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** Than there is Robotnik who uses animals as a power source for his robots.
*** When he's not turning them '''into''' robots.
** Indeed there is; {{spoiler|Turns out, victims of "legionization" are forcefully turned into [[Hollywood Cyborg
* The Brood from ''[[X-Men]]'' reproduce this way, by injecting their eggs into unwilling hosts. This does not so much produce a juvenile hatchling as it does turn the unfortunate host ''into'' a Brood, which has all the memories and skills of its "parent".
** The X-Men also have/had the Phalanx, who infected targets with a techno-organic virus and brought them into their machine-like hivemind.
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== Literature ==
* The One in ''[[Animorphs]],'' as well as Father from one of the prequels. (Coincidence? ...yeah, probably.)
* The horror novel ''Full Tilt'' takes a more impersonal approach to the trope: if you die in the [[Amusement Park of Doom]], your face appears
* In the ''[[Nightside]]'' novel ''Agents of Light and Darkness'', a minor character in the story named Belle does this. She hunts down powerful creatures, taking contracts on them if possible, and incorporates their skin into either her leather outfit or herself. She has a personal power letting her preserve and use the magic of the skin's original owners. (Her last acquisition before showing up was a pair of boots made of the skin of a minor Greek god with speed-based powers.) She lasts as long as most antagonists in these books: just long enough to explain in detail how dangerous she is before offhandedly nullifying her.
* The Swarm from ''[[Wild Cards]]''.
** Also, the Righteous Djinn.
* A mix between this and [[Grand Theft Me]] is one of the abilities of {{spoiler|The Cunning Man}} from [[Discworld/I Shall Wear Midnight|I Shall Wear Midnight]].
* The Vord in [[Jim Butcher]]'s ''[[Codex Alera]]'' series has elements of this. They start out as a [[Hive Mind]] with a caste system; most of them are [[Insectoid Aliens]] ranging from the size of a dog to a bear, but some are much smaller and capable of serving as [[Puppeteer Parasite
* [[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]] contains a possible example. Voldemort used Inferi, reanimated corpses, to guard one of his [[Soul Jar|Horcruxes]]. These inferi overwhelm Harry and try to drown him. Harry suspects that he himself will become an inferi after he dies.
* ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' has [[Eldritch Abomination|Abeloth]]. Interestingly, {{spoiler|when she absorbs Callista, Callista's feelings for Luke Skywalker cause her to fall in love with him too. This goes away when Luke manages to free Callista's spirit from her.}}
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* Sylar from ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', whereas Peter is more [[Mega Manning]].
** ''Doubly'' so now that Sylar can {{spoiler|assimilate other peoples very identities, through a combination of a shapeshifting power that lets him copy anyone whose DNA he samples via touch, and a psychic power that lets him absorb memories via touch.}}
* The Borg from ''[[Star Trek]]'' are the [[Trope Namers]] and [[Trope Codifier
** Debatable, since in "Best of Both Worlds" they do say "Your culture will be adapted to service us." While certainly their first appearance only reference technology they were after humans themselves the second time.
** 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.
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