Dark Samus

Dark Samus Dark Samus artwork from Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

Game(s) Metroid Prime Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Home Planet Tallon IV Gender Female Race Unique

Dark Samus is a main antagonist of the Metroid Prime series. She is a combination of elements from Metroid Prime, Samus Aran, and Samus's Phazon Suit. She appears in all three of the Prime games, although her appearance in the first Metroid Prime was in a brief cut scene. Since she is, in essence, Metroid Prime, so one of the series's focus is Dark Samus.

History

Immediately after Samus Aran defeated Metroid Prime on Tallon IV's Impact Crater, the dying creature reached out for Samus as a last resort and ripped off Samus's Phazon Suit. Samus escaped the scene of the final battle and left the creature to die in a collapsing cave to save herself and escape in her Gunship. However, Metroid Prime was not finished; it combined elements from itself, Samus, and the Phazon Suit to be reborn as a completely new entity, known in the future Prime games as Dark Samus.

Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

Dark Samus landed on Aether sometime before Samus arrived. The Space Pirates confused her for Samus Aran but were confounded by her new behavior. Instead of destroying the Pirates, she stole their Phazon, only destroying those that attempted to stop her.

Samus first encounters Dark Samus inside an abandoned Galactic Federation base Aether. Samus follows Dark Samus through Dark Portal to Dark Aether and finds her absorbing Phazon on the other side. Dark Samus destroys a Light Crystal nearby, allowing a group of Warrior Ing to swarm in and steal much of Samus's equipment. Samus manages to escape before Dark Aether's atmosphere causes any severe damage.

Later in Agon Samus briefly sees Dark Samus in a Space Pirate facility. Shortly afterward Samus finds Dark Samus in the Phazon Processing absorbing Phazon. After a battle, Samus defeats Dark Samus.

Samus again finds Dark Samus in the hydro plant of Torvus Bog, where she reforms, laughs, then dissipates again without attempting to hinder or attack Samus during this encounter. It is uncertain what Dark Samus's intentions were.

At the entrance to Sanctuary Fortress, Dark Samus again confronts Samus. Dark Samus destroys the bridge structure here, preventing Samus from using it to access the elevator leading from Sanctuary to the Temple Grounds. Despite the bridge being destroyed, Samus is able to use her recently recovered Spider Ball to cross the gorge.

Later in Sanctuary Fortress, Samus finds Dark Samus destroying three Dark Pirate Troopers in her path. Dark Samus once again attacks Samus. Though Dark Samus demonstrates several new techniques, Samus is able to defeat her once again. Dark Samus then staggers and falls off of the edge of the fortress.

After Samus destroys the Emperor Ing and acquires the Light of Aether from Dark Aether's final Energy Controller, the planet becomes unstable. While Samus attempts to escape Dark Aether, Dark Samus blocks Samus's path with a wall of Phazon and attacks her. After Samus deals some damage to her, Dark Samus will create a shield that is impervious to all weaponry, only being vulnerable to blasts of Phazon. By using her Charge Beam, Samus may draw in expelled Phazon then fire it back at Dark Samus. After several blasts, Dark Samus will disintegrate.

Some time later, a cloud of Phazon in space above Aether coalesces and forms a new body for Dark Samus. It seems that she was unable to maintain this form, as she is later collected by Space Pirates in the form of raw Phazon.

Dark Samus in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption

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Dark Samus is reborn aboard a Space Pirate cargo vessel

After her defeat on Aether, Dark Samus's remains are picked up by a Space Pirate craft that had been retrieving the remainder of the Phazon on the planet Aether. Dark Samus was then able to regain her form using energy from Phazon stored on board. Dark Samus, after regaining her form, kills a third of the Space Pirates on the ship.

Dark Samus then ventures to Phaaze, the source of all Phazon, and returns to her followers with a Leviathan seed, a destructive seed of Phaaze. Dark Samus sends the Leviathan to the Space Pirate Homeworld, using it to take control of all the Space Pirates. Dark Samus then invades the G.F.S. Valhalla, takes Aurora Unit 313, goes to Phaaze, implants it there, and takes control over the entire planet.

Dark Samus merging with Aurora Unit 313

Dark Samus then launches three additional Leviathans. These are destined to Bryyo, Elysia, and Norion. Dark Samus goes to Norion to ensure the Leviathan's impact, since it is heavily guarded by the Galactic Federation. Samus Aran, Rundas, Ghor, and Gandrayda manage to repulse the Norion attack, but Dark Samus infects the four hunters with Phazon. Samus was able to resist this Phazon's corrupting influence, but the three other bounty hunters eventually succumbed and became the servants of Dark Samus.

The only direct battle between Samus and Dark Samus happens on Phaaze. After her defeat by Samus, Dark Samus merges with Aurora Unit 313. Samus destroys the Aurora Unit, which purges the Phazon from Samus and Dark Samus is destroyed with no signs of Dark Samus's survival.

Abilities

Many of Dark Samus's abilities are similar to Samus's, though some abilities are not shared between the two. Her basic beam fires a scattered burst of Phazon, she may charge this to fire a sustained beam of Phazon. Dark Samus can fire a beam that can encase her target in Phazon, similar to the Ice Beam. She has a form of the Boost Ball that she can allow her to boost far longer than Samus is capable of doing. She can generate a shield that is impervious to all attacks, save blasts of Phazon; she will often use this when Samus fires Missiles at her. She also can become invisible.

After her defeats on Aether, Dark Samus gained ever more abilities, some absorbed from the Phazon-corrupted Hunters that Samus defeated. She is capable of generating Echoes of herself that may attack while Dark Samus absorbs energy to heal herself. She and one of the Echoes can simultaneously fire a sustained beam while spinning. She may also spin without firing a beam. Dark Samus is also capable of creating large pillars of ice and generate shock waves.

Logbook

Logbook entry from a Metroid Prime game: Dark Samus 1

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Logbook entry from a Metroid Prime game: Dark Samus 2

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Logbook entry from a Metroid Prime game: Dark Samus 3

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Logbook entry from a Metroid Prime game: Dark Samus 4

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Logbook entry from a Metroid Prime game: Dark Samus

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Trophy Info

Dark Samus Trophy

	A twin image of Samus, encountered near the beginning of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Dark Samus is identical to Samus in every way but color—she even uses similar attacks. There are many theories on the origin of Dark Samus, but none are proven. Dark Samus uses Phazon for energy and can absorb it to heal damage. Samus encounters Dark Samus a number of times.
How to Obtain:	Randomly Obtainable

Trivia

• Although Dark Samus's Super Smash Bros. Brawl Trophy says Samus and Dark Samus's only differences are in color, the entity that is Dark Samus is made of mostly Phazon and DNA of both Samus and the Metroid Prime. This is best shown in the first Metroid Prime's 100% scans cutscene at the end of the game.

Gallery

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  Dark Samus in the Sky Temple Grounds

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  Dark Samus in the Sky Temple Grounds

See Also

• Metroid Prime
• Phazon Suit