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Bloodlines Parasites
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The nine Bloodlines Parasites are fictitious aliens, owned by DC Comics, who exist in that company's DC Universe. They first gained prominace in the Bloodlines crossover. The parasites premiered in Lobo annual vol. 2 #1 written by Alan Grant and drawn by Christian Alamy.
The Parasites hail from the same dimension as a powerful Shaman named Pax who gained his own powers due to being bitten by one of them and left for dead. The parasites escaped from their prison dimension and ended up on Earth, while there they took to feeding on humans.
The aliens feed by draining the spinal fluid of their prey after administering a small dose paralytic venom, if the feeding process is performed on a human possessing the metagene, the trauma of feeding on that victim will usually activate their metagene granting them superpowers. Those so activated took to calling themselves "New Bloods".
The nine aliens were Angon, Gemir, Glonth, Pritor, Slodd, Lissick, Venev, Ragnorak, and the Taker.
Some of the characters whose metagens were activated by the parasites are Argus, Loose Cannon, Razorsharp, Terrorsmith, Hitman and Gunfire. If too much parasite venom was absorbed by the host's system it would cause hideous abnormalities, as seen with Terrorsmith. The mother alien known as the Taker, was destroyed with the help of all the human new bloods. Pax helped banish these aliens by sealing them up in the other-dimensional home of the Taker.