History Main / BotanicalAbomination

* In ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'' and its [[Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle two]] [[Anime/GodzillaPlanetEater sequels]], Godzilla, identified as "Godzilla Earth," is not only a {{Kaiju}}, but a "hyper-evolved plant-based organism," and as such can engage in [[TrulySingleParent asexual reproduction]], has little to no body heat, and lacks a skeleton.

* After he took in [[DeadlyUpgrade Helena's Nail]], [[BadassPreacher Alexander Anderson]] became capable of manipulating thorns and vines, with even [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]] calling him a "monster of God."

* The Flood from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', despite resembling a zombie apocalypse at first blush, are surprisingly fungal in how they grow and spread.

* [[LivingShadow Elsa Maria,]] the fourth major [[MonsterOfTheWeek Witch]] in ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', at first resembles [[HumanoidAbomination a young woman,]] deep in prayer. But when Sayaka attacks her, she suddenly sprouts an enormous tree to encase her enemy.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'', the Forest of Einnashe. It began as a blood-drinking tree who took a LevelInBadass by drinking from Einnashe's body after Arcueid had killed him, back in the middle ages, and now manifests every fifty years to sate its voracious hunger. By the time of the present day, even the monster-slayers of the Church have unofficially given up trying to kill this thing, and not from lack of trying.

* In the ''Franchise/Nasuverse'', the Forest of Einnashe. It began as a blood-drinking tree who took a LevelInBadass by drinking from Einnashe's body after Arcueid had killed him, back in the middle ages, and now manifests every fifty years to sate its voracious hunger. By the time of the present day, even the monster-slayers of the Church have unofficially given up trying to kill this thing, and not from lack of trying.

* Within the lore of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', the Crimson Dragon, divine god and embodiment of the Dragon Star, led a group of duel spirit dragons known as the Signer Dragons to slay the Crimson Devil Scar Red Nova, and later a group of {{Animalistic Abomination}}s known as the Earthbound Immortals. One of these signer dragons was the Black Rose Dragon, a plant-like dragon that would manifest as the signature Duel Monsters card of [[PsychicPowers dueling psychic]] Aki Izayoi.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' fourth season ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', the CreationMyth of the Digital World claims that the [[FantasyPantheon Ten Legendary Warriors]] fought together to banish the evil [[SatanicArchetype Lucemon]] into the [[{{Hell}} Dark Area]] beneath the surface of the Digital World. Each of the Legendary Warriors are based off of the various elements associated with the various Digimon-Types. One such warrior was [=AncientTroiamon=], a TrojanHorse-like Digimon that embodied the element of wood and would eventually pass on its traits and abilities to all of the Plant Digimon. He would later be reincarnated into the Human Spirit Arbormon and the Beast Spirit Petaldramon, both of which [[TheCorruption corrupted]] and [[TheCorrupter brought to life by the]] [[FallenAngel Virus-Attribute Cherubimon]]. While [=AncientTroiamon=] and Arbormon are both [[MechanicalAbomination mechanical in nature]], their status as the embodiment of the element of wood makes them qualify as this as well.

* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': The giant flower plant Dreamstalk isn't really an abomination until [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Sectonia]] [[FusionDance merged with it]]]], after which the plant grows out of control and starts sucking the life out of not just the FloatingContinent Floralia but also the Planet Popstar. [[spoiler:Merging with the plant also gives Sectonia immense powers, as well, as seen in her boss fight.]]

** Also, the same place contains enemies called Stropers which have a tree-like shape but it's actually a [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] creature as they are made from stone rather than plant materials. To put in, they're basically distorted versions of [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Sudowoodo.]]

* The Green is an elemental force which connects all forms of plant life on Earth in Creator/DCComics. It is governed by a group of plant elementals known as the Parliament of Trees, and usually selects a specific individual with a connection to the green to act as TheChampion to maintain balance on their behalf, ComicBook/SwampThing being their most famous champion.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The {{Demon Lord|sAndArchdevils}} Zuggtmoy, Lady of Rot and Decay, manifests as a gigantic fungal humanoid woman. She also rules over a layer of the Abyss that's overgrown with [[FungusHumongous miles-high fungi]] and tries to spread her corruption to the Material Plane, with AndIMustScream results for anyone who gets interred in her "gardens" or [[TheCorruption infected with her spores]].
* Mu Spores (also in ''Pathfinder'') are gigantic fungal organisms whose capacity for devastation is about on par with that of [[TheDreaded the Tarrasque]], with a strange and alien intelligence.

* Mu Spores (also in ''Pathfinder'') are [[FungusHumongus gigantic fungal organisms]] whose capacity for devastation is about on par with that of [[TheDreaded the Tarrasque, with a strange and alien intelligence.

** Cyth-V'sug, the {{demon lord|sAndArchDevils}} of fungus, parasites and disease, takes the physical form of a house-sized, animated mass of fungi, vines, tubers and rot. Depictions of him vary between showing him as a hulking, beast-like quadruped composed of rotting vegetable matter or as a flying mass of wooden claws, fangs and horns dotted with bulbous fungal "eyes" and gnarled branches, but always shrouded in miasma and swarming vermin. He used to be a qlippoth, an ancient race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that ruled the Abyss before demons arose, before he became a demon, and thus lacks any resemblance to mortal forms or sanity in his appearance. His realm, Jeharlu, is a planet-sized mass of living fungus that feeds parasitically on any world or plane it is able to contact, corrupting them and absorbing them into itself.

* Within the lore of ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'', the Crimson Dragon, divine god and embodiment of the Dragon Star, led a group of duel spirit dragons known as the Signer Dragons to slay the Crimson Devil Red Nova, and later a group of {{Animalistic Abomination}}s known as the Earthbound Immortals. One of these signer dragons was the Black Rose Dragon, a plant-like dragon that would manifest as the signature Duel Monsters card of [[PsychicPowers dueling psychic]] Akiza Izinski.

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* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos''

* Mr. Wood from ''Series/AmericanGods2017'' was originally an Old God worshipped by humanity when it began, having been a god associated with trees. When animistic belief dwindled and industrialization took hold, Mr. Wood foresaw that he would eventually cease to exist when he would be forgotten and, rather than dying, sacrificed his own trees and joined [[BigBadEnsemble the New Gods]]. While only seen briefly in "[[Recap/AmericanGodsEpisode6AMurderOfGods A Murder of Gods]]", briefly disguised as a wooden desk at the police office with the knot opening to reveal a human-eye. It soon comes to life and attacks Shadow, becoming a monstrous tree that implants a growing, parasitic plant into Shadow as a means of tracking him, only for Mr. Wednesday to remove it when they escape.
* ''Series/SleepyHollow'' featured the Tree Monster, a humanoid [[WhenTreesAttack tree]]/[[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]] demon summoned by Moloch left in a dormant state outside of the Fredricks Estate.

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* In the ''Heart of Thorns'' expansion of ''Videogame/GuildWars2'', the Elder Dragon Mordremoth is made out of plants. He can control thorny vines and grow mobile plants out of corpses; the entire Maguuma Jungle is controlled by his minions. All the Elder Dragons are {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, destructive forces made of pure magic that have slept for thousands of years, and Mordremoth is no exception. [[spoiler: Like many eldritch abominations, he can also control the minds and enter the dreams of weak-willed Sylvari.]]

** Fungus Humungous from the [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S2E10FungusHumongus episode of the same name]] (and not the [[FungusHumongous trope of the same name]]) was a giant mutant mushroom lurking within New York City's sewers, thriving and spreading itself and its army of [[MushroomMan Mushroom Men]] within its dank, dark corridors. It was able to grow stronger and larger by feeding on the fear of others, doing so by using its hallucinogenic spores to cause those exposed to it to [[WhatDoTheyFearEpisode experience their greatest fears]] (Casey with rats, April with bats, Raphael and cockroaches, etc).

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* Morrigan Lugus from ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'' was arguably the first of the superhumans the series was centered around. He was manifested when three astronauts with minimal radiation shielding were exposed to an unknown, extraterrestrial breed of fungus, fusing them into a massive, three-face being. Mentally it's an entity beyond human comprehension - its entire fungal physiology acting similar to an [[OrganicTechnology organic supercomputer]] - whose mere presence warps the human mind. [[spoiler:It eventually succeeds in its revenge against the human race, still spiteful for its own creation due to mankind's willingness to sacrifice its human components, through the use of infecting everyone with its deadly spores.]]

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* Various plant-type monsters from ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' - like the "Predaplant", "Rose" and "Sylvan" archetypes - fall under the category of "abomination."

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* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': Given his strange appearance and his habit of [[DontGoInTheWoods appearing in forests]], the Slender Man is sometimes implied to be some kind of plant creature - either a forest that evolved sentience and created an avatar to hunt humans, or something born from the ghosts of criminals who were executed by hanging them from trees.

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* Creepweed from the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S3E22TheCreepingDoom The Creeping Doom]]" is a [[FusionDance gestalt entity]] born from the merging of the Creep, a [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Vorhees]]/[[ComicBook/SwampThing Swamp Thing]] PlantPerson, and the Son of Snakeweed, a clone of the plant mutant Snake Weed. It is a massive entity with the same healing-factor as its components, emitting a strong sleeping-gas and trapping human beings with the intent of eating them.

->''"There's always been a god-shaped hole in man's head. Trees were the first to fill it. [[NatureSpirit Mr. Wood was the trees. Mr. Wood was the forest.]] Well, he was a very old god who saw something very new: [[TimeMarchesOn he saw a god-fearing society turn towards complete industrialization]]. So what did he do? He sacrificed his trees. He sacrificed his forest. And he became something else."''

** The Mi-Go are fungal monsters who have established a base on Pluto from which to scout out exceptional minds on Earth. They're masters of BioAugmentation and come across as malevolent to humans, but are implied to have a BlueAndOrangeMorality system that doesn't recognize that most people ''don't'' want to be abducted as a BrainInAJar to attend an off-world FantasticScience symposium.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The {{Demon Lord|sAndArchdevils}} Zuggtmoy, Lady of Rot and Decay, manifests as a gigantic fungal humanoid woman. She also rules over a layer of the Abyss that's overgrown with [[FungusHumongous miles-high fungi]] and tries to spread her corruption to the Material Plane, with AndIMustScream results for anyone who gets interred her "gardens" or [[TheCorruption infected with her spores]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': Cyth-V'sug, the {{demon lord|sAndArchDevils}} of fungus, parasites and disease, takes the physical form of a house-sized, animated mass of fungi, vines, tubers and rot. Depictions of him vary between showing him as a hulking, beast-like quadruped composed of rotting vegetable matter or as a flying mass of wooden claws, fangs and horns dotted with bulbous fungal "eyes" and gnarled branches, but always shrouded in miasma and swarming vermin. He used to be a qlippoth, an ancient race of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s that ruled the Abyss before demons arose, before he became a demon, and thus lacks any resemblance to mortal forms or sanity in his appearance. His realm, Jeharlu, is a planet-sized mass of living fungus that feeds parasitically on any world or plane it is able to contact, corrupting them and absorbing them into itself.

Half the time these creatures are only plant-like superficially, kind of like Proterozoic Era life, blurring the lines between [[PlantTropes plants]], [[AnimalTropes animals]], [[FungusHumongous fungi]], [[MegaMicrobes bacteria]] and [[SnubByOmission the other things]]. They may plant their feet (or whatever passes for such) in the ground, attracting vermin like bees and butterflies, exhaling toxic spores and hypnotic pollen and sucking out the water and nitrogen and fertilizer from its surroundings.

** Fungus Humungous from the [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S2E10FungusHumongus episode of the same name]] (and not the [[FungusHumongous trope of the same name]]) was a giant mutant mushroom lurking within New York City's sewers, thriving and spreading itself and its army of [[MushroomMan Mushroom Men]] within its dank, dark corridors. It was able to grow stringer and larger by feeding on the fear of others, doing so by using its hallucinogenic spores to cause those exposed to it to [[WhatDoTheyFearEpisode experience their greatest fears]] (Casey with rats, April with bats, Raphael and cockroaches, etc).