Fictional Worms - Television, Music and Film

Television, Music and Film

• Space slugs, also called exogorths or "giant asteroid worms", are silicon-based gastropods, capable of surviving in a vacuum. First seen in Star Wars: star wars (5)
• The Graboids in the Tremors films and television series.
• Jeff, the giant subway worm in the film Men in Black II
• The ghost-eating sandworms in the film Beetlejuice
• A family of worms in Jim Davis' comic strip US Acres
• Phish performed a version of the song "Swingtown" in Amsterdam, about giant worms in the city's sewers, known as "Wormtown".
• Inchworm, a song first recorded by Danny Kaye and since covered by several other artists, asks an inchworm to appreciate the beauty of marigolds rather than measuring their length.
• The giant worm-demon in "Beneath You", a 7th season episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
• The giant flukeworm/human hybrid in "The Host", a 2nd season episode of The X-Files.
• A giant maggot/worm in the cult film Galaxy of Terror.
• "Just a worm" living in the walls of the outer Labyrinth in the Jim Henson movie of the same name.
• Regulan bloodworms are a species in the Star Trek universe.
• In the 2005 film King Kong, a giant bloodworm-like predator called the carnictis lives in the rents and chasms of Skull Island. They grow to be 7–13 feet long, and they kill a character named Lumpy in the film.
• In the Alien series series, Alien Chestbursters are Xenomorph larvae that incubate within a human host and rip out of the chest cavity when partially mature.
• The Giant flesh-eating worms from Pre-cambrian rimes in Primeval, this Worms life in sulphur gases which come from the anomaly, oxygen is poison for the Worms.
• The titular character in the They Might Be Giants song Dr. Worm, a worm that can play the drums.
• In the Worms Series, Boggy B, Spadge, and Clagnut are named characters who appear in title songs and the like.
• Alaskan Bull Worm from the television show SpongeBob SquarePants.
• The Bookworm, supporting character in Warner Brothers' Sniffles cartoons
• The Bookworm, a character Spider-Man fought in an episode of The 1970s PBS TV series The Electric Company
• Bookworm (Tiny Toon Adventures), supporting character on the hit cartoon show Tiny Toon Adventures
• The Bookworm character of various children's reading programs.
• Boreworms an (unseen) animal used as an implement of torture in the movie Flash Gordon.
• Doctor Worm, from the They Might Be Giants song featured on Nickelodeon's Kablam
• Evil Jim, Earthworm Jim's evil Doppelgänger from the Earthworm Jim TV series.
• Glo Worm, plushie worms toys
• The Slurm Queen from Futurama, the only source of the Slurm brand of soda.
• Mr. Mind, the super-intelligent arch-nemesis of DC's Captain Marvel character
• Slimey, pet of Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch
• Lazy Jay Ranch's worms in Rocky and Bullwinkle
• The "Worm That Doth Corrupt" from Jerusalem's Lot by Stephen King.
• A giant worm was the monster in a What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode.
• A giant worm was in an episode of Timon and Pumbaa.
• The Dark One Worm, from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!.
• The Sweet Worm from Hamtaro (Japanese 'Hamu Hamu Paradai~chu!' season), a giant worm who ate the sweets in Sweet Paradise, then went through metamorphosis and turned into Sweet Butterfly.