# Name a nuclear fictional characters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138 "2011-03-18T12:35:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/1 "2011-03-18T12:35:48Z")
Many fictional characters in the last 60-70 years, be it a superhero, supervillain, monster, or something else are often the result of some kind of nuclear accident, testing, bombing, waste, etc. How many can we name? I start with an easy one: Godzilla. ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/2 "2011-03-18T12:42:49Z")
[Radioactive Man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_characters_within_The_Simpsons#Radioactive_Man) (Is it a bad sign that we’re already meta?) ---
**Author:** ![MegaBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@MegaBee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MegaBee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/3 "2011-03-18T12:44:17Z")
Firestorm, the Nuclear Man ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/4 "2011-03-18T12:44:50Z")
Doctor Manhattan ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/5 "2011-03-18T12:45:29Z")
Does the Incredible Hulk Count? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/6 "2011-03-18T12:46:07Z")
> [@devilsknew](#): > > Does the Incredible Hulk Count? Absolutely. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/7 "2011-03-18T12:49:31Z")
Mothra ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/8 "2011-03-18T12:56:07Z")
Juliet Burke (LOST) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/9 "2011-03-18T12:56:40Z")
Captain Atom Sun Boy (powers granted by an accident with a power generator) Socialist Red Guardsman (Not sure how he GOT his powers, but he is radioactive because of them) Cyclotron, and by extension Al ‘Atom’ Pratt, and Albert Rothstein (AKA Nuklon, and Atom-Smasher) - Al being an enemy of Cyclotron, who gained superpowers from dealing with him regularly, and Albert being Cyclotron’s grandson. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/10 "2011-03-18T13:08:26Z")
Nobody mentioned Spider-Man yet? Also Daredevil. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/11 "2011-03-18T13:51:20Z")
Legion of Super-Heroes Sun Boy and Wildfire. ---
**Author:** ![Alka\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@Alka\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alka_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/12 "2011-03-18T14:06:50Z")
Fission Boy (a somewhat flakey superhero who tends to go to pieces when under pressure). ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/13 "2011-03-18T14:09:21Z")
[The Atomic Kid](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046729/) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/14 "2011-03-18T14:22:01Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#): > > [Radioactive Man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_characters_within_The_Simpsons#Radioactive_Man) There’s also [Marvel’s Radioactive Man](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_Man_%28comics%29). Firehawk and Multiplex from the Firestorm comics. Atomicus from Astro city. The Lord of Demons, Orcus of _Empire of the East_; a nuclear detonation transformed into a demon. The [Missing Link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_Link_%28comics%29) of Marvel. [Nuke](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke_%28Squadron_Supreme%29) of Marvel. The Devil, in [Hell-Fire by Asimov](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell-Fire). ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/15 "2011-03-18T14:38:18Z")
Duke Nukem from Captain Planet. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Scud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Tom\_Scud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Scud)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/16 "2011-03-18T14:39:36Z")
[Quantum and Woody](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/QuantumAndWoody), kind of. Link to their tvtropes page because their wikipedia page is terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/17 "2011-03-18T14:40:55Z")
At least one of Iron Man’s suits of armor was powered by a small nuclear reactor. Lex Luthor got cancer from prolonged exposure to radiation from the kryptonite ring that he wore. She-Hulk received a transfusion of Bruce Banner’s radioactive blood. The first Spider-Woman’s first origin story had her getting radiation poisoning as a child, with the resultant attempt to cure her resulting in her development. ---
**Author:** ![Yodalicious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yodalicious/32/8195_2.png) [@Yodalicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yodalicious)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/18 "2011-03-18T15:00:25Z")
Nuclear Man from Superman IV. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/19 "2011-03-18T16:30:00Z")
Suzy Fusion, as well as much of her family (we’ll see who else recognizes that one). And oddly enough, neither Nuklear Man nor Atomik Lad is radiation-based (they’re both more metaphysical). ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138/20 "2011-03-18T16:57:57Z")
The Nuclear Family from the original Outsiders comic book [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-nuclear-fictional-characters/575138.md?page=2)