History Main / FungusHumongous

* The SoBadItsGood [[AdaptationDecay decayed adaptation]] of ''SuperMarioBros'' has a giant fungal growth covering the whole city [[spoiler:that turns out to be the king, subject to a BalefulPolymorph.]]

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* ''{{Superfriends}}'' (1973-74) episode "The Mysterious Moles". While exploring underground, Wendy,, Marvin and Wonder Dog encounter a stream with giant mushrooms growing along the banks.

* {{Tintin}} encountered huge mushrooms in ''The Shooting Star'' (L'?oile myst?euse), which [[spoiler:promptly explode]], just like in the comic version mentioned above.

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-->''"Don't look now, but there's a humongous fungus among us!" ''

* ''TheElderScrolls 3: Morrowind'' has giant mushrooms scattered across the island of Vvardenfell, a lot of times in lieu of actual trees. The Telvanni Mage Guild has most of it's buildings in giant mushrooms and other giant plants.

* The SoBadItsGood [[AdaptationDecay decayed adaptation]] of ''SuperMarioBros'' has a giant fungal growth covering the whole city [[spoiler:that turns out to be the king, subject to a BalefulPolymorph. NoKidding.]]

-->'''Knuckles''': There are large jungle mushrooms on my island, too... but not this huge.

* [[HowDidWeMissThisOne How did we miss this one]]? The videogame ''Little Nemo: Adventures in Dreamland'' had giant mushrooms in the first level. Given this was based on an old comic strip, this troper would not be surprised if the original had giant mushrooms in it somewhere as well.
** Indeed, it did.

* ''UruseiYatsura''. At the end of his competition with Lum, Ataru pursues her in an area filled with giant (building-high) mushrooms.

* At the end of his competition with Lum, Ataru pursues her in an area filled with giant (building-high) mushrooms.

* The largest known living organism on Earth is a 2,400-year-old (we think) ''Armillaria'' fungus in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, USA. It covers an estimated area of 890 hectares (2,200 acres). Most of it is the underground hyphes, all you'll see above ground are the small honey mushrooms that sprout in autumn.

** Several of Gary Gygax's early modules had giant mushrooms and other fungi, including ''[=D3=] Vault of the Drow'' and ''[=EX1=] Dungeonland''.

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'', a plane known as the Beastlands that has groves of giant mushrooms.

* ''Jack and the Witch''. While exploring under the evil queen's castle Jack and his friends discover an area fulled with giant mushrooms.

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* ''Tass times in Tonetown,'' an early {{Activision}} game had these in a few sections of the forest maze. Linger too long and the spores could [[HaveANiceDeath suffocate you]]. Of course, if you take a hunk of it, it's used to solve a puzzle later. You can also eat it. If you do, the game tells you that you [[MushroomSamba Timothy Leary walks in, laughs at you, and disappears]].

** Module FRQ2 ''Hordes of Dragonspear'' had a cave with a forest of giant mushrooms.

** Various ambulatory monset fungi such as shriekers, violet fungi, myconids and so on.

* In volume four of the {{Moyashimon}} manga, the legion of ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus_oryzae A. oryzae]]'' mold spores (which Sawaki can [[SuperSenses see]] and [[TheDoctorDolittle speak to]]) that have taken up residence in his dorm room bother him while he's reading a manga... and then combine into a ''giant'' oryzae and ''sit on him'' when he won't pay attention to them. Sawaki also sees large concentrations of other microorganisms as room-sized miasma blobs with big grinning faces.

* Alan Dean Foster's ''StarWars'' novel ''Splinter of the Mind's Eye''. Luke and Princess Leia crossed a lake using the caps of giant mushrooms as kayaks.

* The ''{{Tintin}}'' story "The Shooting Star" involved a rock that mysteriously sprouted mushrooms that quickly grew to giant size and exploded.