History Main / FuzzballSpider

* ''WebOriginal/CatGhost'': Malone appears as a round, fuzzy, purple spider with four sharp legs.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': DependingOnTheArtist, Spidey's costume usually has a sharply-defined spider as the chest emblem, but the spider on the back is much less anatomically correct as the legs are shown attached to the abdomen instead of the cephalothorax. Sometimes, there isn't even a division between the cephalotorax and the abdomen, being just an 8-legged oval.

** [[HorrorHost The Narrator's]] pet spider Spindleshakes is a purple ball with six legs, two hands, and two eyes.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Spider}}'': The titular spider is drawn with a round, hairy, one-part body, most of which is taken up by a pair of human-like eyes and toothy grin.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Muffet's spiders are drawn as barely more than squares with a few pixelated lines coming off them for legs, due to the low resolution of the game. Muffet herself is [[MonsterGirl another trope entirely]]. This simplicity in spider design extends to the remix cameo of her song, Spider Dance, in ''VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats''. Like in ''Undertale'', all of the spiders are just circles with legs. including the screen-filling boss spider antagonizing you through the whole track.

* ''Series/EureekasCastle'': Webster the spider looks like a fuzzy ball with legs and a face.

[[caption-width-right:350:A superbly spherical spider.]]

* Not that ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName'' is well drawn in ''any'' capacity, but the spider who the Stranger steps on in the introduction has a smiley face just as big as its body. Choosing to get back on the train leads the Stranger to crush it a couple more times, and it leaves a considerable pool of blood.

* ''Series/RobotWars'': Panic Attack features this as its mascot. Originally rather detailed despite the simplified shape in series 2, it was made far more cartoony for the next and every subsequent series after. Justified considering the original design was done by a 12 year old girl.

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': In "[[Recap/GilligansIslandS3E28ThePigeon The Pigeon]]", the castaways run across a fuzzball with legs called a Black Mourning Spider. This venomous fellow is a crossover with GiantSpider, as the thing weighs 750 pounds, is a little larger than a human being and [[Main/ArtisticLicenseArachnids only has what look like vestigial legs that don't move or even touch the ground]].

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* The spider in the ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'' episode "Lamput and the Spider" is a simple sphere shape with six legs.
* The spiders seen in the tunnel in ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf: Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 50 are round, fuzzy circles with six legs.

* In ''ComicStrip/SlylockFox'', Count Weirdly's lab is often depicted with at least one stylized, smiling spider hanging from a thread.

* Prominent ''Series/RobotWars'' competitor Panic Attack featured this as its mascot. Originally rather detailed despite the simplified shape in series 2, it was made far more cartoony for the next and every subsequent series after. Justified considering the original design was done by a 12 year old girl.
* On the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' episode "The Pigeon," the castaways run across a fuzzball with legs called a Black Mourning Spider. This venomous fellow is a crossover with GiantSpider, as the thing weighs 750 pounds, is a little larger than a human being and [[Main/ArtisticLicenseArachnids only has what look like vestigial legs that don't move or even touch the ground]].

* In ''VideoGame/BluesABCTimeActivities'', a computer game based on ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', the spider in the jungle minigame is a purple, fuzzy thing with a smiley face, along with eight legs protruding from its circular head.

* ''{{Franchise/Kirby}}'': The [[https://wikirby.com/wiki/Mariel Mariel]] in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'' and ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' looks like a black ball with four segmented legs and two white eyes.
* The Marty Spiders in ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'' look like Marty's head on six thin spider legs.
* The Spiders in ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' are purple, spherical, multi-eyed things with a mouth and six legs coming from them.

* Muffet's spiders in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' are drawn as barely more than squares with a few pixelated lines coming off them for legs, due to the low resolution of the game. Muffet herself is [[MonsterGirl another trope entirely]].
** This simplicity in spider design extends to the remix cameo of her song, Spider Dance, in ''VideoGame/JustShapesAndBeats''. Like in ''Undertale'', all of the spiders are just circles with legs. including the screen-filling boss spider antagonizing you through the whole track.
* The Spider enemies in ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' look like striped balls with spike-like legs and two eyes.

* ''{{Webcomic/Thogy}}'': Mola is a spider-like creature that looks like a ball of fuzz with legs and a face. Whether he's an actual spider or not is ambiguous, as [[https://tapas.io/episode/1375737 more realistic spiders]] have been shown in the comic.

* ''[[{{Website/Bogleech}} Bogleech's]]'' Halloween Bestiary entry on [[https://bogleech.com/halloween/hallbest-heebiejeebies.html Heebie-Jeebies]] starts by noting the various inaccuracies in spider-themed Halloween decorations, including that some of them look like blobs with limbs. This sets up for the text's reasoning that these creatures [[AnimalisticAbomination may not be spiders...]]

* The ''WesternAnimation/PeppaPig'' episode "Mister Skinnylegs" has a spider that's a fuzzy black ball with long, skinny legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Phineas and Ferb Get Busted", Perry the Platypus is seen fighting a giant robotic spider which is just a black ball with eight legs.
* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'': The spider in the episode...well, "The Spider" is just a little black pom-pom with legs and Aardman's trademark bead eyes stuck on. Everybody but Shaun still spends the episode freaking out about it, anyway.

* On the ''Series/GilligansIsland'' episode "The Pigeon," the castaways run across a fuzzball with legs called a Black Mourning Spider. This venomous fellow is a crossover with GiantSpider, as the thing weighs 750 pounds, is a little larger than a human being and only has what look like vestigial legs that don't move or even touch the ground.

-->-- {{Website/Bogleech}}, on [[https://bogleech.com/halloween/hallbest-heebiejeebies.html Halloween spider decorations]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'': The spider in the episode...well, "The Spider" is just a little black pom-pom with legs and Aardman's trademark bead eyes stuck on. Everybody but Shaun still spend the episode freaking out about it, anyway.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'': Spider With a Top Hat, one of the creatures living inside Star's wand, is just a ball with eight legs and a face. And, of course, a top hat.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': DependingOnTheArtist, Spidey's costume usually has a sharply-defined spider as the chest emblem, but the spider on the back is much less anatomically correct as the legs are shown attached to the abdomen instead of the cephalothorax.

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Spiders or spider-like creatures in drawn media are sometimes depicted as looking like a ball with eight ([[FourLeggedInsect or less]]) legs. Depictions outside of the simplest ones usually have eyes, and often look fuzzy or hairy. Being a rather simple design, they tend to be a solid black in color, though more colorful variations aren't unheard of.

* David Thorne has an article where he enlists the services of a "long-distance chiropractor", then attempts to pay his fees with [[https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html a drawing of a spider]]. The spider he draws is a completely black ovoid with a smily face and seven legs.

** [[HorrorHost The Narrator's]] pet spider Spindleshakes is a purple ball with six legs, two hands and two eyes.
** ''The New Nanny'': The second nanny the Frightfullybesys had hired was a spider who looks a furry ball with eight legs.
** ''A Tangled Web'': The episode depicts the spiders as styled complete with a ball like body, eight legs, and two eyes.

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