X-Parasite

X-PARASITE

After the SNES passed its time, the Metroid series opted to skip on an entry on the N64, but returned with a vengeance with a handheld game for the Game Boy Advance and a 3D game for the Game Cube one day apart. The handheld, Metroid Fusion, saw Samus returning to SR388 on a research mission only to be infected by a deadly new parasite.

This is an X-Parasite, the natural prey of the Metroids kept in check by their presence but allowed to spread like wildfire in the wake of Samus’s genocide, wiping out nearly all life on the planet by infecting and altering the DNA of everything they touch to become exactly like them.

As fighters, they will be floaty, blobby little shapes that will shift to match aspects of creatures they have absorbed, with their moveset pulling from all the various abilities shown by the parasites in the game.

Likelihood rating: Probably not.