the two most important parts of a
metroid game are exploration and
upgrades but without an awe-inspiring
bossfight all it's kind of meaningless
for decades now Metroid has been giving
gamers some of the most intimidating and
entertaining boss fights in history but
only 10 can make our list Hey I'm
nervous NIC for screwattack's
top 10 can't wait boss fights number 10
ahh good old-fashioned rock goals see
long ago somebody must have decreed that
all fantasy worlds have to have either
dragons giant spider things or rock
monsters but until Metroid Prime
Sam has had it billion care that third
one TARDIS is found in the frozen
fendron at rifts and if it looks like an
icy version of that thing from Galaxy
Quest to you here not too far off but
unlike what Tim Allen would have you
believe Vargas isn't so invincible using
your thermal visor you've got a pinpoint
the creatures ever shifting weak spots
so you can little TARDIS down to just a
few pebbles Bartus isn't mind-blowing in
terms of design because it's you know a
pile of rocks but it gave us a small and
welcome twist on that whole shoot the
weak spot formula Thank You artists
number 9 most bosses in Metroid like to
make their entrances slowly usually for
some kind of intimidation factor
he kind of hits that whole spooky lonely
vibe that these games do so well Sarris
from Metroid Fusion isn't about that
life this giant water snake comes
blasting into the room at hypersonic
speeds and he tries to knock in the
water when your movements aren't ever
slower every time you manage to hit
Sera's his head with a powerful enough
projectile he goes back to his top speed
completely invincible while it lasts
really the big thing that makes Cera so
cool is that he's one of the most fun
bosses in the game and he's even got a
sweet boss theme on top of it all
litchi were morbid challenge we'd
probably put him up even higher number
eight you know what's great about chose
those statues in these games they're
like helping hands in a world that's
constantly trying to kill you
sometimes they open up new pathways or
give you upgrades or even carry you like
a sleeping baby down some stairs ain't
that sweet and then Nintendo lied to all
of us on your visitor planet zebus and
Super Metroid one of these chozo statues
called the golden thérèse oh just
straight-up starts attacking you not
just that but it actually catches and
throws your super missiles right back at
you excuse me what you can't do that
technically the golden trees owes more
of a sub boss but it was one of the
biggest surprises in any Metroid game to
date and it also taught us an important
lesson trust not faith number seven
samisen ridley seemed to go together
like Batman and the Joker no matter how
many times this purple pirate dragon is
defeated he's sure to come back again by
samus's next mission he's been
resurrected as a robot a genetic clone
and meeting is one of those ex parasites
in Metroid Fusion
it's a tough call but Ridley's best
comeback appearance has to be his 3d
debut as meta-ridley this fight takes
full advantage of the open-air arena
allowing Ridley to fly around and Bob
Barney with projectiles from the sky
while you try to pick him off from a
farm with almost nowhere ever run -
you're definitely in Ridley's house the
hell that is until you shred his wings
to bits and bring him down to your level
so you can pop with him with missiles
and when he's finally met his match he
gets blasted by chozo lasers and then
does his best impression of Gaston from
Beauty and the Beast but hey they always
comes back in fact you might even say
that rule applies to top tens as well
number six
man you want to talk about a classic
setup to a boss battle even back in the
super metroid finding a half decayed
corpse covered in green alien scavengers
butts a pretty terrible sign of what's
just ahead in this case the return of
grade
besides Ridley Creed is easily a
contender for one of the most
recognizable bosses in all of Metroid I
mean it's kind of hard to forget
fighting the monsters so huge it can't
even fit on the screen
now of course crate has appeared in
other Metroid games like zero mission
but we like the fight in Super Metroid
the most not only because of how
technically impressive it was at the
time but also because the wake rate
enters and moves around the battlefield
compared to his other fights this is
another boss fight we'd love to put
higher but come on the guy dies in like
3 super missiles week this boss fight is
a story of revenge
early on in Metroid Fusion an ex
parasite infects Samus while she's at
her most powerful pretty much this just
means that you lose all your weaponry
while a more powerful doppelganger
haunts you for the duration of the game
and let me tell you it's really freaking
stressful in this thing the s ax shows
up when he's expected but by the very
end of the game when you finally
reclaimed your lost text you get to
settle the score once and for all
although the build-up to the si X fight
is great the fight itself isn't exactly
the most interesting it's not so much
about creating your opportunities to
score damage as it is just running laps
around the room and shooting whenever
possible even when this thing turns into
this weird odd monster the toughest part
the battle is already behind me but just
for the pure satisfaction of exacting
some good old fashioned vengeance the SI
x marks the spot just go to the next
number bigger hole speaking Metroid
Fusion there's a moment when Samus has
to backtrack to the icy cryosphere only
to find this time that the entire area
is in sham
worse yet suspect number one is stalking
you in the background this is nightmare
the most aptly named boss in all of
Metroid I don't know what other
adjectives are even is to describe is
biomechanical beast then Riku
nightmare manipulates the rooms gravity
drastically slowing your movement while
it blasts lasers at you but as you
damage this machine light creature it
begins to leak this green slime out of
its face until finally it truly earns
its namesake in a series already known
for being spooky nightmare still creeps
us out number three a good boss battle
will usually make you feel like you're
up against impossible odds in some way
and the quick effective way to do that
is to just make them friggin huge I mean
look what that did for crave in the 2d
games but in the 3d prime Series we
would say that quad Raxus uses its size
to great effect and yeah there are
plenty of big enemies in prime 1 through
3
but quad rax is here isn't just large
and in charge it's mobile as well you'll
spend a lot of this fight weaving
through its legs as it stomps to create
shock waves or pull you in with its
tornado attack thing its joints
enough and quad racks his head separates
to attack you from the air which means
you get to do one of the coolest
maneuvers in a Metroid boss fight ramp
yourself off of its downed legs to plant
bombs under the headed boss yeah it's
exactly as fun as it sounds
number two as the ancient prophecies
have foretold richly is in fact on this
list twice I mean he comes back from the
dead so much it'd be kind of rude not to
do it
part of me really wanted to put Neill
Ridley from Metroid Fusion here because
of his spine chilling yet you're
bleeding Lee loud screaming but all
things considered his battle in metroid
zero mission just brings more to the
table better animations a more
treacherous lava filled arena and to be
perfectly honest way cooler attacks in
his fusion counterpart
plus it's kind of nice to just fight
Ridley proper for once and not some
clone or mechanical reincarnation and
for those of us who are weird and
actually like it so much
we've even still got our fair share of
Ridley screens number one not only is
our number one the most famous boss
fight in Metroid but it's one of the
most well known in all of gaming you
already know what it is super metroids
own Mother Brain this was an emotional
fight like no other in the series and to
break it down for you I think it's
important we just go step by step the
battle starts you wail on Mother Brain
as hard as you can only to be
effortlessly brought to your knees by
its deadly laser brain attack apparently
that's the official name anyway at the
last moment the baby Metroid Samus saved
in the previous game incapacitates the
grotesque monster and revitalizes you
until Mother Brain reawakens and
mercilessly annihilates the poor
creature that just saved your life that
is when the music shifts from a tone of
dread and powerlessness to one of
vengeful but heroic motivation if you as
the player know exactly what's about to
happen this brain is about to taste the
mother flipping rainbow what ultimately
makes a boss fight great is how strongly
makes you feel a certain way a battle
can aim for intimidation or even just
flat-out fun but the only thing that
could be better than either of those
things is something that's just
satisfying and I gotta say pounding a
boss to dust rarely if ever feels as
good as it does against Mother Brain our
secret number 11 goes to the mighty she
got from Metroid Prime this fight has a
rather rude beginning with Samus you
know killing the boss's kids but when
big bad mom comes out to play you'll
hardly find a meaner looking Metroid
boss sadly you've got to put her down
too but hey free wave beam if you do