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** Tyranids from ''40,000'' have weapons that shoot a number of small creatures at an enemy to eat it to death.
* Quite a few cards in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' are meant to reflect this trope, but the Slivers do it best. In general terms, for each Sliver in play, all Slivers in play get stronger, whether just more powerful and tougher, or gaining new abilities.
** The ''original'' Magic Swarm is [httphttps://ww2web.wizardsarchive.comorg/gathererweb/20200328060806/CardDetailshttps://status.aspx?&name=Plague+Ratswizards.com/ Plague Rats], whose power and toughness were both equal to the number of Plague Rats in play. Long after the [[Obvious Rule Patch]] that limited copies of a single card to 4 per 60-card deck, they made an updated version called [https://web.archive.org/web/20060820025010/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=relentlessRelentless%20rats Relentless Rats].
* In [[Traveller]] there is a small planet called Nifhleim that is completely covered with mysterious microscopic creatures(either biological or robotic). Anything that comes to the surface is devoured in hours.
 
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