History Main / SpiderPeople

* According to the producers, the design of Mr. Waternoose from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' was intended to be evocative of "a cross between a spider and a crab".

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'': Shantae's spider transformation is redesigned from an actual GiantSpider into one of these.

* Angel Dust from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' is a "spider-demon" whose design is a unique one, being quite cute instead of scary or ugly; rather than the typical "spider centaur" design, Angel Dust has a bipedal, humanoid build, albeit [[MultiArmedAndDangerous with six arms]] (two of which are retractable.) He's also covered in soft fur, had a mouth full of venomous fangs, and overall is a LittleBitBeastly PrettyBoy who's considered quite attractive by both the characters and the audience. While "evil" might be a bit strong to describe him, he's definitely a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who [[TheGadfly loves to piss people off]].

** [[spoiler: Saint Jaygarcia Saturn of the Five Elders has the power of an awakened Zoan fruit that turns him into a nigh-unkillable man-spider hybrid.]]

* ''Fanfic/RickAndTheLoudHouse'': In ''[=IC2=]: Along Came a Sister'', Leni is splashed with chemicals from Rick's lab while covered in baby spiders, turning her into a Drider-like monster who tries to eat Rick and her siblings.

* [[TheBogan Mammon]] is the [[CountryMatters foul-mouthed]] and MonsterClown Sin of Greed from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss. Unlike [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Angel Dust]] from the sister series ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', Mammon is a straight up FatBastard BadBoss who only cares about making more money.

* [[TheBogan Mammon]] is the [[CountryMatters foul-mouthed]] and MonsterClown Sin of Greed from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss]]. Unlike Angel Dust from the sister series ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'', Mammon is a straight up FatBastard BadBoss who only cares about making more money.

* ''WesternAnimation/FrankeldasBookOfSpooks'' has Procustes, the main antagonist and the Scare Kingdom's original Nightmare Writer. He's a grotesque green high society spider-centaur with feet resembling pen nibs that mysteriously merged with his mansion to trap the protagonists within its walls and within his consciousness.

* Arachne appears in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' as she battles ''(of all people)'' Franchise/SpiderMan. She also saves Herc (who himself was turned into a Spider-Person by the Spider Queen). However, as she rescues him, she suddenly finds herself ''very'' attracted to his new form, and the two of them have sex. In public. ''In front of the (captive) X-Men!''

* ComicBook/SpiderMan generally doesn't qualify, being just a normal guy with spiderlike ''powers'' -- but he has occasionally mutated further into "Man-Spider", a far more monstrous form somewhere in between a bipedal human and a giant multi-armed spider.

* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'': Little Miss Muffet was a short-lived superhero; she resembled a blond young girl who could climb walls and had six arms.

* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' has an entire family of Spider Demons living in mount Natagumo and acting as the first serious battle for the protagonists: [[TheLeader Rui]], the Sister and the Mother are all pale humanoids with FacialMarkings and powers over webs (cutting, corrosive and puppeteering strings respectively), while the Brother is a large human-headed spider whose poison can turn people in human-headed spiders under his control and father is a large, muscular man with a spider's head resembling a monstrous tarantula.

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* ''Manga/SazanEyes'': the unnamed Hyoma serving Gupta is allowed to make his first ritual of assimilation, which merges his body with a bat and a spider, resulting in a grotesque humanoid with the wings and ears of a bat coupled with the eight limbs, gaping fanged mouth and silk-spitting abdomen of a spider.
* ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'': there's an entire family of Spider Demons living in mount Natagumo and acting as the first serious battle for the protagonists: [[TheLeader Rui]], the Sister and the Mother are all pale humanoids with FacialMarkings and powers over webs (cutting, corrosive and puppeteering strings respectively), while the Brother is a large human-headed spider whose poison can turn people in human-headed spiders under his control and father is a large, muscular man with a spider's head resembling a monstrous tarantula.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasThreeVisionarySwordsmen'': Lord Odorom's henchman, General Spider, is a spider-human and one of his deadliest champions due to [[MultiArmedAndDangerous having six limbs wielding six poisoned rapiers]] at the same time. It takes the combined efforts of Nobitania, Shizukaria, Giantosu and Sunemisu taking him on in a lengthy SwordFight, but then he pulls a VillainExitStageLeft after having all six of his weapons snapped.

* ''Manga/KarakuriCircus'': one of the top class Automata serving under [[spoiler: Faceless]] has the appearence of a beautiful woman in a old-style, high class dress, including a large hat, gloves and umbrella, while her lower half is that of a gigantic hairy spider, which she uses to move fast enough to catch up with a train. She's also an IdenticalStranger to the MissingMom of the local circus troupe family and when they admit this in her face she becomes deluded that they are her real family.

* Kidomaru from ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'' has two extra pairs of arms, which essentially gave him a total of eight appendages, relating to his spider theme. Not only that but he also has spider-like abilities.

* Entoma Vasilissa Zeta, one of the [[NinjaMaid Pleiades battle maids]] in ''Literature/{{Overlord|2012}}'', wears very form traditional and form concealing clothing, and for good reason: she's barely humanoid at all. When she's forced into a fight, it becomes only too clear that her true body is far more on the spider side of the spectrum with legs poking out of her "back" and her jaws being where her "chin" would supposedly be. What appears to be her face is nothing but an insect that attaches on top of her real face. Basically, imagine a spider walking on two legs, and only when it feels like it.

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* The protagonist of ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' makes becoming an Arachne her primary goal to hopefully interacting with society because her current form is a terrifying spider the size of a large pig. She doesn't know for certain the biology of an Arachne but she assumes they'd at least have a human upper body and mouth and thus be able to speak to people. She does finally succeed, but she ends up being a SingleSpecimenSpecies as no spider monster has ever managed to reach that stage before. To her surprise, below the human upper body she still has a spider's head which contains its own functional ''brain'', meaning she can look herself in the eyes if she wants. The human half also happens to be very beautiful, but this is implicitly unrelated to Arachne as a race: It's just how she looks.

* In ''AudioPlay/{{Starboard}}'' Arachne, the nurse of the outlaw ship Taranau is a spider creature known as an arachnotaur. Despite her appearance, she is also one of the gentlest and kindest members of the crew.

* Arachne appears in ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' as she battles ''(of all people)'' Franchise/SpiderMan.
** She also saves Herc (who himself was turned into a Spider-Person by the Spider Queen). However, as she rescues him, she suddenly finds herself ''very'' attracted to his new form, and the two of them have sex. In public. ''In front of the (captive) X-Men!''
* The Crimson King in the comic adaptation of ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''.
* The original form of Ai Apaec, South American chimera god and the ComicBook/DarkAvengers' Dark Spider-Man, is a spider-person with snake hair.
* The Stalk in ''ComicBook/{{Saga}}'' is a more terrifying blend of human and spider elements -- she has four rows of eyes, a human torso with no arms, and each of her spider legs ends in a human hand.
* Anton Arcane, arch-enemy of Comicbook/SwampThing, was once a cybernetic monstrosity in his third appearance, half spider, half zombie, with one compound eye.
* ''ComicBook/TheTenSeconders'': One of the Gods is Arachne, a spiderlike humanoid with eight limbs who eats people for lunch. Incidentally, he's a DarkerAndEdgier perversion of ''ComicBook/SpiderMan''.
* ''ComicBook/SatansHollow'': The Devil's Squire is a demon-spider hybrid.
* The minor ComicBook/GhostRider foe Shelob is an arachnid-like demoness capable of wearing people's skin like a suit after liquefying and consuming their innards.
* ComicBook/WonderWoman appears as one in ComicBook/JusticeLeague Adventures #21, but it's only on the cover and one panel in the book just to show what kind of unethical experiments an alien race were willing to do to our heroes.
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': One of the first real signs that Circe is truly slipping mentally rather than just being exceptionally petty and cruel during "The Witch and the Warrior" is that she turned ComicBook/LexLuthor into a poorly restrained giant spider-taur with his mind intact and kept him on the same ship her young daughter is strolling about.

* ''Fanfic/{{Juxtapose}}'' has the villain Tsuchigumo [[spoiler:who is using his MindControl powers to force Kensei to spy on Yuuei.]]
* ''Fanfic/RickAndTheLoudHouse:'' In ''IC2: Along Came a Sister,'' Leni is splashed with chemicals from Rick's lab while covered in baby spiders, turning her into a Drider-like monster who tries to eat Rick and her siblings.
* ''Fanfic/{{The Shape Of Bugs}}'', a Pokemon Guzma x Reader AU of The Shape Of Water has an Ariados Drider Guzma who takes the role of Amphibian Man.

* Some examples from Creator/{{Pixar}} films:
** Rosie from ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' actually looks like this, despite being an actual spider, due to being a heavily anthropomorphized black widow with a human face and a pair of human hands.
** One of [[DarkisNotEvil the mutant toys]] from the first ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' film appears to be a baby doll's head mounted onto a spider body made from an Erector kit.
** Mr. Waternoose from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', whose design, according to the producers, was intended to be evocative of "a cross between a spider and a crab."
* The Other Mother in ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' eventually transforms into this.

* The spidermonkey in ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'' is half-spider, half-gorilla.

* A semi-inversion in the 2017 film ''Film/JourneyToTheWestTheDemonsStrikeBack''. The spider demons are basically bus-sized spiders, with the upper torsos of women dangling from behind the pedipalps. [[spoiler:This does not deter [[ExtremeOmnisexual Pigsy]] in the least.]]
* At the climax of ''Film/ItChapterTwo'', [[spoiler: Pennywise transforms into one of these - a GiantSpider-like creature with his clown form's torso growing out of it.]]
* ''Film/TheSuperInframan'' has the Spider-Monster - a humanoid-spider hybrid, as one of the many monsters Inframan must defeat.

* Arachnea from ''Literature/HowlOFTheWerewolf'' used to be human and a BlackWidow who murders her various lovers for wealth. After being hit by a curse, she becomes a hybrid between a human and a black widow.
* Tenebrites in ''[[Creator/PiersAnthony Quest for the Fallen Star]]'' have this as one of their [[VoluntaryShapeshifting two forms]] (the other form is fully humanoid). They wear full plate in both states.
* Spidrens from Creator/TamoraPierce's Literature/TortallUniverse, which have a spider's body and a human head. They're first seen in ''Literature/TheImmortals'' and show up again in ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall''.
* Arachs in the web-novel ''Literature/{{Domina}}'' are a bit of a twist on this, in that they're LittleBitBeastly versions of this. It's noted that they already have most of the BioAugmentation that lets them ''act'' like spiders (poison, silk glands, etc), but they want stuff that makes them ''look'' like spiders as well--mostly, [[MultiArmedAndDangerous extra arms]].
* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer had an '80s shared world sci-fantasy series called ''The Dungeon'' where alien beings are transported to a series of melded worlds for the amusement of an advanced civilization. Among the protagonists was a Shriek, who was a telepathic multi-armed, superhumanly strong, [[BeastMan spider person]] with [[SpikeShooter poison-tipped spines]]. The main hero Clive Folliot was initially horrified at meeting the inhuman Shriek (her head was that of a giant spider and her whole body was covered in hairy spines like a tarantula) but soon the pair became staunch friends.
* ''Literature/APoisonDarkAndDrowning'': The familiars of [[GiantSpider Nemneris]], who are referred to as "Lice", are giant human-spider monsters with eight legs and a set of mandible in place of a human mouth.

* A trio of these creatures popped up in an episode of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'' with the modus operandi of picking out and "befriending" a social reject to [[FatteningTheVictim fatten up and eat]], knowing he won't be missed since he doesn't have friends. Unfortunately for them, they happen to pick out Merton Dingle this time who has one ''hell'' of a friend at his back who is willing to beat some serious spider ass to save him.

* The ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' episode "Web of Desire" showed a different take on the Arachne myth. She was jealous of her daughter's beauty and drowned her in the ocean. Zeus cursed her into a Spider Person form and banished her on a deserted island.
* The Captain Proton holodeck episode from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' featured Janeway as Aracnia, Queen of the Spider People. Presumably had we seen the spider people, this trope would have been involved.

* [[Myth/ClassicalMythology In Greco-Roman mythology]], there was a mortal weaver named Arachne. Arachne boasted of how her skills in making beautiful tapestries were better than those of Athena/Minerva, the Goddess of wisdom and crafts. What happened next depends on whom you ask: either Athena/Minerva grew so tired of her boasting, or won a weaving contest with the girl or ''lost'' and [[JerkassGods was so salty over it]] that she turned Arachne into either a spider woman, [[ForcedTransformation an ordinary spider]] or a giant spider depending on the adaptation.
* Myth/JapaneseMythology has the {{yokai}} jorogumo (literally "whore spider") and tsuchigumo. Both are spider-spirits that can adopt a wholly or partially human form, but jorogumos tend to be seductresses who live in disguise among human society, whilst tsuchigumos are GiantSpider demons who command armies of lesser yokai. The former is usually depicted as a woman with spider limbs emerging from her sleeves, while the latter is usually a spider with a monstrous cat-like head.

** Perhaps the most iconic of all are driders, who created the definitive "humanoid from the waist up, giant spider from the waist down" appearance that almost every spider-person has since used. These are drow transformed into their new form by Lolth, [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon Queen of Spiders]] and [[EthnicGod racial patron]] of the dark elves. Traditionally, this is a ''punishment'' for the drow in question, although 4th edition pointed out the FridgeLogic of being made more spidery by a god ''of'' spiders somehow being a punishment and instead made it a blessing[[note]]as originally conceived, it was a punishment because from the drow perspective it meant that Lolth didn't think you could become powerful on your own, so she reshapes you into a powerful form. As this was combined with not being able to grow ''more'' powerful -- driders, unlike drow, couldn't get class levels -- drow society, [[TheSocialDarwinist Social Darwinist]] that it is, had every reason to look down on driders as unworthy. This seemed a bit thin when edition changes meant driders ''could'' get class levels, but it remained as TheArtifact.[[/note]].

** Chitines are a race of spider-people created by the drow as a slave-race, appearing as bipedal figures with pronounced fangs and multiple elongated, multiply jointed arms. They are ruled over by female priestesses called choldriths, who, depending on edition, either look like [[https://web.archive.org/web/20210811102208/http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/mof_gallery/MonFaePG27.jpg spiders with elven faces]] or else something like a more hideous drider. Unfortunately for the drow, Lolth took offense to the fact that the chitines weren't "properly" consecrated to her, and inspired them to rebel. [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters Now they constantly wage war on the drow to prove that they're Lolth's "true children".]]

** Jorogumos, as in Japanese folklore, are AlwaysFemale humanoids resembling beautiful women with spider-like characteristics -- in this case, eight jointed spider arms extending from their backs -- as well as the ability to control regular spiders. They reproduce by seducing humanoid males, paralyzing them after copulation, laying an egg in their bodies, [[AllWebbedUp cocooning them]] and leaving them helpless and bound until the infant hatches and [[EatenAlive eats her way out of her father]].
** 2nd Edition introduces the anandi, who resemble humanoids with the heads of jumping spiders. Notably, in a total aversion of what's usually expected from spider-people, they are ChaoticGood. However, the anandi are aware that their appearance is unnerving to humans, so they've developed the ability to magically shapeshift into humans as AFormYouAreComfortableWith. A later book, in the course of making anadi a playable ancestry, specifies that the anadi's true forms are just giant spiders about the size of humans. By default they have the ability to swap between spider form and aforementioned humanoid Form You Are Comfortable With; with a feat they can take the hybrid form mentioned above and access the abilities of both forms at once (e.g. climbing walls while still having hands). Most anadi are depicted as jumping spiders still, though some mechanics imply they could look like other kinds of spider.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The [[Characters/Warhammer40000Necrons Necron]] character Illuminor Szeras is the robotic equivalent, sporting four spider-like legs. He takes the appearance one step further by having two small manipulator arms mounted on his chest that give him the appearance of having pedipalps as well as regular arms.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LegendsOfChima'' have the Spider Tribe after they are evolved by CHI. Similar to the Scorpion Tribe, they have variants of this trope within them; most Spiders have eight limbs (four spider limbs protruding from their backs and then normal humanoid limbs); Sparratus only has humanoid limbs, and Queen Spinlyn has a humanoid upper body and arachnid lower body. Apparently this makes her extremely beautiful to the Spider Tribe.
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* The Spider Witch boss from ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame''. She started out as an evil human, but after dying she was transformed into a humanoid arachnid by Ivo Shandor.
* The Contessa from ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves''. She's not really human but in a world where every character is an [[FunnyAnimal anthropomorphic animal]] she kind of stands out.
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** One variety of the Nerubians are like this, with spiderlike lower halves and humanoid upper halves. They still look pretty spider-like on the humanoid part, with long, clawed arms and a spider's face. Other Nerubians have widely different body types, with the biggest ones being essentially [[BigCreepyCrawlies giant]] [[ScarabPower scarab beetles]].
** The Fal'dorei are mutated Night Elves with Nerubian-style bodies and elven heads hidden under hoods.
** The Aranasiare a race of arachnid demons of the Burning Legion, some appearing like Nerubians, but others have a humanoid appearance while standing on two legs with wing-like structures on their back.
* The Lesbian Spider Queens from ''VideoGame/LesbianSpiderQueensOfMars''.
* The Spider Queen, one of the bosses in ''{{VideoGame/Gauntlet}}: Dark Legacy'', was drawn this way.
* The ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' games have this as a recurring enemy type. Specific enemies are named Arachmene, Black Widow, Scylla, etc.
* Inverted for the Sharan, a race of spider people in the old Polish RPG ''Krysztaly Czasu'' -- they are spiders from the waist up and look really awkward (even though their claws had enough dexterity to handle items).
* Arachne is an enemy in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series, and a GINORMOUS one in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia''.
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series has Spider Daedra, which, as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin their name might imply]], are a Spider People form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]]. Physically, they appear as a naked humanoid torso attached below the waist to the abdomen, thorax, and legs of a GiantSpider. In the spin-off DungeonCrawler game ''[[VideoGame/AnElderScrollsLegendBattlespire Battlespire]]'', they have masculine upper human bodies. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'', they have feminine upper human bodies.

* The Arachnae monsters on the way to the Land of Summoned Monsters in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIV'' and their PaletteSwap Alraune in ''Videogame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears'' are human from the waist up, but have a spider's abdomen and legs below.
* The Vagary from ''VideoGame/Doom3'', a demonic-spider-woman who appeared to be telepathic and telekinetic.
%%* One of the bosses from the video game version of ''WesternAnimation/FlushedAway'' looks like this.
* The Tarantula Mistresses from ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''.

* Spider-Human hybrids were meant to be the next step up from the first ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1''[='=]s Chimera monsters, which were humanoid flies. Unfortunately, the concept was created during ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2''[='s=] ''1.5'' phase -- famously abandoned during a late build by the creators, and the creature went along with it.
** The Jabberwock S3 B.O.Ws from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheDarksideChronicles'' are a SpiritualSuccessor to the idea. Whilst not explicitly using spider DNA, they have multiple insectile limbs and protruding, spider-like multi-jawed mandibles, making them look like a horrific bipedal melding of human and spider.
** [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil7 Marguerite Baker]] is a less straightforward example. While normally a somewhat normal-looking old woman, in her [[OneWingedAngel mutated]] form her arms grow to freakish proportions and her lower torso bloats into something that looks like a spider abdomen. Then she [[WallCrawl crawls on walls while still taunting you...]]
* The dark elf unit Spider Queen, in ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders 2''.
* Two appear in ''VideoGame/DarkSouls''. The first is a boss fight; [[{{Fanservice}} Quelaag]] is half-naked-woman, half-'''MAGMA'''-spider, so you spend quite a lot of time dodging flame bursts and lava flows. The other is her unnamed sickly albino sister. "The White Lady" is friendly enough [[spoiler: because she's so ill she thinks you're her sister]] and acts as a fire keeper.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has [[FanDisservice Patches the Spider]] and Nightmare Apostles, unlike the predecessors above, the only thing human is the head, the rest of the body is a spider.
* The aptly-named Arachnos in ''VideoGame/TitanQuest'' have humanoid torso and spider body. Their queen Arachne is a giant boss monster. Later you can find the asiatic Arachnos, which are brightly colored and have the head of a tarantula, fangs and beady eyes included.
* Several Demons in the ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' series are portrayed this way:
** Baal in ''Videogame/DiabloII'''s ''Lord of Destruction expansion has a vaguely humanoid torso atop four spider-like legs.
** Azmodan in ''Videogame/DiabloIII'' whose [[FatBastard enormous bulk]] is supported by 6 legs.
** Also from ''Diablo III'' is Cydaea, who plays it straightest of the three, having a very spiderlike lower body with an [[HotAsHell attractive demon]] torso. Deckard Cain describes her as simultaneously beautiful and hideous to look at.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dreamkiller}}'' have them in the first stage as enemies, alongside regular GiantSpider mooks.
* The Namtaru in ''[[VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic Might and Magic: Heroes VI]]'' can choose to take the form of either a humanoid woman with six arms, or a woman's torso atop a spider's body and legs. Created to serve the goddess Asha as Angels of Death, the most powerful Namtaru have a limited ability to control the flow of time.
* [[TheDragon Yang Yuan's]] OneWingedAngel form in ''VideoGame/SwordsOfDestiny'' is a large spider-centaur form with four legs and six eyes. It makes her less nimble, but more powerful.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onimusha}}'' has at least three notable examples:
** [[TheBrute Ginghamphatts]] in the [[VideoGame/Onimusha2SamuraisDestiny second game]] (though is eventually revealed in the last boss battle that his lower body is more like a separate creature).
** The [[VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege third game]]'s basic mooks in the 2004 timeline are genma with four spider-like legs and a normal torso.
** The [[VideoGame/OnimushaDawnOfDreams fourth game]] has non-centaurid spider people in the form of Hell Spiders (multiple-armed humanoid with spider heads who can move really fast and attach themselves to the ceiling with webs.)
* In ''Videogame/BrothersATaleOfTwoSons'',[[spoiler: the brothers save a young girl from what appears to be a [[HumanSacrifice sacrificial ritual]] while on their journey. She accompanies them on their way to the mystical tree that will cure their father's illness. The girl later reveals herself to be this trope, having led the brothers into a trap. Though she is defeated, she manages to fatally wound the older brother.]]
* ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' has the Chaos Weavers from the Book 1 portion of the Ravenloss Saga, who had actually been ordinary humans until a curse was placed upon them by a wish-granting artifact built and used by their leader, Vaal. The curse gets lifted at the end, though, and the effects eventually disappear by the beginning of the next half of the saga.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gynophobia}}'': The FinalBoss of the game is a giant spider woman, which represents both the PlayerCharacter's arachnophobia and [[TitleDrop gynophobia]].
* ''VideoGame/MysticDefender'' have the cultists of Zareth's order, which are were-spiders despite their humanoid appearances. Even in human form their jumping motion with their hands outstretched in a clawed position looks like that of a trapdoor spider, and if left idle for too long, they can transform from humanoid forms to that of a GiantSpider.
* ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'': Shantae's spider transformation is redesigned from an actual GiantSpider into one of these.
* ''VideoGame/{{SMITE}}'' has a version of Arachne resembling a human woman mounted on a spider's legs and lower body.
* The final battle of ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior2'' has [[spoiler:Ameonna taking over Kamiko's body]] and becoming a giant spider-like abomination.
* The penultimate boss of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild''. To be specific, [[spoiler:Link botches Calamity Ganon's attempt to make a physical body. What Ganon manages to conjure consists of [[BodyHorror his rotting skull attached to a crude, multi-limbed mechanical torso, which in turn fixed to an old spider mech.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/PitPeople'' has Spidaurs, web-spinning [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur]] women with the horse part contorted into the shape of a spider. It's as weird as it sounds.
* ''VideoGame/{{Propagation}}'' have the spider-human-zombie hybrid as the FinalBoss, who can WallCrawl all over the place and spit webbing at you. For extra creepiness, you spend the prior area fighting hordes and hordes of GiantSpider enemies, ending with the Black Widow Queen, but after the Queen is down, her abdomen (who's taller than a human) then splits open to give birth to the hybrid monster.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'', finishing the quest "Magic Carpet Secrets" rewards you with artwork of Arachne and gives you lore that says the Gods punished her by for her conceit by turning her lower half into a spider and that she went on to make beautiful [[MagicCarpet Magic Carpets]] out of her own silk, which just angered the Gods even further.
* The Vithrack from ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' are an intelligent race of [[PsychicPowers psychic]] humanoid spiders, and pretty much [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent the setting’s equivalent]] of [[Franchise/DungeonsAndDragons Mind Flayers]]. Unlike most examples and the race they’re [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of, they’re explicitly ''not'' AlwaysChaoticEvil and you have quite a few peaceful interactions with them. They’re often very isolationist and violently territorial though, seemingly as a result of their extremely low birth rates. Amongst their own kind and people who have proven friendly to them, they’re actually remarkably kind and altruistic.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper 2'' was supposed to have these, but although their development got far, they were ultimately not included. Their file and concept art names are "Maiden", "Dark Maiden", and "Maiden of the Nest", and in the fan mod that makes them playable they go by Maiden. Maidens are of the "centaurs but with a spider body instead of a horse body" variety.
* Jorou from ''VisualNovel/SablesGrimoire'' has four spider-like legs growing from her back and spider-like mouthparts hidden under her mask. She otherwise looks human.

* ''VideoGame/FreshMintyAdventure'': The Spider Princess, Arachne, human upper body and head and a spider lower body.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiHunterShintaro'' has a Jorōgumo as one of it's many Yokai-themed bosses, depicted as a woman with a giant spider as her lower half, just like in the myths.

* ''Manspider'' is a very {{squick}}y NSFW Rule34 webcomic built around this concept.
* ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' has [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/comic/895 Lemrya]] and [[http://www.charbythevampirate.com/archive/680 Lezzaria]] both of whom have a different configuration than most.
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': Driders are based off the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms version, with a few subspecies to boot: Waelinider are the original driders created by merging drow with the bottom halves of spiders, a process that renders them sterile, Streekaider are the result of Waeliniders going mad and losing their higher mental functions, and Ne'kalsaider are "natural" driders who were born with spider legs and are implied to be the offspring of Waeliniders who somehow managed to keep their reproductive functions after their transformation.
* ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'': Princess Vitani is a demonic form of this, being a daemon prince of the Patterner -- a Chaos God heavily associated with spiders -- whose physical form resembles a centauroid black widow with the spider's coloration extending over her humanoid torso.
* ''Webcomic/WhiteDarklife'': Driders are slightly prominent race, ranging from six inch tall black widows like [[PintsizePowerhouse Entegra]] and [[NeverMessWithGranny Mildred]], to human sized tarantulas like [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Caroline]]. [[spoiler: [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Maid]] falls under this too by actually being Devin, Entegra's daughter after a serious accident.]]
* ''Webcomic/CassiopeiaQuinn'': In ''The Body-Snatchifiers'', Dr. Botz upgraded herself into a cyborg version of this -- her full form includes eight arthropod-like limbs, four as arms and four as legs, and capable of shooting jets of ProjectileWebbing from her wrists.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', a [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-008 few]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-009 strips]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/assorted-18a-016 feature]] Spider Grace with her having a humanoid body, 3 pairs of arms and the ability to shoot webbing.

* The dridders from ''Felarya'' are a larger than usual (as in, ''[[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever really frickin' HUGE]]'') example of this. (Will they eat you? Of ''course'' they'll eat you, this is ''[[EverythingTryingToKillYou Felarya.]]'')
* In the online flash game ''VideoGame/LesbianSpiderQueensOfMars'', by Creator/AdultSwim, your VillainProtagonist is an evil lesbian drider who reigns over a vast harem of female Martian slaves who have revolted against her. [[spoiler: The title refers to the lesbian spider queen in plural because the endgame reveals the revolution was started by another lesbian drider, who used to be the player-character's girlfriend and is mad at her for being dumped.]]
* Dr. Smith from ''WebVideo/NostalgiaCritic'', based off the character of the same name from "Lost in Space". He's OBSESSED with spiders, and wishes to take over the world with a giant legion of spiders.
* Angel Dust from ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' is a "spider-demon" whose design is a unique one, being quite cute instead of scary or ugly; rather than the typical "spider centaur" design, Angel Dust has a bipedal, humanoid build, albeit [[MultiArmedAndDangerous with six arms]] (two of which are retractable.) He's also covered in soft fur, had a mouth full of venomous fangs, and overall is a LittleBitBeastly PrettyBoy who's considered quite attractive by both the characters and the audience. While "evil" might be a bit strong to describe him, he's definitely a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who [[TheGadfly loves to piss people off]].
* ''Literature/LoomingGaia'': Arachne are monsters with spider-like abdomens and humanoid torsos that feed on people and live in a symbiotic relationship with silkbeasts, beasts that look like giant spiders. They were created by the divine Morganya by combining a silkbeast and a vampire in hopes that Gaia would revoke her divinity for creating such a horrific creature.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': The Spinster, an age-old Gummi antagonist in episode "Thornberry to the Rescue" is spider-like being with a taste for Gummies.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'': One episode's MonsterOfTheWeek was Arachne, depicted as a drider.

* Veronica from ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong''. Jake was interested in asking her out... until he noticed that her lower half consisted of "eight hairy spider legs."
* Tarantulus and Blackarachnia from ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'', and Airachnid (a Blackarachnia {{expy}}) from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', are roboticized versions of this.
* Baxter Stockman in one later episode of ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'', due to him losing his human body from the neck down.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' episode "Date with Destiny", Robin is forced to take SpoiledBrat Kitten to the prom, just to spite her ex-boyfriend Fang, who looks like a human from the neck down but has a spider head, as well as the rest of the spider's body. Or he may be a giant spider who just so happens to have a functional human body hanging from below its head. Whichever is more appropriate to describe him.

* One episode of the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/TheMummyTheAnimatedSeries'' had powerful undead Imhotep temporarily merge himself with an ancient GiantSpider named Nihansan, giving him typical spider powers.
* Dr. Stanley Kirby from ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' ends up like this as the Arachnoid.
* On ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Grunkle Stan had a bad run-in with one named [[spoiler:Darlene]]. She's a drider-like being that, rather than having a human torso on a spider body, has a humanoid body that is very spider-like as well, being covered in exoskeleton and having spider mandibles instead of a human mouth. Her MO for trapping victims ties her in with the Japanese myth of the jorogumo (see above under Mythology And Folklore).
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' episode "Attack of the Arachnoid" involves a MadScientist named Zoltan who finds a way to imitate Spidey's powers, and impersonates him while committing crimes. Unfortunately, the formula then goes out of control, turning him into a full-fledged spider-centaur who calls himself the Arachnoid. [[spoiler: Zoltan's assistant (and love interest, horrified at what Zoltan has become) helps Spidey and his friends turn him back to normal.]] The episode was, for all intents and purposes, a near-total remake of the earlier "The Web of Nephillia" story from the 1981 ''[[WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1981 Spider-Man]]'' show.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Peter recalls having a nightmare about mutating into one when he got bitten by the spider. First he was the size of a normal house spider, but after he got flushed down the drain by Aunt May, he woke up (in the dream) washed up on the river bank, having grown to a monstrous size.
* Miss Webner is a spider-monster teacher in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', she looks like a nice old lady with six arms and knitting spider webs.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' has Spiderlegs, a powerful ghost that looks like a beautiful blonde woman from the waist up and a black widow from the waist down already trapped in the Containment Unit, but with her minions trying to liberate her.
* In the world of ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Franklin D. Roosevelt was accidentally turned into one of these as a side effect of an experimental vaccine for polio.
* ''WesternAnimation/RosePetalPlace'': Nastina is a humanoid spider with four arms and legs and human appearance otherwise.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Arachnichimps, such as Ben's morph Spidermonkey, resemble spider-like monkeys with four eyes and four arms; the Ultimate version of Spidermonkey resembles a gorilla with spider legs growing from its back, and ''Omniverse'' replaces the spider legs with six gorilla arms that the alien used to walk around, resulting in what visually resembles a sapient spider reskinned as a gorilla. Regardless of form, Spidermonkey combines the climbing skills of spiders and primates, and is used by Ben when he needs to navigate vertical surfaces.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrankeldasBookOfSpooks'' has Procustes, the main antagonist and the Scare Kingdom's original Nightmare Writer. He's a grotesque green high society spider-centaur with feet resembling pen nibs that mysteriously merged with his mansion to trap the protagonists within its walls and within his consciousness.
* In the WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 episode “Muppets Public Broadcasting” for Kermit’s story he goes to save Piggy from a spider, it turns out to be a trap as Piggy turns out to be a spider person who wants to eat him.

* ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper2'' was supposed to have these, but although their development got far they were ultimately not included. Their file and concept art names are "Maiden", "Dark Maiden", and "Maiden of the Nest", and in the fan mod that makes them playable they go by Maiden. Maidens are of the "centaurs but with a spider body instead of a horse body" variety.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Arachne are monsters with spider-like abdomens and humanoid torsos that feed on people and live in a symbiotic relationship with silkbeasts, beasts that look like giant spiders. They were created by the divine Morganya by combining a silkbeast and a vampire in hopes that Gaia would revoke her divinity for creating such a horrific creature.

%%* Keito from ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' is the local Jurogumo. %%ZCE

* Oddly enough the {{Youkai}} Nekosennin from ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'', despite being a cat monster, is usually represented as a tall man whose face bears an uncanny resemblance to the face of a wolf spider (having four round, almost arachnid eyes, two big and two small).
* Taboo Gordeaux from ''Manga/{{Psyren}}'' is a massive humanoid whose head is covered in a hood, but shows the ability to sprout eight long spider limbs from his back to shoot beams of energy and in a close up the outline of some chelicerae and multiple eyes can be spotted under his hood.

* One of the cute maid characters in ''Literature/Overlord2012'' wears very form traditional and form concealing clothing and for good reason: She's barely humanoid at all. When she's forced into a fight, it becomes only too clear that the her true body is far more on the spider side of the spectrum with legs poking out of her "back" and her jaws being where her "chin" would supposedly be. What appeared to be her face is nothing but an insect that attaches on top of her real face. Basically, imagine a spider walking on two legs, and only when it feels like it.

** Captain Talleran is a literal Spider Monkey. As in, body and legs of a gigantic spider combined with the hands, head and tail of an equally big monkey.
** The aptly named Marine Viceadmiral Onigumo [[note]] Japanese for ''Araneus Ventricosus'' [[/note]] can assume a spider-human form through his unnamed Devil Fruit which has him sprout spider limbs and abdomen from his back.

** Black Maria reveals that she ate the Spider Spider Fruit, Model: Rosamygale Grauvogeli and in her hybrid form her lower body is replaced with the body of a whole huge spider, head included, rather than a form similar to Onigumo's. WordOfGod explains that Black Maria deliberately altered her transformation with a drug similar to Chopper's Rumble Ball.

* The protagonist of ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' makes becoming an Arachne her primary goal to hopefully interacting with society because her current form is a terrifying spider the size of a large pig. She doesn't know for certain the biology of an Arachne but she assumes they'd at least have a human upper body and mouth and thus be able to speak to people. She does finally succeed, but she ends up being a SingleSpecimenSpecies as no spider monster has ever managed to reach that stage before. To her surprise, below the human upper body she still has a spider's head which contains its own functional ''brain'', meaning she can look herself in the eyes if she wants. The human half also happens to be very beautiful, but this is implicitly unrelated to Arachne as a race: It's just how she looks.
* One of the cute maid characters in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' wears very form traditional and form concealing clothing and for good reason: She's barely humanoid at all. When she's forced into a fight, it becomes only too clear that the her true body is far more on the spider side of the spectrum with legs poking out of her "back" and her jaws being where her "chin" would supposedly be. What appeared to be her face is nothing but an insect that attaches on top of her real face. Basically, imagine a spider walking on two legs, and only when it feels like it.

Chimeric beings with the physical characteristics of both humanoids and spiders. A common variant takes the form of a [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur-esque]] creature with the upper body of a human and a lower body of a [[GiantSpider spider]], sometimes referred to as a [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons driders]] or [[Myth/ClassicalMythology arachne]], but many other configurations appear in fiction. Naturally, they tend to have an ArachnidAppearanceAndAttire.

Most of the time they are seen as females, to play off of the BlackWidow trope and because female spiders are bigger and more dangerous than males. They're usually shown as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil evil]] [[SpidersAreScary beings]], or at least as predatory and amoral, but they occasionally fall into the CuteMonsterGirl or FriendlyNeighborhoodSpider categories. They commonly have access to a variety of spider-themed abilities, such as {{poison|ousPerson}} or the ability to [[AllWebbedUp spin webs]].

Subtrope of HalfHumanHybrid. See also OurCentaursAreDifferent when the spider person resembles an aranean centaur and SeductiveSpider if they're sexy. For a different kind of arachnid-humanoid chimeras, see ScorpionPeople, who may serve as a more exotic or threatening replacement for Spider People.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Arachne are monsters with spider-like abdomens and humanoid torsos that feed on people and live in a symbiotic relationship with silkbeasts, monsters that look like giant spiders. They were created by the divine Morganya by combining a silkbeast and a vampire in hopes that Gaia would revoke her divinity for creating such a horrific creature.

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