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The Fire Spawn is a large, silicon-based predator found on the planet Alinos in Metroid Prime Hunters. It lives in lava pools and tosses lava to repel intruders and capture prey. It is invulnerable to heat-based weaponry, but cannot withstand cold temperatures. Samus encounters only one during her visit to Alinos, in the basement level of the Council Chamber. Here she discovers that the Fire Spawn is most vulnerable in the mouth area, and is damaged the most by the Judicator. Samus must defeat it to obtain the Magmaul. It is similar to the cold-acclimated Arctic Spawn.

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Fire Spawn

Metroid Prime Hunters

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A large creature that thrives on extreme heat, the FIRE SPAWN breathes superheated lava and never ventures far from its home pit. This creature is particularly unfriendly to carbon-based life-forms, and will hurl fireballs at anything approaching its territory.

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Squished Fire Spawn

Demonstration of the Fire Spawn's "squashed" appearance when viewed from above

  • The Arctic Spawn and Fire Spawn have almost the exact same physical build. This may suggest that their Spawn race is capable of adapting to different environments, or it may be a very unlikely case of convergent evolution.
  • The Fire Spawn and Diamonts are the only known silicon-based species in the Metroid universe.
  • The lower parts of the Council Chamber have been structurally damaged; perhaps this damage was caused by a past conflict between the local Fire Spawn and another bioform.
  • The Fire Spawn (and Arctic Spawn) are programmed to turn towards the player as part of their AI. However, due to a bug, they do not correctly handle situations where the player is above or below the creature. As a result, the Fire Spawn appears to become horizontally squashed if the player jumps over it and looks down.[1]
  • The theme of this and its "cousin", the Arctic Spawn, is a remix of the Parasite Queen theme from the original Metroid Prime.

References[]

  1. ^ MphRead source code, a reverse-engineered recreation of Metroid Prime Hunters


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