In Film
- The Necromongers, in the film The Chronicles of Riddick.
- The "Thing" from the film The Thing.
- The Xenomorphs from the Alien films reproduces by implanting an embryo into a host creature, which then "chestbursts" out of the victim. In the first two movies, the hosts and resultant Xenomorphs were humans, but in the films Alien 3 and Alien vs. Predator - as well as the computer games Aliens versus Predator 2 and Aliens vs. Predator: Extinction - the host creature was inhuman, giving rise to a Xenomorph that had assimilated attributes of the parent species.
- The pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, its remakes in 1978, 1993, and 2007 and the original sci-fi novel The Body Snatchers. An alien race trying to conquer Earth by killing and replacing all humans (using plant-like "pods") producing indistinguishable copies, save for a lack of emotional behavior.
- Control Bug Caste of the Bugs from Starship Troopers
- The program "Agent Smith" from The Matrix trilogy (though his method is more viral than assimilative).
- Two aliens in The Hidden
- The alien parasites in the film The Faculty.
Read more about this topic: List Of Fictional Assimilating Races
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