Nothing is too much for this team!
I gotta say, I really like Admiral Dane. He respects Samus’s accomplishments and is using her services appropriately: where just throwing more marines at a problem won’t solve it. He also recognizes that she’s not totally perfect, and the troops are also okay with it, given that he sends her 12 people when she only really needs four. There’s an achievement for not letting anyone die, but this is Veteran mode, and I can’t kill the enemies quite that quickly.
As for Ridley: did you really think that fight on Norion was the last you’d see of him? He’s not immediately prior to the final boss this time, but he’s as close as he can reasonably get. It’s kind of funny to me, playing this after Twilight Princess, because Ridley fights you in almost the same way as the midboss Aeralfos. The difference is that Link has to listen for his opponent, while Samus gets a handy-dandy radar to just watch in the top-left corner of her HUD. It’s a lot easier to track Ridley with that!