History GiantSpider / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/ChristmasInTattertown'': Muffet, an [[LivingToys evil doll]] who attempts to conquer Tattertown, is assisted by Sidney, a giant spider big enough for her to ride. She disguises herself as SantaClaus and Sidney as a reindeer.

* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': In "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsBeyondTheAquilaRift Beyond the Aquila Rift]]", this is the true form of "Greta": a horrifying spider-like alien with a giant head covered in a dozen black eyes blinking in unison clustered around a gaping red mouth filled with needle-like teeth. Luckily for Thom, "Greta" is also a NonMaliciousMonster and BenevolentAbomination.

* ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': In "[[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsBeyondTheAquilaRift Beyond the Aquila Rift]]", this is the true form of "Greta": a horrifying spider-like alien with a giant head covered in a dozen black eyes blinking in unison clustered around a gaping red mouth filled with needle-like teeth. Luckily for Thom, "Greta" is also a NonMaliciousMonster.

** On his way to ditch work, Homer is confronted by a giant spider in the bowels of the nuclear plant. According to his map, said spider can be bypassed by [[AsTheGoodBookSays quoting a Bible verse]]. After a failed attempt, Homer kills it by beaning it with a rock.
** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E17SimpsonSafari Simpson Safari]]": When the family visits Africa, a giant spider destroys Homer's luggage, which he claims was bound to happen.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had the Queen Spider in "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove Red Hot Catholic Love]]", ruling the Vatican. Subverted in that it wasn't particularly frightening or dangerous.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spider}}'': The titular creature is probably supposed to be an ordinary-sized house spider, but the protagonist is a very young boy and in proportion to him it looks much bigger.

** "Where the Buggalo Roam": The characters ride horse-like spiders when travelling around Mars.
** "300 Big Boys" begins with Zapp Brannigan conquering the planet Tarantulon 6, which is populated by giant sapient spiders. Subverted, as it's implied they were peaceful. It's mentioned later in the episode that the Tarantulon spiders [[BizarreAlienBiology are actually more closely related to elephants.]]
** One of the UnCanceled episodes starts with the Planet Express Ship caught in the energy web of a giant spider that lives in the vacuum of space. [[https://theinfosphere.org/images/c/c4/Giant_space_spider.png Like this.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', one episode of Season 2 features Anansi, the African Spider God and a child of Oberon, as the main antagonist, who resides in a web-shaped ruined city and turns people in were-panthers so that [[VillainousGlutton they can fetch him preys to eat]]. Despite his fearsome appearance, he's grown so fat he's harmless once his web is destroyed [[AintTooProudToBeg and he even tries to beg for mercy.]]

* Jeff in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Partially subverted in that he's a ''friendly'' giant spider who wants Billy to love him, but Billy's arachnophobia make it very difficult, to say the least. There was also Velma who appeared in the made-for-TV movie ''Billy & Mandy: Wrath of the Spider Queen''. She was ''not'' very friendly.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' had [[MadScientist Heloise]] riding one that was either half mechanical or wearing armor.

** In the episode "Terror Island", a MadScientist turns several animals (including a spider) into giant monsters using a mutagenic drug.
** The long legs and giant body of "The Robot Spy", well-known from JQ's opening credits, qualify it for this trope as well.
** In "Treasure of the Temple", Race Bannon is caught in the web of a giant cave spider and saved by the accurate shooting of Doctor Quest.
* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon "Claws for Alarm" begins with traveler Porky checking himself into a derelict hotel in a western ghost town with his nervous pet cat Sylvester, who gets terrified by a mammoth-sized shadow of a spider on a wall -- cast by a teeny-tiny spider.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'' short "Beyond the Aquila Rift", this is the true form of "Greta": a horrifying spider-like alien with a giant head covered in a dozen black eyes blinking in unison clustered around a gaping red mouth filled with needle-like teeth. Luckily for Thom, "Greta" is also a NonMaliciousMonster.
* ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' featured a huge spider in one episode -- the only thing Norman feared. For the unfamiliar, Norman was basically Hercules, Thor and Chuck Norris rolled into one, faced any threat with "[[BadassBoast I eat X for breakfast]]", and nearly had a breakdown at the sight of said spider. His fear is later justified when [[spoiler:he reveals a prophecy he once heard that a Giant Spider will eat him]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'': in "Goofy's Grandma", Goofy is scared to live in his shack due to a spider being in there. When Mickey assures him that the spider is small and harmless, he almost immediately sees that the spider is actually huge and [[MediumShiftGag photorealstic]].

* This is shown to be Buttercup's biggest fear in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' WhatDoTheyFearEpisode "Power-Noia", but she eventually overcomes this.
* In the fourth episode of ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'', Spear and Fang encounter a herd of demonic bats led by a massive spider that eats their delivered prey.

** When the family visits Africa, a giant spider destroys Homer's luggage, which he claims was bound to happen.
* Papa Smurf accidentally creates a giant spider with the magnifying mixture he creates in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode of the same name. Fortunately, Papa Smurf manages to shrink the spider back down to size before he becomes a victim.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had the Queen Spider in [[Recap/SouthParkS6E8RedHotCatholicLove Red Hot Catholic Love]]'', ruling the Vatican. Subverted in that it wasn't particularly frightening or dangerous.
* The titular creature in the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] animated series ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider! Spider]]'' was probably supposed to be an ordinary-sized house spider, but the protagonist is a very young boy and in proportion to him it looks much bigger.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Ludo gets one as a minion in Season 2.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' briefly features one that got infected by some "Big Bang" chemicals.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Revenge of the Island'': One episode had a giant mutant spider picking off the contestants as part of a nighttime challenge. [[spoiler:Said spider turns out to actually be [[CloudCuckoolander Izzy]] in a costume.]]

** The ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' version of Blackarachnia not only has a giant spider as an alt-mode, she [[spoiler:became a half-organic being after trying to use her copying ability on spider that became huge from eating energon]].
** Both Blackarachnia and Tarantulas from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' qualify, having spider alt-modes. The former's ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' form carries spiderlike features even in her robot mode, most notably her concealable extra eyes.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' episode "Island of the Bellephones" has a huge Arachne chasing the girls, only to run away in fear upon reaching the lair of the titular creatures.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' was about the heroes attempting to retrieve a Shen Gon Wu called the "Hidoku Mouse", which allows the user to undo any wrongdoings, from not only recurring villain Jack Spicer, but also several giant spiders living in a cave. Unfortunately, neither side ends up getting the Hidoku Mouse as it ended up falling into a large pit full of spiders and was presumably destroyed. And the spiders themselves? According to legend, the spiders despite being neither good nor evil, are actually all constantly hungry, and therefore they must eat everything (including rocks and trees) in their path in order to survive.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': "Stranded" featured a giant spider during the climax. It was foreshadowed in an earlier scene.
-->'''Cindy:''' Jimmy, are giant spider webs made by giant spiders?

* A talking giant spider appears in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'' trying to eat the Gummi Bears and is up to Sir Thornberry and Cavin to save them, which also works as an anti-prejudice [[AnAesop Aesop]] as Sir Thornberry distrust humans like Cavin and Cavin distrust Sir Thornberry because of his advanced age and eccentric behavior.
* A giant spider couple is the main focus in the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "Web Weirdos". When Jake and Finn get caught in a giant web, Finn tries to find a way for him and Jake to escape by offering advice on how the male spider (named Ed and voiced by Creator/BobcatGoldthwait) can improve his relationship with his wife, Barb (voiced by Creator/SusieEssman). After making up, Barb gives birth to a thousand baby spiders.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', Ocho's mom is a giant 8-bit spider. Her son is also larger than most normal spiders, but he is still small.
* MC Pee Pants in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'', a diaper-wearing giant spider who gets releases a rap CD with not so SubliminalSeduction in his lyrics. Said lyrics are about eating candy so his fans can come down to his place and use their hyperactive blood-sugar levels to power a drill into hell so that he can release demons for his global diet pill pyramid scheme. Averted, because very few traits aside from the fact he's a giant spider belong to this trope.

* Ginger, one of ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'''s neighbor is a friendly giant tap-dancing spider.
* One ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode featured an entire hotel filled with giant spiders... courtesy of none other than Katz.

* In the HalloweenEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', Ed, who is suffering from hallucinations, sees Johnny as one of these. Subverted by the fact that the spider is friendly.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantomcat}}'' one of the main villains was a giant, green widow spider named Marmagora.

** In "Where the Buggalo Roam", the characters ride horse-like spiders when travelling around Mars.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' has minor villain Fang, a punkish teen thug who has a giant spider for a head. No, that's ''not'' a typo; he's basically a giant spider with a fully functional human body growing underneath his head.