| rdfs:comment | - An unfreezable Metroid (also referred to as Sector Zero Metroids or Genetic Metroids) is a mature larval Metroid that has been genetically manipulated to overcome the species' mortal vulnerability to cold, to maximise their potential as bioweapons. In the first Metroid Prime game, according to the Pirate Data, Metroid Forces, the Space Pirates wanted in the future to find a way to shield Metroids from their vulnerability to cold, but were seemingly unsuccessful, or they never tried.
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| abstract | - An unfreezable Metroid (also referred to as Sector Zero Metroids or Genetic Metroids) is a mature larval Metroid that has been genetically manipulated to overcome the species' mortal vulnerability to cold, to maximise their potential as bioweapons. In the first Metroid Prime game, according to the Pirate Data, Metroid Forces, the Space Pirates wanted in the future to find a way to shield Metroids from their vulnerability to cold, but were seemingly unsuccessful, or they never tried. Ironically, it would later be the Galactic Federation, the very enemy which Space Pirates had hoped to defeat with their Metroids, that had successfully and intentionally created the unfreezable Metroids. In Metroid: Other M, the scientists of the BOTTLE SHIP cloned Metroids from fragments of the Baby on Samus Aran's Power Suit after her return from Zebes in Super Metroid. All but one were genetically altered to be unfreezable, and were stored in Sector Zero. These Metroids were part of a bioweapon program titled Project Metroid Warriors. If successful, they would have completely replaced the Galactic Federation's modified Zebesians. Samus was told this by MB while the latter was posing as Madeline Bergman, but she was not warned of the unfreezable aspect. Later on, it was said that the Queen Metroid's genes were left unaltered so it would act as a control specimen. She would give birth to normal Metroids to be used for further research where they would eventually be modified into unfreezable specimens. The physiological differences between those seen in Other M and unmodified variants are their nuclei and membranes: unfreezable Metroids have purple spiked nuclei instead of the normal red raspberry-like shape, and the pigmentation of their membranes is blue instead of green. Before the events of Other M, Samus had encountered many stages of Metroid that could not be frozen, but they were either later stages in the natural life cycle or mutated versions of these specimens created through Phazon. Some examples of the mutated variants include the Fission Metroid, a Metroid in its mature larval stage that was vulnerable to different beams, depending on its colour, and a Metroid Prime; the Pirates played no role in the birth of these mutations as they were created outside of Pirate laboratories and despite the marauding race extensively experimenting with Phazon, it was never capable of recreating them in a controlled environment. Additionally, these varieties of Metroid still retained some weakness to cold (Fission Metroids could become vulnerable to the Ice Beam if they turned white and Metroid Prime's first form could be frozen and immobilised by the Ice Spreader when it turned white). The Metroids on the BOTTLE SHIP were thus probably the first to have no vulnerabilities to cold whatsoever.
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