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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
18th Apr, 2017 04:57:44 PM
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I feel like this is probably out there somewhere, but I can't find it. What's it called when you've got a villain who can hop from person to person, infecting innocents like a telepathic virus, sometimes by touch, sometimes just by proximity? This creates a 'anyone can be the villain' situation, as well as setting up a lot of ethical challenges. This plot has been done very often in sci-fi TV shows, but it's also been seen in movies and comics. The one that comes most clearly to my mind is the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington, in which a demon possesses folks by touch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_(1998_film)