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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': Parasite Paracide could be considered to fit this in the anime, at least Joey's Panther Warrior has gotten infected with it, leading to some parasite wing wong coming out of its mouth.
* ''[[Rental Magica]]'' has a variety of Cordyceps (see [[Real Life]] section) which grows on humans in early stage of development. It's rare, so its cultivators contract suitable people as hosts {{spoiler|(and plant it on themselves for that matter)}}. However, its requirements as a parasite are negligible and it has no side effects worse than making host's hand look weird. It's more dangerous that it's a strong material component for [[Necromancer|necromancy]] ''and'' {{spoiler|on the last stage of a life cycle destroys magical barriers--including ones preventing its detection}}.
* {{spoiler|Saika}} from ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s means of [[The Virus|taking over people]] involves implanting the soul of one of it's "children" in the cut it creates.
* ''[[Franken Fran]]'' provides an example with a female creature, {{spoiler|"Azusa" the mutant mimic octopus}}, but the results are just as unpleasant for the human.
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* In [[Jo Clayton]]'s ''Irsud'', book 3 of ''Diadem from the Stars'', Aleytys was sold to a insect-like species to be used as the host for their next queen, which would consume her as time passed; Aleytys' abilities made her particularly good fodder.
* The ''[[Wraeththu]]'', from Storm Constantine's eponymous series, reproduce by injecting their blood on a human male, who then transforms into one of the androgynous anemone-penised mutants. Optionally, they ''can'' just have "relations" with a human being...but in that case, their "secretions" would prove fatal to the human.
* The lubbocks in [[Diana Wynne Jones]]' ''[[House of Many Ways]]'' reproduce by laying their eggs in human hosts. Males infected this way simply die when the eggs hatch, but females give birth to purple-eyed [[
* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Dreamcatcher]]'', exposure to ''byrus'', a moss-like alien substance, occasionally causes humans to be impregnated with a serpent-like creature called a ''byrum''. It spends a few days or hours in the victim's intestine, growing and eating the poor victim from the inside, after which it makes its exit through the anal orifice, killing the host in the process. Side-effects of having a ''byrum'' growing inside you includes a bulging, pregnant-looking abdomen, frequent chemical-smelling flatulence, and telepathic abilities.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] played with this:
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* ''Bloodchild'', a short story by Octavia Butler: Human hosts (almost always male) act as incubators for eggs of the female aliens, who look something like human-size centipedes. If the host is lucky, the mother gets to him in time to extract the newly hatched larvae before they eat their way out. This relationship is presented as symbiotic; the aliens cherish the human families from whom they select their hosts.
* One of the "[[Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark]]" is of a girl with an inexplicable red spot on her face, that grows bigger and bigger... and explodes with spiders.
* [[Anne McCaffrey]] wrote a short story called "Horse From A Different Sea" for her collection ''Get Off the Unicorn''. The gist of the story is a small town doctor notices that a large number of his male patients are having odd symptoms like nausea, weight gain and unusual cravings. The men have nothing in common but visiting a "house of ill-repute". After running every test he could think of the doctor finds out the men are pregnant and that the "ladies" have vanished along with the house they were in. It was done with very little horror.....given the subject matter....
* Puppetteers from Niven's [[Known Space]] novels reproduce this way, although they only use a species of nonsentient (we hope!) herd animal from their own planet as hosts.
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* There's a ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' card for everything: [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=158687 Spawnwrithe].
** Corpsehatch, too. Again, is there any trope the Eldrazi don't fall under?
*** [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]].
* Nearly half of the various creature species in the ''[[GURPS]]'' sourcebook ''Creatures of the Night'' need humans as a component in their reproductive cycle in one way or another.
* ''[[Changeling: The Lost]]'': {{spoiler|I bet you think there's some entry on a particularly nasty [[Our Goblins Are
** This isn't normally done specifically for the purpose of procreation. On the other hand, unwanted pregnancies aren't unknown among humans either.
* The Broos, beastmen in ''[[Rune Quest]]'' procreate by rape. They can and will mate with ''anything'', but the chance of this actually resulting in a living Broo... ''larva'' is greatest if the victim is a still living being of suitable size. Hence, most Broo look like goats, deer or antelopes on two legs, since capturing a herbivore like that and impregnating it is easy, but there are Broo born of various humanoids, huge predators like dinosaurs, and, well, ''rocks''.
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''Everything else is just meat, singing to itself in the dark.'' }}
** The Thing From The Deeps in the ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'' supplement "Horror Recognition Guide" is a ''very'' unpleasant tentacle demon that kills people in order to reproduce. After it's killed, the hunter responsible finds himself being followed by creepy individuals who [[Half-Human Hybrid|don't seem fully human]] and keep glaring at him with eyes full of hate.
* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives us a few Yozis with powers like this. Kimbery represents motherhood in all its positive and negative aspects, and since she's lost the ability to sire children herself (due to the fact that her main form is an acidic ocean), she's got the ability to infect others with her own mutant youth and have them undergo the joys of childbirth. Metagaos, meanwhile, is a swamp that devours everything, including space, time, color, and health - which means that even if you survive a trip through his depths, you'll be bearing something that will make you wish you hadn't.
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** There's also the parasites that the mutated [[One-Winged Angel]] William Birkin implants into people (Ben in Leon's 1st scenario, and Chief Irons in Claire's 1st scenario), which burst out of their victim's chest Alien-style, then metamorphose into a creature that resembles a Xenomorph. It manages to infect a corrupt Umbrella worker in ''Resident Evil: Outbreak'', too.
** Then there's Saddler's favorite method of killing people: impaling them on a giant tentacle like appendage with a razor sharp stinger on the end... [[Gag Penis|that seems to come from a junction between his legs]].
** Plagas make a return in ''Resident Evil 5'', this time being an egg that other hosts literally shove down the throat of a victim, making it a more literal application of this trope.
* The only way the Chimera in ''[[Resistance]]'' can gain new numbers is to more or less gather up infected or dead humans and [[Body Horror|warp them into foot soldiers]].
* Look no further than the [[Halo (series)|Flood.]] And you get to see it happen in real time in the third game.
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* While their isn't any evidence the [[Personal Space Invader|Headcrabs]] of the ''[[Half-Life (series)|Half-Life]]'' series use their hosts for reproduction, they fit this trope almost entirely otherwise, commandeering the nervous system of a viable host and using it for their own purposes, with the whole experience being [[Fate Worse Than Death|very unpleasant]].
** However, the new types of headcrabs introduced in ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' (and their attendant new zombie types) include one that apparently DOES use the host body to reproduce, then FLINGS THE OFFSPRING AT YOU.
** A monster that got [[Dummied Out]] of the final [[Half Life]], nicknamed [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|'Mr. Friendly']], was designed to '''rape the player to death''' as its final attack.
* Many of the bad ends of the ''[[Inyouchuu]]'' games involve the heroines being captured by demons and forced to bear demon babies. In the third game in the series, the heroines intentionally use this trope as part of a plan to save their friend.
* In ''[[Aliens vs. Predator]] 2'', a facehugger jumping on your face quite literally shows this. The entire screen become the alien's underside with a very phallic tube swinging around in front of your face, implied to be going in your mouth (which can't be seen, since it's an [[First-Person Shooter|FPS]]). It's instant-death, and after you see the "wing wong," the game cuts to your body laying on the floor, where you see your chest swell up, your body convulse, and an alien pops out.
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* Reversed in the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch", where a (male) alien is impregnated by skin contact with a human.
* In an episode of ''[[Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius]],'' Jimmy's friend Carl is impregnated (in the butt) by a flying alien [[Electric Jellyfish]]. It's "born" by static electric discharge from the behind, but is otherwise fairly harmless.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': A [[Halloween Episode|Treehouse of Horror]] episode has Kang as the father of Maggie.
{{quote|'''Marge''': (voiceover) I tried to resist, but they applied powerful mind-confusion techniques.
'''Kang''': Look behind you. (She looks, and Kang uses a ray gun to impregnate her) Insemination complete.
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