IceBoss



IceBoss is the name of an unused boss creature in Metroid Prime. It was first discovered in an animation video that Derek Bonikowski listed on his website as one of the "Selected animations from the Metroid Prime series of video games". The video was removed from the website for unknown reasons. Its name is derived from the file, "IceBoss_Taunt.MOV". Greg Luzniak conceptual art depicts the creature in the Phendrana Drifts, standing several meters taller than Samus Aran.

IceBoss loosely resembles a furless, blue-skinned primate, with its most distinguishing features being its six limbs (two pairs of arms and two legs), its tusks and the crystals which cover most, if not all, the creature's dorsum along with the back of its arms.

In its only existing animation, IceBoss exhibits behavior similar to that of a gorilla by standing upright and beating its chest with its first pair of arms while roaring before reverting back to its standing animation, in which it takes a partially flexed posture that seemingly allows its body weight to be pressed against the ground through the second pair of arms' knuckles. Its facial features, however, share greater similarities with those of a baboon's. The name of the video implies that it performs this action to taunt Samus.

Trivia

 * IceBoss is one of only a few creatures in the Metroid series to be or resemble a mammal, with the others being Humans and Etecoons.