Samus's visors



Samus Aran's Power Suit has several interchangeable, upgradeable components. One of those is her Visor. While primarily used for seeing things, the Visor can also be altered to perform other useful visual functions.

Most, though not all, visor upgrades appear exclusively in Metroid Prime and Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, since they are the only ones played from a first-person perspective. An X-Ray Visor was also available in Super Metroid, but unfortunately it could not be used to see through her suit.

Every one of these visors also has the capability of locking on to and following hostile targets (this has the additional effect of allowing guided missiles to follow the target, and power beam shots to, er, bend towards the target).

Command Visor
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 * The Command Visor is used in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption as a visor that Samus uses to command her Gunship to do various things such as lifting heavy objects and bombarding enemies with missiles. When it is used, it will say Data Recieved while Samus presses buttons on her arm cannon. There then will be a cut scene showing her gunship doing the command that was needed to be done. Although it is only used in Prime 3, Samus can be seen using it at the end of Metroid Prime, when she flees the collapsing Impact Crater.