Dark Samus
That's right a respect thread for Samus's dark nemesis; Dark Samus who was once known as Metroid Prime.
In its death throes following its defeat on Tallon IV, Metroid Prime sucks off the outer layer of Phazon which composed Samus's Phazon Suit, absorbing it and using it as a shell to form Dark Samus. Prime gained new abilities as well; for example, it can shoot Phazon beams reminiscent of Samus's Power Beam, as well as hover, recover health, and create shadow clones.
Samus first meets her doppelgänger near the beginning of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. Dark Samus destroys a light crystal beside Samus, inciting a horde of Ing creatures to attack Samus whilst vulnerable in the toxic Dark Aether atmosphere. The encounter leaves Samus without the possession of many of her power-ups, leading the player to solve puzzles and defeat enemies in order to reclaim them.
The player encounters Dark Samus three times in the game, with each battle featuring a stronger version of the adversary. The conflict between the two combatants spans over several regions of two dimensions, ultimately culminating with a final fight before the destruction of Dark Aether, during which Dark Samus changes several times between her third and fourth forms. Samus defeats her decaying counterpart, leaving Dark Samus to seemingly perish within Aether’s dying dimension. However, an unlockable cinematic reveals Dark Samus reforming in a cloud of Phazon after the game’s conclusion. According to a logbook scan, Dark Samus can perform this reforming ability from any type of destruction short of 'total atomic disruption'.
Dark Samus' final appearance occurs in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. In Corruption, the Galactic Federation moves to collect a sample of Phazon from what remains on planet Aether. In their hurry to collect as much as they can before the Federation, a group of Space Pirates accidentally bring Dark Samus aboard their ship, who had been revitalized amongst the Phazon supply. According to in-game logs, Dark Samus escapes from the cargo hold and quickly wipes out a third of the Pirate crew, the remainder of whom submit to her as their new leader.
Dark Samus then orders the Pirates to steal one of the Aurora Units, the Galactic Federation's organic supercomputers, which she subsequently uses to spread Phazon corruption on a galactic scale. In their efforts to stop her, Samus and three other Bounty Hunters end up corrupted with Phazon by her. After recovering from her attack, Samus is informed that the pirates were corrupting entire planets with Phazon Seeds, known as "Leviathans". After defeating each one of the other hunters, who had fallen under Dark Samus's control due to their Phazon corruption, and neutralizing each one of the Leviathans planted by her, Samus confronts her nemesis at the very source of the Phazon itself, the planet Phaaze. By using the same energy generated by her corrupted body to fight and destroy Dark Samus presumably for good, Samus manages to render all of the Phazon generated by the planet inactive, freeing her body from the corruption and triggering a chain reaction that culminates in the planet's explosion.
Battles from Metroid Prime 2:
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Battles from Metroid Prime 3: [Spoiler]
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