History Main / FertileFeet

The obvious {{Foil}} to WalkingWasteland or EvilIsDeathlyCold. Indeed, sometimes it can be impossible to tell whether the effect is the character's beneficiance, or because their defeat of the BigBad removes his influence, which has NoOntologicalInertia. (BabiesEverAfter may act as a mundane equivalent, or coincide with this trope.) See also HopeSproutsEternal and {{World-Healing Wave}}.

* Flowers supposedly sprang up behind the titular saint when he visited a novice in ''{{A Canticle for Leibowitz}}'', but that was just rumour distorting an encounter with the WanderingJew.
* At the end of Robert Jordan's ''[[TheWheelOfTime The Eye of the World]]'', we meet the Green Man. [[spoiler:The green man keeps a chunk of earth free from the blight with his power to make things grow. While he is dying, he tackles one of the Forsaken and makes a giant tree grow out of the forsaken's chest in a matter of minutes.]] It is also mentioned in backstory that the Green Man's people, the Nym, caused plants to grow where they walked.
** Partially subverted in that anyone who can channel (whether good or evil) and knows the necessary GeometricMagic can cause flowers to thrive in adverse circumstances.
** At the beginning of ''Towers of Midnight'', Rand descends from Dragonmount after resolving his internal conflict and makes an entire orchard of [[HowDoYouLikeThemApples apples]], which had been shriveled by the Dark One's touch, bloom instantly. Later, he makes bitter tea turn fresh just by entering the same room.
** Not just in the beginning of "Towers of Midnight". It gets to the point in the book where virtually everyone can tell when Rand is near, simply because the sun starts shining, and everything starts blooming like there's no tomorrow.
*** With one exception, the capital city of the kingdom one of his lovers rules, which is purposely excluded.

[[folder:Myths & Religion]]

** The carol "Good King Wenceslas" has a variation where the ground gets so warm that grass grows in the middle of winter.
* There is at least one legend that garlic derives its anti-Vampire properties from that fact that it first sprouted in Satan's footsteps. Not in TheBible.
** SatanIsGood? I like garlic.
*** Traditionally, vampires were corpses possessed by demons; it reminds them if their host is destroyed, they will return to Hell.
* It's a pretty common motif in psalms. (There is one Swedish example of God's footsteps not only bringing flowers but also overflowing with fat...)
** Charming.
*** ItMakesSenseInContext. Food was scarce in those days.

* Also, in Arthurian/ Grail legends, [[FisherKing the sickness of the king poisons the land]], and when the king is healed the flowers grow again. The movie ''Excalibur'' is a particularly vivid portrayal of this legend.

** Same thing with the Spring Court and their Mantle. At low levels, those close to them feel a gentle, fragrant breeze, but at high levels, plants tend to grow out of the sidewalk if they stick around long enough.
*** This has the potential for subversion, as neither being Flowering Fairest nor being Spring Court in any way guarantees that a character is GOOD...

* Amaterasu, from ''{{Okami}}''. The faster she runs, the more lush the foliage, although it disappears just as quickly as it sprouts up.
** This passive ability is amplified after gaining the Growth Brush technique. The flowers in her wake are already bloomed, and at full speed, the flowers turn ''gold''.
** In water, Amaterasu leaves a trail of lily pads behind her; in midair, a flurry of autumn leaves.

** The nightelven Ancients (living trees that are used as production buildings in Warcraft III) apparently have healing ''roots'', as they cleanse the undead Blight around them when they are planted in it.

* In a similar vein to this trope, Atlantean civilizations worshipping Gaia in ''{{Age of Mythology}}'' (the "Titans" expansion) will have lush greenery grow outward from their buildings, which will prevent enemy civilizations from building too close by.

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* In the third ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' movie, the illusory Entei makes crystals grow where he steps down on the ground. The plot of the movie involves the Pokémon Unown causing similar crystals to grow, and since they created Entei, it serves to connect the two together.

There are a lot of ways to tell the White Hats from the Black Hats, but one pretty good [[AWorldwidePunomenon rule of (green) thumb]] is that anyone who can bring flowers into existence just by stepping on soil is ''probably'' not evil. This person is not just a {{Friend to All Living Things}} but a potent force for good who is very likely TheMessiah, a PhysicalGod, or a credible runner up. At the very least they have a GreenThumb, and in extreme cases are so powerful and so Good that their aura bleeds out into the world as source of healing and growth.

The obvious {{Foil}} to WalkingWasteland or EvilIsDeathlyCold. Indeed, sometimes it can be impossible to tell whether the effect is the character's beneficiance, or because their defeat of the BigBad removes his influence, which has NoOntologicalInertia. (BabiesEverAfter may act as a mundane equivalent, or coincide with this trope.) See also HopeSproutsEternal.

There are a lot of ways to tell the White Hats from the Black Hats, but one pretty good [[IncrediblyLamePun rule of (green) thumb]] is that anyone who can bring flowers into existence just by stepping on soil is ''probably'' not evil. This person is not just a {{Friend to All Living Things}} but a potent force for good who is very likely TheMessiah, a PhysicalGod, or a credible runner up. At the very least they have a GreenThumb, and in extreme cases are so powerful and so Good that their aura bleeds out into the world as source of healing and growth.

* At the end of Robert Jordan's ''The Eye of the World'', we meet the Green Man. [[spoiler:The green man keeps a chunk of earth free from the blight with his power to make things grow. While he is dying, he tackles one of the Forsaken and makes a giant tree grow out of the forsaken's chest in a matter of minutes.]]

** At the beginning of ''Towers of Midnight'', Rand descends from Dragonmount after resolving his internal conflict and makes an entire orchard of [[HowDoYouLikeThemApples apples]], which had been shriveled by the Dark One's touch, bloom instantly.

* Naruto displays this to a degree once he [[spoiler: takes control of the Kyuubi's charak]]. Even the artificial wood of Yamato's mokuton sprouts vibrant leaves in his presence.

** ''{{Bayonetta}}'', from the [[PlatinumGames same development studio]], has Bayonetta leaving behind a small trail of black plants whenever she is running in panther form.

** Floraroma town in Sinnoh has a legend that Shaymin turned the area from a wasteland into a garden. They raise berries and Gracidea flowers (which [[SuperEmpowering grants Shaymin new abilities]]) in gratitude for this.

** ''{{Bayonetta}}'', from the same development studio, has Bayonetta leaving behind a small trail of black plants whenever she is running in panther form.

** At the beginning of ''Towers of Midnight'', Rand descends from Dragonmount after resolving his internal conflict and makes an entire orchard of [[HowDoYouLikeThemApples apples]], which had been shriveled by the Dark One's touch, bloom instantly.

Not related to the giant Aurgelmir in NorseMythology, whose feet [[Squick mated with one another]] and gave him the son Þrúðgelmir, the first of the frost giants.

Not related to the giant Aurgelmir in NorseMythology, whose feet mated with one another and gave him the son Þrúðgelmir, the first of the frost giants.

* The Nature Elemental from ''[[Film/Hellboy Hellboy II: The Golden Army]]'' subverts this trope, since it's a DesignatedVillain (but also [[LastOfHisKind last of its kind]]).

* The Nature Elemental from ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' subverts this trope, since it's a DesignatedVillain (but also [[LastOfHisKind last of its kind]]).

* Amaterasu, from ''{{Okami}}''. The faster she runs, the more lush the foliage, although it doesn't last any longer than it takes to disappear offscreen behind her. More of a "fertile paws" instead...

* In an early issue of "The Books of Magic," the protagonist has just defeated the Manticore, the secret plague that's been turning the Fairy world into a desert, but has been badly wounded in the process. His blood is chalk-full of magic, though, so even as he's bleeding out stumbling around, his blood droplets restore plantlife to the world.

There are a lot of ways to tell the White Hats from the Black Hats, but one pretty good [[IncrediblyLamePun rule of (green) thumb]] is that anyone who can bring flowers into existence just by stepping on soil is ''probably'' not evil. This person is not just a {{Friend to All Living Things}} but a potent force for good who is very likely TheMessiah, a PhysicalGod, or a credible runner up. At the least they have a GreenThumb, and in extreme cases are so powerful and so Good that their aura bleeds out into the world as source of healing and growth.

* After the events of the movie FernGully, the fairy Crytsa is shown to create flowers whenever she hovers near or over something.

*Clive Barker's "{{Weaveworld}}" has two examples of this. The first plays the trope straight, with a temple so chalk-full of magic that any disturbances (such as walking through it) sprouts a lush undergrowth. The second is a subversion, with a Garden of Eden-like setting covered in flora, which withers away and turns to sand when someone walks through it.

** While no unit in the sequel has the ability, it's still available as a item property. Wizards with at least one Light Sphere can have a similiar magic effect active in their domain that slowly restores terrain.

* I ''think'' that when you're maxed out good in ''{{Fable}}'', flowers sprout when you walk.
** Not exactly: instead, when you stand still, a halo appears over your head and flowers and butterflies also randomly show up. As soon as you move, the effect disappears.

** {{Bayonetta}}, from the same development studio, has Bayonetta leaving behind a small trail of black plants whenever she is running in panther form.

* One of the secret stars in the Supermassive Galaxy in SuperMarioGalaxy2 has Mario doing this. You have to cover the entire planet with flowers to get a star.