1001 Video Game Songs: Mother Brain

Game: Super Metroid
Composer(s): Kenji Yamamoto, Minako Hamano

Ridley may be the most famous bad guy from Metroid, but Mother Brain is… well… the true brains behind the pirates. Mother Brain is pretty much your typical rouge A.I. wanting to wipe out all life cause she sees it as flawed, and only things like her should rule the universe. While she may not have appeared as much as Ridley, she's still a very important part of the Metroid mythos. Her first boss battle in the first game was actually rather lackluster when you think about it. The only real danger is the flying donuts of doom constantly flying around, and the acid. Mother Brain on the other had, just sits there, taking all the hits before she dies. Rather anti-climatic, and the one from super metroid seems the same. It's pretty much a remake of the first game's fight, exactly the same in fact. …Until she rises up in her new body.

Mother Brian learned from her last encounter with Samus, so she was prepared. In her new, grotesque body she has a lot more weapons then se ever had to use, including the devastating hyper beam(no not the pokemon move). The theme is simple, yet effective. It serious, droning, and down right threatening. It's message is simple: YOU ARE SCREWED! This theme is so intense and threatening that it's become something of a meme, simply by saying "When your/my _____ something something". 

A very foreboding, and climatic theme, It may be a long time until we see Mother Brain again, but her legacy will always be felt in the series.

Tomorrow night, A villain who is a literary classic, a movie classic, and a video game classic.

(link to the song): www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drnmjj…