History Main / FoulFlower

This negative portrayal may stem (no pun intended!) from the fact that a few flowers really do have some negative connotations. For example, ''Rafflesia arnoldii'' are known for their corpse-like smell, [[SomethingAboutARose roses]] are renowned for their beauty but are covered in sharp thorns, and CherryBlossoms are used for connotations of death, due to not lasting very long, which reminds people of their own mortality. Additionally other species of flowers contain [[PoisonIsEvil poison]] which can permanently put an end to a hiking trip, especially if they were [[KnowYourVines mistaken for similar looking but harmless variants.]] To an individual suffering from medical conditions such as allergies or asthma, even the otherwise harmless spores emitted en-masse are the cause of much suffering;

This negative portrayal may stem (no pun intended!) from the fact that a few flowers really do have some negative connotations. For example, ''Rafflesia arnoldii'' are known for their corpse-like smell, and CherryBlossoms are used for connotations of death, due to not lasting very long, which reminds people of their own mortality. Additionally other species of flowers contain [[PoisonIsEvil poison]] which can permanently put an end to a hiking trip, especially if they were [[KnowYourVines mistaken for similar looking but harmless variants.]] To an individual suffering from medical conditions such as allergies or asthma, even the otherwise harmless spores emitted en-masse are the cause of much suffering;

** ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': The Floro Sapiens are a race of sapient walking flowers who brainwash and enslave the caveman-like Cragnons, [[spoiler:Subverted when it's revealed that they only turned evil because the Cragnons polluted their water. Once the problem is solved, every Floro makes a HeelFaceTurn.]]

* ''Literature/MrMen'': Mr. Grumpy has an aversion to flowers, and pulls up any pretty flowers growing in the garden of his home, Crosspatch cottage.

* ''Anime/SailorMoonRTheMovie'' has [[spoiler:the Xenian Flower/Kisenian Blossom, a tiny flower-woman which [[TheWomanBehindTheMan manipulates]] the supposed villain [[LoveMakesYouEvil Fiore]] before revealing herself as a planet-destroying menace in its own right]].

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*** Poison joke, a type of blue flowers found growing in [[TheLostWoods the Everfree Forest]], is not evil -- it's no more animated than any real flower -- but is nonetheless quite dangerous. Anyone who touches it directly will be subject to a random magical transformation that will rob them of the ability to do something they value -- essentially a cruel magical joke. The magic prodigy Twilight Sparkle, for instance, loses her ability to perform magic; the speedy athlete Rainbow Dash finds her wings turned backwards, robbing her of the ability to fly straight or reliably; and the talkative Pinkie Pie ends up with a tongue so swollen that she is unable to keep it in her mouth and completely unable to speak.

Flowers are well-loved for their colorful petals and wonderful smells. Anthropomorphic smiling flowers are commonly seen in SugarBowl worlds and other media that TastesLikeDiabetes. As with things such as {{circus|OfFear}}es or [[BadSanta Santa Claus]], some creators like to subvert this positive portrayal and make it a downright evil character.

Compare ManEatingPlant, WhenTreesAttack and BotanicalAbomination, other villainous plants which are usually portrayed as more ObviouslyEvil than a Foul Flower. There may be some overlap, though.

*** Poison Joke, a type of blue flowers found growing in [[TheLostWoods the Everfree Forest]], is not evil -- it's no more animated than any real flower -- but is nonetheless quite dangerous. Anyone who touches it directly will be subject to a random magical transformation that will rob them of the ability to do something they value -- essentially a cruel magical joke. The magic prodigy Twilight Sparkle, for instance, loses her ability to perform magic; the speedy athlete Rainbow Dash finds her wings turned backwards, robbing her of the ability to fly straight or reliably; and the talkative Pinkie Pie ends up with a tongue so swollen that she is unable to keep it in her mouth and completely unable to speak.

*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation A Health of Information]]": While gathering moss in the forest, Fluttershy and Zecora come across a patch of trees bearing large blue flowers with orange dots. After Zecora gets a faceful of pollen from one of these and starts developing similar dots, they discover that these flowers reproduce by spreading a disease called Swamp Fever through their pollen, which causes its victims to gradually and irreversibly transform into another tree of the kind that bears their flowers.

** In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'', "Fugitive Flowers" has the Flories, who start out as cute, pretty talking flowers who beg the protagonists for help... and then reveal themselves to be the true villains of the episode, seeking to drain the ground of life to turn themselves into towering plant monsters, killing everything growing in the earth they drain as they do so.

*** Parodied in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E13DoPrincessesDreamOfMagicSheep Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?]]", where an entity called the Tantabus turns ponies' dreams into nightmares. While the other five ponies' dreams involve cakes, dresses, books, apples, and giant bunnies, local ActionGirl Rainbow Dash dreams of fighting changelings. When the Tantabus invades her dream, it changes it into a deliberately exaggerated SugarBowl parody filled with harmless singing flowers. For Rainbow, who enjoys action and adventure and has consistently disliked anything she perceives as "girly" or "frou-frou", this is utterly unbearable.
--->We are such happy flowers \\

* ''Anime/SailorMoonRTheMovie'' has [[spoiler:the Xenian Flower, a tiny flower-woman which [[TheWomanBehindTheMan manipulates]] to [[LoveMakesYouEvil Fiore]] before revealing herself as a planet-destroying menace in its own right]].

** ''Anime/TheUltraman'' has a monster called a Death Balan, who starts off as a flower growing in the desert before developing mammalian features, and subsequently becoming kaiju-sized. In it's monstrous form it's flower can be seen on it's belly.

** ''Series/TheUltraman'' has a monster called a Death Balan, who starts off as a flower growing in the desert before developing mammalian features, and subsequently becoming kaiju-sized. In it's monstrous form it's flower can be seen on it's belly.

* The flowers in ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' seem at first like an AvertedTrope since they behave rather nicely towards Alice... [[DoubleSubversion until]] they discover she isn't a flower and deduce that, if she's not a flower, she must be a weed. Thus, [[FantasticRacism they shun her and humiliate her away]]] while laughing, driving her almost to tears.