The Plants

This entire page contains **SPOILERS** for the Story Mode of *Just Shapes and Beats*. It is recommended to play the entirety of Story Mode before proceeding this page!

You have been warned.

The title of the page is **conjectural**. Besides internal references, patch notes, Discord emotes or its official PS4 avatars, there is no official, canon name.

## The Plants

* Paradise
* Cavern
* Enemy
* Volcano
* Boss

### Role

Supporting Character (Friendly)
Side Antagonist (Enemy and "Plant")
Boss Character (Boss Plant)

### Internal filename

Flower (Both friendly and enemy)
Plant (Friendly)
Enemy, Boss Creature (Enemy)

### Introduced in

PARADISE (Green and "Plant")
ISLAND (Enemy)
VOLCANO (Blue and Boss)

### Associated tracks

*Agrobacter*
*Chip Zeal*
*Intense Theme*
Lycanthropy
Final Boss

### Unlocked in lobby by

Getting Rank B on 10 levels (2, Green and Blue)
Getting rank S on 1 level without dashing (8, Enemy and Boss variants)

The **Plants** are blue and green perpetually smiling plants as well as pink enemy creatures that appear throughout the game of *Just Shapes and Beats*'s Story Mode.

## Appearance

### Default Appearance

The plants take on an appearance of a blue or green stalked flower or cactus, comprised of four circles with eight rounded spikes spaced evenly, progressively growing smaller further down the plant with the top one significantly larger as the head. It has two small circles that represent hands, and they wave or wiggle occasionally. Their face always appears to smile, except in dangerous or painful situations in which it turns into a frown or grimace.

Other/Evil Appearance
At the end of the path in the Paradise world, both the player character and the Big Cube encounter a unique "plant" not seen anywhere else in the game. This plant takes on the appearance just like every other plant, except it uses a maverick or light purple color, it has pointy spikes rather than curved spikes and has three circles above its head. This does not have hands, unlike its friendly counterpart. Its eyes seem to be closed.
When the "plant" impales itself with the triangle later on (similar to the Boss impaling itself with a corrupt piece of the Tree at the end of the game), it appears to have pink liquid dripping from its head, as if it is bleeding. Once it stands upright, it grins evilly and soon, the "plant" itself is actually the Boss's arm and hand. This event soon starts the sequence of events that take place in *Just Shapes & Beats*'s storyline.
From Island and onward, most of the plants take on an altered, "corrupted" or "evil" appearance after the Boss's rampage earlier. Their appearance is the same as the "plant" seen earlier, except their color is pink and they now have two circles as hands (with the three circles at the top removed). Their face only has two eyes, with their right eye bigger than the other, as if it is "bleeding". They do not seem to be affected by the pink waters, as they're likely adapted to it.

Boss Battle
During Lycanthropy, after using its four heads to attack to the player. The heads drops down and submerges below the lava. What rises up, it is now a "boss" corrupted plant with a different face. This face itself now has a smile along with three triangles of teeth, with two teeth at the top and one below it. Their eyes also change, with its eyes being equal of their size.
This face can also be seen at the beginning of a level in Hardcore Mode, it has all of the features except its stalk and teeth.

## Introduction

The plants are introduced in the Paradise world, where one green plant introduces the player to the world of Paradise.

At the world's path, inside a cavern, both the player and the friend encounter a "plant", seemingly cold and different from the rest of the plants encountered so far. Both of them soon witness the "plant" impaling itself with the triangle. Pink liquid (resembled like blood) drips out from the "plant" before it stands upright as its face begins to change. The "plant" soon transforms to the Boss's hand and arm as the Boss soon makes its appearance and begins its rampage towards the world.
As both the player and the friend flee to the western part of the area, the Boss can be seen punching the green plant which was seen earlier, knocking them out and leaving it unhindered to remove the Tree out of its soil.

Encounters
Island
After the rampage and the corruption of the world, most of the plants that once inhabited most of the world become evil, being the Boss's own minions.
The first group of these plants can be seen during the introduction sequence at Island, where as the friend drifts offscreen, a group of three evil plants block the right side of the island.
Other groups of these evil plants can be seen at the western part of the starting island, after completing The Art Of War, whereas hitting them will simply knock back the player back to its path. Further groups of evil plants can be seen later once the player rescues the Boat, either bouncing up and down, sweeping left and right, or leaping upwards from underwater.

Volcano
A sole blue plant can be seen after completing Cheat Codes, where the plant is simply dancing happily on top of an unstable rock platform with the pink lava below. It does not seem to be aware of the danger until the Volcano starts to quake after the completion of Clash. The rock platform breaks below it as the plant falls into the lava. It returns as an evil plant shortly after, chasing the player on a rock foundation.
After dodging most of its attacks, the enemy pulls the path where the player is in. Its attempt to catch the player, however, is unsuccessful, as the player jumps to another path above it leading to the summit of the Volcano, where the first of the three pieces of the Tree can be found. Just as the player starts Lycanthropy, the enemy rises up from the mouth of the volcano as it goes through the level selection pentagon after the player.

Post-Volcano
After beating Lycanthropy, the player is back on the Volcano, with the corrupt plant unconscious, worn out from the battle. They use the level triangle to purify the Tree piece, causing it to rain pure water, undoing the corruption from the plant and around the Volcano.

Industry
The plants can be encountered throughout the chapter, being captured and conveyed on the conveyor belts, acting cheerful as usual, oblivious to what they're getting themselves into.
Later on, the player finds out that the plants are being sent to the second corrupt Tree piece, which is being squeezed, making it drip out pink liquid onto the plants being moved below it, corrupting them one by one. The corrupt Tree piece is eventually used to corrupt the Big Cube, leading to the next boss level, Close To Me, as a result.

Post-Industry
After beating Close To Me, the player uses the level triangle to purify the Tree piece, which then purifies the Big Cube and the corrupted plants, as they all celebrate the player's victory.
However, the screen cuts to the remaining corrupted plants going up the Tower as the alarms blare.

Tower
The corrupted plants do not appear again until Final Boss. The level begins with a corrupted plant appearing from the left side of the level, followed by more corrupted plants. As they player ascends the tower, the sides of the tower is full of nothing but corrupted plants.

Post-Tower
The plants do not appear again until the credits scene, where the reformed Boss hosts a rave party, as a silhouetted crowd of plants rave to the music, and two green plants dance on the stage, alongside the Birds, the Boat, the Helicopter, and The Big Cube.

## Gallery

* The first time meeting a plant.
* Ouch!
* Poor cactus!
* Corrupted Plants popping out of the ocean as the Big Cube drifts away.
* Corrupted Plants acting as obstacles for the Boat.
* The Cave Cactus.
* The Cactus as it falls into the corrupted water.
* The newly Corrupted Cactus as it emerges from the corrupted water.
* The Corrupted Cactus as it attempts to grab the cube.
* The cactus boss for the hardcore edition, but without teeth.
* The cactus boss.
* The gray plant(?)
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## Trivia

* Another name for a Plant is "**Enemy**" or "**Boss Creature**", as referred internally in the game files, "**EvilPlant**" as an emote in the official Berzerk Studio Discord Server and "**Flower**" in its Playstation 4 profile avatar.
	+ The official name 'Plants' was also confirmed by Em in the same server.
* The evil plant is the only character (and the only type of plant) that can enter a level selection shape along with the player.

## References

1. ↑ Berserk Studio Discord - Em's message. January 24, 2019
Em: "*plant to be reallllllllyyyyy official, cuz you guys need official stuff*"

## External Links

* The evil Plant's "Flower" profile avatar (PS4)