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14	[[quoteright:260:[[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/plant_5.png]]]]
15	[[caption-width-right:260:Agent Pink, the {{Mayincatec}} forerunner to Agent Orange. ]]
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17	->''"Hey, check out the palm tree! It only gets sick when I cook brunch! How's that for a coincidence, Professor? With all your precious science!"''
18	-->-- '''Bender''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
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20	Need to show how the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Phlebotinum du Jour]] affects living things, but the character isn't [[KickTheDog evil enough]] to [[PlayingWithSyringes test it on an animal]]? Well, plants are fair game. Therefore, plants tend to get mistreated a lot in fiction.
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22	Are you a [[MadScientist scientist]] who wants to test your new [[SuperSerum mystery formula]]? Just take an eyedropper and drop a few drops in the soil of your philodendron. If it's a [[CureForCancer miracle cure]], the plant will go from wilting to flourishing -- and possibly to [[GoneHorriblyRight horribly mutated]]. If it's deadly poison, as it so often is, it will go from healthy and green to a sad pile of ashen leaves and shriveled vines. (Do note: for added drama, the plant will often wait to transform until you're sure that nothing is going to happen and leave the lab disappointed. ''Then'' it will probably turn into a monster and start wreaking havoc.)
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24	Do you suspect that your friend is infected with TheVirus or some sort of radioactivity? Do you want to make sure it's still safe to go near him? Have him go near a potted ficus. If your friend is dangerous, the tree will instantly shrivel and die, all its leaves falling off at once.
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26	Is your friend a LethalChef, but you don't want to hurt their feelings? Do you just want to make sure their cooking is safe to eat? When they're not looking, [[DiscreetDiningDisposal dump the foul food]] or [[DiscreetDrinkDisposal pour the dreadful drink]] into the dracaena's pot. The plant will probably curl its leaves and die at once from the toxic substance meant to be comestible. Good thing ''you'' didn't consume it.
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28	Incidentally, none of these tests would work so well in real life. If you're paying attention at all, you may have noticed that [[ArtisticLicenseBiology humans and plants are very different living things]]. They have different needs and different ways of meeting them, and a lot of things harmful to us are harmless to them (or vice versa). Anyway, houseplants are often the ''most'' resistant to neglect, disease and dangerous substances. And we haven't even touched how long it could take for the substance in question to be absorbed into the soil, and then absorbed from the soil into the plant, and ''then'' for the substance to actually start killing the plant. Like HollywoodAcid and PoisonIsCorrosive, this trope provides a visible (if unrealistic) clue that a substance is dangerous.
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30	Vegetation is also apparently an excellent barometer for magical evilness. Has your character gained incredible nature-based powers and is FriendToAllLivingThings? Flowers and plants will sprout around her FertileFeet. Meanwhile, the EnemyToAllLivingThings is likely to be a WalkingWasteland surrounded by dead trees and withered grass.
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32	Despite what the name implies, has nothing to do with either ThatPoorCat or ThatPoorCar. Also please refrain from adding examples where plants are harmed by situations other than those described above.
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34	A SisterTrope to IllFatedFlowerbed. Contrast SoulfulPlantStory, where bad things happening to plants are taken very seriously, and WeedingOutImperfections, where flowers and weeds are used as metaphors for "desirable" and "undesirable" people.
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36	!!Examples:
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40	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
41	* In the ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' two-part episode, "The Other Brothers Elric", Fletcher and Russell save Xenotime from the impending flood of red water by having all the trees in the surrounding area soak it up like a giant tree drain. All the trees are (apparently) then destroyed by the brothers.
42	* ''Anime/TheLegendOfSnowWhite'': Queen Chrystal [[MoreThanMindControl convinces]] Jack he's actually evil and tasks him with delivering a bouquet of poisoned flowers to Snow White. When he can't go through with it and drops the bouquet on the forest floor, all plant life within a few feet of it withers and dies.
43	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', just following the Little Garden arc, we get a small preview of Crocodile's powers when he expresses his annoyance with Mr. 3 by using a TouchOfDeath to make a rose wither into dust.
44	* In one episode of ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'', Xellos made a vegetable stew so noxious, the ingredients were screaming in pain... Taking part in a cooking competition though, he thought the whole idea was to [[LethalChef kill the competition.]]
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47	[[folder:Comic Books]]
48	* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': In ''ComicBook/Hawkeye2012'' Annual #1, Madame Masque attempts to drug Kate. Kate takes a fake sip of the wine and then dumps it in a pot plant. The result is this trope.
49	* ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'': Papa Smurf once had an experiment with a daisy gone awry, turning it into a [[ManEatingPlant Smurf-eating plant]].
50	* ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'': In the story ''QRN on Bretzelburg'', the king of Bretzelburg, at Spirou's urging, gets rid of the drug his treacherous minister used to keep him docile. He briefly wonders if he should be following Spirou's advice before noticing the plant shrivelling and concludes Spirou is probably right.
51	* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In the story ''[[Recap/TintinFlight714 Flight 714]]'', when Captain Haddock is given a glass of health tonic by an eccentric millionaire, he dumps it onto a Ficus. The plant immediately starts dropping its leaves.
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55	* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' featured an arc where Wally's potted plant becomes the waste receptacle for his coffee dregs. Dilbert later suggests to him that he switch to decaf; the next panel shows a giant tree growing out of the office building.
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58	[[folder:Fan Works]]
59	* ''Fanfic/AwfulLotOfCoffeeInEquestria'' has an unusual example of this trope. Princess Luna once had a plastic desk cactus. That she managed to kill. Somehow.
60	* In ''Fanfic/IWontSay'' L relates that he once managed to kill a cactus by forgetting to water it.
61	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1801126/9/MisMatchmaker MsMatchmaker]]'' Harry spits a mouthful of Dobby's pea soup into a potted plant. [[LethalChef It instantly wilts]].
62	* In ''WebVideo/SuperTherapy'', the potted plant inside the doctor's office tends to go through some abuse over the therapy sessions. Notably, ComicBook/{{Storm\|MarvelComics}}'s ends up with it fried by lightning.
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65	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
66	* The tiny little Death Omen pine tree from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. It eventually bursts into flames, causing Sally to seriously question whether Jack's great Christmas takeover plan is such a good idea.
67	* Used hilariously in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''
68	** Yzma got the idea to poison Kuzco when she, in full EvilPlan gloat-mode, accidentally knocked a vial of poison onto a plant.
69	** A cactus ends up ''turning into a topiary llama'' after Yzma pours some (what she thought was) poison-laced drink into it, only to find out after it transforms Kuzco that it was actually "extract of llama".
70	* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' - Shrek sneezes the potion that'll make him look attractive onto a mushroom, and as the group walks away it turns into a pretty rose. Those fortunate fungi.
71	* Madame Mim's first use of magic in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheSwordInTheStone'' is to wither a flower on her window sill.
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76	* ''Film/BloodBrothers1973'': When Ma, the eldest brother, decides to turn on his sworn siblings, he declares that NOTHING will get in his way to achieving power... while randomly kicking over an innocent potted plant that ''happens'' to be in his way.
77	* ''Film/JustHeroes'': During the climatic shootout, a mook gets pumped with bullets and just happens to fall into a tall potted plant behind him, which conveniently snaps into half for some reason.
78	* Creator/AbbottAndCostello's movie ''Film/TheNaughtyNineties'' has a hilarious scene where the [[BigBad Big Bad]] and Costello's character Sebastian are put alone together in a private room in a theater, where she proceeds to poison his drink. They then do a PoisonedChaliceSwitcheroo back and forth until ''he'' gets confused and opts to toss the drink in the fern next to him. Sebastian watches the fern die very slowly, and then wipes his glass ''very'' thoroughly on his tux.
79	* ''Film/ScaryMovie2'' has Shorty watering his marijuana plants with bong water. The plant later grows, becomes sentient, and starts smoking Shorty like he was a blunt.
80	* Film/TheThreeStooges often did this. One variant also used curling wallpaper when they threw some strong drink over their shoulders at a wall. Subverted once when squeezing a hanky full of tears into the pot caused a flower to ''grow''.
81	* ''Film/TheUmbrellaCoup'' has a cactus at the florist shop which dies instantly when Grégoire stabs his umbrella with the poisoned tip in its flowerpot.
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84	[[folder:Literature]]
85	* Aversion: In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', Garion's recently-discovered cousin Adara asks for him to show his magic powers by making a bush bloom again. Garion refuses since it's winter and the bush would die. He then creates a new flower for her out of a twig and grass. The flower is decidedly lopsided, puny, and... well, it's lopsided, let's leave it at that. Give Garion a break; it's his first go at live transmutation. It's nicknamed Adara's Rose, because Garion [[KissingCousins really, really loves]] his beautiful Algarian cousin, (or so Ce'Nedra thinks), and it ''does'' have a nice smell. And oh, did we mention it's a ''sovereign specific'', cures any poisoning? Imagine wearing anti-poison as a perfume (Sadi wonders if it works as antivenin as well; we never do get to find out). One of the funnier scenes in the Malloreon plays out during this arc, especially when Belgarath tries to get the plant to grow.
86	* Averted in ''[[Literature/LordPeterWimsey Busman's Honeymoon]]''. When Lord Peter Wimsey is offered some homemade parsnip wine, his wife Harriet, realizing the distress of a world-class oenophile, suggests he dump it in a nearby potted plant. However, Lord Peter goes ahead and drinks it (not without a shudder) after observing that the plant already appears unwell.
87	* In a single case, ''Literature/ButlerParker'' suspected an opponent from giving him a drink laced with sleeping poison. He poured it onto a flower instead. Later in the scene, he noticed the flower having half-closed blossoms and drooping leaves and blossoms, as if it was very tired.
88	* Inverted in ''Literature/DragonBones'': One of the fields around castle Hurog is spoiled by salt, and almost nothing grows there. That was an accident, or possibly GaiasRevenge. However, [[spoiler: when they have to figure out what to do with the dragon bones, which they know are a magical artifact that would grant more power than would be healthy to a human sorcerer, if ingested, they grind them into powder and use that on the field. After that, the plants there grow very well.]]
89	* Crowley and his plants in ''Literature/GoodOmens''. They're the healthiest houseplants in London, [[spoiler:and the most terrified. He occasionally kills the one who looks weakest, to show the others what happens if they don't try hard enough.]]
90	* In "Literature/RappaccinisDaughter", the title character is so poisonous that ordinary plants wilt when she touches them.
91	* In ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', one of the History Monks teaches novices to be wisely-cautious about the procrastinators by setting an apple on a table and accelerating time around it. Within seconds, it's rotted away and left behind a circle of frail, stunted tree seedlings that sprout from the resulting lump of mold.
92	* In one of the ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''Literature/YoungJediKnights'' novels Tenel Ka accidentally orders a GargleBlaster and dumps it in a potted plant, then apologizes when [[PlantAliens it gets annoyed]].
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96	* The old 1950s ''Series/TheAdventuresOfSuperman'' series had the Radioactivity example. Superman gets exposed to Radiation and goes into self-imposed exile. He's lonely and wants to be around others, so he put his hand out over a potted plant. But he's so radioactive and deadly, the plant dies on the spot.
97	* In the ''Series/{{Bottom}}'' live show, Richie dumps a cup of tea that has been laced with goat poison onto a nearby plant. The plant gives off smoke and wilts instantly.
98	* ''Series/Charmed1998'': When Phoebe is pregnant with Cole's baby [[EvilChancellor The Seer]] claims that she's giving Phoebe a tonic to boost her strength when it's actually a potion that will corrupt Phoebe and turn her to evil. Phoebe gets suspicious and dumps the tonic in a nearby plant. The next time The Seer arrives with a vial of the "tonic" Phoebe notices that the plant is now very dead and starts demanding the truth.
99	* Inverted with ''Series/{{Chuck}}'' and the plant that [[NuclearMutant grows when abused with radioactive water]].
100	* ''Series/CornerGas'': Oscar looks for plant food for Emma's tomato garden and instead finds an old case of empty stubby beer bottles. When the liquor/insurance store won't accept them, he decides [[StartMyOwn to brew his own beer]]. The results are [[GargleBlaster so disgusting]] he ends up dumping it out on Emma's tomato plants. At the end of the episode, Emma finds the tomatoes are now giant.
101	* The trope is invoked in an episode of ''Series/DrakeAndJosh'': At a gathering to carpool to Drake's concert, Josh hands out homemade lime drinks to the guests. One of the guests, Josh's boss Helen, immediately proclaims that the drink "tastes like mucus" and briskly dumps it into a houseplant. She then loudly predicts that the plant "will be dead by nightfall".
102	* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': The attitude behind the assumption that plants are fair game for mistreatment is discussed by Crichton (a human) and Zhaan (a humanoid plant.)
103	--> '''Zhaan:''' I cannot condone what his people did, but for all this unparalleled flora to flourish, it may not be entirely unreasonable to--\
104	'''John:''' To murder sentient beings in order to save a few stinking plants?\
105	'''Zhaan:''' How animal-centric of you, John.\
106	'''John:''' Sorry, Zhaan. I forgot. You're a--\
107	'''Zhaan:''' I am a "stinking plant".
108	* In the pilot of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' Rachel makes coffee. Chandler and Joey think it tastes awful, but they politely pour it into the potted plant on the table rather than upset her. In the extended cut of the episode Ross, who didn't drink it, uses the coffee as an example of how she can do "anything". Chandler immediately hides the now very dead plant.
109	* ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' had a poisonous drink poured into a plant in "As Darkness Falls". As is usual, the plant instantly wilted.
110	* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Mr. Linderman demonstrates his healing power on a wilted orchid.
111	* Intentionally used on ''Series/HogansHeroes''. Colonel Hogan wants to keep convincing Klink that a killer is after him, so he laces the kommandant's tea with what's probably a powerful herbicide and serves it to him--then, at the last moment, notes that the tea might be poisonous and pours it into Klink's office plant instead. The plant dies dramatically and Klink believes Hogan's story.
112	* On ''Series/ICarly'': Carly devises a homemade pesticide for her science project and tests it on Spencer's healthy tomato plant. Said plant smokes profusely and withers instantly. Carly exasperatedly deems herself (and later Spencer) as "The Plant Murderer".
113	* ''Series/LoisAndClark'' - there's an episode in which Mr. Mxyzptlk causes a burp in time, forcing Clark to relive a day again and again during which everyone becomes more depressed and pessimistic. Each time it happens the Christmas tree in the Daily Planet office dwindles until it's just a stalk with a bauble on it.
114	* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersWroteS1E4 Death in Disguise]]", Barnaby is given a cup of acorn coffee, which he surreptitiously tips into a plant. When he returns on a different day and is offered another cup, he declines, then comments to Troy that the plant looks a bit peaky.
115	* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'':
116	** In "The Tesla Effect", Crabtree sees a dead fern at the crime scene and makes a joke about its "death by bachelor", then he touches it and comments on its unusual warmth. A trail of similar dead plant life outdoors leads Murdoch and Tesla to the place where [[spoiler:a microwave ray cannon was stored and tested]].
117	** In "Murdoch and the Cloud of Doom", Murdoch is ordered to investigate a film of a man killing a dog with a lethal gas. Investigation of the site where the film was shot turns up a large area with dead plants; Murdoch and his consulting expert discuss how powerful the gas appears to be based on the size of the affected area.
118	* {{Brit\|Com}}ish DomCom ''Series/OneFootInTheGrave'' had its [[GrumpyOldMan eternally unlucky protagonist]] poison an entire garden when [[ItMakesSenseInContext he inadvertently used cocaine instead of fertiliser]].
119	* On ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things" the [[CreepyChild undead girl]] caused plants around her to die.
120	* In an episode of ''Series/TheThundermans'' Max performs an experiment on the class pet, a venus flytrap, and it mutates into an intelligent plant that tries to take over the whole house.
121	* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E2OneForTheAngels One For The Angels]]", Mr. Death proves his identity by touching a plant and causing it to wilt and die.
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125	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': It's implied that Ema did this to Phoenix Wright's plant. Though seeing as it is still around in the 4th game, and is implied to be the same plant, it survives.
126	* [=GLaDOS=] makes reference to this in ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
127	-->"You can't test plants, you know. '''We tried'''."
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131	* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' When a villain tries to steal Bob's [[SuperPowersForADay new superpowers,]] Bob manages to transfer them to a potted plant instead. "Mr. Geranium" thanks them and flies off to explore the universe.
132	* Jason Love's cartoons: "[[http://www.jasonlove.com/cartoons/00453-daily-cartoons-coffee-grounds.gif You're putting coffee grounds in the plants again?]]"
133	* ''Webcomic/{{Nukees}}'': The [[http://www.nukees.com/d/19990310.html waste]] [[http://www.nukees.com/d/20011105.html disposal plant]].
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137	* In the pilot for ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', we only see the full effects of the illegal nerve gas on a plant. Human and cattle subjects are also displayed, but what happens is only implied to be horrible through [[GoryDiscretionShot villain reaction shots]].
138	* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' LethalChef Wildcat makes a blenderful of Tiger Tonic. He gulps his down contentedly, but Batman pours his into a potted plant. The plant loses all its leaves save one.
139	* In the beginning of the ''WesternAnimation/BettyBoop'' cartoon "WesternAnimation/MinnieTheMoocher", [[EverythingTalks a flower in a vase]] politely tries to convince Betty to eat her parent's cooking. When she doesn't, the flower takes a bite of it himself and immediately loses his petals and collapses.
140	* ''WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip'': In ''Tiger Sharks'', a plant wilts after making contact with some toxic waste (that has the appearance of solid gold and induces RapidAging in anyone touching it).
141	* Subverted and inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. Bushroot is out to make himself [[AesopAmnesia another plant friend]]. He comes up with a mutating formula that seems to work. Then it gets on Gosalyn, mutating her into [[BlobMonster a slime creature]]. While looking for a cure, Darkwing tested the formula on a plant and learned that the mutation had four stages: intelligence, ravenous appetite, insanity... and finally, [[ImMelting liquification]]. Fortunately, Darkwing announces that he did find a cure... although how he figured out that cure from testing on plants is never explained. [[spoiler:The cure is a hot bath with ''lots'' of soap.]]
142	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' has the eponymous protagonist in one episode going through imminent stage fright when he is about to perform his ventriloquism in front of the audience for a school talent show, which causes him to [[OverlyNervousFlopSweat soak up his shirt with his own perspiration]]. He gets his shirt replaced with a clean, new one by Porkshop, who wrings the sweat out of the shirt into a potted plant, which wilts instantly.
143	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode "Playdate of Doom" has Cosmo dispose of beets into a potted plant and killing it by doing so.
144	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' CrossesTheLineTwice when Meg dumps a glass of drugged punch in a plotted plant. The plant droops as if unconscious, then another potted plant hops over to hump it while it's out.
145	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' whenever Bender tries to cook the Planet Express crew dumps the food into a plant, {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d by Bender when he asks "How come the plant only gets sick when I cook?".
146	* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': MAD assassins try to bump off Gadget by poisoning the hors d'oeuvres at a party he's attending. Brain gets rid of them by dumping them in a nearby potted plant, which promptly wilts and dies.
147	* In "Hand in Hand" on ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'', Kendall, disguised as Gunther, releases a burst of flatulence that not only creates a great wind, it causes several plants to blacken and wilt instantly.
148	* ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo''
149	** In "Johnny Bravo meets Creator/AdamWest", Johnny has asked West to help him find his mother Bunny, who has not come home from shopping. While at a restaurant searching for clues, the two are served drinks. West suspects the drinks may be poisoned and orders Johnny to empty his glass into a nearby plant; the plant is completely fine.
150	** In "[[PrinceAndPauper The Prince And The Pinhead]]", Johnny has switched places with his exact double, Prince Hondo. Bunny takes Hondo home, thinking that he's Johnny, and forces him to eat a meal of government meat. Hondo spits his food into a housplant, which wilts immediately upon impact.
151	* ''WesternAnimation/PrivateSnafu'':
152	** In "Gas", the flowers in the meadow where Snafu is lazing wither and die as the sentient cloud of DeadlyGas touches down.
153	** In "Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike", Mike misses Snafu and bites a tree, which then develops the symptoms of malaria and keels over.
154	* The ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphonies'' short "Flowers and Trees" is ''made'' of this. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTuIb7BIFqk Everybody now: "Awwww..."]].
155	* When the Sumerian Century Flower blooms in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', its smell sends the crowd around it fleeing, and kills all the nearby plants; except one, which [[{{Jerkass}} Homer runs back to stomp]].
156	* In ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'', the OriginsEpisode of Dr. Viper had Dr. N. Zyme tested a new growth formula on a wilting rose. It began thriving, and he declared the experiment a success. Then his assistant Elrod Purvis tried to steal the formula, got doused with it, and died. The next day, the flower mutated, {{foreshadowing}} Purvis's imminent resurrection as Dr. Viper.
157	* Done for laughs in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' by Beast Boy [[PottyEmergency when the bathroom was occupied.]]
158	* The ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' episode "Mind Trap" has a plant wilt after Dudley disposes of one of Kitty's mackerel cookies into it.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' has fallen into this, using non-talking vegetables for various things, such as a non-speaking pumpkin with a scrawled on face to test a fish-slapper.
160	* One S2 episode of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' had Bloom experimenting with her recently discovered healing powers, using some plants as test subjects. However, since the book she had gotten from the library had been planted there by an evil spy, it caused the spells she used to cause one of the plants to burst into fire, and another to turn into a monster. This trope is also inverted when in S4 [[spoiler: Ogron, the leader of the Wizards of the Black Circle steals the gift of life which could be used to bring a dead person back to life and uses it on a dead flower to prevent the Winx from using it to revive Nabu, who had just sacrificed himself to save the Earth fairies from the Dark Abyss that the Wizards of the Black Circle had created.]]
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164	* In his fanzine article "[[http://ansible.uk/writing/food.html Cuisine Unauthentique]]", Creator/DavidLangford claims that, when nobody was prepared to eat Judith Hanna's attempt at Welsh Rarebit, they poured the mixture into a tree stump that insisted on putting up shoots every year, and it died shortly thereafter.
165	* {{Iron\|y}}ically, some sensitive houseplants can actually be badly damaged by minerals such as chlorine and chloramine that are added to tap water to make it ''safer'' for humans. (Such treatment is designed to eliminate disease-bearing bacteria from the water supply, that is, for human diseases such as cholera that likely wouldn't bother plants at all.) Houseplant enthusiasts generally recommend using distilled or filtered water on their plants for this reason.
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