Hyper Grapple blocker

"Space Pirate encrypted data decoded."

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The subject of this article is not named in-game.
The current title is from the game's internal data.

The Hyper Grapple blocker (as named in the internal sound effects data) is a Phazon-based enemy encountered by Samus Aran twice in Metroid Prime 3: Corruption. Her first encounter occurs while in the Command Station on the Pirate Homeworld, as well as in the Entry Canyon on Phaaze. It blocks her path at both points, and is slightly plantlike in structure. It has several large violet-colored Phazon crystals growing out of its main body, as well as a strange eyelike structure. It can only be destroyed by overloading it with Phazon energy using the Hyper Grapple. The crystals shatter, one after another, as it is overloaded.

Metroid Prime 3: Corruption Premiere Edition refers to this as a "purple alien growth".

Official data

Scans

Command Station

"Organic mass appears resistant to normal attacks but probably could be overloaded with Phazon energy."

Entry Canyon

"Organic mass appears resistant to Beam and Missile attacks but probably could be overloaded with energy."