Nova

Nova are small insect-like creatures that seem to have flames on their backs. These creatures mainly live in volcanic areas. They are native to the planet Zebes, but were taken to the B.S.L research station and the Bottle Ship for research.

Nova A Nova in Metroid: Other M

Game(s) Metroid Metroid: Zero Mission Super Metroid Metroid: Other M Metroid Fusion Damages by Fireball Threat Capacity Hostile Natural Habitat(s) Norfair Ridley Located in Sector 3 (PYR) Sector 3 (Pyrosphere)

This article is about the fire creature, Nova. For the green, high-frequency beam, see Nova Beam.

In all games but Metroid, they are capable of dripping some sort of flammable fluid on unsuspecting intruders from above. In Other M, they are capable of causing minor explosions to damage Samus and are particularly vulnerable to the Ice Beam. In two-dimensional games, they seem to be volcanic equivalents of the simple Zoomer.

Manual

Manual info from Metroid

Nova:

Their entire bodies are covered in a spiky, fireproof wool and they crawl around on the floor. A missile blast will kill them. If using the normal beam, it takes two blasts to kill the blue ones and four blasts to kill the yellow ones.

Sprites

Game	Normal Novas	Stronger Novas
Metroid
Super Metroid		--
Metroid Fusion		--
Metroid: Zero Mission

Gallery

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  A purple Nove in Zero Mission

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  Four Nova crawling along a ceiling of the B.S.L station's Sector 3 (PYR) in Metroid Fusion