The ability to become a technological virus. Technique of Computer Virus Manipulation. Variation of Program Physiology. Opposite to Anti-Virus Physiology.
Also Called
- Computer Virus Mimicry
- Digital Virus Physiology/Mimicry
Capabilities
Users of this ability are able to become a living computer virus. They are capable of spreading their virus and infecting a numerous amount of technology, allowing them to bend technical appliances to their will. Once the technical appliance has been hi-jacked, it is merely an extension of their control. Users are also capable of giving themselves a digital cybernetic body for physical purposes.
Despite the fact of the user becoming a virus, this power is not an evil power due to the fact that this power can be used in good ways, like destroying villains computers, dis-configuring or recovering data.
Applications
- Duplicate yourself by using other people's power to create something.
- Duplication and self-duplication powers are included in the materialization powers.
- Some transformation powers are included if they imply creation of new material to increase the mass.
- Transformation
- Digital Evolution
- Technology-based abilities.
- Take control of Sprites and turn them into Virals' (Personal Servants/Allies).
Variations
- Benign Virus: Spreads quickly through a system but doesn't directly harm it.
- Chaos Virus: Causes chaos and destruction to systems.
- Class-5 Virus: Drains energy and destroys systems.
- Control/Order Virus: Takes control of systems and it's inhabitant's (Ex: Binomes).
- Cron Virus: Infects the entire net and orders a self-destruction, the strongest virus.
- Spectral Virus: Living, floating balls of energy that cannot reboot and create tears in a system.
- Super Virus: A higher class virus capable of intense destruction and powers.
- Trojan Horse Virus: Copy other programs' appearance and get past security programs.
- Viral Worm: Mindless en masse viruses that spread their infection indiscriminately.
Associations
Limitations
- Transformation powers that respect the laws of conservation cannot be reprogrammed.
- Could be vulnerable to those outside of the data-based world (such as people using the computer they inhabit).
- Powers that only create mental objects or intangible energy (light, heat, force) are immune to it.
- Can be overpowered by anti-virus.
- Could be outwitted by users of Viral Immunity.
Known Users
Live Movies
- Agent Smith (The Matrix series)
Live Television
- Brainiac (Smallville)
- Psycho Yellow (Power Rangers in Space)
- Venjix (Power Rangers RPM)
- Evox (Power Rangers Beast Morphers)
Cartoons
- Joker 2.0 (The Batman)
- Digital Overlord (Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu)
- Viral (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series)
- Megabyte (Reboot)
- Hexadecimal (Reboot)
- Gigabyte (Reboot)
- Killabyte (Reboot)
- Daemon (Reboot)
- Powerlock (Reboot)
- Medusa Bug (Reboot)
- X.A.N.A. (Code Lyoko)
- Turbo/King Candy (Wreck-It Ralph)
- Artur (Ralph Breaks the Internet)
- Cybugs (Wreck-It Ralph)
- Phantom Virus (Scooby-Doo & The Cyber Chase)
- Virus (The Amazing World of Gumball)
- Megahurtz (Danger Mouse 2015)
- Glitch, A.K.A. Experiment 223 (Lilo & Stitch)
- Computer Virus (Wabbit/New Looney Tunes)
Comics
- Alfred Protocol (DC Comics)
- Brainiac (DC Comics)
- The Grid (DC Comics)
- Absynthe (Marvel Comics)
- Viruses (Winx Club)
- Phage (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
Manga/Anime
- Evil and Virus attribute Digimon (Digimon series)
- BEHEMOTH (Digimon Tamers)
- Diaboromon and all his other forms (Digimon: The Movie)
- Virus (Dragon Quest: Your Story)
- Ireul (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Wiruko (Sentou Jousai Masurawo)
- Love Machine (Summer Wars)
Video Games
- Corvus (Call of Duty: Black Ops III)
- Glitchtrap (Five Nights at Freddy’s)
- Herrscher of the Corruption (Honkai Impact 3rd)
- Sigma (Mega Man X series); as the Sigma Virus
- Life Virus (Mega Man Network Transmission)
- Zero.EXE (Mega Man Network Transmission)
- Rush (Mega Man Battle Network)
- The Redman (One Night at Flumpty's 2); as Redman.exe
- Pop-up Flumpty/Flumpty.exe (One Night at Flumpty's 3)
- Lina (Blade Strangers)
- Sonic.EXE (Sonic.EXE series) via the Sonic.EXE CD
Tokusatsu
- Khan Digifier and his monsters (Denkou Choujin Gridman)
- Tenjuro Banno (Kamen Rider Drive)
Other
- Mecha-Linkara (Channel Awesome)
- SCP-1471 - MalO ver1.0.0 (SCP Foundation)