I hope this video was informative about explaining The Metroid Prime's origin. It was very confusing, but I think I did a good job. Always feel free to tell me your opinion and join my The Discord - discord.gg/JyC6Tty

One more interesting tidbit is that the Genesis Chamber on Phaaze contains multiple Metroid Prime exoskeletons, although they appear merely as lifeless husks. It implies that the Metroid Prime on Tallon IV is not the only one of its kind.

I believe the reason why the NTSC version was retconned was because it states the Pirates found the Prime in the Crater, this implies they got past the Barrier the Chozo put over the Crater. If they got past the Barrier, why would they be searching for the Artifacts?

Another theory I think I read in the Wikitroid is that "The Worm" is actually the Leviathan Core, and the Chozo were talking about that one in the lore, but when the Phazon Metroid got into the crater... it ate the core and fuzed with it.

Some people freak out when Samus gets called Metroid. But when you stop to think, Lore-wise, "Metroid" is ancient Chozo for "Ultimate Warrior" and since Samus is able to kill the Metroids in all their evolutionary forms, their prey the dangerous X-Parasite and every creature they are able to replicate, AND Metroid Prime itself... Samus IS Metroid

I never had an issue with the original Gamecube lore. The pirates said they found the metroid in one of their phazon mines. The captured it and experimented on it with phazon. Then it escaped and found it's way to the crater because it wanted more phazon. It doesnt seem unlikely that the metroid could have found it's way into the crater from underneath through a secret cave system. This would also explain the Metroid Prime's origin. It could have been an escaped specimen originally brought to Talon by the pirates that had wandered into the mines. I dont like the retcon as it created more plot holes that needed explanation.

This really clears the air for some of my friends who are trying to get into the series. Thanks for making this!

The hopper Metroid looks pretty similar to Metroid prime. This gives this theory some credit if you ask me.

I wish we got some Canon backstory added in a possible remaster or new log book if you 100 percent prime if it goes on switch

2:36 Hanging Metroid Prime looks like a *Troll face* ... to this day. 😳

Finally! I asked you to make this video a few times and I’m glad you did. Here is, in my opinion, the biggest unanswered question in regards to this theory. How do we explain the metroid prime ‘husks’ embedded and fossilized into the walls inside the seed chamber on planet phaaze? It is never directly stated or confirmed why they are there and if we are to assume they came from metroids brought to phaaze by metroid prime.. why are there so many fossilized into walls suggesting they have been there for a very long time? I think your theory is correct and is def the most popular one.. but this one detail has been bugging me for years. And I think it is why some believe the metroid prime came from phaaze itself which sort of makes sense too. It’s been a highly debated topic amongst the community for years. I just dont like explaining it away with ‘well the metroids must of mutated that fast because.. plot magic.. anyway, would love to hear your take on this. There are pictures of the scan logs from a google search if you need them. Thanks for making this video!

Thank you for making this video, it was well put together! I've seen a lot of people that were unaware of the retcons of how Metroid Prime came to be, so now I will just direct them to this video instead of explaining it myself lol.

That’s similar to what I thought had happened. I thought Metroid prime was like the “guardian” organism of the core. Since in Metroid prime 3, we see that the phazon cores in the seeds would have corrupted organisms from their designated planets to guard them, I was thinking that since the Metroid taken to the planet would become corrupted by phazon, once eventually becoming a phazon Metroid since it had escaped from the pirates, the core would then take the Metroid and have it be its guardian. But that’s where your point wins, because when we see that after we defeat Metroid prime, the meteor explodes, like as if we beat the core. But when you beat the guardian, the meteor doesn’t explode yet until the actual core is exposed and destroyed. So to say the the core and the Metroid had fused together into one big organism and the core taking complete control of it would definitely make more sense.

I think Metroid Prime is a Metroid that absorb a Leviathan

I like this series within the franchise because it gave us a lot of stuff to scan and learn about the world and creatures in the world and how they function etc. I would love them to flesh out the world even more with prime 4

Back in the day, I never knew that Dark Samus was Metroid Prime itself because her origin was never explained in Echoes. Now learning that is the case, I was so stoked to learn that because I always admired Dark Samus’s design. The fact that Metroids are capable of vastly evolving to that extent is just downright scary af but amazing at the same time. Like Dark Samus was a whole omnipotent, sentient Metroid with Chozo and Samus Aran DNA infused all due to a mass exposure to Phazon like wow... Even with ancient civilizations such as the Chozo, it is never safe to play God. Lesson learned lol

What I think is that the metroid was always with the chozos before impact, you see at Samus returns the chozo memories the last panel, the creators warn high comanders about the metroid threat and how they got out of control, but they kill the scientist and aparently go and get some specimens, they take some SR388 metroids to tallon 4, then then after the impact and before the temple is built, one of the metroids escapes and becomes the leviathan's guardian.

I want a Metroid Prime Reboot/Remaster/ something!

thank you so much. i didnt even know about the secret ending in the first game. funny considering ive seen both secret endings in the 2nd and 3rd. so something on metroids. game theorist is claiming that metroids were originally micro parasites. basically saying that the ecosystem on the planet with the x parasites was stable. x parasites didnt take over do to a micro parasite. but chozo saw the z parasite and freaked out then mutated the micro parasite into the metroids we know and love. i like that theory he came with. thanks again. its nice to know more about my favorite enemy from the metroid series.

The phazon theory has to be the sone right, but if creates me the question "Why only 1 in Tallon IV?". And in other game (MP3 I think) i think there was a metroid prime shell scanneable, so that could make that even stronger to prove

Explain the history of in-depth facts about MP2. Awesome vid btw 👏🏼

What's frustrating about this (I played the original when it first came out) is that the data log entries on the NA version don't just give us background on MP but also clues on how to fight it when we finally reach it.

There is an alleged theory that the Chozo first created Metroids in Phaaze as a means to combat the planet’s highly lethal biosphere and one of the ones that was left became Metroid prime. Then the chozo kept looking for “sentient” planets and found SR-388 and used Metroids there as well in order to combat the lethal X-parasites. After the chozo left, the “sentient” planets, both Phaaze and SR-388 bred Metroids as their own. This is why we see so many Metroids in Phaaze, but not a lot of highly lethal creatures.

Those chozo who covered up the creation of the metroids still could of secretly left a metroid at the impact crater, for science

Well, me and my brothers speculated that Metroid prime In actuality is an X parasite seeing as it looks really similar to the X cores from fusion after you defeat her

The reason they changed it is becuase it the lore contradicts itself. The Cradle is supposed to be impenetrable, which would mean it woul be impossible for the pirates to gain access and capture MP.

I do recall that in one of the logs in the north American version said that the Space Pirates started to feed a Metroid with Phazon and started to mutate and grow until escaping

This is actually a pretty good explanation, great job.

it could be possible that the chozo made another type of metroid to deal with the phaze like they did with the X and they either underestimated the capabilities of phaze or overestimated what that metroid could do

The reason metroid prime core pulls samus into it and rips off her suit is because the game was made in NA... meaning that until nintendo made their stupid announcement, and before the 2nd and third game made people think metroids react to phazon is the same predictable path each time, the NA based company inteaded for the NA logs to be cannon, where metroid prime was collecting armor and weapons to use as protective shell... this was the reason it switched between purple, white, yellow, and red lighting accents, because the pirates were reverse engineering samus's beam tech. Metroid prime was literally building the shell we break off of it later, during the game! It then turned arpund amd did the same to samus (she got the phazon suit during the story of prime 1). It was supposed to have a dual storyline, that showed this creature could do as it pleased with the barrier, while the pirates and samus were locked out. The xray visor being usable on prime core (the 2nd enemy its needed for after chozo GHOSTS) shows the player HOW prime got in and out of the barrier. In conclusion, screw nintendo's pfficial statement and the reprinted prime 1 game's (pal version) logs. We all know the real story.

We need Metroid Prime Hunters (2): Switch

i'll explain the weird death state of metroid prime. if you look at the unlockable concept art you see that the metroid prime is destabilizing. normally it feeds off phazon radiation to grow. but after you irradiate its brain you overload its systems and it begins to fission. its basically over evolving because you fried its genetics. one shreiking face becomes two and the four... until the destabilization causes it to devide unevenly. it continues each new copy more malformed than the last and more incomplete. until its degenerated into a ball of highly unstable phazon which at this point begins to expand as the metroid shreiks in excruciating agony. that ball was not the phazon core but the metroid prime's dying brain. which was being ripped apart by its expanding shell of phazon, kind of like how a red giant star dies. finally it tears itself open and ruptures blasting the crater into smithereens with the force of its agonized death throes. basically it felt all of the pain it had inflicted on the chozo. but it contained enough of its brain in your suit to live on as dark samus.

This is a popular, common fan theory. It's pretty much just a consensus at this point, rather than being discussed or debated. No one really thinks about it or even questions it, or even pays much mind to the holes in it. People just accept it, despite not making any more sense than the original story. The problem with the theory that Metroid Prime was just a lone metroid that the space pirates brought along is, how in the hell did one metroid out of a countless amount just get lucky enough to be the single one that mutated into prime. If in the short time the pirates were on Tallon IV, it managed to evolve so quickly, why haven't we seen more of them in the impact crator? It's one hell of a coincidence that an infant metroid, a single one out of all the others they experimented on, not only managed to escape, but slipped past the barrier, when not a single weapon could penetrate it. It doesn't make sense that there weren't other metroids, under the same condition, with the same sort of ability. Logic dictates there should at least be a few in infant stages, or adolescence, or even older. One might be able to argue it's because Prime qualifies as an apex predator, but in nature, there are usually more than one of them, even if in small numbers. But we've seen no evidence of any other metroids on Tallon IV with this ability. So what gives? What made this one experiment out of the countless ones the pirates conducted, so special? There needs to be a reason for this one exception, other than "lul, he just got lucky I guess". I would posit that there is a certain trait to this metroid that would make it special. Something it possesses naturally to be especially potent, and to evolve so much more quickly than the others. This is the firsf Metroid in all of the franchise, that possesses sentience. That is no small mutation, intelligent life randomly coming about, even from phazon, is extremely rare. Almost unheard of. In addition to scans mentioning it's the source of phazon, DS calls Phaaze her homeworld, she's the one metroid that managed to not only gain super intelligence, but also manifested a power suit out of non-organic material. I don't think Tallon Metroids could just commonly evolve into this form after a short few years, even under the conditions of phazon. At most we saw weak fission and hunter types. Prime is in a class entirely of its own, arguably a species of its own. No other metroid in history, even with phazon, on Aether, Tallon, Elysia, SR388, etc. reached this mutation. It is reasonable to assume it comes from another world, it has natural traits which can mutate at an accelerated rate, into essentially a super intelligent bioweapon. Where else can you find a metroid with these traits? Phaaze. The only planet with husks from metroid primes. Not even Dark Aether was suitable for creating this being. We've seen no other evidence of primes besides Phaaze and the one on Tallon IV. Only Phaaze could produce something so alien, so destructive, so evil. I don't think metroids are particularly unique of a creature either. We've seen evidence of alternate species of metroids. Quadtroids in Hunters for example. I don't think it's unreasonable to suggest that Chozo may have even based the design of this bioweapon on a neighboring species from other planets. An interstellar hyper intelligent race of beings who can transcend space and time could easily replicate metroids from existing species. Prime being alien to Tallon IV is much more conceiveable than some rando infant metroid that just slipped past the barrier like "gg, ez". We have plenty of evidence of metroids inhabiting Phaaze, and no evidence of pirate activity years before DS even went back there. No remnants of their presence. The planet is still 100% organic. The pirates and maybe even metroids would die of phazon exposure long before evolution takes fold. tl;dr Prime is an alien, it hitched a ride on the leviathan, metroids have distant relatives on other planets.

I never used to get why the metroid prime died the way it did… until I found some concept art. It’s not just detonating. It’s mutating at such a rate the it’s dna is falling apart. When Samus irradiated its brain it was so overloaded with radiation that even the creature was overwhelmed. It started to fission like a fission metroid. But it could not stop the mutation. It keeps dividing over and over becoming a mass of copies. Until it fissions unevenly. Resulting in less and less perfect copies. At this point it’s just degenerating. The shrieking faces of the metroid degenerate into blue formless phazon which then starts to detonate. The exterior of the creature starts to rapidly expand ripping the brain apart with it as the creature shrieks in excruciating agony. Until finally it ruptures and dies but not before storing some of its brains in Samus’s phazon suit. Which would lead to dark Samus being created…

Great video bro! 😎✌

Very informative, nice work

I suspected Dark Samus was Metroid Prime. It is now confirmed. Man I love this series! Patiently waiting for Metroid Prime 4...

Many issues: 1. How is a metroid supposed to get in and out of the shield the Chozo created if Pirates can't. 2. Why didn't they enter the crater after it did. 3. If it's space pirate technology Prime uses, how come they didn't say anything about stolen tech, fights against giant crabs or massive Phazon leaks. 4. If Prime was a Tallon Metroid, how come the metroids in the Phazon mines haven't even gone hopper yet. 5. Who said that the Chozo didn't bring the Metroid to fight X? Maybe they brought it when they arrived. As a precaution. As a sample to clone more if they DID encounter X on other Worlds? Counter Theory: The Chozo that arrived on Tallon had a "safety metroid" with them which they put in a weapons lab which was likely later destroyed by the leviathan. The Chozo would then start hiding the remaining weapons for Samus arrival and lock up the crater which they knew had a bunch of dangerous weapons, radioactive rage jelly and a metroid inside of it. The metroid merged with the Chozotech-phazon-soup and became prime. When the pirates arrived all the Chozo where either dead or gone, their own attempts at making powers suits just by what they witnessed failed miserably so they studied the big f-ing bug in the laser shield and came up with their beam suits.

Excellent video

Am I the only one who finds it odd that when the Metroid Prime is is beaten down to its most bases level genetic form it looks just like a giant X-Parasite?

Interestingly... there is a Metroid Prime husk on Phaaze.

It's weird that the pal version is the one used in the prime trilogy, since retro studios is in america.

I think Dark Samus _is_ Metroid Prime in a way.

Mmmm I don't know, Metroids in Tallon IV are called Tallon Metroids, clearly a distinct types from the SR388 Metroids, I always thought that the Chozo there for whatever reason had Metroids, maybe they were aiding the SR388 chozo in they creation and kept some. That way the Metroid Prime could be a normal Tallon Metroid which became the Guardian of the seed there.

Yea, but wasn't metroid prime on Tallon iv for thousands of years. It is the worm that is prophesied...

Very interesting train of thoughts. I agree with most, tho I disagree with the idea that Dark Samus brought Metroids to Phaaze to create more of her kind. Quite the opposite seems likely, given the dead husks of smaller Metroid Primes around the walls of the Genesis Chamber on Phaaze. It seems like Dark Samus intentionally killed them before they grew big and may become challengers to her dominance on the planet. Just speculation tho.

A video on the environment of Tallon IV please.

I fought Metroid Prime was originally a Metroid chosen by the Leviathan to be mutated into in Iis guardian, like the other bosses you face inside Leviathans? Hell its rumored Emperor Ing was originally a Phaz-Ing that was chosen and mutated by Aethers Leviathan to be its guardian.

They created the Metroid Prime because they wanted a guardian for Tallon IV

You should stream yourself doing some Fusion romhacks, like 2k2k

Time for my monthly rewatch of this video

Man your videos are just too good damn... Saludos desde Colombia!!!

If the pirates didn’t capture prime, then where did it get all its weapons? Doesn’t the in game lore say it stole the weapons from the pirates?

I didn't even know that the metroids were created by the Chozo in the first place. Well, I heard it was in the manga before, but I didn't know it was canon.

My thoughts about Metroid Prime was always, that the name for the boss was extremely bad picked and it is simply an adult leviathan core.

So metroid prime is dark samus

Living in the United Kingdom I was not aware of the North American version so that was new. Also had never considered how the Metroid got in there in the first place so enjoyed that. If I may make some constructive criticism, I find you slightly rush your script which makes some of the words come out to choppy and slurred. If you slightly slow down when you're speaking into the microphone this would help a lot because your content is very good

Metroid prime that we see maybe is in a omega state

2:09 nice

But if the Metroid on talon IV came from zebes, how fast did they evolved from the "normal" to the talon IV Metroid ? I mean in prime 3 the talon IV Metroid were they own species

Ive never heard "Metroid Prime" said so many times

Hopper metroid?

crab rave

I kind of dislike the pal version for the commentary. The voice when something is scanned is alright though

Doesn't this make dark samus a he sense prime is biologically male

Am I the only one who refers to Dark Samus as an it rather than a she?

First! To say first

Luckily metroid prime is deader than Tony Stark