#super metroid

[samusu-aran]

Super Metroid by @Wata_Ridley

[hoshizoralone]

reflection

[limitiz-nk]

mother and baby's nap

original inspiration:

[bfoxanimation]

[kcggggg]

Mideo Games Cheats n' Beatums (circa 2015)

(the M stands for Metroid)

[homriette]

Another Samus painting comm for a twt user

Always a joy to draw her :)

[thevideogameartarchive]

Crocomire 'Super Metroid' Super Nintendo

[loreleywrites]

OK I keep losing my mind because the biggest reveal in the Metroid Prime 4: Beyond trailer wasn't the return of Sylux, it was the return of an even deeper cut. Look at this shot from the trailer:

At first glance, this is just Sylux flanked by two metroids. Pretty normal for a Metroid game villain! It's even supported by the secret ending to Metroid Prime: Federation Force, which shows Sylux walking up to a Metroid in a tube.

Except these aren't Metroids.

Metroids have three nuclei, but these things next to Sylux? They only have one each. "Well maybe they're new kinds of metroids," you might say. But you don't need to say that. Because Metroid already has an alien that looks like a single-nucleus metroid.

Meet the mochtroid:

In Super Metroid, the Zebesian Space Pirates recover the Baby Metroid and do all kinds of experiments on it. One of those experiments is a cloning program to propegate a new army of metroids. Their first attempts were failures, producing organisms far weaker than the engineered bioweapons they were cloned from. These failed experiments were dubbed "mochtroids" and can be found in Maridia. They can still drain energy, but are easy to dislodge and even easier to kill. This is their only canon appearance.

Why does Sylux have mochtroids and not metroids? What is Sylux planning with them? Is there a real metroid breeding program it's running somewhere?

There's a lot of questions, but Sylux is a character with so little existing lore that it's impossible to say right now beyond, "It's targeting its hate at the Galactic Federation generally and Samus Aran specifically," which is all we really know about the character anyway.

I, for one, have been a huge Sylux fan since its debut in Metroid Prime Hunters. Excited to see what all this is about.

[darkpastelpurple]

thank God for rough localization back in the day because Varia Suit as a name fucks way harder than Barrier Suit

[ryrycosmos]

Everyone is here!! 👾🌟✨

[aki-t144]

Metroid dread

[samusu-aran]

Samus Aran by @DANMAKUMAN

[hoshizoralone]

super duper

[gears2gnomes]

SGDQ 2024 - Super Metroid

"Wall Jump Training."

[bempo]

bounty hunting

[thecongressman1]

Samus Aran surrounded in the depths of Zebes