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{{quote|'''Buffy:''' You and bug people, Xander. What's up with that?<br />
'''Xander:''' No, but this dude was completely different than praying mantis lady. He was a man ''of'' bugs, not a man who ''was'' a bug.|''[[
Sometimes, when you want a [[Grotesque Gallery|really scary]] monster, a [[Attack of the
Well, you call this guy. He isn't just ''one'' bug - he's ''[[The Swarm|millions]]''! Millions of tiny creepy crawlies make up his body, as if his entire body is composed of [[Synchronized Swarming]] controlled by a [[Hive Mind]]. Sometimes it's worms, sometimes it's insects - [[Everything's Worse
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Beelzebub in ''[[
* ''[[Naruto]]'' has Shino Aburame and the rest of the Aburame clan, who while not made of bugs, house swarms of energy-draining beetles in their bodies since sortly after their birth - perhaps even more disturbing than simply being composed of the insects. A "[[Me's a Crowd|Bug Clone]]" technique also exists, in which the user creates a clone of himself out of those beetles, more true to this trope.
** {{spoiler|Orochimaru's ''true'' true form (yeah, he seems to have a lot of those) is that he's made of snakes, while being a giant snake himself. What do the snakes look like? Well, they certainly don't do anything to take away his reputation as a creepy boy watcher.}} Even before that was revealed, it was evident he was made of {{spoiler|snakes}} when he got cut in half and had them spring out of his halves to pull them together.
** Tsunade's Summon, Katsuya the Slug, could dissolve into many smaller slugs, each of which talks and behaves like the original.
* Mrs. Robinson in ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure
* Arachne from ''[[Soul Eater]]'' hid herself by turning her body into 3000 spiders that spread across the world, and then hid her soul inside a giant Golem.
* In ''[[
* In Hayao Miyazaki's ''[[Princess Mononoke]]'', a demon in the beginning appears as a giant, moving mass of worms. [[Body Horror|You don't want to touch it.]]
** {{spoiler|Technically, all demons are forest gods corrupted and covered with the snake/worm things. May still apply though, since the things ''almost'' seem to compose the body of the demons}}
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** In a metaphysical sense, yes, Zazie is 'the worm who walks,' but both of its bodies are perfectly normal humans. Zazie's ''mind'' is made of insects--it's the currect interactive hub for a [[Hive Mind]] of the native sandworms.
* Benisato in ''[[Ninja Scroll]]'' does have a normal body, but she can use a writhing mass of snakes to hide or [[Combat Tentacles|fight with]].
* Dokubachi in ''[[
* Borgir Bor from the ''[[Bastard!!]]'' anime/manga series.
* Gambon's mooks in ''[[Hokuto no Ken]] 2'' have speciality called the Centipede Fighting, where they hop on each others shoulder to form, well, [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Berserk]]'' the Godhand do not have bodies that exist [[Layered World|in the material realm]], so when they want to effect things they need to take pre-existing materials to make bodies from: Slan once made a body from troll guts and Conrad made one from a mass of rats.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In ''[[The Savage Dragon]]'' comic, one of the supervillains is Horde, a body possessed by worms. It's later revealed that this is the wizard Fon~Ti (who granted Mighty Man his powers) who was taken over by one of Mighty Man's enemies, the Wicked Worm.
* In one of his earlier adventures, John Constantine, ''[[
* The one-shot ''[[Spider-Man]]'' villain [http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix3/thousandkingcarl.htm The Thousand] was made of an army of spiders that jumped from body to body.
** So was Ms. Arrow, "The Other."
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* ''Daniel X: Alien Hunter'' - Played straight with Number 7, a human-alien being made up of a colony of ants. Not only was he partially responsible for the deaths of reality warper hero, Daniel X's, family, he also is the grandmaster of an interplanetary game where alien hunters kill innocent aliens for sport, resulting in the extinction of a peaceful, furry species whose culture is based on color. The utter subversion comes from Kilgore, who happens to be Number 7's "son". Much to his "father's" chagrin, Kilgore is a sweet, loving, trusting, and very geeky alien who becomes fast friends with Daniel X. When he "dies" by being reabsorbed back into his father, this unleashes Daniel X's berserk button, and he kills Number 7 by releasing a potion that disrupts the pheremone bonds the ants use to communicate in his body.
* [[Bone]]: {{spoiler|The Hooded One turned out to be a woman who was [[Half the Man He Used To Be|cut in half]] then had her body put put back and held together by the Lord of the Locust's insects.}}
* The second [[
* The Purple Ants in Jon Lewis's ''[[True Swamp]]'' kill a man and use his skeleton as a framework to become one of these.
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* ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'': Oogie Boogie, the only inhabitant of Halloweentown who is outright evil instead of just playfully scary, is made of sackcloth sewn together over thousands of bugs (and one snake!).
** ''My bugs! My bugs! My bugs...''
* ''[[
* The Ra'azac in the [[The Film of the Book|movie version]] of ''[[Eragon (
* A character in the film ''[[
* After being released from her bonds in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: At World's End'', the sea goddess Calypso grows to about 30 feet tall then dissolves in a shower of crabs, to escape into the ocean and set the mood ([[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|confusion]]) for the final battle.
* In ''[[
* When the [[
* Played in a hilarious fashion in the Disney sequel, ''[[Halloweentown (
* [[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah|Destroyah]] is a truly massive example, although as its component creatures are microbes, it appears solid to the naked eye.
* In the live-action modern version of ''[[The Sorcerer's Apprentice
* In ''[[Fright Night]] Part II'' the undead . . . thing . . . Bozworth spends most of the film catching, identifying and then ingesting insects. When finally killed, he bursts open to reveal he's pretty much skin, skeleton, and lots of squirming little bugs.
* ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin and the Return of Jafar]]'' has a variant, where the Genie and Abu's picnic is attacked by a swarm that spiders that pile together before turning back into Jafar. The bugs weren't his true form, however--apparently [[For the Evulz|he just wanted to freak them out]].
* Inverted in ''[[The Human Centipede]]''. There, you have a large borderline insectoid made up of three humans.
* The [[Sy Fy]] film ''The Bone Snatcher'' has a swarm of demonic ants that achieve a rudimentary humanoid form using the bones of people they've eaten. It's... actually kind of cool.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Finding Nemo]]'' with the school of fish that forms itself into various shapes. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le13by2WM70 Here it is.]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svOlz2ei4Yk This] Kollywood film, starts out as your standard Terminator robot with Matrix effects, then becomes a macro-nanobot snake made of guys
* Reedman from ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' actually transforms from thousands of tiny sphere-like Decepticons (described by the [[TF Wiki]] as "[[Bakugan]] balls") puked up by Ravage.
* In Peter Jckson's ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
== [[Gamebook]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The Nesk from ''[[
** This is, in fact, [[Word of God]]. Kinda puts the fact that ants were the morph that terrified the protagonists more than any others in a new light, eh?
** Also the Valeek in the first ''Megamorphs'' book was a tornado made out of alien bugs.
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* The flying nanobot swarms in the [[Michael Crichton]] novel ''Prey'' act like a computerized version of these - they even eat carrion, as per standard maggot behavior. As their intelligence develops through the course of the book, they learn to mimic human shapes, colors, and eventually ''speech''.
** Turns into full body horror, when the main character discovers that the swarm has enveloped and taken over his wife. However, using an electro-magnet, the swarm dispell from the body, revealing his real wife (now a shriveled skeleton) who is still alive. She is able to relay her last words before the device breaks and the nanobots overtake her body again.
* Ygramul the Many of ''[[The Neverending Story (
* Some D'ivers [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|shapeshifters]] from Steven Erikson's ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]''. For example, Gryllen (turns into a huge swarm of rats) and Mogora (turns into lots of spiders).
* In ''[[
** {{spoiler|They got better}}.
** Also in ''[[
* In [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Coraline (
** In [[The Film of the Book]], the Other Bobinsky ends up turning into this as [[Glamour Failure]] sets in:
{{quote| '''Coraline:''' You're just a copy she made of the real Mr. B.<br />
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* ''Inside Straight'', the latest novel in the ''[[Wild Cards]]'' series, features a rare heroic version of this trope, one Jonathan Hive. He appears utterly human until he disperses into a cloud of bright green wasplike motes; he can also detach as few as one at a time, and even tends to have a few wandering about misplaced.
* While not a villain, [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[Un Lun Dun]]'' contains a passing reference to a man made of bees arguing with a bear.
** He also gives us the 'throng-bear', an unintelligent variant from ''[[
** Don't forget {{spoiler|Skool, who is a bunch of fish inside a wetsuit. He's also a rare heroic version of this.}}
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** Also in a Discworld book (''[[Discworld
** A more comical example from ''A Hat Full of Sky'', reappearing in the subsequent book ''Wintersmith'', is [[Totem Pole Trench|the Nac Mac Feegles disguising themselves as a human (singular) by stacking themselves up inside several stolen items of clothing]].
** Borrowing a swarm of bees is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Granny Weatherwax in ''[[Discworld
** A minor version of this occurs in the character of Hex in the Unseen University... a 'computer' controlled by the ant colony living inside it... a similar type of machine can be seen in the Glooper in "Making Money", although that one is controlled by water and tides and the economy...
* The Vermiform in Steph Swainston's ''Castle Circle'' series is one of these.
* An assassination attempt in ''Mordant's Need'' by Stephen Donaldson features human skins full-to-bursting with cockroach-like insects that puppet the skins and then break out of their husks in order to devour their new victims.
* One common interpretation of the ending of [[
{{quote| Wisely did Ibn Schacabao say, that happy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For it is of old rumour that the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth's pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl. }}
** Though it could merely refer to a decomposing undead corpse infested - and possibly controlled by - maggots, or perhaps a single huge worm. We'll never know.
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* The [[Felix Castor]] series features loup-garous, human ghosts that manage to force their way into animal bodies and reshape them into human flesh. The first novel has Felix facing down a crime boss's pet were; when he manages to exorcise the ghost steering the body, {{spoiler|it collapses into a swarm of rats}}. Even Felix is freaked out.
* A benign example from a children's book featured fish being eaten by a larger fish. They formed their school into the shape of an [[Always a Bigger Fish|even bigger fish]] and chased it off.
* The ''Ravnica'' cycle of ''[[Magic:
* In ''[[Nightside|Hex and the City]]'', a powerful demon takes the form of a huge swarm of biting flies.
* ''[[Alan Dean Foster|Kingdoms Of Light]]'' features Khaxan Munderucu, an incredibly powerful giant evil spellcaster. He's really twenty-two goblin mages in a giant [[Totem Pole Trench]], all combining their magic.
* In [[
* In Niven and Barnes' ''The Barsoom Project'', the sins of humanity make an appearance in the Fimbulwinter Game as a swarm of monstrous insect-like vermin, which assemble themselves into four giant humanoid figures to put [[Humanity
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Norman Pfister from the ''[[
* ''[[
* In the third ''[[Lexx]]'' movie, "Eating Patterns", the crew of the Lexx stumble onto an isolated colony of scavengers who are infested with wormlike parasites. The Queen Worm, which is roughly the size of a [[Sea Monster]], creates fake people to act as its eyes and ears on the rest of the colony.
* One scene in Disney's ''Mars and Beyond'' shows a pursuing alien transforming from a swarm of insects while chasing a secretary.
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* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' has done this to spice up the [[Monster of the Week]]. In ''[[Power Rangers in Space]]'', thousands of all-devouring monster termites could come together to make a monster, who was pretty hard to damage because hitting him just knocked loose a few of the pests. Also, Craterites - holo-[[Mooks]] used in training simulations - came to life and terrorized town (and it ''wasn't'' the usual villains' doing.) Eventually, they came together to make a humanoid mishmosh of themselves that was [[Humongous Mecha]] scale.
* In ''[[Andromeda]]'', a guest turned out to be composed of nanobots.
* In ''[[
== [[Music Videos]] ==
* The [[Music Video]] for "[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tFJd9n8X9DI&feature=related The Beeching Report]" by iLiKETRAiNS features a colony of insects taking on human form and battling Dr. Beeching himself. The trope is then subverted in that Beeching is unafraid of the colony (which represents railway workers laid off because of the Beeching axe) and simply crushes the insects.
* The music video for [[
== Myths & Religion ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* It's technically "the swarm of frog fetuses that crawls", but [[Mortasheen]]'s [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/ovulooge.htm Ovulooge]fits here like a glove. For a more traditional example (even though they don't quite look the part) are the Wormbrains. In their case the creature itself is merely a (Usually [[Once Was A Man|formerly human]]) meat puppet for the billions of parasitic worms living inside of it.
* The [[Trope Namer]] is the D20 version of ''[[
** It was based on a creature that appeared in the [[
{{quote| ''"[H]appy is the tomb where no wizard hath lain, and happy the town at night whose wizards are all ashes. For…the soul of the devil-bought hastes not from his charnel clay, but fats and instructs the very worm that gnaws; till out of corruption horrid life springs, and the dull scavengers of earth wax crafty to vex it and swell monstrous to plague it. Great holes secretly are digged where earth’s pores ought to suffice, and things have learnt to walk that ought to crawl."''}}
*** Although it is unclear from the story whether such thing is an example of this trope or one human-sized maggot.
** An undead human corpse infested by maggots is also a possibility, since the verse is presumably supposed to refer to the long-dead ancestor of the protagonist who escorts him to the rite under Kingsport.
* In the ''[[
** Players can actually turn themselves into a Worm That Walks, although it carries a chance of failing and just leaving them as a rotting corpse.
*** As the chance of success is the number of spells the player has memorized as a percentage, savvy players elect to use ''Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer'', usually a [[Useless Useful Spell]] that lets them trade out each of their better spells for six useless cantrips to get over 100% chance of success.
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*** The Larva Mage has some cousins, too. The Larva Assassin is the soul of a [[Psycho for Hire]] given form through a swarm of hornets and centipedes. Larva Snipers were [[Cold Sniper|Cold Snipers]] (or at least sadistic marksmen) in life, now an undead composed of wasps. Larva War Masters were [[General Ripper|General Rippers]], [[Blood Knight|Blood Knights]] and similar depraved, insane warriors in life, their souls called back and thrust into undeath as the [[Hive Mind]] of a swarm of carnivorous beetles.
*** And Kyuss himself is back.
** The [[Call a Pegasus A Hippogryph|Lamia]] from 4th Edition [[
** The great-granddaddy of all these D&D Worms That Walk was the cifal, a rather forgettable colonial-insect monster from the 1E ''Fiend Folio''.
*** Whom they just dumped into the recent version of ''[[
** A rare Good-aligned version appears in, of all places, the [[Eldritch Abomination]]-filled ''Lords of Madness'' 3.5 sourcebook, with the silthilar—sentient swarms with just a touch of the [[Mad Scientist]] when they fuse into their solid form.
** Roach thralls in ''D20 Modern''.
** Yet another version from 3.5, in the Exemplars of Evil book (for designing villains) is the former archmage of the Tolstoff family who researched the deceased god the Worm That Walks, learned evil spells, acquired foul magic items, and made pacts with dark entities. Eventually the deity noticed him and "rewarded" him with its filthy blessing, an attack of ravenous worms and maggots that ate his physical body but which absorbed his soul. Sealed in a vault within the catacombs beneath the mansion by his horrified daughter, he then proceeds to whisper and corrupt his grandchildren into evil servants who will stop at nothing to free him from his tomb.
* ''[[
** Also in ''Werewolf'' are the Hollow Men, a breed of fomori (humans under the thrall of [[Demonic Possession]]). The Hollow Men specifically are humans who were killed and whose bodies were mostly emptied out (hence the name), the insides replaced by a swarm of small animals controlled by the demonic spirit in question. Doesn't have to be insects/arachnids; reptiles and rodents are also popular choices. They're capable of speech and can ''try'' to pass themselves off as fully human, but generally, even other fomori find them creepy as hell.
** The Azlu in ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' are spirit-like creatures that can do something similar. In their case, only one of the spiders is really "them", so they escape by using the weight of numbers - the odds of the real one getting killed are incredibly small. The Beshilu of the same game were similar. They were rats, not bugs, but could hollow out human bodies and control them like the Fomori mentioned above.
* One of the kinds of monsters in ''[[
* The Slaught from the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' RPG ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' are an ENTIRE RACE of these. The trope is even mentioned by name.
{{quote| ''"The worm that walks has come for us all" Found carved into a bulkhead, Watchpost Hazeroth/Sentry 17. All hands lost, attacker unknown. 123.M40''}}
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* Worm Wraiths in ''[[Rifts]]'' New West are evil ''Cowboy'' Worms That Walk. Also invoked by the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Horseman]] Pestilence, which is actually a giant walking skeleton covered in bugs instead of flesh and skin.
* In [[Eclipse Phase]] one of the many Synth bodies resembles a swarm of robotic bees. They can move as a regular swarm, or combine into a roughly human-shaped mass. They're also fully playable, and far more affordable then those based around [[Organic Technology]].
* One of the possible character origins in ''[[
* ''[[Magic:
* [[Warhammer Fantasy]] had one introduced in the new [[Dem Bones|Tomb Kings]] warbook. A prince who murdered his family, and was executed by being sealed into a coffin filled with Neheakaran Scarabs. His body was reduced to his skull, upon which a cursing rune was carved. In the Netherworld, he made a deal with the God of Death. He promised to bring him someone who was his equal to take his place. His soul was given command over the scarabs who ate him alive, and he scours the world for his equal. But, no two souls are truly equal, and he is damned to wander the world forever.
* The D20 campaign book ''[[Grimm]]'' gave us this trope in the form of Rapunzel. Yes, that Rapunzel. Only this time around, her prince has passed away, her children are grown and she had nothing to do but return to the tower where she lived out the rest of her days. The tower, though, had developed intelligence and gotten lonely in her long absence and took measures to keep her there even after she died. Namely, having her corpse infested with a swarm of spiders that will kill and eat any who climb her hair to the tower. Keep in mind that the rules of the game are built specifically around children and boys are particularly drawn to the silky locks that still hang out the window.
** She's also one of the sample NPCs that made the transition when the game was converted to its own rules system.
* [[Scarred Lands]]: One of the monsters described in the "Creature Collection II: Dark Menagerie" are vermin hosts, former human vagrants who were cursed by one of the evil gods who was angry that they happened to pray to another god other than him to let them live another day in their dismal squalor. From this [[Disproportionate Retribution]] he had various vermin (rats, roaches, leeches, spiders) burrow into their skin, giving them [[Cursed
* [[Earthdawn]] 1st edition lists a magic spell called Wormskull that makes the caster's head appear as a skull made from worms, supposedly to impress and scare people.
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** This also shows up in ''[[Resident Evil]] 5'' to a lesser extent. {{spoiler|Excella and at least two men become worm-people for a few moments... then they just go straight to being masses of worms.}}
* Ananzi, from ''[[The Black Heart]]'', is not quite one, but with the ease she produces spiderlings out of nowhere, she comes close.
* The Guy Made Of Bees from the ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', which is [[Exactly What It Says
** When you beat him, he drops a Guy Made Of Bee Pollen.
*** You can also pickpocket a handful of... [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Handful_of_bees them].
* ''[[
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Adventures of Sam
* Beelzebub in ''[[La
* The Hunter in the ''[[Halo]]'' series is composed of hundreds of orange-red worms called Lekgolo. Plated armor protects these worms from conventional weapons and a high-powered energy beam of doom deals with the player character. Somewhat unusual in that unlike most examples on this page, the Hunters are simply [[Punch Clock Villain]]-[[Starfish Aliens]], who are not especially malicious or sinister beyond being really good at killing you.
** In fact, when the Covenant breaks, many of the Hunters side with the Elites, which means they become human-friendly. Since the individual worms aren't advanced life forms in the same way humans and the other members of the Covenant are, they're also immune to infection from the Flood.
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* [[Big Bad|Death Adder]] in the arcade version of ''[[Golden Axe]]'' merges together from maggots in a pile of corpses. [[Nausea Fuel|Eeeuuugh.]]
** Actually, according to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX7WoSRHt3U CD version of Golden Ax] Death Adder is an amalgam of hundreds of '''snakes'''.
* {{spoiler|Zouken Matou}} from ''[[Fate/stay
* All the enemies from the Subspace in the Subspace Emissary mode for ''[[Super Smash Bros]]: Brawl'' are constructed of "[http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Shadow_Bug shadow bugs]" {{spoiler|extracted from Mr. Game & Watch.}}
* The Pain from ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3''. While the real one is not composed of bees, he is able to control bees by having them sting him until the bees think that he is one of them. To make matters worse, he grows, within him, [[Bee-Bee Gun|Bullet Bees]]. These ones fly to your body and gnaw at your flesh slowly. And yes, I did say he grows it within his body, and he launches it from his mouth. Oh, and to keep this true like the trope, he can make his bees do an impersonation of himself by making, yes, a human sized clone made of bees.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'': ''[[Twilight Princess]]'':
** The mini-boss Deathsword (who, as the name suggests, appears to be a lich wielding a large sword) of Arbiter's Grounds disintegrates into a massive swarm of scarabs after being defeated.
** Armogohma, a truly spectacular and terrifying [[Giant Spider]]. After you beat her the first time, she disintegrates into an eye with legs and a swarm of smaller spiders, which you have to fight off while [[Go for
** In the spinoff ''Link's Crossbow Training'', the Dark Nut miniboss at the end of level 8 breaks apart into a swarm of Keese when his body is damaged.
* The very first boss of ''[[Metroid]]'': ''Other M'' is a swarm of purple bugs that form a body around a larger bug that makes up the eye.
* Atticus Thorn, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' video game.
* The Ultimate form of the [[Shape Shifter]] mage subclass in [[Dragon Age]] is a swarm of bees. Taking a master level in Shapeshifter turns them into parasitic insects.
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In a more spiritual way, Ermac from ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' is this. He is the gathering of souls lost during Outworld's various wars, brought together to serve Shao Khan. As a result, Ermac never uses singular self-referential pronouns such as "I" or "me", instead opting for "us" or "we", in a sense allowing his body to speak on behalf of all the souls that he carries.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* [http://www.weregeek.com/2009/06/15/ This] ''[[Weregeek]]'' strip.
* While it isn't entirely clear, one of the [[Big Bad]]'s lackeys in ''[[Dead of Summer]]'' may be one of these. He summons a swarm of insects seemingly out of nowhere (the art suggests they either come from around him or ''inside'' him) to attack {{spoiler|[[The Protomen
* Gavotte, the head of the''[[Skin Horse]]'' department, is a sentient swarm of bees. She (?) is surprisingly congenial and enjoys having a cup of tea with her employees, but they're often somewhat unnerved by the disembodied voice and the offers of free honey.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* A swarm of tiny insect-like aliens able to infest humans and walk around in their skin makes up the first [[Cosmic Horror]] in the novel/webnovel ''[[John Dies
** Later, the narrator's Hyundai gets carjacked by a human-shaped pile of cockroaches.
* This is one theory behind what exactly {{spoiler|Ace}} of ''[[
* One article in [[The Onion]] is written by a pile of cockroaches pretending to be a human exterminator. The cockroachman attempts to convince people through the article it is writing to let cockroaches everywhere live and run free, but is unable to think of a compelling reason ''why''. It also laments that it knows that [[After the End]], cockroaches will rule the post-apocalyptic wasteland, but doesn't know ''when'' that will happen.
* ''[[Orions Arm]]'' has the Mucoid Empire. Living in Cyberspace and alien species of worm that can form hiveminds and superorganisms.
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* In ''[[Re Boot]]'', we have Nulzilla. We also have {{spoiler|Enzo and Dot's father}}, who can regain a bipedal form and his ability to speak by making a <s> human</s> sprite-sized body of nulls, with the null that used to be him as the head.
* ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' had a villainous [[Crazy Cat Lady]] who surrounded herself with her thousands of cats and basically made a cat-shaped [[Humongous Mecha]] out of them.
* In ''[[Max Steel]]'', the villain Bio Constrictor was made of dozens of snakes.
* An episode of ''[[Drawn Together]]'' had Vietnamese sweatshop workers assemble into a bipedal robot, anime-transform-sequence style to attack Spanky Ham.
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