Ripper

Ripper A Brinstar Ripper

Game(s) Metroid Metroid Fusion Metroid: Zero Mission Super Metroid Damages by Contact Weakness(es) Screw Attack Shinespark Immune to All Beams and Missiles Morph Ball Bombs Power Bomb Threat Capacity Damaging, Non-hostile Natural Habitat(s) Brinstar Crateria Located in B.S.L Research Station

A Ripper depicted in the original Metroid

Rippers are small insectoid creatures that are cable of hovering with little effort. They seem to have little-to-no intelligence due to their lack of brains and their excessively repetitive movements. Rippers can only be destroyed by the Screw Attack or Speed Booster, although they can be frozen. Rippers are one of the most common enemies used as platforms for Samus when frozen. In fact, a section of Brinstar in Super Metroid requires their use as platforms. The X also mimicked them on the B.S.L Research Station.

A Brown Ripper

There are three types of standard Rippers. There are Brinstar Rippers, which are purple, and normal, brown Rippers appearing everywhere else. There is also one unique Winged Ripper appearing in only one room in Metroid: Zero Mission while fighting the larval form of Kiru Giru. This special ripper cannot be destroyed by any means, not even the Screw Attack if it is obtained through sequence breaking. The purpose of this Ripper is for Samus to use as a platform once frozen to shoot down Kiru Giru. It is not necessary, however, as Samus can Wall Jump to reach Kiru Giru instead.

There are also faster, more advanced version of the Ripper aptly named Ripper II. These versions seem jet propelled. They deal more damage then regular Rippers and move at a much higher speed. They are seen shortly before obtaining the Screw Attack in Zero Mission.

Manual

Manual Entries

Manual info from Metroid

Ripper:	These strange creatures do not have brains. They simply fly around sluggishly in straight lines.
Brinstar Ripper entry

Manual info from Metroid

Ripper:	These slow creatures don't attack but fly aimlessly in straight lines. It is wiser to run away from them than to try fighting them.
Brown Ripper entry

Manual info from Super Metroid

Ripper:	The armor of these flying creatures is so strong that standard beams cannot beat them.

Manual info from Metroid: Zero Mission

Rippers:	For the most part, these organisms just fly slowly through the air in straight lines. They are impervious to most attacks.

Sprite

Game	Ripper
Metroid
Super Metroid
Metroid Fusion
Metroid: Zero Mission

Trivia

• The Ripper is one of only five enemies with entries in Metroid: Zero Mission's manual.