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=== Newspaper Comics ===
* ''[[Peanuts]]''; Linus is afraid of spiders, [https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2014/11/23 as seen here.] This gag was later recycled for the full-length movie, ''[[Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown]]''.
=== Tabletop Games ===
* It's well known in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' lore that drow are put through a test by their dark goddess Lolth where failure means being turned into a drider, but few know just what this test entails. The Chwidridera, as it is called (which is, by the way, the third of [https://www.realmshelps.net/charbuild/races/elf/drow2.shtml nine tests] that the most epic of drow leaders have faced on their way up the ladder of their [[Social Darwinist]] society) involves, being stricken with arachnophobia. Now, drow towns and cities are overrun with both normal and giant spiders, the architecture and clothing styles of residents having a spider-theme. Living in such a place is a nightmarish [[Fate Worse Than Death]] for someone with this phobia. In order to pass this test, the applicant must demonstrate the [[Nerves of Steel]] a drow is supposed to have and keep herself from panicking. If she can manage this, the passes the rest and the fear subsides. If she cannot, she flees her community screaming in terror, [[You Have Failed Me| and her fate is sealed.]]
=== Video Games ===
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