For what it's worth, the flood may be impossible to eradicate, but those chest exploding things and face huggers are gonna haunt my nightmares forever.
Pretty sure swarms are immune to Instant Death in the latest edition of 40k. No more evaporating if an assault cannon sneezes in your general vicinity!
To be fair the ammunition the tyranids use are parasites. Or the biggest parasite in 40k is probably the gene seed although I’m sure parasites are predominantly negative to the host so maybe not.
@@gamerleal9265 He developed in during his tenure on the Enterprise. Apparently it appears to have alcoholic effects on Klingons, at least as far as I’ve been able to gather, though likely minor due to Klingons being much more robust than humans.
Well, it is stated a lot of times that the Symbiont (for example the Dax Symbiont) merges with its Host (Lets just take Jadzia) to form a new person from the merged personalities and experiences. Thus Dax and Jadzia become Jadzia Dax, practically a whole new person which is really not just the "menacing worm thing" taking over a person, but rather, well, merging with them. It seems beneficial to both parties involved. Also it is literally called Symbiont as in Symbiotic relationship, which is different from a parasite which exploits its most of the time unwilling Host.
@@nathanfarra8952 The ones that breathed with the gill that stuck out the back of the host's neck, from TNG? I expected that one. Not freaking Trill Symbionts. If they want to include a Star Trek species...the least they could do is make sure they do their research.
I’m not sure they really know what a parasite is. I mean, they included Trill symbionts(not a parasite) and midichlorians(again, not a parasite). They might just think anything that enters the body and isn’t a virus is a parasite(but then again, midichlorians still wouldn’t fit the bill since you’re *born* with them)
And again, they fail to take into account it's not JUST the concentration of Midiclorians that differentiates between Jedi and Sith...it's the ideologies behind each group...defense of civilization as a whole vs. seeking personal power for the sake of power and domination. It's the very nature of the two sides that is flawed. "Grey" Jedi...those that serve the Living Force...like Quigon and Ashoka in Canon and even Ben Skywalker in Legends/EU (which Disney had NO right to abolish as "non-canon" are those that follow the true nature of the Force. Even though it was a dangerous line, even Mace Windu was closer to the true path. Due to Va'paad, he could channel his Dark Side emotions while serving the light, as it was a variant of Form 7 of LIghtsaber Combat. This variant made it especially effective against the Sith or other Dark Side Force Users...not only could it harmlessly channel the user's own dark side influences without corrupting the Jedi, if they mastered it: It could also send back Dark Side energy sent at the user. That's how Mace Windu came so close to defeating Sidious in the prequels.
@Joseph Douek Except that even in Canon, it’s stated by the Whills that there is no Dark or Light Side of the Force. There is just the Force, good and evil are concepts used by mortal beings, and have no real meaning to immortal entities besides being words to them. That same line of thinking is used by Grey Jedi, who see the Force for what it is, a power that flows through everyone and everything, no matter their moral compass. The ways in which the Force is used changed depending on who used it, though the differing ideals led to multiple wars between the Jedi and Sith. The reason that the Sith are always "destroyed" to bring balance is because Jedi are no longer necessary at that point. Without Jedi or Sith, there is balance once more.
To put into perspective of how powerful the flood is: In halo 3, a single covenant corvette infested with flood was able to spread extremely far in just a few hours. The shipmaster’s fleet had to glass half of Africa just to contain it
Well, cruiser. And we don't know if Hood's being serious about "half a continent" or just a general large area, given the size of the fleet, the time frame, and geographical size they'll have to glass.
@@inkedseahear seeing as new Mombasa is on the Mid East coast of Africa, the only way the flood could reach the rest of Asia and Europe by land would be the Middle East. So it would make sense that Rtas would be forced to glass Eastern Africa and maybe a bit of the middle East to stop the spread of the flood
@@Beamer490 well i think they did not exagerated with the glassing of half of the continent due to the spores launch into the air can spread several kilometers en just minutes, and it is know that the flood can spread among sea organism
What of the Thing from John Carpenter's the Thing? That question aside, you could do a top 1000 list of most dangerous parasites and barely scratched the surface so certain allowances must be extended. Dangerous parasites are something of a trope, but a good trope of which I will NEVER tire.
@@killtheheretics2915 It functioned like a parasite in a lot of ways. It was also far too complex an organism to be deemed a virus as it was self sustaining to a degree whereas a virus tends to require a host of some kind to survive for extended periods. If the Thing is not a parasite then neither is the Flood. They both co opt lifeforms in similar ways. Who's to say the Thing wouldn't also develop something similar to a grave mind if allowed to spread to a global infestation? We do after all only see the tiniest microcosm of what a single protospecemine can do and it maintained far more of the knowledge/intellect from the original lifeform it co opted than individual Flood forms do.
fun fact: given how mathematically diverse conditions on the infinite amount of planets in the known universe almost certainly are, The Thing is prolly one of the closest to the reality of alien life that Hollywood has ever come
@@dr._breens_beard Until you account for what is biologically possible. It works way too fast, mimicking a host at the cellular level would take even longer, and the chances they could pass as anything besides a monster (even if with comparable intelligence) is unlikely.
Wait. I don’t remember exactly which one it was, but it had to be an inner planet as it changed the name of the planet they were on. So Ceti Alpha 5 would became Ceti Alpha 4 when Ceti Alpha 3 exploded. Unless the explosion knocked the planet into a closer orbit. If Ceti Alpha 6 explodes and Ceti Alpha 5 was pushed out of its orbit into Ceti Alpha 4 and the previous Ceti Alpha 4 became Ceti Alpha 5.
Did you forget John Carpenter’s the Thing!!! That is a legendary parasite! For shame! But I guess the Flood are basically that and the flood do have a more intricate and kind of terrifying lore.
1. The body replicating alien pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." 2. The alien from "The Thing." 3. The Borg. 4. The titular monster from "The Stuff."
They may not technically count, but I think an honorable mention is deserved for the Borg. While technological in nature rather than biological, I think they operate in many ways like a parasite
I'm not 100% they count as parasites....but then that hinges on if the body they control is still alive or not. And there is evidence to suggest that poor sod is still kicking so it might be?? Hard to say tbh
@@clayxros576 Yes, they are parasites. In Half Life 2, occasionally when you kill a headcrab zombie with a body shot the headcrab will detach from the head and actively seek a new host (usually Gordon). The hosts are certainly alive as they can be heard screaming in pain as their body is deformed and controlled by the parasite as wel as when you set them on fire.. Then there are the fast ones that strip the skin off the host leaving their body nothing more than muscle bone and sinew. An then there aare the poison ones that transform the host into a wheezing lumbering bloated mass that is used to gestate more headcrabs. Holy shit these things are nightmare fuel why aren't they on the list?!
@@mandyrobbins1041 - although he did have a good point about the symbiont getting more out of the relationship than the host. That's actually the definition of a parasite. That still does not get him off the hook on mispronouncing JADZIA'S (NOT JAZDIA) name.
@@70briareos Actually, no. The host gets equal out of it: The Symbiont gets to have new experiences and unique views from the new host. The host, on the other hand...gets to learn from the experiences of all the past hosts, which live on in the memories of the Symbiont. Using Jadzia and Dax as an example: Due to all the experiences of the Symbiont, Jadzia gained an understanding for the culture of Klingons and Ferengi, helped her become more musical, and be more empathic from the experiences of all the hosts of the Dax Symbiont before her.
One thing to point out about the Flood which is that according to halo lore not all of the Precursor became the dust or powder that eventually became the flood. Some are stated to have escaped the war and others went into suspended animation. I feel sorry for anything that wakes them up.
I watched the show on Netflix called another Life . In that show they landed on a planetoid or an asteroid that had breathable air and boron based bacteria or something of the sort . One of the people got sick from the bacteria . Then her spinal cord and major nerves crawled out of her spinal column at her neck . Season 1 episode 3 nervous breakdown .
11:40 This is the first sci-fi channel I've seen to actually correctly understand that the facehugger, logically, does not implant an egg or an embryo into the stomach of the victim......
By definition, parasites and symbionts are different classes of organisms. Parasites benefit from the host with no reciprocal benefit to the host. Symbionts benefit both themselves and their hosts, making them not parasites. Additionally, Worf married Jadzia, not Ezra. When Ezra and Worf tried to rebuild their marriage, they found they were incompatible. Finally, it was Ceti Alpha 6 that exploded shifting Ceti Alpha 5’s orbit rendering it nearly uninhabitable.
I've never seen medichlorians as a parasite, nor the source of a being's ability to use the force. I've always seen them as a harmless bacteria that as a natural byproduct, happen to congregate in higher numbers in strong force users. This to me, was why the Jedi could measure someone's medichlorian count to judge their potential force ability.
What about the parasitic aliens that took over the brass of Star Fleet in TNG season 1 (the only episode to be banned in multiple countries because of its violence)?
Knew the flood was coming, but I think the X Parasite from Metroid Fusion deserves top spot. A little disappointed to see it didn't even make the list. Still enjoyed the video though!
If you haven't seen it yet I would really recommend giving 'Another life' a watch, it's a really great series but has a couple of space viruses and parasites of its own that would be interesting to hear your take on.
LOLOLOL "Sorry guys not Expanse content today." "Our first parasite we're gonna look at hails from the universe of the Expanse." LOLOL, man. I love seeing you catch up with the rest of the scifi world with your unhinged passion for the Expanse. Once you've had a taste, it becomes the bench mark to judge all contemporary scifi content.
They're priotizing cultural relevancy over accuracy. Every single one of their lists concerning scifi has had something from the Expanse in it, from the most dangerous ships in scifi (which had NOTHING from the Culture or the Xeelee Sequence, or Gunbuster, or Battleship Yamato) or really ANY slightly obscure scifi. The Expanse is a placeholder so they don't have to search for actual competitors and can farm likes because its "Oh, the Expanse is popular!" mindsets.
_"kill me or release Me parasite but do not waste my time with talk...._" _"I have listened through Rock, and metal, and time, now I will talk and you will listen, listen to my mind."_
I'm table-top gamer and I play Captain Charles Randolph Stern . The captain of the Resolute a modified Miranda class starship. SOP on away missions is environmental suits and survival gear even if the environment seems safe. As soon as I received command of the Resolute I placed my standard SOP (standard operating procedure). Lots of gamers would call this meta gaming ,I would say common sense. Look at how many episodes of StarTrek went awry because of this. It would be standard protocol by now. My Gamemaster has to be more creative than that .
Whether it be a film, game, novel or whatever, when it comes to top parasites you have to have Flood at number one every time, even if it's a video about parasites in films exclusively. The Flood is that powerful.
People write the Zerg off as Tyranid wannabes but if you really dig into their lore and not the gameplay restrictions they suffer from in the games you can see they'll stand a chance against the Flood and Nids... Any organism that evolves in a matter of seconds and produces a virus that mutates constantly is something you don't want to mess with...
Forgot the North American Human Female of Terra in the Sol system, Milkyway Galaxy. Controls the minds of it's victims. Carelessly discarding the victim once it's usefulness and resources are depleted. *warning* heavily uses camouflage, pheromones and verbal deception when hunting.
Also, there’s the intelligent nanites from Greg Bear’s Blood Music and I’m sure that there are a ton more of those. Another hive mind parasite is the Mondravi from Timothy Zahn’s Quadrail series.
@@lightbower5826 No, they aren't a virus. A virus is the information that encodes instructions to create virions. The information can be stored in RNA or DNA and can even be copied into the DNA of its host. A virion is the infectious particle that most people think of when they talk about viruses but it is more then the virus, it is the protein shell that encloses the virus and some supporting proteins that allow the virus to enter the host cell. Almost all depictions of borg nanobots (just more common word for nanite) show a giant object that grabs another giant object, a red blood cell. I call them giant, because they really are, compared to a typical virion. The typical diameter of a red blood cell is 6-8 micrometer (6000-8000 nanometer). The borg nanobots have a similar size, so they are more like microbots. In comparison, the virion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has a diameter of around 100 nanometer, the RNA that is inside is a long but thin molecule with a diameter of about 2-3 nm. This is what really deserves the nano prefix. And there are real nanobots. In our cells are tiny nanobots, called ribosomes. Their diameter is about 20 to 30 nanometer. They execute the instructions encoded in our genes and produce the molecules that they encode. And they don't care if they execute our normal genes or the genes from a virus. If they happen to execute the virus genes, they produce virions until the cell dies and releases them. And then they happen to infect other cells or get coughed out where another victim might inhale them. Is a virus a parasite? Maybe a collection of parasitic genes.
Yeerks didn’t get a mention, and yet Trill and midichlorians somehow made it on the list of *parasites* despite them not being parasites while the Yeerks *are*
The Uhl from Starflight and Starflight 2 is a little twist on the trope. The Uhl itself is one life form spread across many parsecs of space, bound together fairly loosely by electromagnetic radiation, that gets disturbed by sentient life. To counteract this, it tunes itself to the frequencies of the sentient race most suitable, thereby taking control of the sentients' brainwaves to use them as antibodies to keep its body safe from other sentients. Not even the simultaneous detonation of six supernovae was enough to kill it.
The Vang. Check out Christopher Rowley's 'The Vang: The Military Form'. The Vang were omniparasitic and extremely savage. It was part of a trilogy of novels.
The Nemesis-Alpha is all right, but if you're looking for a Resident Evil parasite, Las Plagas is probably a bigger deal. As a side note, the order of medieval knights that contained and sealed off the original Plagas outbreak must have been hardcore beyond belief. Leon and Ada are walking arsenals armed to the teeth with guns, grenades, and a helicopter gunship at one point, and it's barely enough to keep them ahead of enemies who aren't very bright and are overwhelmingly melee-only. The knights, though? Facing that same mob of cultists and monsters, but with only sword, shield, and shining armor? That must have been some Dark Souls-level badassery.
I wanted that on the list, too. It tears you apart to use you as organic control circuitry for your own vessel, condemning you to a hell of half-death, plus it's really creepy how it refers to everything as either selves or parts.
The magog from the show Andromeda reproduced by biting people and injecting saliva which contained their eggs. The eggs would then hatch and consume the host. There's also the vampires from the Strain. The vamps inject the victim with tiny worms from their tongue-like proboscis which multiply and take over the host turning them into a vampire.
Yes, in some versions they inject a viral vector that forces the host's cells to "grow" a chestburster. That is why some xenomorphs acquire its host's characteristics. It's all technobabble (biobabble?), but that is one of the official explanations.
@@BullScrapPracEff in that case. Wouldn't it be more effective by staying alive to infect several more hosts? Then again. They probably consume all their energy keeping the host alive.
Along with chest bursters there are also the stomach bursters, basically the same thing as the chest burster but just comes out the stomach and I think may have very minor differences to chest bursters.
the headcrabs from the half life game franchise, turn their victims into zombies, twisting their bodies, but -implied- remain conscious, there are multiple variants, including one that's poisonous.
Are you kidding me?? this dude doesn't know what the hell he is talking about or cannot read roman numerals! Ceti Alpha VI (6 for those that can't read Roman Numerals) exploded 6 months after Khan was left on Ceti Alpha V!
A few that come to mind: Immulsion from the gears of war series, Tiberium from c&c, the Borg from Star Trek, Mantrids drone arms from Lexx. The latter is easily number 1 succeeding in taking over all matter (apart from the heroes and their ship) in the whole universe.
I have to disagree with the Trill Symbiote. Your whole justification for having them on the list at all is that they get more out of the bond than the host? One side almost _always_ gets more out than the other. That doesn't make the symbiote 'dangerous'. The fact that it gives the host anything at all makes it mutualistic symbiosis. Unless you start analyzing how much personality is transferred to the host (which is actually wildly inconsistent in the series), there's no grounds to call them 'dangerous'.
Oh yes. Extremely nasty they are. Glad someone else has read the books. They make only a passing appearance in the first story but were so popular the author made them the centrepiece of the follow-ons. Worst aspect is that the host remains aware - including feeling pain - but is totally helpless.
"any organism that allows for certain individuals, but not others, to wield magical powers, is a threat to all life." OH, dear. Harry Potter and company may be in trouble, pending genetic research.
A couple parasites you might have missed. Starcraft swarm, stargate aratis bug and wrath. The parasites in Babylon 5. Ender's game novel series the descalata. I know im forget others but that's what I got
You included the Ceti eel but left out the Denevan neural parasite from Star Trek? The one that we saw in Operation Annihilate, which infested their hosts and then controlled them using pain. Which were virtually invulnerable and could withstand phaser fire, extreme radiation and temperatures because they were a group creature and were deliberately forcing their hosts to build starships to take them to new planets. Or what about the parasites from TNG 's "Conspiracy" which assumed absolute control of the host and were intelligent as well.
The T103 may just be Umbrella's best work. Think about it. They're the only bioweapon besides Nemesis that the UC can control at any point in its life, unlike Zombies, Hunters, etc who just kill everyone and don't listen to anyone beyond their own viral driven hunger and or mutant urges to kill. And although the Nemesis is tougher and a bit smarter, it's also A LOT harder to put down if it mutates, so if (or more likely when) it goes rogue, it's a lot harder to stop than a Mister X Tyrant that goes rogue. So I'd say the T103, aka a Mister X, Tyrant is their best work based on their goal (a controllable and effective bioweapon).
Yeah, I always felt the host got the short end of the stick especially every time they delved into their back ground. 1. Host dies shortly after removal save for a convenient 24 hour window at the start. . 2. Host definitively loses access to all memories after it’s removed with clearly traumatic results. 3. Host personality can be repressed by a previous personality and is already largely changed to be almost a new person. 4. Previous personalities can be transferred from host to non trill that in turn completely control the non trill for a period of time Ohhh, that’s it, the hosts have been spun this idea of letting a copy of their personalities enslaved to the gut worm is actually a desired kind of immortality and not a mind parasite slowly building a hive mind with every will host it infests. Members of the federation too, so “good guys”....
number two could be much, much worse. how so, you may ask? Vulkan, Lord of Drakes and Primarch of the eighteenth Legion, getting the Facehugger and Chestburster treatment. it could either be great for humanity, or very bad.
The Flood - it's spreading, all over the city.
The Tyranids- it's underneath the Milkyway Galaxy.
Hailing all Humans: take heed. This is the carrier Shadow of Intent."
Amateurs.....introduces the brethren moon and necromorphs
Nooooo!
How do we contain it?
For what it's worth, the flood may be impossible to eradicate, but those chest exploding things and face huggers are gonna haunt my nightmares forever.
In all of horror, I have found parasites to be the most terrifying creatures you can think of.
“Even space marines aren’t immune”
*Bold words for someone in assault cannon range*
Im gonna need a heavy flamer for this heresy
@@tacticalmarsupial6201 LMHO: Due to YT policies, I cannot respond with the joke which that statement elicits. XD
*Bold words for someone within exterminatus range*
Pretty sure swarms are immune to Instant Death in the latest edition of 40k.
No more evaporating if an assault cannon sneezes in your general vicinity!
@@tacticalmarsupial6201 Truly the Emperors finest.... until Psy Flamers
I thought Genestealers would be more of a parasite then Rippers.
As would I.
@@rogaldorn3525 Indeed brother, it is a strange choice...
Yup, this is what happens when 40k mimics try to imitate real 40k fans.
They are both not parasites.
To be fair the ammunition the tyranids use are parasites. Or the biggest parasite in 40k is probably the gene seed although I’m sure parasites are predominantly negative to the host so maybe not.
"If you dont want a shirt to wrinkle. Dont wear a shirt" *big brain time*
Worf's worm fixation came about because he didn't eat enough _Gagh_ as a child, raised as he was on a human world.
Wrong, he made his mom cook klingon food exclusively.....
@@goji059 She also made him eat borscht as a kid.
Makes me think of American Pie....
@@goji059 and somehow developed a taste for Prune Juice, chilled.
@@gamerleal9265 He developed in during his tenure on the Enterprise. Apparently it appears to have alcoholic effects on Klingons, at least as far as I’ve been able to gather, though likely minor due to Klingons being much more robust than humans.
Well, it is stated a lot of times that the Symbiont (for example the Dax Symbiont) merges with its Host (Lets just take Jadzia) to form a new person from the merged personalities and experiences. Thus Dax and Jadzia become Jadzia Dax, practically a whole new person which is really not just the "menacing worm thing" taking over a person, but rather, well, merging with them. It seems beneficial to both parties involved. Also it is literally called Symbiont as in Symbiotic relationship, which is different from a parasite which exploits its most of the time unwilling Host.
The parasite species that almost took over the Federation. S01 Ep25: "Conspiracy"
I agree. I expected them to be mentioned in this video.
@@nathanfarra8952 The ones that breathed with the gill that stuck out the back of the host's neck, from TNG? I expected that one. Not freaking Trill Symbionts. If they want to include a Star Trek species...the least they could do is make sure they do their research.
since SG1 aired I always thought of these parasites as "proto-goa'ulds"
@@mandyrobbins1041 I'm amazed Riker faked his way in. They didn't even confirm who gave him his parasite.
I’m not sure they really know what a parasite is. I mean, they included Trill symbionts(not a parasite) and midichlorians(again, not a parasite). They might just think anything that enters the body and isn’t a virus is a parasite(but then again, midichlorians still wouldn’t fit the bill since you’re *born* with them)
# 11 Kathleen Kennedy
lol
No no she's just a goa'uld...
Captain Sovereign hay hay that’s not on how dare you the gu’ld don’t deserve that
@@simonwillis1529 or ori?
@@CaptainSovereign That's insulting the Goa'uld
Long One (Slither)
Vindrizi (Babylon 5)
Alien Parasite (The Faculty)
Control Bug (Starship Troopers)
Connor Kent! This. I was going to mention that if you included the Trill you should include the Symbiote from Babylon 5 as well.
Yeerks (Animorphs)
Midichlorians, the most dangerous weapon of the space wizards.
And again, they fail to take into account it's not JUST the concentration of Midiclorians that differentiates between Jedi and Sith...it's the ideologies behind each group...defense of civilization as a whole vs. seeking personal power for the sake of power and domination. It's the very nature of the two sides that is flawed. "Grey" Jedi...those that serve the Living Force...like Quigon and Ashoka in Canon and even Ben Skywalker in Legends/EU (which Disney had NO right to abolish as "non-canon" are those that follow the true nature of the Force. Even though it was a dangerous line, even Mace Windu was closer to the true path. Due to Va'paad, he could channel his Dark Side emotions while serving the light, as it was a variant of Form 7 of LIghtsaber Combat. This variant made it especially effective against the Sith or other Dark Side Force Users...not only could it harmlessly channel the user's own dark side influences without corrupting the Jedi, if they mastered it: It could also send back Dark Side energy sent at the user. That's how Mace Windu came so close to defeating Sidious in the prequels.
The real danger: It's how the force influences and controls it's galaxy
Little Ani: "Master Qui Gon sir, what are midi chorians?"
Qui Gon: "it's heroin"
And the lazer swords
@Joseph Douek Except that even in Canon, it’s stated by the Whills that there is no Dark or Light Side of the Force. There is just the Force, good and evil are concepts used by mortal beings, and have no real meaning to immortal entities besides being words to them. That same line of thinking is used by Grey Jedi, who see the Force for what it is, a power that flows through everyone and everything, no matter their moral compass. The ways in which the Force is used changed depending on who used it, though the differing ideals led to multiple wars between the Jedi and Sith. The reason that the Sith are always "destroyed" to bring balance is because Jedi are no longer necessary at that point. Without Jedi or Sith, there is balance once more.
To put into perspective of how powerful the flood is:
In halo 3, a single covenant corvette infested with flood was able to spread extremely far in just a few hours. The shipmaster’s fleet had to glass half of Africa just to contain it
Well, cruiser.
And we don't know if Hood's being serious about "half a continent" or just a general large area, given the size of the fleet, the time frame, and geographical size they'll have to glass.
@@inkedseahear seeing as new Mombasa is on the Mid East coast of Africa, the only way the flood could reach the rest of Asia and Europe by land would be the Middle East. So it would make sense that Rtas would be forced to glass Eastern Africa and maybe a bit of the middle East to stop the spread of the flood
@@Beamer490 well i think they did not exagerated with the glassing of half of the continent due to the spores launch into the air can spread several kilometers en just minutes, and it is know that the flood can spread among sea organism
What of the Thing from John Carpenter's the Thing? That question aside, you could do a top 1000 list of most dangerous parasites and barely scratched the surface so certain allowances must be extended. Dangerous parasites are something of a trope, but a good trope of which I will NEVER tire.
That's technically a virus
@@killtheheretics2915 It functioned like a parasite in a lot of ways. It was also far too complex an organism to be deemed a virus as it was self sustaining to a degree whereas a virus tends to require a host of some kind to survive for extended periods. If the Thing is not a parasite then neither is the Flood. They both co opt lifeforms in similar ways. Who's to say the Thing wouldn't also develop something similar to a grave mind if allowed to spread to a global infestation? We do after all only see the tiniest microcosm of what a single protospecemine can do and it maintained far more of the knowledge/intellect from the original lifeform it co opted than individual Flood forms do.
That doesn't infect the host leaving it alive, it consumes the entire host then mimics it.
fun fact: given how mathematically diverse conditions on the infinite amount of planets in the known universe almost certainly are, The Thing is prolly one of the closest to the reality of alien life that Hollywood has ever come
@@dr._breens_beard
Until you account for what is biologically possible. It works way too fast, mimicking a host at the cellular level would take even longer, and the chances they could pass as anything besides a monster (even if with comparable intelligence) is unlikely.
It was Ceti Alpha 6 that exploded, not Ceti Alpha 4 in Star Trek 2.
Exactly! I wonder if this person ever actually WATCHES any of the source material he mentions. I doubt it.
I was wondering if anyone else was going to catch that. Done deliberately to drive up clicks and likes, or an actual accident🤔🙄🤷♂️
Actually it was Ceti Alpha 5 not 4.
Wait. I don’t remember exactly which one it was, but it had to be an inner planet as it changed the name of the planet they were on. So Ceti Alpha 5 would became Ceti Alpha 4 when Ceti Alpha 3 exploded. Unless the explosion knocked the planet into a closer orbit. If Ceti Alpha 6 explodes and Ceti Alpha 5 was pushed out of its orbit into Ceti Alpha 4 and the previous Ceti Alpha 4 became Ceti Alpha 5.
@@skepticalfaith5201 Ceti Alpha 6 exploded in 2267 for unknown reasons laying waste to Ceti Alpha 5.
Did you forget John Carpenter’s the Thing!!! That is a legendary parasite! For shame! But I guess the Flood are basically that and the flood do have a more intricate and kind of terrifying lore.
# 9 Once you go worm that's what you'll yearn.
The flood, terranids, and brother moons laugh at the rest of the list.
Number #1 *Xenomorphs*
Number #0 *Necromorphs!*
I didn't see lawyer in this list or ex wives
Sick Burn!
Or college debt
They aren't deadly, they just make you wish they were
Or the rentier class.
SAVAGE !!!
1. The body replicating alien pods from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers."
2. The alien from "The Thing."
3. The Borg.
4. The titular monster from "The Stuff."
DUDE, you forgot VENOM.
They may not technically count, but I think an honorable mention is deserved for the Borg. While technological in nature rather than biological, I think they operate in many ways like a parasite
They don't fit the definition of a parasite, a parasite is something that attaches itself to host and feeds off it. It doesn't have to be a hive-mind.
5:24 The horror of those memories and I couldn't go to sleep at night without covering my ears.
No shout out to the half-life headcrabs? Shame
I'm not 100% they count as parasites....but then that hinges on if the body they control is still alive or not. And there is evidence to suggest that poor sod is still kicking so it might be?? Hard to say tbh
@@clayxros576 Yes, they are parasites. In Half Life 2, occasionally when you kill a headcrab zombie with a body shot the headcrab will detach from the head and actively seek a new host (usually Gordon). The hosts are certainly alive as they can be heard screaming in pain as their body is deformed and controlled by the parasite as wel as when you set them on fire.. Then there are the fast ones that strip the skin off the host leaving their body nothing more than muscle bone and sinew. An then there aare the poison ones that transform the host into a wheezing lumbering bloated mass that is used to gestate more headcrabs. Holy shit these things are nightmare fuel why aren't they on the list?!
Half life is bad
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@@sovietsomething nah
DUDE! Her name is PRONOUNCED "JADZIA" {JAD-ZIA} NOT "JAZDIA"!
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Obviously he has NEVER seen an episode of DS9.
@@BrokenNeuron Clearly. If he had, he would never have used the Symbiont on the list!
@@mandyrobbins1041 - although he did have a good point about the symbiont getting more out of the relationship than the host. That's actually the definition of a parasite. That still does not get him off the hook on mispronouncing JADZIA'S (NOT JAZDIA) name.
@@70briareos Actually, no. The host gets equal out of it: The Symbiont gets to have new experiences and unique views from the new host. The host, on the other hand...gets to learn from the experiences of all the past hosts, which live on in the memories of the Symbiont. Using Jadzia and Dax as an example: Due to all the experiences of the Symbiont, Jadzia gained an understanding for the culture of Klingons and Ferengi, helped her become more musical, and be more empathic from the experiences of all the hosts of the Dax Symbiont before her.
When in doubt, make up a zombie worm.
One thing to point out about the Flood which is that according to halo lore not all of the Precursor became the dust or powder that eventually became the flood. Some are stated to have escaped the war and others went into suspended animation.
I feel sorry for anything that wakes them up.
I watched the show on Netflix called another Life . In that show they landed on a planetoid or an asteroid that had breathable air and boron based bacteria or something of the sort . One of the people got sick from the bacteria . Then her spinal cord and major nerves crawled out of her spinal column at her neck . Season 1 episode 3 nervous breakdown .
NGL, I watched that just for Katee Sackhoff. But yes, that was creepy!
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This is the first sci-fi channel I've seen to actually correctly understand that the facehugger, logically, does not implant an egg or an embryo into the stomach of the victim......
Parasite Eve
The Symbiotes from Spiderman.
symbiotes are not parasites. they have a symbiotic relation with the host, as opposed to a parasitic one.
@@jesusmora9379 I thought the same thing too but then we included the trell symbiotes in the video. So I thought they counted.
Man you really love The Expanse, and for so I love you.
The Yeerk from animorphs!
Finally someone said it!
Yes! At least they’re actually *parasites* unlike the Trill and midichlorians, which both somehow made it on this list of dangerous *parasites*
By definition, parasites and symbionts are different classes of organisms. Parasites benefit from the host with no reciprocal benefit to the host. Symbionts benefit both themselves and their hosts, making them not parasites. Additionally, Worf married Jadzia, not Ezra. When Ezra and Worf tried to rebuild their marriage, they found they were incompatible. Finally, it was Ceti Alpha 6 that exploded shifting Ceti Alpha 5’s orbit rendering it nearly uninhabitable.
I've never seen medichlorians as a parasite, nor the source of a being's ability to use the force. I've always seen them as a harmless bacteria that as a natural byproduct, happen to congregate in higher numbers in strong force users. This to me, was why the Jedi could measure someone's medichlorian count to judge their potential force ability.
What about the parasitic aliens that took over the brass of Star Fleet in TNG season 1 (the only episode to be banned in multiple countries because of its violence)?
Knew the flood was coming, but I think the X Parasite from Metroid Fusion deserves top spot. A little disappointed to see it didn't even make the list. Still enjoyed the video though!
If you haven't seen it yet I would really recommend giving 'Another life' a watch, it's a really great series but has a couple of space viruses and parasites of its own that would be interesting to hear your take on.
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"Sorry guys not Expanse content today."
"Our first parasite we're gonna look at hails from the universe of the Expanse."
LOLOL, man. I love seeing you catch up with the rest of the scifi world with your unhinged passion for the Expanse. Once you've had a taste, it becomes the bench mark to judge all contemporary scifi content.
They're priotizing cultural relevancy over accuracy. Every single one of their lists concerning scifi has had something from the Expanse in it, from the most dangerous ships in scifi (which had NOTHING from the Culture or the Xeelee Sequence, or Gunbuster, or Battleship Yamato) or really ANY slightly obscure scifi. The Expanse is a placeholder so they don't have to search for actual competitors and can farm likes because its "Oh, the Expanse is popular!" mindsets.
Hm it would seem that I’ll be getting new nightmares tonight.
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I'm table-top gamer and I play Captain Charles Randolph Stern . The captain of the Resolute a modified Miranda class starship. SOP on away missions is environmental suits and survival gear even if the environment seems safe. As soon as I received command of the Resolute I placed my standard SOP (standard operating procedure). Lots of gamers would call this meta gaming ,I would say common sense. Look at how many episodes of StarTrek went awry because of this. It would be standard protocol by now. My Gamemaster has to be more creative than that .
Whether it be a film, game, novel or whatever, when it comes to top parasites you have to have Flood at number one every time, even if it's a video about parasites in films exclusively. The Flood is that powerful.
People write the Zerg off as Tyranid wannabes but if you really dig into their lore and not the gameplay restrictions they suffer from in the games you can see they'll stand a chance against the Flood and Nids... Any organism that evolves in a matter of seconds and produces a virus that mutates constantly is something you don't want to mess with...
Forgot the North American Human Female of Terra in the Sol system, Milkyway Galaxy. Controls the minds of it's victims. Carelessly discarding the victim once it's usefulness and resources are depleted. *warning* heavily uses camouflage, pheromones and verbal deception when hunting.
Also, there’s the intelligent nanites from Greg Bear’s Blood Music and I’m sure that there are a ton more of those. Another hive mind parasite is the Mondravi from Timothy Zahn’s Quadrail series.
And once again no mention of Farscape. For a sci-fi channel, I'm very surprised none of you seem to see that show...
Am I the only one noticing American Ben calling Dax "Jazz-dia" and not "Jad-zia"?
how about the borg nanites? yes they are mechanical not biological but they do behave quite like parasites
they´re a virus
@@lightbower5826 No, they aren't a virus. A virus is the information that encodes instructions to create virions. The information can be stored in RNA or DNA and can even be copied into the DNA of its host. A virion is the infectious particle that most people think of when they talk about viruses but it is more then the virus, it is the protein shell that encloses the virus and some supporting proteins that allow the virus to enter the host cell.
Almost all depictions of borg nanobots (just more common word for nanite) show a giant object that grabs another giant object, a red blood cell. I call them giant, because they really are, compared to a typical virion. The typical diameter of a red blood cell is 6-8 micrometer (6000-8000 nanometer). The borg nanobots have a similar size, so they are more like microbots. In comparison, the virion of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has a diameter of around 100 nanometer, the RNA that is inside is a long but thin molecule with a diameter of about 2-3 nm. This is what really deserves the nano prefix.
And there are real nanobots. In our cells are tiny nanobots, called ribosomes. Their diameter is about 20 to 30 nanometer. They execute the instructions encoded in our genes and produce the molecules that they encode. And they don't care if they execute our normal genes or the genes from a virus. If they happen to execute the virus genes, they produce virions until the cell dies and releases them. And then they happen to infect other cells or get coughed out where another victim might inhale them.
Is a virus a parasite? Maybe a collection of parasitic genes.
I see Yeerks didn't get a mention. Hard to beat a parasite with universal domination in mind.
Animorphs?
@@notatroll7128 Yes indeed.
Yeerks didn’t get a mention, and yet Trill and midichlorians somehow made it on the list of *parasites* despite them not being parasites while the Yeerks *are*
#11 brain slug (futurama)
Also the Vindrizi from Babylon 5 but they get like below 50
I'm just saying but you should go to the brain slug planet without any headwear it's really fun do not take weapons
The Uhl from Starflight and Starflight 2 is a little twist on the trope. The Uhl itself is one life form spread across many parsecs of space, bound together fairly loosely by electromagnetic radiation, that gets disturbed by sentient life. To counteract this, it tunes itself to the frequencies of the sentient race most suitable, thereby taking control of the sentients' brainwaves to use them as antibodies to keep its body safe from other sentients. Not even the simultaneous detonation of six supernovae was enough to kill it.
The Vang. Check out Christopher Rowley's 'The Vang: The Military Form'. The Vang were omniparasitic and extremely savage. It was part of a trilogy of novels.
The Nemesis-Alpha is all right, but if you're looking for a Resident Evil parasite, Las Plagas is probably a bigger deal.
As a side note, the order of medieval knights that contained and sealed off the original Plagas outbreak must have been hardcore beyond belief. Leon and Ada are walking arsenals armed to the teeth with guns, grenades, and a helicopter gunship at one point, and it's barely enough to keep them ahead of enemies who aren't very bright and are overwhelmingly melee-only. The knights, though? Facing that same mob of cultists and monsters, but with only sword, shield, and shining armor? That must have been some Dark Souls-level badassery.
Where is my brother on this list
Where is my sister?
The X Parasite from Metroid is pretty damn scary. It’s my number 2 behind the Flood from Halo
Metroids? Parasite X?
Was hoping to see The Beast from Homeworld Cataclysm would make the list...
I wanted that on the list, too. It tears you apart to use you as organic control circuitry for your own vessel, condemning you to a hell of half-death, plus it's really creepy how it refers to everything as either selves or parts.
The fact that tyrannies are on the list is enough for,me,to like
The magog from the show Andromeda reproduced by biting people and injecting saliva which contained their eggs. The eggs would then hatch and consume the host.
There's also the vampires from the Strain. The vamps inject the victim with tiny worms from their tongue-like proboscis which multiply and take over the host turning them into a vampire.
wait really?
I thought face huggers just had eggs in them
didnt know they just inject liquid.
Yes, in some versions they inject a viral vector that forces the host's cells to "grow" a chestburster.
That is why some xenomorphs acquire its host's characteristics. It's all technobabble (biobabble?), but that is one of the official explanations.
@@DonVigaDeFierro Basically whatever makes the "getting raped in the face" thing more freaky.
It'a 100% cannon that the facehuggers don't carry eggs they carry genetic mutating sperm.
Eggs don’t work that well with the whole rape analogy
@@BullScrapPracEff in that case. Wouldn't it be more effective by staying alive to infect several more hosts? Then again. They probably consume all their energy keeping the host alive.
The heavy flamer
Along with chest bursters there are also the stomach bursters, basically the same thing as the chest burster but just comes out the stomach and I think may have very minor differences to chest bursters.
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Protodevlin from Macross 7. Until Nekki Basari got to them. Or the Var microbes from Macross Delta.
the headcrabs from the half life game franchise, turn their victims into zombies, twisting their bodies, but -implied- remain conscious, there are multiple variants, including one that's poisonous.
Are you kidding me?? this dude doesn't know what the hell he is talking about or cannot read roman numerals! Ceti Alpha VI (6 for those that can't read Roman Numerals) exploded 6 months after Khan was left on Ceti Alpha V!
Predictable. The ultimate parasite wins.
A few that come to mind: Immulsion from the gears of war series, Tiberium from c&c, the Borg from Star Trek, Mantrids drone arms from Lexx. The latter is easily number 1 succeeding in taking over all matter (apart from the heroes and their ship) in the whole universe.
Headcrabs are quite iconic and even if they are less dangerous than xenomorphs or flood, they still should desserve honorable mention.
FINALLY! The Stargate receiving some love, after a veeeeeeeeeery long time.
Oh, and Top 6 doesn't cut it. :/
Xim the Despot shows you don't need the Force to be an interstellar dictator.
Worf actually wanted to try jumbo Gagh so that is why he went for Dax.
The halo array mention at the end so worth it.
I have to disagree with the Trill Symbiote. Your whole justification for having them on the list at all is that they get more out of the bond than the host? One side almost _always_ gets more out than the other. That doesn't make the symbiote 'dangerous'. The fact that it gives the host anything at all makes it mutualistic symbiosis. Unless you start analyzing how much personality is transferred to the host (which is actually wildly inconsistent in the series), there's no grounds to call them 'dangerous'.
You missed the Vang. Only three books, published 1986-1990, by Christopher Rowley. Well worth the read.
Oh yes. Extremely nasty they are. Glad someone else has read the books. They make only a passing appearance in the first story but were so popular the author made them the centrepiece of the follow-ons. Worst aspect is that the host remains aware - including feeling pain - but is totally helpless.
If you had a 1.5 between Chestbursters and the Flood, I'd put the Xenoplague from Age of Wonders Planetfall in there.
The most dangerous parasite in the world
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Rippers: we are the best haha marines go brrrrr
Xenomorphs: are we are joke to you?
The flood:yes
"any organism that allows for certain individuals, but not others, to wield magical powers, is a threat to all life."
OH, dear. Harry Potter and company may be in trouble, pending genetic research.
I was surprised not to see the zerg from star craft in the top three let alone not in the video
A couple parasites you might have missed. Starcraft swarm, stargate aratis bug and wrath. The parasites in Babylon 5. Ender's game novel series the descalata. I know im forget others but that's what I got
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The Zerg from Starcraft. Pretty much like the Flood but they can get from planet to planet without people setting foot on them.
Great video as always, you missed the Borg. Do machines count as parasites? Also what's your feeling on Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
You had me and my like at "beratna"!!!
You forget the Chamera from the Resistance series.
The parasite bugs from Starship Troopers would have been a better option than the Trill Symbionts or the Star Wars Magic stupidity.
You included the Ceti eel but left out the Denevan neural parasite from Star Trek? The one that we saw in Operation Annihilate, which infested their hosts and then controlled them using pain. Which were virtually invulnerable and could withstand phaser fire, extreme radiation and temperatures because they were a group creature and were deliberately forcing their hosts to build starships to take them to new planets. Or what about the parasites from TNG 's "Conspiracy" which assumed absolute control of the host and were intelligent as well.
It wouldn’t make sense to not have the flood in 1st place lol
By definition a symbiote isn't a parasite.
How bad would things be if Alien infected the Flood? Shirtless; stop teasing me.
You forget the most dangerous of all... Deadpool from night of the living Deadpool
The Magog from Andromeda should have been on the list. Good work though.
The T103 may just be Umbrella's best work. Think about it. They're the only bioweapon besides Nemesis that the UC can control at any point in its life, unlike Zombies, Hunters, etc who just kill everyone and don't listen to anyone beyond their own viral driven hunger and or mutant urges to kill.
And although the Nemesis is tougher and a bit smarter, it's also A LOT harder to put down if it mutates, so if (or more likely when) it goes rogue, it's a lot harder to stop than a Mister X Tyrant that goes rogue. So I'd say the T103, aka a Mister X, Tyrant is their best work based on their goal (a controllable and effective bioweapon).
Yeah, I always felt the host got the short end of the stick especially every time they delved into their back ground.
1. Host dies shortly after removal save for a convenient 24 hour window at the start. .
2. Host definitively loses access to all memories after it’s removed with clearly traumatic results.
3. Host personality can be repressed by a previous personality and is already largely changed to be almost a new person.
4. Previous personalities can be transferred from host to non trill that in turn completely control the non trill for a period of time
Ohhh, that’s it, the hosts have been spun this idea of letting a copy of their personalities enslaved to the gut worm is actually a desired kind of immortality and not a mind parasite slowly building a hive mind with every will host it infests.
Members of the federation too, so “good guys”....
The Federation at this point very clearly iskt exactly good guys I think.
ClayXros good god can you imagine if your ex wife was a Trill Lawyer?
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Pls no
The black mercy is also a deadly parasites from the DC Universe
Fun video. Thanks. Agree with others about "The Thing". Also nominate the Mars parasite from "Life".
number two could be much, much worse. how so, you may ask?
Vulkan, Lord of Drakes and Primarch of the eighteenth Legion, getting the Facehugger and Chestburster treatment. it could either be great for humanity, or very bad.
The Scourge from Dropzone/Dropfleet Commander...