The Gauntlet

"The Gauntlet" is a series of rooms in Crateria. They appear in Super Metroid, to the upper left of the Landing Site. It contains many challenges within it, with many ways to go through them. The area is hidden by a wall of Bomb Blocks, and can therefore be fully completed as soon as the Bomb is acquired. However, it is considerably less difficult to do this with later upgrades such as the Power Bomb, Space Jump, and Screw Attack than without.
==Description==
===First room===
===Second room===
===Final room===
==Connecting rooms==
*Landing Site (first room, via Blue Door)
*"Fungal slope" (third room, via Blue Door)
*"Fungal walkway" (third room, via Blue Door)
*"Statues Hallway" (third room, via Red Hatch)
==Inhabitants==
*Yapping Maws (4 in first room, 1 in second)
*3 Wavers (first room)
*Zebs spawning from a ground fissure (second room)
*2 Beetoms (third room, upper half)
*5 Green Space Pirates (third room)
==Items==
;Energy Tank
:In the hands of a Chozo Statue in the second room.
;Missile Tanks
:On either side of the highest part of the third room. The Spring Ball or a carefully timed bipedal jump is required to collect both Tanks at the same time.
==Official data==
===Super Metroid Nintendo Player's Guide===
;CRATERIA AREA D (pg. 34)
:"You'll locate the elevator to Brinstar and the entrance to Tourian in this area. You can get to the upper part of Area D without many Items or much Energy, but you probably won't get through. Wait until later to go through this part."
;A. DOUBLE YOUR MISSILE PLEASURE (pg. 34)
:"If Samus has obtained the Spring Ball, she can jump up while the Morphing Ball is activated and get into position to score both Missiles. Otherwise, getting both Missiles at once is futile."
;Footnotes (pg. 34)
:"Grab the Energy Tank and wait until the lava subsides before moving on."
:"If you have the Spring Ball, you can get both Missiles when you go through here."
:"It'll take a Power Bomb to blast down through these bricks."
;C. AVOID THE LAVA TIDES (pg. 35)
:"As you go left through this corridor, you'll find columns of bricks that block your path. It would be easy enough to just Bomb through them, but there is scalding-hot lava to contend with. Use repeated Space Jumps to avoid the lava until it subsides. If you have the Screw Attack, you can break the blocks, but otherwise, you'll have to Bomb through them."
==Other appearances==
===Metroid: Zero Mission===
There is an unused room within Crateria in Zero Mission that may represent a scrapped version of the Gauntlet's first room. It is a corridor with two hills that crater in the middle. The room appears to be connected to the upper left of the Landing Site in the map, which is where the Gauntlet is accessed from in Super Metroid. However, there is no door to it in the in-game Landing Site, and the doors in the unused room (a Blue Door and Green Hatch) cannot be opened.
File:Unused Crateria room left.png|Left side.
File:Unused Crateria room right.png|Right side.
File:Unused Crateria room map.png|Map
==Trivia==
*The presence of Lower Norfair's lava in Crateria, the surface area of Zebes, suggests that the substance reached Crateria through an opening or breach created by diverging or converging of tectonic plates in a fashion similar to a volcano.
==Gallery==
Gauntlet entrance full view.png|Entrance full view.
GauntletEntrance.png|Entrance, as seen in SMILE.
Gauntlet hall full view.png|Hall full view.
GauntletEnergyTankRoom.png|Hall, as seen in SMILE.
Gauntlet shaft full view.png|Shaft full view.
File:Gauntlet shaft SMILE.png|Shaft, as seen in SMILE.
SM Crateria Missile Tank 7 and 8.gif
Category:Rooms
Category:Crateria
Category:Rooms containing expansions in Super Metroid