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Planetary Parasite
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Most parasites use a single living being as their host, which they use to grow, develop their bodies, and finally create many new parasites that will invade another host. These guys, however, will employ a whole planet as their host. Just as our parasites feed on our nutrients to grow, these guys will deplete the planet of its natural resources or its very life force (this is likely to bring bad consequences for the planet's inhabitants), and use them to complete its reproductive cycle, spawning more of its race. Once the cycle has been completed, the newborn will somehow leave the planet to find another one, where they will start a new cycle. Destroying the planet when leaving it is optional. Compare Planet Eater, where the parasite consumes the planet just to obtain nutrients and does not require it to reproduce, and Planet Looters, which are more similar to thieves than to parasites. |
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The Entities of Worm have centuries-long gestation periods after arriving on a planet where they adapt and learn via embedding shards into the dominant species, such as humans. Once completed they absorb all available nutrients in every dimensional version of the planet and detonate the planet. This propels their young into space, each of which will seek out another planet. | |
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The overarching plot of the UFO: After Blank series revolves entirely around these. Their mating rituals, the chaos they've caused for humanity and other aliens whose planets they've infested and the attempts of various factions to control them for their own nefarious purposes. | |
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In The Matrix, Agent Smith describes humanity as this: | |
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It turns out that origin of ninjutsu in the world of Naruto can be traced to aliens planting a life draining tree on the world so they could eat the fruit and maintain their Physical God abilities. | |
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Cthulhu Mythos: H. P. Lovecraft (of course) had the Dholes, titanic worm-things which burrowed beneath worlds to slowly devour them from the inside-out and multiply until nothing but a shattered husk was left. Fortunately, the closest they got to Earth is the Dreamlands. A later addition to the Mythos, the Worm that Gnaws in the Night, was this to the planet Shaggai, except that it was doing it all by its lonesome; it's so massively powerful that when the Planetoid Abomination Ghroth arrived in its solar system (something which makes every other resident top-tier abomination fully active), the Worm's full awakening resulted in an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. |
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Dragon Ball: The Tree of Might from the movie of the same name sucks all the life from a planet, producing fruit that empowers whoever eats it. The Big Gete Star from Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler is a mechanical life form that was trying to absorb New Namek. |
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In Toriko, the entire Gourmet World was spawned by such a parasite. A meteorite infused with Gourmet Cells struck the original planet Earth long ago. The Gourmet Cells fed off the energy of Earth's mantle and grew new landmass. Gourmet World is a giant tumor that dwarfs its host. | |
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The Worlds of Power novelization of Blaster Master portrays the Plutonium Boss as one of these. When it arrives on a planet, it burrows underground and feeds on radiation from the planet's core. Eventually, it destroys the planet from the inside-out, then moves on to another world. | |
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The infamous Jenova of Final Fantasy VII, from the exact same company that developed the above Chrono Trigger. Jenova shares a few similarities, feeding on the collective life-force of the planet and being directly responsible for the downfall of the Ancients. When the Shinra Corporation tries to exploit the thing, mistaking it for one of said Ancients, they end up simply creating Sephiroth — a new form of Jenova that's smarter, stronger and a lot prettier. | |
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In the Heavy Metal Volume 2 #5 (September 1978) story "Urban Renewal" by Stephen Bissette, giant insects attack a planet and lay their eggs in it. When the eggs hatch, it destroys the planet. | |
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In the Call of Cthulhu boxed set Spawn of Azathoth, if a Seed of Azathoth strikes a planet, it can penetrate it and grow into a Spawn of Azathoth the size of a star. All that's left of the planet is shattered ruins. The former fifth planet of the solar system suffered this fate: its remains are the Asteroid Belt. | |
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The Homeworld Gems in Steven Universe reproduce by draining the life force from a planet's crust to form new Gems. While their attempt to do this to Earth was stopped a long time ago, the equipment used is still sitting there, and is shown to work just fine. Just before they were driven off, they played this trope even more straight by burying a "Cluster" Gem near the Earth's core. It was planned to crack the planet open at the end of its millennia-long incubation. | |
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Star Trek: The novel Prime Directive gets points for parasitic complexity with a three-species symbiosis: Species A secretly bases on worlds which emit radio transmissions, feeds the Cold War paranoia of the locals through UFO sightings and signal manipulation until the hapless natives nuke each other, then seeds the newly radioactive environment with Species B, an algae which uses gamma rays the way most plants use sunlight. Species A's signals eventually bring Species C, an immense spacefaring cloud which consumes the algae, and then provides A with transportation and life-support on the way to the next target. The unlucky world is left an irradiated wasteland with much of its organic chemistry sucked away. Spock identifies all three species as non-sapient, and determines that the time needed to evolve their incredibly complex behavior proves they are relics of a prior iteration of the universe. In the Star Trek: New Frontier novel End Game, the Great Bird of the Galaxy (which is also a nickname for Gene Roddenberry) is found to be gestating inside the planet Thallon. The Bird hatches, and a Planet-Shattering Kaboom ensues. |
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RuneScape: The planet Renmark was parasitized by a creature known as Mur that fed on its core. Guthix, a god visiting the planet, attempted to destroy Mur with the Elder Blade but inadvertently destroyed the planet instead while the parasite survived. Even worse, Mur was scattered across the cosmos, increasing its influence. | |
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In Never Be The Same Again, the Impostors mainly thrive by terraforming other planets to suit their needs. The original Impostor colony terraformed its home planet into an ice planet, killing off half of the Mombis (specifically, the males) in the process. Eventually, the Impostor population got too big for their world to handle, so they started swarming other planets and settling down in their underground caverns in the hopes of terraforming them, including Earth. | |
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The Giga Shadow of Lexx spent thousands of years regenerating under the surface of the Cluster world, as well as ruling the Light Universe through His Shadow and feeding on the Human Sacrifices given by his loyal followers. | |
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In the Star Trek: New Frontier novel End Game, the Great Bird of the Galaxy (which is also a nickname for Gene Roddenberry) is found to be gestating inside the planet Thallon. The Bird hatches, and a Planet-Shattering Kaboom ensues. | |
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The Noizoids from HarmoKnight, who arrive on Planet Melodia on a massive, spiky-green meteor and cause nearly every animal nearby to become violent. | |
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The Shlorpians in Solar Opposites thrive entirely by terraforming planets with the pupa into copies of Shlorp. The episode "99 Ships" reveals that the Shlorp that exploded in the intro was not the original planet, but one of potentially unlimited copies of the original homeworld. When a Shlorp becomes uninhabitable or is due to be destroyed, 100 ships are sent from that planet and the process restarts. | |
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Master of Orion II had the space eel, a space monster that would target planets to use as spawning ground. Left to its own devices, eventually you'd end up with two space eels. | |
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The Big Gete Star from Dragon Ball Z: The Return of Cooler is a mechanical life form that was trying to absorb New Namek. | |
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Perry Rhodan has the Guan a Var or "sun worms", whose natural habitat is hyperspace. They drain entire stars of their energy at a frightening rate (three of them are seen to burn through the reserves of one star with an inhabited system in a matter of mere days, though that was admittedly after millennia of imprisonment and starvation), reproduce, and move on once the star has gone supernova or otherwise become useless (to both them and pretty much anyone else). They're also, despite being descended from once highly intelligent organic starships, basically just dumb animals that can't even perceive the effects of their actions because their senses no longer extend into normal space. | |
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In 52, one of the possible futures that Rip Hunter foresees (and successfully averts) involves Mr. Mind spawning 52 giant extradimensional parasites that feed off the mental energies of entire universes. | |
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Lavos from Chrono Trigger. Similar to the previous example, but he doesn't create an alien army, is instead exploited by the planet's mages (doesn't end well), and the heroes get to fight some of the offspring before they're sent to other planets. | |
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Star Fleet Battles: Starswarm robots burrow into planets and use raw materials underground to create more robots. Once enough new robots are made, the swarm leaves the planet and heads into space. | |
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The Doctor Who serial "The Twin Dilemma" features the Gastropods, a race of nearly indestructible creatures who devastate entire planets, but whose eggs can't hatch unless seared by a supernova first, limiting their spread. | |
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In the Blake's 7 episode "Trial", Zil is a member of a humanoid species who live on the surface of a living planet they call Host. They are safe as long as the planet isn't aware of their presence, so try to keep moving and avoid forming into groups. When the planet does become aware, it changes its surface to rid itself of them through subsidence and flooding, consuming their bodies to replenish the energy used in the process. Fortunately, their eggs are tough enough to survive this absorption and begin their life cycle anew. | |
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Strange World: The Pando superorganism turns out to be a parasite that is growing into the Turtle Island on which the whole story takes place, threatening to kill it. | |
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The Parasite from Evolva. A giant egg comes to the planet, develops lots of tentacles, creates an army of aliens, and uses the planet's resources to make new eggs, supposedly to send them to other planets. | |
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In Kamen Rider Gaim, the Helheim Forest proves to spread its seeds like wildfire, and there is a very real threat that if the dimensional portals aren't closed, this invasive species could end up turning Earth into a new Helheim. We know because this is what happened in the formerly Earthlike world now known as Helheim. Oh, and the monsters used to be that world's people and animals, as anything that eats the fruit of the plants becomes an Inves monster and ends up spreading the seeds further still. Earth has ten years left. | |
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Kill la Kill: Life fibers ultimately cocoon the Earth to make it explode, spreading even more life fibers to other planets, which Ragyou Kiryuin facilitates. | |
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The Dark Bramble in Outer Wilds. The solar system has four Baby Planets, but it is implied that long ago there was a fifth icy world. The tangled, consuming plant grew in its core until it cracked and burst the planet to pieces. A Shattered World remains, and the Bramble itself is a sprawling Eldritch Location that is Bigger on the Inside. The Bramble can fling its seeds through outer space, so other planets might be at risk of the same fate, but have not met it yet. You can find a seed that recently crashed on Timber Hearth and started growing roots. Tektite warily examines it, confirms the sinister seed is not native to Timber Hearth, and correctly guesses it's from Dark Bramble. They are concerned by how fast it's growing, but Tektite seems confident the treekeepers can eradicate it before it causes more damage. The Sun explodes before they get the chance. A Bramble seed can be found on Giant's Deep, but its vines have not spread beyond one island. Maybe the turbulent oceanic environment does not allow the Bramble to thrive. |
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The Tree of Might from the movie of the same name sucks all the life from a planet, producing fruit that empowers whoever eats it. | |
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Stellaris occasionally spawns a habitable, completely inconspicuous planet that, after a random number of years, suddenly starts shaking, breaking up and releasing noxious gasses into the atmosphere. If you're lucky, these disturbances subside after a while and leave you with a damaged but still habitable world. The more likely outcome is that the planet cracks open like a giant egg and hatches a Voidspawn, a hostile Leviathan-class creature that looks like the unholy lovechild of a dragon and a dragonfly. If you leave it alone long enough, it'll eventually start migrating through the galaxy (probably looking for another planet to infest), laying waste to everything in its path. | |
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GURPS: Space Bestiary: The alien species known as world worms travel between planets in pods. When a pod lands, the worms pour out and infest the planet, eating their way to the planet's core. By the time they've grown to full size (several miles long), they've done so much damage to the planet that it disintegrates. After mating, the worms split up and release pods, which begin their journey to find a new planet to destroy. Invader swarms are made up of thirty-ton aliens that land on a planet in numbers of 200-1200. They breed prolifically, doubling their population every month, while eating all of the organic life they can find. When they reach their maximum population (in the trillions), they launch themselves into space and head for the next life-bearing world, leaving behind a dead planet. |
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Planetary Parasite | |
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The Mycon's "Deep Children" from Star Control II are dropped from orbit, burrow their way down to the mantle of a planet, grow tendrils throughout the planet, then start tearing holes in the planet's crust, turning it into a lava world (or Juffo-wup, as they call it). The whole process takes about a year. | |
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Planetary Parasite / int_e68decb8 | |
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Planetary Parasite | |
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Metroid Prime 3: Corruption reveals that the origin of Phazon is a possibly sentient planet known as Phaaze, and that it sends seeds over to other planets in order to infest them with Phazon. | |
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1.0 | |
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Planetary Parasite / int_ff9ca30 |
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