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=== Samus Aran ===
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** [[Badass Abnormal]]
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Owns one in the manga, and yes, she can still kick your ass with it. Plus, a [[Nice Hat]] to boot.
* [[Beauty Mark]]: In the ''Super Metroid'' [[Word of God|developer interview]], Yoshio Sakamoto alluded to one on the left side of her lip. It's finally seen in ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Boobs of Steel]]: Easily the greatest warrior and hunter in the cosmos, Samus is more than adequately equipped.
** This even carries over to ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]
* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Purportedly her profession, but some overseas developers think Nintendo's refusal to include actual bounty hunting in the games indicates it's a translation screw-up. Despite this, they seemed to have no problem with the manga showing her hunting bounties.
* [[Building Swing]]: The grapple beam in ''Super Metroid'' and grapple lasso in ''Metroid Prime''. This becomes less important with the space jump/screw attack, but ''Metroid Prime 3'' gives the lasso more functions to keep it relevant.
* [[The Chosen One]]: According to Chozo prophecy.
* [[Clothes Make the Superman]]: Although she is still a bit agile outside the suit, Samus is unable to take down even a basic Space Pirate trooper without its help. Averted in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]
* [[Combat Stilettos]]: The Zero Suit did not have them until ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Cool Ship]]: Her Gunship.
* [[Determinator]]: An absolute given, considering her suit's defences rely on maintaining a zen level of focus during battle, which doubt can cripple. But one particularly impressive display of willpower she displays is in ''Metroid Prime 3''. She staves off Phazon Corruption longer than any of her fellow bounty hunters, in spite of being given the largest dose of radioactive venom by her arch-nemesis. And even retains her mind when at its very origin. With the poison coursing through her veins she descends into the core of the planet Phaaze and wipes the floor with her dark doppelganger, endures the cancer being (unimaginably painfully) purged and ''somehow'' manages to escape back up to the surface before the world blows apart.
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** Subverted with the Luminoth, as she actually ''does'' help them out with no negative side effects to them in the long run.
* [[Fan Service]]: Gameplay runs that are quick and/or yield higher percentages of completion often show Samus in more revealing attire.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: She knows a fair bit about mechanics, evidenced by designing her own gunship in ''Metroid Prime 3'', repairing circuitry, energizing dead systems, and by her notes in some scans.
* [[Hair of Gold]]: A gorgeous blonde, and about as kind of a mercenary as you could possibly know. She ''has'' to be an optimist to endure what she's been through.
* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: In the end, she's anywhere from as much 95% human to as little as 10%. For most of the series, she's mostly human with a little Chozo, but then ''[[Metroid Fusion]]'' adds in Metroid. From ther,e fans will debate about whether exposure to X Parasites has messed up her genes further or not; Nintendo itself has been silent. {{spoiler|The game shows the X parasites were destroyed by her Metroid vaccine. Metroids eat life energy, not solid food, so she's not integrating absorbed X physically into herself, but fans still argue
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|Ever wonder why she looks different in the]] ''[[Fridge Brilliance|Fusion]]'' [[Fridge Brilliance|endings?]]
* [[Heartbroken Badass]]: So far her family, adoptive family, {{spoiler|adoptive Metroid child}}, mentor, and close friend/possible boyfriend have all been horrifically killed, with her unable to do anything about it.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Has had ''several'', although it only got in the way of her work in ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Hurting Hero]]
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Her suit can hold over 200 missiles, even in the NES game. Later games not only retain this missile carrying capacity, but add things such as power bombs and ammunition for much stranger weapons.
* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: To an extent, as she was raised by aliens. Non-mammalian aliens, at that. Not to mention that she's not entirely human herself anymore.
* [[Knight in Sour Armour]]
* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]: Ask Mother Brain. Oh wait, we can't, it [[Curb Stomp Battle|suffered Samus' rage]] after it killed that Metroid baby}}...
* [[Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Basically everything she steps on triggers a [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]].
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: All promotional material for the first game outright lied and said that Samus was a male cyborg. This extended to the game manual itself. Of course, this was to preserve the surprise at the end.
* [[Not Quite Flight]]: The space jump in the 2D games; downgraded to a [[Double Jump]] in ''Metroid Prime'', but then get the screw attack in those games, and she's back to jumping canyons. The shine spark also qualifies.
* [[One-Man Army|One-Man Army]]: She was called in to Zebes to solve what orbital bombardment could not.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|Thanks again, Ridley]].
* [[The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything]]: Is a bounty hunter who is yet to be seen doing any actual bounty hunting. Her work would suggest she's more like a mercenary.
** She claimed to be searching for a bounty in ''Super Metroid'', so it could be assumed most of the games we play are special situations where someone contracted her, or she's just sidetracked and she would be hunting bounties if not for it.
** For ''Metroid Prime 3'', Retro Studios initially planned for Samus to do some actual bounty hunting. She'd get a list of possible jobs to do, earn rewards, and use the cash to buy upgrades for her equipment. Nintendo didn't like the idea, and after some back-and-forth, Retro realized there was a language issue, and that "bounty hunter" isn't exactly the best description of what Samus is supposed to be. The Retro developers started joking that she was a "pro-bono hunter" instead.
* [[Powered Armor]]
* [[Raised by Natives]]: By the Chozo.
* [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?]]: In ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'', logs left by the troopers mention the two planets full of Space Pirates she's blown up. One of the ones who mentions the story thinks that the act was too much for a single human to accomplish...
** Although it's worth pointing out that, chronologically, she had not yet blown up any planets when that comment was made.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Implied that she has a very massive one against [[Big Bad|Mother Brain]] and [[The Dragon|Ridley]].
** In ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', the final battle on Phaaze is implied to be this as well, considering Samus' reaction {{spoiler|to each of the Hunters' deaths}}, making it clear that by the time the final fight comes, she's ready to rip the one responsible (Dark Samus) apart.
* [[Rocket Jump]]: Bomb jumps
** Being immune to her own explosives is important, as it helps Samus remove [[Personal Space Invader]]s from her suit.
* [[Rolling Attack]]: The boost ball can be used offensively. The speed booster can also become this trope in Zero Mission if Samus is in the right terrain.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: [[Trope Namer|Obviously.]]
* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]]: Was diagnosed with PTSD in the manga, which is supported by her [[Heroic BSOD]] in ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Since ''Metroid II'' on the [[Game Boy]] couldn't use color to differentiate between the different suits, the Varia suit was given big honking shoulders to distinguish its sprite from the regular Power Suit. The design has carried over since then to every subsequent game in the series.
* [[The Silent Bob]]: In the ''Metroid Prime'' trilogy.
* [[Sobriquet]]: [[Mook Horror Show|Space Pirates call her ''The Hunter'']].
* [[Spy Catsuit]], [[Form-Fitting Wardrobe]], [[Sensual Spandex]]: The Zero Suit. To date, it's ''still'' the most modest clothing she's worn outside of her Power Suit.
* [[Statuesque Stunner]]: Possibly. It's unclear if her given 6'3" height and 198 pound weight is with or without the power suit, but she's significantly shorter than the average male human in ''Metroid: Other M''. In the ''Metroid Prime'' games, she's just as tall or taller than the Federation personnel and about the same size as most of the bounty hunters (except the three from ''Metroid Prime 3''), so it is easier to believe there.
* [[Stun Guns]]: Her Paralyzer. ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' [[Swiss Army Weapon|adds]] a [[Whip It Good|whip mode]].
* [[Survivor Guilt]]: Notice how she hits all the "psychologically damaged" tropes?
* [[That Makes Me Feel Angry]]: Samus in ''Metroid: Other M'' does this more than a few times.
* [[Transhuman]]: As of ''Metroid Fusion'', parts of Samus's suit are fused to her nervous system, and she's part Metroid and Chozo. Despite that, she does still resemble a human.
* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: In ''Super Metroid'', {{spoiler|when Mother Brain kills the Metroid hatchling that imprinted on her as its mother. Which just gave her the Omega Beam. Cue [[Curb Stomp Battle]]
* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: How Samus handles water; becomes less of a problem with the gravity suit or gravity boost.
* [[Wall Crawl]]: The Spider Ball. It is limited to magnetic surfaces in ''Metroid Prime'', but since Samus can combine it with the boost ball to force herself away from one place and stick to another, it was necessary.
* [[Wall Jump]]: Generally becomes redundant when she gets the space jump and screw attack, except for ''Metroid Prime'', where the space jump and screw attack are used for wall jumping.
* [[Warrior Poet]]: Introspective, calculating and spiritual. That one silent scene of Samus surveying the burning, destroyed Chozo Temple at the end of ''Metroid Prime'' before closing her eyes with some curious, subdued emotion; cements her ''forever'' as one of these.
* [[You Killed My Father]]: And my mother. And my adoptive alien race.
** Or at least drove the latter into hiding beyond the corporeal world.
** And {{spoiler|my adopted Metroid hatchling
** And my
** Rule of thumb: if you know Samus Aran on any level (just ask K.G. or Lyle), you'll probably be killed.
=== Metroid ===
{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid''
[[Hell Is That Noise|"Skreee!"]]
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* [[Boss in Mooks Clothing]]: First two games, of the [[Wolfpack Boss|wolf pack variety]].
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Hunter Metroids and Metroid Hatchers.
* [[Endangered Species]]: After ''Metroid
* [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs]]: The Zeta, Omega
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: They were created by the Chozo to counteract the X Parasites on SR-388. [[Gone Horribly Right|They did that]]
* [[Ground Pound]]: How Hopper Metroids attack after entering hyper mode.
* [[Insectoid Aliens]]: Alpha and Gamma Metroids fall into this category.
* [[Intangible Man]]: Phazon Metroids.
* [[Joker Immunity]]: They are almost as bad as [[Doctor Who|the Daleks]] in terms of going extinct and coming back.
* [[Ledge Bats]]: Fission Metroids in the impact crater.
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* [[Personal Space Invader]]: They were worse in the first game where it took multiple bombs to dislodge them, which might result in you accidentally being blown back into their grip. It only takes one to get them off in ''Metroid II'' and ''Metroid: Zero Mission''.
* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: The stage between Phazon and Hatcher can't even fly.
* [[Shoddy Knockoff]]: In-universe
** Arguably all of the non-SR388 Metroids count as well (the ones in the Prime series), since they lost their invulnerability to everything but cold. Justified in that Metroid physiology changes depending on where they're born, and they were all infused with Phazon.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: There is not a single thing in their biology that makes any sense by our standards.
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{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid Fusion (mentioned), Metroid: Other M''
"Any objections, lady?"
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* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Is actually seen in battle gear in ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Badass]]: If the INTERGALACTIC QUEEN OF BADASS respects you, it's a given.
* [[Badass Normal]]
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* [[The Captain]]: In ''Metroid: Other M'', he leads his squad into the BOTTLE SHIP.
* {{spoiler|[[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Ian Malkovich}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Though it is questionable if it was even necessary, something the computer in ''Metroid Fusion'' even mocks him for}}.
* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: {{spoiler|His sacrifice of Ian Malkovich, and himself}}.
* [[Mission Control]]: In ''Metroid: Other M'', after telling Samus that if she wants in on his investigation of the BOTTLE SHIP then she'll have to conduct herself as one of his soldiers and obey his orders to the letter, he spends most of his time in the command center monitoring her progress and issuing commands. His helpfulness in this regard is questionable.
* {{spoiler|[[More Expendable Than You]]}}: His reasoning for {{spoiler|going to Sector 0 in Samus' place}}.
* [[Nerves of Steel]]: He ordered a ship to detatch, saving the lives of his crew while sacrificing his brother in the process. He does not break down at all.
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* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: He and Samus.
* [[Badass]]: Formerly [[Memetic Badass]] before he showed his true colours. See
* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]: Well, he would be leader of his squad as a breach trooper, but a General is around, for some reason, so he's obviously outranked.
* [[Bald of Awesome]]: He's revealed to lack hair at the end of ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Big Guy]]: He's the biggest person in Adam's squad, taller even than Samus.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Saves Samus from Ridley in his undoubted [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. In a less awesome but still important one, he puts the brakes on the Bottle Ship, preventing it from [[Colony Drop|smashing into the Federation HQ]] and giving Samus time to finish off the Metroid Queen. Finally, at the end, he interrupted the [[Government Conspiracy]] and rescued Samus by pulling rank
* [[BFG]]: The plasma cannon on his back.
* {{spoiler|[[Disney Death]]}}
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* [[The Quiet One]]: He doesn't really ''seem'' like the type who doesn't talk much, but nevertheless he only gets about two short lines in the game.
* [[Token Minority]]: Not completely token due to Anthony, but the only squad member of Asian descent.
* [[Translation Convention]]: For his name for some reason. In English speaking countries, it was
=== Fleet Admiral Castor Dane ===
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* [[Bowdlerisation]]: <s>Damn</s> NO!
* [[Expy]]: The Colonel at the end of ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' somewhat resembles him. Though the Colonel is a [[Jerkass]] while Dane is a [[Reasonable Authority Figure]].
* [[Mission Control]]: Sometimes.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Heck, the hat itself is a [[Memetic Badass]] in its own right.
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* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: The hunter, the shock coil, and the doors it opens are all blue.
* [[Cool Ship]]: The Delano 7.
* [[The End - or Is It?]]: {{spoiler|The apparent appearance of the Delano 7 at the end of ''Metroid Prime 3'' may count}}.
* [[Lightning Gun]]: The Shock Coil: its stream jumps to the nearest target, so little aiming is required, but it is sort of short ranged. Sylux can recover health when using it.
* [[Roar Before Beating]]: In the intro, though Sylux had already beaten someone, presumably the fighting wasn't over.
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* [[Mark of Shame]]: His new cybernetic body is a constant reminder of Weavel being completely wasted by Samus. In fact, it's the reason why he is no longer a high-ranking Pirate.
* [[Parts Unknown]]: Said in the game's intro.
* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: Apparently, Weavel lost his body while fighting Samus on Zebes in the first game. In Brinstar. Which never contained any Pirates at this point in the chronology, neither in the first game nor in ''Metroid: Zero Mission''.
* [[Space Pirate]]: Though technically, he is no longer officially affiliated with them.
* [[Splash Damage]]: The battle hammer has a bigger blast radius when used by him
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* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Believes himself to be the best in this field, the scan visor says his threat level matches Aran's.
* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Emphasis on the crazy. You can tell Rundas is really not himself when Samus is sent to see why contact was lost with him}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Upgrade]]: The P.E.D. makes some of his attacks almost impossible to dodge
* [[Destructible Projectiles]]: He can stop certain shots with his powers, but given their nature, certain shots can stop his powers.
* {{spoiler|[[Dying as Yourself]]: Maybe. When he is beaten, he seems to look around, confused. He almost tries to speak, but is impaled by an ice spike. It is uncertain whether this was him euthanising himself, or possibly Dark Samus killing him. But it makes it even ''more'' [[Tear Jerker|sad]]}}.
* [[Elemental Armor]]: Sometimes encases himself in it, other times uses it to provide cover. It's surprisingly durable but not unbreakable; the easiest thing to do is trick him into helping you with it.
* [[Expy]]: He visually resembles Noxus and has ice powers (to Noxus's freeze gun). He fights much differently, however, and is not a [[Knight Templar]].
* [[Hand Blast]]: They have the same sound effect as the Prime ice beam.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: He kills at least one enemy this way {{spoiler|and himself
* [[Irony]]: When he is attempting to halt the argument, he mentions that they are the good guys, justice will prevail, and all that stuff. Guess what happens to each of the Hunters barring Samus a few weeks to a month later?
* [[I Work Alone]]: According to Federation reports, this was his attitude before he met Samus (who he seems to bond with); it explains some of his actions on Bryyo too.
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* [[Not Quite Flight]]: Like old school Iceman, but better at it.
* [[Painfully-Slow Projectile]]: He shoots out a whole bunch to track a target and distract it while he zips off elsewhere; his serious shots are much faster.
* [[Space Fighter]]:
* [[Super Mode]]: After getting the P.E.D. suit and icon helmet.
* [[Trophy Room]]: Is rumored to keep trophies from all his successful hunts.
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* [[Cool Ship]]: His suit ''is'' his ship.
* [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul]]: Subverted in that he is a really nice person, but played straight with his murder frenzy in his battle suit.
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Upgrade]]: Emphasis on deadly, he seems to benefit the least from the P.E.D.}}.
* [[Deflector Shields]]: [[Ramming Always Works|he uses them offensively too]].
* [[Good Counterpart]]: Ghor is a federation fighter who after being rebuilt resembles the space pirates(at least the ones in ''Metroid Prime 3''). Compare to Weavel, a space pirate, who after being rebuilt resembles a federation marine.
* [[Grappling Hook Gun]]: Strictly offensive; he doesn't need to building swing since his suit flies.
* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: From his armour suit's shoulders.
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* [[Nice Guy]]: When not in his suit.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: His scans say that he occasionally works for free or even gives his bounty money to whoever has been harassed by his bounty targets.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: His main weapon is the Plasma Cannon. Not exactly ''fire'', but it is hot, and he even uses it to [[Hot Blade|heat up his blades]] in close quarters combat.
* [[Shockwave Stomp]]: In his flying heavy suit.
* [[Shoulder Cannon]]:
* [[Shout-Out]]: His backstory, with him having to replace his body with a cybernetic one that alters his personality, seems inspired by [[Revenge of the Sith|General Grievous]], except that Ghor isn't a villain. {{spoiler|Not initially, at least}}.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Without his suit. Despite bounty hunting being his preferred profession, he's often asked to crack or control computer systems.
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* [[Bounty Hunter]]: Aspires to be the best.
* {{spoiler|[[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Which leads her to try and take Samus's helmet as a grisly trophy}}.
* {{spoiler|[[Deadly Upgrade]]: The P.E.D. greatly enhances her amounts of [[Shapeshifter Baggage]] and stealth}}.
* [[Elemental Punch]]: Strikes the ground when she wants space.
* [[Energy Beings]]: It seems the reason Gandrayda is able to shapeshift is because her natural form isn't really physical to begin with.
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* [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]]: Though, to what extent she is actually "innocent" is debatable.
* [[Invisibility]]:She has a personal cloaking field
* {{spoiler|[[Laughing Mad]]: Just prior to fighting Samus, after she nearly shot Samus while her back was turned. And a more insane laughter toward the end of her [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]
* [[Life Drain]]: Can be reversed for an [[Overclocking Attack]].
** [[Not What It Looks Like]]: It shouldn't look like anything but assault with intent to kill. Fandom being what it is, however...
* [[Man Child]]: According to scans, her psyche has "a high degree of youthfulness."
* [[Mega Manning]]: {{spoiler|Samus gets Grapple Voltage from Gandrayda}}.
* [[The Rival]]: She really wanted to prove herself a better bounty hunter than Samus, who in turn [[Unknown Rival|didn't even know who Gandrayda was]] until ''Metroid Prime 3''.
* {{spoiler|[[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]: Including both Rundas and Ghor, and most hauntingly, Samus herself}}.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: [[Morphic Resonance|It is her tell]].
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* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Samus.
* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: There's a reason he's the leader of the space pirates.
* [[Back from the Dead]]: See [[Joker Immunity]] below.
* [[Badass]]: It's heavily implied that the only person in the entire galaxy who is a threat to him is Samus.
** Let's see what he (chronologically) accomplishes:
*** Prior to the series, he single-handedly annihilates ''dozens'' of space colonies (including the one Samus lived in, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|whoops]]) and occupied Zebes, wiping out the remnants of the Chozo civilization.
*** He fights Samus one-on-one in ''[[Metroid]]'' and, while losing, manages to not only survive the fight but escape the endgame explosion, ''and'' lives through his injuries long enough for the pirates to save his life by making him a cyborg.
*** In ''Metroid Prime'', the newly roboticized Meta Ridley is more or less the only Space Pirate to live through the destruction of their frigate, and later survives not only a thrashing by Samus but being blasted by the statue guardians of the Artifact Temple.
*** In ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', he lays waste to a whole Federation outpost before dragging Samus into a freefall battle. He not only survives, {{spoiler|he takes in so much [[Toxic Phlebotinum|Phazon]], he becomes a full-blown Leviathan guardian. And, unlike other powerful beings of Phazon, he ''lives through'' Phaaze's destruction at the end of the game
*** In ''[[Super Metroid]]'', he attacks a science facility, steals the baby Metroid from right under Samus' nose, and fights her again. He finally dies in this game, and it takes the ''fifth'' canonical beatdown by his archnemesis coupled with being caught in an '''exploding planet''' to kill him.
*** His clone in ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' wreaks havoc in the station and slaughters scientists and even some soldiers while still an ''infant''. {{spoiler|The frequency of his voice is driving the other beings in the Bottle Ship into a frenzy
*** Even in ''Metroid Fusion'', the worn-out, dead, frozen husk of his ''clone'' is suitable for X parasite cloning. Yes, a clone of a clone, and he's still an endgame boss.
*** Let's put it this way: Adam Malkovich expressly considers Ridley to be just as much of a threat as a station full of ''invincible Metroids''. He is probably the only thing in the universe that can ''scare Samus stiff'' (though that has been attributed to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). That is how dangerous this guy is.
* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: And fly, and survive re-entry without issue. His species is known as "the ''Space'' Dragons", suggesting they have adapted to vacuum environments.
* [[Big Eater]]: {{spoiler|In ''Metroid: Other M'', he eats constantly as "Little Birdy" in order to hasten his metamorphosis
* [[Breath Weapon]]: What did you expect from a dragon? Ridley can spit plasma hot enough to melt through spaceship hull.
* [[Brown Note]]: In ''Metroid: Other M'', it's revealed that {{spoiler|the frequency of Ridley's voice drives space pirates and some other creatures into a murderous battle frenzy, essentially making Ridley a perfect military commander. It also may have had something to do with Samus' mental breakdown
* {{spoiler|[[Creepy Child]]}}: In ''[[Metroid: Other M]]''. {{spoiler|Somehow ironic how Ridley seems to be creepier when he's a cute newborn chicken thing
* {{spoiler|[[Deader Than Dead]]: Let's see
* [[The Dragon]]: He's not only an actual dragon, but he's the penultimate boss in all of his appearances.<ref>Except for [[Updated Rerelease|Zero Mission]].</ref>
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: The American art for the first ''Metroid'' game showed Ridley as a weird dragonfly thing instead of the more familiar space dragon. This might have been due to the art being based on his in-game sprite, which admittedly was rather vague on his appearance beyond "winged monster
** Not to mention him being the same size as Samus.
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: Perhaps this is [[Alternate Character Interpretation]], but he and Samus tend to parallel one another, with being extremely powerful and intelligent. They are also presented with the same option of killing or sparing {{spoiler|each other as}} a child with opposite results. Additionally, Ridley and Samus are just as unkillable; Samus as a player character can "continue" if killed, and Ridley "continues" every time he dies.
* {{spoiler|[[Genetic Memory]]: His clone in ''Metroid: Other M'' seems to know EXACTLY who Samus is
** {{spoiler|The "clone" may remember [[Back from the Dead|a lot more than that
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: It's [[All There in the Manual]]. Finally somewhat shown in ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Informed Attribute]]: The intelligence that he exhibits in the manga, and which pretty much all supplementary material talks about, is never really touched upon in-game. Then again, we rarely see him when he's not fighting Samus, so who knows. Though it does get shown a bit {{spoiler|by his clone in ''Metroid: Other M''
** It's also exhibited during his attack on Norion in ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', as he tries multiple times to attack Samus while she is in Morph Ball mode, incapable of really fighting back. After this fails, he drags her into a freefall battle; considering Samus can't fly, even if he lost the fight, she'd still fall to her death. [[Spanner in the Works|And then Rundas shows up to save Samus, ruining all the fun.]]
* [[Joker Immunity]]: {{spoiler|Officially averted in ''Super Metroid
* [[Lack of Empathy]]: He cruelly mocks Samus for her PTSD-enduced memories of her mother being killed by Ridley, as well as that he absorbed a bit of her cells.
* [[Lean and Mean]]: Except the ''Metroid: Other M'' clone, who is more muscular but no less mean.
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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Able to tear around the screen at an amazing speed given his size, as well as deal out considerable damage to Samus.
* [[Might Makes Right]]: In the manga: "In battle, nature sides with the strong! You shall realize just how worthless your ideals and such are -- AH HA HA HA HA HA!"
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: Hilariously, he is a [[Recycled in Space|space]] [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragon]] who is the leader of the Space Pirates and often comes back from the dead, sometimes as a cyborg. If you count that he is capable of invisibility in ''Super Metroid'', he is a literal [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]].
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: He is anorexic and can fly in space here.
** [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]
* [[Psycho for Hire]]: The
{{quote|'''Space Pirate Datalog''': We believe our creation, now called [[We Can Rebuild Him|Meta Ridley]], will become the mainstay of our security force, a job he will certainly relish.}}
* [[Razor Wings]]: Averted
* [[Robot Me]]: Mecha-Ridley in ''Metroid: Zero Mission
* [[Suddenly Voiced]]: His appearances in spin-off material give him the ability to speak. He never speaks in-game.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: ''Metroid Prime'' was the first game to even make mention of his recovery, and the explanation for it was not very detailed.
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{{quote|Debut: ''Metroid''
"'Defective
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* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Retconned in the ''Metroid Prime'' series as an organic machine built by the Chozo, instead of the Space Pirate leader. This is in the manga too. The
* [[Big Bad]]: More often than not. Could be considered the most prominent [[Big Bad]] of the main series.
* [[Brain In a Jar]]
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* {{spoiler|[[One-Winged Angel]]}}: In ''Super Metroid''. Yikes.
* [[One Bad Mother]]: Everyone just calls her Mother in the manga. This gets referenced in ''Metroid: Other M''.
* [[Sassy Black Woman]]: In the non-canon ''[[Captain N]]'' show.
* [[Scare Chord]]: The melody for her battle music in ''Super Metroid'' consists of these.
* [[Spikes of Villainy]]: They serve no practical purpose otherwise.
* [[Stationary Boss]]: Most of the time.
* [[Sympathy for the Devil]]: {{spoiler|In ''Metroid: Other M'' in the form of Melissa Bergman
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: Depending on which source you are looking at, she either let the Space Pirates into Zebes to kill the Chozo or took over the Space Pirate when they came into Zebes then had them kill the Chozo.
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: In the manga, it's explained that her true goal is to bring order into the galaxy.
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"[[Memetic Mutation|Science Team has vapor for brains.]]"
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* [[Armored Coffins]]: Their boarding pods.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: In ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'', especially. "Surely, we are cursed."
* [[Comedic Sociopathy]]: "They were promptly shot."
* [[Creative Sterility]]: Almost all of their tech is stolen or reverse-engineered.
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* [[Eternal Engine]]: Their homeworld is like this, complete with a perpetual shower of acid rain.
* [[Evil Knockoff]]: Their attempts to reverse-engineer Samus's technology.
** According to logs taken from the original ''Metroid Prime'', the pirates did some poking around into the Morph Ball technology, but only to have their results ''break every bone in the test subjects' bodies''. Needless to say, that venture took them nowhere.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]
* [[For Science!]]: Even they think that their Science Team has [[Memetic Mutation|vapor for brains]].
* [[Genre Blind]]
* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: In ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' only.
* [[Mooks]]: Out of all Space Pirate troopers, they are most prominent and iconic species.
** [[Airborne Mook]]: Pirate aerotroopers, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|flying pirates]], aero mines, preeds...
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** [[Mecha-Mooks]]: Aeromines, Crawlmines, Crawltanks and various drones.
** [[Nocturnal Mooks]]: What the shadow pirates are supposed to be, but some are too stupid to stay in the shadows.
** [[Shield Bearing Mook]]:
** [[Slave Mooks]]: Pirate Militia are made up of criminals forced into service and captured slaves. Disobedient militia supposedly become rations for the real troops.
** [[Superpowered Mooks]]: After they discover hypermode.
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** Hell, they have to keep reminding personnel not to keep them as ''pets''.
* [[Visible Invisibility]]: Shadow pirates are pretty much invisible by unaided human eyes in the dark; naturally, some will attack in broad daylight, where they are only slightly obscured.
* [[Wall Crawl]]:
=== Kraid ===
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* [[The Brute]]: With Ridley and Mother Brain in the first game.
* [[Disc One Final Boss]]
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: Kraid was actually really tiny in the original ''Metroid''. ''Metroid: Zero Mission'' [[retcon]]ned this out when it made him gigantic as well.
** Also, the green on his body that is portrayed as scales in all later games is portrayed as ''fur'' in the original's American artwork.
* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: "Fake Kraid" in ''Super Metroid'' was actually in the same room as Kraid in the original. This was to add dramatic effect once the player entered the next room and saw just how gigantic the real deal was.
* [[Spike Shooter]]: In ''Metroid'' and ''Super Metroid''.
* [[Tactical Suicide Boss]]: He would be invincible if he never opened his mouth or shot spikes out of his belly. Partially justified in that being shot in the eyes with missiles really, really hurts.
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* {{spoiler|[[Bonus Boss]]: In ''Metroid: Other M'', appearing as a [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The biggest in ''Metroid'''s lore... So far... It exists on multiple plains of reality at once and what Samus has fought so far is only its head.
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Its appearance in ''Metroid: Other M''. Since it shows up after the credits with no context, it is unknown if Phantoon was another of the corrupt Federation faction's bio-weapons or if this was the original Phantoon and it simply took over what was left after the Bottle Ship operation was shut down (during the [[Boss Rush]] leading up to it, left-over bio-weapons can be seen coming out of portals similar to the ones the Rage Hands come out of).
* [[Our Ghosts Are Different]]: It exists as both a multidimensional corporeal form and an astral form. And while it can be driven away, it'll always come back. The Coverns, on the other hand, are explicitly ghosts comprised of multiple souls.
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* [[Airborne Mook]]: Their wings can be shot off, but they are still dangerous when grounded.
* [[Bee People]]: Exactly how their social structure runs is not clear but they are bee-like and they have a "king".
* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]:
* [[Bug Buzz]]: Learn to hate and fear it in ''Metroid Fusion''.
* [[Eyeless Face]]: Their larval stage, until ''Metroid: Other M'' decided to give them eyes.
* [[Insectoid Aliens]]: Unlike the "Zebesians" up there, who are more like reptiles/avians in insectoid armor.
* [[Natural Weapon]]: The main difference between them and the other Pirate foot soldiers is that they never seem to brandish any weapons besides those they were born with.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: In ''Metroid: Other M'', they try to latch onto you and explode if they take heavy damage. Thankfully, only in ''Metroid: Other M'' so far.
* [[Third Eye]]: A large one in the center of their head.
* [[Wall Crawl]]: As zeros, their larval stage.
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* [[Everything's Better with Spinning]]: Sometimes, during its first phase. Subverted, since getting sucked into a top-like mech to be battered is anything but better.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Possibly THE largest boss in ''Metroid'' history. The Command Module is nearly the size of Samus's ship.
* [[King Mook]]: It is essentially a gargantuan Quad robot. {{spoiler|Even down to the Command Module and Main Body being able to fight separately
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: It is fast enough to keep you in its sights if you try to run circles around it (and you may end up doing so just to keep from being underfoot), but its forward momentum is less than impressive in its initial state. Indeed, it takes a little while for Quadraxis to simply lift a leg. Luckily for it, there are walls that prevent Samus from simply running away.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]: Its Annihilator Beam.
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* [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]]: It's stated in ''Metroid Prime'' that at least some of them have done this.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Samus and the Metroids are proof enough that you do '''not''' want the Chozo mad at you.
* [[Doom Magnet]]: Whatever they touch, be it planet, species
* [[A Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Chozo on Tallon IV returned from their Higher Plane of Existence to deal with Phazon, but many were twisted into insane ghosts by it while sealing the bulk of the stuff away.
* [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]: Both the Metroids and Mother Brain were created by the Chozo to make SR-388 and Zebes nicer places to live. In both cases, the Chozo got a ''lot'' more than they bargained for.
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* [[Steampunk]]: They have done some dabbling in this, as seen by the observatory they left on Elisia.
* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]: A major reason why Samus' suit has such [[Clarke's Third Law|impossibly advanced technology]] is because these guys didn't have to worry much about regular physics.
* [[Technical Pacifist]]: For a race sworn not to hurt other living creatures, it seems odd that they'd train the galaxy's greatest Badass (and create its worst [[Living Weapon|living weapons]]...).
=== Metroid Hatchling (Baby) ===
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* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Arguably the biggest damn hero in the entire series.
* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}
* {{spoiler|[[Hive Queen]]}}: {{spoiler|Since ''Metroid: Other M'''s Metroid Queen is cloned straight from the baby and only special infants have the genetic coding to become queens, it would appear that the hatchling was indeed an infant Queen
* [[Last of His Kind]]: For a time it was in captivity, and the galaxy was at peace. Neither lasted.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]: Subverted as far as [[Mama Bear|Samus]] is concerned.
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* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]: This is more or less what happened when the X made a comeback on SR-388. {{spoiler|It's also what would have happened elsewhere had the Galactic Federation gone through with their plans to capture the SA-X}}.
* [[Genetic Memory]]: They retain the intelligence and memories of what they transform into.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: {{spoiler|At first, they seem like a mindless species of parasites running purely on instinct. Over the course of the game, you begin to learn that they're ruthless, intelligent, and capable of [[Suicide Attack|acting against instinct]] for their own ends
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]: Aside from the SA-X, their efforts to mimic humans end up failing, as it results in them becoming gelatinous humanoid blobs wearing lab coats instead. {{spoiler|They end up refining the process eventually, to the point where a Core-X perfectly mimics a scientist in order to set Sector 3 on the fritz}}.
* [[Intangible Man]]: Yes they can go intangible and ignore most physical barriers. However, it is implied by the powerbomb that large enough explosions can still affect them, and it'd stated by Adam that [[Earthshattering Kaboom|big enough ones]] can kill them.
* [[Stealth Pun]] The X infect a machine with the acronym B.O.X. {{spoiler|So, it's the X-Box
* [[The Soulless]]: Never had one to begin with.
* [[The Virus]]: Though not literally viruses, you do fight both infected victims and mimics made by the X using their hosts' DNA.
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* [[Always Lawful Good]]: Though we really only learn about their species wide interactions, founders
* [[Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance]]: They are basically humanoid moths. So, it's natural that they would have a deep attraction to light.
* [[Badass Preacher]]: The Luminoth usually speak about peace and all that, through strength and if
** Special mention should go to J-Stl and A-Kul. J-Stl killed at least 100 Ing in ''his last stand'', and who knows how many he killed in total. A-Kul: went into Dark Aether, a god awful dimension filled to the brink with Ing that would kill her the second they got a chance and whose very air was deadly, found one of the ten keys to the temple that had all been hidden by the Ing, fought her way to the Sky Temple, and managed to place it there AND leave clues to the other keys before dying.
** The Sentinels of the Temples are perhaps the epitome of this, especially since they probably really are preachers. Scans reveal every one of them went down fighting. The one in Agon died while fending off innumerable Ing hordes, finally succumbing to superior numbers. The one in Torvus was possessed numerous times, and fought off ''each of them''. The Ing finally realized that they couldn't break his will and killed him. And the one in the Sanctuary Fortress was so badass, the Ing had to turn his own weapons of war against him, unable to defeat him themselves.
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]/[[Punny Name]]: Their species name is basically a combination of the Latin "lumen" for light and "moth
* [[Higher-Tech Species]]: They developed their unique technology through a combination of contact with the Chozo and their own experimentation on Aether. In fact, they might very well have gotten the chance to join the Chozo as [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] had they not gotten embroiled with the Ing.
* [[Hopeless War]]: Both against the Ing and their own machines. The machines aren't able to combat the Ing well themselves, but are not priority targets for them beyond extra weapons systems.
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* [[Light Is Good]]: Sort of. The light of Aether is supposedly part of what makes their technology possible and it is what kept the Ing from immediately overrunning them, but from Federation data, it can be implied it is also what makes Aether "dimensionally unstable", which is what allowed Dark Aether to form in the first place.
* [[Most Writers Are Human]]: The fact that Samus is fighting to help a species of ''humanoid'' moths against a species of very definitely ''non''-humanoid creatures is significant.
* [[Psychic Powers]]: More than one of them had these at least, but it is not clear how many.
* [[Robot War]]: The machines they created for war, and even those for peace, decided that [[Crush! Kill! Destroy!|all living things must die]] while the Luminoth were already in the middle of the Ing war. Only the most basic maintenance bots remained loyal, though they weren't of much help, having no combat ability.
* [[Weather Control Machine]]: One of the marvels they made use of.
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* [[Demonic Possession]]: What they're good at.
* [[Elite Mooks]]: Hunter Ing and Ing Storms, both capable of flight.
* [[Endangered Species]]: The only Ing still alive are the ones who managed to possess another creature, as they can't live on Aether by themselves. The space pirates have a darkling Metroid on display at one of their bases, as revealed in a ''Metroid Prime 3'' scan.
* [[Exclusively Evil]]
* [[The Heartless]]: ''"The Ing are creatures of shadow and darkness, knowing nothing of peace or mercy."''
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* [[Rite of Passage]]: Ing are forced to fend for themselves as larva, then fight dangerous opponents after maturing. The idea is to make the young ones rely on each other and hate all other lifeforms, and it seems to work.
* [[Starfish Aliens]]: Unfriendly ones at that.
* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|After their world begins to die, several Warrior Ing attempt to prevent Samus' escape from Dark Aether so she'll die with them, but she just jumps over them and continues going
* [[Wall Crawl]]: All of them that are mobile but don't fly can seemingly do this.
* [[Wall Master]]: Darkling Tentacles.
* [[You Will Be Assimilated]]: They seem to take a page from the X Parasites, in that both mutate other creatures into new forms. The Ing possess live hosts, however; their attempts to bring back dead bodies were pretty pathetic (though freaky). All X need is DNA; they eat the prey first, then start making copies. [[Scylla and Charybdis|Before you write the Ing off as less dangerous]], know that they can possess Metroids, which X cannot work with at all.
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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Dark Samus during the events of ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes'' was certainly depicted as being completely insane, namely due to being imbalanced at a molecular level, almost to [[Final Fantasy VI|Kefka Palazzo]] levels.
* [[Bag of Spilling]]: Just as much as the real Samus, it seems.
* [[Barrier Change Boss]]: It can only be harmed by one type of beam. It routinely shifts which beam that is, indicated by the color of its armor.
* [[Big Bad]]: Of the ''Metroid Prime'' Trilogy. It doesn't really come into the role until the third game
* [[The Chessmaster]]: In ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption''.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Is seen projecting these from her armor in concept art. In fact, these are how Dark Samus was made!
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Her skirmishes with the space pirates on Aether all see her quickly cut through them. {{spoiler|Then she applies it to the hunters from ''Metroid Prime 3'', in case anyone had doubts about her threat level already}}.
* [[Deflector Shields]]: Has them at a couple points
* [[Demonic Possession]]: Tries her hand at it in the third game.
* [[Early Bird Boss]]: Some of her abilities are things Samus could duplicate or at least counter if the [[Call Forward|power-ups were present in the Prime series]]. She also uses super missiles long before the player can get them.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: Even though she initially helps Warrior Ing attack Samus, some of the space pirates she is seen fighting with over some phazon were Ing possessed, suggesting one of them went back on any possible deals that could have been made. Since Ing don't make much use of the phazon they already have, it can be assumed they were simply trying to halter Dark Samus.
* [[Evil Knockoff]]: Though unlike the SA-X from ''Metroid Fusion'', Dark Samus isn't quite as much of a carbon copy, seeing as it used to be {{spoiler|a Metroid}} and has some distinct abilities.
** [[Expy]]: Of SA-X. ''Metroid Fusion'' was in development before ''Metroid Prime'', and they were handled by different teams, so it's a bit nebulous which is the [[Expy]] of which.
* [[Flight]]: A consistent ability she keeps after developing it that Samus doesn't really have, though at points she can only hover over the ground.
* [[From a Single Cell]]: Or single phazon particle... {{spoiler|It takes destroying ''every bit of phazon in the universe'' to finally kill her
* [[Hoist By Her Own Petard]]: Thrice.
* [[Humanoid Abomination]]
* [[Invisibility]]: She tries a few different forms of it.
* [[Joker Immunity]]: Justified. She can reform herself from phazon particles. {{spoiler|You destroy her for good in ''Metroid Prime 3
* [[Laughing Mad]]: Dark Samus often laughs rather maniacally in some of her appearances in ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''.
* [[Mega Manning]]: {{spoiler|First some space pirates armor and weapons, then the phazon suit and finally she acquires the abilities of other Hunters besides Samus during the events of ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* [[Mind Control]]: Does a whole lot of it later.
* [[Mook Maker]]: In ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', she could produce copies of herself.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Despite her psychopathic nature, she actually shows some degree of compassion towards Metroids held captive by the Space Pirates in the second game. {{spoiler|This makes sense because she ''is'' a Metroid
* [[Recurring Boss]]: Fought three times in ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Inverted: She starts out as being completely insane in ''Metroid Prime 2: Echoes''. By the time of ''Metroid Prime 3: Corruption'', however, she has become sane enough to make complex plans that ensure that she succeeds, although she does retain a high degree of
* [[Shadow Archetype]]: To Samus
* [[Short-Range Shotgun]]: Cruelly averted.
* [[Sobriquet]]: She is referred to by the space pirates as the Dark Hunter. After she took over, they take to calling her the Dark One, and the Black Demon.<ref>These come from bonus material called ''Another Side Story''.</ref>
* [[The Worm That Walks]]: Made of Phazon.
** Though that depends on to what extent you consider Phazon to be sentient/separate beings or just a substance.
*** And, somewhat more literally than the trope above it suggests, {{spoiler|as the Chozo once referred to it only as "The Worm
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Despite her name and her comfort in its atmosphere, Dark Samus is not from Dark Aether, nor is she a Darkling. {{spoiler|Meaning the Light Beam is worthless against her, but the Dark Beam is devastating
=== Phazon ===
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* [[Applied Phlebotinum]]: It's a mutagenic substance that the Space Pirates exploit for a power-up. Samus herself gets to experience its potential during the final battle against Metroid Prime in the eponymous game then goes whole-hog and uses it for her own power source by ''Metroid Prime 3'' (not by choice, but it has its upsides).
* [[The Corruption]]: Phazon usually prefers to kill and absorb weaker beings, but if the victim is strong enough, it is instead mutated and becomes an agent of Phazon.
* {{spoiler|[[Eldritch Abomination]]}}: Revealed in ''Metroid Prime 3'' to be {{spoiler|basically a huge transdimensional being with a heart the size of a planet}}.
* [[Fungus Humongous]]: There are some giant mushrooms that seem very heavily saturated with Phazon.
* {{spoiler|[[Genius Loci]]: Its core is Phaaze, a huge sentient planet
* [[Green Rocks]]: Phazon has quite a diverse range of uses: mutating plants and wildlife, being weaponized, driving creatures {{spoiler|and several major characters}} insane, etc.
* [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere]]: Justified, as this is Phazon's ''[[Sentient Phlebotinum|goal]]''.
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* [[Scenery Gorn]]/[[Scenery Porn]]: In the midst of Phazon twisting environments into strange forms, it ''does'' make things very pleasant to look at.
* [[Sentient Phlebotinum]]: It seems to be more self aware than grass, but does not seem to be particularly intelligent.
* [[Toxic Phlebotinum]]: Everything it doesn't kill, it turns a violent killing machine, usually with a shortened lifespan. The space pirates discovered a strain that could be integrated into an organism's DNA and give it a higher tolerance to the substance but it still only worked in one case. {{spoiler|Three if you count Samus and Metroid Prime
** If you break canisters of Phazon around Ing, they die. The Ing live on a toxic planet and still can't take it! {{spoiler|The Emperor Ing survived and started hording it
=== Nightmare ===
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* [[Body Horror]]: As if its organic components weren't horrific enough already, as it takes damage in ''Metroid Fusion'', its face begins to melt off.
* [[Cyborg]]: Inverted. It's a machine with organic components installed. Those organic components are what let the X infect it, much like its fellow machine-with-organic-parts, the B.O.X. security droid.
* [[Gravity Master]]: It can slow Samus down, stop her ability to space jump and cause her missiles to prematurely crash before hitting it. ''Metroid: Other M'' shows it can also create miniature ''black holes'' to absorb and redirect Samus' shots. It can not unload its full arsenal while doing this, however.
* [[Larynx Dissonance]]: Its voice sounds less like a looming bioweapon and more like a crying baby.
* [[Nightmare Face]]: Six horrid little yellow eyes and saggy, snot-green skin. In ''Metroid Fusion'', the face starts to ''melt'' as you shoot it!
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* [[Batman Gambit]]: It sent the distress signal to all of the Hunters in the galaxy so that they would find the Octoliths and set it free.
* [[Big Bad]]: Of ''Metroid Prime Hunters''.
* [[Cognizant Limbs]]: While Hunters has no lock-on feature, Gorea's arms have their own health bars. As does the seal sphere.
* [[Combat Tentacles]]: Either this or a [[Tractor Beam]], depending on how you interpret it.
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* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: The survivors of its initial assault were said to seem lifeless, even if they weren't injured.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: Its second phase does this.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* [[Guide Dang It]]: How to unlock its final phase. More specifically, you have to shoot a number of colored panels on the walls of its arena in a certain order with the proper weapons corresponding to the color of the panel. This is actually hinted at in several of the logbook scans, but it's so vague that most people needed a guide to figure it out anyway.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: It likes throwing the frozen colonies of cyanobacteria that float around in its prison.
* [[Mega Manning]]: First phase.
* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: It blowing up its arms doesn't bother it much {{spoiler|in fact, the limbs are the only thing Samus's weapons can damage. The final stage is against a flying torso
* [[Oubliette]]: Tailor-made cans.
* [[Raymanian Limbs]]: Its head, much like Trace.
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