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** All the tanks seen in action are spider-tanks, but the Takemicaduchi is the most advanced tank ever built, a piece of [[Lost Technology]] .
* In the ''[[Soul Eater]]'' Anime, this is what Baba Yaga's castle can become. A giant spider ''castle'' tank.
* Even [[Gundam]] gets into the act. Although the Adzam Mobile Armor in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' is more like a hovering gun platform with four landing gear, the [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Zamza-Zah]] actually has fully-jointed legs (with retractable crab claws and [[BFG|BFGs]] in the feet), though it also spends most of it's appearances flying. ''Destiny'' also has the Ghells-Ghe, which is an insect-like armor with the upper body of a mobile suit mounted centaur-like on the front.
* ''[[Cyborg 009]]'' had [[Monster of the Week]] Cyborg 0011, who's body was basically one such tank, with lasers, a cannon that shot a sticky substance {{spoiler|and a missile that, when exploded, unleashed a neurotoxic rain}}.
* Small, four-legged spider tanks appear in the ''[[Akira]]'' manga to enforce martial law after Tetsuo releases Akira.
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* ''[[Shadow Complex]]'' has you fight these several different times as minibosses or (during the final boss fight) as [[Boss in Mook Clothing|as regular enemies]]. In one such fight you can't even damage the [[Spider Tank]], as it's clinging to the wall high above you (beyond grenade range, and it's bullet-proof)--you have to trick it into repeatedly bursting water mains until it can't climb any higher above the rising flood, causing the tank to become the toaster in a huge [[Electrified Bathtub]].
* Countless units from ''[[Supreme Commander]]'' including the Aeon's Harbinger and Sprite Striker. The Cybran have many such units, including The Mantis, The Fire Beetle and The Brick. Two of the Cybran experimental units qualify: The [[Code Name|Monkeylord]] Experimental Spiderbot; and the Megalith: Experimental Megabot (see picture). The Cybran's Tech 2 Destroyer transforms into a giant spider tank to walk on land.
** Even more bizarrely, one of the Cybran Spider Tanks is a mobile factory that ''lays eggs'' which hatch into units.
** In the sequel, nearly all Cybran land units are spider tanks, and all naval units (barring the giant squid submarine) can become ''spider-boats'' and walk on land.
*** The UEF, Aeon and Cybran unit design philosophies are basically "Tanks", "Hover Tanks" and "Spider Tanks" respectively.
* The soviet [http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Sickle Sickle Tank] from ''Red Alert 3'' and its predecessor the [http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Reaper_%28Red_Alert%29 Reaper]
** The soviet Stingrays become [[Military Mashup Machine|this when they move from sea to land]].
** ''[[Command and& Conquer|Red Alert 2]]'' has the Terror Drone, which is a small machine that kills infantry in one hit, and takes down tanks in seconds. And is very bloody fast. It returns in RA3. But now it ''swims''.
** ''[[Command and& Conquer|4 Tiberian Twilight]]'' actually has a tank called the Spider Tank, which is a small tank which fires a laser, and can burrow into the ground to move around unseen. It even creates a laser "web" when in close proximity to other Spider tanks, which damages units which get caught in the web.
*** ''Kane's Wrath'' introduces the Eradicator Hexapod. Granted, it's missing a pair of legs, but still it's gigantic freakin' bug. Also, the scrin have the gun walker, a much weaker and smaller [[Spider Tank]].
**** Don't forget Nod's Redeemer 'mech! It qualifies as a [[Spider Tank]] too.
** Eric Gooch, who did 3D modeling for the ''[[Command and& Conquer]]'' series (in addition to playing [[The Dragon|Seth]] in the first game), also did [http://www.cybergooch.com/pages/MW-77.htm this].
* The [[Clockwork Creature|Clock]]/[[Steampunk|Punk]] Vinci faction in ''[[Rise of Legends]]'' have Clockwork Spiders. They also have the Land Leviathan, which is essentially a [[Steampunk|steam-powered]] [[Clockwork Creature|clockwork]] [[Ninja Pirate Robot Zombie|missile-launching subterranean Scorpion Tank]] [[Humongous Mecha|the size of a small city]].
* Spider Drones show up as [[Mooks]] early on in ''[[Xenosaga]]''.
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* One of the mutant toys in ''[[Toy Story]]'' is a toy car with legs instead of wheels.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' has Professor Poofenplotz's "Me-Mobile" from "Isabella and the Temple of Sap", a [[Face Ship|giant version of her head]] mounted on spider legs.
* [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]] has the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Umbaran_mobile_heavy_cannon Umbaran juggernaut].
* In ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'', the {{spoiler|Kroloteans}} have "mechs" that are Spider Tanks in all but name.
 
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