History Main / PlantAliens

** Manekians seem to also share some [[LizardPeople lizard-like]] traits.

->''"An intellectual carrot... the mind boggles."''\\
--''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld''

* The Migo (actually named ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Migou]]'' here, but so what) appear in all their Lovecraftian glory as one of the two main antagonists of ''CthulhuTech'', and they brought HumongousMecha with them.
* The [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=184711 thallids]] from ''MagicTheGathering'' are fungus-creatures that come in a [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=184485 staggering]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=116743 variety]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=111068 of shapes]] [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=130323 and sizes]].
* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition, a race of sentient plant people are going to be introduced in the Heroes of Feywild called "Hamadryad". They can alter their bodies during sleep to gain different abilities and the appearance of their foliage changes as they age from spring to summer to autumn to winter.

* A rare sessile example would be the titular aliens from the [[GoldenAge classic]] short story "The Lotos Eaters" by Stanley Weinbaum. In fact, their immobility is kind of the point. They're a race who wholeheartedly disbelieve in free will or life having any meaning -- and if you hang around them long enough, they'll telepathically convince ''you'' of it, too, pulling you over a DespairEventHorizon so that you [[EnthrallingSiren no longer think it's worth the bother to get up and leave their territory.]] When one explorer starts succumbing to this effect faster than the other, the first has to practically drag the second out of range of the creatures' telepathic influence.

->''"An intellectual carrot... the mind boggles."''
-->-- ''Film/TheThingFromAnotherWorld''

* The Citoac in the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse (see StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers). The Mabrae, another StarTrekNovelVerse culture (appearing in ''StarTrekTheLostEra'' and ''StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch''), are animals but live symbiotically with plants that grow on their bodies, and are tailored to each individual. Security guards have tough bark as natural body armour, diplomats and politicians grow exotic colourful flowers. These plants are essentially the Mabrae's clothes. They consider segregation between leaf and flesh barbaric.

* While not "aliens" per se, the [[OurElvesAreBetter Wuts]] from ''TheDreamstone'' are increasingly revealed to be plantlike in more than just their green and vaguely leafy-looking appearance. In one episode, we see a yellowish and aged-looking Wut step into a pool of water...and in the time it takes to pan to the water and back to his face, he becomes recognizable again as one of the main characters.
* ''SushiPack'', "From the Planet Citrus" sees the pack getting jailed for trying to offer flowers, chocolate (made from cocoa seeds), and a painting of applesauce to some orange (shape, not just color) aliens [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin from the planet Citrus]]. Moral of the day: Always do your research!

** In DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel "Doctor's Orders", the Lahit are basically walking fir trees. Upon seeing a group of them, [=McCoy=] snarks that [[Theatre/{{Macbeth}} Birnham Wood finally gets to come to Dunsinane]].

** Zelosians are basically Ridiculously Human Plant Aliens. They bleed green, have very vivid green eyes, and can live for a month on water and sunlight, but otherwise are basically human, down to digestive tracts and reproduction. Lampshaded by one of them in ''Literature/DeathStar'', when he wonders if any geneticists have been able to make sense of his kind.

* The enormous, demonic-faced marrow-on-wheels from ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld''. (To be fair, they never ''explicitly'' say that this one is a plant.)

** To be fair, real-life fungi are not only closer to animals than plants genetically, but they also have chitin (the same stuff that arthropod shells are made of) reinforcing their cell walls, unlike the cellulose of plants.
*** Then again, the Mi-go would still be even less related to Earth animals than plants, since - while their cellular structure behaves in a manner similar to a fungus - it's made entirely from exotic matter with properties that seem to defy the laws of physics (can't be photographed with normal cameras, for one thing), owing to the fact that they originally came from a parallel universe.
** A better Lovecraft example is the Elder Things in ''At The Mountains of Madness'' which are the original StarfishAliens and have tissues more like plants than animals.

->Our Helmsman [[note]]Mr. Sulu[[/note]] loves exotic plants; the plants all love him too\\

->Our Helmsman [[hottip:*:Mr. Sulu]] loves exotic plants; the plants all love him too\\

* The Elowan from the ''{{Starflight}}'' games.

* The VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}: Part PlantAliens, part social insects, [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter all cute]]. Not quite "alien" though: The setting of the game is heavily implied to be Earth AfterTheEnd.
** Also, the walking, delicious fungus Puffstool with mutagenic spores.
*** Wouldn't that make it a "Fungus Alien?"

* ''LostInSpace'' featured a somewhat-infamous episode entitled "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" with an alien carrot as a villain; some of the cast couldn't stop laughing on-camera at how ridiculous it was.

* The Monster Minds in ''{{Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors}}'', using giant vines to travel between worlds. Unique in the listed examples as being plant-cyborgs.

* The enormous, demonic-faced marrow-on-wheels from ''ItConqueredTheWorld''. (To be fair, they never ''explicitly'' say that this one is a plant.)

* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' parodied this beautifully when we find out that broccoli is alien. This is the reason why people in that episode were suddenly turning into broccoli.
** [[RefugeInAudacity But the space broccoli was a metaphor for AIDS!]]
* The title character in episode 2 of ''UltraSeven'', "The Green Terror", is this.
* A number of monsters from PowerRangers are humanoid plants, such as the Bloom of Doom from ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers''.

* The Citoac in the StarTrekNovelVerse (see StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers). The Mabrae, another StarTrekNovelVerse culture (appearing in ''StarTrekTheLostEra'' and ''StarTrekTheNextGenerationRelaunch''), are animals but live symbiotically with plants that grow on their bodies, and are tailored to each individual. Security guards have tough bark as natural body armour, diplomats and politicians grow exotic colourful flowers. These plants are essentially the Mabrae's clothes. They consider segregation between leaf and flesh barbaric.

* One verse of Leslie Fish's classic ''StarTrek'' FilkSong "Music/BannedFromArgo" is:

* The Thorian from MassEffect is one huge plant-like... thing that can [[TheVirus control sapient creatures through spores]].

* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition, a race of sentient plant people are going to be introduced in the 3rd handbook called "Hamadryad". They can alter their bodies during sleep to gain different abilities and the appearance of their foliage changes as they age from spring to summer to autumn to winter.
** The "Wilden" existed in the 3rd edition where they were called "Killoren" and were explicitly a plant-based member of TheFairFolk.

* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th edition, a race of sentient plant people are going to be introduced in the 3rd handbook called "Wilden". They can alter their bodies during sleep to gain different abilities and the appearance of their foliage changes as they age from spring to summer to autumn to winter.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has the "[[PunnyName timber wolves]]" from "Family Appreciation Day", wolf-like plant creatures that dwell in the Everfree Forest.

* In AlanDeanFoster's ''Cat-A-Lyst'', the protagonists meet up with a starfaring band of treelike aliens who possess genius-level intelligence but are somewhat lacking in the common-sense department.

* ''{{Master Of Orion}} 3'' had the Audrieh and Phaigour as minor non-playable races. Their exact natures were never really clarified beyond being categorized as "Plant" and "Fungal" respectively.