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FerrousFaucet Since: Feb, 2014
2025-03-26 04:38:56

Nuclear Mutant for Godzilla

Radiation-Induced Superpowers for Hulk

Maybe also look at Phlebotinum du Jour if you're thinking of sci-fi works from a certain era which have a lot of radiation tropes.

Edited by FerrousFaucet
Scorpion451 (Edited uphill both ways)
2025-03-26 18:23:53

See also Atomic Hate and Radioactive Tropes (formerly I Love Nuclear Power) for indexes collecting tropes in this vein.

Genre-wise, these works generally fall into the overlap of Sci-Fi Horror (esp. the hubris of overreach form) and Survival Horror (both realistic and Weird Science radiation turn the outside world into a hostile environment to humans)

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