Emperor Ing

> "*This is the leader of all the Ing, the Emperor Ing.*"
> ― Logbook, discussing Emperor Ing
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* Emperor Ing (First Phase)
* Emperor Ing (Cocoon)
* Emperor Ing (Mutated)

**Emperor Ing** is the main antagonist and penultimate boss of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

## Background

Much like the Leviathan Seed crashing on Tallon IV, another Seed crashed onto the Planet Aether. However, this seed had a much more devastating effect: The entire planet's energy was split in half, with half of it remaining on Aether and the other being used to generate a twisted dark version of Aether, inhabited by shadow creatures known as the Ing. With that, a war began between the Ing and Aether's inhabitants, the Luminoth. However, it was extremely one-sided, with the Ing easily overpowering the Luminoth and stealing all the planetary energy of Aether, barring the one source at the Great Temple Grounds. The Ing nearly succeeded in taking the energy, but the attempt was thwarted by Samus, and the Energy Controller was taken back. Soon, Samus began her journey on Aether, reclaiming all the stolen planetary energy, until at last she arrived at the Sky Temple to take back the planetary energy of Dark Aether, guarded by the leader of the Ing.

## Stats

**Attack Potency:** **Small Star Level** (Had absorbed half of Aether's planetary energy. Fought Samus in her Light Suit) | **Unknown** | **Small Star Level** (Far stronger than before after mutating)

**Speed:** **Immobile** with **Massively Faster than Light+** (Can tag Samus with its attacks. Samus can keep up with Ridley, who can keep up with Samus's Gunship) | **Immobile** | **Massively Faster than Light+** (Much faster than before)

**Durability:** **Small Star Level** (Can take many powerful attacks from Light Suit Samus Aran) | **Small Star Level** (None of Samus's attacks can harm it save for its weakpoints) | At least **Small Star Level** (Far more durable than before)

**Hax:**Possession/Power Enhancement, Technology Manipulation, Body Control, Poison Manipulation, Transformation, Resistance to Phazon Manipulation (As it is already mutated by Phazon, which includes all of Dark Samus's phazon-based abilities), Summoning, Resistance to Matter/Antimatter Manipulation and Space-Time Manipulation, Regeneration, Shielding, Resurrection, Portal Creation

**Intelligence**: **Low** (Is not shown as a particularly intelligent enemy, but is capable of leading an entire army of Ing and nearly defeated the Luminoth, a very technically advanced race)

**Stamina:** **High**(Could fight Samus for an extended period of time)

## Powers, Techniques, and Equipment

### Powers

**-Possession/Corruption:** The main ability of the Ing horde, allowing them to take control of any light world creature and turn them into a dark version of themselves, generally stronger than the original.

**-Resistance to Matter/Antimatter and Space-Time Manipulation:** Can be attacked by the Annihilator Beam and Sonic Boom without sustaining serious damage.

**-Technology Manipulation:** Scaling from lower level Ing, who were able to assimilate Luminoth technology like the Ingsmasher.

**-Poison Manipulation:** Can create a cloud of toxic gas that slowly kills targets.

**-Transformation:** Can turn into a cocoon to evolve into a stronger being.

**-Summoning:** Can summon a horde of Ing to assist it.

**-Resurrection:** Lower-tier Ing resurrected several Galactic Federation soldiers and infused them with dark power.

**-Power Absorption:** Scaling from lower level Ing, who could steal Samus's powers from her and use them as their own.

**-Regeneration:** Is capable of regrowing tentacles if they are destroyed.

**-Shielding:** Can project a shield around its weak spot in its first form. Its heart is also protected unless it glows with dark and light energy, in which case it is weak to the other type of element.

**-Darkness and Light Manipulation:** Can fire blasts of dark or light energy in its final form.

**-Body Control:** As an Ing, the Emperor can turn into a liquid form to evade attacks.

**-Portal Creation:** Ing are capable of making portals to the Light dimension from Dark Aether.

### Techniques

**-Tentacle Slam:** Emperor Ing slams its tentacles into the ground.

**-Tentacle Spin:** Emperor Ing spins around with its tentacles to damage enemies.

**-Laser:** A beam fired from the planetary energy of Aether, which deals heavy damage.

**-Dash:** Mutated Ing dashes forward at high speed.

**-Light/Darkness Beams**

### Equipment

**-Planetary Energy:** A source of power that fuels Aether. Grants Emperor Ing great power.

## Minor Feats

### Attack Potency

-Superior to regular Ing, who could kill the Luminoth that survived the impact of the Leviathan Seed.

### Speed

-Can keep up with characters that dodge its light beams.

### Durability

-Survived a bombardment of attacks from Light Suit Samus.

### Skill

-Able to lead the Ing Army to almost destroy the Luminoth race.

## Powerscaling

Emperor Ing is one of only two enemies in the series to fight Samus using her Light Suit, which is far more powerful than Samus using the Gravity or Phazon Suit. This makes the Emperor one of the strongest enemies in the series, although he is still inferior to characters near the end of Metroid Prime 3.

## Weaknesses

-When his heart glows with dark or light energy, he is vulnerable to the opposite element.

-HIs cocoon form has 11 weakspots that can force the cocoon to shatter if destroyed.

## Sources

Metroid Wiki

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