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Please note, Spider Tanks are not tanks designed to look like spiders; they are simply tanks that ''walk'' like spiders (or [[Scary Scorpions|scorpions]]). If you encounter a giant robot shaped like an insect or arachnoid it's more likely that they are a [[Mechanical Horse]] and not a true Spider Tank. In video games some [[Real Robot]] humanoid mechas occasionally have four or more legs, but still have an upper body and arms. They are also not spider tanks, as they do not fulfil the tank requirement. It's also not an arachnid version of the [[Snake Pit]] or [[Shark Pool]].
A similar (and broader) concept is [[Tripod Terror|Tripods]]. See also [[Giant Spider]] and [[Giant Enemy Crab]] for their autonomous organic counterparts. [[Sub
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* Anansi from ''[[Exoria (Fanfic)|Exoria]]''. Twenty-five meters tall. Carries ten chain guns and dozens of anti-tank top-attack missiles. Runs at three hundred kilometers per hour. Impervious to most conventional weapons. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Can jump]].
* The Nephilim Tsuchigumos of ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion (Fanfic)|Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'' replace the useless canon Cthulhu Tech Nephilim. And yes, they are a [[Shout
* Go-Kun, of course, from [[Nobody Dies (Fanfic)|Nobody Dies]], but more classically the Reego (or some of their bodies, at least). Tres even has most of the semisentient giant spiders in Australia worshiping her. ([[It's a Long Story|Long story.]])
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* Syndrome's Omnidroid in ''[[The Incredibles]].'' Early versions had two wheels and two arms, but at some point they were mixed together and just kept increasing from there until you got the five- and six- legged, building-sized monstrosities that were actually fought.
* ''[[Star Wars]]'': The AT-TE and (large and small) Spider Droids from the prequel trilogy. The original trilogy's AT-ATs ''sort of'' qualify based on leg count, but ultimately they're less Spider Tanks and more [
* ''[[Wild Wild West (Film)|Wild Wild West]]'': The giant [[Steampunk]] robot spider.
** Producer Jon Peters repeatedly insisted a similar spider tank show up in early drafts of what later became ''Superman Returns'', as wittily recounted [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgYhLIThTvk here] by scriptwriter [[Kevin Smith]]. It also shows up in ''[[Superman Doomsday]]'' (though admittedly, it kind of looks more like an ant with one pair of legs too many.)
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'''Professor Frink:''' Well then, you're definitely not going to like my steam-powered super-spider. [[With the Hurting|With the]] ''[[With the Hurting|stepping]]'' and the ''squishing'' and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|the web made of NYLON]] }}
** Jon Peters' obsession with the vehicle goes beyond just those two movies. The most egregious example might be his attempt to fit the contraption into the proposed cinematic adaptation of Neil Gaiman's ''[[Sandman]]'' series.
* One of the rejected designs for ''[[
* ''Comic Book: The Movie'': [[Kevin Smith]] relates (based on his experience with [[Superman Returns]] above) how the director of the movie Hammill's character is making a featurette on (with the ulterior motive to gain control of the production to prevent [[Adaptation Displacement]]) wanted him to write a scene where the hero fights a giant mechanical spider. At the turning point of the film {{spoiler|his realization that the movie must be stopped is conveyed by having him obtain a copy of the shooting script and discovering the words "Scene 37: The Giant Mechanical Spider".}}
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