Gargantulas

“She's into close relationships, shake to escape!”

    —Game description (Spyro's Adventure)

“Shake to avoid a sticky situation”

    —Game description (Giants)

Gargantulas are huge spiders commonly found in the Underworld, such as the Crawling Catacombs. These massive spiders shoot a strand of sticky web at Skylanders that get too close. The Gargantulas pull in their prey and strike for a lot of damage unless the Skylander can break free. When defeated, they will produce a small number of Skitterbooms or Spiderlings, depending on the game. However, they do not produce Spiders in most Heroic Challenges.

Trivia

• The name of "Gargantula" is a combo of "gargantuan" and "tarantula", a type of spider.
• In the strategy guide for Giants, they are the only enemies with all their stats shown as EXTREME.
• Unlike other Spiders, who have only four legs, Gargantulas have six.
• Because they spawn smaller spiders when defeated, much like real-life female spiders carrying their offspring on their backs, one can assume that all Gargantulas are female.
• Gargantulas are the only enemy in Giants whose alpha counterparts are identical to those in the final game.^[1]

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