Giant Spider / Western Animation

For scale, that's a spaceship that it's chewing on.

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• The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius:
  • "Stranded" features a giant spider during the climax. It's 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.
• Adventures of the Gummi Bears: A talking giant spider appears in one episode trying to eat the Gummi Bears and it's up to Sir Thornberry and Cavin to save them, which also works as an anti-prejudice Aesop as Sir Thornberry distrust humans like Cavin and Cavin distrust Sir Thornberry because of his advanced age and eccentric behavior.
• Adventure Time: A giant spider couple is the main focus in "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 Bobcat Goldthwait) can improve his relationship with his wife, Barb (voiced by Susie Essman). After making up, Barb gives birth to a thousand baby spiders.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: Ocho's mom is a giant 8-bit spider. Her son is also larger than most normal spiders, but he is still small.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: MC Pee Pants, a diaper-wearing giant spider who gets releases a rap CD with not so Subliminal Seduction 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.
• Atomic Puppet: 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.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender has the giant Canyon Crawlers, which are a mix between ants, spiders, and crocodiles.
• Beetlejuice: Ginger, one of Beetlejuice's neighbors, is a friendly giant tap-dancing spider.
• Christmas In Tattertown: Muffet, an evil doll who attempts to conquer Tattertown, is assisted by Sidney, a spider big enough for her to ride. She disguises herself as Santa Claus and Sidney as a reindeer.
• Courage the Cowardly Dog: One episode features an entire hotel filled with giant spiders... courtesy of none other than Katz.
• Dragon Hunters has the 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".
• Ed, Edd n Eddy: In the Halloween Episode, Ed, who is suffering from hallucinations, sees Johnny as one of these. Subverted by the fact that the spider is friendly.
• Fantomcat: One of the main villains is a giant, green widow spider named Marmagora.
• Futurama:
  • "Where the Buggalo Roam": The characters ride horse-like spiders when travelling around Mars.
  • "Three Hundred 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 are actually more closely related to elephants.
  • "The Bots and the Bees" starts with the Planet Express Ship caught in the energy web of a giant spider that lives in the vacuum of space. Like this.◊
• 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 they can fetch him preys to eat. Despite his fearsome appearance, he's grown so fat he's harmless once his web is destroyed and he even tries to beg for mercy.
• Gravity Falls: Asides from the quote from "Irrational Treasure" below, a Jorogumo appeared in Roadside Attraction.
  President Trembley: The only thing we have to fear is giant man-eating spiders!
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: Jeff. 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.
• Jimmy Two-Shoes: One episode has the Mad Scientist Heloise riding one that was either half mechanical or wearing armor.
• Jonny Quest:
  • "Terror Island": A Mad Scientist turns several animals (including a spider) into giant monsters using a mutagenic drug.
  • "The Robot Spy": The long legs and giant body of the spy, well-known from JQ's opening credits, qualify it for this trope as well.
  • "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.
• Looney Tunes: "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.
• Love, Death & Robots: In "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 Non-Malicious Monster and a Benevolent Abomination.
• Mighty Max features a huge spider in one episode — the only thing that Norman fears. For the unfamiliar, Norman is basically Hercules, Thor and Chuck Norris rolled into one, faces any threat with "I eat X for breakfast", and nearly has a breakdown at the sight of said spider. His fear is later justified when he reveals a prophecy he once heard that a Giant Spider will eat him.
• Mickey Mouse (2013): 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 photorealstic.
• The New Adventures of Superman: Jimmy is menaced by an oversized spider in "The Neolithic Nightmare". It also attacks Superman when he pulls its meal away. Superman winds it up in its own web and leaves it. ​
• The Powerpuff Girls (1998): This is shown to be Buttercup's biggest fear in the "What Do They Fear?" Episode "Power-Noia", but she eventually overcomes this.
• Primal (2019): In "Terror Under the Blood Moon", Spear and Fang encounter a herd of demonic bats led by a massive spider that eats their delivered prey.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Duffless", 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 quoting a Bible verse. After a failed attempt, Homer kills it by beaning it with a rock.
  • In "Simpson Safari", when the family visits Africa, a giant spider destroys Homer's luggage, which he claims was bound to happen.
• The Smurfs (1981): In "The Magnifying Mixture", Papa Smurf accidentally creates a giant spider with the magnifying mixture that he creates. Fortunately, he manages to shrink the spider back down to size before he becomes a victim.
• South Park has the Queen Spider in "Red Hot Catholic Love", ruling the Vatican. Subverted in that it isn't particularly frightening or dangerous.
• Spider! (1991): The titular creature is probably supposed to be an ordinary-sized house spider, but the protagonist is a very young boy and in proportion to him it looks much bigger.
• Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Second Contact", spiders the size of pickups are the Galardonian equivalents of cows, and similarly herbivorous despite their aggression. Mariner lets one use Boimler as a human pacifier for a while to get it to calm down.

• Star Wars Rebels: 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 impervious to blaster fire and highly sensitive to negative emotions.
• Static Shock: One episode briefly features one that got infected by some "Big Bang" chemicals.
• Teen Titans (2003) 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.
• Total Drama: Revenge of the Island: One episode had a giant mutant spider picking off the contestants as part of a nighttime challenge. Said spider turns out to actually be Izzy in a costume.
• Transformers:
  • Transformers: Animated: Blackarachnia has a giant spider as an alt-mode, and becomes a half-organic being after trying to use her copying ability on spider that became huge from eating energon.
  • Beast Wars: Both Blackarachnia and Tarantulas qualify, having spider alt-modes. The former's Beast Machines form carries spiderlike features even in her robot mode, most notably her concealable extra eyes.
• The Trap Door:
  • The monster in "Creepy Crawlies" is a huge black spider bigger than Berk.
  • In "The Thingy", the monster briefly turns Berk's pet spider gigantic.
• Wakfu: "Bellaphone Island" has a huge Arachne chasing the girls, only to run away in fear upon reaching the lair of the titular creatures.
• Xiaolin Showdown: One episode is 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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