Assimilative Replication

Assimilative Replication
After being "freed" by Neo, Agent Smith (The Matrix) became an implacable self-replicating virus, converting any human or program in the Matrix into copies of himself and assimilating/sharing their knowledge and abilities.
Power/Ability to:	Convert others and/or objects into duplicates of the user or others.

"The best thing about being me... is that there are so many me's!"

― Agent Smith (Matrix Reloaded)

"I'm Brian! And so's my wife!"

― Random Prisoner (Monty Python's The Life of Brian)

The power to convert others and/or objects into replicates of oneself or others. Combination of Conversion and Replication. Variation of Self-Replication.

Also Called

• Assimilative Cloning/Duplication
• Converting Cloning/Duplication/Replication
• Self-Spawn/Self-Spawning
• Viral Cloning/Duplication/Replication

Capabilities

The user can transform others and/or objects into exact, often hive-minded, duplicates of themselves or others, both physically and in persona. The effect is often permanent and irreversible, but some unique individuals may be able to interrupt and reverse the process before it is completed. Users can also assimilate the knowledge, skills, memories and special abilities of their victims and share them with all replicas, becoming exponentially more powerful with each upgrade. If the user dies, then the next replica can become the original one and so on.

Applications

• Conversion - Transform others into duplicates, often in the form of identical self-duplicates.
  • One-Man Army - Users literally become an army of their own.
• Doppelgeization
• Hive Mind - All replicas are hosts of a single collective mind.
  • Immortality - The numerous replica and super-fast proliferation make users virtually immortal.
• Knowledge Replication/Power Replication - Assimilate the victim's knowledge, skills, memories and abilities.
  • Hive Genetics - Assimilated knowledge and powers are shared with all replicas.
• Replication
  • Decoy Creation
    • Substitution Creation
  • Extension Creation
    • Avatar Creation
  • Group Creation
    • Horde Creation
      • Army Creation
  • Inorganic Duplication
    • Object Replication
  • Self-Replication
    • Multipresence
      • Multitasking
  • Varied Replication
    • Attribute Replication
      • Property Replication
• Subsuming Transplantation - One can regrow a whole new self through a living medium from even a micro sliver of ones essence.
  • Consciousness Transferal - Users biomaterial can overwrite the current persona of a host.

Associations

• Assimilative Infection
• Possession
  • Assimilative Possession
  • Possessive Replication
  • Possessive Transformation
• Shapeshifting
  • Shapeshifting Inducement
• Transformation
  • Transformation Bestowal
  • Doppelgeization

Limitations

• Transformation Negation and Conversion Negation can undo the effects.
• Given they share the same powers and personality, the clones also share the same weakness and limitations of the original.
• Killing the user might undo the effects. Although since the clones are an assimilation of the user, it might be tricky to find the original.

Known Users

• Aptom (Bio Booster Armor Guyver)
• Starro (DC Comics)
• Third Army (DC Comics)
• The Master (Doctor Who); via the Immortality Gate
• Genesis (Final Fantasy series)
• Collective Man (Marvel Comics)
• David Haller/Chain (Marvel Comics)
• Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Comics)
• Symbiotes (Marvel Comics)
• Agent Smith (The Matrix)
• Kett (Mass Effect)
• DaBaby (MeatCanyon)
• Weegee (Memes)
• Kyoji Kasshu (Mobile Fighter G Gundam)
• Mindless Repulsive Pharmacists (Phineas and Ferb)
• Ultimate Kriemhild Gretchen (Puella Magi Madoka Magica)
• Mr. Frundles (Rick and Morty)
• SCP-2009 - Thomas Hoang (SCP Foundation); via Infestant Spores
• Silver (Super/Lette)
• Tomie Kawakami (Tomie)

Gallery

The Starro (DC Comics), an ancient intergalactic race of parasites with advanced psychic abilities,....

...are able to transform other simpler lifeforms, such as earthen Asteroidea, into superpowered agents with all of their traits and abilities to act on the collectives behalf.

Collective Man (Marvel Comics)

Loki Laufeyson (Marvel Comics)

Schwarz Bruder (Mobile Fighter G Gundam), a reanimated and remodeled doppelganger and representative of Kyoji Kasshu.

While undeniably cute, Mr. Frundles (Rick & Morty) is an incredible deadly parasitic creature that can convert animate and inanimate objects into another version of himself to where he is able to convert an entire planet in mere seconds.