In fiction, spider webs make excellent trampolines, though in Real Life, this is not the case (anything light enought to not outright tear through the net will just get stuck to it). You can expect this to show up a lot in Platform Games, especially in The Lost Woods and Big Boo's Haunt settings. If used as an obstacle that bounces the player back, they may have to burn the web in order to proceed.
See also Building Swing, which may also involve the use of web threads for aerial locomotion. Compare All Webbed Up and Projectile Webbing for other common and useful web-based applications. Sub-Trope of Artistic License – Arachnids.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- When it learns how to use Electroweb, Pikachu in Pokémon: The Series has been able to use it like this in battle.
Literature
- From The Last Continent:
Rincewind: I don't mind putting my hand up to killing a few spiders. But it was me or them, I mean some of those come at you at head height —
Scrappy: You changed history.
Rincewind: Oh, come on, a few spiders don't make that much difference, some of them were using their webs as trampolines, it was a case of "boing" and next moment —
Video Games
- Bug has one small section of the spider-filled Arachnia where the titular character has to jump on these as springboards.
- In the first Bubsy game Claws Encounters Of The Furry Kind, Bubsy comes across these kinds of spiderwebs in Levels 13, 14, and 15 in the jungle stage.
- In Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge for the PlayStation, there's a level in an oasis where you can use the large webs from the resident large spiders as trampolines. Subverted in the Boss Battle of that level: You fight a colossal spider on a web, and you can't jump nor run on it.
- In the PC game Donald Duck: Goin' Qu@ckers, there are cobweb trampolines in the Haunted House-themed levels.
- In Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, one of the boxed animals that you can ride is an enormous spider, whose special move is to spit out perfect round spiderwebs, which can be frozen in mid-air and used as trampolines.
- The Ed, Edd n Eddy game "Scam of the Century" features this.
- Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy: Trampolines made of spider web that are used to reach higher areas in Spider Cave, which is in a mine level infested with crawlies.
- One of the powers granted by the Spider ability in Kirby Star Allies is creating such a trampoline for allies to jump on. Taranza can also do this.
- The Legend of Zelda:
- Ocarina of Time: Link can do this on the large central cobweb in the Deku Tree until he jumps from higher up, at which point it breaks and lets you into the basement levels.
- The Minish Cap has cobwebs in some dungeons that will bounce Link off them. You normally need to clear them away with the Gust Jar.
- Averted completely in Skyward Sword: If Link touches the cobwebs, he takes damage.
- Used in several Forbidden Forest levels in LEGO Harry Potter.
- In Musashi Samurai Legend, you can bounce on certain webs in order to jump higher.
- Pitfall!: Mayan Adventure, there are cobwebs that make Harry bounce high up in the air.
- In Pokémon X and Y, Santalune City's gym has humongous bouncy spiderwebs that the player must traverse on as its puzzle.
- Rayman 2: The Great Escape has several spider-webs off which Rayman must bounce, to go alongside with the webs that he can climb. The spiders that made the webs even come out to attack you, in some locations.
- The Prague levels in Sly 2: Band of Thieves have these.
- In Sonic Riders, gigantic cobwebs appear at the end of Green Cave and White Cave, which bounce the racers back to the start/finish line.
Western Animation
- Averted in one episode of Adventure Time. Jake gets caught in a spider web, and Finn tries to bounce himself off it. He just immediately gets stuck instead, to Jake's incredulity.
- Dragon Tales: In "Cassie Loves the Parade", While Cassie was running away, she bumps into a tree and bounces on a spider web before meeting a talking flower.
- Mr. Bogus bounces on one of these inside the walls of the house in the opening intro of the show.
