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A prominent Chozo scientist on ZDR who is on friendlier terms with Samus than the others -- and is the last survivor of the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] held captive by Raven Beak. As such, Quiet Robe knows more about the Metroids than anyone else, including their creation and powers. In the Chozo language, his name is Henkin Maradis.
A prominent Chozo scientist on ZDR who is on friendlier terms with Samus than the others -- and is the last survivor of the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] held captive by Raven Beak. As such, Quiet Robe knows more about the Metroids than anyone else, including their creation and powers. In the Chozo language, his name is Henkin Maradis.
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The leader of the warrior Mawkin tribe whois on friendlier terms with Samus than the others -- and is the last survivor of once helped the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] held captive by Raven Beak. As such, Quiet Robe knows more about seal away the Metroids than anyone else, including their creation underground, only to then have his warriors slaughter the tribesmen, as seen in the Chozo Memories. He returns in the present day on ZDR, armed with his silver Power Suit, waiting for Samus to arrive and powers. investigate the planet for his nefarious agenda. In the Chozo language, Language, his name is Henkin Maradis.Ashkar Behek.
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* AbusiveParents: Though he considers himself to be Samus' father due to donating his genes to her, he only sees Samus as a weapon for his goals, and won't hesitate to kill her so he can get his Metroid army.
* AbusivePrecursors: Unlike the BenevolentPrecursors status of the rest of the Chozo thus far, Raven Beak distinctly is a warmongering sociopath who wants to clone the Metroids to [[GalacticConqueror conquer the galaxy]], making him this by default.
* TheAce: Quite possibly the most powerful warrior Chozo in history and almost certainly the strongest of the Mawkin. Quiet Robe states that he possesses "superior physical prowess and intelligence" and he demonstrates it not only by besting the already top-tier Samus in their initial fight and one of the seemingly unstoppable E.M.M.I, but also by manipulating her from behind the scenes. He is also able to imitate ADAM's text-to-speech generated voice in a perfect and non-native English and operate the Chozo's already advanced technology. He is only surpassed in intelligence by Quiet Robe- whose expertise is needed for his ultimate plan.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He is one of the very few characters able to actually ''best'' Samus in combat, utterly curb-stomping her in their first battle, and the only reason he let her live was due to Samus inadvertently awakening her Metroid powers. Adam outright tells Samus that even at her full power with all of her abilities, she wouldn't stand a chance against him, a statement that is proven true in their second battle as despite Samus faring much better, Raven Beak still manages to gain the upper hand and the only reason he lost was due to Samus using her Metroid powers to drain him, giving her a massive power boost and weakening him enough for an X Parasite to mutate him into a form weak enough for Samus to finish off. This makes sense when it's revealed that Samus inherited his genes.
* AmbitionIsEvil: He was once a great warrior, but his lust for power led him to turn against those of his own species that attempted to stop his plans to clone a Metroid army to conquer the galaxy.
* ArchnemesisDad: It is revealed that he donated his Chozo DNA to Samus, making him a biological father to her. However, he only sees her as a weapon for his goals and won't hesitate to kill her so he can have his Metroid army. And Samus is more than willing to kill him.
* ArmCannon: Raven Beak's Power Suit, like Samus', is equipped with an energy cannon on his right arm that can fire a wide array of projectiles. However, a flashback to Samus' childhood shows it wasn't always equipped to his Power Suit.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Raven Beak is incredibly strong, but also very arrogant, believing himself to be above all others. His mantra of "Power is everything" leads him to believe that his power gives him the right to rule the galaxy.
* AssholeVictim: After all the crimes he committed, indirectly causing the events of the entire series, and ruthlessly pursuing his ambitions; up to betraying his own kind and seeking to weaponize the Metroid species to take over the galaxy, presenting himself as TheChessmaster all the while by manipulating Samus's growth throughout ''Dread'' to acquire her DNA... it's only fitting Raven Beak meets his end when his pride gets the better of him and his carefully calculated plans fall apart when Samus manages to overpower him through her [[EleventhHourSuperpower Metroid form]]. She also drains him of his lifeforce... that which, in the process, that leaves him vulnerable to [[AlwaysABiggerFish the newly freed X]] that he [[ItsAllAboutMe callously abandoned his kinsmen to while saving his own skin]]. It wastes no time painfully assimilating Raven Beak into itself, all while he's aware of what's happening to him as Samus watches before obliterating his X-form doppelganger completely.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: While it doesn't apply to his boss fight, the crack on his helmet from his initial fight with Samus is still there -- and since Metroids siphon energy from the ''head'', Samus just needs to reach that crack with her free hand. She can't overpower Raven Beak to do this at first, but once her Metroid DNA fully awakens after the boss fight, she latches on and doesn't let go.
* BadassArmfold: He'll sometimes make this pose. It even serves as one of his attacks in his boss fight.
* BadassCape: He shown to wear a long cape, and it's one of the most formidable foes Samus has ever faced. During the final boss fight, his cape gets destroyed by a point-blank blast from Samus.
* BadBoss: His rule over ZDR, as shown in the Chozo Archives, depicts him as a brutal dictator who abuses Kraid in captivity and feeds Chozo tribesmen (implied to be Mawkin dissenters) to Drogyga. Even the picture showcasing the discovery of an X Parasite Chozo soldier depicts Raven Beak to be unmoved by this predicament, as if he saw his soldier's death to be an inconvenience or worse, an opportunity. Given he's the SoleSurvivor of the Mawkin in the present, it's even subtly implied that he abandoned his troops to the X while he holed up in Itorash.
* BaldOfEvil: After being beaten by Samus and his armor getting destroyed beyond repair, he distinctly lacks any feathers on his body and instead has a skull-white head.
* BattleAura: Raven Beak's armor is equipped with the Lightning Armor Aeion ability, causing it to glow with a magenta aura that deflects Samus' shots. He has a golden version that makes him immune to Samus' beam and missile attacks.
* BeamSpam: One of his attacks in the second phase of the boss fight is a Beam Burst barrage from his ArmCannon.
* {{BFG}}: Wields an arm cannon that's roughly about as large as Samus is.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of ''Metroid Dread'', responsible for trapping Samus deep underground of ZDR and corrupting the E.M.M.I. robots to hunt her down. It's revealed that he's the one who sent the transmission video to lure Samus in, and his ultimate plan is to extract the Metroid DNA from Samus' body so he can build an army of cloned Metroids to take over the galaxy.
* BigBadEnsemble: With the X Parasites in ''Dread''. While Raven Beak is the more personal threat of the two, the X are as every bit as dangerous as they break out and both of them need to be dealt with to save the galaxy.
* BigNo: Gives off something that sounds like this when Samus jams her fingers into the side of his face and starts draining his energy using her Metroid DNA.
* BilingualDialogue: Even though Raven Beak is the chief of the supremacist Mawkin tribe who almost certainly looks down on the rest of the galaxy, he is fully fluent in English, which he utilizes to impersonate ADAM and guide Samus throughout the course of ''Dread''.
* BondVillainStupidity: He spares Samus after effortlessly besting her at the start of the game when her Metroid powers begin to awaken. While this was to observe her transformation and try to manipulate her to her side, it was far riskier to do that rather than just going with his Plan-B of creating clones from her DNA who would be mindlessly subservient to him.
* BookEnds: It's only fair that the final adversary of Samus's MythArc is a member of the Chozo, the same race that taught her everything she knows.
* BringIt: One of his attacks is to taunt Samus with this gesture, complete with a BadassArmfold. If she takes him up on the offer and tries to hit him with a Melee Counter, it leads into an extended sequence with two Counters, but a much longer timeframe to fill him up with missiles than usual.
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: Without his armor, he looks like a giant humanoid eagle and he's the main villain of ''Dread''.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: A non-comical example. While impersonating [=ADAM=], he will sometimes speak highly of himself, especially later in the game when [=ADAM=] [[OutOfCharacterAlert starts acting more and more out of character]].
* TheCaligula: While he is a ''very'' competent warrior and schemer, he wasn't a great leader for the Mawkin tribe, nor would his plans for conquest have been good for galactic civilization, being a megalomaniacal warlord that values power above all else, even if that power comes from killing a countless number of beings. The Chozo Archives imply that he kept his tribe loyal to him primarily through [[MakeAnExampleOfThem executing dissenters]]. When he got the idea for galactic conquest, he planned to do so using a notoriously dangerous bio-weapon that has been shown to be incredibly difficult to control without a strong psychic presence and which has killed several of his tribespeople while trying to contain them. By the time of ''Dread'', his actions resulted in him being an aspiring galactic conqueror [[VestigialEmpire in charge of a dead civilization]], only having an army of robots and bio-weapons at his disposal while not being torn up in the slightest about being the last Mawkin alive.
* CallBack: His moveset as a boss in ''Dread'' includes not only abilities Samus can use in that game, but also two Aeion powers from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns Samus Returns]]'' (the Beam Burst and Lightning Armor).
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: After slaughtering the Thoha tribe, he spared Quiet Robe as he was the only one who could control the Metroid. Likewise, after Samus accidentally awakens her Metroid powers in their first fight, Raven Beak decides to spare her and lets her run around ZDR to test her strength.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Hadar sen olmen", Chozo for "Power is everything". He says it when he first fights Samus in Artaria, he says it again when he's about to kill her in Itorash and his X Parasite form says it repeatedly as a MadnessMantra. It's even embroidered on his clothes in Chozo script.
* ClippedWingAngel: After he's defeated by Samus, an X Parasite strikes from behind and absorbs the evil Chozo, mutating him into a mishmash of all the bosses that Samus had faced on ZDR, including Kraid. This monstrosity, however, is slow and it only takes one carefully aimed Hyper Beam from Metroid Samus to destroy him for good.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To much of the series' other main antagonists.
** Most of them such as [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus the Queen Metroid]] and [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion SA-X]] are just instinct-driven monsters with only vaguely implied intelligence.
** [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Mother]] [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid Brain]] is a megalomaniacal mastermind with mostly simple-minded beasts working under her through mental manipulation rather than brute force. This is best seen with Kraid's status under her versus his status under Raven Beak.
** [[VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy Dark Samus]], while about as cruel, had only greed for Phazon and OmnicidalManiac goals.
** Alarmingly, the one that Raven has the most in common with is ''[[ArchEnemy Ridley]]'', in that they are both violent, narcissistic and destructive commanders with no redeeming qualities to speak of; and even then, while Ridley's monstrous personality is only implied in certain sources like the ''Manga/{{Metroid}}'' manga and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Raven's depravity is made front and center from the get-go. To top it off, the other antagonists were but {{Arc Villain}}s at the very least. Raven Beak singlehandedly kickstarted the entire series' MythArc, indirectly causing all of the abovementioned's own schemes or conceptions. In contrast, Ridley is consistently TheDragon to the true BigBad, [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon in spite of his rivalry with Samus]]. It's telling when, according to sources such as the Manga, Ridley at least had a measure of [[FauxAffablyEvil camaraderie]] with his men despite being a BadBoss and seemingly had an [[OddFriendship actual friendship]] with Kraid, while Raven has loyalty to absolutely no one but himself and seemingly left his men to fend for themselves during the X outbreak. Their relationships to Samus are are also polar opposite, with Ridley having [[YouKilledMyFather orphaned Samus]] by killing her human parents, while Raven Beak [[LukeIAmYourFather considers her his daughter]] due to him donating his DNA to her.
* ControlFreak: He doesn't tolerate disobedience at all, to the point that he drops his ADAM impersonation and commands Samus to join him when she shows signs of resistance. In the Chozo Archives, he's seen overseeing the execution of Chozo prisoners implied to be Mawkin dissenters and his ultimate plan is to bring order to the galaxy.
* CreateYourOwnHero: Raven Beak is revealed to have been another DNA donor for Samus -- even believing her to be his daughter because of this. That means he is responsible for her development of combat capabilities and pretty much made the heroine that would eventually bring him down.
* CreepyCrows: He goes by "Raven Beak" and is one of the most terrible villains Samus has ever faced. Notably, his Chozo head looks different from the other Chozo in the franchise, causing him to resemble a raven, and during his boss fight he sprouts black-feathered wings.
* CurbStompBattle:
** His first battle ends with Samus utterly defeated as her weapons fail to scratch his armor. The only wound he suffers is a blast to the face from a missile and the only reason he doesn't kill Samus right then and there is because of her awakening her Metroid powers, convincing him to spare her life and test her strength.
** That wrecked E.M.M.I. Samus encounters in the beginning of the game? A gallery picture reveals that that was Raven Beak's doing, which shows just how powerful he is considering that Samus, even with her full arsenal, can't destroy them without the use of the Omega Beam.
* CurbStompCushion: Though Samus fares much better against Raven Beak in their second battle, he still manages to gain the upper hand in their fight. The only reason he lost is due to Samus using her Metroid powers to drain him, weakening him enough for an X Parasite to mutate him into a form weak enough for Samus to finish off.
* DarkIsEvil: His power suit has many dark colors to it, he fires blasts of dark energy and he's even got it right in his name: '''Raven''' Beak. Fittingly, he has a black beak and feathers under his armor.
* DeaderThanDead: Samus destroys both his X-infected physical form and the X Parasite containing his genetic material and memories at the conclusion of ''Dread'', ensuring that no trace of him will come back to threaten the galaxy in the future.
* DeathByIrony: Raven Beak wanted to use the Metroids as bioweapons for galactic domination. He ultimately meets his end at the hands of the most powerful Metroid, Samus Aran herself.
** Also heavily ironic that his actual killer, an X Parasite, was only able to do so because '''''HE''''' deliberately set them free as an obstacle to Samus to test her abilities.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: During their final battle, Samus manages to shoot one of his wings off. Raven Beak simply rips the other wing off and resumes fighting on foot.
* EarlyBirdCameo: No {{pun}} intended, but ''Samus Returns'' features Raven Beak in one of the Chozo Memories before his full introduction in ''Dread''. Raven Beak is seen in the last two Memories discussing with the Thoha tribe about the sealed Metroids, only for him to gun down all but Quiet Robe in a surprise attack, with clear ill-intent for the planet that would elaborated on years later in ''Dread''.
* EatenAlive: His ultimate fate: As he stumbles towards Samus in Itorash's impact site, an X parasite floats up behind him and absorbs him while he's still alive, creating Raven Beak X.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** He is first introduced in the Chozo Memories of ''Samus Returns'', and his first action is murdering the Thoha tribe in a surprise attack. This instantly tells players that he is not a benevolent Chozo and his unexplained agenda on [=SR388=] will have greater implications in the future.
** In his proper debut in ''Dread'', Raven Beak quickly establishes himself as a powerful warrior who is Samus' superior in almost every way, easily defeating her with only a crack on his helmet caused by a Super Missile. During this first fight, he shows off a few moves that he will use against Samus in their final fight onboard the Itorash.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Power is everything to him, and thus he cannot understand anything beyond that parameter. He believes that because Samus has his DNA from a genetic infusion, that makes him her father and therefore he owns her. He expects Samus to join him because of the potential power they would have over the galaxy, never once thinking that Samus would disobey thanks to her moral upbringing. This failure to understand Samus ends up being his downfall.
* EvilCounterpart:
** Raven Beak has all of Samus' weapons and abilities, and the skill to match, but none of Samus' morality or humanity. Also doubles as a SpearCounterpart. He also serves as this to Gray Voice as he was an additional genetic donor to Samus during her Chozo blood transfusion. But whereas Gray Voice sacrificed himself to save his adopted daughter from Mother Brain, Raven Beak sees Samus as nothing more than a tool to carry out his plans of galactic conquest.
** He is also one to Adam, another father figure to Samus. Adam was strict, but never thought of Samus as a tool and was disgusted and horrified by the Galactic Federation's attempts to revive the Metroids as a bioweapon. As such, it's no wonder that Samus is furious when it's revealed that Raven Beak's been impersonating him the whole game.
* EvilIsBigger: About twice as tall (not counting his helmet) as Samus in her Power Suit who is 6'3 tall according to the Metroid II: Return of Samus manual.
* EvilGloating: After overpowering Samus in their second fight, Raven Beak grabs her in a NeckLift and starts boasting about how he'll be able to clone Samus herself and turn her into an army to rule the galaxy, giving Samus enough time for her Metroid DNA to take over and drain him of his life energy.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Owing to his arrogance, Raven Beak believes he can harness and weaponize Metroids and X Parasites, only for it to backfire on him.
** He tries manipulating Samus into getting stronger to use her Metroid DNA. Though he overpowers her again after their second fight -- even telling her he doesn't need her anymore -- Samus transforms and turns the tables against him with her newfound power.
** Though he ''did'' manage to contain the X infestation on ZDR that was killing his Mawkin, Raven Beak purposefully releases them on the planet to test Samus' strength further. Shortly after his ship crashes after their second fight, Raven Beak gets infected by a X -- the same fate he was carefully avoiding.
* EvilIsPetty: He not only killed Quiet Robe's people and made a mural of the event (showing how proud he is of the massacre), but he has Quiet Robe stationed right next to said mural, for no real reason other than to rub the deaths of Quiet Robe's people in his face.
* EvilOverlord: He's a militant Chozo dictator clad in silver and black armor with ambitions for galactic conquest and a huge ego to go with them. Not only has he committed genocide against the Thoha tribe for going against his plans to use the Metroids for conquest, he's just as oppressive to his fellow Mawkin. The Chozo Archives show him carrying out executions on other Mawkin soldiers by [[FedToTheBeast feeding them to a Drogyga]], with the implication being that these Mawkin were dissenting against his rule and were being executed to quell any further opposition to his rule. When several of his warriors died trying to seal the Metroids on [=SR388=], the only thing he saw in the Metroids was an asset to help him rise to power and not a threat to galactic civilization like the rest of his species wisely feared. When an X Parasite snuck onboard the Mawkin ships and came to ZDR following the Thoha genocide, his only response to his tribe getting infected was to quarantine them in Elun and leave them to die. Even though he's the only member of his tribe left by the time of ''Dread'', Raven Beak still kept his desire to rule through the power of Metroids, filling the gaps in his army with robotic imitations of his former soldiers and {{bioweapon beast}}s.
* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is a growling hiss with his helmet on and even his agonized screams as an X Parasite kills and assimilates him have a very low octave.
* EyeScream: Possibly. When Samus jams her fingers into his face and drains his energy with her Metroid DNA, one of the fingers appears to go into his eye. His last appearance only shows the other side of his face, so we never get a look at the aftermath.
* FallenHero: He was once one of the Chozo's greatest warriors, until his lust for power drove him to slaughter the Thoha tribe, intending to clone a Metroid army with which to conquer the galaxy.
* FascistButInefficient: He is an excellent example of how being the WorldsGreatestWarrior doesn't translate to being a competent leader. While many forces who've tried to weaponize Metroids failed to realize that they are really difficult to control (and the AI they create to control them [[AIIsACrapshoot end up becoming just as megalomaniacal]] before turning on them), Raven Beak was at least smart enough not to kill ''all'' of the Thoha tribe: [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou he spared Quiet Robe and conscripted him as a scientist]] so he could control the Metroids. However, after the massacre of [=SR388=], an X Parasite snuck aboard the Mawkin ships and infested the rest of the tribe (ironic, since such a scenario was what Metroids were created for), and his only reaction was to leave them in quarantine to die (and while he was dealing with that, the rest of the Metroids were exterminated by Samus). Even before the X outbreak, the Chozo Archives show that his rule over the Mawkin was generally oppressive, as he often [[FedToTheBeast fed dissenters to Drogyga]] to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem ensure his tribe's blind loyalty]]. Once Samus comes to ZDR with a Metroid DNA infusion, Raven Beak has Quiet Robe killed [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness right after Quiet Robe tells Samus about what's going on]], banking on a plan to [[WeCanRuleTogether get Samus to fight by his side]] by using his status as [[LukeIAmYourFather one of her Chozo gene donors]] as leverage, and if that fails, making an army of Metroid Samus clones that are much more cultishly devoted to him. However, not only did Raven Beak give Samus countless reasons to hate him, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain he also ended up giving her the means to destroy him while trying to win her over]].
* FatalFlaw: Fittingly for a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, Pride. While undeniably dangerous, Raven Beak's arrogance leads him to overestimate his abilities and underestimate his opponents. Rather than kill Samus and extract the Metroid DNA like he originally planned, he decides to let Samus run around ZDR to test her strength after she unwittingly awakens her Metroid powers, never once considering the possibility that Samus may become strong enough to actually defeat him. And sure enough, this leads to his downfall as Samus uses her Metroid powers to drain him, weakening him enough for an X Parasite to mutate him into a form Samus could defeat once and for all.
* FauxAffablyEvil: While pretending to be ADAM, Raven Beak feigns kindness and concern for Samus just so she can unlock her true potential, and then tempts her to join his cause of bringing order to the galaxy. When Samus rejects him, Raven Beak drops his act and tries to kill her in a brutal manner.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Metroid Dread''.
* FinalExamBoss: A given since the villain has the full power of Chozo technology at his disposal. Each of Raven Beak's moves can be countered or avoided by almost every weapon or ability in Samus' arsenal. The player must make very effective uses of Storm Missiles, Power Bombs, Super Missiles and Flash Shifts to win the battle.
* FinalSolution: He had the entire Thoha tribe wiped out to prevent them from destroying [=SR388=] and thus the Metroids, literally sparing only one Thoha Chozo, Quiet Robe, because that's all he needed to enact his plan to control the Metroids.
* FlashStep: He is capable of using the Flash Shift Aeion ability to rapidly close the distance between himself and Samus. He can also Shinespark at will during the third phase of the boss fight.
* {{Foil}}: To Samus. Besides the obvious similarities (i.e. Power Suit, Arm Cannon, Aeion Abilities), his treatment of his daughter is a twisted reflection of how Samus treated the baby Metroid. While Samus spared the baby out of selfless mercy, Raven Beak spared Samus so he could selfishly use her power. As a result, when the baby attacked Samus, it came to its senses and eventually saved her life: when Samus attacked Raven Beak, she went through with the deed.
* GalacticConqueror: What he aspires to be. He plans to capture Samus and extract her Metroid DNA so he realize that dream. It's disturbingly similar to Mother Brain's agenda, almost as if the Chozo computer got this idea from his philosophy.
* GeniusBruiser: In addition to being a powerful warrior that outmatches Samus herself, Raven Beak is also shown to be quite cunning and intelligent by reprogramming the E.M.M.I drones into targeting Samus for her Metroid DNA as well as being a skilled enough linguist to perfectly impersonate [[MissionControl ADAM]]. Quiet Robe himself describes Raven Beak as having "superior physical prowess and intelligence".
* GoneHorriblyRight: His ultimate plan is to awaken Samus' Metroid DNA to create his army to conquer the galaxy, sparing her after their initial encounter and allowing her to grow stronger by killing enemies on ZDR. Suffice to say, he succeeded in awakening her dormant powers -- only for Samus to become much stronger than him and destroy him for good.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Quiet Robe reveals that Raven Beak is the one ultimately responsible for the Metroid crisis since the first game. Originally, the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] wanted to destroy the planet after sealing away the Metroids, believing them to be too much of a threat. But Raven Beak desired the Metroids for their power and thus slaughtered the Thoha tribe, only sparing Quiet Robe for his bioweapon project. As a result, the Metroids were left to be discovered by the Galactic Federation and later the Space Pirates, leading to the events of the franchise.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Just when it seems like he's finished in the final battle, he parries Samus and Flash Shifts her into a chokehold just like their first fight. Despite all the damage she's inflicted and the massive fight they just underwent, Samus still isn't powerful enough on her own to beat him. The thing is, he didn't predict her suddenly flipping out and [[DidntSeeThatComing fully converting into a Metroid just to finally kill him.]]
* HiddenDepths: Though he primarily speaks his own language during his on-screen appearances, the fact that he was able to impersonate Adam for much of the game indicates that he's actually fairly fluent in English despite likely viewing the human race as inferior considering his supremacist mindset.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** His entire endgame is to have Samus fully awaken her Metroid DNA and wholly manifest the Metroid power to siphon energy, assured that even if Samus accrues all the power there is to be found on ZDR, she won't be able to beat him if she defies him. And he would have been right about that, were it not for the fact that, in Samus, that very Metroid power he cultivated [[GoneHorriblyRight manifested on a scale so unbelievably strong]] that even ''he'' was helpless against it.
** In order to pressure Samus into cultivating her Metroid powers, he released the X Parasites from their quarantine in Elun, letting them overrun the planet while he sits confortably in his ship waiting for Samus. As soon as his ship crashes, an X Parasite infects him.
** Choosing to leave [=SR388=] intact in order to use the Metroids as a bioweapon inadvertently spared the X Parasites -- a consequence that would eventually lead to the total extinction of his tribe, when one of his scouts searching for the former got infected by the latter and returned to ZDR.
* HomingProjectile: One of his attacks is to fire a slow-moving orb of dark energy that will follow Samus around the room until it's either destroyed or it hits her. It bears a distinct resemblance to the Darkburst from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes Prime 2]]''.
* ImplacableMan: Raven Beak demonstrates how tough Chozo technology is with him shrugging off almost everything Samus throws at him. Her Melee Counter is able to push him back and it takes a super missile to damage his armor. And all that does is make him angry.
* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: It's revealed that he's been impersonating the Adam AI since Samus lost contact. However, Raven Beak constantly refers to Samus by her full name rather than the nickname "Lady". At the climax of the game, his cover is blown completely when he ''orders'' Samus to surrender her Metroid powers, something the real Adam would never do.
* INeedYouStronger: It's revealed that his entire plan was based around "helping" Samus awaken her Metroid DNA so that she would fully evolve into a humanoid Metroid. After he succeeds, he offers [[WeCanRuleTogether a chance to work with him]] to "bring order" to the galaxy, but when Samus refuses, he reveals that he can just kill and clone her to make an entire army of the most powerful Metroid ever.
* ItIsDehumanizing: [[https://metroid.nintendo.com/news/metroid-dread-report-vol-7/ Vol. 7]] of the "Metroid Dread Report" uses the word "it" to describe the warrior, no doubt to make the character feel more mysterious and intimidating. Subverted in the actual game, where it's revealed to be a male Chozo named Raven Beak.
* ItsAllAboutMe: For all his claims of wanting to bring order to the galaxy, it's clear that Raven Beak cares for nothing but satisfying his ambitions. Even his fellow Mawkin Chozo are not exempt as he would feed them to Drogyga, and basically abandoned them in Elun to die or get infected by the X so that he could save his own skin.
* TheJuggernaut: Throughout the game, ADAM repeatedly warns Samus that Raven Beak is incredibly powerful and she likely wouldn't stand a chance against him, with "ADAM" later turning out to be Raven Beak hyping himself up, and it turns out that he ''wasn't'' exaggerating much, if at all. Throughout the game, he trounces Samus without even breaking a sweat in his first appearance, mangles one of the E.M.M.I. robots that were made out of the toughest materials in the galaxy and were too durable for Samus to even scratch so badly that it can't even chase her properly, reacts to Samus blowing one of his wings off by casually ripping the other one off and keeping the fight going, takes ''hundreds'' of shots and missiles during his boss fight, and ends it by revealing he may have actually been holding back the entire time and then literally strangles Samus to death. The only thing that brings him down is Samus being revived by her Metroid DNA and draining him of energy while gouging one of his eyes out.
* KarmicDeath: On two fronts. He is not only killed by an X Parasite, who he condemned his own people to certain death against, but the very Metroid powers he goaded Samus into awakening and intended to exploit not only allow Samus to gain the upper hand in their fight, but allows her to finish him off for good.
* KickTheDog:
** His appearance in ''Samus Returns'' has him inexplicably killing fellow Chozo as is, but then we find out why in ''Dread'': he was simply annoyed that the more rational and reasonable Thoha tribe had interfered with his plans for weaponizing Metroids. So he ''killed all of them'' but Quiet Robe so they couldn't interfere in his plans, and forced said survivor to work on his weapons and machinations against their consent.
** A Chozo Archives image even shows that he straight up subjected even his dissenting fellow tribe members to a ShamefulStrip before feeding them to a Drogyga pit, highlighting that unlike Samus and the other Chozo, he holds absolutely no bonds of racial kinship and simply would kill everyone if he was to stand on top at the end.
** As if performing a complete genocide of the Thoha and enslaving their SoleSurvivor wasn't bad enough, he went so far as to have a mural depicting and celebrating the atrocity created outside the lab where Quiet Robe would work, hanging a constant reminder of what happened to his people over his head.
* LargeAndInCharge: Raven Beak is much larger than the lesser Chozo soldiers, being roughly twice as tall (not counting his helmet) as Samus in her Power Suit, while the soldiers are just OneHeadTaller. Considering Samus is officially 6'3 tall in her Power Suit according to the Metroid II: Return of Samus manual, that would make him somewhere not far south of 13 to 14 feet tall.
* LightningBruiser: He's fast, strong, and durable, with Samus being on the back foot during their first encounter. Even during their rematch, he's more than powerful enough to shred through her armor's defences and almost strangles her to death.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Raven Beak reveals to Samus that he was one of the Chozo who donated their genes to her on Zebes, specifically the Mawkin genes. He even calls Samus his daughter.
* MadeOfIron: Even leaving aside his Aeion armor, which can shield him from tens of missiles and only stops regenerating after a particularly strong hit, Raven Beak is insanely durable. He takes dozens of beam and missile hits, gets one of his wings blasted off and tears out the other one ''himself'' and still holds his own enough to NeckLift Samus into submission. Samus then proceeds to drain him full-on with her awakened Metroid powers -- and Itorash along with it, causing the fortress to crash from miles up in the sky -- and Raven Beak is ''still'' able to walk, if only just. It's only getting [[EatenAlive absorbed alive]] by an X parasite that finishes him off for good.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: His response to getting one of his wings shot off by Samus? Rip off the other as there was no point in it any more.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: The reason why the Mawkin tribe was completely loyal to Raven Beak is because he [[FedToTheBeast fed all Mawkin dissenters to Drogyga]], as revealed in the Chozo Archives.
* MeaningfulName:
** Ravens are often associated as symbols of death and ill omen. True to form, Raven Beak's presence on [=ZDR=] casts an eerie sense of foreboding throughout ''Dread's'' story, beginning with his absolute curb-stomping of Samus in the game's intro. Then there is his [[GreaterScopeVillain being indirectly responsible for causing the Metroid crisis that has caused so much death and destruction in the galaxy]], including the deaths of the [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid Hatchling]] as well as [[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Adam Malkovich and the 7th Platoon]] [[note]] Except for [[SoleSurvivor Anthony Higgs]]. [[/note]] . Finally, his face when unmasked looks very similar to that of a raven's head.
** The word "raven" can refer to an object displaying a dark, glossy appearance. For Raven Beak, this is literally the case, as his brief unmasked appearance does feature a dark-ish, possibly cybernetic beak.
* MightMakesRight: Quiet Robe describes Raven Beak as someone who "worships on the altar of power" and viewed the Metroids as a means to conquer the galaxy. As Raven Beak tells Samus:
-->'''Raven Beak:''' Power is ''everything.''
* MirrorBoss: Raven Beak can use all of Samus's Aeion abilities during the final boss fight (even ones from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns Samus Returns]]''), plus a version of her [[RammingAlwaysWorks Shinespark]], as well as some moves of his own.
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: He's ''far'' less potent of a threat after being assimilated by an X Parasite and amalgamated with Kraid, thanks to no longer having his powerful weapons nor his Chozo physique and also due to Samus having the Hyper Beam to finish him off.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: What makes Raven Beak truly stand out from the rest of the Chozo is how much of an antithesis he is to them and everything they stood for. He chooses war over peace, conquers worlds instead of sharing wisdom and values power over legacy.
* {{Narcissist}}: In addition to being a ruthless warlord bent on galactic conquest, Raven Beak is also shown to be an absolute egomaniac. To wit, he considers himself to be [[LukeIAmYourFather Samus' father]] just because he was one of her genetic donors when she was infused with Chozo blood. This in spite of the fact that her actual adoptive parents, Old Bird and Gray Voice, are clearly shown in the flashback scene of her blood transfusion. The fact that he believed Samus would end up serving him because of this tenuous claim of parentage despite her knowing of all of his atrocities only highlights what a complete narcissist Raven Beak is. And his admiration for Samus's abilities is tinged with the typical narcissistic parent's view of their children as extensions of themself, complete with reacting violently when Samus asserts herself against his authority. More subtly, he also speaks incredibly highly of himself [[ButHeSoundsHandsome while impersonating Adam]].
* NearVillainVictory: Despite Samus becoming stronger and acquiring new powers -- on top of abilities discovered by tapping into her Metroid DNA -- Raven Beak still overpowers her in the final battle. Only after her power is fully awakened, right before she almost dies, is Samus able to turn the tables on him.
* NeckLift: Does this to Samus twice, to show he is overpowering her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The very plan he hoped to enact against Samus winds up being the cause of his defeat. Raven Beak tricking Samus into releasing the X from Elun was implied to be an attempt to make Samus' Metroid DNA grow stronger. The X then possess literally everything organic, living or dead, and since Raven Beak is vulnerable once he makes planetfall back on ZDR, he winds up possessed himself. In the end, the only thing he really accomplished was to make Samus more powerful than ever.
* NoSell: Halfway through the first phase of his boss battle, his Lightning Armor turns gold and protects him from Samus' munitions, up to and including Power Bombs. The operating word is 'munitions;' progress can be made by melee countering him to temporarily deactivate it.
* NotSoStoic: Like Samus, he is a stoic warrior who isn't easily flappable. That changes, however, when Samus overpowers him while transforming into a true Metroid and drains his energy, causing him to react with [[OhCrap a mixture of fear and anger]] as he futilely attempts to throw her off of him.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He attempts to convince Samus that he is trying to bring order to the galaxy...by mass-producing an army of Metroids much like the Space Pirates and the corrupt faction of the Galactic Federation Army tried to do, and massacring his own people in the process. Samus makes it clear she does not buy his spiel for a second, especially since [[IronicEcho it's the exact same plan Mother Brain described in the manga]].
* OhCrap: The one time Raven Beak is actually caught off-guard and shocked is when Samus forcibly converts her body into a full Metroid Suit form, gaining enough strength to finally grab his face for her EnergyAbsorption. He's left screaming, thrashing and firing off his beam cannon wildly in a [[EyeScream literally-blind]] panic before she finally pins him to the ground.
* OldSoldier: As one of the last surviving Chozo, he's at least centuries if not millennia old, but age doesn't seem to have slowed him down one bit in combat.
* OneWingedAngel: In his second phase of his boss fight, he sprouts two bird-like wings and begins flying in the air, becoming harder to hit and evade. Samus manages to blast one of his wings at the end of the second phase, which ironically makes him literally one-winged... until he rips out the other wing and proceeds to fight Samus on foot.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. In the prologue Raven Beak actually goes to confront Samus himself the moment she touches down in his base but after defeating her in their initial battle, he subsequently spends the majority of the game monitoring her progress from behind the scenes. In particular, it's revealed that he's been impersonating Adam since they lost contact. This may be justified in that he has kept the X-infected Mawkin quarantined on Elun while he stays aboard his ship and thus avoids having to leave his base unless absolutely necessary in case the X manage to escape containment. It also makes sense that he wouldn't be in any hurry to kill Samus, since he wants to observe Samus and see how her Metroid powers would manifest themselves.
* ParentalAbandonment: Despite being one of Samus' adoptive fathers, he played absolutely zero role in raising her outside of donating his genes. This makes his insistence that she is his "daughter" and therefore must obey him seem even more narcissistic, as unlike Gray Voice, Raven Beak has done nothing to earn Samus' love or respect whatsoever.
* ThePeterPrinciple: He is undoubtedly one of the greatest warriors to ever live, being one of the very few that can claim to have bested Samus Aran in combat. However, when RankScalesWithAsskicking, he proves to be a [[FascistButInefficient woefully incompetent leader]] who primarily rules through fear and eventually gets all of his people killed in one fell swoop as a result of his lust for power.
* PoweredArmor: Raven Beak's armor is clearly of a similar make and design as Samus's Power Suit -- after all, the Chozo ''were'' the ones who originally used them. His armor even has a modular ArmCannon with a variety of projectiles that far surpass Samus' in power.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Befitting of his status as the most powerful warrior in the Chozo's ranks, he is uniquely the only Chozo depicted that actually has usable wings on his back that gives him the power of {{Flight}} during his boss battle.
* PowerOfTheSun: One of his attacks in his boss fight has him summon a large sun that will release shockwaves all over the room. The sun can be destroyed for ammo. It bears a resemblance to the Sunburst from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes Prime 2]]''.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: The second phase of his battle (after he sprouts wings) includes attacks where he tries to ram Samus, either horizontally or [[DeathFromAbove from above]]. In the third phase this is replaced by a version of Samus's Shinespark technique (which he can use ''without'' charging up first).
* RasputinianDeath: During his final battle with Samus he takes a ridiculous amount of punishment before expiring. He loses both his wings, Samus jams her fingers into his skull and initiates a Metroid energy drain so powerful that it knocks out the entire ship they're fighting on, and then the ship crashes into the ground and explodes with him still inside. After all that, while exhausted, he's still somehow standing. A moment later he's infected by an X Parasite, painfully mutated into a gigantic abomination and finally destroyed by Samus' [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]]. [[DeaderThanDead She then vaporizes the parasite holding his DNA, making sure he'll never come back]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He wears silver and black Power Armor with red accents, a dark arm cannon with red light pouring out of its sides and a dark cape with a red inside, and he happens to be a villain.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has glowing red eyes and is a dangerous foe. Even without a helmet, his eyes naturally glow red.
* SatanicArchetype: If Ridley represents the classic Devil, then Raven Beak represents [[FallenAngel Lucifer]]. He is possibly the greatest Chozo warrior in history and certainly the most prideful of them all. He wears shiny silver and black armor and possesses two dark feathered wings, giving him the impression of an evil-looking angel and he tempts Samus to join him through the guise of ADAM, her dear friend. When Samus defeats him, he loses his wings and his personal ship plummets down from the sky to the ground, where an X Parasite absorbs him and transforms him into the hideous monster he was on the inside.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: His official artwork has him aiming a partially-charged ArmCannon at the viewer.
* SmugSuper: His arrogance isn't completely unfounded as every time Samus faced him, has had him holding the upper hand in the battle and his abilities are far above hers. If Samus hadn't transformed into a Metroid, he would've killed her in the final fight.
* TheSociopath: Raven Beak has all the traits of a classic sociopath. He has no empathy for anyone but himself, ruthlessly slaughtering his fellow Chozo, he will manipulate others with no hesitation, and he is extremely arrogant.
* SoleSurvivor: As it's revealed by Quiet Robe, Raven Beak is the last surviving 'pure' Mawkin (excluding Samus who is only [[BioAugmentation genetically-related]]), as the rest of his tribe were wiped out and assimilated by X. Though, given [[GalacticConqueror his plans]] and being TheSociopath, he's not too broken up in being the last of his tribe. Considering we never see any other living Chozo in the present day and Quiet Robe doesn't live past his introduction scene, he may actually be the LastOfHisKind for the entire Chozo species by the end of the game. If so, his death would cement the Chozo's extinction, with their DNA only continuing to persevere through Samus.
* StrongAndSkilled: Fittingly, Raven Beak does not only have an extreme arsenal of weaponry at his disposal, he's also an incredibly skilled warrior who knows just how to use his abilities to his advantage, which on top of his overwhelming strength, makes him an incredibly tough warrior to fight.
* StupidEvil: Killing Quiet Robe for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving his usefulness]] was not a smart idea since his plan was to manipulate Samus into joining him and he just gave her an additional massive reason to hate him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** Raven Beak is one for Gray Voice, as the Chozo who became Samus's biological father and wears a Power Suit into battle. For bonus points, he turns on Samus and seeks to harness the Metroids, just as Gray Voice claimed to -- except, whereas for Gray Voice, it was an act to get Mother Brain's guard down, Raven Beak is putting on a show for no one.
** He's also one for the deceased Ridley, namely for his boss battle and the fact he earns Samus' full wrath by murdering the Thoha tribe (similar to how Ridley murdered the Chozo of Zebes). His boss fight in particular depicts as [[LightningBruiser a very fast and brutal fighter]] who could easily destroy Samus if she hadn't mastered her speed reflexes and has a flight phase that is a close imitation to Ridley's aerial combat.
** His plan for galactic domination and blatant attempt to emotionally manipulate Samus by claiming to be her father echoes Mother Brain from the [[Manga/MetroidManga prequel manga]]. Considering that the late supercomputer brain was also a Chozo creation, this is not surprising at all.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of being of the single most openly antagonistic Chozo tribe and very much at odds with the rest, a flashback shows that at some point during Samus' BioAugmentation, he was brought in by Old Bird, Gray Voice and the others as a donor for Mawkin genes, in order to give Samus the ultimate physical prowess that can be found within Chozo biology.
* TinTyrant: He's the leader of the Mawkin Chozo tribe and wears a full suit of evil looking Power Armor.
* TranslationConvention: Referred to in Chozo dialogue as "Ashkar Behek", but in subtitles and English dialogue by the translation "Raven Beak" (even by himself).
* TreacherousAdvisor: The ADAM AI who's been guiding you throughout the game is actually Raven Beak, impersonating ADAM ever since he and Samus lost contact in the begining. Raven Beak tricked Samus into cultivating her latent Metroid powers so that instead of simply extracting her DNA to create an army of Metroids, he can turn Samus into the ultimate Metroid and then clone ''her'' once he defeated her.
* TheUnfettered: Raven Beak will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals; whether that means slaughtering his fellow Chozo or attempting to murder his biological daughter in order to make an army of Samus clones to take over the galaxy.
* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: As you might expect from the race that created Samus' iconic PoweredArmor, Raven Beak's arsenal is functionally identical to Samus', only with the latest upgrades. And unfortunately for Samus, [[OlderIsBetter Older]] [[AvertedTrope is NOT Better]], as Raven Beak has much more skill and experience than she does. It's her Metroid DNA, an ability not born of the Power Suit, that allows her to defeat him.
* VilerNewVillain: While prior ''Metroid'' villains were, at least partially, merely acting on the species' natures or only showed their worst [[AllThereInTheManual in side material]], Raven Beak is a sociopathic warmonger acting on his own volition. He contrasts his [[PerfectPacifistPeople fellow Chozo]], and even wiped out the peaceful members of his race for opposing his plans of using Metroids as bioweapons, thus causing entire series' events. He spared Quite Robe but forced them into aiding his plans, killing them right as they bond with Samus. In-game files reveal that he captured and tortured Kraid, executed members of his tribe that questioned him by feeding them to a horrible monster, sealed every other Mawkin away to die from X infestation and spent the whole game manipulating and plotting to kill his "daughter" Samus to enable his galactic conquest. At the end of their battle, Samus erupts in a fit of rage never seen before, possibly in response to the vileness of her enemy.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Samus transforms into a proper Metroid and thrusts her hand into his face to violently absorb his energy, he reacts by fearfully screaming for his life and attempting to shake her off of him to no avail. Any words cannot even be heard, as his screaming is mostly drowned out by Samus and her screams of rage.
* WalkingSpoiler: His massacre of the [=SR388=] colonists can only be seen by getting OneHundredPercentCompletion of ''Samus Returns'', and it manages to shed a grim new light on the end of the Thoha tribe. There's also the spoilery aspects of his EvilPlan in ''Dread'', especially his impersonation of ADAM.
* WaveMotionGun: Raven Beak's ArmCannon is outfitted with a gargantuan red laser that leaves tremendous detonations wherever it strikes. During cinematic attacks during his boss fight, he even sweeps it in a sustained fire in a manner akin to a LaserBlade.
* WeCanRuleTogether: As Samus "fulfills her destiny" by becoming the most powerful Metroid, he offers her a place at his side in bringing order to the galaxy. When she refuses, he is disappointed, but [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer needs her]], as he can now clone her to create an ''army'' of unstoppable Metroids.
* WingedHumanoid: During the second phase of his fight he reveals he has a pair of fully functional wings, unlike any other modern Chozo, making him look very much like a {{tengu}}. The second phase ends with Samus blasting one of them off. Raven Beak doesn't hesitate or flinch at [[MachoMasochism ripping the other one off himself]], since it's only a hindrance to him now.
* WorldsStrongestMan: He is the ultimate warrior of the Chozo's strongest tribe, and against Samus --lauded until now time and again as the strongest in the galaxy-- at peak condition and the strongest she's ever been, Raven Beak makes incredibly quick work of her with his overwhelming sheer speed, strength and defenses. Even a Super Missile to the face only succeeds in putting a ''scratch'' over his eye. And come their rematch, even though Samus actually forces him to go all-out this time and costs him his wings, he ''still'' decisively trumps her in a head-on battle. The first E.M.M.I. in the game discovered by Samus that was heavily damaged, made of supposedly the hardest materials in the universe making them NighInvulnerable? Yeah, that was entirely Raven Beak's doing, ''[[CurbStompBattle and he didn't even break a sweat doing it with his bare hands]]''.
* WorthyOpponent: Views the Metroids as such, seeing how they defeated various members of the Mawkin Tribe helping their Thoha counterparts seal them away. It's the reason he wanted an army of them in the Mawkin Tribe's ranks against the advice of the Thoha Tribe.
* XanatosGambit: After Samus awakens her Metroid powers during their first battle. Raven Beak spares her and lets her run around ZDR to test her strength. If she survives, he can capture her and clone and army of her. If she dies, he can simply extract the Metroid DNA from her. The only thing he didn't count on was Samus growing strong enough to actually defeat him.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Raven Beak is quite skilled at changing his plans on the fly in response to unforseen developments. Initially, he wanted to use the Metroids as bioweapons, but when the Metroids were eradicated by Samus, he decides to lure her to ZDR with footage of the X Parasites to extract the Metroid DNA from her and clone an army of Metroids. But when Samus inadvertently awakens her Metroid powers during their fight, Raven Beak spares her and lets her run around ZDR to grow her powers so he can clone her instead.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Samus refuses [[WeCanRuleTogether his offer]], Raven Beak says that Samus herself is no longer necessary as now he can simply clone her to create an unstoppable army.
!!Raven Beak X
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An X which possesses a weakened Raven Beak and combines his biomass with Kraid, creating a monstrous hulking fusion.
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* AlmightyIdiot: The intelligent Raven Beak is reduced to a gibbering mess as he is fused with Kraid and seemingly other bosses as well, due to the X Parasite copying and mimicking all their attributes and memories. The only thing the abomination is able to coordinate is their hatred of Samus.
* AnimalisticAbomination: His X form is a twisted combination of himself, Kraid, and likely more creatures, which has his head inside of Kraid's, can barely so much as crawl forward and drones out Chozo sentences.
* BodyHorror: This thing generally looks like Kraid having Raven Beak's head and limbs fused with his brain and jaw, and that's not even getting into the other bosses mixed in with this... thing.
* BookEnds: This boss serves as one for the series up to this point, as it is a combination of the first boss you fight in the series and the final one.
* ClippedWingAngel: Despite possessing Kraid's massive size, Raven Beak X is painfully slow -- only being able to drag itself along the ground towards Samus. This gives her plenty of time to charge up her Hyper Beam, obliterating the X-Parasite's monstrous visage. Additionally, Samus vaporizes it rather than absorb it.
* TheDogBitesBack: The X, by virtue of possessing Kraid's DNA, has memories of Kraid being abused by the Mawkin tribe and likely memories of the Mawkin Chozo who were forcibly locked away in Elun by Raven Beak. Thus, in a fashion, nearly all of Raven Beak's victims assimilated by X got their revenge on the evil Chozo when the X consumes him at last.
* DeaderThanDead: Samus apparently doesn't want any more of Raven Beak in her than she already has, so instead of opting to absorb the X once she's reduced it to its core form, she just continues to blast it with the hyper beam until she completely atomizes it.
* FlowerMouth: Raven Beak X possesses Kraid's head split down the middle to create a four-petaled flower mouth with Raven Beak's head inside. It's implied that either Experiment No. Z-57 or Drogyga was assimilated as well to allow this, since they have similar mouths.
* FusionDance: Raven Beak X is an amalgamation of the Chozo warrior Raven Beak and Kraid, possessing the latter's massive bulk and head (as a FlowerMouth) and Raven Beak's dark coloration, feathers, scaly avian limbs, and head (as an inner mouth). There also seem to be subtle aspects of other bosses as well, such as the FlowerMouth belonging to either Experiment No. Z-57 or Drogyga and the vestigal arms of the former.
* MadnessMantra: The only thing it's capable of uttering besides roars is "Samus" and "Hadar sen olmen" (Chozo for "Power is everything") repeatedly, likely the result of the X Parasite trying to emulate Raven Beak's megalomaniacal character.
* MightyGlacier: ZeroEffortBoss it may be, but if the player doesn't think to hold down the Y button immediately, it can end up getting to Samus and eating her in a single chomp. This means it can survive multiple seconds of continuous Hyper Beam fire, something that nothing else can claim once Samus starts making her way to her ship.
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: Compared to the very powerful, skilled and humanoid Raven Beak, Raven Beak X is ''far'' less of a threat than its former self thanks to no longer having powerful Chozo weaponry nor an agile Chozo physique (since it's essentially Raven Beak's head on Kraid's lumbering body), and the fact that Samus has the Hyper Beam to obliterate it.
* NestedMouths: Raven Beak's head is concealed inside of Kraid's maw, which rips in half vertically to become a FlowerMouth.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The X that infects Raven Beak is distinctly purple, and seeing as how it can take a [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]] to the face for more than a few seconds and can swallow Samus whole should it catch up to her, it's definitely powerful.
* SuperToughness: This thing survives getting drilled in the face by the [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]] for a good 5 or 10 seconds. That's 5 or 10 seconds longer than ''literally anything else'' lasts against said Hyper Beam. This likely comes from having Kraid's DNA, as Kraid's skin was extremely tough and nigh-impenetrable.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the SA-X's second form. Both are misshapen creatures made up of multiple fused organisms and originally derived from characters wielding Chozo Power Suits, but are also much weaker than their original forms.
* SwallowedWhole: Fail to unleash the Hyper Beam on time, and Raven Beak X will anticlimactically devour Samus.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being an [[FusionDance amalgamation]] of two of Samus's most powerful foes and the FinalBoss of [[SeriesFauxnale the series original arc]], Samus defeats it in seconds with a single attack to establish how strong her new Metroid powers have made her.
* ZeroEffortBoss: All the player needs to do is hold down the Y button long enough to defeat Raven Beak X.
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[[folder:Quiet Robe '''(Major Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
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-> Debut: ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' (flashbacks only), ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' (first in-game appearance)
--->'''Voiced by:''' Stephen Hughes
A prominent Chozo scientist on ZDR who is on friendlier terms with Samus than the others -- and is the last survivor of the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] held captive by Raven Beak. As such, Quiet Robe knows more about the Metroids than anyone else, including their creation and powers. In the Chozo language, his name is Henkin Maradis.
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* AbusivePrecursors: Unlike the BenevolentPrecursors status of the rest of the Chozo thus far, Raven Beak distinctly is a warmongering sociopath who wants to clone the Metroids to [[GalacticConqueror conquer the galaxy]], making him this by default.
* TheAce: Quite possibly the most powerful warrior Chozo in history and almost certainly the strongest of the Mawkin. Quiet Robe states that he possesses "superior physical prowess and intelligence" and he demonstrates it not only by besting the already top-tier Samus in their initial fight and one of the seemingly unstoppable E.M.M.I, but also by manipulating her from behind the scenes. He is also able to imitate ADAM's text-to-speech generated voice in a perfect and non-native English and operate the Chozo's already advanced technology. He is only surpassed in intelligence by Quiet Robe- whose expertise is needed for his ultimate plan.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: He is one of the very few characters able to actually ''best'' Samus in combat, utterly curb-stomping her in their first battle, and the only reason he let her live was due to Samus inadvertently awakening her Metroid powers. Adam outright tells Samus that even at her full power with all of her abilities, she wouldn't stand a chance against him, a statement that is proven true in their second battle as despite Samus faring much better, Raven Beak still manages to gain the upper hand and the only reason he lost was due to Samus using her Metroid powers to drain him, giving her a massive power boost and weakening him enough for an X Parasite to mutate him into a form weak enough for Samus to finish off. This makes sense when it's revealed that Samus inherited his genes.
* AmbitionIsEvil: He was once a great warrior, but his lust for power led him to turn against those of his own species that attempted to stop his plans to clone a Metroid army to conquer the galaxy.
* ArchnemesisDad: It is revealed that he donated his Chozo DNA to Samus, making him a biological father to her. However, he only sees her as a weapon for his goals and won't hesitate to kill her so he can have his Metroid army. And Samus is more than willing to kill him.
* ArmCannon: Raven Beak's Power Suit, like Samus', is equipped with an energy cannon on his right arm that can fire a wide array of projectiles. However, a flashback to Samus' childhood shows it wasn't always equipped to his Power Suit.
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Raven Beak is incredibly strong, but also very arrogant, believing himself to be above all others. His mantra of "Power is everything" leads him to believe that his power gives him the right to rule the galaxy.
* AssholeVictim: After all the crimes he committed, indirectly causing the events of the entire series, and ruthlessly pursuing his ambitions; up to betraying his own kind and seeking to weaponize the Metroid species to take over the galaxy, presenting himself as TheChessmaster all the while by manipulating Samus's growth throughout ''Dread'' to acquire her DNA... it's only fitting Raven Beak meets his end when his pride gets the better of him and his carefully calculated plans fall apart when Samus manages to overpower him through her [[EleventhHourSuperpower Metroid form]]. She also drains him of his lifeforce... that which, in the process, that leaves him vulnerable to [[AlwaysABiggerFish the newly freed X]] that he [[ItsAllAboutMe callously abandoned his kinsmen to while saving his own skin]]. It wastes no time painfully assimilating Raven Beak into itself, all while he's aware of what's happening to him as Samus watches before obliterating his X-form doppelganger completely.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: While it doesn't apply to his boss fight, the crack on his helmet from his initial fight with Samus is still there -- and since Metroids siphon energy from the ''head'', Samus just needs to reach that crack with her free hand. She can't overpower Raven Beak to do this at first, but once her Metroid DNA fully awakens after the boss fight, she latches on and doesn't let go.
* BadassArmfold: He'll sometimes make this pose. It even serves as one of his attacks in his boss fight.
* BadassCape: He shown to wear a long cape, and it's one of the most formidable foes Samus has ever faced. During the final boss fight, his cape gets destroyed by a point-blank blast from Samus.
* BadBoss: His rule over ZDR, as shown in the Chozo Archives, depicts him as a brutal dictator who abuses Kraid in captivity and feeds Chozo tribesmen (implied to be Mawkin dissenters) to Drogyga. Even the picture showcasing the discovery of an X Parasite Chozo soldier depicts Raven Beak to be unmoved by this predicament, as if he saw his soldier's death to be an inconvenience or worse, an opportunity. Given he's the SoleSurvivor of the Mawkin in the present, it's even subtly implied that he abandoned his troops to the X while he holed up in Itorash.
* BaldOfEvil: After being beaten by Samus and his armor getting destroyed beyond repair, he distinctly lacks any feathers on his body and instead has a skull-white head.
* BattleAura: Raven Beak's armor is equipped with the Lightning Armor Aeion ability, causing it to glow with a magenta aura that deflects Samus' shots. He has a golden version that makes him immune to Samus' beam and missile attacks.
* BeamSpam: One of his attacks in the second phase of the boss fight is a Beam Burst barrage from his ArmCannon.
* {{BFG}}: Wields an arm cannon that's roughly about as large as Samus is.
* BigBad: The main antagonist of ''Metroid Dread'', responsible for trapping Samus deep underground of ZDR and corrupting the E.M.M.I. robots to hunt her down. It's revealed that he's the one who sent the transmission video to lure Samus in, and his ultimate plan is to extract the Metroid DNA from Samus' body so he can build an army of cloned Metroids to take over the galaxy.
* BigBadEnsemble: With the X Parasites in ''Dread''. While Raven Beak is the more personal threat of the two, the X are as every bit as dangerous as they break out and both of them need to be dealt with to save the galaxy.
* BigNo: Gives off something that sounds like this when Samus jams her fingers into the side of his face and starts draining his energy using her Metroid DNA.
* BilingualDialogue: Even though Raven Beak is the chief of the supremacist Mawkin tribe who almost certainly looks down on the rest of the galaxy, he is fully fluent in English, which he utilizes to impersonate ADAM and guide Samus throughout the course of ''Dread''.
* BondVillainStupidity: He spares Samus after effortlessly besting her at the start of the game when her Metroid powers begin to awaken. While this was to observe her transformation and try to manipulate her to her side, it was far riskier to do that rather than just going with his Plan-B of creating clones from her DNA who would be mindlessly subservient to him.
* BookEnds: It's only fair that the final adversary of Samus's MythArc is a member of the Chozo, the same race that taught her everything she knows.
* BringIt: One of his attacks is to taunt Samus with this gesture, complete with a BadassArmfold. If she takes him up on the offer and tries to hit him with a Melee Counter, it leads into an extended sequence with two Counters, but a much longer timeframe to fill him up with missiles than usual.
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: Without his armor, he looks like a giant humanoid eagle and he's the main villain of ''Dread''.
* ButHeSoundsHandsome: A non-comical example. While impersonating [=ADAM=], he will sometimes speak highly of himself, especially later in the game when [=ADAM=] [[OutOfCharacterAlert starts acting more and more out of character]].
* TheCaligula: While he is a ''very'' competent warrior and schemer, he wasn't a great leader for the Mawkin tribe, nor would his plans for conquest have been good for galactic civilization, being a megalomaniacal warlord that values power above all else, even if that power comes from killing a countless number of beings. The Chozo Archives imply that he kept his tribe loyal to him primarily through [[MakeAnExampleOfThem executing dissenters]]. When he got the idea for galactic conquest, he planned to do so using a notoriously dangerous bio-weapon that has been shown to be incredibly difficult to control without a strong psychic presence and which has killed several of his tribespeople while trying to contain them. By the time of ''Dread'', his actions resulted in him being an aspiring galactic conqueror [[VestigialEmpire in charge of a dead civilization]], only having an army of robots and bio-weapons at his disposal while not being torn up in the slightest about being the last Mawkin alive.
* CallBack: His moveset as a boss in ''Dread'' includes not only abilities Samus can use in that game, but also two Aeion powers from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns Samus Returns]]'' (the Beam Burst and Lightning Armor).
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: After slaughtering the Thoha tribe, he spared Quiet Robe as he was the only one who could control the Metroid. Likewise, after Samus accidentally awakens her Metroid powers in their first fight, Raven Beak decides to spare her and lets her run around ZDR to test her strength.
* CharacterCatchphrase: "Hadar sen olmen", Chozo for "Power is everything". He says it when he first fights Samus in Artaria, he says it again when he's about to kill her in Itorash and his X Parasite form says it repeatedly as a MadnessMantra. It's even embroidered on his clothes in Chozo script.
* ClippedWingAngel: After he's defeated by Samus, an X Parasite strikes from behind and absorbs the evil Chozo, mutating him into a mishmash of all the bosses that Samus had faced on ZDR, including Kraid. This monstrosity, however, is slow and it only takes one carefully aimed Hyper Beam from Metroid Samus to destroy him for good.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To much of the series' other main antagonists.
** Most of them such as [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus the Queen Metroid]] and [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion SA-X]] are just instinct-driven monsters with only vaguely implied intelligence.
** [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Mother]] [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid Brain]] is a megalomaniacal mastermind with mostly simple-minded beasts working under her through mental manipulation rather than brute force. This is best seen with Kraid's status under her versus his status under Raven Beak.
** [[VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy Dark Samus]], while about as cruel, had only greed for Phazon and OmnicidalManiac goals.
** Alarmingly, the one that Raven has the most in common with is ''[[ArchEnemy Ridley]]'', in that they are both violent, narcissistic and destructive commanders with no redeeming qualities to speak of; and even then, while Ridley's monstrous personality is only implied in certain sources like the ''Manga/{{Metroid}}'' manga and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', Raven's depravity is made front and center from the get-go. To top it off, the other antagonists were but {{Arc Villain}}s at the very least. Raven Beak singlehandedly kickstarted the entire series' MythArc, indirectly causing all of the abovementioned's own schemes or conceptions. In contrast, Ridley is consistently TheDragon to the true BigBad, [[ItsPersonalWithTheDragon in spite of his rivalry with Samus]]. It's telling when, according to sources such as the Manga, Ridley at least had a measure of [[FauxAffablyEvil camaraderie]] with his men despite being a BadBoss and seemingly had an [[OddFriendship actual friendship]] with Kraid, while Raven has loyalty to absolutely no one but himself and seemingly left his men to fend for themselves during the X outbreak. Their relationships to Samus are are also polar opposite, with Ridley having [[YouKilledMyFather orphaned Samus]] by killing her human parents, while Raven Beak [[LukeIAmYourFather considers her his daughter]] due to him donating his DNA to her.
* ControlFreak: He doesn't tolerate disobedience at all, to the point that he drops his ADAM impersonation and commands Samus to join him when she shows signs of resistance. In the Chozo Archives, he's seen overseeing the execution of Chozo prisoners implied to be Mawkin dissenters and his ultimate plan is to bring order to the galaxy.
* CreateYourOwnHero: Raven Beak is revealed to have been another DNA donor for Samus -- even believing her to be his daughter because of this. That means he is responsible for her development of combat capabilities and pretty much made the heroine that would eventually bring him down.
* CreepyCrows: He goes by "Raven Beak" and is one of the most terrible villains Samus has ever faced. Notably, his Chozo head looks different from the other Chozo in the franchise, causing him to resemble a raven, and during his boss fight he sprouts black-feathered wings.
* CurbStompBattle:
** His first battle ends with Samus utterly defeated as her weapons fail to scratch his armor. The only wound he suffers is a blast to the face from a missile and the only reason he doesn't kill Samus right then and there is because of her awakening her Metroid powers, convincing him to spare her life and test her strength.
** That wrecked E.M.M.I. Samus encounters in the beginning of the game? A gallery picture reveals that that was Raven Beak's doing, which shows just how powerful he is considering that Samus, even with her full arsenal, can't destroy them without the use of the Omega Beam.
* CurbStompCushion: Though Samus fares much better against Raven Beak in their second battle, he still manages to gain the upper hand in their fight. The only reason he lost is due to Samus using her Metroid powers to drain him, weakening him enough for an X Parasite to mutate him into a form weak enough for Samus to finish off.
* DarkIsEvil: His power suit has many dark colors to it, he fires blasts of dark energy and he's even got it right in his name: '''Raven''' Beak. Fittingly, he has a black beak and feathers under his armor.
* DeaderThanDead: Samus destroys both his X-infected physical form and the X Parasite containing his genetic material and memories at the conclusion of ''Dread'', ensuring that no trace of him will come back to threaten the galaxy in the future.
* DeathByIrony: Raven Beak wanted to use the Metroids as bioweapons for galactic domination. He ultimately meets his end at the hands of the most powerful Metroid, Samus Aran herself.
** Also heavily ironic that his actual killer, an X Parasite, was only able to do so because '''''HE''''' deliberately set them free as an obstacle to Samus to test her abilities.
* DidntNeedThoseAnyway: During their final battle, Samus manages to shoot one of his wings off. Raven Beak simply rips the other wing off and resumes fighting on foot.
* EarlyBirdCameo: No {{pun}} intended, but ''Samus Returns'' features Raven Beak in one of the Chozo Memories before his full introduction in ''Dread''. Raven Beak is seen in the last two Memories discussing with the Thoha tribe about the sealed Metroids, only for him to gun down all but Quiet Robe in a surprise attack, with clear ill-intent for the planet that would elaborated on years later in ''Dread''.
* EatenAlive: His ultimate fate: As he stumbles towards Samus in Itorash's impact site, an X parasite floats up behind him and absorbs him while he's still alive, creating Raven Beak X.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment:
** He is first introduced in the Chozo Memories of ''Samus Returns'', and his first action is murdering the Thoha tribe in a surprise attack. This instantly tells players that he is not a benevolent Chozo and his unexplained agenda on [=SR388=] will have greater implications in the future.
** In his proper debut in ''Dread'', Raven Beak quickly establishes himself as a powerful warrior who is Samus' superior in almost every way, easily defeating her with only a crack on his helmet caused by a Super Missile. During this first fight, he shows off a few moves that he will use against Samus in their final fight onboard the Itorash.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Power is everything to him, and thus he cannot understand anything beyond that parameter. He believes that because Samus has his DNA from a genetic infusion, that makes him her father and therefore he owns her. He expects Samus to join him because of the potential power they would have over the galaxy, never once thinking that Samus would disobey thanks to her moral upbringing. This failure to understand Samus ends up being his downfall.
* EvilCounterpart:
** Raven Beak has all of Samus' weapons and abilities, and the skill to match, but none of Samus' morality or humanity. Also doubles as a SpearCounterpart. He also serves as this to Gray Voice as he was an additional genetic donor to Samus during her Chozo blood transfusion. But whereas Gray Voice sacrificed himself to save his adopted daughter from Mother Brain, Raven Beak sees Samus as nothing more than a tool to carry out his plans of galactic conquest.
** He is also one to Adam, another father figure to Samus. Adam was strict, but never thought of Samus as a tool and was disgusted and horrified by the Galactic Federation's attempts to revive the Metroids as a bioweapon. As such, it's no wonder that Samus is furious when it's revealed that Raven Beak's been impersonating him the whole game.
* EvilIsBigger: About twice as tall (not counting his helmet) as Samus in her Power Suit who is 6'3 tall according to the Metroid II: Return of Samus manual.
* EvilGloating: After overpowering Samus in their second fight, Raven Beak grabs her in a NeckLift and starts boasting about how he'll be able to clone Samus herself and turn her into an army to rule the galaxy, giving Samus enough time for her Metroid DNA to take over and drain him of his life energy.
* EvilIsNotAToy: Owing to his arrogance, Raven Beak believes he can harness and weaponize Metroids and X Parasites, only for it to backfire on him.
** He tries manipulating Samus into getting stronger to use her Metroid DNA. Though he overpowers her again after their second fight -- even telling her he doesn't need her anymore -- Samus transforms and turns the tables against him with her newfound power.
** Though he ''did'' manage to contain the X infestation on ZDR that was killing his Mawkin, Raven Beak purposefully releases them on the planet to test Samus' strength further. Shortly after his ship crashes after their second fight, Raven Beak gets infected by a X -- the same fate he was carefully avoiding.
* EvilIsPetty: He not only killed Quiet Robe's people and made a mural of the event (showing how proud he is of the massacre), but he has Quiet Robe stationed right next to said mural, for no real reason other than to rub the deaths of Quiet Robe's people in his face.
* EvilOverlord: He's a militant Chozo dictator clad in silver and black armor with ambitions for galactic conquest and a huge ego to go with them. Not only has he committed genocide against the Thoha tribe for going against his plans to use the Metroids for conquest, he's just as oppressive to his fellow Mawkin. The Chozo Archives show him carrying out executions on other Mawkin soldiers by [[FedToTheBeast feeding them to a Drogyga]], with the implication being that these Mawkin were dissenting against his rule and were being executed to quell any further opposition to his rule. When several of his warriors died trying to seal the Metroids on [=SR388=], the only thing he saw in the Metroids was an asset to help him rise to power and not a threat to galactic civilization like the rest of his species wisely feared. When an X Parasite snuck onboard the Mawkin ships and came to ZDR following the Thoha genocide, his only response to his tribe getting infected was to quarantine them in Elun and leave them to die. Even though he's the only member of his tribe left by the time of ''Dread'', Raven Beak still kept his desire to rule through the power of Metroids, filling the gaps in his army with robotic imitations of his former soldiers and {{bioweapon beast}}s.
* EvilSoundsDeep: His voice is a growling hiss with his helmet on and even his agonized screams as an X Parasite kills and assimilates him have a very low octave.
* EyeScream: Possibly. When Samus jams her fingers into his face and drains his energy with her Metroid DNA, one of the fingers appears to go into his eye. His last appearance only shows the other side of his face, so we never get a look at the aftermath.
* FallenHero: He was once one of the Chozo's greatest warriors, until his lust for power drove him to slaughter the Thoha tribe, intending to clone a Metroid army with which to conquer the galaxy.
* FascistButInefficient: He is an excellent example of how being the WorldsGreatestWarrior doesn't translate to being a competent leader. While many forces who've tried to weaponize Metroids failed to realize that they are really difficult to control (and the AI they create to control them [[AIIsACrapshoot end up becoming just as megalomaniacal]] before turning on them), Raven Beak was at least smart enough not to kill ''all'' of the Thoha tribe: [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou he spared Quiet Robe and conscripted him as a scientist]] so he could control the Metroids. However, after the massacre of [=SR388=], an X Parasite snuck aboard the Mawkin ships and infested the rest of the tribe (ironic, since such a scenario was what Metroids were created for), and his only reaction was to leave them in quarantine to die (and while he was dealing with that, the rest of the Metroids were exterminated by Samus). Even before the X outbreak, the Chozo Archives show that his rule over the Mawkin was generally oppressive, as he often [[FedToTheBeast fed dissenters to Drogyga]] to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem ensure his tribe's blind loyalty]]. Once Samus comes to ZDR with a Metroid DNA infusion, Raven Beak has Quiet Robe killed [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness right after Quiet Robe tells Samus about what's going on]], banking on a plan to [[WeCanRuleTogether get Samus to fight by his side]] by using his status as [[LukeIAmYourFather one of her Chozo gene donors]] as leverage, and if that fails, making an army of Metroid Samus clones that are much more cultishly devoted to him. However, not only did Raven Beak give Samus countless reasons to hate him, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain he also ended up giving her the means to destroy him while trying to win her over]].
* FatalFlaw: Fittingly for a ProudWarriorRaceGuy, Pride. While undeniably dangerous, Raven Beak's arrogance leads him to overestimate his abilities and underestimate his opponents. Rather than kill Samus and extract the Metroid DNA like he originally planned, he decides to let Samus run around ZDR to test her strength after she unwittingly awakens her Metroid powers, never once considering the possibility that Samus may become strong enough to actually defeat him. And sure enough, this leads to his downfall as Samus uses her Metroid powers to drain him, weakening him enough for an X Parasite to mutate him into a form Samus could defeat once and for all.
* FauxAffablyEvil: While pretending to be ADAM, Raven Beak feigns kindness and concern for Samus just so she can unlock her true potential, and then tempts her to join his cause of bringing order to the galaxy. When Samus rejects him, Raven Beak drops his act and tries to kill her in a brutal manner.
* FinalBoss: Of ''Metroid Dread''.
* FinalExamBoss: A given since the villain has the full power of Chozo technology at his disposal. Each of Raven Beak's moves can be countered or avoided by almost every weapon or ability in Samus' arsenal. The player must make very effective uses of Storm Missiles, Power Bombs, Super Missiles and Flash Shifts to win the battle.
* FinalSolution: He had the entire Thoha tribe wiped out to prevent them from destroying [=SR388=] and thus the Metroids, literally sparing only one Thoha Chozo, Quiet Robe, because that's all he needed to enact his plan to control the Metroids.
* FlashStep: He is capable of using the Flash Shift Aeion ability to rapidly close the distance between himself and Samus. He can also Shinespark at will during the third phase of the boss fight.
* {{Foil}}: To Samus. Besides the obvious similarities (i.e. Power Suit, Arm Cannon, Aeion Abilities), his treatment of his daughter is a twisted reflection of how Samus treated the baby Metroid. While Samus spared the baby out of selfless mercy, Raven Beak spared Samus so he could selfishly use her power. As a result, when the baby attacked Samus, it came to its senses and eventually saved her life: when Samus attacked Raven Beak, she went through with the deed.
* GalacticConqueror: What he aspires to be. He plans to capture Samus and extract her Metroid DNA so he realize that dream. It's disturbingly similar to Mother Brain's agenda, almost as if the Chozo computer got this idea from his philosophy.
* GeniusBruiser: In addition to being a powerful warrior that outmatches Samus herself, Raven Beak is also shown to be quite cunning and intelligent by reprogramming the E.M.M.I drones into targeting Samus for her Metroid DNA as well as being a skilled enough linguist to perfectly impersonate [[MissionControl ADAM]]. Quiet Robe himself describes Raven Beak as having "superior physical prowess and intelligence".
* GoneHorriblyRight: His ultimate plan is to awaken Samus' Metroid DNA to create his army to conquer the galaxy, sparing her after their initial encounter and allowing her to grow stronger by killing enemies on ZDR. Suffice to say, he succeeded in awakening her dormant powers -- only for Samus to become much stronger than him and destroy him for good.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Quiet Robe reveals that Raven Beak is the one ultimately responsible for the Metroid crisis since the first game. Originally, the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] wanted to destroy the planet after sealing away the Metroids, believing them to be too much of a threat. But Raven Beak desired the Metroids for their power and thus slaughtered the Thoha tribe, only sparing Quiet Robe for his bioweapon project. As a result, the Metroids were left to be discovered by the Galactic Federation and later the Space Pirates, leading to the events of the franchise.
* HeadsIWinTailsYouLose: Just when it seems like he's finished in the final battle, he parries Samus and Flash Shifts her into a chokehold just like their first fight. Despite all the damage she's inflicted and the massive fight they just underwent, Samus still isn't powerful enough on her own to beat him. The thing is, he didn't predict her suddenly flipping out and [[DidntSeeThatComing fully converting into a Metroid just to finally kill him.]]
* HiddenDepths: Though he primarily speaks his own language during his on-screen appearances, the fact that he was able to impersonate Adam for much of the game indicates that he's actually fairly fluent in English despite likely viewing the human race as inferior considering his supremacist mindset.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** His entire endgame is to have Samus fully awaken her Metroid DNA and wholly manifest the Metroid power to siphon energy, assured that even if Samus accrues all the power there is to be found on ZDR, she won't be able to beat him if she defies him. And he would have been right about that, were it not for the fact that, in Samus, that very Metroid power he cultivated [[GoneHorriblyRight manifested on a scale so unbelievably strong]] that even ''he'' was helpless against it.
** In order to pressure Samus into cultivating her Metroid powers, he released the X Parasites from their quarantine in Elun, letting them overrun the planet while he sits confortably in his ship waiting for Samus. As soon as his ship crashes, an X Parasite infects him.
** Choosing to leave [=SR388=] intact in order to use the Metroids as a bioweapon inadvertently spared the X Parasites -- a consequence that would eventually lead to the total extinction of his tribe, when one of his scouts searching for the former got infected by the latter and returned to ZDR.
* HomingProjectile: One of his attacks is to fire a slow-moving orb of dark energy that will follow Samus around the room until it's either destroyed or it hits her. It bears a distinct resemblance to the Darkburst from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes Prime 2]]''.
* ImplacableMan: Raven Beak demonstrates how tough Chozo technology is with him shrugging off almost everything Samus throws at him. Her Melee Counter is able to push him back and it takes a super missile to damage his armor. And all that does is make him angry.
* ImpostorForgotOneDetail: It's revealed that he's been impersonating the Adam AI since Samus lost contact. However, Raven Beak constantly refers to Samus by her full name rather than the nickname "Lady". At the climax of the game, his cover is blown completely when he ''orders'' Samus to surrender her Metroid powers, something the real Adam would never do.
* INeedYouStronger: It's revealed that his entire plan was based around "helping" Samus awaken her Metroid DNA so that she would fully evolve into a humanoid Metroid. After he succeeds, he offers [[WeCanRuleTogether a chance to work with him]] to "bring order" to the galaxy, but when Samus refuses, he reveals that he can just kill and clone her to make an entire army of the most powerful Metroid ever.
* ItIsDehumanizing: [[https://metroid.nintendo.com/news/metroid-dread-report-vol-7/ Vol. 7]] of the "Metroid Dread Report" uses the word "it" to describe the warrior, no doubt to make the character feel more mysterious and intimidating. Subverted in the actual game, where it's revealed to be a male Chozo named Raven Beak.
* ItsAllAboutMe: For all his claims of wanting to bring order to the galaxy, it's clear that Raven Beak cares for nothing but satisfying his ambitions. Even his fellow Mawkin Chozo are not exempt as he would feed them to Drogyga, and basically abandoned them in Elun to die or get infected by the X so that he could save his own skin.
* TheJuggernaut: Throughout the game, ADAM repeatedly warns Samus that Raven Beak is incredibly powerful and she likely wouldn't stand a chance against him, with "ADAM" later turning out to be Raven Beak hyping himself up, and it turns out that he ''wasn't'' exaggerating much, if at all. Throughout the game, he trounces Samus without even breaking a sweat in his first appearance, mangles one of the E.M.M.I. robots that were made out of the toughest materials in the galaxy and were too durable for Samus to even scratch so badly that it can't even chase her properly, reacts to Samus blowing one of his wings off by casually ripping the other one off and keeping the fight going, takes ''hundreds'' of shots and missiles during his boss fight, and ends it by revealing he may have actually been holding back the entire time and then literally strangles Samus to death. The only thing that brings him down is Samus being revived by her Metroid DNA and draining him of energy while gouging one of his eyes out.
* KarmicDeath: On two fronts. He is not only killed by an X Parasite, who he condemned his own people to certain death against, but the very Metroid powers he goaded Samus into awakening and intended to exploit not only allow Samus to gain the upper hand in their fight, but allows her to finish him off for good.
* KickTheDog:
** His appearance in ''Samus Returns'' has him inexplicably killing fellow Chozo as is, but then we find out why in ''Dread'': he was simply annoyed that the more rational and reasonable Thoha tribe had interfered with his plans for weaponizing Metroids. So he ''killed all of them'' but Quiet Robe so they couldn't interfere in his plans, and forced said survivor to work on his weapons and machinations against their consent.
** A Chozo Archives image even shows that he straight up subjected even his dissenting fellow tribe members to a ShamefulStrip before feeding them to a Drogyga pit, highlighting that unlike Samus and the other Chozo, he holds absolutely no bonds of racial kinship and simply would kill everyone if he was to stand on top at the end.
** As if performing a complete genocide of the Thoha and enslaving their SoleSurvivor wasn't bad enough, he went so far as to have a mural depicting and celebrating the atrocity created outside the lab where Quiet Robe would work, hanging a constant reminder of what happened to his people over his head.
* LargeAndInCharge: Raven Beak is much larger than the lesser Chozo soldiers, being roughly twice as tall (not counting his helmet) as Samus in her Power Suit, while the soldiers are just OneHeadTaller. Considering Samus is officially 6'3 tall in her Power Suit according to the Metroid II: Return of Samus manual, that would make him somewhere not far south of 13 to 14 feet tall.
* LightningBruiser: He's fast, strong, and durable, with Samus being on the back foot during their first encounter. Even during their rematch, he's more than powerful enough to shred through her armor's defences and almost strangles her to death.
* LukeIAmYourFather: Raven Beak reveals to Samus that he was one of the Chozo who donated their genes to her on Zebes, specifically the Mawkin genes. He even calls Samus his daughter.
* MadeOfIron: Even leaving aside his Aeion armor, which can shield him from tens of missiles and only stops regenerating after a particularly strong hit, Raven Beak is insanely durable. He takes dozens of beam and missile hits, gets one of his wings blasted off and tears out the other one ''himself'' and still holds his own enough to NeckLift Samus into submission. Samus then proceeds to drain him full-on with her awakened Metroid powers -- and Itorash along with it, causing the fortress to crash from miles up in the sky -- and Raven Beak is ''still'' able to walk, if only just. It's only getting [[EatenAlive absorbed alive]] by an X parasite that finishes him off for good.
* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: His response to getting one of his wings shot off by Samus? Rip off the other as there was no point in it any more.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: The reason why the Mawkin tribe was completely loyal to Raven Beak is because he [[FedToTheBeast fed all Mawkin dissenters to Drogyga]], as revealed in the Chozo Archives.
* MeaningfulName:
** Ravens are often associated as symbols of death and ill omen. True to form, Raven Beak's presence on [=ZDR=] casts an eerie sense of foreboding throughout ''Dread's'' story, beginning with his absolute curb-stomping of Samus in the game's intro. Then there is his [[GreaterScopeVillain being indirectly responsible for causing the Metroid crisis that has caused so much death and destruction in the galaxy]], including the deaths of the [[VideoGame/SuperMetroid Hatchling]] as well as [[VideoGame/MetroidOtherM Adam Malkovich and the 7th Platoon]] [[note]] Except for [[SoleSurvivor Anthony Higgs]]. [[/note]] . Finally, his face when unmasked looks very similar to that of a raven's head.
** The word "raven" can refer to an object displaying a dark, glossy appearance. For Raven Beak, this is literally the case, as his brief unmasked appearance does feature a dark-ish, possibly cybernetic beak.
* MightMakesRight: Quiet Robe describes Raven Beak as someone who "worships on the altar of power" and viewed the Metroids as a means to conquer the galaxy. As Raven Beak tells Samus:
-->'''Raven Beak:''' Power is ''everything.''
* MirrorBoss: Raven Beak can use all of Samus's Aeion abilities during the final boss fight (even ones from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns Samus Returns]]''), plus a version of her [[RammingAlwaysWorks Shinespark]], as well as some moves of his own.
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: He's ''far'' less potent of a threat after being assimilated by an X Parasite and amalgamated with Kraid, thanks to no longer having his powerful weapons nor his Chozo physique and also due to Samus having the Hyper Beam to finish him off.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: What makes Raven Beak truly stand out from the rest of the Chozo is how much of an antithesis he is to them and everything they stood for. He chooses war over peace, conquers worlds instead of sharing wisdom and values power over legacy.
* {{Narcissist}}: In addition to being a ruthless warlord bent on galactic conquest, Raven Beak is also shown to be an absolute egomaniac. To wit, he considers himself to be [[LukeIAmYourFather Samus' father]] just because he was one of her genetic donors when she was infused with Chozo blood. This in spite of the fact that her actual adoptive parents, Old Bird and Gray Voice, are clearly shown in the flashback scene of her blood transfusion. The fact that he believed Samus would end up serving him because of this tenuous claim of parentage despite her knowing of all of his atrocities only highlights what a complete narcissist Raven Beak is. And his admiration for Samus's abilities is tinged with the typical narcissistic parent's view of their children as extensions of themself, complete with reacting violently when Samus asserts herself against his authority. More subtly, he also speaks incredibly highly of himself [[ButHeSoundsHandsome while impersonating Adam]].
* NearVillainVictory: Despite Samus becoming stronger and acquiring new powers -- on top of abilities discovered by tapping into her Metroid DNA -- Raven Beak still overpowers her in the final battle. Only after her power is fully awakened, right before she almost dies, is Samus able to turn the tables on him.
* NeckLift: Does this to Samus twice, to show he is overpowering her.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The very plan he hoped to enact against Samus winds up being the cause of his defeat. Raven Beak tricking Samus into releasing the X from Elun was implied to be an attempt to make Samus' Metroid DNA grow stronger. The X then possess literally everything organic, living or dead, and since Raven Beak is vulnerable once he makes planetfall back on ZDR, he winds up possessed himself. In the end, the only thing he really accomplished was to make Samus more powerful than ever.
* NoSell: Halfway through the first phase of his boss battle, his Lightning Armor turns gold and protects him from Samus' munitions, up to and including Power Bombs. The operating word is 'munitions;' progress can be made by melee countering him to temporarily deactivate it.
* NotSoStoic: Like Samus, he is a stoic warrior who isn't easily flappable. That changes, however, when Samus overpowers him while transforming into a true Metroid and drains his energy, causing him to react with [[OhCrap a mixture of fear and anger]] as he futilely attempts to throw her off of him.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He attempts to convince Samus that he is trying to bring order to the galaxy...by mass-producing an army of Metroids much like the Space Pirates and the corrupt faction of the Galactic Federation Army tried to do, and massacring his own people in the process. Samus makes it clear she does not buy his spiel for a second, especially since [[IronicEcho it's the exact same plan Mother Brain described in the manga]].
* OhCrap: The one time Raven Beak is actually caught off-guard and shocked is when Samus forcibly converts her body into a full Metroid Suit form, gaining enough strength to finally grab his face for her EnergyAbsorption. He's left screaming, thrashing and firing off his beam cannon wildly in a [[EyeScream literally-blind]] panic before she finally pins him to the ground.
* OldSoldier: As one of the last surviving Chozo, he's at least centuries if not millennia old, but age doesn't seem to have slowed him down one bit in combat.
* OneWingedAngel: In his second phase of his boss fight, he sprouts two bird-like wings and begins flying in the air, becoming harder to hit and evade. Samus manages to blast one of his wings at the end of the second phase, which ironically makes him literally one-winged... until he rips out the other wing and proceeds to fight Samus on foot.
* OrcusOnHisThrone: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. In the prologue Raven Beak actually goes to confront Samus himself the moment she touches down in his base but after defeating her in their initial battle, he subsequently spends the majority of the game monitoring her progress from behind the scenes. In particular, it's revealed that he's been impersonating Adam since they lost contact. This may be justified in that he has kept the X-infected Mawkin quarantined on Elun while he stays aboard his ship and thus avoids having to leave his base unless absolutely necessary in case the X manage to escape containment. It also makes sense that he wouldn't be in any hurry to kill Samus, since he wants to observe Samus and see how her Metroid powers would manifest themselves.
* ParentalAbandonment: Despite being one of Samus' adoptive fathers, he played absolutely zero role in raising her outside of donating his genes. This makes his insistence that she is his "daughter" and therefore must obey him seem even more narcissistic, as unlike Gray Voice, Raven Beak has done nothing to earn Samus' love or respect whatsoever.
* ThePeterPrinciple: He is undoubtedly one of the greatest warriors to ever live, being one of the very few that can claim to have bested Samus Aran in combat. However, when RankScalesWithAsskicking, he proves to be a [[FascistButInefficient woefully incompetent leader]] who primarily rules through fear and eventually gets all of his people killed in one fell swoop as a result of his lust for power.
* PoweredArmor: Raven Beak's armor is clearly of a similar make and design as Samus's Power Suit -- after all, the Chozo ''were'' the ones who originally used them. His armor even has a modular ArmCannon with a variety of projectiles that far surpass Samus' in power.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Befitting of his status as the most powerful warrior in the Chozo's ranks, he is uniquely the only Chozo depicted that actually has usable wings on his back that gives him the power of {{Flight}} during his boss battle.
* PowerOfTheSun: One of his attacks in his boss fight has him summon a large sun that will release shockwaves all over the room. The sun can be destroyed for ammo. It bears a resemblance to the Sunburst from ''[[VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes Prime 2]]''.
* RammingAlwaysWorks: The second phase of his battle (after he sprouts wings) includes attacks where he tries to ram Samus, either horizontally or [[DeathFromAbove from above]]. In the third phase this is replaced by a version of Samus's Shinespark technique (which he can use ''without'' charging up first).
* RasputinianDeath: During his final battle with Samus he takes a ridiculous amount of punishment before expiring. He loses both his wings, Samus jams her fingers into his skull and initiates a Metroid energy drain so powerful that it knocks out the entire ship they're fighting on, and then the ship crashes into the ground and explodes with him still inside. After all that, while exhausted, he's still somehow standing. A moment later he's infected by an X Parasite, painfully mutated into a gigantic abomination and finally destroyed by Samus' [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]]. [[DeaderThanDead She then vaporizes the parasite holding his DNA, making sure he'll never come back]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: He wears silver and black Power Armor with red accents, a dark arm cannon with red light pouring out of its sides and a dark cape with a red inside, and he happens to be a villain.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: He has glowing red eyes and is a dangerous foe. Even without a helmet, his eyes naturally glow red.
* SatanicArchetype: If Ridley represents the classic Devil, then Raven Beak represents [[FallenAngel Lucifer]]. He is possibly the greatest Chozo warrior in history and certainly the most prideful of them all. He wears shiny silver and black armor and possesses two dark feathered wings, giving him the impression of an evil-looking angel and he tempts Samus to join him through the guise of ADAM, her dear friend. When Samus defeats him, he loses his wings and his personal ship plummets down from the sky to the ground, where an X Parasite absorbs him and transforms him into the hideous monster he was on the inside.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: His official artwork has him aiming a partially-charged ArmCannon at the viewer.
* SmugSuper: His arrogance isn't completely unfounded as every time Samus faced him, has had him holding the upper hand in the battle and his abilities are far above hers. If Samus hadn't transformed into a Metroid, he would've killed her in the final fight.
* TheSociopath: Raven Beak has all the traits of a classic sociopath. He has no empathy for anyone but himself, ruthlessly slaughtering his fellow Chozo, he will manipulate others with no hesitation, and he is extremely arrogant.
* SoleSurvivor: As it's revealed by Quiet Robe, Raven Beak is the last surviving 'pure' Mawkin (excluding Samus who is only [[BioAugmentation genetically-related]]), as the rest of his tribe were wiped out and assimilated by X. Though, given [[GalacticConqueror his plans]] and being TheSociopath, he's not too broken up in being the last of his tribe. Considering we never see any other living Chozo in the present day and Quiet Robe doesn't live past his introduction scene, he may actually be the LastOfHisKind for the entire Chozo species by the end of the game. If so, his death would cement the Chozo's extinction, with their DNA only continuing to persevere through Samus.
* StrongAndSkilled: Fittingly, Raven Beak does not only have an extreme arsenal of weaponry at his disposal, he's also an incredibly skilled warrior who knows just how to use his abilities to his advantage, which on top of his overwhelming strength, makes him an incredibly tough warrior to fight.
* StupidEvil: Killing Quiet Robe for [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving his usefulness]] was not a smart idea since his plan was to manipulate Samus into joining him and he just gave her an additional massive reason to hate him.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** Raven Beak is one for Gray Voice, as the Chozo who became Samus's biological father and wears a Power Suit into battle. For bonus points, he turns on Samus and seeks to harness the Metroids, just as Gray Voice claimed to -- except, whereas for Gray Voice, it was an act to get Mother Brain's guard down, Raven Beak is putting on a show for no one.
** He's also one for the deceased Ridley, namely for his boss battle and the fact he earns Samus' full wrath by murdering the Thoha tribe (similar to how Ridley murdered the Chozo of Zebes). His boss fight in particular depicts as [[LightningBruiser a very fast and brutal fighter]] who could easily destroy Samus if she hadn't mastered her speed reflexes and has a flight phase that is a close imitation to Ridley's aerial combat.
** His plan for galactic domination and blatant attempt to emotionally manipulate Samus by claiming to be her father echoes Mother Brain from the [[Manga/MetroidManga prequel manga]]. Considering that the late supercomputer brain was also a Chozo creation, this is not surprising at all.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: In spite of being of the single most openly antagonistic Chozo tribe and very much at odds with the rest, a flashback shows that at some point during Samus' BioAugmentation, he was brought in by Old Bird, Gray Voice and the others as a donor for Mawkin genes, in order to give Samus the ultimate physical prowess that can be found within Chozo biology.
* TinTyrant: He's the leader of the Mawkin Chozo tribe and wears a full suit of evil looking Power Armor.
* TranslationConvention: Referred to in Chozo dialogue as "Ashkar Behek", but in subtitles and English dialogue by the translation "Raven Beak" (even by himself).
* TreacherousAdvisor: The ADAM AI who's been guiding you throughout the game is actually Raven Beak, impersonating ADAM ever since he and Samus lost contact in the begining. Raven Beak tricked Samus into cultivating her latent Metroid powers so that instead of simply extracting her DNA to create an army of Metroids, he can turn Samus into the ultimate Metroid and then clone ''her'' once he defeated her.
* TheUnfettered: Raven Beak will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals; whether that means slaughtering his fellow Chozo or attempting to murder his biological daughter in order to make an army of Samus clones to take over the galaxy.
* UpgradeVsPrototypeFight: As you might expect from the race that created Samus' iconic PoweredArmor, Raven Beak's arsenal is functionally identical to Samus', only with the latest upgrades. And unfortunately for Samus, [[OlderIsBetter Older]] [[AvertedTrope is NOT Better]], as Raven Beak has much more skill and experience than she does. It's her Metroid DNA, an ability not born of the Power Suit, that allows her to defeat him.
* VilerNewVillain: While prior ''Metroid'' villains were, at least partially, merely acting on the species' natures or only showed their worst [[AllThereInTheManual in side material]], Raven Beak is a sociopathic warmonger acting on his own volition. He contrasts his [[PerfectPacifistPeople fellow Chozo]], and even wiped out the peaceful members of his race for opposing his plans of using Metroids as bioweapons, thus causing entire series' events. He spared Quite Robe but forced them into aiding his plans, killing them right as they bond with Samus. In-game files reveal that he captured and tortured Kraid, executed members of his tribe that questioned him by feeding them to a horrible monster, sealed every other Mawkin away to die from X infestation and spent the whole game manipulating and plotting to kill his "daughter" Samus to enable his galactic conquest. At the end of their battle, Samus erupts in a fit of rage never seen before, possibly in response to the vileness of her enemy.
* VillainousBreakdown: When Samus transforms into a proper Metroid and thrusts her hand into his face to violently absorb his energy, he reacts by fearfully screaming for his life and attempting to shake her off of him to no avail. Any words cannot even be heard, as his screaming is mostly drowned out by Samus and her screams of rage.
* WalkingSpoiler: His massacre of the [=SR388=] colonists can only be seen by getting OneHundredPercentCompletion of ''Samus Returns'', and it manages to shed a grim new light on the end of the Thoha tribe. There's also the spoilery aspects of his EvilPlan in ''Dread'', especially his impersonation of ADAM.
* WaveMotionGun: Raven Beak's ArmCannon is outfitted with a gargantuan red laser that leaves tremendous detonations wherever it strikes. During cinematic attacks during his boss fight, he even sweeps it in a sustained fire in a manner akin to a LaserBlade.
* WeCanRuleTogether: As Samus "fulfills her destiny" by becoming the most powerful Metroid, he offers her a place at his side in bringing order to the galaxy. When she refuses, he is disappointed, but [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer needs her]], as he can now clone her to create an ''army'' of unstoppable Metroids.
* WingedHumanoid: During the second phase of his fight he reveals he has a pair of fully functional wings, unlike any other modern Chozo, making him look very much like a {{tengu}}. The second phase ends with Samus blasting one of them off. Raven Beak doesn't hesitate or flinch at [[MachoMasochism ripping the other one off himself]], since it's only a hindrance to him now.
* WorldsStrongestMan: He is the ultimate warrior of the Chozo's strongest tribe, and against Samus --lauded until now time and again as the strongest in the galaxy-- at peak condition and the strongest she's ever been, Raven Beak makes incredibly quick work of her with his overwhelming sheer speed, strength and defenses. Even a Super Missile to the face only succeeds in putting a ''scratch'' over his eye. And come their rematch, even though Samus actually forces him to go all-out this time and costs him his wings, he ''still'' decisively trumps her in a head-on battle. The first E.M.M.I. in the game discovered by Samus that was heavily damaged, made of supposedly the hardest materials in the universe making them NighInvulnerable? Yeah, that was entirely Raven Beak's doing, ''[[CurbStompBattle and he didn't even break a sweat doing it with his bare hands]]''.
* WorthyOpponent: Views the Metroids as such, seeing how they defeated various members of the Mawkin Tribe helping their Thoha counterparts seal them away. It's the reason he wanted an army of them in the Mawkin Tribe's ranks against the advice of the Thoha Tribe.
* XanatosGambit: After Samus awakens her Metroid powers during their first battle. Raven Beak spares her and lets her run around ZDR to test her strength. If she survives, he can capture her and clone and army of her. If she dies, he can simply extract the Metroid DNA from her. The only thing he didn't count on was Samus growing strong enough to actually defeat him.
* XanatosSpeedChess: Raven Beak is quite skilled at changing his plans on the fly in response to unforseen developments. Initially, he wanted to use the Metroids as bioweapons, but when the Metroids were eradicated by Samus, he decides to lure her to ZDR with footage of the X Parasites to extract the Metroid DNA from her and clone an army of Metroids. But when Samus inadvertently awakens her Metroid powers during their fight, Raven Beak spares her and lets her run around ZDR to grow her powers so he can clone her instead.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After Samus refuses [[WeCanRuleTogether his offer]], Raven Beak says that Samus herself is no longer necessary as now he can simply clone her to create an unstoppable army.
!!Raven Beak X
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An X which possesses a weakened Raven Beak and combines his biomass with Kraid, creating a monstrous hulking fusion.
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* AlmightyIdiot: The intelligent Raven Beak is reduced to a gibbering mess as he is fused with Kraid and seemingly other bosses as well, due to the X Parasite copying and mimicking all their attributes and memories. The only thing the abomination is able to coordinate is their hatred of Samus.
* AnimalisticAbomination: His X form is a twisted combination of himself, Kraid, and likely more creatures, which has his head inside of Kraid's, can barely so much as crawl forward and drones out Chozo sentences.
* BodyHorror: This thing generally looks like Kraid having Raven Beak's head and limbs fused with his brain and jaw, and that's not even getting into the other bosses mixed in with this... thing.
* BookEnds: This boss serves as one for the series up to this point, as it is a combination of the first boss you fight in the series and the final one.
* ClippedWingAngel: Despite possessing Kraid's massive size, Raven Beak X is painfully slow -- only being able to drag itself along the ground towards Samus. This gives her plenty of time to charge up her Hyper Beam, obliterating the X-Parasite's monstrous visage. Additionally, Samus vaporizes it rather than absorb it.
* TheDogBitesBack: The X, by virtue of possessing Kraid's DNA, has memories of Kraid being abused by the Mawkin tribe and likely memories of the Mawkin Chozo who were forcibly locked away in Elun by Raven Beak. Thus, in a fashion, nearly all of Raven Beak's victims assimilated by X got their revenge on the evil Chozo when the X consumes him at last.
* DeaderThanDead: Samus apparently doesn't want any more of Raven Beak in her than she already has, so instead of opting to absorb the X once she's reduced it to its core form, she just continues to blast it with the hyper beam until she completely atomizes it.
* FlowerMouth: Raven Beak X possesses Kraid's head split down the middle to create a four-petaled flower mouth with Raven Beak's head inside. It's implied that either Experiment No. Z-57 or Drogyga was assimilated as well to allow this, since they have similar mouths.
* FusionDance: Raven Beak X is an amalgamation of the Chozo warrior Raven Beak and Kraid, possessing the latter's massive bulk and head (as a FlowerMouth) and Raven Beak's dark coloration, feathers, scaly avian limbs, and head (as an inner mouth). There also seem to be subtle aspects of other bosses as well, such as the FlowerMouth belonging to either Experiment No. Z-57 or Drogyga and the vestigal arms of the former.
* MadnessMantra: The only thing it's capable of uttering besides roars is "Samus" and "Hadar sen olmen" (Chozo for "Power is everything") repeatedly, likely the result of the X Parasite trying to emulate Raven Beak's megalomaniacal character.
* MightyGlacier: ZeroEffortBoss it may be, but if the player doesn't think to hold down the Y button immediately, it can end up getting to Samus and eating her in a single chomp. This means it can survive multiple seconds of continuous Hyper Beam fire, something that nothing else can claim once Samus starts making her way to her ship.
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: Compared to the very powerful, skilled and humanoid Raven Beak, Raven Beak X is ''far'' less of a threat than its former self thanks to no longer having powerful Chozo weaponry nor an agile Chozo physique (since it's essentially Raven Beak's head on Kraid's lumbering body), and the fact that Samus has the Hyper Beam to obliterate it.
* NestedMouths: Raven Beak's head is concealed inside of Kraid's maw, which rips in half vertically to become a FlowerMouth.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The X that infects Raven Beak is distinctly purple, and seeing as how it can take a [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]] to the face for more than a few seconds and can swallow Samus whole should it catch up to her, it's definitely powerful.
* SuperToughness: This thing survives getting drilled in the face by the [[WaveMotionGun Hyper Beam]] for a good 5 or 10 seconds. That's 5 or 10 seconds longer than ''literally anything else'' lasts against said Hyper Beam. This likely comes from having Kraid's DNA, as Kraid's skin was extremely tough and nigh-impenetrable.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the SA-X's second form. Both are misshapen creatures made up of multiple fused organisms and originally derived from characters wielding Chozo Power Suits, but are also much weaker than their original forms.
* SwallowedWhole: Fail to unleash the Hyper Beam on time, and Raven Beak X will anticlimactically devour Samus.
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being an [[FusionDance amalgamation]] of two of Samus's most powerful foes and the FinalBoss of [[SeriesFauxnale the series original arc]], Samus defeats it in seconds with a single attack to establish how strong her new Metroid powers have made her.
* ZeroEffortBoss: All the player needs to do is hold down the Y button long enough to defeat Raven Beak X.
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-> Debut: ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'' (flashbacks only), ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'' (first in-game appearance)
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A prominent Chozo scientist on ZDR who is on friendlier terms with Samus than the others -- and is the last survivor of the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] held captive by Raven Beak. As such, Quiet Robe knows more about the Metroids than anyone else, including their creation and powers. In the Chozo language, his name is Henkin Maradis.
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the Chozo Ghosts. While the Ghosts were only antagonistic towards Samus due to Phazon corruption and insanity, [[spoiler: the Chozo Soldiers were loyal to Raven Beak and would likely have fought her even without becoming hosts to the X, and while the Chozo Ghosts were spectral entities that lashed out with spiritual power, the soldiers fought with their physical strength and weapons, and the former tend to attack in groups of three while the soldiers are always faces one on one. Furthermore, the Chozo on Tallon IV took years to completely fall to the corruption allowing them to make preparations for Samus to arrive while those on ZDR fell in a very short amount of time making Raven Beaks plans fall apart somewhat.]]
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the Chozo Ghosts. While the Ghosts were only antagonistic towards Samus due to Phazon corruption and insanity, [[spoiler: the Chozo Soldiers were loyal to Raven Beak and would likely have fought her even [[spoiler:even without becoming hosts to the X, and while X]]. While the Chozo Ghosts were spectral entities that lashed out with spiritual power, the soldiers fought with their physical strength and weapons, and the former weapons. The Chozo Ghosts tend to attack in groups of three three, while the soldiers are always faces one on one. face Samus one-on-one. Furthermore, the Chozo on Tallon IV took years to completely fall to the corruption corruption, allowing them to make preparations for Samus to arrive arrive, while those on ZDR fell [[spoiler:fell to the X in a very short amount of time time, making Raven Beaks Beak's plans fall apart somewhat.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: They slaughter the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] for refusing to let them use the Metroids as beasts of warfare, and as a result [[spoiler:an X Parasite hides amongst their warriors and decimates them all until only Raven Beak is left. For some additional irony, the Metroids they sought to weaponize were created specifically to prey on the X.]]
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* LaserGuidedKarma: They slaughter the Thoha tribe of [=SR388=] for refusing to let them use the Metroids as beasts of warfare, and as a result [[spoiler:an X Parasite hides amongst their warriors and decimates them all until only Raven Beak is left. For some additional irony, the Metroids they sought to weaponize were created specifically to prey on the X.X, as well as attack Mawkin Chozo since they were programmed by the Thoha to do so.]]
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As shown in the Chozo Archives, all Mawkin have red eyes [[spoiler:when they aren't being infected by X Parasites]].
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: As shown in the Chozo Archives, as well as official artwork of both regular Chozo Soldiers, all Mawkin have red eyes [[spoiler:when they aren't being infected by X Parasites]].
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* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the Chozo Ghosts. While the Ghosts were only antagonistic towards Samus due to Phazon corruption and insanity, [[spoiler: the Chozo Soldiers were loyal to Raven Beak and would likely have fought her even without becoming hosts to the X, and while the Chozo Ghosts were spectral entities that lashed out with spiritual power, the soldiers fought with their physical strength and weapons, and the former tend to attack in groups of three while the soldiers are always faces one on one. Furthermore, the Chozo on Tallon IV took years to completely fall to the corruption allowing them to make preparations for Samus to arrive while those on ZDR fell in a very short amount of time making Raven Beaks plans fall apart somewhat.]]
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* BenevolentPrecursors: While it is true that they weren't able to do much in their own lifetimes, they actively worked to put in place a system for Samus to redeem them by seeding various worlds with power suit upgrades for her to collect. According to the manga and the "Metroid Dread Report", they also did everything they could to bring lasting peace to the galaxy in other ways knowing they wouldn't be around for much longer.
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* BenevolentPrecursors: While it is true that they weren't able to do much in their own lifetimes, they actively worked to put in place a system for Samus to redeem them by seeding various worlds with power suit upgrades for her to collect. According to the manga and the "Metroid Dread Report", they also did everything they could to bring lasting peace to the galaxy in other ways knowing they wouldn't be around for much longer. In ''Metroid Prime'', there is a scannable Chozo Statue in the Chozo Ice Temple of the Phendrana Drifts that depicts said Chozo holding and balancing a large flat dish meant to represent "the plane of existence", implying they saw it as their spiritual duty to try and uphold order in the universe.
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* ReligiousBruiser: {{Downplayed}} in both respects. The Chozo as a whole don't seem to truly be religious in that they had a central faith or figure to believe in, but rather that they were deeply spiritual and contemplative about their place in the universe as evidenced by their many temples. As for "bruiser", while in the present many Chozo seem to be pacifists it's made clear they were once a dominant warrior race and they never lost their touch at building advanced weapons.
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* SuicideAttack: If they take enough damage, they'll blow themselves up, forcing Samus to dash away to avoid taking damage.
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[[caption-width-right:205:''"There’s nothing to fear. We look different, but inside we have the same heart that you do.”'']]
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* MacGuffinGuardian: Three of the four Chozo Artifacts located in the Chozo Ruins are either guarded by (Samus must defeat three of them to acquire the Artifact of Wild from the Sunchamber) or at bare minimum are located in the same room as the ghosts (the Artifact of Chozo in the Life Grove and the Artifact of World in the Hall of Elders).
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* NoSell: Every fancy weapon you collected throughout the game? Useless. Only the basic Power Beam can hurt them.
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* NoSell: Every Almost every fancy weapon you collected throughout the game? Useless. Only the basic Power Beam and its derivatives can hurt them.them. Luckily, this includes Super Missiles.
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* ReligiousBruiser: They tend to congregate around areas most sanctified by the Tallon IV colony
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* AFateWorseThanDeath: They were pulled from their Higher Plane of Existence by Phazon. They managed to deal with it and return, except for the many that were twisted into insane ghosts by it while sealing the bulk of the stuff away. They had to be left behind. They are the turned.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: It's stated in ''Metroid Prime'' that at least some of them have done this. The Phazon pulled them back down, though.
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* FutureImperfect: An early Chozo Lore log entry claims that their history "stretches back into ancient times, so far into the fog of the past that we know not where our ancestors came from." It's implied that this is related to the ancient colonists' decision to abandon their higher technology and become SpaceAmish.
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* {{Seers}}: Those on Tallon IV had visions of the future, but they were not perfect visions.
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* {{Seers}}: Those on Tallon IV had visions of the future, future and foretold Samus' arrival, but they were not perfect visions.
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* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: The Tallon IV colony had decided to give up all but the most basic technology and live in harmony with nature. This unfortunately made dealing with invaders and star born plagues more difficult but they did discover some new tricks, such as prophecy and managed to {{MacGyver|ing}} enough things till Samus came, like their visions foretold. Still, some of the machines found on Tallon IV are mere first and second generation equivalent drones, from a society with multiple ''millennia'' of continuity.
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* WeHaveBecomeComplacent: The Tallon IV colony had decided to give up all but the most basic technology and live in harmony with nature. This unfortunately made dealing with invaders and star born plagues more difficult difficult, but they did discover some new tricks, tricks such as prophecy prophecy, and managed to {{MacGyver|ing}} enough things till Samus came, like their visions foretold. Still, some of the machines found on Tallon IV are mere first and second generation equivalent drones, from a society with multiple ''millennia'' of continuity.
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* AbusivePrecursors: Due to Phazon exposure. It has a much greater effect on entities without physical forms.
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* FaceMonsterTurn: [[TragicMonster Had no choice to avoid becoming evil monsters and in fact seem tormented by their fates]]. Their evil is entirely the work of [[GreaterScopeVillain Phazon]]. They're even called the Turned.
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* FaceMonsterTurn: [[TragicMonster Had no choice to avoid becoming evil monsters and in fact seem tormented by their fates]]. Their evil is entirely the work of [[GreaterScopeVillain Phazon]]. They're even called the Turned.Turned by other chozo.
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* MeaningfulName: Thoha is likely derived from 鳩 (''hato'', "pigeon/dove") and Mawkin from 猛禽 (''mōkin'', "bird of prey"), marking their hawks-vs-doves ideological conflict. It also evokes "Thoth", the bird-headed Egyptian god of knowledge, appropriate for their role as scientists.
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* MeaningfulName: Thoha is likely derived from 鳩 (''hato'', "pigeon/dove") and Mawkin from 猛禽 (''mōkin'', "bird of prey"), marking their hawks-vs-doves ideological conflict. It also evokes "Thoth", the bird-headed Egyptian god of knowledge, appropriate for their role as scientists.scientists and their tendency to BuildLikeAnEgyptian.
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* AngryGuardDog: The Armadiggers are impiled to be this via a mural in Elun, due to them wearing the same collar as Kraid, albeit smaller.
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* BioweaponBeast: In their genetic laboratories, they have been cloning and experimenting lifeforms for their bioweapon program, including Experiment No. Z-57. [[spoiler:This is why they want the Metroids so badly since they are the perfect bioweapons to rule the galaxy.]]
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* BioweaponBeast: In their genetic laboratories, they have been cloning and experimenting lifeforms for their bioweapon program, including Experiment No. Z-57. [[spoiler:This is why they want the Metroids so badly since they are the perfect bioweapons bioweapon minions to rule the galaxy.]]
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* EvilVersusEvil: A mural in Ferenia shows them in conflict with the Space Pirates, who beat them to the punch in weaponizing Metroids.
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* {{Irony}}: Despite being the first villainous faction that wanted Metroids as [[BioweaponBeast minions in their ranks]], they never got the chance due to [[spoiler:an X Parasite infecting all of them, save for their boss Raven Beak, who left them behind to save his own skin.]]
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* {{Tengu}}: Due to being a race of avian humanoids that live in isolation far from others, they're this to a tee right down to an ascetic philosophy and martial tradition similar to those of warrior monks. The biggest difference is they aren't as mischievous as traditional tengu, being benevolent teachers to younger races and guiding galactic civilization. However, the Chozo Memories of ''Samus Returns'' show there is a tribe that is far more aggressive.
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* {{Tengu}}: Due to being a race of avian humanoids that live in isolation far from others, they're this to a tee right down to an ascetic philosophy and martial tradition similar to those of warrior monks. The biggest difference is they aren't as mischievous as traditional tengu, being benevolent teachers to younger races and guiding galactic civilization. However, the Chozo Memories of ''Samus Returns'' show there is a tribe tribe, the Mawkin Tribe, that is far more aggressive.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: He was one of the key figures in the creation of the Metroids.
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** The similarities between Quiet Robe and Madeline Bergman from ''Other M'' can't be ignored either, both being visionary scientists who are the only sane survivors and regret ever making their most powerful creations.
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* HeroKiller: The first one Samus faces kills Quiet Robe on Raven Beak's orders just after they have given her the chance to escape ZDR without having to destroy the rest of the E.M.M.I.
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* TheGhost: Unlike all the other Chozo tribes, who we see in-person, in flashbacks, or as undead, we never see the Elysia Chozo at all, only their statues and robots.
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* PowersAsPrograms: ''Zero Mission'' artwork describes the Chozo as having developed into three tribes - one that could [[SuperSpeed run quickly]], one that could [[InASingleBound leap great distances]], and one that could [[BeTheBall curl into a ball]]. The upgrades Samus collects [[AllYourPowersCombined pass on the physical abilities of these tribes to her]].
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* AmbiguousSituation: Whether the Zebes Chozo are extinct is up in the air, it is assumed that any survivors of the initial pirate attack fled for somewhere safer, but nothing is confirmed as to what their actual status is.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Robotsmall, Robotbig, Autector, Autool, and Shakernaut are only named in the internal data of ''Dread''.
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* AllThereInTheScript: Robotsmall, Robotbig, Robotsmall and Robotbig are only named in the internal data of ''Samus Returns''. Autector, Autool, and Shakernaut are only named in the internal data of ''Dread''.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Diggernaut is attacking Samus because it has gone haywire or if its regular security protocols have GoneHorriblyRight in targeting intruders. Even the official Prima Guide brings up this ambiguity. Muddling things further is its tendency to inhale any Torizo powerups it finds, which seems to be either a skewed attempt to follow its mineral-collecting directives or a deliberate effort to keep them out of Samus's hands.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's not clear if Diggernaut is attacking Samus because it has gone haywire or if its regular security protocols have GoneHorriblyRight in targeting intruders. Even the official Prima Guide brings up this ambiguity. Muddling things further is its tendency to inhale any Torizo Chozo Statue powerups it finds, which seems to be either a skewed attempt to follow its mineral-collecting directives or a deliberate effort to keep them out of Samus's hands.
