3. Hes Got The Ill Communication
Marvel ComicsAnd by that, we mean he possesses the nightmarish techno-organic virus. One of the greatest evils of the X-Men comics, the T-O virus was originally known as the transmode virus, a facet of the unique biology of the alien machine-race known as the Technarchy. We wont go into the whole convoluted history of the Technarchys relationship with the X-Men and the planet Earth, but essentially they were highly aggressive shapeshifting vampires who infected other lifeforms with their version of the techno-organic virus, rendering their flesh a bizarre, lit-up hybrid of living tissue and machinery. They would then suck the life out of their infected victims, the corpse resembling nothing more than a brittle metallic husk. Highly unpleasant for all concerned, and several comics storylines were based around victims of the transmode virus attempting to stave off full infection and find a cure. Later events saw what occurred to those infected who failed to stave off the virus but were not drained of life by a member of the Technarchy that infected them: theyd be transformed into what are called Phalanx, bastardised versions of the Technarchy possessing a vicious hive-mind. The Phalanx would go on to terrorise the entire galaxy in a crossover event, infecting and enslaving whole races. However, Apocalypses mad scientist Mister Sinister (presumably he was Doctor Sinister before being stripped of his medical license) had experimented on a captured Phalanx in order to develop a way of killing his master. The attempt failed, and from that moment Apocalypse added the techno-organic virus to his arsenal of weapons to use against mankind. If 20th Century Fox decided that they wanted to move the cinematic X-Universe into their own cosmic storylines, the introduction of Apocalypse could conceivably lead to extraterrestrial shorelines with the Technarchy and/or the Phalanx. Modern CGI is certainly up to reproducing shapechanging alien races, and unlike the godawful design of the Transformers movies special effects, techno-organic lifeforms are
supposed to look like that.