Comingsoon.net isn’t feeling so well… while we try and reverse this mutation, let’s take a look at the best movie mutants that aren’t a part of the X-Men. Check out our selections in the gallery below!
Over the past twenty years, the definition of “mutant” has lived and died with the X-Men. When thinking of a mutant, the mind immediately goes to the likes of Wolverine (or Deadpool). In the wake of Dark Phoenix and the end of the X-Men franchise as we know it now upon us, it’s important to reclaim “mutant” from these superheroes and redefine it: anything that’s been meddled with, modified, or mixed up, either genetically or medically, qualifies as a mutant.
When thinking of mutants with this full definition in mind, the possibilities seem endless. Cyborgs, botched experiments, resurrected creatures… the list goes on and on (not here, though—our list stops at 10). With this in mind, these are the best (non-X-Men) mutants in film.
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Blade Runner (1982)
A futuristic noir that tracks a man that may or may not be a human, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner sees Harrison Ford’s character Rick Deckard encounter all kinds of scientifically-modified humans. Its truly a hellish and bleak world, this version of 2019.
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Frankenstein (1931)
A classic monster movie based on the book of the same name, Frankenstein might be the most seminal mutant movie to date. This movie, about a scientist who creates a monster assembled from all kinds of different dead body parts, practically defined the genre back in 1931.
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Jurassic Park (1993)
While dinosaurs themselves aren’t mutants, the genetically-modified and cross-bred dinos of Jurassic Park are more than deserving of the label. Throughout this franchise, audiences witness scientists make the same mistake over and over again. Jurassic Park is the one that started it all.
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Robocop (1987)
Similarly to Blade Runner, Robocop deals almost exclusively with a robot-human hybrid recruited to police the city. Paul Verhoeven is one of a few masters of practical effects, and Robocop shows this off in full force.
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The Fly (1986)
Actually a remake of a monster movie from the Golden Age, David Cronenberg’s body horror film The Fly stars Jeff Goldblum as a man who takes a science experiment too far, thus transforming him into a disgusting human-sized fly. It’s a mutant movie of a different breed, but one that’s welcomed all the same.
