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In ''[[Metroid Prime (game)|Metroid Prime]]'', it serves as a heat based weapon, allowing [[Samus Aran|Samus]] to melt both ice and [[frigidite]] and ignite foes.<ref name=prime/> A [[Charge Beam|charged]] shot can reduce most enemies to a cloud of ashes with just one shot.
In ''[[Metroid Prime (game)|Metroid Prime]]'', it serves as a heat based weapon, allowing [[Samus Aran|Samus]] to melt both ice and [[frigidite]] and ignite foes.<ref name=prime/> A [[Charge Beam|charged]] shot can reduce most enemies to a cloud of ashes with just one shot.


The [[Space Pirate]]s managed to get a hold of the Chozo beam technology and reverse engineered them. This allowed them to power their forces with one of her weapons; Plasma Troopers are the result of Space Pirates armed with a weaker version of Samus's Plasma Beam.<ref name="Plasma Troopers">{{cite|Space Pirate armed with Plasma Beam technology.​ Space Pirates have reverse-​engineered several of your weapons,​ including the Power Beam.​ A flaw in the design makes these Pirates vulnerable to their own Beam weapon system.​ These weapons are inferior to your Chozo-​designed originals,​ but still quite potent.|[[Logbook#Plasma Trooper|Logbook]] - Plasma Trooper|''[[Metroid Prime (game)|]]''}}</ref>
The [[Space Pirate]]s managed to get a hold of the Chozo beam technology and reverse engineered them. This allowed them to power their forces with one of her weapons; Plasma Troopers are the result of Space Pirates armed with a weaker version of Samus's Plasma Beam.<ref name="Plasma Troopers">{{cite|Space Pirate armed with Plasma Beam technology.​ Space Pirates have reverse-​engineered several of your weapons,​ including the Power Beam.​ A flaw in the design makes these Pirates vulnerable to their own Beam weapon system.​ These weapons are inferior to your Chozo-​designed originals,​ but still quite potent.|[[Logbook#Plasma Trooper|Logbook]] - Plasma Trooper|''[[Metroid Prime (game)|Metroid Prime]]''}}</ref>


There are many thawing ice chunks scattered around [[Phendrana Drifts|Phendrana]] that can be completely thawed away using the Plasma Beam. The [[Chozo]] hid the [[Artifact|Artifact of World]] beneath a [[Chozo Statue]] in [[Hall of the Elders]] that requires the Plasma Beam and the [[Morph Ball Bomb]] to reach. This particular Artifact was very obviously hidden so that only Samus could reach it.
There are many thawing ice chunks scattered around [[Phendrana Drifts|Phendrana]] that can be completely thawed away using the Plasma Beam. The [[Chozo]] hid the [[Artifact|Artifact of World]] beneath a [[Chozo Statue]] in [[Hall of the Elders]] that requires the Plasma Beam and the [[Morph Ball Bomb]] to reach. This particular Artifact was very obviously hidden so that only Samus could reach it.