Mogenar

''This article is about the Leviathan Core guardian. For the article about Mogenar-class War Golem, see Bryyonian Golems.''

Mogenar is a boss in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, a Mogenar-class war golem that was summoned to be the guardian of Bryyo's Leviathan core.

Mogenar
The only completely functional Mogenar that Samus encounters is the one located in the Leviathan seed on Bryyo, and it is infused with Phazon spouting out of the Leviathan's very core and thus has gone rogue. It boasts an imposing figure that, while not on the level of the awesome giant Quadraxis or the gigantic Space Pirate Kraid, is at least eight times taller than Samus, with an immense frame that causes it to resemble some kind of Mesoamerican idol. It has three eyes on its reptilian-looking face, keeping in touch with its Bryyonian origins.

All evidence seem to point out that the Mogenar faced in Bryyo's Seed was one of the special Golems built out of stone by the last of the Science Lords. Taking into account the advice given to him long ago by the Chozo, the special Mogenars were built using both the ancient magics of old and the highest technology of new; these War Golems had advantages over the purely mechanical Mogenars built by the other Science Lords.

Battle
When Samus approaches him, it activates, and using a rather unique ability, uses a form of immaterial projection of its hands (which some speculate is magic, further evidence that it is one of the "special" golems built by the Last Lord of Science) to pull four red orbs off nearby pedestals, putting two into slots on his shoulders, one on his belly, and one on his back. These orbs act as its weak points and energy generators, and all four must be destroyed; at first, any weapon can be used to damage them, but once it explodes, Phazon energy from Hypermode to must then be used blow up the slot, rendering it useless. The three on his front can switch positions to avoid damage.

Attacks
Its attacks include ramming dives, energy streams, jumps that release a Phazon shockwave, generating additional immaterial hands to attack Samus directly, slamming its hands against the floor to create a massive cave-in with Phazon rocks, or, when its orbs are near destruction, stand in the middle of the room and use its immaterial hands to retrieve more unharmed spheres from the pedestals of the room to regenerate his damaged ones. If the player is quick enough, the orbs can be destroyed before they make it to Mogenar.

Battle Continued
After destroying his first sphere and overloading its Phazon core, it will generate a form of Phazite on its feet for additional invulnerability, though this limits its attack range to only two attacks: its ramming dive, and its shockwave jump. These Phazite platings can be destroyed by simple Morph Ball bombs, but be wary of staying in Morph Ball too long; the shockwave blast the Golem employs is too tall to be jumped over with the jump ball. When the second of his orbs has been destroyed, Mogenar no longer uses its former regeneration technique; rather, the last remaining sphere on its front will start acquiring more and more armor as time flows, and speed is necessary to blast off the sphere's cap before it regenerates and overload it with Hypermode. When three of its spheres have been destroyed, the beast no longer can defend itself adequately and is mostly reduced, again, to its ramming dive attack and shockwave, though it can still throw in any of its attacks in-between.

When the final orb is overloaded, it explodes, leaving behind the Hyper Ball and further contaminating Samus to reach a 25% corruption level.

Logbook entry
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: "Corrupted War Golem reanimated and energized with Phazon. Relies on socketed energy orbs as a source of power. The orbs themselves have a fragile exterior but contain pure Phazon energy within. This energy must be completely overloaded before it will be destroyed. Eliminating all power sources is the only way to bring Mogenar offline."

Trivia

 * Due to his reptilian appearance and three eyes, Mogenar looks like Kraid. Also, Mogenar's boss music bares a resemblance to the music heard when battling Kraid in Super Metroid and Metroid Zero Mission.
 * Humorously, Samus can freeze his face solid by firing an Ice Missile while he is doing his mouth based Phazon Beam attack, or any other time he opens his mouth for that matter. He just keeps his mouth open the longest when doing the Phazon Beam attack. Freezing his face is strategically useful, as all his orbs will be open to attack while he tries to bite his way out of the ice.
 * This is the music heard when battling Mogenar:
 * Some players may find Mogenar harder to defeat than some of the later bosses, mostly due to his size, which makes many of his physical attacks such as his ramming dive difficult to dodge, and the fact that his multiple weak points make it hard to use Hypermode to attack him, since Hypermode can only be entered a set number of times based on how many Energy Tanks the player has (which is not very many this early on in the game), and using Hypermode to defeat Mogenar rapidly can actually leave the player at a disadvantage, with low health and no remaining Energy tanks.
 * The explosion of Phazon after Mogenar's defeat is the cause of Samus's visor turning from green to blue (contrary to the popular belief that the X-Ray Visor upgrade caused the change). This effect of Samus's Power Suit becoming more and more blue in color gradually builds up with each following increases of corruption: Helios's defeat, Omega Ridley's defeat, and landing on Phaaze.
 * After Samus defeats Mogenar, she takes off her helmet and throws up vomit that appears to contain large amounts of Phazon. This suggests that the human body tries to fight off Phazon corruption or that is simply makes a person feel unwell.
 * Mogenar, or a very similar war golem, is depicted in one of the Bryyo Lore plates. Its the lore "The Hunted", located on the Shield Generator room in Bryyo Thorn Jungle. Coincidentally, this lore explains the creation of the special mogenar golems that use both magic and science. Also, this lore is the only one on Bryyo that can be re-scanned at any time.