Sometimes, you just have to blow stuff up. If you're having a particularly bad day, you might want to blow stuff up on an interstellar scale. If you're Samus Aran, you'll save the day doing it too. It's a tad unsettling that most of her missions in the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Metroid series end in a burned-earth approach, but maybe that's the cost of stopping people from resurrecting a biological superweapon.
Samus Aran is the one person you do not want stepping foot on your planet because there's a pretty high chance it won't be there again once she leaves. It's almost a guarantee at this stage that some galactic destruction will occur if she's present. So, if you hear she's visiting, you best to prepared to evacuate.
5 Zebes
The very beginning of the entire series. The original Metroid takes place on Zebes, with Samus hunting down the villainous Space Pirates and their leader Ridley, culminating in the destruction of their base along with Mother Brain. To Samus, Zebes has a deeper history. It was where she was raised by the Chozo, and thus offers a reason for all the Chozo tech on the planet and Samus' ability to use it.
Of course, like much of what Samus deals with, Zebes is eventually destroyed. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Revisiting the planet in Super Metroid, the Space Pirates have reconvened and Samus is tasked with taking them out for good. W♍hile she destroyed the base of the Space Pirate𝕴s the first time around, this time the entire planet is taken in the explosion. No more Space Pirates, no more Metroids, and no more home for Samus.
4 SR388
If you've played a Metroid game, you'll know that the phrase "the Metroid have been destroyed" is, well, not true. They always find some way to keep on existing, usually in the hands of people unwilling to let a weapon of war go to waste. Despite this, Samus was tasked with going to SR388, an unnamed planet on the fringes of space. Though expanded in later games, SR388 was the birthplace of the Metroid, created to destroy the endemic X Parasite before going out of control themselves.
Though Metroid 2 is definitely a bit of a slog in gameplay, it revolves around exterminating all the remaining Metroids, save for the very final baby Metroid Samus saves at the end. Very unlike Samus, she doesn't actually destroy the planet this time around. Instead, she later visits the BSL Station in Metroid Fusion, where she learns more Metroids have been created and the X Parasite has broken free. The only choice left to Samus to destroy both is to fly the space station into SR388, annihilating them both and perhaps finally ending the Metroid.
3 Dark Aether ꦦ
Though Metroid Prime is the favoured entry of the Prime trilogy, and Samus does not actually destroy any planets in the original, the same cannot be said for the two sequels. In Metroid Prime 2, Samus visits the planet of Aether, before getting caught in a war between light and dark versions of the planet. Leviathans from the planet Phaaze had crashed into Aether, spreading the plague-like Phazon to it, splitting the planet in two 💯across separate dimensions.
With this separation came a new issue: neither planet could fully sustain itself without the energy of the other. Stuck in the middle, Samus opts to save the planet of Aetherꦍ, travelling to this parallel dimension and destroying the source of Dark Aether, restoring the full planetary energy to Aether. As you might have expected, this causes the destruction of Dark Aether and the pocket dimension in which it existed. Standard fare for Samus at this stage.
2 Phaaze
Dark Samus is, at this point, an iconic character, inextricably tied to the Metroid Prime games and Samus as a character. A being of pure Phazon created from both Samus and the titular Metroid Prime, Dark Samus serves as the antagonist of Metroid Prime 2, and ultimately 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the final antagonist of the enti༺re series. Like the very substance she was created from, the final encounter with her takes place on the planet of Phaaze, the senti💦ent planet of Phazon.
Phaaze is itself an antagonist of the series, with Phazon having caused many of the issues that arose in the galaxy across the trilogy. In Metroid Prime 3, Dark Samus brings the Space Pirates here and uses the Aurora Unit 313 to fuse herself with the planet, causing them to functionally become o🎀ne and the same. At the climax of the game, Samus comes face-to-face with her dark counterpart, and as such the planet of Phaaze as a whole. With the defeat of Dark Samus, the planet itself collapsed along with her. Phaaze was destroyed, and the Metroid Prime trilogy was completed.
1 ZDR
The history of Metroid Dread is a long one, heavily evidenced by the game's own story. Originally planned as a DS sequel to Fusion, the game disappeared until reappearing in 2021 for the Nintendo Switch, the first side-scrolling Metroid game in over a decade. This time, the story takes place on the planet of ZDR, the homeworld of the Mawkin Tribe of the Chozo. This also marks the first appearance of living Chozo in the series.
More heavily story-focused than any other side-scrolling entry in the series, Metroid Dread has Samus hunting down the threat of a revived X Parasite, only to encounter the Chozo that helped raise her as a child. This does not stop Samus from fighting for the protection of the galaxy, defeating the very Chozo that claimed a great history with her. Though slightly unclear as to what exaജctly causes it, ZDR is struck with a self-destruction sequence following the defeat of the final boss, Samus narrowly escaping before the planet of ZDR is reduced to nought but space debris.