The Brood
Real Name: Inapplicable
Height: 8' in length
Weight: Unknown
Group Affiliation: Themselves
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men 155, March 1982

One of the most terrifying alien races humanity has ever had to face, the Brood reproduce by hatching their eggs inside living hosts, transforming them into their kind. As an added, terrifying bonus, the Brood are able to absorb the special qualities of the beings they use as host bodies. That is why they seem to prize mutant hosts above all. Only the heroic efforts of the X-Men have prevented these ruthless masters of bio-engineering and weaponry from establishing a reign of terror on earth. Traveling through intergalactic space in their living "space whale" starships, the Brood are a constant threat to all life in the universe.