History Main / TheGreatSerpent

* 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 and 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.

* ''Film/KingOfSnakes'' is a Taiwanese kaiju film where the featured monster, like what the title implies, is a giant serpent. In this case it grows kaiju-sized as result of a curse and was initially a GentleGiant to it's owner, a little girl, only going on a rampage because it was attacked first.

** 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.\

SubTrope to DireBeast. Not to be confused with BasiliskAndCockatrice and [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Chinese Dragons]], but may overlap with SeaSerpents. See also SnakesAreSinister. Often the result of ScaledUp. For other unreasonably large animals, compare MegaNeko, GiantSpider, and BigCreepyCrawlies.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Cherubim turn into serpents with a length of one astronomical unit (149,597,871 km, the distance between the Sun and the Earth) when they mate.

** Subverted by ''Yamata no {{Orochi}}'', who's often depicted as a colossal snake but is described as a ''Dragon'' in the ''Kojiki'' and in other works.

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' catalogs such creatures as anomalies, most notably [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3000 SCP-3000]], a giant eel that feeds on human minds and is named after (and thought to be) the deity [[Myth/HinduMythology Anantashesha]].

* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/Boktai 2'' is the Eternal Piece Jormungandr, which threatens to [[BeastOfTheApocalypse destroy the world if unsealed]]. The arena takes place atop its coiled body, which seems to go on for eternity.

* The ''Website/SCPFoundation'' catalogs such creatures as anomalies, most notably [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3000 SCP-3000]], a giant eel that feeds on human minds and is thought to be the deity [[Myth/HinduMythology Anantashesha]].

* 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.

* 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.
* In Japanese mythology, Uwabami (lit. Gluttonous Eater in older times, currently python) were humongous snakes who were said to be able to devour horses whole in one gulp, as well as adore sakè. Jashin (serpent gods) were also pretty common, with the most famous one being the Kami of Mount Ibuki who was killed/killed Takeru Yamato, though only in certain versions of the myth (in others, the Kami is a massive white boar instead). Subverted by ''Yamata no {{Orochi}}'', who's often depicted as a colossal snake but is described as a ''Dragon'' in Kojiki and in other arts.

* 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 and weighed more than a ton. 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.
* Speaking of which, the largest extant snakes are the Reticulated Python (''Malayopython reticulatus''), which regularly reaches around 20 feet, and the Anaconda (''Eunectes murinus''), which is slightly shorter at 12-15 feet but is the ''heaviest'' snake at 200-400 pounds. The longest extant ''venomous'' snake is the King Cobra (''Ophiophagus hannah''), with a record length of 18 feet and an average of over 10. Besides its extreme length and potent venom, the King Cobra is also a highly alert snake with the capacity to raise about half of its body length off the ground, meaning it's a Great Serpent that can look the average human in the eye. Naturally, it was an inspiration for myths and religious practices in the places where it's native.

* ''VideoGame/SpiritualAssassinTaromaru' has a gigantic serpent monster as a boss in the bamboo forest, alongside it's handler. The two of them are disguised as a mother and son, and reveals themselves with the boy losing his head and a serpentine monster spawning from his neck-stump, stretching for several hundred meters, while the mother reveals herself to be the monster's controller as she rides on the serpent's head and orders it to attack.

* In ''VideoGame/HercsAdventure'', the guardian of the Golden Fleece is a giant, multi-segmented serpent several times the size of the heroe.