History Main / PickedFlowersAreDead

* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryV'', you can give flowers to various ladies and eventually marry one of the four most prominent ones. One of them will feel sorry for the flowers, but giving them to her earns you romantic points anyway. She will use their seeds to make more living flowers.

* The Creator/ECComics story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!" (''[=Shock SuspenStories=] #2''): "Flowers and plants are alive! Just because they don't cry out doesn't mean they don't feel pain!" This leads to a SpaceWhaleAesop, with PlantAliens picking apart a human.

* In ''Literature/TheNakedSun'', Gladia picks a flower and Elijah remarks that she killed it. Being a murder suspect, she angrily asks whether that's supposed to mean she can kill a human just as easily.[[spoiler: In hindsight, this is rather prophetic.]]

* In ''Literature/TheBFG'', the Big Friendly Giant comments that since he can hear the voices of plants, anytime somebody picks a flower he can hear the plant screaming as though somebody were having their arm twisted off. Sophie wonders whether she'll ever be able to pick flowers again.
** A similar concept previously appeared in one of Creator/RoaldDahl's short stories for adults, "The Sound Machine", in which the titular machine reveals to its inventor that plants make ''some'' kind of noise when they're cut, plucked, etc. Whether it's an expression of pain or not is unknown, but it's enough to severely unnerve the inventor.

* In ''[[Literature/ErastFandorin She Lover of Death]]'', Columbina feeds the flowers that Fandorin gives her on their first [[NotADate Not-Date]] to a horse, saying that she has no need for "flower corpses".

* The ECComics story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!" (''[=Shock SuspenStories=] #2''): "Flowers and plants are alive! Just because they don't cry out doesn't mean they don't feel pain!" This leads to a SpaceWhaleAesop, with PlantAliens picking apart a human.

* A sympathetic PlantPerson ''AladdinTheSeries'' villain of the week mentioned picking flowers and condemning them to a slow death in a vase as one of humanity's crimes against nature.

* In ''Literature/TheNakedSun'', Gladia picks a flower and Elijah remarks that she killed it. Being a murder suspect, she angrily asks whether that's supposed to mean she can kill a human just as easily.

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* In one of the ''TalesOfTheCity'' books, Anna mentions that prostitutes consider cut flowers unlucky, as they are beauty cut down in their prime. This is foreshadowing of [[spoiler: the revelation that Anna's mother was a madam, and she was raised in a brothel]].

* A sympathetic PlantMan ''AladdinTheSeries'' villain of the week mentioned picking flowers and condemning them to a slow death in a vase as one of humanity's crimes against nature.

* In the ECComics story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!" (''[=Shock SuspenStories=] #2''), this leads to a SpaceWhaleAesop, showing PlantAliens picking apart a human.

* In the ECComics story "Gee, Dad... It's a Daisy!" (''[=Shock SuspenStories=] #2''), this leads to a SpaceWhaleAesop, showing {{Plant Alien}}s picking apart a human.

When you give someone flowers, you expect her to talk about how beautiful they are or how good they smell. Not about how the poor flowers are dead or dying because you severed them from their roots" Yet, that's what happening here. Maybe she's some kind of MagicalNativeAmerican or just very much CloserToEarth, but whatever her reason she's feeling sorry for the poor flowers or even see them as something bad in a necromantic sort of way. If the complainer is a third party, they may criticize the receiver for enjoying the gift.

* Poison Ivy of {{Batman}} is known to react this way.

* Ellen at the start of ''{{Nosferatu}}'' when she receives some from Hutter at the beginning. Yep, OlderThanYouThink.
* In "Film/AlienNation: Dark Horizon", one of the aliens is sick. Her human boyfriend brings a bouquet of flowers as he visits her in the hospital, but is not allowed to deliver them to her. His alien rival is allowed to deliver the potted plant, however. In the alien culture, dying flowers are seen as a bad omen when it comes to recovering health.

* In TheNakedSun, Gladia picks a flower and Elijah remarks that she killed it. Being a murder suspect, she angrily asks whether that's supposed to mean she can kill a human just as easily.

* In "VideoGame/QuestForGloryV", you can give flowers to various ladies and eventually marry one of the four most prominent ones. One of them will feel sorry for the flowers, but giving them to her earns you romantic points anyway. She will use their seeds to make more living flowers.

* [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2594#comic This comic]] from ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' explains the human ritual of flower-giving, as understood by aliens. Supposedly human males mutilate the hated plant-life to show off their prowess... and it goes downhill from there.

* [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2594#comic This comic]] from ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' explains the human ritual of flower-giving, as understood by aliens.

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* [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2594#comic This comic]] from ''SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' explains the human ritual of flower-giving, as understood by aliens.