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[[File:21701757_them_lg.jpg|link=Them|right| Bad day for a picnic.]]
{{quote| ''On [[Starship Troopers (Literature)|Klendathu]], [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|bug squashes you]]!''}}
{{quote|''"That planet has '''bugs''', Carter. Big, huge, ugly, '''honkin' bugs!'''"''|Jack O'Neill, ''[[Stargate SG 1]]'' 2x10 "Bane"}}
Giant bugs. They're bugs or [[Muppet|muppets]] or [[Serkis Folk]], whichever, but all are mad creepy. They have no individuality or intelligence, except possibly a [[Hive Mind]]. [[What Measure Is a Non
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 Fifty Foot Whatever]]. These are especially common in prehistoric settings.
[[Truth in Television]] back in the Carboniferus Period, but only possible due to higher oxygen levels at the time. In modern times, such creatures violate the [[Square
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* ''[[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.
** In ''[[Great Mazinger]]'', one whole host of the Mykene Empire army were bio-mechanical, massive insects. Their commander, General Scarabeth, resembled a gigantic rhinoceros beetle.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]!'', several of Weevil Underwood's monsters, most notably Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and Insect Queen, are textbook examples of this trope. Naturally, [[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
{{quote| '''Yami Yugi:''' Go! Summoned Skull! Destroy his cheap [[Godzilla|Mothra]] imitation! }}
* The Magic World jungle in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' contains dung beetles that are around the size of a human torso.
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* The [[Franz Kafka|Ungeziefer]] from ''[[GURPS]]: Urban Magic'' is a [[The Woobie|pitiable]] version of this. Formerly humans they're now giant cockroaches suffering from chronic depression.
* ''[[Werewolf: The Forsaken]]'' has the Nidmuzug, or, more plainly, the Unclean. Humans who ate food contaminated by the spiritual taint that all Nidmuzugs emit and found themselves turning into were''cockroaches''. Their hybrid form is a giant, humanoid cockroach that can have a poisonous bite or claw attack. Their "beast form" is a swarm of hundreds of cockroaches, all controlled by a single mind.
** Interestingly, they come off as quite [[The Woobie|miserable]] rather than scary (to the point where people who know about their personalities call them [[Expy|Kafkas]]). They lose absolutely none of their humanity in the whole [[Body Horror]] process, and they can't live among humans since light hurts their eyes. The elders eventually become estranged from their human sides, but given the general misery that is their existence, it seems more like Unclean who ''[[Driven to Suicide|survive]]'' to that point used the logic of "You know what? [[Jerkass Woobie|Fuck you]], [[Madden Into Misanthropy|I]] ''[[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|am]]'' [[Tragic Monster|a monster]]!"
** Then there's the more conventional creepies, like the Azlu, or Spider Hosts. They're spiritual parasites who infiltrate human bodies, consume the brain, and turn the body into a puppet. They can turn into giant spiders at will, and are almost singularly dedicated to strengthening the barrier between Earth and the [[Spirit World|Hisil]]... which [[Everything Trying to Kill You|you'd think would be a good thing]], but with less traffic between Earth and the Hisil, things start to get spiritually barren on this side of existence, leading to general turmoil.
* A standard creature type in ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'', most commonly seen in black and green.
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* Junk Man's stage from ''[[Mega Man 7 (Video Game)|Mega Man 7]]'' contains several nests of cockroaches called Gockroach S.
* Many levels in Chapter 5 of ''Super [[Meat Boy (Video Game)|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|Giant Spiders]]. In fact, the only three enemies that aren't creepy crawlies of some sort are the [[Frogs and Toads|frogs]], [[Piranha Problem|piranhas]], and the [[Man
* In the [[So Bad
* Tons of them abound in the [[Shoot
* ''[[Bug! (Video Game)|Bug]]!'' has insectoid Mooks the same size as the titular character, but it is subverted as the player character himself is a bug. Then you see [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73sZVG3o_bQ the ending], which shows that Bug and the insectoid enemies (who are actually actors) are about half the size of a human!
* Leaving a house empty for too long in ''[[Constructor]]'' results in it being populated by an 8-foot tall cockroach that likes to walk around the neighborhood on [[Four Legs Good Two Legs Better|two feet]]. Needless to say, the neighbors don't like them influencing their children.
* 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.
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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 (Video Game)|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!
* Although it probably isn't canonical (its [[
* In addition to multiple varieties of giant spiders which are about knee height to a player character, ''[[Runescape]]'' 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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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Tech Infantry]]'' features the Arachnids, also known simply as The Bugs. Yes, they're [[Homage|shamelessly ripped off]] from ''[[Starship Troopers (Literature)|Starship Troopers]]''. But these versions are, if anything, even scarier. The Guardian Bugs, Emperor Bugs, and Queen Bugs are enormous, easily [[Attack of the Fifty Foot Whatever|fifty feet tall]]. And those and the smaller but still deadly Warrior Bugs can use [[Reality Warper|magic]].
* [[Mortasheen]] sort of has this. They're called Arthropoids, and are technically [[The Fly|Brundlefly-style]] [[Half
* The beetles in [[Spoilsbury Toast Boy]] range from normal beetle size to human size, with one about as big as a ''house''.
* Reemus, of ''[[The Several Journeys of Reemus]]'', tends to deal with these guys, which makes the fact that he's not quite as famous or well-respected as his dragonslayer brother just a bit nonsensical, since Reemus can and sometimes does take out entire colonies of giant beasties in his line of work, while his brother usually only gets one at a time.
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