Awesome Bosses/Metroid: Difference between revisions

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* Ridley in any ''[[Metroid]]'' game.

** The Meta-Ridley battle in the first Metroid Prime is epic enough when a giant space dragon is bombarding you with bombs, missles, and fire breath. Then, you get his health 3/4 of the way down and, for the first time in the series, we get to see how Ridley fights when grounded. [[That One Boss|Turns out he can kick your ass three ways across Tallon IV.]]

*** Using the [[Game Breaker|Wavebuster]] with a sufficient supply of missiles makes the fight much easier, although that was an oversight on the part of the developers, corrected with the PAL and Trilogy re-releases. Ridley probably ate the testers who missed that one.

** ''Prime'''s battle is nothing compared to the fight with Mecha-Ridley in ''Metroid Zero Mission''. Even with all of the powerups in the game, he remains a formidable challenge, attacking with no discernible pattern (using his attacks in any order), with a final phase that can only be described as complete chaos, with missiles and lasers firing everywhere, and an increasingly slim amount of time to fire at his weak point. Not many bosses give off such a feeling of satisfaction after beating them.

* ''Super Metroid'' on the SNES, the final fight with Mother Brain. After suffering a huge attack and being brought to your knees, {{spoiler|the young Metroid that you saved in the previous Gameboy installment which thinks Samus is its mother shows up, sucks a bunch of energy out of Mother Brain, and transfers it to you, saving your life and powering you up.}}

** Tearjerker: {{spoiler|The Metroid gets blown up about five seconds after saving your life. Then, [[Berserk Button|Samus gets pissed.]]}}

** Or her original form, Metroid Prime. You end up having to use nearly every weapon and even all your visors against this monstrosity of a [[Marathon Boss]], and some attacks formerly thought useless have some use here! (Except [[Awesome but Impractical|the flamethrower]].)

** SA-X in ''Metroid Fusion'' is Samus with all her power ups in ''Super Metroid'', freezing you with Ice Beams and breaking you out with Super missiles, and then engaging in epic screw attack tackle battles. And then she turns into a giant mutant mega monster. But after you defeat her, what's this? A hard core X, holding what may be the best power up ever! {{spoiler|It leaves when you try to absorb it.}}. No matter. Activate the [[Colony Drop]] and get the hell out of there and into your ship. When you get to the docking bay, {{spoiler|your ship is gone. Cue Omega Metroid, the last surviving metroid, going Kool-Aid Man from the right, screeching. It inches towards you, with no way of damaging it. It takes one slash down at you and you get knocked across the screen, with 1 hp and unable to move. For added effect, pressing up will cause Samus to look straight at the Omega Metroid, inching it's way in for the kill, all the while the timer's still going. Before it could get to you, what happens? The very same Core X that you tried to absorb comes back and reforms into SA-X normal form. It runs straight towards the big O and blasts away with the Ice Beam, which is a Metroid's natural weakness. Unfortunately, she falls the same fate as you, but turns back into a core X. Samus finally summons the strength to get up, and absorbs the Core X, to help defeat the X's natural enemy. What happens? You get a combination of your original and Fusion suit (Fusion Suit shape, classic Varia colors.) as well as the Ice Beam. You blast away at ol' Metroid's chest, until the Ice Beam goes completely through, and he explodes. Then your ship comes in and pulls you up before the space station drops. Did we mention there's a timer running while all this is happening?}}

** Flaahgra is similar with the bombing. It is a giant monstrous fly-like plant, which attacks in all sorts of manners, and you have to flip mirrors over in order to get into the tunnels (giant vines guard the tunnels) to damage it with bombs. It is clever enough to flip the mirrors back over, and you're required to flip more mirrors on each hit. This is the first major boss in the game aside from the Parasite Queen, which was just a warm up boss.

** A bit of overlap with [[That One Boss]]. While fighting it, you've also got a growing swarm of Metroids during the fight {{spoiler|while you put mommy down.}} This is the first and only time in the entire game where you run into the bastards and they get killed just as you would expect; freeze 'em, and blast 'em with missiles. Doesn't seem too bad, but keep in mind there's a lot of them, and you have to switch to first person to fire missiles. So lets review: You've got to freeze one, stop and leave yourself vulnerable to the other three or four, aim at the one you froze, and hope to blast it with enough missiles before one of it's buddies takes a bite. And if one DOES take a bite. it will drain your health FAST and you probably won't get yourself free before the frozen one thaws. {{spoiler|''All the while avoiding their rampaging mother''}} It does get better as you wear down their numbers, but dealing with them is far from easy. Still all this makes it so satisfying to watch the actual boss get vaporized.

* Kraid from ''Super Metroid''. The first time he explodes you think you've beaten him, then *BAM!* the real Kraid appears; where the fake Kraid is barely taller than Samus, the real Kraid is ''two screens tall'', making for an epic confrontation that spans nearly four screens all seamlessly connected to each other while you shoot at him above a pit of spikes. ''And he's only the third boss!''

* Yakuza, the literal [[Demonic Spiders|Demonic Spider]] from ''Metroid Fusion'' is both fondly and [[That One Boss|fearfully]] remembered.