The Legendary Giant Tyrant Triffid

Evil-doer
Full Name	Unknown
Alias	The Legendary Giant Tyrant Triffid, Giant Man-Eating Plant, Man-Eater
Origin	Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja
Occupation	Man-eater
Powers / Skills	Whipping with vines. Grabbing and eating live meat. Sprouting Tyrant Triffids and seeds by spitting.
Hobby	Grabbing and eating anything else alive. Attacking his prey. Interfering with Joe and Mac.
Goals	To survive as long as possible, to sprout it's own species and flourish by eating and drinking.
Crimes	Assault
Type of Villain	Man-Eater

The Legendary Giant Tyrant Triffid is a boss from the Data East video game series Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja.

Appearances

He is a giant green man-eating plant, closely resembling a Venus Flytrap. He originally appeared as the second boss in the Arcade version of Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja. In the Arcade and DOS versions, he can spit seeds to grow Tyrant Triffids, attack using his vines or eat the player alive by grabbing both of them, spitting out the players skeletons in the process.

The NES and Game Boy versions removed his vines, but he still retains the ability to eat the player if approached to closely. However, the player is killed in the NES version and stripped of his flesh.

In the SNES and Amiga versions, he loses the ability to consume both players, but retains his vines and still has the ability to spit new Tyrant Triffids. However, going close to him in the Amiga version while his jaw is opened will kill the player upon contact.

The Sega Genesis version is very much like the Arcade, DOS and Amiga versions, but the boss loses the ability to eat the players and the seeds he spits cannot sprout.

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Trivia

• One of the enemies and bosses that appear in the Super Mario series bear a close resemblance to Tyrant Triffids, they are known as Piranha Plants.
• Acording to the NES manual of Joe & Mac: Caveman Ninja, Tyrant Triffids are a mythical man-eating, seed-spitting plant similar to a giant Venus Fly-trap, with poisonous seeds which can prove fatal. Tyrant Triffids habitat on land all over the Ocean of Silurian, the mighty ruler of this ocean is the Legendary Giant Tyrant Triffid, one of the mighty rulers who rules a landmark.
• As can be heard by the Legendary Giant Tyrant Triffid's voice, he is a male plant with signs of intelligence.
• In "Tumble Pop" and Diet Go Go, games created by Data East, Tyrant Tiffids make cameo appearance as enemies.
• The boss's design is similar to Audrey II and shares a name with the Triffids from The Day of the Triffids.