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* Colin, the monstrous janitor-creature in the ''[[Silent Hill (film)|Silent Hill]]'' movie, spreads masses of diseased tendrils pulsing through just about anything he touches, including bathroom tiles. For double the horror, these tendrils eventually form birthing points for oversized flesh-eating cockroaches. [[Word of God|According to the director]], this particular facet of Colin's powers was meant to represent [[Ironic Hell|sexually transmitted disease]], another nod to the fact that Colin is implied to have {{spoiler|raped Alessa while he was still human.}}
** In a happy accident, this also functions as a subtle [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'''s Victims, who corrupt the environment in similar ways.
* The dementors in the film version of ''[[
* ''[[Warlock (film)|Warlock]]'' (1989). The title character has a power often attributed to witches in [[Real Life]]: when he's in the area milk turns sour.
* In the ''[[Elektra (film)|Elektra]]'' movie, Typhoid (loosely based on Typhoid Mary) decays everything in close proximity to her. She can rot wood and rust metal and even give people diseases by kissing, or even by breathing a puff of (presumably miasmatic) air in their direction.
* A man possessed by the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Constantine]]'' is shown slaughtering a herd of cattle simply by passing through it.
* Inspector Clouseau is described this way by Dreyfuss in one of the ''[[The Pink Panther|Pink Panther]]'' series: "Today [that town is] a beautiful paradise in the Swiss alps: tomorrow, a wasteland!"
* The creature from ''[[Monster a Go-Go!
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* Then, of course, there's the real life [[Typhoid Mary]], a private cook who spread typhoid to the families she worked for. She's well-known for her utter denial to believe she had the disease, to the point of being forcibly quarantined for the rest of her life so that she wouldn't infect anyone else.
** It wasn't ''just'' denial. Although [[wikipedia:Mary Mallon|Mary Mallon]] was a carrier for the disease, she not only never displayed symptoms, but ''had actually tested clean'' for it at one point (due to being in temporary remission). It's worth remembering that in those times, the very ''idea'' that you can ''carry'' the disease and not fall ill yourself was a fairly recent discovery, and even in the scientific community there were detractors. Not to mention an uneducated Irish cook.
* [[I Love Nuclear Power|Being irradiated]], if media is to be believed.
** That depends primarily on the type of radiation the person has been exposed to. Photon radiation (like gamma for example) as well as Beta radiation (basically unattached electrons flying at high speed) can definitely give a man radiation sickness, but it doesn't actually turn one radioactive. Certain other particle radiation, like Neutron radiation or Alpha radiation (unattached Helium nuclei) on the other hand, are capable of turning other neutral objects radioactive. However, if a human was hit by enough Neutron or Alpha radiation to actually serve as a threat to anyone else by second hand radioactivity, the original human would be dead or at the very least incapacitated rather quickly by radiation sickness, and not actually capable of walking around after as little as a few hours at most.
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