History Main / ManEatingPlant

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Mighty Little Defenders'': Wolky sets up several in episode 3 for some traps he expects the goats to fall into. Wolky himself ends up the victim of the plants' bites by accident -- and twice, no less.

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** One of the earliest examples is a card called [[https://scryfall.com/card/me1/115/carnivorous-plant Carnivorous Plant]], whose art depicts the traditional fleshy pod with teeth and a tongue variant. It's a 4/5 creature. Given that the average human is 1/1, in game terms that one big freaking plant.[[note]]squirrels are also 1/1, technically -- the scaling system isn't all that linear. Still a pretty big plant.[[/note]] Hell, it could dine on a GiantSpider.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/grn/131/grappling-sundew Grappling Sundew]] depicts a mass of sundew plants growing on the roofs of the CityPlanet of Ravnica, which are large and strong enough to snare a dragon from the sky.
** Phytohydras are a kind of carnivorous plants native to the plane of Ravnica. As their name suggests, they are cross between his trope and HydraProblem -- they have multiple jawed "heads", and regrow two new one for every head destroyed. [[https://scryfall.com/card/rav/218/phytohydra The first one to be printed]] starts out as a 1/1, but hurting it only increases its strength and toughness.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/roe/180/bramblesnap Bramblesnaps]] are a type of Green-aligned {{elemental|Embodiment}}s resembling vaguely humanoid masses of thorny vines with {{Lamprey Mouth}}s ringed by sharp fangs. According to the card's flavor text, they're created by grafting together thirteen different plants that already hunger for meat.
* ''Tabletopgame/YuGiOh'' has [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man-Eating_Plant two of]] [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Man_Eater these]] by name and many others. However, most plants in the game are incredibly weak and focus on monster-swarming or swapping. [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Gigaplant Gigaplant]] is a straight and powerful example. There's also [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Traptrix_Nepenthes Traptrix Nepenthes]], whose pet or true form is based on the pitcher plant, [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Traptrix_Sera Traptrix Sera]] is based on the sundew plant, and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Traptrix_Tio Traptrix Tio]], whose pet or true form is based on the venus fly trap.
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** GURPS Space poses this as one idea for a combination autotroph/consumer in their section on creating various alien species.

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* ''Podcast/Wolf359'': One of the plotlines for the third episode revolves around Commander Minkowski trying to get someone to pay attention to a weird plant sample that's exhibiting unusually rapid growth in the station's greenhouse. By the time that anyone bothers to actually pay attention to her and see what she's talking about, the plant has not only gotten much larger than a human, it's also grown an eye, teeth, and enough sentience to attack Eiffel on sight. The characters manage to escape from it, but the Space Mutant Plant Monster remains at large and unaccounted for at the end of the episode, becoming a recurring villain for the rest of season 1.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' tomatoes are rare food for the frogs as they grow into large carnivorous plants. When Anne and the Planters look for one [[spoiler: they get eaten whole by it, but they were able to make out of by eating it from the inside.]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Cheryl's family mansion has one of these in its conservatory. Ray kills it in a battle that costs him his right hand.

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'':
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Poison Ivy's greenhouse in her [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE5PrettyPoison introductory episode]] has a giant Venus flytrap, complete with tentacles which could grab any passing Batmen and pull them in.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'':
*** Man-eating plants form part of Ra's al Ghul's plan for world domination in "Sidekicks Assemble!".
*** And Poison Ivy tries to feed Batman to one in the teaser to "The Mask of Matches Malone!".

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': In "Operation: A.F.L.O.A.T.", the team gets lost in a sea of asparagus while escaping from Stickybeard the candy pirate's ship. Things only get worse when their craft is attacked by a "great white asparagus" that starts hunting them down, and they're saved only when Stickybeard shows up and guns it down.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Disenchantment}}'': In the season 2 episode ''Our Bodies, Our Elves'', Elfo, Bean and Wade are attacked by one of these while on their way to the Ogre homeland. Elfo, of all people, is able to fight the plant off and get himself and Bean to safety.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Brigadier Broccoli's guest chair in "Duckworth's Revolt."
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': Turns out there's [[spoiler:one that lures prey in with a fake village and festival]] in "The Town Where Everyone Was Nice!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' episode "A Ghost Grows in Brooklyn": some ghost evades capture by hiding in Janine's geranium, latter turning it into a treat for the entire New York city.

* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' story arc "Pottsylvania Creeper" centers around this.

** Parodied in one episode: while touring Africa, the family is caught in an enormous man-eating plant. Homer immediately tears his way through it, and when Bart asks him how he did it, he replies: "Psh, it's a ''flower.''"
** Another example from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E22MoeBabyBlues Moe Baby Blues]]", where the Simpsons, while visitng a botanical garden, come across Venus Flytraps. One lures in Homer with a hot dog and manages to clamp onto his head.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'', the web-slinging hero is caught by a bizarre man-eating plant in the episode "Neptune's Nosecone", but manages to kill it with a branch off a thorn bush. He does the same in the remake episode "Down to Earth".
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars''[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E18MysteryOfAThousandMoons , "Mystery of a Thousand Moons"]]: The plants in the valley where Anakin and Obi-Wan go to get the riksa root. In Jaybo Hood's words:

* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'': In one episode, a meteor falls into a swamp, turning the naturally harmless water lilies into lumbering plant monsters that can turn people and animals into plant-covered zombies whenever they are touched or shoot their seeds at anyone.

** In "The Bounty," one of several [[BountyHunter Bounty Hunters]] that [[GalacticConqueror Lord Hater]] employs to capture Wander and Sylvia is "The Potted Plant," who resembles nothing so much as a large daisy in a pot, [[KillerRabbit but turns out to be one of these]].
** "The Lonely Planet" has the GeniusLoci Janet the Planet, who speaks to Wander and Sylvia through the "mouth" of a rose-like flower growing on her surface. She quickly becomes this when revealing her {{Yandere}} nature.