#Queen Metroid

[kosmonauttihai]

Queen Metroid with hatchlings, just being critters.

Mixed media: acrylic, puff paint (some of the carapace edges), glow-in-the-dark paint (hatchlings), air-dry clay (limbs), and polymer clay (teeth) on cardboard and cardstock + translucent red plastic from a candy wrapper, green tissue paper, and some kind of decorative plastic mesh glued over holes cut in the cardboard + photographed with fairylights behind the painting + some digital editing.

[the-starry-lycan]

AM2R, anyone?

[munch-k]

Maytroid 2023 Day 6 - QUEEN METROID

[mhexart]

Mother dearest

[alligator-with-a-top-hat]

The front of a Queen Metroid I sprited in PICO-8. Largely inspired by its appearance in Another Metroid II Remake, but with details taken from the original Metroid II. Bonus Samus Returns-colored Queen included.

[metroidbosshowdown]

Last for this round, we have the biological experiment gone wrong, Nightmare, up against the progenitor of Metroids on planet SR388, the Queen Metroid. Who wins, the wielder of gravity or the spawner of beasts?

[zovis]

[batgirlteeth]

updated version/redraw of a samus piece i did last year! keep on stretchin! no abberation + closeup under the cut

[dstriple]

[molagboop]

Ok I'll talk more about Raven Beak's suit.

You know how Samus' suit just up and explodes if you get her killed? At least in Mawkin powersuits, that's an intended feature for specific warrior classes.

If you were to kill Raven Beak in some way other than allowing a Metroid to juice him like a lemon, his suit would explode. That's a security feature: the Mawkin are very proud of their technology, and firmly believe that their secrets of warfare should never fall into the hands of Others: partly because they're so proud, but also for the good of the galaxy. They don't want their secrets being used by bad actors to wreak havoc.

Raven Beak is the Mawkin Warlord: as such, his suit is juiced up to the nth degree. If he were to fall in battle and his suit didn't explode, the Mawkin would be waist-high in the swamp. If, for example, the Space Pirates were to get ahold of his suit and reverse engineer it, the Mawkin would be held responsible for unleashing the means for the Pirates to create devastating weapons based on their designs.

Mawkin suits are highly optimized and possess combat capabilities and weapons that far exceed most other tribes. Raven Beak's suit has custom "firmware". His suit and the suits of a number of high echelon warriors and intelligence agents are designed to combust in a very particular way.

When the wearer's vitals fall below critical levels, the suit cannibalizes its own upgrades. The excess matter that accumulates as a result of this reaction is highly volatile, and the speed at which this all occurs helps to catalyze a fantastic explosion that ensures no technological footprint is left behind. No user data, no biometrics, no upgrades, no suit. Typically, the more upgrades you have, the grander the explosion is: that's more matter for the dying suit to push together like a play-doh ball made of dynamite.

Upon death, the Shrouded Talons' suits are designed to destroy not just the tech, but the body as well. If a unit is decommissioned, the intelligence wing of the tribe logically does not want the agent's identity to be discerned. Leave no trace and there's no trail to follow, as it were. There's a reason the Talons aren't common knowledge in intergalactic intelligence circles: they take cleaning up after themselves very seriously.

[brennanamuffin]

She

[coldgoldlazarus]

These are the same thing, to me...

[elliot-geltz]

I love how we know more about what Doom Guy does in his off time than we do about Samus.

[radicalgator]

still on a metroid kick tbh. So heres one the best xeno critters, the Queen Metroid! Tbh always been a fan of her design.

[dananicolesdrawings]

My new Queen Sonia charm and smol Samus stickers are now up on Etsy! The link is in my bio. 💙💙💙

[metroidbosshowdown]