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== Advertising ==
* The advertising of Green Giant frozen vegetables features the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqtkjEg5Tmk Jolly Green Giant, and his nephew, the Little Green Sprout].
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== Anime
* ''Green Legend Ran.''
* Cheza from ''[[Wolf's Rain]]''
* The Druids from ''[[Origin: Spirits of the Past]]''.
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== Comic Books ==
* The Green Man from ''[[Astro City]]''.
* Poison Ivy from'' [[Batman]]'' is a borderline case, depending on the medium. When she first appeared in the comic books, she was merely a murderous seductress with a plant motif. Later on, she took on the persona of an "eco-terrorist" with a little mad scientist thrown in. In current comics continuity, Poison Ivy has been physiologically part-plant since The Floronic Man's initial experiments. Initially, she only had to ability to exude plant-based poisons from her own body and was immune to all poisons. Through the years, she has developed the ability to control plants (size, shape and movement and, occasionally, behavior if one of her hybrids has a level of sentience) and her physiology has changed dramatically so that she now resembles a plant, down to the fact that her costume, once a leafy one-piece bathing suit, now consists of her own leaves]] arranged in an acceptable fashion on her body. She exhibits more or less plant-like qualities depending on the artist, but these qualities are generally constant. In ''[[Swamp Thing]]'', she is described as having a link to a mystical/elemental being called "The May Queen", but this is rarely mentioned. A link to a force (much like the Speed Force in ''[[The Flash]]'') called "The Green" is implied as well, and she can use this to communicate with others over long distances via plants.
* [[Marvel Comics]]' the [[Man-Thing]], now{{when}} a member of the ''[[Thunderbolts]]. ''
* [[DC Comics]]' the ''[[Swamp Thing]].''
* Following the success of the Swamp Thing, ''[[Black Orchid]]'' was [[retcon]]ned to also be a Plant Person. Noticeably though, while the later two Orchids are more plant than human, they can't control plants or flowers and their powers are primarily [[Glamour]] and pheromone manipulation.
* ''Atom'' and ''[[Swamp Thing]]'' villain Jason [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Wood]]roe; The Floronic Man.
* Swamp Thing and Man-Thing are both [[Captain Ersatz]]es of a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] comic monster called The Heap.
* 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{{when}} a member of the ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]''.
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* Dryads also show up in ''[[Narnia]].'' Lewis describes them in great detail. Such as Birch dryads as looking like slender girls with showery hair, dressed in silver and fond of dancing, beech dryads as looking like gracious, queenly, goddesses dressed fresh transparent green, and oak dryads as looking like wizened old men with warts, gnarled fingers, and hair growing out of the warts.
* Ents in ''[[Lord of the Rings]]''.
* Birdseye, a parody of Green Giant (''See'' [[Advertising]]'', above'') appears in ''[[Bored of the Rings]]'' along with the plant-people he rules, the Vee-Ates.
* Nym from ''[[The Wheel of Time]]''.
* ''Top Secret'', a children's book about a boy who does a science project about "human photosynthesis," turning himself into a green-skinned plant-person.
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