Difference between revisions of "Khan Worm"
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==Characteristics== | ==Characteristics== | ||
===Powers and Abilities=== | ===Powers and Abilities=== | ||
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* Can control their victims' actions and access their memories once it has entered their body through the ear. | * Can control their victims' actions and access their memories once it has entered their body through the ear. | ||
* Increase the strength of the host bodies they possess. | * Increase the strength of the host bodies they possess. | ||
* Can reanimate a host bodies corpse if it has been killed. | * Can reanimate a host bodies corpse if it has been killed. | ||
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| + | ====Type 2==== | ||
| + | * Enters body through the mouth, increases need to remain hydrated. | ||
| + | * Increase the strength of the host bodies they possess. | ||
===Weakness=== | ===Weakness=== | ||
| + | ====Type 1==== | ||
* Electrocution - A current of electricity can stun or kill a Khan Worm depending on its intensity and duration. | * Electrocution - A current of electricity can stun or kill a Khan Worm depending on its intensity and duration. | ||
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* Dehydration - Rapid dehydration will force an offshoot version of the Khan worm to leave the host body exposing it to hunters. | * Dehydration - Rapid dehydration will force an offshoot version of the Khan worm to leave the host body exposing it to hunters. | ||
Revision as of 06:33, 19 March 2015
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| Khan Worm | |
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| Powers and Abilities | Able to control a person's actions after it enters their brain through their ear and enhances the strength of its host. |
| Vulnerabilities | Electrocution Dehydration |
| Appearance | Like a slug crossed with a centipede. |
| Episode(s) | 6.16 ...And Then There Were None 10.15 The Things They Carried |
You haven't got a name for me yet. I'm new around here. Eve cooked me up herself.
– Khan worm, 6.16 ...And Then There Were None
Contents
History
The Khan worm is a monster newly created by Eve after she is released from Purgatory.[1][2] Although it looks like a cross between a simple slug and a centipede, it is a self-aware, intelligent parasite that can enter a person's ear and take control over their actions as well as access their memories. After it leaves its host's body, a black, gooey substance is deposited in the person's ear. Other names: Herpe and Sluggo (by Dean).[2]
A second offshoot version of the Khan worm exists that does not take control of the host body.[3] This variety absorbs all bodily fluids, eventually causing the host to go mad with thirst, drinking any liquids they can find, eventually forcing the host to kill and drink the fluids from other people. This version of the worm acts more as a parasite, drying out their hosts and moving on. This version appears to have originated in the Middle East, though how long it has existed is unknown.
Characteristics
Powers and Abilities
Type 1
- Can control their victims' actions and access their memories once it has entered their body through the ear.
- Increase the strength of the host bodies they possess.
- Can reanimate a host bodies corpse if it has been killed.
Type 2
- Enters body through the mouth, increases need to remain hydrated.
- Increase the strength of the host bodies they possess.
Weakness
Type 1
- Electrocution - A current of electricity can stun or kill a Khan Worm depending on its intensity and duration.
Type 2
- Dehydration - Rapid dehydration will force an offshoot version of the Khan worm to leave the host body exposing it to hunters.
Episodes
6.16 ...And Then There Were None
Eve originally plants the parasitic creature in the ear of a trucker named Rick, and it goes on to kill Rick's family. The creature then possesses one of the trucker's co-workers, who kills 6 people at the Starlight Cannery. While investigating the murders at the cannery, Dean is possessed and the creature uses him to kill his cousin Gwen. After it leaves Dean's ear, he tells Sam, Samuel, Bobby, and Rufus that it is like a Khan worm on steroids, and also refers to it as a "twelve inch long herpe." It then possesses Samuel, who is killed by Sam. When Bobby and Rufus resolve to cut open Samuel's head to check for the newly dubbed Khan Worm, it animates Samuel's dead body and fights them. During the struggle, Samuel's body is thrown back against exposed wiring and electrocuted, and the Khan worm is stunned before retreating to possess someone else. The hunters are unsure who is possessed and so shock each other one at a time to try to reveal the Khan worm. While possessing Bobby, it quickly stabs and kills Rufus, but Sam and Dean overpower him and cover Bobby's ears and nose with duct tape so that the Khan worm cannot escape. It tells them that it doesn't have a name yet because it is a new monster recently created by Eve, who intends for supernatural beings to take over the world. They electrocute Bobby until it falls out of his ear, dead.
10.15 The Things They Carried
Trivia
- Dean and Bobby both refer to it as the Khan worm because it is reminiscent of the Ceti eel from the Star Trek movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan which after entering through the ear, wrapped itself around a person's brain stem making them susceptible to suggestion, and eventually causing madness. It was referenced also in 2009's Star Trek reboot in the form of the Centaurian slug which also entered through the ear canal and made people speak the truth.
