Mutant Zombies are opponents encountered alongside with the regular Zombies in the abandoned KROT-1 Labs within its lower regions, which takes place during the Bunker/KPOT/KROT/MOLE story arc during the entire Paranoia series.
Types[]
There are different types of Mutant Zombies.
- A dead Mutant Dog creature is found in a cage in the Vivisection labs beside the screaming Clone Zombie.
- Four Armed Zombies are encountered six times in the deeper parts of the bunker. As their name implies, they have four arms, and additionally, their cheeks have mutated to the point they became mandibles with rows of sharp teeth. The teeth in their mouths have also been affected, which have became razor sharp as well. While they aren't tough, they are very fast, capable of reaching Major and other armed forces in a certain matter of seconds depending on how far away they are from them. It can be assumed that they can leap great distances, though they don't really do this during gameplay.
- The Mutant Zombie that breaks out of the armory has one long arm acting as a third leg and has two spikes on each side of his body. He is slow, but his melee attacks are fast and deadly.
- The Mutant Zombie that comes out the elevator shaft is a female scientist with four legs like a Spider. She is very fast, and also durable, and can attack with either her claws, or even one of her mutated legs.
- The Mutant Zombie near the exit walks on the ceiling and has a long neck. The mouth has been heavily mutated into a circular mouth with sharp teeth in it, and has three spiked mandibles, one at the bottom, and two on the left and right side. He is the only Clone Zombie that happens to be a Mutant Zombie.
- The Brain Tree is organic mass that projects psychic brain waves that controls both the Zombies and Clones. One of its hosts is Professor Alexander Korolyov, father of Paulina and former head of KROT-1.
- In PARANOIA 2: Savior, the Striker is a fat, giant, monstrous Mutant Zombie with glowing red eyes, and is the first and only boss in the sequel. He is encountered within the branch of KROT-2, known as KROT-2B, when Major has finished trying to obtain the lost archives of the Mechnikov Research Institute during its life time, and when trying to escape the KROT-2B so he can bring them to Professor Vasiliy Pirigoff. The Striker is fast, and he is also immensely strong and tough.
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- According to Mikhail/BuZZeR during a developer stream with The Renegadist, the cause of the Zombies becoming Mutant Zombies is due to the R2D virus having mutagenic properties, which causes numerous degrees of body horror as a result.
- Twelve years back since the Paranoia Mod project was in full swing, there were supposed to be no regular Zombies/Clones at all. Instead, remodelled Gonomes from Half-Life: Opposing Force, had used to take their place as Mutant Zombies, and their sounds are shared from the Walkers, the Dog Beasts, and the Whitley-Thing all together from The Thing video game. They appeared in the 2004 prototype version of Paranoia we're to be replaced by the Four-Armed Mutant Zombies and also the Clones in the retail explained earlier, despite that both the Four-Armed Mutant Zombies and also the Replicants have three alternate head textures, as of evidenced in the prototype footage, here. Internally, their model name is zombie_myaso.mdl.
- Originally, there was going to be another Mutant Zombie that has a conjoined Mutant Zombie twin attached to the lower spinal cord, and is to be one of the test subjects that Paulina was working on in the MOLE-3 lab. However, under unknown reasons, the enemy was scrapped, and the model doesn't have any animations. The conjoined twin that is attached to the other Mutant Zombie's spinal cord, has a lower torso that appears to be heavily shrunken into a tubular rope, and has a gaping and stretching mouth. The conjoined twin's thumbs are still intact, as well as the middle and index fingers becoming long and dagger like, while the rest of the fingers have rotted away. The main Mutant Zombie, however, is yellow in terms of skin colour, the lower jaw is missing, and the lower torso is presumably amputated off. This particular Mutant Zombie has some parallels to not just the Poltergeists from the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series, but also the Lopers from the Return to Castle Wolfenstein video game by id Software. The model name for the unused Mutant Zombie, is br.mdl.