Hornoad
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| Hornoad | |
|---|---|
 Official artwork of a Hornoad. | |
| Featured in | Metroid II: Return of Samus Metroid Fusion |
| Homeworld | SR388 |
| Attacks | Jumping, spitting small balls of acid. |
| “ | Observe this Hornoad, unimportant creatures that jump up and down. | „ |
Hornoads are creatures that live on planet SR388. They are at the near-bottom of the food chain. They are capable of shooting little balls of acid out of their mouths and are very weak; Samus can defeat them in two hits. Their name comes from a portmanteau of the words horn and toad. First seen as enemies in Metroid II: The Return of Samus, their X versions are enemies in Metroid Fusion. In Metroid Fusion, when Samus helps Biologic Space Laboratories and visits SR388, she meets a X Parasite mimicking a Hornoad and reverts it to its X form. However, the X flies into Samus and infects her, causing her cellular makeup to change. This X-Parasite would later become the SA-X.
Fusion redesigned them slightly, and this design has stuck since, even for non-X-infected variants. However, it could also imply that this is representing a separate subspecies of Hornoads.
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[edit] Manuals
[edit] Metroid II: Return of Samus Manual
"Be wary of this hopping enemy."
[edit] Metroid Fusion Manual
"Native life-form of SR388. These jumping frog-like creatures inhabit caves."
[edit] Official Website
"These amphibious creatures are native to planet SR388, the site of Samus's first mission. Now infected with the X, the Hornoads have become dangerous foes. Samus must destroy these and any other contaminated creatures encountered on the research station."
- Note that this text is not completely accurate, as Zebes was technically the site of Samus's first mission.
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 Hornoad as seen in Metroid Fusion. This version is of an X Parasite mimicking an actual Hornoad. |
 Samus facing a group of X mimicking Hornoads. |
 thumb|Hornoads jumping in the background. |
 Hornoad in the manga. |
