"Are you saying that the Inevitable Atomic War was a good thing?"
"Indeed I am not," replied TuMok. "While intratomic energy brought great benefits to your species, it also had horrendous side effects: preachy Jane Fonda movies, incredible shrinking men, fifty-foot women who refused to do the washing up."
"Indeed I am not," replied TuMok. "While intratomic energy brought great benefits to your species, it also had horrendous side effects: preachy Jane Fonda movies, incredible shrinking men, fifty-foot women who refused to do the washing up."
He recovered consciousness to see Godzilla bearing down on him with all the fury of a mutant monster who's been woken by some idiot using an H-bomb as an alarm clock.
"Young man... I'm afraid you've suffered some of the worst of what our... Mighty little friend, the atom has to offer! It can power a city... Or level it! Human-insect mutation is far from an exact science. But there are some things we do know... You'll grow! [tsk tsk] Become bigger!"
— Scientist in MANT!, the film within a film
in Matinee
in Matinee"We should also fill our desert with monsters and mutants created by radiation. We all know that fictional radiation gives people superpowers or mutates them into deformed, but powerful monsters, unlike boring real radiation that just kills you. It kills you slowly. It's just terrible."
Homer: If we learned one thing from The Amazing Colossal Man and Grasshopperus, it's that radiation makes stuff grow real big real fast!
Marge: But didn't Grasshopperus kill Chad Everett?
Homer: Only because he tried to reason with him.
Marge: But didn't Grasshopperus kill Chad Everett?
Homer: Only because he tried to reason with him.
"These days they blame the atom for everything. Bad health, bad crops, bad weather. Now it's grasshoppers."
— Soldier talking about giant grasshoppers in Beginning of the End
Lang: What's the biological precedence for an energy projection system?
Vik: Could be from radiation.
Lang: What radiation?
Vik: The radiation that made them big.
Lang: That is not how radiation works.
Vik: Could be from radiation.
Lang: What radiation?
Vik: The radiation that made them big.
Lang: That is not how radiation works.
— Discussing giant radioactive ants in Atomic Robo
"Few living things survived the cleansing flames. Those that did thrived... and changed..."
