Mega Spider

The **Mega Spider** was a sauropod-sized prehistoric spider. This enormous arachnid was the leader of the Man Bats, despite not being the same species.

## Appearance

The Mega Spider had a smaller cephalothorax compared to its larger abdomen with a hunched position, a lower jaw under its chelicerae covered with teeth, a red-furred body covered with black shades, eight purple eyes, and eight woolly legs covered with sharp tips. The spider even had the ability to shoot webs out of its mouth to trap its prey.

## Personality

From its actions and its ability to confine prey, the Mega Spider is cunning, aggressive, and relentless. It seems to be very territorial as seen when Fang enters its den, and the spider attacks her for trespassing. Most notably, the spider shared a symbiotic relationship with the Man Bats that inhabited its den. The bats would go out and capture prey and use the spider's webs as storage, with the spider in return likely getting to feed off of some of the bat's kills.

## Abilities

* **Webbing:** As a spider, the Mega Spider is capable of spitting webs out of a gland on its mouth. If used against an opponent, the webs of the Mega Spider can either wrap enemies in a cocoon or stick them into a certain surface. Its webs could also act as bungee cords, with enough strength to hold Fang.
* **Strength:** The Mega Spider can prove a formidable enemy, aside from its intimidating size, the Mega Spider was capable of brutally thrashing Fang towards the walls of the cave by just holding her with one of its claws. The Mega Spider did the same action after Fang bit onto its arm.
* **Resilience:** While the Mega Spider didn't take any hits for a majority of the battle with Spear and Fang, it is notable that the Mega Spider's legs were enough to withstand a brutal hit from a rock held by Spear, showing great resilience. It was only killed after Spear impaled a Triceratops horn into the side of its head.
* **Venom:** Although the ability wasn't shown on screen, the Mega Spider's introduction shows green droplets leaking out of its fangs, which indicates the creature is venomous.

## History

The Mega Spider appeared to have had symbiotic relationship with the bats, who would bring their kills to the spider and store them in it's webs. On the night of a lunar eclipse, the spider received an influx of prey from the giant bats in its lair. It inspected its bounty, unaware that Fang snuck in trying to find Spear when the latter was taken by the bats. The Tyrannosaurus soon confronted the spider, but the arachnid beat Fang senseless. While beating Fang, Spear freed himself from web bondage and tried to fight back against the spider, only for him to be sent flying by it. After getting knocked out, Spear saw a Triceratops corpse, where he hit its frill with a rock and ripped one of its horns out. The caveman then impaled the spider through the head with the ceratopsian's horn, killing it.("Terror Under the Blood Moon")

## Trivia

* Genndy Tartakovsky has revealed through commentary that the Man Bats used the spider's webs as a sort of "fridge". In return, the spider likely got to feed off of some of the bat's kills.
* In the animatic pitch, the spider was meant to have a high-pitched hypnotic humming to calm any intruder or surviving victim, and then wrap the prey up in its web.
* The spider resembles *Ungoliant* or her daughter, *Shelob* from *The Silmarillion* and *The Lord of the Rings*, respectively, both famous works by J.R.R. Tolkien.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Terror Under the Blood Moon Pitch Animatic". (Video) *Adult Swim*.