History GiantSpider / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The video games have small ones that are dog-sized, and large ones that are Buffy-sized. They're quick, run along the walls and ceilings, knock Buffy down in one hit before jumping on top to bite (a killing move if she can't fend them off) and realistic enough to be rather unsettling.

** Peacock Spider, one of the {{Bo|nusBoss}}unties, is another monstrous arachnid that terrorizes Bugaria by luring the travelers with enthralling music on its island to devour them.

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Elise is a spider-themed champion, who normally appears as a human in ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire, but can also transform into a giant spider with a few smaller spider minions. She's also the leader of spider cult which sacrifices its worshippers to a giant spider that appears in-game as a BonusBoss on the map Twisted Treeline.

* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': Shows up as a type of boss, and they don't do "giant" by halves. On the 3X3 enemy grid, a human occupies one space. Heavily armored knights or sizable creatures like tigers might fill two adjacent ones, and particularly large bears and such occupy a 2X2 square. A Hell Spider's ''head and thorax alone'' fill the entire grid, its legs spill off the sides, and the abdomen reaches off the end of the screen. And you ''will'' [[ThatOneBoss hate them]]. And the ''BonusBoss'' is one also... twice!

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'': Arich the Arachnid. Being the second boss (third in ''Donkey Kong Land 3''), he shoots green orbs and hops around the boss arena. There's also a friendly giant spider named Squitter, who appears in both that game and its predecessor. [[PowerUpMount He lets the Kongs ride on his back]] and can create web projectiles that can either form platforms or attack enemies.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'': [[BigBad Queen Cadavra]], the fat and obnoxious black widow spider. At least in proportion. She's at least two times the size of Bug.

* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Jorōgumo appears as a demoness with the upper body of a woman and the lower body of a large spider. She is also a LiteralManeater and a MotherOfAThousandYoung who breeds a horde of powerful baby demons and will keep spawning as long as she is not yet defeated.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' features spiders mutated by the T-Virus, who grow to the size of cars.
** Then you have the Black Tiger. Apparently giant huntsmans were not scary enough so Capcom had to come up with a freaky redesign based on Australian funnelwebs to make your S.T.A.R.S commando shit their pants. Seriously, the games peaked the fright factor here.
** One section of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' has normal, non mutated spiders. While accurately portraying African arachnids, they're about the size of Chris' fist. The game actually keeps tabs on how many you kill like any other enemy, so by all means squish 'em.
** Most of the games have giant tarantulas (called "Webspinners" in the in-game media). ''Code: Veronica'' has giant Black Widows instead, while ''Darkside Chronicles'' not only has lovingly rendered and even more ghastly Webspinners and Black Widows, but a South American version, the Jumping Maneater, which is made from, you guessed it, a jumping spider. Amusingly, they're all depicted as retaining their original proportions; even though they're all Giant Spiders, the Webspinner is bigger than the Black Widow (except for the Widow Queen, who showed up in the original ''Code: Veronica'' as a boss), which are bigger than the Jumping Maneaters. They return in the aptly named ''Lost in Nightmares.'' Small, in comparison, but see Jill's hat? They're that size. Bigger.

* ''Franchise/TheHauntedMansion'': These are regular enemies. They're still preferable to the small spiders, which are GoddamnedBats.