History Main / WhenTreesAttack

* ''Franchise/MegaMan'': Wood Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' is a tree who was animated through robotics.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has you enter the Great Deku Tree as the first dungeon, who is the god of the Kokiri and a talking tree. He doesn't attack you, though the many Deku Babas and Scrubs will, presumably as a result of Ganondorf's death curse on him.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'': About halfway through the game, Exdeath, a powerful wizard who is the epitome of the EvilOverlord archetype, is revealed to be an evil tree. (More specifically, a tree that had had so many evil spirits sealed inside it that it became sapient -- and evil -- itself.)

* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The Blight has prehensile but otherwise immobile trees, which are also poisonous -- of course, everything in the Blight is poisonous]].

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'':
** The infamous Territorial Oaks, and their PaletteSwap Hostile Elder Oaks. These, by the way, '''[[MadeOfExplodium explode]]''' when you kill them. At the level you first encounter them, you usually survive only if you can press buttons fast enough to exit battle before your health meter runs out. Because of this, it's best to only fight them when they come in singles and, if other monsters are with it, to take it down last so that the damage doesn't count down for long before victory is declared, stopping the drain. And to make matters worse, they [[RandomDrop carry 1/128 items]] as well. Hope you enjoy pain, collectors!
** There's also the Woodoh of the prequel, ''VideoGame/Mother1'', and the Tree and Tender Loving Tree of the sequel, ''VideoGame/Mother3''. Most of them explode as well.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': Whispy Woods, a boss in the form of a living trees who attacks by blowing air at you. ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' introduces Twin Woods, which is basically two Whispys at once, and ''Kirby 64'' adds mobile saplings named Whispy Woods Jr. ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' introduces many relatives of Whispy Woods as enemies, namely Little Woods, Wicky Woods, Tower Woods, Floaty Woods, Wobbly Woods, and... [[OddNameOut Stumpee]]. ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' has Flowery Woods, a flower transformed by Taranza into a tree. ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheRainbowCurse'' has Whispy Woods take on a claymation form. ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'' has Clanky Woods, a [[UnwillingRoboticisation roboticized]] Whispy Woods. ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'' has Yggy Woods, an elderly cherry tree resembling Whispy Woods, and Parallel Woods, a counterpart of Whispy Woods from [[EldritchLocation Another Dimension]]. ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' has Tropic Woods, a palm tree variation of Whispy Woods with a [[BeardOfEvil sick goatee]].

* ''VideoGame/WarCraft'':

** In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Balance druids can summon treants to fight for them, while Restoration Druids can ''become'' treants without any offensive capabilities but improved healing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant'' has hostile trees as an enemy type, though they're largely unremarkable save for the spell-casting Halloweeches. An optional sequence involves the party being assaulted by seemingly half the forest in several waves of attackers.

* Music/{{Rush}}: The Maples screaming "OPPRESSION!" at the uncaring Oaks, in "The Trees".

** Someone once jokingly mentioned a [[SquareRaceRoundClass treant]] {{ninja}}. But think about that for a moment. In its home turf, you're looking at a [[UltimateEvil huge, deadly, practically invisible creature that can kill you one by one without anyone knowing what it is]]. Basically, ''Film/TheBlairWitchProject''.

* ''Literature/JakubWedrowycz'': One story features sapient walnut trees. They can't move, but due to [[ILoveNuclearPower radiation from the Chernobyl incident]] their walnuts have mutated into brains, so they can communicate via {{Telepathy}} and MindControl people, and intend to TakeOverTheWorld. They try to enslave the protagonist, but he slyly slips them some weedkiller, then comments that their plan was doomed to fail within a few months anyway -- walnuts fall off in winter.

--->'''[[EverbodyHatesHades Hel]]:''' Infection! She's mine!\\

** Durkon and the rest of the dwarves have a racial fear of trees. (Why else would Thor's lightning strike them all the time?) His fear is justified when he meets an evil druid with a small army of trees. His whole species hates trees to the point where they launch WARS against them. It's considered a major crisis when a tree root manages to break through the walls of the underground homes.

--->'''Hel:''' Infection! She's mine!\\

** {{Treants}} and the larger Ancients are guardians of nature and common allies of the Night Elves. The latter type serve as buildings and can be uprooted to fight or relocate the base.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Groot is normally a GentleGiant tree, but if you make him angry [[BewareTheNiceOnes he will become a most dangerous one]].

* ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'': When Till and Orchid run away from Grimes and his group, as well as Olive and Otto, they are attacked by the living vines that invade Sector 21 at nighttime. One knocks out Till and renders her unconscious, while another traps Orchid for a brief while before she frees herself by using sparks of her ''lambero'' energy.

* The Samurai in the first [[ChristmasEpisode Holiday Special]] of ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'' accidentally kicks a Snover and makes it cry. [[CubCuesProtectiveParent Then he gets chased by a bunch of angry Abomasnow]].
* Downplayed in ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. While in the ship's Air Garden, Captain Janeway is grabbed by a Soviet bioengineered carnivorous plant and has to be freed by Agritech Keshari, who explains that their natural prey is much smaller, usually tree snakes or small birds--they're kept on board for pest control and carbon dioxide conversion.

* ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings'': The LostWoods concealing the portal to Ta Lo is a MobileMaze made of bamboo that moves at great speed (for bamboo). Pockets open and close moving through the forest, which one must stay in while turning at the right times to reach Ta Lo. If you fail, the bamboo can effortlessly crush a car, and the forest is said to "eat you".

These tend to contribute to GaiasVengeance and may populate TheLostWoods. A PlantPerson or someone with a GreenThumb may summon these in battle. When facing these, [[KillItWithFire killing it with fire]] is recommended. A good source of ParanoiaFuel: as something innocuous you see all the time, it really shouldn't be fighting.

* In ''Film/BigFish'', Edward is attacked by trees while walking on the path in the forest alone on a road which had a warning sign, but [[spoiler: he knows he doesn't die that way, so they let him go]]. He ends up in the town of Spectre right after that.
* In ''Film/TheBrothersGrimm'', violent perabulatory trees are one of the many hazards in [[TheLostWoods the forest]].
* In ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'', one of the monsters in the horror staple roster is the Angry Molesting Tree. [[spoiler:When all the monsters break loose, we see its branches grab a guard and pull it offscreen, presumably to stick its sticks where they don't belong.]]

* ''Film/{{Cthulhu}}''. The protagonist nearly runs over ''something'' on a [[TheLostWoods backwoods road]] at night, but we only see a glimpse of a spooky leafless tree. A similar creature later tries to reach him in his prison cell -- these scenes were however cut to a minimum due to SpecialEffectFailure. Presumably the creature was meant to be Shub-Niggurath (The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young) from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. Most likely it was meant to be one of Shub-Niggurath's Dark Young, as they are usually described as looking like walking leafless trees, only the "branches" are actually tentacles.

** ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'': The trees of Tanith were mobile, although very slow; the danger was that [[TheLostWoods no path would remain in place]]. This is suggested to be Chaos taint. Although Tanith was lost the day the regiment Gaunt's Ghosts, Tanith First and Only, was founded, its member make marvelous scouts because of their ability to manage in these woods.

** The Wood Elves of [[TheLostWoods Athel Loren]] have access to a number of such creatures in their armies:

* ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': Dorothy and the Scarecrow pass through an orchard of apple trees -- possibly created (or animated) just then by the Wicked Witch.[[note]]She is briefly seen observing the two from behind one of the trees[[/note]] {{Squee}}ing in delight, she picks one only to have the tree slap her. Challenged by the tree, she starts explaining, and all the trees start talking at once. The tree that slapped her gives the page quote. Then the Scarecrow (the smart one of the group) tricks them into throwing apples at her, by snootily insulting them and disparaging their apples. Dorothy gets the apples, and in the process, discovers the Tin Woodman.