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The Symbiote

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The Symbiote	comment	In biology, a symbiote (or symbiont) is a living organism that lives in symbiosis with another organism. Symbiosis literally means "living together," and it comes in three variations:
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The Symbiote / int_11b8f661	type	The Symbiote
The Symbiote / int_11b8f661	comment	Work Sucks: Epicena has a symbiotic monster named Hatch hooked to his...her...its back that has the ability to inhale and capture people Epicena wants. Epicena says Hatch is harmless unless (s)he tells it otherwise.
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The Symbiote / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): Ambulatory Rykornian males live in the husks they were born from on their stationery birthing stalks, and both types of Rykornian works to protect the other.
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The Symbiote / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft: The Zerg Queens have two kinds of nasty parasites at their disposal, ones that crawl inside the host and feed information back to the Zerg and others that grow inside a biological unit and emerge ChestBurster-fashion. There's also a subtype of both that infects an entire Terran command center, turning the humans inside into something between zerg and suicide fanatics.
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The Symbiote / int_1907182c	comment	The Cue Cappa Commonwealth in the Space Empires series consists of two species — the Cue are small, parasitic entities with potent psychic powers who latch onto the much larger Cappa, creatures with limited intelligence who perform manual tasks on behalf of the Cue. This relationship is thought to be millions of years old and influenced the evolution of both species. Most other species fear the Cue as dangerous parasites, but those who overcome this prejudice find them to be trustworthy allies.
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The Symbiote / int_193287c8	comment	Subnautica: The main life forms of the Jellyshroom Caves ecosystem have this sort of arrangement. The fanged, eel-like Crabsnakes consume any herbivores that might threaten the enormous Jellyshrooms, which feed on the leftovers of the Crabsnakes' meals. In return, the Jellyshrooms' hollow stalks provide a hiding spot the Crabsnakes can use to ambush prey, or to keep their eggs safe.
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The Symbiote / int_1ad9726b	comment	Hunter: The Vigil: Most Cheiron Group implants involve simply splicing a patch of tissue or a new organ into a hunter's body. Some, however, involve the implantation of entire symbiotic organisms, such as a swarm of man-faced hornets that live in your arm and attack things that you're angry at or a worm wound around your heart that protects you from magic at the cost of making you more nihilistic.
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The Symbiote / int_1cc8e29f	comment	The Hive in Destiny are parasitized by eldritch larvae-like worms that feed on violence and bloodshed. As long as the Hive fight and kill to feed their worms, they receive immortality and Reality Warper capabilities. But if they start losing more fights than they win, their worms get hungry, and start eating their hosts instead. And as individual Hive grow more powerful, the hunger of their worm gets harder and harder to sate. The gods of the Hive, despite being the oldest and strongest members of the species, were forced to create a tithe system drawing on every single other member in order to have enough death to satisfy their worms.
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The Symbiote / int_234035fa	comment	In Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, Curselings are gifted with a parasitic, daemonic homunculus known as a Tretchlet. These twisted spirit-creatures are created from an eldritch coalescence of forbidden knowledge that has gained sapience. The homunculus constantly whispers advice to its host and support them with their arcane abilities as the Curseling continues their search for further hidden knowledge.
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The Symbiote / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: Treecats look something like six-legged house cats. They are essentially Bond Creatures, and removing one from their human results in both pining away.
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The Symbiote / int_2f5a2d68	comment	Falling With Folded Wings: Olivia theorizes that the System is a parasite, providing energy to intelligent species so that they can grow stronger and then it can receive that energy in turn. While it does seem to be at least a bit mutually beneficial, the Elder Races complain that they were doing fine before the System started encroaching on their territory.
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The Symbiote / int_35ada324	comment	Alien: The Xenomorphs utilize human bodies to reproduce via Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong.
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The Symbiote / int_38c57aa2	comment	More symbiotic creatures with rules similar to the ones from the Fiend Folio were introduced in the Eberron books. In the Eberron setting, symbionts are living weapons engineered by the Daelkyr.
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The Symbiote / int_3960eb47	comment	Dragonback: The K'da is basically a tiger-sized dragon that can turn into a tattoo, and must do so at least once every six hours. The K'da gets a host, the host gets a powerful guardian, and both get the other's companionship.
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The Symbiote / int_3b7abee2	comment	Half-Life: The various types of headcrabs latch onto host bodies and control them as zombie-like creatures.
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The Symbiote / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Chapter 122 of Attack on Titan indicates that the true origin of all Titans was actually a worm-like creature (resembling Hallucigenia) that attached itself to the spine of a slave girl who literally stumbled upon it by complete accident. This organism and its ability to turn people into Titans was propagated over centuries by consuming the spinal fluid of the girl and her descendants.
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The Symbiote / int_41963414	comment	The War Against the Chtorr. A characteristic of the invading Chtorran ecology. For instance Chtorran gastropedes are covered in neural symbiotes (so-called 'worm fur') that vastly increase their senses, making them super-efficient predators. Shambler trees are host to over thirty different species of carnivore that can seek out and devour prey, passing on nutrients to the shambler via their waste products.
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The Symbiote / int_484b5965	comment	Crystal Singer: The symbiote has a low success rate for adaptation to human hosts. Those who survive, though, gain a Healing Factor that gives them enhanced physical strength and senses and a life span of centuries. The catch being that, once adapted, they can't stay away from the symbiote's home planet of Ballybran for long, before the symbiont starts to weaken and die. Crystal Singers (those who made the most complete bonding) can stay away for years. Some with lesser adaptations can't leave at all.
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The Symbiote / int_4f6620a5	comment	The Skrill in Earth: Final Conflict are millipede-looking creatures genetically engineered by the Taelons. They burrow into their host's forearm where they feed off the body's energy. In exchange, the Skrill allows the hosts to fire powerful energy blasts.
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The Symbiote / int_52b3b8f8	comment	Necroscope: The vampire-fungi technically fit here. The fungal leech gets a host with sentience and opposable thumbs; the host gets shapeshifting, enhanced psychic powers, enhanced strength, enhanced senses, and a craving for fresh blood and human flesh...
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The Symbiote / int_54c55400	comment	Hothouse: The morel, a fungus which has survived into the future by evolving the ability to attach itself to other creatures to serve as a secondary brain, greatly increasing their intelligence in exchange for food and protection. It's quite common in the Nomansland, where almost every sort of creature — from giant termites to predatory trees — can be seen bonded to a morel. Beyond that, as the morel discovers by exploring a human host's Genetic Memory, modern-day humans lived in symbiosis with a similar fungus as well, one adapted to live within their brains, and the downfall of human civilization came about when increased solar radiation killed off their fungal symbiotes and robbed them of most of their intellect. On the Earth's dark side, some surviving animals have come to depend on each to survive. A species of bat, for instance, has taken to ferrying spider eggs to high mountains that get just enough sunlight to warm the eggs into hatching, and then carries the spiderlings back; in return, the spiders weave a secondary net that they dip into bodies of water, catching fish for the bats to eat.
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The Symbiote / int_553051f	comment	Green Lantern: The color entities feed on emotion and allow their hosts to manipulate solid light on a much larger scale than power rings. Unfortunately, some of them affect the behavior of their hosts, which can vary from subtle influence to full on Puppeteer Parasite.
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The Symbiote / int_5678787d	comment	Star Wars: The Screaming Citadel: Abersyn symbiotes attach themselves to the nervous system of their hosts, overriding all motor and cerebral activity and taking complete control of their bodies and minds.
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The Symbiote / int_592aa526	comment	Peeps: Vampires are due to a parasite living inside the body of a human host. The entire book is all about parasites, even with tips about real parasites at the beginning of each chapter.
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The Symbiote / int_5a5de3c7	comment	In the Star Darlings series, Starlanders grant Wishworlder's wishes to keep their planet alive. Without positive wish energy Starland would die out, and without granted wishes Earth would be a depressing place to live.
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The Symbiote / int_5bf662a4	comment	Generation X: The mutant known as Japheth, sort of. His mutation turned his stomach into a pair of symbiotes that could leave his torso to eat for him, then return to provide the nutrition to him, along with a temporary super-metabolism (super-strength, slightly enhanced healing, etc).
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The Symbiote / int_5c897f4a	comment	In Schlock Mercenary Fobott'r all have mohawk-style hair in a variety of colors. It turns out that this isn't actually hair but a symbiotic colony that provides the Fobott'r with blood filtration and neurochemicals while receiving protection and food in return.
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The Symbiote / int_5ce8480e	comment	Evolution: In "The Kingdom of the Rats", the borametz trees have adapted to live symbiotically alongside colonies of ants, termites and eusocial posthumans, which stores their seeds and plant new trees when conditions are good in exchange for feeding on the trees' sap. The narration notes that this will prove to be a very efficient system, and that the borametz trees will eventually outcompete most other plants. The inhabitants of New Pangaea took the principle of cooperation and sharing to its extremes to survive in the dying Earth. The descendant of the borametz tree cannot survive without the insects that bring nutrients to its roots, and the mammals who bring it water, food, and salt, and plant its seeds. Even its leaves belong to another plant. Likewise, the symbiotes cannot have survived without the tree, which shelters them from predators and climate, and feeds them with its sap.
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The Symbiote / int_5d020c4a	comment	This is Abathur's main ability in Heroes of the Storm. He can place a symbiote on any ally on the map. Abathur gains the ability to remotely damage enemies with his otherwise useless body, while the ally benefits from shielding, healing, extra protection, and other bonuses if talented.
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The Symbiote / int_5fc1f6df	comment	Spawn: Spawn's distinctive costume (which is standard issue for all Hellspawn) is actually a living, sentient demon in its own right, and possibly inspired by the Spider-Man examples below. How the "costume-demon" benefits isn't made clear, possibly from being able to passively feed off of the necroplasmic energy of its undead host. The host definitely benefits from having a very protective live-in partner which not only provides flight/gliding (the cape functions like wings because, in its natural form, they are wings), offensive shapeshifting and Combat Tentacles (via the chains and cape-tendrils), but will fight to protect its host even if the host is unconscious. Said symbiote feeds of negative emotions and pain, being around Spawn of all people is giving it plenty of that. In an early issue it's described as partially feeding off the necroplasm his body is made of, and in a later arc where Spawn is convinced his costume is responsible for a grisly series of killings where the victims were drained of all their blood, clown reveals it feeds off souls (of which necroplasm is a condensed form). To no one's surprise, the murders were being committed by a vampire.
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The Symbiote / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Generation X: The mutant known as Japheth, sort of. His mutation turned his stomach into a pair of symbiotes that could leave his torso to eat for him, then return to provide the nutrition to him, along with a temporary super-metabolism (super-strength, slightly enhanced healing, etc). The Incredible Hulk: In the "Crossroads" arc, the Hulk goes to a planet where the food is poisonous to animals unless they have a symbiote attached. Spider-Man: The Symbiotes, although they have gained a tendency to turn their host evil since their first appearance. The ones in the Ultimate universe are parasitic, though. The core universe Symbiote species is as well (at least, after 90s retcons). The Venom Symbiote and its spawn are considered mutants by the others. Or they were, before they completely wiped out their Always Chaotic Evil brethren. The Venom symbiote is coming back to this, after bonding with Flash Thompson, realizing that they must rely on each other to survive. The Toxin symbiote, when bonded to Patrick Mulligan, had a relationship similar to that of a father and a naughty little child. Not so much when Toxin is bonded to Eddie Brock. The Carnage symbiote, when bonded to its first host Cletus Kasady. The symbiote and Cletus genuinely seem to care for each other and feel incomplete unless they are together. It's a body controlling parasite to anyone else, whom it only uses to help it reunite with Cletus whenever they are separated. Cletus tells someone who tried to steal the symbiote from him that he and Carnage were pretty much made for each other. The Venom symbiote truly wanted to be this for Peter Parker, its first human host. It wanted to be with Peter and it wanted to make him stronger. While the symbiote had the same corrupting influence on Peter as it does on other hosts, it does so not out of a desire to control him but because it genuinely believes it's doing Peter a favor by getting rid of his compassion. After losing her powers, Spider-Gwen joins with her universe's Venom symbiote to regain them. She and her symbiote eventually enter a healthy relationship after Gwen works through her anger issues (her father had been wrongfully jailed and she's been forced to work for the Kingpin since then, leaving her with a lot of pent up rage) and is able to teach her partner more positive emotions. The only major issue she has come across with her "gummy spiders" since is learning to keep them properly fed. The precursor and prototype of the Symbiotes was All-Black the Necrosword. All-Black was originally the shadow of a primordial god of darkness, Knull which he split off. After Knull lost All-Black in a battle, he would go on to create the entire Symbiote race as a substitute for his lost weapon. All-Black has been wielded by others afterwards, but it still ultimately serves Knull's desire to wipe out all life in the universe (especially other gods). Hence why it acts as The Corrupter to its "masters" like Gorr (enabling and amplifying his misotheism) and Galactus (from Devourer to Butcher).
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The Symbiote / int_62c077b3	comment	A Moth to a Flame: As opposed to the Grand Theft Me it pulls in canon, her being a more willing partner makes The Core decide to take this approach with Marcy. Rather than take over her body and assimilate her mind, it instead merges with her in a more equal way, allowing her to stay "at the helm", as Andrias puts it.
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The Symbiote / int_632df25e	comment	In Kurau Phantom Memory, the Rynax-entity merged with Kurau's body benefits from the protection for her recuperating pair, while giving Kurau immense powers in return. The finale reveals that the original Kurau was just a bystander. After the Rynax leaves her body, Kurau tells her father she can remember everything that happened when the Rynax was controlling her, and when she talks to Christmas she says she's not the Kurau Christmas knew, and that even though she isn't the Kurau Christmas knew, she saw everything the "other" Kurau and her went through together, which means the original Kurau was just an observer, watching the Rynax's life in her body until it left. Though, she did seem to have fond memories of the experience.
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The Symbiote / int_68c7e5cd	comment	In Macross Frontier, the Vajra have a special kind of bacteria in their intestines that maintains the telepathic connection between them. If the bacteria gets in humans (rare, as it requires ingesting of bodily fluids), it slowly kills them as a disease known as a "V-Type Infection". It's eventually revealed that Ranka Lee has these same bacteria in her intestines, and due to contracting them in utero she is fully symbiotic with them. They allow her to tap into the Vajra Hive Mind, making her the only human being who can communicate with the Vajra. At the end of the series, she uses her connection to cure Sheryl's V-Type Infection by influencing her bacteria into a similar symbiotic relationship.
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The Symbiote / int_691be369	comment	The Black Oil a.k.a. Black Cancer a.k.a. Purity from The X-Files is an alien virus that gets into your body through your eyes and mouth and assumes complete control over it, optionally using it as a host for gestating a baby alien.
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The Symbiote / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: The Nahel bond between human and spren (essentially a sapient idea) is a slightly odd example of this, since spren are incorporeal. The bond grants the human Surgebinding powers, and allows the spren to retain its sentience in the Physical Realm (spren are native to the Cognitive Realm). If the bond is broken, the human loses access to Surgebinding, while the spren becomes mindless. Certain animals can form bonds with lesser non-sapient spren, which is part of what allows the huge crustaceans collectively called greatshells to exist (the spren effectively makes the creatures lighter). It's not entirely clear how this affects the spren.
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The Symbiote / int_6aaac103	comment	In PJ Sparkles, PJ is a mutual version of the trope, as she gives other kids the love they need but needs them to love her in return to survive.
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The Symbiote / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has a few, but not for the faint of heart: The third edition Fiend Folio had a section in the back of the book about symbiotic monsters. It introduced seven different new creatures that can bond with a host and give them benefits, although they can also try to take over a host like a Puppeteer Parasite if they have a disagreement. The Cerebral Hood is a psychic parasite that attaches itself to a host by stunning it with a mental blast, engulfing its victim's head with its ray-like body, and jamming its tail down the victim's throat to meld with its nervous, digestive and circulatory systems. It drains enough Intelligence from its host to impose a -1 penalty, but on the upside, the host gets access to the Cerebral Hood's mind blast, keen senses, and becomes immune to inhaled toxins or diseases. Just, you know, there's a psychic stingray wrapped around the host's head now. The Mind Leech is a parasite that burrows into a person's body and wraps around their spinal cord. Outside of a host they have no powers at all except for being able to communicate telepathically, but when bonded they get several other psychic abilities, although using them temporarily damages the host's intelligence. The Psionic Sinew is a worm-like creature that a person can attach to their arm. It enhances the user's strength, generates a protective field around them, and can turn the host's hand into a powerful claw or give them temporary hitpoints at the cost of causing temporary dexterity damage. A Fiendish Familiar is an evil face that can be grafted onto a person's body. It improves the host's spellcasting abilities and shares its knowledge of magic with them. The Gutworm is more or less a fiendish tapeworm from the abyss that swims around its host's intestinal tract. Its host must eat and drink twice as much as normal and becomes fatigued more easily, but the Gutworm grants a passive bonus to their Constitution score, can freely cause them to fly into a Barbarian's rage, and neutralize poisons its host may fall victim to. Soul Ticks drain blood like their mundane cousins, and may overfeed to punish a host who displeases them. But they also enhance evil or necromantic spells, and provide a constant protection from good effect for their hosts. The Ghostly Visage is a ghostly undead that shields the host against mental effects and can manifest a terrifying face on the host's body. More symbiotic creatures with rules similar to the ones from the Fiend Folio were introduced in the Eberron books. In the Eberron setting, symbionts are living weapons engineered by the Daelkyr. A less morbid example is the Vizier's Turban. This creature can change its appearance to some degree, but always appears as some manner of turban, scarf or veil with a pair of gemstone "eyes." When bonded with a wizard, the Turban grants extra spell slots and magical resistance based on how many hit points its wearer is willing to transfer over in exchange. A Vizier's Turban can communicate telepathically with its wearer, and tends to adjust its own personality and outlook to match its host's Character Alignment. The Turban likes to engage in philosophical conversations and see new places, and becomes depressed should its host leave it behind, but despite its intelligence it isn't a reliable adventuring partner — a Vizier's Turban reacts with a sense of wonder to just about anything, so it won't think to warn its wearer if it sees a monster about to pounce on them. Glimmerskins are incorporeal beings of pure Life Energy from the Positive Energy Plane. They yearn to experience the thrill of combat, and so commonly travel to the Material Plane to find mortal hosts to bond with for the course of a battle or adventure. The glimmerskin, which usually takes the form of a radiant suit of armor or glowing hooded cloak, splits any Experience Points earned with its host, while said host gets some combat bonuses, and enjoys constant exposure to the glimmerskin's healing touch. In fact, even if a host is at full hit points, the glimmerskin will "overheal" them with temporary hit points... with the side effect of potentially having the excess life energy explode out of the host in a 20-foot radius. Glimmerskins tend to not mention this when offering to bond with a host. Another complication is that the glimmerskin can have their own idea of how their host should be fighting, and should said host ignore their telepathic suggestions, the glimmerskin might covertly contact another prospective host and ditch their previous "wearer" in the middle of a fight. But it's the Symbiotic Creature template from Savage Species that offers the most comprehensive version of this trope. The template combines two creatures into a single one, with the mental stats of the guest, the physical stats and HD of the host, and the skills, special abilities, and attacks of both. Because the cost of the template doesn't scale with the number/quality of features gained, it's one of the most abusable character creation options in the edition, but it also allows for some truly unique and flavorful monsters and characters.
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The Symbiote / int_6ae1d164	comment	Galaxy of Fear: Eaten Alive: Enzeen on D'vouran, after The Reveal, are repeatedly called parasites. The planet is alive and eats people, and they feed from it. However, it's clearly mutualistic; the Enzeen make visitors feel welcome on D'vouran and help hush things up whenever people start to feel suspicious and might start figuring out what's happening.
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The Symbiote / int_6d832403	comment	Parasyte: The Parasitic Beasts drill into people's heads and take them over by eating their brains. Shinichi, the protagonist, manages to get away with one taking over his right hand (it aimed for his head, but he pulled it away in his sleep and it took over his hand in desperation).
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The Symbiote / int_6e012371	comment	Xandri Corelel: The planet Song is home to enormous, sapient sea creatures called the Voices. Each Voice has between two and a dozen Hands, smaller cephalopod-like creatures that follow them around their whole lives.
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The Symbiote / int_6f6971b5	comment	The Rhumians in the Sector General novel Code Blue Emergency are almost inert brain-creatures who form a symbiotic relationship with a non-sentient species from their planet, but can link to almost any living thing in emergencies. The squickier elements of this are acknowledged in canon, with even the radically-accepting medics of Sector General initially mistaking them for evil Puppeteer Parasites.
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The Symbiote / int_6facac81	comment	Infected: The parasites are extraterrestrial in origin and cause the growth of a new consciousness that encourages the host to kill and maim as much as possible. That's just a side-effect. Their real purpose is to guide humans to an area, where the parasites are really "workers" — they use the humans to build an organic teleportation gate for the invasion of Earth.
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The Symbiote / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 The Goa'uld are a race of parasitic symbiotes. They are snake like beings who enter into a host and wrap themelves around the spinal column of the host taking complete control of their every action. The Tok'ra are a group of Goa'uld who despise this and enter into a symbiote/host relationship where both parties can take control. Anubis becomes this in Season 8. He is a Goa'uld (see above) who figured out how to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. The other Ascended didn't like that, so they kicked him halfway back down to the lower planes to punish Oma Desala for helping him ascend. He now exists as an Energy Being which needs either a force-field suit or a host to interact with the material world. In the latter case the host has no control over the body and reacts to him as if he were a disease, breaking out into lesions and gradually dying. (Mind, most Goa'uld qualify for parasitism, though they can choose to let the host out to play. Being half-ascended is what makes Anubis burn out his host; a lot of other Goa'uld hosts would consider that getting off easy.)
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The Symbiote / int_7284235a	comment	Side Jobs: In the short story Day Off, two of the Alphas are afflicted with "supernatural fleas".
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The Symbiote / int_733f2aaf	comment	Cradle Series: This is how the Bleeding Phoenix feeds. It sends out millions of "blood shadows" which latch onto a host, hollow them out from the inside, and carry that power back to the Phoenix. Nine out of ten hosts are little more than puppets, attacking everything and everyone blindly. The minority, however, gain control of their blood shadows and use it to become far more powerful than they ever could on their own. They usually still end up serving the Bleeding Phoenix, they just have their own goals besides sacrificing themselves for its power. Even more rarely, people can take the blood shadow's power as their own without serving the Phoenix at all. Yerin ends up in this last category, and furthermore she ends up becoming a Herald by fusing with her blood shadow entirely.
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The Symbiote / int_73d7930f	comment	The Trill in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The humanoid Trill host keeps the vermiform Trill symbiont alive, while the host enjoys the cumulative memories (including skills) of all the symbiont's previous hosts.
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The Symbiote / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]: Alex Mercer is infected with a virus-specific parasite, which debilitates him until he finds a cure.
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The Symbiote / int_74c659e6	comment	Rocket Age: The Fur Frog, a small creature that Venusians keep as pets. They eat the parasites living in their host's fur, but more importantly they are highly psychic and effectively grant their host access to these same abilities.
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The Symbiote / int_78d41a8b	comment	Tress of the Emerald Sea has the spore-eaters, who are infected with a special parasitic form of one of the twelve aethers. The aether parasite is constantly leeching water from the host's body to send back to the prime aether, though it will use its powers to protect its host from other threats so that it can keep draining them.
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The Symbiote / int_80c382f4	comment	Defenders of the Earth: Ming's "mutant life-form" in "Terror in Time" takes the form of an amorphous purple ooze which the Phantom describes as "a parasite that feeds on living flesh", seconds after Mandrake has been attacked by the mutant. Mandrake spends most of the episode with part of the mutant attached to his arm and, while his life is never in any immediate danger — his magical powers also seem unaffected — it is clear that the mutant is weakening him; he struggles to climb the cliff to Warlock's castle even with Lothar's help.
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The Symbiote / int_8df64af6	comment	The Apocalypse Troll: The symbiote kills over 99% of its hosts, though in this case it's justified since it was originally developed as a bioweapon, and intended to kill 100% of its hosts. Those who survive, though, gain effective immortality via Healing Factor (and eternal youth into the bargain), enhanced senses and reaction times, and generally superhuman abilities.
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The Symbiote / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: The Yeerks, who are like the Goa'uld but without benefits to the host (unless the host is The Quisling, in which case they get privileges not extended to involuntary hosts, like not being caged while their Yeerk is feeding). They generally forcibly take hosts, as in their normal states they're blind, powerless slugs. There is even a faction of Yeerk society that disagrees with the morality of taking hosts forcibly, and will only infest the willing, who act as an underground resistance movement. The Iskoort are a species closely related to the Yeerks, except that these slugs learned how to bio-engineer braindead host bodies for themselves, and have even gone so far as to bioengineer themselves to be wholly dependent on those host bodies, such that they cannot live in any other kind of host. They were influenced by the Ellimist as a back-up plan in case the Yeerk Empire is not defeated: eventually the Yeerks would encounter the Iskoort and see that there is another possibility besides parasitism, and it is known that there is a fair chunk of the Yeerk population who would wholeheartedly embrace that alternative.
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The Symbiote / int_938e19ec	comment	In Fraggle Rock the Fraggles have an odd symbiotic relationship with the Doozers. Doozers build large structures and other constructs with a candy-like substance, which is soon eaten by the Fraggles. An episode shows that if the Fraggles don't eat the Doozer buildings they eventually grow out of control and are left with nothing else to build, and the Doozers actually like the Fraggles eating their buildings as it lets them know their hard work is appreciated.
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The Symbiote / int_947cae1a	comment	Sputnik. Establishing the nature of the alien inhabiting the cosmonaut is a Driving Question for the protagonist Dr. Tatyana Klimova. It's initially assumed to be parasitic, but she eventually realizes they're symbiotic with a shared consciousness. The host acts as a terrestrial spacesuit for the alien, while the alien repairs any injuries the host might have.
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The Symbiote / int_97c681f2	comment	Equestria: Across the Multiverse has 'Size Symbiotic Equestria' as it comes to be known. As the name suggests, this world is home to two species of ponies, Giants and the other Little Ponies who are tiny even by mainline Equestrian standards who live in symbiosis with one another. The Giants use their physical strength and size to do the heavy lifting and protecting their smaller partners, while the Little Ponies do the finer tasks and task in small spaces the Giants can't do or enter. It's stated they bond when young on a magical level and the death of one would have severe emotional effects on the other (though they can form another bond eventually). Also, all video games on this world are co-op for this reason.
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The Symbiote / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: The Big Tick is a parasite that eats planets. Unfortunately, the planet does not usually survive.
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The Symbiote / int_988629da	comment	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has parasitic eels native to Ceti Alpha IV, which Khan uses to control several Star Fleet operatives.
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The Symbiote / int_9ab32c13	comment	Pony POV Series: Changelings that form genuine love with ponies generally end up like this. Changelings need love to survive, and will quickly die if they don't get it. So when a Changeling gains a genuine bond with a pony, the pony gets a loyal loved one out of the deal (something ponies appreciate) and the Changeling gains an infinite source of love (as opposed to when they take love, which generally sucks the target dry and thus is finite). In general, Changelings who do that are much better off than those who act as parasites. In Dark World, the Changelings performed a Heelâ€“Race Turn and form a large part of La RÃ©sistance against Discord, since Cadence's magic still infusing them allows them to No-Sell Discord's magic.
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The Symbiote / int_9e2521ba	comment	In Bazooka Jules the source of Jules' superpowers is a micro-robotic weapon called the symbiote that entered into Julie's body and permanently fused with her nervous system. It has two main functions. One is to enhance its host physical abilities with chemicals and hormones making them stronger, faster, and more durable. The other is to provide its host with weapons and gadgets. It was has various detection systems, a radar, and can provide its user with tactical advice, hence the voices inside Julie's head.
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The Symbiote / int_9f89a5f0	comment	The PokÃ©mon Joltik feeds off other Electric-types' static electricity and stores it, as they can't produce their own. New PokÃ©mon Snap sees this process in action when one can be lured to stick onto a Jolteon for a meal. It's implied that while the process is annoying for the hosts, they have plenty of electricity to spare once the tiny Pokemon is satisfied.
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The Symbiote / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: Green Lantern: The color entities feed on emotion and allow their hosts to manipulate solid light on a much larger scale than power rings. Unfortunately, some of them affect the behavior of their hosts, which can vary from subtle influence to full on Puppeteer Parasite. Wonder Woman (1942): Ambulatory Rykornian males live in the husks they were born from on their stationery birthing stalks, and both types of Rykornian works to protect the other.
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The Symbiote / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Parodied with the Puppeteer Parasites known as Brain Slugs. Unlike most versions of The Virus, which are typically capable of a bit of subtlety, Brain Slugs are blatantly visibly attached to the infectee, and make statements such as "Your mission for today is to go to the Brain Slug planet and stand around without wearing hats" in a stilted monotone.
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The Symbiote / int_a3fcd166	comment	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Trilogy's Babel Fish, a living plot device as a Symbiote.
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The Symbiote / int_a79eb9a1	comment	The compacts between spirits and humans in Poacher are this.
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The Symbiote / int_a993be1f	comment	This form shows up in Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords as well: the Exile, having cut off his connection to the Force after all the death at Malachor, effectively re-establishes that connection by becoming a black hole in the Force, siphoning excess power from his companions. Taking advantage of this is what allows you to kill Darth Nihilus.
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The Symbiote / int_a9edfc69	comment	The Gnoph in Gnoph live inside human lungs, and grant their hosts a variety of superhuman abilities.
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The Symbiote / int_abce5338	comment	Wildstar: Several were created in the future. They grant their host bodies certain powers, but in exchange, they are allowed to feed off of them.
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The Symbiote / int_ac6b386d	comment	Skullgirls has loads of examples of numerous different types of symbiotes, though they're all referred to as "parasites" in-game. Of the playable cast: Filia has a symbiote living in her hair named Samson, and he zigzags between mutualism and parasitism: while they do work together in combat, Samson has a tendency to take control of Filia in some of their moves, and it's hinted that he wants to turn Filia into the next Skullgirl — a Person of Mass Destruction. Squigly, meant to be The Rival to Filia, has a symbiote who act as a rival to Samson: Leviathan, a snake-like creature who has a much friendlier relationship with his host than Samson does. Eliza is the host of a symbiote named Sekhmet, who is different from the previous examples in that she has entirely replaced Eliza's skeleton in exchange of granting Eliza eternal youth as long as she feeds on blood. The two of them have been together for so long that their personalities have effectively merged and they no longer consider themselves separate individuals.
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The Symbiote / int_af6a4464	comment	The Secret World: Players begin the game by swallowing one of the Bees of Agartha and permanently bonding with it; as a result of this, the player character is empowered with magical abilities, Resurrective Immortality, and sporadic access to the Buzzing. However, in return for this service, the players have to serve as agents of the Bees' creator, Gaia — essentially acting as white blood cells for her body in times of crisis.
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The Symbiote / int_b486bc63	comment	Eight Worlds: There are the symbiotes; artificially cultured plant-based organisms that are bonded with humans to produce a single organism that has its own individual animal/plant ecology. They don't breathe or eat, and spend their time in open space, usually touring the rings of Saturn.
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The Symbiote / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The Symbiotes, although they have gained a tendency to turn their host evil since their first appearance. The ones in the Ultimate universe are parasitic, though. The core universe Symbiote species is as well (at least, after 90s retcons). The Venom Symbiote and its spawn are considered mutants by the others. Or they were, before they completely wiped out their Always Chaotic Evil brethren. The Venom symbiote is coming back to this, after bonding with Flash Thompson, realizing that they must rely on each other to survive. The Toxin symbiote, when bonded to Patrick Mulligan, had a relationship similar to that of a father and a naughty little child. Not so much when Toxin is bonded to Eddie Brock. The Carnage symbiote, when bonded to its first host Cletus Kasady. The symbiote and Cletus genuinely seem to care for each other and feel incomplete unless they are together. It's a body controlling parasite to anyone else, whom it only uses to help it reunite with Cletus whenever they are separated. Cletus tells someone who tried to steal the symbiote from him that he and Carnage were pretty much made for each other. The Venom symbiote truly wanted to be this for Peter Parker, its first human host. It wanted to be with Peter and it wanted to make him stronger. While the symbiote had the same corrupting influence on Peter as it does on other hosts, it does so not out of a desire to control him but because it genuinely believes it's doing Peter a favor by getting rid of his compassion. After losing her powers, Spider-Gwen joins with her universe's Venom symbiote to regain them. She and her symbiote eventually enter a healthy relationship after Gwen works through her anger issues (her father had been wrongfully jailed and she's been forced to work for the Kingpin since then, leaving her with a lot of pent up rage) and is able to teach her partner more positive emotions. The only major issue she has come across with her "gummy spiders" since is learning to keep them properly fed. The precursor and prototype of the Symbiotes was All-Black the Necrosword. All-Black was originally the shadow of a primordial god of darkness, Knull which he split off. After Knull lost All-Black in a battle, he would go on to create the entire Symbiote race as a substitute for his lost weapon. All-Black has been wielded by others afterwards, but it still ultimately serves Knull's desire to wipe out all life in the universe (especially other gods). Hence why it acts as The Corrupter to its "masters" like Gorr (enabling and amplifying his misotheism) and Galactus (from Devourer to Butcher).
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The Symbiote / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk: In the "Crossroads" arc, the Hulk goes to a planet where the food is poisonous to animals unless they have a symbiote attached.
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The Symbiote / int_b5346b9f	comment	White Sheep (RWBY): Jaune and his sisters all have Grimm "parasites" implanted in their bodies. Despite their names, the parasites don't weaken or control them at all, merely acting as advisers and translators for the Grimm. They also produce and control the Combat Tentacles that Jaune and the others are infamous for. The children can do all these things on their own, or even wrest control of the tentacles away from the parasite, but it is easier to let the parasites handle it. Cinder has a parasite as well; in fact, the parasite she has in canon appears to be the inspiration for the parasites in the fic. She only mentions it once, however, and it never speaks, so it is unclear if it is the same type of parasite that Jaune and his sisters have. When Yang's arm is cut off by Adam, Jaune implants a parasite in her that will be able to act as a replacement arm and bring her up to speed on what happened while she was unconscious. The parasite quickly proclaims himself Yang's son, Yang names him Yin, and Yang goes off to strangle Jaune for impregnating her and leaving her with the kid. Despite her complaints, she does quickly come to care for Yin, and she is able to adapt her fighting style around having an arm that she doesn't control but can burst into razor-sharp flailing tentacles. All parasites shown also have the ability to go to sleep on command. Quite useful if you're doing something embarrassing you'd rather not have them listen in on, such as using the bathroom.
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The Symbiote / int_b7bbb8f5	comment	The Edge Chronicles: One of the Deepwoods' native dangers is the aggressively carnivorous bloodoak tree. Bloodoaks, however, don't have any means of capturing prey — in practice, a bloodoak's just a trunk with a stomach in it. Each bloodoak grows alongside another plant, the tarryvine, which roots itself in its trunk; the tarryvine is mobile, agile and quite capable in a fight, but lacks a way to digest prey. Their relationship is straightforward enough — the tarryvine darts into the surrounding forest to snatch passing animals or people and dumps them down the bloodoak's mouth, creating a shared meal for the two symbiotes.
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The Symbiote / int_b7f1d3d7	comment	Mobium in Superheroes Anonymous is a semi-sentient Super Serum that provides powers to its recipients while rebuilding their body to be more powerful. Part of the rebuilding is replacing much of the organic tissue with more Mobium, which allows it to spread itself.
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The Symbiote / int_c2f2f4ab	comment	Fledgling: Vampires (or Ina) are like this with humans. In fact, the humans they feed on are called their symbiotes. Ina feed on human blood, and humans are addicted to whatever chemical is in the Ina's saliva. The humans also get to live longer (but they can't be turned). There even is a Hemo Erotic part, with Ina often having sexual relations with their humans.
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The Symbiote / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: The relationship between a TARDIS and its Time Lord pilot is all but stated to be symbiotic. The TARDIS gets taken to places where it can 'refuel' and gets maintained, and the pilot gets transportation and shelter in exchange. However, while a Time Lord can survive without a TARDIS, a TARDIS generally needs someone to keep it in working order.
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The Symbiote / int_c51b8d7a	comment	Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne's Magatama are an odd case, being functionally either mutualistic or commensalistic (physically transforming their hosts into half-demons and granting them various bonuses and serving as a combination or armor and spellbook) but with parasitic traits and explicitly named as such (when leveling up, there's a good possibility of inflicting adverse effects on the user, strong demons are drawn to its power).
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The Symbiote / int_caa217ca	comment	The Accidental Space Spy: One of alien spies have this, the real body is just a oval. Rest of parts such as hands, eyes, etc were parasites but later adopted to mutual status.
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The Symbiote / int_cb45dbdc	comment	PokÃ©mon Scarlet and Violet introduces Dondozo and Tatsugiri, a giant fish Pokemon and a tiny worm-like Pokemon respectively. Tatsugiri hides in Dondozo's mouth, where it'll act like a helpless worm to unsuspecting Pokemon, and when the prey comes close, Dondozo goes in for the kill. They then share their meals. Tatsugiri even has different forms for luring in different types of prey. This is even used in gameplay, with Tatsugiri's signature ability "Commander", which, when paired with Dondozo, raises Dondozo's stats. Dondozo's signature move is "Order Up", which has Dondozo make an elegant pose and then strikes them down when they least expect it. If a Tatsugiri is in its mouth, it raises one of its stats.
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The Symbiote / int_cb6abea3	comment	An spiritual, magical version appears in Yu-Gi-Oh! Marik, in order to fight against his own Superpowered Evil Side, bonds with Yami Bakura and gives him important knowledge, like how to use Ra. Another example is Yami Yugi / The Pharaoh, who was in the Millenium Puzzle and in exchange for having a body (and friends) he will play children's card games.
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The Symbiote / int_cc5d21d5	comment	Men in Black 3: Boris the Animal has a symbiotic relationship with a small creature that burrows into his right hand so he can shoot lethal spikes at a very fast rate. Smuggling his symbiote into prison and giving him free use of his hand is what initially allows him to escape his confinement.
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The Symbiote / int_ce5d6e59	comment	Vaguely Recalling JoJo: Like the original manga, Empress is a parasitic Stand trying to devour Joseph Joestar's body. To make things worse, it is immune to Hamon because it is part of Joseph's body. Joseph defeats it with the help of Ceasar Zeppeli's ghost.
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The Symbiote / int_cec292c4	comment	After Man: A Zoology of the Future had a species of shrew-like mammals that evolved into a parasite, using their mouth to suck blood from their host like a giant mosquito.
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The Symbiote / int_cec960ad	comment	And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird! has Matt, a ghost, possessing Newman, a robot. Matt needs Newman's body to interact with the world, and Newman benefits from having a smarter mental roommate.
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The Symbiote / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill has the Kamui, sentient clothing that feed on their wearer's blood, and in return give them superhuman strength and resilience. May overlap with parasitism, as Kamui can cause exhaustion and Body Horror. Episode 16 reveals that this applies to all life fibers; they're aliens that feed on humans and have helped them evolve so they would eventually wear clothing made of life fibers.
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The Symbiote / int_d502170c	comment	PokÃ©mon Sun and Moon: The Ultra Beast Nihilego attaches itself to other beings, not directly taking them over but instead driving them mad. Its code name is Symbiont (Parasite in the Japanese version). The Pokedex flavor text mentions its victims becoming violent via its neurotoxin, which is shown when it takes over Lusamine.
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The Symbiote / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	In PokÃ©mon: The Series, a Shellder latches onto a Slowpoke permanently to create a Slowbro or Slowking.note This is not true in the games; Slowpoke evolves sans Shellder. Professor Westwood V hypothesizes that Slowpoke evolving into Slowbro via Shellder clamp is mutually beneficial to both PokÃ©mon, as the now-Slowbro is able to use its forearms freely because Shellder acts as a counterweight while Shellder is now able to travel on land.
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The Symbiote / int_d616724d	comment	In League of Legends, Kai'Sa, Daughter of the Void, is a human who was merged with a Voidborn symbiote, manifesting around her as a semi-abstract Bio-Armor. Their relationship is mostly hostile against her but often errs towards mutualism — the symbiote wants to consume everything, including Kai'Sa, but she's able to use the powers it grants her to stave off its hunger through hunting and "consuming" other Voidborn.
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The Symbiote / int_da3eef3a	comment	Parasite Eve: Eve is a mutant mitochondria that evolved to kill its human host and took over her body while the host's body mutates beyond what it once was. Any creature within Eve's presence either goes up in flames or has its own mitochondria mutate and take over the host body. Aya's mitochondria evolved in response to counter Eve by granting Aya powers similar to Eve's without the Body Horror aspect, thus making Aya's relationship with her mitochondria a mutualistic one. In the sequel, Aya notes that her own mitochondria are keeping her body young because a youthful host is advantageous and while she doesn't exactly mind looking and feeling young, she worries that her powers scare people and believes she may not even age normally.
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The Symbiote / int_de90693a	comment	After losing her powers, Spider-Gwen joins with her universe's Venom symbiote to regain them. She and her symbiote eventually enter a healthy relationship after Gwen works through her anger issues (her father had been wrongfully jailed and she's been forced to work for the Kingpin since then, leaving her with a lot of pent up rage) and is able to teach her partner more positive emotions. The only major issue she has come across with her "gummy spiders" since is learning to keep them properly fed.
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The Symbiote / int_e235270c	comment	Stellaris: One event chain concerns a world that contains both nonsentient lizards and weird slug creatures with highly-developed nervous systems. After one of your scientists theorizes that the slugs are symbionts and volunteers to become host for one, the slug telepathically explains that they are a species of long-lived hive minds that used to have a mutually beneficial relationship with the reptilian species on their homeworld, until the reptilians grew suspicious and cast out the brain slugs, only to devolve into nonsapience. The brain slugs seek new hosts, and offer to join your empire. If you accept them, some of your Pops and leaders will gain the "Brain Slug Host" modifier which provides various bonuses, though at the cost of a 25% slower growth rate, and any time a symbiote pop appears on a planet, it will incur a -20 stability penalty due to suspicious locals until 20 years have passed as those without symbiotes get used to living with them.
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The Symbiote / int_e8a4037a	comment	The Behemoth: The nameless worm-thing living inside Roger Harding is an example of this, though it edges toward parasitism — it gives Roger super-powers, including the ability to transform into the titular Behemoth, but grows whenever he uses his powers. It is left vague how large it might grow and how completely it might take over.
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The Symbiote / int_e9159101	comment	The core universe Symbiote species is as well (at least, after 90s retcons). The Venom Symbiote and its spawn are considered mutants by the others. Or they were, before they completely wiped out their Always Chaotic Evil brethren.
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The Symbiote / int_eca8788a	comment	Tremors 5: Bloodlines: The prehensile tongues inside the Graboids' mouth are, at least for the African subspecies, indicated to actually be separate organisms that live in symbiosis with the Sand Worms when one of them jumps out of his big brother's mouth and continues pursuing the heroes like some sort of killer land-eel.
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The Symbiote / int_f0529579	comment	Spider-Man: The symbiotes are oftentimes portrayed as this. Incidentally, this was the original function of its species. Taking a host, driving them to an early death, and then finding another. The fact that the Venom Symbiote wanted to establish a life-time bond with one person made the rest of its race consider it to be psychotic.
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The Symbiote / int_f17c3b1d	comment	Dead Rising: The "Zombees". The cause of the zombie outbreak is a natural species of Colorado wasp that injects a host with larvae that travels into the brain and takes it over, turning the host into a zombie in which the larvae develops.
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The Symbiote / int_f5c936a3	comment	Cloverfield: The giant crab monsters swarming across New York were initially parasites clinging to the big guy, and which got shaken loose during the chaos.
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The Symbiote / int_f74b5f80	comment	The Vindrizi from the Babylon 5 episode "Exogenesis". A race of living recorders designed to preserve the memories and knowledge of their creators, the Vindrizi seek out voluntary hosts who have nothing of their own left to live for.
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The Symbiote / int_f7558a18	comment	Symbiotes in Men in Black: The Series. Basically, they're metamorphic heads which have to attach to other creatures to survive. Having one attached to you means that you get super-strength, shape-shifting, and highly powerful regeneration powers; unfortunately, the only one we see is ungodly annoying and clingy, and if you're bonded with one past a certain period of time, it becomes permanent.
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The Symbiote / int_fa5e90fd	comment	Peacebringers and Warshades in City of Heroes. They're each a kind of Kheldian, Energy Beings from outside our galaxy who can merge with humans; the humans get powers, and the Kheldians get immortality as long as they have a host; their "natural" lifespan is only ten years. They're an unlockable playable class (well, two Archetypes to be precise), and their powers include Shapeshifting into their previous common forms, including a floating tentacled Glass Cannon and a large armoured Stone Wall.
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The Symbiote / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: The series has Headmasters, Targetmasters, and Powermasters. The human partners are kind of like having a gunner in the first two cases, while the human partner gains the armor and weapons of a Transformer. With Powermasters, the human partner serves as the engine on a planet when all fuel sources were poisoned to keep the Transformers' battle away from them. The bad news is that both give up some autonomy. There are also cases where a Transformer forms part of a larger one. Being carried around by (and presumably getting to lap up some spare Energon from) a big guy like Trypticon, Metroplex, or anybody with Maximus in the name is really handy, and the larger TF gets a small army of normal-sized Transformers that are always at his side, and who can handle fine-tune work. On the rare occasions on which Trypticon actually doesn't want to break stuff, he can sit back and send in his little buddies. These guys' status as fully sentient characters vs. remote-controlled tools changes between incarnations.
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The Symbiote / int_fe61112c	comment	Sigma Star Saga: The Krill Parasites are a major part of the Krill's Organic Technology. They envelop the host as armor, form a psychic bond with the host that improves performance, and provide a control link to the Krill ships. They're even part of the culture: the Parasites of female Krill grow wings that can be be detached and given to someone else as a sign of affection.
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The Symbiote / int_fef54eee	comment	Eden Green: The alien needle symbiote is mutualist: the needles are able to spread to new life forms, and the hosts gain nigh-immortality.
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