#1: This has been submitted by several people via e-mail and has been mentioned tons of times on the GameFAQs Message Boards (free publicity for them) and i also believe partially in this so here goes: When MP swallowed Samus' Suit and (in the 100% ending) it started to climb out of the Phazon it got so deformed from the Phazon that it turned into the red monster I showed in the pics. on the Screens Page.

#2: same as above: Pretty much the same as above except that there was some kind of X-Parasite that was attatched to MP and it inhabited the suit and (yet again) the Phazon deformed it into the red monster thing.

#3: This was submitted by a guy named Tom King. And I feel safe saying his anme cause it is quite common. This is very intereesting and I enjoyed reading it. His friends and him are thought up this story. ...the Metroid Prime is good and dead. Crater collapsed, robbed of its Phazon (which it was the...source of?) and beaten lifeless with its own energy beams, the thing doesn't have a chance. Yet the first Prime left a lot still to be determined. Where, for example, did the Phazon asteroid come from in the first place? Galactic collisions aren't exactly a common occurance, and for one to happen to contain a terribly destructive organic poison and an immensly powerful organism of the very same breed that the Chozo living on the world had been developing (Metroids, obviously--but I'll get to that later) seems a little bit more than suspicious. So let's lay down the facts, in sequence: When the Galactic Federation scouts discovered SR-388, the (Chozo) civilization was already in destroyed there--the society had abandoned it, and its passages and structures were in ruins. Left behind was presumably the legacy and cause of the destruction--the free-ranging, impeccably deadly Metroids. The pirates had already raided the planet and stolen test subjects from the Federation research stations, but once Samus cleaned that operation up and eliminated (what she thought was) all but the very last metroid, there seemed to be little more to do. Yet the dissapearance of the Chozo still remained a mystery, even with the wealth of information granted by Prime. How did the Metroids arive on SR-388 in the first place? It is obviously their planet of origin, since they had been found in no other sector of the universe. I believe that they were actually made there--constructed, assumedly, by the benificent Chozo as a tool of aid, but with the project somehow spiraling out of control. Either the Metroid structure became too powerful, or some entity within the Chozo society enhanced it, mutated it, and turned it against them--thus unleashing the secret and terrible weapon upon its well-meaning creators. As they fled from the technological wasteland, in secret, hoping to leave behind the disaster and start a more peaceful, natural life on Tallon IV, they couldn't quite leave their past mistake behind...Whatever this entity was--My vote is on some twisted, "dark chozo", which seems just like the kind of wrench Nintendo would use to throw into the plot machine and make things interesting--wasn't content to take over the Metroids for their own and chase off the rest of the Chozo society--they wanted power, control, something that with their tremendously surperior and advanced might as a culture, they could easily attain. So, with the malicious intent of disrupting the peaceful Chozo's ways once again, even twisting them to their own means so that they could harness their technology, the entity launched off the "asteroid"--actually a sort of gigantic biological missile seeded with enough Phazon to saturate the planet, and even more cruel, an organism to keep the poison flowing--the Metroid Prime. The entity didn't count on being countered by the weakened Chozo, though, and to have a seal of artifacts placed over the deadly crater to prevent further infection. Yet the damage had been done, and slowly, excrutiatingly, the remains of the Chozo empire began to wither away, or worse, twist, mutate, and become much like the evil, corrupted Dark Chozo which had sent the poison. Exactly as planned. Drifting off into ethereal forms across the universe, leaving their hardly secure and highly dangerous world behind, the fate of the Chozo is left up to the winds of time, and whenever Nintendo releases the next game and we find out the rest of the plot...So, what the heck do I think that big scary thing is that's impaling Samus in the movie/screenshots? Well, just look at it--pointy, angry, and most importantly, BEAKED--I'm betting that this is indeed one of the corrupted Chozo I've been rambling on about. Concidering that it sort of "digitized" onto the scene out of nowhere (something I can't imagine the Space Pirates having the technology to do), and with the surroundings seeming very technical but ruined...my money's on a return to SR-388...