The Assimilator: Difference between revisions

** Indeed there is; {{spoiler|Turns out, victims of "legionization" are forcefully turned into [[Hollywood Cyborg|Hollywood Cyborgs]]s, which somehow makes them [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] as they're sent out to form new branches of the Dark Egg Legion.}} All they needed was a "[[Resistance Is Futile]]" speech to top it all off.

* 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 somewhere--insomewhere—in a cloud, on a rock, even on a billboard--withbillboard—with a smile on your lips but a scream in your eyes. If you don't get out by sunrise, but you survive, you're enslaved for the rest of your (un)natural life, but you retain your memories and a certain degree of freedom. And if you're really, really unlucky, you go to [[Body Horror|the Works]]. (It's never clear what precisely is taken, but the [[Big Bad]] says at one point that as the park grows in power it comes closer to being real and all other realities come closer to being imaginary).

* 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|Puppeteer Parasites]]s to animate and control people. This is a permanent condition and basically turns the victim into zombies. However, over the course of the series they learned the value of intelligent slaves, so they began using a version of the local [[Functional Magic]] to cause [[Happiness in Slavery]] so people would serve them while still physically alive and well.

* The Borg from ''[[Star Trek]]'' are the [[Trope Namers]] and [[Trope Codifier|Trope Codifiers]]s. Oddly enough, the Borg as originally conceived and depicted in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' were a bit more modest on the whole "you will be assimilated" angle. The early Borg were only interested in taking all the ''technological prowess'' that other species possessed, not the assimilation of their members, as they bred all of their own offspring themselves. Even the assimilation of Picard in the "Best of Both Worlds" two-parter was carried out only for strategic reasons. It wasn't until ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' that they were retooled to [[Rule of Scary|physically resemble decaying corpses]], and just began to [[Flanderization|hostily assimilate entire civilizations]] into [[Hive Mind|their collective]].