History AwesomeBosses / Metroid

* Quadraxis from ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a '''much different''' version of the Quads you've been fighting all throughout the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks that literally draw you in for a good chunk of damage if you don't backpedal and shoot a Super Missile's worth of damage to undo the vortex spin, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking its floating head, and THEN after that, you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in its head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that, you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic, with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ dark, menacing music]] being the icing on the cake. It's even more awesome if you fight Quadraxis on a [[SelfImposedChallenge No Dark Suit Run]].

** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2'', after defeating the Emperor Ing after everything you've been through and all of its three forms and damage you've taken, you're treated to the familiar sight of the escape countdown. The problem? Just as you get out of the Temple, Dark Samus interrupts your escape and starts the true final boss fight. No healing beforehand allowed, and the timer is '''STILL counting down'''. Plus you get that awesome escape remix, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A1_ce2PxhA complete with emergency beeps so you won't forget the timer is still up.]] Oh, and she shows what's precisely behind her [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/d/d5/Final_Dark_Samus_Profile.png/revision/latest?cb=20141130050016 visor]]... along with the rest of her body as well.

** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2'', after defeating the Emperor Ing after everything you've been through and all of its three forms and damage you've taken, you're treated to the familiar sight of the escape countdown. The problem? Just as you get out of the Temple, Dark Samus interrupts your escape and starts the true final boss fight. No healing beforehand allowed, and the timer is STILL counting down. Plus you get that awesome escape remix, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oNDCY8Nak complete with emergency beeps so you won't forget the timer is still up.]]

* Quadraxis from ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking its floating head, and THEN after that, you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in its head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that, you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic, with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ dark, menacing music]] being the icing on the cake. It's even more awesome if you fight Quadraxis on a [[SelfImposedChallenge No Dark Suit Run]].

* [[EvilCounterpart Dark Samus.]] Period. ''Any'' fight with her is pretty much guaranteed to be epic, what with her using your own powers against you ([[spoiler:or, in ''Prime 3'', the other hunters' as well]]), often [[ToxicPhlebotinum Phazon]]-enhanced, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEVQ6JxQFr4 this]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFOqGV-6bck music]] playing in the background. It doesn't hurt that it's a nice break from fifty-foot monstrosities that you have to crawl all over to defeat.

** ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'''s Ridley fight is also epic, even despite the divisive cutscene before it. Samus basically shits bricks and has to come to her senses when Ridley takes out her friend. Samus kicks his ass anyway, so much so he freaks out himself and crashes through a wall. But that would be leaving out the actual fight. He plays much like the 2D games, as do you - it's fast, frantic, and awesome. It gets even more awesome on Hard mode, where ''almost every attack'' is a OHKO, even the comes-out-of-nowhere tail attack. He also does fireballs at you which cause shockwaves, tries to grab you and drag you against the wall (which he does in a cutscene in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''), leaps and flies around, and is generally chaotic. Better still, you've been authorised to use the Super Missiles ''and'' the Plasma Beam literally within a cutscene of this fight, so you get to go to town with your new weaponry.

* Amorbis in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2''. In the higher difficulties, given you have relatively few powerups to find, they're monsters. And that's without going into how awesome it is to kill them by [[{{HSQ}} jamming bombs inside their throats]].

** [[spoiler:What's more, in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]''....Nightmare is back. Despite some cheap exploits and the eventual use of the Gravity Suit to shit on it, Nightmare gains a ton of new moves instead of simply floating around like in ''Fusion'', even added with showing aggressive movements such as limping at a fast speed to body-ram Samus at one point, and even wails like a screaming baby when its face is revealed. NothingIsScarier indeed.]]

** [[spoiler:What's more, in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]''....Nightmare is back with a ton of new moves and starts showing even more aggressive movements such as limping at a fast speed to body-ram Samus in the second phase of the fight, and even wails like a screaming baby when its face is revealed. NothingIsScarier indeed.]]

** [[spoiler:What's more, in ''Other M''....Nightmare is back with a ton of new moves and even wails like a screaming baby when its face is revealed. NothingIsScarier indeed.]]

* In a memorable moment of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', your AI mission control tells you that your only option for accessing your next upgrade at the moment is in a section where one of the station's more interesting specimens has escaped. So what else is new? What's new is that you aren't going to kill this one, because it's an experimental weapon designed by the federation which the researchers nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nightmare]]. And it will {{Curb Stomp|Battle}} you with your current loadout. As you wander through the damaged sector, [[ParanoiaFuel a shadowy figure darts across the screen]] at random intervals accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise synthetic screeching]]. Later, you return to the area, to find it completely trashed -- the same bulkheads that stand up to the SA-X are torn like tissue paper. And your mission is to kill it because it's going to destroy the station if you don't. All of this is nothing compared to what happens as you fight the thing, however -- firstly, it is most definitely a cyborg and not a robot. An [[BodyHorror incomplete cyborg]]. As its [[MadeOfIndestructium Indestructium]] armor, and GravityMaster powers that screw with your ability to even land a solid hit on the thing, you fire away at the [[AttackItsWeakPoint stitched-together face]]. And this is where you discover that the [[FacialHorror stitched-together face covering is in fact a vast aesthetic improvement over the abomination it covered]].

* In a memorable moment of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', your AI mission control tells you that your only option for accessing your next upgrade at the moment is in a section where one of the station's more interesting specimens has escaped. So what else is new? What's new is that you aren't going to kill this one, because it's an experimental weapon designed by the federation which the researchers nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nightmare]]. And it will {{Curb Stomp|Battle}} you with your current loadout. As you wander through the damaged sector, [[ParanoiaFuel a shadowy figure darts across the screen]] at random intervals accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise synthetic screeching]]. Later, you return to the area, to find it completely trashed -- the same bulkheads that stand up to the SA-X are torn like tissue paper. And your mission is to kill it because it's going to destroy the station if you don't. All of this is nothing compared to what happens as you fight the thing, however -- firstly, it is most definitely a cyborg and not a robot. An [[BodyHorror incomplete cyborg]]. As its [[MadeOfIndestructium Indestructium]] armor, GravityMaster powers, and [[IntangibleMan ability to selectively phase through matter]] screw with your ability to even land a solid hit on the thing, you fire away at the [[AttackItsWeakPoint stitched-together face]]. And this is where you discover that the [[FacialHorror stitched-together organic abomination was in fact a vast aesthetic improvement over the alternative it covered]].

** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2'', after defeating the Emperor Ing after everything you've been through and all of its three forms and damage you've taken, you're treated to the familiar sight of the escape countdown. The problem? Just as you get out of the Temple, Dark Samus interrupts your escape and starts the true final boss fight. No healing beforehand allowed, and the timer is STILL counting down. Plus you get that awesome escape remix, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oNDCY8Nak complete with emergency beeps so you won't forget the timer is still up]].

** And now there's a new addition... [[spoiler:the final fight in ''Metroid: Samus Returns''. Yes you read that right. ''Ridley is the final boss in a ''Metroid'' game''. And it's every bit as epic as that entails.]] His intro cutscene shows he's come to try and take the baby metroid and likely try and use it to create clones of them yet again. However Samus has ''zero'' tolerance for this bullshit and proceeds to unloads ALL of her abilities onto him. The best part? He's still got pieces of his Meta-Ridley self ala VideoGame/MetroidPrime and he's ''still'' giving Samus a hard time. And just when it looks like he'll ''actually kill Samus'' the Baby comes in and starts eating off him and giving his energy to Samus. What follows is an ass kicking ''years'' in the making.

** And now there's a new addition... [[spoiler:the final fight in ''Metroid: Samus Returns''. Yes you read that right. ''Ridley is the final boss in a ''Metroid'' game''. And it's every bit as epic as that entails.]] His intro cutscene shows he's come to try and take the baby metroid and likely try and use it to create clones of them yet again. However Samus has ''zero'' tolerance for this bullshit and proceeds to unloads ALL of her abilities onto him. The best part? He's still got pieces of his Meta-Ridley self ala MetroidPrime and he's ''still'' giving Samus a hard time. And just when it looks like he'll ''actually kill Samus'' the Baby comes in and starts eating off him and giving his energy to Samus. What follows is an ass kicking ''years'' in the making.

** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2'', after defeating the Emperor Ing after everything you've been through and all of its three forms and damage you've taken, you're treated to the familiar sight of the escape countdown. The problem? Just as you get out of the Temple, Dark Samus interrupts your escape and starts the true final boss fight. No healing beforehand allowed, and the timer is STILL counting down. Plus you get that awesome escape remix, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oNDCY8Nak complete with emergency beeps so you won't forget the timer is still up]].
* Amorbis in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2''. In the higher difficulties, given you have relatively few powerups to find, they're monsters. And that's without going into how awesome it is to kill them by [[{{HSQ}} jamming bombs inside their throats]].

* All of [[spoiler:The Hunters]] in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3'' double as this and a [[spoiler:TearJerker]].

* In spite of their brutal difficulty, or perhaps BECAUSE of their difficulty, just about any of the boss fights in ''MetroidPrime 2'' could fit this. They can be so controller-smashingly frustrating that beating any of them is almost on par with beating a ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls''/''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' boss. Try finding someone who didn't cheer upon watching the Boost Guardian convulsing and expiring.

** Especially noteworthy in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3'', where the first Ridley encounter is fought entirely in ''free-fall''.

* Quadraxis from ''Prime 2'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking its floating head, and THEN after that, you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in its head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that, you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic, with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ dark, menacing music]] being the icing on the cake. It's even more awesome if you fight Quadraxis on a [[SelfImposedChallenge No Dark Suit Run]].

** [[spoiler:And now there's a new addition.... the final fight in Metroid: Samus Returns. Yes you read that right. RIDLEY IS THE FINAL BOSS IN A METROID GAME. And it's EVERY BIT AS EPIC AS THAT ENTAILS. His intro cutscene shows he's come to try and take the baby metroid and likely try and use it to create clones of them yet again. However Samus has ZERO tolerance for this bullshit and proceeds to unloads ALL of her abilities onto him. The best part? He's still got pieces of his Meta-Ridley self ala MetroidPrime and he's STILL giving Samus a hard time. And just when it looks like he'll ACTUALLY KILL SAMUS the Baby comes in and starts eating off him and giving his energy to Samus. What follows is an ass kicking YEARS in the making.]]

* ''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, [[MamaBear Samus gets pissed.]]]]
** The entire fight is awesome, from beginning to end. [[spoiler: Unloaded dozens of missiles on its head and think it's dead? It rises out of the ground attached to a giant organic robot and the crowning music of doom begins to play. As the battle goes on and you damage it more, it starts releasing even more powerful attacks, finally leading up to that epic laser beam that leaves you on your knees, barely able to move. And then, after Baby saves you and sacrifices itself, the music changes to the theme heard up on the surface, and it sounds perfectly appropriate for the [[CurbStompBattle asskicking]] that you deliver to Mother Brain afterwards.]]

* Quadraxis from ''Prime 2'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking it's floating head, and THEN after that you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in it's head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic, with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ dark, menacing music]] being the icing on the cake. It's even more awesome if you fight Quadraxis on a [[SelfImposedChallenge No Dark Suit Run]].

** In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2'', after defeating the Emperor Ing after everything you've been through and all of its three forms and damage you've taken, you're treated to the familiar sight of the escape countdown. The problem? Just as you get out of the Temple, Dark Samus interrupts your escape and starts the true final boss fight. No healing beforehand allowed, and the timer is STILL counting down. Plus you get that awesome escape remix [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oNDCY8Nak complete with emergency beeps so you won't forget the timer is still up]].

* The [[spoiler:Queen Metroid]] from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]'', which definitely delivers as far as 3D boss translations go. Special mention goes to the climax, where you [[spoiler:''blow it up from the inside out with a Power Bomb while your health ticks away like there's no tomorrow.'']]. There's a bit of overlap with ThatOneBoss. 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!'' If you had played and beaten the first ''Metroid'' game, this becomes even more effective. The original Kraid from ''Metroid'' was much smaller, not much bigger than your own sprite. So those smaller Kraids you encounter on the way would have seemed about the right size. The true Kraid must have been a big surprise to Metroid vets.
* All of [[spoiler:The Hunters]] in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 3'' double as this and a [[spoiler: TearJerker.]]

* In spite of their brutal difficulty, or perhaps BECAUSE of their difficulty, just about any of the boss fights in ''MetroidPrime 2'' could fit this. They can be so controller smashingly frustrating that beating any of them is almost on par with beating a ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls''/''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' boss. Try finding someone who didn't cheer upon watching the Boost Guardian convulsing and expiring.
* In a memorable moment of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', your AI mission control tells you that your only option for accessing your next upgrade at the moment is in a section where one of the station's more interesting specimens has escaped. So what else is new? What's new is that you aren't going to kill this one, because it's an experimental weapon designed by the federation which the researchers nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nightmare]]. And it will {{Curb Stomp|Battle}} you with your current loadout. As you wander through the damaged sector, [[ParanoiaFuel a shadowy figure darts across the screen]] at random intervals accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise synthetic screeching]]. Later, you return to the area, to find it completely trashed - the same bulkheads that stand up to the SA-X are torn like tissue paper. And your mission is to kill it because it's going to destroy the station if you don't. All of this is nothing compared to what happens as you fight the thing however - firstly, it is most definitely a cyborg and not a robot. An [[BodyHorror incomplete cyborg]]. As its [[MadeOfIndestructium Indestructium]] armor, GravityMaster powers, and [[IntangibleMan ability to selectively phase through matter]] screw with your ability to even land a solid hit on the thing, you fire away at the [[AttackItsWeakPoint stitched together face]]. And this is where you discover that the [[FacialHorror stitched together organic abomination was in fact a vast aesthetic improvement over the alternative it covered]].

* Quadraxis from ''Prime 2'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking it's floating head, and THEN after that you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in it's head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic, with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ dark, menacing music]] being the icing on the cake.

** 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.
* The [[spoiler:Queen Metroid]] from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Other M]]'', which definitely delivers as far as 3D boss translations go. Special mention goes to the climax, where you [[spoiler:''blow it up from the inside out with a Power Bomb while your health ticks away like there's no tomorrow.'']].
** A bit of overlap with ThatOneBoss. 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!''
** If you had played and beaten the first Metroid game, this becomes even more effective. The original Kraid from Metroid 1 was much smaller, not much bigger than your own sprite. So those smaller Kraids you encounter on the way would have seemed about the right size. The true Kraid must have been a big surprise to Metroid vets.

** Tearjerker: [[spoiler: The Metroid gets blown up about five seconds after saving your life. Then, [[BerserkButton Samus gets pissed.]]]]

*** Using the [[GameBreaker 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.

* Quadraxis from ''Prime 2'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking it's floating head, and THEN after that you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in it's head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic, with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpQ_OQAtgDQ dark, menacing music]] being the icing on the cake.

* Quadraxis from ''Prime 2'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting its weak points on its knee joints, it's dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking it's floating head, and THEN after that you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in it's head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic.

* In a memorable moment of VideoGame/MetroidFusion, your AI mission control tells you that your only option for accessing your next upgrade at the moment is in a section where one of the stations more interesting specimens has escaped. So what else is new? Whats new is that you aren't going to kill this one, because its an experimental weapon designed by the federation which the researchers nicknamed [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nightmare]]. And it will {{Curb Stomp| Battle}} you with your current loadout. As you wander through the damaged sector, [[ParanoiaFuel a shadowy figure darts across the screen]] at random intervals accompanied by [[HellIsThatNoise synthetic screeching]]. Later, you return to the area, to find it completely trashed- the same bulkheads that stand up to the SA-X are torn like tissue paper. And your mission is to kill it because it's going to destroy the station if you don't. All of this is nothing compared to what happens as you fight the thing however- firstly, it is most definitely a cyborg and not a robot. An [[BodyHorror incomplete cyborg]]. As its [[MadeOfIndestructium Indestructium]] armor, GravityMaster powers, and [[IntangibleMan ability to selectively phase through matter]] screw with your ability to even land a solid hit on the thing, you fire away at the [[AttackItsWeakPoint stiched together face]]. And this is where you discover that the [[FacialHorror stitched together organic abomination was in fact a vast aesthetic improvement over the alternative it covered]].

* Quadraxis from ''Prime 2'' is pretty sweet too, being a HumongousMecha and all. It's a different version of the quads you've been fighting all through the Sanctuary Fortress and Ing Hive, except instead of being about your size, it's like 20 times bigger. Then it uses the Annihilator Beam against you, other forms of lasers, spinning attacks, and is just generally huge. After hitting it's weak points on it's knee joints, it is dismantled. But you're not done yet! Then it tries to repair itself, where you blast the core with beam attacks in Echo Visor mode (yeah, most of the body was destroyed halfway through the fight already) before attacking it's floating head, and THEN after that you finally hit it again a few more times by planting bombs in it's head by using the Spider Ball and Boost Ball up there. After that you're finally done, where the head flies around and destroys everything else, and Samus makes a ThreePointLanding from morph ball mode, while the head bounces around behind her, and the Annihilator Beam appears for the taking. You literally dismantle it bit by bit, and it is epic.

** In Videogame/MetroidPrime 2, after defeating the Emperor Ing after everything you've been through and all of its three forms and damage you've taken, you're treated to the familiar sight of the escape countdown. The problem? Just as you get out of the Temple, Dark Samus interrupts your escape and starts the true final boss fight. ''No healing beforehand allowed, and the timer is STILL counting down''. Plus you get that awesome escape remix [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_oNDCY8Nak complete with emergency beeps so you won't forget the timer is still up]].