Giant Lepus
Dec 4, 2016 21:58:43 GMT -5
Post by The Architect on Dec 4, 2016 21:58:43 GMT -5
Giant Lepus
Height: Not Available
Length: Not Available
Mass: Not Available
Running Speed: Moderate
Burrowing Speed: Moderate
Powers: None
Weaknesses: None
First Appearance: Night of the Lepus (1972)
Human Kills: Not Available
Fight Record: None
Home World: Earth
Origin: United States (Arizona)
Type: Mutant
History: In the southwest, a plague of lepus threatened the livelihoods of hundreds. After the coyotes were wiped out, the lepus began to breed like wild. In a matter of days, the furry animals were able to devour entire crops! Researchers Roy and Gerry Bennet were enlisted to help combat the flood of rabbits. They injected a lepus with a unique chemical that would bring about drastic birth defects in the next generation, but the creature managed to escape his care, thanks to their daughter, before they could fully understand what type of changes would be made. In the wild, the rabbit began to breed with the rest.
In a matter of days, gigantic rabbits began to roam the land. Not only did their size increase, but also their appetite. No longer were the furry animals satisfied by vegetation, now they hungered for warm flesh! Stalking the night, they attacked innocent lives and fed before returning to the abandoned mines they called home. When they were discovered to be living in the dark labyrinths, Roy and the local sheriff ventured inside to find proof while explosives were planted at all the entrances, made by both man and lepus.
The pair barely managed to escape with their lives and proof before the explosives were detonated, bringing tons of rock and dirt upon the mutant lepus. However, the giant mammals were far from dead. They managed to dig their way out of the mound of rock and dirt and started to forage. Like an angry flood, the beasts waded into the town. Families sought shelter in basements while the murderous rabbits began to devour anything they could catch, human or otherwise. When morning came, hardly a soul was left alive in the aftermath.
The following night, the man-eating rabbits were on the move again. Following the highway, they headed toward the next town while survivors of the assault, including Dr. Bennet, began to plan a new counterattack. While the National Guard was called in, a huge trap was prepared using electrified railroad tracks and a large amount of vehicles with their high beams on. The creatures were corralled into the trap and unable to escape as the Guard began to blast the herd with gunfire and flamethrowers. In a matter of minutes, the huge herd was effectively destroyed, ending the lethal thread of the monsters. In the coming months, both normal rabbits and their natural predators, the coyotes, returned to the area, assuring such a nightmare would never happen again.
Height: Not Available
Length: Not Available
Mass: Not Available
Running Speed: Moderate
Burrowing Speed: Moderate
Powers: None
Weaknesses: None
First Appearance: Night of the Lepus (1972)
Human Kills: Not Available
Fight Record: None
Home World: Earth
Origin: United States (Arizona)
Type: Mutant
History: In the southwest, a plague of lepus threatened the livelihoods of hundreds. After the coyotes were wiped out, the lepus began to breed like wild. In a matter of days, the furry animals were able to devour entire crops! Researchers Roy and Gerry Bennet were enlisted to help combat the flood of rabbits. They injected a lepus with a unique chemical that would bring about drastic birth defects in the next generation, but the creature managed to escape his care, thanks to their daughter, before they could fully understand what type of changes would be made. In the wild, the rabbit began to breed with the rest.
In a matter of days, gigantic rabbits began to roam the land. Not only did their size increase, but also their appetite. No longer were the furry animals satisfied by vegetation, now they hungered for warm flesh! Stalking the night, they attacked innocent lives and fed before returning to the abandoned mines they called home. When they were discovered to be living in the dark labyrinths, Roy and the local sheriff ventured inside to find proof while explosives were planted at all the entrances, made by both man and lepus.
The pair barely managed to escape with their lives and proof before the explosives were detonated, bringing tons of rock and dirt upon the mutant lepus. However, the giant mammals were far from dead. They managed to dig their way out of the mound of rock and dirt and started to forage. Like an angry flood, the beasts waded into the town. Families sought shelter in basements while the murderous rabbits began to devour anything they could catch, human or otherwise. When morning came, hardly a soul was left alive in the aftermath.
The following night, the man-eating rabbits were on the move again. Following the highway, they headed toward the next town while survivors of the assault, including Dr. Bennet, began to plan a new counterattack. While the National Guard was called in, a huge trap was prepared using electrified railroad tracks and a large amount of vehicles with their high beams on. The creatures were corralled into the trap and unable to escape as the Guard began to blast the herd with gunfire and flamethrowers. In a matter of minutes, the huge herd was effectively destroyed, ending the lethal thread of the monsters. In the coming months, both normal rabbits and their natural predators, the coyotes, returned to the area, assuring such a nightmare would never happen again.