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Author: Chabal2

Nov 16th 2013 at 4:08:50 AM

* {{Starcraft}}: The Zerg's upgrades are basically retrofitted onto them, ranging fom sharper claws and tougher hides to extra organs and symbiotes.
* Warhammer40K:
** Averted with the Tyranids; instead of reconfiguring a creature's various biomorphs it gets dissolved at a reclamation pool and a new one spawned with the right weapons.
*** Played straight with Tyranid genestealers. As infiltration units, they first infect hosts with a small bundle of genetic material that doesn't mutate their bodies, only making them subservient to the HiveMind. As infected organisms breed, the new generation of genestealers begin to show more and more mutations (though they can still pass as their host species) until the fifth generation, which are 100% purestrains.
** Averted with the SpaceMarines: the standard procedure requires inserting the various implants and organs over a long period of adaptation beginning in adolescence, and even then it is not always successful. There have been very few cases of adults surviving the process, but most of them died painfully.
** Played straight by the Kroot: their species is somehow able to extract useful genetic material from what they eat, and the more they eat of it, the more traits they acquire (eating birds results in lighter Kroot with limited gliding ability, quadrupeds into Kroothounds, etc.). Their leaders, called shapers, are able to analyze the DNA by tasting it and direct their warriors whether or not to eat something.
* The child rapist best known as "That Yellow Bastard" in SinCity had a number of procedures including gene therapy done on him to regrow his penis, which Hartigan had shot off. [[GroinAttack Not that it did him much good in the end.]]