The Brood are a race of insect-like, parasitic, extraterrestrial beings that appear in the comic books published by Marvel Comics, especially Uncanny X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum, they first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #155 (March 1982). Their appearance in Amalgam Comics was in The Exciting X-Patrol #1 in 1997. This article is about the comic book company. ... In comic books, first appearance refers to first comic book to feature a character. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The cover of Giant-Size X-Men #1 by Gil Kane & Cockrum, featuring characters Cockrum designed. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... Adam Warlock, also known as Him, is a fictional character who originated in comic books published by Marvel Comics, which owns all trademarks and copyrights pertaining to the character. ... Captain Marvel is the name of several unique fictional Marvel Comics superheros. ... Nova, (Richard Rider), is a fictional superhero from Marvel Comics. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Rom the Spaceknight is a fictional cyborg outer space hero created in co-operation between Parker Brothers and Marvel Comics. ... This article is about the comic book character. ... For the IPC character, see Starlord. ... Thanos is a fictional character that appears in the Marvel Universe. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Left to right, down from the top: The Runner, The Gardener, The Collector, The Champion and The Grandmaster. ... The Guardians of the Galaxy are a fictional superhero team active in the 31st century in an alternate timeline that is a version of the Marvel Universe. ... The Imperial Guard is a team of fictional super-powered alien warriors in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Inhumans are a fictional race of superhumans in the Marvel Comics Universe, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. ... There are several different extraterrestrial races in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Badoon are a reptillian alien species in the fictional Marvel Comics universe. ... The Celestials are a group of fictional characters and extra-terrestrial beings that appear in the Marvel Universe. ... The Kree, also known as the Ruul, are a scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic alien race in the fictional Marvel Universe. ... The Shiar, pronounced // (Shee-ARR), are a fictional species of aliens in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Skrulls are a fictional race of extraterrestrial shapeshifters that appear in the Marvel Universe. ... Marvel Select The Watcher figure In the fictional Marvel Comics universe, the Watchers are an extraterrestrial species of near-omnipotent immortal beings who watch the universe with advanced technology. ... Orders Subclass Apterygota Archaeognatha (bristletails) Thysanura (silverfish) Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic) Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Superorder Exopterygota Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dermaptera (earwigs) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (stick insects) Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Psocoptera... A parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... The Uncanny X-Men, first published as simply The X-Men, is the flagship Marvel Comics comic book series for the X-Men franchise, it features the adventures of the eponymous group of mutant superheroes. ... This does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The cover of Giant-Size X-Men #1 by Gil Kane & Cockrum, featuring characters Cockrum designed. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Amalgam Comics was a metafictional American comic book publisher, and part of a collaboration between Marvel Comics and DC Comics, in which the two comic book publishers merged their characters to create new ones (e. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ...

The Brood possess wings, fanged teeth and a stinging tail. They have a hive mentality and mindlessly follow a queen. To reproduce, they must infect other races with their eggs. For other uses, see Wing (disambiguation). ... Look up fang in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Types of teeth Molars are used for grinding up foods Carnassials are used for slicing food. ... Hive may refer to: Hive mind, one of several forms of collective consciousness The Hives, a rock band Hive (record producer), a producer in the drum and bass music genre Hive (game) is an abstract-strategy board game published in 2001 Hive Records, a record label HIVE (ISP), the smallest... Meat Eater ant colony swarming Fire ants Eusociality is the phenomenon of reproductive specialization found in some animals. ... For other uses, see Reproduction (disambiguation) Reproduction is the biological process by which new individual organisms are produced. ... In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ...

Claremont has said they were inspired by the xenomorphs of the 1979 movie Alien but, interestingly, the Brood appeared before the xenomorph’s hive society was introduced in the sequel Aliens. The xenomorph as it appears in Alien vs. ... Alien (1979), directed by Ridley Scott, is an extremely popular and influential science fiction/horror film that spawned several sequels and imitators. ... For other uses, see Sequel (disambiguation). ... Aliens is a 1986 science fiction movie directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Carrie Henn, Bill Paxton and Paul Reiser. ...

Brood species

Physical characteristics

Despite their resemblance to insects, the Brood have endoskeletons as well as exoskeletons. Also unlike insects, they have fanged jaws instead of mandibles. Their skulls are triangular and flat, with a birthmark (different for each Brood) between their large eyes. Their two front legs are actually long tentacles they can use to manipulate objects. Endoskeleton of a swordfish An endoskeleton is an internal support structure of an animal. ... An exoskeleton is an external anatomical feature that supports and protects an animals body, in contrast to the internal endoskeleton of, for example, a human. ...

The Brood have the ability to impregnate a host (of many lifeforms) with an egg. When the egg hatches, the host is "morphed" into a Brood, and is effectively dead. The newborn Brood has any abilities the host had, and can "morph" back into the host in order to appear like the host's race. Finally, a Brood can "morph" into a hybrid form, with physical characteristics of the host lifeform and the Brood.

There are several types of Brood: First of all, the Broodlings, which are brown, smaller and winged (and were nicknamed "sleazoids" by Wolverine) and their larger Brood Queens, also brown. The Broodlings have flexible abdomens that they need to coil most of the time, and have transparent wings. The larger Queens are wingless and have round abdomens. All Brood obey the mental call of an Empress Brood. The Empress is green in color, and extremely large. Her offspring, the Firstborn, are "pure" and have had no "mingling" with other races, and as such, are green and larger, as well. For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ...

Due to their natural body armor and teeth, the Brood are very dangerous in combat. In addition, they have stingers that can deliver either paralyzing or killing poison. Sleazoids can fly, while the Queens have the ability to implant Brood embryos in other beings. The Queens can also communicate with their spawn by telepathy, even across interstellar distances. For other uses, see Embryo (disambiguation). ... Telepathy, from the Greek τῆλε, tele, remote; and πάθεια, patheia, to be effected by, describes the hypothetical transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. ... The interstellar medium (or ISM) is a term used in astronomy to describe the rarefied gas and dust that exists between the stars (or their immediate circumstellar environment) within a galaxy. ...

Reproduction

The Brood are parasitic and must steal the bodies of others to reproduce, making them one of the most insidious alien menaces in the Marvel universe. Unlike other parasitic creatures, these embryos do not grow their own bodies, but rather take over the host's, changing it into their appropriate form. The embryos are also fully intelligent even before they are "born". Apparently they pass on a racial memory to their descendants, possibly including some from their hosts. It takes some time for the embryo to gain the ability to take over its host; in the meantime, the embryo can gain control of the host occasionally, often without the host noticing (since they remember nothing while they're under the embryo's control.) If the host possesses any genetic powers, the resultant Brood will inherit them. What happens to the persona of the host once the Brood is "born" is not clear; it appears that it is extinguished, but in some cases, it survives and coexists with the Brood's. The concepts of racial memory and genetic memory refer to related hypotheses that an individual can inherit knowledge, memory, and/or motivational imperatives from his ancestors, even without contact with them. ...

Some Brood have been shown as being able to switch back-and-forth between their host's form and their true one, even changing into a hybrid form if they wish (for example, humans with brood-like jaws and tentacle arms).

Civilization

The Brood aren't just savage, they're sadistic, enjoying the suffering they intentionally cause others, especially the terror their infection causes their hosts. They've been compared to "demons"^{[citation needed]} . Given the incident with the Acanti Soulforce (see below) it may be that they have a supernatural origin.

The Brood have a civilization based on the typical communal insect societies, such as those of the bees and ants. The Queens are the absolute rulers, while the sleazoids do all the work; despite their evil, they never rebel against their Queens, perhaps due to the latters' telepathic abilities. It must be noted, however, that the Queens have no alliegance to each other. They also have developed, or stolen, advanced technology.

Their true planet of origin is unknown. They arrived in the Shi'ar galaxy long ago, and began infesting many worlds, becoming deadly enemies to the Sh'iar. In this galaxy they found certain large space-dwelling creatures that they decided to use as living starships. These include the whale-like Acanti, and the shark-like Starsharks. The Brood use a virus that effectively lobotomizes the creatures, then they use bionics to control them. The Brood hollow out part of the creatures (by eating them) and use the space created to live in, like termites eating a tree. This of course eventually kills the living ships, requiring them to capture new ones. The Shiar, pronounced // (Shee-ARR), are a fictional species of aliens in the Marvel Comics universe. ... One of the fictional ships called the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, one of the most famous fictional starships. ... The Acanti are a race of fictional whale-like, extraterrestrial beings that have appeared in Uncanny X-Men within the Marvel Comics universe. ... Bionics (also known as biomimetics, biognosis, biomimicry, or bionical creativity engineering) is the application of methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology. ...

One of the Acanti they captured was of unusual size (its rib cage alone was the size of a mountain range.) They used it as their main base, and, when it died and crashed onto a planet, used it as their main city. (The corpse was so large, it took centuries just to rot halfway.) However, predators from the planet they landed on infested the area of the dead Acanti's brain, so the Brood avoided it.

Encounters with the X-Men, and other Marvel heroes

Cover to Uncanny X-Men #166. Art by Paul Smith. Featured are the X-Men (Kitty Pryde, Lilandra, Colossus, Cyclops, Wolverine, and Nightcrawler) fighting the Brood.

The Brood allied themselves with the renegade Sh'iar Deathbird to help her depose her sister Lilandra as ruler of their empire; as a reward, Deathbird gave Lilandra, their allies the X-Men, and their human friend Carol Danvers (who had been the superhero Ms. Marvel before Rogue stole her powers) and even one of her own allies, Fang of the Imperial Guard, to use as hosts. The Brood did indeed make use of them, except for Danvers, apparently since they wanted to perform experiments on her half-human/half-Kree genes. The Brood created an illusion in which the heroes and their friends believed they were guests of the Shi'ar and didn't realize they were being implanted. However, Wolverine's healing power purged him of his embryo, and he helped his friends to escape. Unfortunately, he is unable to save Fang, who changes into a Brood before they leave. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x1234, 358 KB)Cover to Uncanny X-Men #166, February, 1983. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (800x1234, 358 KB)Cover to Uncanny X-Men #166, February, 1983. ... Katherine Kitty Pryde, also commonly known by the codename Shadowcat, is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero and a member of the X-Men. ... Lilandra is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Colossus (Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero in the X-Men. ... For other uses, see Cyclops (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wolverine (disambiguation). ... This article is about the comic character. ... Deathbird (Calsyee Neramani) is a Marvel Comics supervillainess, an adversary of the X-Men. ... Lilandra is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Carol Danvers, also known as Ms. ... Rogue (Anna Marie) is a Marvel Comics superheroine, a member of the X-Men. ... The Imperial Guard is a team of fictional super-powered alien warriors in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Kree, also known as the Ruul, are a scientifically and technologically advanced militaristic alien race in the fictional Marvel Universe. ...

The Brood Queen orders her forces to find them, until she was contacted by the Queen embryo she had implanted on Cyclops of the X-Men; it explained that the X-Men were returning to "sleazeworld". Resigned to their dooms, the heroes were trying to accomplish one last good act by helping the Acanti race to recover the racial Soul, an apparently supernatural force that must be passed from one Acanti leader ("The Prophet-Singer") to the next. The Soul was located in a crystalline part of the dead Acanti's brain. The Queen herself went with her minions to that area, and battles the X-Men until they started to change into Broods. The assistance of the alien dragon later known as Lockheed helped but did not sway the course of the battle. The Prophet-Singer Soul was almost infected by the evil of the Brood. Wolverine tries to mercy-kill his friends (and then the Queen) but they were saved when Danvers (now a star-powered being called Binary, a result of the Brood experiments on her) arrived and released the Soul. Before it went onto its next host, the soulforce cured the X-Men and Lilandra, and turned the Queen into a crystal statue. It also caused 'Sleazeworld' to explode, but the X-men and their allies, including Lockheed, escape alive. Some of the Brood also managed to escape before the planet explodes. The new Prophet-Singer then led the Acanti to safety in deep space. For other uses, see Cyclops (disambiguation). ... The Acanti are a race of fictional whale-like, extraterrestrial beings that have appeared in Uncanny X-Men within the Marvel Comics universe. ... Lockheed is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

A star-shark later crashes to earth, infecting several nearby humans, including one paramedic. This man (Harry Palmer) was allowed to function seemingly normally, only to be taken over when he encountered mutants, which he would then infect.

Another branch of the Brood managed to reach Earth and infected several people, mainly mutants, including many from the Louisiana Thieves' Guild that Gambit belonged to. The X-Men were forced to kill most of the infected people. Fortunately, they managed to rescue many of the Brood's yet-unifected prisoners. Ghost Rider, who was helping them, became infected for some time, but that Brood aspect was destroyed. In Marvel comic books, particularly those of the X-Men mythos, a mutant is a member of the species Homo sapiens superior, an offshoot of regular humanity, Homo sapiens sapiens. ... Gambit (Remy LeBeau) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who is a member of the X-Men. ... Ghost Rider may refer to: Ghost Rider (comics), the supernatural comic book character(s). ...

An exception was a woman named Hannah Connover, wife of reverend William Connover of the Glory Day ministry.^[1] She was implanted with a Brood embryo by paramedic Josey Thomas, partner of Queen-host Harry Palmer. Becoming a Brood Queen cured her hands of arthritis and she used this "miracle" to become a faith healer for her husband's ministry. She secretly infects the people who came to her for healing, curing them of their illnesses by converting them into her Broodlings. She eventually manages to overcome the Brood's control, a feat she attributed to her husband's unknowing inspiration, and rebels against the Brood Empress. The Empress sends several of her unusually powerful "firstborn" Broodlings to assassinate her lest she interfere with the invasion of Earth. The X-Men were unable to stop them in direct combat but they were ultimately defeated when she allowed Iceman to freeze her solid, stopping her brain activity and cutting her off from Brood telepathy. Having lost contact with her the assassins believed her to be dead and their mission over, so lacking a ship to return home they killed themselves. She was later revived and she and her Broodlings left Earth. According to the time-travelling X-Man Bishop there are benign factions of Brood in the future, and he speculated that Hannah may be their originator. However, there are still malevolent Brood in the Marvel Universe. Faith healing is the use of solely spiritual means in treating disease, which, in some cases, is accompanied with the refusal of modern medical techniques. ... Iceman (Robert Bobby Louis Drake) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero, a member of the X-Men. ... Bishop (Lucas Bishop), is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero who is a member of the X-Men. ...

During the Contest of Champions, the Brood abducted several heroes and posed as a benevolent species willing to give the heroes access to advanced technology after competing against each other in a series of contests. However, in reality, the Brood intended to use Rogue, who had been infested with a Brood Queen, to absorb the powers of the contest winners and become truly unstoppable. Fortunately, Iron Man (One of the first heroes to be defeated) organised the other 'losers' into a resistance against the Brood, realsing that the Brood had been feeding the heroes drugged food to amplify aggression (Iron Man's suit had automatically activated its life support system to keep him from being affected). Also, Carol Danvers and Kitty Pryde had been locked away since the Contest began, Carol's Kree physiology and Kitty's intangibility powers preventing them from being used as hosts. Contest of Champions II was a 1999 4 issue fictional crossover miniseries published by Marvel Comics. ... Rogue (Anna Marie) is a Marvel Comics superheroine, a member of the X-Men. ... Iron Man (Anthony Edward Tony Stark) is a fictional comic-book superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Carol Danvers, also known as Ms. ... Katherine Kitty Pryde, also commonly known by the codename Shadowcat, is a Marvel Comics mutant superhero and a member of the X-Men. ...

Although the Queen had already absorbed the powers and skills of Captain America, Thor, the Hulk, Spider-Man, Jean Grey and the Scarlet Witch the remaining heroes managed to defeat her. The Brood Queen symbiote was subsequently extracted from Rogue with the aid of Carol Danvers, who forced the Brood Queen to flee by threatening to kill Rogue. After confirming that Rogue was cured thanks to her old link to Carol from absorbing her powers, the heroes returned home. Captain America is a fictional comic book superhero published by Marvel Comics. ... Thor (often called The Mighty Thor) is a superhero appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Incredible Hulk, The Hulk and The Incredible Hulk redirect here. ... Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... Jean Grey-Summers (born Jean Grey) is a fictional superheroine who lives in the Marvel Comics Universe. ... The Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe, a mutant who was introduced as a super-villainess before reforming and becoming a superheroine early in her history. ... Carol Danvers, also known as Ms. ...

Ms. Marvel

The Brood have recently returned to Earth in the new ongoing Ms. Marvel series and battled Carol Danvers, who as Binary played a key role in their earlier defeat. Strangely enough, none of the Brood present recognized who she was, possibly because of her apparent inability to fully access her cosmic powers, which also changed her physical appearance. The Brood were being stalked and summarily exterminated by the alien hunter called Cru, whom Ms. Marvel also came into violent contact with.

During the story arc of "Annihilation Prologue", it was reported that much of the Brood was destroyed by Annihilus and his armies, although there were some pockets of survivors. Annihilation is a Marvel Comics 2006 crossover event highlighting several relatively under-used outer space-related characters in the Marvel Universe. ... Annihilus, sometimes called the Living Death That Walks, is a Marvel Comics supervillain. ...

World War Hulk

Some Brood Sleazoids appear in the arena of planet Saakar in the Planet Hulk storyline of The Incredible Hulk, one of them even becoming a main character. A Brood Queen referred to a "No-Name" apparently become the lover of insect king Miek and will also be appearing in World War Hulk. Planet Hulk is a Marvel Comics storyline running primarily through issues of The Incredible Hulk starting in 2006. ... Miek is a character in the Marvel Comics, created during the Planet Hulk storyline. ... World War Hulk is a comic book crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics beginning in May 2007. ...

Alternate Versions

X-Men: The End

In X-Men: The End, taking place in a possible future, the Brood hatch a plan with Lilandra (possessed by Cassandra Nova) that involved Lilandra being able to solidify her rule over the Shi'ar space and with the Brood getting a Brood queen smuggled into the Universe 616 space, from which they had been purged by this time. Lilandra is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Cassandra Nova is a fictional enemy of the X-Men in the Marvel Comics universe. ... The Shiar, pronounced // (Shee-ARR), are a fictional species of aliens in the Marvel Comics universe. ...

Age of Apocalypse

In the Age of Apocalypse timeline, without the X-Men to aid them, the Shi'ar Empire was consumed by the Brood, who infected everyone in the Empire with Brood implants, including the still-captive Christopher Summers. Escaping to Earth, Summers fought to control his Brood implant, but was captured by Mister Sinister. Sinister turned him over to the Dark Beast, who would then proceeded to experiment upon him for years. Summers eventually escaped, but was then killed by his son Cyclops after he transformed into a Brood Queen and began infecting other humans (Including the AoA version of Joseph "Robbie" Robertson, as well as friends of the AoA Misty Knight). The Age of Apocalypse is a popular X-Men story arc. ... Corsair (Major Christopher Summers, USAF) was a fictional comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) is a fictional character appearing in the comic books published by Marvel Comics. ... Dark Beast (Henry Philip McCoy), sometimes known as the Black Beast, is a Marvel Comics supervillain, an alternate reality evil version of the X-Men’s Beast. ... Joseph Robbie Robertson is a supporting character in Marvel Comicss Spider-Man series. ... Misty Knight is a fictional character in Marvel Comics Marvel Universe. ...

Other Media

• A heavily altered version of the Brood (called The Family) appears in the X-Men Animated Series episode "Love in Vain". The Family is formed by insectoid aliens that spread by infecting other beings with spores. Classic Brood appear in the episode "Mojovision", as generic aliens that fight Beast and Rogue in one of Mojo's shows.
• In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, the Cerci are a race of insect enemies which are based on the Brood from the comics; they are referred to as such in the game's viewable concept art, and one type of Cerci is called a "Brood Queen". However, while the Brood are highly intelligent aliens, the Cerci are genetically engineered creatures with animal-like intelligence. As you fight the Cerci, some have a name with "Brood" in the title, as well.
• What looks like the Brood appears in the Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes episode "Doomsday." They appeared from the Negative Zone.

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See also

• Brother Brood
• Tyranids
• Xenomorph
• Zerg

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References

1. ^ http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/conoverhan.htm