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{{quote|''On [[Starship Troopers (novel)|Klendathu]], [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|bug squashes you]]!''}}
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Giant bugs. They're bugs or [[
See also [[Giant Spider]] and [[Bug War]]. If they're from space, they're [[Insectoid Aliens]]. If they have a lust for galactic domination, they're a [[Horde of Alien Locusts]]. A subset of [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever]]. These are especially common in prehistoric settings.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind]]'' has several of these, most notably the building-sized woodlice known as the Ohmu. While they can be unbelievably dangerous when provoked, they're usually quite docile & even kindly, with the Ohmu being portrayed as extremely wise, [[Gentle Giant
* Lutecia of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Summon Magic|summons insects]] of varying levels of largeness. From the human-sized Garyu, to the car-sized Jiraiyo, to the [[Kaiju]]-sized Hakutenou.
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Overlapping with [[Animal Mecha]], several [[Robeast|Mechanical Beasts]] (such like Winder A2 or Megaron P1 and its "brothers") resembled giant, vaguely-humanoid insects.
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* ''[[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 qualify. Most were bizarre spider/crab or gut parasite/bloodworm [[Biological Mashup
** 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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* ''[[Ticks]]'' has bigger-than-normal wood ticks due to pollution. Late in the film one giant-sized also appears.
* ''[[Clash of the Titans]]'' (both the original and the remake) feature a pair of giant scorpions.
* 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
* ''ManSquito''.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The insect spirits in ''[[Shadowrun]]'' are [[Body Horror
* ''Tyranids'' from ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' play this trope to the hilt. They are just tools of the [[Hive Mind]]
** The original concept of the Tyranids was insects crossed with dinosaurs, and they're about as scary as you might expect. A Hive Tyrant looks like a Tyrannosaurus crossed with the Alien Queen and Godzilla.
*** And those three only have 4 extremities. Tyranids have 6.
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** Gliscor (A winged scorpion) and Flygon (An antlion) are even bigger, both at 6'07", but neither are actually a Bug-Type due to already having two more dominant types (Though both are in the Bug egg group and learn many Bug attacks.).
** The fifth generation introduces Scolipede, the "Mega Centipede" Pokemon, trumping all other Bug types in terms of height at an extraordinary ''8'02" (2.5m)''!
** And now subverted by Joltik, the
** Bug-Type specialists include Bugsy, Aaron, and Burgh.
* The ''Gohma'' family of Boss Monsters in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]''. Also, some of the other Boss Monsters as well... [[Nightmare Fuel|brrr]]...
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* Junk Man's stage from ''[[Mega Man 7]]'' contains several nests of cockroaches called Gockroach S.
* Many levels in Chapter 5 of ''Super [[Meat Boy]]'' are filled with large maggots. Often there are piles of them. The chapter boss itself consists of 3 of the largest maggots.
* Almost every single enemy in ''[[Let's Go Jungle|Let's Go Jungle: Lost On The Island Of Spice]]''. Most of which are [[Giant Spider
* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] series [[Earth Defense Force 2017]], the enemy forces are mostly comprised of this and [[Humongous Mecha]].
* Tons of them abound in the [[Shoot'Em Up]] ''[[Bio-Hazard Battle]]'', which takes place after a virus causes a planet's lifeforms to grow to massive proportions.
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* Some of the enemies in the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' series games appear to be giant insects. The most notable examples would include Buzzy Beetles, which resemble reptilian beetles that act like Koopas, but cannot be killed with fireballs; Wigglers, giant yellow caterpillars that will become angry if stomped on; Mandibugs, giant beetles that charge at either Mario/Luigi and can only be killed with a [[Ground Pound]], due to them having a large star on their backs; and Flipbugs, cowardly insects that will run away if they see Mario/Luigi, and falling over if they get too close.
* In the ''Mutant Insects'' game of ''[[Combat of Giants]]'', you ''play'' as one of them. It is also a sort of exception given that the [[Player Character]] is trying to ''resist'' the [[Hive Mind]].
* The ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' series isn't a stranger to this trope. In fact, the giant roach monster (Buggs in the first game, Gregor in both ''Covenant'' and ''From The New World'') hold the honor of being the only enemy to appear in every game of the trilogy. Other
* In ''[[The Binding of Isaac]]'', there are lots of maggots in various sizes and levels of threat.
* Several of the enemies in ''[[Solatorobo]]'', including one called the "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|bigant]]". Elh thinks they are [[Nightmare Fuel]] and demands that Red [[Eek! a Mouse!|kill them imediately]]; Red, for his part, says they are "harmless" (despite the fact that they try to kill you [[Everything Trying to Kill You|like any other enemy]]), but usually goes about killing them anyway.
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* The Large Beetle from ''[[Water Human]]'', at least in episode one (later on, he gets smaller, which is explained by a [[Hand Wave]]). He's actually friendly and intelligent, and even is the protagonist's closest friend.
* ''[[The Motley Two]]'' has a giant [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|beetlebeast]] with about dog-like intelligence, and a giant belligerent "mantid". Both of these are the lusii of the troll protagonists (in case you haven't read ''[[Homestuck]]'', basically their pets/guardians/surrogate parents) and are scheduled to train to become BRAVE AND MIGHTY STEEDS once their owners are drafted into the army.
* Half the characters of ''[[Starship]]'' are
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* The [[wikipedia:Giant isopod|Giant Isopod]] definitely qualifies. [[Your Mileage May Very]] on whether it's [[Fluffy Tamer|strangely cute]] or [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** More likely the former if you first saw one in ''[[Twilight Princess]]'', where a similar bug serves as a surprise boss.
* Giant insects/arthropods were common from the Ordovician to the Carboniferous period, with foot long cockroaches, seagull-sized Dragonflies, 8 and a half-foot long millipedes and
** This was only possible because the oxygen in the atmosphere was almost ridiculously high at the time, 2-3 times today's. Bugs absorb oxygen through pits in their body, their size is strictly limited by the concentration of oxygen in the air.
*** While this is true for the very biggest, arthropods can get much bigger than commonly thought even on
* For some years, the entomology department of the University of Illinois held an annual Insect Fear Film Festival, at which movies with
* The Giant Asian Hornet is the size of your thumb, can fly faster than you can run, and its sting has venom that ''dissolves flesh''. [[Nightmare Fuel|Sleep tight, now.]]
** Might I add, that flesh-dissolving venom has pheromones that call more of the damn things to attack you, and they live right outside of major cities?
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** To be fair, however, their larvae are delicious when fried. They taste like crab-flavored popcorn!
** Also Japanese Honeybees can outwit the hornets by luring them into the hive, swarm them and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6m40W1s0Wc&feature=player_detailpage#t=121s shake and bake.] The bees survive, the hornets are toast.
* The Atlas Moth has a wingspan of
* Normal weta, insects that look similar to katydids, crickets or grasshoppers native to New Zealand, are large enough at
* ''Scolopendra gigantea'', the Amazon giant centipede. Centipedes are creepy enough, but Scolopendra gigantea is about a foot long.
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