Quotes / The Virus

Film — Live-Action

Every dead body that is not exterminated becomes one of them. It gets up and kills! The people it kills get up and kill.

— Dawn of the Dead

Agent: You!
Smith: Yes, me. (stabs his hand into the Agent) Me, me, me...
New Smith: Me too.
[...]
Morpheus: And now there's more than one of them?
Neo: A lot more.
Link: How's that possible?
Neo: I don't know. Somehow he's found a way to copy himself.
Morpheus: Is that what he was doing to you?
Neo: I don't know what he was doing... but I know what it felt like.
Trinity: What?
Neo: It felt like I was back in that hallway. It felt like dying.

— The Matrix Reloaded

Regroup on deck fifteen. Don't let them touch you!

— Captain Picard after losing a battle with the Borg, Star Trek: First Contact

Live-Action TV

Jesse is dead! You have to remember that when you see him, you're not looking at your friend. You're looking at the thing that killed him.

— Giles, Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Tabletop Games

Many undead have methods of propagating their curse among their previously living victims. For instance, those infected by the diseased bite of a ghoul may contract ghoul fever. Those who perish from this rotting illness rise at the next midnight as ghouls themselves. In this way, some undead recruit the formerly living into their shuffling ranks.

Undead propagate in a sick parody of life's method of multiplying. Worse yet, undead propagation is far quicker, easier, and doesn't require the consent of the creature to be made undead — only a victim's inability to drive off the grave-born attacker.

— Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead

Video Games

They remade her in their own image. Then she made more of them.

— Hespith, Dragon Age: Origins

When they come in contact with organic matter, they use the mass to form a neural control network that then takes control of the ship... Each Beast cell functions like a biomechanical virus. It is capable of using and subverting living cells in much the same way that i-it subverts and uses non-organic technology...

— An Engineer, on the Beast subversion entity from Homeworld: Cataclysm

We warned you of what crawls out of 3AM. It gets in your head. From your head, it gets to the rest of you. The dreams of the Dreamers have a particularly volatile reaction to the minds of humanity. Your clay becomes so malleable. It starts in the mind. Self-perception erodes. The more of Their perception you absorb, the harder it is for your brain to remember its human self. Then the body follows. Self-perception, sweetling. Once that gravity dissolves, your molecules flow, and then whole new vistas of horrible possibility open.

— The Buzzing, The Secret World

"You can see how the body has been transformed by the genetic restructuring of the Flood infection. The small creatures carry spores that cause a host to mutate. The mutated host then produces spores that can pass the Flood to others. It is insidious and elegant. As long as any hosts remain, the Flood is virulent."

— 343 Guilty Spark, Halo: Combat Evolved

Webcomics

...whatever this here biomatter is, its first order'a business is to compensate for any major damage to the host. Unfortunatelike, it compensates so hard it kinda... well... I suppose you could say it's thrown everything out in the process and started fresh. It brings in so much new information that it doesn't just fix an injury, but goes on to overwrite the entire being with somethin' totally newfangled. Emphasis on the fangled a'course.

— Magdolene on the Red Blight, Awful Hospital, p.849

Web Videos

A virus walks into a bar. The bartender says, "We don't serve viruses here." The virus replaces the bartender and says, "Now you do."

— Brian Malow

Western Animation

I come from the Net. Infecting systems, people, and cities. To this place... Megaframe. My domain. My Format: Virus. To corrupt, and conquer.

— Megabyte's Opening Narration, ReBoot

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