Triffid

Triffid
Biological type:	Carnivorous plant-like aliens
Appearance:	Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life [+]Loading...["Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)"]

Triffids were a dangerous species of plant-like aliens.

History

A potted, shoulder-length Triffid was present in the Director-General's office. It was the only sign of life. (PROSE: Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life ^[+]Loading...["Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life (short story)"])

References

In 1964, when Sarah Jane Smith said she sort of believed Maria Jackson's warning that Westport pier wasn't safe, Andrea Yates joked that Sarah'd believe that a Triffid was going to come and get them. (PROSE: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? ^[+]Loading...["Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (novelisation)"])

When Sarah Jane told Gita Chandra that her contacts were not usually interested in flowers, Clyde Langer quipped "unless they're Triffids." (TV: Prisoner of the Judoon ^[+]Loading...["Prisoner of the Judoon (TV story)"])

Ryan Sinclair once mistook a sentient begonia for a Triffid. The Doctor pointed out the difference, but noted that the begonia could've been a Krynoid. (PROSE: The Secret in Vault 13 ^[+]Loading...["The Secret in Vault 13 (novel)"])

Behind the scenes

Triffids are fictional main antagonists of John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids. Though the Triffids are taken to be real in the DWU, so is the novel they came from, as well as its film.