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Super Zebesians[1] (サイボーグゼーベス星人・エリート Cyborg Zebes Elite )[2] are red armour-plated, cybernetically-enhanced Zebesians cloned as emotionless bioweapons.
Description[]
More powerful than the Cyborg Zebesians also encountered on the BOTTLE SHIP, they are all the result of experimentation by the ringleaders, which attempted to create a special-forces unit of cloned Space Pirates altered to be drone-like soldiers that would follow MB's commands.
Super Zebesians possess a large arm cannon in place of their left claw, which can charge up a powerful red and green beam attack. This charged shot has the properties of the Wave Beam, meaning they can permeate some substances like glass. The cannon resembles Samus's Chozo-based Arm Cannon. Super Zebesians are also capable of shooting beams from their claws like most Zebesians, firing a barrage of several shots at once. Samus must stun a Super Zebesian before she can perform an Overblast on it, unlike other Cyborg Zebesians. Additionally, they kick Samus if she gets too close, rather than grabbing her - this means they cannot be Counter Attacked. However, they are still susceptible to a Lethal Strike once weakened.
Samus first encounters them in the Cryosphere, where they trap her behind three glass barriers and shoot at her with their permeating beams. Adam authorizes the Wave Beam so Samus could counter attack. After this, a squad of Super Zebesians attack Samus in two waves, three in the first and four in the second, whilst she is escaping the Cryposphere in the Materials Transfer Lift. After this, they replace most of the other Zebesians on the ship. They also attack Samus as she traverses through the Desert Refinery. Some appear when Sector Zero is being disengaged from the BOTTLE SHIP, and they are drawn into space due to their lack of Anti-gravity equipment. Several of them attack her when she is nearing the control bridge. In the Bioweapon Research Center, there is a room where Super Zebesians ambush Samus after picking up a Missile Expansion. Super Zebesians also appear and attack Zero Suit Samus while she escapes the exploding BOTTLE SHIP.
Official data[]
Nintendo Official Guidebook for Metroid Other M[]
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"These Elite Cyborg Zebesians have been strengthened. Their attacks are the same, but are also capable of firing a diffusion beam."
Metroid: Other M Premiere Edition[]
- Mid-Level Enemies (pg. 13)
- Zebesians, Cyborg Zebesians, and Super Zebesians
- "Even though the planet Zebes has been destroyed, the scientists onboard the BOTTLE SHIP managed to resurrect the Zebesian species. Now that they’ve been brought back from extinction, the Zebesians are out of control. They’ve been fragmented into three classes: the weakest regular Zebesians, the cybernetically enhanced Cyborg Zebesians, and the superior Super Zebesians. All are susceptible to Charge Beam blasts, but to shred all three types of Zebesians use missiles, Lethal Strikes, and Overblast attacks."
Trivia[]
- Super Zebesians may have been intended to replicate some of Samus's own technology, thereby making them more dangerous. This is evident in their Arm Cannons, which resemble Samus's. They also possess the ability to charge their beams and they seem to have a variant of the Wave Beam. This may be an example of the Galactic Federation trying to replicate the Power Suit. Additionally, the Super Zebesians are not the first Space Pirates to use weaponry with Wave Beam properties, following the Wave Troopers from Metroid Prime.
- The first group of Super Zebesians encountered only takes two Charge Beam shots or four uncharged shots to kill, while the later groups of Super Zebesians take more hits to defeat.
- Super Zebesians resemble Red Space Pirates of Super Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission. Likewise, the red Zebesians in Nintendo Land superficially resemble Super Zebesians and are also the strongest type of Zebesian in the game.
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Biomechanical | |
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Hybrids | Asborean • Chozo Statue • Darkling • Dark Samus • Dark Suit • Light Suit • PED Suit • Samus Aran • Omega Suit |
Biomechanical | Aurora Unit • Security Robot B.O.X. • Cortex Chamber • Dark Diligence Drone • Dark Ingsmasher • Dark Quad • Fusion Suit • Mother Brain • Nightmare • Quadraxis • SA-X • Space Pirate Boarding Pod |
Cyborgs | Crash Pillar • Ghor (-G) • Kyratian • Leviathan Battleship • Pirate Militia • Preed (Dark) • Puffer Mine • Ridley (Meta/Omega/Proteus) • Samus Aran • Slench • Space Pirate • Weavel • Zebesian (Cyborg/Super) Large Leviathan-class armed ship • U-ton |
Bioweapons | |
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Space Pirates | Bombu • Class I Energy Harvester • Elite Pirate • Megaroid • Metroids • Mimic • Omega Pirate • Phazon Elite • Preed • Puffer Mine |
Galactic Federation | Cyborg Zebesian • Nightmare • Queen Metroid • Super Zebesian • Unfreezable Metroid • X Parasite (desired) • SA-X (desired) |
Other | Kanden • Quadtroid |
Related | Bioweapon Research Center • Project Metroid Warriors •Special-forces unit |