Sand Worm: Difference between revisions

* Subverted in the third book of [[John Varley]]'s [[Gaea Trilogy]]. Yes, there is a giant sand worm; Gaea herself has created and placed it, no doubt directly inspired by Earth fiction. It's miles long, it's probably hungry (it has ''turned'' the original landscape into the desert it is now)...and it moves so slowly that it's basically just a living terrain feature. Some of the passing humans cut graffiti into its skin.

* Diggles in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Xanth]]'' series are giant worms that could phase through solid rock and literally worked for a song.

** They exist in canon. The skeleton of one can be seen when C3-PO is alone on Tatooine.

** Tatooine also has [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Dune_worm dune worms], which... are basically exact [[Expy]]s of sand worms.

* The pop culture reference-heavy ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' has a quest that involves sandworm riding.

* ''[[Space Quest]]'' 1 used one of these to [[Border Patrol|prevent the player from venturing into the open desert]].

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a few, the first being Ouro, a then-unique model boss in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj. The Burning Crusade expansion introduced acid-spitting worms capable of tunneling through solid rock in Hellfire Peninsula and the Bone Wastes in the middle of Terrokar Forest. Jormungar of Northrend are quite a bit smaller, but adhere to the same principles (and spit acid too). With the release of the Cataclysm expansion, ''World Of Warcraft'' got sandworms that are made of stone [[Stargate]]s.

* ''[[Phantasy Star IV]]'' had these infesting the planet Motavia, with an enterprising farmer deciding to open a sandworm ranch. Unfortunately, it gets too big for its britches, and thus becomes one of the first ([[That One Boss|and hardest]]) [[Bonus Boss]] fights in the game at that point. You often fought baby Sandworms in [[Random Encounters]], and at least one variant, if you left a single one alive, would run off and summon [[Mama Bear|Mama]] (another full-sized one like the boss mentioned above). When you get the [[Tank Goodness|Land Rover]], one of the enemies you ran into was a [[Palette Swap]] of the Sandworm, while swaps of both the small and large kind could be found in the planet's oceans.

** Also, Dunsparce.

*** Don't forget Diglett and Dugtrio. They're the [[Home Improvement (TV series)||Wilson]] of the Pokémon world, so who knows what the unexposed portion of their bodies looks like.

* ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' 2 features Amorbis, a trio of Sand Worms, as the boss of Agon Wastes. [[Rule of Cool|They're both awesome and completely physics-defying]].

* ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]'' has two different types of these.