Suggestion: Nuclear Nasty

From Adventure Time, the goo monsters◊

Oh my...I'm good with that.

Those work, they look mutated and radioactive even being just kind of generic lumps.

I tried finding pics of Duke Nukem from Captain Planet, but nothing really usable.

The Sickly Green Glow is what really sells it.

I dunno... I don't thing it strongly conveys the radioactive component of the trope. Rather, it looks more like the cause is some kind of Mutagenic Goo. At least for me, when I think "radioactive", I tend to imagine things that glow in the dark.

edited 25th Apr '14 4:12:26 PM by peasant

The suggestion looks a bit too much like Sickly Green Glow for my liking.

I don't understand why this is an objection. Nuclear radiation in fiction is almost always depicted as a Sickly Green Glow, case in point: [1]◊[2]◊[3]◊ So, why is that a problem?

& Maybe it's 'cause I'm from the TMNT generation, but I associate both of those with radiation anyway.

Because Sickly Green Glow is a different trope from Nuclear Nasty. An image from one trope should preferably illustrate that trope, not the other one.

I'm not sure we can even find a pic that demonstrates the nuclear part of Nuclear Nasty without some green glow, sickly or otherwise. Can we never have a pic that depicts Trope A to help illustrate Trope B?

Take these Glowing Ones from Fallout [1]◊ [2]◊. Take away the green and you have normal ghouls. [3]◊ Without the green glow, they're just plain old mutants, source of mutation unclear.

Respectfully, I just feel the objections are asking for an illustration of cold that doesn't use the color blue, if that makes any sense.

Makes sense (although icicles aren't blue), but the green image is not a better illustration of this trope than the current image on Sickly Green Glow. That is my issue with them - it makes an effective duplicate.

I'm not saying that we need to find an image without Sickly Green Glow, but I think we should find an image that doesn't rely solely upon Sickly Green Glow for telling us that this is related to relation.

A radiation symbol somewhere, a nuclear silo, some indication that the sickly green glow isn't a mutagen, virus, or protoplasm, you know?

Mebbe Godzilla?

edited 26th Apr '14 8:09:55 AM by Larkmarn

Cold without using white then. But you do get the point. The duplication is unfortunate, I'm just not sure we have much wiggle room.

Actually, Godzilla may work. Either the above or any of the ones with his scales glowing and using his atomic breath.

This probably won't get picked, but boy did I have fun with it.

edited 26th Apr '14 10:34:26 AM by Earnest

Sadly not nasty. He might be what he eats, but he wasn't created by the 'nuclear'.

I like 12.

edited 26th Apr '14 10:39:17 AM by m8e

Neither was Godzilla, he used to be a lizard before atomic testing changed him.

Godzilla wasn't Godzilla before he was Godzilla.

edited 26th Apr '14 12:47:16 PM by m8e

Circular argument is circular.

And that's no longer Cookie Monster, he's becoming Uranium Beast. Or is changing color and switching to an all Uranium diet too subtle?

All good points raised. Obviously, Sickly Green Glow and Nuclear Nasty have a lot of overlap. I don't think it's a bad thing if an image illustrates both, as long as it's actually an example. There's also Blinky the fish.

edited 26th Apr '14 5:31:39 PM by Rethkir

Voting for zilla and blinky

lol

I have no qualms with 4.

I asked around, and everyone unanimously agrees that toxic waste in fiction is "green." So that shouldn't be an issue.

I think it's icky, and those are most definitely creatures.

However, I'll peruse the Fallout section of google images for an abomination.

edited 27th Apr '14 7:43:24 PM by Lakija

Sure but toxic waste =/= radioactive.

And that right there, is the problem 4. While radiation in fiction often glows green, not all that is green is necessarily radioactive. While the image does reasonably well to convey that the green goo is the reason of their monster-ness, it does not suggest at all that the goo itself is radioactive and not some other industrial waste product (which can also cause mutations, both in Real Life and in Fiction Land).

edited 27th Apr '14 11:52:11 PM by peasant

Exactly.

Yes, I agree, fictional radioactive waste is green. But lots of things are. Poison, non-radioactive mutagens, ghost goo... even if all radioactive stuff is green, that doesn't mean all green goo is radioactive.

I didn't even make the OP suggestion because of the green. I made it because it's actually an example. But I'm not going to defend it. If people want to try something else, than fine.

Perhaps a Glowing One◊ from Fallout 3?

That was already suggested in post 10. Seems like a contender. I think this is gonna come down to a crowner.