List of mutagens in fiction

List of mutagens in fiction

Mutagens are a popular plot device in science fiction and video games, although they are usually not scientifically accurately represented. This is a list of creative works where a mutagen is featured. Where a work is represented in more than one genre, it is listed in the genre where it first appeared.

Comic books

* The Inhumans and Fantastic Four books from Marvel Comics feature a mutagen called the "Terrigen Mist."
* The "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" were supposedly created by means of mutagens, as well as their master Splinter and (in the 1987 cartoon) their enemies Bebop and Rocksteady.

Films

* In the Street Fighter movie, a bag of mutagens is used by General Bison to transform Carlos Blanka into a monster.
* In in 2007 film I Am Legend, a mutagen that was originally designed to cure cancer ends up wiping out 90% of the human race.

Television

* In "Disney's Gargoyles", a mutagen is used to transform humans into mutates; a cross between gargoyles, humans, and electric eels.

Video and computer games

* The Metroid Prime trilogy is based around Phazon, a highly radioactive substance, which is characterized by its highly mutagenic and corruptive properties.
*Tiberium, from the computer game series "Command & Conquer", is a crystalline expanding mutagen that mutates all substances into Tiberium, and subsequently killing most living organisms.
*In the PlayStation 3 game "", the invading Chimera, an alien race, infect humans with a mutagen to transform them into more Chimera.
*In the Halo series the Flood parasite produces a powerful mutagen, turning its hosts into either a "combat form" or "carrier form" to propagate the race.
*In the Resident Evil series the T-Virus is described as a mutagen exploited by the Umbrella corporation in it's biological warfare tests.
*In the Witcher game features mutagens. first in the formation of a witcher mutagens are given to enahnce the body to superhuman abilites, enchance scences. leaving the body immune to disease. but also infertile. some abilites are also gained by manufacturing mutagenic potions.

Toys

* In Lego's Bionicle franchise, the water surrounding the pit is mutagenic, causing mutation in most of the major characters that enter the water.


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