Horde of Alien Locusts: Difference between revisions

== [[Film]] ==

* The Xenomorphs (the titular creatures) from the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' films.

* The invading aliens in ''[[Independence Day]]'' were either these or [[Planet Looters]].

** Given that President Whitmore was temporarily telepathically linked with the aliens, I'd take his word for it:

* The Slaver Sunflowers. from [[Larry Niven]]'s [[Known Space]], are a vegetable version. They exist to turn all other life into fertilizer for themselves.

* The Unclean from the ''[[Star Trek]]'' series "Invasion!". They need three things: warp cores, for energy; new DNA, to re-engineer themselves into useful forms; and BRAAAINS, for intelligence. ([[Fridge Logic|Why can't they just grow their own?]])

** They start out that way, but by the end they have developed a willingness to use human slaves while still alive, if they can be reliably mind controlled, instead of just as food or after snatching their bodies. The queen even offers to let some humans surrender and she keeps them to play house with.

*** Though this is part of the fact that the Vord Queen is essentially defective. She is too human and her eccentricity is viewed as a critical flaw by all her daughter queens who quickly decide that she needs to be eliminated. Its actually part of the Vord programming as it were that their primary objective is to maintain their purity and singularity.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

** And it's implied that the Tyranids are running from something—but what could scare a Horde of Alien Locusts? If it is something that can scare the Tyranids, a race [[Determinator|with determination of an ant colony]], some of the bigger beasts reaching all the way up to [[The Juggernaut|Juggernaut]] status, I shudder to think of what kind of potentially [[Eldritch Abomination|unholy creatures]] they are, and if/when they will arrive.

*** Universe's biggest flyswatter?

* The Planet Eaters from ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]'', as their name implies. The Savage Swarm aren't aliens, but they are [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]] with insatiable appeties.

* The RPG ''Nightbane'' had Shadow Mantis/Locust which rather unsurprisingly are exactly this, except they eat inorganic material as well and are mostly wiped out nowdays.

** The Horde, which are an elemental (and Lawful Evil, ironically) race of insects which vary in size and shape from horde to horde, with all members of a particular horde being identical (i.e., sometimes they will appear as 20 ft. tall golden mantids other times they may appear as foot-long black beetles). They attack and consume anything that is not from their particular horde, even ''other'' hordes.

** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' introduced the Witchlight Marauders - a multi-staged sequential bioweapon made by the Orcs during the Unhuman Wars for [[Kill'Em All|completely devastating entire Elven worlds]] via consumption and ultraviolence. After they kill every living thing on the planet they then turn on themselves.<ref>For those interested, the cycles unfolds as such: The space marauders are 1000' crocodilian heads with [[Space Sailing|sails]] and tentacles, zapping everything that didn't run away with [[Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass|focused reflected light]] and explosive projectiles. They launch primary marauders (200' ravenous slugs) at enemy worlds. The primaries would proceed to devour ''everything'' in their path, up to mineral deposits, belch poisonous gas and periodically eject 2-20 secondary marauders - 20' tall vaguely humanoid monsters with metal teeth and (poisoned) claws - capable of climbing sheer walls and [[Berserk Button|obsessed with killing anything that smells like an elf]]. The secondaries, once full of hot fey meat, would then (you guessed it) birth 1-4 tertiary marauders - 4' tall humanoid berserkers with swords for hands, very fast and as hungry as their progenitors. Once the primaries got their fill of sylvan carnage they'd burrow deep into the ground and split into two new primaries to start the grisly cycle all over again.</ref>

** There was some fungus from Abyss that gradually eats everything. An attempt to get rid a world of the infestation destroying it by banishing all fungus to the plane of Vacuum only made it mutate further into Egarus - which is said to devour the existence as such: anything and anyone that was left close to it for too long simply vanishes.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Smoke's ending in ''[[Mortal Kombat]] Armageddon'' has him fusing with his fellow Cyberninjas Sektor and Cyrax and doing the Nanomachine version of this.

* The Flood from the ''[[Halo]]'' series are somewhere between Alien Locusts and [[The Virus]].

** There is also a Shen Gong Wu that releases a horde of stone locusts that luckily are solely herbivorous, but really quick at it. It was found in the episode in which the [[Monster of the Week|once-appearing villain]] was a plant, not stoppable in any other way.

* The Parasprites in ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]''. They started off eating every edible thing that they could get their teeth on, until Twilight casted a spell to remove their hunger for food. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Whereupon they started eating everything else instead]].

 

== Other ==