History Main / WhenTreesAttack

->''"I'm talking, of course, about our endangered forests. We have to protect them, because trees can't protect themselves. Except, of course, the Mexican Fighting Trees..."''
-->-- ''TheSimpsons'', "Homer To The Max"

->''"Tha' trees be attackin'! RUN FER YER LIVES!!!"''
-->-- '''Durkon Thundershield''', ''OrderOfTheStick''

* The fourth ''KingsQuest'' game had several screens worth of these trees, which would grab and kill you if you got too close to them.
** ''King's Quest VIII'' also has the Mandragor Trees, monsters found in the Swamp that turn to regular trees upon beating them.

* '''[[RobotChicken "DID I SAY [[TheGivingTree GIVING TREE]]?! I MEANT RAPING TREE! BUT I'M SURE HE'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING! LIKE A BIG, THICK STICK UP YOUR FAT ASS!"]]''' Truly, [[TheSimpsons the Giving Tree is not a chump]].

* In an episode of ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', the gang discover a 'Taking Tree' in Billy's yard. It steals items and will only give them back if they give it something better in return. In the end, it takes Billy and requires an extremely rare baseball card in return.

* The short horror/comedy film 'Treevenge' is about a group of vengeance-happy Christmas trees.

* The Guardian featured a dryad-like witch who sacrificed babies to a living tree. One scene featured chainsaw wielding guy going mano-a-treeo and winning.

* Y'ever get a papercut?

* Y'ever get a papercut?

* The Sandbox Tree. It will grab you and eat you alive.

* '''[[RobotChicken "DID I SAY GIVING TREE?! I MEANT RAPING TREE! BUT I'M SURE HE'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING! LIKE A BIG, THICK STICK UP YOUR FAT ASS!"]]''' Truly, [[TheSimpsons the Giving Tree is not a chump]].

* AgeOfMythology has a god power that, when cast on a forest, brought the trees to life so that they could attack your enemies.

* Hashi of TheBlackHeart, especially when using his [[OneHitKill ultimate]] [[ManEatingPlant ability.]]

* In DanAbnett's ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''Horus Rising'', the planet [[MeaningfulName Murder]] had trees on which the aliens threw dead bodies before they ate them. The trees themselves caused [[WeatherDissonance horrific storms]] that trapped Space Marines on the planet. (Fortunately, one Marine was so horrified by the desecration of the corpses that he blew up some trees, causing the storms to die down and so revealing they were behind the storms.)

* The woses in ''BattleForWesnoth''.

* ''SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-913 SCP 913]] is a sapient tree, capable of communicating telepathically, and claiming to be a forest elemental. When allowed near soil or sunlight, it's capable of locomotion and violence.

* The Sandbox Tree. It will grab you and eat you alive. [[NotMakingThisUp Seriously]].

* ''{{Earthbound}}'' games has trees that burst to flames upon defeat.

* In the ''{{Berserk}}'' manga, Guts encounters a tree that had been used as sacrificial grounds for so many years the faces of the dead appeared on its trunk. At night, it awakes and wreaks havoc on the bandits who'd been camping underneath it.

* The short horror/comedy film 'Treevenge' is about a group of vengence-happy Christmas trees.

** To give you an idea of how badass the Ents are- Trolls, one of Sauron's stock GiantMook troop types, are corrupted imitations, ''weaker'' versions of Ents.

* The ''original'' hostile willows from Algernon Blackwood's ''The Willows'', H.P.Lovecraft's favorite weird tale.

* ''{{Touhou}}'' has the Saigyou Ayakashi from ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'', a demonic cherry tree. We never do actually get to see it in action because it is magically sealed and you spend the game preventing this seal from breaking, however, it is known to have killed many, many humans in the past.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has you enter the Great Deku Tree as the first dungeon, who is the god of the Kokiri and a talking tree.

* The [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05042002.shtml Redneck Trees]] in ''SomethingPositive''.