A wall of impenitrable sand that can be broken by the Shaktool. (Super Metroid)
Sand is a recurring material in the Metroid series. Sometimes, it acts merely as ground, but it will occasionally be a gameplay element. Sand is found in desert and ruins regions that Samus explores. It is only really a gameplay element in Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes. In the former, there will occasionally be walls of sand that Samus must clear away by shooting it. Sometimes she will uncover an enemy (including Metroids) or an item. In Super Metroid, there are sand pools in many parts of Maridia that will suck Samus in, if she is not grabbed and pulled in by a Yapping Maw. She will have to jump out slowly (this can be quite difficult). Sometimes it will take her to another chamber. In Echoes, sand is a minor obstacle in the Agon Wastes. In one room, Save Station A, there is a constant flow of sand that Samus must go through in her Morph Ball. In another room, Sand Processing, there is a huge mound of sand that blocks a Missile Expansion, and until it is drained serves as a ramp. In Mining Station A, there are also more waterfalls of sand, one of which can be stopped by lowering the D-Chr statue.
The rooms Sand Processing, Sand Cache and Sandcanyon, as well as the species Sandbat, Sandfang, Sandgrass and Sandigger, and the substance Sandstone, all relate to sand in some way.
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| Substances | |
|---|---|
| Hazardous | Acid (Beta/Fake) • Acid Rain • Afloraltite • Dark Water • Fire • Fuel Gel • Lava (Fake/Scalding-hot) • Phazon • Purple liquid |
| Gases | Dark vapor • Industrial-grade pesticide • Meta-viprium gas • Nohadin gas • Noxious gasses • Poison gas • Talvania Gas |
| Destructible | Barnacle-like material • Bendezium • Brinstone • Cordite • Denzium • Frigidite • Glass • Grobnite • Ice • Maldium • Meltable Metal • Metroid webs • Radion • Sandstone • Talloric Alloy • Vegetation • Zebetite Kelbium and Zafrite |
| Phazon | Red • Crystal • Black Crystal • Mass • Ore • Elite Nutrient Mix • Strain Vertigo • Phazite (Red) • Concentrated |
| Crystals | Ammolite/Witherite Shards • Black Phazon • Crystallized Fuel Gel • Crystals • Dark Sentinel • Lift • Liftvine • Light • Minerals • Phazon • Red magma • Sentinel |
| Ore | Urthic • Phazon |
| Miscellaneous | Invisible platform • Jovian steel • Liquid Resource • Liquid solution • Sand Vaccine "Metroid" • Waste • Water • Yellow goo • Yellow liquid |