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A Nuclear Mutant is a monster (often the Monster of the Week) created when a creature is exposed to radiation. These characters are often villains, but not always. Very common in 1950s monster movies, as well as works trying to be throwbacks to that era for obvious reasons. Tends to be an Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever. These creatures are often common sights in a Standard Post-Apocalyptic Setting. When played straight, this is a case of Artistic License – Biology. This becomes slightly more plausible if an organism is irradiated and its offspring are born as mutants, rather than some weird transformation happening to the irradiated organism itself. See also Mutants, Toxic Waste Can Do Anything, Radiation-Induced Superpowers, and Radiation-Immune Mutants (a Required Secondary Power for some of these nasties). However, in most cases, high exposure to nuclear radiation usually results in death of most animals and humans (which makes post-apocalyptic nuclear war scenarios of fighting mutated creatures highly unrealistic). That being said, there have been several species that are able to adapt to nuclear radiation, as evident with Chernobyl where, although radiation levels are still lethal for most humans without adequate protection, several animals manage to survive with minimum or no mutations. In fact, the only major mutations they suffered were adaptations to protect them against the ill effects of radiation, such as higher levels of antioxidants and better DNA repair mechanisms. They even live longer because of it. |
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Adventure Time: The season 5 premiere implies the Lich was created by a nuclear bomb. Later episodes would establish he'd been around long before that, the bomb just made his current incarnation. "Simon and Marcy" has Simon and Marceline wandering into a ruined city and being attacked by mutated, misshapen creatures who are implied to have been the inhabitants of the city. In "The Vault", Finn's past life Shoko is turned into a giant, horrible monster after falling into a radioactive river. However, it seems as though the process also caused death by radiation poisoning shortly thereafter, so it mostly just gave her a different-looking ghost. |
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Gone: The Gaiaphage was initially a virus created by aliens to spread life which then crashed into a nuclear plant by meteor, which combined with the meteor killing a human and some of that person's DNA being incorporated into the Gaiaphage, led to it mutating and becoming a terrifying Eldritch Abomination which feeds on nuclear fuel. | |
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In Attack of the Crab Monsters, radiation from the Bikini Atoll tests not only causes the crabs on a pacific isle to become giant and homicidal, but also gives them the powers of producing "arcs of heat", letting physical attacks pass right through their bodies, mimicking the voice of any person they hear by vibrating any nearby metal, and absorbing the intelligence of human beings by eating their brains. That's some potent radiation! | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): Atomia uses nuclear radiation as part of her process of turning humans into her mindless superpowered mooks. | |
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In one episode of Kimba the White Lion, a grasshopper is mutated by radiation. Guess what happens? Well, here's a hint: the episode is titled "The Gigantic Grasshopper". | |
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Mermaid's Song: After the Seadragon reaches his Despair Event Horizon, Elan finds him curled around a wrecked submarine full of radioactive materials, including crabs with too many legs, fish with eyes in the wrong places, and an eel with two heads. | |
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Mutants like the X-Men used to be examples of this, hence the "Children of the Atom" moniker. After the X-Gene reveal, it was later explained that nuclear weapons testing somehow caused a rise in Mutant birthrates around the world. | |
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In Empire of the Ants, a leaky barrel of radioactive waste mutates the local ant population into giant flesh-eating monsters. | |
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear has this theme as a television commercial put forth by a Corrupt Corporate Executive of the nuclear lobby. It features a family barbecue with a dad supporting nuclear over solar, an electric grill powered by the nuclear plant looming in the background, and a dog with two tails. | |
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The Simpsons: Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish and some other creatures living in the lake near the Nuclear Power Plant. In "Marge vs. the Monorail", Mr. Burns stores nine drums of nuclear waste in a single tree, causing some of the tree's branches to turn into purple tentacles and a squirrel inhabiting it to gain Eye Beams and a long prehensile tongue, both of which it uses to its ecological advantage. In "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", in which the family become farmers, Homer irradiates the crops with plutonium borrowed from the nuclear plant in the hope that they grow bigger, like in the movies. Instead, he ends up with normal-sized tomatoes, only they have combined with tobacco to form "tomacco". |
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Monsterpocalypse has those cozy radioactive giant insects that eat you, instead of making you a super hero. | |
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Metro 2033: The heavily irradiated, post-nuclear Moscow became a gigantic nest of monsters, mutants and dinosaurs. | |
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In Frankenstein 1970, Victor von Frankenstein uses atomic power to bring his creature to life. | |
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"The Creation of Devastation" Adam Bomb, who was billed from Three Mile Island. | |
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Night of the Living Dead (1968) includes a speculative Hand Wave about radiation from a returning space probe to Venus causing the Zombie Apocalypse. This explanation is discarded in the subsequent Dead films, however. | |
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The not-quite-serious Class of Nuke 'Em High is about a high school next door to a leaky nuclear power plant, which among other things spawns the giant, mutant radioactive squirrel Tromie. | |
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One Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode features a nuclear-powered grill that through the magic of radiation is able to bring piles of snot to life (and melt the polar ice caps). (It's sort of a dream, but given the World of Weirdness setting, it's hardly out of place.) | |
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Paranoia has at least one mutated monster: giant intelligent cockroaches in the adventure "Into the Outdoors with Gun and Camera". | |
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Duke Nukem in Captain Planet and the Planeteers is a human mutated by radiation into a hulking yellow figure with Super-Strength. He goes beyond Radiation-Immune Mutants into actively feeding on nuclear materials and energy, can fire bolts of lethal radiation from his body, and is inconsistently portrayed as a Walking Wasteland as a result. | |
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In "Mant!", the film-within-a-film of Matinee, radiation combines a shoe salesman with an ant. (He gets bitten while getting a dental x-ray). | |
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In Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1977), Godzilla fights a yeti which has been turned by nuclear radiation to match it in size and strength. | |
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In The Amazing Colossal Man, Lieutenant Colonel Glenn Manning is caught in the blast of a plutonium and subsequently has his body grow out of control at a rate of 8 to 10 ft. a day, making him the titular Colossal Man. | |
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In The Incredible Melting Man, an astronaut is exposed to outer-space radiation and comes back transformed into a hideous monster who gets stronger as he slowly melts into glop (how that works is anyone's guess). | |
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Total Drama's fourth season, Revenge of the Island, is full of these, as prior to the events of said season, Chris McLean rented Wawanakwa out as a toxic waste dump, causing the flora and fauna to mutate. Even Dakota, one of the contestants, is turned into a monster after exposure to nuclear waste. | |
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Played with in Final Fantasy XII. Mist is magical energy that is as prevalent in the game's world as background radiation is in reality. However, in some areas of the game, mist is concentrated enough to mutate wildlife. One of the ways to get this effect is to use nethicite as a weapon. The ruins of Nabudis have many dangerous mutated wildlife because the area is still infested with heavy concentration of Mist as a result of the Midlight Shard's explosion two years back. | |
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Nobody Saves the World: Due to the recent nuclear meltdown of a nearby plant, most of the denizens of the desert have been reduced to rather grotesque forms, but everyone's pretty nonchalant about it. It helps that they've managed to contain the meltdown, and aside from the mutations, the people there still live pretty normal lives like the other civilizations you see. | |
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Super Mutants, Mutant Hounds, Centaurs, Cazadors and Nightstalkers avert this, as the former three are created by the FEV and the latter created by the morally bankrupt and insane scientists of Big Mountain, specifically Doctornote "Principal" Borous. It's strongly implied that the Deathclaws fit into this category too, having originated as Jackson's Chameleons genetically engineered by first the pre-War US government and then the Master to serve as living weapons. | |
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In The Cyclops, radiation from uranium deposits causes local wildlife to grow to gigantic proportions, as well as a guy who becomes the titular Two-Faced Cyclops. | |
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Seen, strangely, in the wild west-themed Alone in the Dark 3. It's revealed that the Big Bad discovered uranium back in the 19th century and used it to create monstrous mutants — he's also planning to build a nuclear bomb to crack the San Andreas fault and sink California into the ocean. | |
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Marvel Universe: There were quite a few radiation-created monsters in Marvel's early monster comics, including a fairly adorable weed with mind-control powers and a scarecrow made giant and mobile by nuclear radiation. In Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1977), Godzilla fights a yeti which has been turned by nuclear radiation to match it in size and strength. The Incredible Hulk and his gamma radiation-empowered friends and enemies would certainly qualify. At one end of the spectrum you've got lucky folks like Doc Samson and She-Hulk, who just look like impossibly buff people with green hair and/or skin, and at the other end you've got freaks like the Harpy and the Abomination. Their degree of self-control after their mutation varies from one individual to the next, too. There have been gamma-mutated animals over the years too (mainly dogs), but they tend not to survive beyond a single issue. Immortal Hulk goes further into detail about this: gamma radiation normally has the standard two forms, a wave and a particle... but sometimes it acts as a third form that is essentially magic (though as Puck notes, science and magic are essentially two sides of the same coin). This form is what creates gamma mutates, and is an emanation of The One Below All. Nuklo, the radioactive son of the Whizzer and Miss America. Mutants like the X-Men used to be examples of this, hence the "Children of the Atom" moniker. After the X-Gene reveal, it was later explained that nuclear weapons testing somehow caused a rise in Mutant birthrates around the world. |
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Beginning of the End has radiation not only increasing the size of crops, but the size of the grasshoppers who eat the crops! The army then suggests dropping a nuclear bomb on the insects (to which Crow quips, "Oh great, maybe they'll get larger!"). | |
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In StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm the Torrasque strain is unlocked after some Ultralisks are hit directly with an experimental nuke, and Abathur incorporates the radiation into their genome. | |
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Midnight Fight Express: Clips of gameplay show barrels of nuclear waste leaking, and mutated people known as the Ratboys whose one purpose is to aid in Operation Neo Dawn by running amok in the City of Tomorrow and killing anyone in their path. | |
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In Pathfinder, the Irradiated Deadnote Iron Gods adventure path part 3, "The Choking Tower" are a Super-Soldier project Gone Horribly Right, produced by a Mad Scientist replacing warriors' blood with radioactive sludge that she distilled from an alien spaceship ruin. It makes them superhumanly powerful, gives them radioactive flesh and Zombie Puke, and converts their victims into more Irradiated Dead, but it turned them into ravenous uncontrollable undead rather than obedient minions for the scientist. | |
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In The Hideous Sun Demon, Dr. Gilbert McKenna is exposed to radiation which causes him to turn into a monster in sunlight. | |
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Far Harbour has plenty of irradiated nasties found nowhere else inhabiting the Island, such as harmless if grotesque mutant chickens and rabbits, packs of mutated wolves, humanoid angler fish, enormous bipedal salamanders and giant, monstrous arthropods such as hermit crabs that use abandoned trailers as shells and two-story tall Fog Crawlers (once some sort of shrimp), all thanks to the radioactive fog shrouding the Island. | |
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In Attack of the Giant Leeches, a Hand Wave mid-film suggests that the eponymous giant leeches were mutated by waste run-off from nearby Cape Canaveral. (Cape Canaveral never did any nuclear experiments.) | |
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Like their source novel above, Metro 2033 and Last Light have multiple unpleasant types of mutants for Artyom to deal with. There are giant, highly aggressive mutant rats, bats, moles and other animals created by nuclear war, and the race of psychic mutants known as the Dark Ones who may or may not be human. It's implied the Dark Ones, at least, are actually the result of genetic engineering by the military, though. | |
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Being inspired in part by 1950s sci-fi and taking place after a nuclear war, the Fallout series has a bunch of these. Mutated animals include giant roaches, mantises, scorpions (including the fearsome Albino Radscorpion), flies, ants, geckos, and rats (both the regular kind and mole rats the size of large bulldogs), monstrous bears with hairless skin covered in lesions and tumors, and deer and cows with two heads. Shall we mention that tougher varieties can shrug off minigun bursts and high explosives? It's zigzagged in that, canonically, the mutations stem at least partially from a Mutagenic Goo Synthetic Plague called the Forced Evolutionary Virus (FEV) that the US Government cooked up before the war — precisely how much each element is to blame is unclear, as there was a conflict between the creators over the matter. Ghouls are people who mutated from long term residual radiation (and maybe some FEV thrown in too) that allows them to absorb and even heal from it, specifically the Glowing Ones who see radiation as being "comfortably warm". Feral ghouls are ghouls that have lost their minds over the years as the higher functions of the brain is not preserved as well as the rest of the nervous system. Swampfolk are crazed rednecks who are mutated due to long term residual radiation in the waters of Point Lookout and inbreeding who have become ungodly tough and viciously territorial of their swamp lands. Lonesome Road has the Tunnelers, Lizard Folk that live beneath the ruins of Hopeville and seem to be mutated from either lizards or the people of Hopeville themselves. Far Harbour has plenty of irradiated nasties found nowhere else inhabiting the Island, such as harmless if grotesque mutant chickens and rabbits, packs of mutated wolves, humanoid angler fish, enormous bipedal salamanders and giant, monstrous arthropods such as hermit crabs that use abandoned trailers as shells and two-story tall Fog Crawlers (once some sort of shrimp), all thanks to the radioactive fog shrouding the Island. Certain Perks can turn you into one. Rad Child and Rad Regeneration makes you regenerate when you have radiation poisoning, and Atomic! makes you stronger and faster when exposed to radiation, on top of giving you a boost to your AP regen. Super Mutants, Mutant Hounds, Centaurs, Cazadors and Nightstalkers avert this, as the former three are created by the FEV and the latter created by the morally bankrupt and insane scientists of Big Mountain, specifically Doctornote "Principal" Borous. It's strongly implied that the Deathclaws fit into this category too, having originated as Jackson's Chameleons genetically engineered by first the pre-War US government and then the Master to serve as living weapons. |
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Promethean: The Created: The Zeka are nuclear Prometheans who have the ultimate in Blessed with Suck. Not only do they suffer Disquiet, they spread fallout wherever they go, meaning they can rarely interact with humans and have a lot of trouble undertaking the Pilgrimage. As a result, most of them go Centimanus, and hoo boy, do they go Centimanus. Two NPC examples are Oleg Wormwood (an Eastern European arms dealer who longs to get his hands on a suitcase nuke and start some real fun) and Tsar Bomba (a hulking brute who seems content to just barge into nuclear power plants, subject the staff to a slow death, and bask in the radiation as the place starts to go critical). And that's not even starting on the Carcinomas... Zeka can have a Bestowment (innate power) that lets them irradiate corpses to bring them back as zombies. The Irradiation tree of powers also includes the abilities to control insects and then, later on, to mutate those insects into giants (a la Them!). It's also mentioned that the Wastelands created by Zeka tend to include huge, mutated invertebrate lifeforms. |
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Atomic Shark features a shark mutated by a nuclear submarine wreck, leaving it covered with radiation burns, glowing red, and emitting enough heat to cause things around it to burst into flames. It's also more or less a swimming one megaton nuclear bomb that will detonate if killed. Just to make things stupider, some fish that the shark passed nearby become irradiated also, are caught and served up at a seafood restaurant, and cause both the kitchen and a diner to explode. | |
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In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, servants of the Wyrm revere radiation. Nuclear explosions are sacred to Furmas, the elemental Wyrm of Balefire. The balefire burning in Black Spiral Dancer caverns is radioactive, producing mutations in some of the werewolves who reside therein. One of the Black Spiral Dancers' holiest caerns is a nuclear testing site in Alamagordo, New Mexico, where a colossal Thunderwyrm named Grammaw nests underground. The original nuclear blast blinded one of the Trinity Hive's elders, and hive members who guard Grammaw are hairless and pale due to the effects of residual radiation. The area for ten kilometers around Chernobyl, meanwhile, is a spawning ground for Wyrm-servants. The radiation is bad enough that even some of the non-Black Spiral Dancer werewolves are born deformed and infertile (a condition that, in the rest of the world, is only caused by two werewolves mating). |
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"The Corpse of Charlie Rull" concerns leaked radioactive waste turning a heart attack victim into a killer zombie. | |
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Unibouzu got bit by a radioactive sea urchin in Kaiju Big Battel, which caused him to undergo a metamorphosis into a giant sea urchin. | |
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One episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius has Jimmy and his friends investigating a lake monster. Jimmy initially dismisses the claims, then spots his dad pouring radioactive waste into the lake, Oh, Crap!. | |
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In The Horror of Party Beach, barrels of radioactive waste are dumped into the ocean and spill a split-second after hitting the ocean floor, mutating microscopic sea life which subsequently grows over the bones of drowned sailors to make a weird sort of Fish People. | |
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It Came from the Desert (1989) suggests that this is what created the giant mutant ants. | |
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In the Jakub Wędrowycz stories, the Chernobyl power plant incident released radiation since used as a handy explanation or theory for the appearance of psychic trees, talking wolves or dinosaurs. | |
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Godzilla may well be the mascot for this trope. The original incarnation, whose backstory was used in most later movies, was originally a dinosaur mutated by an H-bomb, but it wasn't all beneficial for Godzilla, as the radiation resulted in a Painful Transformation that left him Covered in Scars (hence the rough skin texture). Godzilla vs. Destoroyah even sees him starting to melt down from the excess build-up of radiation. The 1998 remake uses a similar origin, but Zilla was mutated from a marine iguana instead. The 2014 incarnation is the one subversion, as that Godzilla and the other giant monsters existed long before the Pacific nuclear tests, which were actually attempts to kill them. That said, Godzilla and the MUTOs were originally from a time when the world was intensely radioactive, and feed off radioactive material. This presents a problem when the MUTOs steal a live nuclear warhead and use it in their nest at the heart of San Francisco... The Shin Godzilla version likewise has a different backstory from its predecessors. This Godzilla was originally a sea creature mutated by nuclear waste into a single organism, eventually taking the form of a dinosaur-like monster with shriveled arms, open wounds and sores all over its skin, an unnaturally large mouth lined with teeth, and a skeleton grown into the flesh of its tail. Godzilla's enemy-turned-ally Anguirus was also a dinosaur from Godzilla's time, and was also awaken from nuclear tests. Unlike Godzilla however, the tests did nothing to enhance him, which is why he lacks any special powers. |
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Ashes 2063 has bug-dog hybrids, cannibal mutants, animate plants and so on, all of which seem to thrive in radiation-heavy areas. However, you can see and read reports of such creatures showing up even before the nukes dropped, such as bug-dog sightings in pre-war printed media, which raises questions as to their real origins. | |
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Ultraseven features two Monsters of the Week with this theme. When Ultra Garrison tests a planet-destroying nuclear missile called R-1 on the seemingly uninhabited world of Gyeron, they end up with the mutated sole survivor coming to Earth as a giant monster with a Breath Weapon of radioactive dust. An earlier episode had aliens called the Spell (or Spehl). They had been horrifically injured by nuclear holocaust on their home planet, leaving them with a thirst for blood that was the only thing which could ease their radiation burns. However, they got Exiled from Continuity when controversy about them resembling atomic bomb survivors popped up. |
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C.H.U.D. has homeless people in New York's sewers turned into mutant cannibals by illegally dumped radioactive waste. | |
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Zeka can have a Bestowment (innate power) that lets them irradiate corpses to bring them back as zombies. The Irradiation tree of powers also includes the abilities to control insects and then, later on, to mutate those insects into giants (a la Them!). It's also mentioned that the Wastelands created by Zeka tend to include huge, mutated invertebrate lifeforms. | |
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The Incredible Hulk and his gamma radiation-empowered friends and enemies would certainly qualify. At one end of the spectrum you've got lucky folks like Doc Samson and She-Hulk, who just look like impossibly buff people with green hair and/or skin, and at the other end you've got freaks like the Harpy and the Abomination. Their degree of self-control after their mutation varies from one individual to the next, too. There have been gamma-mutated animals over the years too (mainly dogs), but they tend not to survive beyond a single issue. Immortal Hulk goes further into detail about this: gamma radiation normally has the standard two forms, a wave and a particle... but sometimes it acts as a third form that is essentially magic (though as Puck notes, science and magic are essentially two sides of the same coin). This form is what creates gamma mutates, and is an emanation of The One Below All. | |
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Used seriously, but knowingly, in Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater to explain why some of the animals are bigger (like the tree frogs) or more aggressive (like the gavials) than they are in real life. Para-Medic even compares it to Godzilla. | |
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Ode to Kirihito is almost realistic about this. Irradiated water causes gradual, painful, and horrible death. Less probably, it makes people look like they're part-dog. | |
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The Shin Godzilla version likewise has a different backstory from its predecessors. This Godzilla was originally a sea creature mutated by nuclear waste into a single organism, eventually taking the form of a dinosaur-like monster with shriveled arms, open wounds and sores all over its skin, an unnaturally large mouth lined with teeth, and a skeleton grown into the flesh of its tail. | |
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The Daleks in Doctor Who were initially explained in "The Daleks" to be the result of a nuclear bomb detonated by the Thals in the distant past. They had locked themselves in metal travel machines to survive the radiation and over many years mutated into something else (although their experiments later reveal them to be a particularly extreme form of Radiation-Immune Mutants — they aren't just unharmed by radiation, they need radiation to survive). Most of this was ignored in later appearances and they were completely retconned in "Genesis of the Daleks" in the 1970s. Although given the appearance of the pepper pots, this may simply apply to the Thal mutated Daleks (Laths?) and come after the Kaled-Daleks. | |
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The Beast of Yucca Flats has a man getting caught inside a nuclear test explosion, becoming the eponymous beast. | |
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Ultraman has an episode in which nuclear bombs lost in the Pacific Ocean end up mutating a Fish Person called Ragon (previously seen in Ultra Q) into a gigantic and violently insane creature. Worse still, an undetonated nuclear bomb is precariously dangling on Ragon's scales... | |
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Franquin's Last Laugh: One comic is about a talk-show debating over the dangers of nuclear energy. A woman calls them to claim that nuclear energy is perfectly harmless since her husband worked in a reactor for 10 years and is fit as a fiddle and that everybody opposing nuclear energy is either a hippie or a communist. Turns out her husband and children are horribly mutated and she spouted lies just because "There ain't a reason that we should be the only ones in deep shit!" | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: When the Eds tell a bedtime story to Jonny, Ed's version begins with the Kanker Sisters eating (micro)radioactive mashed potatoes and turning into giants. | |
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d20 Modern's Urban Arcana setting has the Nuclear Toxyderm, a pile of nuclear power plant waste given life. | |
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The 2014 incarnation is the one subversion, as that Godzilla and the other giant monsters existed long before the Pacific nuclear tests, which were actually attempts to kill them. That said, Godzilla and the MUTOs were originally from a time when the world was intensely radioactive, and feed off radioactive material. This presents a problem when the MUTOs steal a live nuclear warhead and use it in their nest at the heart of San Francisco... | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Adam has a Uranium-235 core. | |
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Prophecies of Nostradamus features a few creatures mutated by radiation in New Guinea — carnivorous trees, poisonous leeches, flesh eating flying foxes (big ol' bats), and cancer-ridden human cannibals. The film also shows "softbodied humans" (severely mutated humans) at the very end. The last two depictions got it banned in Japan — where it was made. | |
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Radio Zombies in Bleak World were created by the atomic bomb tests in the 1950s and are generally get the short end of the stick. While it is technically possible for them to assume a human disguise and get their lives back, it requires a perfect 10 out of 10 in humanity to achieve, meaning that even the slightest misdemeanor will strip off all their skin and cause a nuclear eruption, and they get no bonus to keeping it up anyway. However, their magic and skills make it so that they are built to destroy their opponent — as such, it is nearly impossible to maintain a good karma playthrough with the Radio Zombie. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In the episode "Juggernaut", the crew encounter a Malon garbage ship whose crew have almost all been killed. One of the survivors claims it was the work of a "Vihaar", a monster supposedly born out of the radioactive waste carried on the ship. While Vihaars are generally believed to be mythical, this particular one turns out to be very real. It's actually a former crewmember who was horrifically mutated by the radiation, and became murderously insane as a result. | |
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In the Japan Expo episode of Flander's Company, during a Terrible Interviewees Montage, the protagonists are confronted to a Murlok, a fish/man hybrid, and Hippolyte theorizes it's the result of a nuclear leak. This doesn't stop Cindy from turning it into sushi, however. | |
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Nuklo, the radioactive son of the Whizzer and Miss America. | |
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Putty-Thing and Fish-Guy from The Mask are two teenagers who exposed themselves to radiation in hopes that they would turn into Insector the Bug-Man, but they both forgot the bug. Of course, it's all deliberately outrageous and Played for Laughs. | |
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The fangame Pokémon Uranium features a "Nuclear" elemental type that is basically this trope. Nuclear type Pokémon are typically found near failed nuclear power plants. For Nuclear counterparts of pre-existing species, the radiation has corrupted them and turned them hostile; repels don't work on them, and, if captured and used, they are disobedient like a high-level traded Pokémon. They are distinguished from their non-nuclear counterparts by a black and green color scheme, as well as having unique radiation-based attacks. There are a handful of Nuclear types that lack a Non-Nuclear counterpart — these are stable and can be captured and trained like a normal Pokémon without the obedience problems. Nuclear type attacks are super effective against everything except Steel and Nuclear, and Nuclear type Pokémon are weak to every type except Nuclear, making Nuclear type Pokémon Glass Cannons in battle. | |
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All over the place in Gamma World, though modern versions use Nanomachines and Magical Particle Accelerator as an explanation. Some of these include giant insects, the many-legged Centisteed, the multi-armed Snake People called the Menarls, the cactus horse, the humanoid metal-to-rubber-making bunny rabbits called Hoops and The Yexil. | |
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X the Unknown: X, descendant of the inhabitants of a radioactive Earth, from deep underground, emerges in search of a recent abundance of radiation. A gigantic dollop of earthen matter, it can melt metal. | |
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For the ultimate real-world inversion of this trope, check out what The Other Wiki has to say about Deinococcus radiodurans. It's a microorganism (so an inversion on the size front, as well as the radiation-effects front) capable of surviving radiation doses a thousand times greater than what's required to kill a human being. It's a pain in the ass for nuclear reactor operations since it can survive in places where life really shouldn't (like cooling pipes), and it also causes problems with radiation sterilization to preserve food long-term. Being resistant to a whole pile of other things as well, it's known in the world of microbiology as "Conan the Bacterium". | |
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Wikipedia (Website) | hasFeature |
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The frog-people from Hell Comes to Frogtown are likely this, and they likely also have a few more exotic features, given the infamous "Dance of the Three Snakes" scene. | |
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