History Main / PlantPerson

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Groot is a [[PlantAliens tree-shaped alien]]. He's enough of a plant to be able to [[spoiler:regrow entirely from a small cutting after the rest of his body his destroyed, although the new Groot has none of his predecessor's knowledge or memories, and WordOfGod has said he should be regarded more as the original Groot's [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy son]] than Groot ressurected]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiP6W0ZCQRg From Hell It Came]]'': Tabanga (AKA Baranga) the tree monster.
* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Groot is a [[PlantAliens tree-shaped alien]]. He's enough of a plant to be able to [[spoiler:regrow entirely from a small cutting after the rest of his body his destroyed, although the new Groot has none of his predecessor's knowledge or memories, and ''WordOfGod'' has said he should be regarded more as the original Groot's [[SomeoneToRememberHimBy son]] than Groot ressurected]].

* The Taiwanese fantasy movie, ''Film/ThreeHeadedMonster'', has a sentient living ginseng-man who is wise beyond his years. Whomever feasts on his meat (or root?) will gain immortality, and he's being actively pursued by worshippers of the titular monster.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Jabe, from the Forest of Cheem, is a surprisingly sexy tree-lady.

They can usually claim without irony that they are "one with nature", living in forests and surrounded by life. They might be a mystical Dryad, a [[FreakLabAccident scientist who fell into a vat of chemicals]] ([[Comicbook/SwampThing or a mystical plant god who thinks he did]]), or a race of motile plants that just happens to look [[HumanAliens very human]] by accident, by [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith design]], or by ''[[EvilutionaryBiologist des]][[MixAndMatchCritters ign]]''. Despite generally having a human shape, they may or may not be able to casually pass for human. This is because they tend to have green or barky skin, leaves for hair and dress in {{Garden Garment}}s and/or plant-themed {{Clothing Appendage}}s. Interestingly, there is a [[SexyDimorphism big disparity]] between male and female [[VisualPun plant people]], as the page image shows. Perhaps stemming from the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical]] Dryad, [[VisualPun plant people]] [[OneGenderRace tend to be women]], and ''very'' [[CuteMonsterGirl attractive]] ones at that. Men, on the other hand, take more after trees than humans.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' :
** It's only rarely mentioned, but Piccolo (and indeed, all Namekians) fit this Trope. It wasn't revealed until ''Anime/DragonballZ'' that Namekians gain most of their sustenance via photosynthesis, and only require water and sunlight to survive, although they are ''capable'' of eating actual food. This also explains their ability to regrow lost limbs.

* ''Manga/LostWorld'', by Creator/OsamuTezuka, has Ayame and Momiji. They are plants given intelligence through bioengineering and then grown into a humanoid shape in molds before being covered with artificial skin so as to pass for human. Another intelligent plant shows up in an early ''Manga/AstroBoy'' story, a tentacled flower piloting a MobileSuitHuman.

* ''Manga/SecretsOfSpring'', by Piers Anthony, has Herb Moss, a member of one of three genetically engineered plant races on his planet.

*** When she first appeared in the comic books, she was merely a murderous seductress with a plant motif. Later on, she took on the persona of an EcoTerrorist with a little MadScientist thrown in. In the ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity, Poison Ivy has been physiologically part-plant since the Floronic Man's initial experiments. Initially, she only had to ability to exude plant-based poisons from her own body and was immune to all poisons. Through the years, she has developed the ability to control plants (size, shape and movement and, occasionally, behavior if one of her hybrids has a level of sentience) and her physiology has changed dramatically so that she now resembles a plant, down to the fact that her costume, once a leafy one-piece bathing suit, now consists of her own leaves arranged in an acceptable fashion on her body. She exhibits more or less plant-like qualities depending on the artist, but these qualities are generally constant. In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', she is described as having a link to a mystical/elemental being called "the May Queen", but this is rarely mentioned. A link to a force (much like the Speed Force in ''ComicBook/TheFlash'') called "the Green" is implied as well, and she can use this to communicate with others over long distances via plants.

*** In her limited series ''Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death'', Ivy manages to create [[MeaningfulName Rose, Hazel and, indirectly, Thorn]], human-plant baby hybrids she calls 'Sporelings', that are very much like her but were never human to begin with.

** The monstrous ComicBook/ManThing was a human scientist who fell in a swamp after injecting himself with an expy of the Super Soldier serum, thus merging with the swamp and becoming a mystical human-plant-mud hybrid.

* ''Literature/BurtonAndSwineburne'': At one point, [[spoiler:Swineburne]], after being infected with a deadly plant virus, falls into a pit and is revealed to have slowly transformed into a giant tree with his mind still completely intact over the course of centuries, at which point he gains [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard control over the Germans' plant-based weaponry]] and destroys them.

* ''Literature/LandOfOz'': In ''Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz'', the main characters run into a race of plant people called the Mangaboos, who are AlwaysChaoticEvil. The entire race is destroyed by a fire as Dorothy and her companions are forced to flee for their lives to the Valley of Voe.

%%* ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' has one in the book ''Stay Out of the Basement'', of which it is the main plot point.

* Downplayed with the Mark of the Vine in the ''Mapmakers Trilogy''. To have the Mark is to have a plant-like trait, e.g flowers in place of hair, but you're always more person than plant. The [[MagicalNativeAmerican Elodeans]] take it one step further: Members of the tribe not only have patches of green skin and [[GreenThumb manipulate their floral traits]], but can hibernate months at a time by covering themselves with soil while living off sunlight and water.

* In ''Literature/TopSecret'' (aka ''The Strange Thing that Happened to Allen Brewster''), a kid performs a [[ProfessorGuineaPig science experiment on himself]] that changes him into one of these, to the point that he begins to photosynthesize (becoming unable to tolerate food), and even grows roots in his feet that require him to be to be yanked out of the ground at one point. He decides to inform the government, [[spoiler:only to be told that his formula would bankrupt the food industry and put millions of people out of work]]. When he decides to tell people anyway, [[spoiler:[[DownerEnding government agents drag off the only other person to undergo the transformation and then start monitoring him to make sure he doesn't tell anyone else, presumably for the rest of his life.]]]]

* Creator/TaisTeng:
** ''Literature/DeWortelsVanHetWoud'' (''The Roots of the Forest'') is about a brother and sister who find out that their parents are actually trees who escaped from a divine forest so that they could become human. The brother discovers this when he sticks his feet in open ground in the moonlight, which suddenly sprout branches. However, they are pursued by the guardian of the forest, who himself is also a plant person (as the brother realizes that the man in the overcoat approaching their front door ''[[GlamourFailure doesn't have bending knees]]'', as if his legs were simply trunks).
** One of the female students of the ''Griezelklas'' is a nature spirit with a GreenThumb. When one of the villains curses her to turn back into her "true form", she becomes a tree.
* The Literature/{{Goosebumps}} ''Stay Out of the Basement'' has the protagonist's father accidently creating a version of him that part plant, and pretends to be the real him.
* In Princess Beard, one of the main character is a dryad(although she was first introduced with her sisters in book that came before). Dryad are humanoid plant with healing powers, but when they get a certain age, or use their healing powers, they turn into a semi-mindless carnivorous tree that would even eat their former friends, until they drank enough blood and return to being dryad
* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': Green Man, either a walking tree being or construct who's woven together. In either case they are malicious, either coming after the Tourists while moving or them being placed inside then burned or thrown into the sea. Tourists are advised to run away immediately on meeting them.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'': The majority of Maverick bosses series are [[BeastMan based on animals]] and mythological creatures (there's also one [[MushroomMan mushroom]]). However, the remaining four are based on plants. First, there's Wire Sponge[[note]]Wire Sponge isn't based on a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge sea sponge]] (which is an animal) [[CommonKnowledge as many believe]]. He is actually based on the luffa fruit, specifically ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luffa_aegyptiaca Luffa aegyptiaca]]'', which can be used as a sponge after it ripens.[[/note]] from ''Mega Man X2'', Axle the Red from ''X5'' (who is based on a rose), Tornado T'''onion''' from ''X7'' (you read that correctly. [[FlatWhat A Maverick based on an onion]], of all things), and Optic Sunflower from ''X8''.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'': EVA speculates that the End's unusual amount of stamina might be due to photosynthesis. Later, upon [[SkippableBoss one of his many possible deaths]], the End's skin actually does transform into bark.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'': Quiet has a similar physiology to The End due to being implanted with the same parasites found in his remains. In Quiet's case, she has to wear clothing that covers as little skin as possible to absorb water and sunlight.

* ''VideoGame/{{Oneshot}}'': Maize is a humanoid plant spirit who can cause vines to grow with her power. Her health started deteriorating when the sun went out, and by the time Niko meets her she's on the brink of death. [[spoiler: When she passes away, she leaves a seed behind that can sprout into a baby plant spirit if all the sidequest requirements are fulfilled.]]

* ''VideoGame/StarControlII'' has the Supox, a race of sentient, omnivorous plant people.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Poison Ivy created artificial plant people to assist her schemes in several episodes (plus the episode in which she developed a way to punish her enemies by turning them into [inanimate] trees). Then the ''ComicBook/BatmanAdventures'' spin-off comic said that the pale-skinned Ivy in the revamp was another artificial plant person, and that the real Ivy was fully human and off doing her own thing somewhere else.

** The ''ComicBook/GreenLantern1941'' villain Solomon Grundy is a [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombie]] whose body is as much plant matter as it was flesh. That's why the original ComicBook/GreenLantern (Alan Scott) finds it almost impossible to fight him. Due to his ring being ineffective against wood, it barely works on Grundy.

* Creator/DCComics:
** ''Comicbook/BlackOrchid'' was {{retcon}}ned, following the success of the ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', into also being a Plant Person. Noticeably though, while the later two Orchids are more plant than human, they can't control plants or flowers and their powers are primarily {{Glamour}} and pheromone manipulation.
** The Floronic Man, Jason [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Woodrue]], was originally a [[PlantAliens humanoid alien]] who gains [[WhenTreesAttack a tree-like form]]. In the ComicBook/New52, however, he's re-imagined as an American-born human who gains a tree-like form and is known as the Seeder.
** ComicBook/PoisonIvy is a borderline case, depending on the medium.
*** When she first appeared in the comic books, she was merely a murderous seductress with a plant motif. Later on, she took on the persona of an "eco-terrorist" with a little mad scientist thrown in. In current comics continuity, Poison Ivy has been physiologically part-plant since the Floronic Man's initial experiments. Initially, she only had to ability to exude plant-based poisons from her own body and was immune to all poisons. Through the years, she has developed the ability to control plants (size, shape and movement and, occasionally, behavior if one of her hybrids has a level of sentience) and her physiology has changed dramatically so that she now resembles a plant, down to the fact that her costume, once a leafy one-piece bathing suit, now consists of her own leaves]] arranged in an acceptable fashion on her body. She exhibits more or less plant-like qualities depending on the artist, but these qualities are generally constant. In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', she is described as having a link to a mystical/elemental being called "the May Queen", but this is rarely mentioned. A link to a force (much like the Speed Force in Franchise/TheFlash) called "the Green" is implied as well, and she can use this to communicate with others over long distances via plants.
*** However, in the ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' storyline, the police planned to take Ivy out (after she had seized control of Gotham City Park) with a powerful defoliant that would have killed all plant life in the park, including Ivy's monsters ''and'' Ivy herself, suggesting that she wasn't exactly human anymore. Whether it would have worked or not is unknown, because Ivy surrendered to save the children she was protecting. (Which caused Batman to answer the question pretty directly, saying that the act proved she was "still more human than plant.")

** The villain [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Solomon Grundy]] was a zombie whose body as much plant matter as it was flesh. That's why the original Franchise/GreenLantern (as in, Alan Scott) found it almost impossible to fight him. Due to his ring being ineffective against wood, it barely worked on Grundy.
** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': In some of his incarnations, Superman himself has quite a few plant-like characteristics, up to and including drawing actual sustenance from the Sun, not from food. Occasionally he likes to [[Series/LoisAndClark pig out on junk for the taste, though]].
** ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', a living mass of vines and vegetation.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': The New 52 version of Demeter is green skinned and partially made of plant material, including having leaves for hair.

* ''ComicBook/HybridForce'': One of the protagonists, Thorn, seems to have rose [=DNA=] in his system, ad his body is covered in thorns, and his hair is red. In Testify, one of the members is Venus, who's half-woman, half-Venus Flytrap.

** The mutant criminal Black Tom Cassidy, partner of the Comicbook/{{Juggernaut|MarvelComics}}, became one for a while. After doctors treated his wounds with a wood-like substance, a combination of a genetic virus and ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s mutated cells made his body nearly all plant matter. This benefitted Tom's mutant powers immensely, seeing as he had to amplify them through wood, and he was more powerful than ever before. Sadly, he was eventually driven insane from the change, and committed many murders in this form, including a young boy until the change was undone by M-Day. (He didn't lose his regular mutant powers, but his now-former friend the Juggernaut convinced him to turn himself in.
** Groot, king of Planet X, is a giant [[PlantAliens tree-shaped alien]] who was originally a 1950s MonsterOfTheWeek, and is currently a member of the Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy.
** The monstrous Comicbook/ManThing was a human scientist who fell in a swamp after injecting himself with an expy of the Super Soldier serum, thus merging with the swamp and becoming a mystical human-plant-mud hybrid.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMandrake'', a witch tries and fails to grow a mandrake to use as an ingredient, so she hires a farmer with a green thumb to do it for her. The farmer is shocked to find a plant that looks and acts like a child, and ends up growing attached to it.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhDsRp0EfbA The Mandrake]]'': In this short film, a witch tries and fails to grow a mandrake to use as an ingredient, so she hires a farmer with a green thumb to do it for her. The farmer is shocked to find a plant that looks and acts like a child, and ends up growing attached to it.

** ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'': The sylvari player race is a race of humanoid plants that are born from the Pale Tree fully grown. They resemble humans with bark or petal-like skin, and branches or petals for hair. The minions of the [[DraconicAbomination Elder Dragon]] [[BotanicalAbomination Mordemoth]] resemble distorted, zombie-like Sylvari, which is because [[spoiler:the Pale Tree is a Mordrem [[MookMaker Blighting Tree]] disconnected from Mordremoth's influence.]]

* ''LightNovel/GargoyleOfTheYoshinagas'' has Osiris, who is initially just a plant made by a [[MadScientist mad alchemist]].

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[[caption-width-right:215:The Swamp Thing and his wife, Abigail Arcane Holland.]]

In a story, they are usually a NatureHero, or at least have great value in nature. They may also be a hermit or sage that advises the heroes. In extremes, they may be a KnightTemplar of an eco terrorist... that can [[WhenTreesAttack call killer trees]] on a whim and [[TentacleRope snare you in vines]], all while making their EnchantedForest [[ClosedCircle inescapable]].

* MushroomMan: A humanoid (or at least intelligent being) based off of fungi. [[FungiArePlants Fungi are not plants, but fiction still treats the two groups as interchangeable often enough for them to fit here.]]

** Saibamen are this in a in a sense, considering they grow from seeds in the ground.

* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'', the Dryads are humanoid spirits of the wood, though the one in [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryI So you want to be a hero?]] could actually leave the tree she inhabited, whereas the ones in [[VideoGame/QuestForGloryV Dragonfire]] seem part of their trees.

* ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': The Pistachions are a race of pistachio trees that evolved sapience and humanoid figures after a BlobMonster Milo accidentally created in science class was absorbed by a pistachio tree, which then went on to reproduce and TakeOverTheWorld in the future until Milo and the others were able to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong.

* In ''VideoGame/TheTwistedTalesOfSpikeMcFang'', the shopkeepers are anthropomorphic parsnips.

* In ''VisualNovel/MyMagicalDivorceBureau'', one of the people being divorced is Nerium the dryad.

* Eth from VisualNovel/SablesGrimoire is a mandragora, essentially a humanoid flower. Her people have struggled to survive in a rather hostile world, as they are very susceptible to fire and can't run very fast on legs that are basically petals. Thankfully Eth herself is safe enough in the game's WizardingSchool.

** The series has both the Alraune (introduced in the first game) and the Dryad (in the fifth). Both are exceptionally powerful opponents, which is why they're chosen to be {{Bonus Boss}}es. Both also take advantage of their appearances (humanoid females) to fool careless explorers into thinking they're innocent entities.
** The Forest Folk is a sentient race of plant people who guard the Sandy Barrens in the first game, and will refuse to let any group of explorers advance further in the labyrinth of Yggdrasil. The Vessels in the fourth game, found in the Misty Ravine, are similarly reclusive towards humans, though this does change for the better as the game progresses. In the Japanese version of the games, these two races have the same name (Mystics), implying that they're the one and same (or at least related).

* ''Anime/SonicX'': Cosmo. Her species is called "''Seed''rians" for a reason.

They can usually claim without irony that they are "one with nature", living in forests and surrounded by life. They might be a mystical Dryad, a [[FreakLabAccident scientist who fell into a vat of chemicals]] ([[Comicbook/SwampThing or a mystical plant god who thinks he did]]), or a race of motile plants that just happens to look [[HumanAliens very human]] by accident, by [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith design]], or by ''[[EvilutionaryBiologist des]][[MixAndMatchCritters ign]]''. Despite generally having a human shape, they may or may not be able to casually pass for human. This is because they tend to have green or barky skin, leaves for hair and dress in {{Garden Garment}}s and/or plant-themed {{Clothing Appendage}}s. Interestingly, there is a big disparity between male and female [[VisualPun plant people]], as the page image shows. Perhaps stemming from the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology classical]] Dryad, [[VisualPun plant people]] [[OneGenderRace tend to be women]], and ''very'' [[CuteMonsterGirl attractive]] ones at that. Men, on the other hand, take more after trees than humans.

** PlayedWith: After turning almost everyone in Danville into this trope, the Pistachions are {{Ret Gone}}d away and everything turns back to normal...except for [[GrumpyBear Bradley]]'s right arm. There is no explanation for this other than RuleOfFunny, but he retains a vine-arm for the rest of the series, much to his annoyance.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'': The Wuts are an entire race of {{Plant Pe|rson}}ople.

** The woodling template, [[UpToEleven which lets you add this trope to any existing species]], and the topiary guardians, which are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin animated topiary sculptures.]] If ''D&D'' has examples of a trope, it has a LOT of them.