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* ''Series/OnceUponATime'': In Season 6 Episode 16 "Mother's Little Helper", Emma Swan ends up battling The Great Spider from the Echoless Forest. The creature manages to wrap Emma in a cocoon of webbing, which nearly suffocates her until Rumpelstiltskin comes to rescue her and they defeat the best together.

In fiction, there are many creative ways to use a spider web. Mandatory offensive tactic for a GiantSpider or any character with spider-themed powers, its most common application is [[BoundAndGagged tying someone head to toe]] in webbing to prevent escape, and what usually follows is not prety. The web will typically hang from the ceiling in the way that a spider might wrap a fly in web before drinking its fluids. Special caution is advised while wandering the LostWoods or CreepyCave [[CobwebJungle where it commonly hapens]], as it is extremely rare for a character in such a sticky situation to get rid of it without help.

%%* Tsuchigumo character from ''Manga/BinbougamiGa'' is shown to do this to herself while sleeping.

In fiction, there are many creative ways to use a spider web. Mandatory offense tactic of a GiantSpider or any character with spider-themed powers, it envolves [[BoundAndGagged tying someone head to toe]] in webbing to prevent escape, and what usually follows is not prety. The web will typically hang from the ceiling in the way that a spider might wrap a fly in web before drinking its fluids. Special caution is advised while wandering the LostWoods or CreepyCave [[CobwebJungle where it commonly hapens]], as it is extremely rare for a character in such a sticky situation to get rid of it without help.

In VideoGames, this trope frequently manifests as lowering whatever speed stat there is, outright forcing a character to wait the effect out to be able to move at all, or both at once depending on the developer. See also BoundAndGagged, MummyWrap, and ProjectileWebbing.

A sign that a cave contains deadly spiders (or one or more {{giant|Spider}} ones), this is a human shaped web, typically hanging from the ceiling in the way that a spider might wrap a fly in web before drinking its fluids. Common in computer games. Also see BoundAndGagged, MummyWrap, and ProjectileWebbing.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWormTurns'': WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's first test subject for the Courage Builder is a fly wrapped up in a spider's web. After the fly escapes, it wraps the spider in his own web. [[/folder]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheWormTurns'': WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse's first test subject for the Courage Builder is a fly wrapped up in a spider's web. After the fly escapes, it wraps the spider in his own web.
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A sign that a cave contains deadly spiders (or one or more {{giant|Spider}} ones), this is a human shaped web, typically hanging from the ceiling in the way that a spider might wrap a fly in web before drinking its fluids. Common in computer games. Also see BoundAndGagged, MummyWrap and ProjectileWebbing.

** Spider-Man does this to anyone he needs really tied down. [[PowerPerversionPotential And occasionally his wife]].

** ComicBook/{{Venom}} has been known to do this to a few people too, but there have been cases where he purposely let the victim suffocate. (Venom is usually reluctant to kill anyone other than Spider-Man; the folks he does this to tend to be [[AssholeVictim criminals and other scum.]])

* There's a fan-made ''JustForFun/DaringDo'' game on the web featuring these as setpieces for an ancient temple. You can push them around to an extent, but no giant spiders ever show up, and it's never revealed just ''what's'' behind all the silk. Which just makes things [[NothingIsScarier scarier]]...

%%** Like [[http://solidzesnake.deviantart.com/art/Webbed-Yoko-474742272 Webbed Yoko]]

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'': Happens to Rottytops.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': Jimmy Olsen gets wrapped up in a cocoon when he is kidnapped by the leader of the Insect Raiders in "The Insect Raiders".

** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' also had Nerubians being able to use Web attacks. Undead Crypt Fiends in particular could use webs to allow ground units to attack air units. In the Nerubian levels of the expansion you could see dwarves AllWebbedUp just before they exploded into spiders.

** When they spend the night in the Amazon Rainforest in "[[Recap/TotalDramaTheAmAHZonRace The Am-AH-Zon Race]]", Team CIRRRRH is attacked by five giant caterpillars. They fight them off, but have to stand guard for the rest of the night. When it's Alejandro's turn, he lets the caterpillars drag away Owen, whom he can't stand. Owen is cocooned and hung upside down, presumably to serve as food later on. Alejandro only comes back to save him because the challenge is unwinnable if the whole team isn't present.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'': In "The Magnifying Mixture", Papa Smurf gets spun into a cocoon when he accidentally spills enlarging formula onto a small spider.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline'' lets you do this yourself with the "Trapping Webs" skill from the Undaunted skill line. The webs cut enemy speed in half, and last for 10 seconds before exploding into poison.

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* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'': When you first discover the Arachne, numerous human-shaped cocoons can be seen hanging upside-down from the ceiling and from webs.

* ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKain'': Soul Reaver has this in the Silenced Cathedral, which is inhabited by spider-like degenerate vampires. Many of them are ''still moving''.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

** Pikachu learns the Electroweb attack during ''Sun and Moon'', which can not only trap opponents but also shield him in a pinch.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'': Spider-man , just like his comic book counterpart. Probably most notably is when he does this repeatedly to Kraven to make sure he can't break free this time.

* "WesternAnimation/TheWormTurns": Mickey's first test subject for the Courage Builder is a fly wrapped up in a spider's web. After the fly escapes, it wraps the spider in his own web.

* ''VideoGame/PurgatoryRPGMaker'' 2: This happens to Emma after Oliver drops her into the giant spiders lair, but Ebel and Enri rescue her before the spiders eat her.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': The ability for arachnes (half-woman half-spiders) to rapidly cocoon others in their silk is one of the major reasons they are considered so dangerous.

* Happens to the cast of ''Comicbook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' when the main characters encounter a gang of unfriendly spiders.
%%* Happens to Choronzon in ''Comicbook/TheSandman''.%%ZCE

* ''FanFic/TheTotallyAmazingSpiderMan'': Poor [[WesternAnimation/TotallySpies Clover]] ends up wrapped up in Spider-Man's web after staging a mugging with Sam and Alex in a bid to capture him. [[BadassBookworm Sam]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint geeks out over its chemical properties]], much to Clover's chagrin.

* In ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'', this isn't shown directly, but the GiantSpider enemies include a subtype called Webbers who shoot webs at your party. Doing so inflicts the Stun status, implying they've been wrapped up in webs and need a round to get free. During this time, they are Marked, which means that the other spider types with them will target the webbed victim exclusively, doing both high direct damage and a dangerous [[DamageOverTime blight]] effect.

* ''Videogame/{{Limbo}}'': Temporarily happens to your character. You have to make an escape while still covered in webbing, greatly reducing your mobility. It's a bit of a comic relief moment, actually, unless you trip into a pit of spikes...

%%* ''{{VideoGame/Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'': Happens to Rottytops.

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** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'': Not by the in-game {{Spider}}s, but by the Giant Moth. Characters that get grabbed by the moth in "Below Freezing Point" will be found webbed to a wall one floor below. The following video shows how this is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKA0EctdauE

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'': Not by the in-game {{spiders|Spider}}, but by the Giant Moth. Characters that get grabbed by the moth in "Below Freezing Point" will be found webbed to a wall one floor below. The following video shows how this is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKA0EctdauE

* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'': This happens ''partially'' to Marla , courtesy of the Spider Gremlin. (It isn't able to wrap her up completely.) Kate finds her before it gets to her and considers leaving her to her fate for what happened earlier (Kate had assumed she had seduced Billy); when Marla confesses and tells her what actually happened, Kate decides to cut her loose, but then the monster appears. Fortunately, Gizmo, now sick of being bullied by the gremlins, [[BigDamnHeroes appears dressed up like Rambo]] and kills the thing with an makeshift bow and arrow tipped with an ignited bottle of white-out.

** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilOutbreak'': Not by the in-game {{giant|Spider}}s, but by the Giant Moth. Characters that get grabbed by the moth in "Below Freezing Point" will be found webbed to a wall one floor below. The following video shows how this is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKA0EctdauE

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'': Because actual violence was a no-no, the cartoon had tektites project red silk to entangle their victims. (In the games, tektites just hop around for CollisionDamage.)