Dark Samus

> "*Horrific as it may sound, there are two of them now.*"
> ― Space Pirates, discussing Dark Samus
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* Dark Samus (Echoes)
* Metroid Prime (Exo)
* Metroid Prime (Core)
* Dark Samus (End of Echoes)
* Dark Samus (Corruption)

**Dark Samus** is a major antagonist in the Metroid series, making her first appearance in Metroid Prime.

## Background

50 years prior to Samus's arrival on Tallon IV, a massive Phaaze Leviathan Seed crashed on the planet, infecting it with Phazon and driving most of the Chozo living there to either abandon the planet, die, or become corrupted into berserk Chozo Ghosts. Eventually, the corruption spread to the Metroids living on the planet, one of which becoming known as "The Worm" and taking up residence in the Impact Crater the meteor left behind. When Samus arrived to fight the creature, dubbed Metroid Prime, she ultimately destroyed the creature... until it absorbed Samus' Phazon Suit and her DNA, becoming an unholy fusion known as Dark Samus. With this, Dark Samus journeyed across the universe gathering Phazon to increase her power, until at last, she made her move. Using the Leviathan Seeds, she spread Phazon poisoning across the galaxy in a bid to control it completely, and captured an Aurora Unit from the GFS Valhalla to help her. The plan was almost foolproof, but in the end, she was overloaded with Phazon and destroyed, ridding the universe of her malice forever.

## Stats

**Attack Potency:**At least **Planet Level** (Fought with Phazon Suit Samus, who should be superior to Varia and Gravity Suit Samus. Overwhelmingly superior to Tallon Metroids, who can fight enemies that can harm them.Given the existence of Fission Metroids almost exclusively in the Impact Crater where the Leviathan struck, it's likely certain Metroids were hit with the full force of the Leviathan impact, and there were also Metroids on board the Leviathans.) | **Small Star Level** (Survived the collapse of Dark Aether, and fought Light Suit Samus Aran after she had absorbed half of Aether's planetary energy) | At least **Small Star Level** (Far superior to her Echoes version after absorbing more Phazon and fusing with the planet Phaaze. Easily stomped Varia Suit Samus Aran, and fought on par with PED Suit Samus Aran in Hypermode)

**Speed:** **Massively Faster than Light+** (Can tag Samus with its attacks. Samus can keep up with Ridley, who can keep up with Samus's Gunship) | **Massively Faster than Light+** (Far faster than before) | **Massively Faster than Light+** (Blitzed Varia Suit Samus at the beginning of Corruption)

**Durability:**At least **Planet Level** (Was bombarded with many Hypermode blasts from Phazon Suit Samus before being defeated) | **Small Star Level** (Most of Samus's attacks were ineffective against Dark Samus, save for redirecting her own Phazon) | At least **Small Star Level** (Far more durable than before), regeneration makes her hard to kill

**Hax:**Precognition Negation, Soul Manipulation, Technology Manipulation, Life Manipulation, Biological Manipulation, Mind Manipulation, Status Effect Inducement, Corruption, BFR, Invisibility, Intangibility, Invulnerability, Duplication, Poison Manipulation, possible Reality Warping, Summoning (As Metroid Prime), Power Stealing, Statistics Amplification, Regeneration, Radiation Manipulation, Teleportation, Absorption, Shielding, Nigh-Absolute Zero Ice, Flight, Plasma Manipulation, Forcefield Negation, Fusion, Durability Negation, Healing, possible Precognition, Creation

**Intelligence**: **Low** (Is essentially the same as a common Metroid, possessing a desire only to kill enemies) | **Average** (Possesses limited application of her intellect outside of her attempts to gain more Phazon) | **Genius** (Plotted the corruption and takeover of the entire universe and nearly succeeded)

**Stamina:** **High**(Could fight Samus for an extended period of time) | **Limitless** (Due to Phazon, Dark Samus has shown no signs of tiring)

## Powers, Techniques, and Equipment

### Powers

* **Precognition Negation:** Negated the precognitive abilities of the Chozo, who could see into the future, and severely damaged the minds and sight of those who tried to mentally study it.
* **Mind Manipulation/Corruption:** Phazon corrupts the minds of anyone it touches, destroying their brain cells and rendering them incapable of thoughts beyond Dark Samus's will. Has been shown to even corrupt the dead.
* **Soul Manipulation/Resistance to Soul Destruction:** Phazon attacks directly target the soul. Dark Samus can take many Phazon attacks directly and be unaffected.
* **Technology Manipulation:** Was able to assimilate Ghor, a 97% robotic bounty hunter.
* **Biological/Life Manipulation:** Can genetically alter the biology of a specimen to mutate them, or turn them into Phazon.
* **Absorption:** Dark Samus can absorb any life-form infused with Phazon.
* **Power Stealing/Fusion:** As Metroid Prime, stole Samus' Phazon Suit and fused with it to become Dark Samus. Also fused with the Aurora Unit.
* **Status Effect Inducement:** Being near Phazon for too long causes hallucination, loss of balance, irregular breathing, and muscle spasms.
* **Poison Manipulation:** Able to kill most living organisms who touch it in a few seconds, and can even kill organisms simply in the same area as high concentrations of Phazon. Referred to as "The Great Poison" by the Chozo. Even those resistant to Phazon like Samus can eventually be killed by it.
* **Reality Warping/BFR:** Phazon split Planet Aether into two dimensions, dark and light, and trapped certain objects in Dark Aether. It's possible Dark Samus could do the same thing, given she has complete control over Phazon.
* **Invisibility:** Can use Phazon to turn invisible, requiring the power to see soundwaves or dark energy to detect her.
* **Creation:** The Phazon from the Leviathan Seed created the Ing race alongside Dark Aether.
* **Precognition:** Due to absorbing Samus's DNA, Dark Samus should likely be able to perform a SenseMove to perceive incoming attacks before they happen, and dodge them.
* **Intangibility:** As Metroid Prime, it could not be hit by any of Samus's weapons barring Phazon blasts that specifically targeted the soul. As Dark Samus, she could become an intangible wraith in the same fashion as her Prime form. Objects struck by Phazon can be put into transdimensional flux, being intangible in one dimension and tangible in another.
* **Invulnerability:** Was immune to all of Samus's weapons with the exception of Phazon attacks at her strongest.
* **Summoning:** Could summon Tallon and Fission Metroids to assist.
* **Statistics Amplification:** Absorbing more Phazon boosts Dark Samus's capabilities. Phazon injected into normal creatures augments their stats immensely, as shown by the Space Pirates and GFS Soldiers.
* **Teleportation:** Teleported from Tallon IV to Planet Aether.
* **Resurrection:** The phazon poison from Metroid Prime revived several dead Chozo as ghosts, capable of turning invisible, intangible, and firing projectiles.
* **Regeneration:** Due to absorbing so much Phazon, Dark Samus has incredible regeneration. Even as Metroid Prime, she could regenerate from just a few cells, but after becoming Dark Samus she could regenerate from everything save complete atomic disruption, then evolved past that to the point where she could regenerate even after she was dissipated into the air and had a dimension collapse on her. Later, after absorbing even more Phazon, it's possible her regeneration was augmented even further, potentially allowing her to return even if her soul and body were destroyed, as long as Phazon existed in the universe.
* **Radiation Manipulation:** Phazon frequently expels high quantities of radiation known as Phazon Radiation.
* **Shielding:** Can project a Phazon barrier to block most attacks.
* **Nigh Absolute Zero Ice/Plasma/Electricity/Energy Manipulation:** As Metroid Prime, could fire ice, plasma, and electricity shots, along with standard energy blasts. After absorbing Samus's Phazon Suit, gained all of Samus's Prime 1 abilities, which would include these attacks. Can expel Phazon as a projectile to increase its range.
* **Forcefield Negation:** Phazon can break through most barriers. Absorbed the Wave Beam, which could do this.
* **Non-Physical Interaction:** Via scaling off of Samus, who could destroy the Chozo Ghosts.
* **Resistance to Phazon:** As a being of pure Phazon, Dark Samus resists all of its aforementioned abilities.
* **Healing:** Can potentially use Concentration to heal herself, but has not shown this. Phazon has shown the power to heal those it comes in contact with if they survived prior exposure to it.
* **Resistance to Antimatter and Space-Time Manipulation:** Can tank hits from the Sonic Boom, which fires a powerful matter-antimatter blast that distorts space and time.
* **Resistance to BFR:** On top of her aforementioned teleportation, is unaffected by the abilities of the Darkburst, which sucks enemies into a void.

### Techniques

* **Phazon Shield**
* **Phazon Shrapnel Beam:** Fires a scattershot of Phazon Energy. Can also charge the beam to create a powerful laser attack.
* **Phazon Missiles:** A variant of Samus's own missiles, which can also be charged up to Super Missiles to increase their power exponentially.
* **Plasma Beam:** Absorbed from Ghor, allowing her to fire concentrated heat blasts.
* **Phazon Ice Spreader:** A Phazon variant of the Ice Spreader, which creates a large sheet of ice in front of the target to freeze enemies solid.
* **Boost Ball:** Dark Samus turns into a Morph Ball form and zooms around the arena, dealing heavy damage.
* **Duplication:** Dark Samus creates several clones. The clones are distinguishable due to their different visors.
* **Tractor Beam:** Allows Metroid Prime to pull enemies closer for attack.
* **Shockwave:** A simple energy shockwave that deals heavy damage.

### Equipment

* **Arm Cannon:** Allows Dark Samus to fire powerful Phazon attacks.
* **Aurora Unit:** Stolen from the GFS Valhalla, Dark Samus fused with this organic Phazon-corrupted supercomputer to boost her power.

## Key

**Metroid Prime | Metroid Prime 2: Echoes | Metroid Prime 3: Corruption**

## Minor Feats

### Attack Potency

* Easily defeated a squad of space pirates.
* Blew apart an entire room.
* Stomped Rundas, Ghor, and Gandrayda prior to their PED Suit upgrades, who could easily defeat common Space Pirates.
* Stomped Legendary Varia Suit Samus, who defeated Meta Ridley moments prior.

### Speed

* Can blitz Ghor, Gandrayda, and Rundas, who should be comparable to Zero Suit Samus, who dodged lightning.
* Can travel interstellar distances in a short time.

### Durability

* Survived a bombardment of Hypermode attacks from Phazon Suit Samus.
* Survived Dark Aether's collapse.

### Skill

* Possesses Samus's DNA, making her a master of combat. Samus was trained to be a master of armed and unarmed combat by the Chozo from an early age.

## Powerscaling

Dark Samus is one of the most powerful beings in the Metroid universe, requiring all of Samus's power to defeat once and for all. As such, she should scale to Samus and most enemies she has defeated, including Ridley, Emperor Ing, and Kraid.

## Weaknesses

* Being overloaded with too much Phazon could result in her destruction, somehow.
* Requires a steady supply of Phazon to remain strong.

## Sources

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