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Author: Theriocephalus

Sep 19th 2017 at 4:12:14 PM

I would hazard that it belongs, by association with the ents if nothing else. This is mostly about humanoid or at the very least mobile and ambulatory trees ideally associated with nature and the wilderness, whereas WhenTreesAttack is about when the trees want to kill you. The two things are not mutually exclusive, so I expect there to be overlap.

To expand a bit, I would feel that, say, the trees from "Flowers and Trees" would belong here instead of on WhenTreesAttack, since they're not harming anyone. Same with the ents, since besides the Last March they're a pretty peaceful lot. Things like the huorns or ''Don't Starve'''s Treeguards, which are more innately aggressive, are more likely to be examples of both depending on their actions and attitude. Things like carnivorous trees, or otherwise standard trees that don't do anything besides beating you with vines or branches (like the Whomping Willow from ''Harry Potter''), or poisonous trees, or trees that launch thorns, or things like that, belong strictly on WhenTreesAttack and are not this trope.