7 Worst Spider Transformations that Prove Peter Parker Hit the F***ing Jackpot

From venom-punching to invisibility and improved abs, Spider-Man Miles Morales is an incredible showcase of the very, very best-case scenario for having your human form fused with that of a spider. As these horrendous spider-transformations elsewhere in videogames prove, Miles Morales and Peter Parker hit the bloody jackpot.
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[@sophiepatrick3420]

So glad ellen was protected from this! She has been through enough over the last month

[@WilliamHasMelted]

Oh shit Whats wrong?

[@artsyjames]

@@WilliamHasMelted Pretty sure it's just a reference to Ellen's Fear Academy from October ;P

[@GrantTempleton]

@@WilliamHasMelted I think Sophie is referring to her Fear Academy vid’s.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

@@WilliamHasMelted you don't know? Ellen has a serious case of Arachnophobia

[@shaneens1547]

@@thecompanioncube4211 Doesn't everyone? (No seriously. I think we can all agree that society is afraid of spiders.)

[@freddieharper890]

Ellen Rose has left the chat.

[@adamchristopher6917]

Update: Screw you guys, I'm going home!

[@AlexSamaras]

Luke: "Hey Ellen, when you have a chance, can you check my list video for errors and stuff?" Ellen: "Sure, Luke. What's the video about?" Luke: "Oh, you know, just the most horrendous spider transformations in vi----" Ellen: changes into Merilwen's octopus form (a thing she can actually do) and does her best impression of one of those "NOPE octopus" GIFs.

[@rmcgowa1987]

@@AlexSamaras yeah she wishes

[@FrenchToast663]

@@AlexSamaras Octopuses are like slimy sea spiders tho

[@LoganBluth]

@Hadrian Eh, they don't move like spiders and they don't have more than two eyes. Those seem to be Ellen's main triggers.

[@__S.T__]

i'm surprised Mimi from Super Paper Mario isn't in this, her first impression may have been sweet, but her true form involves her snapping her neck, unwrapping her paper head, revealing spider legs, then proceeds to chase you through a door filled labyrinth while repeatedly chanting her own name, to make maters worse, if you had the luck of losing her, she teleports on top of you

[@spicybeantofu]

My thoughts too.

[@sarahgilliland2809]

I agree

[@Roanan.]

While rapidly chanting her name, nonetheless!

[@a_shy_american]

Exactly what I thought!!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

And you thought Mario games don't become that brutal.

[@jprofio]

I saw the title and remembered reading about Spidersman, the version of Spiderman where he falls into a pit of radioactive spiders that gain his sentience and move as just a huge mass of spiders in a suit. Horrible, just horrible

[@henryrodgers7386]

I read this, and immediately thought of the "three kids in a trenchcoat" gag from old cartoons. Like, the "hero" is just a six-foot scale model of a huge Mecha, driven by a crack team of Special Operations Spiders.

[@omegabet3912]

Spiders-man! Spiders-man! Does whatever spiders can! Kill some guy, gain sentience! Steal his identity and scare someone! Whach out! Here comes the Spiders-man! No really, watch out.

[@fart_smella1]

*Manspider. The horrible mutant spider version of our beloved Parker.*

[@juliagoodwin9510]

nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope

[@n1thecaptain965]

Was this supposed to be a hero or a villain?

[@Spiracle]

I am not surprised that Luke is narrating this alone. *Not surprised whatsoever.*

[@kip258]

The skultulla man is SO thankful, actually, that if you leave and come back, he'll give you 200 MORE RUPEES! You can keep repeating this, too! He gives you UNLIMITED MONEY!!

[@MichaelOfCainhurst]

So... That means that Link didn't learn from the man's lesson...

[@getaround1276]

same with the cursed guys cat in tp

[@FoxIord]

Which is sadly useless in Ocarina due to the low money cap, the fact that only a few things in the game are expensive, and the fact that money is really easy to find in that game anyways.

[@dr.bright6272]

He didn't learn his lesson and is trying to get Link cursed

[@masterskygamer306]

whats worst is that we get the same quest in majora's mask and something similar to it in twilight princess

[@animemanXLK]

oxtra: Hideous spider transformation list Ellen: Nope!

[@cthulhufhtagn2483]

Luke: Guess I'm on my own for this one.

[@marhawkman303]

I dunno. Shelob's was pretty nice. She can change back any time she wants! :p

[@Zoso14892]

Rumour has it that Ellen did the original voiceover but it was just a series of unintelligible whimpers and shrieks so Luke had to step up.

[@toddsimpson9164]

I too wondered where arachnophobic Ellen was. I have nothing against those who don't like spiders, I am slightly arachnophobic: I can walk near one, just don't let one hit my skin!

[@marhawkman303]

@@toddsimpson9164 I tickled one of the Argiopes in my flower bed today. :D

[@violetmoon1587]

Seriously I'm here for everything Luke has to say on this one: "Oxford, the first true green city, an entire english town completely unreliant on fossil fuels since harnessing the carbon neutral and endlessly renewable energy source that is J.R.R Tolkein Spinning in his grave at Sexy Shelob" & "We'd like to try and distract you with what this cut scene also shows: perhaps our first and only ever look at Saurons bed. What a preposterously large headboard" Thank You Luke

[@blarg2429]

"A spider hybrid, or spibrid if you will."

[@paulolibrelon4419]

I Think that shelob could actually have a human form, if she really wanted. Shelob is said to be an “evil thing in spider form” and it was offspring of ungoliant, a primordial spirit in spider form. But I think she would never be a sexy girl but a fat drooling woman, and she wouldn’t try to intervene in the fate of middle earth like that cause she only lived to dwell in darkness and eat.

[@gamehunter88]

I'd argue the noble on OoT did learn his lesson. He gave away money as a thank you, if he was still worth being cursed he wouldn't give anything but a pat on the back

[@axeldornelles5292]

Either that or he hoped to get rid of the cursed cash by giving it to you, risking you while staying safe.

[@williamfalls]

I say he didn't, because the lesson should have been that money isn't valuable to life... And the ultimate reward to doing the tedious task of killing all them golden spiders? Money... Literally worthless when you could have spent all that time earning money instead of lifting his curse. I would have hoped he'd have at least given him a Rich Man Wallet or something to hold the maximum amount of gems instead of killing the last 50 or so... Or a rare something or other. Not literally the thing the moral of the story is telling you is not worth a curse. I usually save the entire family, but the father that gives 200 rupees... Because I could make that much doing anything else and still have fun doing it.

[@CelticVictory]

I think he did too. He gave money away instead of accruing it.

[@annana6098]

@@williamfalls He'll give you money again and again every time you visit. You never need to earn money again.

[@williamfalls]

@@annana6098 The grass is literally money. And by the time you can gather all the gold spiders, you already bought the expensive items you'd have wanted to save up for. (Unless you're saying you did an obscure run like the water/fire temple areas without tunics or something... But then you'd break your run by getting them anyways.)

[@CocoMura]

It gets sadder. Once you own Quelags soul the blind sister "senses you" with it and assumes it's her.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

She thinks you're her sister regardless of whether you have either the Soul or the weapon you can forge with it. She thinks you're her sister when you wear the Witch's Ring, which Quelaag has a copy of. They mentioned in the video that she thinks you're her sister, anyway.

[@VitunVatiVille]

@@OtakuUnitedStudio Yep.

[@TheVoicesOfTheBeyond]

(sobbing intensifies)

[@N_Skoronski]

"Perhaps he [Patches] gets to lay eggs in your remains? Best not to think about it." WAY to late, Luke.

[@feliciasmoon3323]

Right now i could see it in my head and i regret thinking about it. If i didn't get nightmares by this i don't know. Edit: Last night I really had a nightmare about this.

[@laura121684]

*too late.

[@johannvongenerico9487]

That Oxford Green city joke made me laugh more than I probably should have done 😂

[@gruggerduggerhoose]

I have no idea what i was expecting there but “sexy shelob” wasn’t even a fringe contender 😂😂

[@vaspeter2600]

Whoever wrote that line deserves a raise, a hug and a beverage of their choice. The delivery from Luke added quite a bit, too. Poor man feels the urge to spin in his heart, too...

[@Ghiaman1334]

As an Oxfordshire lad, I had to pause the video and laugh for a solid minute because of this joke about our citt

[@garinarayne5810]

I nearly choked on my sandwich!

[@RobertJW]

Saaaame.

[@brentage5000]

Can't help but notice the lack of Ellen in this video. Wonder why.... (smart girl, her)

[@mateuszodrzywoek8658]

arachnophobia

[@skaraptor2497]

Lack of ANYONE but Luke

[@Wintertidal]

Luke: So I have this idea for a video. Ellen: yeah? Luke: arachno-transformations, i was thinking of recording it on... Ellen: Ooh, sorry, I'm busy that day. Luke: ...but I haven't said when. Ellen: Yeah, very, very busy that day, sorry.

[@aurorasodre2375]

I could listen with their voices!

[@callum2474]

I assume this was made whilst Ellen was getting some much deserved time off.

[@riveramnell143]

“Look, if I had a glass and a postcard big enough, your sister would be outside right now.” Thank you for that laugh, now there is pop EVERYWHERE 😂

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

Say soda like a normal person

[@goldenfiberwheat238]

@insanity wolf what

[@riveramnell143]

“Soda like a normal person.” Okay, I said it. What do I win?

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

@insanity wolf - "pop" is my fucking grandfather it's called a "soft drink" or "carbonated beverage"

[@riveramnell143]

Just to be clear, I’m one of those monsters who uses “pop” and “soda” interchangeably. I just happened to call it pop this time. Also, if I had called it soda, I’d have gotten comments about that, too. It’s lose-lose, like giving your opinion about pineapple on pizza....

[@starblaiz1986]

oxtra: "we've all seen a spider crawling along the wall and thought thank god that thing cant shoot rockets.." me: "you dream very differently from me..."

[@qynoi42]

This line made me laugh so hard.

[@arogustus3984]

I'd say Webber from Don't Starve is a good example. He was just a boy at one point, but then a spider ate him. Given that his title is The Indigestible, it sort of makes sense that both boy and spider survived, boy now wearing spider as a living skin suit. Disturbing when you think about it, though Webber doesn't really mind. Neither does the spider.

[@Sol-mr1lv]

9:05 That's the exact opposite of avarice, he's giving away money!

[@spicybeantofu]

Yeah hes sharing the money he got cursed for lol

[@Sol-mr1lv]

@@spicybeantofu he was cursed for being greedy and hoarding money, after the curse got lifted he learned his lesson and gave money away. Like "A Christmas Carrol"

[@FuryMcpurey]

@@Sol-mr1lv The whole point of the curse though was to teach him that money has no value when compared to the risks of someone's life.

[@Lyndonmaman]

I always felt bad for The Fair Lady in Dark Souls. Made me happy to see her and Quelaana in DS3

[@iusethisnameformygoogleacc1013]

Actually, the whole "Shelob is a cosmic being that got to choose to be a spider", while obviously not what Tolkein had in mind, doesn't really stretch the canon much. Her mother was an ongodly cosmic power of ultimate darkness more than a match for any of this setting's equivalents to Archangels / Greek Gods which just happened to take a vaguely spider-y form. I'm betting Ungoliant could have opted to wear whatever form it wanted to and went with Spider, the same way tons of Maiar got their pick of shapes and went with 20 foot tall demon monsters, while their peers went for "basically just elves". It's the thing everyone treats as them trampling all over the lore, but in reality, it's more like them going for some of the Deep Cuts of the cosmology/history most people will never read (because the Silmarillion isn't a great read, or even full of great ideas.) and making a couple of fairly reasonable guesses.

[@sewi014]

Yea as much as the shadow of mordor/war games feel like breaking the original lore they fit into the canon pretty neatly once you think about it. They just expanded it a little and nestled there own lore in spots that were not really defined before.

[@TheFallingFlamingo]

The Silmarillion isn't a great read or full of good ideas? You do realize that Tolkien literally spent almost five decades of his life working on it? It was an obsession for him. He was constantly tweaking the smallest interactions in his legendarium between the most insignificant of creatures and the most important. If Tolkien himself were alive to see how his characters were malformed by these companies, he probably wouldn't allow another adaption to be made ever again... At the end of the day, the guy provided so much source material that there is literally no conceivable reason to add to it other than base narcissism. If you appreciate anything he did with the Lord of the Rings, you should at least read the damned book before you go trashing it.

[@wilfchapman-gandy8120]

Not really a transformation, nor really a spider, but Nosk from Hollow Knight intimidated me greatly. You're like "oh man it's doing some mindbending stuff! I can see me! I'm probably gonna have to fight myself, that's cool." Then BAM! Giant horrible slime spider.

[@lozzythecoolone]

I saw the thumbnail and automatically said "Luke must've done this one." And I was right!

[@Thrythlind]

"Are you Patches? You have to tell me if you're Patches." - Cameron Lauder.

[@axeldornelles5292]

I went "Oh no, Ellen" as soon as I saw the title. Good thing Luke took this one for the team.

[@xanderlowe1543]

Spider Mastermind from "DOOM." It was scary and disgusting enough in the original game. Then in the 2016 game, we find out that thing was once a human.

[@onescaryapothiconboi7475]

Honestly, I dont know how that didnt make it honest the list. It was may worse than the spiders in OoT.

[@magiciansmagicmayhem5813]

@@onescaryapothiconboi7475 it’s a giant spider with an exposed brain fused with technology that was once a person.

[@tazdivil6527]

that honestly didn't scare me

[@roperl22]

I get the impression that whilst you were discussing the concept of this video, ellen jumped out the office window, ran to the nearest airport and never came back

[@AthereaDE]

I just can't get over J.R.R. Tolkien spinning in his grave :'D

[@irimac1806]

I can totally imagining his spinning in the grave powering an entire city XD

[@marhawkman303]

@@irimac1806 Honestly? Tolkein wrote Ungoliant and Shelob as beings of magic who used spider-like forms because they liked them, and never actually said what their "true" forms were. So yeah... the game is actually right to say Shelob can take human form any time she wants. It's the people who think she's actually a spider making Tolkein spin in his grave. :p

[@irimac1806]

@@marhawkman303 tbh I wasnt hinting at the game (never played it and dont know an1 who played it and read the books). But more at the movies and books. Mb for not making that clearer

[@marhawkman303]

@@irimac1806 ah, ok :D Lots of people only pay attention to the broad strokes of his works and miss a lot of important details :/

[@sourapple7831]

@@marhawkman303 The elven language though

[@reapergrimm8]

It might be pushing it to call the Mother from Dragon Age: Awakening a horrific spider transformation. Given that she's a terrifying mishmash of flesh and tentacles that is embedded in the earth around her. But she does have those legs growing out of her back and her face peels away to reveal a horrific set of mandibles. So... partial spider transformation?

[@yufi305]

Entry 3: house of skulltula... Luke... he did learn his lesson. He got cursed because he was greedy about money and the act of GIVING it away to Link as a reward is proof enough that he was even willing to let go of the money he so greedily coveted in the first place. Now if he held onto that money, than yes! He would not have learned his lesson cause he still wants to keep it! But no! He gave it away dude!

[@FuryMcpurey]

The point of the curse was to teach the man that money has no value when compared to one's life, whether the risk be death or a fate worse than.

[@yufi305]

Value or Not, he still gave it away and didn't keep it so he still learned his lesson.

[@hollyouvry3846]

Would Marguerite's boss battle from Resi7 count? I know she didn't actually turn into a spider, but that was definitely the inspiration behind her attacks, design, and whole deal...

[@coffeeaddict9605]

Oh my god, that dude from Bloodborne. Nononono. Something about a human headed spider is wiggling me out. The only thing worse is that family from Ocarina of Time. Edit: There they are

[@Thesaurus_Rex]

What's worse is that he's not the only one. There are other, hostile ones elsewhere in Bloodborne.

[@chrishubbard64]

I do love how the dark souls games can have horrifying monster after horrifying monster after irredeemable creature, then slap you upside your murder hobo face with sad bosses as well.

[@rhawkas2637]

Sif. T_T

[@ignisshadowflame1027]

@@rhawkas2637 that one is worse if you complete the dlc before first entering the area sif is in.

[@rhawkas2637]

@@ignisshadowflame1027 Yeah, I found that out the hard way when I played through the game again with all the DLC. I was sad the first time I fought her. I cried when I had to fight her after the DLC and she recognized you and was just trying to save her friend from making the same mistake as the first one did. T_T

[@Viking648]

Luke, I was in fact amping up my Silmarillion to combat the inclusion of Shelob in this list instead of the horrible aberration from Tomb Raider III, but then you made me laugh to the point of incoherent breakdown with the description of green Oxford and Sauron's bed, so... hats off to you, sir, you win this round. But also why is the horrible spider hybrid from the Tomb Raider III finale not included?

[@marhawkman303]

Aw, I went there too. Shelob is a being of magic who changes forms to whatever she wants!... she just likes being a giant spider for some reason. Her mother Ungoliant was so powerful she made Smaug look like a wimp!

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@marhawkman303 Yeah, Middle-earth really has some beings that are actually way stronger than even the villains from the main books and movies.

[@AK-tr6lo]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Tolkien in his writing was really into the Ancient Greek idea that generations or ages became steadily worse as time went on. By the time of the Lord of The Rings we are in the third age which by that logic must be less magic and cool than the second age and the second age is less magic and... you can see where this is going.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@AK-tr6lo In other words, the realm is slowly dying, despite all the heroism that occurred in the Hobbit and the LotR trilogy. Yeah, I got this notion from the Chronicles of Narnia series, with a little foresight from Star Wars Legends.

[@jarihult3199]

@@marhawkman303 Shelob did not simply choose the form of spider for some reason. She, as well as the spiders of Mirkwood, were spawned by Ungoliant mating with monstrous spiders. Even if Shelob could change her shape (which is debatable, but not impossible), her original form most likely would have been a spider, just like half-Maia Luthien had an elven form.

[@austinmorrison6953]

Considering Spidey has gone through his own Manspider transformation...

[@Gamer-mq7iq]

I know

[@carlosortiz8432]

Thankfully that was only temporary. Too bad for the people in these games though.

[@LakinMae5]

He also had lot of weird side effects from his powers in certain comics!

[@paulharries9558]

He's a spider. And he's a man.

[@marhawkman303]

@@carlosortiz8432 In SOME universes..... in other universes.... no.

[@petermoore3042]

Side note: In dark souls, you're tasked by quelana, the only daughter not horribly disfigured to kill her sister that quelaag was protecting, it being a mercy killing as she is in tremendous pain. Thats not the worst part though. If you do take up this task and kill "the fair lady while wearing the witchs ring, you'll hear her dying words which are a mixture of confusion as to why you, who she believes is her sister quelaag, would do this. She spent her entire life in pain and in the end died in pain believing her sister had betrayed her. Seriously, what the fuck, dark souls?

[@TJEverley]

I vaguely remember an arch in the Spider-Man comics where Peter's spider powers continue to mutate into an advanced form. It starts with him waking up with six arms and ends with him transforming into a 10ft tarantula.

[@TheVoicesOfTheBeyond]

Number?

[@SuperFlik]

There's a universe where, instead of getting super powers, Peter turns into a human-spider monster who eats uncle Ben, aunt May and Mary Jane

[@blarg2429]

I want that version to get movies made about it. Not ones in which someone saves the day and Peter learns to regain his humanity, either.

[@galacticglitch4086]

LORD BLESS HIS HEART

[@swanson2830]

There's also Spiders-man, where Peter's original body dies and his consciousness transfers into a hive-mind swarm of spiders

[@galacticglitch4086]

@@swanson2830 Really? Geez,what's next,him becoming controlled by venom and destroying his family and the avengers? Or,I don't know,him becoming evil and ruthless after Iron-Man dies? ...Wait

[@r.j.penfold]

@@galacticglitch4086 I don't know about that, but in some comics Peter grows six more human arms as part of his spidey thing

[@pinkumbrellaneo2283]

"Hey have you seen Ellen anywhere I can't find her"

[@marhawkman303]

I think I saw an Ellen size cocoon on the ceiling?

[@Banquet42]

I was hoping for a mention of the Spider in Journey: A tale of Two Brothers. Great list regardless!

[@rmcgowa1987]

That isn't a transformation though she's always been that way

[@Banquet42]

@@rmcgowa1987 It's not a transformation you see but presumably something happened? I haven't read the lore though so as far as I know they were born that way!

[@Banquet42]

@Genki Gal same.

[@archgirl]

Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons* Apologies for the necrobump a year later, just putting this here for anyone else who comes along later to find the correct game if they want to.

[@misterblakk3690]

"Beware spoilers, and spiders, in the following games!" ....alright well see you guys later! I'm out!

[@christianramirez6578]

Spider-Man to everyone: i missed the part where that's my problem

[@brentage5000]

It's his problem in the six arms saga and when he transforms into Man-Spider. That was.....an arc. That happened. Marvel be weird sometimes. (Actually, that arc might have just been on the 90s animated series. Close and terrifying enough for me)

[@austinparker5053]

@@brentage5000 no, it was in the comics as well

[@brentage5000]

@@austinparker5053 awesome. I thought it might have been, but all I could find took me to the six arms thing. Even typing Man-Spider brought me to either the show or the saga. Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy.

[@marhawkman303]

@@brentage5000 Also didn't Spider-verse have a universe where he's still Man-spider?

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@brentage5000 Yeah, Spidey even deemed all this as a "bad comic book arc" in the Animated Series.

[@artemisDev]

Steps to experience my last last few minutes: 1- Be an arachnophobe 2- Start watching this video 3- Wait for freaking spider to drop from ceiling out of nowhere for no absolute reason and on top of your key board 4- Scream and jump out of your chair and wait for someone to get rid of the spider almost that almost made your keyboard their nest 5- Continue watching while scratching all over your body and looking every direction at once like why!!

[@theunidentified1939]

Mood

[@danykilson4950]

I feel unbelievably sorry for you.

[@zzach_attack4602]

I'm not a huge arachniphobe, but scratching my body feeling for a spider and looking all around when I hear the slightest noise are things I have done.

[@FrenchToast663]

Lie down, try not to cry, cry a lot

[@annana6098]

Once had a random dungeon group in Warcraft patiently wait for me to return after I typed BRB SPIDER. I expected them to kick me from the group, but they waited. Someone even told me to be safe, lol.

[@rosskwolfe]

So does this mean we're ready for a third episode of "Make Ellen Rate Video Game Spiders"?

[@oriolgonzalez9328]

The question shouldn't be "are we ready?", because of course we are. The question should be "Is Ellen ready?"

[@adamchristopher6917]

At the end of which she can detox with Lucas the jumper. ::::3

[@Ilikecatsismychannelname]

I'd watch it. And it's not as though the internet has a shortage of cute kitties to look at for recovery purposes. Just search Animal Planet Kittens. It's gotten me the most consistent results for exclusively cute kitten vids...with some puppy videos too because the KZbin search algorithm is like that I guess.

[@r.j.penfold]

Wait a _third_ episode? There's two?!

[@rosskwolfe]

@@r.j.penfold Yup.

[@Top_Nepper]

I never helped that family in OOT because I was too scared to actually go in that house a second time once I found out what was in it. tbf I was 7 at the time when I played OOT.

[@andymcp4752]

Will we get to see the version of this video that was shown to Ellen? ‘7 horrendous *bear* transformations that prove Spider-Man hit the F***ing jackpot’

[@sourcererseven3858]

You mean Spider-Pig, right? 🎵Spiderpig, spiderpig🎵

[@lazyperfectionist3978]

@Tiffany Video - they could also be referencing the Simpsons Movie, where Homer gets pig tracks on the ceiling while singing "Spiderpig"

[@Darkprosper]

Bear-Man*

[@patrickphelan279]

So crisp and HD.

[@teddybaker4759]

@@Darkprosper Man Bear Pig

[@bearcataquatic]

The one from brothers: tale of two sons...good lord that freaked me out...

[@andybrown4284]

This could so easily have been a fear academy themed special.

[@TyroKitsune]

The joke about Oxford might be the best Outside Xbox has ever made.

[@Olphas]

Oxford, the first green city ... that made me laugh so much! :D

[@fungalmage3336]

I wasn't expecting to see Spider William Birkin, but there he is. Genius scientist, working on sensitive high-level research, seemingly killed by automatic gunfire from people who wanted to steal it, only to put his work to use in preserving his own life at a terrible cost. Also, I was expecting to see Driders on here somewhere. It's weird how many spider-people there actually are in fiction.

[@erinmcwilliams4869]

The Zelda bit makes perfect sense, he was cursed for wanting/having money, so now that the curse is gone he is trying to get rid of the money, aka the source of the curse.

[@jordanleighton6893]

The joke about Oxford and the grave spinning was hilarious

[@Amaritudine]

Great writing and gags in this video, a nice counterpoint to the nightmarish subject matter. Speaking of nightmares, who remembers Dirge of Cerberus, the Oh So Edgy spin-off to Final Fantasy VII? One of the daft new villains is Nero the Sable, whose superpower lets him banish his foes into a screaming void of darkness. He can venture into the void himself, and once inside he metamorphoses into a colossal cyborg arachnid for some reason. Arachnero isn't the most horrendous thing in the game; it's not even the most horrendous thing about Nero personally. But it is a fairly memorable spider transformation nonetheless.

[@Maniacman2030]

Its been so long since I played that, I only remembered the other edgy guy who had those huge fights with Sephiroth in cutscenes. It was weird. Then you fight him, then he becomes a roulette thing.

[@harperbovberg6517]

"before you go to the comments section..." me, slowly putting away my copy of the silmarillion: very well you may proceed. only because of hot Sauron.

[@dzrbbooks2086]

Zephon from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 in the Silenced Cathedral dungeon. All the nope.

[@therewillbefire1833]

This reminds me of the Batman vs Manbat stuff in a way. One good and one very very bad.

[@AbsolXGuardian]

If you believe in Vaati's shared Soulsborne universe theory, Patches survived the Demon Slayer remaking the nature of the world, all of the cycles the Dark Souls trilogy spans, but moving to the painted world of blood took him becoming a spider man.

[@Ajirikawa]

Okay Ellen, you can come out from behind the sofa now. The creepy spider sisters are gone.

[@tyranitararmaldo]

"Beware spoilers and spiders in the following games" Hehe, I see what you did there.

[@manolismarinakis8444]

After graduating the Fear Academy I'd say Ellen deserved some rest. Although making the video herself would probably count as a doctorate

[@svenkrisenberg6684]

Why is the thought of sauron having a bed such an unnerving thing, I shouldn’t be thinking this hard about a non metal gear solid game

[@marhawkman303]

Here's the question that'll REALLY bake your noodle.... "Who is Shelob's FATHER?" Like Luke said... she was BORN in Middle Earth to her mother Ungoliant... after Ungoliant forged an alliance with Morgoth. But Tolkein never explained who her father was... could it have been Morgoth himself?

[@tylerb5764]

Because sauron having a bed naked him even worse by the thought he he might have human urges such as sleep, humanizing him. Just a theory!

[@marhawkman303]

@@tylerb5764 scarier yet is the idea he may have fathered children O_o'

[@MySerpentine]

@@marhawkman303 I'm imagining a regular spider, it seems like something Ungoliant might do

[@marhawkman303]

@@MySerpentine as Shelob's father? maybe... seems unlikely.

[@the8wave]

I was listening more than watching this one and when Luke said “Hunt: Showdown” I thought he was saying Huncho Down... I’m thinking... “who’s Huncho? And can someone please pick him up”.

[@patrickphelan279]

Poor Huncho! It's not their fault they suffer from a destabilising inner-ear balance issue.

[@typhonplume9374]

I would say the man in link did learn his lesson as he is sharing rather then hording his money as per greed.

[@mpbMKE]

"Where are they going with this bit about Oxfor--BAHH-hahaha!"

[@ivanpetrov5255]

Somehow, this video left me wanting to play a game, where the main character is an Arachne - like Quelaag.

[@marhawkman303]

does the new Spider-man let you be Man-Spider? That'd be close. :D

[@annikabrock90]

Okay, I'm not particularly scared of spiders, but that Hunt: Showdown tarantula is the worst thing I think I've ever seen. 😰 Whyyyyy

[@FuryMcpurey]

Yeah I can deal with the human legs but the fleshless human head is where we draw the line.

[@dracotias]

While not quite so on the nose as the others here, The idea of the character Webber in Dont Starve is just horrifying. Dude was eaten by a spider as a child but survived and now just kinda has to live a weird symbiotic relationship

[@jheckie14]

You know when you see a video and tell yourself "I REALLY shouldn't click on this" but do it anyway?

[@jamesshank1248]

That last one Broke me for a moment.

[@RickAngel3000]

The Oxford joke got me laughing so much! Did not see it coming until the punchline. Well done with that one. haha

[@MistycEldar]

The Shelob-Tolkien joke was great :)

[@marhawkman303]

Luke missed the point a bit though... Shelob's transformation is 100% voluntary... and she can change back any time she wants!... which isn't often.

[@thecompanioncube4211]

From the recording to editing, Ellen was on vacation during this video was done.

[@whocares1364]

Drider: "Am I a Joke to you?"

[@azuredragoon2054]

They specifically mention "transformations". Every single character mentioned had been transformed (usually forcibly). Driders are a species, not inherently transformed from something else.

[@whocares1364]

Driders are transformed drow that failed the Demon Web and were exiled from drow society correct my if I'm wrong

[@dracotias]

Technically they don't originate from a video game so I guess they don't count

[@whocares1364]

@@dracotias guess so

[@whocares1364]

@@dracotias was a joke anyway

[@superspider64]

to quote Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions: "Tolkien's crippling arachnophobia did not die for this"

[@christosvoskresye]

Of all the changes that have been made in "adapting" Tolkien's works, making Shelob a Maia (probably) who got stuck in the form of a spider is one of the more benign. Making her in any sense good, on the other hand, is a bit of a stretch.

[@rubyamateurtactician4354]

(Sees title) (Thinks about Ellen) But... *WHYYYYY?!*

[@hopefulseabunny6658]

Don't worry! Luke got this! :D

[@Astroman10]

Everyone thinks Ellen skipped out on this video because of the spiders when really she was just too busy practicing Astro's Playroom to be the champion!

[@Chickenslovakia]

Dark Souls, Brightstone Cove Tseldora, Parasite Spiders and the Villagers with the spiders on their backs. Those things scarred me for a long while

[@MrEman5112]

After watching this, I can no confirm that I will never be going anywhere near Hunt with a 50 foot pole, that game has now scarred me for life

[@ThatRedNumber]

Me whenever I hear the piano as the titles scroll by :Bobbing head in random directions

[@joylessgaming]

Just what I needed to watch before going to bed...

[@jjwin969]

I enjoy that the cover of that magazine says "Bushido Burrito" in Japanese. Right between Biohazard 2 and Final Fantasy VII.

[@mutantmaster1]

**sounds of Ellen driving furiously away**

[@leifhelland6313]

Dude, the worst transformation spider-man ever went through was the one from Uri Lowenthaal to a ten year old pop singer.

[@nonspiderweb]

you know that wasn't Yuri's face right? that model was John Bubniak. Yuri was just the voice and is still the voice.

[@kingsleycy3450]

They turned my beautiful boy into a Tom Holland lookalike. Never forgive.

[@leifhelland6313]

@@nonspiderweb oh.... well, I guess the worst transformation spider-man ever went through was John Bubniak to a ten year old pop singer. There. Now the joke is accurate.

[@nonspiderweb]

@@leifhelland6313 Glad i could help!

[@DiggyDougSauce94]

"The First Fire and prolong the Age of Flame" you know what, we'll take it

[@rakibul27rabby]

That oxford joke is one of the most well crafted joke I've heard in a long time. Brilliant stuff!

[@PaulaKirkus]

That day-one-patches joke had me in fits of laughter 🤣 nice one Luke.

[@LionheartXV]

Finally some recognition for hunt showdown, love that game

[@user-jz1xm3vf8z]

*Sees video about spiders. Me: Ah, no Ellen then.

[@Flashfake]

Brothers a tale of two sons. That spider transition took me by surprise! Edit: spelling

[@Monkeyzforever]

Man-spider was my favourite arc in the 90s Spider-man cartoon so this video makes me laugh :P Also was worried about what you'd put poor Ellen through so was happy to see she didn't narrate anything haha. That Hunt: Showdown one really was something else though o_O

[@kimballbelliston5925]

The Hunt: Showdown spider reminded me of the similarly awful human spider from Dark Wood

[@ignisshadowflame1027]

My first thought was Dead Space. Seems like something that should be in Dead Space, but with more blade arms.

[@Twitchy_McExorcism]

I'm guessing Science Luke found these examples in his studies of Arachnophobia. Thanks, Science Luke and Test Subject.

[@sarahthesnail2271]

"maybe it so he can kick eight individual people into eight individual holes"

[@quack2x]

"Best not to think about it" BUT YOU MADE ME THINK ABOUT IT!! IM THINKING ABOUT IT AAHHHHHH!!

[@Czah5]

*OXtra:* "Here is a list about spiders." *Abigail:* "NOPE!"

[@TheRealCodeBlack]

I see Ellen finally managed to avoid being stuck doing a spider video. Here's hoping she's not planning on spending that time watching the Mandalorian instead.

[@fearfulsuggestion]

I love shadow of Mordor/War but Monoliths like “canon lore what’s that?”

[@patrickphelan279]

"The BEST way to defeat an evil power is by getting an EVEN BIGGER EVIL POWER."

[@baraka490]

Since patches is a merchant in the Chalice dungeons maybe that's what he does with all that extra gear from all the bodies