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** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheRaidersOfTheLostArk'': Once at the beginning, complete with absurdly out of place tarantulas. ("Never too-covered" is avoided: as Indy runs from the giant boulder, he goes through a ''door-wide'' web)

* ''Film/TheRaven1963'': When going into a very web-shrouded part of Erasmus Craven (Creator/VincentPrice)'s house, Dr. Bedlo (Creator/PeterLorre) quips "Tough place to keep clean." (Lorre improvised much of his dialogue for the film).

* ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'': In one of the 1970s comics, Franchise/{{Conan|The Barbarian}} and the GirlOfTheWeek are up against the girl's father, who made a DealWithTheDevil of sorts and ended up with powers to control spiders of all sizes. His entire palace is a CobwebJungle, and Conan [[YouHaveToBurnTheWeb burns it down]] in the climax.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-man often covers narrow passages with webbing in order to snare enemies. He invokes this trope in one very early issue in which he wants to interrogate a common criminal. He leads him down into a webbing-covered sewer, claiming that it's his home. This is even complete with a giant fake-spider in the shadows used to scare the mook into giving him information. It works.

* ''Series/HannahMontana'': One episode has Hannah/Miley singing in a backstage area for the HollywoodToneDeaf Lily. This backstage area happens to be home to a giant spiderweb, and therefore a bunch of tarantulas -- and, as Miley apparently has a raging case of arachnophobia, HilarityEnsues. This particular web is ''slightly'' different from the others, in that it's one huge web instead of a thin sheet of fuzzy stuff -- [[SpecialEffectFailure although the web is visibly made up of tied-together ropes, and 90% of the spiders are recognizably props]].

In horror and adventures movies, any [[BeneathTheEarth subterranean area]] must be filled with quantities of web curtains, overflowing with colonies of mad spiders on speed who quickly fill every nook with webs, like an arachnid Mardi Gras. Catacombs, caves, basements, tombs, underground ruins (but not, oddly enough, {{Underground Level}}s), etc. show this, even though these are rather hostile environments for web-building spiders. Although collective or very large webs are known, they occur ''outside''. Not to mention that such large webs in such quantities are useless: Webs are delicate in order not to be too visible. The type of spiders usually shown are unlikely to build webs of that type anyway.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': In the Abandoned Mineshafts, cobwebs are omnipresent and are rather tough to break without a sword. If they suddenly thicken, such that entire tunnels are filled with the stuff, [[OhCrap you just found a lair of venomous cave spiders]].

* In one of the 1970s ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' comics, Franchise/{{Conan|The Barbarian}} and the GirlOfTheWeek are up against the girl's father, who made a DealWithTheDevil of sorts and ended up with powers to control spiders of all sizes. His entire palace is a CobwebJungle, and Conan [[YouHaveToBurnTheWeb burns it down]] in the climax.
* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'''s [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ10/DisplayOQ10.html?page=4 Forbidden Grove]] is covered in sticky webbing. Turns out it's not made by spiders, though.
* Due to ComicBook/SpiderMan's webbing, he has accomplished this, often covering narrow passages with webbing in order to snare enemies.
** He did invoke this trope in one very early issue in which he wanted to interrogate a common criminal. He led him down into a webbing-covered sewer, claiming that it was his home. This was even complete with a giant fake-spider in the shadows used to scare the mook into giving him information. It worked.

* Not only is the Great Owl's lair in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNimh'' covered in cobwebs, but the Owl ''himself'' is covered in them too. [[HeavySleeper How long does this guy sleep, anyway?]]

* Used cleverly in ''Film/{{Dracula 1931}}'', where Creator/BelaLugosi seems to pass right through a large spiderweb without breaking it. No special effects involved, just a well-timed cut between views.
* The scene is parodied in ''Film/DraculaDeadAndLovingIt'', with Renfield awkwardly stumbling through the web and getting caught in it.
* Nearly averted in ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks'': The only time when we really see any cobwebs is when a character gets the IdiotBall and has to be blinded.
* Other spider-themed horror movies which feature these include ''Film/KingdomOfTheSpiders'', ''Film/{{Arachnophobia}}'' and ''Film/BigAssSpider''.
* ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch''. One gremlin has metamorphosed into a spider/gremlin cross, and has filled a corridor with exactly this kind of webbing. Naturally, the two hottest girls in the movie walk into the stuff. Don't worry; Gizmo saves 'em after [[TookALevelInBadass growing a pair]] and dressing up like Rambo.
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones''
** Once at the beginning of ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', complete with absurdly out of place tarantulas. ("Never too-covered" is avoided: as Indy runs from the giant boulder, he goes through a ''door-wide'' web)
** In several caves of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. Their extraordinarily thick presence at [[https://i.stack.imgur.com/3YC32.png The Breath of God]] is required for the plot to work, but still nonsensical otherwise.
* ''Film/NationalTreasure'' Under [[spoiler: Trinity Church]] spider webs can be seen all around.

* In ''Film/TheNeverendingStory'', Bastian goes into the school storage area (not the basement), which is rife with spider webs, with no spider in sight. He doesn't seem particularly yucked out when he has to brush gobs of it off in order to open the window.
* Joked about in the 1963 Roger Corman comic Poe film ''Film/{{The Raven|1963}}''-- when going into a very web-shrouded part of Erasmus Craven (Creator/VincentPrice)'s house, Dr. Bedlo (Creator/PeterLorre) quips, "Tough place to keep clean." (Lorre improvised much of his dialogue for the film).
* Despite taking place both in a jungle-esque environment, and in caverns the ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' movie only sees spiderwebs once for a throw-away gag to highlight Alex's hypocrisy.
* ''Film/YoungFrankenstein''. Massive cobwebs appear in the passage leading to Dr. Frankenstein's laboratory and the laboratory itself.
* Played for laughs, like everything else, in ''Film/{{UHF}}''.
* Played with in ''Film/MortalKombatTheMovie''. One hero insists that they person they're following went down a cobweb-criss-crossed corridor, despite none of the webs being broken...
* ''Film/TalesOfTerror'': In "Morella", Lenore arrives back at her family home only to find the house deserted and covered in cobwebs: no one having cleaned it in 25 years.
* In ''Film/HeadlessHorseman'', the inside of the Headless's cellar is shrouded in cobwebs when he awakens: having been untouched for 7 years.

* The indispensable servants to vampires and mad scientists, the [[TheIgor Igors]], are bound to tradition in these matters. ''Marthter Mutht Have Cobwebth''. This is such an unwritten law that ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' Igors go out of their way to provide them, uthing, sorry, ''using'', specially trained spiders who are driven on with very small whips. A traditional Igor is driven to betray an unsympathetic modern Vampire with different ideas about cobwebs (he doesn't like them and orders Igor to get rid of them) in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''.
* In ''Literature/{{Gormenghast}}'' the flooded attic, making Flay and Swelter's fight an InterestingSituationDuel.
* ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': Taken to extremes in the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series' book 6 (''The Bones of Haven''), where the titular couple must hunt monsters in tunnels overgrown by "Crawling Jenny" -- an amorphous carnivorous life form made up of cobwebs, fungus, and moss.
* ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'':
** Shelob's lair from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. Though ironically the book mentions that she had woven them ''too'' thick and didn't get sustenance because of it. Oh, and the web was hard enough to almost twist Sam's sword out of his hand after hitting it.
** ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'': Ungoliant's lair was also filled with webs, but somewhat different. Her webs were apparently made from "woven darkness", and were designed to capture (and keep out) ''light'', which she fed on (and feared and hated). Similar to Shelob, it was said that she'd eventually woven her webs too thick for any sustenance to actually reach her (although [[PhysicalGod she]] doesn't really seem to ''need'' to eat).

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E4FearItself Fear Itself]]", the Scooby Gang enter a frat house that's been turned into a HauntedHouse (for real, unknown to them).

* One episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'' has Hannah/Miley singing in a backstage area for the HollywoodToneDeaf Lily. This backstage area happens to be home to a giant spiderweb, and therefore a bunch of tarantulas - and, as Miley apparently has a raging case of arachnophobia, HilarityEnsues. This particular web is ''slightly'' different from the others, in that it's one huge web instead of a thin sheet of fuzzy stuff - [[SpecialEffectFailure although the web is visibly made up of tied-together ropes, and 90% of the spiders are recognizably props]].
* In the very first episode of ''Series/{{Merlin 2008}}'', Mary Collins (Disguised as Lady Helen) sings an enchantment to the courtroom, making everyone fall asleep. Cobwebs start forming over everyone who falls victim.
* In ''Series/{{Primeval}}'' series 3 episode 6, Connor walks right into one of the cobwebs in the underground bunker under the safehouse.
* The eponymous house in ''Series/TheWildWildWest'''s "The Night of the Man-Eating House" has cobwebs everywhere. And they regenerate.

* ''VideoGame/EternityTheLastUnicorn'' have the levels set in Jotundrir, an underground network of caverns, where each and every single area is covered in cobwebs. Expectedly you fight GiantSpider enemies on a regular basis.
* In the Abandoned Mineshafts that can be found in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', cobwebs are omnipresent, and rather tough to break without a sword. If they suddenly thicken, [[OhCrap you just found a lair of venomous cave spiders]].
* Caves in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' often feature large amounts of cobwebs, though they're fragile and only slow down the player for few seconds. Interestingly enough, Terraria didn't have any spiders in it until update 1.2 introduced {{Giant Spider}}s.
* Heavily present, but arguably justified in ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery''. Even a handful of the (exclusively giant-sized) spiders present in the game fill up a cavern with obstructively sticky webs quicker than you can type "You hear a slurping sound." However, since the narrow, narrow corridors in the Caverns of Chaos are absolutely swarming with adventurers, robbers, demons, spirits and all manner of predators of all sizes, you can hardly blame the things.
* In ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', parts of the Spider Forest in Act III.
* ''VideoGame/DreadTemplar'' has a corridor leading to a cobweb-coated cavern, and at it's very end you face the level's boss, the Spider Queen.
* The Wesrin's Cross level in ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege''. Not only is it a Cobweb Jungle, but a lot of the spiders [[GoddamnedBats may only have two hit points, but attack in large enough swarms to be a threat]].
* The "Arachni's Haunt" dungeon of ''VideoGame/GuildWars: [[ExpansionPack Eye of the North]]'' involves burning webs (and egg sacs) in order to draw out the titular boss monster.
* Some dungeons, especially the Great Deku Tree in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' and the Spider Houses in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', which are places taken over by Skulltulas.
* ''Franchise/TombRaider'' has these in ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderII II]]'', ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderTheLastRevelation IV]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TombRaiderLegend Legend]]'' (the original, perhaps oddly, does not, despite its ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' inspiration), although ''II'' is the only one with actual spiders, including a certain sequence entirely based around this.
** Spiders are back in ''Underworld'', played straight in the level [[spoiler: under the manor]] but somewhat averted later in the game; [[GiantSpider Giant Spiders]] are present in ruins, but webs are relatively rare and most are near the surface.
* The Varrock Sewers dungeon in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' requires the player to slash through a spiderweb blocking the passageway to get into the deepest parts of it. one of the rooms beyond is populated by (surprise!) giant deadly red spiders.
* [[JustifiedTrope Fully justified]] in ''VideoGame/DeadlyCreatures'', where you ''play'' a spider.

* ''VideoGame/GliderPRO'' has a cobweb obstacle, usually passable only with batteries or rubber bands.
* The first ''VideoGame/SonicRiders'' game has Green Cave and White Cave, which are [[NonIndicativeName more jungle than cave]] and have giant cobwebs you can ''bounce'' on.
* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'' have an underground cavern covered in cobwebs literally in every corner, and at the cavern's exit you fight a giant insectoid monster trapped in the largest cobweb of all. But after you kill it, you realize that insect to be a BaitAndSwitchBoss and the stage's ''real'' boss, a GiantSpider, shows up. Turns out the insect monster trapped in the web is the boss' dinner.
* The bug-type gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' has giant spider webs you walk on to reach the gym leader.
* Anywhere that [[BigCreepyCrawlies spider-bugs]] roam in ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight''--some of them can be burned with your lighter, but most are stuck right to the walls. Special mention goes to the abandoned missile silo in the DLC mission ''Spider-Lair'', which looks like an industrial version of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Shelob's cave]].
* In a non-spider example, one of the hotel rooms in ''VideoGame/DarkFall : Lost Souls'' is completely overgrown with ''cocoons'' dangling from the ceiling on strands of insect webbing. Cocoons, which house hissing, writhing larvae.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', the "forbidden level" (AKA Mel's Room), as seen [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=77 here]] and [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=499 here.]] Justified in that Mel is the resident [[CrazyCatLady crazy spider lady]].
* Following an arc of ''Webcomic/TheWhiteboard'' that took [[WebcomicTime two and a half years]] to write, the interior of the paintball shop [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2237.html is one]]. The [[http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb2236.html exterior]] is inexplicably the other kind of jungle.

* In the Abandoned Mineshafts that can be found in ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', cobwebs are omnipresent, and rather tough to break without a sword.If they suddenly thicken, [[OhCrap you just found a lair of venomous cave spiders]].

* In ''Film/HeadlessHorseman'', the inside of the Headless's cellar is shrouded in cobwebs when he awakens: having been untouched for 7 years..

* The caterpillars of several Ermine moth species of the Yponomeuta genus weave thick webs around whole trees to be able to devour all the leaves, protected from competing species and predators. The result looks like a gigantic cobweb encompassing an entire (often dying) tree.

* Take to extremes in Creator/SimonRGreen's ''Literature/{{The Gods of Haven}}'', where Literature/{{Hawk and Fisher}} must hunt monsters in tunnels overgrown by "Crawling Jenny": an amorphous carnivorous life form made up of cobwebs, fungus, and moss.

* Despite taking place both in a jungle-esque environment, and in caverns the ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' movie only sees spiderwebs once for a throw-away gag to highlight Alex' hypocrisy.

* The indispensable servants to vampires and mad scientists, the [[TheIgor Igors]], are bound to tradition in these matters. ''Marthter Mutht Have Cobwebth''. This is such an unwritten law that ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' Igors go out of their way to provide them, uthing, sorry, ''using'', specially trained spiders who are driven on with very small whips. A traditional Igor is driven to betray an unsympathetic modern Vampire with different ideas about cobwebs (he doesn't like them and orders Igor to get rid of them) in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum''.

* ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarves'': One of Snow White's biggest tasks when she starts cleaning the dwarves' cottage is getting rid of all the cobwebs covering... just about every corner of everything.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. The Scooby Gang enter a frat house that's been turned into a HauntedHouse (for real, unknown to them).