History Main / SpidersAreScary

* The Internet meme [[http://www.quickmeme.com/Misunderstood-Spider/ Misunderstood Spider]] makes fun of this stereotype, by portraying an innocent, helpful, and friendly spider who is attacked by humans out of irrational fear.
* The [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/nope NOPE meme]] in regards to creepy crawlies.

* There's a scripted event in ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons2014'' where you'll go in and find Margot and Jonas arguing over what to do with a spider that was in their house. Margot saw one and chased it with a broom trying to crush it and shoo it out, while Jonas believes that it would have left on its own so there was no need to harm it and it could have been scooped up and taken out gently. You can agree with one or the other for a friendship boost with the one you agree with, but [[TakeAThirdOption trying to agree with both]] upsets them both with you- non answer and makes you appear wishy-washy.

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': In the evil wizards Nocturnus and Eclipsa's backstory, the monsters of the nightmare realm escaped into the real world through their cursed magic, especially in the form of spiders.

* ''Vermines'', a 2023 French film, is about an abnormal invasion of small venomous spiders in a French ''banlieue''.

** His best friend Ron however is terrified of spiders, stemming from a childhood incident where Fred [[KidsAreCruel cruelly turned his teddy bear into a spider]]. It's a fear that's shared by his actor in the films, Creator/RupertGrint.

-->'''Jane''': Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope ''[unclips her microphone and walks off camera]''

* A common counterargument that you can use towards people who kill harmless spiders for no other reason [[DisproportionateRetribution than them being there]] - besides it being needless animal cruelty, damaging to the environment, and encouraging pests to get inside your home - is that by immediately killing spiders they see, [[GoneHorriblyRight the killers are now the selection pressure that will encourage spiders to get better at hiding and become more stealthy over time]]. If they think spiders are scary now, just wait until one even better at hiding in the shadows comes around!

* ''WebVideo/PiratesSMP'': The evil wizards Nocturnus and Eclipsa's backstory states that the the monsters of the nightmare realm have managed to escape into the real world through their cursed magic, especially in the form of spiders.

* A common joke on the Internet involves someone [[KillItWithFire burning their house down]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill just to kill a single spider.]]

** Inverted however by a gif of a tumbleweed spider, which runs away by curling into a ball and rolling. The ''spider'' is the one going NOPE.

** In a issue of ''Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'', Spidey rescues a little girl, and when he returns her to her dad, the girl sees the spider symbol on Spider-Man's chest. Her dad tells Spidey that his daughter is scared of spiders.

** [[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.]]

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

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': While averted by the heroic Spider-man himself, this is played straight by his spider-motif enemies ComicBook/{{Venom}} and Characters/{{Carnage|CletusKasady}}. Sort of.

** An alternate universe that Characters/{{Deadpool|WadeWilson}} encounters plays this horrifically straight. Not only has Spider-Man chosen to keep his extra arms, along with sporting fangs and engaging in [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]], but he has become a Horseman of [[Characters/MarvelComicsApocalypse Apocalypse]], specifically Pestilence.

* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' lampshades the idea that spiders are particularly scary, as the spiders that you fight are called Arachnid!s and Arachnid!!!s.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': While averted by the heroic Spider-man himself, this is played straight by his spider-motif enemies ComicBook/{{Venom}} and Characters/{{Carnage|CletusKasady}}. Sort of.

* The 1950s sci-fi film ''Film/EarthVsTheSpider'' was about a giant mutant spider that invaded a nearby city. No relation to a [[SimilarlyNamedWorks similarly-titled]] 2001 movie about a lowly comic book fan who injects himself with a serum in order to become [[Franchise/SpiderMan a superhero with spider-like powers,]] but although it causes him to gain the powers of a human-sized spider, it also gives him the ''appearance'' of a human-sized spider and an endless hunger for human flesh.

* Taken in a BadPowersGoodPeople sense in ''Literature/TheLostYearsOfMerlin'' books, where the Grand Elusa is a white spider. A talking, ancient, size-shifting, teleporting, deeply magical, endlessly hungry white spider rightly seen as terrifying. She also patiently endures the main character's whining, has "love as strong as her hunger", and restricts her diet to evil things, even if she talks a lot about eating any visitors who show up.