History Main / TheTreesHaveFaces

** ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'': When Snow White is fleeing through the dark depths of the forest, the trees appear to take on monstrous, menacing faces, leering down at the frightened girl and seeming to reach for her with gnarled, arm-like branches. As the forest becomes much more sunny and idyllic at the end of Snow White's flight and once she meets the forest animals, this seemingly represents a young girl's panic and confusion when lost in the forest at night turning her surroundings into horrifying parodies of themselves.

While stands of these trees can be found growing wherever spooky vibes gather, they are especially common in {{Enchanted Forest}}s and {{Halloweentown}}. In video games, they're often common scenery in TheLostWoods and BigBoosHaunt. If the trees have functional limbs in addition to the faces, you're likely dealing with {{Treants}}. More benevolent and aware specimens are likely to be a WiseTree.

While stands of these trees can be found growing wherever spooky vibes gather, they are especially common in {{Enchanted Forest}}s, {{Halloweentown}} and TheLostWoods. If the trees have functional limbs in addition to the faces, you're likely dealing with {{Treants}}. More benevolent and aware specimens are likely to be a WiseTree.

While stands of these trees can be found growing wherever spooky vibes gather, they are especially common in {{Halloweentown}} and TheLostWoods. If the trees have functional limbs in addition to the faces, you're likely dealing with {{Treants}}. More benevolent and aware specimens are likely to be a WiseTree.

* ''Series/HRPufnstuf'': There are talking trees on Living Isla. In the series crossover with ''Series/MuttAndStuf'', Pufnstuf gives two talking trees named Sid and Marty to the dog school.

* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfAncientDarkness'': When Torak and Renn go to the Deep Forest in Book 5, they encounter many trees in which faces have been carved and ''[[Squick human teeth have been placed]]''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster'': When the appliances stop for the night in the woods, Lampy finds a hollow tree they can use for shelter. But when he shines his light inside it, it reveals a scary face on the tree which scares the others. Lampy then sees it from outside and runs away as well.

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Weirwood trees, rare plants usually only found in sacred woods and in the Haunted Forest, do not naturally have faces, but followers of the Old Gods traditionally carve them into their trunks. These are usually snarling, scowling or otherwise meant to be frightening or unsettling. In addition, the wierwoods' naturally bone-white bark and red leaves naturally make for an otherworldly appearance even absent the faces, and the trees' dried, blood-red sap gathered around the roughly carved features further adds to their unsettling effect.

* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfAncientDarkness'': When Torak and Renn go to the Deep Forest in Book 5, they encounter many trees in which faces have been carved and ''[[Squick human teeth have been placed]]''.

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->"The trees in this forest are weird, aren't they? I've heard sometimes they smile wickedly... I'll tell you, if I see a tree smiling, I'm gonna run in the opposite direction!"

* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': Wierwood trees, rare plants usually only found in sacred woods and in the Haunted Forest, do not naturally have faces, but followers of the Old Gods traditionally carve them into their trunks. These are usually snarling, scowling or otherwise meant to be frightening or unsettling. In addition, the wierwoods' naturally bone-white bark and red leaves naturally make for an otherworldly appearance even absent the faces, and the trees' dried, blood-red sap gathered around the roughly carved features further adds to their unsettling effect.

** When Sam first enters the Land of Darkness, he is caught by a forest of sentient trees with faces who confiscate his flashlight, lunch box, and mask. The tree who holds the rope he is caught in [[WhiteSheep lets him borrow her rope and actually feels bad about him losing his things, encouraging him to explore the Land of Darkness to find them]].

* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': The Living Forest is a forest made up of trees with faces that frequently growl.

* ''WebGame/TrickOrTreatBeat'': Some levels contain a tree larger than most trees in the game. These large trees usually have a face on the trunk.

It's fairly common in fiction to see trees depicted as having faces, or at least face-like structures, in their trunks. This is typically inspired by how real trees can often seem to have faces due to patterns of knots, scars, holes or broken limbs suggesting eyes, noses and mouths, often in scowling, leering or exaggerated expressions.

* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': In ''Grandmothers and Other Fearsome Encounters'' due to some {{Transflormation}}:

* ''VideoGame/TheOtherAirisAdventure'': The Withered Trees in the Southwoods have black horizontal cracks in their trunks for a mouth and two smaller holes above them holding yellow pupils for eyes.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shrek}}'': The second game features trees with faces as regular antagonists. There are two types of them: those that spit fruits at the player and those that throw acorns at them.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''

* ''Series/HRPufnStuf'': There are talking trees on Living Isla. In the series crossover with ''Series/MuttAndStuf'', Pufnstuf gives two talking trees named Sid and Marty to the dog school.

* ''Series/HRPufnStuf'': There are talking trees on Living Isla. In the series crossover with ''Series/MuttAndStuf'', Pufnstuf gives two talking trees named [[Creator/SidAndMartyKroft Sid and Marty]] to the dog school.

** ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'': [=GLOBs=] look like tree stumps with a big hole in the trunk for a mouth and two smaller ones orange pupils for eyes.