History Main / ProjectileWebbing

* In ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'', one of Mr.X’s experiments is able to shoot webbing out of it’s mouth, and uses it to drag away Douglas during the fight on Mr.X’s castle grounds.

** A spider Digimon called Dokugumon has an attack that consists of shooting web from its abdomen. One does so in [[Recap/DigimonAdventureE28TheChaseHurryToJapan Episode 28]] of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', spraying strands of webbing from her mouth at the start of the battle and entangling most of the heroic Digimon before they can do anything.

* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Super Duper Man", Motu and Patlu can shoot webs out of their hands as one of their superpowers. The webs aren't very helpful, however, as they're not sticky enough for Motu and Patlu to use them to stick to walls.

* ''FanFic/EquestriaDivided'': Weblings, changelings with the bodies of {{Giant Spider}}s, can shoot extremely strong webbing from considerable range and serve as the swarms' ranged units.

* Played with by the {{Giant Spider}}s in the horror-comedy flick ''Film/EightLeggedFreaks''. Some of them can squirt thick streams of liquid silk from their abdomen to immobilize prey at melee distance, but since they're so friggin' huge it still translates into a meter or two from which they can glue you to the wall behind you. The character played by Creator/ScarlettJohansson finds this out the hard way.

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': Webber spiders can spray webbing at your heroes, which both has a chance to stun and marks the target, causing the attacks of other spiders to do much more damage.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'' we have the Dragon Eater Nebal, who holds the [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower deceptively strong]] power of the "Adesive Dragon Slayer Magic", which allows him to produce and manipulate web from his body to tangle its victim. Furthermore, once he shoot the web, he can make it form cocoons from a safe distance without physical contact.

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** A spider Digimon called Dokugumon has an attack that consists of shooting web from its abdomen.

* In the ''Animation/MotuPatlu'' episode "Super Duper Man", Motu and Patlu have the ability to shoot webs out of their hands as one of their superpowers. The webs aren't very helpful, however, as they're not sticky enough for Motu and Patlu to use them to stick to walls.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man, while not an actual spider himself, relies heavily on his famous web-shooters, which he holds in the palms of his hands and uses to shoot large quantities of webbing to produce both thick ropes with which to swing from buildings and nets with which to trap villains. This trope is also employed by most other spider-themed superheroes, such as ComicBook/ScarletSpider and ComicBook/SpiderGwen. Others, like ComicBook/{{Silk}}, do have organic webbing.

* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/DiabloII'': wounded GiantSpider enemies will try to flee leaving a trail of webbings behind to slow you down.

See also AllWebbedUp. SisterTrope to NetGun.

* From the ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'' series, Squitter the Spider (one of the Kongs' animal friends) shoots webs, which can be used either as temporary platforms or as a projectile attack.
* Grave spiders from ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'' can shoot a whole sticky web at the player character, which can envelop the warrior like netting, pinning her to the spot until she can slash herself free. The spider can attack the [=PC=] through the webbing, inflicting damage, while the trapped [=PC=] must first cut through the webbing before getting any swipes at the grave spider.

It's worth noting that some spiders ''do'' possess the ability to cast their webs to ensnare prey. They cannot squirt webbing directly at targets, however, and the range and dexterity of their throws isn't generally on the level sometimes seen in fiction.

** The Scotitids, or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_spider spitting spiders]], catch prey by spitting a mixture of liquid silk and venom. The mix congeals on contact, both immobilizing and envenoming the target.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spider-Man, while not an actual spider himself, relies heavily on his famous web-shooters, which he holds in the palms of his hands and uses to shoot large quantities of webbing to produce both thick ropes with which to swing from buildings and nets with which to trap villains. This trope is also employed by most other spider-themed superheroes, such as ComicBook/ScarletSpider and ComicBook/SpiderGwen.
** Others, like ComicBook/{{Silk}}, do have organic webbing.

While this is most often applied to spiders, as they're generally the animals most tied to silk and webbing in popular culture, other silk-producing arthropods (or silk-producing insects, like caterpillars for example) can easily be granted the ability to launch their webbing in a similar fashion.

* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': The [[SpiderTank Tachikomas]], while not capable of producing actual silk, have an ability reminiscent of this in the form of web-like guidewires that they can shoot from their pods to swing around as a form of mobility. As shown in episode 2 "TESTATION", they can attach the wires to other moving objects such as the HAW-201 tank in an effort to slow it down with their own body weight.

While this is most often applied to spiders, as they're generally the animals most tied to silk and webbing in popular culture, other silk-producing arthropods can easily be granted the ability to launch their webbing in a similar fashion.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Pokemon}}'': Several Bug-type moves are themed around a Pokemon shooting or spitting strands of silk at its opponent.
** The old staple String Shot is typically themed as a Pokemon shooting strands of silk from its mouth to bind its opponent. It's most often learned by Pokemon resembling caterpillars, other insect larvae or spiders.