History Main / NuclearMutant

** 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.

* In The80s pulp series ''Literature/DoomsdayWarrior'', set in a post-WorldWarIII, mutant monsters roam the InvadedStatesOfAmerica killing {{Red Shirt}}s in gory ways and being killed in turn by the title character, who of course is only mutated in ways that turn him into a manly SuperSoldier.

* ''Film/{{Them}}'' and its [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant mutated ants]] is probably one of the most well-known movies featuring this trope.

* In TheEighties pulp series ''Doomsday Warrior'', set in a post-WorldWarIII, mutant monsters roam the InvadedStatesOfAmerica killing {{Redshirts}} in gory ways and being killed in turn by the title character, who of course is only mutated in ways that turn him into a manly SuperSoldier.

* In Creator/DavidDrake's short story "Men Like Us", a post-apocalyptic wanderer tells the people of a town that most of the stories about {{mutants}} were exaggerated. Babies with extra limbs or heads existed even before the bombs and even if there are more born now the wasteland has not been kind to them. Sure, there were dog-sized rats, but they've mostly been wiped out. And Changelings? Men made immortal by the blasts despite being skeletonized in some cases? Don't be ridiculous. [[spoiler:Later, they attempt to behead him, and his neck knits back together as they're pulling out the axe. And then his more conspicuous friends show up.]]

** 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.

* ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' had an episode where nuclear bombs lost in the Pacific Ocean ends up mutating a [[FishPeople Fish Person]] called Ragon (previously seen in ''Series/UltraQ'') into a gigantic and violently insane creature. Worse still, an undetonated nuclear bomb is precariously dangling on Ragon's scales...

* ''VideoGame/Ashes2063'' has bug-dog hybrids, cannibal mutants, animate plants and so on, all of which seem to thrive in radiation-heavy areas. [[spoiler:However, you can see and read snippets of such creatures showing up even before the nukes dropped such bug-dog sightings in pre-war printed media, which raises questions as to their real origins.]]

* ''VideoGame/MidnightFightExpress'': Clips of gameplay show barrels of nuclear waste leaking, and mutated people known as the Ratboys, which it's one purpose is to aid in Operation Neo Dawn by running amok in the City of Tomorrow and killing anyone in their path.
* ''VideoGame/NobodySavesTheWorld'': Due to the recent nuclear meltdown of a nearby plant, most of the denizens of the desert have been reduced to rather [[BodyHorror 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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* In the Japan Expo episode of ''Series/FlandersCompany'', during a TerribleIntervieweesMontage, the protagonists are confronted to a Murlok, a [[FishPeople fish/man hybrid]], and Hippolyte theorizes it's the result of a nuclear leak. [[spoiler:This doesn't stop [[CuteBruiser Cindy]] from turning it into sushi, however.]]
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** ''Literature/StarMansSon'' had mutant creatures in a post-apocalyptic world.
** ''Literature/NoNightWithoutStars''. A dog/wolf hybrid large enough to ride, for example.

* Played with in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII''. 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 [[FantasticNuke nethicite]] as a weapon.

** 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.

* Being inspired in part by 1950s sci-fi and taking place after a nuclear war, the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series has a bunch of these. Mutated animals include [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant roaches, mantises, scorpions (including the fearsome Albino Radscorpion), flies, ants]], geckos, [[RodentsOfUnusualSize 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 [[MultipleHeadCase 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 MutagenicGoo SyntheticPlague 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.

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* There were quite a few radiation-created monsters in Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s early monster comics, including a fairly adorable weed with mind-control powers and a ''[[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]]'' [[RuleOfScary made giant and mobile by nuclear radiation]].
* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk 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 ComicBook/SheHulk, 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.
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' 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 [[DoingInTheScientist is essentially magic]] (though as [[ComicBook/AlphaFlight Puck]] notes, science and magic are essentially two sides of the same coin). This form is what creates gamma mutates, and is [[spoiler:an emanation of [[EldritchAbomination The One Below All]]]].
* Also from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse: Nuklo, the radioactive son of [[ComicBook/TheInvadersMarvelComics the Whizzer and Miss America]].
* In ''ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977'', Godzilla fights [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti a yeti]] which has been turned by nuclear radiation to match it in size and strength.
* The French comic ''Les eaux de Mortelune'' (''The waters of Deadmoon'') had mutant animals. Lyon is now inhabited by [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant flies]], Avignon by [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant termites]] and Les-Baux-de-Provence by [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant telepathic praying mantises]].
* The BigBad of another French comic, ''Bikini Atoll'', is a horribly mutated and homicidally insane man, one spawned by the nuclear tests that were performed in the eponymous area during the 1950s. [[spoiler:The story ends with him being eaten by a mutated shark.]]
* Franquin's ''ComicBook/IdeesNoires'' has one comic 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. [[spoiler:Turns out her husband and children are [[BodyHorror horribly mutated]] and she spouted lies just because "There ain't a reason that we should be the only ones in deep shit!"]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Atomia uses nuclear radiation as part of her process of turning humans into her mindless superpowered {{mooks}}.

* ''Literature/Metro2033'': Looks like the heavily irradiated, post-nuclear Moscow became a gigantic nest of monsters, mutants and dinosaurs.
* In Creator/DavidDrake's short story "Men Like Us", a post-apocalyptic wanderer tells the people of a town that most of the stories about {{mutants}} were exaggerated. Babies with extra limbs or heads existed even before the bombs and even if there are more born now the wasteland has not been kind to them. Sure, there were dog-sized rats but they've mostly been wiped out. And Changelings? Men made immortal by the blasts despite being skeletonized in some cases? Don't be ridiculous. [[spoiler:Later they attempt to behead him, and his neck knits back together as they're pulling out the axe. And then his more conspicuous friends show up.]]
* In TheEighties pulp series ''Doomsday Warrior'', set in a post-World War 3, mutant monsters roam the InvadedStatesOfAmerica killing {{Redshirts}} in gory ways and being killed in turn by the title character, who of course is only mutated in ways that turn him into a manly SuperSoldier.
* Creator/JosephPayneBrennan's story "Literature/TheCorpseOfCharlieRull" concerns leaked radioactive waste turning a heart attack victim into a killer zombie.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'': [[Recap/TheXFilesS02E02TheHost Fluke man]]! More accurately called Tape man... Flukes and tapeworms are both flatworms, but flukes do not have scolexes. Tapeworms do. (But "tapeman" isn't nearly as cool sounding as "flukeman".)

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* [[Wrestling/BryanClarke "The Creation of Devastation" Adam Bomb]], who was billed from Three Mile Island.
* Unibouzu got bit by a radioactive sea urchin in Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel, which caused him to undergo a metamorphosis into a giant sea urchin.

* Although it was mainly based on hard science, the AfterTheEnd game ''The Morrow Project'' allowed for radiation-mutated animals that were treated as monsters.
* ''Mutant Future'' had mutated monsters.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' had at least one mutated monster: giant intelligent cockroaches in the adventure "Into the Outdoors with Gun and Camera".
* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'''s Urban Arcana setting has the Nuclear Toxyderm, a pile of nuclear power plant waste given life.
* ''TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated'' has the Zeka, nuclear Prometheans who have the ultimate in BlessedWithSuck. Not only do they suffer [[HatePlague Disquiet]], they spread ''fallout'' wherever they go, meaning they can rarely interact with humans and have a lot of trouble undertaking [[BecomeARealBoy the Pilgrimage]]. As a result, most of them go [[TheDarkSide 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 [[CameBackWrong 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 ''Film/{{Them}}''). It's also mentioned that the Wastelands created by Zeka tend to include huge, mutated invertebrate lifeforms.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' puts a corrupted form of radiation in the hands of minions of [[EldritchAbomination the Wyrm]]. In fact, nuclear fallout is regarded as somewhat holy by the Black Spiral Dancers (werewolves who fell to the Wyrm); one of their greatest sacred sites is a hive under the Trinity test site.
* ''TabletopGame/BleakWorld'' has the [[ButtMonkey Radio Zombie]] class of the [[GoneHorriblyWrong Experiments]]. They require a perfect 10 to keep up their human disguises, and get no bonus to keeping it up anyway. Furthermore, their magic and skills make it so that they are built to destroy their opponent, as such [[BadPowersBadPeople it is nearly impossible to maintain a good karma playthrough with the Radio Zombie]].

%%* Like their source novel above, ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' and ''[[VideoGame/MetroLastLight Last Light]]'' have multiple unpleasant types of mutants for Artyom to deal with.

* ''VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert1989'' suggests that this is what created the giant mutant ants.
* The fangame ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'' 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 [[SicklyGreenGlow black and green color scheme]], as well as having unique [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers 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 Cannon}}s in battle.
* ''VideoGame/Ashes2063'' has bug-dog hybrids, cannibal mutants, animate plants and so on, all of which seem to thrive in radiation-heavy areas. [[spoiler:However, you can see and read snippets of such creatures showing up even before the nukes dropped such bug-dog sightings in pre-war printed media, which raises questions as to their real origins]].

** "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 [[JacobMarleyApparel a different-looking ghost]].

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has Jimmy and his friends investigating a lake monster. Jimmy initially dismisses the claims, then spots his dad pouring radioactive waste into the lake, OhCrap.

* Putty-Thing and Fish-Guy from ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' are two teenagers who [[TooDumbToLive exposed themselves to radiation]] in hopes that they would turn into [[CaptainErsatz Insector the Bug-Man]], but they both forgot the bug. Of course, it's all deliberately outrageous and PlayedForLaughs.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': when the Eds tell a bedtime story to Jonny, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ed's]] version begins with [[AbhorrentAdmirer the Kanker Sisters]] eating (micro)radioactive mashed potatoes and turning into [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giants]].
* Toxy in ''WesternAnimation/TheTrashPack'' Mondo TV cartoon is a case of the ''toxic waste itself'' being the monster. Being a Trashie made out of a poorly-disposed item, he's the most dangerous, being a living toxic waste barrel still filled with his contents. He has to be detained by the robo-haulers before he hurts anyone.

* ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk 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 ComicBook/SheHulk, who just look like impossibly buff people with green hair 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-mutant animals over the years, too (mainly dogs), but they tend not to survive beyond a single issue.

* In "Mant!", the film-within-a-film of ''Film/{{Matinee}}'', radiation combines a shoe salesman with an ant. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2Lbhwl23M He gets bitten while getting a dental x-ray.]])

* [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon''. When Superman, who was raised in Soviet Ukraine, meets the Bizarro clone created by Lex Luthor, America's smartest scientist, for the first time, due to Bizarro and an American nuclear sub crossing territorial waters, Superman punches him, accidentally activating Bizarro's "telescopic x-ray vision." As a result, the submarine's crewmen get a severe case of radiation poisoning, and Superman comments: "birds became irradiated and dropped from the sky for fifty miles around."

* There were quite a few radiation created monsters in Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s early monster comics, including a fairly adorable weed with mind-control powers and a ''[[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]]'' [[RuleOfScary made giant and mobile by nuclear radiation]].

* Played to the darkest possible extent in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' run, where the creature known only as "Nukeface" is a perfectly normal human derelict driven insane by drinking nuclear waste... who ''still'' poses quite a threat to a small town unaware of his presence. He even succeeds in ''killing'' the protagonist [[spoiler:until Swampy figures out how to grow a new body]].

* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'' [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 Vol 1]]: Atomia uses nuclear radiation as part of her process of turning humans into her mindless superpowered mooks.

* ''VideoGame/ItCameFromTheDesert'' suggests this is what created the giant mutant ants.

* While we don't get mutations in the conventional sense, the nasty side of being exposed to something nuclear is that (human) parents are at a more increased risk of having children with birth defects, has a higher risk of developing cancers, or many other numerous health problems. And that's supposing one doesn't succumb to radiation sickness or cancer first.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': when the Eds tell a bedtime story to Jonny, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Ed's]] version begins with [[AbhorrentAdmirer the Kanker Sisters]] eating radioactive mashed potatoes and turning into [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giants]].

* In TheEighties pulp series ''Doomsday Warrior'', set in a post-World War 3, mutant monsters roam the OccupiedStatesOfAmerica killing {{Redshirts}} in gory ways and being killed in turn by the title character, who of course is only mutated in ways that make him into a manly SuperSoldier.

* "Nuclear Power Plant" skit by Creator/LesInconnus is about a nuclear power plant's director [[BlatantLies reassuring the audience]] about nuclear power being a safe source of energy. During his speech, the guy looks more and more diseased, coughs, pukes some sort of slime, and gets a third arm growing from his back. At one point, he's also interrupted by one of his employees, who looks and sounds exactly like your stereotypical [[TheIgor Igor]].

* Blinky the Three-Eyed Fish and some other creatures living in the lake near the Nuclear Power Plant from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''.

* ''Film/TheBeastFromTwentyThousandFathoms'' is the {{Trope Maker|s}}, although the bomb isn't credited with creating the monster (a dinosaur that had been [[HumanPopsicle frozen in Arctic ice]]) so much as bringing it to the modern world (by melting said ice during a nuclear test).
* ''Film/{{Them}}'' and its [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant mutated ants]] is probably one of the most well known movies featuring this trope.
* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' may well be the mascot for this trope. The [[Film/Godzilla1954 original incarnation]], whose backstory was used in most later movies, was originally a dinosaur mutated by an H-bomb. The [[Film/Godzilla1998 1998 remake]] uses a similar origin, but Zilla was mutated from a marine iguana instead.

* The mutated algae in ''Film/TheHorrorOfPartyBeach'' possess human corpses, which, for some reason, tended to look in practice like a muppet version of the ''Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon'' with a mouth full of hot dogs.
* Creator/BertIGordon loved this, whether it's the giant grasshoppers from ''Film/BeginningOfTheEnd, Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'', ''Film/TheFoodOfTheGods'', the horrible cyclopic giant from ''Film/TheCyclops'', or the giant ants who mind control people by farting pheromones on them from ''Film/EmpireOfTheAnts''.
* Creator/RogerCorman also had quite a few of them, like The Beast who Brings Death With Its Touch from ''Film/TeenageCaveman'', the three-eyed; horned; big-nosed mutant from ''The Day the World Ended'', the giant leeches from ''Film/AttackOfTheGiantLeeches'', and the titular creatures from ''Film/AttackOfTheCrabMonsters''.
* ''Film/TheIncredibleMeltingMan'', with an incredibly disgusting appearance done by Creator/RickBaker himself, who gets stronger as he melts ([[FridgeLogic 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 1957 B-movie ''Film/FromHellItCame'' ([[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article57.htm Head Injury Theater article here]]) features a tree-man named Tabonga.
* Tromie, the giant, mutant radioactive squirrel from the not-quite-serious ''Film/ClassOfNukeEmHigh'' series by Creator/{{Troma}}.
* ''The Last Days of Planet Earth'' a.k.a. ''Film/PropheciesOfNostradamus'' 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 [[BannedInChina banned in Japan]] -- where it was made.
* ''Film/TheBeastOfYuccaFlats'' has a man getting caught inside a nuclear test explosion, becoming the eponymous beast.
* ''Film/{{CHUD}}'' had homeless people in New York's sewers turned into mutant cannibals by illegally dumped radioactive waste.
* The original ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' includes a speculative HandWave about radiation from a returning space probe to Venus causing the ZombieApocalypse. This explanation is discarded in the subsequent ''[[Film/LivingDeadSeries Dead]]'' films, however.

* ''Film/AtomicShark'' features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a shark mutated by a nuclear submarine wreck]], leaving it covered with radiation burns, [[PowerGlows 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.
* The creatures from ''Film/NightmareCity'' a.k.a. ''City of the Walking Dead'' are actually {{Technically Living Zombie}}s mutated by the fallout from a nuclear disaster. While the radiation did give them enhanced strength, speed and immunity to bullets (except headshots), it also destroyed their minds, turning them in rage-fueled psychopaths and made them incapable from producing red blood cells which forced them into eating flesh and drinking blood of humans to survive. Most notably, the director says the film is not a zombie movie but an anti-war and anti-nuclear flick.
* ''Film/XTheUnknown'': X, descendant of the inhabitants of a radioactive Earth, from deep underground, emerges in search of a recent abundance of radiation. A [[BlobMonster gigantic dollop of earthen matter]], it can melt metal.

* The Daleks in ''Series/DoctorWho'' were initially explained in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks 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 RadiationImmuneMutants -- they aren't just unharmed by radiation, they ''need'' radiation to survive). Most of this was ignored in later appearances and they were completely {{Retcon}}ned in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E4GenesisOfTheDaleks 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.
* ''Series/{{Ultraseven}}'' featured two MonstersOfTheWeek 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 BreathWeapon of radioactive dust.
** An earlier episode had aliens called the Spell (or [[SpellMyNameWithAnS 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 ExiledFromContinuity when controversy about them resembling atomic bomb survivors popped up.
* ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' had an episode where nuclear bombs lost in the Pacific Ocean ends up mutating a [[FishPeople Fish Person]] called Ragon (previously seen in ''Series/UltraQ'') into a gigantic and violently insane creature. Worse still, an undetonated nuclear bomb is precariously dangling on Ragon's scales...
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E20Juggernaut 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. [[spoiler:It's actually a former crewmember who was [[BodyHorror horrifically mutated]] by the radiation, and became murderously insane as a result.]]

* The 1957 B-movie ''From Hell it Came'' ([[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article57.htm Head Injury Theater article here]]) featured a tree-man named Tabonga.

* ''Atomic Shark'' features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a shark mutated by a nuclear submarine wreck]], leaving it covered with radiation burns, [[PowerGlows 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.
* The creatures from ''Nightmare City'' aka ''City of the Walking Dead'' are actually {{Technically Living Zombie}}s mutated by the fallout from a nuclear disaster. While the radiation did give them enhanced strength, speed and immunity to bullets (except headshots), it also destroyed their minds, turning them in rage-fueled psychopaths and made them incapable from producing red blood cells which forced them into eating flesh and drinking blood of humans to survive. Most notably, the director says the film is not a zombie movie but an anti-war and anti-nuclear flick.

* In one episode of ''Manga/KimbaTheWhiteLion'', a grasshopper is mutated by radiation. Guess what happens? Well, here's a hint: the episode is titled [[BigCreepyCrawlies "The Gigantic Grasshopper"]].
* ''Manga/OdeToKirihito'' is ''almost'' realistic about this. Irradiated water causes gradual, painful, and horrible death. Less probably, it makes people [[{{Dogfaces}} look like they're part-dog]].

** ''Star Man's Son'' had mutant creatures in a post-apocalyptic world.
** ''No Night Without Stars''. A dog/wolf hybrid large enough to ride, for example.