These creatures look a lot like Phazon Hoppers and Hoppers and they both jump in the same way and spit porjectiles. Shouldn't that be mentioned? Bossbeater 21:54, December 6, 2010 (UTC)
Connection to the Phazon Hopper[]
So I checked out the posted image of the Japanese logbook scan. While my Japanese isn't very good, it seemed to me that the scan was saying that, rather than the Hopping Metroid becoming a Phazon Hopper, that Hopping Metoids are somehow the offspring of Phazon Hoppers (which then mature back into Phazon Hoppers). In other words, according to the Japanese version, Hopping Metroids might share no direct lineage with Phazon Metroids, with Hopping Metroids and Phazon Hoppers possibly being a new breed altogether. JeruTz (talk) 22:25, April 27, 2018 (UTC)
There are a few things we have to take into account:
- The Hopping Metroid log states they have lost their ability to fly but retain their vulnerability to cold temperatures. This insinuates that they were once Phazon Metroids or, at the very least, a form of the classic Larva Metroids.
- Other forms of mutated strains, like the Phazon Metroid and Hunter Metroid, can be produced in more ways than one. The logbook states that Phazon Metroids are created by exposing Tallon Metroids to energized Phazon, yet Miniroids are also stated to grow into Phazon Metroids, while Metroid Hatchers can birth them outright. Tallon Metroids are said to mature into Hunter Metroids, yet the Metroid Prime is able to create the latter from puddles of Phazon.
It wouldn't be difficult to assume there are multiple methods to creating Hopping Metroids as well, such as exposing some form of Metroid to more Phazon, and Phazon Hoppers producing offspring in the form of Hopping Metroids.
Mutated Metroids are... pretty special.Latinlingo (talk) 02:53, May 2, 2018 (UTC)