Dark Quad

A Dark Quad.

Dark Quads are corrupted Quad robots, possessed by the Ing. They, like their Aether counterparts, are made up of two parts: the flying Command Module and the four-legged Main Body, and these are scannable in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes as two different creatures. Samus can blast off their heads with the Light Beam, then deactivate the body with the Boost Ball, or disable the body first and attack the head as it floats around on its own. The dominant Darkling resides in the Command Module, and therefore forces the lesser Ing in the Main Body to do its bidding. The Ing used these robots as guards in the Ing Hive.

Quadraxis could produce Dark Quads during battle to aid it in combat.

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Trivia

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• Upon entering the Sanctuary Temple the first time, should Samus shoot one of the two Quads found in the chamber before leaping down and activating the cutscene, the targeted Quad will pursue her as soon as she lands. This prevents one of the Quads from being possessed in the cutscene. As a result, this makes it one of the few, if only, rooms where both a dark and light counterpart of the same enemy can exist at the same time. Neither attack the other, either due to it not being programmed into the game or because the rogue machines are in league with the Ing. Interestingly, should Samus destroy the body of one and the head of the other, the remaining parts will still combine, creating a hybrid of both light and dark entities.