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Essentially ''always'' a SnowballingThreat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.

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Essentially ''always'' a SnowballingThreat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X a ApocalypseHow/ClassX on the ApocalypseHow scale -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Lancer}}:'' Called Greywash in-universe, outbursts of grey goo are not unheard of, and enough have come to pass from printer sabotage and actual nanotech warheads that Whitewash nanite mixtures have been developed and included with regular fire supression systems. Meanwhile, HORUS - haven of unorthodox and horrifying thinking it is - weaponized it in unusual manners by developing the ''Balor'' pattern group, which is essentially TheWormThatWalks made out of hungry, barely-controlled nanites. While utterly unarmored and very slow, ''Balor'' mechs are incredibly difficult to bring down thanks to their fluid composition, constant reconstruction and the fact they can just eat the surroundings (including enemies) to restore themselves in the heat of battle, and getting too close will mean getting EatenAlive within moments.
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Esentially ''always'' a SnowballingThreat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.

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Esentially Essentially ''always'' a SnowballingThreat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'', Fungal Shifting transforms a material into a different material throughout the entire game world. Two worst case scenarios can cause a Grey Goo-like scenario.
** Draught of Midas converts any solid material into Gold on contact. Shifting Gold into Draught converts every bit of Gold in the game into an exponentially-growing volume of Draught which can eat through the entire game world.
** Acid converts solid substances into Flammable Gas but is consumed in the process. Shifting the Gas into Acid causes any free Acid to explode in volume, faster than even Draught.

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'', Fungal Shifting transforms a material into a different material throughout the entire game world. Two worst case scenarios can cause a Grey Goo-like scenario.
''VideoGame/{{Noita}}'':
** Draught of Midas converts any solid material into Gold on contact. Shifting contact but is not consumed in the process. If a Fungal Shift converts Gold into Draught converts Draught, every bit pixel of Gold in gold becomes the game into seed for an exponentially-growing volume exponentially growing mass of Draught which can eat through the entire game world.
will convert every non-liquid material into more of itself.
** Acid converts solid substances into a large volume of Flammable Gas but is consumed in the process. Fungal Shifting the Gas into Acid causes any free Acid to explode in volume, faster than even Draught.Draught.
** Void Liquid converts any Toxic or Fungal material into more Void Liquid on contact. This isn't an issue for most of the game world except for the Overgrown Caverns biome. Aside from the large amounts of free-growing fungus, all of the soil in this biome is considered Fungus. Even a single pixel of Void Liquid released near the top of the biome will wipe out a massive swathe of terrain.
** Concentrated Mana rapidly converts any water it contacts into more of itself and dissolves all metals. While the potion's effects make this entirely beneficial for the player, the potential ecological consequences of converting the entire water supply of a region into a liquid that does not evaporate or freeze would be dire.
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* In the ''Series/TalesOfTomorrow'' episode "Red Dust", space explorers who've just visited a once-populated world overrun by Red Goo discover the pink crystalline "dust" has infested their ship, as well.

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* In the ''Series/TalesOfTomorrow'' episode "Red Dust", space explorers who've who have just visited a once-populated world overrun by Red Goo discover that the pink crystalline "dust" has infested their ship, ship as well.
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* ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'': The Iron Wind from the tabletop setting makes a cameo; one of the people you meet has some of it caught in a jar. If you mess with the jar too much, [[NonStandardGameOver it breaks, and although your character usually just comes back from the dead]], [[DeaderThanDead this one they don't come back from.]]
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Esentially ''always'' a snowballing threat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.

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Esentially ''always'' a snowballing threat SnowballingThreat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.
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Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.

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Esentially ''always'' a snowballing threat as an antagonist. Can cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt -- typically anything up to Class X on ApocalypseHow -- and is very often considered a {{Superweapon}} as a result.
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Compare BlobMonster, PlanetEater, and CloneByConversion. For the RealTimeStrategy game about (and playing as!) the grey goo, see ''VideoGame/GreyGoo2015''.

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Compare BlobMonster, PlanetEater, ExplosiveBreeder and CloneByConversion. For the RealTimeStrategy game about (and playing as!) the grey goo, see ''VideoGame/GreyGoo2015''.
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* ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW'': The Metal Virus. It is literally grey goo (it looks like liquid metal) that spreads between all organic being, and converts them to "zombots", starting a mechanical ZombieApocalypse. Just a single touch is enough to infect ''anyone and anything''. A fly can get infected by touching an infected person and then the fly will touch somebody else and infect them and the person running over the grass will turn the grass to metal that will infect the trees, and it just. keeps. ''going.'' Silver travels back to time reporting that in the BadFuture there is absolutely nothing left on earth but ruined cities and and bits of metalic plants. The Metal Virus damn near brings the planet to its knees in a matter of ''days''. [[spoiler:If Sonic was ''one second slower'', life would just be ''gone''.]]

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* ''Literature/JohnCarterOfMars'': In ''Synthetic Men of Mars'' something goes horribly wrong in one of the tissue vats from which the Hormads are created; instead of individual Hormads, one colossal pile of flesh, bone, organs etc. is created, with multiple arms, screaming heads and other body parts sticking out. It keeps growing, sustaining itself by eating its own flesh[[note]]With a passing reference to a generic food supply provided to all growth vats[[/note]], and threatens to eventually engulf all of Barsoom.
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** Hostile nanoswarms are so common that there's standard-issue tactics and equipment to stop them; people worried about nanobot infection drink nanotech-fighting chemicals to control them, "nanofilm" is routinely employed to control rogue nanobot swarms, and worst comes to worst, the nanobots will be isolated by ubiquitous AI with gravity-control technology. %%If anyone knows what the employer's name is, feel free to add it in. Go Go Wiki Magic!
--->'''Employer of the month:''' We've all been drinking Nanneze like it was Ovalquik.\\
'''Tagon:''' Careful, that stuff'll kill you.\\
'''Employer:''' What, the Nanneze, or the Ovalquik?\\

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** Hostile nanoswarms are so common that there's standard-issue tactics and equipment to stop them; people worried about nanobot infection drink nanotech-fighting chemicals to control them, "nanofilm" is routinely employed to control rogue nanobot swarms, and worst comes to worst, the nanobots will be isolated by ubiquitous AI with gravity-control technology. %%If anyone knows what the employer's name is, feel free to add it in. Go Go Wiki Magic!
--->'''Employer of the month:'''
technology.
--->'''[[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-09-24 Assassin Flamb]]:'''
We've all been drinking Nanneze like it was Ovalquik.\\
'''Tagon:''' Careful, that Eugh. That stuff'll kill you.\\
'''Employer:''' What, the The Nanneze, or the Ovalquik?\\



** [[BlobMonster Sergeant Schlock]] has been mistaken for grey goo a [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-03-31 couple]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-06-12 times]]. And to be fair, they're not that far off, and when pitted in a who-eats-who duel against the actual stuff he was evenly matched.[[labelnote:As in...]]The nanobots were halfway to figuring out his biology without him actually noticing, until they got to his eyes, which weren't a native development. Then he quickly spat them out.[[/labelnote]]

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** [[BlobMonster Sergeant Schlock]] has been mistaken for grey goo a [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-03-31 couple]] [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-06-12 times]]. And to be fair, they're not that far off, and when pitted in a [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-08-19 who-eats-who duel duel]] against the actual stuff he was evenly matched.[[labelnote:As in...]]The nanobots were halfway to figuring out his biology without him actually noticing, until they got to his eyes, which weren't a native development. Then he quickly spat them out.[[/labelnote]]

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