History Main / Treants

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': Durkon does not like trees, viewing them as CombatTentacles-equipped StoneWall {{Giant Mook}}s that just aren't moving ''yet''. However, when he faces actual treants animated by a crazed druid that sent them on a rampage against civilization (and that had been made resistant to everything but Sonic damage) he [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0352.html figures out a way to deal with them]].
* ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'': During a ''D&D'' game, [[http://somethingpositive.net/sp05012002.shtml the party encounters]] [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05042002.shtml hillbilly rapist treemen]]. This gets their AssholeVictim to quit the roleplaying group, for which the other members send the GM thank-you notes.

*** In the GothicHorror-inspired plane of Innistrad, most treefolk creatures are nothing like humanoid, appearing as little more than aggressive, mobile trees with woody, fanged slashes for mouths. They're technically trees [[DemonicPossession possessed by spirits]]. Innistrad is also home to the only spirit treefolk in the game so far, [[http://magiccards.info/avr/en/207.html Yew Spirit]].

* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'': Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector, is a giant humanoid tree sent out into the world to explore the world of man and judge how much danger it poses to his home grove and the treants who stayed behind. He focuses on using a variety of GreenThumb powers. Additionally, another hero, Nature's Prophet, can create treants from trees around the game map, although they are much smaller and weaker compared to Treat Protector.

* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'': Rooftrellen, the Treant Protector, is a giant humanoid tree sent out into the world to explore the world of man and judge how much danger it poses to his home grove and the treants who stayed behind. He focuses on using a variety of GreenThumb powers.

* ''VideoGame/{{Patapon}}'': The third game has {{Treants}}. They normally don't move, but if you try to use fire weapons on one it;ll wake up and start flinging {{fireballs}} at your army. If it happens to be a rainy day, they gain huge amounts of health regeneration.

* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': Chuckleroot straddles the line between being this and a "regular" living tree, being an animated, speech-capable and at least partially mobile tree who guards the heart of an ancient forest.

** The game has Treants straight out of the Tolkien mold, with an extremely long-winded language, the ability to animate and control trees and gatherings called moots that can last for months. They also grow from acorns the size of a human head, and can communicate with any intelligent plant-based creature. There's a tropical variant called the tobongo, which lives in jungles and can [[{{Transflormation}} turn people into trees]]. 2nd Edition reinterprets treants as a race of tree creatures called the arboreals, which are split between the more common arboreal wardens and the more powerful arboreal regents, these last ones being the treants proper.

*** ''Shadowlands'' introduces the tiernenn of Ardenweald, who look like treants with long arms and three trunks for legs, and generally speak in low, raspy voices. Despite their alien appearances and speech patterns, they're mainly {{Gentle Giant}}s who tend to Ardenweald's plant life, and slow to anger or action.

Historically, they're based on Tolkien's Ents, which may also be the reason they don't show up in fiction as often as Tolkien's other races -- since Tolkien straight up invented them instead of borrowing from mythology, his estate has a much stronger copyright claim than it does to his other races, which can explain both why they never gained the universality of elves or dwarves and why few are actually called Ents; the more direct adaptations are usually referred to by more lawyer-friendly names such as Treemen, Treefolk and Treants ("tree" plus "giant") instead.

** Forest walkers are relatively minor gods resembling large humanoid trees. They watch over woodlands and wildernesses, ruling over the spirits ad creatures of the wild and protecting them from harm. Like most of Creation's gods, however, they're far from incorruptible; some like to make bets with mortals where they wager the rights to harvest their forests against their own freedom to seed human-cleared fields with trees, while others have been lured from their charges with promises of worship and fine new temples. They don't get along with wood elementals, though -- they predate them by quite some time, and don't appreciate them muscling in on their authority.

More often than not, their first and foremost concern will be protecting and caring for their home forests. As a result, indiscriminate logging and exploitation of nature (and, if the setting has it, pollution) will be the most surefire way to arouse their anger -- and their anger is a thing to be feared. Outside of that, they're typically uninterested in what goes on outside their forest homes, although they may be on good terms with any local elves or fairies.

* ''WesternAnimation/CareBearsInTheLandWithoutFeelings'': The titular land is home to sapient, talking trees, flowers, and rocks.

** The Treemen are the mightiest inhabitants of [[TheLostWoods Athel Loren]], formed when powerful spirits merge with living trees. Incredibly powerful and ancient, they command great respect from lesser forest spirits and the Wood Elves alike, and are rightfully feared by those outsiders who don't think they're myths or long extinct. They also inhabited Athel Loren long before the Wood Elves and are quite xenophobic, to the point that many see the Wood Elves, who have inhabited and defended the forest alongside the Treemen for millennia, as unwanted interlopers, and want them out of their woods.

* ''Lord of the Sword'': The Tree Spirit is a walking, angry treant. It spits seeds and it throws rocks at Landau.

** The Wood Elf subfaction of Argwylon, led by the treeman Durthu Oakheart, focuses on treemen and other forest spirits above the Wood Elves -- for instance, only Ancient Treeman generals and not elven Glade Lords can be put in your council -- in contrast to the main Wood Elf faction, which does the opposite.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Jyureimon/[[DubNameChange Cherrymon]] is a Digimon resembling a six-armed cherry tree walking around on its roots, with a face on its trunk including a mustache made out of foliage. It lives in deep forests, and lures and tempts people who wander into its territory deeper and deeper into their woods until they become utterly lost; as such, it is also referred to as the Lord of the Forest. It evolves from a Digimon resembling a walking tree stump, and attacks with animated ivy vines. The one in the anime serves as the chief henchman to Puppetmon, the [[BigBadEnsemble Dark Master]] who rules over Spiral Mountain's forested areas.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Cherrymon is a Digimon resembling a six-armed cherry tree walking around on its roots, with a face on its trunk including a mustache made out of foliage. It lives in deep forests, and lures and tempts people who wander into its territory deeper and deeper into their woods until they become utterly lost; as such, it is also referred to as the Lord of the Forest. It evolves from a Digimon resembling a walking tree stump, and attacks with animated ivy vines. The one in the anime serves as the chief henchman to Puppetmon, the [[BigBadEnsemble Dark Master]] who rules over Spiral Mountain's forested areas.

%%** ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'':

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Treants have been present as Good-aligned plant creatures since the early days of the game. They were openly named Ents in the first editions of the game, but the name was later changed to treants for copyright reasons.

** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': [[TheLostWoods The forest of Cormanthor]] is home to a large population of treants, which resemble different trees -- such as birch, willow or oak -- depending on which part of the forest they come from. They are also noted to live in symbiosis with other forest creatures, such as grubs that feed on a kind of mold that infests treants, toxic fungi that grow around their legs and ward off gnawing rodents and bats that nest in their branches and eat parasitic insects.

* ''Anime/{{Digimon}}'': Cherrymon is a Digimon resembling a six-armed cherry tree walking around on its roots, with a face on its trunk including a mustache made out of foliage. It lives in deep forests, and lures and tempts people who wander into its territory deeper and deeper into their woods until they become utterly lost; as such, it is also referred to as the Lord of the Forest. It evolves from a Digimon resembling a walking tree stump, and attacks with animated ivy vines. The one in the anime serves as the chief henchman to Puppetmon, the [[BigBadEnsemble Dark Master]] who rules over Spiral Mountain's forested areas.

** Forest walkers are relatively minor gods resembling large humanoid trees. They watch over woodlands and wildernesses, ruling over the spirits ad creatures of the wild and protecting them from harm. Like most of Creation's gods, however, they're far from incorruptible; some like to make bets with mortals wager the rights to harvest their forests against their own freedom to seed human-cleared fields with trees, while others have been lured from their charges with promises of worship and fine new temples. They don't get along with wood elementals, though -- they predate them by quite some time, and don't appreciate them muscling in on their authority.

* The Tree Spirit in ''Lord of the Sword'' is a walking, angry treant. It spits seeds and it throws rocks at Landau.

* ''TabletopGame/DragonDice'' has the Treefolk, an entire race/army of sapient, mobile trees and their [[OurNymphsAreDifferent Naiad Dryad]] allies, animated by MotherNature as a last ditch effort against the forces of Death.