IT SCARES ME TO THINK THAT FLUUTERSHY CAUGHT THE FEVER BECAUSE THAT VERY TREE WAS (I mean just look at the diagram an the book).

Without a further ado, this actually reminds me of The last of us. Also, can’t wait to see the sequel of that game.

Somebody must have done a custom scenario in Plague Inc. by now.
 
I’d play it.

@Background Pony #1B1C  
This aöready was a thing. This is also combined with the theory, that Princess Peach is the bad guy and Bowser is teh good guy and Mario is not arawe of this situation. He just sees cute shrroms, grumpy shrooms, a beautiful woman and a giant turtle.

@Mori  
Headcannon for toads in Mario universe has now been created.

@Background Pony #45E6  
The Cordyceps. Can actually create zombies. And is the threat in “The Last of Us”.

@Background Pony #45E6
 
… that’s actually a pretty apt comparison.

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Maybe the pollen functions more like the fungus that produces zombie ants (or turns paras into parasect)

@FrustrationInExcelsis  
A lot worse, really.

@MetaKnight145
 
That… that honestly makes things even worse.

@MetaKnight145  
Well, gosh, that just makes everything so much better and isn’t terrifying at all.

>implied death  
They’re not dead.  
They’re very much alive. Their souls are still bound to this earth inside the tree.

Aaand now I’m horrified.

It’s not a corpse tho

@Background Pony #EA93  
No offense but that seems fairly groundless. The disease was clearly depicted as being spread through the pollen of the plants, which only the flash bees were immune to. It’s a world of magic, so I don’t think it’s outlandish to think that there’s a plant capable of shenanigans this extreme, I just find it strange how hundreds, perhaps thousands of ponies suffered through this plague (or witnessed their friends suffering through it), and absolutely no one managed to get the cure published - including Meadowbrook herself, before she vanished.

@TheAntiCat
 
He was likely just pointing out something that this reminded him of.

@Background Pony #B896  
What aggression? He was just stating facts directly.

@neo4812  
Probably because Discord loves to troll, and anything that would leave somepony unable to react would kinda be counterproductive towards that.

@TheAntiCat  
What’s up with all the aggression? It was appropriate non-offtopic pic. Don’t flame.

@Background Pony #510D  

 
Anon, that’s Poison Joke and that scene isn’t canon.
 
Try again.

@Xzar  
He said that he never turns ponies into stone. I don’t think he would make “wood is not stone” excuse in this case.

@Xzar  
but none that are really life threating,