List of fictional parasites
Appearance
This list encompasses fictional characters and species who are parasites and/or parasitoids.
A[edit]
- Alien (sometimes referred to as a xenomorph),[1] parasitoid species that is the primary antagonist of the Alien franchise
- Aparoid
B[edit]
- Baby (Dragon Ball)
- Bellum (The Legend of Zelda)
- Bezoar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
- Biollante
- Blackrock (comics)
- Brood (comics)
- William Birkin
C[edit]
- Carnage (character)
- Ceti eel - creature in the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, invading the human brain[2]
- Chimera Anima - blob-shaped parasitic aliens in manga Tokyo Mew Mew, infecting animals and changing them into monsters
D[edit]
- Deathspiral Butterfly - parasitoid butterfly in Shadowrun
- Destoroyah
- DNAlien (Ben 10)
E[edit]
F[edit]
G[edit]
- Goa'uld - the main antagonists in Stargate and Stargate SG-1
- Gravemind
- Gregor Samson (Skullgirls)
- Gae Bolga (Skullgirls)
H[edit]
I[edit]
J[edit]
L[edit]
- Left Hand (Vampire Hunter D)
- Lavos
- Las Plagas
- Leviathan (Skullgirls)
M[edit]
N[edit]
- Hinako Ninomiya
- Nemesis (Resident Evil)
- Neurax Worm (Plague Inc.)
- Cassandra Nova
- N'Tal ("Second Soul", 1995 episode of The Outer Limits)
P[edit]
- Parallax (comics)
- Parasite (comics)
- Parasite - 1982 3-D film
- Pod People (Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
- Parasytes (manga)
R[edit]
- Regulan bloodworm - mentioned in various episodes of Star Trek, sometimes causing sickness but also medically useful
S[edit]
- Slimebiote (Ben 10)
- Sublime (Marvel Comics)
- Symbiote (comics)
- Silents (Doctor Who)
- Sekhmet (Skullgirls)
T[edit]
- Thread, filaments of a space-borne spore that devours organic matter in the Dragonriders of Pern
- Trill symbiont in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a symbiotic life form that gives its host all the memories of its previous hosts
U[edit]
V[edit]
- Venom (Marvel Comics character) Spider-Man's archenemy from outer space
- Visser Three, the main antagonist character in the Animorphs book and television series
- Jason Voorhees (See Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday)
X[edit]
Y[edit]
- Yeerk, the main antagonist race in book and television series Animorphs
References[edit]
- ^ James Cameron (writer and director) (1986). Aliens (DVD). 20th Century Fox.
- ^ Antlions in popular culture