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* In the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics, this is how the [[ |
* In the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics, this is how the [[Exclusively Evil|evil]] alien Brood reproduce. They were pretty obviously, ah, ''inspired'' by ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''. |
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** Oddly enough, the Brood had a [[Hive Mind]] ''first''. |
** Oddly enough, the Brood had a [[Hive Mind]] ''first''. |
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** 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. |
** 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. |
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