History Main / GaiasVengeance

%%* ''Film/TheHappening'' centers around this trope.

** Quite a few monsters are hostile to anyone who disrespects nature. Treants (who, not coincidentally, were based on Tolkien's ents) will punish or even kill anyone who maliciously despoils the forests they inhabit, unicorns will punish anyone who vandalizes a forest or torments its inhabitants, and dryads (in the 4th Edition especially) will do the same. Other fey beings are mentioned in various works, including the barkburr who will go so far as to curse the worst of offenders by turning them into trees as an ironic punishment for this sort of crime.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Wayward}}'', damaging the island's environment by cutting down trees, mining, or hunting causes your reputation to drop. Having negative reputation increases the amount of hostile creatures.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has an entire squad of colossal monstrosities called [=WEAPON=]s which are stated to be the planet's self-defence mechanism. Once awakened, they seek out and eliminate any threat to the planet's well-being with extreme prejudice. So, who do they go after first? Not the [[OmnicidalManiac guy who summoned a giant magical meteor]] to [[GodhoodSeeker destroy the planet so he could become a god]] OR the [[EldritchAbomination alien organism whose very presence on the planet perverts nature]], no, they go straight for [[SkewedPriorities the humans who've all but destroyed the environment]].
** One of the later games puts a strange twist on the trope by implying the WEAPONS are a twisted effort to save humanity. If the LifeStream decides the planet is polluted beyond hope, it ejects itself into space to find another. The WEAPONS are sent to kill humans so their souls are re-absorbed rather than being left behind. Gaia's Tough Love?

* ''Manga/{{X1999}}'': The Dragons of Earth are a loose confederation of Gaia's Avengers -- seven human magic-users tasked with undoing the seven Kekkai seals hidden around Tokyo, which would trigger the Final Judgment, freeing the planet from humanity's domination. They are opposed by the seven Dragons of Heaven, guardians of the Kekkai and of humanity's continued existence.

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': A fairly common motivation for {{Green|Thumb}} characters and factions, but specific examples include:
** In the "Invasion" storyline, the Phyrexians, [[DemonicInvaders demonic machine-monsters]], invade the world of Dominaria seeking to kill all life to secure the planet for its resources, whereupon it's revealed that Gaea, Dominaria's living spirit and the only true god in the plane, had been preparing for this by "growing" the monstrous kavu -- gigantic reptilians resistant to the Phyrexians -- beneath her surface for thousands of years in advance. (Unfortunately for the humans, elves, and others holding back the Phyrexians, the kavu find machine-demons and mortals equally tasty...)
** Zendikar has several lands that [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177545 get]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177520 up]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=171007 and]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177583 hit]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=177560 people]]. Unlike their standard-set equivalents, where this represents soldiers or monkeys or what have you storming out, these are simply large and bad-tempered bits of scenery that can with little to no warning turn into large and bad-tempered bits of scenery that grab flyers out of the sky, grind opponents under"foot", or simply pop up under an unprepared planeswalker. It turns out this "vengeance" is the plane itself fighting the [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]]. What's really scary is that Zendikar is ''losing''.
** In general, one of green's specialties is the destruction of artifacts and enchantments, best shown with [[http://magiccards.info/dtk/en/193.html Naturalize]], symbolizing the destruction of encroaching civilization.
** Specific cards fitting the Gaia's Avenger version of this trope include [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1054 Gaea's Avenger]], a Treefolk representing beings empowered by Gaea after the destruction of the forest of Argoth, and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=205033 Gaea's Revenge]], an elemental.
** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=397688 Primeval Titan]]'s card combines this with {{Toilet Humour}}: "When nature calls, ''run''."
** The green/white Archenemy deck is based on this, with the title of "Trample Civilisation Underfoot".
** Mirrodin featured elves fighting against the technology of the world for the sake of nature. Problem being, most the of the world was composed of ''metal'', so other characters [[https://scryfall.com/card/som/127/slice-in-twain are quite happy to point out their hypocrisy]].
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Green_Baboon,_Defender_of_the_Forest Green Baboon, Defender of the Forest.]] (And [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Yellow_Baboon,_Archer_of_the_Forest this yellow version too,]] who seems to be related.) Of course, we only have his name to indicate that he acts this way, but [[FanficFuel fanfic writers often portray him as such.]]
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* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': In ''The Message'', when Visser Three is chasing the heroes, Cassie calls out to the whale she'd been communicating with earlier and two humpbacks and several sperm whales respond to fight him. Her narrations says that it seems like the sea itself is fighting back.

* ''Film/{{Zoo}}'' is about animals attacking humans and hunting them to the ends of the Earth.

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': To fuel his growing war industry, Saruman begins to clear-cut the ancient Fangorn Forest. The devastation left behind by his logging teams is what motivates the [[{{Treants}} Ents]] to mobilize at last and tear his fortress apart stone by stone.

** Kong serves a similar role in ''Film/KongSkullIsland'' however rather than being a protector for the whole earth, which is Godzilla’s domain, the great ape is the typically benevolent ruler of Skull Island specifically, protecting the islands ecosystem and local human tribe from the Skull Crawlers, however he also brutally retaliates against the military when they start bombing the island and opens fire on him, in which case he becomes an Avenger.

** Kong serves a similar role in ''Film/KingSkullIsland'' however rather than being a protector for the whole earth, which is Godzilla’s domain, the great ape is the typically benevolent ruler of Skull Island specifically, protecting the islands ecosystem and local human tribe from the Skull Crawlers, however he also brutally retaliates against the military when they start bombing the island and opens fire on him, in which case he becomes an Avenger.

Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease, for the destruction of a man-made structure by a natural organism is ''not'' the result of some God, and examples for Gaia's Avenger would be more suitable for EcoTerrorist.

* ''Film/TwelveMonkeys'' features Gaia's Avengers releasing a plague that will kill all humans, including themselves, and return Earth to the care of animals.

* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': Planets evolve into a summation of its lifeforms, called an Ultimate One. Earth features two major wills/powers: Gaia, the "will of the planet", and [[BigGood Alaya, the "will of humanity to survive"]], purely because humans are not necessarily conductive to Gaia's goal of becoming an Ultimate One but are nonetheless her creations. Because humanity is becoming too independent, Gaia seeks to kill them and destroy their progress however she can, and Alaya fights against her. Both Gaia and Alaya have access to a third existence, the Counter Force, that applies a balancing mechanism and will also destroy anything that starts moving down a path which would threaten the planet. In general, individual humans will have to die no matter which side acts. Notably, unlike most examples, Gaia is unambiguously the ''[[BigBad villain]]'' in this scenario.