The Assimilator: Difference between revisions

*** It was eventually revealed that assimilating his enemies had the unforeseen side effect of causing Buu to gain a small measure of their morality and sanity. When [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Goku and Vegeta freed Buu's victims]], he reverted to his original form and promptly [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blew up the Earth]] ''[[Complete Monster|just because it happened to be there]].''

** Mr. Popo in ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]''.

'''[[Bowdlerization|Blue]] [[Dragon Ball Kai|Popo]]:''' Oh. Hello, my crass counterpart. I'm Blue Popo, and I...<br />

'''Mr. Popo:''' No.<br />

* The entire ''modus operandi'' of the alien entity in ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]''.

* The Immortals in the ''[[Highlander]]'' series absorb the skills and memories of everyone they kill. Some of the nastier ones get off on this.

** [[Highlander (TV series)|The series]] explores the implications of this at one point, with a build up of all the evil absorbed from killing evil immortals eventually overpowering one guy, turning him evil, requiring some good immortal to defeat him (and thus absorb all that evil and become overpowered by it him/herself)

 

** It could be that the Borg we not interested in assimilating humans in general, simply because they did not really need more drones and it was much easier to annihilate anyone resisting and then grab the rest after the defenders were killed off. In ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' the Borg were noticeably short on man power so they were probably just grabbing everyone they could to increase their strength.

*** Dialogue between Locutus and Worf in ''Best of Both Worlds Part II'' indicates that the Borg do at this point intend to assimilate entire races.

'''Worf''': The Klingon Empire will never yield.<br />

'''Locutus''': Why do you resist? We only wish to raise quality of life for all species.<br />

*** The obliteration of the elder race was not an act of suicide, they merely {{spoiler|didn't manage to get to their save dison-sphere-like "world" (which is a real Paradise) within the space paradox}}. Read the books.

* {{spoiler|The Reapers}} from ''[[Mass Effect]]''. {{spoiler|Every fifty thousand years, they "harvest" all life in the galaxy to turn into more Reapers}}.

* The X parasites in ''[[Metroid]] Fusion'' absorb DNA from anything they infect in order to copy, multiply, and spread.

* Alex Mercer of ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' [[I'm a Humanitarian|eats people and other Infected]] to add their biomass and knowledge to his own. Eating the more powerful Infected like Hunters even grants him new combat powers in the storyline (though the Hunters themselves don't have those abilities). Eating people also grants him the ability to shapeshift into them. Chances are that by the end of the game the player will have had Alex consume ''hundreds if not thousands'' of victims. [[Black and Grey Morality|And he can still be considered something close to a hero in this game.]]

* This seems to be what's going on in ''[[The Breach]]'', although it's never entirely explained. Notably, the victims ''[[Happiness in Slavery|enjoy it]]'' right until they lose their minds completely.

* Parodied in [[Jets N Guns]] when the player meets the Beer Empire, which are an alcohol-based parody of the Borg, complete with Beer Cubes.

* ''[[Evolva]]'' gives us a rare heroic example. Your Genohunters absorb their enemies' bodies to obtain their DNA and use it to get their attacks and skills.

* the Alien Death Slug from [[The Visitor]]. It eats everything it comes across to absorb their DNA, and uses it to rapidly evolve from a worm to a bizarre mashup of features

* Alpha from ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]: [[Animated Adaptation|The Series]]'' used to provide the page picture. He was the original head of MIB but now hunts aliens for body parts to make himself more powerful. The first time we see him, he's still humanoid but has a small arsenal of [[Combat Tentacles]] concealed in his body, and he only gets freakier from there. Interestingly, he moves away from this trope during the last season, modifying himself using {{spoiler|''robot'' parts}} instead.

* Lockdown from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', a bounty hunter who takes a "prize" from each of his targets, is the [[Humongous Mecha]] version of Alpha.

** Oh, and in the tie-in comic, it's revealed that his payment includes parts from an associate of the Decepticon who hired him. That's right, he wants parts from his ''employers'' too.

* The Bugs from ''Roughnecks: [[Starship Troopers]] Chronicles'' do this to the most badass lifeforms on each planet they conquer.