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Both the original Clash of the Titans and the remake feature a pair of giant scorpions. The ant and the scorpion in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids are normal-sized, but due to our protagonists being miniaturized , end up having the appearance of Big Creepy-Crawlies onscreen. Big Ass Spider!

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Similarly, Eight Legged Freaks is about an army of spiders the size of horses that terrorize a small town. The movie is an explicit homage to the genre's movies from the s, like the aforementioned Them!

Demonic Possession movies play with this fear as well. Deep Star Six features a giant eurypterid. The human-sized ectoparasites that drop off the rampaging Kaiju in Cloverfield resemble some kind of sea louse. Its nonsensical title aside, the Canadian Alien cash-in Blue Monkey deals with giant insects running amok in an Abandoned Hospital.

In Absentia , the creature which terrorizes the protagonist's family is a giant insect of some kind we never get a clear enough view of it which lives in Another Dimension accessible through the walls of a bridge underpass tunnel. The Gone series by Michael Grant has the bugs from Plague.

Tolkien has a cartload of these, including Ungoliant The Silmarillion , Shelob Lord of the Rings and the Mirkwood spiders The Hobbit Orson Scott Card uses this with the bug-like species systematically killing the crew of a human starship because, aside from the queens, their own species doesn't have free will, and they just assumed we'd be the same way.

Subverted in that the bugs have bones, and that they're actually quite a nice and sympathetic, even naive if occasionally creepy species. Robert A. Heinlein used such bugs as a metaphor for Communism in Starship Troopers. They had a Brain Caste of very smart individuals and the warriors were as smart as they needed to be to fight effectively, but the workers were relatively mindless and instinct-driven.

Which actually works pretty well as a metaphor for the USSR. In the movie , this was extended to the whole species. Subverted in Alan Dean Foster 's Humanx Commonwealth books, in which the insectoid Thranx are the principal allies of humankind. Not that the formation of this alliance went through without some problems of the xenophobic terrorist variety. The Chi, neon-yellow arthropodoids, and Knnn, hairy black arachnoids, in the Chanur Novels. Ransom briefly encounters a giant fly and giant beetles in the caves of Venus in Perelandra.

He's initially quite terrified at their appearance, but they prove to be no threat, and his fear quickly subsides. The giant alien insect species, Hetwan, in Everworld. In Roald Dahl 's James and the Giant Peach , James bfriends a group of insects living on the eponymous enormous fruit who have become human-sized and anthropomorphic as a result of the same magic that created the giant peach. In the Brian Aldiss novel Hothouse , the Earth is so old that there are only five remaining non-plant species: tree-bees, plant-ants, tiger-flies think wasps , termights and humans.

They are all about the same size. Slightly subverted because it's made clear that humans have shrunk over time, and the insects have grown and met them halfway. Most of the Vord from Codex Alera , though the Vord Queen has a degree of Voluntary Shapeshifting and gradually changes from one of these to a Cute Monster Girl though her personality never gets any more human, putting her squarely in the Uncanny Valley. In Adrian Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt series giant insects basically fill the niche in the ecosystem that mammals do in our world. In the abominable squickfest that is Eat Them Alive by Pierce Nace , a mentally unbalanced ex-con exacts vengeance upon his former partners in crime with a horde of giant killer praying mantises.

The entire book is nothing but page after page of giant mantises rampaging and eating people. In Jurassic Park , giant dragonflies described as having a six-foot wingspan appear briefly in the aviary, without any explanation given for their presence. Subverted in Michael Crighton's Micro. The bugs are actually normal size, it's the humans who have been shrunk down to half an inch.

At one point one character is literally drawn and quartered by ants. The initially tiny ants in the Goosebumps book Awesome Ants gradually develop into this after a boy ignores the instruction manual for his new ant farm and starts overfeeding them. By the ending they've reached the size of mountains, and locked up all humans in town-sized ant farms. In the gamebook Search for Dinosaurs , you meet some impressively large dragonflies in the Triassic period. They are a common category of roaming monster in uncivilized areas in The Balanced Sword , including the dreaded doomlock spiders, and a kind of giant carnivorous caterpillar thing.

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In The Stormlight Archive , virtually all wildlife in the world of Roshar is insectoid or crustacean. This is because Roshar gets one of the hypercane-like highstorms every few days, so only things that can weather repeated scourings can survive. Some of them are Kaiju sized or even big enough to be mistaken for islands.

According to Word of God and Arcanum Unbounded they dodge the Square-Cube Law through a combination of lighter gravity, higher oxygen content, and magic. The main antagonists in Grasshopper Jungle are giant, bulletproof praying mantises. One of the creatures encountered by the protagonists of The Taking is a massive bug hiding in a church basement whose features are a mashup of insects, spiders and scorpions. It drags one guy into its lair and messily kills him in the shadows followed by spearing another guy on its stinger.

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It also features giant dragonflies, which seem to fill a similar ecological niche to medium-sized birds of prey-including being used for hunting. Hender's Island in Fragment is populated mainly by giant killer crustaceans related to mantis shrimp. This includes tractor-sized predators on land and Tyrannosaurus -sized ones in the island's lake. However, many are hardly recognizable as arthropods because hundreds of millions of years of evolution have turned many into mammal-like shapes.

Pandemonium in the titular sequel plays this more straight, with colonies of hippo-sized amphipods, centipede chains made up of interlinking arthropods, and sea spiders. In Lindsay Gutteridge's Cold War in a Country Garden and its two sequels, Matthew Dilke is a quarter of an inch tall and meets up with regular sized ants, etc. At one point he grabs and cooks some cockroach eggs. At his size a cockroach might seem about 30 feet long. Worm has Atlas, a gigantic hercules beetle created by Panacea and controlled by Skitter that was capable of supporting a human in flight.

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Scorpions by Mike Cook features a horde of giant prehistoric Scary Scorpions unleashed from underground after an earthquake in Nevada. Scorpion: Second Generation , the sequel to Michael R. Linaker's Scorpion , has the killer scorpions from the first book return, except this time they've been mutated into giants by radiation. Mostly, the maggots are of ordinary size it's just that there's just a lot of them , but a few are absolutely disgustingly gigantic.

Anyone the worms prick with their tail stingers turn into giant worms themselves. In the German SF series Maddrax the setting is a post-apocalyptic world in which the animals have mutated into huge monsters. Especially the insects have become very big. An Intrepid Reporter uncovers evidence that the American and Brazilian governments are working together to cover something up , and various clues — not least of which being increased interest in the movie Them!

She manages to track down a scientist who seems to be connected to the whole thing, but he tells her that there are no giant mutant ants — yet. He then explains to her what's actually going on. It turns out that something — possibly a radiation leak from a nearby power station — has messed up the life cycle of a swarm of army ants, permanently locking them into their nomadic phase. They're no bigger than other ants of their species, but they're more active, more aggressive and hungrier, and have the power to devastate the ecosystem in their path. Oh, and thanks to incautious use of insecticide over the years, they're resistant to every one available.

Fortunately, the project he's part of has come up with an unconventional solution: a mutagen which will, indeed, cause the ants to grow enormous It works. Live-Action TV. The ants from The Aquabats! Super Show! Babylon 5 The first season featured occasional appearances by N'Grath, a crime-lord who looked like a giant praying mantis. The Shadows are basically five foot tall spider people , a form also suggested by their spacecraft. In The Bush Tucker Man , Major Les Hiddins tells how in Australia's Northern Territory they talk of a mosquito so big it landed at Alice Springs Airport and was filled with a hundred gallons of aviation fuel before they realised what it was.