The ability to turn one's body into a living hive, and control the creatures in a symbiotic relationship.
Contents
Also Called
- Human Hive
- Leeching
- Parasite Hive
- Swarm Mimicry
Capabilities
The user has a symbiotic relationship with whatever life forms (insects, worms, snakes, etc.) they are sharing a body with. The insects get food from either the user or from whatever the person wants them to devour, and they use them for their needs.
In several cases, the user is actually a hive-minded swarm of the creatures.
Applications
- Using insects they can lift things. Several thousand could lift and subdue targets; millions could lift a vehicle.
- With the poisons most insects produce as a means of defense, they can easily poison and kill people with millions of bites or stings. By directing insects down the throat, they could easily suffocate a victim. Even a few ants down the throat could cause suffocation due to the small number of stings closing the windpipe. By swarming thousands of bees, hornets or wasps the target can be stung to death.
- With the use of thousands of locusts or caterpillars, they can devour surrounding plant life.
- In the event of being composed of insects, the user is effectively intangible, allowing attacks to simply pass through them.
- With any insect of small size (so that means most insects) they can scout areas. The insects will report what they find to the "hive".
- May have other life forms than simply insects.
Variations
Associations
- Animal Manipulation
- Animal Morphing, especially Insect Physiology
- Infestation
- Insect Breath
- Matter Ingestion
- Multi Symbiosis
- Poison Generation
- Scattering
Limitations
- May be unable or find it difficult to return to their original shape.
- Users may be very susceptible to either fire or water.
- This may cause the hive to attack its host.
Known Users
Cartoons
- Clancy (Ben 10)
- Bohrok/Kraana (Bionicle)
- Zaktan (Bionicle)
- The Bogeyman (Martin Mystery)
- Million Ants (Rick and Morty)
Comics
- Insect Queen (DC Comics)
- Scarab (DC Comics)
- Mnemoth (Hellblazer)
- Colony (Marvel Comics)
- Hive (Marvel Comics)
- Ero/The Other (Marvel Comics)
- Fritz von Meyer/Swarm (Marvel Comics)
- Carl King/Thousand (Marvel Comics)
- Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage)
Films
- Destoroyah (Godzilla)
- Oogie Boogie (The Nightmare Before Christmas)
Literature
- The Nesk (Animorphs)
- Ra'azac (Inheritance Cycle)
- The Shadow (Inkheart)
- Hugh Apiston (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children)
Live Television
- Norman Pfister (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Hive (Marvel Cinematic Universe)
- Pestilox (Power Rangers Super Samurai)
Manga/Anime
- Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time)
- Naraku (InuYasha)
- Foo Fighters (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
- Aburame Clan (Naruto)
- Orochimaru (Naruto)
- Mushizō (Ninja Scroll)
- Gotou (Parasyte)
- Grayroad (The Seven Deadly Sins/Nanatsu no Taizai)
- Arachne (Soul Eater)
- Tommyrod (Toriko)
RPG
- Kyuss (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Worms that walk (Dungeons & Dragons)
- Apophas (Warhammer)
Video Games
- The Griever (Darksiders)
- Aragami (God Eater)
- Megaera (God of War)
- The Pain/Hornet Soldier (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
- D'Vorah (Mortal Kombat X)
- Vespiquen (Pokémon)
- James Marcus/Queen Leech (Resident Evil)
- Marguerite Baker (Resident Evil 7)
- Ah Muzen Cab (Smite)
- Nrvnqsr Chaos (TYPE-MOON)
Web Original
- SCP-1582 - Ant Man (SCP Foundation)
Podcast
- Jane Prentiss (The Magnus Archives)
Gallery
After being hit by The Shadowed One's disintegration eyebeams, Zaktan (Bionicle) was turned into a living swarm of millions of Protodites, each one containing a portion of his consciousness.
Norman Pfister (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) is a hive-minded swarm of maggots that can take on the appearance of a normal human.
Using the 【Insect Binding Technique】 skill, Vandalieu (The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time) can equip tamed insects inside his body and produce them or a part of them from his own body.
Aragami like the Vajra (God Eater) are thousands of semi-sentient unicellular life forms attached to a core, all sharing a swarm intelligence.
Megaera (God of War) has numerous parasites inside her and which she can call forth through rashes on her body.
Destoroyah (Godzilla) is a sentient hive of mutated Precambrian crustaceans that can take on a variety of forms.
The Pain/Hornet Soldier (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater) houses mutated "bullet bees" within his body.
Shino Aburame (Naruto), like all members of his clan, houses chakra-eating kikaichū insects within his body.
Oogie Boogie (The Nightmare Before Christmas/Kingdom Hearts) is a colony of bugs wrapped in a burlap sack.
An experimental Parasite created by Reiko, Gotou's (Parasyte) body is composed of five different parasites, one in his head and four in his limbs, something he can utilize to the fullest extent.
After being assassinated by the Umbrella Corporation, James Marcus (Resident Evil) reanimated himself into a monstrous leech with the ability to control and house other leeches.
Grayroad (The Seven Deadly Sins/Nanatsu no Taizai) is a single being composed of numerous pudgy, dwarf-sized gray demons.
After his death at the Turtles' hands, the Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage) was resurrected using a colony of mystic worms…
Nrvnqsr Chaos (TYPE-MOON) is a living mass of chaotic matter analogous to a primordial soup, created from the accumulation of the lives of 666 creatures.
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