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== Tabletop Games ==
* The insect spirits in ''[[Shadowrun]]'' are [[Body Horror]]s that turn their host into a Big Creepy Crawly.
* ''Tyranids'' from ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' play this trope to the hilt. They are just tools of the [[Hive Mind]]—a psychic construct of billions of individual 'nids' "minds", guided by an immaterial gestalt of sorts. Hive tryants and swarm lords are said to have a mind of their own that uploads into the hive mind when they die and is placed on a new body when need be, effectively making them immortal.
** 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.
** 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 [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=19731 Lithophage], an insect so huge, it consumes ''mountains''.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|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.
** The Hivebrood are a version from Basic/Expert/etc D&D which doubles as [[The Virus]].
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* Skrashers in ''[[Startopia]]'': They develop aboard your station inside the trash-eating [[Small Annoying Creature|Memaus]] before bursting out as huge insectile monsters with giant claws to smash up your station.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]'' liked to play this by having giant snakes, tarantulas, and even a Black Tiger...a giant spider Capcom specifically redesigned from the [[Video Game Remake]] on so it looks like a Australian funnelweb to make Chris or Jill shit themselves.
** Drain Deimos and Brain Suckers (giant fleas) in ''[[Resident Evil 3: Nemesis]]'', Novistadors (giant wasps) in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', and [[Demonic Spiders|Reapers]](giant roaches) in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]''.
* The antlions in ''[[Half-Life]] 2''.
* The ChCh-t from the ''Deadlock'' turn based strategy series. They have a queen, pincer claws instead of hands, a scorpion tail, and all the other usual bug characteristics. They are also a playable race.
* The entire point of ''[[Deadly Creatures]]''. Well, except that the creepy crawlies are normal sized, but you're ''playing as them''.
* ''[[The Conduit]]'' has creepy crawlies of all sizes, but the big ones include the man-sized Drones, the eight-feet-tall Scarabs, and the tank-sized Invaders.
* The Zerg of ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]''.
* Your average Bug [[Pokémon]], which tend to be around the size of human children at the smallest. The largest as of the fourth generation of games is the Yanmega, which is stated to be around 6'03" (1.9m) in size. It's even called the "Ogre [[wikipedia:Aeshnidae|Darner]]" Pokemon, so they're a giant version of an animal which is already the largest kind of Dragonfly. Its name hints that its also based on the prehistoric Meganeura.
** 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.).
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* 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 Big Creepy-Crawlies include Zosim (a wasp pupa infected by a parasitic snake), a flesh-eating [[Creepy Centipede]], large snails that feed on human blood, Megafilaria and Gigafilaria (magic-powered leech-like creatures) and Gatorback/Scorplinus (heavily-armoured scorpions).
* 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! aA 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.
* Although it probably isn't canonical (its [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|counterpart]] in ''Tiberian Dawn'' wasn't), ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert]]'' featured what the fans called 'the Secret Ant Missions', so called because it is a hidden (small) campaign about giant ants. The red ants ''shoot fire''.
* In addition to multiple varieties of giant spiders which are about knee height to a player character, ''[[RunescapeRuneScape]]'' also has Kalrag, which is a spider much bigger than the human player character (and surrounded by the smaller giant spiders; that portion of the relevant quest is not good for arachnophobics), as well as several forms of giant cockroach, and some giant beetles called kalphite, which range from workers the size of the aforementioned giant spiders, to the building sized Kalphite Queen.
* Beetle Mania in ''[[King of the Monsters]]''.
 
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