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* Played for laughs in the penultimate episode of ''WesternAnimation/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'', where it [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands suddenly gets revealed]] that Killer Tomatoes can turn a human into a Killer Tomato by swallowing them whole, chewing on them, and then spitting them out. And, for added weirdness, if a Killer Tomato does this to ''another'' Killer Tomato, the chewed Tomato gets turned into a human! The episode revolves around the Gang of Six turning the Killer Tomato Task Force into tomatoes during a fight, only for the tomato-ized [=KTTF=] to then turn the Gang of Six into humans in the heat of the moment. The Gang of Six promptly use this to get the [=KTTF=] chased out of town, planning to sabotage the human defenses whilst disguised. The Killer Tomato Task Force is forced to team up with Dr. Gangrene (who, at this point in the series, is [[EnemyCivilWar fighting with the Gang of Six himself]]) to arrange for another showdown, resulting in everybody getting reverted to their proper species.
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* ''Sssnake Eyesss'', a short comic by The Shadow Demon on Website/DeviantArt, has a legendary snake (in a zoo for some reason) whose [[NoEyeInMagic stare]] will turn you into SnakePeople. Who inherit the trait. A girl subjects herself to it as a ScareDare, [[GenreBlindness naturally]] discovers the legend to be true and accidentally spreads the condition to bystanders in the {{sequel}}. (The one guy enjoys it and [[BlackComedyRape proceeds to fertilize some eggs]].)

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* ''Sssnake Eyesss'', a short comic by The Shadow Demon on Website/DeviantArt, Platform/DeviantArt, has a legendary snake (in a zoo for some reason) whose [[NoEyeInMagic stare]] will turn you into SnakePeople. Who inherit the trait. A girl subjects herself to it as a ScareDare, [[GenreBlindness naturally]] discovers the legend to be true and accidentally spreads the condition to bystanders in the {{sequel}}. (The one guy enjoys it and [[BlackComedyRape proceeds to fertilize some eggs]].)
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* "Literature/AngelDerinEdala": If an angel bites a human, the human has a chance of turning into an angel. It is described as a "transmission".
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*''WebVideo/DrGlaucomflecken'': Physicians and surgeons who spend too much time in the Emergency Department are assimilated and turned into new emergency medicine doctors and trauma surgeons, respectively; this is depicted by them wearing progressively more amounts of bicycling gear and carrying Diet Coke.
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* Also from the MarvelUniverse is the Techno-Organic virus, which comes in a number of shapes and forms.

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* Also from the MarvelUniverse Marvel Universe is the Techno-Organic virus, which comes in a number of shapes and forms.
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* ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}''. After being infected with body-modification [[NanoMachines nanobots]] people become MadeOfIron and can meld with various hardware, but generally also turn into {{omnicidal maniac}}s with hallucinations and/or damaged memory. [[spoiler:Because the "[[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Pale Rider]]" line of nanobots was designed this way and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to that end]]. An original project was purely medical.]]

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* ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}''. ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}'': After being infected with body-modification [[NanoMachines nanobots]] {{Nanomachines}}, people become MadeOfIron and can meld with various hardware, but generally also turn into {{omnicidal maniac}}s {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s with hallucinations and/or damaged memory. [[spoiler:Because [[spoiler:This is because the "[[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse Pale Rider]]" line of nanobots was designed this way and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to that end]]. An original project was purely medical.]]

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* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill". After the title character is infected with liquid from a meteorite, he slowly changes into a fungus creature. He manages to end his suffering by committing suicide with a shotgun. The infection is later shown spreading across the countryside, creating a beautiful verdant landscape.

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* ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'': In the segment "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill". After Verrill", after the title character is infected with liquid from a meteorite, he slowly changes into a fungus creature. He manages to end his suffering by committing suicide with a shotgun. The infection is later shown spreading across the countryside, creating a beautiful verdant landscape.



* In ''Film/{{District 9}}'' this happens [[spoiler: to the main character after being sprayed with the alien "Fluid."]]
* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' in an unusual case, being resurrected with a special serum has the side effect that the person brought back keeps making it. If they get a second injection, they can start producing it on their own, and if there's anyone near they want to resurrect...
* ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 George A. Romero's]]'' films cemented this concept with zombies and pretty much birthed the entire genre of the ZombieApocalypse. Many many ''many'' works have followed since.
* In the 2001 Sci Fi Channel telefilm ''Film/{{Threshold|2001}}'' an astronaut infected with alien DNA let loose moth-like carriers that infected other people. The government found the hybrids all had B negative blood and, furthermore, the hybrids had stolen a list from a blood bank so they could track down their targets. The title comes from the other governments of the world declaring the invaders had to be stopped before they reached a critical population or Southern California would be nuked to stop them.
* ''Film/Underworld2003'' has examples of both this and TheVirus. The original flavor werewolves under William were all raving savages, but those who inherited it from Lucian spend most of their time in human form, and can eventually enter or leave were-form at will.
** Then you have the various takes on the hybrids. The movies show two different hybrids (Marcus and Michael) and mention a third (Lucian and Sonya's unborn child). The first two involve a member of one species getting exposed to the blood (and virus) of the other. While the viruses normally annihilate each other, the presence of the "Corvinus strain" in both allowed the viruses to merge into something new. In Michael's case, his original Lycan strain retained dominance, making him appear vastly more human than an average Lycan. Marcus, who started as a vampire, attained more bat-like characteristics, although he did gain several Lycan ones as well. It is unknown what Lucian and Sonya's child would look like, given that it was equal parts Lycan and vampire, or if it would survive at all, given the mutually-destructive "relationship" the two virus strains have.
* ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' has lycanthropy transmitted this way via bite. In an interesting case, it goes from [[spoiler: father to son]] when the protagonist is bitten.

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* In ''Film/{{District 9}}'' ''Film/District9'', this happens [[spoiler: to [[spoiler:to the main character after being sprayed with the alien "Fluid."]]
"Fluid"]].
* ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'' in ''Film/TheLazarusEffect'': In an unusual case, being resurrected with a special serum has the side effect that the person brought back keeps making it. If they get a second injection, they can start producing it on their own, and if there's anyone near they want to resurrect...
* ''[[Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968 George A. Romero's]]'' The ''Film/LivingDeadSeries'' films cemented this concept with zombies and pretty much birthed the entire genre of the ZombieApocalypse. Many many Many, many, ''many'' works have followed since.
* In the 2001 Sci Fi Channel telefilm ''Film/{{Threshold|2001}}'' an astronaut infected with alien DNA let loose moth-like carriers that infected other people. The government found the hybrids all had B negative blood and, furthermore, the hybrids had stolen a list from a blood bank so they could track down their targets. The title comes from the other governments of the world declaring the invaders had to be stopped before they reached a critical population or Southern California would be nuked to stop them.
* ''Film/Underworld2003'' has examples of both this and TheVirus. The original flavor werewolves under William were all raving savages, but those who inherited it from Lucian spend most of their time in human form, and can eventually enter or leave were-form at will.
** Then you have the various takes on the hybrids. The movies show two different hybrids (Marcus and Michael) and mention a third (Lucian and Sonya's unborn child). The first two involve a member of one species getting exposed to the blood (and virus) of the other. While the viruses normally annihilate each other, the presence of the "Corvinus strain" in both allowed the viruses to merge into something new. In Michael's case, his original Lycan strain retained dominance, making him appear vastly more human than an average Lycan. Marcus, who started as a vampire, attained more bat-like characteristics, although he did gain several Lycan ones as well. It is unknown what Lucian and Sonya's child would look like, given that it was equal parts Lycan and vampire, or if it would survive at all, given the mutually-destructive "relationship" the two virus strains have.
* ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' has lycanthropy transmitted this way via bite. In an interesting case, it goes from [[spoiler: father to son]] when the protagonist is bitten.
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* In the 2001 Film/SyfyChannelOriginalMovie ''Film/{{Threshold|2001}}'', an astronaut infected with alien DNA let loose moth-like carriers that infected other people. The government found the hybrids all had B negative blood and, furthermore, the hybrids had stolen a list from a blood bank so they could track down their targets. The title comes from the other governments of the world declaring the invaders had to be stopped before they reached a critical population or Southern California would be nuked to stop them.
* ''Film/Underworld2003'' has examples of both this and TheVirus.
** The original flavor werewolves under William were all raving savages, but those who inherited it from Lucian spend most of their time in human form, and can eventually enter or leave were-form at will.
** Then you have the various takes on the hybrids. The movies show two different hybrids (Marcus and Michael) and mention a third (Lucian and Sonya's unborn child). The first two involve a member of one species getting exposed to the blood (and virus) of the other. While the viruses normally annihilate each other, the presence of the "Corvinus strain" in both allowed the viruses to merge into something new. In Michael's case, his original Lycan strain retained dominance, making him appear vastly more human than an average Lycan. Marcus, who started as a vampire, attained more bat-like characteristics, although he did gain several Lycan ones as well. It is unknown what Lucian and Sonya's child would look like, given that it was equal parts Lycan and vampire, or if it would survive at all, given the mutually-destructive "relationship" the two virus strains have.
* ''Film/TheWolfman2010'' has lycanthropy transmitted this way via bite. In an interesting case, it goes from [[spoiler: father to son]] when the protagonist is bitten.
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* Redlight and Blacklight from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. Redlight is a completely straight version of TheVirus, which transforms people into braindead, malformed husks serving [[HiveQueen Elizabeth Greene]], while Blacklight is a ViralTransformation. [[spoiler:The player character, Alex Mercer is essentially a corpse reanimated by Blacklight, and although he is a {{Jerkass}} AntiHero with horrifying powers, he's significantly less evil than the real Alex Mercer was in life.]]

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* Redlight and Blacklight from ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}''. Redlight is a completely straight version of TheVirus, which transforms people into braindead, malformed husks serving [[HiveQueen Elizabeth Greene]], while Blacklight is a ViralTransformation.Viral Transformation. [[spoiler:The player character, Alex Mercer is essentially a corpse reanimated by Blacklight, and although he is a {{Jerkass}} AntiHero with horrifying powers, he's significantly less evil than the real Alex Mercer was in life.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''' first expansion, the horror movie themed ''The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'', has both zombies and Wereskags (skags being the planet's equivalent to dogs/wolves). Both transmit their infection/curse via bites.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}''' ''VideoGame/Borderlands1''' first expansion, the horror movie themed movie-themed ''The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'', has both zombies and Wereskags (skags being the planet's equivalent to dogs/wolves). Both transmit their infection/curse via bites.



* Everyone is infected in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. If you're lucky, nothing about you changes and you become a carrier/survivor. If you're unlucky, you become a common infected. If you're EXTREMELY unlucky, you become a special infected.

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* Everyone is infected in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead''. If you're lucky, nothing about you changes and you become a carrier/survivor. If you're unlucky, you become a common infected. If you're EXTREMELY ''extremely'' unlucky, you become a special infected.



* Mitochondria Eve of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' fame is basically a sentient and controlled version of this by manipulating the mitochondria cells in any biological lifeform, whether it be man or beast. The beasts get some pretty wicked transformations. The humans however...[[SpontaneousHumanCombustion not so]] [[ImMelting much]].

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* Mitochondria Eve of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' fame is basically a sentient and controlled version of this by manipulating the mitochondria cells in any biological lifeform, whether it be man or beast. The beasts get some pretty wicked transformations. The humans however...humans, however... [[SpontaneousHumanCombustion not so]] [[ImMelting so much]].



* Albert Wesker of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' is infected with such a virus. It is not particularly transmissible, but it does make him something of an unstoppable badass.
* The Zerg Swarm of ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft}}'' employs a hyper-evolutionary virus that mutates its victims into Zerg hybrids, dispersed by virophages and certain Zerg strains as a mean of crippling the enemy and bolstering their own numbers. Most human victims of the virus became infested terrans - shambling zombies that live to serve as the Swarm's cannon fodder - but there has been a few cases of the virus being used on exceptional individuals to create new leaders for the Swarm.
* Members of the [[BodyHorror Many]] in ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' undergo this, tending to leave behind a lot of {{Apocalyptic Log}}s. While some engage in TranshumanTreachery, a large amount of the creepiness is delivered by the poor {{Red Shirt}}s who ''[[AndIMustScream beg you to flee while they're unwillingly chasing you]]''.

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* Albert Wesker of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' is infected with such a virus. It is not particularly transmissible, but it does make him something of an unstoppable badass.
* The Zerg Swarm of ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft}}'' ''Franchise/StarCraft'' employs a hyper-evolutionary virus that mutates its victims into Zerg hybrids, dispersed by virophages and certain Zerg strains as a mean of crippling the enemy and bolstering their own numbers. Most human victims of the virus became infested terrans - -- shambling zombies that live to serve as the Swarm's cannon fodder - -- but there has been a few cases of the virus being used on exceptional individuals to create new leaders for the Swarm.
* Members of the [[BodyHorror Many]] in ''VideoGame/SystemShock 2'' ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' undergo this, tending to leave behind a lot of {{Apocalyptic Log}}s. While some engage in TranshumanTreachery, a large amount of the creepiness is delivered by the poor {{Red Shirt}}s who ''[[AndIMustScream beg you to flee while they're unwillingly chasing you]]''.
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* ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' has examples of both this and TheVirus. The original flavor werewolves under William were all raving savages, but those who inherited it from Lucian spend most of their time in human form, and can eventually enter or leave were-form at will.

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* ''Film/{{Underworld}}'' ''Film/Underworld2003'' has examples of both this and TheVirus. The original flavor werewolves under William were all raving savages, but those who inherited it from Lucian spend most of their time in human form, and can eventually enter or leave were-form at will.
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* ''Fanfic/PrincipalCelestiaHuntsTheUndead'': Werebeasts can transmit their condition via biting, as can those infected by brain worms. Averted with true undead zombies, which have to be deliberately raised via black magic.

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* ''Fanfic/PrincipalCelestiaHuntsTheUndead'': Werebeasts can transmit their condition via biting, as can those infected by brain worms. Averted Subverted with true undead zombies, which zombies: Sunset thinks that she's going to turn when a zombie bites her, but they have to be deliberately raised via black magic.
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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In the Halloween special "Night of the Living Pharmacists", Heinz Doofenshmirtz turns his brother Roger into a clone of himself. Unfortunately, Doof's -inator malfunctions and causes the transformation to spread. Danville is quickly overrun by a horde of Dr. Doofenshmirtz clones moaning "Lots of me..." and [[CloneByConversion turning everyone else into "Doofenzombies"]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In the Halloween special "Night "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbNightOfTheLivingPharmacists Night of the Living Pharmacists", Pharmacists]]", Heinz Doofenshmirtz turns his brother Roger into a clone of himself. Unfortunately, Doof's -inator malfunctions and causes the transformation to spread. Danville is quickly overrun by a horde of Dr. Doofenshmirtz clones moaning "Lots of me..." and [[CloneByConversion turning everyone else into "Doofenzombies"]].



* The Bio-mechs in ''WesternAnimation/VorTech'' were infected with a technological plague transforming them into creatures much like the Phalanx in the ''Franchise/XMen'' comic book titles.

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* The Bio-mechs in ''WesternAnimation/VorTech'' ''WesternAnimation/VorTechUndercoverConversionSquad'' were infected with a technological plague transforming them into creatures much like the Phalanx in the ''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'' comic book titles.
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[[caption-width-right:350:When Creator/ChuckNorris is bitten by a zombie, he doesn't turn into a zombie. [[RussianReversal The zombie turns into Chuck Norris,]] [[MemeticBadass naturally]]]].

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[[caption-width-right:350:When Creator/ChuckNorris is bitten by a zombie, he doesn't turn into a zombie. [[RussianReversal The zombie turns into Chuck Norris,]] [[MemeticBadass naturally.]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:When Creator/ChuckNorris is bitten by a zombie, he doesn't turn into a zombie. [[RussianReversal The zombie turns into Chuck Norris,]] [[MemeticBadass naturally.]]]]
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