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* "Them" from ''[[Kingdom (comics)|Kingdom]]''.
* ''[[Max Und Moritz]]'' by [[Wilhelm Busch]] had may beetles as big as a human hand.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* The 200-foot tarantula and its automobile-sized offspring faced by Alex and the SRI in ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]''.
== [[Films]] ==
* ''[[Them]]'', a classic [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear]] [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|monster movie]] about giant ants.
* The giant cockroach alien from ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]''.
* The giant insects in the ''[[King Kong]]'' remake{{context}}<!-- MOD: Which one? There have been two. --> qualify. Most were bizarre spider/crab or gut parasite/bloodworm [[Biological Mashup]]s, but the giant wetas were jumbo-sized versions of ''actual New Zealand insects''. [[Nightmare Fuel]] indeed.
** Speaking of giant New Zealand insects: [http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9gbYHPyGGHU/RpqBrkv0ScI/AAAAAAAAAFo/T2T31lt5J5c/s400/giant_weta.jpg meet the Little Barrier Island giant weta.]
*** Damm!
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** And of course, there's Mothra, probably the most popular insect Kaiju out there.
** And Mothra's evil twin Battra and Megaguirus the demonic dragonfly
* They're smaller than most of these examples, but the scarabs in the 1999 version of ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy
* ''[[The Black Scorpion]]'' is a 1957 film about giant prehistoric scorpions released by a volcanic eruption in Mexico.
* ''[[Beginning of the End]]'' is a 1957 film about giant grasshoppers attacking Chicago.
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* The ant and the scorpion in ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' are normal-sized, but due to our protagonists [[Shrink Ray|being minaturized]], end up having the appearance of Big Creepy-Crawlies onscreen.
* ''ManSquito''.
* Another classic 1950s B-movie, ''[[Tarantula]]'', features a building-sized spider.
== [[Literature]] ==
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*** And those three only have 4 extremities. Tyranids have 6.
** Being ''Warhammer 40k'' they take it [[Up to Eleven]], there are Tyranid biotitans such as the "Hierophant" which are about the size of the Imperiums [[Humongous Mecha|Titans]].
* Several Insect creatures in ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' fall under this, such as the [https://
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has had many giant insects over the years, including bees, wasps, and ticks.
** And manscorpion (sort of scorpionic centaur). And the antlike formians.
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