Thardus
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| Thardus | |
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 Thardus appears. | |
| Featured in | Metroid Prime |
| Location | Quarantine Cave |
| Attacks | Rocks, rolling, ice |
| Weakness | Certain Phazon infused rocks |
| Reward(s) | Spider Ball (Metroid Prime), Power Bomb (Metroid Prime Pinball), Chozo Artifact (Metroid Prime (comic)) |
Thardus is an enormous rock monster charged with phazon energy that inhabited Tallon IV in the Phendrana Drifts of the Overworld. It was originally an experiment by the Space Pirates to use phazon to create sentient creatures out of inanimate objects, but was found quarantined in a cavern in Metroid Prime. This experiment was titled "Project Titan".
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[edit] Battle
Thardus controls the rocks in its domain and the icy weather that resides over the drifts. Its primary attack is to animate three small rocks and cause them to rush at you like miniture meteors, these rocks can be destroyed for ammo and energy. It can also send ice spikes that encase the enemy in ice, and then Thardus curls up into a ball and attempts to crush it.
To defeat the behemoth, Samus must use the Thermal Visor to locate Thardus's weak spot, then fire at it with a weapon, preferably the Wave Beam. Once Samus hits the spot a few times, Thardus will release enormous thermal energy as its Phazon core is exposed, making the visor "white out".
Alternatively, Samus can wait until the beast begins to roll around the room. At this point, laying a single Bomb in its path will instantly smash open the weak point.
Regardless of how the Phazon is exposed, she must then switch back to the Combat Visor and fire at the weak spot. Thardus will continually switch weak spots until the third weak spot is hit. Then it will unleash an ice storm, making it hard to see in the Combat Visor. Samus must continue the process, until the creature dies once the sixth weak spot is destroyed, leaving behind the Spider Ball. Humorously, when it falls apart, a small rock hits Samus in the head as she escapes.
[edit] In Other Media
Thardus also made an appearance in Metroid Prime Pinball, as a boss for the Power Bomb upgrade, and in Metroid Prime (comic), in the Chozo Ruins.
[edit] Scan Visor Information
- Morphology: Thardus, an animated, sentient creature of stone charged with Phazon radiation. The Phazon radiation given off by Thardus negates auto-targeting systems, preventing lock-on. It may be possible to acquire alternate targets with a different Visor. The chaotic nature of Phazon irradiation leads to instability in its structural integrity. Thardus can encase targets in ice, and its colossal size and strength make it a formidable opponent.
[edit] Trivia
- In Metroid Prime Trilogy, very noticable bloom lighting effects have been added to the Thardus battle.
- A rock monster very similar to Thardus named "Gorignak" appeared in the 1999 Star Trek-parody film Galaxy Quest. In the film, the main character (Jason Nesmith / Commander/Captain Peter Quincy Taggart, played by Tim Allen) comments that Gorignak is "...a rock! It doesn't have any vulnerable spots!"
- Thardus is very weak to the Plasma Beam, but to obtain it this early the player must first sequence break to get the Ice Beam (and in European and Japanese regions, the Power Bombs) early. Then the player must sequence break in Geothermal Core to actually get to the beam.
[edit] Gallery
| Bosses in Metroid Prime series | |||||||
| Metroid Prime | Parasite Queen • Hive Mecha • Plated Beetle • Incinerator Drone • Flaahgra • Sheegoth • Thardus • Elite Pirate • Cloaked Drone• Phazon Elite • Omega Pirate • Meta Ridley • Metroid Prime | ||||||
| Metroid Prime Hunters | Kanden • Spire • Weavel • Sylux • Noxus • Trace • Cretaphid v1 • Cretaphid v2 • Cretaphid v3 • Cretaphid v4 • Slench • Fire Spawn • Arctic Spawn • Gorea | ||||||
| Metroid Prime 2: Echoes | Dark Alpha Splinter • Bomb Guardian • Jump Guardian • Dark Samus • Amorbis • Boost Guardian • Alpha Blogg • Grapple Guardian • Chykka • Spider Guardian • Power Bomb Guardian • Caretaker Class Drone • Quadraxis • Emperor Ing | ||||||
| Metroid Prime 3: Corruption | Berserker Lord • Meta Ridley • Rundas • Korakk • Mogenar • Steamlord • Defense Drone • Ghor • Helios • Gandrayda • Mining Cannon • Pirate Commander • Omega Ridley • Metroid Hatcher • Dark Samus • Aurora Unit 313 | ||||||
