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*''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' | *''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' | ||
|appearances=''[[Metroid (manga)|Metroid]]'' {{small|(manga)}} | |appearances=''[[Metroid (manga)|Metroid]]'' {{small|(manga)}} | ||
|planet=[[Zebes]] | |planet=*[[Zebes]] <small>(Created)</small> | ||
*[[SR388]] <small>(Introduced)</small> | |||
|habitats=*[[Tourian]] | |habitats=*[[Tourian]] | ||
*[[Phendrana Drifts]] | *[[Phendrana Drifts]], [[Phazon Mines]], [[Impact Crater]] | ||
*[[Agon Wastes]], [[Dark Agon Wastes]], [[Sky Temple Grounds]], [[Ing Hive]] | |||
*[[G.F.S. Olympus]], [[G.F.S. Valhalla]], [[Eastern SkyTown]], [[Elysia]], [[Phaaze]] | |||
*[[Agon Wastes]] | *[[Room MW]], [[Bioweapon Research Center]] | ||
*[[G.F.S. Olympus]] | |||
*[[Room MW]] | |||
|subjects=*[[Metroid Prime (specimen)|Metroid Prime]] | |subjects=*[[Metroid Prime (specimen)|Metroid Prime]] | ||
*[[Dark Samus]] | *[[Dark Samus]] | ||
*[[Queen Metroid]] | *[[Queen Metroid]] | ||
*[[Metroid Hatchling]] | *[[Metroid Hatchling]] | ||
|achievements=* | |achievements=*Controlled population of [[X Parasite|X]] on [[SR388]] | ||
*Became SR388's dominant species | *Became SR388's dominant species | ||
*Became [[Zebes|Zebes']] dominant species under [[Mother Brain]] | *Became [[Zebes|Zebes']] dominant species under [[Mother Brain]] | ||
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===Extermination on SR388=== | ===Extermination on SR388=== | ||
{{Main|Metroid II: Return of Samus}} | {{Main|Metroid II: Return of Samus}} | ||
Some time later, the Federation orders Samus to eradicate the Metroids on SR388, where the Chozo originally unleashed them. After destroying the Metroid population, which had developed several stages of maturity and the ability to reproduce through egg-laying, she battled and destroyed the [[Queen Metroid]]. A single [[Metroid Hatchling|baby Metroid]] hatched shortly after the Queen was destroyed and mistook Samus for its mother. Samus decided to spare it and took it to Galactic Federation researchers at [[Ceres Space Colony]].<ref>{{cite manual|The Metroids on SR388 were more advanced than the creatures on Zebes. These monsters could shed their skins and grow even stronger. Samus worked deep below the surface and blasted all of the Metroids in her path. Her final victory was against the enormous Metroid Queen. When the queen was defeated, Samus discovered a Metroid egg which hatched before her eyes. Even this hardened bounty hunter could not destroy the Metroid larva. When the larva sensed Samus' presence, it clung to her as though it had found its mother. Samus packed up the Metroid larva and took it with her to the Space Science Academy on the Galactic Federation Space Colony where scientists could study the creature and understand its special organic structure.|Super Metroid|4}}</ref> In so doing, Samus unintentionally wiped out the only predator of the deadly X Parasites. | Some time later, the Federation orders Samus to eradicate the Metroids on SR388, where the Chozo originally unleashed them. After destroying the Metroid population, which had developed several stages of maturity including [[Alpha Metroid]]s, [[Gamma Metroid]]s, [[Zeta Metroid]]s, and [[Omega Metroid]]s, and the ability to reproduce through egg-laying, she battled and destroyed the [[Queen Metroid]]. A single [[Metroid Hatchling|baby Metroid]] hatched shortly after the Queen was destroyed and mistook Samus for its mother. Samus decided to spare it and took it to Galactic Federation researchers at [[Ceres Space Colony]].<ref>{{cite manual|The Metroids on SR388 were more advanced than the creatures on Zebes. These monsters could shed their skins and grow even stronger. Samus worked deep below the surface and blasted all of the Metroids in her path. Her final victory was against the enormous Metroid Queen. When the queen was defeated, Samus discovered a Metroid egg which hatched before her eyes. Even this hardened bounty hunter could not destroy the Metroid larva. When the larva sensed Samus' presence, it clung to her as though it had found its mother. Samus packed up the Metroid larva and took it with her to the Space Science Academy on the Galactic Federation Space Colony where scientists could study the creature and understand its special organic structure.|Super Metroid|4}}</ref> In so doing, Samus unintentionally wiped out the only predator of the deadly X Parasites. | ||
===Return to Zebes=== | ===Return to Zebes=== | ||
{{Main|Super Metroid}} | {{Main|Super Metroid}} | ||
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.<ref>{{cite manual|The Science Academy scientists found out that the energy-producing properties of the Metroid could benefit humankind. Their report suggested that the Metroids may have originally been created for peaceful purposes. Just when it seemed peace and order had been restored, Samus received an emergency directive from the Galactic Federation.|Super Metroid|5}}</ref> But shortly after Samus left the colony, it fell victim to a Space Pirate raid. Samus received their distress call and returned to the station, where she witnessed [[Ridley]] escaping with the Hatchling.<ref>{{cite manual|Emergency! Emergency! Return immediately to the Space Science Academy! When Samus made her way to the research facility, she found the building in ruins and the Metroid larva was nowhere to be found. Out from the darkness came a group of Zebesian space pirates and their leader, Ridley, who had the Metroid larva in tow. The pirates fled to a rebuilt planet Zebes and Samus followed them, resolving to finish them off and save the hatchling!|Super Metroid|5}}</ref> She pursued them to Zebes, where she entered the rebuilt Space Pirate labyrinth controlled by Mother Brain. Inside, Samus encountered early attempts by Space Pirates to create clones of Metroids, called [[Mochtroid]]s, 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. | |||
===Federation Experimentation=== | |||
{{Main|Metroid: Other M}} | |||
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. | |||
===Extinction of Metroids=== | ===Extinction of Metroids=== | ||
{{Main|Metroid Fusion}} | {{Main|Metroid Fusion}} | ||
Around this time the Federation hired [[Biologic Space Labs]] to study the restructuring ecosystem of SR388 and hired Samus to render field assistance in the harsh environment.<ref>{{cite manual|SR388. A vile planet, former home of the Metroids. After so many years, the remaining creatures on this planet still seemed to be trying to recreate a natural hierarchy, one without Metroids at the top.<br/>Biologic Space Labs was hired by the Federation to observe this restructuring of the ecosystem. And because of my experience on SR388, the Federation governor for this sector hired me to provide field assistance on the planet. So, once again I found myself drawn to that forsaken rock.|Metroid Fusion|8}}</ref> While Samus was on SR388, she was attacked by an X parasite, a lifeform previously unknown to the Federation and now rampant without the Metroid presence, that infected her. The Federation saved her life with a vaccine made from Metroid DNA that had been acquired from the Hatchling. 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.<ref>{{cite manual|Someone proposed a desperate treatment: create a vaccine from Metroid cells. Apparently the Federation had preserved a cell culture from the last Metroid. The scientists quickly prepared and administered the vaccine. The symptoms of the infection disappeared instantly, and all of the X parasites within me died in moments.|Metroid Fusion|10}}</ref> | |||
Samus begins the arduous task of eradicating the X population from the infested [[Biologic Space Labs Research Station|Biologic Space Labs research station]], which had housed many specimens from SR388 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 SR388 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 [[SA-X|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 SR388, 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." | |||
== Life Cycle == | == Life Cycle == | ||
