History Main / BotanicalAbomination

* The threat that appears in ''Film/{{Splinter}}'' is a strange, parasitic mold that turns those infected by it into ParasiteZombie[=s=] that can detect other victims through their body temperature. When it manifests, it grows spikes across the infected area as it ''breaks the bones of its host'' to increase its mobility. We never find out exactly where it came from and it is very likely that whatever it is, it is still out there, ready to cause a pandemic.

-->-- '''Mr. Wednesday''', ''Series/AmericanGods2017'' episode "[[Recap/AmericanGodsS1E6AMurderOfGods A Murder of Gods]]"

* ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'': Features [[DontGoIntoTheWoods The Wood]] what might best be described as a predatory ecosystem encroaching on the valley, [[TheLostWoods incredibly magical]] by itself whose [[TheCorruption malign influence]] is nearly impossible to root out. The Wizard compares it to a long-running campaign because there '''is''' a [[IntelligentForest dark intelligence]] there that deliberately strikes at opportune times and employs strategy that may well ruin entire nations. [[spoiler:The climax shows that it is a ''cultivated'' variation of the clade made up of Heart-trees that are twisted remnants of an otherwise peaceful people. The intelligence is the race's former Queen bent on complete, frankly justified, revenge against an entire people and their descendants that now cover several nations.]]

* 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 genetic code.

** The Green is an elemental force which connects all forms of plant life on Earth. 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 as TheChampion to maintain balance on their behalf, ComicBook/SwampThing being their most famous champion.

** Biollante from ''Film/GodzillaVsBiollante'' is a Godzilla, rose, and human tribrid created by Genshiro Shiragami. Shiragami originally created a human-and-rose hybrid in 1984 by splicing the DNA of his daughter, Erika Shiragami, who was killed in a Bio-Major-authorized bombing of his lab in Saradia, with that of a rosebush, as roses had been Erika's favorite flower. It was later suggested that as a result of the fusion, the plant developed a level of sentience which could only be detected by those with psychic abilities, like Miki Saegusa. Then, in 1990, Mount Mihara began to erupt, creating an earthquake that killed several roses. Panicking, Shiragami spliced samples of Godzilla's DNA (given to him by the Japanese Self-Defense Force in order for Shiragami to help create the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria) that had been collected in 1984 with a single rose so that it could use Godzilla's advanced healing factor to become invincible. The fusion eventually further increased the plant's sentience and gave it the ability to move on its own, and it continued to mutate into a giant rose with a literal FlowerMouth, dubbed Biollante. After seemingly being destroyed by Godzilla, she reforms as an enormous nightmarish {{Planimal}}, and eventually disperses into a cloud of spores and retreated into space.

* ''Film/TheRuins'': The man-eating vine growing on the Mayan ruins displays extraordinary intelligence and abilities, while its origins are pretty much unknown. It seems less like an ordinary ManEatingPlant and more like some demonic or extraterrestrial entity wilfully tormenting the humans that go near it.

* ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'': Features [[DontGoIntoTheWoods The Wood]] what might best be described as a predatory ecosystem encroaching on the valley, [[TheLostWoods incredibly magical]] by itself whose [[TheCorruption malign influence]] is nearly impossible to root out. The Wizard compares it to a long running campaign because there '''is''' a [[IntelligentForest dark intelligence]] there that deliberately strikes at opportune times and employs strategy that may well ruin entire nations. [[spoiler:The climax shows that it is a ''cultivated'' variation of the clade made up of Heart-trees that are twisted remnants of an otherwise peaceful people. The intelligence is the race's former Queen bent on complete, frankly justified, revenge against an entire people and their descendants that now cover several nations.]]

** The Dark Young of [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Shub-Niggurath]] are a perverse amalgamation of leafless tree, fungus and goat the size of a small house (at the least), with CombatTentacles and sometimes TooManyMouths.

* 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/AmericanGodsS1E5LemonScentedYou Lemon Scented You]]", 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/DoctorWho'' has the Krynoids from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E6TheSeedsOfDoom The Seeds of Doom]]", the seeds of which infect humans and transform them into monsters, ones that rapidly grow to the size of houses, with a rabid hunger for flesh. Left unchecked, they will continue to grew and take over all of the plant life on a planet.

* The Gargoyle Vine from ''[[Series/GiantRobo Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot]]'' is a lava spewing, space plant that can grow large enough to destroy the Earth with its gigantic growing tendrils. Giant Robo has a very tough time defeating it on the two battles they had, getting ensnared in its crushing vines.

** 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 fiendish {{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.

* ''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.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', the Highbreed failsafe is a towering monster composed of a mix of plants, trees, soil, and organic matter. It was created from several BrainwashedAndCrazy humans merging in a special cocoon and turned into its components, including 'antibody' like beings that serve as an immune system, or in Grandpa Max's case the thing's 'brain'.
* Undergrowth from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is a giant ghost plant who ends up covering the entirety of Amity Park in his vines and controlling the minds of the people out of revenge for [[GaiasVengeance humanity's destructive attitude towards nature]].

* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats'' has the villain Doctor Greenthumb, who has made prototype plant-monsters in his lab. The things are about eight feet tall, and have grasping tendrils. Greenthumb plans to cultivate and loose an army of these things, unless he's paid richly to keep them bottled.

* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has the RecurringVillain Doctor Viper, who was an assistant botantist before turning evil. Viper routinely creates giant plant-monsters in his quest to overrun Megakat City, plus a corps of smaller plant-mooks to deal with intruders. One such abomination is a BlobMonster that incubates spores, which when loosed, would cause the city to be ReclaimedByNature, tangled in vines and ivy and moss galore.

** Creepweed from "[[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.

** The huorns in general.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Though Aku is normally characterized as being a creature of dark alien essence, there's a lot of wood and tree motifs to him. When he was a non-sentient pile of goo he attacked with sharp tree-like spikes. His horns resemble branches, his essence twists and deforms itself into an evil-looking tree when the Emperor seals him away, his joints creak like wood, and during his confrontation with the Scotsman, he even calls Aku a tree-demon.

* In ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', Lady Oyakata (Ruby in the anime) uses her magic to merge her body with that of her hanabake plant monsters and becomes a giant plant monster with the intent of destroying Tsukune, his UnwantedHarem and every human being within the neighboring town.

* ''Gemini Home Entertainment:'' Nature's Mockery, one of the recurring otherworldly entities in the setting, is [[CallASmeerpARabbit categorized as a plant]], anyway, in the ''Wilderness Survival Guide'' episode.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has Krynoids, the seeds of which infect humans and transform them into monsters, ones that rapidly grow to the size of houses, with a rabid hunger for flesh. Left unchecked, they will continue to grew and take over all of the plant life on a planet.

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as being 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 wa

* [[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.nt 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 being 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 wa* The God Tree in ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' is a massive alien tree nourished by draining Natural Energy from the environment and said to absorb the blood of battlefields for a millennium. It is the source of all chakra, which can be imbued to anyone who devours the chakra fruit it bears every subsequent millennium. The [[PhysicalGod Ōtsutsuki Clan]] travelled the cosmos to harvest the fruit in order to take its divine power for themselves, though Kaguya Ōtsutsuki betrayed the clan after arriving on Earth and merged with its God Tree to become the {{Planimal}} Ten-Tailed Beast.

* At the end of ''Anime/SonicX'', the [[PlantAliens Metarex]] generals [[BigBad Dark Oak]], [[CoDragons Pale Bayleaf, and Black Narcissus]] fused with a WorldTree to form the Final Mova: a planet-engulfing three-headed [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons draconic]] plant monster powered by the seven [[MineralMacGuffin Chaos Emeralds]], several stolen Planet Eggs, and an entire planet of water. Once the Final Mova absorbed all of the Chaos Emeralds' power, it then became a giant seed that [[AlienKudzu summoned runaway plant growth]] all across the galaxy. [[spoiler:In the end, Cosmo [[HeroicSacrifice fused herself]] with the self-destructing Final Mova to save the world.]]

* In ''Manga/{{Mushishi}}'', the eponymous Mushi are essentially this trope mixed with TheFairFolk. The protagonist, Ginko, describes them as being 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.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': The Tree of Might is a divine tree that drains the life energy out of wherever it's planted, producing mystical fruit that only gods like the Kai and Eternal Dragons are meant to eat. While not malevolent, if planted on an incompatible planet the tree will reduce it to a barren wasteland; and if the fruit is consumed by a mortal it grants an exponential but temporary boost in power. In the ''Xenoverse'' series, a Tree of Might planted in the Demon Realm becomes corrupted, with Towa using its fruit to induce the Villainous Mode and Supervillain State.
* The God Tree in ''Franchise/{{Naruto}}'' is a massive alien tree nourished by draining Natural Energy from the environment and said to absorb the blood of battlefields for a millennium. It is the source of all chakra, which can be imbued to anyone who devours the chakra fruit it bears every subsequent millennium. The [[PhysicalGod Ōtsutsuki Clan]] travelled the cosmos to harvest the fruit in order to take its divine power for themselves, though Kaguya Ōtsutsuki betrayed the clan after arriving on Earth and merged with its God Tree to become the {{Planimal}} Ten-Tailed Beast.
* [[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.
* A [[DarkIsNotEvil benevolent]] version in the Great Witch Jennifer from ''Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017'', whose spirit fused with a tree after death, turning her into a still-sapient PlantPerson.

* ''Comicbook/{{BPRD}}'': After being incinerated by Liz Sherman, the Ogdru Hem known as Sadu-Hem [[FromASingleCell regenerates into a tiny speck of fungus]], which is preserved in a laboratory and grows to be bigger than a man. It then infects a human host, turning him into -- in the artist's words -- a [[BodyHorror "fungus elephant-man"]].
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': The Father Earth storyline ends when Father Earth and his mutants fall under the thrall of an alien man-eating giant plant with a hypnotic call, believing it to be their god. Father Earth himself is a mutant covered in plants who invaded Mega-City One to inflict GaiasVengeance on it.

* ''Film/TheRuins'': The man-eating vine growing on the Mayan ruins displays extraordinary intelligence and abilities, while its origins are pretty much unknown. It seems less like an ordinary ManEatingPlant and more like some demonic or extraterrestrial entity wilfully tormenting the humans that go near it.

* ''Film/EdenLog'': The gargantuan tree that powers the city. Supposedly its sap is a superfuel, [[spoiler:but actually it turns the migrant workers harvesting it into savage mutants, who are then used as the real power source.]]
* ''Film/InTheTallGrass'': The grass field as a whole is implied to be some sort of incomprehensibly alien superorganism that has existed since the dawn of time. [[spoiler:It actively messes with both time and space and wants to assimilate human travelers into itself. Also, at different points it manifests itself as humanoid monstrosities made of grass.]]

* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Old Man Willow in the Old Forest. It's a sapient tree (maybe a very old huorn or, in some earlier drafts, an ancient earth-bound spirit imprisoned in a tree-form), whose influence expands to all trees around, imbued with telepathy, hypnotic powers, and an everlasting hatred for everything walking on two legs.

* "Literature/{{Carnivorine}}" (1889), by Creator/LucyHamiltonHooper 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.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has Krynoids, the seeds of which infect humans and transform them into monsters, ones that rapidly grow to the size of houses, with a rabid hunger for flesh.
* ''Series/SleepyHollow'' features the Tree Monster, a humanoid [[WhenTreesAttack tree]]/[[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow]] demon summoned by Moloch left in a dormant state outside of the Fredricks Estate.
* The Gargoyle Vine from ''[[Series/GiantRobo Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot]]'' is a lava spewing, space plant that can grow large enough to destroy the Earth with its gigantic growing tendrils. Giant Robo has a very tough time defeating it on the two battles they had, getting ensnared in its crushing vines.

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

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-bVtpIMd4 music video]] for "[=MopeMope=]" by [=LeaF=] and Optie starts off with some innocent-looking cartoon flowers...that soon transform into these ''things'' that have human hands for petals and human mouths in the center.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'':
** Creepweed from "[[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.
** 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.).
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'', a massive "rumor weed" (having been bestowed sentience when a potted plant landed on an electrical wire) gradually grows larger until it grows over an entire building.

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': Though Aku is normally characterized as being a creature of dark alien essence, there's a lot of wood and tree motifs to him. When he was a non-sentient pile of goo he attacked with sharp tree-like spikes. His horns resemble branches, his essence twists and deforms itself into an evil-looking tree when the Emperor seals him away, his joints creak like wood, and during his confrontation with the Scotsman, he even calls Aku a tree-demon.

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