List of fictional parasites
This list encompasses fictional characters and species who are parasites and/or parasitoids.
A
[edit]- Alien (sometimes referred to as a xenomorph),[1] parasitoid species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien franchise
- Aparoid
B
[edit]- Baby (Dragon Ball)
- Bellum (The Legend of Zelda)
- Bezoar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Biollante
- Blackrock (comics)
- Brood (comics)
- William Birkin
C
[edit]- Carnage (character)
- Ceti eel - creature in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, invading the human brain[2]
- Chimera Anima - blob-shaped parasitic aliens in manga Tokyo Mew Mew, infecting animals and changing them into monsters
D
[edit]- Deathspiral Butterfly - parasitoid butterfly in Shadowrun
- Destoroyah
- DNAlien (Ben 10)
E
[edit]F
[edit]G
[edit]- Goa'uld - the main antagonists in Stargate and Stargate SG-1
- Gravemind
- Gregor Samson (Skullgirls)
- Gae Bolga (Skullgirls)
H
[edit]I
[edit]J
[edit]L
[edit]- Left Hand (Vampire Hunter D)
- Lavos
- Las Plagas
- Leviathan (Skullgirls)
M
[edit]N
[edit]- Hinako Ninomiya
- Nemesis (Resident Evil)
- Neurax Worm (Plague Inc.)
- Cassandra Nova
- N'Tal ("Second Soul", 1995 episode of The Outer Limits)
P
[edit]- Parallax (comics)
- Parasite (comics)
- Parasite - 1982 3-D film
- Pod People (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
- Parasytes (manga)
R
[edit]- Regulan bloodworm - mentioned in various episodes of Star Trek, sometimes causing sickness but also medically useful
S
[edit]- Slimebiote (Ben 10)
- Sublime (Marvel Comics)
- Symbiote (comics)
- Silents (Doctor Who)
- Sekhmet (Skullgirls)
T
[edit]- Thread, filaments of a space-borne spore that devours organic matter in the Dragonriders of Pern
- Trill symbiont in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a symbiotic life form that gives its host all the memories of its previous hosts
U
[edit]V
[edit]- Venom (Marvel Comics character) Spider-Man's archenemy from outer space
- Visser Three, the main antagonist character in the Animorphs book and television series
- Jason Voorhees (See Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday)
X
[edit]Y
[edit]- Yeerk, the main antagonist race in book and television series Animorphs
References
[edit]- ^ James Cameron (writer and director) (1986). Aliens (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
- ^ Antlions in popular culture