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{{quote|''"Don't look now, but there's a [[Rhymes on a Dime|humongous fungus among us!]]" ''
|'''[[The Red Green Show|Red Green]]'''}}
Sometimes in fantasy works there are mushrooms that are larger than average. While some actual mushrooms have been known to grow as large as soccer balls, in fiction mushrooms can grow to be as large as people, or even trees, leading to whole forests of nothing but mushrooms. Sometimes they are merely supposed to be an unusual flora used to convey the alien nature of the place, when unreal or differently sized trees, grass, and the like just wouldn't seem alien enough. Other times they are supposed to show corruption, an evil blight that is spreading across the land.
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This is usually considered a [[Plant Tropes|Plant Trope]], even though fungi are not, you know, ''plants''.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'', Nausicaa's home planet is overrun by massive fungus. In the manga, it's shown that one type of fungus can grow to a height of 30 meters in seconds.
* In volume four of the ''[[Moyashimon]]'' manga, the legion of ''[[wikipedia:Aspergillus oryzae|A. oryzae]]'' mold spores (which Sawaki can [[Super Senses|see]] and speak to) that have taken up residence in his dorm room bother him while he's reading a manga... and then combine into a ''giant'' oryzae and ''sit on him'' when he won't pay attention to them. Sawaki also sees large concentrations of other microorganisms as room-sized miasma blobs with big grinning faces.
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* ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]''. At the end of his competition with Lum, Ataru pursues her in an area where giant (building-high) mushrooms have burst out of the ground.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
== Card Games ==▼
* Not really an example of scenery, but the card game ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' has a literal Fungus Humongous in the form of a level 5 creature Fungus, which can be combined with the enhancement "Humongous" to produce a level 30 Humongous Fungus, making it more powerful than a Plutonium Dragon. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Do not truffle with the Humongous Fungus]].▼
** With the right cards, you can have an entire extended family grouping of mushrooms eat your character.▼
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has a card called Fungusaur. It's a 2 power, 2 toughness creature that gets a +1/+1 counter (permanent power and toughness boost) whenever it takes damage and is not killed, making this sort of a Fungus Humongous.▼
** Don't forget the Thallids, humanoid fungi that can make creature tokens really fast.▼
** And also don't forget Fungus Slivers, which make all Slivers have the same ability as the Fungusaur.▼
** Neither should you forget about the Mycoloth, a giant fungus monster from Jund. It comes out as a 4-power/4-toughness creature that has devour 2 (i.e. you can sacrifice as many creatures as you want up to how many you control when it comes into play and put two +1/+1 counters on it for each one that you do). It then proceeds to make a 1/1 creature token at the beginning of each of your upkeep phases for each counter on it. With the right cards, you can also give it more +1/+1 counters each turn, turn it into a Fungusaur, make the creature tokens it generates have power and toughness equal to how many of them are in play...▼
* ''[[Magi Nation]]'', the entirety of the Underneath is covered in mushrooms, and most of the dream creatures in the area resemble them tremendously. Giant Korrits, Brubs, Vulbors, you name it, it's a mushroom. They make houses out of the things, too. Ormagon, possibly the most powerful dream creature in the game, is a colossal, ambulatory mushroom that completely decimated all of civilization in The Underneath in no time at all.▼
** [http://www.maginationbr.hpg.com.br/images/spoilers/unlimited/ormagon.jpg The little thing at the bottom is a CITY.]{{Dead link}}▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* The ''[[Tintin]]'' story "The Shooting Star" involved a [[Green Rocks|rocky meteorite]] the [[Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|size of a small island]] that mysteriously sprouted mushrooms and other creatures [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|that quickly grew to giant size]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|exploded]].
* One page of ''[[Little Nemo in Slumberland]]'' found Nemo walking through a forest of giant mushrooms so utterly fragile that they all collapsed when Nemo stumbles against one.
* [[Yoko Tsuno|La Forge de Vulcan]] has a few pages set in a forest of tree-sized mushrooms, stated to be brought by the [[Rubber Forehead Aliens|Vineans]] from their world. They have not returned since, but fit the pattern for other Vinean lifeforms of being our familiar wildlife (very well-drawn), modified in a single respect (size, colour, number of limbs) or [[Mix-and-Match Critters|combined together]].
== [[Film]] ==
* A giant mushroom appears in Disney's ''[[Alice in Wonderland (Disney film)|Alice in Wonderland]]''. One half of the mushroom made Alice huge, while the other made her tiny.
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* The live action adaptation of ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' has a giant fungal growth covering the whole city {{spoiler|that turns out to be the king, subject to a [[Baleful Polymorph]].}}
* During the "Order 66" bit in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Revenge of the Sith]]'', one of the Jedi to die is on [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/2/2b/Atotfelucia.jpg Felucia] at the time. Something of a subversion in that most of the fungi on Felucia looks nothing like Earth fungi.
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* ''Dreamcatcher'' the film of the book by [[Stephen King]] has a race of [[To Serve Man|parasitic]] aliens whose biology [[Living Ship|and spaceships]] are based on fungus—like those fungal parasites that eat ants from the inside out. This allows them to [[Self-Destruct Mechanism|blow up their ship]] like a puffball if attacked.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* In ''[[
▲== Literature ==
▲* In ''[[Journey to the Center of the Earth|A Journey to the Center of the Earth]]'' by [[Jules Verne]], the main characters find giant petrified mushrooms in a huge underground cave.
* Alan Dean Foster's ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' novel ''[[Splinter of the Minds Eye]]''. Luke and Princess Leia crossed a lake using the caps of giant mushrooms as kayaks.
* Massive fungi (I don't recall them being specifically mushroom-like, though) show up in H. G. Wells's ''The First Men In The Moon''. Eating them induces euphoria and intoxication.
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* In the second of Elizabeth Bear's 'Jacob's Ladder' books (''Chill'') there are several levels inside the [[Generation Ship]] where massive insects and fungus have developed in humid darkness resulting from wonky life support- two characters make camp on a shelf the size of a mattress.
* An episode of ''[[The X-Files]]'' featured a [[Monster of the Week]] which was a giant underground fungal complex (see Real Life below); the nonsentient growth sucked down its human victims and dosed them with powerful hallucinogens to keep them docile while it slowly digested them.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''
** A plane known as the Beastlands has groves of giant mushrooms.
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* Some members of the [[Looks Like Orlok|Nosferatu]] clan in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade]]'' have been known to keep gardens of mushrooms, some of which can grow to the size of trees. These can be grown for aethetic purposes, or for [[Garden of Evil|defending their havens.]]
* ''[[Role Master]]'' ''Shadow World'' supplement ''Sky Giants of the Brass Stair''. In the Brass Stair's underground caverns, the Hall of the Forest Wyrm has fungi and mushrooms more than 8 feet high.
▲* Not really an example of scenery, but the card game ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]'' has a literal Fungus Humongous in the form of a level 5 creature Fungus, which can be combined with the enhancement "Humongous" to produce a level 30 Humongous Fungus, making it more powerful than a Plutonium Dragon. [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Do not truffle with the Humongous Fungus]].
▲** With the right cards, you can have an entire extended family grouping of mushrooms eat your character.
▲* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has a card called Fungusaur. It's a 2 power, 2 toughness creature that gets a +1/+1 counter (permanent power and toughness boost) whenever it takes damage and is not killed, making this sort of a Fungus Humongous.
▲** Don't forget the Thallids, humanoid fungi that can make creature tokens really fast.
▲** And also don't forget Fungus Slivers, which make all Slivers have the same ability as the Fungusaur.
▲** Neither should you forget about the Mycoloth, a giant fungus monster from Jund. It comes out as a 4-power/4-toughness creature that has devour 2 (i.e. you can sacrifice as many creatures as you want up to how many you control when it comes into play and put two +1/+1 counters on it for each one that you do). It then proceeds to make a 1/1 creature token at the beginning of each of your upkeep phases for each counter on it. With the right cards, you can also give it more +1/+1 counters each turn, turn it into a Fungusaur, make the creature tokens it generates have power and toughness equal to how many of them are in play...
▲* ''[[Magi Nation]]'', the entirety of the Underneath is covered in mushrooms, and most of the dream creatures in the area resemble them tremendously. Giant Korrits, Brubs, Vulbors, you name it, it's a mushroom. They make houses out of the things, too. Ormagon, possibly the most powerful dream creature in the game, is a colossal, ambulatory mushroom that completely decimated all of civilization in The Underneath in no time at all.
▲** [http://www.maginationbr.hpg.com.br/images/spoilers/unlimited/ormagon.jpg The little thing at the bottom is a CITY.]{{Dead link}}
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] 3: [[Morrowind]]'' has giant mushrooms scattered across the island of Vvardenfell, a lot of times in lieu of actual trees. House
** ''The Shivering Isles'' expansion to ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] 4: Oblivion'' likewise features giant mushrooms.
** ''[[The Elder Scrolls]] 5: Skyrim'' is mostly mushroom-free, with one very notable exception—the massive cavern called Blackreach, which contains huge glowing mushrooms along with veins of [[Power Crystal|Soul Gems]] and ancient Dwarven ruins.
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* Yum Yum Island, in ''[[Maple Story]]'', a theme dungeon accessible from the nearby Chu Chu Island, is full of giant mushrooms.
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* As shown in the picture above, in the webcomic ''Copper'', Copper and Fred cross over a forest of tall mushrooms while pondering the nature of achievement.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Ben 10]]'' once had a giant fungus forest. Like everything else in the series, it turned out to be a hostile alien.
* In the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' cartoon, there is the Mushromp, a forest dotted with large mushrooms that is the home of the Moochick.
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* ''[[Superfriends]]'' (1973–74) episode "The Mysterious Moles". While exploring underground, Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog encounter a stream with giant mushrooms growing along the banks.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The largest known living organism on Earth is a 2,400-year-old (we think) ''Armillaria'' fungus in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon, USA. It covers an estimated area of 890 hectares (2,200 acres). Most of it is the underground mycelium, all you'll see above ground are the small honey mushrooms that sprout in autumn.
** We have a smaller Armillaria here in Michigan, USA. It's over 30 acres, located in Mastodon Township. The nearby city of Crystal Falls has a Humongous Fungus Fest every year.
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