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|James Raynor, [[StarCraft]]}}
Usually occurs in sci-fi works, '''Meat Moss''' is when a facility, usually a lab of some sort, is altered by [[The Virus]] where the walls are covered with a thick meaty biomass. This is also typical of an alien race that uses [[Organic Technology]]. Although, it is a good way of saying "This is [[The Virus]]'s territory" or "The heroes are on a techno-organic spaceship", it [[Fridge Logic|raises questions]] as to how this biomass is sustaining itself as well as its purpose other than as setting decor. Sufficient amounts of meat moss can also result in a [[Womb Level]]. And when it's divine punishment, you have the [[Bloody Bowels of Hell]]. Compare [[Mordor]].▼
▲{{quote|''"What the... it looks like the ground there is alive..."''|James Raynor, [[Starcraft]]}}
▲Usually occurs in sci-fi works, Meat Moss is when a facility, usually a lab of some sort, is altered by [[The Virus]] where the walls are covered with a thick meaty biomass. This is also typical of an alien race that uses [[Organic Technology]]. Although, it is a good way of saying "This is [[The Virus]]'s territory" or "The heroes are on a techno-organic spaceship", it [[Fridge Logic|raises questions]] as to how this biomass is sustaining itself as well as its purpose other than as setting decor. Sufficient amounts of meat moss can also result in a [[Womb Level]]. And when it's divine punishment, you have the [[Bloody Bowels of Hell]]. Compare [[Mordor]].
May overlap with [[Alien Kudzu]].
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== Anime
* Depending on [[Game Face|how amiable they're feeling]], the interior of more evil [[Living Ship]]s in ''[[Lost Universe]]'' can suddenly shift from their normal [[ISO Standard Human Spaceship]] to sprout squelching masses of tentacles.
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== Literature ==
* Red Weed in ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'' and one or two film adaptations thereof.
* Croach in ''[[Codex Alera]]''
* Greg Bear's 1985 novel ''[
== Film ==
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Magic:
** A carpet of rotting flesh covers the ground in Grixis.
** In New Phyrexia, the interior of the compleated Lumengrid is covered in pulsating, organic tissue.
* ''[[Warhammer
* White Wolf's [[Old World of Darkness|first]] ''[[World of Darkness]]'' RPG: In ''[[
== Video Games ==
* Until it was [[Jossed]] by [[Word of God|Notch]], Netherrack in ''[[Minecraft]]'' was thought to be this, or blood covered stone. It's actually just Red Stone with moss on it.
* ''[[Prototype (
* The Shadow from ''[[Amnesia:
* The Flood from ''[[Halo]]'' do this to heavily-infested areas. In the Halo 3 manual it's implied that they do this to collect enough bone matter for the shapeshifting "pure" flood forms that aren't based on an infected body. The effect is usually just a few cocoon-like clumps in the corners, but in Halo 3, we get to see a ship that the Flood has had control over for quite some time, even [[Womb Level|converting doors into sphincters]].
* Zerg Creep from ''[[
** The infested Command Centers do play this one straight though.
** In-game fluff describes zerg buildings to be literal organs and zerg "bases" as whole a literal organism. So creep is somewhat closer to a fluid circulation system - it's required to keep the organs saturated. Infested Terran buildings are somewhat justified in that zerg cannot manipulate tools, so they need the entire thing hardwired into their command network of telepathic overlords to make any use of it.
** Zerg creep is vital to zerg biology. Minerals and gas are "digested" at the central zerg organ (hatchery/lair/hive) and then fed to the other organ-buildings in your base through the creep. Without the creep's nourishment, these organs slowly starve and fail. Zerg units can also be fed in this manner - being on creep boosts their metabolism, making them move and regenerate faster. Certain units (like the Queen and the Hydralisk) have their "feet" specially adapted to moving on this creep as well.
** In game, when playing as a non-zerg race, it is usually safe to assume that creep = zerg territory, and that they can see everything you're doing on while you're on it.
* ''[[Parasite Eve (video game)|Parasite Eve]]'' uses this trope every now and again. It's especially noticeable in post-game content.
* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' has this caused by Las Plagas. Surprisingly, it doesn't show up much in other games.
* ''[[Doom (series)|Doom]]'' 3 features a red, meaty growth gradually taking over the base - Sarge even describes it using almost exactly those words.
* Phazon from the ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' trilogy. Technically, Phazon is an element, but it also has biological/liquid properties. Really, it's [[Green Rocks|best not to question Phazon's capabilities]] lest the [[Fridge Logic]] set in.
** Its actually stated somewhere in the games that phazon is a plant, somewhat fungal in nature, which the space pirates process into the other solid and liquid forms we see for use in weapons and biological experimentation. It is also hinted to have some form of lower intelligence akin to hive minded single-cells, which in large enough groupings (such as the freaking PLANET made of the stuff) can become sentient.
* The DomZ from ''[[Beyond Good
* ''[[Dead Space (
** [[Schmuck Bait|GOOD NEWS!]] {{spoiler|They're wrong. [[It Got Worse|Bad news]]: that moss is the dust - that is ''shed human skin cells'' - on the ship being converted by the Necromorph virus.}}
* ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' IV. You'll eventually come across a {{spoiler|false Endless made from Nina's sister}}. To reach {{spoiler|her}}, you'll have to climb through the bowels (heh), of a building slowly being filled with {{spoiler|her}} presumably still-living flesh, eventually leading to a brief [[Womb Level]].
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' features this trope in the Circle of Magi tower as a symptom of the [[Demonic Possession|abominations']] presence. Red and pink-colored chunks of meat, complete with short spikes, are beginning to cover the pillars and walls of the tower. The corruption gets worse as one goes higher into the tower, and if the music isn't playing, you can hear the squelching noises of the
** The similarity between this and the corruption of [[The Soulless|darkspawn]] is noted by at least one companion.
* In the original ''[[Fallout]]'', you find loads of this stuff at the bottom level of {{spoiler|the Cathedral's vault. It's part of the [[Big Bad|Master]], who's been mutated by FEV into a [[Muck Monster]].}}
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** And also in the original ''[[System Shock]]'', though it's justified by it appearing in Beta Grove (simulation of a park, so it has the necessary equipment for plant life).
* Possibly subverted in ''[[Resistance Fall of Man]]''. In which you encounter growths that appear to be this. {{spoiler|Only for them to explode, revealing themselves as eggsacs full of the games [[Goddamn Bats]].}}
* Seen in the [[Dark World
* [[The Virus|Beast]]-Subverted ships in ''[[
* The ''[[Marathon
* Present near the end of ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Aquaria (
* ''[[Evolva]]'': The towers you have to destroy in several levels? If you watch the initial cutscene, you'll see that the Parasites creates them through dilatations from its tentacles. What means they're made from the same matter as the tentacles.
== Web Original ==
* There's several patches of this around the facility in ''[[
** {{spoiler|Guess what the [[Psycho Serum|"cure"]] was made from?}}
* [[Creepypasta|The Dogscape.]]
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== Real Life ==
* Several varieties of mold can give walls this kind of look.
* Biofilm is basically loads of bacteria that have had a population explosion, and due to the nature of bacteria, extremely resistant to medicines, as the outer layer absorbs the chemical, dies, gets eaten, and replaced. Fortunately, as of yet, they can't form [[Combat Tentacles]].
** Exceptionally thick biofilm, called a microbial mat, covered the bottom of most of the ocean for much if not most of Earth's history (starting fairly soon after the beginning of microbial life 3.7 billion years ago). The mat only disappeared in the Cambrian (about 600 million years ago), when animals learned how to burrow into the sand (which broke up the mat).
* Snottites, icky cave formations that are actually bacterial colonies feeding on the mineral water dripping from the ceiling.
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