The 8 Most Badass Flowers in Video Games

Yes, yes, Cacti aren't flowers, they're plants that can GROW flowers. Well, ostensibly what are his mustache and hair made out of? That's right: those are his flowers.

The fact that there's a flower in video games that exists solely as facial hair for one of the greatest, shining examples that Japanese people put two hits of acid in their coffee every morning is amazing.

Check out this picture of him with his ridiculously awesome mustache-flower in a picture that points out the fact that he is in fact making pedobear's running stance by clicking here .

Oh and check out this fever dream of a video (attached) that confirms every suspicion you ever had that when game designers get bored, they take shrooms and go out into the desert.

Jumbo Cactaur HIMSELF is an optional boss in Final Fantasy VIII that you'll see in the video. Why fight him? Well, either to level up or simply because he's there. He faces some of the mightiest warriors on Earth by essentially doing Peter Griffin's "Bird Is The Word" dance. Bad. Ass.

In a level of Metroid Prime, Samus (our female main character whose job it is to beat the ever loving crap out of this flower using her awesome blasties) faces a gross, weird, plant that taints an entire section of Metroid Prime called the Chozo Ruins. This flower was mutated by Phazon on the planet's surface and then becomes a plant that controls and spews poison everywhere.

The thing you have to kill is in the middle... in the flower. Which makes Flaahgra's flower one of the most badass in video games.

Also, for some reason, this plant was made with vocal chords so that it can express pain; which you hear often in its heart-wrenching squeal every time you hit it. Eerie, kind of messed up and completely awesome.

Pikmin is a game a bout the courages Captain Olimar, who crash lands on a planet with high levels of oxygen, which is deadly to his people. He then must find the parts of his ship that were scattered throughout the planet with the help of little Pikmin, half-plant, half-sentient creatures that do his bidding. They would die without Captain Olimar, so they do whatever he says and they end up helping him get his ship back together and back to his home planet.

These courageous little guys are badass in nature. They fight, destroy and kick-ass on a whim. Need to destroy a giant lizard? The Pikmin have your back. Need to carry a bunch of stuff back to your ship? The Pikmin have your back. They're all in. The Pikmin do what needs to get done no matter the task or cost, which make them some of the most badass flowers ever.

Fun fact: "Pikmin" is actually a real kind of flower that blooms in South Africa.

Don't you wish you could call those Pikmin whenever you needed to move? They seem like the type of guys that when you invite them over for a movie, they bring a case of beer. Which is bad. Freaking. Ass.