Spinner

Spinner
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Games featured	Resistance 2 Resistance: Retribution (mentioned) Resistance 3 (cameo)

"Kinda makes you miss the days when they need conversion centers, eh Lieutenant?"

―Aaron Hawthorne to Nathan Hale regarding the Spinner infestation.

Spinners are a Chimeran strain that appears in Resistance 2. They served as an alternative to the Crawlers to instantly infect and converting humans into Chimera.

Description

Spinners are the Chimera's recent alternative of infecting human hosts and creating new Chimeran strains in response to the aftermath of Operation Overstrike, in which the Carrier strain was compromised and exterminated by Dr. Claude Bouchard's serum, lessening the Chimera's need of conversion centers. Just like Crawlers, Spinners were loaded and released from Spire missiles upon human populated areas, as they seek to capture humans and weave them into cocoons, hence the name. From here, hosts are transformed into Grims.

It is never particularly clear how such small creatures can overpower and restrain able-bodied adults; they are mentioned as being as unstoppable as Crawlers, but do not seem to be deployed in overwhelming numbers. Indeed, at one point Henry Stillman describes Spinners somehow overturning a moving vehicle, something that the creatures would seem incapable of doing. How Spinners actually "work" remains a mystery.

In Resistance: The Gathering Storm, it is depicted that Spires were loaded with yellowish softball-sized eggs that hatch into thousands of infant Spinners, which then 'morph' into cat-sized individuals. In The Gathering Storm and Resistance: A Hole in the Sky, Spinners are equipped with fangs and hollow barbs filled with a chemical substance (along with the Chimeran virus) to paralyze their human victims before weaving them into cocoons after spraying a pinkish brown webbing. After the chrysalis rapidly hardens, the Spinners will carry it away.

A strain of Chimera known as the Mother Spinner was seemingly some sort of "queen" to these Chimera, though the only Mother Spinner encountered in the series did not in any way associate itself with them. This strain is most likely not created from human hosts, and instead may be created similarly to the Leapers.

Resistance 2

The Spinner strain first appear in Orick. Throughout the campaign, Nathan Hale encountered many Spinners but they never attack and usually run away from him, presumably because they sense that Hale is already infected. Killing 30 Spinners throughout the campaign unlocks the Silver Snipe Hunt Trophy.

Resistance 3

Although Spinners do not play as large a role as they did in Resistance 2, Joseph Capelli does encounter some in the pit in Graterford Prison and the entrance leading to the New York subway tunnels. It is not clear if Spinners are Feral Chimera or not, given that the Chimera had no need for converting humans. Spinners do not attack Joseph (who is cured of the Chimeran virus), in which it is likely due to being inoculated with the Hale Vaccine.

Gallery

Spinner model from Garry's Mod "Resistance 2: Characters Ragdolls".

Trivia

• In Twin Falls, inside the dog kennel of the second house's yard, is a small Grim cocoon. This could imply that a human child attempted to hide in the kennel but was ultimately caught by the Spinners.
• The Spinners are referenced by The Chrysalis to James Grayson at the end of Resistance: Retribution, foreshadowing the Chimera's change in strategy, as eventually seen in Resistance 2.
• Possibly due to a glitch, the Atomizer cannot damage Spinners.
• With the Cryogun weapon even at level 1, firing just once with secondary fire can kill Spinners.