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* Alraune, Whisperer of Dementia (changed to "Whisperer of Insanity" in her OneWingedAngel form) from ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' was once a woman who took her own life by dousing her body in mandrake poison as revenge against the husband who left her. She was reborn as an [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Infernal Demon]] in [[{{Hell}} Inferno]], her physiology like a PlantPerson with a rose motif and uses her claws as weapons. Ironically, she has a grudge against Madama Butterfly, [[DealWithTheDevil the demon who Bayonetta is contracted to]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Blasphemous}}'', the troubles with the fanatically religious land of Cvstodia began when the High Pontiff transformed into a burning tree whose ashes swallowed up a majority of the church leaders and transformed them into monsters, thus ushering in the Age of Corruption. From there on, abominations involving trees are a recurring thing in the game.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'':
** The Bed of Chaos from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' is a massive demon [[spoiler:that was once the Witch of Izalith, one of the Lords and a god to the humans of Anor Londo who, in an attempt to recreate the First Flame and prolong the Age of Fire, accidentally created the Chaos Flame, turning everyone in Izalith into chaos demons.]] It takes the form of a massive tree-like monstrosity whose roots can be found all across Izalith, with the chaos flame sitting atop it.
** The Curse-rotted Greatwood from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII''. Curses in the ''Dark Souls'' universe cannot be broken, one can only get rid of them by passing them on to someone or something else. Some genius in the Undead Settlement decided to designate a giant tree as a curse dump for the entire town, and the massive amount of curses put into the thing caused it to mutate into a giant monster that you have to [[GroinAttack hit in the groin a lot]].
** The Birch Women of ''Dark Souls III'''s Painted World of Ariandel are humanoid trees resembling women which either shoot fireballs from their branches or breathe freezing breath. Except for one, which thrashes about trying to maul you with its branches while howling like a lunatic, for absolutely no explained reason.
** [[TheHeavy Pontiff Sulyvahn]]is strongly implied to be part Birch person (He's from the Painted World, and cut content featured a Birch Woman speaking to her missing child), and halfway through his bossfight he sprouts branch-like wings.
* The Old One, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', looks like a massive bramble of trees and tree limbs.
* ''Videogame/DevilMayCry5:'' the Qliphoth is a massive, very tall demonic tree that sustains itself in both human and demonic blood through its roots. Once in thousand years, the tree can bear a fruit; any demon who eat it would gain enough power to rule the demon world. The BigBad, Urizen, attempts to grow this tree through Red Grave City, causing it to kill many people, and he partially merges himself with it to sustain himself with the tree's power, waiting for it to bear its fruit.
* One of the Source-powered skills in ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' lets you summon a Hungry Flower: a monstrous plant the size of tool shed that has a mean bite for any enemy nearby and poison spit for everyone else. Its only limitation is, naturally, the inability to move.
* ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'' has the parasitic Flower growing out of Zero's [[EyeScream eye]]. It doesn't look like much, but it allows her to regenerate from lethal injuries by sprouting a whole new body in a brutal, bloody fashion. It's also [[spoiler:what spawned the other Intoners who Zero is trying to kill, helped make ''Drakengard''[='s=] CrapsackWorld even worse through its song's [[RealityWarper corrupting influence]], and is the nascent form of a Grotesquerie Queen that will destroy the world unless stopped. In the final battle, the Flower grows to gargantuan size and sprouts colossal facimiles of the Intoners to defend itself from Mikhail's counter-song.]]
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder:'' The Trees of Emptiness are of an alien origin, given to the Crypters by the "Foreign God" for their mission to "rewrite" the world, and are what prevent the [[AlternateHistory Lostbelts]] from being purged by the World's will due to them being aberrations from the Proper Human History. The trees' height reach to the skies, a fully-grown one has rolling imagery of space and stars mashed with their silver barks as a literal microcosm of a ''galaxy'', and when they first manifested they violently grew their roots to impale people, and cover the earth, causing mass extinction of humanity over three months. They're also nigh indestructible.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': It is said that the Hist, the trees that the Argonians revere, were the original inhabitants of Tamriel, and that they were originally from one of the 12 "Worlds of Creation" that were shattered by [[TheAntiGod Padomay]] and then coalesced by [[GodOfGods Anu]] to create Nirn. They are said to possess "unfathomable" knowledge from the earliest eras of creation, a form of omniscience and foresight into future events, and are able to mentally influence and physically alter beings who drink their sap. They are believed to be [[BlueAndOrangeMorality utterly alien and utterly incomprehensible]], even for those who have achieved [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence CHIM]] (essentially, a state of awake lucid dreaming that can alter reality along with a full understanding of the workings of the universe), something which can't even be said about the likes of the Daedric Princes.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'':
** Soulcage the EldritchAbomination in charge of the Iifa Tree takes the form of a tree sprouting roots that act as arms and has a skull-like face. The very Iifa Tree could count as well -- a truly gigantic tree that controls the flow of souls between Gaia and Terra -- but it acts mostly as an EldritchLocation.
** The same place contains enemies called Stropers which have a tree-like shape but [[SubvertedTrope are made from stone rather than plant materials]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Final Fantasy XII}}'': Though Malboros are a staple of the "Franchise/{{Final Fantasy}}" series (and more or less odd-looking, but natural beasts in each), there are two variants in this entry that have especially strange abilities - if the flavor text is anything to go by. The [[KingMook Malboro King variant]] wears a crown that supposedly [[BalefulPolymorph transforms anyone who puts it on]] into a Malboro King, and the [[PaletteSwap Cassie variant]] is said to have been sprouted by accident from a physiologist in ages past.
* 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.]]
* The Flood from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', despite resembling a zombie apocalypse at first blush, are surprisingly fungal in how they grow and spread, and the Gravemind even resembles a giant flower made of flesh. Their CosmicHorrorStory origins as revealed in ''Literature/TheForerunnerSaga'' adds to the "abomination" side of things.
* Two boss monsters of ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' are plant-zombies. The Sun of ''House of the Dead 3'' is a massive tree with vine tendrils, human faces in its trunk, and flowers that bud into Xenomorph-esque heads. The Moon of ''House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn'' is a giant humanoid tree that can absorb more zombies to make itself bigger-- and mobile.
* In ''VideoGame/InfiniteCrisis'', [[NuclearNasty Atomic]] ComicBook/PoisonIvy is a cross between this and HumanoidAbomination, with a plant bottom half and a human top half.
* ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'': Many of the [[GaiasVengeance Forces of Nature's]] mooks are this, such as the tree-like Urgles and the thorny Jitterthugs. Apparently, they're all made of natural materials, justifying their appearances.
* A few of [[TheHeartless the Heartless and Unversed]] from ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' take the form of plants. Most prominent are the Creeper Plant and its variants across multiple games, [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 the Leechgrave]], [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep the Cursed Coach]], and [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII the Grim Guardianess]].
* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': The giant flower plant Dreamstalk isn't really an abomination until [[spoiler:[[BigBad Queen Sectonia]] [[FusionDance merges 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.]]
* The Thorian from ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' is a massive plant that fills many StarfishAliens and EldritchAbomination criteria. It's [[TimeAbyss incredibly old]], it looks like Cthulhu, and it can MindControl people, which requires unbelievable mental strength to resist. Oh and there's also the [[AGodAmI God-complex]]. It's fairly benevolent though, by EldritchAbomination standards. It protects its slaves [[PragmaticVillainy like a craftsman protects his tools]] and when it doesn't have need of them they're free to pantomime a normal existence.
** Adding to it's strangeness in the setting, it is a form of sentient life that had essentially been able to ignore the Reapers through an incredibly long hibernation cycle. It had clear memories of past cycles, which made it a target for Saren.
* The Pumpkin King from ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' is a giant pumpkin monster created by the game's BigBad Zarok, its presence in the Pumpkin Witch's pumpkin patch turning all of the pumpkins into sentient monsters that Sir Daniel faces in "Pumpkin Gorge" and "The Pumpkin Serpent".
* ''VideoGame/MoonsOfMadness'', being set within the universe of ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' (see below), also feature [[FesteringFungus the]] [[AlienKudzu Filth]]. Notably, [[spoiler:Dr. Inna Volkova]] is corrupted by it into becoming a rather hostile human-tree hybrid of some sort that the protagonist deliberately says is no longer human.
* The [[https://phantom-chronicle.wikia.com/wiki/Plant_Abomination Plant Abomination]] from the Website/{{Facebook}} game ''Phantom Chronicles'' is a grotesque creature that resembles a cross between a pair of webbed hands, a human body and a hagfish, capable of growing even more hands in its evolved form [[https://phantom-chronicle.wikia.com/wiki/Hellish_Plant_Abomination Hellish Plant Abomination]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Xurkitree resembles power cables that sometimes take the form of a tree.
** Celesteela and Kartana are plant-based monsters. (Celesteela is based on bamboo and grows like a plant in the ground, while Kartana is made of paper and is implied to grow off the trees in the Ultra Forest introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'')
* A number of these pop up in the ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' series, as the various viruses tend to be able to mutate plants as badly as animals. Most well known is the deadly Plant 42, the penultimate boss of The Residence that appears as a massive bulb surrounded by prehensile blood-sucking vines, while the sequel introduces the less deadly (but more mobile) [[DemonicSpiders Plant 43s]]. Later games introduced the Veronica and Dorothy plants, both serving as bosses to their respective chapters.
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'' changes Plant 43's so they are now more humanoid. (whether they are made from people or mimicking them is unclear) Now they are much more dangerous as they take much more to bring down and forgo [[AcidAttack spitting acid]] in favour of just [[OffWithHisHead biting your head clean off]].
* ''VideoGame/RemnantFromTheAshes'': The Root is an interdimensional plant-like EldritchAbomination that invades and conquers worlds, and can manifest a demonic tree-like AlienKudzu. Some beings manifested from it, such as the Ent, are examples themselves, with the Ent in particular being a wooden Cthulhu.
* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': The Filth is a rather hostile form of AlienKudzu deliberately connected to the Dreamers.
* The Divine Dragon from ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'' is a giant, [[DragonsAreDivine holy]] being that lives within the Divine Realm. It hailed from a realm west of Japan (likely either China or Korea) and took root in what would eventually be the location of the Fountainhead Palace. It holds a strong connection to the Everblossom, a cherry tree in permanent bloom, with the Dragon itself looking rather like a giant branch growing out of a tree. It is also missing an arm, implied to have been the result of a branch from the tree being removed. It is also accompanied by the Old Dragons of the Tree, an army of smaller tree-like dragons that appear to be suffering from illness, perhaps as a direct result of the branch being severed. It is also indicated that the Divine Dragon is the source of the Dragon's Heritage that Wolf and his master Kuro possess, thus making it also responsible for the Dragonrot that has plagued Ashina from time to time.
* The Sepulcher from ''VideoGame/SilentHillHomecoming'' is the manifestation of Sam Bartlett's guilt over murdering his son Joey Bartlett via live burial. Sepulcher appears as a gigantic cross between a corpse and a monstrous tree. His whole body hangs from the ceiling, and his bloated underside resembles a destroyed trunk of a tree, with bits of bodies hanging out of it. His "trunk" is connected by hooks to several bodies that are wrapped in cocoon-like sacks of flesh. He supports himself with his long arms and large hands, he only has three fingers with four fingernails, which he also uses to attack. His face is dominated by a root-like, fleshy tumor. When he is dismounted from the ceiling, he will crawl on his arms and drag the rest of his body behind him. The skin on his arms are stretched thin, reminiscent of a decomposing corpse. The oozing growth over his mouth could also represent Joey's suffocation while buried alive, the tumor-like growth also bears a resemblance to Amnion's umbilical cord.
* ''VideoGame/TheSims4'', of all games, introduces one of these in the ''[=StrangerVille=]'' expansion. Upon moving to [=StrangerVille=], you will immediately notice that there are some very strange glowing flowers all over town, as well as a number of sims who behave in a possessed manner, talking about becoming one with "the Mother" when your sim tries to talk to them. [[spoiler:These are the result of spores released by a giant plant creature that lives in the depths of the secret government lab outside of town. Defeating it requires large quantities of herbicide and the vaccine you created to cure the possessed sims.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' has the thousand-year-old Saigyou Ayakashi. It was once a particularly beautiful cherry tree, but after a famous poet decided to spend his last moments admiring its CherryBlossoms, enough people imitated him that the tree became a {{Youkai}} able to beguile people into relaxing beneath its branches, draining their lives away and feeding upon their blood. It was eventually rendered dormant with a magical seal powered by one of the bodies beneath it, and the tree was sent to the Netherworld, to the garden of its ghostly ruler, Yuyuko Saigyouji. The plot of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' kicks off when Yuyuko decides it would be nice to resurrect the person sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi so the famous cherry tree can bloom again. [[GhostAmnesia She had forgotten]] that ''she'' was the one buried under the tree...
* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': [[spoiler:At the end of the Neutral route, Flowey the Flower gains the power of the human souls and [[OneWingedAngel becomes an enormous, omnipotent]] beast called Omega Flowey/Photoshop Flowey. This form combines plantlike features with [[MechanicalAbomination machine parts]], and makes some disturbing use of MediumBlending.]]
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Draenor was originally dominated by sporemounds, immense plant elementals which would consume anything not part of themselves. They eventually grew so powerful that they actually fused ''all'' plantlife on Draenor into one hivemind, the Evergrowth. Left to its own devices the Evergrowth would have grown out of control and consumed all of the planet's resources before starving, leaving Draenor lifeless. The Titan Aggramar's breakers managed to shatter it and the last sporemound was later destroyed by the Apexis, but from the corpses of the Evergrowth came the Botani and Primals. They seek to either consume all non-plant life or convert it into slaves via spore infestation. The Zangar Sea is another product of the sporemounds, being an entire fungal biome born from the corpse of the sporemound Zangar which actively seeks to infest the land.
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* Mr. Wood from ''Series/AmericanGods2017'' was originally an Old God worshiped 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.

* ''Videogame/FateGrandOrder:'' The Fantasy Trees are of an alien origin, given to the Crypters by the "Alien God" for their mission to "rewrite" the world, and are what prevent the [[AlternateHistory Lostbelts]] from being purged by the World's will due to them being aberrations from the proper history. The trees' height reach to the skies, a fully-grown one has rolling imagery of space and stars mashed with their silver barks as a literal microcosm of a ''galaxy'', and when they first manifested they violently grew their roots to impale people, and cover the earth, causing mass extinction of humanity over three months. They're also nigh indestructible.

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 [[BeeAfraid bees]] and [[FliesEqualsEvil flies]], exhaling toxic spores and hypnotic pollen and sucking out the water and nitrogen and fertilizer from its surroundings.

[- '''Note:''' Fungi are not plants, and in fact are more closely related to animals, but fiction still treats the two groups as interchangeable often enough for them to fit here. -]

* "Literature/{{Carnivorine}}" (1889), by Creator/LucyHHooper is an early example in Western literature of the trope. Here, a MadScientist manages through some [[ArtisticLicenseBiology truly dubious biology]] to modify a naturally occurring carnivorous plant into a multi-tentacled horror the size of a small tree with lightning reflexes and eventually the power of locomotion.

** The Grey was an elemental force similar to the Green that formed on a far-off grey, alien planet. When such alien planet was destroyed, a fragmented meteor made from the remains of the planet landed on Earth, bringing what would later be known as the Fungal Kingdom with it. While the plants and fungi would live in relative peace, until Mantango (a plant elemental and former member of the Parliament of Trees) defected to the Grey and tempted humanity with the Tree of Knowledge and fostered its potential to destroy, leading to hostility between the two forces of nature.

* In ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'' and its [[Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle two]] [[Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater 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. It's taken over the planet's ecosystem and terraformed it, with almost every other organism having "submitted" to it to and sharing 97% of its genetical code.

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as the closest to [[TheLifestream "the heart" of nature]], a.k.a. the Kouki. While the Mushi have dangerous effects on the humans they interact with, [[NonMaliciousMonster they aren't malevolent]], and simply want to survive like any other living thing.

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as the closest to "the heart" of nature, a.k.a. [[TheLifestream the Kouki]]. While the Mushi have dangerous effects on the humans they interact with, [[NonMaliciousMonster they aren't malevolent]], and simply want to survive like any other living thing.

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as the closest to "the heart" of nature, a.k.a. [[TheLifestream the Kouki.]] While the Mushi have dangerous effects on the humans they interact with, [[NonMaliciousMonster they aren't malevolent,]] and simply want to survive like any other living thing.

** [=SpaceGodzilla=] is theorized to have originated when some of Biollante's spores were sucked into a black hole and merged with a crystalline alien entity -- supported by him having tusks like Biollante's and the cores of his shoulder crystals resembling Biollante's stomach.

* ''Franchise/{{Touhou}}'' has the thousand-year-old Saigyou Ayakashi. It was once a particularly beautiful cherry tree, but after a famous poet decided to pass away while admiring its CherryBlossoms, enough people imitated him that the tree became a {{Youkai}} able to beguile people into relaxing beneath its branches, draining their lives away and feeding upon their blood. It was eventually rendered dormant with a magical seal powered by one of the bodies beneath it, and the tree was sent to the Netherworld, to the garden of its ghostly ruler, Yuyuko Saigyouji. The plot of ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' kicks off when Yuyuko decides it would be nice to resurrect the person sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi so the famous cherry tree can bloom again. [[GhostAmnesia She had forgotten]] that ''she'' was the one buried under the tree...

[[spoiler:[[BigBad Vulgyre's]] OneWingedAngel form]] in ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' is this. A massive monster covered in thorns, with gigantic petals along the back, masses of roots for legs, and additional root tentacles.

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as the closest to "the heart" of nature, called [[TheLifestream the "Kouki".]] While the Mushi have dangerous effects on the humans they interact with, [[NonMaliciousMonster they aren't malevolent,]] and simply want to survive like any other living thing.

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as the closest to "the heart" of nature, called [[TheLifestream the "Kouki".]] While the Mushi have dangerous effects on the humans they interact with, [[SubvertedTrope they aren't malevolent,]] [[NonMaliciousMonster and simply want to survive like any other living thing.]]

* In ''Manga/Mushishi'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as the closest to "the heart" of nature, called [[TheLifestream the "Kouki".]] While the Mushi have dangerous effects on the humans they interact with, [[SubvertedTrope they aren't malevolent,]] [[NonMaliciousMonster and simply want to survive like any other living thing.]]

* "Literature/Carnivorine" (1889), by Creator/LucyHHooper is an early example in Western literature of the trope. Here, a MadScientist manages through some [[ArtisticLicenseBiology truly dubious biology]] to modify a naturally occurring carnivorous plant into a multi-tentacled horror the size of a small tree with lightning reflexes and eventually the power of locomotion.

* "Literature/Carnivorine" (1889), by Creator/LucyHGooper is an early example in Western literature of the trope. Here, a MadScientist manages through some [[ArieitcLicenseBiology truly dubious biology]] to modify a naturally occurring carnivorous plant into a multi-tentacled horror the size of a small tree with lightning reflexes and eventually the power of locomotion.