The Space Pirates quickly set up Metroid breeding operations again, this time on planet Aether , where Tallon Metroids with red membranes and Infant Tallon Metroids , as well as Dark Tallon Metroids possessed by violent creatures known as Ing , are encountered. Samus again intervenes and removes the Space Pirate and Metroid presence while battling the Metroid known as Dark Samus. During the events of Metroid Prime 3: Corruption , Samus finally engages in a final conflict with Dark Samus as well as several other Phazon-mutated variants of Metroids she encounters along the way.
She destroys the living planet known as Phaaze , and all Phazon in the galaxy is apparently eliminated, effectively exterminating all Phazon-mutated strains of Metroids. Some time later, the Federation orders Samus to eradicate the Metroids on SR, where the Chozo originally unleashed them. After destroying the Metroid population, which had developed several stages of maturity including Alpha Metroids , Gamma Metroids , Zeta Metroids , and Omega Metroids , and the ability to reproduce through egg-laying, she battled and destroyed the Queen Metroid.
A single baby Metroid hatched shortly after the Queen was destroyed and mistook Samus for its mother. Research began immediately, and Federation scientists discovered that the energy-producing properties of Metroids could benefit humankind, suggesting that Metroids may have originally beenc reated for peaceful purposes.
Samus received their distress call and returned to the station, where she witnessed Ridley escaping with the Hatchling. Inside, Samus encountered early attempts by Space Pirates to create clones of Metroids, called Mochtroids , but these were ultimately far weaker than the originals. After making her way into the new Tourian , she destroyed the successfully cloned Metroids gathered there and eventually encountered the Hatchling, this time far larger.
It drained Samus's energy, leaving it at critical levels, before recognizing her and leaving. Just as Mother Brain was about to kill Samus, however, the Hatchling returned and used its energy-producing abilities to transfer energy to Samus, recharging her. In that instant, the Hatchling was destroyed by Mother Brain, sacrificing itself to save Samus in this final act, perhaps demonstrating the beneficial abilities the scientists had discovered.
With the Hatchling destroyed, it seemed the Metroid species was extinct. But unbeknownst to Samus, the Galactic Federation was clandestinely performing experiments on Metroids in captivity. Following the events of Super Metroid , Samus, still in mourning over the Hatchling, encounters a distress call from the Federation Bottle Ship. While aboard, Samus discovers that the Federation had created clones of dangerous lifeforms she had encountered for use as bioweapons using organic particles affixed to her Power Suit , including Metroids.
Suitable environments for these specimens were also created, including a replica of Tourian called Sector Zero where the Metroids were genetically engineered. The Federation also replicated an artificial intelligence to control the Metroids - a second Mother Brain.
But the specimens became too aggressive and the project was endangered. Though Samus is successful in her efforts to suppress the creatures they had created, including a Queen Metroid , the situation gets out of hand and her commanding officer, Adam Malkovitch , decides to separate Sector Zero from the rest of the Bottle Ship and initiate its self-destruct sequence.
Later, the Federation orders the entire Bottle Ship destroyed and the self-destruct is initiated. But before its destruction, several tissue samples are salvaged to continue experimentation elsewhere.
Around this time the Federation hired Biologic Space Labs to study the restructuring ecosystem of SR and hired Samus to render field assistance in the harsh environment. It allowed her to absorb any free-floating X but also made her inherit the Metroids' vulnerability to extreme cold, turning her into a sort of a hybrid. Samus begins the arduous task of eradicating the X population from the infested Biologic Space Labs research station , which had housed many specimens from SR and remnants of the Bottle Ship experiments.
As she progresses, she learns that the Federation had started a Metroid breeding program on board and has captive larval, Alpha, Gamma, and Zeta Metroids in their secret labs. Samus moves the station in the path of SR in an attempt to eradicate all X aboard the station, but before she could make it to her ship she was attacked by an enhanced Omega Metroid that was immune to all her weapons. Before the Metroid could finish Samus off, an X copy of Samus attacked the Metroid but was quickly defeated.
Samus then absorbed the defeated X, regaining her Ice Beam ability which she used to destroy the Omega Metroid. Once the station impacted SR, the remaining Metroids aboard the station were destroyed. With the Metroid population supposedly extinct, Samus, with Metroid DNA integrated into her genetic code, is the last Metroid - the last "ultimate warrior.
Most encountered Metroids are in the adolescent stage, only in select circumstances can they undergo their natural life cycle. All forms in their natural life cycle are fought in Metroid II. In Metroid Fusion Samus also sees most forms on the B. L research station in the Restricted Laboratory. The most commonly encountered form of Metroids are the juveniles. Their bodies are covered by a thick, translucent membrane and four talon-shaped claws.
The outer claws are used to grip their prey while the inner claws drain the energy. After molting, juveniles become Alpha Metroid. They are no longer capable of latching onto their prey, they instead attack by dive bombing. After further mutations Metroids grow larger and gain the ability to fire lighting bolts. Gamma Metroids will also ram their prey. Zeta Metroids are even larger, they will fire projectiles and also resort to ramming.
Omega Metroids are one of the most powerful forms of Metroids. They attack by firing projectiles as well as ramming. The Queen Metroid is the final stage in a normal Metroid's life cycle. They attack by ramming, biting, firing projectiles, and large blasts of energy.
Regardless of how the Chozo gradually become a larger part of the series, they are central to the plot simply because of their association with protagonist Samus Aran. At some point before the original Metroid , Samus left the dwindling and reclusive Chozo and entered galactic society, joining the Galactic Federation Police Force. She would soon become the massively successful bounty hunter she is in the games, and despite her once close relations with the Chozo, the alien race faded into mystery, with Samus never divulging her full knowledge of them.
Samus being a Chozo-raised orphan creates a particularly enigmatic case of ludonarrative dissonance wherein the player controls Samus, but is drip-fed information on the Chozo over the course of numerous Metroid games prior to Dread. This is particularly apparent in the series' first three entries, where the Chozo are little more than set dressing for the present conflict. Metroid , Metroid II : Return of Samus and the remakes of both , and Super Metroid all take place in areas previously inhabited by the Chozo, yet their involvement through past actions is presented as little more than speculation.
Chozo ruins litter the planets Zebes and SR, but their purpose for creating the dangerous Metroids remains a mystery until later games. The Chozo would later be implicated in the events of the first three games by the prequel manga as more than just creators of the Metroids, but the inventors of Mother Brain as well.
Mother Brain took the opportunity to free herself from Chozo subjugation and seize power as the mastermind behind the Space Pirate army. The manga also reveals that Samus spent much of her childhood under Mother Brain's supervision. This is another narrative instance that feels like retconning, but actually helps fill in gaps of the Metroid story left untold by Samus' general in-game silence.
In the series' chronology, the entire Metroid Prime trilogy takes place after the original game, but before Return of Samus. For years it was little more than a rumor, but Metroid Dread is finally here -- and it's worth the wait. Metroid Dread is one of the best action games of , and the final chapter in a story that stretches all the way back to If you want to celebrate Metroid's 35th anniversary by playing all the games that lead up to Metroid Dread, you might be in for a challenge.
Nintendo used Metroid Dread as an opportunity to take to Twitter and celebrate the franchise's long history, ticking off a list of each 2D Metroid game. It was a nice walk through video game's history, but it was also a little weird. Some of the titles, like Super Metroid and the NES original, were accompanied by links to Nintendo's website, where fans could find out how to play the classics that take place before Metroid Dread.
Other games were included in the list but Nintendo offered no hints on how to play them, or if they're even available to purchase. Since its release in Japan in , the Metroid series has spanned 35 years! It quickly became apparent that if the game wasn't available on the Nintendo Switch , the company wasn't going to tell fans how to play it.
And that's strange, because every single 2D Metroid game is available for purchase on Nintendo's digital storefront in some form. That's why we're here. In the original North American GameCube release of Metroid Prime , the history of the Metroid Prime entity was significantly different from the versions presented in further releases of the game.
This version of events is no longer considered to be canonical. In this version of events, the Chozo had reached a complete understanding of the universe and left their bodies behind as they ascended to a higher plane. The impact of the Leviathan was initially a curiosity to them, but the violent spread of Phazon soon ripped them back into the physical world in the form of ghosts.
The entity that would eventually be known as "Metroid Prime" was not actually a Metroid, having already been present within the Leviathan at its impact, confirming the prophecy of the Worm. Notably, in order for Metroid Prime to have already existed within the Leviathan, the creature must have existed at the Leviathan's place of origin, later revealed to be the distant planet Phaaze.
The Chozo built the Cradle to contain both the Leviathan and Metroid Prime itself and sealed it with their twelve Artifacts. However, in their ghostly forms, the Chozo were severely affected by the corrupting power of Phazon.
Many were completely corrupted and became hateful spirits known as the Turned. Those remaining struggled to discern the past from the future and were confused by repeated visions of Samus Aran.
While this may have initially implied that some of the Chozo on Tallon IV were originally from Zebes where Samus was raised and were thus familiar with her, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption makes this nearly impossible with the lore data stating that the Tallon IV Chozo had previously inhabited planet Elysia. However, it is possible some Chozo may have lived on Zebes as the Chozo of Tallon IV may have come from different worlds. Ultimately, it is most likely that the Chozo of Tallon IV were simply seeing the future, when Samus visits Tallon IV during the events of the game, and confusing it with the past or present.
As the ghostly Chozo fought to maintain their sanity, they also witnessed the arrival of the Space Pirates, who began experimenting with Phazon and Metroids.
It quickly killed the miners, though it was able to be contained by security units and drones. Studies were then conducted on the creature, codenamed Test subject Z-d. Performing tests on the creature to study its energy-draining capabilities led to the discovery that it had genetic similarities to the Metroid species, though Prime was much more advanced than the species created by the Chozo.
With this knowledge, the Space Pirates gave the creature its name. It had a limitless capacity for absorbing Phazon, and was not negatively affected by the substance whatsoever.
It never stopped growing and had some psychotic behavior, likely due to the Phazon. Metroid Prime was at one time kept in a stasis tank. There was a large batch of Phazon in the room it was in and, sensing it, the creature destroyed its tank and consumed all the Phazon. It also managed to assimilate several weapons and defense systems from fallen security units and began using its new weapons against the Space Pirates.
They were able to contain it, but they were not able to remove the equipment, making them an integral part of Metroid Prime's body. Metroid Prime eventually managed to fully assimilate the equipment, granting it incredible armor plating and powerful defense screens. It began to display a signature ability from the eventual boss battle, in which it can adjust its armor and defense screens to render itself invulnerable to all but one type of weapon at a time.
The Space Pirates suspected that Metroid Prime would eventually find a way to correct even this flaw, and become invulnerable to all known weaponry, and speculated that it would become impossible to contain if this occurred - this evidently was incorrect, and an overestimation of the creature's abilities, as it somehow escaped the Pirates without first correcting this flaw, and returned to the Impact Crater by the time Samus encountered it. Non-canon warning : Non-canonical information ends here.
Metroid Prime's origin was never fully explained. Based on this information, as well as the Infant Leviathan's logbook entry, one may conclude that the Leviathan attracted a Metroid into its body after landing. However, there is no Chozo Lore on Tallon IV which states the existence of any Metroid living among the bird-like race during their reign. Another possibility is that the Metroid that would become the Phazon Core's guardian was among the specimens brought to the planet by Space Pirates many years later.
Evidence supporting this are Pirate log entries describing events of Metroids escaping captivity on several occasions, but retconned Pirate Data in later versions of the game firmly established the marauding race's inability to bypass the Cradle's impenetrable containment field, seemingly making it impossible for any outsider to enter the Impact Crater unless one had the 12 Artifacts to the Chozo Temple. However, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption introduced the existence of several Metroid mutants, all resulting from Tallon Metroids being heavily exposed to Phazon.
Two of these, the Phazon Metroid and one of its branching stages of mutation, the Hopping Metroid , are directly reminiscent of Metroid Prime's Core Essence and exoskeleton, respectively.
The Phazon Metroid can phase out of existence to become intangible in a similar fashion to Prime's core form, allowing it to traverse through both solid surfaces and weapons fire unhindered. The Hopping Metroid can no longer fly or phase in and out, but it has gained an exoskeleton and legs, all akin to Prime's flightless armored form. Due to these similarities, it is largely believed that the Metroid on Tallon IV which became the Prime creature followed the same stages of mutations witnessed in Corruption and that the Phazon Metroid's defining characteristic of phasing through barriers is what allowed it to bypass the Cradle's force field.
Additionally, the loss of abilities seen in the Hopping Metroid potentially explains Metroid Prime's imprisonment inside the Impact Crater. Further evidence is the remains of exoskeletons with an uncanny resemblance to Prime's inside the Genesis Chamber on Phaaze , prior to the final battle with Dark Samus. These seemingly molted husks imply that several Metroid Primes have indeed mutated from Metroid mutants also present on the planet.
Interesting to note as well is the early concept art of Metroid Prime in the above right image, sharing features with both its final rendition and Hopping Metroids, with the surrounding environment resembling the inside of a Leviathan with its numerous optical organs.
In summary, Metroid Prime is theorized to have once been a Metroid larva either born naturally on SR or born on Zebes via division from exposure to Beta-Rays. It later escaped and exposed itself to heavy doses of radiation from the mutagen, transforming it into a Phazon Metroid. Instinctively, it sought out more sustenance to quench its relentless hunger, bringing it to the impact site of the Leviathan where concentrated Phazon was located. Using its unique ability, it phased through the Chozo Temple's otherwise impenetrable containment field and continued feeding on the radioactive substance until it grew and mutated into a Hopping Metroid, trapping it within the Impact Crater in the process.
Unable to phase through to the outside world anymore, the creature continued to feed and gestate, becoming the Metroid Prime which Samus encountered in the Phazon Infusion Chamber. Despite this, there are several inconsistencies that exist with the theory above, along with in-game events related to the life form known as Metroid Prime, that have not been explained in the official canon.
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