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Resident Evil 4
2005 survival horror video game

Peacemaker (TV series)
Peacemaker is an American television series created by James Gunn for the streaming service HBO Max, based on DC Comics featuring the character Peacemaker. The first season is a spin-off of the film The Suicide Squad (2021) set in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU), further exploring jingoistic vigilante Chris Smith / Peacemaker. The second season is the first live-action series in the DC Universe (DCU), a "soft reboot" of the DCEU, retroactively incorporating most of season 1 into the DCU's continuity, and taking place after the events of the film Superman (2025). The series is produced by the Safran Company and Troll Court Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television and with Gunn as showrunner. It was produced by DC Studios with Gunn returning as showrunner.

Resident Evil 5
2009 video game

The Host
2013 film by Andrew Niccol

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
2015 open world action-adventure stealth video game

The Faculty
1998 film directed by Robert Rodriguez
Alien (franchise)
Alien is an American science fiction horror and action media franchise created by screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett, which began as the 1979 film Alien. The series primarily follows deadly encounters between humans and the extraterrestrial Xenomorphs in the future.

Plague Inc.
2012 strategy video game

Dead Rising
2006 video game
The Host
2008 novel by Stephenie Meyer

Resident Evil 3
2020 survival horror video game remake developed by Capcom

Gears of War 3
2011 video game

Parasyte
is a Japanese science fiction horror manga series written and illustrated by Hitoshi Iwaaki. It was published in Kodansha's Morning Open Zōkan (1989) and Monthly Afternoon (1989 to 1994). The manga was published in North America first by Tokyopop, then Del Rey, and finally Kodansha USA. The series follows Shinichi Izumi, a high school senior who is the victim of a failed attempt by a parasitic organism to take over his brain. The parasite, Migi, instead infects and takes over his arm, and both are forced in a peculiar partnership to fight other parasites.

Slither
2006 film by James Gunn

Dead Rising 2
2010 video game
Dreamcatcher
2001 novel by Stephen King
Animorphs
Animorphs is a science fantasy series of youth books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives. The core themes of the series are horror, war, imperialism, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, family, and growing up.

BIONICLE
Bionicle (stylized in all caps) is a discontinued line of Lego construction toys marketed primarily towards 8- to 16-year-olds. The line was launched in 2001, originally as a subsidiary of Lego's Technic series called Constraction; a portmanteau of "construction" and "action figure". Constraction figures were introduced in the 1999 Lego theme, Slizer (or Throwbots in the United States), and are characterized by combining Technic elements, ball and socket joints, and stylized Lego pieces to look like traditional action figures. Over the following decade, Bionicle became one of the company's big

Dead Rising 3
2013 video game

Sputnik
2020 film directed by Egor Abramenko

The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes
2021 video game developed by Supermassive Games

Kamen Rider Kabuto
Japanese television series

The Midwich Cuckoos
1957 novel by John Wyndham

Dead Rising 4
2017 video game

Drakengard 3
2013 video game

The Puppet Masters
1951 novel by Robert A. Heinlein

Plague Inc: Evolved
2015 strategy and simulation game by Ndemic Creations

Resident Evil: Resistance
2020 survival horror multiplayer video game, part of the Resident Evil 3 package

Parasite
1982 film by Charles Band

Sea Fever
2019 film directed by Neasa Hardiman
Q17006796
video game series
Parasite Eve
1995 novel by Hideaki Sena

Brain Damage
1988 film by Frank Henenlotter

Filth
1998 novel by Irvine Welsh
The Host
episode of The X-Files (S2 E2)

The Kiss
1988 Canadian film by Pen Densham

The Supernaturalist
2004 novel by Eoin Colfer
Parasites in fiction
instances of parasites in fictional settings

Baby Blood
1990 film by Alain Robak