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* ''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, though 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.

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* ''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.]]
* ''Literature/AuroraCycle'': The villain of the series 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.]]
* "Literature/{{Carnivorine}}" (1889), by Creator/LucyHamiltonHooper is an early 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.

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* ''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.]]
* ''Literature/AuroraCycle'':
The villain of the series ''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.]]
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* "Literature/{{Carnivorine}}" (1889), by Creator/LucyHamiltonHooper 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.



** The Green God from the Ramsey Campbell 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.

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** The Green God from the Ramsey Campbell 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.



** 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]]...]]

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** 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 [[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]]...]]



* 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]].



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* The Three-Eyed Crow, AKA [[spoiler:Bloodraven]], from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', has merged with the Old Gods by letting a weirwood grow through him.

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%%zce** * ''Literature/LumbanicoTheCubicPlanet'': Downplayed. The huorns in general.
''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.
* The Three-Eyed Crow, AKA a.k.a. [[spoiler:Bloodraven]], from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', has merged with the Old Gods by letting a weirwood grow through him.



* ''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.



* ''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. And 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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* 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]].
* ''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.]]
* ''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. And it 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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* ''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 meat, 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.

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* ''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 meat, 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.
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* 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.

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* 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!
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* [[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.]]
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* 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."

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* 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."God" who, like himself, has surrendered his humanity.
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* ''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.
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* ''Anime/BigO'': The titular ''Daemonseed'' of episode 11 was a genetically engineered giant Christmas tree that nearly destroyed Paradigm City, and was defeating Big O in battle before it suddenly stopped growing, which it had been designed to do after a while. After it stopped, it did look kind of pretty, though.

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* ''Anime/BigO'': ''Anime/TheBigO'': The titular ''Daemonseed'' of episode 11 was is a genetically engineered giant Christmas tree that nearly destroyed destroys Paradigm City, City and was is defeating Big O in battle before it suddenly stopped stops growing, which it had been designed to do after a while. After it stopped, stops, it did does look kind of pretty, though.
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** 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 [[FungusHumongus 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.

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** 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 [[FungusHumongus [[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.
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** the Forgotten Realms setting has 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.

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** the Forgotten Realms 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. mouths; and Araumycos, an [[FungusHumongus 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.
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* ''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 meat, 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.

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* Among other types of [[HumanoidAbomination otherworldly]] [[AnimalisticAbomination horrors]] in ''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.

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* Among other types of [[HumanoidAbomination otherworldly]] [[AnimalisticAbomination horrors]] in ''Literature/TheTaking'', ''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.
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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.



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* Some Kurgan goddess figurines are monstrous women with plant feet. Some have suggested that these are depictions of Api, the [[Myth/ScythianMythology Scythian]] earth goddess (equated with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Gaia]] by Creator/{{Herodotus}}).

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* Myth/ScythianMythology: Some Kurgan goddess figurines are monstrous women with plant feet. Some have suggested that these are depictions of Api, the [[Myth/ScythianMythology Scythian]] Scythian earth goddess (equated with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Gaia]] by Creator/{{Herodotus}}).
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* ''Anime/BigO'': The titular ''Daemonseed'' of episode 11 was a genetically engineered giant Christmas tree that nearly destroyed Paradigm City, and was defeating Big O in battle before it suddenly stopped growing, which it had been designed to do after a while. After it stopped, it did look kind of pretty, though.
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** 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]].
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* 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.
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* Many of the plant-based [=SCPs=] captured by the Wiki/SCPFoundation can qualify as this.

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* Many of the plant-based [=SCPs=] captured by the Wiki/SCPFoundation ''Website/SCPFoundation'' can qualify as this.
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* 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'.

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* 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'.''brain''.
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* ''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.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussyCats'' ''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.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has the RecurringVillain 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.

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* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' has the RecurringVillain 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.

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