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[[caption-width-right:350:You are now worthy to bear the ShouldersOfDoom!]]
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7okg17XT60&list=PL9E98BE4897AB0005 The destruction of Tourian]]. Feels awesome, took awesome to do, and can be seen ''from orbit''. Too bad you get shot down soon after escaping.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q00LIDTlsL8&t=0m15s Getting revenge by]] blowing up the Pirates' Mothership. And stealing their fighter to boot.
* Every time you drop a Power Bomb, it feels like you are unleashing a bomb of '''awesome'''. By then you're so powerful you don't really need them, but that's why it's so fun.
* Swimming in lava with the Gravity Suit, compounded if you make it back to Norfair, letting you dance in the now harmless red Kool-Aid land.
* After destroying Mother Brain, Samus' ship crashes, forcing her to trek through the Space Pirate Mothership without her powersuit, constantly having to dodge the murderous pirates and their powerful weapons due to having nothing more than a stun gun. Then you manage to discover the Chozo Ruins that Samus once frequented as a child, giving us our first ever in-game look at our heroine's past. This leads to a battle with one of the murals, and once you defeat it? Cue the TransformationSequence! Cue the ThemeMusicPowerUp! You not only have your suit back, but it's now fully powered and better than ever. Enough running. [[CurbStompBattle It's time to slay some Space Pirates!]]
** It also needs to be said that this entire sequence was created just to explain the [[ShouldersOfDoom giant]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[MemeticMutation shoulders]]![[note]]They weren't a thing in the original NES game. They first appeared in ''Metroid II''.[[/note]] Yoshio Sakamoto could have just as easily retconned them into the main game and pretend that they've always been a thing, but decided that it would be cooler to justify their existence by creating a brand-new PlayableEpilogue where she receives them for the first time. Given that this is now one of the most iconic moments in the series, it's safe to say he made the right call.