Nova

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

Nova are small insectoid creatures that seem to have flames on their backs. They mainly live in volcanic areas. 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 Zoomers.

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 Zero Mission screenshot