Guard Scorpion

Guards Scorpion is a guard robot that resembles a scorpion by design by its six legs and a long tail. It first appeared in Final Fantasy VII as the game's first boss, and has since appeared in other games in allusion to this battle.

Final Fantasy VII
Cloud and Barret fight Guard Scorpion in the Sector 1 Reactor at the Mako Reactor's Core. A misleading battle message has Cloud tell the player to attack Guard Scorpion while its tail is raised, but doing so will cause it to use always Tail Laser, which deals a large damage to both Cloud and Barret. This is its only strong attack.

As a first boss, Guard Scorpion is fairly easy. Guard Scorpion has two forms. It starts in Form 1 and its second form is when it raises its tail. It will transform to Form 2 after using two damaging attacks, and will revert shortly. Guard Scorpion has a fixed attack pattern: Search Scope, Attack, Search Scope, Attack, Transform to Form 2, Wait, Wait, Transform to Form 1, and it starts from Search Scope again. It always uses Search Scope on the victim of its attacks before attacking, and Search Scope does nothing. Its two basic attacks, Rifle and Scorpion Tail, do moderate damage.

Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-
Guard Scorpion is a boss and enemy in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-. It is a boss in Junon while Zack Fair is pursuing Dr. Hollander. In certain missions, Guard Scorpion is also available to fight as a regular enemy. It still displays the iconic attacks Target Search and Tail Laser, but Crisis Core's re-creation is stronger than the original version, although almost identical in appearance.

Final Fantasy VII G-Bike
Guard Scorpion appears in the first trailer of the game, shown at E3 2014. It is one of the enemies in the game.

Final Fantasy Type-0
Vajra from Final Fantasy Type-0 is based on the Guard Scorpion.

Pictlogica Final Fantasy
Guard Scorpion from Final Fantasy VII appears as an enemy in Pictlogica Final Fantasy.

Final Fantasy Record Keeper
Guard Scorpion is a boss in Final Fantasy Record Keeper.