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The '''Plant Person''' is a bridge between the Plant and Animal Kingdoms, being able to talk to plants (or at least understand them at an [[The Empath|empathic level]]) and people alike. Their wisdom can be profound and [[Blue and Orange Morality|alien]], coming as it does from a plant rather than animal (let alone human) point of view. Biologically, he or she is either a motile plant or a person with a lot of plant-like characteristics: they may be able to photosynthesize their own food, drink water from their feet, and even [[Healing Factor|regrow severed limbs]]. If they lean more towards the animal, they probably still need to eat, but it may be "nutrients" or dirt rather than cheeseburgers (though they just might; hey, at least it [[Man-Eating Plant|isn't people]]).
They can usually claim without irony that they are "one with nature", living in forests and surrounded by life. They might be a mystical Dryad, a [[Freak Lab Accident|scientist who fell into a vat of chemicals]] ([[Swamp Thing|or a mystical plant god who thinks he did]]), or a race of motile plants that just happens to look [[Human Aliens|very human]] by accident, by [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|design]], or by ''[[Evilutionary Biologist|des]][[Mix-and-Match Critters|ign]]''. Despite generally having a human shape, they may or may not be able to casually pass for human. This is because they tend to have green or barky skin and leaves for hair. Interestingly, there is a big disparity between male and female plant people, as the page image shows. Perhaps stemming from the [[Classical Mythology|classical]] Dryad, plant people [[One-Gender Race|tend to be women]], and ''very'' attractive ones at that. Men, on the other hand, take more after trees than humans.
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* [[Marvel Comics]]' the [[Man-Thing]], now a member of the ''[[Thunderbolts]]. ''
* [[DC Comics]]' the ''[[Swamp Thing]].''
* Following the success of the Swamp Thing, ''[[Black Orchid]]'' was [[
* Atom and [[Swamp Thing]] villain Jason [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Wood]]roe; The Floronic Man
* Swamp Thing and Man-Thing are both [[Captain Ersatz
* In [[Marvel Comics]]: Groot, king of Planet X. A [[Kaiju|giant]] [[When Trees Attack|tree-shaped]] [[Plant Aliens|alien,]] he was originally a 1950's [[Monster of the Week]], and is currently a member of the [[Guardians of the Galaxy]].
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* In the Glorantha setting for ''[[Rune Quest]]'', elves are sentient humanoid plants.
* One of the mutations in ''[[Gamma World]]'' was Photosynthetic Skin, which allowed the mutant possessing it to produce their own food and heal lost [[Hit Points]] at 4x normal rate if in sunlight. Another option is to be an out-and-out human-shaped plant.
* ''[[Villains and Vigilantes]]'' adventure ''There's a Crisis at Crusader Citadel''. One of the Crusaders [[NPC
* In ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'', that part of the Wood Elf army which isn't [[Fragile Speedster
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== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]'': Dr. Reginald Bushroot.
* The Wuts from ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' are an entire race of
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[American Dad]]'' where a hippie wants to become a tree. He is always shown standing in a plant pot and talks about getting surgeries that will turn him into a plant.
* Flora from ''[[Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors]]'' was born from a blossom created by the hero's father Audric.
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