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12	->''"There's always been a god-shaped hole in man's head. Trees were the first to fill it. Mr. Wood was the trees. Mr. Wood was the forest. Well, he was a very old god who saw something very new: he saw a god-fearing society turn towards complete industrialization. So what did he do? He sacrificed his trees. He sacrificed his forest. And he became something else."''
13	-->-- '''Mr. Wednesday''', ''Series/AmericanGods2017'', "[[Recap/AmericanGodsS1E6AMurderOfGods A Murder of Gods]]"
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15	Much like {{Animalistic Abomination}}s, these foul blights on everything bear a strong resemblance to commonplace life-forms, in this case that of natural flora.
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17	Half the time these creatures are only plant-like superficially, kind of like Proterozoic Era life, blurring the lines between [[PlantTropes plants]], [[AnimalTropes animals]], [[FungusHumongous fungi]], [[MegaMicrobes bacteria]] and [[SnubByOmission the other things]]. They may plant their feet (or whatever passes for such) in the ground, attracting vermin like [[BeeAfraid bees]] and [[FliesEqualsEvil flies]], exhaling toxic spores and hypnotic pollen and sucking out the water and nitrogen and fertilizer from its surroundings. You can usually find these abominations in a GardenOfEvil.
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19	These creatures often [[ManEatingPlant possess a taste for flesh, human or otherwise]]. In other cases, all they care about is laying down their roots, [[AlienKudzu overgrowing and infesting the land]] and starving the ecosystem of its own resources. If it grows [[FantasticFruitsAndVegetables fruit]], it probably [[LovecraftianSuperpower imbues those that eat it with supernatural abilities]] [[{{Squick}} before they explode from the alien parasites that germinated in their intestines]].
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21	Combine this with HumanoidAbomination and you get a PlantPerson, with an AnimalisticAbomination and you get a {{Planimal}}, a MechanicalAbomination you get OrganicTechnology covered in vines and flowers, though for all three of these to apply they would still need to have the same otherworldliness and mind-bending terror you would expect from an EldritchAbomination of any category. See also FoulFlower and WhenTreesAttack.
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23	[- '''Note:''' Fungi are not plants, and in fact are more closely related to animals, but [[FungiArePlants fiction still treats the two groups as interchangeable]] often enough for them to fit here. -]
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26	!!Examples:
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28	* BotanicalAbomination/VideoGames
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33	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
34	* ''Anime/TheBigO'': The titular ''Daemonseed'' of episode 11 is a genetically engineered giant Christmas tree that nearly destroys Paradigm City and is defeating Big O in battle before it suddenly stops growing, which it had been designed to do after a while. After it stops, it does look kind of pretty, though.
35	* ''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.
36	* 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 and sharing 97% of its genetic code.
37	* After he took in [[DeadlyUpgrade Helena's Nail]], [[BadassPreacher Alexander Anderson]] of ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' became capable of manipulating thorns and vines, with even [[{{Dracula}} Alucard]] calling him a "monster of God" who, like himself, has surrendered his humanity.
38	* 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.
39	* 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.
40	* 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.
41	* [[spoiler:Lily Carnation]], the secret antagonist of the infamous ''Manga/OnePiece'' movie, ''Anime/BaronOmatsuriAndTheSecretIsland'', which is one of the franchise's more infamous {{Outside Genre Foe}}s to boot.. [[spoiler:Initially seen in the form of a cute little flower with a primitive face on it, Lily Carnation is actually a shapeshifting giant predatory plant that can control minds, create illusions, produce arrow-like homing projectiles, and spawn near-perfect replicants of the dead. Baron Omatsuri has a DealWithTheDevil; he feeds Lily, and in return it creates clones of his dead crewmates so he can live in denial of their passing.]]
42	* [[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.
43	* In ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'', 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.
44	* 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 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.]]
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47	[[folder:Comic Books]]
48	* ''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"]].
49	* Creator/DCComics:
50	** The Green is an elemental force that 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.
51	** The Grey was an elemental force similar to the Green that formed on a far-off grey, alien planet. When said alien planet was destroyed, a fragmented meteor made from the remains of the planet landed on Earth, bringing what would later be known as the Fungal Kingdom with it. The plants and fungi would live in relative peace, until Mantango (a plant elemental and former member of the Parliament of Trees) defected to the Grey and tempted humanity with the Tree of Knowledge and fostered its potential to destroy, leading to hostility between the two forces of nature.
52	** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': ComicBook/PoisonIvy is a misanthropic PlantPerson who lures in victims to feed to her "babies". One particular ManEatingPlant was overfed so much by her that something went wrong, mutating it into "Harvest", a sentient MindHive composed of the souls of all the people it had eaten. It promptly decided that [[HoistByHerOwnPetard Ivy was pretty appetizing herself]].
53	** Golden Age ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' once fought an alien plant that could [[FromASingleCell regenerate from all damage]] and even [[SuperPersistentPredator return to Earth after being thrown into space]]. It conveniently turned out that it could be killed by [[ConvenientWeaknessPlacement X-rays, just like the kind Superman can emit from his eyes]].
54	* ''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.
55	* Morrigan Lugus from ''ComicBook/{{Supergod}}'' was the first of the superhumans the series was centered around. He was manifested when three astronauts with minimal radiation shielding were exposed to an unknown, extraterrestrial breed of fungus, fusing them into a massive, three-face being. Mentally it's an entity beyond human comprehension -- its entire fungal physiology acting similar to an [[OrganicTechnology organic supercomputer]] -- whose mere presence warps the human mind. [[spoiler:It eventually succeeds in its revenge against the human race, still spiteful for its own creation due to mankind's willingness to sacrifice its human components, through the use of infecting everyone with its deadly spores.]]
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59	* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/309393/evergreen-heart Evergreen Heart]]'' has the main character, who dies and is reborn as a powerful and eldritch NatureSpirit.
60	* While Donnie and April are escorted to the EPF's headquarters in ''Fanfic/SacrificeRavenshell'', they are nearly killed by a monstrous creature that could only be described as being part tree, part t-rex. Mikey later names it "the Tree-Rex."
61	* ''Fanfic/TemporalAnomaly'': This is the form [[spoiler: the Flower]] takes without a proper host while still being able to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt along with having a ''very'' eerie VoiceOfTheLegion.
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64	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
65	* ''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.]]
66	* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
67	** 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 that 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.
68	** [=SpaceGodzilla=] from ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'' is theorized to have originated when some of Biollante's spores were sucked into a black hole and merged with a crystalline alien entity -- supported by him having tusks like Biollante's and the cores of his shoulder crystals resembling Biollante's stomach.
69	* ''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.]]
70	* ''Film/LittleShopOfHorrors'': Audrey II may look like [[ManEatingPlant a giant Venus flytrap]]-like plant on the surface, but it's actually a sapient alien entity that grows larger by eating blood, and has a pod-like head that opens into a gaping fleshy maw lined with bony fangs. It and its kind travel the cosmos, devouring all life on planets they come across. After spending only a short time on Earth, it's able to not only talk but sing, and manipulates people into facilitating its plans.
71	* ''Film/{{Nightbooks}}'': The Shredders, which grow from eggs that developed when Yazmin used the wrong type of blood to water a magical plant.
72	* ''Film/OnceUponATime2017'': Bai Qian stumbles across a tree-like monster that attacks her with its roots and branches. It takes her and Ye Hua a lot of effort to defeat it.
73	* ''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 willfully tormenting the humans that go near it.
74	* Slender Man from ''Film/SlenderMan'' is a walking, [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid]] tree. He also has power over tree branches and the sounds of tree branches snapping and contorting accompanies him whenever he moves.
75	* The threat that appears in ''Film/{{Splinter}}'' is a strange, parasitic mold that turns those infected by it into {{Parasite Zombie}}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.
76	* Sam, the PhysicalGod of Halloween in ''Film/TrickRTreat'' is depicted as a [[spoiler: PumpkinPerson with a skull-like face]] under his iconic [[SackheadSlasher burlap sack mask]].
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80	* The villain of the ''Literature/AuroraCycle'' is [[spoiler:the Ra'haam, a gestalt entity taking the form of plant life which spreads itself via pollen and wishes to [[TheAssimilator assimilate]] all other life into itself, intending to spread itself from the 22 planets it's incubating on through [[ExtraDimensionalShortcut the Fold]] to any world it can get to]].
81	* "Literature/{{Carnivorine}}" is an early (1889) 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.
82	* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'':
83	** The Green God from the Creator/RamseyCampbell short story ''The Horror Under Warrendown'' is a sentient plant-like entity dwelling within a series of subterranean caverns, where it is always served by mutant rabbit-like worshippers.
84	** The Mi-Go are fungal monsters who have a base on Pluto from which they scout out exceptional minds on Earth. They're masters of BioAugmentation and come across as malevolent to humans, but are implied to have a BlueAndOrangeMorality system that doesn't recognize that most people ''don't'' want to be abducted as a BrainInAJar to attend an off-world FantasticScience symposium.
85	** 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.
86	** Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith's Mars-dwelling Great Old One Vulthoom, from the eponymous short story, may actually be one of these, [[UnreliableNarrator if the hallucinogenic visions of one character can be trusted]].
87	** Creator/DavidDrake's early foray into the Mythos, ''Than Curse The Darkness'', has Ahtu, an avatar/Mask of Nyarlathotep that manifests in the African rainforest as an enormous tree stump-like ''thing'' with crystaline tendrils that attack everything in a huge InstantDeathRadius to feed its ravenous maws. [[spoiler:And yet, it turns out to probably be the lesser evil when compared to the man-made atrocities of the [[UsefulNotes/DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo Congo Free State]]...]]
88	* The titular creatures from ''Literature/TheDayOfTheTriffids'' are a classic example of this trope, being carnivorous mobile plants that paralyze and devour any unfortunate prey in their path.
89	* The Thread from ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern''. An unknown alien fungus from the Red Star, it traverses space to reach Pern and, once it arrives, roots itself and starts draining the life from everything it lands on.
90	* ''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.
91	* ''Literature/LumbanicoTheCubicPlanet'': Downplayed. The ''Churinela Purpurata'' is not malicious (as far as it is known), but it is an artificially engineered vegetal specimen whose vision is unbearable to human eyes. Pirela and Mela feel dizzy and get sick when they see one, to the point they ate very little later when they met her friends for lunch, refusing to talk about what they witnessed.
92	* The Three-Eyed Crow, a.k.a. [[spoiler:Bloodraven]], from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', has merged with the Old Gods by letting a weirwood grow through him.
93	* The thing at the center of Area X in ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'' seems to be some sort of monstrous alien plant. [[WasOnceAMan The Crawler]] describes it as "the strangling fruit," and many of its extrusions take plant-like forms. It doubles as an EldritchAbomination and EldritchLocation, and distorts space, time, and [[BodyHorror living things]] within its domain. It may also be an alien terraforming engine, though the books remain cagey about its precise nature.
94	* ''Literature/TheTaking'': The protagonists encounter a fast-growing cluster of spotted mushrooms in the local bar's restroom that Molly gets a feeling of malevolence from despite its innocuous (if very strange) appearance. They also encounter walking clusters of pale, pulsing fungi that [[spoiler:eat souls]] around the increasingly empty town.
95	* Creator/GahanWilson's short story ''(The title is an ink blot)'' stars a rich man who discovers a tiny inkblot on his tablecloth. No matter what the butler tries, he can't clean the inkblot off. Then the inkblot starts [[OffscreenTeleportation moving around when no one is looking]]. As if that wasn't strange enough, it starts growing larger and forming into a bizarre, plantlike shape. Then it's implied that the inkblot [[spoiler:consumes the butler offscreen, and is preparing to eat the rich man next]].
96	* ''Literature/{{Uprooted}}'': [[DontGoIntoTheWoods The Wood]] might best be described as a predatory ecosystem encroaching on the valley, [[EnchantedForest 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.]]
97	* ''Literature/WingsOfFire'' gives us the Othermind. [[spoiler:It's a plant intelligence with mind-control powers. Anyone exposed to it (eating it, breathing in smoke from burning it, injected with it as eggs) becomes subject to its control. It's been there for millennia -- in the very oldest legends the dragons of Pantala have, of their ancestors' arrival on the continent, the Othermind was there and using the animals as its weapons. It still hates everything it doesn't have full control over. Long exposure has made it at least vaguely comprehensible to dragons, but it's still strange and terrifying.]]
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101	* 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.
102	* ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'': In "Man-Eater of Surrey Green", a ManEatingPlant from outer space lands in Middle England and takes several top horticulturists as its prisoners in an effort to germinate and [[AlienKudzu spread across all of the Earth]].
103	* [[spoiler:[[BigBad Vulgyre's]] OneWingedAngel form]] in ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' is this. A massive monster covered in thorns, with gigantic petals along the back, masses of roots for legs, and additional root tentacles.
104	* ''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 grow and take over all of the plant life on a planet.
105	* ''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.
106	* 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.
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109	[[folder:Music]]
110	* The music video for "Black Mold" by Creator/JonSpencerBluesExplosion has the titular mold infecting people and turning them into {{Parasite Zombie}}s in what looks to be the American backwoods.
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114	* Myth/ScythianMythology: Some Kurgan goddess figurines are monstrous women with plant feet. Some have suggested that these are depictions of Api, the Scythian earth goddess (equated with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Gaia]] by Creator/{{Herodotus}}).
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117	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
118	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
119	** The {{Demon Lord\|sAndArchdevils}} Zuggtmoy, Lady of Rot and Decay, manifests as a gigantic fungal humanoid woman. She also rules over a layer of the Abyss that's overgrown with [[FungusHumongous miles-high fungi]] and tries to spread her corruption to the Material Plane, with AndIMustScream results for anyone who gets interred in her "gardens" or [[TheCorruption infected with her spores]].
120	** Mu Spores (which also appear in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'') are gigantic fungal organisms whose capacity for devastation is about on par with that of [[TheDreaded the Tarrasque]], with a strange and alien intelligence.
121	** In the old Basic/Expert/etc system, an odic is a type of evil spirit that possesses large plants during the hours of darkness. It moves into a new host plant each night, turning it mobile, aggressive, and deadly poisonous, then moves on at dawn, killing the plant as it exits. Like other spirit-type undead, it's ''very'' powerful.
122	** The ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' setting has two: Moander, an evil god of plants and decay who manifests itself on Toril as a giant blob of rotting vegetation with multiple eyes and mouths; and Araumycos, an [[FungusHumongous utterly titanic fungal colony/organism]] occupying the entirety of the Underdark between one and three miles deep beneath the High Forest in northwestern Faerun (to give an idea of just how big it is, the High Forest is about the size of Iowa), and is both sapient and [[PsychicPowers psionic]] as well as virtually inscrutable beyond its desire to mentally dominate other beings to bind them to it in a sort of HiveMind.
123	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
124	** 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.
125	** Zygominds are titanic fungal entities with devastating PsychicPowers that wander the depths of space. Upon finding an inhabited planet, a zygomind traps entire communities in a mental LotusEaterMachine, transforming their bodies into undead servants as they die of deprivation. Perversely, they're mindless [[NonMaliciousMonster Non-Malicious Monsters]] who are just instinctively seeking nutrients.
126	** One of Paizo's original contributions to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the Great Old One Xhamen-Dor, is a fungoid mass vaguely resembling a rotting reptile corpse. [[spoiler:It's also a PlanetaryParasite that spreads itself through a world and its inhabitants, and when the infestation is complete, brings the world through to be absorbed by [[EldritchLocation the alien city of Carcosa]], the abode of both it and [[TheManBehindTheMan its master]], Hastur the Unspeakable.]]
127	* Various plant-type monsters from ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' -- like the "Predaplant", "Rose" and "Sylvan" archetypes -- fall under the category of "abomination."
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130	[[folder:Toys]]
131	* ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}'':
132	** The Morbuzakh was a giant plant monster that terrorized the island of Metru Nui with its tendrils until the Toa Metru destroyed its root. It had a predecessor that was named Karzahni.
133	** The Element Lord of Jungle fits into this category, as his mindset is more tied to NatureIsNotNice than any other train of thought.
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136	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
137	* In the ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'', the Forest of Einnashe. It began as a blood-drinking tree who TookALevelInBadass by drinking from Einnashe's body after Arcueid had killed him, back in the middle ages, and now manifests every fifty years to sate its voracious hunger. By the time of the present day, even the monster-slayers of the Church have unofficially given up trying to kill this thing, and not from lack of trying.
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141	* "Captain Botanical" in ''WebComic/SluggyFreelance'' chapter 66 is a plant demon that creates twisted plant zombies. It appears as a giant humanoid made up of plant stuff, with a flower for a head.
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145	* 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.
146	* Many of the plant-based [=SCPs=] captured by the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' can qualify as this.
147	** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-417 SCP 417]] is an anomalous species of African baobab tree that grows fruit [[spoiler:that are filled with a rather aggressive species of biting insects with venom that varies in severeness from person to person]].
148	** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2571 SCP-2517]] is a memetic entity that manifests in the form of a recurring childhood memory of the non-existent theme-park known as "Cragglewood Park", with many of the characters associated with the park being a variety of Anthropomorphic trees of differing species. [[spoiler:[[ThatWasNotADream It's not a memetic entity.]] The park is '''real''' and it abducts children, [[RetGone seemingly erasing them completely from reality]] and very likely [[TheAssimilator integrating them into itself]].]]
149	** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-097 SCP-097-01]] is a giant pumpkin at the centre of an abandoned fairground. The pumpkin patch surrounding it is full of various anomalous species of pumpkins with human-like blood. It makes children sleepwalk to the fairground, [[ChildEater then eats them.]]
150	** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6666 SCP-6666]] is an enormous tree-like being that grows into the ground instead of above the ground, and constantly emits a cloud of dangerous neurotoxin. It's actually the corpse of the fae god Titania, and it's keeping the Children of the Night contained.
151	* ''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.
152	* ''WebVideo/GeminiHomeEntertainment:'' 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.
153	* ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos:'' Special Trees ''seem'' to be flora of some kind, even if they're utterly leafless and branchless. They're normally entirely indestructible (blowing one up with dynamite barely even affected it, and a MineralMacguffin was needed to just scratch them), it took ''three years'' to dig up a small one, and they can seemingly "choose" between growing and repairing what meager damages they have. And most of all, they have bizarre spaciotemporal properties: People can disappear in their vicinity, and at ill-understood times they suddenly curve in half, open a gateway in a shower of lightning, and shunt all nearby through it, between time periods or even universes. Whatever triggers this transportation reflex of sorts isn't known, but people have been grabbed from decades prior to be dumped in place, or even ripped out of an alternate universe and swapped out with their counterparts. At least one person passing through said they were briefly in an endless forest of Special Trees during transit. Trying to contain them doesn't stop them; the Special Tree inside the Washington Monument still curved the entire tower in 2003 during an event, seemingly having merged with it. [[spoiler:There are Special Trees in the Pyramids, too, which are actually the tips of infinite towers. ''Something'' has caused them to start emerging from the sands]].
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157	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': The Mycelium is a massive creature (no doubt of alien origin) that hid beneath Camp Opinicon and had command over a savage race of [[MushroomMan Mushroom Men]]. Because fiction likes to portray fungi and plants to be similar, Ben was able to telepathically communicate with it as Wildvine.
158	* 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''.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': The second HalloweenEpisode, "[[Recap/BigCityGreensS3E1 Squashed!]]", is about Tilly borrowing an alien chemical from [[MadScientist Gwendolyn Zapp]] to help the family grow their pumpkins. However, [[GoneHorriblyRight it works too well]], as the pumpkins then into mind-controlling abominations.
160	* Undergrowth from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is a giant ghost plant that 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]].
161	* The ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' villain Bushroot is a PlantPerson, but his stock in trade is turning ordinary plants into monstrosities.
162	* ''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.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': Although starting off as a PlantPerson, the eponymous character in "The Tree Man of Arbora" turns into one as it grows to gigantic proportions as it consumes water.
164	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "The Plant From Bortron 7", Jet grows a Bortronian plant under the light of the Earth's sun. However, it becomes a huge, Godzilla-esque plant that rampages the town. And don't even think about getting us started on what happens at the end!
165	* When we ([[FreezeFrameBonus briefly]]) see the Beast's true body in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'', it appears to be [[spoiler:an amalgamation of Edelwood trees. And because Edelwood is people, you could in one sense consider him a FleshGolem.]]
166	* ''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. Plus, his standard form is tall. Really, really, tall.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheBadBatch'' has the Slither Vines in "[[Recap/StarWarsTheBadBatchS3E2PathsUnknown Paths Unknown]]", a plant creature created by Dr. Royce Hemlock of the Galactic Empire's Advanced Science Division as a bioweapon to use against insurgents threatening the peace Palpatine's Empire achieved at the end of the Clone Wars, though it got out of control, forcing Hemlock and his subordinates to use a Base Delta Zero order to bomb the lab it was created in to hell. Despite this, its vines continued to spread beyond the facility and into the jungle, where it hunts down Deke and Stak, 2 clone cadets who were going to be soldiers in the Empire's ranks, but were getting blood drawn instead.
168	* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has the recurring villain Doctor Viper, who was an assistant botanist 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.
169	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'':
170	** 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.
171	** 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.).
172	* 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.
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175	->''Smell its flowers and GoMadFromTheRevelation!''

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