"From where does that howl come? That is no demon. It sounds more like a poor hungry child."
- Alraune, Whisperer of Dementia (changed to "Whisperer of Insanity" in her One-Winged Angel form) from Bayonetta 2 was once a woman who took her own life by dousing her body in mandrake poison as revenge against the husband who left her. She was reborn as an Infernal Demon in Inferno, her physiology like a Plant Person with a rose motif and uses her claws as weapons. Ironically, she has a grudge against Madama Butterfly, the demon who Bayonetta is contracted to.
- Blasphemous, the troubles with the fanatically religious land of Cvstodia began when the High Pontiff transformed into a burning tree whose ashes swallowed up a majority of the church leaders and transformed them into monsters, thus ushering in the Age of Corruption. From there on, abominations involving trees are a recurring thing in the game.
- Control: The "mold" frequently mentioned in various safety posters around the Federal Bureau of Control turn out to be references to "The Mold", an otherworldy fungus-like creature that has infested the Oldest House with Alien Kudzu that tries to bait humans into eating it so it can control their bodies.
- Dark Souls:
- The Bed of Chaos from Dark Souls is a massive demon that was once the Witch of Izalith, one of the Lords and a god to the humans of Anor Londo who, in an attempt to recreate the First Flame and prolong the Age of Fire, accidentally created the Chaos Flame, turning everyone in Izalith into chaos demons. It takes the form of a massive tree-like monstrosity whose roots can be found all across Izalith, with the chaos flame sitting atop it.
- The Curse-rotted Greatwood from Dark Souls III. Curses in the Dark Souls universe cannot be broken, one can only get rid of them by passing them on to someone or something else. Some genius in the Undead Settlement decided to designate a giant tree as a curse dump for the entire town, and the massive amount of curses put into the thing caused it to mutate into a giant monster that you have to hit in the groin a lot.
- The Birch Women of Dark Souls III's Painted World of Ariandel are humanoid trees resembling women which either shoot fireballs from their branches or breathe freezing breath. Except for one, which thrashes about trying to maul you with its branches while howling like a lunatic, for absolutely no explained reason.
- The Old One, the Big Bad of Demon's Souls, looks like a massive bramble of trees and tree limbs.
- Devil May Cry 5: The Qliphoth is a massive, very tall demonic tree that sustains itself in both human and demonic blood through its roots. Once in a thousand years, the tree can bear fruit; any demon who eats it would gain enough power to rule the demon world. The Big Bad, Urizen, attempts to grow this tree through Red Grave City, causing it to kill many people via impaling them with its roots or letting the Empusa demons harvest blood for it. He also partially merges himself with it to sustain himself with the tree's power, waiting for it to bear its fruit.
- One of the Source-powered skills in Divinity: Original Sin II lets you summon a Hungry Flower: a monstrous plant the size of a tool shed that has a mean bite for any enemy nearby and poison spit for everyone else. Its only limitation is, naturally, the inability to move.
- The Triumphant skin for Wormwood in Don't Starve Together, being a representation of what Wormwood would look like with the power of the Nightmare Throne and "Them". He has an Eyeless Face with a giant eyeball growing out of the flower on his head when he blooms, serrated edges on his leaves, several rows of thorns across his torso, and hands that look a bit like Venus flytraps. According to the flavor text of the skin he's also a Poisonous Person. Even the other characters' Triumphant skins aren't as freaky-looking and mostly look like their normal selves with Villainous Fashion Sense, although they could be considered Humanoid Abominations since they have the same power source.
- Drakengard 3 has the parasitic Flower growing out of Zero's eye. It doesn't look like much, but it allows her to regenerate from lethal injuries by sprouting a whole new body in a brutal, bloody fashion. It's also what spawned the other Intoners who Zero is trying to kill, helped make Drakengard's Crapsack World even worse through its song's corrupting influence, and is the nascent form of a Grotesquerie Queen that will destroy the world unless stopped. In the final battle, the Flower grows to gargantuan size and sprouts colossal facsimiles of the Intoners to defend itself from Mikhail's counter-song.
- Elden Ring goes all-in on the imagery of botanical nightmares, often coupled with Body Horror. Several powerful and dangerous enemies take on the form of twisted and corrupted plant-like beings, and as the game progresses and one dives deeper into the lore of the setting, it becomes apparent that beautiful, glowing Erdtree that towers over the Lands Between is in fact an invasive creation of the Greater Will intended to extend its domain over the world and to help suppress the life that existed before it.
- Ulcerated Tree Spirits are a monstrous combination of tree and serpent, combined together to create a fast, terrifying figure of bark, scale, and flesh that sprays golden flames as it undulates and rampages around. The creature itself is disturbing for the sheer wrongness it exudes, along with mismatched limbs, cancerous growths, and its erratic and disjointed movements.
- The Prince of Death, previously Godwyn the Golden is a colossal mixture of shellfish and enormous tree, his body slowly growing and expanding throughout the Lands Between to infect areas with cancerous roots and copies of his eyes and face. Furthermore, his influence is causing corpses to rise from the dead and preventing some of the dead from returning to the Erdtree. Further, Godwyn is technically still alive, as his body remains living after his soul was slain, making the Prince of Death a mindless, half-living tree-like abomination.
- Malenia, Blade of Miquella, outwardly looks human, but her body is a vessel for the Scarlet Rot, a malignant infection that alters plant and animal life it comes into contact with. When unleashed, the Rot takes on the form of a vast, beautiful red flower, and Malenia herself sprouts wings that look to be made of delicate, rotten leaves. Further pushing it into this trope is the fact that the Rot is a manifestation of one of the Outer Gods, the Eldritch Abominations of the setting.
- EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance: The Ze-kiro and Jabuliposi who attack en masse in the weird dimension halfway through Stage 4. The former resembles a large patch of dead grass, which opens to reveal a predatory eye and a large, hungry mouth. The other, a large flower that opens up to reveal rows of teeth along each petal, and a face in the middle.
- Fate/Grand Order: The Trees of Emptiness are of an alien origin, given to the Crypters by the "Foreign God" for their mission to "rewrite" the world, and are what prevent the Lostbelts from being purged by the World's will due to them being aberrations from the Proper Human History. The trees' height reaches to the skies, a fully-grown one has rolling imagery of space and stars mashed with their silver barks as a literal microcosm of a galaxy, and when they first manifested they violently grew their roots to impale people, and cover the earth, causing mass extinction of humanity over three months. They're also nigh-indestructible.
- The Elder Scrolls: It is said that the Hist, the trees that the Argonians revere, were the original inhabitants of Tamriel, and that they were originally from one of the 12 "Worlds of Creation" that were shattered by Padomay and then coalesced by Anu to create Nirn. They are said to possess "unfathomable" knowledge from the earliest eras of creation, a form of omniscience and foresight into future events, and are able to mentally influence and physically alter beings who drink their sap. They are believed to be utterly alien and utterly incomprehensible, even for those who have achieved CHIM (essentially, a state of awake lucid dreaming that can alter reality along with a full understanding of the workings of the universe), something which can't even be said about the likes of the Daedric Princes.
- EXTRAPOWER: Star Resistance has two in the Ghost Gate dimension: what can only be described as a carnivorous square of dead grass, and a large flower with tooth-lined petals and a human face in the middle.
- Final Fantasy:
- Final Fantasy V: Exdeath at first appears to be a Tin Tyrant, but is revealed to have once been a tree used as a prison for evil souls, before said souls made the tree sentient. His first form as the final boss takes on the form of a demonic tree with the upper half of his humanoid form sprouting from the top.
- Final Fantasy IX:
- Soulcage the Eldritch Abomination in charge of the Iifa Tree takes the form of a tree sprouting roots that act as arms and has a skull-like face. The very Iifa Tree could count as well — a truly gigantic tree that controls the flow of souls between Gaia and Terra — but it acts mostly as an Eldritch Location.
- The same place contains enemies called Stropers which have a tree-like shape but are made from stone rather than plant materials.
- Final Fantasy XII: Though Malboros are a staple of the Final Fantasy series (and more or less odd-looking, but natural beasts in each), there are two variants in this entry that have especially strange abilities — if the flavor text is anything to go by. The Malboro King variant wears a crown that supposedly transforms anyone who puts it on into a Malboro King, and the Cassie variant is said to have been sprouted by accident from a physiologist in ages past.
- Final Fantasy XIV introduces overgrown Malboros that more or less resemble a pyramid made of mouths and tentacles. Shadowbringers reveals that these types of Malboros are how Malboros originally looked and were created by the ancient Amaurotines, while Endwalker reveals that the Ascian Halmarut made them specifically to keep insects out of his garden.
- In the Heart of Thorns expansion of Guild Wars 2, the Elder Dragon Mordremoth is made out of plants. He can control thorny vines and grow mobile plants out of corpses; the entire Maguuma Jungle is controlled by his minions. All the Elder Dragons are Eldritch Abominations, destructive forces made of pure magic that have slept for thousands of years, and Mordremoth is no exception. Like many eldritch abominations, he can also control the minds and enter the dreams of weak-willed Sylvari.
- The Flood from Halo, despite resembling a zombie apocalypse at first blush, are surprisingly fungal in how they grow and spread, and the Gravemind even resembles a giant flower made of flesh. Their Cosmic Horror Story origins as revealed in The Forerunner Saga adds to the "abomination" side of things.
- Two boss monsters of House of the Dead are plant-zombies. The Sun of House of the Dead 3 is a massive tree with vine tendrils, human faces in its trunk, and flowers that bud into Xenomorph-esque heads. The Moon of House of the Dead: Scarlet Dawn is a giant humanoid tree that can absorb more zombies to make itself bigger — and mobile.
- In Infinite Crisis, Atomic Poison Ivy is a cross between this and Humanoid Abomination, with a plant bottom half and a human top half.
- Kid Icarus: Uprising: Many of the Forces of Nature's mooks are this, such as the tree-like Urgles and the thorny Jitterthugs. Apparently, they're all made of natural materials, justifying their appearances.
- A few of the Heartless and Unversed from Kingdom Hearts take the form of plants. Most prominent are the Creeper Plant and its variants across multiple games, the Leechgrave, the Cursed Coach, and the Grim Guardianess.
- Kirby:
- In Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe, the final boss of Magolor Epilogue sees the fragments of the shattered Master Crown possessing the first Gem Apple of the series, causing it to become a massive, horrifying demonic entity with a giant Gem Apple Tree for a body.
- Kirby: Triple Deluxe: The giant flower plant Dreamstalk isn't really an abomination until Queen Sectonia merges with it, after which the plant grows out of control and starts sucking the life out of not just the Floating Continent Floralia but also the Planet Popstar. Merging with the plant also gives Sectonia immense powers, as well, as seen in her boss fight.
- The Thorian from Mass Effect is a massive plant that fills many Starfish Aliens and Eldritch Abomination criteria. It's incredibly old, it looks like Cthulhu, and it can Mind Control people, which requires unbelievable mental strength to resist. Oh, and there's also the God-complex. It's fairly benevolent though, by Eldritch Abomination standards. It protects its slaves like a craftsman protects his tools and when it doesn't have need of them they're free to pantomime a normal existence.
- Adding to its strangeness in the setting, it is a form of sentient life that had essentially been able to ignore the Reapers through an incredibly long hibernation cycle. It had clear memories of past cycles, which made it a target for Saren.
- The Pumpkin King from MediEvil is a giant pumpkin monster created by the game's Big Bad Zarok, its presence in the Pumpkin Witch's pumpkin patch turning all of the pumpkins into sentient monsters that Sir Daniel faces in "Pumpkin Gorge" and "The Pumpkin Serpent".
- Moons of Madness, being set within the universe of The Secret World (see below), also feature the Filth. Notably, Dr. Inna Volkova is corrupted by it into becoming a rather hostile human-tree hybrid of some sort that the protagonist deliberately says is no longer human.
- The Plant Abomination
from the Facebook game Phantom Chronicles is a grotesque creature that resembles a cross between a pair of webbed hands, a human body, and a hagfish, capable of growing even more hands in its evolved form Hellish Plant Abomination. - Pokémon:
- Xurkitree resembles power cables that sometimes take the form of a tree.
- Celesteela and Kartana are plant-based Ultra Beasts. (Celesteela is based on bamboo and grows like a plant in the ground, while Kartana is made of paper and is implied to grow off the trees in the Ultra Forest introduced in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon)
- Wo-Chein from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is a snail-like Pokémon made of leaves that uses a chain of bamboo slips as a shell. The slips also act as its Soul Jar. The way it was born even makes it seem more like a youkai than a Pokémon.
- Brute Bonnet is the primal Paradox form of Amoonguss that came from the distant past, despite still possessing the same Poké Ball pattern as its contemporary relative. It's even implied that it wasn't born in the past, but created by Professor Sada's time machine.
- Remnant: From the Ashes: The Root is an interdimensional plant-like Eldritch Abomination that invades and conquers worlds, and can manifest a demonic tree-like Alien Kudzu. Some beings manifested from it, such as the Ent, are examples themselves, with the Ent, in particular, being a wooden Cthulhu.
- A number of these pop up in the Resident Evil series, as the various viruses tend to be able to mutate plants as badly as animals. Most well known is the deadly Plant 42, the penultimate boss of The Residence that appears as a massive bulb surrounded by prehensile blood-sucking vines, while the sequel introduces the less deadly (but more mobile) Plant 43s. Later games introduced the Veronica and Dorothy plants, both serving as bosses to their respective chapters.
- Resident Evil 2 (Remake) changes Plant 43's so they are now more humanoid (whether they are made from people or mimicking them is unclear). Now, they are much more dangerous as they take much more to bring down and forgo spitting acid in favour of just biting your head clean off.
- The Secret World: The Filth is a rather hostile form of Alien Kudzu deliberately connected to the Dreamers.
- The Divine Dragon from Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a giant, holy being that lives within the Divine Realm. It hailed from a realm west of Japan (likely either China or Korea) and took root in what would eventually be the location of the Fountainhead Palace. It holds a strong connection to the Everblossom, a cherry tree in permanent bloom, with the Dragon itself looking rather like a giant branch growing out of a tree. It is also missing an arm, implied to have been the result of a branch from the tree being removed. It is also accompanied by the Old Dragons of the Tree, an army of smaller tree-like dragons that appear to be suffering from illness, perhaps as a direct result of the branch being severed. It is also indicated that the Divine Dragon is the source of the Dragon's Heritage that Wolf and his master Kuro possess, thus making it also responsible for the Dragonrot that has plagued Ashina from time to time.
- The Sepulcher from Silent Hill: Homecoming is the manifestation of Sam Bartlett's guilt over murdering his son Joey Bartlett via live burial. Sepulcher appears as a gigantic cross between a corpse and a monstrous tree. His whole body hangs from the ceiling, and his bloated underside resembles a destroyed trunk of a tree, with bits of bodies hanging out of it. His "trunk" is connected by hooks to several bodies that are wrapped in cocoon-like sacks of flesh. He supports himself with his long arms and large hands, he only has three fingers with four fingernails, which he also uses to attack. His face is dominated by a root-like, fleshy tumor. When he is dismounted from the ceiling, he will crawl on his arms and drag the rest of his body behind him. The skin on his arms are stretched thin, reminiscent of a decomposing corpse. The oozing growth over his mouth could also represent Joey's suffocation while buried alive, the tumor-like growth also bears a resemblance to Amnion's umbilical cord.
- The Sims 4, of all games, introduces one of these in the StrangerVille expansion. Upon moving to StrangerVille, you will immediately notice that there are some very strange glowing flowers all over town, as well as a number of sims who behave in a possessed manner, talking about becoming one with "the Mother" when your sim tries to talk to them. These are the result of spores released by a giant plant creature that lives in the depths of the secret government lab outside of town. Defeating it requires large quantities of herbicide and the vaccine you created to cure the possessed sims.
- Super Metroid: Spore Spawn is a giant plant creature with a very hard outer shell that protects a vulnerable core.
- Touhou Project has the thousand-year-old Saigyou Ayakashi. It was once a particularly beautiful cherry tree, but after a famous poet decided to spend his last moments admiring its Cherry Blossoms, enough people imitated him that the tree became a Youkai able to beguile people into relaxing beneath its branches, draining their lives away and feeding upon their blood. It was eventually rendered dormant with a magical seal powered by one of the bodies beneath it, and the tree was sent to the Netherworld, to the garden of its ghostly ruler, Yuyuko Saigyouji. The plot of Perfect Cherry Blossom kicks off when Yuyuko decides it would be nice to resurrect the person sealing the Saigyou Ayakashi so the famous cherry tree can bloom again. She had forgotten that she was the one buried under the tree...
- Undertale: At the end of the Neutral route, Flowey the Flower gains the power of the human souls and becomes an enormous, omnipotent beast called Omega Flowey/Photoshop Flowey. This form combines plantlike features with machine parts, and makes some disturbing use of Medium Blending.
- World of Warcraft: Draenor was originally dominated by sporemounds, immense plant elementals that would consume anything not part of themselves. They eventually grew so powerful that they actually fused all plantlife on Draenor into one hivemind, the Evergrowth. Left to its own devices the Evergrowth would have grown out of control and consumed all of the planet's resources before starving, leaving Draenor lifeless. The Titan Aggramar's breakers managed to shatter it and the last sporemound was later destroyed by the Apexis, but from the corpses of the Evergrowth came the Botani and Primals. They seek to either consume all non-plant life or convert it into slaves via spore infestation. The Zangar Sea is another product of the sporemounds, being an entire fungal biome born from the corpse of the sporemound Zangar which actively seeks to infest the land.
