The idea of a mutant is a common trope in comic books and science fiction. The new phenotypes that appear in fictional mutations generally go far beyond what is typically seen in biological mutants, and often result in the mutated life form exhibiting superhuman abilities or qualities. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Individuals in the mollusk species Donax variabilis show diverse coloration and patterning in their phenotypes. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into mutation. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Marvel Comics

Main article: Mutant (Marvel comics)

In Marvel Comics, genetic mutation has been used as an explanation for super-powers since the 1950s([1],[2]). Mutants have played a major role in Marvel comics, particularly the X-Men and related series. In the Marvel Comics universe, they are a heavily-persecuted minority. In Marvel comic books, particularly those of the X-Men mythos, a human being who is born with genetic alterations that allow them to naturally develop abilities not possessed by regular humans is commonly called a mutant. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ...

DC Comics: metahuman

Main article: metahuman

Mutants play a smaller, but still substantial role, in the DC Comics universe, where they form part of the population known as metahumans. DC Comics does not make a semantic or an abstract distinction between humans (or superheroes/villains) born with mutations making them different and humans mutated by outside sources. All humans with powers are simply referred to, and treated as, one group collectively known as metahumans. Metahuman is a term to describe superhumans in the DC Universe. ... DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company. ... Metahuman is a term to describe superhumans in the DC Universe. ... Metahuman is a term to describe superhumans in the DC Universe. ...

Those who gain powers after their birth may be called as metahumans, but in the Justice League cartoon, the Royal Flush Gang were called mutants by the Joker because they were born with superpowers. Likewise, the mid-50's DC superhero Captain Comet was born with his powers and was described as a mutant. Batman's enemy Killer Croc has also been called a mutant. Justice League is an American animated television series about a team of superheroes which ran from 2001 to 2004 on Cartoon Network. ... The Royal Flush Gang are fictional characters in DC comics. ... The Joker is a comic book supervillain in the DC Comics universe. ... Captain Comet (Adam Blake) is a fictional DC Comics superhero created by writer John Broome and artist Carmine Infantino. ... Killer Croc is a fictional character in DC comics. ...

Also characters who were transformed through radiation or a mutagenic gas are sometimes identified as mutants instead of Marvel's term, 'mutates'. In the Static Shock animated series Virgil Hawkins was first described as one before introducing the term metahuman. DC's introduction of "metahumans" to the DC universe is most likely the result of the popularity of Marvel's X-Men.^{[citation needed]} This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Static Shock is an animated series starring Virgil Hawkins as Static, a teenage African American superhero with electromagnetic powers. ... The X-Men are a group of comic book superheroes featured in Marvel Comics. ...

Judge Dredd

In the Judge Dredd comic stories Mutants are caused by the effects of radiation after the Atomic Wars. All Mutants are banned from Mega-City One and are deported into the Cursed Earth Wasteland. This policy has left the mutants resentful and they often attack the city. Dredd himself has voiced doubts about the policy and when on duty in the Cursed Earth treats mutants the same as any other beings. He will however carry out the law when they enter the city. For the 1995 film, see Judge Dredd (film). ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... Mega-City One is a huge fictional city-state covering much of what is now the Eastern United States in the Judge Dredd comic book series. ... The Cursed Earth is a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD. Following the Atomic Wars of 2070 most of the U.S.A. became a radioactive wasteland. ...

In at least one version of this world's future, (see Strontium Dog and Durham Red) this will lead to the normals attempting genocide against mutants in the mid 2160's, and a long war called the Bloodshed in the 24th century. Strontium Dog is a long-running comics series featuring in the British science fiction weekly 2000 AD, starring Johnny Alpha, a mutant bounty hunter with an array of imaginative gadgets and weapons. ... Durham Red was originally created in 1987 as a female sidekick and lover for Johnny Alpha in the long-running British comicbook series Strontium Dog. ... Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic or national group. ...

Mutants in other media

Mutants also are a frequent topic in other comic books, and in many science fiction stories. A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

Films

• Abberation
• The movie version of This Island Earth (1955) features a mutant, not present in the original novel, as a menace to the film's heroine. Its large-brained appearance is now somewhat of a cliché of how mutants look.
• World Without End (1965) portrayed one-eyed mutants who dominated the primitive remnants of humanity.
• The original Planet of the Apes (1968) film series is about a world where mutated apes replaced humanity as the dominant species.
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) features radiation-scarred mutants with telepathic powers who worship an unexploded nuclear bomb.
• The Toxic Avenger (1985) is another mutated character.
• Hell Comes To Frogtown (1987) features a post-nuclear world in which humanity is endangered by a race of mutated frogs.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) franchise involves mutants as both heroes and villains.
• In Total Recall (1990), mutants are the descendants of Martian colonists inadequately shielded against cosmic rays. Some, such as Kuato, have psychic powers.
• The Spanish film Acción mutante (1993) is a dark comedy about future mutants who take up arms (those who have them) against "beautiful people".
• Freaked (1993) revolves around a bunch of mutated people in the form of freaks.
• Bill Plympton made an animated film called Mutant Aliens (2001).
• Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) features a race of mutant humans that share an extra DNA base with the aliens and most monsters. Many of them acted as soldiers for the Earth Defense Force's M Organization, but when the Xilians arrived, the leader managed to take control of them, having telepathic power over those with the extra DNA base. Godzilla himself is also a mutant.
• The remake of The Hills Have Eyes (2006) portrayed Jupiter's Clan as mutants caused by nuclear bomb testing.
• The Mariner of Waterworld is a mutant born with functioning gills.

Aberration (Latin ab, from or away + errare, to wander), a deviation or wandering, especially used in the figurative sense as: In ethics, a deviation from the truth. ... This Island Earth is a 1955 science fiction film directed by Joseph M. Newman. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... World Without End is the title of a relatively ambitious science fiction B-movie, released in 1956 by Allied Artists. ... This article is about the book. ... Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), is the first of four sequels to Planet of the Apes (1968), with James Franciscus, Kim Hunter, and Charlton Heston in a supporting role. ... Telepathy from the Greek τηλε, tele, distant, and πάθεια, patheia, feeling, is the supposed ability to communicate information from one mind to another, and is one form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Toxic Avenger, first released in late 1985, is the most famous movie made by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts. ... Hell Comes to Frogtown Hell Comes to Frogtown is a 1987 B-movie that was created and directed by Donald G. Jackson. ... Distribution of frogs (in black) Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - List of Anuran families The frogness babe is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning tail-less from Greek an-, without + oura, tail), formerly referred to as Salientia (Latin saltare, to jump). ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the 1990 live-action film based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. ... Total Recall is an American science fiction film released on June 1, 1990, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Ronald Shusett, Dan OBannon, Jon Povill and Gary Goldman. ... Cosmic rays can loosely be defined as energetic particles originating outside of the Earth. ... Psychic is a term relating to or denoting paranormal extra-sensory abilities or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by known natural laws, since they transcend the confines of our current understanding of what a human being is capable of. ... Acción mutante is a 1993 science fiction black comedy directed by Álex de la Iglesia. ... Freaked is a 1993 American film, directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, and written by Stern, Winter, and Tim Burns. ... Bill Plympton Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face. ... Mutant Aliens is a 2001 animated film by American filmmaker Bill Plympton. ... Godzilla: Final Wars (2004) is the 50th anniversary film in the Godzilla series of films. ... For other uses, see Godzilla (disambiguation). ... The Hills Have Eyes is a 2006 remake of Wes Cravens 1977 film of the same name, about a family who becomes the target of a group of mutants after their car breaks down in the desert. ... Jupiters Clan is a cannibalistic family in the The Hills Have Eyes films. ... This article is about the 1995 sci-fi film. ...

Television

• The Tomorrow People featured a homo superior race born to humans, that manifested psionic powers in adolescence and were discriminated against.
• In the television series Futurama, there is a race of mutant creatures living in the sewers of New New York City. In this setting, the mutations are the result of exposure to "radioactive waste, chemical runoff and good old American feces." The mutants are normally confined below ground, in a caste system. One of the main characters in the series, Leela, is eventually revealed to be a mutant.
• James Cameron's television series Dark Angel featured a large cast of mutant supersoldiers created by Manticore, a military genetic engineering project.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series and recent animated series
• NBC's series Heroes is based on the theory of evolutionary mutation in individuals, who can be traced through an equation which shows their DNA to be one with abnormalties.
• Godzilla: The Series had the original characters as well as the offspring of the creature from the 1998 film Godzilla battle various mutant monsters around the globe. See Monsters in Godzilla: The Series.
• The animated series Thundarr the Barbarian portrayed many mutant races and monsters in a post-apocalyptic world.
• On the series Stargate SG-1, the Goa'uld Nirrti used an alien device called a DNA Resequencer to mutate human beings, as part of an experiment to produce a superior host body for her symbiote. Though most of these subjects were severely deformed, some developed abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis and precognition.
• On the television series Mutant X, a group of genetically engineered superhumans are referred to as "New Mutants", presumably to distinguish them from naturally occurring mutations.
• Genesis II was a short-lived television series by Gene Roddenberry which portrayed genetically advanced humans enslaving normal humans 150 years in the future.
• The short-lived series Prey was about a new offshoot of humanity called the Dominants.
• The enemies of the ThunderCats were animal-like mutants from the planet Plun-Darr.
• An episode of the original Outer Limits series called, appropriately enough, The Mutant, showed a bug-eyed, telepathic psychopath born after a radiation storm.
• A Doctor Who serial called The Mutants was about humans on a distant planet who found themselves transforming into strange creatures. Recurring villains the Daleks are mutants created through genetic tampering by Kaled scientist Davros.
• The animated series Mutant League, based on the videogames Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey.
• The show Power Rangers: Time Force used mutant characters as their monsters-of-the-week. (See List of Mutants in Power Rangers: Time Force.)
• The television series The X-Files features several mutants over the course of the series, such as Eugene Victor Tooms and Flukeman. There are also numerous characters in the series with various unusual characteristics or paranormal powers whose origins are unexplained, some of whom may in fact be mutants.
• On the Adult Swim live-action series Saul of the Mole Men, there is a mutant Mole Person named Fallopia (played by Irina Voronina) who is lacking in fur, fangs, claws, and whose unusual body proportions and coloration make her a hideous freak by Mole Men standards, and a blonde, voluptuous knockout by human standards.
• In the 1994 Spider-Man Animated Series, Dr. Landon turned into a mutant after falling into his liquidy batch of mutant disposal. It turned him into a four-armed mutant that needed to feed off of electricity to survive. When he was defeated by Spider-Man, The X-Men and Landon's mutant assistant, he was turned into a half-mutant(i.e. his body was divided from human on the right and mutand humanoid form on the left).

The Tomorrow People is a childrens science fiction television series, devised by Roger Price and produced by Thames Television for Britains ITV network between 1973 and 1979. ... Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ... Futurama is an Emmy Award-winning animated American sitcom created by Matt Groening, also the creator of The Simpsons, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox network. ... The word Caste is derived from the Portuguese word casta, meaning lineage, breed or race. ... Turanga Leela (often referred to simply as Leela) (born A.D. 2980) is the primary female character in the animated television series Futurama. ... James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a three-time Academy Award winning director, producer and screenwriter. ... Dark Angel is an American cyberpunk science fiction television program, created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, which ran from 2000 to 2002 on the FOX network. ... For the Amalgam Comics character, see Super-Soldier. ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (known as Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland) is an American animated television series produced by Fred Wolf Films, which premiered in December 1987, first as a 5-part mini-series. ... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American animated television series set in New York City. ... The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... Heroes is an American Emmy Award-nominated [1] science fiction drama television series, created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... Godzilla is an American science fiction film directed by Roland Emmerich and starred Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria, Michael Lerner and Kevin Dunn. ... Thundarr the Barbarian was a Saturday morning animated cartoon show, produced by Ruby-Spears Productions. ... Stargate SG-1 (often abbreviated as SG-1) is a science fiction television series, part of the Stargate franchise. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... In the science fiction television show Stargate SG-1, the fictional character Nirrti is a Goauld System Lord on whom the Nirrti of Hindu mythology is based. ... Nirrti using the DNA Resequencer In the fictional universe of the science fiction TV show Stargate SG-1, the DNA Resequencer was a device used by the Ancients to make people more advanced. ... Common Clownfish (Amphiprion ocellaris) in their Magnificent Sea Anemone (Heteractis magnifica) home. ... Telepathy, from the Greek τῆλε, tele, remote; and πάθεια, patheia, to be effected by, describes the hypothetical transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. ... Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ... In parapsychology, precognition (from the Latin præ-, “prior to,” + cognitio, “a getting to know”) is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a person perceives information about future places or events before they happen (as distinct from merely predicting them based on deductive reasoning and current knowledge). ... Mutant X (created by Marvel Studios, a division of Marvel comics) is a television series that first aired October 6, 2001. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Genesis II was a 1973 TV movie created and produced by Gene Roddenberry and starring Alex Cord and Mariette Hartley. ... Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ... Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... The Dominants or Homo Dominants are a fictional splinter group of humanity that appear in the short-lived science fiction television series Prey. ... ThunderCats was an American animated television series developed and produced by Rankin/Bass Productions, debuting in 1983 based on the characters created by Tobin Ted Wolf. ... Opening titles – 2002 The Outer Limits was an American science fiction anthology television series. ... The Mutant is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. ... Doctor Who is a long-running award-winning British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The series depicts the adventures of a mysterious time-traveller known as the Doctor who travels in his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) time ship, which appears from the exterior... For the Brazilian tropicalia band see Os Mutantes The Mutants is a serial from the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. ... The Daleks (pronounced DAH-lecks; IPA: ) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Kaleds (or Dals) are a fictional race of humanoid aliens from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and the forebears of the Daleks. ... Davros is a character from the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, responsible for the genesis of the Doctors deadliest enemies, the Daleks. ... Mutant League is an animated series based on the videogames Mutant League Football and Mutant League Hockey which aired from 7 July 1994 to 24 February 1996. ... Mutant League Football is a football game that was released in 1993 for the Sega Genesis. ... Mutant League Hockey is a hockey game that was released in 1994 for the Sega Genesis. ... Power Rangers: Time Force is the ninth incarnation of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, based on the Super Sentai series Mirai Sentai TimeRanger, running for 40 half-hour episodes from February to November of 2001. ... The X-Files is a Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning science fiction television series created by Chris Carter, which first aired on September 10, 1993, and ended on May 19, 2002. ... Eugene Victor Tooms is a character on the X-Files played by Doug Hutchison. ... Flukeman is a fictional character in the television show The X-Files, played by Darin Morgan. ... Adult Swim, sometimes rendered [adult swim] based on its logo, is the name for an adult-oriented television programming network. ... Saul of the Mole Men is a live action show created by Craig Lewis, writer on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy and Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends. ... Irina Voronina (born December 19, 1977 in Dzerzhinsk, Russia) is a Russian model. ...

Video games

• Baraka's race from the Mortal Kombat series was referred to a mutants before the creators of the game gave them the designation of Tarkata.
• The first Fallout game features an army of super mutants as well as mutated animals and humans. The sequel, Fallout 2, also features mutant beings.
• The Resident Evil/Biohazard series features Hunters and other mutants created by viruses along with zombies.
• Timesplitters: Future Perfect features mutants with the ability to attack by projecting an arc of electricity and turn invisible for a short time. They are a prototype of the Timesplitters race. Timesplitters 2 features mutants in the Siberia level who were created by exposure to the Timesplitter remains.
• Cold Fear features zombie-like creatures that are originally humans, but are mutated by a parasitic creature that goes into their heads via the mouth. This game also features failed mutated dog experiments, invisibility experiments, and giant behemoths that resemble Tyrants (creatures from Resident Evil).
• Wolfenstein 3D & Spear of Destiny features mutants created by the manical Doctor Schabbs. These mutants had white skin, green clothes, black hair, red eyes, held cleavers in both hands, had a gun lodged into their chests, had black boots on and had purple blood.
• The MMORPG City of Heroes and its stand-alone expansion City of Villains allow the player to choose "Mutant" as an origin for their hero or villain.
• The game Command & Conquer: Renegade features a Nod plot to use Tiberium and biochemistry to make mutant supersoldiers. Another game in the Tiberium universe, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun, features mutants as part of the storyline.
• The Game Destroy All Humans! features a group of mutated humans who have had the Furon (alien) DNA in their brain stems unlocked, giving them powers similar to that of the Furons.
• Tomb Raider has mutants in the form of Atlanteans, with many variations, including crawling Atlanteans, flying Atlanteans, Centaurs and a giant legless Atlantean.
• In The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, Bart Simpson defends Springfield against the titular squishy beings.
• In the turn based strategy game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Homo Superior is a technological breakthrough that implies human evolution (mutation) in the form of complete symbiosis between the biological and mechanical, via centuries of nanocellular human-cybernetic integration. This mutation results in keener senses and heightened abilities, such as improved night vision and more rapid muscle response.
• The Half-Life series features zombies, mutated by alien parasitoids called headcrabs which attach to the heads of humans.
• In Ape Escape: Million Monkeys appears a raze of mutants Lead by Burobukoa, and his Lesser mutants: Burobu, Tentakuru, Mother Tentakuru, infants And The Baby

Baraka is a character in the Mortal Kombat fighting game series. ... Mortal Kombat (commonly abbreviated MK) is a popular series of fighting games created originally by the Midway Manufacturing Company. ... This page discusses the multiple species and/or subspecies/races found in the Mortal Kombat game universe. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Fallout 2 is a critically-acclaimed computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. ... This article is about the video game series. ... A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie or zombi is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ... TimeSplitters Future Perfect is a first person shooter video game developed by Free Radical Design and published by EA Games for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube video game consoles. ... The TimeSplitters are a fictional race of genetically modified mutants from the TimeSplitters series (See: TimeSplitters, TimeSplitters 2 and TimeSplitters: Future Perfect). ... TimeSplitters 2 is a first-person shooter video game that is available for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube game consoles. ... A group of actors portraying zombies in a film A zombie or zombi is an animated human body devoid of a soul. ... A parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it. ... An example of how an object could appear to be invisible through the use of mirrors Invisibility is the state of an object which cannot be seen. ... This article is about the video game series. ... Wolfenstein 3D (commonly abbreviated to Wolf 3D) is the computer game that started the first person shooter genre on the PC. It was created by id Software and published by Apogee Software on May 5, 1992. ... Spear of Destiny, often also called Spear, Wolfenstein: Spear of Destiny or just SoD, was first published on September 18, 1992 by FormGen Corporation and is the prequel to id Softwares first person shooter Wolfenstein 3D. In this game, like in Wolfenstein 3D, the player assumes the role of... An image from World of Warcraft, one of the largest commercial MMORPGs as of 2004, based on active subscriptions. ... City of Heroes (CoH) is a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCsoft. ... City of Villains is a massively multiplayer online role-playing computer game based on the superhero comic book genre, developed by Cryptic Studios and published by NCSoft. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... For the Amalgam Comics character, see Super-Soldier. ... Destroy All Humans! is a video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ. It was released for the Xbox and PlayStation 2 computer entertainment systems on June 21, 2005. ... For the movie staring Angelina Jolie, see Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. ... Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri (sometimes abbreviated to SMAC or Alpha Centauri) is a 4X turn-based strategic computer game created by Brian Reynolds and Sid Meier under the auspices of Firaxis Games in 1999. ... Half-Life For a quantity subject to exponential decay, the half-life is the time required for the quantity to fall to half of its initial value. ... Left: A headcrab from Half-Life. ... Left: A headcrab from Half-Life. ...

Comic books

In addition to the above Marvel and DC mutants:

• Cyberforce is a group of mutant cyborgs in Image Comics.
• Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• In Larry Hama's comic Nth Man: the Ultimate Ninja, the American Midwest is struck by a DNA-altering bio-weapon which turns ordinary humans into pale, fanged, boil-covered psychotic creatures called "moots", who crave human flesh.
• Several super-powered characters in the Justice Machine comic are said to be mutants.
• Mutant, Texas: Tales of Sheriff Ida Red tells of a town populated by bizarre mutant creatures.
• Ex-Mutants tells of a group of post-nuclear mutants surgically altered to look like "normal" humans.

Cyberforce is an action-adventure comic book created by Marc Silvestri. ... A cyborg is a cybernetic organism (i. ... Image Comics Logo Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. ... Eastman and Lairds Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a comic book that first appeared in 1984, written and illustrated by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. ... Larry Hama. ... The Justice Machine is a fictional team of superheroes originally created by Michael Gustovich and appearing in comic books from many publishers in the 1980s and 1990s. ... Ex-Mutants was a comic book series created by writer David Lawrence and artist Ron Lim along with editor David Campiti in 1986. ...

Music

• The David Bowie song "Oh! You Pretty Things" contains the repeated line "You gotta make way for the Homo superior."
• The Pete Shelley song "Homosapien" has the line "Homo superior / In my interior / But from the skin out / I'm Homo sapien too"
• The Mutants (Os Mutantes) were a Brazilian rock band of the 1960s. There are also several punk and rock bands called The Mutants.
• Mutant Pop was a short-lived pop/punk record label in the '90s.

David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, actor, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Oh! You Pretty Things is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album Hunky Dory. ... Pete Shelley Pete Shelley (born Peter McNeish, April 17, 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the leader of Buzzcocks, one of the first generation punk rock groups from England. ... Os Mutantes (IPA pronunciation: , Portuguese for The Mutants) was an influential Brazilian psychedelic rock band that arose out of the Tropicalia movement of the late 1960s. ... The Mutants are an important band in the history of San Francisco punk rock and new wave music. ... Mutant Pop Records is an independent record label founded in 1995 by Tim Chandler or Timbo. While the label was active, it released many full-length and extended play CDs as well as exactly 40 7 vinyl eps. ...

Books

• The Amtrak Wars, a post-apocalyptic science fiction/fantasy series by Patrick Tilley, features a race of mutant survivors called Mutes who suffer physical deformities and poor memory living as warring tribes.
• Slan is about a race of evolved superior humans and the persecution by ordinary humans in fear of their perceived potential dominance.
• In The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, wych-kin hunters such as Thaniel Fox are described as being mutants.
• In the pulp series Perry Rhodan many mutants where the children of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
• In the science fiction novels Deathlands and many others, mutants with unusual abilities are the result of a nuclear war.
• In the science fiction novel A Canticle for Leibowitz, mutants are the often deformed humans as a result of a nuclear war.
• In The Foundation Series, The Mule was speculated to have developed his powers because he was a mutant.
• In Tarzan Alive and Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, Philip Jose Farmer theorize that Tarzan, Doc Savage, Sherlock Holmes, and other fictional characters were part of a mutant family known as the Wold Newton family.
• A clan of golden-eyed mutants with limited psychic powers are the stars of a 4-part novel series written by Karen Haber and Robert Silverberg, starting with The Mutant Season, followed by Mutant Prime, Mutant Star and Mutant Legacy.
• The Psi-Man series written by Peter David describes mutant characters, some with psychic abilities.
• Robert A. Heinlein's fictional character Lazarus Long is said to derive his unusual longevity from a mutation.
• In Stephen King's Dark Tower series, a group of creatures called slow mutants are the result of a long-past nuclear war.
• In John Ridley's novel Those Who Walk In Darkness and its sequel What Fire Cannot Burn, super-powered mutants are called "metanormals" and have been officially banished from the United States by an executive order. Those who stay are hunted down by an elite police force called MTAC.
• Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb by Phillip K. Dick has several post-nuclear mutants, including some with telekinetic powers.
• Mute, by Piers Anthony, involves a future galaxy-spanning society where mutants, while socially shunned, are found useful for terraforming and other dangerous or specialized work; a rare few have powerful psionic abilities, and there are also hidden societies of mutant animals who have achieved (near) human intelligence.

The Amtrak Wars are series of books written by Patrick Tilley. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... Patrick Tilley (born July 4, 1928) is a British science fiction author who is best well known for The Amtrak Wars series of books. ... First edition by Arkham House. ... It has been suggested that Chris Wooding be merged into this article or section. ... The Wych-kin are fictional creatures that are born from the darkness within the Human mind and stalk an alternate universe London during Victorian times. ... Perry Rhodan is the worlds most prolific literary science fiction (SF) series, published since 1961 in Germany. ... The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter. ... The Deathlands is a series of novels that takes place almost a century after a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union in January 2001. ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by Walter M. Miller, Jr. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Mule is a fictional character from Isaac Asimovs Foundation Series. ... Philip José Farmer (born January 26, 1918) is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. ... James H. Pierce and Joan Burroughs Pierce starred in the 1932-34 Tarzan radio series 1964 Edition of Tarzan of the Apes Tarzan, a fictional character created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, first appeared in the 1912 novel Tarzan of the Apes, and then in twenty-three sequels. ... Doc Savage is a fictional character, one of the most enduring pulp heroes of the 1930s and 1940s, created by Lester Dent. ... A portrait of Sherlock Holmes by Sidney Paget from the Strand Magazine, 1891 Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. ... The Wold Newton family. ... Karen Haber (born in 1955) is an American science fiction writer known for both short fiction and novels as well as anthologies she has edited. ... At the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow, August 2005 Robert Silverberg (January 15, 1935, Brooklyn, New York) is a prolific American author best known for writing science fiction, a multiple winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. ... Psi-Man is a series of six novels writted by Peter David (originally writing under the pseudonym David Peters). The books were published starting in 1990 by Diamond Books, and the series was re-released by Ace Books in 2000 (under Davids real name). ... Peter Allen David (often abbreviated PAD) (born September 23, 1956) is an American writer, best known for his work in comic books and Star Trek novels. ... Psychic is a term relating to or denoting paranormal extra-sensory abilities or phenomena that are apparently inexplicable by known natural laws, since they transcend the confines of our current understanding of what a human being is capable of. ... Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ... Spoiler warning: Lazarus Long is a fictional character featured in a number of science fiction novels by Robert A. Heinlein. ... Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American author of over 200 stories including over 50 bestselling horror novels. ... The Dark Tower painting by Michael Whelan The Dark Tower is a series of seven books by American writer Stephen King that tells the tale of lead character Roland Deschains quest for the Dark Tower. ... Slow mutants are an offshoot of humanity in the post-apocalyptic world of Stephen Kings Dark Tower series. ... John Ridley John Ridley is an American film director, actor, inventor and writer. ... Those Who Walk In Darkness is a book by John Ridley, published in May 2003. ... Dr. Bloodmoney, a book by Phillip K. Dick, is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future that has been shaken to its core by nuclear attacks that killed millions and left even more sports, or mutated humans and animals, dwelling in all radioactive areas. ... Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982), often known by his initials PKD, or by the pen name Richard Phillips, was an American science fiction writer and novelist who changed the genre profoundly. ... Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ... Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob (born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England) is a writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony. ... Artists conception of a terraformed Mars in four stages of development. ... Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ...

Role playing games

• Gamma World was a post-apocalyptic gaming system which allowed characters to be mutated humans, animals, or plants.
• Mutant (1984) (with the later versions Mutant RYMD (1992) and Mutant Chronicles), Kult (1991) are role playing games from Target Games.
• Mutants & Masterminds is a superhero role-playing game by Green Ronin Publishing, based on the d20 System created by Wizards of the Coast.
• Mutants are essential to the Paranoia role playing game.

Gamma World is a science fantasy role-playing game, originally created by James M. Ward and Gary Jaquet, and first published by TSR in 1978. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ... Mutant is a swedish role playing game, made by Target Games that first came out in 1984. ... Mutant is a swedish role playing game, made by Target Games that first came out in 1984. ... Mutant Chronicles is originally a traditional role-playing game developed by the Swedish company Target Games and soon to be a film starring Thomas Jane. ... For the Polish band see Kult (band) Kult or KULT is a contemporary, fictional horror role-playing game. ... Target Games was a Swedish publisher of role playing games. ... Mutants & Masterminds (abbreviated M&M or MnM) is a superhero role-playing game written by Steve Kenson and published by Green Ronin Publishing based on a variant of the d20 System by Wizards of the Coast. ... For the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode, see Super Hero (Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode). ... This article is about games in which one plays the role of a character. ... Green Ronin Publishing is a company based in Seattle, WA, USA. They have published several role-playing game related products. ... d20 redirects here. ... Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ... Paranoia is a humorous role-playing game set in a dystopian future similar to 1984, Brazil, Brave New World, the downunder civilization of A Boy and His Dog, and especially Logans Run; however, the tone of the game is rife with black humor, frequently tongue-in-cheek rather than... This article is about traditional role-playing games. ...

Wargames

• In the game Warhammer 40,000, the many "impure" mutant offshoots of humanity such as abhumans are regularly persecuted and killed by the Witch Hunters of the Imperial Inquisition, aside from the occasional useful psyker.

Warhammer 40,000 (informally known as Warhammer 40K, WH40K, W40K or just 40K) is a science fantasy game produced by Games Workshop. ... Abhumans are a race of fictional characters in the miniature wargame Warhammer 40,000. ... When the people forget their duty they are no longer human and become something less than beasts. ... The Inquisition (The Holy Orders of the Emperors Inquisition) is a secret organisation in the Warhammer 40,000 universe. ... Psykers are individuals with psychic abilities in the Warhammer 40,000 fictional universe. ...

Other

• A December, 1953 article in Mechanix Illustrated Magazine contained an article called "How Nuclear Radiation Can Change Our Race", warning that in the event of an "Atom War", a mutant species of supermen might arise to assist --or to dominate-- humanity. The article was writted by "O. O. Binder", and opened with a two-page illustration drawn by comic book artist Kurt Schaffenberger, which shows bald, large-craniumed mutants either helping humanity with their superior intellects (in a small section of the picture) or dominating mankind as slavemasters (in the much bigger splash image).[3]