Discussion Main / TheAssimilator

Perhaps there should be separate pages for cultural/religious integration of one society into another and for people directly incorporating the bodies and minds of other people into their own? It strikes me as a little awkward that these two are lumped up as the same trope.

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, and my apologies if it isn't.

Could someone point me towards the myth/folklore that mentions vampires to be assimilators?

I couldn't find any provenance for this one with a quick Google search, so I'm moving this here for the time being -

"Hugo Chavez described socialism as a virus with which he intends to infect all other countries".

The picture is small and confusing. Is the guy being eaten by the cloak?

There's a character in the Tabletop Game "Don't Rest Your Head" called the Tacks Man. He's a beurocrat with a thumbtack for a head. He chases people down and takes parts of the victim (your heartbeat, your memory of your daughter, your first laugh, etc). Would he fit as an example of this trope?

I think there should be a separate trope for when this is used to say that a certain fandom/website/show/whatever is really addictive, such as with The Herd or, of course, TV Tropes itself. If there isn't one, can we create one?

Do the vampires of the novel 'Salem's Lot count? It was implied they drank blood to turn people, and their leader essentially wanted to turn everyone into vampires. The implications of this are discussed by two characters at one point, saying they can't let him turn everyone (or nearly everyone) into vampires. (needing a breeding population of humans shouldn't be a problem - The Cybermen do too.)

Why was the picture of Alpha taken down?

That picture is Did Not Do The Research - Zachary Quinto as Sylar does not eat brains - just examines them to find out what causes special powers. He kills people because he's Ax-Crazy, rather than having to kill people, since he could easily do it using proper techniques (he does on Charlie.)

The page quote "We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile." is Beam Me Up, Scotty!...

There are really two variants. The "full version" of that speech goes like this: "We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile."

Then sometimes you'll here the "short version", which is just: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile."

Basically, the longer version instead of using the wort "assimilate" will elaborate in detail what they're going to do.

I changed the eponymous for Chimera Beast back to titular. Not really a major thing to note, but there seems to be a lot of issues about those two, and after checking, I believe this is the only time I've used the word properly here. Chimera Beast is a name that only occurs in the title, they're always called "Eaters" in game.