Puffer

Puffer
	; ; A Puffer in Magmoor Caverns
Game(s)	Metroid Prime
Damages by	Exploding; Poison Gas;
Threat Capacity	Damaging, Non-Hostile
Natural Habitat(s)	Magmoor Caverns; Phazon Mines;

Puffers are small, poison gas filled organisms found on Tallon IV, though similar species are found on several different planets. They have no attacks, though if they are ruptured they will explode, releasing their poison gas in the process^[1] Samus encounters them in Magmoor Caverns and in the Phazon Mines.

Puffers are also native to Pirate Homeworld. Though Samus does not see them, she fights their Pirate-enhanced versions, Puffer Mines.^[2]

Logbook

Logbook entry from Metroid Prime: Puffer

First Location: Magmoor Caverns - Lava Lake

Unstable gas-filled organism. Will rupture on contact. Puffers fill their bodies with lethal meta-viprium gas and float about in search of food. If ruptured, the gas within the Puffer is violently released. Despite their fragile bodies, Puffers are aggressive hunters. The gas cloud they release upon death is often fatal to the creature that brings them down as well.^[1]

In Action

Puffers in action.

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Unstable gas-filled organism. Will rupture on contact. Puffers fill their bodies with lethal meta-viprium gas and float about in search of food. If ruptured, the gas within the Puffer is violently released. Despite their fragile bodies, Puffers are aggressive hunters. The gas cloud they release upon death is often fatal to the creature that brings them down as well." — Logbook "Puffer" (Metroid Prime)
↑ "Avoid contact with the Puffer Mine. These creatures are cybergenetically enhanced version of the Puffers native to the Pirate Homeworld. Engineered by Space Pirates, they are now used as patrol animals. Their bodies have been filled with Phazon gas to be used as a defensive measure. If their shell is broken, their bodies explode and send a cloud of toxic gas out all around them. Nearby attackers rarely escape the volatile fumes." —Logbook entry for Puffer Mine (Metroid Prime 3: Corruption)