When it comes to apocalyptic scenarios, nothing beats a good virus. Here are some of the most deadliest Viruses out there.
FORCED EVOLUTIONARY VIRUS
Fallout 3
Prognosis: Various mutations.
Way back before the apocalypse that turned America into a toasty glowing dust bowl, the United States funded research into boosting the human immune system. The result was the Pan-immunity Vinon Project. A complete success...apart from the mutations increased muscle mass, decreased intelligence, and green skin. The military loved it though, and tried to use it to create super soldiers but ultimately made the Super Mutants.
FOXDIE
Metal Gear Solid
Prognosis: Death.
Originally a man-made virus created by the Pentgon to kill designated targets by recognizing their DNA Solid Snake got a dose in MGS to take out Arms Tech president Kenneth Baker and the rogue FOXHOUND team. But as the cloned soldier aged, the virus degraded, threatening to kill anyone, not just Snake. Fortunately, Drebin 893 injected him with a newer strain in Metal Gear Solid 4, halting the degradation and saving us all.
THE GENOPHAGE
Mass Effect 2
Prognosis: Infertility.
Impress everyone by telling them "geno" refers to specific genetic makeup and "phage" is a fancy word for virus. So like FOXDIE, this is a disease that targets specific DNA--in this case, the entire race of war-hungry Krogans. However, rather than kill them, it makes viable pregnancies almost impossible, sending the species toward a slow extinction. Far more distressing, however, is the resulting black market dealing in Krogan testicles, which are believed (falsely) to cure the virus.
T-VIRUS
Resident Evil
Prognosis: Zombification, mutation.
This is the Gucci of deadly mutating viruses and the one every other knockoff, wannabe disease looks up to. Zombies, lizard creatures, peeled dogs, lumbering mutant abominations--it does it all, with **** Word of warning: For those planning to try it out, don't set up a lab anywhere near, say, a massive populated city. That sort of thing goes down pretty poorly with the World Health Organization.
DEAD-FORM
Dead Space
Prognosis: Recombination , Reanimation
Simply put , you get infected by this by this you grow an extra pair of legs/hands whatever , a hideous mouth and and overwhelming taste for human flesh and you like air ducts for some reason ....and you become terribly hard to kill , your babies have weird tails coming out etc etc
Green Flu
Left 4 Dead
Prognosis: Zombification
Green Flu turns you into a zombie. Repeat: If you catch Green Flu, you turn into a zombie. Later, you might mutate into an even scarier mutant zombie. Oh, also it's airborne and transmittable by bite, so pretty much everyone on earth is a potential victim. The only cure is a shotgun blast to the face, except that there's no real point in even that because frankly, you'll probably turn into a zombie just for having breathed the same air.
The Chimera Virus
Resistance Series
Prognosis:Transformation
In Resistance: Fall of Man the Chimera are an race of outer-space alien invaders who intend to do to Earth what the Europeans did to the New World, only with Space WEAPONS! Their secret weapon is the Chimera virus, an infectious disease that takes ordinary human beings and turns them into totally disgusting looking human-alien hybrids. Thanks to their space alien ways and germ warfare, they pretty much lay total waste to the nations of Earth.
Blacklight Virus
Prototype
Prognosis:Tranformation/Reanimation
After infection, the virus "plugs in" and activates the junk DNA in a target, causing biological changes that create (and recreate) a sentient mind inside the infected creature. It acts by affecting the protein encoding regions of the promoter introns in each cell. As a retrovirus, it contains both RNA and the reverse transcriptase enzyme, allowing it to insert its own genetic codes into living cells. It enters, re-purposes and changes the cell, replicating previously dormant non-coding segments of DNA.
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