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warfare</b>—has had a presence in popular culture for over 100 years. Public interest in it became intense during the <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a>, especially the 1960s and '70s, and continues unabated. 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Australia and Mozambique are the combatants.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/More_New_Arabian_Nights:_The_Dynamiter" title="More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter">More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter</a></i> (1885) – a collection of linked short stories by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fanny_Vandegrift" class="mw-redirect" title="Fanny Vandegrift">Fanny van der Grift Stevenson</a> – it is suggested by the anarchist narrator that the sewage systems of British cities be contaminated with <a href="/wiki/Typhoid" class="mw-redirect" title="Typhoid">typhoid</a> bacilli.</li> <li>In the novel <i>The Germ Growers</i> (1892), by Australian clergyman Robert Potter, a covert invasion of the earth by extraterrestrials involves the development of a virulent infectious disease to facilitate a global conquest.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>'s short story "<a href="/wiki/The_Stolen_Bacillus_and_Other_Incidents" title="The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents">The Stolen Bacillus</a>" (1894), "the Bacteriologist" naively gives "the Anarchist" opportunity to steal a vial of deadly "<a href="/wiki/Asiatic_Cholera" class="mw-redirect" title="Asiatic Cholera">Asiatic Cholera</a>" bacilli with which he threatens to decimate London by introducing it into the city water supply. The bacteria turn out to be harmless cyanobacteria.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>In the early science fiction novel <i>Zalma</i> (1895) by British author Thomas Mullett Ellis, evil scientists deploy anthrax-laden balloons, possibly resulting in a pan-European socialist upheaval.</li> <li>The British novel <i>The Yellow Danger</i> (1898), by <a href="/wiki/M._P._Shiel" title="M. P. Shiel">M. P. Shiel</a>, is an example of <a href="/wiki/Yellow_Peril" title="Yellow Peril">Yellow Peril</a> propaganda (the subtitle is <i>Or, what Might Happen in the Division of the Chinese Empire Should Estrange all European Countries</i>). But in this racist and jingoistic tale, it is the heroic white protagonist who infects and kills millions of invading Asians with <a href="/wiki/Plague_(disease)" title="Plague (disease)">plague</a>, causing him considerable remorse. (The book was an inspiration for the later Fu Manchu [see below] stories.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_London" title="Jack London">Jack London</a>, in his short story "<a href="/wiki/South_Sea_Tales_(London_collection)" title="South Sea Tales (London collection)">Yah! Yah! Yah!</a>" (1909), describes a fictional punitive European expedition to a <a href="/wiki/Oceania" title="Oceania">South Pacific</a> island that deliberately exposes a <a href="/wiki/Polynesia" title="Polynesia">Polynesian</a> population to the <a href="/wiki/Measles" title="Measles">measles</a> virus, causing many deaths.</li> <li>In London's science fiction tale, "<a href="/wiki/The_Unparalleled_Invasion" title="The Unparalleled Invasion">The Unparalleled Invasion</a>" (1910), the <a href="/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world">Western</a> nations wipe out all of China with a biological attack.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Wallace" title="Edgar Wallace">Edgar Wallace</a>'s science fiction novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Rust" title="The Green Rust">The Green Rust</a></i> (1919) is a story of bio-terrorists who threaten to release an agent that will destroy the world's wheat crops. It was adapted the same year into the British silent film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Green_Terror" title="The Green Terror">The Green Terror</a></i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sax_Rohmer" title="Sax Rohmer">Sax Rohmer</a>'s archvillain <a href="/wiki/Dr._Fu_Manchu" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Fu Manchu">Dr. Fu Manchu</a> (14 novels, 1913–1959), who disdains any use of guns or explosives, is proficient at use of bio-terrorism. (E.g., <i>The Bride of Fu-Manchu</i> (1933) in which a bio-weapon created by the Doctor causes an epidemic that sweeps the French Riviera; <i>Emperor Fu-Manchu</i> (1959) involving a Russian BW facility hidden deep in the Chinese jungle, etc.)</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Aldous_Huxley" title="Aldous Huxley">Aldous Huxley</a>'s science fiction novel <i><a href="/wiki/Brave_New_World" title="Brave New World">Brave New World</a></i> (1932), <a href="/wiki/Anthrax_weaponization" title="Anthrax weaponization">anthrax bombs</a> are mentioned as the means by which modern society was terrorized and in large part replaced by a dystopian society.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/L._Ron_Hubbard" title="L. Ron Hubbard">L. Ron Hubbard</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/Final_Blackout" title="Final Blackout">Final Blackout</a></i> (1940), England has been laid waste by BW after a future world war; the lethal "Soldier's Sickness" necessitates quarantine of the entire country and development of a vaccine.</li> <li>In the future war novel <i>World Aflame: The Russian-American War of 1950</i> (1947) by Leonard Engel, both combatants eventually turn to BW after both nuclear and chemical weapons prove indecisive.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Asimov" title="Isaac Asimov">Isaac Asimov</a>'s first science fiction novel, <i><a href="/wiki/Pebble_in_the_Sky" title="Pebble in the Sky">Pebble in the Sky</a></i> (1950), humanity has spread throughout the galaxy and Earth is now an obscure, despised part of the Trantorian Galactic Empire. Earthmen, however, have created a deadly supervirus and plan to deploy it to destroy or subjugate the Empire, and exact their revenge. Disaster is averted by intervention through <a href="/wiki/Psionic" class="mw-redirect" title="Psionic">psionic</a> means.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Philip_Jose_Farmer" class="mw-redirect" title="Philip Jose Farmer">Philip Jose Farmer</a>'s 1952 science fiction novella <i><a href="/wiki/The_Lovers_(Farmer_novella_and_novel)" title="The Lovers (Farmer novella and novel)">The Lovers</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> seven-eighths of the world's population has previously been eradicated by an "artificial semivirus" causing an "artificial sickle cell anemia"<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which had been distributed by "guided missiles". Now, on another planet, puritanical and genocidal Earthmen plot to do the same to extraterrestrials.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Magellanic_Cloud" title="The Magellanic Cloud">The Magellanic Cloud</a></i> (Polish title: <i>Obłok Magellana</i>), a 1955 novel by Polish science fiction writer <a href="/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Lem" title="Stanisław Lem">Stanisław Lem</a>, includes an episode in which interstellar explorers belonging to a 32nd-century communist utopia discover a derelict 20th century spacecraft containing biological and nuclear weapons. These primitive remnants of extinct U.S. and NATO culture are duly destroyed by the more enlightened space voyagers.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sakyo_Komatsu" title="Sakyo Komatsu">Sakyo Komatsu</a>'s 1964 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Virus_(novel)" title="Virus (novel)">Virus</a></i><span style="font-weight: normal"> (<span title="Japanese-language text"><span lang="ja">復活の日</span></span>, <span title="Hepburn transliteration"><i lang="ja-Latn">Fukkatsu no hi [English trans., 2012]</i></span><span style="margin-left:.09em">)</span></span> — literally <i>Day of Resurrection</i> — was adapted into a <a href="/wiki/Virus_(1980_film)" title="Virus (1980 film)">1980 Japanese film</a>. In 1970, the US space program discovers a "supergerm" (the "MM88" virus) capable of amplifying pre-existing infectious diseases worldwide. International intrigue in the BW community, a "Tibetan flu", and a pandemic lead to the destruction of almost all life on earth.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr." title="James Tiptree Jr.">James Tiptree Jr.</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/The_Last_Flight_of_Dr._Ain" title="The Last Flight of Dr. Ain">The Last Flight of Dr. Ain</a>" (1969) is a short <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction" title="Science fiction">science fiction</a> tale about a scientist traveling the world releasing a virus targeted to eliminate humanity before it can destroy all life on <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> via <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kingsley_Amis" title="Kingsley Amis">Kingsley Amis</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Alternate_history" title="Alternate history">alternate history</a> novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Alteration" title="The Alteration">The Alteration</a></i> (1976) depicts a world in which the <a href="/wiki/Reformation" title="Reformation">Reformation</a> never happened, an oppressive Roman <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> holds sway everywhere and the Pope executes a <a href="/wiki/Malthusian" class="mw-redirect" title="Malthusian">Malthusian</a> plot to resolve Europe's population growth problem via BW as an alternative to banned forms of birth control.</li> <li>Tiptree's "<a href="/wiki/The_Screwfly_Solution" title="The Screwfly Solution">The Screwfly Solution</a>" (1977) is a short <a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">horror</a> science fiction story about a disease that turns the human sex drive into a drive to kill.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Stand" title="The Stand">The Stand</a></i> (1978), a weaponized strain of <a href="/wiki/Influenza" title="Influenza">influenza</a> (officially known as Project Blue and nicknamed "Captain Trips") is accidentally released from a remote <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army" title="United States Army">U.S. Army</a> base.</li> <li>In <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scott_Asnin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scott Asnin (page does not exist)">Scott Asnin</a>'s disaster novel <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=A_Cold_Wind_from_Orion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="A Cold Wind from Orion (page does not exist)">A Cold Wind from Orion</a></i> (1980), a fallen satellite contains a BW threat.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Frank_Herbert" title="Frank Herbert">Frank Herbert</a>'s science fiction novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_White_Plague" title="The White Plague">The White Plague</a></i> (1982), a vengeful molecular biologist creates an artificial plague that kills only women, but for which men are the carriers. He releases it in Ireland (to support terrorists), in England (to oppress the Irish), and in Libya (to train said terrorists), and then holds the governments of the world hostage to his demands lest he release more plagues.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Tom_Clancy" title="Tom Clancy">Tom Clancy</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Executive_Orders" title="Executive Orders">Executive Orders</a></i> (1996), Iran attempts to use Shiva virus, a strain of <a href="/wiki/Ebola_virus_disease" class="mw-redirect" title="Ebola virus disease">Ebola</a> thought to be airborne, to infect and devastate the population of the U.S. while the government is recovering from a separate issue from the events of the <a href="/wiki/Debt_of_Honor" title="Debt of Honor">prior novel</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Preston" title="Richard Preston">Richard Preston</a>'s thriller <i><a href="/wiki/The_Cobra_Event" title="The Cobra Event">The Cobra Event</a></i> (1998) describes an attempted bioterrorist attack on the US with a <a href="/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus" title="Genetically modified virus">genetically modified virus</a> ("Cobra"), that fuses the incurable and highly contagious common <a href="/wiki/Cold_virus" class="mw-redirect" title="Cold virus">cold virus</a> with <a href="/wiki/Smallpox" title="Smallpox">smallpox</a>. The symptom of the resulting disease ("brain-pox") mimic <a href="/wiki/Lesch%E2%80%93Nyhan_syndrome" title="Lesch–Nyhan syndrome">Lesch–Nyhan syndrome</a>, the common cold, and <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_Polyhedrosis_Virus" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus">Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus</a>.</li> <li>In Tom Clancy's <i><a href="/wiki/Rainbow_Six_(novel)" title="Rainbow Six (novel)">Rainbow Six</a></i> (1998), the villain plans to deploy the Shiva virus, a mutated form of the Ebola virus that had been previously used by Iran during its BW attack on the U.S. (depicted in <i>Executive Orders</i> (1996)).</li> <li>In the novel <i>The Seventh Plague</i> by <a href="/wiki/James_Rollins" title="James Rollins">James Rollins</a>, the world is capsized in the Biblical plagues. It turns out to be the workings of an evil group, to stop which is the mission of The Sigma Force.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Suzanne_Collins" title="Suzanne Collins">Suzanne Collins</a>'s book <i><a href="/wiki/Gregor_and_the_Curse_of_the_Warmbloods" title="Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods">Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods</a></i> (2005), there is a plague, which turns out to be a biological weapon which accidentally infected an innocent bystander prematurely.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Brockmeier" title="Kevin Brockmeier">Kevin Brockmeier</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Brief_History_of_the_Dead" title="The Brief History of the Dead">The Brief History of the Dead</a></i> (2006), biological terrorists release a lethal virus which annihilates almost all of humanity.</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Matthew_John_Lee&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Matthew John Lee (page does not exist)">Matthew John Lee</a>'s thriller novel <i>The Quick and the Dead</i> (2008)<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> depicts the aftermath of an attack on the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> using an enhanced smallpox virus. (The author is credited in later editions as John Matthew Lee.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Scarrow" title="Alex Scarrow">Alex Scarrow</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/TimeRiders" title="TimeRiders">TimeRiders</a></i> novels (2010–2014) feature the use of a biological weapon, code-named Kosong-ni Virus (after the village that was ground-zero for the virus), that destroys approximately 99% of life on Earth within a few weeks.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/George_R._R._Martin" title="George R. R. Martin">George R. R. Martin</a>'s fifth <i><a href="/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire" title="A Song of Ice and Fire">A Song of Ice and Fire</a></i> novel, <i><a href="/wiki/A_Dance_with_Dragons" title="A Dance with Dragons">A Dance with Dragons</a></i> (2011), the Yunkai army catapults corpses infected with Pale Mare, a fictional <a href="/wiki/Cholera" title="Cholera">cholera</a>-like disease, over the walls of Meereen as a form of BW. (See <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_de_Mussis" title="Gabriel de Mussis">Gabriel de Mussis</a> for the historical precedent to this.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Powers" title="Richard Powers">Richard Powers</a>' novel <i><a href="/wiki/Orfeo_(novel)" title="Orfeo (novel)">Orfeo</a></i> (2014), tells the story of Peter Els, a contemporary composer accused of bioterrorism after biohacking musical patterns into the bacterial human pathogen <i><a href="/wiki/Serratia_marcescens" title="Serratia marcescens">Serratia marcescens</a></i>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Chris_Ryan" title="Chris Ryan">Chris Ryan</a>'s novel <i>Hellfire</i> (2015), a joint bioterrorist plot by <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" class="mw-redirect" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">ISIS</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram" title="Boko Haram">Boko Haram</a> involves attempting to release an aerosol of a genetically modified version of the plague bacterium <i><a href="/wiki/Yersinia_pestis" title="Yersinia pestis">Yersinia pestis</a></i> during the <a href="/wiki/London_Marathon" title="London Marathon">London Marathon</a>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Terry_Hayes" title="Terry Hayes">Terry Hayes</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Pilgrim" title="I Am Pilgrim">I Am Pilgrim</a></i> (2015), there is an attempt to introduce a bio-engineered strain of smallpox virus into the US.</li> <li>In <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scott_Medbury&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scott Medbury (page does not exist)">Scott Medbury</a>'s book series <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=America_Falls&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="America Falls (page does not exist)">America Falls</a></i> (2018), a Chinese engineered flu originally known as the "Pyongyang Flu" is deployed in the U.S., killing virtually all adults and sparing those younger than 17.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Comics/graphic_novels"><span id="Comics.2Fgraphic_novels"></span>Comics/graphic novels</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Comics/graphic novels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/IDW_Publishing" title="IDW Publishing">IDW</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_(IDW_Publishing)" title="Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW Publishing)">Sonic the Hedgehog</a></i> series, <a href="/wiki/Dr._Eggman" class="mw-redirect" title="Dr. Eggman">Dr. Eggman</a> develops the Metal Virus, a manufactured contagion designed to turn organic matter into metallic matter. Its infected carriers, known as "Zombots", soon become disobedient towards Eggman in his attempt to control them. After revealing that the virus can't be cured, Eggman goes on to say that as the virus mutates, the infected begin to suffer <a href="/wiki/Apoptosis" title="Apoptosis">apoptosis</a> and will eventually disintegrate in 200 years.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Batman" title="Batman">Batman</a> comics <a href="/wiki/Scarecrow_(DC_Comics)" title="Scarecrow (DC Comics)">Scarecrow</a>(Dr. Jonathan Crane) is a recurring villain who uses a Fear Toxin to scare his enemies with hallucinations and their darkest fears/<a href="/wiki/List_of_phobias" title="List of phobias">phobias</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Films">Films</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Films"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2015</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>(Chronological, then alphabetical within years) </p> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/H._G._Wells" title="H. G. Wells">H. G. Wells</a>' British science fiction film <i><a href="/wiki/Things_to_Come" title="Things to Come">Things to Come</a></i> (1936), the "wandering sickness" is "a new fever of mind and body" inflicted by aerial bombing as a last desperate measure in the year 1966; it causes victims to wander about in a zombie-like state and require mercy-killing.</li> <li>In the British film thriller <i><a href="/wiki/Counterblast" title="Counterblast">Counterblast</a></i> (1948; US title <i>Devil's Plot</i>), a Nazi bacteriologist ("The Beast of Ravensbruck") escapes from a POW prison, murders a professor and takes his place at a research lab where he experiments with BW intending to wage the next war against the UK. No bio-agents are deployed in the storyline.</li> <li>In the American Cold War thriller <i><a href="/wiki/The_Whip_Hand" title="The Whip Hand">The Whip Hand</a></i> (1951; aka <i>The Enemy Within</i>), a strange isolated lodge on a lake island in Minnesota is the site of a mysterious <a href="/wiki/Fish_die_off" class="mw-redirect" title="Fish die off">fish die off</a>. The lodge houses a lab and a Soviet plot, utilizing Nazi scientists, to release BW agents upon the USA.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Flesh_Eaters_(film)" title="The Flesh Eaters (film)">The Flesh Eaters</a></i> (1964), a former US Government agent who was sent to Nazi Germany to recover microbes modified as BW, develops a horrific "flesh eating" variety on a secret island off Cape Cod. Accidental visitors help the scientist defeat the menace after it gets out of control.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Satan_Bug" title="The Satan Bug">The Satan Bug</a></i> (1965), at "Station Three"—a top-secret US bioweapons lab in the <a href="/wiki/Southern_California" title="Southern California">Southern California</a> desert—the protagonist investigates the murder of the security chief and the disappearances of the director and head scientist; two lethal bioweapons—a strain of "<a href="/wiki/Botulinus" class="mw-redirect" title="Botulinus">botulinus</a>" and a recently developed virus (the "Satan Bug") which could wipe out the earth's population in months—are missing.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/On_Her_Majesty%27s_Secret_Service_(film)" title="On Her Majesty's Secret Service (film)">On Her Majesty's Secret Service</a></i> (1969), the sixth <i><a href="/wiki/James_Bond" title="James Bond">James Bond</a></i> film, women are being brainwashed by the villain to disseminate biowarfare agents throughout the world.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(film)" title="The Andromeda Strain (film)">The Andromeda Strain</a></i> (1971), although the microbial threat in this science fiction film is a natural one returning to Earth with a satellite, the scientific response team comes across germ warfare simulations, strongly indicating that the responsible US government projects were designed to actively search for harmful bioagents for use in BW.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Omega_Man" title="The Omega Man">The Omega Man</a></i> (1971), a science fiction film starring <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a>, in 1975, BW between China and Russia kills most of the world's population. The protagonist, a U.S. Army scientist/physician, renders himself immune with an experimental vaccine. (In <a href="/wiki/Richard_Matheson" title="Richard Matheson">Richard Matheson</a>'s source novel, <i><a href="/wiki/I_Am_Legend_(novel)" title="I Am Legend (novel)">I Am Legend</a></i> (1954), the plague is coincident with a great war, but it is unclear if it originated in BW.)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Crazies_(1973_film)" title="The Crazies (1973 film)">The Crazies</a></i> (1973), a U.S. Army plane carrying an untested bioweapon (a virus code-named "Trixie") crashes near a small <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a> town contaminating the water; infected victims either die or become violently homicidal, and heavily armed U.S. troops in NBC suits and gas masks soon arrive.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Alien_(franchise)" title="Alien (franchise)"><i>Alien</i> franchise</a> of four American films—namely, <i><a href="/wiki/Alien_(film)" title="Alien (film)">Alien</a></i> (1979), <i><a href="/wiki/Aliens_(film)" title="Aliens (film)">Aliens</a></i> (1986), <i><a href="/wiki/Alien_3" title="Alien 3">Alien 3</a></i> (1992), and <i><a href="/wiki/Alien_Resurrection" title="Alien Resurrection">Alien Resurrection</a></i> (1997)—a key plot-driving element of the story background is that the "Bioweapons Division" of the sinister "Company" must have a specimen of the <a href="/wiki/Alien_(creature_in_Alien_franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alien (creature in Alien franchise)">creature</a> at all costs even at the expense of the "expendable" humans that get in its way. This is most fully developed in the fourth installment wherein a remote "Army Medical Lab" is attempting—as part of a secret military/commercial partnership—to tame the monster. It will be used in "urban pacification" as well as other, supposedly less malign, purposes, such as materials science and vaccines.</li> <li>In the Japanese film <i><a href="/wiki/Virus_(1980_film)" title="Virus (1980 film)">Virus</a></i> (1980), a deadly virus ("MM88") created accidentally by an American geneticist amplifies the potency of any other virus or bacterium it comes into contact with; in 1982, MM88 has been stolen from a lab in the US, and a team of Americans vies with a shady <a href="/wiki/East_Germany" title="East Germany">East German</a> scientist to recover it, but fail, and a pandemic, initially known as the "Italian Flu", results.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Men_Behind_the_Sun" title="Men Behind the Sun">Men Behind the Sun</a></i> (1988), a Hong Kong–Chinese historical war horror film graphically depicting war atrocities at the secret Japanese BW facility <a href="/wiki/Unit_731" title="Unit 731">Unit 731</a>, during World War II, details the various cruel medical experiments inflicted upon Chinese and Soviet <a href="/wiki/Prisoner_of_war" title="Prisoner of war">POWs</a>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/The_Blob_(1988_film)" title="The Blob (1988 film)"><i>The Blob</i> (1988)</a>, an invading monster is the result of a U.S. Government BW experiment which was sent into outer space as too dangerous, but returned to the earth. (Note that the <a href="/wiki/The_Blob" title="The Blob">1958 original</a>, of which this film is a remake, did not have a BW element.)</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/12_Monkeys" title="12 Monkeys">12 Monkeys</a></i> (1995), a deadly unnamed virus wipes out almost all of humanity in 1996, forcing the few survivors to live underground. A mysterious group of <a href="/wiki/Animal_rights" title="Animal rights">animal rights</a> extremists, known as the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, is believed to have been responsible for the outbreak.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Beavis_and_Butt-Head_Do_America" title="Beavis and Butt-Head Do America">Beavis and Butt-Head Do America</a></i> (1996), an arms dealer named Dallas Grimes steals the X-5 unit, the deadliest biological weapon on the planet, capable of wiping out the population of five U.S. states in five days. Eventually, the unit is safely obtained by the ATF, and Dallas is arrested.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_2" title="Mission: Impossible 2">Mission: Impossible 2</a></i> (2000) involves a special virus called Chimera. It kills people and there is only one vaccine vial.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Resident_Evil_(film_series)" title="Resident Evil (film series)">Resident Evil</a></i> (2002–2017), a power-hungry and murderous-yet-terroristic megacorporation Umbrella Corporation is responsible for the first outbreak and release of the T-Virus which resulted in the first massacre at the hive, then in Raccoon City, and then the entire globe.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/28_Days_Later" title="28 Days Later">28 Days Later</a></i> (2002), where a deadly modified rage virus is released by an <a href="/wiki/Eco-terrorism" title="Eco-terrorism">eco-terrorist</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cambridge" title="Cambridge">Cambridge</a>, destroying the UK.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)" title="V for Vendetta (film)">V for Vendetta</a></i> (2005), Norsefire, a British ultranationalist party, creates a bioweapon at the Larkhill Detention Centre. Norsefire uses it to terrorize London, in a Water Treatment and Distribution Plant, an Underground Station and the St. Mary Primary school. This "St. Mary's Virus" eventually kills tens of thousands and Norsefire wins a landslide victory in the general elections.</li> <li>In the movie <a href="/wiki/Batman_Begins" title="Batman Begins">Batman Begins(2005)</a> <a href="/wiki/Scarecrow_(DC_Comics)" title="Scarecrow (DC Comics)">scarecrow</a> makes a fear toxin from the blue flowers of <a href="/wiki/Ra%27s_al_Ghul" title="Ra's al Ghul">Ra's al Ghul</a> which Ra's tries to spread all over <a href="/wiki/Gotham_City" title="Gotham City">Gotham</a> so that Gotham destroys itself.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dasavathaaram" title="Dasavathaaram">Dasavathaaram</a></i> (2008) is an Indian <a href="/wiki/Tamil_cinema" title="Tamil cinema">Tamil</a> <a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_film" title="Science fiction film">science fiction</a> <a href="/wiki/Disaster_film" title="Disaster film">disaster film</a> about a viral outbreak from a laboratory.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_a_Knife" title="Philosophy of a Knife">Philosophy of a Knife</a></i> (2008) is a Russian-American horror film covering the aforementioned Japanese Army's Unit 731, mixing archival footage, interviews, and extremely graphic reenactments of the vile experiments performed there during WWII.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_Crazies_(2010_film)" title="The Crazies (2010 film)">The Crazies</a></i> (2010 remake of the <a href="/wiki/The_Crazies_(1973_film)" title="The Crazies (1973 film)">1973 film</a>), the water in a small <a href="/wiki/Iowa" title="Iowa">Iowa</a> town becomes contaminated with "Trixie"—a "Rhabdoviridae prototype" bioweapon—after a military cargo plane en route to an incinerator in <a href="/wiki/Texas" title="Texas">Texas</a> crashes; infected victims become cold, calculating, depraved, bloodthirsty killers.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/7aum_Arivu" class="mw-redirect" title="7aum Arivu">7aum Arivu</a></i> (2011) is an Indian science fiction <a href="/wiki/Martial_arts_film" title="Martial arts film">martial arts film</a> about the spreading of an ancient virus.</li> <li>In the science fiction film <i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)" title="Prometheus (2012 film)">Prometheus</a></i> (2012) — a continuation of the <a href="/wiki/Alien_(franchise)" title="Alien (franchise)"><i>Alien</i> franchise</a> (see above) — the extraterrestrial “Engineers” are revealed to have planned a mission of extermination against their own human creations, only for their own genetically engineered bioweapons to destroy them. These, the "<a href="/wiki/Xenomorph" title="Xenomorph">Xenomorphs</a>", are revealed to be a hybrid of Engineer, human and bioweapon DNA.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jurassic_World" title="Jurassic World">Jurassic World</a></i> (2015), <i><a href="/wiki/Jurassic_World:_Fallen_Kingdom" title="Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom">Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom</a></i> (2018), and <i><a href="/wiki/Jurassic_World_Dominion" title="Jurassic World Dominion">Jurassic World Dominion</a></i> (2021) are American science fiction films, with plots involving the use of genetically engineered dinosaurs as weaponized <a href="/wiki/Military_animal" title="Military animal">military animals</a>.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inferno_(2016_film)" title="Inferno (2016 film)">Inferno</a></i> (2016), the third and final installment in the <a href="/wiki/Robert_Langdon_(film_series)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Langdon (film series)"><i>Robert Langdon</i> film series</a>, involves a viral superweapon dubbed "Inferno" that threatens the world.</li> <li>In the 2018 movie <i><a href="/wiki/Rampage_(2018_film)" title="Rampage (2018 film)">Rampage</a></i>, three genetically altered animals are created by gene-manipulation company "Energyne" which secretly plans to use them in BW.</li> <li>In the 2019 movie <a href="/wiki/Hobbs_%26_Shaw" title="Hobbs & Shaw">Hobbs & Shaw</a>,Deckard Shaw's sister is injected with 'snowflake' a programmable super virus created by a techno-terrorist company named Eteon.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/No_Time_to_Die" title="No Time to Die">No Time to Die</a></i> (2021), the 25th James Bond film, <a href="/wiki/SPECTRE" title="SPECTRE">Spectre</a> kidnaps the BW scientist directing "Project Heracles", a British bio-weapon containing <a href="/wiki/Nanobot" class="mw-redirect" title="Nanobot">nanobots</a> that infect like a virus upon touch; the 'bots are coded to an individual's DNA and lethal to the target (and relatives), but harmless to others.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samara_(2023_film)" title="Samara (2023 film)">Samara</a></i> (2023) is an Indian film about a possible biowar that happens in the country with people getting infected with a virus.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Television">Television</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2015</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>(Alphabetical by series) </p> <ul><li>In <a href="/wiki/24_(season_3)" class="mw-redirect" title="24 (season 3)">Season 3</a> of <a href="/wiki/24_(TV_series)" title="24 (TV series)"><i>24</i></a>, an engineered virus dubbed the Cordilla Virus with an incubation period of only a few hours serves as the central threat for the entire season. The virus produces deadly and painful symptoms before swiftly leading to death, leading to it being sold and used as leverage against the US government by terrorists.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/The_100_(TV_series)" title="The 100 (TV series)">The 100</a></i>, season 1, episode 10, the Grounders infect the exiled Murphy with a hemorrhagic virus, then allow him to escape. While fleeing, he stumbles upon an area surrounding the <i>Ark</i> survivors' camp and infects those who make contact with him. They then unwittingly spread the virus throughout the camp, which sickens some members and kills others. Lincoln explains to Octavia the Grounders use the virus to "soften up" the enemy before attacking them.</li> <li>In Season 4 of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Americans" title="The Americans">The Americans</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Jennings_(The_Americans)" title="Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans)">Elizabeth</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Jennings_(The_Americans)" title="Philip Jennings (The Americans)">Philip Jennings</a> must work with another KGB spy, William, to acquire and use deadly bioagents. In the first episode of the season, "Glanders", the two aim to acquire the deadly bacterium <i><a href="/wiki/Burkholderia_mallei" title="Burkholderia mallei">Burkholderia mallei</a></i>. Throughout the season, endeavors like this continue and intensify, putting the characters in grave danger.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Between_(TV_series)" title="Between (TV series)">Between</a></i> a village is infected with a bioweapon, killing everyone over the age of 21, and the remaining people as soon as they become 21.</li> <li>In the <a href="/wiki/Blue_Bloods_(season_2)" class="mw-redirect" title="Blue Bloods (season 2)">season 2</a> finale of <i><a href="/wiki/Blue_Bloods_(TV_series)" title="Blue Bloods (TV series)">Blue Bloods</a></i>, Frank must work with Homeland Security to prevent a terrorist attack that would infect <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a> with a (presumably deadly) strain of flu. The attack is thwarted as the terrorists are arrested while attempting to enter the city.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds_(season_4)" class="mw-redirect" title="Criminal Minds (season 4)">Season 4</a> episode 24 (2009) of <i><a href="/wiki/Criminal_Minds" title="Criminal Minds">Criminal Minds</a></i>, the substance anthrax is released into the public and the <a href="/wiki/Behavioral_Analysis_Unit" title="Behavioral Analysis Unit">BAU</a> must find a cure before it is too late.</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Foyle%27s_War" title="Foyle's War">Foyle's War</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Foyle%27s_War_(series_4)" class="mw-redirect" title="Foyle's War (series 4)">series 4</a>, episode 2 (2006) features a minor outbreak of <a href="/wiki/Anthrax" title="Anthrax">anthrax</a> after biological weapons research during WWII escapes containment.</li> <li>In season 5 episode 9 of <a href="/wiki/Leverage_(American_TV_series)" title="Leverage (American TV series)">Leverage</a>, the team must race to stop a terrorist from releasing a bio-bomb containing the <a href="/wiki/Spanish_flu" title="Spanish flu">1918 Influenza A</a> virus in a crowded <a href="/wiki/D.C." class="mw-redirect" title="D.C.">D.C.</a> subway intersection. The bomb goes off, but Parker is able to set fire to the virus as it is released, neutralizing the threat.</li> <li>In "<a href="/wiki/Place_of_Angels" title="Place of Angels">Place of Angels</a>" (1968), the 23rd episode of <i><a href="/wiki/Captain_Scarlet_and_the_Mysterons" title="Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons">Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons</a></i> (a British puppetry drama), at the "Bacteriological Research Centre" near <a href="/wiki/Manchester" title="Manchester">Manchester</a>, England, activation of a culture of "K14", a synthetic virus, threatens the lives of millions.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Falling_Skies" title="Falling Skies">Falling Skies</a></i> penultimate episode, "<a href="/wiki/Falling_Skies_(season_5)#ep51" class="mw-redirect" title="Falling Skies (season 5)">Reunion</a>" (August 23, 2015), an alien known as the Dornia gives the protagonist, <a href="/wiki/Tom_Mason_(Falling_Skies)" title="Tom Mason (Falling Skies)">Tom Mason</a>, a bioweapon to end an <a href="/wiki/Alien_invasion" title="Alien invasion">alien invasion</a> of the Earth. After Mason's wife <a href="/wiki/Anne_Glass" title="Anne Glass">Anne</a> and friend Marty modify the virus to be harmless to humans, Tom sets out to deploy it in the series finale "Reborn" (August 30, 2015). Tom infects himself as the alien queen is draining him of his blood, so the virus passes through Tom's blood into her. As the queen is organically linked to her entire race, the bioweapon destroys them, freeing the Earth from oppression.</li> <li>In series 3 of <a href="/wiki/Orphan_Black" title="Orphan Black">Orphan Black</a>, Sarah explores further into the CASTOR clones and their purpose. She and Paul discover that the defect in the boys is being used as a weapon by sterilising women. Their mother Dr Virginia Coady says 'we can end wars without losing single drop of blood'.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Sliders_(TV_series)" title="Sliders (TV series)">Sliders</a></i> series finale, "<a href="/wiki/The_Seer_(Sliders)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Seer (Sliders)">The Seer</a>" (2000), the main characters land on a world where their enemy, the Kromaggs, were wiped out with a bioweapon. One, Rembrandt Brown, injects himself with the virus (harmless to humans) and returns to Earth Prime in an unresolved cliffhanger in hopes of using it to free his homeworld.</li> <li>In Season 7 of <i><a href="/wiki/Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine" title="Star Trek: Deep Space Nine">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</a></i>, we find out about a disease which is killing off the <a href="/wiki/Founders_(Star_Trek)" class="mw-redirect" title="Founders (Star Trek)">Founders</a>; this disease later turns out to have been caused intentionally by <a href="/wiki/Section_31_(Star_Trek)" title="Section 31 (Star Trek)">Section 31</a>.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Swat_Kats" class="mw-redirect" title="Swat Kats">Swat Kats</a>, a number of creatures are developed which are then used to harm society.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Video_games">Video games</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Video games"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="plainlinks metadata ambox mbox-small-left ambox-notice" role="presentation" style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/20px-Information_icon4.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/30px-Information_icon4.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1d/Information_icon4.svg/40px-Information_icon4.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="620" data-file-height="620" /></span></span></td><td class="mbox-text" style="width: auto;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This list is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lists#Incomplete_lists" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists">incomplete</a>; you can help by <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit">adding missing items</a>. <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">October 2017</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>(Chronological, then alphabetical within years) </p> <ul><li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Resident_Evil" title="Resident Evil">Resident Evil</a></i> (1996–present), the titular Resident Evil originally was discovered through a plant that was taken by <a href="/wiki/Umbrella_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Umbrella Corporation">Umbrella Corporation</a>, which starts the birth of the biological weapon known as T-virus, which mutates its victims into zombie-like creatures. Later installments of the game and other works in the franchise (e.g., films) saw the release of still more biological weapons over time, created mainly by the fictional Umbrella Corporation and various other organizations. The viruses are also often engineered to radically mutate the subjects into grotesque killing machines, referred to in-universe as B.O.W.s, short for bio-organic weapon.</li> <li>In the game <a href="/wiki/Syphon_Filter_(video_game)" title="Syphon Filter (video game)">Syphon Filter</a>(1999) a group of terrorists steal the titular virus which is essentially a biological weapon of mass destruction and special agents Gabriel "Gabe" Logan and Lian Xing must stop this from happening and apprehend the terrorists.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Command_%26_Conquer:_Generals" title="Command & Conquer: Generals">Command & Conquer: Generals</a></i> (2003), the Global Liberation Army (GLA) makes extensive use of biological weapons and has a general who specializes in bio and chemical warfare named Dr. Thrax. The GLA units such as the toxin tractor and toxin rebels spray toxins on enemy units and later use anthrax beta, a weaponized strain of anthrax. Anthrax beta is also used in <a href="/wiki/Scud" class="mw-redirect" title="Scud">Scud</a> missiles and the air dropped anthrax bomb. Dr. Thrax's troops have access to the more potent anthrax gamma strain.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Act_of_War:_Direct_Action" title="Act of War: Direct Action">Act of War: Direct Action</a></i> (2005) and its expansion the Consortium, a syndicate of corporations, PMCs and terrorists use a modified strain of Ebola known as Ebola II <a href="/wiki/Hemorrhagic_fever" class="mw-redirect" title="Hemorrhagic fever">hemorrhagic fever</a> strain causing the infected soldiers to lose health and die. It is often deployed by the Super-weapon Falling Star which drops satellites than can carry the weapon on enemy targets.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Crysis_2" title="Crysis 2">Crysis 2</a></i> (2011), a large outbreak of "Manhattan virus", a gruesome disease causing complete cellular breakdown, causes civil unrest; people panic upon an alien invasion by the Ceph, the tentacled, squid-like alien race from the previous game, <i><a href="/wiki/Crysis" title="Crysis">Crysis</a></i> (2007).</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Plague_Inc." title="Plague Inc.">Plague Inc.</a></i> (2012), a bio-weapon is featured as the last regular disease type. It grows progressively more lethal over time, a feature which the player must control.</li> <li>During the campaign in <i><a href="/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Advanced_Warfare" title="Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare">Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare</a></i> (2014), Atlas CEO Johnathon Irons develops a bioweapon called Manticore, designed to attack all the population that is not in the Atlas database. Irons deployed the weapon late in the campaign, killing most of the Sentinel soldiers in <a href="/wiki/New_Baghdad" title="New Baghdad">New Baghdad</a> planning to attack him.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Tom_Clancy%27s_The_Division" title="Tom Clancy's The Division">Tom Clancy's The Division</a></i> (2016), an eco-terrorist unleashed a heavily modified variant of smallpox in New York City, in a bid to kill a large portion of the population. The spread of the disease spiraled out of control, resulting in the complete breakdown of law and order and a rise of hostile factions in the city, mostly on <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a> Island, which was ground zero of the virus.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Mass_Effect" title="Mass Effect">Mass Effect</a></i> franchise, the genophage is an agent that genetically modified the Krogans to stop their aggressive expansion into Citadel Space. The agent made it difficult for Krogans to conceive children, however. Even when conceived, most Krogan pregnancies henceforth resulted in stillbirth.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Metroid" title="Metroid">Metroid</a></i> series, the Chozo race creates the <a href="/wiki/Metroid_(fictional_species)" class="mw-redirect" title="Metroid (fictional species)">Metroid</a> to combat the X Parasite on SR388. The Space Pirates try to capture and breed Metroids and use them as bioweapons, but their plans are foiled by <a href="/wiki/Samus_Aran" title="Samus Aran">Samus Aran</a> several times: once in <i><a href="/wiki/Metroid_(video_game)" title="Metroid (video game)">Metroid</a></i> (1986), in <i><a href="/wiki/Metroid_Prime" title="Metroid Prime">Metroid Prime</a></i> (2002) and another time in <i><a href="/wiki/Super_Metroid" title="Super Metroid">Super Metroid</a></i> (1994). At the end of the events of <i><a href="/wiki/Metroid_Fusion" title="Metroid Fusion">Metroid Fusion</a></i> (2002), the last Metroid is killed, ending the threat of Metroids once and for all.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Metro:_Last_Light" title="Metro: Last Light">Metro: Last Light</a></i> (2013), faction Red Line used an biochemically engineered Ebola strain stolen from D6 military facility. It was used to wipe out the opposing factions.</li> <li>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Fallout_(franchise)" title="Fallout (franchise)">Fallout</a></i> series, F.E.V. (Forced Evolutionary Virus) was created by the US government in an effort to protect their soldiers from bio-agents deployed by the Chinese military that were ravaging civilian populations. The results of this Pan-Immunity Virion Project was the FEV, a virus that provides immunity to human pathogens, near-immunity to radiation, increases strength and intelligence (in unmutated humans, humans with mutations from radiation or substrains of FEV lose intelligence upon infection), while simultaneously sterilizing the host and eliminating secondary sexual characteristics, making them all outwardly male in appearance.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1041539562">.mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}</style><sup class="citation nobold" id="ref_specialnotes1none"><a href="#endnote_specialnotes1none">[B]</a></sup></li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_V:_The_Phantom_Pain" title="Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain">Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain</a></i>, a fictional biological agent called a vocal cord parasite is designed to target speakers of specific languages.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Hitman_(2016_video_game)" title="Hitman (2016 video game)"><i>Hitman</i></a>, Agent 47 is tasked with assassinating an Italian bio-engineer named Silvio Caruso, who is creating a bioweapon capable of rapidly spreading and laying dormant within an area until it detects its target's DNA, killing them.</li> <li>In the new Old Man campaign in <i><a href="/wiki/ARMA_3" class="mw-redirect" title="ARMA 3">Arma 3</a></i>, a modified strain of malaria hits the fictional nation of Tanoa. CSAT scientists have engineered it and called it the Atrox strain, which is capable of killing someone within hours. It was used as a method of subversion to expand CSAT's sphere of influence.</li> <li>In <i><a href="/wiki/Call_of_Duty:_Black_Ops_6" title="Call of Duty: Black Ops 6">Call of Duty: Black Ops 6</a></i> (2024), a hallucinogenic virological bioweapon named "The Cradle" developed by the CIA's black ops research program called Advanced Technologies and Applications. Originally was an effort to create an elite super-soldier program through performance enhancing drugs and other psychedelic substances, before it was repurposed as a biological weapons project. 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Wells"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2023-05-04</span></span> – via Project Gutenberg.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Stolen+Bacillus+and+Other+Incidents%2C+by+H.G.+Wells&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gutenberg.org%2Ffiles%2F12750%2F12750-h%2F12750-h.htm%23link2H_4_0001&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiological+warfare+in+popular+culture" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">August 1952, <i><a href="/wiki/Startling_Stories" title="Startling Stories">Startling Stories</a></i>; reprinted in <i>The Best of Philip Jose Farmer</i> (2006); Subterranean Press, pp 11-82.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This was three years after the 1949 discovery of the molecular cause of sickle cell anemia by <a href="/wiki/Linus_Pauling" title="Linus Pauling">Linus Pauling</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLee,_Matthew_John2008" class="citation book cs1">Lee, Matthew John (May 22, 2008). <i>The Quick and the Dead</i>. 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Melrose Books.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Quick+and+the+Dead&rft.edition=EPUB+2%2FAdobe+DRM&rft.pub=Melrose+Books&rft.date=2014-02&rft.au=Lee%2C+John+Matthew&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.kobobooks.com%2Fen-US%2Febook%2Fthe-quick-and-the-dead-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABiological+warfare+in+popular+culture" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Nick_Lowe_(classicist)" title="Nick Lowe (classicist)">Loew, Nick</a> (8 July 2017), <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/prometheus">Entry: "Prometheus"</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Encyclopedia_of_Science_Fiction" title="The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction">The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a></i>, online version.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Endnotes">Endnotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Biological_warfare_in_popular_culture&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Endnotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div><ol style="list-style-type:upper-alpha"><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1041539562"><span class="citation wikicite" id="endnote_specialnotes2none"><a href="#ref_specialnotes2none"><b><sup>^</sup></b></a></span> FEV has unpredictable effects on other animals and it is a partial contributor to the mutated beasts you encounter throughout the wasteland. There is also the US developed New Plague (a.k.a. Blue Flu). Code-named Limit 115, it was developed by the US government in secret as a sterilization agent for use against the Chinese (people who survived the deadly virus were usually rendered sterile), Chinese agents managed to get their hands on it however and it was accidentally released during their escape causing a national outbreak in the heart of the US. The symptoms are generally flu like at first with hemorrhagic-fever like features in the late-stage. 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href="/wiki/Libertarian_science_fiction" title="Libertarian science fiction">Libertarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utopian_and_dystopian_fiction" title="Utopian and dystopian fiction">Utopian and dystopian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tech_noir" title="Tech noir">Tech noir</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spy-Fi_(subgenre)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spy-Fi (subgenre)">Spy-Fi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Techno-thriller" title="Techno-thriller">Techno-thriller</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Tokusatsu</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kaiju" title="Kaiju">Kaiju</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_underwater_science_fiction_works" title="List of underwater science fiction works">Underwater</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives" title="Cyberpunk derivatives">Cyberpunk derivatives</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cyberpunk" title="Cyberpunk">Cyberpunk</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_cyberpunk" title="Japanese cyberpunk">Japanese</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Biopunk" title="Biopunk">Biopunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dieselpunk" title="Dieselpunk">Dieselpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanopunk" title="Nanopunk">Nanopunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solarpunk" title="Solarpunk">Solarpunk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steampunk" title="Steampunk">Steampunk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Culture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_convention" title="Science fiction convention">Conventions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_fandom" title="Science fiction fandom">Fandom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science-fiction_fanzine" title="Science-fiction fanzine">Fanzines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Speculative_Fiction_Database" title="Internet Speculative Fiction Database">ISFDB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_libraries_and_museums" title="Science fiction libraries and museums">Libraries and museums</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/EMP_Museum#Science_Fiction_Museum" class="mw-redirect" title="EMP Museum">Science Fiction Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_studies" title="Science fiction studies">Studies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Women_in_speculative_fiction" title="Women in speculative fiction">Women in SF</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Worldcon" title="Worldcon">Worldcon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Region</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Australian_science_fiction" title="Australian science fiction">Australian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bengali_science_fiction" title="Bengali science fiction">Bengali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brazilian_science_fiction" title="Brazilian science fiction">Brazilian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_science_fiction" title="Canadian science fiction">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chilean_science_fiction" title="Chilean science fiction">Chilean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chinese_science_fiction" title="Chinese science fiction">Chinese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Croatian_science_fiction" title="Croatian science fiction">Croatian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Czech_science_fiction_and_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Czech science fiction and fantasy">Czech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Estonian_science_fiction" title="Estonian science fiction">Estonian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/French_science_fiction" title="French science fiction">French</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hungarian_science_fiction" title="Hungarian science fiction">Hungarian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_science_fiction" title="Japanese science fiction">Japanese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norwegian_science_fiction" title="Norwegian science fiction">Norwegian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_and_fantasy_in_Poland" class="mw-redirect" title="Science fiction and fantasy in Poland">Polish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_science_fiction" title="Romanian science fiction">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russian_science_fiction_and_fantasy" class="mw-redirect" title="Russian science fiction and fantasy">Russian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serbian_science_fiction" title="Serbian science fiction">Serbian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spanish_science_fiction" title="Spanish science fiction">Spanish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yugoslav_science_fiction" title="Yugoslav science fiction">Yugoslav</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Awards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cinematic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jules_Verne_Awards" title="Jules Verne Awards">Jules Verne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_Awards" title="Saturn Awards">Saturn</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literary, art,<br />and audio</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astounding_Award_for_Best_New_Writer" title="Astounding Award for Best New Writer">Astounding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aurealis_Award" title="Aurealis Award">Aurealis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BSFA_Award" title="BSFA Award">BSFA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Campbell_Memorial_Award_for_Best_Science_Fiction_Novel" title="John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel">Campbell Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chesley_Awards" title="Chesley Awards">Chesley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke_Award" title="Arthur C. Clarke Award">Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Compton_Crook_Award" title="Compton Crook Award">Crook</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deutscher_Science_Fiction_Preis" title="Deutscher Science Fiction Preis">Deutscher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philip_K._Dick_Award" title="Philip K. Dick Award">Dick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ditmar_Award" title="Ditmar Award">Ditmar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Endeavour_Award" title="Endeavour Award">Endeavor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/FantLab%27s_Book_of_the_Year_Award" title="FantLab's Book of the Year Award">FantLab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galaxy_Award_(China)" title="Galaxy Award (China)">Galaxy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Gaughan_Award" title="Jack Gaughan Award">Gaughan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geffen_Award" title="Geffen Award">Geffen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Golden_Duck_Award" title="Golden Duck Award">Golden Duck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Damon_Knight_Memorial_Grand_Master_Award" title="Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award">Grand Master</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grand_prix_de_l%27Imaginaire" title="Grand prix de l'Imaginaire">Grand Prix</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Harland_Prize" title="Paul Harland Prize">Harland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein_Award" title="Robert A. Heinlein Award">Heinlein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Premio_Ignotus" title="Premio Ignotus">Ignotus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kitschies" title="Kitschies">Kitschies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Lambda_Literary_Awards_winners_and_nominees_for_science_fiction,_fantasy_and_horror" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Lambda Literary Awards winners and nominees for science fiction, fantasy and horror">Lambda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurd_La%C3%9Fwitz_Award" title="Kurd Laßwitz Award">Laßwitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Locus_Award" title="Locus Award">Locus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nautilus_Award" title="Nautilus Award">Nautilus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebula_Award" title="Nebula Award">Nebula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nommo_Awards" title="Nommo Awards">Nommo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andre_Norton_Award" title="Andre Norton Award">Norton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parsec_Awards" title="Parsec Awards">Parsec</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_Award" title="Prometheus Award">Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhysling_Award" title="Rhysling Award">Rhysling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SFERA_Award" title="SFERA Award">SFERA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidewise_Award_for_Alternate_History" title="Sidewise Award for Alternate History">Sidewise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_E._Smith_Memorial_Award" title="Edward E. Smith Memorial Award">Skylark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon_Award" title="Theodore Sturgeon Award">Sturgeon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sunburst_Award" title="Sunburst Award">Sunburst</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/T%C3%A4htivaeltaja_Award" title="Tähtivaeltaja Award">Tähtivaeltaja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TBD_Science_Fiction_Story_Award" title="TBD Science Fiction Story Award">TBD</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Tiptree_Jr._Award" class="mw-redirect" title="James Tiptree Jr. Award">Tiptree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prix_Apollo_Award" title="Prix Apollo Award">Tour-Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Fiction_%26_Fantasy_Translation_Awards" title="Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards">Translation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Urania_Award" title="Urania Award">Urania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Julius_Vogel_Award" title="Sir Julius Vogel Award">Vogel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Writers_of_the_Future" class="mw-redirect" title="Writers of the Future">Writers and Illustrators of the Future</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janusz_A._Zajdel_Award" title="Janusz A. Zajdel Award">Zajdel</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Multimedia</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aurora_Awards" title="Aurora Awards">Aurora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandler_Award" title="Chandler Award">Chandler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragon_Awards" title="Dragon Awards">Dragon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugo_Award" title="Hugo Award">Hugo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seiun_Award" title="Seiun Award">Seiun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaylactic_Spectrum_Awards" title="Gaylactic Spectrum Awards">Spectrum</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Media</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_film" title="Science fiction film">Film</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_science_fiction_films" title="History of science fiction films">Film history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_science_fiction_films" title="Lists of science fiction films">Films</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_films_in_India" title="Science fiction films in India">Indian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_science_fiction" title="Japanese science fiction">Japanese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_anime" title="List of science fiction anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Tokusatsu</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Literature</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_comics" title="Science fiction comics">Comics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_magazine" title="Science fiction magazine">Magazines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_novels" title="List of science fiction novels">Novels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_publishers" title="List of science fiction publishers">Publishers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_short_stories" title="List of science fiction short stories">Short stories</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Stage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_opera" title="Science fiction opera">Opera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_theatre" title="Science fiction theatre">Theatre</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_on_television" title="Science fiction on television">Television</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_television_programs" title="List of science fiction television programs">List of TV shows</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Australian_science_fiction_television" title="Australian science fiction television">Australasian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_television_science_fiction" title="British television science fiction">British</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_science_fiction_television" title="Canadian science fiction television">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_fiction_on_television#Continental_European_science_fiction_series" title="Science fiction on television">European</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Japanese_science_fiction" title="Japanese science fiction">Japanese</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_anime" title="List of science fiction anime">Anime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tokusatsu" title="Tokusatsu">Live-action</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._television_science_fiction" title="U.S. television science fiction">U.S.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_science_fiction_themes" title="List of science fiction themes">Themes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Space_architecture" title="Space architecture">Architectural</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Space_colonization" title="Space colonization">Colonization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dyson_sphere" title="Dyson sphere">Dyson sphere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matrioshka_brain" title="Matrioshka brain">Matrioshka brain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_stations_and_habitats_in_fiction" title="Space stations and habitats in fiction">Space stations and habitats</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stellar_engine" title="Stellar engine">Stellar engine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terraforming_in_popular_culture" title="Terraforming in popular culture">Terraforming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Topopolis" title="Topopolis">Topopolis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Biology_in_fiction" title="Biology in fiction">Biological</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Biological warfare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_being" title="Energy being">Energy being</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evolution_in_fiction" title="Evolution in fiction">Evolution</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrials_in_fiction" title="Extraterrestrials in fiction">Extraterrestrials</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lists_of_fictional_extraterrestrials" title="Lists of fictional extraterrestrials">List</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gender_in_speculative_fiction" title="Gender in speculative fiction">Gender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genetic_engineering_in_science_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Genetic engineering in science fiction">Genetic engineering</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Invisibility_in_fiction" title="Invisibility in fiction">Invisibility</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nanotechnology_in_fiction" title="Nanotechnology in fiction">Nanotechnology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Organ_transplantation_in_fiction" title="Organ transplantation in fiction">Organ transplantation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parasites_in_fiction" title="Parasites in fiction">Parasites</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prosthetics_in_fiction" title="Prosthetics in fiction">Prosthetics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sex_and_sexuality_in_speculative_fiction" title="Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction">Sex and sexuality</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Symbiosis_in_fiction" title="Symbiosis in fiction">Symbiosis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Physical</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ansible" title="Ansible">Ansible</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_holes_in_fiction" title="Black holes in fiction">Black holes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Extrasolar_planets_in_fiction" title="Extrasolar planets in fiction">Extrasolar planets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Force_field_(technology)" title="Force field (technology)">Force field</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperspace" title="Hyperspace">Hyperspace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inertialess_drive" class="mw-redirect" title="Inertialess drive">Inertialess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiverse" title="Multiverse">Multiverse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parallel_universes_in_fiction" title="Parallel universes in fiction">Parallel universes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portable_hole" title="Portable hole">Portable hole</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_travel_in_science_fiction" title="Space travel in science fiction">Space travel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stargate_(device)" title="Stargate (device)">Stargate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stars_in_fiction" title="Stars in fiction">Stars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teleportation_in_fiction" title="Teleportation in fiction">Teleportation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Time_travel_in_fiction" title="Time travel in fiction">Time travel</a> (<a href="/wiki/Time_viewer" title="Time viewer">Viewer</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Warp_drive" title="Warp drive">Warp drive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wormholes_in_fiction" title="Wormholes in fiction">Wormhole</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Psychological</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Group_mind_(science_fiction)" title="Group mind (science fiction)">Group mind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mind_uploading_in_fiction" title="Mind uploading in fiction">Mind uploading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Psionics" title="Psionics">Psionics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simulated_consciousness_in_fiction" title="Simulated consciousness in fiction">Simulated consciousness</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Social</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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