Spazer Beam

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Spazer
The upgrade for the Spazer. (Super Metroid)
Featured in	Metroid II: Return of Samus, Super Metroid
Damage	Medium
Effect(s)	Wide range of attack
Obtained	Lower Brinstar

The Spazer Beam, also referred to as the Spazer, was a beam Samus Aran gained during her adventures. When shot, the beam split into three lasers. This weapon originally appeared in Metroid II: Return of Samus as the Spazer Laser Beam^[1] and returned in Super Metroid as the Spazer Beam. The Spazer was similar to the Wide Beam of Metroid Fusion.

In Super Metroid, the Spazer was incompatible with the Plasma Beam. If both were simultaneously selected with a variety of other factors, the game would glitch with results such as the Murder Beam, Spacetime Beam and the Chainsaw Beam.

The beam's mechanics differed between the games. In Super Metroid, if one beam hit a target, all three would disappear. However, in Metroid II, the three were separate, and would not do this, exactly as the Wide Beam upgrade does. The crab depicted on the upgrade bears a strong resemblance to the Tallon Crab.

In trailers for Metroid Fusion, Samus appears to use the Spazer Beam. The SA-X also uses a version of the Spazer.

[edit] 2D Appearances

Super Metroid

Spazer Beam upgrade. (Metroid II: Return of Samus)

Tallon Crab.

[edit] See Also

• Wide Beam

[edit] Notes

Beams
Power Beam | Long Beam | Wave Beam | Ice Beam | Plasma Beam Charge Beam | Spazer Beam | Hyper Beam | Wide Beam Phazon Beam | Dark Beam | Light Beam | Annihilator Beam Volt Driver | Battlehammer | Magmaul | Shock Coil | Judicator | Imperialist Omega Cannon | Nova Beam | Paralyzer