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Originally Posted by TF-Viewer
No part of that matches with what a virus is. If Capcom called it a virus, it still doesn't mean it is one. It just means that someone at Capcom doesn't know what a virus is. A virus is not a living thing to begin with. Uroboros as we have seen is a living organism that invades, and mutates it's host into an unrecognizable mess. But it doesn't destroy it's host like a virus would. It's a symbiotic parasite, a highly aggressive one true enough, but not a virus. A virus isn't just another word for microorganism or bug, it's a specific description of the nature and habits of an biological entity. Viruses kill their host, parasites live off their host. It is in the parasite's best interest to not kill it's host. A virus on the other hand simply uses the host's cells as a means to reproduce itself and spread. A virus is considered "non-life", it does not really match the definition of a living thing, it can't reproduce on it's own, and it's essentially a rogue particle of DNA that gets inside another organism and begins making copies of itself by consuming the cells of the host. That is not what the Uroboros does, it instead merges with the host and both continue to live, though the host is impacted very negatively by this arrangement, it's behavior changes, it's body changes, and ultimately it could die from bullet related complications as a result of the merger. But it is still not a virus.
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As I've stated previously, it DOES destroy its host. It's not mutation, the virus eats the hosts body and rapidly reproduces itself by doing so. This is almost exactly what a virus does, even if Oroboros goes into strange science-fiction territory afterward. Excella DIED when Oroboros burst out of her, the resulting creature was an entirely different entity that ate her. Oroboros doesn't reproduce on its own. Like a virus, it needs host cells to corrupt and then destroy to make more of itself. The ONLY case in which Oroboros actually merges with and changes a host is when that host is accepted by the virus. The only one who even might have done that is Wesker. In most ways, it indeed fits the description of a virus.