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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    There have been many forms of killer plantlife on Doctor Who over the years, but none more rude looking than the Vervoids, who were quite justifiably angry at the asshole human scientists responsible for bioengineering their faces to look like both male and female genitalia simultaneously.
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    Image of TheRealVeon TheRealVeon
    12/04/08

    @bluehinter: I was on my way to mention these but you beat me to it.


    I always refer to them as the penis head aliens and I'm waiting for the new Who to bring them back. Of course, they wouldn't get past the censors... which makes me wonder how they ever got past them way back when.

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    12/05/08

    @TheRealVeon:

    Well, if they're going to bring back penis-headed Doctor Who aliens, they might as well start with The 3rd Doctor's good buddy, Alpha Centauri:



    I absolutely love how the director took one look at the costume and said "No way! You've built me a 6-foot tall walking penis! You've got to fix this, they'll pull us off the air for sure!"


    To which, the costume designer replied "Don't worry, I'll cover it in a big cape and the audience will be none the wiser." So off he goes, and two days later he comes back with the finished product... a 6-foot tall walking penis in a cape!

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    Wait. Delvians are plants?!?!
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    Image of LaurenceCaffeina LaurenceCaffeina
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    Ents.
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    Image of rek rek
    12/04/08

    @LaurenceCaffeina: Not science fiction! Not even "urban fantasy"!
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/04/08

    @rek: ...This week. Next week, we start covering "My Little Pony"
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    Image of Plague Plague
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    Tybo rules.

    Probably my single favorite episode of Lost In Space.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    i move that the vines from the ruins be permenantly removed from this and all other lists like it. 'salt' should not be among the weaknesses of anything truely 'deadly.' what's next, 'deadly' slugs?
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    Image of firstanointed firstanointed
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    How 'bout the telepathic pitcher plant of doom on Star Trek Voyager?
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    Image of Platypus Man Platypus Man
    12/04/08

    @firstanointed: It wasn't an actual plant; that was just the metaphor that they used for the entire episode.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    How about all the plants on Pyrrus in Harry Harrison's Deathworld series? Slaver Sunflowers? Stage Trees? Whomping Willow (since we're evidently letting HP in...)? Some of the plants found in the Humanx Commonwealth?


    Deadliest SF TV & Movie Plants, perhaps. And Swampie is deadly in the protection of man, and The Thing was 'plant-like' because there was no way they were going to make a creditable polymorph in a '50s movie.

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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    Eff you for making me remember that I saw The Happening.


    I'm never coming to io9 AGAIN!

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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    12/04/08

    @Evlsushi: Yes, you will.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    12/04/08

    @Smeagol92055:


    No, I won't....dammit, nevermind.

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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    I think it's high time an entire article was devoted to Adrienne Barbeau and her Adrienne Barboobs.
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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/04/08

    @Smeagol92055: That's what I'M talkin' about!
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    12/04/08

    In reply to Science Fiction's Deadliest Plants
    These plants are largely sentient, but I have an affection for the fungus goop thing in The X-Files' "Field Trip," which digests Mulder and Scully alive while making them hallucinate so they'll stay still.


    Also, in Liz's Personal X-Files Canon, "Field Trip" is the series finale. Everything since then has just been a fungus-induced hallucination.

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    Image of RAHfanboy RAHfanboy
    12/04/08

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Especially the 2nd movie.
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    12/04/08

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom:
    In Purple Dave's Personal X-Files Canon, the entire show was a hallucination, as the people responsible for putting it on the airwaves in the first place up and died the moment the pitch came across their respective desks. I've seen entire forests that are less wooden than the two main stars' hackting.
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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    12/04/08

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Your teachings on the flexibility of Canon are an inspiration to us all.


    Well, at least me.

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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    12/04/08

    @Dunny0, Team T/A: I do what I can.


    @Purple Dave: False.


    @ShubNecktie: Also false.

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