Spider Monster

## Foregin Names

### Nicknames

Spider Weapon, Meat Flayer, Mind Spider, Spider Flayer, Weapon Flayer, Mind Eater

## Biological Information

### Forms

Shadow Monster, Hospital Monster, Spider Monster

### Height

30 feet (Real Size)
492 feet (ImBigged Dimension)

## Affiliation Information

### Allies

Demogorgons, Demodogs, The Flayed, Green Stripes, Cthulhu, Hydra, Solem, Hellen

### Enemies

Eleven, Mike, Will, Lucas, Dustin, Nancy, Johnathan, Humans, FBI

## Appearance

### Last Appearance

Green Stripes: King of the Dimensions

**The Spider Monster** was created from the melted remains of the Flayed to serve as a physical body for the part of the Mind Flayer that had been trapped in Hawkins following the closure of the Gate.

He reappeared in Green Stripes: King of the Dimensions as a minor creature that obey Chimaura and later on Green Stripes as King.

## Name

The Spider Monster's name is unknown. Thus, he's been named the Spider Monster because his true name is unknown.

## Design

### Appearance

Having been an amalgam of human and rodent remains, the Spider Monster’s appearance was vile, to say the least. The surface of the creature was especially irregular, having been an assemblage of bodily tissues with bones belonging to the creature’s victims jutting out from various parts of its body. Overall, the monster’s form mirrored the Mind Flayer’s real form, possessing an elongated head and six legs that branched off to form several appendages that were used for mobility. The creature was equipped with several prehensile tentacles that it used for offensive attacks, one of which could extend from the monster’s mouth. The maw of the creature was filled with circular rows of jagged "teeth". While not as massive as the Mind Flayer himself, it was still exceptionally large, towering at around 30 feet tall.

### Roar

The Spider Monster has a deep growling and mating call when he enter the mall. He also has a mixed of a lion and the Mind Flayer's screeching for one part of the season.

## Origins

The Spider Monster was created from the melted remains of the Flayed to serve as a physical body for the part of the Mind Flayer that had been trapped in Hawkins following the closure of the Gate. The monstrosity was essentially an enormous weapon the Mind Flayer had created to kill El Hopper (and eventually her friends), and therefore eliminate the only thing standing in his way from annihilating the human race and taking over the Earth.

## History

### Stranger Things (Season 3)

In the summer of 1985, a secret Russian operation located beneath Hawkins' newly-built Starcourt Mall successfully re-opened the Gate into the Upside Down using the Key. The particulate’s link with the Mind Flayer was re-established, reviving in Brimborn Steel Works where it immediately began to possess a horde of rats. The Mind Flayer then began constructing a physical body for himself out of the rats’ remains, with the ultimate goal to kill El and her friends as revenge for closing the Gate the year prior. To achieve this, he realized he needed to find larger victims, particularly humans. His first host was Billy Hargrove, whom he then used to kidnap Heather Holloway, possessing her as well. Over the span of three days, several more Hawkins residents became hosts to the Mind Flayer, among them being Heather’s parents, Tom and Janet Holloway, as well as Doris Driscoll and Bruce Lowe. These hosts would later be dubbed “the Flayed”.

After discovering that the Mind Flayer had returned, the Party along with Nancy and Jonathan decided to use Doris as a way to find the location where the creature’s victims were being flayed. When Nancy and Jonathan went to see Doris at the hospital, they were instead met by Tom and Bruce, who proceeded to attack them. After they had been killed in the ensuing fight, Bruce’s and Tom’s bodies melted and combined to form a grotesque monster. After the creature had been thrown out of a window by Eleven, it escaped into the sewers where it was absorbed into the Spider Monster’s body.

On July 4, the Mind Flayer finally enacted his plan; after learning Eleven’s location by using Billy as a decoy, the Mind Flayer summoned all of the Flayed to the steel mill where they were melted and absorbed into the proxy body, allowing it to grow to a massive size. Once complete, the creature made its way to Hopper’s cabin and proceeded to attack the residence. In its assault, the creature managed to grab El by the leg with one of its tentacles, injuring her in the process. Once the tentacle had been severed, El split the Spider Monster’s head in half, temporarily incapacitating it and allowing the group to escape.

Due to a small piece of the creature still lodged under El’s skin, the Mind Flayer was able to pursue her to the Starcourt Mall. The Mind Flayer was distracted and lured away from the mall as El, Mike, and Max evaded the creature by escaping through the mall’s back entrance. However, they were intercepted by Billy, alerting the Mind Flayer to El’s location. Once he returned to the mall, Billy brought El to the creature to be killed. Just before he could do so, the creature was pelted with fireworks. When the fireworks were depleted, the Mind Flayer tried again, only to be stopped by Billy, who had returned to his real self. The Mind Flayer retaliated by stabbing Billy with his tentacles, mortally wounding him. Immediately after, the Key was destroyed, thus closing the Gate and severing the Spider Monster’s link with the Mind Flayer.

### Green Stripes: King of the Dimensions/Green Stripes: King of the Dimensions: The Flower's Cut

During Stranger Things Season 3, The Spider Monster was summon by Chimaura into the ImBigged Dimension to serve as a minion and help destroy the world. The Spider Monster was in Hawkins, Indiana but much bigger than he was. He begin to destroy and hunt with his new pack until Dr. Amber Tomkins active her device in Boston to call all the monsters to her and then, the Spider Monster begin to make his journey but doesn't see Green Stripes killing Chimaura. He was the first to be been by Green Stripes and bow to him last. He was return to his dimension later on.

## Abilities

### Demosnakes

The Spider Weapon had tendrils come out of it called Demosnakes and they would reach up to a unknown distance.

### Climbing

The Spider Monster can climb on buildings with ease in his real size.

### Durability

The Spider Weapon is made out of flesh and bones and seen to withstand fireworks thrown at it.

### Speed and Agility

The Spider Monster was able to catch up to a car and able to make his way towards Boston as the first creature.

### Strength and Combat

The Spider Monster can take on buildings with ease and his prey.

## Weaknesses

### Hive Mind

Once the gate is closed, The Spider Weapon begin to lose it's hive mind to the gate closing.