Dark Samus
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Dark Samus is a phazon metaform created by the remains of the Metroid Prime, Dark Samus absorbs Phazon to survive. After her brief cameo appearance in the secret ending of Metroid Prime, she appears in Metroid Prime 2 and returns in Metroid Prime 3.
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During Metroid Prime, Samus encountered a gargantuan Space Pirate vastly improved by phazon on a level unreached by any other of the so called 'Elite Pirates'. After it's defeat, it collapsed on Samus and dissolved into phazon, seeping into her suit and infusing with it, granting her the phazon suit. When she later defeated Metroid Prime, it's unstable body began drawing in all phazon around it...including Samus' Phazon Suit. The phazon suit was ripped right off of her and while she escaped, Metroid Prime subsequently exploded.
Or so it seemed.
Samus next encountered Dark Samus in the Space Pirate base in the Agon Wastes. Dark Samus was again absorbing phazon, this time from the Pirates reserves. She notices Samus and battles her. Samus emerges victorious and Dark Samus converts into phazon particles and disperses.
After Samus defeats the Emperor Ing, Samus destroys the planet Dark Aether and Samus has eight minutes to escape. However, her exit is blocked by a sudden phazon growth. Turning, she finds Dark Samus. Still, Samus defeats Dark Samus. With her last strength, Dark Samus attempts to absorb Samus' light suit-a suit that allowed Samus to take no damage from Dark Aether's atmosphere. However, her structural integrity gave way and she disintegrated into phazon particles.
But it still was not her end. The Space Pirates returned to Aether to gather what phazon they could before the Galactic Federation beat them to it. Unfortunately, among the phazon they collected was the particles that had once formed Dark Samus. Surrounded by stores of phazon, Dark Samus was able to reform herself. She killed a third of the pirate crew on the ship she was on and took control of the others.
Samus Aran and three other bounty hunters-Rundas, Ghor and Gandrayda-were being briefed on their next mission when the pirates attacked. The four hunters rushed to the controls of a cannon to drive off the leviathan, and Dark Samus confronted them. She fired a phazon blast at each hunter, 'infecting' them with phazon.
Samus awoke a month later to find her suit had been modified to handle the phazon she was self generating. While Norion was saved, the other two worlds, Bryyo and Elysia, were impacted with leviathans. The other hunters recovered earlier and had already deployed. Rundas was to destroy the corruption on Bryyo, Ghor the one on Elysia and Gandrayda, being able to change into any form, was sent to locate and infiltrate the pirate homeworld.
But there was a snag. Samus had been informed they all disappeared and didn't report back. The truth was Dark Samus took control of them through the phazon in their bodies. Rundas appeared to have had to be completely possessed, as when Samus faced him, he was reduced to an animalistic state. Samus went to the three worlds and defeated the three hunters. But, much to her sorrow, Dark Samus would come and absorb the hunters, recovering their phazon as well as absorbing their attributes.
After she had successfully cleansed Bryyo, Elysia and even the Space Pirate Homeworld, Samus and the federation launched an assault on Phaaze. There, Samus faced Dark Samus for the last time. Dark Samus had improved vastly, gaining the strength of Rundas, Ghor's ability to integrate himself with machines and Gandrayda's agility. She also was able to make copies of herself called Dark Echoes. After she was defeated, she merged with the stolen Aurora Unit 313 and did battle against Samus. But the Aurora Unit was destroyed, Dark Samus included, and since the Aurora unit was linked to Phaaze, Phaaze itself began to die. Samus escaped and was cleansed of all phazon in her body and the entire galaxy was completely purified of phazon.
Strangely, Dark Samus' trophy uses her Metroid Prime 2 appearance and not her more recent Metroid Prime 3 look, likely due to Metroid Prime 3 being in development at the same time as Brawl.
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A twin image of Samus, encountered near the beginning of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Dark Samus is identical to Samus in every way but color--she even uses similar attacks. There are many theories on the origin of Dark Samus, but none are proven. Dark Samus uses Phazon for energy and can absorb it to heal damage. Samus encounters Dark Samus a number of times.
- Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, 2004
[edit] Dark Samus in Brawl
Very similarly to Dark Link, Dark Samus appears as a Minor Boss in Event Matches. In Co-Op Event 7: Battle of the Dark Sides, Dark Link and Dark Samus team up against Link and Samus.
Like Dark Link, Dark Samus is not really Dark Samus, merely a black silhouette of Samus.
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