In Various Media
- Vampires in folklore and many fictional stories (including Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles) increase their number by converting or "siring" humans into their own kind. This usually involves blood exchange between the vampire and the victim, and can be forced or voluntary. Many works of fiction extend this to lycanthropy as well.
- Zombies appear in many horror films and stories (including Night of the Living Dead) and often increase their numbers through biting people. If the person is not killed, they will die within hours and rise up as a zombie themselves. Zombies usually do not consciously try to increase their number, however, as they seek to consume their victims. Thus, only those that are bitten and get away from or destroy the zombie that bit them are in danger of becoming a zombie, rather than a zombie meal.
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“The media no longer ask those who know something ... to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.”
—Serge Daney (1944–1992)