History Main / GiantSpider

* In [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] we have Arachne, a weaver of extraordinary talent who once challenged Athena with her work. Ironically, Arachne was turned into a spider by the angry goddess for her arrogance. A lot of art depicts Arachne as either human with spider features or a giant spider altogether.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': A few show up.

* In ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGirlWithTheXRayMind'' appears a Reptilian Spider, a car-sized red arachnid which used to live in Krypton's Flame Forest. Its giant mandibles can easily uproot large trees.

* Bali Lali of ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}''. She and the other Cleaners are all spider people.
* Two ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' skirt the line, namely Dokugumon ([[AllThereInTheManual technically an insect that spins webs]]) and [[MeaningfulName Arachnemon]]/Arukenimon (who is more like a [[SpiderPeople drider]] than the more spider-like Dokugumon).
* In ''Manga/InuYasha'', giant spiders or spider-like beings are common, weak Youkai in feudal Japan. Sango and her family were tricked by Naraku (who's a spider-based demon himself) into fighting a giant, ogre-faced spider. In the final battle, Naraku's outer shell is a gargantuan black spider who acts as a final dungeon.

* The third chapter of ''Manga/MajinDevil'' is rife with them. Demonic dog-sized spiders with embryos on their backs that crawl out of pregnant girls' hoohahs, tear their way out of their stomachs or rip themselves out of hosts' heads.
* In his fight with Kidomaru, Neji fights giant spiders in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''.
* One of these accompanied [[WolfMan Kotarou]] on his first battle against Negi in the Kyoto Arc of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. It [[AntiMagic was banished]] by Asuna with one swing of her [[PaperFanOfDoom Iron Fan]].
* Matarael from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', which looks like a bowl with lots of eyes and has four legs.

* Two different [[BondCreatures Demon Beasts]] resembling giant spiders appear in ''Manga/SazanEyes'' under the control of [[TheHero Yakumo]] and [[TheDragon Benares]]: the former has Jing Gu (Mirror Bug), a spider-like being the size of a soccer ball who can [[AttackReflector reflect light attacks]] and spin thread. Benares control the much more formidable Fu Yao Zhizhu (Monster-Binding Spider), a giant, more realistic-looking spider that pins its victims down, extract their energy, and then imprisons them into a cocoon. Benares states that this monster can subdue even an immortal Wu like Yakumo.

* In ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', Kamaji the boiler man is a youkai who seems to be a cross between an old man and a large spider. (Or perhaps an opilione, also known as harvestmen or daddy longlegs.) He's not quite as scary as the other examples on this page, and [[DarkIsNotEvil is actually a rather decent fellow.]]

* In the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Shape Shift", one of Lamput's transformations is a giant spider. The docs morph into a fly swatter afterwards to squash him.

* Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian encountered giant spiders all the goddamn time in Marvel's ''Savage Sword of Conan'' comics. But his most famous adventure involving a giant spider was probably Conan's battle with Omm, a giant spider worshiped as a god in the city of Yezud. A later adventure had Conan fighting Omm's equally large offspring, Zath.

* ''Roleplay/WitchQuest'': Rochelle is a sane Witch whose normal form is of this. She even introduces herself this way to others at first ("[[VerbalTic Hwee ahr a giahnt spidahr]]"). She [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] the usual portrayal of this trope insofar as she's actually trying to help {{Magical Girl}}s get happy endings, although mistrust, misunderstandings, and [[InSeriesNickname Na]][[SociopathicHero pa]][[KillItWithFire lm]] stand in the way (among others).

* In ''Fanfic/TheWorldOfTheCreatures'', Batman and the Eleventh Doctor are captured by a colony of giant spiders that talk. It's implied that these are either from ''Literature/HarryPotter'' or ''Literature/TheHobbit''.
* ''Fanfic/VariousVytalVentures'': "Bark and Bite" introduces a new form of Grimm, the ''Aggromantulas'', which are big, fast, vicious, and carry a paralyzing venom in their fangs. Their Queen, however, is something else.
* ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': There's the Polyphemus Gargantula, more commonly known as Giant Cyclops Spider. Aahg from G1 is a member of this species, however the [[MonsterProgenitor first and most deadly]] of the entire species was Lahb, [[spoiler:a creation of Hydia's ancestor, the First Witch Lilith]]. Lahb was a forty-foot tall titan with legs as wide as tree trunks and fangs big enough to impale a centaur.
* ''Fanfic/DoctorWhoovesTheSeries'': ''Along Came a Spider'' has pony-hoof-sized ones as well as [[EvilIsHammy ANASI, THE SPIDER GODDESS]] (straight from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS11E5PlanetOfTheSpiders Metebelis III]]. [[CrossOver Really]]).
* ''Fanfic/BesidesTheWillOfEvil'': [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Ungoliants]] are enormous spider-like monsters created by [[BigBad Reiziger]] as muscle for his armies. They create an aura of shadow around themselves, and unlike real spiders, they have a poisonous stinger hidden beneath their bellies.
* ''Fanfic/EquestriaDivided'':
** Wood spiders, enormous creatures resembling spiders shaped out of living wood, are among the monsters native to the Everfree. They sometimes have poison-spitting plants rooted in their backs, allowing them to pelt enemies with poisonous liquids at range before moving in to maul them.
** One changeling unit, the weblings, resembles a monstrous spider with a changeling's head and can shoot tough ProjectileWebbing.

* Invoked in ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/TheNightmareHouse'', where the spiders in Leni's nightmare are enlarged with "Super Spider Growy Stuff".
* ''Fanfic/PersonalityConflicts'': One appears in ''The Green-Eyed Monster'', in the Castle of Nyghtmayr. The castle defenses replicate the same emotion-evoking powers as the eight Minor Demons, and Fyar's powers summon up a giant spider for Tasha to [[FaceYourFears confront]]. She's able to defeat it by [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath listing three biological reasons why the creature before her can't actually exist]] (any permeable-membraned egg that size would dry out before it could hatch; SquareCubeLaw means "the cross-section of the legs only increase on a square curve" and would soon be too small to support it; and spiders and insects both "breathe through tracheal tubes that run from their 'skin' to their bloodstream. Those tubes can’t be longer than an inch or so, otherwise no air gets down them, and the spider suffocates"). Each example causes the spider to shrink until it's the size of a normal tarantula, allowing Tasha to step on it and crush it into nothing.
* The mesothelae from ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters'' are amongst the prehistoric animals rescued in ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'', and the first one seen is explicitly referred to as a 'giant spider'.
* The newly discovered InUniverse megalorachne in ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'' prove to be reasonably massive spiders for the time period in which they naturally live in before their kind get rescued to be put on display at the titular park, with at least one of the females being explicitly confirmed to be at least the same size as one human character's head. Rather appropriately, they are explicitly based on the 'mesothelae' from ''Series/WalkingWithMonsters''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'', the Other Mother's [[OneWingedAngel true form]] is a sort of spider [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie doll thing with hands and legs made out of needles]].

*** The hives of Necromunda are infamous for their giant spiders that can range in size from several feet across to larger than a man. Species include the long-legged wolf spiders, the stealthy orb spiders[[note]]both of which had rules for use in 1st Edition Arbitrated Campaigns[[/note]] and the amphibious sump spiders that have precious gems for eyes.

* ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame': The stronger minions of the spider-god Atlach-Nacha range from Leng spiders (dog-sized) to really huge ones.

** Naturally, this trope also applies to any video game directly based on ''D&D'', namely ''VideoGame/EyeOfTheBeholder'', ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' and ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights''.

* Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' RPG main rules, adventure "Lord of the Spiders''. The {{P|layerCharacter}}Cs must explore a forest filled with huge spiders. The spiders' venom puts the victim into suspended animation, after which [[Literature/TheHobbit the victims are webbed up and hung from trees]].
* ''Encounter Critical'':

* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', and its sequel ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'', Forest Goblins and Spiderfang Grots respectively ride giant spiders into battle with the rank and file riding spiders about twice their size while their bosses ride spiders twice as big as those of their followers. The largest spiders fielded by these tribes are the arachnarok spiders, spiders so massive that they can be fitted with howdahs and fitted with catapults or primitive shrines.
** In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' Canoptek Spyders are floating robot spiders responsible for overseeing and repairing [[RobotWar Necron]] Tomb Complexes while their masters sleep in stasis. Even the smallest of Canoptek Spyders are larger than a human and there have even been a few encounters with such constructs, known as Tomb Stalkers, that equal or exceed the size of the Imperium’s largest HumongousMecha.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'':
*** The hives of Necromunda are infamous for their giant spiders that can range in size from several feet across to larger than a man. Species include the long-legged wolf spiders, the stealthy orb spiders[[note]]both of which had rules for use in 1st Edition Arbitrated Campaigns[[/note]] and the amphibious sump spiders that have precious gems for eyes.
*** In the 3rd Edition of the game, the technologically proficient House Van Saar are known to capture, breed, and cybernetically enhanced Necromundan giant spiders for various purposes. In-game, Van Saar gangs can purchase these cyberarchnids as pets from the Campaign Trading Post.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Space: Space Atlas 4''. Winterjewel is an [[SingleBiomePlanet Ice Planet]] whose dominant life form is a gigantic spider. It looks like a huge tarantula with white fur and weighs 70 pounds.
* Midkemia Press' ''Heart of the Sunken Lands''. Giant Spiders will always attack unless they're outnumbered. Their venom causes either paralysis for 1-6 days or a coma. While their prey is helpless they wrap it in webbing and carry it off to eat later.

* ''It Came from the Late, Late Show'':
** Main rules. Giant Spiders are Monsters that are 15 feet long and act like normal wolf (hunting) spiders. They bite their prey and poison it, then drink its blood.
** Supplement ''It Came from the Late, Late Show II'', adventure "Bjorn on the Bayou, or Escape from Alkatrazz XII". Alkatrazz XII is a prison planet that is mostly covered with swamps and forest. One of the alien monsters that can be encountered there is a giant spider.

** ''Into the Troll Realms'', adventure "Skyfall Lake". Crab City has spiders that are as large as a mammoth. They have warty gray skin and drop pools of acid.
** ''Dorastor: Land of Doom''. Of the Spider Folk who live in the Spider Woods, the largest type are the Great Mother Spiders. They can reach a Size of 54, which means they weigh just less than 7,000 lb.
** Supplement ''Trollpak'', "Book of Uz" part 2. The trolls have domesticated several types of giant spiders. The largest ones weigh more than 6,000 lbs.
* ''Sorcery & Super Science! Post-Apocalyptic Role-Playing!'' The Scritch are spider-like creatures that are about 2 feet across and can [[SuperSpit spit poison]]. There are unconfirmed rumors that they can grow as large as a small pony.

* In the Monster Burner book for the ''TabletopGame/BurningWheel'' system, one of the 'playable' monster races was the Great Spiders, which were spiders of human intelligence that ranged from the size of a medium-sized dog to that of a horse (depending on breed and life-path). Most were loners (like real spiders) and the ones that weren't were either pack hunters or 'Evil' (Although that is not a barrier to playing a characters in Burning Wheel where campaigns as one of the horde of the EvilOverlord is a viable option.)
* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' supplement ''Dreamlands''. Leng Spiders can grow to gigantic size and weigh hundreds of tons.
* Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s supplement ''All the Worlds' Monsters'' Volume III

* ''Magazine/{{Ares}}'' magazine #13 ''TabletopGame/DragonQuest'' adventure "The Treasure of Socantri". One of the new monsters included in the adventure is a man-sized intelligent spider covered with long hair and capable of casting many spells of Earth Magic.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Vriska has one the size of a house for a [[AbusiveAlienParents lusus]]. Imagine having ''[[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004107 this]]'' as your guardian. Now imagine being responsible for ''[[HorrorHunger feeding it]].'' It's [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004095 outright]] [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004360 stated]] that she EatsBabies.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dreambuilders}}'': Minna creates a giant mechanical one to scare Jenny during her nightmare. [[spoiler: It later comes to life in the Dream Trash and attacks the two girls as they're trying to escape, until Minna shuts it down.]]

* ''Fanfic/VariousVytalVentures'': "Bark and Bite" introduces a new form of Grimm, the ''Aggromantulas'', which are big, fast, vicious, and carry a paralyzing venom in their fangs. Their Queen, however, takes it UpToEleven.

* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The main character is this, as well as her "family" after she's reincarnated. Her "mother" takes this UpTo11 in sheer size, and is unsurprisingly one of the strongest non-deity entities in the series given the power she has compared to even the settings dragons, as well as the sheer destruction she can cause.

* Giant Congolese Spiders infest the [[TheWikiRule WikiWorld]] in ''Script/AHDotComTheSeries'', the result of MemeticMutation about a vandalised wiki article stating that the Congo is home to four-foot-tall spiders.

** Other races of the Underdark, such as the duergar dwarves or the ettercaps 0- themselves spider-headed, web-weaving humanoids -- similarly use giant spiders as mounts.

* Holland, the "large brown spider"-turned-Dash Two monster from ''Podcast/FindUsAlive''. He's described as being about the size of a large dog.

* Franchise/ULtraSeries examples:

* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo'' uses the "[[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrunken hero]]" vs. regular-sized spider variant, as Formaggio traps Narancia (who has been affected by Formaggio's Little Feet stand) in a bottle and pits him against a normal tarantula.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Quite a few films of the BMovie genre use these, whether in stop motion or just extreme close-up:
** ''Film/PlanetOfTheDinosaurs'' has a large, stop motion spider in one scene.
** ''Film/EarthVsTheSpider'' featured a blown-up tarantula. It lived in a cave and was suggested to be the result of nuclear radiation.
*** There was a 2000s film with the same name about a guy who injected himself with spider DNA in an attempt to become a super-hero, only to mutate into a grotesque humanoid arachnid-thing that was eternally hungry and devoured people indiscriminately. It was basically a horrifying parody of ''Franchise/SpiderMan''.
** ''Film/AtorTheInvincible'' has what is possibly [[SpecialEffectFailure the saddest giant spider ever put to film]] as its "final boss", so to speak. The movie's human BigBad is the leader of a cult worshiping it as their dark god.
** ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'', with somewhat better special effects, is an AffectionateParody of this type of film. A small town is beset by a SpiderSwarm, with critters varying in size from large dogs to a tank (the "Queen" spider at the end).
** ''Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion'' made use of [[SpecialEffectFailure laughably bad puppetry]]. Its spiders were actually from another dimension that had been opened up by a meteorite landing in a farmer's field. A very stupid movie.
** ''Film/HorrorsOfSpiderIsland'' has surprisingly few spiders. Just the one, which is about the size of a human head, and a guy who becomes a mutant after he gets bitten by the aforementioned spider on the eponymous IslandOfMystery.
** ''Film/ItsyBitsy'' involves the summoning of a spider the size of a small dog (that gets bigger whenever it sheds its skin) into the home of a young mother and her children from a stolen vase.
** ''Film/OneMillionYearsBC'' very briefly featured a blown-up tarantula lurking in a prehistoric desert. It was one of the few non-stop-motion creatures in the movie.
** ''Film/{{Tarantula}}'' featured a blown-up tarantula, although it used a model for closeups.
** ''Film/VillageOfTheGiants'' features a brief encounter with a giant spider, grown to an enormous size by a formula created by a kid genius played by baby Ron Howard. [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse It appears in one scene before the narrative loses track of it.]]
*** No less than four of the films listed above (''Film/EarthVsTheSpider'', ''Film/TheGiantSpiderInvasion'', ''Film/HorrorsOfSpiderIsland'' and ''Film/VillageOfTheGiants'') have appeared on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
** ''Film/{{Arachnia}}'' has prehistoric giant spiders awoken by a meteor as the main antagonists.
** The 2000-01 movie duology ([[DolledUpInstallment actually two unrelated films]]) ''Film/{{Spiders}}'' and ''Film/SpidersIIBreedingGround'' of course feature giant spiders as the main foe. In the first one they were the result of a freak experiment on a space satellite due to a meteor storm, in the second they were created by a mad scientist who wanted to make a stronger human race... somehow.
* The 2001 Spanish production ''Film/{{Arachnid}}'' is about a giant spider infestation on a small island near Guam.
* The largest spider in the aptly-named ''Film/{{Arachnophobia}}'' is not very big compared to Kumonga, but still slightly bigger than any real spider. Even Australian ones. The real problem with the spiders in said film are their [[SpiderSwarm sheer numbers]] and insanely venomous bite.
* In the astoundingly bad ''Film/Beowulf1999'' starring Christopher Lambert, Grendel's Mother transforms into a spider hybrid to fight Beowulf.
* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Rather unsurprisingly]], one of these is the villain in ''Film/BigAssSpider''.
* One TransformationSequence in the silent film version of ''Film/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'' (1920) features one; Jekyll sees a transparent giant spider crawling towards him, and once it reaches its destination, it disappears and he has turned yet again into Mr. Hyde.
* These appear in various dream sequences in the somewhat surreal film ''Film/{{Enemy}}''. [[spoiler: Not to mention in the GainaxEnding.]]
* The titular monster of ''Crazy Spider'' (or, alternatively, it's international title, ''Abyssal Spider'') is a giant spider. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc3bdgEy1Ek It starts off the size of the truck]], but it soon grows out of control until it becomes kaiju-sized.
* At the end of ''Film/TheFly1958'', a fly with a tiny human head -- the other half of the movie's human/fly MixAndMatchCritters -- is menaced by a normal-sized spider. "Heeeelp meeeee!"
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' features a minor arachnid-themed monster called Scylla, who spends most of the movie hibernating in the Arizona Desert until King Ghidorah awakens it to go on a rampage. The end credits however reveals Scylla to be a SeaMonster closer in relation to crabs, however.
* In ''Film/TheHobbitAnUnexpectedJourney'', the monstrous spiders of Mirkwood, lesser spawn of Ungoliant, aren't quite as big as Shelob... but are still plenty huge, and have similarly horrific maws. And, when Bilbo's wearing the One Ring, ''he can understand their speech''.
* ''Film/IceSpiders'', wherein Olympic athletes are terrorized by, you guessed it, Giant Spiders at a ski resort.
* In ''Film/TheIncredibleShrinkingMan'', the title character encounters an ordinary-sized spider which is huge to him. The film couldn't afford a fake spider, so they just used a real one filmed up close. Sweet dreams.
* One of the last things to come from the ''{{Film/Jumanji}}'' game were giant spiders. They didn't do much, as they got scared off by the earthquake in the very next turn, but they were still one of the more memorable and frightening parts of the film... [[SpecialEffectFailure even if they look more like wind-up toys.]]
* ''Franchise/KingKong'':
** Giant spiders constituted most of one of the most legendary (or, as some claim, overhyped) deleted -- and now lost -- scenes in film history: a section of ''Film/KingKong1933'', now known as the Lost Spider Pit scene. The footage is now believed to be lost forever, but the scene was re-created as a bonus feature over 70 years later, with stills and concept art used as reference.
** Creator/PeterJackson's [[Film/KingKong2005 version]] also featured giant spiders (detailed in the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Natural History of Skull Island]]'' as spider-like arachnids called "Arachno-Claws") in the Bug Pit scene. Based on the above mentioned 1933 example, of course.
** In one scene of ''Film/KongSkullIsland'', the characters are attacked by a gigantic spider-like creature so tall that its legs blended into the bamboo forests they were walking through. It impales one of them with its leg and attempts to draw another up by its fleshy tendrils into its BellyMouth. [[AllThereInTheManual On the Skull Island MONARCH website]], it's given the name of Mother Longlegs and isn't actually a spider, but a colossal harvestman that's also [[{{Planimal}} part bamboo]], and [[OneGenderRace all female]], with mouths at the ends of its spiked legs.
* A giant spider attacks a mook and eats him in a scene of ''Film/KingSolomonsMines'' (1985).
* One of the side plots in ''Film/{{Krull}}'' involves a giant albino spider guarding/imprisoning an oracle in a rather comfortable-looking cocoon in a gigantic web. It moves to eat anyone coming to consult with her and is only prevented when she pours the sands of her life away (freezing it in place while the sands are in motion).
* For ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'', the director Creator/PeterJackson [[AuthorPhobia plied his actual arachnophobia to full use]] to make Shelob as horrible as possible. Strangely, Shelob had a stinger in her belly and a gaping mouth instead of actual spider fangs. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that she is meant to be an EldritchAbomination.
* In the 1966 Toei film ''Film/TheMagicSerpent'', a giant spider appears at the very end for the Big Battle. She is a good guy, though. She throws silk and snow (yes, snow) over the title creature to subdue him.
* A giant spider also appeared in Peter Jackson's earlier film ''Film/MeetTheFeebles'', where it [[spoiler: [[OffWithHisHead bites a character's head off]] and gets its face smashed against a hanging cargo]].
* ''Film/MichaelJacksonsThisIsIt'' features a gigantic black widow spider during the "Thriller" segment. Not only is one on-screen (this would have been in 3D, no less), but one scurries on stage that opens up to reveal Jackson himself.
* In ''Film/MonsterHunter2020'', the giant spiders known as Nerscylla are responsible for the deaths of much of Alpha Team, and Artemis probably spends more time fighting than any other monster. (That said, the other monsters mostly appear singly, while the Nerscylla are a swarm.)
* Jon Peters:
** Having produced TheFilmOfTheSeries for ''Film/WildWildWest'', one could think that producer Jon Peters included the giant metal spider as an attempt at an interesting sequence. However, the man has an apparent fascination with giant arachnids: Creator/KevinSmith's story of his time working on ''Film/SupermanReturns'' (at that point known as ''Superman Lives'') in the late '90s includes an amusing anecdote about Mr. Peters's demands on what be in the movie, which included not having Superman wear his suit or fly, and to have him fight a giant spider in the final act (Peters's justification being that "spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom").
** Peters's fascination doesn't even end there: he is known to have requested a mechanical spider be present in a film adaptation of Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' comics as well. Rumour has it that he was at one point involved in the live-action adaptation of legendary anime movie ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' too, which conjures up terrifying mental images of Tetsuo mutating into a giant spider.
* In ''Film/PrincessOfMars'', the Thark patrol which captures is attacked by a pack of giant spiders. John helps to fight them off, there by earning the respect of Tars Tarkus.
* In ''Film/SonOfGodzilla'', Monster Island is home to Kumonga, a spider with a 164-foot leg span. Unlike most of the other examples listed here, she gets a HeelFaceTurn in the next movie in the series, ''Film/DestroyAllMonsters''. She shows up again in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'', still shooting her yellow webbing.
* ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad1940'': Abu fights one in a surprisingly suspenseful atmosphere as he climbs a wall, eventually cutting the spider's thread and sending him to a DisneyVillainDeath.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In ''Literature/TenSixtySixAndAllThat'', UsefulNotes/RobertTheBruce "armed himself with an enormous spider" at the Battle of Bannockburn.[[note]]This is a nod to a legend about Robert sheltering in a ruined hut with a (normal-sized) spider at the ass end of nowhere, after yet another defeat by the English. After watching how hard she struggled to finish her web, even after gusts of wind undid her work several times, he was supposedly inspired to gather his scattered forces and go to war once again, this time successfully.[[/note]]
* The giant Trundle spider in the Pocket Books novelisation of ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'' (the Film/{{Flash Gordon|Serial}}-homage ShowWithinAShow on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''). Proton and his companions are [[FedToTheBeast sacrificed to the giant spider]], but it tells them it's sick of the lousy diet and helps them escape instead.
* Arachne is a character in the ''Literature/AlexVerus'' series. The books describe her as a 'tarantula the size of a minivan'. Unusually for this trope she's extremely nice and helpful, and also makes really good clothes.
* In the ''Literature/{{Amtor}}'' series by Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs, the targo are giant spiders that are native to Venus. The Venusians gather their webs, called tarel, which has thousands of uses.
* Creator/NeilGaiman's ''Literature/AnansiBoys'' has an entire army of big spiders at the end. Given the fairly central use of spider motifs in the book -- the two protagonists are the sons of the titular West African spider god -- this trope was inevitable.
* Baal in ''Literature/TheAncestralTrail'', who was both intelligent and the size of a large house. And unlike most of the giant spiders on this list, he actually ''ate'' one of the heroes. Quite graphically too, with spurting blood and head-biting.
* In the ''Literature/AnnoDracula'' novel ''One Thousand Monsters'', Clare Millinger, a vampire murderess is eaten from within by a jorogumo (a Japanese monster known as the Whore-Spider). The result is a Giant Spider with [[AbsurdlySharpBlade scythe blade arms that can cut through a kappa's shell with ease]], [[NighInvulnerability carapace so strong that silver and steel blades just bounce off it (as do explosive rockets)]] and when her eyes are shot out with silver bullets they regenerate seconds later. Additionally, she can breathe out deadly swarms of vampire butterflies and grows bigger as she eats more enemies.
* During a Dungeon Crawl in ''Literature/AnOutcastInAnotherWorld'', Rob is forced to fight a massive spider that’s continuously spawning smaller variants. As an Arachnophobe, he takes a savage glee in murdering it with excessive firepower.
* In [[Creator/MontagueRhodesJames M.R. James']] story "The Ash-Tree", the VillainOfTheWeek takes [[OncePerEpisode revenge from beyond the grave]] by means of a colony of supernatural spiders. One of them, glimpsed briefly from a distance, is initially mistaken for a squirrel, and their bodies are mentioned as similar in size to their victim's head.
* ''Literature/TheBlackSpider'': The titular immortal demonic spider is as large as a human child, and its skin is poisonous.
* ''Literature/BurtonAndSwinburneSeries'' 3rd book ''Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon'' combines this trope with SpiderTank. During the World War, British scientists raised giant daddy longlegs and had them killed. They then motorized and armored the corpses before finally adding gun emplacements to make a powerful tank out of them.
* ''Breeding Ground'' (2006) and ''Feeding Ground'' (2009) by British author Sarah Pinborough are about spider-like creatures (whether derived from spiders or merely spider-like aliens is not entirely clear) which devastate Britain, leaving everything covered in tangled webs littered with dead bodies of humans. These charming creatures have found a way of using female humans as incubators for their young so that the women give birth to them in a fashion. The second book focuses on London, which has been similarly taken over. A group of people take refuge (so they think) in underground railway tunnels, but are not aware until it is too late, that one of these tunnels has been used by the spiders as a store-room, full of still-living humans wrapped up helplessly in silk and suspended in gigantic webs.
* ''Castle Roogna'', one of Creator/PiersAnthony's earlier ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' novels features a gigantic spider named Jumper (originally a very small spider before being caught in a magic spell) as one of the two main heroes.
* ''Literature/ChildrenOfTime'' presents a terraforming project gone awry where normal spiders gradually evolve over the centuries into giant (though still smaller than human) ''intelligent'' spiders. Along the way, they develop a unique society and technology fittingly suited their alien (to us) way of thinking. Unusually they are portrayed in a sympathetic light, arguably ''less'' monstrous than the last humans they eventually encounter.
* The alternate form of the shapeshifting half-demon in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''.
* ''Literature/TheDeathGateCycle'': Tyros are colossal spiders native to Pryan, the world of fire, whose front pair of legs has become adapted for manipulating objects. They are commonly used as beasts of burden by the local civilizations, due to their ability to navigate the treetops of the miles-high jungles that cover Pryan and the numerous gaps and vertical drops of its extensive "understory". Their webs are also used to construct bridges across gaps in the canopy.
* Creator/VernorVinge's ''Literature/ADeepnessInTheSky'' features arachnoid aliens larger than a human.
* ''Literature/DestinedToLead'' has the spiedes, which are essentially cave-dwelling giant spiders, minus two eyes and four legs.
* In the second ''Literature/DreamPark'' novel, giant spiders with spikes or war clubs attached to their legs are among the guardians of the Cabal's home base in the Fimbulwinter Game.
* In ''Literature/EverybodyLovesLargeChests'' The protagonist, Boxxy, is a mimic that first learns to grow legs by imitating those of a spider it observes in the Litgar dungeon complex. As a result, the chest-shaped mimic grows to resemble a giant square chest-shaped spider.
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series' book 6 (''The Bones of Haven''), Hawk, Fisher, and the Special Wizardry and Tactics team fight a giant spider while traversing the sewers.
* The largest predators of [[DeathWorld Hender's Island]] in the novel ''Literature/{{Fragment}}'' are creatures known as spigers, which as their name implies, resemble a cross between a tiger and a spider, and grow to the size of trucks. They're actually a type of crustacean related to mantis shrimp, though.
* In the ''Literature/FrannyKStein'' book ''Frantastic Voyage'', Franny is shown to have a pet giant spider named Snookums.
* In Richard Ryan's ''Funnelweb'' (1998), a nuclear accident has caused mutations which create giant funnelweb spiders (which are one of the most poisonous of all spiders) which lay waste to Sydney and bring Australia to its knees as it is quarantined by the rest of the world. There are many harrowing scenes of giant spider nests (one in the Sydney Opera House) in which hapless but still living humans are wrapped in spider silk and suspended in tangled webs, stored for future use as food.
* In the story "Gray Matter" in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/NightShift'' collection, an ex-Bangor Public Works employee hints that what caused him to quit his job and become a drunk was something he saw in the sewers: "A spider as big as a good-sized dog settin' in a web full of kitties an' such all wrapped up in silk thread."
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' includes creatures called [[http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Acromantula Acromantulas]], essentially giant spiders that can get up to elephant-size. They can talk and are sentient, but [[AlwaysChaoticEvil don't think you're likely to survive a conversation with one]] (unless you're [[FluffyTamer Hagrid]]). They are most prominently featured in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'', whose film adaptation actually specifies spiders in the BBFC content notice. Aragog, the "king" Acromantula, makes a cameo (albeit posthumous) appearance in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince The Half-Blood Prince]]'' as well... both in book and film versions, surprisingly, and the spiders return in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' when [[spoiler: the Death Eaters drive them out of the forest and force them to attack Hogwarts, which also appeared briefly in the film]]. It should be noted that Ron is terrified of ''ordinary'' spiders, to the point that his boggart is a huge spider. [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes/{{Literature}} Book Two wasn't very fun for him]].
* ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'': ''The Mark of Athena'' features Arachne, who is giant. Naturally, the arachnophobic Annabeth is the one who has to face her.
* ''Literature/{{Hothouse}}'': They're not actual spiders, but traversers are plants roughly analogous to spiders in shape and capable of spinning a form of vegetable fiber. They're also each a mile in length when in the atmosphere and much larger in pressure-less space, and their webs are strong and extensive enough to connect the Earth and Moon.
* ''Literature/InCryptid'': The dimension that ''Calculated Risks'' takes place in has many different species of BigCreepyCrawlies, including giant spiders. Sarah tames and rides a small one -- about the size of a Clydesdale.
* ''Literature/TheIronTeeth'': Spiders the size of large dogs live in the forests of the titular mountains. When attacking, they paralyze their prey with their venom and wrap them up for later.
* This is what the titular antagonist of Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{IT}}'' really looks like... or at least, that's [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm how we see it]]. The book describes it as being about 15 feet tall. In [[Film/It1990 the 1990s miniseries]] it was a monster which only vaguely looked like a spider, looking more like a spider crab with six legs, two reptilian forelimbs, an antlike head with only two eyes, and luminous muscles. In ''[[Film/It2017 It: Chapter One]]'', Pennywise briefly generates spider-like appendages, foreshadowing its true form that appears in ''[[Film/ItChapterTwo Chapter Two]]'' -- [[spoiler:a cross between his clown form and a giant spider]].
* The Spider from ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach''. She's huge, but she's also one of the nicest characters in the book and its film adaptation. She was also a regular-sized spider before she was turned giant (along with the other invertebrates in the book and the titular peach) by a bagful of magic crocodile tongues.
* In one ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' story, Sun Wukong encounters seven spider demons disguised as beautiful women, who try to seduce the group and spray webbing from their navels to wrap them up. They're also friends with a powerful [[CreepyCentipedes centipede demon]].
* The title for the first ''Literature/KingdomsDisdain'' book, "Web of Bones", comes from the Mountain Recluse's web. Cardinal wakes up entrapped by giant cave spiders, and is saved by Mad Crosbones.
* A spider with a twelve-foot leg span was described in ''[[Film/KingKong2005 Kong: A Natural History Of Skull Island]]''.
-->''[[FoodChainOfEvil A spider that ate dinosaurs]] -- if ever there was a single animal that exemplified nature's insanity on Skull Island, Stickalithus was it.''
* Giant space spiders are the antagonists of Philip Reeve's {{steampunk}} novel ''Literature/{{Larklight}}''. They aren't ''quite'' spiders, having ten legs instead of the usual eight, and unlike most of the other examples on this page, they're both sentient and technologically advanced.
* There is a spider-like species of monster in ''Literature/TheMist''.
* Another one shows up in ''Literature/NeedfulThings'', [[spoiler:created from the pain of Polly's arthritis]].
* Spider aliens attempt to heat up the Earth in John Lymington's ''Night of the Big Heat''.
* ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' features the Weaver, a psychotic hyper-intelligent multidimensional giant spider. Brrr. The bad news (well, the ''really'' bad news) is that the Weaver is not the worst thing in the city of New Crobuzon. The good news is that it teams up with the city government to fight the worse things when it is asked nicely and actually takes a shine to one of the more heroic characters. The not-so-good news is that it makes decisions [[BlueAndOrangeMorality based on its own alien ideas of what is aesthetically pleasing]], so its idea of "helping" is unpredictable at best, and extremely dangerous at worst.
* In ''Literature/{{Poison}}'', the titular character and her group must travel to the Realm of Spiders and retrieve a dagger. They encounter a gigantic spider's web, owned by an equally gigantic spider who they successfully trick. Poison then reaches a castle and finds the spider's wife, who for all intents and purposes looks like a pregnant dead woman. Later on, Poison is forced to press her hand to the spider Lady's belly, ''and she can feel the baby spider inside moving''. It's also implied that she will eat her "husband" after the baby spider is born. A giant spider will be eaten by a woman.
* There's a battle with giant spiders in the novel ''A Rustle in the Grass'' by Robin Hawdon, but seeing as it's a [[MouseWorld told from the point of view of ants]] their great size is hardly surprising. Interestingly the ant protagonist doesn't find the spiders anywhere near as terrifying as his encounter with a toad, with its natural camouflage, ability to leap huge distances and strike with its tongue from well out of stinging range.
* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfTheImmortalNicholasFlamel'', Perenelle Flamel allies with the gigantic spider-god Areop-Enap.
* In "The Seven Geases" by Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith, Atlach-Nacha is an EldritchAbomination resembling a giant spider with a humanoid face.
* Ancient legends in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' refer to [[HumanoidAbomination the]] [[TheFairFolk Others]] riding "giant ice spiders". However, they have yet to appear in the saga.
* The Weaver Folk in ''Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' are giant intelligent spiders and neutral-to-good guys. Conveniently, the main bad guys, the Plated Folk, are giant insects.
* In the late 1970s and early 1980s, at the height of a rise in the popularity of horror fiction in Britain, Richard Lewis wrote a two-book series of novels. In ''Spiders'' (1978), giant spiders rampage across the country attacking humans and generally wreaking havoc. In ''The Web'' (1981), set some years later, the spiders have grown a bit bigger -- and are now catching humans in their webs and carrying them off into their underground nests.
* ''The Spider Beside Her'', the last ''Literature/GraveyardSchool'' book, dealt with a wish-granting spider. That spider, though regular size, granted the wish of one Ari Spinner, an arachnid enthusiast whose deepest wish was to become a spider. Ari received the ability to transform into a giant spider at will, and while retaining her intelligence, developed the appropriate appetite of a spider of her size. Ari attempted to eat some of her classmates before being stopped by Mel West, who was bitten by the same spider. Mel's wish was to be able to create art with his left hand, and anything he draws with it becomes real. Mel had been able to draw Ari shifting back into a human permanently. Ari begged Mel to let her become a spider again by promising to never bother him or her classmates again. Mel complies. [[spoiler:Of course, he turns her into a regular size spider, much to her frustration.]]
* Creator/ColinWilson's ''Spider World'' novels are set in a post-apocalyptic future in which telepathic giant spiders (and various insects) are the dominant species ruling over mankind.
* The Cheka in the ''Literature/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineRelaunch'' books are a sapient Giant Spider species. They control the expansionist Magisterial Cheka Kingdom, in the Gamma Quadrant. Then there's the semi-sentient Comes-in-the-night-kills-many, which was essentially a giant spider wielding clubs. They're extinct, now; wiped out by [[SuperSoldier the Jem'Hadar]] after threatening a Dominion farming colony. Finally, friendly aliens the Pak'shree resemble a cross between a Giant Spider and a giant crab or beetle.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'' has things called brain spiders in one book, though they're only about three feet tall and are robots piloted by [[BrainInAJar brains in jars]]. They freak Zak out a bit. A later book has the knobby white spiders of Dagobah, which are actually the mobile larval form of ''trees'' and can get quite a bit larger.
** Elsewhere, the FantasticDrug Spice is produced by Energy Spiders; they are huge and live in the deep mines of Kessel. Anyone caught by them will have their life energy drained from them; since they feed on energy, blaster bolts are a NoSell on them, but ion blasters will get the job done.
* Large white spiders with crystalline carapaces are constantly attacking Nypre and others in the ''Literature/StoriesOfNypre'' series.
* Aella fights one in ''Sword Sisters'' as part of the Franchise/RedReaper stories published by Creator/RagnarokPublications. Double-points for being to rescue someone from a HumanSacrifice.
* A giant spider appears in ''Tarnsman of Literature/{{Gor}}''; partially subverted though, in that it is civilized and can speak (with the help of TranslatorMicrobes). It's not that big as giant spiders go either, although it's still pretty big for a spider. Despite averting, it plays to this trope when it assists the protagonist in a capture, pretending to want to kill the DamselInDistress. His name is Narr and he's a relatively pleasant chap, although a bit of a fussbudget.
* Lots of large, hostile spiders appear in the first chapter of ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}''. [[spoiler:Also applies to their sentient and ''very'' hostile mother.]]
* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium: Creator/JRRTolkien felt no ''conscious'' dislike of spiders; he said he began to put spiders as bad guys in his stories because one of his sons was an arachnophobe.
** ''Literature/TheHobbit'' has lots of talking spiders about the size of a large dog infesting the depths of Mirkwood, where they capture the dwarves with plans to eat them.
** ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' introduces Shelob, their much larger and nastier relative. Gollum tried to use her appetite to dispose of Frodo so he could take the Ring for himself. Unfortunately for both him and Shelob, an absolutely furious [[TheChampion Samwise Gamgee]] manages to free himself from Gollum. Through a combination of courage, cleverness, Elvish weaponry, and sheer dumb luck, he manages to wound her, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu driving her away]].
** And then their ancestor, Ungoliant in ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', came along. For reference, she's so powerful that she can hide herself and Morgoth (Sauron's master) from the Valar. She is able to kill the Trees of Light by drinking their sap. Then for the finale, she captures Morgoth and it takes several Balrogs to free him. If there's ever an adaptation, there's going to be a lot more arachnophobes in the world.
** That being said, Shelob and Ungoliant aren't so much giant spiders, as they are large horrific monsters that are spider-like. Shelob has a wasp-like stinger (real spiders can only inject venom with their fangs) and horns, and in the movie has a large gaping mouth, whereas real spiders can only ingest liquid.
* ''Literature/TortallUniverse'': Starting from ''Literature/TheImmortals'', there are the AlwaysChaoticEvil spidrens, which look like giant spiders with human heads. They eat people and have glowing, sticky, flammable webs.
* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': All spiders in Fantasyland are huge, and prey on small Humans, Dwarfs and Gnoemes. They're described like a ripoff of those in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (unsurprisingly). It's stated they've evolved to their size because of insects, their former prey, having gone extinct.
* In "Literature/TheTowerOfTheElephant", Conan the Barbarian encountered a spider as big as a pig, which struck down Taurus of Nemedia, a prince of thieves, with one bite. It suffered an unfortunate death via treasure chest to the face.
* In ''Literature/TurnCoat'', Harry Dresden is accosted by a group of intelligent, pony-sized faerie spiders while traveling through the Nevernever. They threaten to kill him, but he convinces them to back down by showing them his wizard cred by pulping the apparent leader of the group with a force spell. Later on, [[spoiler:these same spiders turn out to be the minions of whoever the conspirators were during the battle on Demonreach Isle]].
* The "spinners" in ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'' are giant intelligent spiders. Despite their alarming appearances and cannibalistic habits, at least of their dead, they're actually [[DarkIsNotEvil allied with the good guys]].
* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': Huge spiders reside in a nearby area, where Erin, the main character, has her Inn. Although the size should be more than enough, they have armor-like protection on their backs, giving them the name "Shield Spiders", which makes it very hard to harm them.
* In ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', the animals in a forest were terrorized by an evil, elephant-sized spider. The Cowardly Lion found it asleep and punched its thin neck, breaking its head off. In gratitude, the animals made the lion their king.
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* ''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?
** Subverted in a later episode. The opening makes it seem like the same giant spider is in Retroville, but it's just a regular spider being observed through a magnifying glass.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'': Joey and AP once fought a giant mutant spider that had bull-horns, crab-like claws, and the ability to spit webs (which sounds remarkably similar to the Ushi-Oni mentioned above). It also appears in the show's intro.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has the giant Canyon Crawlers, which are a mix between ants, spiders, and '''crocodiles'''.
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters'' has the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Aratog]], a type of Dragon resembling a huge, four-legged spider who can transform into people he touched. One episode revolves around such a Dragon terrorizing a small community and taking the form of the mayor's daughter after kidnapping the real deal, obsessed with becoming "a real human".
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** In "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.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Asides from the quote from "Irrational Treasure" below, a [[{{Youkai}} Jorogumo]] appeared in Roadside Attraction.
-->'''President Trembley:''' The only thing we have to fear is giant man-eating spiders!
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'':
** 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]].
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': Jimmy is menaced by an oversized spider in "[[Recap/TheNewAdventuresOfSupermanS1E17 The Neolithic Nightmare]]". It also attacks Superman when he pulls its meal away. Superman winds it up in its own web and leaves it. ​
* 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** 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.
** 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': The planet Atollon, where Phoenix Squadron sets up a base near the end of season 2, is home to the krykna, six-legged white spider-like creatures [[ImmuneToBullets impervious to blaster fire]] and highly sensitive to negative emotions.
* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'' briefly features one that got infected by some "Big Bang" chemicals.
* ''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.
* ''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.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** 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.
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* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'': Leto's God Power, ''Spider Lair'', lets you plant some spider cocoons into the ground. If they are not destroyed within some seconds, they turn into web-traps and each of them houses a spider big enough to drag a human-sized unit into the ground and one-hit it.
* ''VideoGame/AlienSoldier'' had "Back Stringer". You fight this bugger on the previous MiniBoss, a [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant moth]] that had recently become its dinner. Worst part was that destructible baby spiders would appear every now and then to ''[[BossArenaUrgency pull down]]'' the "platform" you were on, and would cause you to fall into a {{Bottomless Pit|s}} if they succeeded.
* One of the bosses of ''VideoGame/Alundra2'' is a giant robot spider.
* Spiders are a unit type in ''VideoGame/AncientEmpires''. They're [[LightningBruiser stronger, tougher and faster than the basic Soldier]], and their attack poisons their target (inflicting a debuff that lowers stats for several turns). They first show up in the middle of a forest and are referred to as forest spiders, suggesting that this is their original habitat.
* ''VideoGame/{{Arcanum}}'' has a vast variety of spiders. They are all poisonous and range in size from human hand to roughly three meters ''in height'' to even larger... em, [[HalfHumanHybrid spidercentauresses]], who wield longbows and can conjure poisonous vapors. Some species of "ordinary" spiders also can ''summon zombies'', and other species shoot fireballs (which can be extremely annoying as those eight-legged freaks can and will [[MooksAteMyEquipment destroy your equipment]]).
* ''VisualNovel/AtlachNacha'', an obscure H-game where you play a shapeshifting spider demon (a Jorougumo to be precise, see Mythology above) in high school.
* The cavern of trials in ''VideoGame/AvencastRiseOfTheMage'' has a Spider Queen, complete with periodic additional mobs.
* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has huge spiders, giant spiders, astral spiders and sword spiders in Cloakwood and a few other areas. The astral spiders can teleport at will and like to sneak up on your casters, and the sword spiders are crazy fast and pack quite a punch. The sequel lets you summon them with a spell, and they're considered one of the best summons in the early game.
* UsefulNotes/{{Basketball}} themed RPG ''VideoGame/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden'' features deadly B-Ball spiders, which have heads and bodies made out of giant basketballs. Their bites can inflict glaucoma on your characters.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' and ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' feature Phantasmaraneae, absolutely humongous fire-breathing spiders that live near magma flows deep in Inferno. The title character summons one (and by extension its many offspring), and despite their ferocious appearance, they are known for being curious and rewarding to those who are respectful. [[spoiler: However, in the second game, the imbalance affecting the worlds causes them to go berserk, and one serves as a mini-boss.]]
* In the ''VideoGame/BigFunInFurbyland'' minigame ''Furby to the Rescue'', the Furby is chased in a maze by a big, purple spider that traps it in a web temporarily, making the player lost precious time to find the exit.
* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has numerous giant spiders, mostly added on in the Wrath of the Lamb DLC. Widow, a fleshy spidery mass that has human toes at the end of her legs, is [[ThatOneBoss a frequent bane of early games]]. An upgraded, undead version named The Wretched can be encountered further down. Also, Daddy Long Legs and the Triarachnid fit the description nicely.
* The freeware fighting game ''VideoGame/TheBlackHeart'' features a {{Stripperiffic}} [[CuteMonsterGirl Hot Monster Babe]] by the name of Ananzi who can transform into a spider and devour her opponents.
* The second episode of ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' ends with an encounter with a giant spider named Shial, who is the mother of all the smaller, more annoying spiders that show up in the rest of the episode.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' features the Nightmare Apostles, [[SpiderSwarm hordes of spiders]] which chases you throughout their home once they spotted you. The red variant summoned by [[EnemySummoner Chime Maiden]] are far worse, they can detect you ''without'' seeing you, catching most people off guard when they are idling.
* ''VideoGame/Bomberman64'' has Mantis, a giant ice spider, for a boss that proves to be [[ThatOneBoss quite a handful]].
* ''VideoGame/BornUnderTheRain'': {{Spiders|AreScary}} are a possible enemy, as seen in an [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7360/images/55009/ official screenshot]], and they'd have to be big, to pose a significant threat to human-sized beings.
* ''VideoGame/BraveHeroYuusha'': Antrachnid, a giant red spider as an enemy in the Desert area.
* In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', you have to travel to the center of a huge spider den and kill a queen spider (the Metal Queen) to get strings for Kill-Master. Naturally, the place is infested with giant spiders.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Buffy|TheVampireSlayer}}'' video games have small ones that are dog-sized, and large ones that are Buffy-sized. They're quick, run along the walls and ceilings, knock Buffy down in one hit before jumping on top to bite (a killing move if she can't fend them off) and realistic enough to be rather unsettling.
* [[BigBad Queen Cadavra]], the fat and obnoxious black widow spider in ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}!''. At least in proportion. She's at least two times the size of Bug.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}}'': A Macintosh computer game has spiders in levels four and five, they may not be giant ones but they look as ugly and scary as hell, thankfully they only attack Rollie [=McFly=] (the pill bug you control) by trapping him in a balled web and jumping up and down on him rather than seeing him horrifically torn to shreds and eaten, still doesn't make the spiders any less scary and ugly the way they look in the game especially since Bugdom excels in having great graphics.
* A giant spider living in Snakemouth Den is the first boss the main party encounters in ''VideoGame/BugFables''. However, it's only in proportion, as the main characters are insects, so for a human it would be normal-sized.
** Another example is [[SeldomSeenSpecies Peacock Spider]], one of the [[BonusBoss Bounties]] that terrorizes Bugaria by luring the travelers with enthralling music on its island to devour them.
* The [[EvilSorceror Evil Wizard]], final boss of ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', turns into a giant spidery abomination as his fourth phase [[MarathonBoss (of six)]]. He gets some additional creepy points for fooling you into thinking he's dead right before this phase: a huge chest falls down on him and seems to squish him, like most bosses in this game when they die. So you walk up to the chest, it opens and the giant spidery abomination pops out... Rather eerie if you're seeing it for the first time.
* ''VideoGame/ChildOfLight'' features them prominently as enemies. There are ''two'' different types of giant spiders as regular mooks, each complete with UndergroundMonkey variants, a third type that serves as a [[WolfpackBoss Wolfpack]] MiniBoss, and a particularly huge one is a boss.
* In ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'', Giant Spiders take the form of psychic women who undergo massive surgery and augmentation to be installed in a robotic spider body. Most of them don't seem to mind though.
-->'''Becky''': [[ValleyGirl All the other Fortunatas were all TOTALLY like 'Tarantula Program? Eeew!' And then they were like, 'Like, what are you thinking, Becky?' And I was totally like 'I'll get to meet all kinds of interesting people and stuff.']]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Colobot}}'', giant spiders are one of the enemy alien lifeforms you can encounter. When they spot the player's units, they will charge at them and explode on contact.
* ''VideoGame/TheConduit'' has Drudge Invaders, four-legged tank-sized [[BigCreepyCrawlies creepie crawlies]] that launch flying bugs.
* The player-monster Arachnis in ''VideoGame/CrushCrumbleAndChomp'' is a Kaiju-sized spider, like Kumonga, who can leave a trail of web behind.
* ''VideoGame/CuteKnightKingdom'' requires you to fight one for one of the endings. [[spoiler: You get a rather neat ending if you beat this spider, and a rather depressing one if you lose.]]
* In ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'', these show up in packs in potentially any dungeon, taking the form of dog-sized spiders. They take on two types: Spitters and Webbers. the former shoot poisoned spit at the party, inflicting [[DamageOverTime blight effects]] on their targets. The latter will spray webbing over their targets, inflicting a Stun status effect and marking the victim, mimicking them being [[AllWebbedUp covered in webs.]] While Marked, the Spitters will target that party member exclusively, and deal greatly increased damage. Combined with their high speed and Dodge stats, these packs of spiders can potentially kill an unlucky hero in a single turn.
* ''VideoGame/DarkParables'' often features gigantic spiders as obstacles, usually associated with a certain recurring evil witch. Notable examples include ''Curse of Briar Rose'' (a massive spider in his web blocks a secret passage and you have to burn the web), ''Rise of the Snow Queen'' (the extra game has a large spider dwelling in the cavern marked with the emblem of the spider king and has to be neutralized), ''The Final Cinderella'' (the villain of the extra game is the Spider Witch who can turn into a big spider), ''Goldilocks and the Fallen Star'' (a massive spider is seen grabbing a mummified corpse and dragging it into its lair) and ''The Swan Princess and the Dire Tree'' (a rather realistic-looking gigantic spider partakes into two JumpScare moments when you wander into the swamp).
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' has many of the corrupted daughters of the Witch of Izalith, most notably the early-mid game boss Chaos Witch Quelaag, and her sister, the central figure of the Chaos Servant Covenant. They take the form of colossal arachnids with human female upper bodies and tend to spew lava. Also, they lack mandibles in favour of toothed maws, in the style of Tolkein's spiders.
* Arachnophobes will not enjoy the Brightstone Cove Tseldora in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII''. The area is crawling with man-sized spiders that lunge at you incredibly fast, scurry out of cubbyholes in walls, drop from the ceilings to ambush you, and piggyback ride on Hollow meat puppets. Then there's the boss of the area, the Duke's Dear Freja, a gigantic nightmarish abomination that is actually ''two'' giant spiders fused together.
* ''VideoGame/{{Darksiders}}'' features an entire level filled with oversized arachnids. They range from the table-sized mooks (which can be annoying until you realize you can just have War stomp on them with a melee attack), the car-sized [[EliteMooks Loom Wardens]] (which can be easy enough once you get the Abyssal Chain), the house-sized [[MiniBoss Brood Mother]] (which isn't so hard once you figure out the trick to beating it), and three-story tall Spider Queen Silitha.
* ''VideoGame/DemonFront'' contains giant spiders domesticated by the hostile invaders, who guards the forest base, as well as having turrets built on their sides. They serve as GiantMook-variety of enemies in the game.
* In ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', the Armor Spider is the first boss in the Stonefang Tunnel area. It's a StationaryBoss that shoots web from afar and claw at you at close range. It also breathes fire.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'':
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry1'' features Phantom, a giant tarantula made out of Lava, with a scorpion tail, as a RecurringBoss. He also shows up in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry2''. The game also has Kyklopses; smaller spiders made out of rock. And by smaller, they're still about as long as Dante was tall.
** ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3'' features Arachnes, basically a freakish mermaid; except replace the fish part with a spider part.
* Several kinds of giant spiders figure prominently as enemies in Act 3 (Kurast) of ''VideoGame/DiabloII''. ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has the Caverns of Araneae, which as the name might suggest are utterly infested with giant spiders. They were bred by Archbishop Lazarus and let loose into some ancient ruins to protect the borders of Khanduras (and because Lazarus is kind of a dick). Giant spiders also show up in Arreat Crater/Hell, as the special minions of Azmodan and Cydaea.
* The race known as the Machaka in ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}} 3'' both have and [[ShapeShifting are capable of becoming]] these.
* ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong Country 3|DixieKongsDoubleTrouble}}'' has Arich the Arachnid. Being the second boss (third in ''Donkey Kong Land 3''), he shoots green orbs and hops around the boss arena. There's also a friendly giant spider named Squitter, who appears in both that game and its predecessor. [[PowerUpMount He lets the Kongs ride on his back]] and can create web projectiles that can either form platforms or attack enemies.
* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'' features Minecraft-sized spiders with not-so-high damage. However, they are almost always encountered in pairs, have a bigger tiger-coloured variation, and their nests can house up to a dozen of them. They drop precious silk from their glands, which act like best healing source in the game, encouraging player to scam their nests. The catch: overgrown nests turn into the {{flunky|Boss}} Spider Queen, which is a very tough boss. After her defeat, though, she drops the "Spider hat", effectively negating further spider problems by turning them neutral.
* ''VideoGame/Doom3'' has the Trites, multilegged, swarming horrors with basketball-sized bodies. It also has the Vagaries, creatures with a woman-like upper body and spidery lower halves. They can use PsychicPowers to toss objects at you and seem to serve as brood mothers to the Trites.
* The hero Broodmother from ''VideoGame/Dota2'' is a giant spider - she covers the map in webs, spawns smaller spiders, and then overwhelms her opponents. If uncountered, she can typically destroy entire teams by herself.
* ''Franchise/DragonAge'': Giant spiders typically pop up in areas where the Veil is thin, including old ruins, caves, and the Deep Roads. In short, they're ''everywhere.'' In a twist, though, they're referred to simply as "spiders", rather than "giant spiders", because, well, in-universe it's not unusual for them to grow to that size. Anything that ''is'' called a Giant Spider, therefore, is bound to be utterly ''enormous''.
** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Some spiders have been corrupted by darkspawn blood. Any mage with the Shapeshifter specialization can become these creatures. A Rogue with the Ranger specialization may actually summon one.
** They reappear in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' alongside the Queen Spider, which makes the others look tiny.
** They show up in ''[[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Inquisition]]'', too, where they show up as regular giant spiders, poison-spitting spiders, elephant-sized spiders and tiny fear demons that take the form of spiders. [[spoiler: Corypheus' lieutenant, the massive fear demon known as Nightmare, also appears as a mountain-sized spider that can cause the HeroicSacrifice of either Hawke or the Warden Stroud/Loghain/Alistair.]]
*** Like Skyrim and System Shock, fans were so creeped out by the series essentially being Spider Age that mods had been made to replace and remove them, or at least requested in the event the Frostbite engine makes it difficult.
* Giant Spiders in ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'' are regular {{Mooks}} you could find in web-covered rooms. Naturally, they could poison you and [[AllWebbedUp throw webs at you]], and the [[AllThereInTheManual art book]] mentions that their size allow them to prey on anything caught in their webs, including humans.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' has quite a few spidery enemies, including [[SpiderPeople Drider]]-esque humanoid-hybrid ones called mucosas (with an annoying habit of shrieking loudly when they attack) and an extra-large giant spider MiniBoss.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dungeons}} II'' has giant spiders as neutral monsters, usually lurking into chambers inside your own Dungeon, ready to be unearthed and usually foreshadowed by the massive chitin-like walls with bulbous yellow eggsacks as you dig closer to the room. The expansion and downloadable maps add a variety of venom-spitting spider and spider lairs that spawn them at will. The [[VideoGame/Dungeons3 sequel]] has, again, giant spiders randomly appearing in certain locations of the Dungeon.
* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' has Giant Cave Spiders, dreaded by many a newbie fortress player, and the bane of all adventurer characters. Veteran fortress players, however, ''adore'' GCS and will spend entire forum threads discussing safe methods of harvesting their valuable silk.
* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce'': The series has giant spiders aplenty that leap around shoot web that entangles and hurts players and their NPC allies.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
** The series has various giant spiders as common low to mid-level creature enemies dating all the way back to ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]''. Typical abilities include fast movement speed, relatively strong melee attacks, poison (be it a spell or a natural part of their attack), and webs that paralyze or otherwise slow a target's movement speed.
** Spider Daedra, as their name might imply, are a SpiderPeople form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]]. They have humanoid upper bodies attached to the below the waist to the abdomen, thorax, and legs of a giant spider.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' has the Frostbite Spiders, which range from wolf-sized to almost elephant-sized. They also spit venom and tend to drop from the ceiling on top of your head if you're not careful. Cronvangr Cave is a particularly memorable spider-den that has a few so big that they have ''mammoth bones'' wrapped up in their webbing. Some enterprising arachnophobes have created {{Game Mod}}s that remove them from the game for the benefit of their fellow phobics. One early one did a rather clumsy job, replacing their models with [[BearsAreBadNews those of bears]] while changing nothing else about their environment or behavior, resulting in giant poisonous bears that shoot spiderwebs at you. A more popular mod replaced them with ComicBook/SpiderMan. Of special note is the only named spider in Skyrim, Nimhe, who is larger than the giant frostbite spiders. The ''Dragonborn'' DLC adds Albino Spiders, which are still nasty threats despite being only about the size of a grapefruit. One dungeon features a machine that lets you use flaming, icy, or electrified versions of them as weapons.
* ''VideoGame/{{Elvira}} II'': There was a level devoted to horror with an insect theme. Of course it had a Giant Spider. It doesn't get that freaky until it gets RIGHT UP INTO YOUR FACE. It was featured in a Website/YouTube video devoted to the scariest games ever.
* ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' has the aptly named Terrorantula. Who is, to put it mildly, [[http://common.allakhazam.com/images/i/d/id3453.png FRAKKIN HUGE!]] It's still around in ''VideoGame/EverQuestII''. To give some impression of the scale involved: That refracted image in the center of the shot? That's a player character. Some of the smaller spiders are almost as tall as her ''horse''.
* ''VideoGame/EvilIslands'': The Haunt Spiders in Suslanger.
* ''VideoGame/EvilTwinCypriensChronicles'' features a giant spider who is actually very friendly.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Exile}}''/''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'' series has several varieties of giant spiders. There are generic giant ones, evil spellcasting ones, and the [[FunWithAcronyms Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders]]. They're {{Cloudcuckoolander}}s, [[PlanetOfSteves all named Spider]], and so annoying they [[GoMadFromTheRevelation frequently drive people insane]]. "[[CatchPhrase You're cute!]]"
* In [=RPG=]s, the ''FellowshipOfTheWhiteStar'' event "Web of Lies" has a creepy cat lady whose pets are cat and dog-sized spiders that act like cats and dogs. Hilariously creepy.
* ''[[VideoGame/TheAddamsFamily Fester's Quest]]'': A giant spider alien appears as a UniqueEnemy.
* The first real boss of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'' is Boris, a giant spider-crab hybrid. Its name is actually a reference to a fan favourite Music/TheWho song called "Boris the Spider", so is its special attack "Sticky End" ("He's come to a sticky end / Don't think he will ever mend") and a part of its entry in the bestiary ("Maybe he's as scared as me / Where's he gone now, I can't see").
* The [[OneWingedAngel third form]] of the [[BigBad Dark King]] in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' is a giant spider. The fourth form retains the spiderlike body and fangs and the "Spider Kids" attack but replaces the segmented spider legs with CombatTentacles.
* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'' has 2 types of these: Bael and Elder Bael. They usually carry poison. Notable as they have the same Stat {{Cap}}s.
* ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight'' has a RandomEvent where a space station is under attack by these. Your default options are to either send in your crew, which will either result in a small reward or loss of one crew member or play it safe and decline to assist. However, if you have the proper equipment, it is possible to TakeAThirdOption and use risk-free ways of dealing with the spiders, giving you the rewards without worrying about losing crew members.
** The ''[[VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLightMultiverse Multiverse]]'' mod takes this up to eleven, adding an entire new race of spiders (with 4 subtypes) along with their own infested sector to inhabit.
* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame''. "Return to the Sedgewick". The boss of that level is a figurative ''and'' literal BlackWidow.
* ''VideoGame/GryphonKnightEpic'': One of the enemy types you face is spider roughly as big as Sir Oliver.
* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' has many types of giant spiders in its large bestiary, most of them about human-sized. One dungeon in the fourth chapter, Arachni's Haunt, has the party fighting their way through spider-infested caverns to face the eponymous spider-queen boss at the end. Besides fighting against spiders, Rangers can tame giant spiders to fight beside them (after a fairly difficult quest to reach the tamable ones).
* ''VideoGame/{{Grounded}}'': Technically the spiders are normal-sized and it's [[IncredibleShrinkingMan you whose been shrunken]] but the effect is the same.
* These are regular enemies in ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'' video game. They're still preferable to the small spiders, which are GoddamnedBats.
* A few big spiders appear in ''VideoGame/{{Hytale}}'''s first zone, but the Void Spider, a Dungeon Boss ''twice'' the size of a human, certainly takes the cake.
* ''VideoGame/TheImmortal'' has one, that like most things in the game, will [[OneHitPointWonder kill you in one web-tangling instant]]. However, even worse are her egg sacks scattering the level. These unleash hordes of baby spiders if you happen to touch them, and...well, [[LetsPlay in the words of]] LetsPlay/{{Slowbeef}}, "Why would they INCLUDE something like that?"
* ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndHisDesktopAdventures'' has giant spiders as some of the weakest enemies, alongside ScaryScorpions, found in the Amazon jungle and the caverns beneath. They go down quickly and do little damage, and are more mildly annoying than dangerous.
* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': A giant spider will [[JumpScare randomly jump]] onto the camera and [[InterfaceScrew obstruct the player's vision]] during certain fights in the Long Halloween event.
* In ''VideoGame/JackieChansActionKungFu'', the FinalBoss turns into a giant spider.
* ''[[VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo Kao The Kangaroo: Round 2]]'' has those in the form of enemies that descend from the ceiling and have to be quickly hit with a boomerang, or else they'll spit acid at you that somehow homes in on you.
* ''King Kong, the official game of the movie'', based on [[Film/KingKong2005 the Peter Jackson film]], has these as minor enemies. Invincible rabbit sized spiders called Moonspiders. They appear in swarms and must be scared away with fire. If Kong leaves Ann on the ground and begins to wander away, a swarm of them will appear and attack her.
* ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'':
** In ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIIToHeirIsHuman'', Gwydion can get stuck in a spider web and a giant spider will eat him. Solution? Turn to a ''giant'' eagle and toss the spider to the ocean.
** ''VideoGame/KingsQuestVIIThePrincelessBride'' has another giant spider that can catch unwary player characters in its web.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomsOfAmalurReckoning'' has Giant Spiders that spit webs and Venomspitters that spit, uh, venom. They occasionally burst out of the ground to ambush you because the game didn't think giant spiders alone were terrifying enough. The Webwood area is crawling with them. Even worse, [[spoiler:the spiders in the Webwood are being controlled by an insane Fae witch called the Widow who wants to reclaim "her" woods by destroying the town that mortals built in the woods while she was sealed]].
* ''VideoGame/TheLastAirbender'' has a few levels where Zuko and Aang have to deal with spider-crabs. Two of the spiders fall under this trope, especially the hive queen.
* Elise from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is a spider-themed champion, who normally appears as a human in ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire, but can also transform into a giant spider with a few smaller spider minions. She's also the leader of spider cult which sacrifices its worshippers to a giant spider that appears in-game as a BonusBoss on the map Twisted Treeline.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel'': As Class VII located the mercenaries who attacked the military bases in the Nord Highlands, the mercenaries' employer Gideon uses his flute to summon a colossal spider to get rid of them both.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** While spider enemies have always had bit parts in the ''Zelda'' games, it wasn't until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'''s Skulltula-laden first dungeon and the Queen Gohma that spiders in the series really took off.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'' has giant ''invisible'' spiders under the Ikana graveyard.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' took this even further with its sixth dungeon, which was packed to bursting with the things, and the boss being the biggest of the lot of course -- Armogohma is MASSIVE. And then, when you defeat the giant spider, its body disintegrates and its large, central eye becomes ''another'' spider, surrounded by hundreds of tiny little spiders... and they swarm chaotically around the room...
* Anyone would be forgiven for ''VideoGame/LesterTheUnlikely'' being terrified having to face [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaDIAxsr328 this.]]
* Giant spiders are one of the most common enemies in the rail shooter ''VideoGame/LetsGoJungle!''.
* The Xbox Arcade game ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'' features a supremely creepy giant spider as one of the game's first main obstacles.
* Found in ''VideoGame/LordsOfXulima'' in several sizes from the starter dungeon to the mid-game. All of them are bad news due to powerful poison attacks, a stacking web debuff, and the chance to cause sickness that requires a trip to the nearest temple to cure.
* ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' had Bospider in [[VideoGame/MegaManX1 the first game]] and Web Spider in [[VideoGame/MegaManX4 the fourth]].
* ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' has [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Yakuza]], a giant spider-like monster being replicated by an X Parasite that has Samus's Space Jump and is blocking her path to a backup generator.
* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VI'' has an entire class of monsters dedicated to this. Although they aren't very tough. They get poisonous attacks, though, and they are ''fast''.
* ''VideoGame/MightyAphid'': In addition to all the [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant bug monsters]], [[PlayerCharacter Avery "Aphid" Cavor]] can also encounter spiders that look almost as big as Avery is tall.
* The Demonic Spiders and their variations in ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' are huge spiders that hang from the ceiling and that have Mii facial features on their abdomen.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'':
** It has spiders that are about half as tall as the player character. Giant by real-life standards, but one of the smallest monsters in the game. They deal the least damage per hit, but they can strike swiftly and repeatedly, run fast, jump, climb walls, and fit through tight crevices too small for anything else. They have a nasty habit of traveling in groups and hiding on your shelter's roof at night, waiting to pounce when you come outside in the morning. They also have a chance of dropping string, which is needed to craft fishing rods and bows.
** There are also the rarer cave spiders, which are less than half the size of regular spiders. Still, at twenty-eight inches wide, they're unrealistically large, yet small enough to fit through a one-block gap. Unlike their larger counterparts, these ones are poisonous. Their hissing may not be as tongue tearingly-frightening as you know who's, but these meter-and-a-half blocky menaces can still ruin your day. By pushing you off a cliff.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
** In general, arachnoid monsters would fall under the category of "Temnoceran".
*** ''4'' has the Nerscylla, a spider the size of van that wears the rubbery hides of Gypceros -- a kind of wyvern that Nerscyllas regularly prey on -- as a cloak. It has both poisonous fangs ''and'' a stinger in its abdomen that puts its victims to sleep.
*** In ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise Rise]]'', we are introduced to the Rakna Kadaki and her spawn the Rachnoids. Unlike Nerscylla, she's a long-necked spider that's [[PlayingWithFire quite the pyromaniac]]. In terms of fighting style, she's [[ForceAndFinesse the force to Nerscylla's finesse]].
** Baelidae, from ''Monster Hunter Online''. While Nerscylla is in its own Monster class called Temnoceran, Baelidae is classified as a Carapaceon, which are normally crabs or scorpions. But it looks and the ability to create webs identify it as a spider.
* The Krypt of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'' has been turned into an RPG that includes a spider cavern. Yes, they feature as you'll quickly discover in what may be the easiest eighth generation achievement to earn: you are given no warning to them attacking and have to hit the right button as soon as they appear, or they'll attack and you get the terrifying award.
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'' has "giant spider" as one of the enemies you can run into. They can be a bit dangerous in the early game due to their speed and ability to poison you, but as you grow stronger (and gain poison resistance), they are much easier to defeat.
* In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'', giant spiders are available as animal companions (for druids and rangers) and familiars (for wizards and sorcerers).
* ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' has a rare example of a friendly giant spider. Your party comes across it in a cave, and it tries to communicate with you by drawing letter in the dirt with its legs. If you befriend it, then later on [[spoiler: when you get Crossroad Keep]], it will show up in the basement and eventually weave a magical spider-silk cloak for you! "XP granted for befriending a giant magical spider!"
* In ''VideoGame/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasThePumpkinKing'', a video game {{Prequel}} to ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the first boss is a huge purple spider. This also occurs in the film's video game sequel ''VideoGame/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasOogiesRevenge'', where one of the bosses is a gigantic arachnid known as the Crypt Creeper Spider.
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': Giant spiders infests the underground caves, showing up regularly only in that level. As you finally manage to make your way to the cave's exit, you will have to battle the Spider Queen, a [[KingMook Queen Mook]] boss which is an enlarged version of the giant spider mooks (roughly fifteen times larger than you).
* ''VideoGame/NomolosStormingTheCatsle'': [[PlayerCharacter Nomolos]] encounters spiders almost as big as he is as enemies. They only move back and forth.
* ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'' has a ''Giant Metal Spider'', which stemmed from a nightmare one of the characters had during development of a nanobot-controlling AI called Ceres. With the use of Ceres' nanobots, you get to explore a recreation of this nightmare inside the titular structure. This spider so large that one of its ''feet'' is almost your height, it has a furnace for a head with its arms and pincers attached to it, and the thing is set inside a massive abandoned factory. The goal is to repair the spider by solving puzzles based around an alternate version of the 4 elements, which gradually bring the machine to life, and when all four are completed [[spoiler: the spider instantly starts smashing everything in its path and proceeds to [[EatenAlive devour you whole]]. Fortunately, thanks to the dream's inverse logic, this doesn't kill you]].
* The first boss in ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', as well as the Bonus Boss Bandit Spider. And the Block Spider.
* ''VideoGame/OneDogStory'' has [[BigCreepyCrawlies various bugs and insects]] and spiders as big as the PlayerCharacter as enemies.
* Jorōgumo herself (see above) appears in ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' as a demoness with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a large spider. She is also a LiteralManeater and a MotherOfAThousandYoung who breeds a horde of powerful baby demons and will keep spawning as long as she is not yet defeated.
* In ''VideoGame/OverlordII'', you fight spiders the size of your minions after being shipwrecked on Everlight. Deeper into the jungle you fight their queen, who dwarfs your Overlord and minions and spits out egg clusters that hatch into smaller, minion-sized spiders. After finishing this PuzzleBoss fight, the smaller spiders do a HeelFaceTurn and allow themselves to be used as mounts by your Greens.
* ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' containers spiders as big as you as generic mooks, with a tendency to crawl out of pits. They use their poisonous fangs or spit projectiles at you, and some of them can create a web to slow you down or hatch spiderlings. You fight a gigantic spider as a mini-boss in Act 2. There's also the Act 7 boss, Arakaali, a goddess in the form of a giant spider.
* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'''s Halloween 2015 event mission Lab Rats sees the players shrunken down and placed on the meth table from the regular Rats mission. Periodically, a spider that is regular-sized but now appears giant to the shrunken-down heisters will lean over the edge of the table, ready to instantly incapacitate any players that get within biting distance.
* ''VideoGame/{{Penumbra}}'''s spiders might not be as large as some examples on this page, but they're still larger than any normal spider and have a taste for human flesh.
* The Dark Ragne in ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' is two legs short of being a proper spider, but is otherwise similar enough to one in terms of its appearance and movements to bother arachnophobes, and is one of the largest bosses in the game overall, being about two stories tall. It also possesses a distinctive roar, which can provide an advance warning of whether or not one is lurking somewhere on the map. Helpful when considering that it can appear on any planet thanks to its teleportation and will hurt you if you're too close to its landing zone.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' series has both spiders that are around the size of the player characters and spiders that tower over them. In all cases it's not that the spiders are large by human standards, it's that the Pikmin and their commanders are small:
** The entire main series has the Arachnorb family, massive four-legged spiders with round bodies. All of them attack by stomping Pikmin with their feet, except for the Man-at-Legs, which uses a laser-cannon instead.
** Exclusive to ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' are the Dweevils. Most of them are just slightly larger than the player characters, but the Titan Dweevil is a much bigger variant that serves as the game's FinalBoss. The Titan Dweevil by itself would be harmless if it wasn't using four objects as weapons. All of the regular enemy varieties except the Volitile Dweevil are passive examples of the trope, only attacking in self-defense.
* ''VideoGame/PilgrimRPGMaker'': One with a red, human-ish face falls into the room in Storey 3, and a quartet show up in the last section of Storey 4, as pursuers.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' has a few, and although most of them are rather small compared to some other examples on this page, the smallest is still quite large by spider standards and they just get bigger from there.
** Ariados is about 1 meter tall and even its pre-evolution Spinarak is a foot in size.
** Galvantula is another "small giant" spider of comparable size to Ariados, but its pre-evolution Joltik -- the smallest Pokémon in the game -- is the size of a real-life tarantula.
** Finally, there's Dewpider and its evolution Araquanid. The former is 30 cm (1 foot) large, and the latter is the biggest spider Pokémon at 1.8m (5'11) in size. That's bigger than a good number of people!
** [[UpToEleven Even bigger]] is the Totem Araquanid you have to fight at Brooklet Hill in ''[[VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunandUltraMoon Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon]]'', and in ''Pokémon Ultra Moon'' you can receive a Totem-sized Araquanid yourself from Samson Oak after [[CollectionSidequest collecting 40 Totem Stickers]] (''Ultra Sun'' players get Alolan Marowak instead). According to the Totem Pokémon Bulbapedia page, the thing is ''3.1 meters'' (10'2) in size, which would make it the tallest Bug-type (though Scolipede, a 2.5 meter (8'2) centipede Pokémon, is considered the true bearer of the title, as Totem Araquanid is merely an alternate form).
** A player can make them even bigger if they use [[VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield Dynamax]].
* These are the most common enemy in ''VideoGame/PurgatoryRPGMaker'' 2, although they are called Hellbeasts, and come in a various colours and sizes.
* Shows up as a type of boss in ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', and they don't do "giant" by halves. On the 3X3 enemy grid, a human occupies one space. Heavily armored knights or sizable creatures like tigers might fill two adjacent ones, and particularly large bears and such occupy a 2X2 square. A Hell Spider's ''head and thorax alone'' fill the entire grid, its legs spill off the sides, and the abdomen reaches off the end of the screen. And you ''will'' [[ThatOneBoss hate them]]. And the ''BonusBoss'' is one also... twice!
* You have to fight a few in ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape''. They're very tough opponents. Also, in the original concept of ''[[VideoGame/RavingRabbids Rayman Raving Rabbids]]'', Rayman would have been able to ride a Giant Spider. WhatCouldHaveBeen...
* The ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' universe features spiders mutated by the T-Virus, who grow to the size of cars.
** Then you have the Black Tiger. Apparently giant huntsmans were not scary enough so Capcom had to come up with a freaky redesign based on Australian funnelwebs to make your S.T.A.R.S commando shit their pants. Seriously, the games peaked the fright factor here.
** One section of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' has normal, non mutated spiders. While accurately portraying African arachnids, they're about the size of Chris' fist. The game actually keeps tabs on how many you kill like any other enemy, so by all means squish 'em.
** Most of the games have giant tarantulas (called "Webspinners" in the in-game media). ''Code: Veronica'' has giant Black Widows instead, while ''Darkside Chronicles'' not only has lovingly rendered and even more ghastly Webspinners and Black Widows, but a South American version, the Jumping Maneater, which is made from, you guessed it, a jumping spider. Amusingly, they're all depicted as retaining their original proportions; even though they're all Giant Spiders, the Webspinner is bigger than the Black Widow (except for the Widow Queen, who showed up in the original ''Code: Veronica'' as a boss), which are bigger than the Jumping Maneaters.
*** They return in the aptly named ''Lost in Nightmares.'' Small, in comparison, but see Jill's NiceHat? They're that size. Bigger.
* Giant spiders are a common enemy in the lower levels of ''VideoGame/RohanOnline'', particularly if you're a Dark Elf in [[{{Mordor}} Ignis]], which is packed with both various species of these and the giant scorpions known as Akepions.
* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has several types of large spiders, most of them which are about the size of a dog. Larger ones are also present. This is taken UpToEleven with the two vampire-hunting spiders Araxxor and Araxxi, the former of which makes up the bulk of the fight before being cannibalized by the latter whom is much much deadlier. They serve as ThatOneBoss for those seeking The Reaper title needed for the Completionist Cape.
* The Empress Spider boss from ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'' is large enough to nearly fill up the entire screen if its legs are spread out. Naturally, it's also large enough to prey on humans and other similarly-sized beings, as [[spoiler:[[OurZombiesAreDifferent Rottytops]]]] found out first hand.
* 'The 'VideoGame/Shrek2'' video game has human-sized spiders. It turns out they're just babies, and the [[MotherOfAThousandYoung mother]] is humongous.
* ''VideoGame/SimAnt'' has the giant Wolf Spider of sorts. The damn thing, once it is going after you, cannot be stopped, and a small window pops up with its beady little eyes staring right at the player. Its mandibles opening and closing, drool/venom/ant blood hanging from the tips of its fangs. There is a subversion however, in that you can choose which ant you are controlling. And apparently, you can even choose to take control of the spider...This means you can take the spider and do a suicide run on the red ant colony (The black ants mortal and sworn enemy) kill hundreds of the red ants, eventually the red ants will swarm the spider and rip it apart (Which isn't graphically represented, Thank god) the spider merely falls over on its back. And shortly afterwards becomes four points of food. A reasonable exchange for possibly wiping out from a fourth to up to 3/4s of their numbers.
** And if you turn the silly mode on... "Running will only prolong your suffering!"
** But once you get a large enough group of ants, getting revenge is very sweet. And you can eat them!
* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' features two types of spiders, speedy hoppers which are "only" as big as your character, and slower, tougher web-spewers that are also two or three times larger; if you're able to kill the latter (usually via bomb or {{shotgun|sAreJustBetter}}), you are offered a StickyBomb upgrade.
* The ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'' games have a few examples.
** In the first game, there are those terrifying metal creatures in High Caves. While they're not spiders in the truest sense of the word (more like beetles) they still have gigantic nightmare pincers and are invulnerable to normal attacks.
** The third game features big green spiders in the Mushroom Speedway level. (These spiders are harmless.) One of them also appears as a boss in the second Sparx level.
** ''Spyro 5'' also has those blue spiders in Crocovile Swamp. They're huge, they shiver in anticipation when you get close, they endlessly respawn from their webs, they leap out at you from seemingly solid walls...
* The Ilwrath from ''VideoGame/StarControl'' are a race of sentient giant spiders who practice a ReligionOfEvil.
* The ''Knights of the Fallen Empire'' expansion to ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' has Iknayids -- giant spider-like creatures native to Zakuul. They can grow from the size of a dog to as big as a rancor.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Mimi transforms into a giant spider at one point. The music that plays while she chases you is ''terrifying''. You can outrun her and spend a couple of minutes in a room, feeling fairly safe 'til she comes in through the door.
** Also, Tarantox from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''.
** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansionDarkMoon'': The first boss of the game is a jumbo-sized, purple spider [[spoiler:possessed by a ghost. Though after said ghost is removed, the arachnid shrinks back to its normal size (which is still ''massive'' for a spider)]].
** The Spideraticus from ''VideoGame/WarioWorld''.
* ''VideoGame/SydneyHunterAndTheCurseOfTheMayan'': There are spiders in the game that are just a head shorter than Sydney.
* The spiders in ''VideoGame/SydneyHunterAndTheShrinesOfPeril'' come up to Sydney's neck.
* They are a monster mook in ''VideoGame/TearsToTiara2''. And then there's [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplar the priest]] of the unnamed village]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': Wall Creepers, Jungle Creepers, Black Recluses, and Blood Crawlers, enemies that are about as long as the player is tall and can walk on background walls. The immobile spider summoned from the Queen Spider Staff is about as large but fights for the player.
* Giant Spiders are very dangerous in ''VideoGame/{{Tibia}}'' and are credited for a good number of newbies deaths; even well leveled and experienced players avoid them if they don't have the proper gear to fight or just can't run from those monsters. However, once hasted they are faster than a level fifty player and will kill the player.
* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' has giant spiders met as enemies in three different types (large tarantula-like critters, hairless, bloated orb weavers and smaller, highly-venomous jungle spiders) and usually hanging around [[SpiderPeople Arachnoses]] but are rarely a threat if you buff your resistance to poison and health-leech. Act IV has the Albino Spiders, which are able to cast highly-damaging red lighting if at least three of them are together, as well as the Bloated One as a rather powerful boss enemy in Hades.
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* ''Franchise/TombRaider'':
** ''VideoGame/TombRaiderII'' has an area involving these.
** The BigBad of ''VideoGame/TombRaiderIII'' [[OneWingedAngel mutates]] into a giant spider-human hybrid for the final battle.
** They appear as regular enemies in both the Southern Mexico and Jan Mayen Island levels in ''VideoGame/TombRaiderUnderworld''.
** In ''VideoGame/LaraCroftGO'', giant spiders are one of the enemies Lara can encounter. They move back and forth along a straight path, killing Lara if she steps in front of them but otherwise ignoring her. A number of puzzles involve getting them to walk across a pressure plate at the right time for Lara to do something else -- on some occasions, this means actively keeping them alive them rather than just killing them.
* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'':
** The Greenskins can recruit a number of these as units, such as forest goblins riding on specimens the size of ponies and massive Arachnarok spiders the size of houses. ''The Prince and the Paunch'' DLC adds a number of new variants beyond the ones present in tabletop sources, such as swarms of quick but fragile Arachnarok hatchlings, an Arachnarok mount for goblin great shamans, and fiery variants of Arachnaroks and spider riders that can join Waaagh! armies started near volcanoes.
** In ''The Twisted and the Twilight'', Drycha's subfaction of the Wood Elves cannot recruit elven units but instead has access to a variety of bestial replacements, including swarms of gigantic forest spiders.
* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'', naturally, goes the CuteMonsterGirl route with the ''tsuchigumo'' Yamame Kurodani.
* ''VideoGame/{{Toukiden}}'' has the Manhunter and Bloodhunter, giant spider-shaped Oni that try to shred the player and allies with giant claws. They can spawn smaller spider Oni that can inflict status effects and might come up to a human's knees or a little higher.
* The most powerful creature that Nero Chaos in ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has inside him is some sort of unnamed spider that is slightly larger than a large elephant. It's not pictured or named because Shiki just kills it in one blow like everything else.
* The old [=MacVenture game=] ''VideoGame/{{Uninvited}}'' has a giant spider underneath the house. [[spoiler: If the player tries to jump down a hole, they end up right in front of said monster and killed, while if they come across it later they can get rid of it and move on.]]
* The final boss of ''VideoGame/{{Vectorman}} 2'' is the Spider Queen, a giant black widow spider with an exposed brain in her thorax.
* [[PlayerCharacter Andy]] of ''VideoGame/VentureKid'' faces blue spiders bigger than him as an enemy type.
* Larger than average (roughly the size of a dog) spiders are common {{Mooks}} in ''VideoGame/{{Vindictus}},'' while larger variants are served as dungeon bosses (one being the boss of the intro/tutorial). One Royal Party Raid deserves special mention. Your party is dropped in a canyon, where a single giant spider is sitting. As you approach, a second, larger, spider jumps over the canyon wall. Only moments later a third, even larger (to the point where she takes up about 1/10th of the circular canyon by herself), [[OhCrap spider queen]] bursts forth from underground. The ensuing battle is generally only won after the spider queen (and possibly one of the other two) [[GoodBadBugs gets herself stuck on the bodies of your fallen comrades.]]
* The ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe has the Nerubians: giant, sentient, vaguely humanoid spider-creatures, as well as the more traditional giant spiders of various sizes, ranging from human-sized to size of a small house. The Nerubians also have an [[OurZombiesAreDifferent undead]] variant called the Crypt Fiends, which are Nerubians killed by the Scourge during the War of the Spider and reanimated as undead. In turn, there is a bigger, meaner variant of the Crypt Fiends known as the Crypt Lords, though those are not so much spiders as they are huge, bulky scarabs of sorts, with mantis claws.
** And then there's [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=2707 Shadra]], the lake-sized spider god.
** They also have more generally-huge spiders, usually bigger than a human but not quite as big as a tauren. Until you enter [[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Naxxramas]]. There they get to be ''gigantic''. For one thing, there's Anub'Rekhan, one of the most trusted lieutenants of the king of the Nerubians, Anub'Arak (both are Crypt Lords rather than true spiders, but [[BigCreepyCrawlies hey...]]) And then there's [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=15952#comments Maexxna.]]
*** Another large, but not quite as big, spider, is [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=28921#comments Hadronox]]. Some people consider her to be scarier than Maexxna (it's the spikes).
* Giant spiders are a common enemy in ''VideoGame/{{Wayward}}''. [[ReducedToRatburgers They are also handy for staving off starvation a bit]], but their venom can take a big chunk from your HP.
* ''VideoGame/TheWitchsHouse'' has a giant spider on the second floor. The player will only see it if they remove the butterfly from its web and attempt to leave the room if they did not replace it.
* Giant spiders show up in ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}} VII: Bane of the Cosmic Forge'' in the dwarven mines, and occur periodically from then on out. Their only noteworthy trait is the ability to shoot webs and paralyze the party. Oddly enough, the Silence spell stops them from doing this...
* The PC role-playing game ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'' had scary giant spiders that would get right in your face and attack. They were rather lethal as well, given the game is played from a first-person view and seeing them up close to attack is horrifying.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfIllusion'' has a very comical FunnyAnimal Giant Spider as the first boss.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' includes a giant spider that ''might'' be a ShoutOut to this, the [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=20682#screenshots:id=82765 Terokkarantula]]. However, it lives in a place called the Terokkar Forest, named for a god which has nothing to do with spiders, so the name might be just a mashup of "Terokkar" and "tarantula," [=and/or=] a coincidence. Not even [[http://www.wowhead.com/npc=28243#comments Thrym's]] shoe is big enough! KILL IT WITH FIRE!
* ''VideoGame/XenaWarriorPrincess'': The Minotaur's maze is filled with giant spiders that Xena must defeat while trying to navigate her way across.
* ''VideoGame/ZombiePlayground'': One of the pets you can give your kid is a spider about the size of a basketball.
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* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium:
** ''Literature/TheHobbit'' has lots of talking spiders about the size of a large dog infesting the depths of Mirkwood, where they capture the dwarves with plans to eat them. ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' introduces Shelob, their much larger and nastier relative. Creator/JRRTolkien felt no ''conscious'' dislike of spiders; he said he began to put spiders as bad guys in his stories because one of his sons was an arachnophobe.

* ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': All spiders in Fantasyland are huge, and prey on small Humans, Dwarfs and Gnoemes. They're described like a riboff of those in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' (unsurprisingly). It's stated they've evolved to their size because of insects, their former prey, having gone extinct.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': Jimmy is menaced by an oversized spider in "The Neolithic Nightmare".