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 [+]Anthony Keetch, Short Trips: Monsters (Short Trips short stories, 2004).)
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? [+]Rupert Laight, adapted from Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (Gareth Roberts), The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations (Penguin Character Books, 2008).)
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 [+]Phil Ford, The Sarah Jane Adventures series 3 (BBC One, 2009).)
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 [+]David Solomons, BBC Children's Books (BBC Children's Books, 2018).)
Behind the scenes[]
Triffids are fictional main antagonists of John Wyndham's novel The Day of the Triffids. It seems to be the (likely coincidental) intent[statement unclear] that the Triffids are real within in DWU. However, the novel is also established to exist in-universe.
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