History Main / FungusHumongous

This is usually considered a {{Plant Trope|s}}, even though fungi are not, you know, ''plants''. Can lead to FridgeLogic issues if an entire planetary ecosystem is based on this trope, as even giant fungi can't produce oxygen like plants can.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' has a quest line where the player must retrieve a larger-than-average black mushroom. The blacksmith, Griswold, exaggerates its size by calling it "A huge, gargantuan, swollen, bloated mushroom". [[spoiler:It wasn't so big.]] [[https://youtu.be/1q0ltHwY4xQ?t=46s Quest: The Black Mushroom]]

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2''. The Mushroom Planet that Dr. Robotnik is living on is covered by giant mushrooms.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termitomyces_titanicus Termitomyces titanicus]] is the largest edible mushroom, potentially growing 3 feet in diameter and nearlt two feet in length. The mycelium is cultivated by termites, and the fruting body grows after the mound has been abandonded.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'': The Fungus Humongous is 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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Satisfactory}}'': The flora of the Blue Crater, one of the biomes of the alien world you explore, consists almost entirely of fungi of various sizes, some of which are large enough to serve as tree analogues.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura''. At the end of his competition with Lum, Ataru pursues her in an area where giant (building-high) mushrooms have burst out of the ground.

*** Issue #32 module "Fell Pass". The Red Fungus Glade has fungi up to eight feet tall, the Gray fungus Glade features fungi up to fifteen feet high.

*** Issue #32 module "Fell Pass". Several rooms have giant fungi: in one they're up to 15 feet tall.

** ''Gygax'' magazine #3, adventure "The Marmoreal Tomb of Garn Pat'uul". One cave has mushrooms that are 12 feet high. If cut down or otherwise harmed, they will regrow within a day.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'':

* In ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'', Mushroom Run contains many huge, [[SpringySpores bouncy]] mushrooms.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': There are mushrooms that are the same size as Link. If you cut them with your sword, they regenerate in seconds. You can also get a makeshift potion substitute from them.
* ''VideoGame/Lineage2'' has giant mushrooms in various areas of the world, some man-sized, others are big as buildings. In particular is the Sea of Spores, which in addition to being inhabited by giant fungi of many varieties (including ones that attack you), is filled in every direction by a literal fog (or snow) of spores from them. It is so bad that there is a giant domed forcefield to keep the damned thing from spreading. One wonders how the little dragons breath or the stone golems don't get broken apart by fungus growing all over them. However, aside from this being a fairly good place for low 40's to grind and being part of a class change quest, this area is almost entirely ignored. That is, if you don't count [[ThatOneBoss Orfen]], the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever fifty foot six-armed spider queen]] that hides in there.

This does not apply to [[MushroomHouse tiny people living in regular mushrooms]], since in those instances it is the people that are unusual, not the mushrooms. This also does not apply to [[UsefulNotes/NuclearWeapons mushroom clouds]], which are just mushroom-shaped. Nor does it apply to sapient fungi, since they are not necessarily part of the scenery, unless they are so humongous that they dominate the scene. See MushroomMan for that sort of thing. Of course, if they live in giant mushrooms, that is another matter. However, it may cross over with SpringySpores if it's in a video game level.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': In ''Literature/SplinterOfTheMindsEye'', Luke and Princess Leia cross an underground lake using the caps of giant mushrooms as improvised rafts.

* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': Some large mobile mushrooms appear in one scene of the Music/JohnDenver episode. Denver starts to sing "Nobody Knows the Truffles I've Seen", and the mushrooms [[LamePunReaction attack him in disgust]].

* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': When Thistle starts having visions during the magic storm in Chapter 10, her hallucinations include fields of meters-tall mushrooms popping out of the ground. [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/1040 A chaos storm causes the environment to grow gigantic, including the button mushrooms.]]

* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': When Thistle starts having visions during the magic storm in Chapter 10, her hallucinations include fields of meters-tall mushrooms popping out of the ground.
** [[https://www.daughterofthelilies.com/dotl/1040 A chaos storm causes the environment to grow gigantic, including the button mushrooms.]]

* ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy'' has mushrooms of many different sizes that can be rolled up. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs This makes sense.]]

* In ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf - Animation/MissionIncredibleAdventuresOnTheDragonsTrail'', the Dragon's World has lots and lots of giant mushrooms growing in it.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In the fourth film, the Dragon's World has lots and lots of giant mushrooms growing in it.