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Protoplasm[1] is a creature exclusively featured in the Captain N: The Game Master TV series.
Description[]
The Protoplasm is found aboard the mobile asteroid base Metroid. It is a large creature, approximately twice as tall as Kevin Keene, and its wide girth blocks the hallway that it inhabits. Despite its imposing size, it does not move at all and simply sits passively.
Kevin and Duke encounter the Protoplasm in the episode Metroid Sweet Metroid, in which they encounter many other Metroid enemies such as Skree and Kraid. An Item Sphere is lobbed at the Protoplasm to freeze the creature with the Ice Beam, followed by Kevin shooting it with Kraid's Missile Gun. This combination of Ice Beam and Missiles shatters the Protoplasm into pieces, allowing Kevin and Duke to continue their journey to Mother Brain's lair.
Trivia[]
- While the Protoplasm is an original creature created for the TV show, Kevin's method of defeating it (Ice Beam and Missiles) is identical to how Metroid larvae are usually killed. Furthering its connections to the Metroid larvae, the Protoplasm's name may be derived from the Metroid's bio in the Metroid instruction manual: "This protoplasm in suspended animation was discovered on the planet SR388. It clings onto Samus' body and sucks his energy. It can't be destroyed directly with the normal beam. Freeze it with the ice beam, and then fire 5 missile blasts at it."
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