To further ensure Samus' survival, Mother Brain modified the Chozo's battlesuit to create the iconic Power Suit from the Metroid games. However, Mother Brain started to turn against the benevolent purpose it was originally made for. As a result, when Samus returned to Zebes years later, she had to fight Mother Brain to prevent it from further destroying the galaxy. Mother Brain was the mastermind behind Ridley and every other foe in the Metroid franchise.
One of the most emblematic features of the final fight against Mother Brain is the against-the-clock escape from the planet that Samus has to perform in order to survive. During the first two games, Mother Brain is depicted as a brain with a single eye and mechanical components. However, in Super Metroid , Mother Brain has a humanoid form. Mother Brain has also appeared in the Metroid mangas and other pieces of media. Most notably, it has been featured in Super Smash Bros. As important as Mother Brain has been for the Metroid franchise, it was not included in the Prime series released originally for the GameCube.
Breath Weapon : Her jaws in her One-Winged Angel form doesn't just spews out foul breath; it also spews out rings of energy as well as cluster bombs. Cores-and-Turrets Boss : Destroy the Zebetite barriers, avoid the turret shots and rinkas. Break the glass then shoot the brain. Also, watch out for the occasional pit of freakin' lava acid in Super Metroid.
Zero Mission adds the additional defense of an eye lid, which will deflect your attacks while it charges her eye beams. Unfortunately for her, she has to release the charge eventually, leaving her eye vulnerable in the cool down period. Cyclops : Not originally though. Zero Mission makes her a cyclops from the start through retroactive continuity.
Dark Lord on Life Support : Extreme inversion: Mother Brain is a giant brain in a highly impact-resistant glass casing. After breaking through the shield, you still have to fire multiple missiles regular beams do nothing directly at her bare grey matter in order to finish her off, proving that the transparent casing is clearly for protective reasons only. Death by Irony : When she is finally destroyed in Super Metroid , she is reduced into a sepia-colored husk of a brain before crumbling away into dust, a fate that would have befell upon her enemies had her Metroid bio-weapon project gone off without a hitch.
Despotism Justifies the Means : Mother Brain's idea of a prosperous and orderly universe is for her to rule over every living species in existence. She hates the notion that the races of the Galactic Federation would create a new era of peace without her, and doesn't care if her methods would turn them into "mindless beasts" as Samus puts it in the manga.
Her endgame is to become the ruler of the universe. Early Installment Weirdness : In the first game she had two eyes, a nose, tusks, and did not attack directly. In Super Metroid , she only had one eye and was more active. The first game's remake retconned Mother Brain to have only one eye and to actively defend herself. Energy Weapon : Her general means of attack in all the games she's appeared.
Her most iconic and devastating one is the Laser Brain Attack. Mother was so convinced by Gray Voice's decision to side with her vision that she didn't foresee his true allegiance and was genuinely shocked when he betrayed her.
Likewise, she could not accept a universe where she does not rule or Samus being the Chozo's true successor rather than her. Evil Counterpart : Like Samus, she's heavily associated with maternal themes, and in the manga was also created by the Chozo to be their ultimate creation of sorts, mirroring Samus's own upbringing as a great warrior. Yet while Samus is a Friend to All Living Things and would rebel against her superiors to do what's right , Mother Brain subjugates all life within her reach and had revolted against her masters to rule uncontested.
Evil Is Petty : In the manga, she once framed the Iono Feria as carriers of the badger clovers, a poisonous plant, and then burned them to death just to spite Samus for being one of the Chozo's "children. This haughty laughter marks the moment that Mother drops her Well-Intentioned Extremist facade and embraces her power-hungry malevolence that has always been boiling inside of her gray matter. Evil Matriarch : In the manga, she, along with the Chozo, raised Samus on Zebes in her childhood years.
But when she took over Space Pirates, Mother Brain wants Samus to join their ranks, and tries to break her by claiming that she was always meant to be raised as a weapon from the very beginning. When that doesn't work, Mother Brain allows Ridley to attack the traumatized Samus.
This ends up doing more damage than Mother Brain intends however, though Mother's reaction amounts to nothing more than being slightly disappointed. Evil Old Folks : She was designed to invoke the image of a withered, evil old crone, to the point of having a scrawny mechanical body and drooling mouth in Super Metroid. Her actual age is unknown, however, but we can presume she's been around for a while. Eye Beams : She is the only boss from the first game to be made more difficult in Zero Mission.
She doesn't shoot them normally though, being in a jar and all. The Laser Brain Attack in Super Metroid is among the most visually devastating attacks in the franchise, able to strain Samus to the point of exhaustion, drain multiple energy tanks off her, and destroy her entire stock of missiles and bombs with just one charge. She went berserk and betrayed her creators to the Space Pirates, whom she eventually took over as their leader.
Fantastic Racism : Mother Brain regards all living species to be inferior to her but she reserves the worst of this attitude for the Chozo, her creators.
Mother mocks the Chozo as an aging and obsolete race doomed to extinction, no longer needed to preserve their own culture and teachings because she stored them all in her databanks. The Space Pirates do not fare any better, as Mother considers them to be a weak-willed subservient race destined to serve her every whim. Faux Affably Evil : In the manga, she seems to be benevolent, well-intentioned and almost motherly to Samus and the Chozo, even when she has taken over the Space Pirates to conquer the galaxy.
But when Gray Voice betrays her and then points out that her agenda is evil and self-centered, the enraged Mother Brain inadvertently admits that she sees all lifeforms as inferior and is in fact jealous of Samus for being everything she is not. After being saved by Ridley, Mother embraces her newfound malevolence and goes full tyrant in her crusade, dropping any pretense of well-intentioned goals.
Final Boss : Of the first game but not the remake , as well as Super Metroid. Final Solution : After concluding that the Chozo have become a "defective" and dying race, Mother decides to speed up the process by taking over the Space Pirates and using them to the kill off the remaining Chozo on Zebes. Foil : To Samus, in many ways. Both are females raised by the Chozo, possessing incredible abilities because of it. While Samus joined forces with the Galactic Federation, Mother Brain joined forces with the Space Pirates, forced to forsake their creators and ending up on opposite sides of the same conflict.
The two also have relationships with Metroids - Samus has her motherly relationship towards the Baby Metroid, while Mother Brain telepathically influences her own lethal Metroid soldiers. Galactic Conqueror : What she aspires to be.
Using the Space Pirates as her main army and the Metroids as her special bio-weapons, she would have easily accomplish that goal if it weren't for that one lone bounty hunter named Samus.
A God Am I : She believes her destiny is to become "the true master of the universe" and recreate the universe in her own image. This is not helped by the fact the Chozo had become very dependent on Mother Brain to handle their culture, knowledge, technology, security and agenda, which fueled her dangerous ego. Said-eye only opens when it launches a beam attack , so prepare to jump and fire. Gone Horribly Right : During her days as a benevolent Chozo computer, Mother Brain's primary directive is to preserve all of the Chozo culture, history and knowledge before they die out.
And in their absence, Mother's secondary directive is to bring peace and order to the galaxy with that knowledge. And she follows her directives splendidly Green-Eyed Monster : Mother Brain envies other sentient lifeforms for having the Chozo's favor despite the fact that the Chozo themselves are highly dependent on her. She sees them all as threats to her claim as the Chozo's successor, especially Samus Aran. Hive Queen : Mother Brain is said to have direct control over the Space Pirates and Zebes' wildlife with her psychic mind, but it seems to be an Informed Ability in the games.
Though if M. The same Metroid ends up draining her energy and then transfers it to Samus, who puts a permanent end to the pirate leader. Even more ironic is that, according to the manga, Mother Brain secretly raised Samus as a bioweapon to enforce her new order; double karma in one.
Inferiority Superiority Complex : Despite the fact that the Chozo have grown more reliant on her as their race begins to die out, Mother Brain fears that they do not see her as their successor and would instead give everything they have to other sentient life, like Samus.
To correct this perceived error, Mother begins tout herself as a creation who has long surpassed her creators, that they were defective and must go, and that she alone can bring order to the universe by subjugating all life to her will. Controlling a converted asteroid called Metroid, she plots to capture the Palace of Power and take over all of Videoland.
Mother Brain appears as a sticker, which increases flinch resistance when equipped by any character. Mother Brain appears as an Assist Trophy and a regular trophy in both versions. When summoned, energy rings attack the opponents. While that is going on, Mother Brain grows in size. She then proceeds to shoot a powerful beam out of her eye. She can be defeated by hitting her in the back enough times after the glass of her capsule breaks. She also appears as a primary shield-type spirit that can be enhanced at level 99 to her second form from Super Metroid , which allows the player to start each battle giant-sized when equipped.
Mother Brain resembles a human brain, though she is more spherical in shape. She has short metal spikes protruding from the top of her "head" and a single gigantic eyeball with a red iris.
Unlike the Federation's Aurora Units, which are neuron masses enclosed in metallic shells, Mother Brain's hide is strong enough that she remains completely exposed. Several power cables come off the bottom of her body, and she appears to be permanently attached to the floor of her tank, unlike the Federations' Aurora Units, which are free-floating.
Her tank, called the Control Capsule in the Super Metroid comic, is made of Zebetite and is protected by multiple gun turrets, Rinka, and more Zebetite barriers which serve as both protection and energy resources. In Super Metroid , she has a number of changes. She is now an orange color and appears to be more mechanized. Her eye is now white and has no pupil though Metroid: Other M appears to have retconned this and gave her a more detailed eyeball and she has a metallic mouth, complete with tongue and spittle, from which she can roar.
Her most notable addition, of course, is a new mechanized body, which connects to her immediately following forcible disconnection from her capsule's life-support systems.
The body itself stands taller than Ridley and is capable of dozens of attacks, including red energy beams, bombs, blue ring lasers, beam shots via her eye, and her most powerful attack, the Laser Brain Attack.
This mechanized body strongly resembles a Torizo, suggesting similar technology. In the video games, Mother Brain's personality wasn't clear because of her lack of dialogues in the video games. Despite this, some of the instruction manuals and players' guides describe her as the leader behind the heinous Space Pirates that operates in Zebes, being the main responsible of their plans.
Furthermore in Super Metroid , she proved to be very cunning, predicting a similar result like their previous encounter, she tricks Samus into believing the battle has finally ended, only to reactivate herself now fused with a powerful mechanical body, trapping Samus and herself in a room where she couldn't easily avoid her attacks.
In the prequel manga, Mother Brain's personality becomes more apparent. Mother Brain is portrayed as an arrogant, cunning and manipulative A. I that progressively grew to value the life of their creators, the Chozo as useless, while viewing herself as perfect.
Although an ally to her creators, she never displayed any emotions towards those the Chozo took care of such as Samus. While meeting Samus for the first time, Mother closely observed her to the point it frightened the young child and the former quickly disregarded her as a weak creature that would die from the harsh environment of Zebes.
Furthermore, Mother later took control of the Space Pirates, after she realizes that they are just a submissive tribe of workers. Mother also had a very weak and conflicted personality, this is demonstrated after Gray Voice made his move to destroy her while calling her out for her jealousy towards Samus, regarding her as a "defective product". Despite her allegiance with them, Mother Brain was never interested in the Space Pirates.
She only saw them as means to achieve her own goals. She planned to use the Metroid species to be the supreme ruler of the universe. She also believed that she was superior to others, which is perceived when referring to other beings, from the Space Pirates to Ridley as mere beasts. She would mention that the Metroids were her and the Chozo's children, in addition to declaring herself as the creator of the Suit worn by Samus Aran, even criticizing Samus for its misuse, although in the manga she seems to feel some admiration towards her for which she tried to seduce her to join her as commander of the Space Pirates.
Mother Brain's role in the Metroid series is vague. There is a debate as to whether she or Ridley is the leader of the Space Pirates this question growing more confused with the addition of High Command from the Metroid Prime games.
Her body appears to be based off Torizo technology. The manga later retcons this to rectify any confusion by stating that Mother Brain took over as one of the Pirates' leaders, while keeping Ridley in his former position. Also, her referring to Ridley and the other Space Pirates as "simple beasts" might help explain the previous statement of Mother Brain controlling Ridley.
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View source. History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Villain Overview. I do not expect her to last more than a few days. Now open your heart, Samus. Why you are here. Why did the Chozo who cannot produce offspring, usher you into their family?!
You, of the human race, were injected with Chozo genes. Why were you reborn as an extraordinary hybrid? Everything was done in order to convert you into a bio-weapon.
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