Dark Samus Summoned into the Super Smash Bros. With floatier movement, she's a little different from Samus--and she doesn't roll when dodging or jumping. + Dark Samus has a larger shield to compensate for this + Both of Dark Samus’s rolls are 3 frames faster than Samus’s + Dark Samus’s Up Smash reaches lower and is better at linking into itself - Dark Samus’s FSmash has less range +? On a related note, she is consistently described with female pronouns in Thanks to these traits, the reborn Metroid Prime managed to acquire all of Samus' abilities, as well as human-level cognition. Summoned into the Super Smash Bros.™ Ultimate game, Dark Samus joins the battle as Samus's echo fighter. This effectively signaled the rebirth of Metroid Prime as a Phazon-based cyborg: the creature's essence and remnants of Samus' DNA within the Phazon Suit constituted its biological components, while the Phazon Suit itself constituted its mechanical component by becoming the creature's new body.

With floatier movement, she's a little different from Samus--and she doesn't roll … The Chozo people who migrated to planet Tallon IV foretold the prophecy of the creature's arrival, and it soon arrived on a Phazon meteorite that infected the planet, forcing the Chozo to flee or hibernate. In one version of the game's lore, Metroid Prime also absorbed Space Pirate weaponry into its biology.

Like several other Assist Trophies, she can be defeated if she takes enough hits. Upon being defeated, Dark Samus will disappear by fading out in a bright blue flash, similarly to when she is defeated in Dark Samus' color scheme is also the basis of one of Samus' Although the Metroid Prime has no definitive gender, Dark Samus is considered female because her unintentional absorption of a sample of Samus Aran's DNA.

If you look closely, you can see that her bombs and missiles look a little different, too. However, she has many basic animations that are different from Samus, a more standard roll which does not involve turning into a Morph Ball, electric effects instead of fire effects for most of Samus's fire-based moves, and different models for both the Morph Ball and Missile. Ultimate game, Dark Samus joins the battle as Samus's echo fighter. During Samus' mission on Tallon IV, she battles t… Additionally, a "Dark Samus" appears in Before leaving, Dark Samus strikes a pose in which she holds her Arm Cannon in front of her face. Dark Samus, as she would come to be known by the Space Pirates, is first seen by the Pirates in Dark Samus fights Samus several times across Aether, prompting the Pirates to consider an alliance with her, though this never occurs. Once Samus defeats the Using the brainwashed Pirates, Dark Samus captures Although Samus manages to stop one of the Leviathans, Dark Samus arrives to infect her and three other bounty hunters (Dark Samus appears as a trophy and as a sticker. When Samus Aran defeated the titular creature of Metroid Prime, it took one last grasp at Samus and, in its seeming death throes, stole her Phazon Suit before it dissolved into a pool of Phazon. As with certain other Echo Fighters, Dark Samus is nearly identical gameplay-wise to Samus, with largely aesthetic differences.

However, the creature was also obsessed with absorbing Phazon, a trait it retained from its time as Metroid Prime.

Dark Samus first appeared in Metroid Primeas the eponymous creature and final boss. After Samus was forced to evacuate the collapsing Impact Crater, Metroid Prime had, unbeknownst to her, survived their battle. With the exception of the third method, Dark Samus must then be defeated on Dark Samus faces off against protagonist characters while she is teamed up with dark, evil, or corrupted variants of characters from their series, except for the penultimate battle, which is a free-for-all against Dark Samus is absent from the World of Light opening cutscene, though she was vaporized and placed under Dark Samus was one of the many fighters that fell under Dark Samus's Fighter Spirit can be obtained by completing