Quotes / Giant Spider

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Card Games

It has a quickness about it that seems unnatural for its large size, yet its hunger is about right.

—Endril, Kalonian naturalist, flavor text for Giant Spider, Magic: The Gathering

Most spiders wait patiently for their prey to arrive. Most spiders aren't forty feet tall.

—Flavor text for Plated Spider, Magic: The Gathering

Fan Works

It showed a creature that resembled a huge spider, hundreds of feet tall, lying on its side, its legs working the air feebly. It was surrounded by a charred cocoon of spider silk and the corpses of countless spiders. However, more were erupting up from the ground and forming from its blood, which was puddled around it. Further more, the charred marks on its exterior were fading, and ichor was no longer leaking from it.

—Children of an Elder God, Chapter 1

It was not a spider. It couldn't be a spider, though it wore the shape of one. The monsters they had faced before were pale shadows of this thing, foals huddled beneath their mother’s barrel. Its legs were as thick as trees, and if it cared to it could reach up and touch the third-story window of the town hall. Its fat body was larger than the cottage Vermilion's parents called home. It strode casually through the ruins of somepony's home and into the square.

—The World is Filled with Monsters, "Act I: Hollow Shades"

Literature

Arachne is quite safe — well, more or less — but she's every arachnophobe's worst nightmare, and even people who aren't scared of spiders are likely to scream the house down the first time they meet a tarantula bigger than their car.

—Fated

SPIDERS are rare. This is fortunate because they are always of enormous size and venom. They lair in certain WOODS and in CAVES, where shorter and slighter Tourists may be seriously inconvenienced by their gigantic webs made of sticky, rope-thick strands. Often only a special SWORD will cut these webs, and it usually takes two or more Tourists to defeat the Spider. The reason for the monstrous size of Spiders in Fantasyland is that their former prey, INSECTS, no longer exists (see also ECOLOGY), so that Spiders have been forced to evolve into something big enough to entrap DWARFS, GNOMES, and small succulent humans.

—The Tough Guide to Fantasyland

Video Games

Dorian: Just once, we should enter a cave and see normal-sized spiders!
Varric: Then we'd know the world is ending.

—Dragon Age: Inquisition, upon encountering a massive giant spider called "Snowball"

Western Animation

The only thing we have to fear is giant man-eating spiders!

—President Quentin Trembley, Gravity Falls

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