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Delicious Phazon.
Science fair finals, here I come!
Phazon is a glowy blue substance and hurts when you step in it. It can cause some bad things to happen, such as serious mutations (similar to what the Space Pirates did to some inhabitants of Tallon IV), Phazon Sickness (where the subject goes mad and obsessed with Phazon), or damage to Samus's power suit. It is the entire reason of the Metroid Prime series. The Space Pirates have been going to great lengths to mine it for use in their crazy bio-engineering experiments.
Since discovering Phazon on Tallon IV in the first Prime, and seeing its effects on the native wildlife, the Space Pirates have been enamored of its possibilities. They basically see the seething radioactive substance as free steroids. At some point, someone thought of introducing Phazon to some Metroids, which turned out to be a really terrible idea for everyone. Now Metroids can fire phazon in electric-like blasts, and are weak to phazon as well as ice.
Phazon-enhanced Metroids are found in the Sky Town area in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption after you release them to get a missile upgrade and later, on the ship Valhalla after the pirates release them on to it.
In Prime 3, Samus gets hit by a Phazon blast (from Dark Samus)along with 3 other bounty hunters Ghor, Rundas, and Gandrayda that makes their bodies self- produce Phazon and allows them to use a variety of upgrades while in Phazon form. But if Samus and co. in this mode for too long (known as Hypermode)they will enter corrupted Hypermode, where the phazon meter that it goes down with every shot turn red and go up. Failing to release the accumulated Phazon at this point by making the meter fill up to the top ( it can be lowered by firing random shots) will cause her to become another Dark Samus which is an instant game over. Unfortunately, the other hunters suffered this fate and forced Samus to kill them for her own and the Galactic Federations safety.
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