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* The ''[[Dune]]'' film by [[David Lynch]] helped codify their typical appearance. They're also a [[Fantastic Cavalry]].
* ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'', where the ''Millennium Falcon'' lands ''inside'' one - well, inside of an Asteroid Worm - and barely escapes.
** Don't forget the Sarlacc, which resembles a sandworm at least in which parts of it we are able to see. It's pretty stationary, so it might be more like an [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|enormous antlion]] [[In Space]]. It feeds on things that fall in ''very slowly'', preserving them for thousands of years and [[And I Must Scream|absorbing their minds]]. [[Tales From
* ''[[Beetlejuice]]'' was taken out by one of another iconic Sandworm species that lived on Saturn. These had white-and-black stripes and one mouth inside another- compare the xenomorphs of the ''[[Alien]]'' movies.
* The Jags from ''[[Vexille]]''. METAL sandworms. Gigantic tubular rotating masses of scrap (bio)metal.
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** 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|Expys]] of sand worms.
* The Flayers in the [[Star Trek Deep Space Nine
* In the [[Retief]] story "Internal Affair", the ambassador sent to the planet Quahogg disappears after reporting being chased by forty-foot giant worms, and Retief and Magnan are sent to investigate. The worms turn out to be {{spoiler|the intelligent life forms the ambassador was sent to meet}} (somehow the CDT overlooked this little fact), and, while the ambassador ''was'' eaten, {{spoiler|this did no harm}}--in fact, it turns out that {{spoiler|the only safe place for humans on the planet is inside the worms.}}
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* In Yu-Gi-Oh, the Medusa Worm is a card that, when flip summoned, can destroy an opponents monster. You can then flip it back down so it can eat your opponents monsters again next turn.
* The Graveworm from ''[[GURPS]]: Creatures of the Night'' is an effectively harmless version of this. They're very easy to kill (literally, they have the "Easy To Kill" disadvantage) and have no real attacks but if people that spend to much time around a living one find their intelligence being drained away.
* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' has dholes (gigantic underground worms) and chthonians (somewhat smaller underground worms with blood-draining tentacles and telepathy).
* ''[[Arkham Horror]]'', being [[Cthulhu Mythos]] [[The Board Game]], has dholes and cthonians as per the literature example above. In game terms, dholes are massive and incredibly powerful while cthonians can damage all the investigators by causing earthquakes.
* The CCG Guardians has a card called "The Great Ba'te" and it is one of the largest creatures in the game.
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* ''[[Darksiders]]'' has these in a desert called the Ashlands, with an even larger one as the boss of the area.
* The Subterranean in ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]: Dinosaur Hunter'' (N64).
* ''[[Mousehunt]]'' has the "[[
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series has some robotic ones in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]'' located in Sandopolis zone. Alien worms appeared in ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''. More organic and fiery ones can be found in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]]'' although the latter two seem to prefer any surface, not just sand.
* ''[[Time Splitters]]: Future Perfect'' has twenty-foot-long vicious dirt-worms in the backyard of the haunted mansion. The player gets to rescue a scientist who had taken refuge in a tree by defeating the worms with a flamethrower. The scientist also references ''[[Tremors]]'' by name, in keeping with the game being filled with movie [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]].
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