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{{quote| ''On [[Starship Troopers (Literature)|Klendathu]], [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|bug squashes you]]!''}}
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* ''[[The Deadly Mantis]]'' has a...well, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|a giant Praying mantis 150ft long that flies at Supersonic speeds]].
* The prawns of ''[[District 9]]'' are basically like giant walking cockroaches. Though they do look a bit more like crustaceans.
** They are supposed to be called after the [
* ''Son of [[Godzilla]]'' Introduces Kamakuras, a giant mutant mantis who shows up from time to time as the Magikarp of [[Kaiju]].
** And of course, there's Mothra, probably the most popular insect Kaiju out there.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* The first season of ''[[
** And let's not forget the Shadows, which are basically five foot tall ''spider people''.
*** What about the Shadows' ''[[It Got Worse|ships]]''?
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* [[Stargate SG 1|SG-1]] once encountered giant alien bugs that tried to turn Teal'c into a nest for more bugs. [[It Makes Sense in Context|Long story.]]
** This is turning out to be ''[[Stargate Universe (TV)|Stargate Universe]]'s'' pride and joy. They've had giant spiders, chestbursters, and even a dinosaur.
* [[
* The she-mantis in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and the giant bugs in ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'''s "Fredless".
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* ''[[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 ''[[Starcraft]]''.
* Your average Bug [[Pokémon (Franchise)|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 [
** 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)''!
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* 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.
* ''[[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.
* In the ''Mutant Insects'' game of ''[[Combat of Giants (Video Game)|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]].
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [
** 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 3ft long Scorpions. Foot long versions of these survived into the Permian period.
** 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 land -- the [
* For some years, the entomology department of the University of Illinois held an annual Insect Fear Film Festival, at which movies with [[Big Creepy Crawlies]] were screened. After each film, members of the department would bring out live examples of the corresponding arthropods -- large tarantulas and stag beetles were favorites -- and pass them among the audience while they explained how the film Fails Biology Forever.
* 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.]]
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** 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 25-30 cm and looks like [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_-Ab3LtWIW_g/TEqwD7nWx0I/AAAAAAAAAIw/0MUS8ynG470/s1600/atlas-moth.jpg this]. But don't worry; it has no mouth and can't bite you so if one lands on your hand, all it can really do is just...hang out there.
* Normal weta, insects that look similar to katydids, crickets or grasshoppers native to New Zealand, are large enough at 4cm, but the ''[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|giant]]'' [
* ''Scolopendra gigantea'', the Amazon giant centipede. Centipedes are creepy enough, but Scolopendra gigantea is about a foot long.
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