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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' bring us [[
** The gods Tzeench, Nurgle, Slaanesh and Khorne are descended from beings reflecting hope, determination, love, and honor respectively. The evil deeds and thoughts of the Warhammer galaxy's inhabitants spawned the overpoweringly evil versions of [[The Heartless|those beings]] that now rule [[Hyperspace Is a Scary Place|the warp]].
*** Warpstone is Chaos energy solidified into crystalline form, so while it's still as corruptive as true Chaos, it can also be used as [[Green Rocks]] by those blessed with either ignorance, a good sense of denial, or a willing embrace of Corruption.
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** The ''straight'' one is Gremlin Syndrome, a sort of pseudo-cancer derived from the Primordial Autochthon's sickness. See [[Nightmare Fuel]] for an explanation.
* This is generally how ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' treats Phyrexia, especially while its remnants invade and warp Mirrodin.
* [[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]] may have been the original game to use this concept, with the Sanity score. The more you learn about the Cthulhu Mythos, the more effective a monster-hunter and magician you become . . . and the lower your Sanity drops until you eventually go mad and join the forces of cosmic horror.
* Rather than having a special stat for corruption, '''''[[GURPS]]''''' cuts out the middleman and gives you disadvantages worth some number of [[Point Buy|character points]], in proportion to the evilness of whatever's corrupting you this week.
* This is the nasty downside of using [[Magitek|arcanowave technology]] from ''[[Feng Shui]]'', which is made of demons and [[Black Magic]]. Every time you use it, it sends bent magic into your system like a virus. If you use it too much, you start mutating into something horrific and run the risk of becoming an Abomination, one of the altered demons that the Buro, the government of the 2056 juncture where this technology hails, uses to fight its wars.
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** [[Metroid Prime|Metroid Prime 2: Echoes]], Samus visits a second Leviathan-struck planet. Planet Aether became unstable due to the interaction between its own physical properties and those of Phazon, resulting in a permanent state of trans-dimensional flux that connected it with another version of itself, dubbed Dark Aether. Dark Aether is a barren wasteland full of Phazon, albeit not inhospitable, being inhabited by the Ing, which also have parasitic and corrupting abilities. Due to Space pirates being present in the planet, as well as the native Luminoth, the entire planet broke into a war of three opposing sides for survival. Several Aether creatures and those brought from Tallon IV by the pirates become victims of both phazon and ing corruption as well.
*** Interesting to note, only one Ing was willing to touch Phazon without a middleman. That should have warned people.
** [[Metroid Prime|Metroid Prime 3: Corruption]] opens with attacks on three planets by Leviathans. Bryyo and Elysia are impacted by the meteorites, while Norion is saved in the last moment by Samus and the other hunters. In the process, all four hunters become infected with Phazon, and their bodies develop a tumor-like Phazon-producing gland that slowly corrupts them. The Galactic Federation decides to take advantage of the hunters' corruption by adapting their body suits with a phazon powered 'P.E.D.' weapons system. [[
* [[Ryzom]] features a substance called the Goo, which is purple [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|goo]] that spouts from fissures in the ground; the Goohead tribe abuse it as a psychedelic drug, the local wildlife becomes stronger and more hostile around it, and too high of a concentration of the stuff will cause you continuous damage while you're in the area.
* The first villain faced in ''[[Tron 2.0]]'' is an ex-executive who was incorrectly digitized into the computer world and became a virus, his poisoning presence was even referred to as The Corruption. Infected programs who attack you have a chance of infecting one of your subroutines (weapons and equipment), making it have the opposite effect until you complete a virus scan on that subroutine. Oddly, you eventually get to use the special weapons of the Corrupted yourself without risk of self-infection.
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* Ember in ''[[Torchlight]]'' has this effect, granting magical power but at the risk of turning you evil.
* In ''[[Dark Earth]]'', your character Arkhan is literally poisoned by a face full of liquid evil while on his very first day on his new job as a Guardian of the Flame, and starts to mutate into a creature of the Dark. You must help him find a cure before the transformation is complete. While one side-effect of the mutation is a [[Took A Level Of Badass|Level of Badass]], the more you use it, the more the mutation takes hold. When the mutation reaches 100%, you get a [[Nonstandard Game Over|Non-standard Game Over]].
* In ''[[Bloodnet]]'', your hero is a vampire who has an instant-kill bite attack, but each use of it decreases his humanity a little and brings him closer to the [[Nonstandard Game Over]] (in addition to the [[In
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] II'', utilizing your Drive Form repeatedly may result in Sora turning into hist Anti-Form that resembles a feral Heartless. Although the form can fight with near limitless combos the lack of a finishing move means it can never be used to defeat a boss and the inability to control its appearance make it, for the most part, [[Deadly Upgrade|a penalty]].
** Not to mention you take double damage and can't heal yourself while in this form.
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