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* The backgrounds are much more detailed this time around, including the presence of large living creatures or robots that sometimes move around. However, there is a huge, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]]... [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ComfortableAccurateBee-size_restricted.gif something]]... inhabiting the background of Area 4. And it looks ready to attack Samus [[ParanoiaFuel at any second]]. Given [[EverythingTryingToKillYOU the nature of the planets Samus explores]], you'd think this would happen, but it luckily doesn't.

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* The backgrounds are much more detailed this time around, including the presence of large living creatures or robots that sometimes move around. However, there is a huge, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]]... [[https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ComfortableAccurateBee-size_restricted.gif something]]... inhabiting the background of Area 4. And it looks ready to attack Samus [[ParanoiaFuel at any second]]. Given [[EverythingTryingToKillYOU [[EverythingTryingToKillYou the nature of the planets Samus explores]], you'd think this would happen, but it luckily doesn't.



* The music for the segment of Area 6 past the triple crumble block climb is just...weird. It almost sounds like there are deep male voices saying things with the fluctuating background sound, and it just overall sounds very ominous. Quite unsettling.



* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No71IH_Up2k The Queen Metroid's new boss music]]. Gone is the catchier tune from the original game, replaced with remixed bits of it, Mother Brain's theme from ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', and a menacing orchestra all mixed into a [[HellIsThatNoise terrifying cacophony]] that barely even qualifies as a coherant song.
* TheStinger after the final boss. We see a green [[TheGoomba Hornoad]] hopping around, minding its own business, and then we see [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion a familiar-looking, floating yellow blob]] begin getting near it. The Hornoad hops away from it and eventually leaps behind a pillar. The blob follows and ambushes it. We don't see what happens, but we do hear the poor creature's pained shrieks. The next time we see the Hornoad, it's turned red, has grown several spikes, and it lets out a vicious roar. It's a disturbing scene, and you know what's worse? '''''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero YOU]]''''' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowed it to happen!]]

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No71IH_Up2k The Queen Metroid's new boss music]]. Gone is the catchier tune from the original game, replaced game and ''[=AM2R=]''--replaced with remixed bits of it, Mother Brain's theme from ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', and a menacing orchestra all mixed into a [[HellIsThatNoise terrifying cacophony]] that barely even qualifies as of a coherant song.
* TheStinger after the final boss. We see
song only befitting such a green [[TheGoomba Hornoad]] hopping around, minding its own business, and then we see [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion a familiar-looking, floating yellow blob]] begin getting near it. The Hornoad hops away from it and eventually leaps behind a pillar. The blob follows and ambushes it. We don't see what happens, but we do hear the poor creature's pained shrieks. The next time we see the Hornoad, it's turned red, has grown several spikes, and it lets out a vicious roar. It's a disturbing scene, and you know what's worse? '''''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero YOU]]''''' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowed it to happen!]]monstrous creature.



* The music for the segment of Area 6 past the triple crumble block climb is just...weird. It almost sounds like there are deep male voices saying things with the fluctuating background sound, and it just overall sounds very ominous. Quite unsettling.

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* TheStinger after the FinalBoss. We see a green [[TheGoomba Hornoad]] hopping around, minding its own business, and then we see [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion a familiar-looking, floating yellow blob]] begin getting near it. The music for Hornoad hops away from it and eventually leaps behind a pillar. The blob follows and ambushes it. We don't see what happens, but we do hear the segment of Area 6 past poor creature's pained shrieks. The next time we see the triple crumble block climb is just...weird. It almost sounds like there are deep male voices saying things with the fluctuating background sound, Hornoad, it's turned red, has grown several spikes, and it just overall sounds very ominous. Quite unsettling.lets out a vicious roar. It's a disturbing scene, and you know what's worse? '''''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero YOU]]''''' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowed it to happen!]]
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No71IH_Up2k The Queen Metroid's new boss music]]. Gone is the catchier tune from the original game, replaced with remixed bits of it, Mother Brain's theme from ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'', and a menacing orchestra all mixed into a [[HellIsThatNoise terrifying cacophony]] that barely even qualifies as a coherant song.
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** This 11th memory isn't just a look into the dark side of the Chozo race, it was the first glimpse of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', Raven Beak. For ''Samus Returns'' players transitioning to ''Dread'', it gives them [[EstablishingCharacterMoment a pretty good idea of what to expect from this new villain]].

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** This 11th memory isn't just a look into the dark side of the Chozo race, it was it's the first glimpse of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', Raven Beak. For ''Samus Returns'' players transitioning to ''Dread'', it gives them [[EstablishingCharacterMoment a pretty good idea of what to expect from this new villain]].
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** This 11th memory isn't just a look into the dark side of the Chozo race, it was the first glimpse of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/MetroidDread'', Raven Beak. For ''Samus Returns'' players transitioning to ''Dread'', it gives them [[EstablishingCharacterMoment a pretty good idea of what to expect from this new villain]].
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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/162?cb=20080609044527 chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.

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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/162?cb=20080609044527 chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://metroid.[[https://vignette.wikia.com/wiki/File:MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4a/MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/310?cb=20170806185157 essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.
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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/162?cb=20080609044527 essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.

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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/162?cb=20080609044527 chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.
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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.

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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://metroid.wikia.com/wiki/File:Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://metroid.[[https://vignette.wikia.com/wiki/File:MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/162?cb=20080609044527 essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.
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* The music for the second segment of Area 6 is just...weird. It almost sounds like there are deep male voices saying things with the fluctuating background sound, and it just overall sounds very ominous. Quite unsettling.

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* The music for the second segment of Area 6 past the triple crumble block climb is just...weird. It almost sounds like there are deep male voices saying things with the fluctuating background sound, and it just overall sounds very ominous. Quite unsettling.
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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]] [[JokerImmunity Death]]" for nothing!

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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]] [[JokerImmunity Death]]" for nothing!nothing!
* The music for the second segment of Area 6 is just...weird. It almost sounds like there are deep male voices saying things with the fluctuating background sound, and it just overall sounds very ominous. Quite unsettling.
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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]] [[JokerInmunity Death]] for nothing!

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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]] [[JokerInmunity Death]] [[JokerImmunity Death]]" for nothing!
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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]][[JokerInmunity Death]] for nothing!

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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]][[JokerInmunity of]] [[JokerInmunity Death]] for nothing!
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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.''

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* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.'''' They don't call him "[[RedBaron The Cunning God of]][[JokerInmunity Death]] for nothing!
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** If you look very closely, you can see that the shape of the figure's head seems familiar. [[spoiler:That could be '''Ridley''' stalking you.]]
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** If you look very closely, you can see that the shape of the figure's head seems familiar. [[spoiler:That could be '''Ridley''' stalking you.]]
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* TheStinger after the final boss. We see a green [[TheGoomba Hornoad]] hopping around, minding its own business, and then we see [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion a familiar-looking, floating yellow blob]] begin getting near it. The Hornoad hops away from it and eventually leaps behind a pillar. The blob follows and ambushes it. We don't see what happens, but we do hear the poor creature's pained shrieks. The next time we see the Hornoad, it's turned red, has grown several spikes, and it lets out a vicious roar. It's a disturbing scene, and you know what's worse? '''''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero YOU]]''''' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowed it to happen!]]

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* TheStinger after the final boss. We see a green [[TheGoomba Hornoad]] hopping around, minding its own business, and then we see [[VideoGame/MetroidFusion a familiar-looking, floating yellow blob]] begin getting near it. The Hornoad hops away from it and eventually leaps behind a pillar. The blob follows and ambushes it. We don't see what happens, but we do hear the poor creature's pained shrieks. The next time we see the Hornoad, it's turned red, has grown several spikes, and it lets out a vicious roar. It's a disturbing scene, and you know what's worse? '''''[[NiceJobBreakingItHero YOU]]''''' [[NiceJobBreakingItHero allowed it to happen!]]happen!]]
* Proteus Ridley. While his sudden appearance is more awesome than frightening, his appearance is somewhat unnerving when you look at the implications. In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', (Omega Ridley) was last seen retreating, as an exploding mass of Phazon - and considering that the ''Prime'' games take place all before this one, Ridley not only survived the extreme Phazon withdrawal from his body, but has ''continued to regenerate his body as normal even afterwards!'' Once he is defeated, his cybernetics short out - which initially would have one believe that he would slowly die out without them. But as the ending goes to show, that isn't the case: ''he just shed them all anyway.''
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* You know how in [=AM2R=], there is an utterly inhumane scream by the Queen Metroid when you kill your first Omega Metroid? Here, if you kill all the larvae Metroids in the final area, the Queen will ''roar'' when you near her location. Again, she is [[{{Understatement}} not]] very happy [[MamaBear about you killing her children]].

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* You know how in [=AM2R=], ''[=AM2R=]'', there is an utterly inhumane scream by the Queen Metroid when you kill your first Omega Metroid? Here, if you kill all the larvae Metroids in the final area, the Queen will ''roar'' when you near her location. Again, she is [[{{Understatement}} not]] very happy [[MamaBear about you killing her children]].

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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20080609044527 chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4a/MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170806185157 essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.
* The Omega Metroids got a similar redesign treatment in that they went from [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/5/5e/Omega_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20080609044636 a moderately-intimidating dinosaur-like creature]] with a LampreyMouth to a [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/b/b5/MSR_Omega_Metroid_artwork.png/revision/latest?cb=20171225220219 humanoid lamprey with some dinosaur traits]]. They are now as big as the one in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidFusion Fusion]]'', can move surprisingly fast, and are strong enough to cause the ceiling to crumble just by slamming their tails on the ground. The first Omega's introduction cutscene? It marches on into a room that was once seemingly Metroid-free when you were hunting the other Metroids in Area 6 with no warning, trampling a shed skin in the process, and we don't know what Metroid that skin belonged to. Their PsychoStrings-filled [[https://youtu.be/NITjYFk9NMY boss theme]] lets you know that other than the Queen, they are the apex predator of [=SR388=].

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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://vignette4.[[https://metroid.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20080609044527 com/wiki/File:Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://vignette.[[https://metroid.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4a/MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170806185157 com/wiki/File:MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.
* The Omega Metroids got a similar redesign treatment in that they went from [[https://vignette.[[https://metroid.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/5/5e/Omega_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20080609044636 com/wiki/File:Omega_Metroid_art.JPG a moderately-intimidating dinosaur-like creature]] with a LampreyMouth to a [[https://vignette.[[https://metroid.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/b/b5/MSR_Omega_Metroid_artwork.png/revision/latest?cb=20171225220219 com/wiki/File:MSR_Omega_Metroid_artwork.png humanoid lamprey with some dinosaur traits]]. They are now as big as the one in ''[[VideoGame/MetroidFusion Fusion]]'', can move surprisingly fast, and are strong enough to cause the ceiling to crumble just by slamming their tails on the ground. The first Omega's introduction cutscene? It marches on into a room that was once seemingly Metroid-free when you were hunting the other Metroids in Area 6 with no warning, trampling a shed skin in the process, and we don't know what Metroid that skin belonged to. Their PsychoStrings-filled [[https://youtu.be/NITjYFk9NMY boss theme]] lets you know that other than the Queen, they are the apex predator of [=SR388=].
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* In Area 3, you come across a grapple point that must be ripped away in a quiet room. Doing so ends up reactivating a giant Chozo mining robot called the Diggernaut. It looks at you with its single, glowing [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]] ominously before [[NothingIsScarier going on its way]]. You meet it again not much later in Area 4... and [[AIIsACrapshoot now it's trying to kill you from the background]] when every other background character has been seemingly docile. Getting grazed by its mining drills during the AdvancingWallOfDoom sequence is a OneHitKill, and you only get the machine off your back by hiding in a Morph Ball-sized notch in the wall and letting the Diggernaut think it killed you. You don't get to fight it directly until the end of Area 6, and this mining robot is still a force to be reckoned with.

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* In Area 3, you come across a grapple point that must be ripped away in a quiet room. Doing so ends up reactivating a giant Chozo mining robot called the Diggernaut. It looks at you with its single, glowing [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eye]] ominously before [[NothingIsScarier going on its way]]. You meet it again not much later in Area 4... and [[AIIsACrapshoot now it's trying to kill you from the background]] when every other background character has been seemingly docile. Getting grazed by its mining drills during the AdvancingWallOfDoom sequence is a OneHitKill, and you only get the machine off your back by hiding in a Morph Ball-sized notch in the wall and letting the Diggernaut think it killed you. You don't get to fight it directly until the end of Area 6, and even then and after receiving more defensive upgrades, this mining robot robot, not specifically designed to be a death machine, is still a force to be reckoned with.
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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being [[https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20080609044527 chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://i.redd.it/qq9ochpwph3z.png essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.

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* The Zeta Metroids were redesigned from being UglyCute [[https://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4c/Zeta_Metroid_art.JPG/revision/latest?cb=20080609044527 chubby dinosaur things]] to [[https://i.redd.it/qq9ochpwph3z.png [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/metroid/images/4/4a/MSR_Zeta_Metroid_artwork.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170806185157 essentially]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorphs]] now.

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