Metroid Prime Lair

The Metroid Prime Lair is the deepest room in the Impact Crater and by extension, the last room in Metroid Prime.
==Description==
Several odd growths, named cancerous rock nubs in the game's Concept Gallery, surround the room and are quickly destroyed by Metroid Prime's first shockwave attack. The hole in the roof of the Lair from which Samus descends has a ring of what appear to be teeth surrounding it.
==Role==
This room is where Samus Aran faced the Core Essence of the Metroid Prime, and the only place in which Samus can use the Phazon Beam via Metroid Prime's concentrated Phazon deposits. In the room, the empty shell of the Metroid Prime's exoskeleton can be seen, surrounded by solid blue Phazon, some of which bubbles around the damaged husk. It is unknown if this Phazon was present before the creature fell here, or was released upon the latter's impact. Samus can stand on the empty husk while the creature performs its shockwave attacks.
==Connecting rooms==
*Subchamber Five (Long drop from above; one-way entrance)
==Inhabitants==
*Metroid Prime (Core)
*Metroid x2 (generated by Metroid Prime at roughly 75% HP remaining)
*Hunter Metroid x2 (generated by Metroid Prime at roughly 50% HP remaining)
*Fission Metroid x2 (generated by Metroid Prime at roughly 25% HP remaining)
(Note: 2 Metroids of the same type will be spawned for each Phazon pool created by Metroid Prime and under the aforementioned criteria. In Metroid Prime Remastered, the two Metroids spawned can each be of different types.)
==Development notes==
This room's map model contains a large hole roughly the size of the ones from the previous Subchambers located on the wall adjacent from Metroid Prime's husk. This hole is patched over in-game with a stone wall. The map wireframe still reflects this hole. This may represent an exit for the room from an abandoned escape sequence at the end, which was planned for Prime but not implemented due to time constraints.
==Trivia==
*Despite being called "Metroid Prime Lair", it does not seem possible for the creature to have entered the room before, as the way it is entered in the boss battle with Samus seems accidental. It is plausible that the room could have been accessed by another tunnel, however. Additionally, the way the creature entered the room could also be perceived as throwing itself in, possibly implying it meant to enter the room.
*A dark red variant of butterflies can be found clustered around several fleshy holes in the room's floor.
*The room bears several similarities to the Sanctum on Phaaze. The room is the Lair of Metroid Prime - Sanctum is where Dark Samus resides. Additionally, the rooms are the last ones playable in Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Both can only be entered through a long vertical drop, and also are seemingly impossible to get out of - how Samus escaped from these rooms after she defeated Metroid Prime and Dark Samus is a mystery.
==Gallery==
Entrance_to_Metroid_Prime's_lair_Dolphin_HD.jpg|The entrance to the Lair created by the creature, in Subchamber Four/Five.
Metroid Prime face closeup.jpg|Closeup of Metroid Prime's core form.
Crater_Screenshot_HD_(3).jpg|
Butterflies in Metroid Prime Lair.jpg|A red variety of butterflies.
Metroid prime abandoned husk.png|Prime's husk.
Prime Pure Phazon Puddle.png|A pure Phazon puddle created by Metroid Prime's core.
Metroid_Prime_dying_form.jpg|A defeated Metroid Prime in its pure essence form.
Prime lair gravity suit.png|Samus loses her Phazon Suit and reverts to the Gravity Suit.
Dying_Prime_overloads.jpg|Metroid Prime overloads.
MPC21.jpg|Metroid Prime comic
Metroid Prime Core Exo Escape Cutscene Remastered.png|Metroid Prime's core escaping from its downed exosuit by blowing open its head piece in Metroid Prime Remastered.
Metroid Prime face closeup Remastered.png|Closeup of Metroid Prime's Core form in Metroid Prime Remastered. 
Metroid Prime Lair Cutscene 8 Remastered.png|Metroid Prime's core prepares for battle in Metroid Prime Remastered.
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