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** This motif shows up a lot in association with [[SyntheticPlague Phyrexia]], with cards like [[https://scryfall.com/card/jmp/262/parasitic-implant Parasitic Implant]] taking a fairly traditional approach to this trope. Contrast to [[https://scryfall.com/card/moc/199/phyrexian-rebirth Phyrexian Rebirth]], a FantasticNuke spell that inflicts this on an entire army, fusing them into a gigantic misshapen BodyOfBodies.
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* A real life example that doesn't involve animal spawn... the cordyceps genus of fungi. They infect various kinds of insect, but the form most often seen by people is one which infects ants and flies and the like. The fungus grows within the body of the host eventually causing death, but before it does so it forces them to climb to a high point (say the top of a blade of grass) and cling there until they die. Then the fungus matures, fruiting bodies [[BodyHorror sprout from the corpse of the host]] and spread fungal spores into the surroundings to start the cycle anew. Overlaps with TheVirus. There's a reason certain ants take away infected workers away from the colonies: cordyceps can and '''will'' completely destroy them.

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* A real life example that doesn't involve animal spawn... the cordyceps genus of fungi. They infect various kinds of insect, but the form most often seen by people is one which infects ants and flies and the like. The fungus grows within the body of the host eventually causing death, but before it does so it forces them to climb to a high point (say the top of a blade of grass) and cling there until they die. Then the fungus matures, fruiting bodies [[BodyHorror sprout from the corpse of the host]] and spread fungal spores into the surroundings to start the cycle anew. Overlaps with TheVirus. There's a reason certain ants take away infected workers away from the colonies: cordyceps can and '''will'' ''will'' completely destroy them.
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** The "Filled with Despair" status effect inflicted by Psynumbra abilities causes a unit to spawn a ghostly Echo of Despair when they die.
** Units that die under the effects of Parasitic Infection have a chance to create Xenoplague units after the battle's end.
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** The Parasyte enemies in ''Kingdom Rush Frontiers'' will latch onto your barracks soldiers and reinforcements, immobilizing them and draining health rapidly, and if that kills the troop before it's killed it immediately bursts into a much stronger, tougher and faster Reaper alien. Thankfully, no Reaper spawns if they latch onto and destroy Alric's summoned sand warriors or a Necromancer tower's spawned skeletons.
** The Cloud Stalker enemies in ''Kingdom Rush: Origins'' will latch onto your barracks soldiers and reinforcements, immobilizing them and draining health rapidly. If it's not killed in time that troop will explode and produce ''another'' Cloud Stalker.
* A double-blast of the TMD in ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' turns an enemy soldier into a ghoul-like monster that hunts by sound. It will usually attack other enemies because they don't know to be quiet. A third blast to the monster will turn it into an ActionBomb.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft|I}}'': [[TropeNamer Queens and their Broodlings]]; the Zerg Queen has an ability called [[TropeNamer "Spawn Broodling"]] that kills an enemy unit and creates two Broodlings, similar to Zerglings, except in how they are made.
** Similarly, Brood Lords in ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft II}}'' "create" Broodlings using their attacks, but that's because they are [[FastballSpecial flinging them]] [[AbnormalAmmo into battle]].

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** ''VideoGame/KingdomRushFrontiers'': The Parasyte enemies in ''Kingdom Rush Frontiers'' will latch onto your barracks soldiers and reinforcements, immobilizing them and draining health rapidly, and if that kills the troop before it's killed it immediately bursts into a much stronger, tougher and faster Reaper alien. Thankfully, no Reaper spawns if they latch onto and destroy Alric's summoned sand warriors or a Necromancer tower's spawned skeletons.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomRushOrigins'': The Cloud Stalker enemies in ''Kingdom Rush: Origins'' will latch onto your barracks soldiers and reinforcements, immobilizing them and draining health rapidly. If it's not killed in time that troop will explode and produce ''another'' Cloud Stalker.
* ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'': A double-blast of the TMD in ''VideoGame/{{Singularity}}'' turns an enemy soldier into a ghoul-like monster that hunts by sound. It will usually attack other enemies because they don't know to be quiet. A third blast to the monster will turn it into an ActionBomb.
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** ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'':
[[TropeNamer Queens and their Broodlings]]; the Zerg Queen has an ability called [[TropeNamer "Spawn Broodling"]] that kills an enemy unit and creates two Broodlings, similar to Zerglings, except in how they are made.
** Similarly, ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'':
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Brood Lords in ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft II}}'' "create" Broodlings using their attacks, but that's because they are [[FastballSpecial flinging them]] [[AbnormalAmmo into battle]].



** Chryssalids. They will slice at you (usually killing you unless you have stronger armor), spit an embryo in your corpse, and then the embryo will infest the brain and raise the corpse as a zombie before mutating into an actual Chryssalid.

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** Chryssalids. They Chryssalids will slice at you (usually killing you unless you have stronger armor), spit an embryo in your corpse, and then the embryo will infest the brain and raise the corpse as a zombie before mutating into an actual Chryssalid.

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This is distinguishable from TheVirus in that the Spawn Brooder is not spreading itself, and from FaceFullOfAlienWingWong in that it is an ability that takes a much shorter amount of time and is generally not considered [[DoubleEntendre that sort of attack]]. See also FlunkyBoss, who might use this as an attack, BalefulPolymorph, and ThePunishment. Contrast WeaponizedOffspring which is about attacking or creating allies by giving birth; this trope is about attacking or creating allies by ''making the enemy give birth''.

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This is distinguishable from TheVirus in that the Spawn Brooder is not spreading itself, and from FaceFullOfAlienWingWong in that it is an ability that takes a much shorter amount of time and is generally not considered [[DoubleEntendre that sort of attack]]. See also FlunkyBoss, who might use this as an attack, BalefulPolymorph, ForcedTransformation, and ThePunishment. Contrast WeaponizedOffspring which is about attacking or creating allies by giving birth; this trope is about attacking or creating allies by ''making the enemy give birth''.
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* A real life example that doesn't involve animal spawn... the cordyceps genus of fungi. They infect various kinds of insect, but the form most often seen by people is one which infects ants and flies and the like. The fungus grows within the body of the host eventually causing death, but before it does so it forces them to climb to a high point (say the top of a blade of grass) and cling there until they die. Then the fungus matures, fruiting bodies [[BodyHorror sprout from the corpse of the host]] and spread fungal spores into the surroundings to start the cycle anew. Overlaps with TheVirus. There's a reason certain ants take away infected workers away from the colonies: cordyceps will destroy them.

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* A real life example that doesn't involve animal spawn... the cordyceps genus of fungi. They infect various kinds of insect, but the form most often seen by people is one which infects ants and flies and the like. The fungus grows within the body of the host eventually causing death, but before it does so it forces them to climb to a high point (say the top of a blade of grass) and cling there until they die. Then the fungus matures, fruiting bodies [[BodyHorror sprout from the corpse of the host]] and spread fungal spores into the surroundings to start the cycle anew. Overlaps with TheVirus. There's a reason certain ants take away infected workers away from the colonies: cordyceps will can and '''will'' completely destroy them.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has three Epic Spells: [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/animusBlast.htm Animus Blast]], [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/animusBlizzard.htm Animus Blizzard]] and [[ParanoiaFuel Demise]] [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/demiseUnseen.htm Unseen]], all of which kill your enemies and then reanimate them as undead under your control.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has three Epic Spells: [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/animusBlast.htm Animus Blast]], Blast,]] [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/animusBlizzard.htm Animus Blizzard]] and [[ParanoiaFuel Demise]] [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/epic/spells/demiseUnseen.htm Unseen]], Unseen,]] all of which kill your enemies and then reanimate them as undead under your control.



** The expansion ''Rise of the Eldrazi'' includes a card called "[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193625 Corpsehatch]]" that is virtually identical in function to the TropeNamer ability; it kills a creature and creates two Eldrazi Spawn in its place.
** There's also [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175070 Skeletonize]], which burns away a creature's flesh and (assuming three damage will kill it) leaves behind and undead skeleton under your command.

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** The expansion ''Rise of the Eldrazi'' includes a card called "[[http://gatherer.[[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193625 Corpsehatch]]" "Corpsehatch"]] that is virtually identical in function to the TropeNamer ability; it kills a creature and creates two Eldrazi Spawn in its place.
** There's also [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=175070 Skeletonize]], Skeletonize,]] which burns away a creature's flesh and (assuming three damage will kill it) leaves behind and undead skeleton under your command.



* ''VideoGame/{{Broforce}}'': If even one Facehugger gets on your Bro in the later levels of , it will hatch into a full-grown Xenomorph, killing the Bro instantly and leaving your next Bro with a big problem.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Broforce}}'': If even one Facehugger gets on your Bro in the later levels of , levels, it will hatch into a full-grown Xenomorph, killing the Bro instantly and leaving your next Bro with a big problem.



* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft|I}}'': [[TropeNamer Queens and their Broodlings]]; the Zerg Queen has an ability called [[TropeNamer "Spawn Broodling"]] that kills an enemy unit and creates two Broodlings, similar to Zerglings except in how they are made.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft|I}}'': [[TropeNamer Queens and their Broodlings]]; the Zerg Queen has an ability called [[TropeNamer "Spawn Broodling"]] that kills an enemy unit and creates two Broodlings, similar to Zerglings Zerglings, except in how they are made.



** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-631 SCP-631 ("Nyctophobic Nocturnal Predator")]]. SCP-631 injects a paralyzing poison into a person with its stinger, eats their internal organs and lays its eggs in the resulting body cavities. When the eggs hatch the babies eat the rest of the body.

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** [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-631 SCP-631 ("Nyctophobic Nocturnal Predator")]]. Predator").]] SCP-631 injects a paralyzing poison into a person with its stinger, eats their internal organs and lays its eggs in the resulting body cavities. When the eggs hatch the babies eat the rest of the body.



** Extra special mention goes to the [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/vargouille.htm Vargouille]].
** If your GM is cooperative, cast AnimateDead on a carnivorous creature's last meal and see what happens. If all works out, they'll have a zombie in their tummy [[note]]Animate Dead requires you to touch the corpses you're casting the spell on. [[EatenAlive Think about how that's going to work]][[/note]].

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** Extra special mention goes to the [[http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/vargouille.htm Vargouille]].
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** If your GM is cooperative, cast AnimateDead on a carnivorous creature's last meal and see what happens. If all works out, they'll have a zombie in their tummy tummy.[[note]]Animate Dead requires you to touch the corpses you're casting the spell on. [[EatenAlive Think about how that's going to work]][[/note]].work]].[[/note]]



* In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fan adventure ''Webcomic/AlabasterTheDoomedSession'', this is a major plot point. One of the main bosses, Vamuin's Denizen, works exactly like this. [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=236&p=1641 It is revealed much later in the story]].

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* In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' fan adventure ''Webcomic/AlabasterTheDoomedSession'', this is a major plot point. One of the main bosses, Vamuin's Denizen, works exactly like this. [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=236&p=1641 It is revealed much later in the story]].story.]]
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* A real life example that doesn't involve animal spawn... the cordyceps genus of fungi. They infect various kinds of insect, but the form most often seen by people is one which infects ants and flies and the like. The fungus grows within the body of the host eventually causing death, but before it does so it forces them to climb to a high point (say the top of a blade of grass) and cling there until they die. Then the fungus matures, fruiting bodies [[BodyHorror sprout from the corpse of the host]] and spread fungal spores into the surroundings to start the cycle anew. Overlaps with TheVirus.

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* A real life example that doesn't involve animal spawn... the cordyceps genus of fungi. They infect various kinds of insect, but the form most often seen by people is one which infects ants and flies and the like. The fungus grows within the body of the host eventually causing death, but before it does so it forces them to climb to a high point (say the top of a blade of grass) and cling there until they die. Then the fungus matures, fruiting bodies [[BodyHorror sprout from the corpse of the host]] and spread fungal spores into the surroundings to start the cycle anew. Overlaps with TheVirus. There's a reason certain ants take away infected workers away from the colonies: cordyceps will destroy them.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' brings out the mythic Drakainia, a MotherOfAThousandYoung who represents the mutagenic demon lord Lamashtu. She not only uses FaceFullOfAlienWingWong tactics to impregnate player characters (regardless of said character's gender), but any already pregnant creatures within line of sight immediately give birth, with the children afflicted with her mutations and under her control.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' brings out the mythic Drakainia, a MotherOfAThousandYoung who represents the mutagenic demon lord Lamashtu. She not only uses FaceFullOfAlienWingWong tactics to impregnate player characters (regardless of [[MisterSeahorse said character's gender), gender]]), but any already pregnant creatures within line of sight immediately give birth, with the children afflicted with her mutations and under her control.
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** In ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredatorExtinction'', the RTS installment in the series, the entire Xenomorph economy is based on how many enemy soldiers are gestating chestbursters. An enemy afflicted by the [[StandardStatusEffects Status Effect]] ''Cystic Tumors'' spawns Aliens with [[ChromaticSuperiority red stripes that are enhanced over baseline aliens]] when infested.

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** In ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredatorExtinction'', the RTS installment in the series, the entire Xenomorph economy is based on how many enemy soldiers are gestating chestbursters. An enemy afflicted by the [[StandardStatusEffects [[StatusEffects Status Effect]] ''Cystic Tumors'' spawns Aliens with [[ChromaticSuperiority red stripes that are enhanced over baseline aliens]] when infested.
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** If your GM is cooperative, cast AnimateDead on a carnivorous creature's last meal and see what happens. If all works out, they'll have a zombie in their tummy.

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** If your GM is cooperative, cast AnimateDead on a carnivorous creature's last meal and see what happens. If all works out, they'll have a zombie in their tummy.tummy [[note]]Animate Dead requires you to touch the corpses you're casting the spell on. [[EatenAlive Think about how that's going to work]][[/note]].
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** In ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredatorExtinction'', the RTS installment in the series, the entire Xenomorph economy is based on how many enemy soldiers are gestating chestbursters. An enemy afflicted by the [[StandardStatusEffects Staus Effect]] ''Cystic Tumors'' spawns Aliens with [[ChromaticSuperiority red stripes that are enhanced over baseline aliens]] when infested.

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** In ''VideoGame/AliensVsPredatorExtinction'', the RTS installment in the series, the entire Xenomorph economy is based on how many enemy soldiers are gestating chestbursters. An enemy afflicted by the [[StandardStatusEffects Staus Status Effect]] ''Cystic Tumors'' spawns Aliens with [[ChromaticSuperiority red stripes that are enhanced over baseline aliens]] when infested.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has a necromancy spell that tears the souls out of the victims and turns them into Spirit Hosts, as well as a spell availeable to the Daemons that turns enemies into more Daemons.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has a necromancy spell that tears the souls out of the victims and turns them into Spirit Hosts, as well as a spell availeable available to the Daemons that turns enemies into more Daemons.



* ''VideoGame/UndeadKnights'': The entire point of the gameplay is to attack enemy knights and turn them into zombies. You can even work it into your combos to zombiefy them instantly after weakening them.

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* ''VideoGame/UndeadKnights'': The entire point of the gameplay is to attack enemy knights and turn them into zombies. You can even work it into your combos to zombiefy zombify them instantly after weakening them.















** Wasps of the genus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichogramma Trichogramma]] are incredibly small and parasitise the eggs of other insects. They are used extensively as biological control agents.

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** It also has the spell 'Extract Water Elemental' which is basically [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin exactly what it sounds like]] it turns all the water in the victim's body into an elemental creature of the same size category under the caster's control.
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* Spider wasps, of the family Pompilidae. The adults feed on nectar, but the females hunt down spiders ([[MeaningfulName hence the name]]), and sting their victims, [[AndIMustScream paralyzing, but not killing them]]. Once the victim is subdued, the female then drags it back to the nest, and lays a single egg. The egg hatches, and the resulting larva slowly eats the host alive, starting in non-vital regions, then nibbling away until there's nothing left but an empty husk, whereupon the larva pupates. There is one subfamily of spider wasps that prey on other spider wasps, in that the females of this group lay their eggs in another species' nest, whereupon the invading larva first eats the original occupant, then proceeds to eat the original occupant's victim, itself.
** They're not the only kind of Wasp to do this. Most of those, however, stick to caterpillars which are much easier to catch. Some variants of these will even force the still-barely-alive caterpillars to guard the larvae after they pupate.
** The emerald jewel wasp goes the extra mile. It poisons a cockroach with a neurotoxin that turns it into an honest-to-god compliant zombie roach and leads it by its own antennae to a secure location and hides it there, where it is slowly eaten alive by the larva inside it.
** Many kinds of Ichneumon wasp are also parasitoids whose larvae feed on or in the larvae of other insects.

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid Parasitoids]] are all about doing this, and many wasp species in particular are parasitoids. They place their offspring on (ectoparasitoids) or inside (endoparasitoids) a host, where it develops by feeding on the host until it eventually dies. Some notable examples:
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Spider wasps, wasps]], of the family Pompilidae. The adults feed on nectar, but the females hunt down spiders ([[MeaningfulName hence the name]]), and sting their victims, [[AndIMustScream paralyzing, but not killing them]]. Once the victim is subdued, the female then drags it back to the nest, and lays a single egg. The egg hatches, and the resulting larva slowly eats the host alive, starting in non-vital regions, then nibbling away until there's nothing left but an empty husk, whereupon the larva pupates. There is one subfamily of spider wasps that prey on other spider wasps, in that the females of this group lay their eggs in another species' nest, whereupon the invading larva first eats the original occupant, then proceeds to eat the original occupant's victim, itself.
** They're not A type of wasp from the only kind of Wasp to do this. Most of those, however, stick to family Braconidae uses caterpillars which are much easier to catch. Some variants of these will as hosts, and can even [[https://www.nature.com/articles/453863a force the still-barely-alive caterpillars to guard the larvae after while they pupate.
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** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_cockroach_wasp emerald jewel wasp wasp]] goes the extra mile. It poisons a cockroach with a neurotoxin that turns it into an honest-to-god compliant zombie roach and leads it by its own antennae to a secure location and hides it there, where it is slowly eaten alive by the larva inside it.
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** Many kinds Wasps of Ichneumon wasp the genus [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichogramma Trichogramma]] are also parasitoids whose larvae feed on or in incredibly small and parasitise the larvae eggs of other insects.insects. They are used extensively as biological control agents.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' brings out the mythic Drakainia, a MotherOfAThousandYoung who represents the mutagenic demon lord Lamashtu. She not only uses FaceFullOfAlienWingWong tactics to impregnate player characters (even characters whose gender is supposed to be incompatible with pregnancy), but any already pregnant creatures within line of sight immediately give birth, with the children afflicted with her mutations and under her control.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' brings out the mythic Drakainia, a MotherOfAThousandYoung who represents the mutagenic demon lord Lamashtu. She not only uses FaceFullOfAlienWingWong tactics to impregnate player characters (even characters whose gender is supposed to be incompatible with pregnancy), (regardless of said character's gender), but any already pregnant creatures within line of sight immediately give birth, with the children afflicted with her mutations and under her control.

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