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Starting with w safe choices because they were beaten (for the most part) in their own universes.

The harran virus (**not** THV): living infected. Not counting the aerosolised blue serum, it spreads through infected bodily fluids. The incubation period is a couple of days. The infected start out as sprinters who can do parkour, with some left over higher brain function (begging for mercy/opening doors). Most degrade I to slow shamblers. Relatively ew mutate into LRD ripoffs(toads, screamers, goons and demolishers). Very few become feral I am Legend ripoffs (volatiles).

Why we can beat it:

1. It's mutated rabies. It took mere months in universe to produce a vaccine.

2. The labs that created the virus also formulated a suppressant, Antizin. (They also held it back intentionally). Once mass produced, it can be used to keep first responders and medical staff active and considerably slow down the spread.

3. Most infected are slowed down and repelled by strong enough UV light. A volatile caught outside during the day will just die in minutes.

THV was an enhanced version created after the original had been beaten.

The Solanum Virus. Basic undead shamblers. It spreads exclusively through infected bodily fluids. The incubation period is non existent, the symptoms take about a day to kill. The zombies are the most basic undead in the genre. Can't think, can't use basic tools, can only pursue, grab, and bite.

No vaccine exists. No vaccine is possible.

Why we can beat it:

1. the zombies themselves would be easily dealt with by armed forces. Not effortlessly. Not perfectly. Not immediately. But they will be dealt with whenever found. The battle of Yonkers made little sense.

2. While harvested organs would spread it stealthily around the globe, that will only be before we realise it. Beyond that, spread will be slow, and new cases will be relatively easy to find.

3. A lot more people would die in the panic than to the zombies. That wouldn't matter in TWD, but it does here. Those people won't come back.

Not the most common thing in Star Wars. Generally, the dark Side is depicted as actively making its users crueler and more selfish, as well as being addictive.

But we have examples of dark Side users being largely (through by no means entitely) benevolent.

In the picture above, the canon character Merrin, using Dathomiri magic to aid Cal Kestis and Cere Junda in retreiving a holocron containing the name of force sensitive children from the Empire's posession. She later saves them from drowning and is show to be relieved they survive.(Jedi Fallen order)

It is worth noting that the dark Side is generally depicted as both addictive and mind-altering in that game, with Dathomiri magic being merely "on the darker Side".

But we do see actual Sith in legends using the dark Side for the food of others. Darth Marr and Lana Beniko in SWTOR are more concerned with the good of the empire than with their own, often advocating for crueler methods (torture, letting innocents die) for ultimately the same goals the light Side users have.

Does this break with Lukas' visions for what the dark Side is and does, or can be seen as merely rare in a setting that has gotten more complex since the OT?

Rezident Evil 9. Grace Ashcroft and "Elpis".

1. Grace's name literally means mercy/forgiveness. She happens to also be half of Oswald Spencer's attempt at redemption for creating bioweapons. She is the Grace of the Creator, in a sense.

2. Elpis is the name of the goddess of hope, the least thing fiind at the bottom of Pandora's box. In game, Elpis is found in a lab under Racoon city, the metaphorical Pandora's box of the setting. Zeno thinks it's a superweapon, but the name implies the exact opposite.

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And so, the creator's Grace allows there be hope at the bottom of Pandora's box.

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Red dead redemption 2. Micah Bell.

Micah (the biblical namesake) was an outsider prophet who preached about moral decay.

Bells are used to signal stuff.

Also his horse, Baylock, is a reference to a movie called "the omen", about a servant of the antihrist.

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Micah Bell is the ill omen signaling the moral decay (more that they already were bandits) and ultimately the end of the gang.