History Main / TheWormThatWalks

* [[CorpseBride Corpse Bride]] has [[spoiler:Emily dissolve into butterflies by the film's end.]]

** In fact, when the Covenant breaks, the Hunters side with the Elites, which means they become human-friendly. Since the individual worms aren't advanced life forms in the same way humans and the other members of the Covenant are, they're also immune to infection from the Flood.

** It may be worth noting that the Scarab walkers in Halo 3 are partially comprised of a whole bunch of those orange worms.

* [[DarkCloud2]] (Dark Chronicle) had the Rainbow Butterfly boss that split into different-coloured butterflies the PC had to sneak up on and swat to death.

* In ''FrightNight Part II'' the undead . . . thing . . . Bozworth spends most of the film catching, identifying and then ingesting insects. When finally killer, he bursts open to reveal he's pretty much skin, skeleton, and lots of squirming little bugs.

* ''Daniel X: Alien Hunter'' - Played straight with Number 7, a human-alien being made up of a colony of ants. Not only was he partially responsible for the deaths of reality warper hero, Daniel X's, family, he also is the grandmaster of an interplanetary game where alien hunters kill innocent aliens for sport, resulting in the extinction of a peaceful, furry species whose culture is based on color. The utter subversion comes from Kilgore, who happens to be Number 7's "son". Much to his "father's" chagrin, Kilgore is a sweet, loving, trusting, and very geeky alien who becomes fast friends with Daniel X. When he "dies" by being reabsorbed back into his father, this unleashes Daniel X's berserk button, and he kills Number 7 by releasing a potion that relinguishes the pheremone bonds the ants use to communicate in his body.

* ''[[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Aladdin and the Return of Jafar]]'' has a variant, where the Genie and Abu's picnic is attacked by a swarm that spiders that pile together before turning back into Jafar. This wasn't his true form, however--apparently he just wanted to freak them out.

*** Quite a big change in design considering Lamies were originally lion centaur hybrids rather than beetle coated horrors.

* Mrs. Robinson in ''[[JoJosBizarreAdventure Steel Ball Run]]'', incidentally a ''man'' with a GenderBender name, supposedly was killed by men and hung out on a cactus only to revive. Similar to Shino, he used his body to store various insects which he could control. What is ''really'' creepy is that his power didn't stem from a Stand... almost as if it was entirely fueled by some kind of [[NightmareFuel horror propane]].

* An assassination attempt in ''Mordant's Need'' by Stephen Donaldson features human skins full-to-bursting with maggots that puppet the skins and then break out of their husks in order to devour their new victims.

* In ''The Talismans of {{Shannara}}'', Walker Boh is attacked by the FourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse (well, actually monsters who have taken the form of the FourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse). While Famine, War and Death are humanoids, Pestilence is just a swarm of infection-spreading insects moving about in a vaguely humanoid shape. Also, HighOctaneNightmareFuel.

* In ''{{Constantine}}'', the titular character is attacked by a demon made entirely out of various bugs (and at least 1 crab). Even its face, [[NightmareFuel with nose and mouth and eyes]].

** [[spoiler: Orochimaru's ''true'' true form (yeah, he seems to have a lot of those) is that he's made of snakes. What do the snakes look like? Well, they certainly don't do anything to take away his reputation as a creepy boy watcher]]

* Blister Beetle Grubs form themselves into the shape of the female of a certain species of bee, in order to lure it into trying to mate with the bee-of-worms, which excretes pheromones to help the process along ("Hey, that doesn't look like a bee and *sniff sniff* Oh Baby..."). Then they cling to the male, transfer to the female when Real Bee-boinking goes on, all to hitch a ride to the female's nest, which is full of tender bee larvae...