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* After he becomes the Avatar of Life Magic, Lwan Eddington of ''TabletopGame/TechInfantry'' tends to have plants and animals spontaneously spring up around him wherever he goes. He even manages to create an entire fertile region on an asteroid-blasted Earth.
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** Meanwhile the High Elves have Alarielle the Radiant, Everqueen of Averlorn. Her miniature depicts her barefoot, with roses creeping at her feet as she steps on a discarded piece of armor. When she returns as the Goddess of Life Magic in the sequel game ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', Alarielle has had this ability turned up a notch with even the Wardroth Beetle she rides into battle sprouting shoots and fungus from its carapace.

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There are a lot of ways to tell the White Hats from the Black Hats, but one pretty good [[{{Pun}} rule of (green) thumb]] is that anyone who can bring flowers into existence just by stepping on soil is ''probably'' not evil. This person is not just a FriendToAllLivingThings but a potent force for good who is very likely a MessianicArchetype, or a PhysicalGod or credible runner-up. At the very least, they have a GreenThumb, and in extreme cases are so powerful and so Good that their aura bleeds out into the world as [[WorldHealingWave a source of healing and growth.]]

* Uro-sama from ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' grows moss wherever he walks. Also, donut trees wherever he sits.

* An unusual example occurs in the "Stink Bomb" segment of ''Anime/{{Memories}}''. The main character emits a chemical that causes flowers to bloom all around him... while also [[PoisonousPerson killing all animal life]]. He is a neutral character who is utterly unaware that he is even the cause of this.

* In ''Anime/Pokemon3'', at first it seems that the illusory Entei is making crystals grow from the ground wherever he steps. The plot of the movie involves the Pokémon Unown causing similar crystals to grow, and since they created Entei, it serves to connect the two together. It becomes obvious that the Unown can only affect reality within an area defined by the crystal growth. Hence, Entei isn't making crystals grow wherever he steps; instead, the Unown are making crystals grow so Entei can step on them.

* One of the features of the ''World of Warcraft'' card game -- Item cards. They can provide you rare items in-game. Two of them have said effect: Trinket "Path of Illidan" which leaves green fire footprints as you walk, and "Path of Zenarius (Cenarius?)" that make flowers (and grass) appear as you walk.

* Shalla Bal in one ''ComicBook/SilverSurfer'' story. She is able to return life to their homeworld after the Surfer infuses her with some of his cosmic power.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Meridian}}'', Sephie falls from a flying ship at high altitude and lands in a toxic wasteland, making a human-shaped crater around which plants start to grow.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Trinity|2008}}'', the transformed ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}}, and ComicBook/WonderWoman cause life to return to Europe.

* In the [[FrancoBelgianComics French comic]] ''[[http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizu Bizu]]'', Schnockbul is a hairy korrigan who leaves a trail of flowers (or lily pads if he walks in water) wherever he goes. If he stands still on the same spot, the flowers keep growing around him.

* ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'': Avalina, the unassuming farmgirl, has an extraordinarily strong aura of life. During the months she's forced to live in the [[WalkingWasteland Horned King's]] castle, life starts to brew in the lich's [[{{Mordor}} barren lands]], culminating in an entire forest with animal life. She also [[LivingEmotionalCrutch brings out positive sensations]] in the Horned King to the point that [[spoiler:his heart comes back to life after centuries of being dormant, and his aura is no longer deadly]].
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/8462437/chapters/24515679 This Gonna Be Good]]'' Fred and George use a prank powder to temporarily make flowers spring up wherever Harri steps, as part of the lead-up to Valentine's Day.
* ''Fanfic/TriptychContinuum'': This is part of earth pony magic, and is basically the only way that ponies know how to farm, relying on Earth Ponies to make the land able to support farming, with what's termed the "Cornucopia Effect".
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, Apricity Brabble is a young Lancre witch who is more at home with the long slow cycles of green growing things than she is with people. She gives creative thought to the interplay between the anthropomorphic personalities of the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady, and wonders where the two intermediate seasons of Spring, when you plant seeds, and Autumn, when you harvest the crop, fit into the scheme of things. A Witch, in tune with the cycles of life and of plant growth, finds this thought can turn her into an avatar of both. She discovers [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/51/Strandpiel she can do the fertile feet thing]] -- but only with things like oats, barley, wheat and spelt. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13797645/30/Strandpiel-Book-Two Later on]] Apricity discovers that the Wintersmith and the Summer Lady [[note]] or, more accurately, the larger Anthropomorphic Principles of which they are but partial manifestations[[/note]] have heard about her ideas concerning Spring and Autumn. Apricity then becomes, for as long as it needs, the Avatar of Spring and is tasked with running through the world, scattering seeds and heralding the Summer. The large hint is dropped that she will need to do it all again in six months' time, this time as Autumn.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3445176/9/Walking-Alone Walking Alone]]'' Jareth mentions a dream where Harry was walking through ruins with flowers sprouting up in his wake, which represents how their relationship is healing Jareth's cold heart.

* The Spring Sprite in the "Firebird Suite" segment of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'', most likely inspired by ''Princess Mononoke''.
* ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': Crysta by the end.

* It happens in ''WesternAnimation/KirikouAndTheSorceress'' [[spoiler:when [[KidHero Kirikou]] pulls out [[HotWitch Karaba's]] magical thorn from her back, automatically, [[HeelFaceTurn making her good]] and reverting her WalkingWasteland so the plants and flowers grow back prettier than before. Truly an eyeful!]]
* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''[[Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe]]'' has Aslan do this after resurrecting from the Stone Table.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Barbie}}'' [[WesternAnimation/BarbieInTheNutcracker adaptation of]] ''Literature/TheNutcrackerAndTheMouseKing'', Clara walks through a snowy landscape and wherever her feet step, the snow and ice melts and little purple flowers bloom in the melted footprints. She doesn't notice.
* ''WesternAnimation/Epic2013'': Queen Tara can grow plants just by waving her hand over a patch of dirt, including areas infected with rot or otherwise depleted. Plants don't pop up in her footsteps but plants do move underneath her to act as stepping stones as needed. This power presumably passes from queen to queen.
* In the stop-motion short film ''[[https://vimeo.com/139290912 Burnt]]'' by Devin Bell, the flower creature does this.
* In ''Animation/MavkaTheForestSong'', flowers grow where Mavka (the [[NatureSpirit soul of the forest]]) walks sometimes.
* Shishigami from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. It should be noted that the Shishigami doesn't give just life but both life and death -- and the plants that spring up from its footsteps immediately die and rot away. It seems to make plants go through their life cycle faster. [[spoiler:But when the Shishigami is decapitated, his headless and still-moving body turns into a WalkingWasteland.]]

* The Nature Elemental from ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' subverts this trope since it's a DesignatedVillain (but also [[LastOfHisKind last of its kind]]).

* ''Film/{{Excalibur}}'', after [[spoiler:Arthur's wound is healed by the Holy Grail]].
* [[{{Reconstruction}} Reconstructed]] in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'', where pressure causes Pandora's bioluminescent plant life to glow underfoot, but not change in any other way. It helps that it's there more for SceneryPorn than anything else.
* Anneke in the Russo-Finnish production ''Film/TheDayTheEarthFroze'' briefly causes flowers to bloom in her wake when she first met Lemmenkainen and again when Lemmenkainen and Ilmarinen rescue her from the witch Louhi. Louhi and her imps then go on a frenzy of stomping the flowers, because ([[ForTheEvulz being evil and all]]) she hates anything beautiful. When this movie was given the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' treatment, Joel looks at the witch during this scene and ponders, "Geez, I wonder what her Myers-Briggs test was like."
* Newborn baby Siddhartha Gautama in ''Film/LittleBuddha'' is shown taking his first steps with lotus blossoms springing up behind him in every footprint.
* In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Behemoth, the mammoth-like Titan, is said to have restored the growth of plant life in its wake, due to its radioactive emissions stimulating their growth.

* Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Literature/{{Pyramids}}'', when Pteppic's father dies, making him a divine emperor, his friends notice grass growing from the city pavement wherever he steps, a wooden table starts budding, and all the grain in a bakery [[HilarityEnsues attempts to burst into life.]]
** ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'' is the Trope Namer; it was called this (and the [[CanisLatinicus Latinized]] "Ped Fecundis") when Tiffany Aching developed it. Of course, this being ''Discworld'', it is played for laughs.
** A related thing happens to junior witch Magrat Garlick in ''Literature/WyrdSisters''. (Magrat is youngest witch, the Maiden of the trio, a role associated with Spring and fertility.) Faced with the conundrum of a locked and unopenable heavy oak door, she lays a hand on it, concentrates, and restores life force to the wood causing it to "remember when it was a tree" and to grow, put forth leaves, and bear fruit with acorns. Thus causing the wood to cease being a door and burst its hinges. Granny Weatherwax, the "crone" of the triad, a role associated with Death and Winter, frankly admits she'd have gone about it differently by attacking the stone of the surrounding wall.
* Some examples from Creator/JRRTolkien:
** Lúthien Tinúviel does this, [[{{Troperiffic}} and how]].
** The Elven High King Fingolfin.
--->''...and Fingolfin unfurled his blue and silver banners, and blew his horns, and flowers sprang beneath his marching feet, and the ages of the stars were ended.''
** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', King Théoden's ''horse'' does this to its grave. The horse was buried where he was killed, and grass grew lushly over the grave. (In contrast to the Nazgûl GiantFlyer's death-spot, which [[WalkingWasteland remained forever barren]].) Also happens with other burial sites, with those of evil beings staying barren.
* In Garrison Keillor's ''Lake Wobegon Days'', scholarly philosopher Leon Winkler seems to have a posthumous influence on the lush corn that brother Roman absentmindedly planted over his grave.
* In Donald Alexander Mackenzie's ''[[http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/tsm/tsm00.htm Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend]]'' (drawing on Myth/CelticMythology), Bride's influence produces this whenever Beira, queen of the winter, is unable to control her.
-->'''Father Winter:''' If Beira scolds you, give her these flowers, and if she asks where you found them, tell her that they came from the green rustling fir-woods. Tell her also that the cress is springing up on the banks of streams, and that the new grass has begun to shoot up in the fields.
* Invoked in Creator/GKChesterton's ''Tales of the Long Bow'':
-->''"It's all very well to be fond of England; but a man who wants to help England mustn't let the grass grow under his feet."\\
"And that's just what I want to do," answered Hood. "That's exactly what even your poor tired people in big towns really want to do. When a wretched clerk walks down Threadneedle Street, wouldn't he really be delighted if he could look down and see the grass growing under his feet; a magic green carpet in the middle of the pavement? It would be like a fairy-tale."''

* Creator/JimButcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':

* Flowers are said to have sprung up in the wake of Blessed Elua in Jacqueline Carey's ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' books.
* Hannah, [[NatureHero protagonist]] of Meredith Ann Pierce's ''Treasure at the Heart of the Tanglewood'', grows plants appropriate to the season—which usually seem to end up being useful—''in her hair''. She also, as it turns out, brings the seasons with her when she travels, including flowers in spring, grains in summer, and falling leaves in autumn. [[spoiler:[[SarcasmMode Surprisingly enough]], she turns out to be [[LivingMacGuffin the girl]] whom both the BigGood and the primary antagonist were after.]]
* When Aslan creates Narnia in Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', grass spreads out from his feet across the bare earth like a wave.
* Easter/Eostre of the Dawn does this in ''Literature/AmericanGods'', on her way to [[spoiler:bring Shadow back from the land of the dead.]]
* In Creator/IanMcDonald's ''Desolation Road'', there's a green evolved human from the future. Grass grows in the desert in his footsteps.
* Flowers supposedly sprang up behind the titular saint when he visited a novice in ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz'', but that was just rumor distorting an encounter with the WanderingJew.
* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'':
** At the end of ''The Eye of the World'', we meet the Green Man. [[spoiler:The Green Man keeps a chunk of earth free from the blight with his power to make things grow. While he is dying, he tackles one of the Forsaken and makes a giant tree grow out of the forsaken's chest in a matter of minutes.]] It is also mentioned in backstory that the Green Man's people, the Nym, caused plants to grow where they walked.
** This ability is also available to anyone who can channel (whether good or evil) and knows the necessary GeometricMagic.
** At the beginning of ''Towers of Midnight'', Rand descends from Dragonmount after resolving his internal conflict and makes an entire orchard of apples, which had been shriveled by the Dark One's touch, bloom instantly. Later, he makes bitter tea turn fresh just by entering the same room. It gets to the point in the book where virtually everyone can tell when Rand is near, simply because the sun starts shining, and everything starts blooming like there's no tomorrow (though this is purposely excluded in a capital city ruled by one of his lovers).
** All of this is because of the prophecy stating that [[FisherKing the Land is one with the Dragon]]. The spoilage of previous books is because of him moving toward the darkness.
** When Rand approaches the Field of Merrilor in the final book, the grass greens as he walks along, and he extends the effect to the entire field. Later, he uses the same effect to impress the Seanchan empress while his regular magic is blocked. It turns out this is not his fate-warping power at work, but the result of him humming [[MagicMusic a song of growing]] under his breath.
* The unicorns do this in Creator/PamelaDean's ''Literature/TheSecretCountry'' books, although they are creatures of capricious morality. One of the children calls the trail of blossoms "unicorn footprints" and her sarcastic brother immediately redubs them "fewmets".
* In Creator/ZilphaKeatleySnyder's novel ''Literature/TheChangeling1970'', Martha and Ivy invent a fantasy kingdom of Tree People with [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation pale green skin]] and dark green hair in which [[FlowersOfNature flowers grow naturally]]. (The Tree People later developed into Snyder's ''Literature/GreenSkyTrilogy'' and, eventually, the ''Below the Root'' video game.)
* Clive Barker's ''Literature/{{Weaveworld}}'' has two examples of this. The first plays the trope straight, with a temple so chock-full of magic that any disturbances (such as walking through it) sprouts a lush undergrowth. The second is an inversion, with a Garden of Eden-like setting covered in flora, which withers away and turns to sand when someone walks through it.
* Briar Moss uses this in Tamora Pierce's ''[[Literature/CircleOfMagic Street Magic]]'' when he has a [[TranquilFury very rational and very controlled]] RoaringRampageOfRevenge. Briar has GreenThumb in ass-kicking, so when he has enough, he uncorks his power and seeds and plant-based material come to live and sprout in his wake. In broad daylight. Most mages make an effort to fit into normal society, so seeing one obviously not making the effort was a great way to encourage people to get out of his way.
* In L. Jagi Lamplighter's ''[[Literature/ProsperosDaughter Prospero Regained]]'', the Water of Life has this effect on its environs. Even in Hell.
* The Lady in ''Literature/RepairmanJack''.
* The ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' novels have Lys, the {{Physical God}}dess of life from ''[[FictionalVideoGame Horizon]]''.

* In Margaret Ball's ''Lost in Translation'' some of the most important people on an alternate-universe version of Earth are Landwalkers, who can make plants healthy simply by walking past them.

* The cover of P.J. Hoover's book ''Solstice'' depicts the main character standing atop lush grass whilst surrounded all around by dry and desolate turf, hinting to the reveal later on that [[spoiler: she is the amnesiac Greek goddess Persephone. In accordance to Greek mythology, her absence from Hades and the Underworld is the cause of the titular never-ending summer.]]
* Daniel Curley, ''Ann's Spring.'' Mother Nature has her hands full with tornadoes and hurricanes, so she asks her daughter Ann to get spring started for her. Ann begins the task, assisted by her baby brother Bob. You can always tell where they've been. As they walk through the fields and yards, innumerable dandelions spring up in their wake.
* Creator/HenrikWergeland due to MemeticMutation. In 1937, Norwegian painter Reidar Aulie painted him on his horse in par with this trope, where he is seen dropping seeds of flowers behind him for children to pick it up. At the same time, poet Ingeborg Refling Hagen wrote a poem, stating that "when seeds sprouts in our footsteps, it is the growth of Wergeland´s thoughts" (in other words, each and every one can fill the trope when we follow his example).
* A variation occurs with the hands of Green Men in ''Literature/OneHundredCupboards'', where touching soil with the scar gained when they come into their powers can cause their bonded plant to grow. Inexperienced hero Henry [[HowDoIShotWeb has trouble with this]], at one point pinning his arm to the ground with a profusion of dandelions while trying to escape pursuit, while the older Monmouth has much more control.

* The end of Creator/NanaMizuki's "[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers Massive Wonders]]" [[http://en.musicplayon.com/play?v=445665 music video]] has the PhlebotinumRebel featured there leaving a trail of flowers where she walks.
* Ditto for the video of Linkin Park's "In the End", where Mike Shinoda leaves a trail of growing grass.

* There is at least one legend that garlic derives its anti-Vampire properties from the fact that it first sprouted in Satan's footsteps. This is not in Literature/TheBible. Traditionally, vampires were corpses possessed by demons; it reminds them if their host is destroyed, they will return to Hell.
* In the legend of Myth/KingArthurAndTheHolyGrail, [[FisherKing the sickness of the king poisons the land]], and when the king is healed, the flowers grow again. The movie ''Excalibur'' is a particularly vivid portrayal of this legend.
* There is a Yiddish folktale about two girls, a kind one and a mean one. The kind one received a blessing that caused roses to spring up where she walked, and the mean girl got a curse that made nettles spring up in her footsteps. This is Aarne-Thompson 480 and has many variations all over the world.
* In the Irish fairy tale, "The Wooing of Olwen", white 3-leaf clovers grow wherever Olwen steps.
* In "The Fairy Quite Contrary" good fairy Svelta blesses the newborn Princess Irena with the gift that wherever she goes, flowers will bloom and trees bear ripe fruit.
* The Christian hymn "Morning Has Broken", written by prolific children's author Eleanor Farjeon (you've heard a popular version by Cat Stevens) says plants sprang into existence when God walked in the Garden of Eden.

** It's also a pretty common motif in psalms. There is one Swedish example of God's footsteps not only bringing flowers but also overflowing with fat. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Food wasn't as plentiful back then.]]
* Said of Olwen, of the ''Literature/{{Mabinogion}}'':
-->"Four white trefoils sprung up wherever she trod."
* Myth/GreekMythology:
** Common attribute of Demeter/Ceres, the Grain Mother, and to her daughter, Persephone, bringer of springtime. (When Persephone goes into the Underworld, it's another story.)

* Also, Suvetar, the Finnish goddess of spring.
* The newborn Buddha is sometimes said to have left lotuses in his footsteps when he walked after birth.
* In an old German Christian hymn called "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging" ("Mary Walked Through a Wood of Thorns", first printed in 1850) St. Mary, being pregnant with Jesus, walks through a wood of thorn trees which have borne no leaves for seven years. At Mary's passing, the thorn trees bear roses.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''
** Aekold Hellbrass caused plants to grow wherever he went. Subverted in that he was a champion of chaos, serving Tzeentch, the god of mutation, and nothing like a FriendToAllLivingThings. His presence was actually screwing up the laws of nature, the excessive life energy radiating from his body as the result of an unusual mutation.
** Meanwhile the High Elves have Alarielle the Radiant, Everqueen of Averlorn. Her miniature depicts her barefoot, with roses creeping at her feet as she steps on a discarded piece of armor. When she returns as the Goddess of Life Magic in the sequel game TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar, Alarielle has had this ability turned up a notch with even the Wardroth Beetle she rides into battle sprouting shoots and fungus from its carapace.
* The ''Quintessential Temptress'' has this as an option for the Avatar of Love prestige class, once they get the Lover's Gift class feature. It's listed as the ''Spring Flowers'' Gift and is the only one of the Lover's Gifts that doesn't actually ''do'' anything inherently useful.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}''

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In the TabletopGame/{{Planescape}} setting, the T'uen-Rin is a planar being related to {{Kirin}}, with powerful spellcasting abilities. Flowers quickly grow wherever their hooves touch the earth.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': One of the hierophant abilities introduced in ''Mythic Origins'', ''Flowers in Your Footsteps'', allows a character to radiate a magical aura that greatly speeds and enhances plant growth within sixty feet of them, following them as they move around.
* ''TabletopGame/TheUnofficialHollowKnightRPG'': Small plants constantly sprout in the footsteps of bugs on the Path of the Bloom, which actually has the mechanical benefit of letting them create small quantities of edible plant matter when they rest.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders''

* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}''

** Amaterasu even does this in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'', while running up [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Super-Skrull's]] outstretched arm. With VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe riding her, yet!
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'':
** Bayonetta leaves a small trail of black plants behind her whenever she's running in panther form.
** The presence of Angels causes flowers to grow (ThePowerOfTheSun and all that), [[LightIsNotGood making a rare villainous example]].
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''
** Herbalists have something similar to this. They get a healing move that, when used, causes flowers and plants to spring up around them.
** The Night Elf Ancients (living trees that are used as production buildings in ''Warcraft III'') apparently have healing ''roots'', as they cleanse the undead Blight around them when they are planted in it.
** The red dragons, who are guardians of the Aspect of Life, have fertile ''breath'' -- flowers spring up from where they breathe flame, most notably and poignantly at Angrathar. Some seem to have this trope exactly, such as Surristrasz and his drakes at Amber Ledge, who are surrounded by a patch of grass and flowers upon otherwise barren rock.
** Also of note is Illidan's inversion in ''Warcraft 3'': When he moves, his footprints leave fire.

* ''Franchise/TheSims'':
** ''VideoGame/TheSims2'': Sims have this effect for the duration of the LovePotion.
** ''VideoGame/TheSims3'': Plantsims will leave behind a trail of grass and flowers when walking.
* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'': In a similar vein to this trope, Atlantean civilizations worshiping Gaia in the "Titans" expansion will have lush greenery grow outward from their buildings, which will prevent enemy civilizations from building too close by.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'':
** According to her official profile, Lily White can make flowers bloom with her mere presence, being the embodiment of spring and all. However, the actual {{Youkai}} of flowers, Yuka Kazami, is less FriendToAllLivingThings and more AxCrazy.
** The Mishaguji (snake gods under Suwako's control) are said to make grain sprout in their wake. Of course, they're ''curse'' gods, so they're more famous for taking it in the other direction and making the land barren. Akyuu describes it as blessings and curses being two sides of the same coin.
* ''VideoGame/BattleRealms'': Gaihla has these, and you can exploit the game's unique take with IdleAnimation and put her near your rice fields to help them grow faster. It's ''especially'' helpful in snowy stages.
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'': One of the secret stars in the Supermassive Galaxy has Mario doing this. You have to cover the entire planet with flowers to get a star.

* ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'': Another evil example. [[spoiler:Viktoria]] leaves moss at her touch until she shows her true form as [[spoiler:a dryad, at which point creeping vines sprout from around her feet and grow in her wake]].
* In ''VideoGame/OracleOfTao'', Ambrosia, after becoming the Oracle, has a massive shadow beneath her feet ([[FauxSymbolism probably representing that her dark half is now part of her]] ), and grows massive amounts of some generic weed, most likely [[http://www.ontariowildflower.com/images/plantain_common.jpg Common Plantain]]. Also, in flashbacks ([[spoiler: since this power was originally hers]] ), she as a kid grew tiny sprouts inside her shadow when she moved.
** God also has this power.
* In ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' there is a code that makes daisies appear when a zombie dies.
* Among the last special effects created for ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' characters was this, released at the same time as the Nature Affinity powerset (a flower and tree-themed heal/buff set which required some of the same coding and art).
* ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' has an odd example in its KarmaMeter games (4 and 5): if [=MegaMan=] is fully in Light mode, he can erase [=DarkHoles=] just by stepping on them. Conversely, if he uses certain [=DarkChips=][[note]][=DarkSpread (BN4) or DarkDrill (BN5)=][[/note]], he'll start creating poison panels where he walks. (The latter is also one of the possible punishments for stuffing his [=NaviCust=] without following the rules.)
* In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', plants start growing where Mario and Luigi walk in Dreamy Somnom Woods.
* A variant in Zyra, the Rise of the Thorns from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends-'' while she doesn't generate plant matter under her feet as she walks, her new passive "Garden of Thorns" causes her to spontaneously spawn seed pods randomly around her every few seconds, which she can cause to bloom into aggressive thorn spitters or vine lashers with her offensive spells.
* Played with in ''VideoGame/DeBlob''. [[BlobMonster Though he lacks feet]], Blob colors any ground he rolls over, including grass and flowers. Bumping into trees colors them as well, though this costs paint points.
* The Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} version of Myth/{{Merlin}} has this ability in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. Besides it being a visual effect in gameplay as flowers blossom and wilt in the area around him, it's key to stopping the ArcVillain of the game's seventh chapter as [[spoiler:all of Tiamat's mud is considered one entity and he effectively neutralizes it by merely taking one step on it, instantaneously causing flowers to grow all over the Chaos Tide and halting its advance.]]

* In ''VideoGame/Haven2020'''s PlayableEpilogue following the "Don't look back" ending, Yu and Kay upgrade their [[HoverSkates Hover Boots]] to produce trails of flowers a la ''Terraria''.
* Alarielle the Radiant from ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'' has this as a game mechanic: Every settlement she visits gets a StatusBuff improving its growth and public order for several turns. That's in addition to having this as a graphic on the battlefield.
* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'': Both Aekold Helbrass and the Mutalith Vortex Beast have an EvilCounterpart graphic of growing Tzeenchian spikey tentacles behind them as they walk.
* ''VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest'': The Plowhorns that the Utaru worship are essentially walking tractors; tilling the soil and planting fast-growing seeds behind them. There's even a common Utaru blessing: "May the land bloom in your steps."

* ''Webcomic/{{Battlepug}}'': The governor's daughter has the power to make plants (flowers or plant tentacles) grow in her vicinity. And one @#$%load of a vocabulary. Really, if she [[ClusterFBomb chain-swears]], expect a large number of hostile plants.
* In ''[[Webcomic/FifteenMinds Blue Moon Blossom]]'', when the rabbit spirit [[spoiler:is crumbling away]], dark blue flowers in a shade of blue seen nowhere else bloom underneath it as it flies.
* ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2009-07-31 Courtesy of Luna during the rebirth of Maltak.]]
* The Hob from ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak''. Although apparently it's cybernetically-enhanced flowers.
* ''Webcomic/{{Minus}}'' The title character in [[http://www.kiwisbybeat.com/minus36.html one strip]], though it's not her usual state.
* ''Webcomic/MSFHigh'' has any Legion, which is actually their main ability. They are natural terraformers.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': Van Kleiss can do this despite being the ''BigBad''. However, it only works in the area around his castle, which is infused with nanites that he controls. He may arguably have been invoking the trope at the time to get Rex to let his guard down.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'': This happens every Friday the 13th for Misery.
%%* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1nwhp9HJls Premier Automne]]'': Apolline's puppies in the short when grouped together, and Apolline herself by the end.

* PlayedForDrama in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "For the Future". [[spoiler:Plants start sprouting around Willow's feet because her attempts to repress her own issues and act as TheReliableOne for her friends [[PowerIncontinence is causing her magic to go haywire]]. Eventually, it gets so bad that she, Gus, and Hunter are ensnared in a tomb of vines that only go away when Gus and Hunter convince her to stop holding in her pain.]]

* Given a dark twist ''Manga/KingOfThorn'': the thorny vines grow after Kasumi wherever she goes, despite her not wanting them to.
* Uro-sama from ''Manga/{{Kekkaishi}}'' grows moss wherever he walks. Also, donut trees wherever he sits.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood'': Jonathan Joestar makes a tree blossom by leaning against it, simultaneously reminding us that [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale his power level is off the scale]] and that he is plainly and unambiguously TheHero.
* Manga/{{Naruto}} displays this to a degree once he [[spoiler:takes control of the Kyuubi's chakra]]. Even the artificial wood of Yamato's mokuton sprouts vibrant leaves in his presence. Subsequently weaponized when it's discovered that [[spoiler:the life-giving power of the chakra can cause Zetsu clones to revert into trees]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Admiral Ryokugyu has this as part of his powers after having eaten the [[GreenThumb Mori Mori no Mi]] (Woods-Woods Fruit). When he travels to Wano, the PollutedWasteland that used to be Udon is filled with plant life as he walks towards the Flower Capital.

* In the opening sequence of ''Anime/SandsOfDestruction'', Morte, of all people, leaves a trail of flowers as she walks. Yes, the same Morte who wants to destroy the world. No, we don't know why, either.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'' has a variant with water: Two different times, Suzu's presence in a stream causes fish-like ayakashi to awake from their dormancy and start [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial floating around her in the air]].

* Alarielle the Radiant from ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'' has this as a game mechanic: Every settlement she visits gets a StatusBuff improving its growth and public order for several turns.

* Shishigami from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. It should be noted that the Shishigami doesn't give just life but both life and death -- and the plants that spring up from its footsteps immediately die and rot away. It seems to make plants go through their life cycle faster. [[spoiler:But when the Shishigami is decapitated, his headless and still-moving body turns into a WalkingWasteland.]]

* In ''ComicBook/Trinity2008'', the transformed ComicBook/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/{{Batman}}, and ComicBook/WonderWoman cause life to return to Europe.

* The ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' novels have Lys, the [[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]] of life from ''[[FictionalVideoGame Horizon]]''.

* Creator/HenrikWergeland due to MemeticMutation. In 1937, Norwegian painter Reidar Aulie painted him on his horse in par With this trope, where he is seen dropping seeds of flowers behind him for children to pick it up. At the same time, poet Ingeborg Refling Hagen wrote a poem, stating that "when seeds sprouts in our footsteps, it is the growth of Wergeland´s thoughts" (in other words, each and every one can fill the trope when we follow his example).

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'':

* Played with in ''Videogame/DeBlob''. [[BlobMonster Though he lacks feet]], Blob colors any ground he rolls over, including grass and flowers. Bumping into trees colors them as well, though this costs paint points.

* ''WebComic/Aurora2019'': When Alinua first appears, plants grow wherever she steps.

* Shishigami from ''Anime/PrincessMononoke''. It should be noted that the Shishigami doesn't give just life but both life and death -- and the plants that spring up from its footsteps immediately die and rot away. It seems to make plants go through their life cycle faster. [[spoiler:But when the Shishigami is decapitated, his headless and still-moving body turns into a WalkingWasteland.]]

* An unusual example occurs in the "Stink Bomb" segment of ''Anime/{{Memories}}''. The main character emits a chemical that causes flowers to bloom all around him... while also [[PoisonousPerson killing all animal life]]. He is a neutral character who is utterly unaware that he is even the cause of this.
* In ''Anime/Pokemon3'', at first it seems that the illusory Entei is making crystals grow from the ground wherever he steps. The plot of the movie involves the Pokémon Unown causing similar crystals to grow, and since they created Entei, it serves to connect the two together. It becomes obvious that the Unown can only affect reality within an area defined by the crystal growth. Hence, Entei isn't making crystals grow wherever he steps; instead, the Unown are making crystals grow so Entei can step on them.

* Horribly {{invoked|Trope}} in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', when Ganishka takes on his final form, a tree-man the size of a mountain. He's clueless about his new form, and takes a few steps, noticing that wherever he goes, red flowers bloom in his footsteps (he's stomping on his own soldiers).