* Or, perhaps more accurately, entirely outside them.