Wikitroid:Featured article queue/Week 33, 2007

Metroid Prime is a highly mutated Metroid who appears in Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption as the main villian. Metroid Prime was first mentioned in a Chozo prophecy on Tallon IV. The prophecy foretold the Metroid would bring a "Great Poison" to the planet and that a "Defender" would deliver the planet from evil and confront the Metroid. This prophecy came true when Metroid Prime arrived on Tallon IV by a meteor. It brought to the planet Phazon, a highly toxic element. Samus Aran eventually landed on the planet and fought the Phazon-mutated creatures and eventually confronted Metroid Prime. Upon defeating Metroid Prime, it took her Phazon Suit and caused the cavern they fought in to collapse. As Samus left the planet, Metroid Prime was reborn as Dark Samus.