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** Giant spiders can shoot webs at enemies, binding them.


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* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'': Giant spiders have a long-distance web attack that immobilizes whomever they use it on for a long time. And they will use it frequently. Just one of the reason they're considered DemonicSpiders.
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** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]": When Fluttershy asks him to close the windows during her initial Nightmare Night barricade, Fuzzy Legs the spider does this by shooting two thick strings of webbing at them and using them to slam the windows shut.

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** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]": "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E15ScareMaster Scare Master]]": When Fluttershy asks him to close the windows during her initial Nightmare Night barricade, Fuzzy Legs the spider does this by shooting two thick strings of webbing at them and using them to slam the windows shut.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Flyders -- [[MixAndMatchCritters spiders with insect wings]] depicted in the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E16CampfireTales Campfire Tales]]" -- can squirt strands of webbing from their spinnerets with a fair degree of accuracy. One is able to shoot out enough webbing to cover half of Sweetie Belle's face with a single shot, while another shoots out a strand accurately enough to tangle Applejack's legs bolas-style in mid-gallop.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Flyders -- [[MixAndMatchCritters spiders with insect wings]] depicted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E18MaudPie Maud Pie]]": When Fluttershy asks him to close
the episode windows during her initial Nightmare Night barricade, Fuzzy Legs the spider does this by shooting two thick strings of webbing at them and using them to slam the windows shut.
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"[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E16CampfireTales Campfire Tales]]" Tales]]": Flyders -- [[MixAndMatchCritters spiders with insect wings]] -- can squirt strands of webbing from their spinnerets with a fair degree of accuracy. One is able to shoot out enough webbing to cover half of Sweetie Belle's face with a single shot, while another shoots out a strand accurately enough to tangle Applejack's legs bolas-style in mid-gallop.
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* One of the monsters from ''Film/TheSuperInframan'', the Spider Monster, can spit ''explosive'' web projectiles capable of encasing unfortunate victims, which explodes when the victim is trapped.

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* One of the monsters from ''Film/TheSuperInframan'', the ''Film/TheSuperInframan'': The Spider Monster, Monster can spit ''explosive'' web projectiles capable of encasing unfortunate victims, which explodes when the victim is trapped.
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* One of the monsters from ''Film/TheSuperInframan'', the Spider Monster, can spit ''explosive'' web projectiles capable of encasing unfortunate victims, which explodes when the victim is trapped.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Stranglewebs are a type of Tyranid bio-weapon in the form of a spider-like creature that fires nets of sticky mucous that adhere to targets and rapidly constrict around them, usually crushing them to death. Some are coated with poison to make them more lethal. They're typically used to capture organisms to be carried back to the Hive Ships for analysis and incorporation.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The obsidian dragons described in ''Dragon'' Magazine #146 (distinct from the eponymous gem dragons from later editions) can breathe out a membranous, ten-foot web three times per day, which they can launch up to sixty feet away and which on contact hardens into a shell of black ice.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Blackspawn stalkers, chimeras of spiders and black dragons, can throw webs like nets to entangle creatures.
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The obsidian dragons described in ''Dragon'' Magazine #146 (distinct from the eponymous gem dragons from later editions) can breathe out a membranous, ten-foot web three times per day, which they can launch up to sixty feet away and which on contact hardens into a shell of black ice.
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* ''Fanfic/SeventhEndmostVision'': [[BigCreepyCrawlies Grashtrike]] [[MixAndMatchCritters Queens]] can do this, using it to make nests in the subways of the Plate. It can also go off after one dies; [[SuperSoldier Tifa]] has a moment of awesome turned into a funny one after killing a Queen when the thing's body jerks and manages to web her directly to the ground.
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* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterOnline'': Baelidae, a giant arthropod resembling a cross between a crab and a spider, can shoot out strands of silk to slow the player down.

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* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterOnline'': ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Online'': Baelidae, a giant arthropod resembling a cross between a crab and a spider, can shoot out strands of silk to slow the player down.
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* ''VideoGame/EarthDefenseForce'': Spider enemies come in two major types, both of which use projectile webs as their main weapons. Wolf Spider types jump around and spit strands of webbing that can slow or even immobilize a player character. Larger Retiarius/Aranea types spin enormous webs that can trap players, but can also draw prey into the web by throwing long lines of webbing.

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* ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'': In ''Literature/TheTowerOfTheElephant'', Conan fights a GiantSpider. After its first charges at the Cimmerian fail to kill him and cost it a leg, the spider settles for webbing the door shut to trap Conan in the room with it, then trying to snare him with strands of web fired from beyond sword reach.


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* ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'': In ''Literature/TheTowerOfTheElephant'', Conan fights a GiantSpider. After its first charges at the Cimmerian fail to kill him and cost it a leg, the spider settles for webbing the door shut to trap Conan in the room with it, then trying to snare him with strands of web fired from beyond sword reach.
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* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Even as a larva, Mothra can spit wads of stick silk large enough to tie a grown human to a wall. As an adult, her silk becomes copious and strong enough to be able to glue two of King Ghidorah's three heads to a building with one shot.


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** Even as a larva, [[Characters/MonsterVerseKaiju Mothra]] in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' can spit wads of stick silk large enough to tie a grown human to a wall -- as an adult, her silk becomes copious and strong enough to be able to glue two of King Ghidorah's three heads to a building with one shot.
** The graphic novel ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'' depicts two [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandKaijuAndOtherCreatures Mother Longlegs]] utilizing this when fighting against Kong, not that it does them much good.
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** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolas_spider Bolas spiders]] create a ball of sticky webbing on the end of a silk line, which they then throw at prey before reeling them in. Appropriately, they are also known as angling or fishing spiders.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': Chula the spider functions as errand boy to TheVillain, Cat R. Waul. While Waul is welcoming some mice to the town of Green River, Chula is told to issue water. Being a recalcitrant fellow, Chula hocks a loogie at a newlywed couple, which forms an instant web, trapping them inside an old boot. Waul flicks away the webbing and continues his AffablyEvil schmooze.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': Chula the spider functions as errand boy to TheVillain, the villain, Cat R. Waul. While Waul is welcoming some mice to the town of Green River, Chula is told to issue water. Being a recalcitrant fellow, Chula hocks a loogie at a newlywed couple, which forms an instant web, trapping them inside an old boot. Waul flicks away the webbing and continues his AffablyEvil schmooze.
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* Neutrophils, the most abundant white blood cell, can kill bacteria casting [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil_extracellular_traps nets]] of DNA with proteines mixed in up to in suicide fashion destroying the cell, even if such procedure is also harmful for the host.
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See also AllWebbedUp. SisterTrope to NetGun. This trope can help characterize a SneakySpider.

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See also AllWebbedUp. SubTrope of ArtisticLicenseArachnids and SisterTrope to NetGun. This trope can help characterize a SneakySpider.
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* ''Film/BastardSwordsman'': Practitioners of the "Silkworm Technique" kung fu can create strands of silk using their ''qi'', which Fei Yang, the film's hero, displays in the final battle. He even uses his ''qi''-generated silk to cocoon himself as an impromptu shield.
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* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The main character takes this trope UpTo11 over the course of the story due to being a GiantSpider in an RPG world. By the time she [[spoiler:leaves thr labrynth]], her ability to produce webs becomes a SwissArmySuperpower capable of things like cleaving, piercing, and bludgeoning targets, binding enemies to deal a CoupDeGrace in the form of a venomous bite, setting traps, and weaving entire houses.

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* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The main character takes this trope UpTo11 over the course of the story due to being a GiantSpider in an RPG world. By the time she [[spoiler:leaves thr labrynth]], the labyrinth]], her ability to produce webs becomes a SwissArmySuperpower capable of things like cleaving, piercing, and bludgeoning targets, binding enemies to deal a CoupDeGrace in the form of a venomous bite, setting traps, and weaving entire houses.
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* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'': The main character takes this trope UpTo11 over the course of the story due to being a GiantSpider in an RPG world. By the time she [[spoiler:leaves thr labrynth]], her ability to produce webs becomes a SwissArmySuperpower capable of things like cleaving, piercing, and bludgeoning targets, binding enemies to deal a CoupDeGrace in the form of a venomous bite, setting traps, and weaving entire houses.
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* ''Film/WebOfDeath'': One of the many powers displayed by the titular weapon is the ability to eject poisonous webs that clings to the skin of it's victims, ensnaring them on the spot causing them to shrivel with copious amounts of BodyHorror.

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* ''Film/WebOfDeath'': One of the many powers displayed by the titular weapon is the ability to eject poisonous webs that clings to the skin of it's victims, ensnaring them on the spot causing them to shrivel with copious amounts of BodyHorror. Liu Shen, the BigBad, notably uses this function to trap an entire room of rival martial artists and kills them all in one swoop.
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* ''Film/WebOfDeath'': One of the many powers displayed by the titular weapon is the ability to eject poisonous webs that clings to the skin of it's victims, ensnaring them on the spot causing them to shrivel with copious amounts of BodyHorror.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'': Grendlim, biomechanical lizard-like creatures native to the Phaeton Ring, hunt their prey by spitting sticky nets at it.
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* Julia Carpenter, the second ComicBook/SpiderWoman, can create "[[PsychicPowers psionic-webbing]]", which is made of psychic energy instead of being organic. Charlotte Witter, the fourth Spider-Woman and the only one to be a villain, also had this power.

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* Julia Carpenter, the second ComicBook/SpiderWoman, can create "[[PsychicPowers psionic-webbing]]", which is made of psychic energy instead of being organic. Charlotte Witter, the fourth Spider-Woman and the only one to be a villain, also had this power.
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* Julia Carpenter, the second ComicBook/SpiderWoman, can create "[[PsychicPowers psionic-webbing]]", which is made of psychic energy instead of being organic. Charlotte Witter, the fourth Spider-Woman and the only one to be a villain, also had this power.
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** The larval Wormmon relies on silk web techniques that have a myriad of uses, like trapping foes, shooting needle-like web projectiles, swinging or grabbing objects.

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** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': The larval Wormmon relies on silk web techniques that have a myriad of uses, like trapping foes, shooting needle-like web projectiles, swinging or grabbing objects.objects. Arukenimon, who is the Ultimate form of the aforementioned Dokugumon, also has web attacks.
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The obsidian dragons described in ''Dragon'' Magazine #146 (distinct from the eponymous gem dragons from later editions) can breathe out a membranous, ten-foot web three times per day, which they can launch up to sixty feet away and which on contact hardens into a shell of black ice.
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* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': At one point, Hercules and Icarus sneak into the Underworld to reweave the Tapestry of Fate and ensure they can get tickets to a particular concert. While there, they encounter Arachne, the tapestry's guardian, who snares the running Icarus with a web and eats him alive. This leads into the rest of the story as Herc reweaves the tapestry himself to save his friend.

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* ''WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries'': At one point, Hercules and Icarus sneak into the Underworld to reweave the Tapestry of Fate and ensure they can get tickets to a particular concert. While there, they encounter Arachne, the tapestry's guardian, who snares the running Icarus with a web and eats him alive. This leads into the rest of the story as Herc reweaves the tapestry himself to save his friend.
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* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Kirby's new ability introduced in this game, Spider, lets him (among other things) shoot webs at range that quickly encases minor enemies in pods.

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* ''VideoGame/KirbyStarAllies'': Kirby's new Spider ability introduced in this game, Spider, lets him (among other things) shoot webs at range that quickly encases minor enemies in pods.



* ''Webcomic/CassiopeiaQuinn'': In ''The Body-Snatchifiers'', Dr. Botz's upgraded version of herself -- a {{Cyborg}} {{Spider Pe|ople}}rson with eight mechanical limbs -- is capable of spraying jets of fast-hardening webbing from its wrists.

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* ''Webcomic/CassiopeiaQuinn'': In ''The Body-Snatchifiers'', Dr. Botz's upgraded version of herself -- a {{Cyborg}} {{Spider Pe|ople}}rson with eight mechanical limbs -- is capable of spraying can spray jets of fast-hardening webbing from its her wrists.
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* In ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'', the ability to shoot webs is one of several ninja skills Gozarutchi knows how to pull off.

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