We are not talking X-Men here.  Contrary to popular imagination, man is actually quite a large animal.  In fact, he ranks pretty far up the top of the list, but for some reason this seems to have generated considerable resentment on the part of the human race, who are forever predicting the sudden appearance of giant insects, reptiles, lobsters, shrews, turtles, germs, rabbits, spiders, fish, snakes, gorillas, squid, ants, crabs, leeches, locusts, scorpions, alligators, praying mantises, rats, salamanders, gila monsters, octopods, snails, moths, bees, chickens, and jealous wives. 

Funnily enough, though most of these giant mutants were just schlock B-movie fodder, the oversized beetle above and the lobster to the left were semi-serious predictions of future dangers from the 1920s and 1890s respectively. 

And then there are the other sort of mutants; the super-intelligent post-atomic monstrosities encased in high-tech travel machines equipped with in-built ray guns like the Dalek here.  These tend to be extremely touchy with a penchant for shooting first and screwing the questions.  Had Jean Luc Picard come up against this lot the Federation would have saved itself a shipload of pensions. 

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