Golden Statues

"No matches found in flora and fauna databank"

---

The subject of this article is not named in-game.
The current title is from a guide or other published source.

Concept Art

The Golden Statues appear in Super Metroid and are the successors to the Stone Statues encountered in Metroid and Metroid: Zero Mission. Like their predecessors, they have the role of guarding the entrance to Tourian, the Space Pirate headquarters on Zebes. Each statue represents the four major bosses in the game before Mother Brain. These bosses include Kraid, Phantoon, Draygon, and Ridley. Ridley rests atop the head of Phantoon, while Kraid and Draygon are to Phantoon's sides. Each statue's eyes are made up of glowing orbs and are colored differently for each boss: green (Kraid), yellow (Phantoon), blue (Draygon) and red (Ridley). Because of the importance connected to them, the statues may imply that Draygon and Phantoon are affiliated with the Space Pirates, as the other two are already known to be high-ranking members of the marauding organization.

As Samus defeats the bosses depicted, their corresponding statues' eyes will glow intensely before shattering and will each one-by-one release a ghost-like entity out of their hollowed eyes and lose their golden glow, turn into a shade of gray, and seemingly "die". Strangely, all the eyes except Ridley's statue will flash brightly in their respective color; Ridley's will flash pink, despite the eye being red.

Once all four are defeated, the entire structure will sink to the bottom of the chamber, caving in the floor and revealing the underwater entrance to Tourian. Note that some points of the statue will be covered in moss once submerged in water.

There is a glitch used in tool-assisted speedruns of the game, where Samus can use a Door Jump (similar to the original Metroid) to completely bypass the Golden Statues and enter Tourian without killing a single boss.[1]