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* Epideme from ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' is an intelligent artificial virus designed to block nicotine cravings. Unfortunately, he decided he'd rather spend his time stealing his various hosts' knowledge before killing them by starving their bodies of nutrients and oxygen, then hijacking their bodies, each time forcing them to bite someone else and transfer him to a new host.

* In ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community/Recap/S2 E06 Epidemiology|Epidemiology]]" Greendale becomes the epicenter of the outbreak for an experimental virus designed by the army.

* Episode 5 of ''[[Danger 5]]'' features a contagion that's turning the Allied soldiers into [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. Its source is a literal wellspring of the "Aryan seed" {{spoiler|and it is sexually transmitted. Exposing it to Swiss blood is the antidote, since in the Dangerverse, [[Artistic License Biology|Swiss blood is... made of gold...]]}}

* Episode 5 of ''[[Danger 5]]'' features a contagion that's turning the Allied soldiers into [[Those Wacky Nazis]]. Its source is a literal wellspring of the "Aryan seed" {{spoiler|and it is sexually transmitted. Exposing it to Swiss blood is the antidote, since in the Dangerverse, [[Artistic License: Biology|Swiss blood is... made of gold...]]}}

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*** They stop spreading it after a few days, that is. Any Pokémon that's ever had the virus will retain the speedy growth forever. It also "freezes" when the Pokémon's in a box, allowing you to keep a few virus-spreaders handy for when you need to infect more of your mons.

** Yamask and Cofagrigus's ability, Mummy, is this. When it is touched by the opponent their ability turns to Mummy.

* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star ~~Fox~~]] Assault'' has the Aparoids, a robotic insect colony from another dimension that infects both biological creatures and mechanical objects.

* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]] Assault'' has the Aparoids, a robotic insect colony from another dimension that infects both biological creatures and mechanical objects.

* Alma does this to Sergeant Keegan in ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.: Project Origin]]'', using her psychic powers to literally make him fall in love with her. The only way to save him is to kill him.

* For a technological example: the unnamed computer super-virus from ''[[Descent]]'', which takes over mining robots and [[Turned Against Their Masters|turns them against humans]], while at the same time drastically increasing their AI. It's much more powerful in the novel adaptations, in which the virus can take over just about any machine and give it sentience, and possesses AI of its own, allowing it to intelligently react to and avoid anti-virus measures.

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* Baron Dark from the cartoon ''[[Skeleton Warriors]]'' could change anyone not "pure of heart" into a Skeleton Warrior.

* The Skeleton King from ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!]]'' does not have that restriction for making zombies.

* Beautiful joke example from ''[[The Tick]]'': when reminiscing about past adventures, Captain Decency remembers the time a villain built a superweapon known as the "Ray Gun". This gun functioned by turning anyone it shot into a duplicate of "some guy named Ray", depicted as a gas station attendant with the nickname "Ray" on his coveralls. Cue incredibly creepy [[Twilight Zone]]-style black-and-white shot of a town filled with identical Rays saying "Hi, I'm Ray!" to each other over and over. Captain Decency then begins to reminisce about a similar adventure involving a "Tommy Gun" before being cut off.

* Beautiful joke example from ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'': when reminiscing about past adventures, Captain Decency remembers the time a villain built a superweapon known as the "Ray Gun". This gun functioned by turning anyone it shot into a duplicate of "some guy named Ray", depicted as a gas station attendant with the nickname "Ray" on his coveralls. Cue incredibly creepy [[Twilight Zone]]-style black-and-white shot of a town filled with identical Rays saying "Hi, I'm Ray!" to each other over and over. Captain Decency then begins to reminisce about a similar adventure involving a "Tommy Gun" before being cut off.

* In ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]'', the eponymous Dark Water had the ability to kill people outright, or [[The Corruption|corrupt them]] into mutated minions or mindless slaves. In one of the more [[Nightmare Fuel]]-laden episodes, an elderly woman tries ingesting a drop of it in a youth potion and it winds up ''consuming her completely from the inside''.

* Daemon was a literal software virus in ''[[Re Boot]]'' as were Megabyte and Hexadecimal. Daemon and Megabyte match this trope better as they had the ability to infect the system's sprites and convert them into their loyal soldiers.