#aka the phantoon in super is the dead MB from metroid 1

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@hcstofthevoid​ sent:  What are some of the most bizarre things Samus has seen or discovered during her various expeditions on alien planets?

‘bizarre’ is a weird word to qualify given it depends so heavily on perspective, prejudice, and ignorance (or lack thereof). Keep in mind Samus is also a human that was raised by bird people and was living on Zebes at an incredibly young age. The bar for what comes across to her as ‘bizarre’ as a result is pretty strict. She has shown negative reactions for two different kinds of things- machines and mutations. Machines aren’t bizarre she just doesn’t trust them.

The most bizarre things, then, would be a result of three different parties we’ve seen in canon-

Space Pirates, Phazon, and the Ingg.

The Space Pirates make a point out of transforming themselves and splicing their bodies with whatever the fuck they can get their hands on... theirs and others. The parasite queen comes to mind, turning tiny little pests into monstrous abominations that are capable of destroying space stations. The fact that there are so many iterations of the pirates themselves I think feels so canon and accurate to how they are. They’re not retcons, the pirates really just can’t decide on what they want to do!

Phazon and Ingg should be pretty self explanatory... both are agents that take natural occurring things and mutate them into twisted or evil forms. My Samus hasn’t met the X parasites yet, but those resulting monstrosities also fit into this category. She would never think she’d fight a form of herself mutated with a hornoad....

Ah, if there’s one thing on Zebes that weirded her the hell out though, it was not only Phantoon but seeing the Crocomire leap out of the fucking lava and crash through debris in a last ditch effort to kill her.