History Main / MushroomMan

* That annoying little turn-you-into-a-bear sprite in the Russo-Finnish ''Film/{{Morozoko}}'' (a.k.a. ''Jack Frost'' as seen on [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]).

* The BigBad of the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' parody, ''Vegemorphs: The Fungus Among Us'' is a Mushroom Man called Fun Gus.

* There is a ComicBook/GreenLantern called Amanita, who is basically a mushroom man. He's named after a genus of mushrooms that includes fly agaric, death's cap and destroying angel.

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* That annoying little turn-you-into-a-bear sprite in the Russo-Finnish "Jack Frost" (as seen on [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]).
* Galwyn, a former wizard and now a singing mushroom in the 1986 movie ''Film/{{Troll}}''.

* The Franchise/CthulhuMythos has the Mi-Go, the Fungi from Yuggoth, a species of fungus-based aliens from the depths of that have established an outpost on Pluto. In their case, they're less Mushroom Men and more Mushroom Bat-Lobster-Things.
* In ''[[http://www.gamebooks.org/show_item.php?id=904 Endless Quest 6: Revenge of the Rainbow Dragons,]]'' the mushroom men. It's not clear whether they are myconids or a separate race, but some are apparently creatures that have been transformed into mushrooms while others have always been that way.
* The mushroom people from ''LIterature/TheMarvelousFlightToTheMushroomPlanet'' and its sequels.

* All versions of Bitshrum in adaptations of WebAnimation/{{TOME}}, which makes sense, as he's directly inspired by the VideoGame/SuperMarioBros franchise.

* ''Roleplay/RollToDodgeSavral'' features a race of mushroom people known as shrumen. While they don't have a nation of their own, they tend to be common in western Harkad and Nivani. Shrumen soldiers tend to wield axes more than any other weapon.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': Season 4's Obi-Wan undercover arc gives us the BountyHunter [[StarfishAlien Derrown]], a member of the Parwan species. In addition to the cap-like growth on his head, he's got tentacle-like limbs, three eyes, can [[ShockAndAwe produce electricity]] and [[LivingGasbag can float in the air]]. He can also take an electrolytic serum that would kill most creatures (doesn't apply to all Parwans, as it really depends on the blood-type).

%%* Dr. Viper's mushroom monster assistant from the ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' episode "Katastrophe" may qualify.%%How? Why is it uncertain?%%

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* An ''Series/UltramanTaro'' MonsterOfTheWeek, Mushra, has the ability to turn human citizens into mushroom people by contaminating the water supply with its spores, even affecting the ZAT members. It isn't permanent, thankfully, once Taro destroys Mushra it's victims goes back to normal.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': Shroomboom is a walking [[{{Cyclops}} one-eyed]] mushroom. His mushroom cap has straps on the sides, resembling an army helmet. In his backstory, he freed his people from becoming ''pizza toppings'' for the BigBad.

* ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'': Appears in Ringford as a miniboss in ''Leifthrasir''. It shifts between three forms. One is a tiny little mushroom with slight anthropomorphic behaviors which is fairly weak. The second is a hulking fungal giant that grows a sprawling field of [[PoisonousPerson poisonous mushrooms]]. The last is a dangerously agile and [[CuteMonsterGirl very attractive mushroom girl]].
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' has Toads, who resemble small humanoids with mushroom caps, though just how closely related they are to actual mushrooms [[DependingOnTheWriter Depends on the Writer]]. There's also the generally unfriendly Goombas, who more closely resemble mushrooms with BigOlEyebrows, CuteLittleFangs, and stubby legs, and the [[KnightOfCerebus significantly more unfriendly]] [[AlienInvasion Shroobs]] from ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'', who are mushroom-shaped aliens somewhat analogous to Toads.

%%* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'': The black and white fungus heartless.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Several Pokémon are based on mushrooms, and of them, Breloom and especially Shiinotic are the ones humanoid enough to qualify for this trope. Shiinotic in particular resembles a traditional myconid. Foongus and Amoongus are downplayed examples in that they look like mostly ordinary mushrooms except that they have arms, and Shroomish, who evolves into Breloom, has little stumpy legs.
* ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'': Though they don't have faces, the Ramblin' Evil Mushroom and the Struttin' Evil Mushroom from ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' and the Ramblin' Mushroom from ''VideoGame/Mother3'' are all animated, and sport a pair of working legs and an amount of psychic powers.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': One recurring enemy is Cappy, a BedsheetGhost-like creature that tosses its mushroom-shaped hat up in the air in an attempt to hurt Kirby.
* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' features fungoid alien races, and individual fungoid aliens are described as sentient colonies of fungi. Among the Fungoid portraits, most, even those with a [[HumanoidAliens humanoid structure]], are [[StarfishAlien bizarre]], but one fits, being [[http://www.stellariswiki.com/images/2/2a/Fungoid_massive_11.png essentially a fly agaric with eyes and tendril-arms]].
* In ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'', one of the Prince's Second-Cousins, Kinoko, looks like a mushroom with arms and legs (no face). She even has a BilingualBonus name, given that "kinoko" is the Japanese word for "mushroom" that just happens to end in the ''-ko'' syllable so common to girls' names.
* In ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'', there are various monsters, the spore and red spore monsters, which resemble mushrooms with faces and their caps pop open to reveal a huge mouth full of teeth. players can also get a hat that resembles a mushroom cap and look like one themselves.
* The third stage of ''VideoGame/SplatterMaster'', the Requiem Forest, have animated mushroom men as enemies, and concludes with a boss battle against a giant, five-headed mushroom man (whose individual heads all can release poisonous fungal spores).
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': The series has a few monsters that look like mushrooms with short arms, feet, and a face with a long tongue on their fat stalks. They first appeared in the [[VideoGame/DragonQuestIII third game]].
%%* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon''

%%* ''VideoGame/MushroomMenTheSporeWars'':
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has the [[http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Plump%20helmet%20man plump helmet men]] (plump helmet is a fungus, one of the dwarven crops).
%%* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'': The Shrieker enemies.

* In ''VideoGame/BrainDead13'', Lance will encounter these mushroom people in the garden maze in one death scene, and without warning, one of them will jump up so high, it will explode and spray him with its spores that can cause little mushrooms to sprout all over his body. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VkLRm1HrBQ This video explains it all.]]
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': Split Mushroom from ''Mega Man X4'', the only Maverick boss based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus fungi]], as the majority of the other Mavericks bosses are [[IntelligentGerbil based on animals]], alongside four bosses [[PlantPerson based on plants]].
** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'': The Mushy viruses. They're among the [[DemonicSpider more dangerous]] viruses you can run into, being very quick and possessing a difficult to avoid spore attack that messes up your controls if it connects, making it even harder to dodge or fight back.
* ''VideoGame/TwelveTailsOnline'' has the Fungon, Funga, and Fungko. The latter two are especially dangerous due to their status effects.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the denizens of Sporeggar, introduced in the Burning Crusade expansion. The race are called Sporelings, they evolved from the same Draenor fungus that the giant mushrooms in Zangarmarsh did.
* ''VideoGame/MapleStory'' has quite a few ''nasty'' mushroom monsters.
* ''VideoGame/TorchlightII'' has an entire series of these as enemies, ranging from tiny shrooms that swarm your characters, to enormous hulks of fungal matter that spew clouds of toxic spores and can take half your health off in one punch.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Several video games using the licence contain myconids, including ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'', ''VideoGame/IcewindDale'' and ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', if you create an above-ground "mushroom" biome, it will occasionally spawn mushroom zombies, and if you build a house in the biome, then activate hardmode, the house will eventually become occupied by the Truffle, a mushroom-man NPC.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'': You may occasionally run into Agarans. They initially seem harmless, but [[spoiler: are secretly agressive and spread very quickly through the universe, as seen in the codex ''"The Agaran Menace"'']]. They're also known for [[spoiler: keeping Florans hostage]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'': Miko is a sapient ninja mushroom being who's the LastOfItsKind.
* ''VideoGame/TapTapInfinity'': Varamond the Vicious sports a blue cap with green spots and horn-like protrusions.
* ''VideoGame/BraveHeroYuusha'': Mycon-kids and their variations, who are ambulatory mushrooms, and the inhabitants of Myconia.
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'': The Slavic dark god Chernobog is usually portrayed as a skull-faced, sword-wielding figure with a mushroom cap head, and numerous mushroom rising out from beneath his black cloak. As a god of destruction and darkness, the mushrooms represent decay and poison.
* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' introduces The Molded in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil7''. However, these Mushroom people are... [[BodyHorror Dif]][[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily ferent.]] To be more specific, they're [[EyelessFace devoid of any sight]], [[ArtificialStupidity are far too stupid to open doors,]] and are... [[OurMonstersAreWeird bizarre.]]
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has a [[BodyHorror body horror]] variant of this as an enemy group, humans who have been [[NightmareFuel infected by the corrupt spores]] in [[TheCorruption the Weald]].
* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' has Blemmigans, carnivorous ambulatory fungi spawned from a giant mushroom growing in the sea.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has a number of anthropomorphic mushrooms inhabiting the Fungal Wastes, including the Shrumal family of enemies and the talkative but elusive Mr. Mushroom.
* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' features animate mushrooms as Heartless types; White Mushrooms are harmless and can even help you if you give them the item or spell they're asking for, while Black Fungus are a vicious enemy.
* ''VideoGame/{{Smashroom}}'': The PlayerCharacter is a human who was turned into an anthropomorphic mushroom by the curse placed upon the forest.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has myconids, which are a race of mushroom people who have been in every addition since the first. They're considered among the more peaceful races of the Underdark and are able to release a variety of spores from their bodies, including telepathic spores that let them communicate with others and animating spores that revive corpses as fungal servants.

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'' have Jii, the elder of the underground plant tribe, who is a giant mushroom-humanoid whose face is obscured under his shroom cap (save for his eyes and GagNose).

These critters can be good or evil, and may or may not be sentient. Might work for the BigBad as PlantMooks. If they are competent fighters, expect them to use poison or spore-based attacks. They may or may not also live in {{Mushroom House}}s. Also, do not confuse them with PlantPeople. ''[[BerserkButton Ever]]''.

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[[caption-width-right:267:He's a real [[{{Pun}} fun guy]].]]

* ''Animation/GGBond'': In Season 3 episode 11, the gang discovers a mushroom they were grilling is sentient and spare it. The mushroom, Momo, turns out to be the only survivor of the mushroom people on Planet Dobudo, where the inhabitants lost their ability to produce spores. In the episode following that one, the pigs fight against a giant mushroom monster with a FacelessEye and large mushroom hands.

* There is a ComicBook/GreenLantern called Amanita, who is basically a mushroom man. He's named after a family of mushrooms that includes fly agaric, death's cap and destroying angel.

* There is a ComicBook/GreenLantern called Amanita, who is basically a mushroom man.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'', Magic Myc comes from a race of intelligent [[MushroomSamba hallucinogenic]] mushrooms with PsychicPowers who live inside the [[HollowWorld Hollow Earth]]. A downplayed example, however, as the "man" part is pretty tenuous: Myc isn't especially anthropomorphic and looks more like a jellyfish than a person.

* In ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'', Magic Myc comes from a race of intelligent [[MushroomSamba hallucinogenic]] mushrooms with PsychicPowers who live inside the [[HollowWorld Hollow Earth]].

* Dr. Viper's mushroom monster assistant from the ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' episode "Katastrophe" may qualify.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' features animate mushrooms as Heartless types; White Mushrooms are harmless and can even help you if you give them the item or spell they're asking for, while Black Fungus are a vicious enemy.

* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' has Kino the matango, a CuteMonsterGirl version.

* The little shiitake ayakashi from ''Manga/NatsumesBookOfFriends'' who befriended and went fishing with the powerful spirit Lord Shuon while he was traveling incognito and originally had no idea of just how mighty and important his new fishing buddy was.
* Played with by Yamawaro from ''Anime/HellGirl''. While he normally has the appearance of a boy, he's actually a fungus youkai who originally looked like a sometimes-humanoid mass of glowing mushrooms with a human face. Even with his human-like appearance, he contains the mycelia of a magical fungus that a doctor-turned-alchemist cultivated in his body in hopes of creating an elixir of life.
* In ''Anime/JewelpetTwinkle'', the Jewelland has an entire population of anthropomorphic mushrooms, much to the horror of Sara who is scared of the little gills on the undersides of mushrooms' caps.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': Humanoid fungi appear as monsters in both the first game and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfDragoon''.