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11->''"It seems that I've been asleep for a thousand years.\
12The way my world has changed, it brings me a thousand tears!\
13Prince of darkness that walks through the rays of light,\
14To this breed of vampire, I'm the prototype.\
15The shape shifting mirror image flash photo type.\
16The ever lasting indiginal red blood O type!"''
17-->-- '''RZA''', ''Fatal''
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19The original member of a line of monsters and said line's progenitor. Thus the oldest and, often, [[StrongerWithAge the strongest]] of the line. Likely to be the top MonsterLord. In some settings, it is possible that killing him [[NoOntologicalInertia would cause all of his line to be exterminated]] (or, if each of those monsters WasOnceAMan, return them to normal). It is common for the Monster Progenitor not to have the KryptoniteFactor or WeaksauceWeakness of his descendants.
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21Just how the Monster Progenitor came to be can vary. Maybe he has always been, or was divinely created. Maybe he WasOnceAMan and was cursed or changed. Similarly, how he reproduces can vary. Maybe he does it the old-fashioned way, or via TheVirus, for which he is PatientZero.
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23{{Dracula}} is very often made into the Monster Progenitor of all vampires, as are [[BiblicalBadGuy Abrahamic baddies]] like {{Cain}} (see TheDescendantsOfCain) and Myth/{{Lilith}}. This is also a trait of darker {{Fertility God}}s.
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25Related to MotherOfAThousandYoung. Unlike her, however, the monster progenitor ''always'' is the same species as his descendants. He may be tougher, but he shares many of the same basic traits, while MotherOfAThousandYoung may have ''nothing'' in common with her descendants.
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27In Japanese media, vampire progenitors often have the title ''Shinso'' (真祖 "True Ancestor"); the [[TropeNamer origin of this term]] is usually held to be ''Manga/Bastard1988'', itself referencing the homophonous ''Shinso'' (神祖 "Sacred Ancestor") of ''Manga/VampireHunterD''.
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29The biological equivalent of SuperPrototype. Related to InsectQueen, MakerOfMonsters, MotherOfAThousandYoung, MookMaker, and StrongerWithAge. The exact opposite of LastOfHisKind. If his death destroys his children, he may be the eponymous keystone in a KeystoneArmy.
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31!!Examples:
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35[[folder:Dracula as the Original Vampire]]
36!!Anime and Manga
37* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': {{Alucard}}, who is said to be the first vampire. Dracula in this setting came into being after drinking the mingled blood of friend and foe on a battlefield right before his execution, while at the same time going through a pretty intense crisis of faith and identity. The implication is that Vlad Tepes didn't become the No-Life King because he was special by any means, he simply fit the conditions to become a monster.
38* ''Literature/VampireHunterD'': The Sacred Ancestor, aka Dracula.
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40!!Comic Books
41* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Inverted in season 10. Dracula is not the original vampire, but he is most universally-recognised one. However, Xander writes in the Slayer Handbook (a book that makes anything written into it reality) that Dracula is "the most powerful of all vampires". This results in Dracula transforming into the Old One Maloker, the real progenitor of vampires.
42* Creator/MarvelComics: Dracula isn't the first vampire, but he is the first vampire's chosen successor and the current leader of vampire-kind. His predecessor Varnae committed SuicideBySunlight [[WhoWantsToLiveForever after growing weary of his unending mockery of life]].
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44!!Film -- Live-Action
45* ''Film/BladeTrinity'':
46** Dracula is said to be the ancestor of all vampires. Of course, he's also the strongest. Blade's Dracula (AKA Drake) is not only the strongest but is also immune to any vampire weakness and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting make himself look like anyone]].
47** Jared Nomak, the progenitor of the Reaper strain in ''Film/BladeII'', is also immune to all but sunlight. His heart is protected by a hard shell, except for under the armpits. Unlike his progeny, who are all ravenous monsters who die if they don't feed for 36 hours, he is smart and calculating.
48* In ''Film/Dracula2000'', he's not only the first, but he's also [[spoiler:[[JuliusBeethovenDaVinci Judas Iscariot]]]]. He is nearly impossible to kill (the only way is to [[spoiler:recreate the conditions of his origin]]) and is able to turn any other vampire back into a human ([[spoiler:although the ending implies that this might be only temporary]]).
49* ''Film/VanHelsing'': Dracula is the ancestor of all vampires. He's himself said to be the devil's son, but whether that's true or just propaganda is anyone's guess.
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51!!Literature
52* ''Literature/Department19'': Dracula is explicitly the first vampire in existence, and the nearer to his transformation that one of his victims was bitten, [[StrongerWithAge the stronger they are in the present day]].
53* ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'': In the original book, Dracula is the progenitor of ''his'' line of vampires, but may not be the first vampire ever.
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55!!Live-Action TV
56* On ''Series/VanHelsing2016'', it's stated that all vampires are descended from a being called "the Dark One", confirmed in Season 4 to be Dracula. [[spoiler: Who in this setting [[SamusIsAGirl is a woman]].]]
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60* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': [[spoiler: Ymir Fritz, the ancestress of the Eldian people and first person to possess the power of the Titans. The origins of her powers have been lost to history, with most either believing she made a DealWithTheDevil or gained a divine blessing. Kruger offers another theory, suggesting she was merely a girl that stumbled upon some sort of meta-physical "source of creation" by accident. After her death, her powers were divided to create the Nine Titans and used to create mindless Titans as tools for the "people of Ymir"]].
61* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', [[spoiler:[[GodIsEvil The Idea of Evil]]]] is the progenitor of all demons--including the five members of the Godhand whose job it is to create new Apostles.
62* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' the Yoma were created [[spoiler:by the very organization that supposedly fights them]] from experiments on [[spoiler:two Asarakam held captive by the Organization]]. What's REALLY disturbing is that one of them is a juvenile and the other is an adult, and by mixing their genetic material together, you get the parasitic worms that mutate humans into Yoma.
63* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': Muzan Kibutsuji is the original demon and created the other demons (in fact, only he is capable of creating other demons). He states that he actually hated doing it, but had to in order to find either a demon that could withstand the sun or the main component in the elixir that made him a demon in the first place.
64* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Lucy is [[spoiler:the only fertile Diclonius, and spreads the mutation to the gametes of any human she touches with her vectors]].
65* ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has the homunculus Father. The name speaks for itself. [[spoiler:He was created as a homunculus some time before the start of the series, but he is responsible for the creation of the other homunculi.]]
66* In ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', it is implied that Evangeline may be one of these. She's been around for centuries, has none of the classic weaknesses of vampires (nor do humans converted directly by her), and was not bitten by another vampire but transformed [[spoiler:in an experiment by the Lifemaker]]. Eventually she's explicitly identified as a True Ancestor.
67* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has Adam, the first Angel. [[spoiler:Lilith, the second Angel, is the progenitor of the human race, which is collectively the 18th Angel Lilin.]]
68* ''Literature/PsychicWars'': The Demon Queen has been giving birth to demons by powerful fathers through the years.
69* In ''Manga/SeraphOfTheEnd'', the entire vampire race is descended from a group of obscenely powerful "Progenitors". By the time the series began, the First Progenitor (aka the first and the most powerful vampire) is said to [[spoiler: have disappeared several centuries ago after siring Second to Fifth Progenitors, who in turn sired Sixth to Twentieth Progenitors]]. The Twentieth (weakest) Progenitors are still [[OneManArmy One Man Army]], whose physical abilities can't be matched by any human fighters, even those armed with the most powerful demon weapons. Therefore, they have to resort to teamwork and tactics in order to defeat lower-ranking Progenitors. Fighting higher-ranking ones is practically suicidal in most cases.
70* ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'': [[BigBad Sunako]] . While she isn't the creator of them and was turned herself, she is the main cause of the infestation when she comes to a secluded small town to make it a haven for Shiki, starting with biting a girl named Megumi who then goes on to turn others.
71* ''Manga/SoulEater'': In the manga version, we eventually find out that Excalibur is the first [[EquippableAlly demon weapon]], upon which all others were based. It's still not clear where he came from in the first place. [[spoiler: Though it's implied he's a benevolent facet of madness which would explain his annoying nature to most.]]
72* ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'':
73** All demons in the world can trace their lineage back to the original seven Primordial/Progenitor demons, who before they themselves received proper names went by [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep their colors]]: Red/Rouge (Guy Crimson), Black/Noir (Diablo), Green/Vert (Mizari/Misery), Blue/Bleu (Rhein/Rain), Purple/Violet (Ultima), White/Blanc (Testarossa), and Yellow/Jaune (Carrera). What lineage a demon's "color" aligns to influences their personality to something close to their progenitor. They're also the [[StrongerWithAge strongest of their kind by virtue of being some of the oldest beings in the world]]. Notably, Guy is the only one who truly fits the mold as he's not only the [[TheOlderImmortal oldest of the Primordials]], he's the only one who hasn't sworn himself to the service of another person (indeed, he was the one who named and is the master of Misery and Rein, who serve him loyally) and sees himself as someone destined to rule as one of the most powerful Demon Lords in the world. Diablo meanwhile technically roped in Ultima, Testarossa, and Carrera into working alongside him under [[TheHero Rimuru Tempest]], and unlike the other Primordials he was never interested in even creating many demon subordinates to lord over in the first place, which was just one of his many "eccentrics" by demon-kind's standards.
74** The dragon race was born from the [[{{Mana}} magicules]] of the discarded and decaying original body of [[DragonsAreDivine True Dragon]] Stellar Dragon King Veldanava, who was forced to abandon it and incarnate as a human after his very existence became unstable from [[spoiler:fathering and naming his daughter Milim Nava taking much of his divine power]] and incarnating the last of his strength to create a baby dragon that might one day become a new True Dragon. The [[MonsterLord Dragon Lords]] are the final evolutionary form of the dragon race that is the closest they can come to replicating the power of their divine forebearer, which is still barely a pale imitation of his true might. Veldanava is also technically the first of the True Dragons, but he wasn't involved in the birth of his "siblings" as he was with the "regular" dragons.
75* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', When Ken Kaneki ate [[spoiler:the entire Oggai unit, he transformed into a horrific monstrosity known as the Dragon. While in that form, he spawned a savage race of humanoid creatures known as the Dragon Orphans that eat any living thing they encounter, be it Human or Ghoul. They remained a threat to Tokyo even after Ken returned to normal -- and became a key factor in uniting both peoples against a common enemy]].
76* ''Manga/VampireKnight'': [[spoiler:Kuran Kaname]] may not be the original progenitor of the race, but he was one of the original purebloods, exerted a huge influence during his lifetime, and founded the royal line of purebloods who kept track of the species. Plus, he's totally badass [[spoiler:in his current incarnation]].
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80* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
81** [[https://scryfall.com/card/c17/48/the-ur-dragon The Ur-Dragon]] is the ultimate forebearer of all the dragons in the Multiverse, traveling the Blind Eternities and creating storms which produce dragons.
82** [[https://scryfall.com/card/me1/58/baron-sengir Baron Sengir]] is the progenitor of the [[https://scryfall.com/card/w17/19/sengir-vampire Sengir vampires]].
83** [[https://scryfall.com/card/c17/36/edgar-markov Edgar Markov]], grandfather of [[https://scryfall.com/card/m12/109/sorin-markov Sorin Markov]], made a DealWithTheDevil for immortality and became the first vampire on the plane of Innistrad as a result -- all of the plane's other vampires descend from him
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87* ''ComicBook/ALoveLikeBlood'':
88** Lord Karkossa is the vampire from whom all others derive, who was apparently a Roman soldier who drank the blood of Christ. His direct offspring are also stronger than other vampires, such as his son [[WingedHumanoid possessing wings]] and being able to summon [[BatOutOfHell swarms of bats]].
89** Lord Romulus is presumably the same for the werewolves, though we don't get any look into his backstory other than his name alluding to the two mythical brothers who were weaned by a wolf bitch before founding the city of Rome.
90* ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': The dragon species was spawned by a single primordial dragon, who is of course [[StrongerWithAge the biggest]]. He doesn't show until the end of the world approaches when he wakes up from his centuries-long slumber to lead his children through the spacegate.
91* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' had the King of the Vampires, who was the first vampire and the one from whom all others descend.
92* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse has quite a few of these:
93** Varnae is the first vampire, created by dark magic; various demons like Chthon and Set are the progenitors of monstrous races like the N'Garai and the Serpent Men; and the demonic villainess Lilith, who resembles her folkloric namesake in having a legion of supernaturally-powerful children called the Lillin.
94** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'':
95*** In general, all Gamma mutates like the Hulk descend from one common ancestor who was the first person born with the specific genetic quirk that grants people superpowers when exposed to gamma radiation instead of death by radiation sickness.
96*** In "ComicBook/OldManLogan", Bruce Banner is the progenitor of the Hulk Gang.
97* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Bizarro is the progenitor of the entire Bizarro race, at least in Pre-Crisis continuity. The vast majority of Bizarros on [[SdrawkcabName Htrae]] are either copies of him or of his wife, Bizarro Lois Lane, and the only Bizarros he wasn't directly responsible for creating are Bizarro Jimmy Olsen and Bizarro Mxyzptlk. Also, the Bizarros are shown to be able to have children and their society lives on into the 31st century ([[ContinuitySnarl maybe]]).
98* ''ComicBook/TrakkMonsterHunter'' has [[BigBad Vaquoul]], an immortal alien creature who's blood has been used to create every monster ever recorded in Earth mythology.
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102* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'': Alastor reveals that [[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Grimhilde]] became the first Banshee after being given a torturous FateWorseThanDeath by [[FallenHero Snow White]] and the Masters, later giving birth to the rest of that species.
103* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
104** The so-called "Grey Court" (classic Dracula vampires) are, as their Marvel counterparts, descended from Varnae, an Atlantean experiment GoneHorriblyWrong[=/=]GoneHorriblyRight (depending on your point of view). The Red Court, meanwhile, is said to be descended from the Mayan bat god Camazotz, while the Black Court were created by [[spoiler: Apocalypse]] experimenting on members of the Grey Court to create DoomTroops to enforce his rule on his domain.
105** Jormungand is described as being one of Surtur's Great Captains, and "Father of Dragons" is apparently not just a fancy name -- he's the original.
106** Gaea is mentioned as having produced any number of gods and monsters.
107* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'':
108** The Changeling Progenitors, Empress Blackrose and Emperor Blackthorn, are the parents of all Changelingkind, with all Royal Changelings being their SemiDivine children. Interestingly, they're not together, as Blackrose cannot stand Blackthorn (though Blackthorn still loves her). Instead, they're the matriarch/patriarch of their respective Courts, the Spring and Summer Courts.
109** Thorax, a [[DeityOfHumanOrigin newly-ascended Royal Changeling]], is the Progenitor of a new species of Changelings, who purified themselves of their [[HorrorHunger racial Curse]] by [[ThePowerOfLove sharing love with Chrysalis]]. Because of this, Thorax and his hive are regarded as near-legendary figures and the greatest hope for all Changelingkind.
110* [[EldritchAbomination The Sleeper]] from ''Fanfic/TheDesertStorm'' series claims to be the oldest and most powerful of the [[MageSpecies Dathomiri Nightsisters]], referring to itself as "the Witch from which all Witches descend".
111* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': There are several examples:
112** Havoc and Entropy are the parents of the Draconequi, though it's noted they aren't actually Draconequi themselves, they merely made them in their image.
113** Azerhorse is the single parent of the [[EldritchAbomination Outer Concepts]].
114** Lilith the Witch Queen is the ancient ancestor of Hydia's clan of Witches, and as would be suggested by her other epitaph "The First Witch", is the first witch to ever exist [[spoiler:after discovering the Pandora's Box Morning Star sent to Equus as part of his rebellion]]. She is immensely powerful, to the point she [[WasOnceAMan is no longer even human]] and now composed of [[MadeOfEvil pure evil]] [[MadeOfMagic magic]]. She is so evil and powerful, even her own family is terrified of her, and considered releasing her from her prison a GodzillaThreshold. If she hadn't been defeated, she'd have likely [[OmnicidalManiac destroyed all life on the planet]]. [[spoiler:Even now her evil and unholy power remains, [[SealedEvilInACan sealed inside and corrupting the Alicorn Amulet]].]]
115** Lahb, one of Lilith's creations, is the first and most dangerous of the Polyphemus Gargantula, more commonly known as Giant Cyclops Spider. Being forty feet tall, Lahb was powerful enough to curbstomp a small army of centaurs singlehandedly, only meeting her end [[spoiler:when Tirek hijacked the power of Pandora's Box.]]
116** Queen Tiamat and King Bahamut are both the most powerful of all dragons, as well as their Mother and Father deities, and thus this trope for the Dragons.
117* ''Fanfic/ProjectDarkJade'': In both ''Fanfic/QueenOfAllOni'' and ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'' (co-created by the same authors), the Shadowkhan originated when Kagehime, the daughter of Izanami and the lord of the Underworld, escaped to the surface world. Seeing her shadow for the first time (as there's no light in the Underworld) and mistaking it for a man, she politely asked it to get her some fruit from a tree that she couldn't reach; touched at her actions, the shadow transformed into the first Shadowkhan, Hiruzen, and all of the species later followed after from the two of them.
118* ''Fanfic/SharingTheNight'': Tartarus, in a somewhat roundabout way. In ancient times, he was an immensely old and powerful dragon who sought to contain the evils of the world by eating them. These horrors, devoured and digested, were transformed into a host of lesser entities that periodically crawl to freedom from his body. Manticores and chimerae are among the monster species produced by Tartarus in this manner, and Cerberus is also believed to be his progeny.
119* ''Fanfic/TheWorldIsFilledWithMonsters'': Blightweaver is the progenitor of all the other {{Giant Spider}}s, which it refers to as its daughters. Doesn't stop it from [[MonstrousCannibalism eating them]] when they die.
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123* ''Film/BladeTrinity'': Dracula aka Drake is said to be the first vampire and the where many vampires in the series descend from. The heroes makes it their main goal to target him with the Daystar virus as they believe killing him will exterminate all vampires.
124* ''Film/BordelloOfBlood'': Lilith is of course the mother of all vampires. So powerful that the only thing those in the past could do was knock her heart of her body, split it into four and ship it all around the world to stop her. So of course some idiotic nonce goes out of his way to revive her.
125* ''Film/CountYorga'' is this in both films being the main cause of vampirism. The first film implies he wasn't even bitten but turned himself in a vampire through occult magic, being a creature of his own design. One of the reasons he moved to L.A from whatever European country he came from (implied to be Bulgaria) was to see if the curse could take effect in a modern day foreign country. Indeed, though it's now the 70s, the vampirism works as strong as ever as shown with the two brides he claims at the start and one we see slowly transform after he bites him. By the second movie (which has it's own continuity separate from the first) he's already turned five women into his brides at the start and has at least a dozen near film's end.
126* In ''Film/{{Dagon}}'' it is revealed that [[spoiler:all the fish-monsters in Imboca]] are either children or followers of Dagon.
127* In ''Film/TheFaculty'' [[spoiler:Marybeth]] is the alien queen. Killing the queen kills all of her [[TheVirus alien offspring]], freeing the hosts. [[spoiler:This doesn't free the host of any injuries he might have received while infected, to one victim's dismay]].
128* ''Film/TheFlyII'' plays with this: The previous film's protagonist Seth Brundle became a HalfHumanHybrid of man and insect when his ProfessorGuineaPig experiments in teleportation went tragically wrong. While he perished at the end of it, the sequel confirms that he sired an UnevenHybrid son, Martin, via his lover Veronica beforehand. Unfortunately, Martin ends up in the hands of a CorruptCorporateExecutive and his lackeys (Veronica suffers DeathByChildbirth) and their grand EvilPlan is to use his eventual monstrous form -- which, due to Martin being born a mutant, is ''stronger'' than Seth's was -- ''and'' Seth's telepod technology to create a race of monster soldiers, which would make Seth an unwitting version of this trope. [[spoiler: At the end, Martin manages to genetically fuse himself with the evil executive and regains his humanity, while the executive himself becomes a helpless mutant and last of the line...only for the IDW comic sequel ''The Fly: Outbreak'' to see Martin create ''new'' monsters by accident when he tries to cure him.]]
129* In ''Film/TheForsaken'' the seven original vampires were {{Knight Templar}}s who, fearing death make a DealWithTheDevil and drank the blood of an eight knight, thus becoming the first vampires. If one is killed all the vampires of his bloodline die and any human who is still not a vampire yet but infected with the virus gets cured.
130* ''Film/{{Gojira}}'': At the end of the movie, one of the main heroes suspects that Franchise/{{Godzilla}} may be just the first of his kind. Cue the sequel, ''Film/GodzillaRaidsAgain'', and it's revealed that he's right as another Godzilla shows up.
131* In ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'', it is revealed that the original creator of the cenobites is a giant, diamond-shaped deity named Leviathan, Lord of the Labyrinth and God of Hunger and Desire, torturing and tormenting human souls into cenobites to serve him for eternity.
132* ''Film/HowlingIIStirbaWerewolfBitch'' features the queen and original werewolf Stirba.
133* In ''Film/JohnCarpentersVampires'', Valek is the first vampire, accidentally created during a botched exorcism. He is the strongest, as the only thing that can hurt him is sunlight. He lacks every other vampire weakness. His goal in the movie is to complete the exorcism in order to become truly immortal. This would also allow him to make other vampires without weaknesses.
134* ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'': It's implied that the eponymous worm spawned a race of snake-like vampires. It's also possible that the film's antagonist was one of the first or possibly '''the''' first.
135* ''Film/TheLibrarian'': In ''The Curse of the Judas Chalice'', Judas was the first vampire, but Dracula is not him. In fact, Dracula was [[spoiler:crippled for centuries after drinking plagued blood]].
136* In ''Film/{{Nightbreed}}'', the nightbreed worship a monster god called Baphomet who supposedly created them, [[spoiler: having revealed at the end of the movie to be real]].
137* In ''Film/{{Slither}}'' the alien that takes over Grant Grant acts as this, [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong creating himself a "brood queen"]] which spawns the parasites that give the movie its title. These infect people, turning them into ravenous zombies. Some of them seek to merge with Grant, while others produce more parasites. Killing Grant ends the infection.
138* In ''Film/Underworld2003'', William Corvinus is the Progenitor of all Lycans. Markus Corvinus, his brother, is the progenitor of all Vampires. Unlike other Lycans, William cannot change back to a human. Markus was unremarkable, until he was accidentally turned into a hybrid.
139** Alexander Corvinus is the progenitor of all immortals, but he chooses to live like a normal human and displays no power outside of immortality, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility which gets him chewed out by Selene]]. Drinking his blood does give [[spoiler:Selene]] enhanced strength, endurance, [[spoiler:and resistance to sunlight]].
140** Unlike other Lycans, William is an albino and has the most wolfish appearance. He can also spread the Lycan virus with his claws. This strain of the virus is so potent it can even turn the dead. These first-generation werewolves are mindless beasts with a wolfish appearance. Second-generation werewolves (the ones properly called Lycans) are the ones that are more civilized and can engage in VoluntaryShapeshifting.
141* ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': En Sabah Nur is the world's first mutant and the most powerful one. Over the millennia, he accumulates the abilities of all of his mutant hosts, so he's virtually god-like.
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145* ''Literature/AnitaBlake'' : [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Mother of All Darkness]] is the ancient progenitor of vampires [[WildMassGuessing and possibly werecreatures]]. Given the series has featured pre-Cro-Magnon vampires, [[TimeAbyss that makes her pretty old]].
146* ''Literature/{{Beowulf}}'': The Biblical murderer [[CainAndAbel Cain]] is a Monster Progenitor by implication, as both Grendel and his mother are said to be his descendants, alongside all giants, trolls and elves.
147* ''Literature/TheBlackCompany'':
148** The Dominator is the original creator of the northern empire, and the one who Took all of the Ten Who Were Taken.
149** Old Father Tree is the cause of the uncounted number of strange creatures on the Plain of Fear, or at least the change storms that caused them. HE also refers to the menhirs as his people.
150* ''Literature/CruelIllusions'': Numerius is the first vampire. In ancient Rome, he was a magician who studied BloodMagic and discovered the ability to gain immortality. He discovered that when the BloodMagic is pushed to its brink and all blood within a magician is used, it results in an immortal body, albeit one that must now eternally consume the blood of others to keep itself going, and if it drinks a person dry of blood, it will turn that person into a vampire too.
151* Franchise/CthulhuMythos: Father Dagon and Mother Hydra as the parents of the Deep One race. Several of the Old Ones that appear in the mythos had different offspring, both as monsters races and as other forms of EldritchAbomination.
152* ''Literature/{{Domina}}'': Lilith, the First Monster, is an honorary example. She was the first person to use the BioAugmentation device known as the toy maker, so everyone else who uses it sees her as the "Mother Monster." Lilith herself is annoyed at being called that, but still fills the role as best she can.
153-->'''Maria''': [[ConvenientlyAnOrphan It is a city of orphans]]. I suppose it's only natural they'd latch onto a mother-figure.
154* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the Red King is the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Red Court Vampire]] from whom all other Red Court Vampires are descended. [[spoiler:This turns out to be a major weakness in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' when a bloodline curse that was intended by the Red King to kill all members of Harry's family resulted in the death of every single Red Court Vampire when it was turned back upon the Red Court]].
155* ''Literature/EdenGreen'': Tedrin infects the main character and her best friend with an alien needle symbiote; Eden views him as PatientZero and hopes that destroying him will save the world from his parasite.
156* ''Literature/TheFellOfDark:'' Azazel is the creator of all of vampirekind. Azazel is shown to have created vampires before the series begins to act as his personal army.
157* ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': The Bogeyman was the original personification of primitive man's terror at the darkness and what hid within it. After they mastered fire other bogeymen were born, lurking in the shadows cast by fire but never knowing the primordial darkness that spawned their ancestor.
158* ''Literature/Human2015'' by S.M. Carrière: The Nosphoros were the vampiric monsters who created the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Opyri]].
159* ''Literature/TheLastVampire'': Yaksha [[WasOnceAMan was once a stillborn infant]] in 3000 BC, but DemonicPossession revived him as the first vampire.
160* ''Literature/MorganvilleVampires'': Magnus is the Master Draug. He acts as a HiveQueen, being able to manufacture all other members of the Draug species, with them effectively being extensions of his will.
161* ''Literature/{{Necroscope}}'': Shaitan was the first human (in his home dimension) to be infected with the [[LovecraftianSuperpower lovecraftian parasite]] that causes vampirism, and the progenitor of all later vampires.
162* ''Literature/ParadiseLost'': While many of the demons are actual examples of {{Fallen Angel}}s, others are the spawn of Lucifer/Satan and his daughter Sin, making them Monster Progenitors.
163* ''Literature/SalemsLot'': Barlow is the cause of the vampires in the book. Having picked Salem's Lot because it's secluded and because the town holds so many dark secrets it practically attracted him like a moth to a flame. ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' reveals that, while he isn't only one of his kind being a Type-One vampire, he's still the main cause of events in the book.
164* ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'': Lilith, the Queen of Demons, was originally a human, but became a Greater Demon upon her expulsion from Eden. It should be noted that Lilith is neither the original nor the strongest demon; she is not counted among the nine Princes of Hell, which comprise eight fallen angels and one Biblical monster (Leviathan). Nevertheless, because the majority of demons who currently exist are Lilith's children, the half-demonic warlocks are fond of calling themselves "Children of Lilith" (Magnus Bane in particular is a fan, despite being fathered by a Prince of Hell).
165* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Ungoliant, an ancient, monstrous arachnid, is the progenitor of all giant spiders in Middle-Earth, including those in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'''s Shelob. There are also Draugluin, the first werewolf, and Glaurung, the first dragon and progenitor of his kind, also known as the Father of Dragons.
166* ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': Ariel was [[spoiler:created by Potimas's gene splicing experiments]] and dubbed the first "Taratect". The Taratect spider monsters are all descendants of the eggs she spawned, bound to serve as her loyal army by a soul magic-enforced hierarchy. In the present day, Ariel no longer spawns eggs having given that duty over to the Queen Taratects.
167* ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'': Akasha is the first Vampire, and the progenitor of all of them. She became a vampire when a demon entered her body and fused with her flesh.
168** She is the strongest, especially after draining her husband and second vampire Enkil. She can fly, hypnotize hundreds of humans at a time, incinerate almost any vampire she sees, and track any of her progeny, which she uses to kill off the majority of the world's vampires.
169** Additionally, any damage she sustains is mirrored by all other vampires to varying degrees. For example, when a vampire set her living statue out into the sun, many older vampires had their flesh seared, while the younger ones simply burst into flames. When Akasha is finally killed by decapitation, every vampire falls on the floor, feeling as if their heads were being removed. By eating Akasha's heart and brain, Mekare (the fourth vampire) becomes the host of the spirit Amel and the new queen.
170* ''Literature/WarWithNoName'': the Colony (which is a unique strain of intelligent ants) is currently ruled and enhanced by [[MonsterLord Hymenoptera Unus]]. But the actual progenitor is the [[InsectQueen Lost Queen]] who first battled humanity when humans were barely in their agricultural phase and was defeated causing her to disappear. But not before spawning the misshapen offspring, the Misfit Queen who would in turn spawn Hymenoptera Unus before being eaten by her.
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174* ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' plays with this. [[spoiler:Hive]], is implied to be the first Inhuman created by the Kree, but it is not shown if his genetics were used in the creation of the rest.
175* ''Series/BeingHumanUK'': Mr. Snow is said to be ultimately the progenitor of every other vampire in the show. He ''may'' even be one of the first vampires ever, but this is unlikely since the first vampires are said to have been a pair of Ancient Chinese brothers who made a DealWithTheDevil, and Mr. Snow is Caucasian-looking and ginger.
176* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Most of the first vampires were sired by the Old One Maloker as soldiers to fight humans who rose up against the Old Ones. One of the most powerful vampire bloodlines (TheMaster > Darla > Angelus > Drusilla > Spike), though, was founded many eons later by another Old One named Archaeus, long after the other Old Ones had been banished from Earth.
177* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
178** Davros, creator of the Daleks, isn't a Dalek himself, but with his Dalek-esque life support machine and OmnicidalManiac tendencies, he's halfway there.
179** We also have General Sontar (of whom the Sontarans are all clones), Jamie (PatientZero of the "Empty Child" gas-mask zombie plague), and [[spoiler:TheMaster (founder of the "Master Race").]] The last surviving Racnoss ''tried'' to become this and recreate her species, but the Doctor killed all of her babies.
180** Inverted with John Lumic, who created the alternate-universe Cybermen but only later became a Cyber-controller (against his will).
181** The Wirrn in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]'' have a very complicated life cycle and figuring out how it works from the limited evidence is crucial to the Doctor's plan to stop them.The monster progenitor is a Queen who travels through space to find a suitable host. Once she finds one, she lays her eggs inside it, and the larva eventually hatches, consumes the host and goes on the move. Through consuming the host, the larva gains its knowledge and some elements of its personality, and it then goes on the move to find further hosts to transform into Wirrn by covering them in slime, causing the resultant creature to have the knowledge of the original host as well as of the further host. As the life cycle continues a "swarm leader" with a huge amount of knowledge is created and is capable of controlling other Wirrn.
182** ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E10TheTimelessChildren The Timeless Children]]'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Doctor]] is this to [[spoiler:''the Time Lords themselves'']], by virtue of the fact that as [[spoiler:the infinitely regenerating Timeless Child]], they are the genetic basis behind the [[spoiler:Time Lords' ability to regenerate]], which was spliced into them and was what allowed them to become [[spoiler:Time Lords]] in the first place. Due to this, when [[spoiler:the Master]] creates an army of [[spoiler:infinitely regenerating Cybermen]], he claims that [[spoiler:the Doctor]] is also this to that army.
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184* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
185** Season 6 involves the Winchesters tracking down Monster Progenitors, known as "Alphas". Alphas do not typically have the weaknesses of their children, and may share some telepathic connection to them. The respective Alphas are in turn topped by ''their'' progenitor Eve, the [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Mother of All Monsters]]. It was in turn implied in Season 7 that Eve is herself descended from [[EldritchAbomination the Leviathans]], which were the first beasts created by God, even before angels.
186** Demons in the show come from two separate bloodlines. Lilith was the first demon, being a human soul that [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] personally twisted as an act of defiance against God. The biblical Cain was the other progenitor, who was given the mark by Lucifer after it had twisted the latter's mind. It had a similar effect on Cain, who committed suicide to escape it's effects, but the mark resurrected him as a demon.
187** Played with for Hellhounds. Season 12 reveals that Hellhounds were one of the first things created by God, to act as companions to Himself. The hounds proved to be too vicious, and so He had them destroyed. However, {{Satan}} was able to rescue a single pregnant female (Ramsey). So while she wasn't necessarily the first hellhound, all other hellhounds do come from her.
188* ''Series/TrueBlood'' has Lilith, the first vampire. However, she is long dead by the time the series takes place. A vial of her blood is stored in the headquarters of the Vampire Authority. There is a growing movement among vampires that opposes "mainstreaming" and integrating into the human society instead of trying to rule the humans and slaughter them like cattle. [[spoiler:Bill ends up drinking Lilith's blood and becomes "Billith"]].
189* ''Series/TheVampireDiaries'': The six Originals. They were the first vampires ever created [[spoiler:by a witch]], and all vampires in existence come from one of their bloodlines. Like all other vampires, they [[MustBeInvited cannot enter the home of a human without an invitation]], and vervain is still toxic to them and can block their compulsion. They have the same weaknesses as other vampires, but to a lesser degree: sunlight will burn but not kill them, and a wooden stake to the heart will only kill them temporarily. They are far more powerful than even the oldest non-Originals, [[MindControlEyes have the ability to compel other vampires]], and are practically impossible to kill. Unlike other vampires, they can be forced into a state of death-like hibernation with a special dagger dipped in the ash from a particular tree, and can only truly be killed [[spoiler:by a stake carved from that same white oak tree]]. Additionally, when an Original [[spoiler:is killed, [[NoOntologicalInertia all vampires descended from that Original's bloodline spontaneously die off]] within a few hours]].
190* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Vampires in this series are descendants of the Sire, whom the Vampiric Council keeps under lockdown, lest he be destroyed and all vampires go with him. [[spoiler: When Nandor and Nadja inherit the Council, they inherit the Sire. They promptly forget to feed him, and he gets out, creating a panic.]]
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194* Myth/{{Lilith}}, Adam's first wife from a Middle Ages vulgar parody of The Bible, bred with demons and spirits of the earth and air and thus birthed the lilim, a race of half-demon, half-humans.
195* Ymir of ''Myth/NorseMythology'' is this of the Jotnar.
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199* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
200** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The extremely ancient aboleths all descend from a single individual, the Eldest, that has lurked since the distant geological past on the floor of the ocean. As aboleths are asexual, this single survivor from primordial times periodically spawns offspring that depart to found new aboleth colonies, all descended from the Eldest.
201** ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': The roguge baernaloth Apomps is the progenitor and deity of the gehreleths or demodands, a race of fiends unique to the plane of Carceri. It was his creation of these chaotic beings that led to conflict with his fellows in the first place, as the other baernaloth are obsessed with the purity of the NeutralEvil alignment.
202** ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'':
203*** In the boxed set ''Castles Forlorn'', it's suggested that Tristan [=apBlanc=] may be this trope for the race of living monstrous humanoids called "vampyres", by way of his half-human daughter.
204*** In Tristessa's ''Gazetteer V'' writeup, she's Ravenloft's first widderribhinn (undead fey), a type of undead created when a fey dies through powerful magic or brutal violence. All widderribhinn who arise in the demiplane are compelled to travel to her domain and submit to her as their ruler.
205*** Elsewhere in the Core, Doctor Heinfroth is the progenitor of the cerebral vampire strain of undead, and Harkon Lukas is the progenitor of the greater wolfweres.
206** 3.5 has the demon known as Pale Night. Her title is "The Mother of Demons", and while it is uncertain she actually fits the Trope, it is stated in several other sources that she is a mother to ''something'', although they disagree on what. Many [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils demon lords]] claim they are her sons, with another source claiming "she is the mother of several tanar’ri lords, including Graz’zt, Lupercio, and Vucarik of Chains." The Black Scrolls of Ahm claim she is the mother of nothing less than the tanar’ri race (the tanar'ri are by far the most common types of demons). Yet another source says she is not a mother of demons, but the mother of several monstrous races on the material plane. Pale Night will not confirm or deny any of this (and few are insane enough to try asking her, given what happens to most who are caught trespassing on her property.)
207** The deity Io, the Ninefold Dragon. He's the progenitor of ''all'' Dragonkind (and in some myths: ''the creator of the entire D&D multiverse''), and the father of [[CainAndAbel Bahamut and Tiamat]].
208* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
209** Ragadahn claims to be the father of dragons, a claim most true dragons consider heretical at best. Linnorms, on the other hand, generally consider him to be the first of their kind.
210** The demon goddess Lamashtu is known as "The Mother of Monsters". Several varieties of demon, as well as many monsters native to the Material Plane, are her creations, often having been literally birthed by her.
211** The demon lord Kabriri names himself the progenitor of all ghouls and the first being to commit cannibalism. This is disputed by the [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Leng ghouls]], who claim that Kabiri copied them, while he says they abandoned him. Evidence suggests the Leng ghouls are indeed older.
212* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
213** The various Vampire clans are named after their progenitor (or their nickname, such as the case of Abhorash the Blood Dragon). The clans of vampires were in turn created by Nagash, the First Necromancer and the "creator" of both undead factions [[spoiler:and who recently became the patron god of the undead]].
214** In this setting and in ''40k'', it's implied that the Chaos Gods can create their Daemons as aspects of themselves, tearing bits of essence from their bodies which subsequently gain sentience. The Chaos Gods are also implied to simply be the biggest, oldest and most powerful Daemons of their kind, but the gap between them and their strongest lieutenant is so wide that no one, daemon or mortal, can ever challenge them for their titles (one tried to challenge Khorne, and was subsequently tossed so far into the sky that he flew for ''9 days straight'').
215* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Genestealer Broodlords/Patriarchs. Granted, an individual broodlord/patriarch is usually pretty "young", often "only" a hundred years old, but the cult he spawns certainly reveres him as this trope.
216** In a sense, the Emperor himself could be considered a MonsterProgenitor if a breed of demigod SuperSoldier are included as monsters. Using his own superhuman DNA and powers stolen from the Chaos Gods, the Emperor was able to create the Primarchs as well as the Adeptus Custodes. The Primarchs themselves are also the progenitor of the various Space Marine legions including the monstrous Traitor Legions and the "Cursed" 21st Founding.
217* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The ancient titan Behemat is the progenitor of the gargants, having birthed the first of their kind by vomiting them out from his mouth, and continued to birth new tribes of them in this manner until his eventual death.
218* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'':
219** ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' pegs [[BiblicalBadGuy Cain(e)]] as the First Vampire, cursed by God for his slaying of [[CainAndAbel Abel]]. His line was then split down into three childer (destroyed before the Flood), and thirteen childer unto them, whose own descendants' ranks and divisions make up the thirteen clans of vampires who exist in the modern nights. The rules for fighting Cain, in their entirety, are "[[RunOrDie you lose]]".
220** ''TabletopGame/ChroniclesOfDarkness'':
221*** ''TabletopGame/BeastThePrimordial'': Beasts believe themselves to be the children of an entity known as the Dark Mother, among other things. And they claim the progenitors of all the other "monster races" in the TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness as siblings.
222*** ''TabletopGame/LeviathanTheTempest'' has the Progenitors, the seven children of Tiamat. Each Leviathan is descended from a specific Progenitor, which helps define which [[LovecraftianSuperpower Vestiges]] it can most readily access, exactly how its [[MindRape Wake warps the minds of its Beloved]], and in general what kind of GodOfEvil it is likely to be.
223*** ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'': Each Promethean Lineage (think FrankensteinsMonster) has at least one Progenitor, created by a human demiurge. Each Progenitor can create more of their kind by using human corpses in a ritual specific to the Lineage.
224*** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' the werewolves claim descent from Father Wolf and Mother Luna. However, there came a time when his children thought Father Wolf was getting too old to adequately guard the border between the mortal and spirit world, so they killed him.
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228* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'' has Fenris Wolf Brood and Jormund Elver, making [[Myth/NorseMythology the mythological Fenris Wolf and Jormungandr]] (the Midgard Serpent) their Monster Progenitors.
229* In ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'', Absalom was the first {{Nephilim}} created by Lilith from the dust of angels and demons and the basis on which the others were made. Samael while fighting Death, who is the last of the "[[OlderIsBetter Firstborn]]" Nephilim after he and the other Horsemen [[GenocideFromTheInside betrayed and slaughtered the rest of their race]] and is considered the strongest of the four, notably referred to him as a "flawed casting from a perfect mold" and further stated that before the Horsemen were empowered by The Charred Council, Absalom was the strongest Nephilim. [[spoiler:And this was all ''before'' Absalom CameBackWrong as TheCorruption that threatens the universe.]]
230* The ''Franchise/DragonAge'' setting had the Tevinter Magisters who entered and subsequently corrupted the Golden City of TheMaker. This, in turn, has corrupted them into the first Darkspawn, who then spread this corruption as a MysticalPlague to start the First Blight. At least one of these Magisters, Corypheus, is still alive and more or less sane a thousand years later, as evidenced by the ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' DLC. He becomes the BigBad in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition''.
231* In ''VideoGame/DragonBallOnline'', Majin Buu begets an entire race of Majin creatures, which is one of the playable races in the games.
232* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
233** Series background lore tells of a woman named Lamae Beolfag, chronicled in the book ''Opusculus Lamae Bal''. Created through a traumatic rape by [[GodOfEvil Molag Bal]], the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Domination and Enslavement]], Lamae became the first recorded vampire, dubbed "Blood Mother." It is believed that all Vampires descend from her, upsetting the balance of death and rebirth normally administered by the Aedric God Arkay. This would later be confirmed in the ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'''s ''Dawnguard'' DLC. The DLC also shows the Volkihar Clan of eastern Skyrim, who are unlike their Cyrodilic cousins are Vampire Lords and owe their unique and more powerful form due to being gifted with vampirism directly from Molag Bal himself. They likewise share several traits of Molag Bal, such as voluntary shapeshifting, telekinesis, and the ability to permanently enthrall victims.
234** [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent Were-creatures]], also referred to in-universe as Lycanthropes, [[note]]Yes, this should ''technically'' only refer to werewolves, as "lycan" comes from the Greek word for "wolf", however it is frequently used to refer to all were-creatures[[/note]] similarly are a creation of Hircine, the Daedric Prince of [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the Hunt]]. He sees them as the embodiment of the spirit of the hunt, and they serve him in life as mortal agents and in death as the "hounds" of his Hunting Grounds realm. Unlike Molag Bal toward most vampires, Hircine maintains an active role in his creations existence, as he has been known to personally enhance favored Lycanthropes with increased abilities and rewards some with items of power, such as the Ring of Hircine, which allows a Lycanthrope to control his or her transformations. Hircine has even been approached or summoned by packs of [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolves]] to appoint a pack leader, thus serving as a advisor and an important figure among Lycanthropes.
235** The [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Minotaur]] race is believed to [[DivineDate descend from the union]] between St. Alessia (the "Slave Queen" who led the Alessian [[SlaveLiberation revolt]] against their [[AbusivePrecursors Ayleid]] masters) and Morihaus, the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Aedric demi-god]] "winged man-bull" sent by the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Divines]] to aid Alessia. [[EternalHero Pelinal Whitestrake]], Alessia's "champion" and Morihaus' divine "uncle," specifically warned Morihaus against this relationship, believing that they would "beget more monsters on this earth." (Which, if this is the true origin of Minotaurs, proved to be the case.) Their son, Belharza, was said to be the first Minotaur and became the second Emperor of the Alessian Empire following his mother's death.
236** [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons]] are said to be the "[[DragonsAreDivine divine children]]" of Akatosh, the draconic God of Time and [[TopGod chief deity]] of the [[SaintlyChurch Nine Divines Pantheon]]. Other sources indicate that they may be fragments of his very being, essentially serving as [[DragonsAreDemonic highly destructive]] ''[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]]''.
237** The first mortal to transform into a [[OurLichesAreDifferent lich]] was Mannimarco, a powerful [[OurElvesAreDifferent Altmer]] {{necromancer}} and ImmortalitySeeker. By being the first, he naturally paved the way for others to follow in the same path.
238* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
239** The unfathomably ancient and powerful wyrm Midgardsormr is the progenitor of all dragons. He sired the First Brood, seven dragons who would spread throughout the world and sire all other forms of dragonkind.
240** The [[AngelicAbomination Sin Eaters]] which ravage [[AlternateUniverse the First]] ultimately came from Eden, the first and most powerful of their kind. Eden's mere presence triggered a [[WorldWreckingWave Flood of Light]] which turned most of the planet into a lifeless wasteland, and the creatures swept up in the Flood were transformed into Sin Eaters.
241* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'':
242** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' reveals that [[spoiler:the Puppet]] is the one responsible for causing the animatronics from [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys the first game]] to act as homicidal as they are [[spoiler:by haunting them with the souls of five murdered children]]. One minigame implies that it was the ''first'' animatronic to go wrong [[spoiler:by being haunted with the soul of the aforementioned child murderer's first victim]].
243** [[spoiler:Fredbear, the animatronic that was involved in the first fatal accident (due to a prank that ended up in tragedy) in the history of the Freddy Fazbear's pizza joints, also counts as one, even though it was shown that Fredbear was just a simple animatronic at the time and he never meant for it happen in the first place. However, this didn't prevent Fredbear to kinda become the ultimate boogeyman in a game that is practically made of several dozens of boogeymen already]].
244* ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'':
245** Subverted, in that the Pale Tree is the Progenitor of the entire Sylvari Race [[spoiler:(or at least all the Sylvari that appear in the game except one)]], but the Sylvari are the exact opposite of a monster race. In fact, they are one of the playable races of the game.
246** Played straight, however, with the [[EldritchAbomination Elder Dragons]], who are the progenitors of various types of monsters, including but not limited to Dragonbrand, Destroyers, the Risen (Undead), and various other monstrosities.
247* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': [[AntiHero Sol Badguy]] was once a brilliant scientist who tampered with [[BioAugmentation biological augmentation]] and {{magic|FromTechnology}} [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke to create a new race]] of {{transhuman}}s, the titular [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Gears]]. However, he was betrayed and turned into one himself by his {{evil former friend}}, [[TheAtoner and boy does he regret it all]]. He won't rest until [[HunterOfHisOwnKind all the other Gears]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge and his former friend]] are lying dead. ''Guilty Gear'' actually subverts this trope in a few ways. Despite Sol being the SuperPrototype, he's only a prototype in the sense that he's the first Gear to exist. It is Justice, Type-01 and the first "complete" Gear (though ''Xrd -SIGN-'' calls into question if she's the first Gear produced after Sol), who shares a genetic link to all other Gears and thus [[MindControl able to control them]] as [[MonsterLord a Commander Gear]] (though Sol [[NoSell is immune]] to her powers due to predating Justice; presumably, the handful of other Commander Gears are similarly unaffected by Justice's psychic commands). However, Justice is not directly responsible for the creation of other Gears with the exception of her daughter Dizzy (who is [[LukeIMightBeYourFather hinted]] to also be the daughter of [[spoiler:Mr. Badguy himself]]). Justice's bloodline, consisting of Dizzy and Dizzy's son Sin, [[MacGuffinSuperPerson proves to be important]] in ''Overture'' because they carry a genetic key signature that is necessary for the plans of that game's BigBad.
248* ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'': It's implied that Dusa the severed gorgon head is the severed head of ''the'' Medusa, and that all the generic gorgon enemies were spawned from her blood.
249* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Vanitas ([[spoiler:Ventus' EnemyWithout]]) is this, as the [[TheHeartless Unversed]] are spawned from his negative emotions. Even if they are slain, their essence just flows back to Vanitas. However, [[spoiler:when Ventus and Vanitas forcibly fuse back together again, they [[NoOntologicalInertia cease to be]].]]
250* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain: Soul Reaver'':
251** Raziel's vampiric brethren all create fledgling vampires that share certain traits with their progenitors. Raziel and his brothers were themselves turned into vampires by Kain. It's worth mentioning, though, that the first human turned into a vampire is Vorador. He was created by Janos Audron, an [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Ancient]] of [[http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/3661/345226-janos1_super.jpg angelic shape and demonic skin.]]
252** Janos is indirectly responsible for Kain's vampirism since the Heart of Darkness that transformed Kain is ''his'' heart.
253* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': The ancient [[spoiler:Demon King Demise]] is the origin of all demons in the ''Zelda'' series. This seems to be a common feature among demons, since Batreaux also seems to summon monsters with his presence. During nighttime in Skyloft, Keese and Chuchus appear and the Remlits turn feral. Once Batreaux becomes a human, the monsters stop appearing and the Remlits remain tame at night.
254* ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'':
255** Krogan legend states that Kalros is this to the Thresher Maw species. This is probably just myth, but Kalros is by far the largest and most dangerous Thresher Maw in existence and proves perfectly capable of taking down [[spoiler:a Destroyer-class Reaper]] single-handed. It's mentioned that Thresher Maws reproduced through spores, thus anyone encounter can possibly become a carrier and spread them across the galaxy.
256** The ''Leviathan'' DLC explains that [[spoiler:Harbinger]] was the first of the Reaper, the one on whose pattern and under whose direction all future Reapers were created.
257* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'': The Emperor Ing. Scan logs will tell you that it "is the strongest Ing in the horde, the alpha and the omega".
258* ''VideoGame/MonsterGirlQuest'':
259** The original MonsterLord Alipheese Fateburn I is described as an "embodiment of darkness" and was the original creator of monsters by blending her own genes into various species and mutating them with her power.
260** The Six Ancestors, the first monsters Alipheese created, in turn became the basis and ancestral line through which all monsters can trace their original back to. [[spoiler:Tamamo no Mae, the Ancestor who spawned the "Animal" line, is the only one still around in the present due to not being sealed away completely]].
261** Goddess Ilias can be considered here as well since she was the one who created the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] (who frankly can be just as monstrous as the monsters themselves [[OneWingedAngel when they go all-out]]).
262* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': Crimson Moon can be considered the progenitor of [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Ancestors and, through them, all vampires]]. While he didn't exactly spawn them, Gaia used him as a template for her purported defenders against humanity, which didn't go well, since all of them inherited Crimson Moon's BloodLust alongside an unfortunate quirk of Gaian elementals: going insane when they drink blood. It's easy to see how this went badly.
263* ''VideoGame/OfOrcsAndMen'' has [[spoiler:Styx, an Orc deformed by abuse of magic, as the progenitor to the goblin race -- hence why he's the only intelligent goblin around]]. The prequel ''VideoGame/StyxMasterOfShadows'' shows that [[spoiler:goblins are essentially just [[CloneDegeneration inferior clones]] created by Styx that he spawns for various purposes and the Styx that's the protagonist of the games is actually a clone himself that the real Styx infused enough magic for him to retain his intelligence]].
264* ''VideoGame/{{Onslaught}}'' sees you fighting a BugWar against hordes and hordes of alien insects, and by the end of the stage you're facing the Insect Queen in her hive, which is cluttered with eggs and swarming with lesser bugs.
265* A benign example in ''VideoGame/{{Othercide}}'', the Mother is the WorldsBestWarrior and a ChosenOne. Unfortunately she fails to save the world one last time and gets killed. Because of her PsychicLink to an benign EldritchAbomination, she becomes the ghostly Red Mother, who generates a small army of Daughters who are fighting to save the world from the [[EldritchAbomination Suffering]].
266* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Mew is said to have the DNA of every single Pokémon within its own, leading many to theorize that it is the last common universal ancestor for all Pokémon. Arceus, likewise is considered the creator of Sinnoh and possibly the entire known universe (including, one would imagine, the Pokémon within it).
267* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'': Alex Mercer. He was created by accident when [[spoiler:the dead body of]] a human was infected with the most powerful mutagenic virus ever designed, he began the game as a HumanoidAbomination, was well on his way to {{Eldritch|Abomination}} levels by the end, and was creating more of his kind by the second. Even the title of the game refers to the rarely-used definition of the word "prototype," meaning the first of a new species.
268* Andre in ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'' is this to the other black lums, only distinguishable from his successors in that while they don't have arms, he does. [[spoiler: As for Andre's own creation, let's just say Rayman's hands wandered off one night and did a scary shadow puppet show in front of a red lum...]]
269* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'': Wander is the progenitor of the horned boys [[spoiler:and, by extension, shadow children]] in ''VideoGame/{{Ico}}.''
270* In ''VideoGame/StubbsTheZombie'' you play as a recently-reanimated zombie who quickly creates an outbreak in a retro-futuristic city. While most of the zombies Stubbs creates are the normal shambling kind he's marginally more intelligent and gradually obtains a rather disgusting array of special abilities.
271* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': Most of the enemies that appear in the Subspace Emissary mode are made of Shadow Bugs extracted from Mr. Game & Watch's body.
272* ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'': The First Aishi, a woman who emigrated to Japan from PartsUnknown in 1796 to be the first known woman of the Aishi family to have the "Senpai Effect": a genetic congenital disorder that causes the women of the family to be {{emotionless|girl}} until they meet their senpai which would turn them into a murderous yandere.
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276* ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFOXHOUND'' has Berthold, the telepathic wolf. When he visits Shadow Moses Island for the first time he sleeps with a few of the guard dogs there, who in turn, give birth to the Wolf-Dogs that you encounter in the caves between the Commander's Office and the Comm Towers in the [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid source material]].
277* ''Webcomic/TrueVillains'' has Malanor, a SorcerousOverlord and the first vampire. He became a vampire through a deal with a demon of Galdara, the God of Progress -- ironically, the same god that's worshiped by a large portion of the Mainland, a FloatingContinent that's the only place free of his apocalyptic undead armies.
278* ''Webcomic/UnholyBlood'': The scourage of vampires that has infested Korea is shown to have been caused by a vampire called "God" who spread his vampiric infection throughout the population.
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283* ''Website/TaerelSetting'': The kin'toni are vampire-like monsters who are organized into clans, each one typically led by the one who created the original group.
284** The clan founder of the Boughdyn Kin'toni Clan is Velis Runtumu, one of the first kin'toni made in a lab. They spread their vampiric traits by "turning" many others to form the clan.
285** The clan founder of the Invernus Kin'toni Clan is Dyndra Norot, who appointed Jualli as her vice-leader. Jualli disliked the religious dogma of his clan and recruited and turned others into kin'toni.
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289* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' had an episode where Numbah 5's teacher, Miss Thomson, was the Queen were-dog responsible for turning her student into were-dogs, including Numbah 5's rival, who, as a were-poodle, ate her homework in a previous episode. Unlike the other were-dogs the queen were-dog was able to eat Numbah 4's awful homework without becoming sick. [[spoiler:However, as soon as her cursed necklace was taken off, she and all the rest returned to normal humans.]]
290* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' features the original were-car, Project Satan, who is the origin of the curse of all were-cars: as a robot's were-car curse can only be removed by killing the were-car that gave it to them, killing Project Satan removes the curse from all afflicted were-cars everywhere.
291* In ''WesternAnimation/SkeletonWarriors'', the first of the titular monsters is Baron Dark, created by the energy released from a sundered Lightcrystal. Thusly, he alone has the power to [[TheVirus convert other humans into new Skeleton Warriors]]. This presents a dilemma when they learn that they aren't as invulnerable as they thought, and there is a way to cure the curse; if Baron Dark is returned to his human form, then the Skeleton Warriors are doomed to ultimate defeat, as they will be unable to replace any casualties they take. Destroying Baron Dark thusly becomes a key goal of the heroic Legion of Light.
292* ''WesternAnimation/ThundarrTheBarbarian'': In one episode, the heroes ran into a [[EvilVersusEvil conflict between an evil wizard and a pack of werewolves]]. The leader of the werewolves had turned innocent humans into his pack and he wanted to add the wizard to his ranks. The day is saved when the heroes discover a magical pool of water that can undo lycanthropy. All of the werewolf leader's victims are restored to normal after being bathed in the pool. When the werewolf leader is bathed in it, he turns into... a wolf. Ariel realizes that he was the original werewolf. He was never human in the first place.
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