Basic trope: A giant spider.
- Straight: The spider is about the size of an average adult human.
- Exaggerated:
- The spider is about the size of a skyscraper.
- The spider is about the size of a planet.
- The spider is about the size of a universe.
- The spider is about the size of a multiverse.
- The spider is about the size of an omniverse.
- The spider is about the size of reality itself.
- Downplayed: The spider is about the size of the largest real-life spiders, such as the Goliath birdeater or giant huntsman spider.
- Justified:
- The spider comes from a planet with more oxygen than Earth.
- The spider comes from a time period when Earth had more oxygen.
- The spider comes from a laboratory, and was heavily experimented on, resulting in a much larger size.
- The spider is blessed with great size by some higher beings. "Blessed" is up for debate when the Square-Cube Law is brought up.
- It's a Spider God's non-eldritch appearance.
- Inverted:
- The spider is about the size of Patu digua, the smallest spider species.
- The spider is about the size of a speck of dirt.
- The spider is about the size of an atom.
- The spider is about the size of something you'd have to use Planck units to measure.
- Subverted: The spider is initially shown to be large. However, it turns out that the spider was in a miniature diorama, and the real spider isn't that big.
- Double Subverted: The spider is initially shown to be large, but it turns out that the spider was in a miniature diorama. However, the spider in the diorama also is a miniature, and the actual spider is large.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: The size of the spider fluctuates each time it appears.
- Averted: The spider is about the size of most real-life spiders.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Holy shit, that's one massive spider!"
- Invoked: A bunch of bored (or possibly immature) scientists decide to experiment on a batch of ordinary spiders, making them grow to large sizes, just so they can watch their new monstrosities battle to the death.
- Exploited: Alice and Bob manage to tame the spider and harvest its silk for great profit.
- Defied: Whatever higher forces out there simply keep the Spider Size Limit at "Theraphosa Blondi" (aka Goliath Birdeater) size, the current biggest Spider Size to date.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Bob claims to have witnessed a human-sized spider, but we never actually get to see it.
- Played for Laughs: The spider is friendly but has the behavior of a dog, considering it's just as big as one. Alice sometimes has to scold the spider with a rolled-up newspaper when it gets silk all over Bob when playing with him, even going far as to say: "Bad Spidey! Bad!"
- Played for Horror: Done as is.
- Deconstructed: A bigger-than-normal spider (normal as in Goliath Birdeater size) has to deal with the Square-Cube Law and a constant food stream lest its owner forgets to feed them and it dies of starvation.
- Reconstructed: Whoever makes the Giant Spider makes it so that it doesn't have to deal with the above problems.
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