History Main / HumanityIsInfectious

* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'' has the main antagonist, the Moon King, look down on humanity and human nature. When his daughter fell in love with and married the human samurai Hanzo and had a child, the Moon King went into a rage and his other daughters saw it as a betrayal of their godly aloofness. The Moon King then wanted to pluck out his grandson Kubo's eyes, this so he'd be unable to look into any other human's eyes and thus won't be able to empathize with them. Being blind himself, the Moon King thought that without human concerns, this would allow Kubo to become a fully immortal god despite his half human heritage. When Kubo rejects the Moon King, he retorts:
-->'''Moon King:''' You want to be human? Then share their weakness. Suffer their humiliation. Feel their pain!

* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'':
** The T-800. Originally coldly robotic, its neural net processor ("learning computer") picks up human slang and attitudes from the Connors.
--->'''T-800:''' I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do.
** Even the T-1000 picks up a few mannerisms. At first, it's only using a personality in the process of better infiltrating humanity in order to kill John Connor. By the end of the movie, it likes to silently mock the protagonists' futility via FingerWag and taking its sweet time to attack Sarah Connor for no other reason than ForTheEvulz.
* ''Film/{{Starman}}'' doesn't quite make it all the way to human. His gait and mannerisms remain stiff and quirky, but emotionally, he gets it.
* In ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'', reading a single human book is enough to convince the alien Derek to turn against his space-Nazi brethren and side with humanity.

* This is the entire premise of the film ''Film/TheNines'', wherein the protagonist [[spoiler: turns out to be a demigod who created the local universe and the humans in them, fell in love with his creation, and has been slumming it among them ever since to the point of even forgetting that he is a god.]]
* ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' is an inversion: Jake finds that Na'vi-ness is infectious, and turns against his fellow humans to save the native population. The movie follows the structure of alien-invasion plots, but with the roles of human and alien reversed. The traits that convert him to their culture are actually the same ones used by humans in straight versions of this trope; the corporate suits and mercenaries he's surrounded by in the beginning are the ones who are callous and disinterested in the natives.
* Inverted in the low budget British horror movie ''Film/{{Xtro}}'', which features a family man who gets abducted by aliens and converted into one of their species. The conversion process gives any human victim who undergoes it enormous powers over mind and matter, but also gives them a sense of BlueAndOrangeMorality which allows them to exploit and kill their formerly fellow humans.

* ''Film/RoboCop1987'' is about a police officer who loses his humanity by becoming a cyborg only to later gain it back.
* Film/{{Thor}} remarks during ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' that while the Asgardian people are SufficientlyAdvancedAliens, humanity has much to teach them about becoming a mature society.

* Hinted at in ''Film/AlienNation''. George Francisco's take on humanity:
--> "You humans are very curious to us. You invite us to live among you in an atmosphere of equality that we've never known before. You give us ownership of our own lives for the first time and you ask no more of us than you do of yourselves. I hope you understand how special your world is, how unique a people you humans are. Which is why it is all the more painful and confusing to us that so few of you seem capable of living up to the ideals you set for yourselves."
* Disturbingly deconstructed in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''. Ego the Living Planet is a mighty celestial being who saw mortals, with their finite lifespans and mundane forms, as utterly disappointing. However, when he met Meredith Quill-Star-Lord's mother-he began to feel and understand mortal emotions like love for the first time. [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon So he killed her by using his powers to induce a brain tumor]]. He feared that her making him think like a human would cause him to abandon his plans to [[AssimilationPlot assimilate all life into himself]], and [[ItsAllAboutMe he couldn't allow a mere mortal to derail his life's work]].]]

* One forum post on 4Chan was about how an alien race uses Memetic weapons, that is, weapons of ideas. It's considered a very serious weapon of war. They are outright ''horrified'' when they hear that not only is it legal on earth, but it's considered a game (and valid method of advertising): whoever can spread ideas, or "Memes" the furthest wins. That's right, [[HumansAreWarriors humans managed to weaponize their infectiousness.]] And they did it by ''accident.''
** On a slightly different note one of these [[http://imgur.com/hot/viral?q=humanity+fuck+yeah "Humanity Fuck Yeah!"]] stories -- one of the few that doesn't [[HumansAreWarriors involve]] [[HumansAreSurvivors fighting]] as these were collected from the [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 tabletop games section]] of Website/{{Reddit}} -- has humanity becoming the cultural center of a galactic alliance: we meet some aliens, we like their style, and soon the aliens are wearing the human-versions of ''their own uniforms'' and the rest of the galaxy looks to earth to tell them what's hot and trendy.

* Just like in the comics, this happens with Blue Beetle in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010''. However, it's implied that Jaime was able to spread humanity to the scarab because the scarab malfunctioned and couldn't communicate with the rest of the scarabs.
* Fixit from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' decides to "help" Cyborg by removing his human parts which he perceives as weak points on his mechanical body. It's not until he downloads Cyborg's memories and sees life through the eyes of a human that he realizes how wrong he is and releases Cyborg.

* Swap "human" with "pony" and you've got what happened with [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicDiscord Discord]] in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Just being befriended by [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicFluttershy Fluttershy]] was enough to make this otherworldly monster of chaos to try his earnest ("[[ReformedButNotTamed most of the time]]") to be a good guy because he had come to value their friendship and, in turn, began to understand empathy and affection. The other villains even [[ComicallyMissingThePoint comically miss the point]] by describing ThePowerOfFriendship as some manner of MindVirus, reminiscing about how great of a villain he was before "friendship ruined him."
* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': {{Subverted|Trope}}, Korvo wants to get off Earth as quickly as possible while Terry at least tries to assimilate with humanity. Both are still learning and are quick to misunderstand basic human mannerisms or use their technology in the wrong way.

* Slightly more subtle example: Celty from ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' wonders if her time living among humans in Japan may have caused her to adopt some human values, most notably that over time she has come to think of Shinra as more than just a roommate. Of course, we don't know exactly how "inhuman" [[HeadlessHorseman Dullahans]] normally are and it seems that Celty was pretty kind in the first place, so even she can't be sure exactly how much it's affected her. Celty herself seems to have just decided to go with the flow and let it happen.

* Meruem of ''Manga/HunterXHunter'', who started out as an unfeeling monster, willing and able to kill anyone and anything for the slightest of annoyances against him. As he spends more and more time playing a fictional board game called Gungi with a blind girl named Komugi, whom he is never able to beat, he [[CharacterDevelopment noticeably changes]] his views and takes major [[TookALevelInKindness Levels In Kindness.]] [[spoiler: In one of his final moments, he expresses the wish that he had been born human.]]
** In fact, the entire Chimera Ant arc explores how human qualities being injected into a species that previously lacked them would affect it, for both good and ill. Though in this case this trope is somewhat zigzagged as the Chimera Ants haven't infected themselves with humanity so much as they have [[TheAssimilator assimilated its qualities]] into themselves as part of their biology, which allowed them to gain traits of any creature their Queen consumed which altered their physiology when they are born.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', [[spoiler:Ulquiorra]], before he dies, begins to understand the human concept of a heart, and maybe even become similar to humans.
* This is basically the character arc of Deedlit in ''Roleplay/RecordOfLodossWar'', especially in the manga, alongside CuriosityCausesConversion. She becomes fascinated with why humans are the way they are, and eventually, she's even accused by her fellow High Elves as becoming corrupted by human lines of thought.
* In ''[[TheMovie The Disappearance]] [[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', the consequences of [[spoiler:Yuki Nagato learning to cope with emotions]] drive the plot.
* The Zentraedi race in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''[=/=]''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' suffer this after they send infiltrators onto the SDF-1. Being pure {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s, the concept of civilian life, love, music and peace was alien and alluring. In fact, it led to an EnemyCivilWar.
** In probably one of the largest examples of this trope ''ever,'' the introduction of these human concepts led to the defection of over ''one million starships'' and ''countless billions of Zentraedi'' to the human side. However, the Zentraedi loyalists still have about five times that many ships, so it's not ''quite'' the ideal situation...
** This trope is one of the strongest weapons humanity has in both the ''Anime/{{Macross}}'' and ''Robotech'' franchises. In pretty much each arc, our culture is not only used as a weapon, it allows us to make friends with beings who have BlueAndOrangeMorality to a ''terrifying'' degree.

* [[spoiler:Ronnie Schiatto]] of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' got entirely bored of being an omnipotent, omniscient EldritchAbomination after the ''Advena Avice'' incident in 1711, so when Elmer asked him to stick by Maiza as a human until the alchemist could learn to smile again, he took the opportunity. Maiza somehow wound up in [[TheMafia the Camorra]] some two centuries later, and [[spoiler:Ronnie]] learns [[DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster how damn good it feels to be a gangster.]]
-->'''Maiza:''' Ours is a demanding business, is it not.
-->'''[[spoiler:Ronnie]]:''' Do you wish you were still an alchemist?"
-->'''Maiza:'''...No. No, I don't. There was a time when I regretted ever summoning you on that boat...but I do not for a second regret my place here right now.
-->'''[[spoiler: Ronnie]]:''' Hah...The same goes for me.

* In ''Anime/SpacePatrolLuluco,'' this happens to [[spoiler:Alpha Omega Nova]], a HumanAlien called a Nothingling because he literally has no emotions. Since [[spoiler:Luluco]] loves him anyway, she releases a CareBearStare that [[LoveRedeems allows him to love her back]].
* This is basically what happens to Fafnir in ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid''. The modern day humans of Japan have rubbed off on him in a way that humans from back home never could have. For starters, humans here have no idea that dragons ''could'' exist, so they've been friendly to reasonably nonhostile; and he struck up [[OddFriendship an unexpected friendship]] with Takiya after {{Otaku}} culture proved to be rather attractive to him.
* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': Yayoi Yukino and Daisuke Yamori (real name is Lar Ells Miyoux) are HumanAliens who've been watching Earth for 1000 years. Due to witnessing humanity's growth first-hand, they've eventually decided to oppose La-Metal's secret control over it, who still consider humans animals.

* ''Manga/AfterGod'': [[spoiler:The real reason why [=IPOs=] don't leave forbidden zones isn't because they grow weaker in regular air, but because contacts with humans poison their mentality:]]
** [[spoiler:Orokapi not only took Obikawa's body, [[BecomingTheMask he turned into Obikawa]] and prefers to stay that way outside of IPO business. Eating Akio also [[TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody made him think]] Yoriko is attractive, but friendship with Tokinaga is something he decided himself.]]
** Alula seems to have grown attached to Shion just like Waka did and tends to criticize social norms. [[spoiler:Her introducing human factors to other IPO was the reason others have decided to seal her away.]]
** Despite being savvy regarding Gods being easily affected, Ahu'az ironically uses his cult members to combat own loneliness and only keeps alive people with nowhere to go.
** Vollof has become a literal drug addict after being introduced to some. Orokapi had to poison him regularly to prevent him going berserk.

* ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Viltrumites seem to be particularly susceptible to some kind of infectious humanity. Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man, the first envoy the viltrumites sent to Earth to prepare it for annexation, quickly learned during the course of his heroics that while humanity can ''collectively'' be very brutal and monstrous, outstanding individuals can be endearing and amicable. He came to love one particular human woman and married her, and found that he could not deny his feelings for his wife even when he tried to suppress them in accordance with viltrumite tradition.
** When the remaining viltrumites immigrated to Earth to breed and replenish their severely depleted ranks (because human and viltrumite genetic code is so similar that the offspring of a human and a viltrumite has complete viltrumite powers), Grand Regent Thragg expected his people to maintain their imperious culture and not form attachments to the humans the viltrumites took as mates. As he remained isolated on the Moon, Thragg noticed that more and more of the viltrumites who mingled with humans began to accept human culture and behave in ways that showed attachment and care for their unwitting human partners and lovers. In issue #101 Thragg gives a dressing down to three viltrumites who explicitly go against his repopulation plans; two of them, General Kregg and an as-yet unnamed male viltrumite, explicitly express affection for their human mate or mates, explaining "To have someone care for you...to be able to think about them...the bond that forms [is] amazing. It changes everything, Thragg." (The third dissident viltrumite, Anissa, both never wanted children in the first place and also thought the humans she had encountered to be inferior and dissatisfactory, so it's no wonder she would refuse to have a child with one of them.)

** Also notable is Migi's development; although he tells Shinichi that he doesn't see the value in things like kindness, self-sacrifice, or love, in the final volume, when it seems that [[spoiler: neither of them will survive their encounter with Gotou, Migi shouts at Shinichi to [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown run for his life and leave him behind]]; Shinichi reluctantly complies, and with the last of his strength, Migi thinks to himself how happy he is that he failed in taking over Shinichi's brain when they first met, allowing the two of them to become friends.]]

* Some of the eponymous aliens of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' start developing emotions, a sense of individuality, and even the ability to feel love after spending time on Earth and learning how to blend in with humans. The most notable example is Tamura Reiko, who spent a long time being an enemy to Shinichi and Migi; her typical callous attitude towards human life and her alliance with the other Parasites in the area who aim to sustain themselves with human flesh initially leads Shinichi and Migi think she's uninterested in anything but self-preservation, but she displays a distinctly introspective and curious attitude, longing to understand her purpose and the reason she was born as a Parasite. She gets pregnant so she can perform experiments on the baby once it's born, but after her son comes into the world, [[spoiler: not only does she never harm him, she actually forms an attachment to him; she quickly kills Kuramori when he dangles him over a steep drop and she dies during a shootout with the police soon after, which she easily could have avoided by fighting back, [[MamaBear but chose to shield her son with her body from the gunfire.]] Before she succumbs to her injuries, she admits to Shinichi that she never found the answer to the question of her existence, but she found the answer to another question, implied to be "Can I love?" She hands him her son and [[TakeCareOftheKids asks him to make sure a good family takes him in and raises him well]] -- he agrees, and she [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile.]]]]

* Some of the eponymous aliens of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' start developing emotions, a sense of individuality, and even the ability to feel love after spending time on Earth and learning how to blend in with humans. The most notable example is Tamura Reiko, who spent a long time being an enemy to Shinichi and Migi; her typical callous attitude towards human life and her alliance with the other Parasites in the area who aim to sustain themselves with human flesh initially leads Shinichi and Migi think she's uninterested in anything but self-preservation, but she displays a distinctly introspective and curious attitude, longing to understand her purpose and the reason she was born as a Parasite. She gets pregnant so she can perform experiments on the baby once it's born, but after her son comes into the world, [[spoiler: not only does she never harm him, she actually forms an attachment to him; she kills Kuramori when he dangles him over a steep drop (although he didn't intend to actually kill him) and she dies during a shootout with the police, which she easily could have avoided by fighting back, [[MamaBear but she was cradling her baby to protect him from the attack, and any resistance might have gotten him hurt.]] Before she succumbs to her injuries, she admits to Shinichi that she never found the answer to the question of her existence, but she found the answer to another question, implied to be "Can I love?" She hands him her baby and [[TakeCareOftheKids asks him to make sure a good family takes him in and raises him well]] -- he agrees, and she [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile.]]]]

* Some of the eponymous aliens of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' start developing emotions, a sense of individuality, and even the ability to feel love after spending time on Earth and learning how to blend in with humans. The most notable example is Tamura Reiko, who spent a long time being an enemy to Shinichi and Migi; her typical callous attitude towards human life and her alliance with the other Parasites in the area who aim to sustain themselves with human flesh initially leads Shinichi and Migi think she's incapable of anything self-preservation, but she displays a distinct inclination towards introspection, longing to understand her purpose and the reason she was born as a Parasite. She gets pregnant so she can perform experiments on the baby once it's born, but after her son comes into the world, [[spoiler: not only does she never harm him, she actually forms an attachment to him; she kills Kuramori when he dangles him over a steep drop (although he didn't intend to actually kill him) and she dies during a shootout with the police, which she easily could have avoided by fighting back, [[MamaBear but she was cradling her baby to protect him from the attack, and any resistance might have gotten him hurt.]] Before she succumbs to her injuries, she admits to Shinichi that she never found the answer to the question of her existence, but she found the answer to another question, implied to be "Can I love?" She hands him her baby and [[TakeCareOftheKids asks him to make sure a good family takes him in and raises him well]] -- he agrees, and she [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile.]]]]

* ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'': Viltrumites seem to be particularly susceptible to some kind of infectious humanity. Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man, the first envoy the viltrumites sent to Earth to prepare it for annexation, quickly learned during the course of his heroics that while humanity can ''collectively'' be very brutal and monstrous, outstanding individuals can be endearing and amicable. He came to love one particular human woman and married her, and found that he could not deny his feelings for his wife even when he tried to suppress them in accordance with viltrumite tradition.

** Also notable is Migi's development; although he tells Shinichi that he both can't feel and doesn't see the value in things like kindness, self-sacrifice, or love, in the final volume, when it seems that [[spoiler: neither of them will survive their encounter with Gotou, Migi shouts at Shinichi to [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown run for his life and leave him behind]]; Shinichi reluctantly complies, and with the last of his strength, Migi thinks to himself how happy he is that he failed in taking over Shinichi's brain when they first met, allowing the two of them to become friends.]]

* Some of the eponymous aliens of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' start developing emotions, a sense of individuality, and even the ability to feel love after spending time on Earth and learning how to blend in with humans. The most notable example is Tamura Reiko, who spent a long time being an enemy to Shinichi and Migi; her typical callous attitude towards human life and her alliance with the other Parasites in the area who aim to sustain themselves with human flesh made Shinichi and Migi think she was incapable of anything beyond violence and self-preservation, just like pretty much every other Parasite. But she's shown a distinct inclination towards introspection since the beginning, longing to understand her purpose and the reason she was born as a Parasite. She gets pregnant so she can perform experiments on the baby once it's born, but after her son comes into the world, [[spoiler: not only does she never harm him, she actually forms an attachment to him; she kills Kuramori when he dangles him over a steep drop (although he didn't intend to actually kill him) and she dies during a one-sided shootout with the police, which she easily could have avoided by fighting back, [[MamaBear but she was cradling her baby to protect him from the attack, and any resistance might have gotten him hurt.]] Before she succumbs to her injuries, she admits to Shinichi that she never found the answer to the question of her existence, but she found the answer to another question, implied to be "Can I love?" She hands Shinichi her baby and [[TakeCareOftheKids asks him to make sure a good family takes him in and raises him well --]] he agrees, and she [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile.]] By the end of the series, the Parasites choose to assimilate into society and live normal lives.]]

* In a pre-ComicBook/{{Crisis|on Infinite Earths}} ''[[ComicBook/TheFlash Flash]]'' story, the intelligent apes of Gorilla City revealed their existence to humanity, only to regret it after the concept of "leisure time" was introduced into their society, turning many of them into couch potatoes. Their solution? Brainwashing the entire human race into forgetting they existed, so they could go back to hiding! (this was a pretty ham-fisted way to retcon them back to their original [[StatusQuoIsGod Status Quo]].)
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** One story had a nurse infected with a parasite from a race of evil aliens (obviously a CaptainErsatz for an Franchise/{{Alien}} Queen) but her Christian faith and love for people were so strong that neither she nor the people she'd infected fell to TheCorruption.
** The first Nimrod (an extremely advanced Sentinel robot) was capable of shapeshifting and took up a human persona in between trying to eradicate mutants. It seemed to gradually be growing towards appreciating that life more than following its preprogrammed task. However, the character's trajectory shifted drastically after a change in writers.
* The third ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'', Jaime Reyes, has formed a sort of symbiotic bond with a piece of alien AI that was meant to take complete control of him. By the time he's done with it he's taught it free will and heroism, among other things, and there are hints that these things have been spread throughout the entire alien infiltration program.

* All the aliens and powerful beings who have tried to "fix" Franchise/{{Superman}}'s silly humanistic tendencies have found that humanity is really, ''really'' hard to cure.
* [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Viltrumites]] seem to be particularly susceptible to some kind of infectious humanity. Nolan Grayson/Omni-Man, the first envoy the viltrumites sent to Earth to prepare it for annexation, quickly learned during the course of his heroics that while humanity can ''collectively'' be very brutal and monstrous, outstanding individuals can be endearing and amicable. He came to love one particular human woman and married her, and found that he could not deny his feelings for his wife even when he tried to suppress them in accordance with viltrumite tradition.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villain [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent The Lizard]] has always had loathing of humans as his hat, even all the way back to the '60s. And even HE found out that humanity was infectious when storyline events first destroyed his human alternate personality Curt Connors (leaving just "The Lizard") and then turned the Lizard back into Connors' human form (done to try and restore Connors, all it did was trap the Lizard in Connors' human form for the first time). While at first the Lizard was filled with complete loathing and disgust and went about the usual evil plans, being exposed to the different perceptions, vices, and interactions of humans made him slowly start to change his mind; by the end he wanted to remain human just so he could keep enjoying things like potato chips. It didn't give him any actual EMPATHY, but it made him realize that humans were not innately inferior scum.

** Likewise, this gets Zig-Zagged in ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars'' ''F'', in regards to that movie's BigBad. [[spoiler:Supreme, [[WhyWontYouDie wondering how the Pretty Cures were able to survive despite it making sure they were all defeated]], split itself into two entities to infiltrate the surviving teams and find out where their strength came from. With Puka on Cure Prism's team, she plays this straight, being so touched by their compassion that she expressed regret in participating in the destruction of the world and helped the Pretty Cures save the day. Meanwhile, Cure Supreme on Cure Sky's team... [[InvertedTrope doesn't]], and even after her defeat, [[EvilCannotComprehendGood she questions why the Pretty Cures refuse to finish her off despite doing everything to warrant death at their hands]]]].

* The T-800 in ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. Originally coldly robotic, its neural net processor ("learning computer") picks up human slang and attitudes from the Connors.
-->'''T-800:''' I know now why you cry. But it's something I can never do.

** Note that the T-800's chip had its ability to learn from its surroundings turned on by the Connors (in the director's cut, at least).

** In fact, the entire Chimera Ant arc explores how human qualities being injected into a species that previously lacked them would affect it, for both good and ill. Though in this case this trope is somewhat zigzagged as the Chimera Ants haven't infected themselves with humanity so much as they have [[TheAssimilator assimilated its qualities]] into themselves.

* Happens eventually to [[spoiler:Peridot]] on ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', and presumably happened to the Crystal Gems millennia ago. In this case, it wasn't just humanity but the appeal of Earth in general that's infectious.

* Swap "human" with "pony" and you've got what happened with Discord in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''. Just being befriended by Fluttershy was enough to make this otherworldly monster of chaos to try his earnest ("[[ReformedButNotTamed most of the time]]") to be a good guy because he had come to value their friendship and, in turn, began to understand empathy and affection. The other villains even [[ComicallyMissingThePoint comically miss the point]] by describing ThePowerOfFriendship as some manner of MindVirus, reminiscing about how great of a villain he was before "friendship ruined him."

* Some of the eponymous aliens of ''Manga/{{Parasyte}}'' start developing emotions, a sense of individuality, and even the ability to feel love after spending time on Earth and learning how to blend in with humans. The most notable example is Tamura Reiko, who spent a long time being an enemy to Shinichi and Migi; her typical callous attitude towards human life and her alliance with the other Parasites in the area who aim to sustain themselves with human flesh made Shinichi and Migi think she was incapable of anything beyond violence and self-preservation, just like pretty much every other Parasite. But she's shown a distinct inclincation towards introspection since the beginning, longing to understand her purpose and the reason she was born as a Parasite. She gets pregnant so she can perform experiments on the baby once it's born, but after her son comes into the world, [[spoiler: not only does she never harm him, she actually forms an attachment to him; she kills Kuramori when he dangles him over a steep drop (although he didn't intend to actually kill him) and she dies during a one-sided shootout with the police, which she easily could have avoided by fighting back, [[MamaBear but she was cradling her baby to protect him from the attack, and any resistance might have gotten him hurt.]] Before she succumbs to her injuries, she admits to Shinichi that she never found the answer to the question of her existence, but she found the answer to another question, implied to be "Can I love?" She hands Shinichi her baby and [[TakeCareOftheKids asks him to make sure a good family takes him in and raises him well --]] he agrees, and she [[GoOutWithASmile dies with a smile.]]]]