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Mother Brain (often referred to as the Mother Brain) is a major antagonist and boss of the Metroid
video game series, acting as the cyborg computer of the Space Pirates. The villain generally appears as an enormous human brain with a single, lidded eye, protruding metal spikes and power cables, which is surrounded by a glass tank, various automated defense systems, and a pool of lava or acid.

Mother Brain is depicted as being female in the television show Captain N: The Game Master
, as well as in other lesser-known comic books. However, these all fall outside the established storyline canon, as the Metroid game manuals and other official Nintendo sources refer to the Mother Brain as a gender-neutral creature.

Origin

Mother Brain was originally a cybernetic creation of the Chozo that controlled autonomic functions on the planet Zebes. Its presence on the planet is seen through small hovering machines that help it observe the status of the environment and communicate with the Chozo. However, Mother Brain became sentient and betrayed the Chozo, forcing the Chozo to deactivate Mother Brain and seal it off in a chamber in the depths of the planet. Years later, after the disappearance of the Chozo, the Space Pirates discovered the chamber and reactivated Mother Brain.

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There is debate on whether or not Mother Brain is the true leader of the Space Pirates. According to Super Metroid's manual, Metroid: Zero Mission's manual, and both official mangas, Ridley is the leader of the Space Pirates while Mother Brain is just a biological computer which controls Zebes' defenses. However, the instruction manual for the original Metroid game, the manual for Metroid Fusion, the Nintendo Power
comic, and the in-game introduction in Super Metroid refer to Mother Brain as the leader of the Space Pirates, with the original Metroid instruction manual going so far as to say that Ridley is actually controlled by Mother Brain. Metroid Prime confuses the issue even further in the Pirate Data logs by alluding to a Security Command that issues orders, including the reconstruction of Ridley himself. In the Metroid E-manga (which acts a guide to Samus's past), Mother Brain is actually a creation of the Chozo, who use it to keep track of Data and reports (the story has not yet revealed why Mother Brain is an enemy in the games).

Some argue that the original intention was much more simplistic and obvious than it is currently made out to be. Mother Brain was the final boss of the game, both the stated and implied leader, while Kraid and Ridley were mere subordinate mini-bosses. Subsequent games have only altered this after new people took over the series following the death of creator Gunpei Yokoi. Others attribute this inconsistency to translation errors in the original Metroid manual that Zero Mission and other games have since corrected.

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Metroid (NES
)
Super Metroid (SNES
)
Metroid: Zero Mission (GBA
)

In all three games, Mother Brain is defended by Zeebetites, life support units that block Samus' path.

Mother Brain is defeated by first breaking its tank with missiles, and then pummeling the brain itself. In Super Metroid, the cyborg has an ace up its sleeve: after the destruction of the tank, Mother Brain is revealed to be part of a large, bipedal creature, with a range of powerful attacks.

It is worth noting that in Super Metroid, when visiting Mother Brain's original location, a power bomb reveals a hidden cavity below the shattered jar, implying that Mother Brain was a bipedal being during the first Metroid game and simply had its body hidden below ground. This might provide an explanation as to why it was able to return in Super Metroid after having been defeated.

In each game, Mother Brain's apparent destruction initiates a self-destruct device, giving the player only a few minutes to escape before the area/atmosphere/planet is incinerated. Catastrophic self-destruction countdowns are a well-known cliché of the Metroid series, and most of the Metroid games feature at least one.

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