The ability to become a technological virus. Variation of Program Physiology.
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 becomes a virus, this power is not an evil power due fact from this power can be used to good ways, like destroy villains computers, dis-configure or recover 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)
- Arthur (Wreck It Ralph: Ralph Breaks The Internet)
Live Television
- Brainiac (Smallville)
- Psycho Yellow (Power Rangers in Space)
- Venjix (Power Rangers RPM)
Cartoons
- Joker 2.0 (The Batman)
- Viral (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series)
- Megabyte (Reboot)
- Hexadecimal (Reboot)
- Gigabyte (Reboot)
- Killabyte (Reboot)
- Daemon (Reboot)
- X.A.N.A. (Code Lyoko)
- Turbo/King Candy (Wreck-It Ralph)
- 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)
Comics
- Alfred Protocol (DC Comics)
- Brainiac (DC Comics)
- The Grid (DC Comics)
- Absynthe (Marvel Comics)
- 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)
- Ireul (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
- Love Machine (Summer Wars)
Video Games
- Corvus (Call of Duty: Black Ops III)
- Sigma (Mega Man X series); as the Sigma Virus
- Life Virus (Mega Man Network Transmission)
- Zero.EXE (Mega Man Network Transmission)
- Rush (Megaman NT Warriors)
- Lina (Blade Strangers)
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)
Gallery
After being destroyed by Neo, Agent Smith (The Matrix) used coding from Neo to become a powerful computer virus, turning all humans and programs in sight into duplicates of himself and nearly destroying the Matrix, Zion and the Machine City in the process.
Brainiac's (Smallville) program can infect, alter and control any technology that it interfaces with, extract information from and control human minds and survive and rebuild itself if even a portion of it remains intact.
Killabyte (Reboot)
Killabyte's evolved form, Gigabyte (Reboot).
Gigabyte's divided remnants, Megabyte and Hexadecimal (Reboot)
Daemon (Reboot)
Phantom Virus (Scooby-Doo & The Cyber Chase)
After being eaten by a Cybug, King Candy/Turbo (Wreck-It Ralph) merged with it and became the most powerful virus in the arcade, possessing the ability to take over any game he wanted.
Grid (DC Comics)
Diaboromon and his line (Digimon: The Movie) is a powerful digimon that was infected by a virus as a digiegg. Because of this, he possessed many viral abilities; being able to reach his Mega-level within 24 hours of hatching, defeating and nearly destroying the Digi-destined's digimon at every turn and nearly destroying the entire world as a result.
BEHEMOTH (Digimon) a viral entity that takes the form of a motorcycle, possessing all of those that mount it with the sole exception of Beelzemon.
A mathematical code labeled Love Machine (Summer Wars) infects Kenji's OZ avatar, becoming an incredibly powerful digital entity that sought to destroy the world's infrastructure through it.
Sigma (Mega Man X series) has a virus that is capable of giving himself a new body whevener his previous is destroyed.
Zero EXE. (Mega Man EXE) was created by Lord Willy in order to infect the entire net.
SCP-1471 - MalO ver1.0.0 (SCP Foundation) is a haunted computer application that can manifest within sight of the computer's owner, trying and failing to communicate with them.
Viral (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 TV series)
Phage (Archie's Sonic the Hedgehog)
Corvus (Call of Duty) is a manifested program that turned into a virus.
Glitch, A.K.A. Experiment 223 (Lilo & Stitch)
The Alfred Protocol (DC Comics) was an AI that evolved into a virus capable of assimilating others into its network...
including his creator, the Batman of that world, who transformed into the Murder Machine as a result.
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