Plasma Scream



Plasma Scream is the Final Smash of Ridley in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

Description
Ridley unleashes a fearsome roar, and then dashes forward. If he catches anyone during his dash, a cutscene will initiate. Any fighters that were hit with the attack are knocked into the cosmos and land on the side of Samus Aran's Gunship, which takes off. Ridley will then intercept the Gunship and fire a devastating beam of plasma energy from his mouth. This destroys the ship in a giant explosion and causes severe damage to the affected fighters, KOing them if their percentages were high enough before the attack, and returning them to the stage otherwise. After the cutscene ends and the characters return to the stage, the blazing Gunship can be seen crashing into the background.

Basis
Meta Ridley in Metroid Prime had a similar attack in the Kinetic Breath Weapon, which is also a red laser beam fired from his mouth.

Samus's Gunships have been damaged or destroyed in Metroid: Zero Mission, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Metroid Fusion. In Zero Mission, Samus is ambushed by Zebesians while leaving Zebes and her original Gunship is pierced and shot down by a laser from an enemy ship, causing it to crash back on Zebes. In Echoes, which uses the same ship as seen in Plasma Scream, the ship is damaged by the fluctuating atmosphere of Aether and forced to initiate its Auto-repair function for the rest of the game. In Corruption, Samus uses a different ship, which is attacked by Ghor and forced to repair itself as well, though the process is much faster. In Fusion, Samus loses consciousness and her ship drifts into an asteroid belt after the X Parasite that infected her takes over her nervous system. Here, her classic ship is destroyed permanently, but not before she is ejected by an escape pod.