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* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has Juna, a gigantic snake guarding the tears of Guyhix. However, she is throughly benevolent and eager to hear stories told by the player as she had grown bored.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfTarzan'': Hista, the MonsterOfTheWeek in "The Challenger", is a gigantic python that hunts gorillas.
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* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' book four, ''The Silver Chair'', the Green Witch [[ScaledUp turns herself into a giant snake]] to fight Rilian. Unfortunately for her, while Rilian WouldntHitAGirl, he has no such qualms about hitting a ''snake''.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Rumble for Ragnarok", Scrooge McDuck and crew take on Jormungandr himself to decide the fate of the Earth... [[WrestlerInAllOfUs in the form of a wrestling match]], with Scrooge playing the part of the Heel to the hilt. Jormungandr's true form is a snake big enough to encircle all of Earth, but for the wrestling match's sake he assumes a human-sized [[SnakePeople snake-person]] form.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Rumble for Ragnarok", Scrooge McDuck [=McDuck=] and crew take on Jormungandr himself to decide the fate of the Earth... [[WrestlerInAllOfUs in the form of a wrestling match]], with Scrooge playing the part of the Heel to the hilt. Jormungandr's true form is a snake big enough to encircle all of Earth, but for the wrestling match's sake he assumes a human-sized [[SnakePeople snake-person]] form.
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Rumble for Ragnarok", Scrooge McDuck and crew take on Jormungandr himself to decide the fate of the Earth... [[WrestlerInAllOfUs in the form of a wrestling match]], with Scrooge playing the part of the Heel to the hilt. Jormungandr's true form is a snake big enough to encircle all of Earth, but for the wrestling match's sake he assumes a human-sized [[SnakePeople snake-person]] form.
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* Boiúna is a mythical monster from Myth/BrazilianFolklore that is described as an unusually large black snake. It regularly attacks fishermen, turning over their boats and swallowing them whole.
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* ''Film/KingCobra'': Downplayed. Seth was created from the genes of a king cobra and a diamondback rattlesnake, both of which are medium-sized snakes. After traveling the countryside and feeding on woodland animals for a few years, it's grown enormously and appears to be as large as a reticulated python.
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* While the snake from the first ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' movie is a downplayed example -- being a fully-grown anaconda native to the Amazon big enough to pose a threat to humans -- the snakes present in ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'' and onward are more straight forward examples, the second movie having snakes that have been made massive from exposure to the blood orchid and through scientific experimentation with black orchids in the third and fourth movie.
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* The largest snake species to ever exist was the ''Titanoboa'' (''Titanoboa cerrejonensis''), a snake that existed in the Paleocene Epoch (around 60 million years ago) that grew to be at least 13 meters in length. If such animals still lived today, these snakes could have strangled full-grown horses, being ancestors of the modern boa constrictor.
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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendsOfRuneterra'': The Celestial aptly titled "the Serpent" is a massive cobra made of stardust. Ironically it's actually one of the weakest celestial units stat-wise, but costs 0-mana and has the Challenger keyword which lets it handpick an early-game enemy to deal damage to in combat.
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** The Kyodaija are a race of giant, sentient snakes that live within the Ryuchi Cave sage region and can be summoned by shinobi that have made a contract with them, the most famous of which being one of the series {{Big Bad}}s Orochimaru.
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* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', the Snake Baron is in his giant form and seen wreaking havoc across Midland during the Golden Age Arc.
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** During the Chunin Exams Arc, giant snakes indigenous to the Forty-Fourth Training Ground are encountered as an obstacle, Naruto in particular eaten by one of them.
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* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Jormungand, also known as the Midgard Serpent and the World Serpent, is an antagonist in the comics. Like the myths the comic is based on, he is a gigantic snake.
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* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'': Kaa, already an overly large snake in most portrayals, is reimagined in this movie as this.
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* ''Literature/TheKaneChronicles'': Apophis, the Egyptian god of chaos, is a reality-warping AnimalisticAbomination that takes the form of a cobra.
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* In Korean mythology, the Imugi or Imoogi are lesser dragons that resemble giant serpents, and can apotheosize into full-fledged dragons in a number of ways.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': [[spoiler: The monster within the eponymous chamber is revealed to be a basilisk, a mythical giant snake known as the King of Serpents that could reach an average of 50 feet long. This is because Salazar Slytherin, creator of the Chamber, and his descendants have the rare magical ability to speak to and control snakes.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Rumble for Ragnarok", Scrooge McDuck and crew take on Jormungandr himself to decide the fate of the Earth... [[WrestlerInAllOfUs in the form of a wrestling match]], with Scrooge playing the part of the Heel to the hilt.
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SubTrope to DireBeast. SuperTrope to BasiliskAndCockatrice and SeaSerpents. See also SnakesAreSinister. Often the result of ScaledUp. For other unreasonably large animals, compare MegaNeko, GiantSpider, and BigCreepyCrawlies. Not to be confused with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese Dragons]].
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SubTrope to DireBeast. SuperTrope Not to BasiliskAndCockatrice be confused with BasiliskAndCockatrice, SeaSerpents and SeaSerpents.[[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese Dragons]]. See also SnakesAreSinister. Often the result of ScaledUp. For other unreasonably large animals, compare MegaNeko, GiantSpider, and BigCreepyCrawlies. Not to be confused with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese Dragons]].
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These snakes are not just big; they're absolutely ''enormous''.
Swallowing a human whole is easy for them. In fact, it may not even be enough to satiate them. They may be able to swallow buildings. Or celestial bodies. Or the world. They could have fangs longer than trees and venom that can kill the gods. Or they could just be ordinary snakes that are a little overgrown. Or a lot.
This is a very common motif in mythology, as there are multiple mythical snakes around the world that reach incredible sizes. Giant snakes can also be used in other settings and genres, such as {{Horror}} or ScienceFiction.
In order to qualify for this trope, the snake in question must be at least bigger than the Reticulated Python, the world's current largest snake species, that can grow up to 7.62 meters in length (that's 25 feet), and be big enough to swallow a person whole.
SubTrope to DireBeast. SuperTrope to BasiliskAndCockatrice and SeaSerpents. See also SnakesAreSinister. Often the result of ScaledUp. For other unreasonably large animals, compare MegaNeko, GiantSpider, and BigCreepyCrawlies. Not to be confused with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese Dragons]].
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* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', the Snake Baron is in his giant form and seen wreaking havoc across Midland during the Golden Age Arc.
* In ''Manga/DragonGoesHouseHunting'', it is revealed that Dearia used to apprentice under the Great Serpent, Jormungandr, who is the single largest creature ever introduced in the series. Dearia was barely the size of one of his master's ''scales''.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Kyodaija are a race of giant, sentient snakes that live within the Ryuchi Cave sage region and can be summoned by shinobi that have made a contract with them, the most famous of which being one of the series {{Big Bad}}s Orochimaru.
** During the Chunin Exams Arc, giant snakes indigenous to the Forty-Fourth Training Ground are encountered as an obstacle, Naruto in particular eaten by one of them.
* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': In episode 2, the chamber where Galient is kept is guarded by a giant serpent, who constricts Prince Joldy in an attempt to swallow him alive until Asbeth arrives and hacks the serpent's head off.
* While Melascula "The Faith" in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' normally appears as a human-like woman, her true form is that of a giant white cobra, having been a normal snake that was turned into a giant demon when she found herself in the Demon Realm.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Dartz's trump card is the [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Divine_Serpent_Geh Divine Serpent Geh]], which takes the form of an immeasurably large snake, although most of its body is concealed by the dark vortex it emerges from.
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* ''Creator/ArchieComics'': The Jaguar's origin story has him and his co-workers getting attacked by a [[MixAndMatchCritter giant, dinosaur-like serpent]].
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Jormungand, also known as the Midgard Serpent and the World Serpent, is an antagonist in the comics. Like the myths the comic is based on, he is a gigantic snake.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Lord Hibki is a giant Snake who is [[TheDragon second-in-command]] to the Big Bad, Lord Hikiji.
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* ''Fanfic/ItsADangerousBusinessGoingOutYourDoor'': The final challenge faced by the heroes is a giant four-eyed serpent called a World Snake. [[spoiler:It's stated the thing's eyes are the size of an Ursa Major, its teeth the size of Ponyville, its scales the size of an Ursa Minor, and its head the size of the area between Ponyville and Canterlot.]]
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* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', [[BigBad Jafar]] turns himself into a massive cobra.
-->'''Aladdin:''' Are you too afraid to fight me yourself, you cowardly snake?\\
'''Jafar:''' A ''snake'', am I? Perhaps you would like to see how '''''[[{{Sssssnaketalk}} sssssssnakelike]] I can be!'''''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'': Kong fights a giant snake in one scene.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' has Rattlesnake Jake, who probably wouldn't be ''that'' big to a human, but is enormous compared to the smaller animal characters.
* In ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'', Blanca takes on the form of an enormous white snake.
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* While the snake from the first ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' movie is a downplayed example -- being a fully-grown anaconda native to the Amazon big enough to pose a threat to humans -- the snakes present in ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'' and onward are more straight forward examples, the second movie having snakes that have been made massive from exposure to the blood orchid and through scientific experimentation with black orchids in the third and fourth movie.
* In the kung fu movie ''Film/TheBattleWizard'', Prince Tuan Yu must learn the skill of the Yin Yang Finger by drinking the blood of the Red Sacred Snake. The Prince eventually finds the Red Sacred Snake in the mountains, only to realize its an absolute behemoth some hundred of meters long anf large enough to attempt swallowing the Prince alive. The Prince still manage to win by ''biting'', successfully drinking the Snake's blood in the process.
* The [[Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie SyFy Channel Original Movies]], ''Film/{{Boa}}'' (of prehistoric origin), ''Film/{{Python}}'' (of genetically engineered origin), and the inevitable crossover ''Film/BoaVsPython''. Guess what? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin They're all about giant snake monsters]].
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': In this film, Kaa the Python is depicted as being so massive that her body is draped all over the tree, and she could easily fit Mowgli in her mouth, [[spoiler:which is fitting, seeing as she tries to eat him before Baloo intervenes]].
* One of the monsters released in the Purge scene in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' is a giant cobra that is seen eating a facility employee whole.
* According to the lore of ''Film/DWar'', the Imoogi are a mythical race of gigantic snakes in Korean Mythology that surface everyone 500 years, the most virtuous of them all evolving into [[DragonsAreDivine dragons]].
* ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'': Two fire-breathing giant cobras appear during one scene.
* A reoccurring foe in ''Franchise/KingKong'' films (second only to the TRexpy):
** ''Film/KingKongEscapes'': Kong defends the human protagonists from a giant sea snake as they're trying to leave Mondo Island.
** ''Film/KingKong1976'': Taking the place of the Meat-Eater dinosaur and ''Elasmosaurus'' he fought in the original, Kong has a tussle with an enormous boa constrictor.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': As a deliberate MythologyGag, Kong again defends the humans from a serpent monster (known as Warbat), except now there are two of them and they can fly.
* The titular Worm from ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' is a giant snake that slumbers in the Earth, the Worm portrayed as a [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian God]] that was once worshipped by the Pagans that lived in Derbyshire before Christianity came to England. Its only surviving worshipper is herself an immortal, vampiric [[SnakePeople snake woman]] that can disguise herself as a human, this implied to be in result of her faith.
* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'': Kaa, already an overly large snake in most portrayals, is reimagined in this movie as this.
* The 2018 Chinese DTV film, ''[[https://letterboxd.com/film/snake-2018/ Snake]]'', is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and also an unofficial ForeignRemake of ''Anaconda''. The plot revolves around an expedition to an uncharted island to recover a miracle "fruit of life" capable of curing all diseases, but the fruit is guarded by the island's giant serpents, which the crew didn't find out until late into the film.
* The Creator/ShawBrothers fantasy film, ''Film/TheSnakePrince'', ends with the titular Prince revealing his true form in the final scene after being exposed to Sulphur smoke -- as a giant serpentine beast. This is one of the few examples where the serpent is on the side of good, and was merely a victim of FantasticRacism from the ungrateful villagers who feared the good prince.
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* ''Literature/InCryptid'': Several dimensions are mentioned as being home to various giant serpents or snake-shaped beings, many of which are the basis for [[ReligionOfEvil snake cults]]. The one in ''Discount Armageddon'' is based around a dragon, but the one in ''Chaos Choreography'' [[spoiler:actually manages to summon a giant interdimensional snake...[[IsThisThingStillOn on live TV]]]].
* ''Literature/MoribitoIIGuardianOfTheDarkness'': It's revealed at the end of the Giving Ceremony that [[spoiler:the Mountain King]] is a giant water serpent from Noyook.
* Justified in ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', which takes place in a MouseWorld inhabited mainly by small woodland creatures such as mice, weasels, and moles. Snakes, usually adders, are portrayed as giant monsters, essentially the world's equivalent of dragons.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', one figure in the Clans' mythology is a giant snake called Mouthclaw, described as being big enough to swallow a lion whole, with deadly venomous fangs. The story [[JustSoStory claims that adders exist because]] she tricked an ancient [=LionClan=] warrior: in return for sparing her life, he demanded she shrink to the length of his tail... but he didn't specify that she couldn't multiply into a thousand snakes as she did so.
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* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The MonsterOfTheWeek in "Band Candy" is Lurconis, a large, snake-like demon that eats babies.
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* Quetzalcoatl of Myth/AztecMythology is a rare benevolent example, being one of the most powerful deities in the pantheon whose most common form is [[FeatheredSerpent a giant flying serpent with feathers.]]
* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Python was the name of a giant serpent spawned by Gaia that attempted to kill the god Apollo at Delphi, either because it tried to prevent him from choosing an Oracle or because it attacked Apollo's mother Leto.
* Apep of Myth/EgyptianMythology was a giant snake said to be the physical embodiment of chaos, whom the sun god Ra would do battle with during his journeys across the underworld every night. Depending on the story, it was said he lurked beneath the horizon, forbidden to enter the mortal kingdoms, and somewhere in a western mountain called Bakhu, where he lay in wait for Ra before the dawn, or after the sun set. Because of the many possibilities of his location, he eventually earned the epithet World-Encircler, and as a perpetual resident of the underworld (since Ra trapped him there), his roars would shake the underworld, while his movements caused earthquakes.
* Jormungandr the World Serpent is a BeastOfTheApocalypse from Myth/NorseMythology. It is a spawn of the TricksterGod Loki and his mistress the jotunn Angrboda, banished by Odin to sleep in Midgard's ocean for fear of what it could do. It is said that it was large enough to wrap around the world and grasp its own tail.
* The Bakunawa of Myth/PhilippineMythology is an enormous {{Sea Serpent|s}} with a nasty habit of trying to swallow the moon. It is often used as an explanation for why lunar eclipses happen.
* Boiúna is a mythical monster from Brazilian folklore that is described as an unusually large black snake. It regularly attacks fishermen, turning over their boats and swallowing them whole.
* The Rainbow Serpent is a common figure in Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths, most notably as the giant being which shaped the earth as they slithered about early on, and is often associated with rain and fertility among certain tribes.
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* ''VideoGame/AliensArmageddon'' has giant-sized versions of classic alien xenomorph breeds, thanks to Weyland-Yutani's experiments going horribly wrong. The alien chestbursters in particular are now humongous serpent-like monsters capable of swallowing unfortunate marines in a single gulp.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'': One of the bosses is the [[spoiler:God of the Dead, Apophis, who eats the hearts of the damned]]. It takes the form of a giant cobra and well... Its body is thicker than Bayek is tall. And its jaws are big enough to swallow ten of him. Just moving around is enough to cause earthquakes and destroy the temple in which the battle takes place.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' has Ssslumber, a large green rattlesnake. He doesn't actually hurt Banjo and Kazooie, Banjo just needs to avoid waking him up by tiptoeing to get the Jiggy piece he's guarding, otherwise he temporarily swallows it if woken up.
* Karnath from ''VideoGame/BattleToads'' is a giant villainous snake who appeared in the first game in the level named after him. He shows up as a boss in the Battle Toads arcade game.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'': Subverted. When the player reaches the boss arena in the Nation of Fools, a giant snake erupts from the ground and menacingly stares at them. However, it soon takes on a feminine form, revealing itself to actually be the gorgon Medusa in disguise.
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath'': The so-called "Master Intellect" room on Level 7 of ''King Dugan's Dungeon'' contains a serpent 1500 feet long, and shortening by 5 feet per turn, forcing the player to complete certain tasks before it shrinks away to nothing.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Midgar Zolom is a snake that can grow over 30 feet tall. Its huge silhouette can be seen as it stalks the player in the marsh.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'': Taking place in Norse mythology, one of the creatures Kratos and his son encounters is the World Serpent, Jormungand. He is decidedly less antagonistic here then normally portrayed.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'': Answer, a ninja-secretary, summons a massive red snake for his instant kill that smacks around his opponent before it devours them whole. It then disperses into a trail of leaves.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features Lanayru, one of the Spirits of Light whom took on the form of a serpent. Unlike most of the other examples, Lanayru is a benign spirit that warns Link of the dark power.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlugCodeJ'': The guardian / boss of the pyramid's inner sanctum, Apep the great serpent, is a giant water-dwelling cobra who attacks players on floating islets from underneath. The player characters needs to jump from one platform to another to avoid getting devoured, while firing back at Apep. Once Apep's health is down to its last bar though it simply swims away rather than fighting players to the death.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': In a game full of giant monsters there are a few big snakes to go around.
** In the first game, a monster known as the Crypt Hydra, a mummified two-headed snake, was meant to be the final boss but was ultimately cut out.
** ''Monster Hunter Frontier'' introduces the Laviente and its variants (Violent Laviente and Starving Laviente), who are the second largest monsters fought in the franchise and resemble giant snakes with tusks and fins, though they're not classified as snakes proper, they do resemble the part.
** ''Monster Hunter 4/4 Ultimate'': One of the mid-game monsters is Najarala, a Snake Wyvern who measures to a maximum of 35 meters long and fight by constricting opponents, they also have fangs and forked togues inside their beaks. Also introduced in the same game is Dalamadur, a colossal Elder Dragon that resembles a snake with fangs and a forked tongue and constricts around the arena where it is fought.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Onix is a massive rock-type Pokemon in the form of a giant snake. It is the tallest rock-type in the world.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' features the Yawn, a snake grown to giant size by the T-Virus. It has the ability to inflict "poison" status on Jill or Chris. If that's not bad enough, it's encountered twice.
* In ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'', the Wolf can encounter the Serpent God, a giant white snake worshipped by the people of the Sunken Valley.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' has Phalanx, which is a gigantic winged snake that spends the whole battle just peacefully flying around in the sky. As is typical with bosses from this game, [[ColossusClimb you have to find some way to climb on it]].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}''. After crossing a bridge, the player character encounters a giant snake. The character prepares to fight the snake, but then takes a better look and discovers it's actually a statue.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'': [[Myth/HinduMythology Sheesha]] of the Divine Powers is an absolutely enormous [[PlayingWithFire fiery]] snake that can grow big enough to curl around the sun. In the game, it's the only enemy that's depicted with a [=3D=] model. Its sheer size and power drives a major part of the plot, as the multiple factions in opposition to the Divine Powers are forced to team up to take it down.
* Snakes in ''VideoGame/{{Slitherio}}'' grow longer as they eat neon dots scattered around the arena or dropped from other snakes after they are killed. It's possible to grow so much that the snake reaches tens of thousands of units in length (the growth stops eventually, so it's not possible to grow long enough to circle the whole map), with them also being thicker than smaller ones.
* ''VideoGame/SonicForces'': While Sonic is exploring the Luminous Forest, Amy picks up an unidentified life form in her radar, which turns out to be a giant snake that erupts from the ground. Enraged by the noise of the battle between the heroes and Eggman's robots, it attacks Sonic and manages to swallow him, though the hedgehog forces it to regurgitate him by attacking its guts. An illusory, much larger version of the same snake is later used as the arena during the first boss battle against Infinite.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': The first real boss in the game's story mode is a huge cobra, which is a [[KingMook scaled up version of the regular enemy snakes]] with it's own moves and fight phases.
* In ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'', Wario fights a giant snake in his castle basement as the first boss.
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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The King Tiajitu is a giant snake Grimm with two heads. Ren encounters and defeats one in "The Emerald Forest".
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[[folder:Web Comic]]
* ''WebComic/SlightlyDamned'': The deserts of the Dragon Island Archipelago are home to species of snake known as the [[https://www.sdamned.com/comic/1022 Cactus Cobra]], which are massive apex predators big enough to eat a gazelle.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'': During "Enemy Unexplained", one of the weird encounters US military personnel had in Vietnam was with a rather large serpent. So large, in fact, that it left a trail where it slithered and almost ended up swallowing the US military helicopter observing it whole.
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has the Snowager -- a giant ice snake with [[BreathWeapon dangerous breath]] that lives in a cave and hoards treasure.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'': While most of his snake-themed minions qualify more as lizard people, Demon-God Set himself's true form is a massive cobra so big he can actually eat a rather large human without noticing.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': The Episode "The Great Surrender" introduces Werthrent, a gigantic fire snake deity of Ash's homeworld who would accept regular sacrifices from her people [[spoiler:(of whom her sister Harp was one, and what she almost became)]]. The people of Ash's planet believed that whoever was consumed by Werthrent would be treated to an eternity of joy. [[spoiler:In actuality, those consumed by Werthrent were kept inside him where he basically drained their wellness from them, leaving them zombie-like husks [[AndIMustScream who are forced to continue living inside of Werthrent, and are driven mad by the whole experience]]. This included Ash's sister, Harp.]]
* Cobra Queen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' has two large cobras as pets.
* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'': The monster King Cobra is a gigantic mutated cobra.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Jackie finds the Snake Talisman in the Central American Temple of ''Culebra Gigante''"--Spanish for "gigantic snake". Naturally, he has to fight the snake to get away with the Talisman.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Zarek, an enemy of the [[{{Sentai}} S-Force]], commands a massive mecha snake called the Star Serpent.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' has The Great Devourer, a giant snake that was sealed away years ago with the power of four snake fangs. Pythor, the villain of season one, sought to release it upon Ninjago City as revenge for the [[SnakePeople Serpentine]] being sealed underground years ago. It also turned Lord Garmadon evil when it bit him when he was a child (and The Great Devourer was very small), injecting him with its malevolent venom. Garmadon was the one who ultimately destroyed it.
* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' has a titanoboa-sized snake as the main antagonist in the episode "River of Snakes".
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' has the episode "How Shaper Than A Serpent's Tooth" in which the ''Enterprise'' encounters another spacecraft that's shaped like a giant serpent with wings behind its head. This craft is helmed by Kukulkan, an {{Ancient Astronaut|s}} who visited Earth long, long ago; he's a very large snakelike fellow that inspired the civilzations of the Mayans, the Toltecs and the early Chinese.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* The largest snake species to ever exist was the Titanoboa (Titanoboa cerrejonensis), a snake that existed in the the Paleocene Epoch that grew to be at least 13 meters in length. If such animals still lived today, these snakes could have strangled full-grown horses, being ancestors of the modern boa constrictor.
* Second only to ''Titanoboa'', ''Gigantophis'' was a large prehistoric snake that lived in North Africa 40 million years ago, estimated to be over 10 meters long; though a recent study adjusted this length estimate to 6.9 meters, much closer in size to the largest extant snakes.
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!! Indexes: BiggerIsBetter, AnimalsNotToScale, SnakeAndSerpentTropes
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These snakes are not just big; they're absolutely ''enormous''.
Swallowing a human whole is easy for them. In fact, it may not even be enough to satiate them. They may be able to swallow buildings. Or celestial bodies. Or the world. They could have fangs longer than trees and venom that can kill the gods. Or they could just be ordinary snakes that are a little overgrown. Or a lot.
This is a very common motif in mythology, as there are multiple mythical snakes around the world that reach incredible sizes. Giant snakes can also be used in other settings and genres, such as {{Horror}} or ScienceFiction.
In order to qualify for this trope, the snake in question must be at least bigger than the Reticulated Python, the world's current largest snake species, that can grow up to 7.62 meters in length (that's 25 feet), and be big enough to swallow a person whole.
SubTrope to DireBeast. SuperTrope to BasiliskAndCockatrice and SeaSerpents. See also SnakesAreSinister. Often the result of ScaledUp. For other unreasonably large animals, compare MegaNeko, GiantSpider, and BigCreepyCrawlies. Not to be confused with [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese Dragons]].
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', the Snake Baron is in his giant form and seen wreaking havoc across Midland during the Golden Age Arc.
* In ''Manga/DragonGoesHouseHunting'', it is revealed that Dearia used to apprentice under the Great Serpent, Jormungandr, who is the single largest creature ever introduced in the series. Dearia was barely the size of one of his master's ''scales''.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':
** The Kyodaija are a race of giant, sentient snakes that live within the Ryuchi Cave sage region and can be summoned by shinobi that have made a contract with them, the most famous of which being one of the series {{Big Bad}}s Orochimaru.
** During the Chunin Exams Arc, giant snakes indigenous to the Forty-Fourth Training Ground are encountered as an obstacle, Naruto in particular eaten by one of them.
* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'': In episode 2, the chamber where Galient is kept is guarded by a giant serpent, who constricts Prince Joldy in an attempt to swallow him alive until Asbeth arrives and hacks the serpent's head off.
* While Melascula "The Faith" in ''Manga/TheSevenDeadlySins'' normally appears as a human-like woman, her true form is that of a giant white cobra, having been a normal snake that was turned into a giant demon when she found herself in the Demon Realm.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Dartz's trump card is the [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Divine_Serpent_Geh Divine Serpent Geh]], which takes the form of an immeasurably large snake, although most of its body is concealed by the dark vortex it emerges from.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''Creator/ArchieComics'': The Jaguar's origin story has him and his co-workers getting attacked by a [[MixAndMatchCritter giant, dinosaur-like serpent]].
* ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': Jormungand, also known as the Midgard Serpent and the World Serpent, is an antagonist in the comics. Like the myths the comic is based on, he is a gigantic snake.
* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'': Lord Hibki is a giant Snake who is [[TheDragon second-in-command]] to the Big Bad, Lord Hikiji.
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[[folder:Fanworks]]
* ''Fanfic/ItsADangerousBusinessGoingOutYourDoor'': The final challenge faced by the heroes is a giant four-eyed serpent called a World Snake. [[spoiler:It's stated the thing's eyes are the size of an Ursa Major, its teeth the size of Ponyville, its scales the size of an Ursa Minor, and its head the size of the area between Ponyville and Canterlot.]]
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', [[BigBad Jafar]] turns himself into a massive cobra.
-->'''Aladdin:''' Are you too afraid to fight me yourself, you cowardly snake?\\
'''Jafar:''' A ''snake'', am I? Perhaps you would like to see how '''''[[{{Sssssnaketalk}} sssssssnakelike]] I can be!'''''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyKong'': Kong fights a giant snake in one scene.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' has Rattlesnake Jake, who probably wouldn't be ''that'' big to a human, but is enormous compared to the smaller animal characters.
* In ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'', Blanca takes on the form of an enormous white snake.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* While the snake from the first ''Film/{{Anaconda}}'' movie is a downplayed example -- being a fully-grown anaconda native to the Amazon big enough to pose a threat to humans -- the snakes present in ''Film/AnacondasTheHuntForTheBloodOrchid'' and onward are more straight forward examples, the second movie having snakes that have been made massive from exposure to the blood orchid and through scientific experimentation with black orchids in the third and fourth movie.
* In the kung fu movie ''Film/TheBattleWizard'', Prince Tuan Yu must learn the skill of the Yin Yang Finger by drinking the blood of the Red Sacred Snake. The Prince eventually finds the Red Sacred Snake in the mountains, only to realize its an absolute behemoth some hundred of meters long anf large enough to attempt swallowing the Prince alive. The Prince still manage to win by ''biting'', successfully drinking the Snake's blood in the process.
* The [[Film/SyFyChannelOriginalMovie SyFy Channel Original Movies]], ''Film/{{Boa}}'' (of prehistoric origin), ''Film/{{Python}}'' (of genetically engineered origin), and the inevitable crossover ''Film/BoaVsPython''. Guess what? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin They're all about giant snake monsters]].
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': In this film, Kaa the Python is depicted as being so massive that her body is draped all over the tree, and she could easily fit Mowgli in her mouth, [[spoiler:which is fitting, seeing as she tries to eat him before Baloo intervenes]].
* One of the monsters released in the Purge scene in ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' is a giant cobra that is seen eating a facility employee whole.
* According to the lore of ''Film/DWar'', the Imoogi are a mythical race of gigantic snakes in Korean Mythology that surface everyone 500 years, the most virtuous of them all evolving into [[DragonsAreDivine dragons]].
* ''Film/GodsOfEgypt'': Two fire-breathing giant cobras appear during one scene.
* A reoccurring foe in ''Franchise/KingKong'' films (second only to the TRexpy):
** ''Film/KingKongEscapes'': Kong defends the human protagonists from a giant sea snake as they're trying to leave Mondo Island.
** ''Film/KingKong1976'': Taking the place of the Meat-Eater dinosaur and ''Elasmosaurus'' he fought in the original, Kong has a tussle with an enormous boa constrictor.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': As a deliberate MythologyGag, Kong again defends the humans from a serpent monster (known as Warbat), except now there are two of them and they can fly.
* The titular Worm from ''Film/TheLairOfTheWhiteWorm'' is a giant snake that slumbers in the Earth, the Worm portrayed as a [[EldritchAbomination Lovecraftian God]] that was once worshipped by the Pagans that lived in Derbyshire before Christianity came to England. Its only surviving worshipper is herself an immortal, vampiric [[SnakePeople snake woman]] that can disguise herself as a human, this implied to be in result of her faith.
* ''Film/{{Mowgli}}'': Kaa, already an overly large snake in most portrayals, is reimagined in this movie as this.
* The 2018 Chinese DTV film, ''[[https://letterboxd.com/film/snake-2018/ Snake]]'', is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, and also an unofficial ForeignRemake of ''Anaconda''. The plot revolves around an expedition to an uncharted island to recover a miracle "fruit of life" capable of curing all diseases, but the fruit is guarded by the island's giant serpents, which the crew didn't find out until late into the film.
* The Creator/ShawBrothers fantasy film, ''Film/TheSnakePrince'', ends with the titular Prince revealing his true form in the final scene after being exposed to Sulphur smoke -- as a giant serpentine beast. This is one of the few examples where the serpent is on the side of good, and was merely a victim of FantasticRacism from the ungrateful villagers who feared the good prince.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/InCryptid'': Several dimensions are mentioned as being home to various giant serpents or snake-shaped beings, many of which are the basis for [[ReligionOfEvil snake cults]]. The one in ''Discount Armageddon'' is based around a dragon, but the one in ''Chaos Choreography'' [[spoiler:actually manages to summon a giant interdimensional snake...[[IsThisThingStillOn on live TV]]]].
* ''Literature/MoribitoIIGuardianOfTheDarkness'': It's revealed at the end of the Giving Ceremony that [[spoiler:the Mountain King]] is a giant water serpent from Noyook.
* Justified in ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'', which takes place in a MouseWorld inhabited mainly by small woodland creatures such as mice, weasels, and moles. Snakes, usually adders, are portrayed as giant monsters, essentially the world's equivalent of dragons.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', one figure in the Clans' mythology is a giant snake called Mouthclaw, described as being big enough to swallow a lion whole, with deadly venomous fangs. The story [[JustSoStory claims that adders exist because]] she tricked an ancient [=LionClan=] warrior: in return for sparing her life, he demanded she shrink to the length of his tail... but he didn't specify that she couldn't multiply into a thousand snakes as she did so.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The MonsterOfTheWeek in "Band Candy" is Lurconis, a large, snake-like demon that eats babies.
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[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
* Quetzalcoatl of Myth/AztecMythology is a rare benevolent example, being one of the most powerful deities in the pantheon whose most common form is [[FeatheredSerpent a giant flying serpent with feathers.]]
* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Python was the name of a giant serpent spawned by Gaia that attempted to kill the god Apollo at Delphi, either because it tried to prevent him from choosing an Oracle or because it attacked Apollo's mother Leto.
* Apep of Myth/EgyptianMythology was a giant snake said to be the physical embodiment of chaos, whom the sun god Ra would do battle with during his journeys across the underworld every night. Depending on the story, it was said he lurked beneath the horizon, forbidden to enter the mortal kingdoms, and somewhere in a western mountain called Bakhu, where he lay in wait for Ra before the dawn, or after the sun set. Because of the many possibilities of his location, he eventually earned the epithet World-Encircler, and as a perpetual resident of the underworld (since Ra trapped him there), his roars would shake the underworld, while his movements caused earthquakes.
* Jormungandr the World Serpent is a BeastOfTheApocalypse from Myth/NorseMythology. It is a spawn of the TricksterGod Loki and his mistress the jotunn Angrboda, banished by Odin to sleep in Midgard's ocean for fear of what it could do. It is said that it was large enough to wrap around the world and grasp its own tail.
* The Bakunawa of Myth/PhilippineMythology is an enormous {{Sea Serpent|s}} with a nasty habit of trying to swallow the moon. It is often used as an explanation for why lunar eclipses happen.
* Boiúna is a mythical monster from Brazilian folklore that is described as an unusually large black snake. It regularly attacks fishermen, turning over their boats and swallowing them whole.
* The Rainbow Serpent is a common figure in Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths, most notably as the giant being which shaped the earth as they slithered about early on, and is often associated with rain and fertility among certain tribes.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/AliensArmageddon'' has giant-sized versions of classic alien xenomorph breeds, thanks to Weyland-Yutani's experiments going horribly wrong. The alien chestbursters in particular are now humongous serpent-like monsters capable of swallowing unfortunate marines in a single gulp.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOrigins'': One of the bosses is the [[spoiler:God of the Dead, Apophis, who eats the hearts of the damned]]. It takes the form of a giant cobra and well... Its body is thicker than Bayek is tall. And its jaws are big enough to swallow ten of him. Just moving around is enough to cause earthquakes and destroy the temple in which the battle takes place.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' has Ssslumber, a large green rattlesnake. He doesn't actually hurt Banjo and Kazooie, Banjo just needs to avoid waking him up by tiptoeing to get the Jiggy piece he's guarding, otherwise he temporarily swallows it if woken up.
* Karnath from ''VideoGame/BattleToads'' is a giant villainous snake who appeared in the first game in the level named after him. He shows up as a boss in the Battle Toads arcade game.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'': Subverted. When the player reaches the boss arena in the Nation of Fools, a giant snake erupts from the ground and menacingly stares at them. However, it soon takes on a feminine form, revealing itself to actually be the gorgon Medusa in disguise.
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyRoomsOfDeath'': The so-called "Master Intellect" room on Level 7 of ''King Dugan's Dungeon'' contains a serpent 1500 feet long, and shortening by 5 feet per turn, forcing the player to complete certain tasks before it shrinks away to nothing.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Midgar Zolom is a snake that can grow over 30 feet tall. Its huge silhouette can be seen as it stalks the player in the marsh.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'': Taking place in Norse mythology, one of the creatures Kratos and his son encounters is the World Serpent, Jormungand. He is decidedly less antagonistic here then normally portrayed.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear Xrd'': Answer, a ninja-secretary, summons a massive red snake for his instant kill that smacks around his opponent before it devours them whole. It then disperses into a trail of leaves.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features Lanayru, one of the Spirits of Light whom took on the form of a serpent. Unlike most of the other examples, Lanayru is a benign spirit that warns Link of the dark power.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlugCodeJ'': The guardian / boss of the pyramid's inner sanctum, Apep the great serpent, is a giant water-dwelling cobra who attacks players on floating islets from underneath. The player characters needs to jump from one platform to another to avoid getting devoured, while firing back at Apep. Once Apep's health is down to its last bar though it simply swims away rather than fighting players to the death.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'': In a game full of giant monsters there are a few big snakes to go around.
** In the first game, a monster known as the Crypt Hydra, a mummified two-headed snake, was meant to be the final boss but was ultimately cut out.
** ''Monster Hunter Frontier'' introduces the Laviente and its variants (Violent Laviente and Starving Laviente), who are the second largest monsters fought in the franchise and resemble giant snakes with tusks and fins, though they're not classified as snakes proper, they do resemble the part.
** ''Monster Hunter 4/4 Ultimate'': One of the mid-game monsters is Najarala, a Snake Wyvern who measures to a maximum of 35 meters long and fight by constricting opponents, they also have fangs and forked togues inside their beaks. Also introduced in the same game is Dalamadur, a colossal Elder Dragon that resembles a snake with fangs and a forked tongue and constricts around the arena where it is fought.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Onix is a massive rock-type Pokemon in the form of a giant snake. It is the tallest rock-type in the world.
* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' features the Yawn, a snake grown to giant size by the T-Virus. It has the ability to inflict "poison" status on Jill or Chris. If that's not bad enough, it's encountered twice.
* In ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'', the Wolf can encounter the Serpent God, a giant white snake worshipped by the people of the Sunken Valley.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' has Phalanx, which is a gigantic winged snake that spends the whole battle just peacefully flying around in the sky. As is typical with bosses from this game, [[ColossusClimb you have to find some way to climb on it]].
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}''. After crossing a bridge, the player character encounters a giant snake. The character prepares to fight the snake, but then takes a better look and discovers it's actually a statue.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'': [[Myth/HinduMythology Sheesha]] of the Divine Powers is an absolutely enormous [[PlayingWithFire fiery]] snake that can grow big enough to curl around the sun. In the game, it's the only enemy that's depicted with a [=3D=] model. Its sheer size and power drives a major part of the plot, as the multiple factions in opposition to the Divine Powers are forced to team up to take it down.
* Snakes in ''VideoGame/{{Slitherio}}'' grow longer as they eat neon dots scattered around the arena or dropped from other snakes after they are killed. It's possible to grow so much that the snake reaches tens of thousands of units in length (the growth stops eventually, so it's not possible to grow long enough to circle the whole map), with them also being thicker than smaller ones.
* ''VideoGame/SonicForces'': While Sonic is exploring the Luminous Forest, Amy picks up an unidentified life form in her radar, which turns out to be a giant snake that erupts from the ground. Enraged by the noise of the battle between the heroes and Eggman's robots, it attacks Sonic and manages to swallow him, though the hedgehog forces it to regurgitate him by attacking its guts. An illusory, much larger version of the same snake is later used as the arena during the first boss battle against Infinite.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': The first real boss in the game's story mode is a huge cobra, which is a [[KingMook scaled up version of the regular enemy snakes]] with it's own moves and fight phases.
* In ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'', Wario fights a giant snake in his castle basement as the first boss.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The King Tiajitu is a giant snake Grimm with two heads. Ren encounters and defeats one in "The Emerald Forest".
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[[folder:Web Comic]]
* ''WebComic/SlightlyDamned'': The deserts of the Dragon Island Archipelago are home to species of snake known as the [[https://www.sdamned.com/comic/1022 Cactus Cobra]], which are massive apex predators big enough to eat a gazelle.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'': During "Enemy Unexplained", one of the weird encounters US military personnel had in Vietnam was with a rather large serpent. So large, in fact, that it left a trail where it slithered and almost ended up swallowing the US military helicopter observing it whole.
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'' has the Snowager -- a giant ice snake with [[BreathWeapon dangerous breath]] that lives in a cave and hoards treasure.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ConanTheAdventurer'': While most of his snake-themed minions qualify more as lizard people, Demon-God Set himself's true form is a massive cobra so big he can actually eat a rather large human without noticing.
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': The Episode "The Great Surrender" introduces Werthrent, a gigantic fire snake deity of Ash's homeworld who would accept regular sacrifices from her people [[spoiler:(of whom her sister Harp was one, and what she almost became)]]. The people of Ash's planet believed that whoever was consumed by Werthrent would be treated to an eternity of joy. [[spoiler:In actuality, those consumed by Werthrent were kept inside him where he basically drained their wellness from them, leaving them zombie-like husks [[AndIMustScream who are forced to continue living inside of Werthrent, and are driven mad by the whole experience]]. This included Ash's sister, Harp.]]
* Cobra Queen from ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' has two large cobras as pets.
* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'': The monster King Cobra is a gigantic mutated cobra.
* ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'': Jackie finds the Snake Talisman in the Central American Temple of ''Culebra Gigante''"--Spanish for "gigantic snake". Naturally, he has to fight the snake to get away with the Talisman.
* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Zarek, an enemy of the [[{{Sentai}} S-Force]], commands a massive mecha snake called the Star Serpent.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' has The Great Devourer, a giant snake that was sealed away years ago with the power of four snake fangs. Pythor, the villain of season one, sought to release it upon Ninjago City as revenge for the [[SnakePeople Serpentine]] being sealed underground years ago. It also turned Lord Garmadon evil when it bit him when he was a child (and The Great Devourer was very small), injecting him with its malevolent venom. Garmadon was the one who ultimately destroyed it.
* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'' has a titanoboa-sized snake as the main antagonist in the episode "River of Snakes".
* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' has the episode "How Shaper Than A Serpent's Tooth" in which the ''Enterprise'' encounters another spacecraft that's shaped like a giant serpent with wings behind its head. This craft is helmed by Kukulkan, an {{Ancient Astronaut|s}} who visited Earth long, long ago; he's a very large snakelike fellow that inspired the civilzations of the Mayans, the Toltecs and the early Chinese.
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* The largest snake species to ever exist was the Titanoboa (Titanoboa cerrejonensis), a snake that existed in the the Paleocene Epoch that grew to be at least 13 meters in length. If such animals still lived today, these snakes could have strangled full-grown horses, being ancestors of the modern boa constrictor.
* Second only to ''Titanoboa'', ''Gigantophis'' was a large prehistoric snake that lived in North Africa 40 million years ago, estimated to be over 10 meters long; though a recent study adjusted this length estimate to 6.9 meters, much closer in size to the largest extant snakes.
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!! Indexes: BiggerIsBetter, AnimalsNotToScale, SnakeAndSerpentTropes
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