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** Oddly enough, the Brood had a [[Hive Mind]] ''first''.

** The ''X-Men'' comics in general feature many cases of [[Body Horror]]. For every two mutants, one of the two is deformed in some shape or form due to their powers. Making things worse was the notion of when these deformities would manifest themselves; while some mutants are born deformed, others are born normal looking until they reach their teenage years, at which point their mutant powers kick in and they find their bodies warping, turning them from being handsome/beautiful to being hideously disfigured freaks. And even then, it's a crapshoot towards the extent of one's body horror: Angel and Wolverine, for instance, only suffered minor deformities, whereas mutants like Marrow (bones growing out of her body, which had to be broken off at regular intervals like one might cut one's hair), Husk (ability to develop and shed layers of skin of various biological compositions), or Mercury (body turning into a liquid metal substance) manifest far more grotesque variations. This led to Chris Claremont conceiving "The Morlocks": an underground community of homeless mutants, most of which were mutants that were too deformed to fit in with normal society.

* And ''[[Spider-Man]]'' himself. All the mutations he's undergone, from gaining more arms, to transforming into a giant spider (with a description of his feelings in the process) and what happened to him when he was killed.

* The Chester Brown underground comic ''Yummy Fur'' has such delights as the author eating his own snot (which he has admitted to doing), a man's hand spontaneously falling off, Ed the Happy Clown's {{spoiler|penis growing a miniature talking, thinking Ronald Reagan head at its tip}}, a man who shits so much that he suffocates himself and many others, graphic scenes of penis surgery and so much more. Chester Brown himself, by all accounts has a very amiable, mild personality.

** You forgot to mention Wolverine's allergic reaction to adamantium.

* In Marvel's ''District X'', one mutant can't sit anywhere for too long because his feet grow roots that break through his shoes and lash him to the ground. After being [[Foreshadowing|cut away from the pavement]] in an early issue, he later {{spoiler|grows into the wall of a sewer channel and essentially becomes an underground tree}}.

** In Marvel's ''Mutopia X'', Agent Popova (after a failed assassination attempt on Daniel Kaufman) was blackmailed into performing favors for Kaufman by having her surgically altered into what many might consider a hideous (or beautiful) mutant appearance.

* If you think about it, [[Bee-Bee Gun|Swarm the Nazi-Made-Of-Bees]]. He was a Nazi scientist studying bees who [[I Love Nuclear Power|exposed them to radiation]], only for them to mutate and [[Family-Unfriendly Death|devour him down to his bones.]] These bees apparently had a [[Hive Mind]], which he became, and lived on as a man made of bees, sometimes wrapped around his human skeleton, sometimes not. This has never really been explored, perhaps because of the absurdity of a colony of telepathic bees with Nazi sympathies, but being devoured and becoming a colony of bees sounds like it would be pretty damn traumatic.

** Venom eventually ate the skeleton, but because you can't keep a good Bee-Nazi down, Swarm can now create new bodies by possessing a queen bee and using her hive. He's gone from horrific to pure [[Paranoia Fuel]], a rather impressive feat for a fairly lame villain.

** His Marvel (sort of) equivalent [[Man-Thing]] is potentially even worse.

*** Well, there is virtually nothing left of Ted Sallis's mind left in Man-Thing; Man-Thing doesn't need to cope, because most of the time, he's not even sapient. Of course the fact that all those who know fear are horrifically burned more than makes up for that in terms of [[Body Horror]].