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A sub-trope of [[I Love Nuclear Power]],
When played straight, this is a case of [[You Fail Biology Forever]].
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== [[Anime]] ==
* ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' has [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|a grasshopper becoming a huge one]] thanks to a nuclear mutation.
== [[Comics]] ==
* There were quite a few radiation created monsters in Marvel's early monster comics, including a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100509004402/http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/meet_the_monsters/the_weed.html fairly adorable weed with mind-control powers] and a [[Critical Research Failure|''scarecrow'']] of all things [https://web.archive.org/web/20100509004314/http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/meet_the_monsters/the_scarecrow.html made giant and mobile by nuclear radiation.]
* The French comic ''Les eaux de Mortelune'' (''The waters of Deadmoon'') had mutant animals. Lyon is now inhabited by [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|giant flies]], Avignon by [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|giant termites]] and Les-Baux-de-Provence by [[Big Creepy-Crawlies|giant telepathic praying mantis]].
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Them]]'' is probably one of the most well known movies featuring this trope.
* ''[[Godzilla]]'' may well be the mascot for this trope.
* The mutated algae in ''[[The Horror of Party Beach]]'' possess human corpses, which, for some reason, tended to look in practice like a muppet of the ''[[Creature from the Black Lagoon]]'' with a mouth full of hot dogs.
* Bert I. Gordon loved this, whether it's the giant grasshoppers from ''[[Beginning of the End]], [[The Amazing Colossal Man]]'', ''[[The Food of the Gods]]'', the horrible cyclopic giant from ''[[The Cyclops]]'', or the giant ants who mind control people by farting pheromones on them from ''[[Empire of the Ants]]''.
* [[Roger Corman]] also had quite a few of them, like The Beast who Brings Death With Its Touch from ''[[Teenage Caveman]]'', the three-eyed; horned; big-nosed mutant from ''[[The Day The World Ended]]'', the giant leeches from ''[[Attack
* ''[[The Incredible Melting Man]]'', with an incredibly disgusting appearance done by [[Rick Baker]] himself, who gets stronger as he melts ([[Fridge Logic|How that works is anyone's guess]]).
** The movie started off as a parody, but the distributors wanted it to be a serious horror film and exorcised all of the comedy from the final cut.
* The B-movie ''[[From Hell It Came]]'' featured a tree-man named Tabonga. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130911010439/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article57.htm Head Injury Theater article here].
* Tromie, the giant, mutant radioactive squirrel from the not-quite-serious ''[[Class of Nuke 'Em High]]'' series by [[Troma]].
* ''Last Days of Planet Earth'' a.k.a. ''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. That last one got it [[Banned in China|banned in Japan]]
* ''[[The Beast of Yucca Flats]]'' has a man getting caught inside a nuclear test explosion, becoming the eponymous beast.
* ''[[C.H.U.D.]]'' had homeless people in New York's sewers turned into mutant cannibals by illegally dumped radioactive waste.
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* Although it was mainly based on hard science, the [[After the End]] game ''The Morrow Project'' allowed for radiation-mutated animals that were treated as monsters.
* ''Mutant Future'' had mutated monsters.
* ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' had at least one mutated monster: giant intelligent cockroaches in the adventure "Into the Outdoors with Gun and Camera".
* [[D20 Modern]]'s Urban Arcana setting has the Nuclear Toxyderm, a pile of nuclear power plant waste given life.
* ''[[Promethean: The Created]]'' has the Zeka, nuclear Prometheans who have the ultimate in [[Blessed with Suck]]. Not only do they suffer [[Hate Plague|Disquiet]], they spread ''fallout'' wherever they go, meaning they can rarely interact with humans and have a lot of trouble undertaking [[Become a Real Boy|the Pilgrimage]]. As a result, most of them go [[The Dark Side|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 [[Came Back Wrong|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 (ala ''[[Them]]''). It's also mentioned that the Wastelands created by Zeka tend to include huge, mutated invertebrate lifeforms.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* There has been investigation into whether nuclear accidents like the Chernobyl disaster have mutated animals over generations. [[Averted Trope|It didn't.]]
** In [[Real Life]], this wouldn't be able to happen. The nuclear poisoning will kill any higher animal or at least give health problems. The
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