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There are villains that want your stuff, villains that want you to do what they want, villains that want you dead. This guy is nowhere near as wasteful. He wants what makes you you, and he wants it for himself. When he beats you, he will take your abilities, your uniqueness, your everything and make them his own. He usually does this by literally absorbing or consuming you, though sometimes he'll just take the pieces of you he likes and discard the rest. Either way, the more he gets, the stronger he gets. The stronger he gets, the more people he gets. This is his motivation. This is a common attribute of zombies; zombie hordes tend to become more dangerous the more zombies are in them, so by zombifying humans they are essentially adding that human's strength to themselves, becoming a Snowballing Threat. This trope is about the character, the article about the plot is Assimilation Plot, oddly enough. Sometimes overlaps with The Virus and/or All Your Powers Combined. Distinct from Power Copying as it requires death or injury to the other party. A form of Human Resources, assuming the victims started as human. Compare Cannibalism Superpower (a method of accomplishing this), You Are Who You Eat (same) and Unwilling Roboticisation (same). The replacement by assimilation may be part of a plan to make things over In Their Own Image. He may fall victim to Assimilation Backfire. |
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Adventure Time: Slime Princess becomes this in the Elements miniseries by absorbing whoever wins one of many rollerskating contests hosted in the new Slime Kingdom. The losers of the contests get absorbed too, just from behind. | |
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The Green on Killjoys is a parasite that assimilates humans. The assimilated humans do not become a hive mind but the Green is a repository for the memories of any human who has been absorbed. | |
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The ELS aliens in Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer, though with a twist: they're not malicious, and near the end of the film, when they realize humans don't WANT to be assimilated, they stop trying and back off. By the Distant Finale, the ELS have developed symbiotic relationship with humanity | |
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Fate of the Jedi has Abeloth. Interestingly, when she absorbs Callista, Callista's feelings for Luke Skywalker cause her to fall in love with him too. This goes away when Luke manages to free Callista's spirit from her. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The Many born from Ghidorah's experimented-on DNA are this, driven by biologically-ingrained Horror Hunger to infect creatures living or dead, assimilating them into the Many's Hive Mind and their Fusion Dance Mind Hives. Ghidorah's Evil Plan involves ultimately turning Vivienne Graham into its fourth head after extensively and thoroughly inflicting Being Tortured Makes You Evil on her, and it attempts to use its part-Many body to assimilate an infected Titan (which only leads to said Titan mentally fighting with Ghidorah's heads for control of the body). | |
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Ultraman Tiga had a race of aliens called the Illudo, who can basically be described as the Borg as Ultraman monsters. They are a completely mindless and emotionless race that reproduce by transforming other intelligent beings into more of their kind and share a single mind via a massive tower that stores a gigantic brain. | |
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Honeymoon: Bea is slowly being taken over by an alien intelligence and is impregnated with an alien parasite. | |
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The Beast from Homeworld: Cataclysm exhibits both this and Virus-like traits. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) issues state that the Iron Dominion will be "legionizing" our heroes. What that entails is thus far open to discussion, but considering this comes right off the heels of the Dark Legion (who are allied to the Iron Dominion) being installed with computer chips that allows the Dominion and their leader Lien-Da to mindlessly control them remotely (the former using Magitek), and, well... just say that there's room for one more Star Trek reference, in the comic. | |
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Kyurem is revealed to be this in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, where it turns Reshiram and Zekrom into powerups for itself that allow it to change form into Black/White Kyurem. To be fair though, the three dragons used to be one. Kyurem just wants to be whole again. | |
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In K, the Colorless King has this ability to absorb identities of the people they possessed in the past. But because they absorbed so many people, they've lost their own sense of identity. | |
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X-Men: The Brood reproduce this way, by injecting their eggs into unwilling hosts. This does not so much produce a juvenile hatchling as it does turn the unfortunate host into a Brood, which has all the memories and skills of its "parent". The Phalanx infect targets with a techno-organic virus and bring them into their machine-like Hive Mind. The X-Men's own Rogue at times also qualifies, as absorbing other people's memories and powers usually sends them into a coma. Cody Robbins never awoke from his. |
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Bleach: Aaroniero can devour dead Hollows, gaining their strength and powers, unlike other Arrancar/Hollows, who simply gain strength. There is a being capable of embedding fragments of his soul into others, the fragment absorbs all the knowledge, experience and power of the victim, which he benefits from the moment he recalls the fragment to his own soul. By additionally carving an initial onto such a victim's soul, that victim becomes a means for him to spread his soul to anyone that person comes into contact as well. Recalling soul fragments kills the affected victims. Yhwach was born incapable of moving and with neither single one of his five senses functional. This power enabled him to gain the ability to interact with the world, but he has to keep doing it to avoid reverting back to his original state. |
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Jedah of Darkstalkers fame is on a holy quest to unite all souls into himself in order to stop the endless wars engulfing both the Demon Realm and the human world. He often uses phrases like "Now, you are a part of me." | |
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Mari and the Black Tower: The Black Tower somehow contains the nymph forest and Halonia, despite how Morgoth already destroyed those locations. This is because miasma can bring back anyone it kills as slaves of Morgoth. | |
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FreedomToons: "Bloomberg for America!" mocks Mike Bloomberg's bid for the 2020 Democratic nominee through non-stop advert shelling by depicting him as a virus only interested in making more copies of himself. It even mimics the YouTube commercial format as you're playing it. | |
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The Thing (1982): The titular antagonist is the living embodiment of this trope. It's a microscopic organism that replicates other life forms at a cellular/genetic level as it consumes the host, leaving behind a perfect imitation with all of the memories, personalities and abilities of the original - with the additional drive to infect other hosts and spread. | |
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The short story The Things by Peter Watts is based on the movie The Thing (1982) whose titular alien monster (the protagonist of the short story) has the ability to assimilate other lifeforms. | |
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Aptom of the Lost Numbers, from Guyver, starts out as a shapeshifter who pulls a variant of They Look Like Us Now by imitating Sho's super-powered form. He gets defeated, his TrueCompanions are killed by Sho, and he gets shipped back to the lab for more experiments. The experiments give him the power to merge with people's bodies, rip them apart at the cellular level, and gain their powers. | |
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In Waking Up As A Spaceship, all Living Core can apparently assimilate tech they're exposed to. The protagonist Alyssa is shown doing it with her nanites, but can't just go grabbing stuff willy-nilly. It needs to be given freely, completely abandoned, or she has to either steal it or overpower its current owner. The last two tend to be quite hard for her as she's usually being out-muscled by whoever she's up against. | |
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Apparently, Graviton has this ability in Season 5, an ability he did not have in the comics. Since he was infused with Gravitonium, which is different than Graviton's origin story in the comics, he gained all of its abilities, including assimilation, and he becomes host to a Mind Hive consisting of himself, Franklin Hall, Ian Quinn, Crixon, Carl Creel and, in the alternate future, Daisy Johnson. This also drives him to madness, as having all those voices arguing in one's head can have a lot of strain on a person's psyche. | |
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In Guild Wars, this is the only way to acquire Elite skills: find the boss, beat the crap out of him, apply the Signet of Capture. | |
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The X parasites in Metroid Fusion absorb DNA from anything they infect in order to copy, multiply, and spread. What's worse is the copied organisms turn around and reproduce asexually: Samus gets her chain cruelly yanked when she thinks she's finally killed the SA-X with a laboratory's Self-Destruct Mechanism, only to learn that by now there's no fewer than ten of the things on board. | |
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Warmain Excrucians in Nobilis absorb traits of those they deem worthy of killing, and express those traits in future appearances. | |
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America becomes a mundane example in Separated at Birth: America and Drakia, trying to assimilate every culture it comes into contact to into Anglo-American culture. Drakia, of course, tries to enslave everyone instead. | |
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Sylar from Heroes, whereas Peter is more Power Copying. Doubly so since Sylar can assimilate other people's very identities, through a combination of a shapeshifting power that lets him copy anyone whose DNA he samples via touch, and a psychic power that lets him absorb memories via touch. | |
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In Wreck-It Ralph, the Cy-Bugs can incorporate anything they eat into themselves (even characters). | |
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Justice League: Brainiac had a similar motive to the Brains, but once fused with Lex Luthor, it/he/they decided to go full A God Am I and replace everything In Their Own Image in one master stroke. | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: In a very rare heroic example, the mecha Lagann is capable of assimilating other mecha into itself, resulting in the mecha of the series in the finale, big enough to use galaxies as shuriken. This initially appears to fail, as the Lagann just stabs into the cockpit of the Gurren and almost kills Kamina. It's only because of the Spiral Power of the pilots that it works later on. | |
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This ends up being the goal of Missingno during The Entity arc of Atop the Fourth Wall, to absorb all existence into itself. | |
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In Naruto, several of the villains fit this, most notably Orochimaru and Kabuto. The Ten-Tails has the ability to assimilate every living thing to it once the Infinite Tsukuyomi is cast. Humans caught in it are very slowly drained of their selves until they become Kaguya's White Zetsu soldiers. |
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Demon Eater: All demons have the ability to assimilate the characteristics of other demons by eating them. It's performed by either consuming the defeated demon's lifeless corpse or performing a Fusion Dance and absorbing their personality as well. It's also worth noting that demons cannot do this to humans and the only one that tried ended up having his body saturated with rotting flesh that he couldn't consume. | |
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SWAT Kats: Zed from "Unlikely Alloys" is a "micro-brain repair unit" that goes mad with power and starts absorbing all sorts of technology (including one of the Metallikats), growing to the size of a Humongous Mecha and eventually interfacing with his creator. | |
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: Specimen 8 and 10 are examples of this. Specimen 9 might be one as well. | |
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Kirby: In a subversion of this normally being a villainous trope, this is the power of the protagonist of the series. For an example that's truly villainous, look to Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The Big Bad, Fecto Forgo, planned the game's events to reunite with their good half, Elfilin. They do succeed eventually, but not before assimilating Leongar and various other memebers of the Beast Pack to form themself a temporary Blob Monster body. Ironically, in the post-game, Fecto itself is assimilated by Morpho Knight, which eventually works it to their advantage by using Morpho's power to become Chaos Elfilis. |
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B't Raphaello from B't X, fits this to a T. | |
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The Aparoids in Star Fox: Assault are a particularly nasty example, as they can assimilate both organics and machinery. Worse yet, they can even fuse organics and machines together, creating some of the most nightmarish monstrosities in the series. Pigma Dengar ends up fused with a mining station, and General Pepper is found slowly becoming one with his own flagship. The Star Fox team end up having to kill Pigma, while they barely manage to save Pepper. The Aparoid Queen birthed this race of nano-machines in a cataclysmic bid to surpass all evolution in the galaxy. | |
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In Crowns of the Kingdom, Dispirations take on characteristics of the land they're in. | |
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Discworld: A mix between this and Grand Theft Me is one of the abilities of The Cunning Man from I Shall Wear Midnight. | |
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The Aurum from Kid Icarus: Uprising remain fairly mysterious, but if their chilling cry of "WE WILL BE ALL" during the fight with Aurum Pyrrhon is any indicator, this seems to be their goal. | |
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In World of Warcraft, the Forsaken were originally a faction of undead who managed to break free from the Scourge — a force consisting of cultists, necromancers, and scores of undead, all seeking to do the Burning Legion's dirty work on Azeroth. After the Scourge's leader was destroyed, the Forsaken's leader Sylvanas Windrunner hired some of the Scourge's old minions who were capable of raising undead. While some of those that were raised by the Forsaken were free of mind like most of them, in warzones, she would raise enemy troops to be unquestionably loyal to her and force them right back onto the battlefield for her side. This got to the point where humans in the Alliance outright refused to fight the Forsaken, leaving only non-human forces (and the worgen of Gilneas) to face Slyvanas' forces (as only humans were susceptible to this form of raising undead). | |
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Naraku from Inuyasha absorbs other demons into himself to gain power. He tried it on both Sesshomaru and Koga as well, but it didn't go so well. Minor demons like the generic snake thingies, on the other hand, get sucked up like spaghetti. It gets to the point where he actually has to start cutting some loose because some take up space without adding much to his strength. | |
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Ben 10: Alien Force: The Big Bad Vilgax goes on an assimilation spree, taking over planets and absorbing the abilities of their greatest heroes, all so he would be powerful enough to take on Ben again. | |
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The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin is about a sentient book that absorbs any reality that it is written in, devouring the souls of its occupants and turning them into mindless slaves. | |
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In Those That Wake and its sequel, What We Become, the villains assimilate people, though in different ways. | |
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Katanagatari has Maniwa Houou. He can learn other people's abilities by grafting part of their bodies to his own. He did this to Maniwa Kawauso's arm and it's implied that he did the same thing to Emonzaemon's face. It is also implied that he could potentially gain immortality by repeatedly replacing his body parts like this. Additionally Maniwa Kyouken, who's ability is to take over other people's bodies might qualify. Once she gets a new body, her old body disintegrates to dust. She also absorbs the memories and fighting abilities of the woman whose body she steals and has inhabited 2,000 different bodies. | |
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This seems to be what's going on in The Breach, although it's never entirely explained. Notably, the victims enjoy it right until they lose their minds completely. | |
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The Spooksville book The Creepy Creature has a blob monster that eats people and takes on the form of them, although it doesn't kill the orginal. It turns out they were created by a doctor in another world to fight off invaders, but they went rogue. | |
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Green Lantern has Agent Orange, who absorbs the form and memory of those he kills, allowing him to create duplicates of them as subordinates. Having become the living embodiment of Avarice, he desires to own everything, including the very identities of his enemies. There was also the "Third Army", a group of creatures created by the Guardians of the Universe to succeed the Green Lantern Corps. They were capable of transforming any being they touched into copies of themselves. The Guardians created them because their first two attempts at making a peacekeeping force, the Manhunters and the Green Lantern Corps, failed to bring order to the universe, so they figured that the only way to actually accomplish that was to make all other lifeforms in the universe their mindless slaves. Luckily, the Third Army had a weakness - while nearly unstoppable at first, the more they replicated, the more power had to be shared between them, so each individual creature became weaker the more beings they converted. |
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In Civilization V, Austria's unique ability, called "Diplomatic Marriage", allows it to recreate its real-life image of a patchwork empire by annexing, for a considerable Gold payment, those city-states that have been in an alliance with Austria for a long enough time.note Turning them into puppets is also possible, but in this case they retain self-governance in internal affairs, From a gameplay perspective, married city-states are treated as if they were founded by Austria, which means that they do not need a courthouse, do not generate extra unhappiness, and cannot be liberated by other civs. Of course, there is no literal absorption occurring here but rather a non-violent integration in which the citizens of the assimilated city-state gradually abandon their previous self-identity in favor of the Austrian one. | |
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The final boss of Steamworld Dig is this. He has assimilated the main character's uncle and assimilates the main character when you defeat it. | |
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Most Festum in Super Robot Wars UX can assimilate robots by doing this. If Morale is reduced to under 90, the unit they attack is assimilated and destroyed. Festum however do not drain very effectively, the Morale you gain from taking hits and counter-killing Festum largely ameliorates the morale lost from an attack. The Mark Sein can also Assimilate but much more effectively. Kazuki deals severe morale damage when he attacks a festum and he assimilates enemy Festum if they're reduced below 120 Morale (Even if they didn't have that much to begin with). | |
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The Many in System Shock 2. They're the ultimate evolution of the biological experiments bred by SHODAN in the first game and have a complete Hive Mind and are intent on absorbing everyone else. Throughout the game, they will even calmly urge you to join them, contrasting SHODAN's cold metal with the "attractive" warmth of their combined biomass. Even so, they're not above creating cyborgs to better protect their hatchlings. The half-skeletal Cyborg Midwives, fitted with laser weapons and created from ship's nurses, are some of the most difficult and disturbing enemies in the game. | |
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Venom recently revealed that the pieces of a symbiote left behind in a former host archive the host's memories and emotions and the abilities the symbiote gained by adapting to the host and that another symbiote or a symbiote/host pair can absorb the "codex" to gain those memories and abilities as well as a small boost of power, making all symbiotes this to a degree. | |
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In Harmony Theory, Nightmare Umbra can absorb the ashes of the fallen to increase her strength, and she can summon anyone she had absorbed as an undead minion. | |
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In Chained Soldier, the Thunder God Kuusetsu can devour humans and inherit their physical and personality tratis, as well as their superhuman abilities. This being the case, she abducts and plans to absorb several women so she can gain their beauty. This plan fails, but she later absorbs the 2nd Unit Chief Mira. | |
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In Endless Space 2, the Horatio gain a certain element of this. They're able to splice another alien population's genes into themselves, thus gaining their improvements and boons and rising above what they were before, improving their "perfection" even more. Do note that the process is not innate; Horatios start out as more or less baseline, if mutated humans cloned from a single guy. The assimilation is done the old-fashioned way, and judging by the casualty rate among the aliens in question, the process is more than a little messy. | |
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Super Robot Wars: The ODE System. If you don't wanna get assimilated, you'll be killed in cold blood. More importantly this is what the Aerogaters want (and in some cases have succeeded) to do from the first Super Robot Wars: Original Generation game. Most Festum in Super Robot Wars UX can assimilate robots by doing this. If Morale is reduced to under 90, the unit they attack is assimilated and destroyed. Festum however do not drain very effectively, the Morale you gain from taking hits and counter-killing Festum largely ameliorates the morale lost from an attack. The Mark Sein can also Assimilate but much more effectively. Kazuki deals severe morale damage when he attacks a festum and he assimilates enemy Festum if they're reduced below 120 Morale (Even if they didn't have that much to begin with). In Third Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-hen, the ELS have basically the same assimilation mechanic as the Festum from UX. They reduce your main pilot's morale by 10 with each successful attack (i.e. one that causes damage, even through seishin) and if you're reduced below 80, you're killed without respect to your HP. And they all appear to have natural Barrier Pierce and Size Nullify. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation² is about the two most notable sci-fi versions of this, the Borg and the Cybermen, joining forces to do this. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The hivebrood, an insanely complex Virus monster from Basic/Expert/etc D&D. Eating sentient beings lets them absorb their victims' know-how, spellcasting skills included. Don't know anything worth learning? Then they'll turn you into a hive drudge-worker instead. Andeloids, Blob Monsters that debuted in Dragon #159 for use in the Spelljammer setting, can physically fuse with other creatures, creating a composite being with the attacks, special abilities and defenses of its hosts. This creates a Mind Hive from the creatures involved, with the most intelligent one leading the composite, informed by the instincts of the other hosts and the andeloid's drive to grow larger and stronger. Thus, an andeloid will actively seek out powerful entities to subdue and add to its composite, and might digest a weaker host to make room for a better one. The cadaver golem is an intelligent and evil Flesh Golem that can replace pieces of its body with parts torn from their victims, a la Discard and Draw. The 9th Level Psychometabolism psionic power assimilate can either partially absorb a target and grant the caster temporary hit points, or completely absorb the target, granting temporary hit points, bonuses to ability scores, one known psionic power of the target, and a large bonus on disguise checks to appear as the target for an hour. |
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Spore in Galaxy of Fear. It gives Tash a rather appalling We Can Rule Together speech. | |
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Baldur's Gate III: Mind flayers reproduce by implanting their tadpole-like larvae into a humanoid body, which transforms, agonizingly, into another mind flayer over the course of about a tenday. The ship shown in the opening is full of pods which show that the mind flayers have not only managed to speed up the process, but are intent on weaponizing it. On a lesser note, gnolls are shown here to be born of natural hyenas cursed by the demon lord Yeenoghu, who is worshipped by gnolls as their god in keeping with 5th Edition's new canon. |
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The Odine of The Traitor Son Cycle are extradimensional parasites which intend to make all sentient creatures in the world part of their Hive Mind. | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, it's shown that this is how some view the Federation. From their perspective, all they see is a bunch of Scary Dogmatic Aliens who travel the Galaxy, seeking out new life and new civilizations with the sole intention of eventually absorbing these new cultures into their own. After all, who wouldn't want to join the "glorious" Federation? Quoth Michael Eddington in "For the Cause": In "The Way of the Warrior", Quark demonstrates this view of the Federation to Garak as only he knows how — analogy by way of a glass of root beer. |
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The Immortals in the Highlander series absorb the skills and memories of everyone they kill. Some of the nastier ones, like Jacob Kell, get off on this. ("Don't you want to be inside me?") The series explores the implications of this at one point, with a build up of all the evil absorbed from killing evil immortals eventually overpowering one guy, turning him evil, requiring some good immortal to defeat him (and thus absorb all that evil and become overpowered by it him/herself). | |
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[PROTOTYPE]: Alex Mercer eats people and other Infected to add their biomass and knowledge to his own. Eating the more powerful Infected like Hunters even grants him new combat powers in the storyline (though the Hunters themselves don't have those abilities). Eating people also grants him the ability to shapeshift into them. Chances are that by the end of the game, the player will have had Alex consume hundreds if not thousands of victims... and he can still be considered something close to a hero in this game. It helps that as he picks up their memories, he gets a bit of their personalities as well, slowly going from the completely remorseless sociopath he was before he got killed to simply a very bad individual. With Alex as the Big Bad of [PROTOTYPE 2], James Heller, the new protagonist, shares many of the same attributes as Mercer did in the first game, but unlike him retains much of his pre-infection personality. |
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The Demons in Devilman are super-ancient lifeforms that gain strength from fusing and taking over other living things and even inanimate objects. | |
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Halo: The Flood will turn you into an inhuman combat drone so you can help spread the infection, using all the skills you had in life to help do so. Once your body is battered beyond the point of usefulness it will adapt itself into a spore carrier that will release infection forms to continue assimilation. However, when the Flood come across individuals of particular intelligence, such as pilots, captains, and scientists, they will be captured and used to form the body of a gigantic Gravemind intelligence that can allow the parasite to continue its Zombie Apocalypse. At this point, the Flood won't just turn you into a zombie, but use your body as a building block to create more powerful abominations. The Flood are so dangerous that they have already caused at least one GALACTIC apocalypse; the only reason why they haven't already consumed the entire Milky Way is because an ancient race resorted to killing all sentient life left in the galaxy, themselves included, in order to starve the Flood out. Which was after a million other plans were tried and failed over the course of centuries. | |
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The Super Mutants in the Fallout series mutate captured humans into more Super Mutants via the Forced Evolutionary Virus. In the first game, this happens to the player character if you give away the location of your vault. | |
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In Sword of the Stars, Zuul Mind Rape removes prisoners' memories, knowledge, emotions, thoughts, and eventually their very identities. The Zuul that performs the Mind Rape absorbs these things for themselves. As the Zuul are connected by a telepathic Hive Mind they do not have much in the way of a 'self', and therefore finds things like a name and individuality to be extremely valuable. | |
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Steven Universe: White Diamond has the ability to drain the color from Gems and turn them into her puppets. They speak in unison (in her voice) and follow her movements when she isn't directly controlling them. She either can't or doesn't want to escalate it to a full Assimilation Plot, and so saves this power for the few gems that don't already do whatever she says. | |
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Getter Robo: Shin Getter's massive Getter Ray reservoir allows it to fuse with anything—at one point it combines with a nuclear missile in mid-flight. Its implied evolution, the Getter Emperor, is a much more straight example, at one point absorbing a planet by flying into it. | |
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The Akinator will successfully guess the character you're thinking about, then use your answers to add to its own knowledge of this character. Or if he fails to best you, he'll still increase his knowledge anyway. | |
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The Sobornost mind upload collective in The Quantum Thief-trilogy seeks to absorb all existing minds into itself in hopes of eliminating all death and uncertainty from the universe. The All-Defector, a monstrous and uncontrollable creation of the Sobornost seeks to go one step beyond and become the universe, due to its nature as a perfect mirror that becomes whatever looks into it, only (subjectively) better, and when it finds out about parallel universes it seeks to become all of them, as well. |
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Mass Effect: Every fifty thousand years, the Reapers "harvest" the most technologically advanced species in the galaxy; the species deemed most worthy has members of its population turned into a new Reaper, while members of species slightly less worthy are turned into Destroyers. The rest are turned into cyborg abominations that hunt down and eliminate the rest of the target populations. Mass Effect: Andromeda has this as the goal of the kett, who kidnap other species and turn them into more kett, adding their genetic information to all kett that come afterward. The Archon claims that he is the genetic inheritor of over a thousand other species. The kett do extensive research on new species they encounter, however, and don't assimilate everybody, just those they deem useful. Those who aren't assimilated are instead worked to death in slave labor. |
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The ODE System. If you don't wanna get assimilated, you'll be killed in cold blood. More importantly this is what the Aerogaters want (and in some cases have succeeded) to do from the first Super Robot Wars: Original Generation game. | |
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Centaurworld: In "Fragile Things", the taurnado implies that it's composed of thousands of individual souls that it has taken, and intends to add the herd to its gestalt by drawing them into itself. | |
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In Tetsuo: The Iron Man, the main character and the antagonist end up fusing together into one massive pile of flesh and metal, they then agree on assimilating the rest of the world. | |
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Star Trek: The Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation and onwards are the Trope Codifiers, and the former Trope Namers. Their standard hail includes the phrases, "You will be assimilated", "your culture will adapt to service us" and "we will add your technological and biological distinctiveness to our own". In their first episode, "Q Who", Q talks about how relentless the Borg are in adding to their collective. Dialogue between Locutus and Worf in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" indicates that the Borg intend to assimilate entire races. In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, it's shown that this is how some view the Federation. From their perspective, all they see is a bunch of Scary Dogmatic Aliens who travel the Galaxy, seeking out new life and new civilizations with the sole intention of eventually absorbing these new cultures into their own. After all, who wouldn't want to join the "glorious" Federation? Quoth Michael Eddington in "For the Cause": In "The Way of the Warrior", Quark demonstrates this view of the Federation to Garak as only he knows how — analogy by way of a glass of root beer. |
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Mr. Popo does this to Blue Popo in Dragon Ball Abridged in a video advertising their visit to Youmacon 2010. As well as to Garlic Jr., all as a set up to a single Overly Prepared Gag. |
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In Final Fantasy IX, one of the evil plots our heroes have to foil is that Garland is trying to assimilate Gaia into Terra in an attempt to avert the death of his world. It turns out that Kuja, previously thought to be the Big Bad of the game, was actually working for him in starting wars across Gaia. | |
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Final Fantasy XI's blue mage (or Immortal) fit this trope, a rare player-character example. Although the exact mechanism by which they get the powers of defeated enemies is never quite described, the Vana'diel Tribune says they absorbed the essence from creatures they killed and graft it onto their soul. It also mentions that "No Immortal in history has ever reached the end of his natural lifespan" due to the effects of the absorbed creatures on their hosts. Just to hang a lampshade on it, the armour upgrade for the Blue Mage is the Assimilator's Attire. | |
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Teen Titans (2003): The Game Master wants to assimilate the gathered heroes' various powers. He manages to absorb all but Robin; who ironically has absolutely no powers and thus nothing to give him. He then proceeds to have his butt handed to him on a platter. | |
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Gill from Street Fighter III. His ending implies that he succeeds, too, and wants his followers to dress like him if Alex is anything to go by. | |
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Solitura from Ultraman Mebius is a Planetary Parasite that absorbs all life on a world and merges their consciousnesses and the planet with itself. Additionally, it assimilates its surroundings to take on an innocuous form, like turning into a living mass of vegetation after landing in a forest. | |
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Ballpoint Universe Infinite: The Logicians are doodles that work on pure logic. Because they are so efficient, in trying to fight them, enemies usually also become Logicians. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "No Small Parts", the Pakleds have taken to grafting pieces of other ships onto their own. They've been at it long enough to create massive, mismatched warships that can overpower weaker Starfleet vessels. | |
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Animorphs: In the Ellimist's backstory, the last of his race crashes into an aquatic moon with a single organism that calls itself Father. It ensnares other organisms and reanimates their consciousness to grow, including the many alien races that landed on its world, and keeps the Ellimist alive to have someone to play mind games with. The Ellimist eventually turns this on it, and finds out that Father was nothing more than a predatory sponge that could link with the nervous system of its prey. The One, a Giant Space Flea from Nowhere that appears in the final book, can only be described as some kind of Energy Being that absorbs anyone who it considers worthy. It does this to Ax, and in the final pages, reveals it intends to do this to Jake as well. We never find out if it succeeds. |
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The Demiurge Gog-Agog from Kill Six Billion Demons is The Worm That Walks. If you eat one of the worms, you become her, completely and in every single way, adding a new copy of Gog-Agog to The Multiverse that can go on to coax more people into consuming a piece of her. It says something about the state of the world in Kill Six Billion Demons that some people who become Gog-Agog apparently do it willingly. | |
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In the original series, we have Dr. Victor, who can take control of technology under certain circumstances (justified in Word of God info, as he is revealed to come from a Frankenstein monster-like race). | |
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Pibby: The Eldritch Abomination antagonist is suggested to be one of these in the series' trailer. In addition to consuming several different characters and occasionally wearing their faces on its body, one scene near the end shows Pibby and company facing a horde of victims that are fighting on the abomination's side and share its Ominous Visual Glitch-laden aesthetic. | |
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In Alien 2: On Earth, the rock creature's adult form is a shape-shifter that has the ability to assimilate other life-forms, not unlike the creature from The Thing (1982). | |
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In the Pony POV Series General Admiral Makarov turns out to be particularly one. He's actually a Equinoid Abomination released from Pandora's Box by a Hooviet experiment and eats existences and imaginations, making it as if his victims never existed and taking their traits as his own. | |
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Becoming a True Invader: As a bio-techno being, the Employer has the ability to absorb technology into himself and repurpose it. This is used against him during the Final Battle, when he's tricked into assimilating GIR and is left unstable because of it. | |
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In the Nightside novel Agents of Light and Darkness, a minor character in the story named Belle does this. She hunts down powerful creatures, taking contracts on them if possible, and incorporates their skin into either her leather outfit or herself. She has a personal power letting her preserve and use the magic of the skin's original owners. (Her last acquisition before showing up was a pair of boots made of the skin of a minor Greek god with speed-based powers.) She lasts as long as most antagonists in these books: just long enough to explain in detail how dangerous she is before offhandedly nullifying her. | |
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Pokémon: Kyurem is revealed to be this in Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, where it turns Reshiram and Zekrom into powerups for itself that allow it to change form into Black/White Kyurem. To be fair though, the three dragons used to be one. Kyurem just wants to be whole again. In a similar vein to Kyurem, the Prism Pokémon Necrozma becomes this to Solgaleo and Lunala in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, absorbing them against their will and taking control of their minds and bodies to become Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings Necrozma. |
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Futurama: The Brains seek to copy and store a record of everything, then destroy it, thus preventing anything new from happening and having complete, universal knowledge. | |
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Orion's Arm: The Amalgamation is a hyper-intelligent network of nanomachines that can infect and take over any kind of mind (living, mechanical, or AI) and add their intelligence to its own. No one's sure how this thing got started or where it came from, but combating it is rather difficult since it keeps assimilating the very weapons sent against it. Fortunately, it doesn't have the intelligence (yet) to take on the Archailects, who are smart enough to outmaneuver it at every turn and keep it away from the bulk of civilization. | |
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In Fate/Grand Order, the Final Boss of Lostbelt 7, TYPE-ORT Cloud, has this ability and is the primary reason why it's so absurdly dangerous a threat. Anything it kills is crystallised and absorbed into ORT's body to augment its skills and abilities further. And as Chaldea learns the hard way when they fight it, Servants are NOT immune to this, with any that ORT kills having their Servant data erased entirely from Chaldea's records, meaning that they can't be re-summoned like usual. Even worse, ORT can mix-and-match its assimilated abilities to flat out break the rules of reality — as once its physical body is finally destroyed, it flat-out hacks the Servant summoning system by combining the Servant Data from all of Chaldea's Servants its killed plus the Reality Warper abilities of the Tree of Emptiness it consumed far earlier on, to feed the Throne of Heroes a false history that allows it to come back as a Servant itself. Specifically, as the Grand Foreigner... when Extra Classes can't even have Grand Servants to begin with. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers: Russia is well-known for his statement that everyone will be one with him in due time. The Pict in Paint it White, especially considering their similarities to the Borg. |
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Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy IX, one of the evil plots our heroes have to foil is that Garland is trying to assimilate Gaia into Terra in an attempt to avert the death of his world. It turns out that Kuja, previously thought to be the Big Bad of the game, was actually working for him in starting wars across Gaia. Final Fantasy XI's blue mage (or Immortal) fit this trope, a rare player-character example. Although the exact mechanism by which they get the powers of defeated enemies is never quite described, the Vana'diel Tribune says they absorbed the essence from creatures they killed and graft it onto their soul. It also mentions that "No Immortal in history has ever reached the end of his natural lifespan" due to the effects of the absorbed creatures on their hosts. Just to hang a lampshade on it, the armour upgrade for the Blue Mage is the Assimilator's Attire. |
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The Phyrexians from Magic: The Gathering take over worlds in order to convert their inhabitants into more Phyrexians, taking their useful traits and discarding the rest. Memnarch and Olivia Voldaren have this as their abilities, first converting something into part-artifact/vampire (respectively) and then controlling it. | |
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StarCraft: The Zerg want to use human and Protoss genetic material for their evolutionary advantage and for raw material. The effects of this become more apparent in StarCraft II when the Queens take on a more human-like (or possibly protoss-like) appearance. | |
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Ben 10: Ultimate Alien: The Big Bad Vilgax tries to take the power of the universe conqueror Diagon. | |
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Aurora Cycle: The Ra'haam absorbs anyone infected by its pollen into its gestalt. It did this to the colonists and animal life on Octavia III, and it wants to do this to all inhabited worlds. | |
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The Pillar Men in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure consume organic matter with a touch. At one point, one of them brushes up against an unlucky soldier and consumes half of his body. The worst part is that the Pillar Man didn't even notice what happened. That is how little the Pillar Men think of humans. | |
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In Third Super Robot Wars Z: Tengoku-hen, the ELS have basically the same assimilation mechanic as the Festum from UX. They reduce your main pilot's morale by 10 with each successful attack (i.e. one that causes damage, even through seishin) and if you're reduced below 80, you're killed without respect to your HP. And they all appear to have natural Barrier Pierce and Size Nullify. | |
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Ultra Series Ultraman Tiga had a race of aliens called the Illudo, who can basically be described as the Borg as Ultraman monsters. They are a completely mindless and emotionless race that reproduce by transforming other intelligent beings into more of their kind and share a single mind via a massive tower that stores a gigantic brain. Solitura from Ultraman Mebius is a Planetary Parasite that absorbs all life on a world and merges their consciousnesses and the planet with itself. Additionally, it assimilates its surroundings to take on an innocuous form, like turning into a living mass of vegetation after landing in a forest. |
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X-Men: The Animated Series: The Spirit Drinker seems to be this, though it's a hungry beast, and once the souls are fully consumed, they're just gone. The Phalanx, on the other hand, do assimilate people. In fact, they actually say "Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated." | |
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Land of the Lustrous has Phosphophyllite. While all Gems can fuse with new material to replace lost pieces as needed, the new material must be similar in hardness to the material lost and lack inclusions (microscopic organisms within Gems that hold their personality and memories). Phos is not only capable of fusing with any material, but they can also fuse with material from other Gems, overwriting that Gem's personality while gaining the abilities and memories they had. | |
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The horror novel Full Tilt takes a more impersonal approach to the trope: if you die in the Amusement Park of Doom, your face appears somewhere—in a cloud, on a rock, even on a billboard—with a smile on your lips but a scream in your eyes. If you don't get out by sunrise, but you survive, you're enslaved for the rest of your (un)natural life, but you retain your memories and a certain degree of freedom. And if you're really, really unlucky, you go to the Works. (It's never clear what precisely is taken, but the Big Bad says at one point that as the park grows in power it comes closer to being real and all other realities come closer to being imaginary). | |
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Rimuru Tempest has this by dint of his Unique Skill [Predator], which allows him to assimilate magic, objects, or people in order to not only gain access to their abilities, but also combine them and form new powers. Everything he eats makes him just that much stronger, and eventually the skill evolves into [Gluttony] (increasing its potency and range), then [Gluttonous King Beelzebub] (which even lets him absorb the soul for skill gain, and then finally [Void God Azathoth] after absorbing various Ultimate Skills from some of the strongest beings on the planet. Thankfully, he's a Nice Guy more interested in ruling a peaceful and prosperous nation than actually conquering people. He also has the ability to re-create the things he's absorbed (i.e. he once ate a sword, analyzed its structure, and then produced several dozen exact copies) and can even store things safely before releasing them. The Orc Disaster had the skill [Starved], which affected his entire tribe with Horror Hunger that, whenever they ate something, there was a chance they would assimilate its traits for the whole tribe. Unfortunately, they weren't guaranteed to get traits and they would often have to eat a lot to make it work. Notably, the Orc Disaster wasn't happy to receive or use this power, but it was the only way to save his people from a famine that was killing them all. After Rimuru defeated and assimilated the Orc Disaster himself as a Mercy Kill, [Starved] combined with [Predator] to create [Gluttony] (thankfully without the Horror Hunger). |
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Morphius from Return to Zork is in the habit of looking for new character traits he can incorporate into himself, often watching potential subjects through the eyes of vultures or manifesting himself in their dreams. If he finds anything of value, he has the vultures carry them off to his Citadel, where he turns them to stone and goes about assimilating their characteristics. By the endgame, his eyes are on the player character—specifically for your strategic gifts. | |
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Parodied in Jets'n'Guns when the player meets the Beer Empire, which are an alcohol-based parody of the Borg, complete with Beer Cubes. | |
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Fairy Tail: Franmalth, one of the Nine Demon Gates of Tartaros, is a demon with this power. He can absorb people, body and soul, and claim their powers for himself. This renders him immune to magical attacks and direct contact physical attacks since he absorbs them too. His sole weakness is that he can't absorb something if it doesn't have a soul so Natsu beats him to death with a really big rock. It's heavily hinted, though not explicitly shown, that Take-Over Magic works this way in most cases. Elfman gained access to a new form by grabbing onto the limb of a monster and then morphing his own limb to match it, and Mira assimilated the almost-dead Seliah of Tartaros' Nine Demon Gates after the arc was over. |
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In Starter Squad, MissingNo. has this ability. It forcibly glitches other Pokémon and fuses them into its body, leaving them in unimaginable pain and screaming forever. | |
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From Warhammer 40,000, the Tyranids main goal, driven by perpetual hunger, is to eat everything they come into contact with. They would use your genetic material for its evolutionary advantages, and your flesh, and that of dead Tyranids, for the raw materials for creating more Tyranid life forms. Enslavers, a kind of noncorporeal alien, "possess" living creatures, and reshape their bodies into portals into the Warp to allow other Enslavers to pass through. The people they don't overtake in this manner are enslaved through psychic means to do their bidding, usually to fight other beings not under their control, and the worst part of it is that their "recruits" are aware of what's happening but not able to control their bodies. Previous, and perhaps retconned lore indicated huge incursions of these things into realspace nearly ended all civilization roughly 60 million years ago. Oddly, while most of the denizens of realspace consider them a real, if only occasional threat, it's not known whether Enslavers are sapient malefactors, or just animalistic beings acting on instinct. The rarely mentioned Khrave are a race of mind-eaters (or rather mind-overwrites), enslaving other beings to their own ends by rewriting the minds of other species. The detailed effects of this particular process aren't quite clear. |
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Transformers: Animated: Lockdown, a bounty hunter who takes a "prize" from each of his targets (and, quite often, whoever stands between him and his targets), is the Humongous Mecha version of Alpha. In the tie-in comic, it's revealed that his payment includes parts from an associate of the Decepticon who hired him. That's right, he wants parts from his employers too. |
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For an example that's truly villainous, look to Kirby and the Forgotten Land. The Big Bad, Fecto Forgo, planned the game's events to reunite with their good half, Elfilin. They do succeed eventually, but not before assimilating Leongar and various other memebers of the Beast Pack to form themself a temporary Blob Monster body. Ironically, in the post-game, Fecto itself is assimilated by Morpho Knight, which eventually works it to their advantage by using Morpho's power to become Chaos Elfilis. | |
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Nosferatu in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse is a bacterial hemorrhagic fever that became sapient by absorbing the former bearer of the Human-Human, Model Type Child Zoan Devil Fruit. As each individual bacterium is part of a singular Hive Mind, Nosferatu can not only exist as either a Blob Monster of bacteria-rich blood and slime, a human girl, or a Humanoid Abomination, but it can also infect others and take over their bodies by manipulating them as puppets, with the original consciences aware but completely unable to control themselves. | |
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Doctor Who: Despite this always having been a large part of their characterization, the new-series version of the Cybermen do this somewhat more markedly than the Classic Cybermen "upgrading" people by converting them into more Cybermen now being their main shtick — this being the intention of their very human (until the Cybermen forcibly "upgrade" him into the Cyberleader) creator. One group of Daleks wasn't above using humans as raw materials in a similar way, either. It was also a large part of their appeal in the black-and-white days (before they turned into camp men in suits with Darth Vader voices). "You belong to us. You shall be... like us." In the Eleventh Doctor episode "The Pandorica Opens", a mostly dead Cyberman's head actually says "You will be assimilated" when looking to turn Amy into spare parts for itself. The use of the phrase by the Cybermen in Doctor Who predates the Star Trek use, as it was featured in the Cybermen's debut story, "The Tenth Planet", in 1966. It's likely an in-joke too. As River Song is examining transmitters in that same episode, the radio traffic of the Cybermen, which is audible in the background, sounds very much like the Borg Collective. In "Nightmare in Silver", the Cybermen are shown as even more like the Borg. Not only is their Adaptive Ability significantly more Borg-like (sometimes they don't even lose a single Cyberman before adapting), but their new Cybermites are the insect-sized versions of the Borg nanites. A handful of them can turn a person into a Cyber-something almost instantly. This may have something to do with the fact that the new Cybermen are a joining of the original Mondas Cybermen and the Alternate Universe Cybus Cybermen. Alternately, they learned a few tricks directly from the Borg during their brief alliance in the official comic book crossover. The Krillitanes from "School Reunion" alter their DNA with DNA from races they conquer. The Abzorbaloff from "Love & Monsters" works on an individual level, absorbing individuals into his body. |
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Tenome from Mononoke Soushi is a non-villainous example, she absorbs a youkai after it tries to eat Shao Tzu for a while. It's implied that's how she gets her powers. | |
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The Terror from Terror Inc. is a living corpse whose body is continually rotting; he takes other people's body parts to rebuild himself, although these continue to decay. He gains their memories, skills, and sometimes even feelings; he has even been seen to give himself wings or a prehensile tail. He can even gain superpowers from the parts, although they have to be the parts that contain the powers (for example, he couldn't steal Cyclops' finger and gain optic blasts). | |
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Evolva gives us a rare heroic example. Your Genohunters absorb their enemies' bodies to obtain their DNA and use it to get their attacks and skills. | |
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Vince McMahon ran rival wrestling promoters Eric Bischoff and Paul Heyman out of business and bought out their promotions. Vince would later hire Bischoff and Heyman as onscreen commentators and characters, and revive their old brands, albeit in very different forms. | |
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Szilard Quates of Baccano! routinely absorbs other immortals to gain scientific knowledge, and just 'cause he's off his rocker. All immortals have this ability, supposedly so that immortals who have grown tired of living have a way to commit suicide, but Szilard's the only one who uses it without consent in anything other than the most desperate of circumstances, even going so far as to figure out how to make regular people immortal just so that he can absorb them in this manner. | |
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The Necromorphs in Dead Space are reanimated and mutated human corpses. So how do they make more of themselves? Slaughtering as many humans as they can. | |
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Bugsnax: The titular Bugsnax turn out to be this, as they turn anyone who eats them into more of them until their bodies ultimately collapse and are assimilated into Snaktooth Island. | |
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The Bacterians in Gradius show the ability to assimilate, leading to entire planets' biospheres being transformed into more Bacterian flesh. Several of their Hive Queens are even assimilated beings from other races, with the minds intact. | |
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Cervantes in the Soul Series. Most "hosts" of Soul Edge too. | |
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Downplayed version in Rogue Star. The newly born rogue is merely curious about the dying Cliff Hawk, so it absorbs and assimilates him—and ends up with romantic feelings for Molly Zaldiver as a result. (A result she considers terrifying.) | |
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Osmos is about controlling a primordial cell in a colony of others like it. Your goal is to absorb as many of other cells as possible and/or some special cell in question. Of course, other cells will also absorb anything small enough in their way: the difference is that they can’t steer themselves around. | |
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The Alien Death Slug from The Visitor eats everything it comes across to absorb their DNA, and uses it to rapidly evolve from a worm to a bizarre mashup of features. | |
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The Bydo in R-Type have the ability to possess and/or transform other creatures into more Bydo. They only tend to do this to really powerful individuals or weapons, though: most of the time they'll just kill you. | |
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Quake: The Strogg in the second and fourth games do this via Unwilling Roboticisation, and the protagonist of the latter game gets the treatment himself, though he was rescued before the procedure was complete. | |
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Dragon Ball Multiverse: Zen Buu attempts this with Broly, but is thwarted by the efforts of U16 Vegetto, Gohan, Bra, and the Namek that pushed the button to send him back because he didn't think leaving Broly in their universe was a good idea. Later played straight with Xeniloum's armor. And he says he did that in his universe with one of the musicians at the Figrindan orchestra. | |
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The main antagonists of Meatball Machine are monsters who attach themselves to human bodies to create mutant monsters with much more useful abilities than their squishy true forms. | |
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Ben 10: Omniverse: Malware is a mutant Galvanic Mechamorph (a being of living technology), who can permanently absorb other devices in order to upgrade himself, as opposed to the rest of his kind, who can upgrade existing technology (though it is implied Malware can do this as well, but chooses not to). Before an upgrade, however, he caused anything he absorbed to corrode, even OTHER MECHAMORPHS! | |
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In I'm Not A Regression, Black Sky is an ability that allows Ohjin to absorb the stigma of another awakened one, replenish his own mana along with the ability to look into the memories of the people he has absorbed, this is how he tricked Vega into believing he was a regressor due to him having absorbed Lyra's stigma and Lee Shinhyuk's memories. | |
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Resistance against the Chimera is futile. | |
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Deconstructed in Biomass Effect: Blacklight no longer assimilates any organic it encounters because as a Hive Mind where everyone instantly knows everything as soon as one person learns it means there is no such thing as novelty, learning things by assimilating creatures for knowledge bores them. | |
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In Stellaris, "Driven Assimilator" is a dedicated archetype you can play — a race of machines and cyborgs whose goal is assimilation by way of forcible cyborgization of all organic species in the galaxy. While this is usually done through conquest and conversion of individuals, they eventually gain a superweapon capable of instantly transforming all organics on a planet into loyal cyborgs. Hiveminds can also be played in this fashion if you're not playing a genocidal variant — sufficient mastery over the genome allows non-hiveminded species on conquered planets to be linked into the swarm. | |
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This is what the Maelstrom is like in Dino Attack RPG at its best. At worst it's an unstoppable Eldritch Abomination that could theoretically become capable of destroying the entire universe. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Fate of the Jedi has Abeloth. Interestingly, when she absorbs Callista, Callista's feelings for Luke Skywalker cause her to fall in love with him too. This goes away when Luke manages to free Callista's spirit from her. Spore in Galaxy of Fear. It gives Tash a rather appalling We Can Rule Together speech. |
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Overmind from Star Control Origins is an AI that is dedicated to spreading itself (and misery) to all living beings and computers it can. It's mostly played for laughs though: it's only managed to take over one civilization (which weren't even its creators), and even if you do install it on your ship, it just makes annoying comments every now and again until you remove it, and is generally pretty harmless. A weird juxtaposition to the horror of lost free will it inflicts on those it has managed to control. It can even become your ally in the battle against the Scryve. | |
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Shadow Force has the playable heroes doing this with their special move, which transforms them into souls that possess a weakened enemy, taking over their bodies and forcing the captured mook to attack his ex-comrades. This doesn't work on bosses, though. | |
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The Mega Man Battle Network series has two sides of this: one for MegaMan, and one for Bass. In the case of the hero, after losing the Style Change ability, he gains the Double Soul power, wherein he may gain powers from a Navi he's shared a profound connection with. In the case of Bass, he goes for more of a Cell route through his GetAbility Program, wherein he consumes and kills a virus, program or Navi to gain their power. | |
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In a similar vein to Kyurem, the Prism Pokémon Necrozma becomes this to Solgaleo and Lunala in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, absorbing them against their will and taking control of their minds and bodies to become Dusk Mane/Dawn Wings Necrozma. | |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda has this as the goal of the kett, who kidnap other species and turn them into more kett, adding their genetic information to all kett that come afterward. The Archon claims that he is the genetic inheritor of over a thousand other species. The kett do extensive research on new species they encounter, however, and don't assimilate everybody, just those they deem useful. Those who aren't assimilated are instead worked to death in slave labor. | |
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Amphibia: The Core assimilates the mind of whoever is currently ruling Newtopia to add it to its mind hive as they hand the throne to the next generation. They eventually decide to add Marcy to said hive due to her valued intelligence. | |
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Seth from Street Fighter IV also wants to do this, his trademark phrase being "Become a part of me." | |
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The Cloud Infinite and (Legion) Legacies in Mage: The Awakening operate by using the minds and souls of Sleepers in this way (some of the higher Attainments can also use Awakened souls). The key difference between the two is that Cloud Infinite uses mortal souls as a source of, essentially, processing cycles, allowing Cloud Infinite mages to use their minds more powerfully, while members of (Legion) build cover identities out of the souls they claim. | |
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The primary conflict laying in and behind Changed. A virus is killing off humanity, and the only alternative is letting the recently-created race of assimilating Blob Monster creatures absorb your personality to keep you immune and alive (if not whole). Throughout the game, we see a few surviving human characters grappling with this plot, and every Game Over ends with your assimilation. | |
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Dragon Ball Z: This was more or less the goal of Cell. He was created to be the ultimate fighter, but had to consume both Android 17 and 18 to assume his ultimate form. He also demonstrates the ability to use the signature techniques of the fighters whose genetic material was used to create him. Majin Buu has the ability to absorb anyone, assimilating them into itself and gaining a measure of their intelligence, power, and... uh, fashion sense. However, it is eventually revealed that this had an unintended side-effect: giving Buu the intelligence to regulate his power and use it in the pursuit of goals. The smarter the individual, the cleverer Buu becomes, shown when he becomes a canny tactician after absorbing Piccolo. When Goku and Vegeta free his victims, Buu reverts to his original form; while Super Buu is much stronger, Kid Buu is basically a rampaging animal with the power to erase planets... which he does to Earth as soon as he manifests. |
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Street Fighter: Gill from Street Fighter III. His ending implies that he succeeds, too, and wants his followers to dress like him if Alex is anything to go by. Seth from Street Fighter IV also wants to do this, his trademark phrase being "Become a part of me." |
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Mega Man: Once a robot master is defeated, all iterations of Mega Man gain the boss' skills. The Mega Man Battle Network series has two sides of this: one for MegaMan, and one for Bass. In the case of the hero, after losing the Style Change ability, he gains the Double Soul power, wherein he may gain powers from a Navi he's shared a profound connection with. In the case of Bass, he goes for more of a Cell route through his GetAbility Program, wherein he consumes and kills a virus, program or Navi to gain their power. |
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Breaking Bad: It's subtle, but Walter White appears to take on some traits of some of the people he kills. | |
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The Source of All Evil in Charmed, who possesses his victims and assimilates their personalities into himself, becoming more powerful and intelligent. The problem comes when after assimilating Cole Turner, his feelings for Phoebe and humanity makes him difficult to control. Eventually it backfires, because he can't hurt Phoebe or her sisters without Cole interfering and making him vulnerable to being vanquished again. | |
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MSF High has the Legion, who are unique in this in that they're actually good guys nowadays. A big plot point is that Legion retain characteristics from the old life, or are exactly the same (however, they've still been compared to both the Borg and the Flood). They have a hive mind. | |
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FTL: Kestrel Adventures: What SAI-1 has done to Peter Tiedrich, and it looks like General Key will follow. Other troops seem to have fallen to the same fate. | |
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It's revealed in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] that this was the main reason why Xemnas founded Organization XIII. Nobodies, having no hearts, make perfect vessels for the disembodied Ansem. In fact, had everything gone according to plan, Xemnas could have turned half the Organization into duplicates of Xehanort. This comes after a rather cruel Reveal. It turns out that nobodies quickly develop new hearts from whatever is around them, and can have emotions. This incredibly hopeful Reveal is immediately quashed by Xemnas revealing the aforementioned plan. | |
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Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles: The Bugs do this to the most badass lifeforms on each planet they conquer. | |
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The Matrix: After being killed by Neo at the end of the first film, Agent Smith returns with the ability to copy himself over other people, and spends the next two movies transforming the entire Matrix into copies of himself. | |
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Kingdom Hearts: Ansem does this to Riku because he has no body. It's revealed in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] that this was the main reason why Xemnas founded Organization XIII. Nobodies, having no hearts, make perfect vessels for the disembodied Ansem. In fact, had everything gone according to plan, Xemnas could have turned half the Organization into duplicates of Xehanort. This comes after a rather cruel Reveal. It turns out that nobodies quickly develop new hearts from whatever is around them, and can have emotions. This incredibly hopeful Reveal is immediately quashed by Xemnas revealing the aforementioned plan. |
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Men in Black: The Series: Alpha was the original head of MIB but now hunts aliens for body parts to make himself more powerful. The first time we see him, he's still humanoid but has a small arsenal of Combat Tentacles concealed in his body, and he only gets freakier from there. Interestingly, he moves away from this trope during the last season, modifying himself using robot parts instead. | |
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Hellsing: Alucard is a heroic example, for a given value of "heroic." Anyone he eats (and more importantly, drinks the blood of) has their soul absorbed into the totality inside Alucard, who can then summon them as a familiar and access their memories, form, and abilities. This appears to be an ability of "natural" vampires (as opposed to Millenium's Magitek-created copies), as Seras Victoria is later shown to be able to do the same. | |
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In Pokémon Uranium, people who fail to make it through the Anthell (the largest bug nest in West Tandor) are assimilated into the hive to serve Seikamater, a legendary bug Pokémon. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Voldemort used Inferi, reanimated corpses, to guard one of his Horcruxes. These inferi overwhelm Harry and try to drown him. Harry suspects that he himself will become an inferi after he dies. | |
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The K'hekk race of Mission to Zyxx lay eggs in their victims that demonstrate increasing control over the host body before eventually hatching. | |
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When Victor Caroon in The Quatermass Experiment begins transforming into a monster, he absorbs a potted cactus into his alien-growth-infested arm. Next time his arm appears on screen, it's mutated into a lumpy fingerless mass with protruding cactus spines all over it. | |
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The Borg from Star Trek: The Next Generation and onwards are the Trope Codifiers, and the former Trope Namers. Their standard hail includes the phrases, "You will be assimilated", "your culture will adapt to service us" and "we will add your technological and biological distinctiveness to our own". In their first episode, "Q Who", Q talks about how relentless the Borg are in adding to their collective. Dialogue between Locutus and Worf in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" indicates that the Borg intend to assimilate entire races. | |
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