Alpha Wolf
Giant Ants: THEM!
Well thanks to human ingenuity they probably created more monsters in the 50s with their nuclear tests. Gigantism and mutation were a big problem during that era. Along with giant spiders and mantises, the biggest problem was when an ant colony was struck by massive radiation and went undetected in the desert for a couple of years and wasn't discovered until giant ants began carrying off small children from nearby towns to their colony.
Granted they were never as big as people saw in the movies (Such a size would cause them to collapse underneath their own weight) but they did grow to be as big as humans. In fact they took on the look of "Ant centaurs". A torso with two arms and a back end with four legs, still all very antlike though. Initially they weren't very intelligent, but they grew smarter as time went on. This caused even greater problems for humans later.
Now the "Ant people" weren't malevolent per say, but they just had a different outlook on life just like any other culture, and they saw humans (And anything else that went near their colony) as a source of food. Naturally humans and insects have never gotten along so it was only a matter of time before all out war was declared. The war might've lasted longer if the Ant people were able to adapt a little better, and if humans hadn't had a severe tech advantage. The humans were determined to wipe THEM out before they could get the numerical advantage. This of course was done by blowing up their queen thus ending any chance of THEM ever conquering the Earth. The remaining Ant people would've probably been mopped up, but by this time it was the 60s and civil rights and shit came about. Hippies started saying that they had the right to exist on their own land and such, so the remaining ones were eventually allowed to live, and in time they assimilated into society like everyone else. Nobody was sure of their life span, but the government still perceived THEM as a legitimate potential threat and didn't really want to take the chance that one of those ants could turn into another queen somehow, so a lot got drafted into the Vietnam War to "thin out" their population. (Plus they made excellent soldiers, and were especially helpful in flushing out Viet Cong tunnels)
Needless to say there aren't too many Ant People left anymore, the ones that are still alive tend to keep to themselves and suspicious of everyone and anyone that doesn't have six limbs.
Any chance of THEM making a "come back" is highly unlikely.
Well thanks to human ingenuity they probably created more monsters in the 50s with their nuclear tests. Gigantism and mutation were a big problem during that era. Along with giant spiders and mantises, the biggest problem was when an ant colony was struck by massive radiation and went undetected in the desert for a couple of years and wasn't discovered until giant ants began carrying off small children from nearby towns to their colony.
Granted they were never as big as people saw in the movies (Such a size would cause them to collapse underneath their own weight) but they did grow to be as big as humans. In fact they took on the look of "Ant centaurs". A torso with two arms and a back end with four legs, still all very antlike though. Initially they weren't very intelligent, but they grew smarter as time went on. This caused even greater problems for humans later.
Now the "Ant people" weren't malevolent per say, but they just had a different outlook on life just like any other culture, and they saw humans (And anything else that went near their colony) as a source of food. Naturally humans and insects have never gotten along so it was only a matter of time before all out war was declared. The war might've lasted longer if the Ant people were able to adapt a little better, and if humans hadn't had a severe tech advantage. The humans were determined to wipe THEM out before they could get the numerical advantage. This of course was done by blowing up their queen thus ending any chance of THEM ever conquering the Earth. The remaining Ant people would've probably been mopped up, but by this time it was the 60s and civil rights and shit came about. Hippies started saying that they had the right to exist on their own land and such, so the remaining ones were eventually allowed to live, and in time they assimilated into society like everyone else. Nobody was sure of their life span, but the government still perceived THEM as a legitimate potential threat and didn't really want to take the chance that one of those ants could turn into another queen somehow, so a lot got drafted into the Vietnam War to "thin out" their population. (Plus they made excellent soldiers, and were especially helpful in flushing out Viet Cong tunnels)
Needless to say there aren't too many Ant People left anymore, the ones that are still alive tend to keep to themselves and suspicious of everyone and anyone that doesn't have six limbs.
Any chance of THEM making a "come back" is highly unlikely.