"Bonk! is full-a radiation, which as we all know is pretty great for givin' people superpowers."
— Team Fortress 2 — The Scout Update
"And so, kids at home, remember: if you're looking to get radiation poisoning, and I cannot stress this enough, get it through the bite of an animal, not a mister. It's the difference between amazing crime-fighting abilities and massive organ failure."
— Jon Stewart of The Daily Show on the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
Milhouse: [on Radioactive Man's Superhero Origin] So that's how it happened!
Martin: I would've thought being hit by an atomic bomb would've killed him!
Bart: Well, now you know better.
Martin: I would've thought being hit by an atomic bomb would've killed him!
Bart: Well, now you know better.
"That always pissed me off about Spider-Man. How Spider-Man got superpowers by being bitten by a radioactive spider. That is such bullshit. For starters, the odds of a random mutation being beneficial are astronomical, but more importantly, even if you did get one, you'd still have radiation poisoning!"
"The gamma laser toxic spill gave me powers. So I mostly fly around helping people understand what it's like to be dying of cancer."
"That's the thing about, eh, especially Marvel. Marvel's all, 'Radiation is AWESOME!' It's like back in the fifties. Like, no, no, that's not the lesson you want to teach kids."
— Down in Front on Spider-Man
"Welcome to Perdido beach, where our motto is: Radiation, what radiation?"
— Sam, Gone
Frylock: [The check's] admitting radiation.
Master Shake: But the good kind, right? Like how Spider-Man gets his powers?
Frylock: No, Shake, the bad kind, the other kind, the kidney-losing kind!
Master Shake: But the good kind, right? Like how Spider-Man gets his powers?
Frylock: No, Shake, the bad kind, the other kind, the kidney-losing kind!
"The Iron Hand, Red Vengeance, Col. Destiny, the Atomic Vulture, the Living Cyclotron, AtomBlast, Dr. Atomic, Dr. Nuclear, the Atomic Queen... God, there were a lot of 'atomic' villains running around in those days..."
"Whatever happened to them?" Redford asked. "As you said, they were all over the place in the 1950s, and then by the 1960s, they'd all dropped out of sight."
"What do you think happened? They all died of cancer, leukemia, and radiation poisoning. That's what happens when you fuck around with hard radiation without really knowing what you're doing."
"Whatever happened to them?" Redford asked. "As you said, they were all over the place in the 1950s, and then by the 1960s, they'd all dropped out of sight."
"What do you think happened? They all died of cancer, leukemia, and radiation poisoning. That's what happens when you fuck around with hard radiation without really knowing what you're doing."
— Whateley Universe, "Razzle Dazzle"
"Good ol' radioactivity! Lucky for us super-heroes there isn't some clown with a patent on it!"
— Spider-Man, What If? Vol. 1 #8
Dr. Hartman: Mayor West, you have lymphoma.
Mayor Adam West: Oh my.
Dr. Hartman: Probably from rolling around in that toxic waste.
Mayor Adam West: I see.
Dr. Hartman: What in God's name were you trying to prove?
Mayor Adam West: I was trying to gain superpowers.
Dr. Hartman: Well, that's just silly!
Mayor Adam West: Silly, yes. Idiotic, yes.
Mayor Adam West: Oh my.
Dr. Hartman: Probably from rolling around in that toxic waste.
Mayor Adam West: I see.
Dr. Hartman: What in God's name were you trying to prove?
Mayor Adam West: I was trying to gain superpowers.
Dr. Hartman: Well, that's just silly!
Mayor Adam West: Silly, yes. Idiotic, yes.
