Tourian escape shaft

The "Tourian escape shaft" is the final room explored in Tourian during Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission. It returns in Super Metroid as one of only two surviving rooms from the original Tourian.
==Description==
 Samus can ascend the platforms quickly using the Power Grip. During the escape, there are now effects such as explosions, steam blasts and crumbling debris. After Samus leaves Zebes, the escape shaft is shown in a cutscene as about to explode.
Samus can return to this room after she acquires the Fully Powered Suit. Following Tourian's destruction, the room has fallen into disrepair, most noticeably with rebars and other components protruding from the walls (in the background). The elevator still functions despite the explosion, although the door from the Zebesian Command Center has been demolished.
==Role==
Immediately following the death of Mother Brain, a self-destruct sequence is activated and Samus has a limited amount of time to escape Tourian's destruction. Samus ascends this shaft in order to leave Tourian. Metroid ends as soon as she steps onto the elevator, but in Zero Mission she has to pass through the rocky cave to the Landing Site.
By the time of Samus's second mission to Zebes, this shaft has been amalgamated into Crateria along with the original Zebesian Command Center. Both are desolate, in ruins and covered in fog when Samus first returns to them; however, upon returning after encountering Eye cameras in the first and third rooms of "old Brinstar", the shaft becomes populated with Wall Jumping silver Zebesians.
During the second countdown at the end of the game, Samus exits from the new Tourian into this shaft, and once again ascends it to escape Zebes. The room gradually fills up with scalding-hot lava. If Samus speed runs into the room and past the two Pirates blocking her path, she can Shinespark up the far right side of the shaft, ascending much of it automatically.
==Connecting rooms==
*Zebesian Command Center (via Blue Door)
*"Transport to Tourian" (Zero Mission only, via Elevator)
*Rocky cave (Super Metroid only, via Blue Door)
*"Old Tourian launchpad" (Super Metroid only, via Yellow Hatch and Metal Door)
*"Final escape room" (Super Metroid only, via Metal Door)
In Metroid, once Samus boards the elevator, the game ends with her standing on the surface of Zebes and does not show where the elevator stops.
==Inhabitants==
*Zebesians (Super Metroid only - 11 after returning from Corridor No. 1; 2 during countdown sequence)
==Items==
;Missile Tank:Zero Mission only, after Tourian's destruction. To reach it, Samus must speed run from the corridor before the Zebesian Command Center and then Shinespark through the room and ruined door. She will fly into the escape shaft and through the left wall, into a hidden area with this Missile Tank.
==Official data==
===Super Metroid Nintendo Player's Guide===
;E. EXIT FROM TOURIAN (pg. 34)
:"You can locate the exit from Tourian early in the game, but you won't be able to enter it - it's a metal door. After defeating Mother Brain, this is the same door that you'll exit through on your way back into Crateria."
==Trivia==
*The escape shaft in stage 4 of Adventure Mode in Super Smash Bros. Melee appears to have been influenced by the Tourian escape shaft.
*This room is not shown in Victory Techniques for Metroid or on the hand-drawn map of Tourian, both of which end after Mother Brain's defeat. This is to keep the best ending a secret.
==Gallery==
File:Tourian escape shaft (Metroid).png|Full view in Metroid.
File:Tourian escape shaft base - Zero Mission, exploding.png|Zero Mission.
File:Tourian escape shaft base - Zero Mission, ruined.png|The shaft destroyed.
File:Tourian escape shaft (Metroid Zero Mission).png|Full view in Metroid: Zero Mission.
Tourian escape shaft - Super Metroid, active.png|Samus encountering a Zebesian in Super Metroid.
File:Tourian escape shaft - Super Metroid, exploding.png|Samus ascending the shaft during her second escape.
File:Tourian escape shaft (Super Metroid).png|Full view in Super Metroid.
Climb.png|The room, as seen in SMILE
Category:Rooms
Category:Tourian
Category:Elevators
Category:Crateria
Category:Destroyed Locations
Category:Recurring Locations
Category:Rooms containing expansions in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission