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{{quote|"''I hate spiders more than I hate rain.''"
|''[[Garfield]]'', from [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1982/02/21/ this 1982] strip.}}
{{quote|''Nothing in the history of the entire world is more feared and hated than the spider. Nothing deserves it more, either.''
|''[[Cracked.com]]'' [[Running Gag|summarizing their views on the creatures.]]}}
We've all [[Seen It a Million Times]], some people are scared of spiders. Whenever they see a spider, they will become scared, either screaming in horror, or trying to swat the spider with a rolled-up newspaper.
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* Subverted by [[Spider-Man]] who calls himself "friendly neighborhood Spider-Man" and is loved (or at least tolerated) by everyone in New York but J. Jonah Jameson; but played straight by spider-motif enemies Venom and Carnage. Sort of.
** Even then, Spider-Man is ''supposed'' to be creepy. When shown from the villains' point of view, we're shown a guy who moves and stands nothing like a human being (putting him in the [[Uncanny Valley]]), can come out of freaking nowhere, and no matter how far you run or how sneaky you think you're being, you ''will'' find him hanging upside down in front of you with the giant bug-eyed eyepieces staring into your soul.
** During the rare occasions where he's been truly pushed to the edge, Spidey has shown a much darker and ruthless side to him that is downright ''terrifying''. One of the most famous examples is during the ''Back in Black'' arc, where he hunts down the sniper who accidentally shot Aunt May and is led to an imprisoned Kingpin, the man who ordered the hit. While he's struggled with Kingpin in the past, it's always been because he's been holding back so as not to severely injure or kill the man. Here, he comes after him with no restraints and ''beats the flying pigshit out of him'' before repeatedly slapping him so hard he tears his skin and coldly threatening to suffocate him by filling his lungs with webbing. While it wouldn't last thanks to ''One More Day'' meddling with the timeline, he leaves Kingpin a broken, humiliated wreck of a man with an audience of horrified inmates as witnesses to his ultimate defeat. All we can say is ''thank god'' for the restraint Spidey normally shows.
* Twisted and played with with [[Nightwing]] cast member Tarantula. The original was a [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]] hero. The current day one was an [[Anti-Hero]] who sort of raped Nightwing after encouraging him to kill.
* In the [[Tintin]] book ''The Shooting Star'', Tintin sees a meteorite through a telescope and nearly has a heart attack when he sees a spider covering the entire thing. It turns out it was just a spider through the telescope, which causes Snowy to laugh at him... until he sees it himself and jumps three feet in the air (which blossoms a running gag through the series).
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* The [[Nursery Rhyme]] ''Little Miss Muffet'' is probably the [[Ur Example]].
== [[Film]]
* Alex from ''[[Madagascar]]'' is spooked by a large spider on his shoulder. After it gives him a friendly "Well, howdy do."
* After all of his [[Death Trap]]s fail to impress Roxanne, [[Megamind]] notices a spider dangling in front of her face and pretends it was intended. Then Roxanne nonchalantly blows on it and it lands on his face. Cue freak out.
* ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]'': A spider stalked Mrs. Brisby without her knowing it, before it got squashed by the [[Owl Be Damned|Great Owl]].
* ''[[Arachnophobia]]'' was a film about a group of hybridized spiders that invaded a California town and began killing the inhabitants that lived there.
* The late-1970s [[William Shatner]] film ''[[Kingdom of the Spiders]]'' was about a Southwestern town that was overrun by a bunch of killer spiders.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Cracked.com]]'' is known for their gross exaggeration of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023143738/http://www.cracked.com/funny-1934-spiders/ spiders].
* The Internet memes "[http://www.quickmeme.com/memes/Misunderstood-Spider Misunderstood Spider]" and ([[Dungeons & Dragons]]), "Lolthcats" [https://cheezburger.com/395037952] make fun of this.
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* Played straight then subverted in the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode, "Aduckyphobia" where the giant spider who gives Darkwing spider powers actually has [[Adult Child|the mind of a child]] and is being manipulated by the bad guy into doing his bidding.
* ''[[Adventures of the Gummi Bears]]'' also featured a [[Monster of the Week]] [[Giant Spider]] called the Spinster who captures the Gummis for dinner. Fortunately, they escape in the end.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
** There's also Jeff, who Billy is absolutely terrified of, but he's really a nice guy, and just wants his dad to love him.
* In an episode of BBC kids' show ''Kerwhizz'' Twist is really scared of meeting Kaboodle's pet spider Cynthia, but being a boy he unconvincingly pretends not to be. Averted in the end when he actually meets Cynthia and discovers that she's cute and friendly.
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