Darkling Tentacle

The Darkling Tentacle is an Ing/Darkling that is essentially a long tentacle that protrudes from walls, most commonly in narrow corridors. They are native to Dark Aether. It is insinuated that they are part of larger organisms, using portals to fit their tentacles through to capture and drag prey from another location on Dark Aether.
When a dangerous life-form (such as Samus and presumably Luminoth) approaches the Darkling Tentacle, it will begin swinging wildly to repel the foe. Like most Ing, they dislike bright light, and a bright flash will cause them to retract back behind the wall, allowing passage. These Darklings are very fast and hard to hit even with the Power Beam. They are indestructible, and their behavior greatly resembles that of the Reaper Vine and Aqua Reaper from Tallon IV and the Whipvine encountered on the BOTTLE SHIP.
==Locations==
*Double Path
*Crypt Tunnel
*Undertemple Access
*Hive Reactor
*Hive Gyro Chamber
*Gateway Access
==Logbook entry==
===Unused Entry===
An unused Logbook entry exists within the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc. It states that the Light Beam would be able to destroy these creatures, a weakness that mimics the Plasma Beam weakness used on Reaper Vines from Metroid Prime. It is unclear as to why the Darkling Tentacle became unkillable in the final. The only other change made to the entry includes the addition of "will" in the final (besides the semi-colon change into a colon, seen with most other entries).
==Trivia==
*For unknown reasons, the scan of these tendrils states that they are Ing but also labels them as Darkling organisms. This, along with their name, bring matters to confusion, since darklings are creatures possessed by Ing, meaning Darkling Tentacles were previously normal bioforms. There is the possibility that these tendrils are original darklings, creatures that were presumably born on the dark planet without ever having a light counterpart (such examples are the three Amorbis, Dark Phlogus and Nightbarbs). This is supported by the fact that Samus never encounters a counterpart for these creatures on Light Aether.
:*Concept Gallery artwork features a Wisp Tentacle which is not seen in the game. Its name is also present on an older list of scan data on the disk, and it is used in a script for the Darkling Tentacle, suggesting "Wisp Tentacle" is just a beta name.
*Another tentacle creature named the Dark Memory Tentacle is also present within the data of the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc. It is unclear as to what its relation to Darkling Tentacles are, if any. It appears to be a much larger version of the standard Darkling Tentacles encountered ingame, bearing the traditional black with red spots on its body/skin. Its appearance also slightly resembles that of an Aqua Reaper tentacle and it is unknown if the latter's model was reused for this unused species. For unknown reasons, there does not appear to be a scan associated with the Dark Memory Tentacle. It can be reloaded into the game using modified hacking of the game. It is unknown if data for this creature still exists within the final.
*Despite what the Logbook states, any Beam can disrupt a Darkling Tentacle, not just the Light Beam.
==Gallery==
Darkling Tentacle.png|Model.
Bonus Disc Darkling Tentacle.png|A Darkling Tentacle's Logbook scan seen in the Data Network of the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc.
Bonus Disc Dark Memory Tentacle.png|A Dark Memory Tentacle loaded in the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Bonus Disc.
 
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