#morph ball

[psuedofolio]

redraw of one of the favoritest things I've drawn

[codylabs]

just a metroid fan pondering his orb, don't mind me.

[theknightoc]

Inspired by replaying Metroid Prime this year and the 4th game coming tomorrow

[rubixramblings]

Yeen Fact #355: Morph Ball

Yeen Fact #355: "Hyenas can roll themselves up into a Metroid Morph Ball to access secret areas." This has been another fun Hyena Fact.

[voltoise-reblogs-rambles]

Federation Force spoilers (a real thing that can happen), but my new headcanon for the Samus boss fight is that the mind-control was entirely a body-puppeting situation, and the way the pirates messed up was using morph ball in the first place. I like the headcanon that Samus uses astral projection to control the ball while her body is energy, and so in using morph ball, the pirates inadvertently brought Samus back to consciousness while they were puppeting her body. Cue Samus wrecking the pirates immediately after. This is also why Samus is able to break her way out of a rock collapse.

My other headcanon is the pirates only captured her because she was suffering from long-term side effects/tiredness of phazon corruption (despite the phazon being gone but like viruses take a toll on your body, think similar to that). Unfortunately for the space pirates, it's Samus Aran, and she was too much of a threat to break down mentally, so they just "brainwashed" her (body puppetering). This is probably mother brain's doing, as FF is before her return in Super.

[galacticdad099]

Samus (Metroid), Spicy Morph Ball

Spicy Month FINALLY begins...

[foxtation]

[severebananapuppy]

I don't understand why everyone assumes Samus's Morph Ball is literally just her and the Power Suit curling up into a ball when Sylux can turn into THIS:

Like, what kind of gymnastics helps you turn into THIS? If the Galactic Federation could pull this off, so could the Chozo.

The Power Suit is infinitely more advanced, capable of turning matter into energy and vice versa at the drop of a hat, but when it comes to helping Samus fit into small places the best it can do is "tuck your head between your thighs and roll around a lot"?

Admittedly, there are multiple Morph Balls in the series, but at the very least, the Prime Trilogy and Other M have a visible flash of energy as she morphs and unmorphs.

That could be the way the original, crappy, Thoha-designed* Power Suit morphed and unmorphed, though.

*(It's never been officially confirmed, but I think it makes a lot of sense. Samus's original Power Suit couldn't handle the Gravity Suit, Plasma Beam, or Space Jump because they were incompatible, being Mawkin-designed items. Plus, you have to fight a Chozo statue in a similar way to Raven Beak's boss fight years later. Probably accidental, still very interesting.)