List of fictional worms

This is a list of fictional worms, categorized by the media they appear in. For the purpose of this list, "worm" does not simply refer to earthworms, but also to mythological and fantastic creatures whose description as a "worm" descends from the Old English word wyrm, a poetic term for a legless serpent or dragon.

For a comprehensive account of worms in fiction, see Fictional depictions of worms.

Mythology and legends


Literature
  • "The Conqueror Worm", an 1845 poem by Edgar Allan Poe, concludes with the lines "The play is the tragedy, 'Man',/ and its hero the Conqueror Worm."[1]
  • The Lair of the White Worm is a 1911 novel by Bram Stoker, made into a 1988 film by director Ken Russell.[2]
  • Fafnir, a beast slain during the course of the Völsungasaga, is a worm in William Morris's rendition.[3]
  • The Worm Ouroboros, a 1922 fantasy novel by Eric Rücker Eddison, invokes an ancient myth of a legless creature that eats its own tail.
  • "The Coming of the White Worm" is a 1941 short story by Clark Ashton Smith.[2]
  • J.R.R. Tolkien refers to his creation Glaurung as 'The Great Worm'. This term was adopted by hackers to describe the Morris Worm.[4]
  • John Brunner's 1975 novel Shockwave Rider describes computer 'tapeworms' as capable of reproducing themselves as long as networked computers enable their survival.[5]
  • "In the House of the Worm" is a 1976 short story by George R. R. Martin.
  • The Conqueror Worms is a 2006 novel by Brian Keene.
  • The .303 Bookworm in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
  • The Worm of the World's End, first mentioned in The One Tree, Book 2 of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever fantasy series written by Stephen R. Donaldson. Its slumbering body is said to underlie the land and ocean, and its thrashings will destroy the world when it awakes. By the end of the Second Chronicles one is left wondering if it really exists, or whether it is a mythical personification of the world's eventual fate. However the more recent books make it clear that the worm does exist, but that it is not physically very large. However, its hunger will nonetheless lead to global ruination.
  • Sandworms play a major role in the science fiction novel Dune and in its film and TV adaptations (Dune universe).[2]
  • Diary of a Worm (2003), written by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Harry Bliss, is a journalistic account of a worm's daily life.[6]
  • Lowly Worm is a fictional character that makes frequent appearances in Richard Scarry's children's books.
  • Flobberworms are dull, wormlike magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe.
  • Molly Michon, aka Kendra, Warrior Babe of the Outland, worships a worm god known as Nigoth in several of Christopher Moore's novels, including The Stupidest Angel and The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove.
  • César Aira's "The Literary Conference" (2010) features giant blue worms, the product of a science experiment gone awry, that destructively tumble down mountains toward the Venezuelan town below.
  • Daniel Pinkwater's 1981 novel The Worms of Kukumlima features giant intelligent earthworms who live in an extinct volcano and collect "elephant mice".
  • The Septimus Heap novel Flyte introduces creatures known as Landwyrms, worm-like creatures with deadly tails that secrete acid.
  • Chaol Westfall (Throne of Glass)
  • Walter The Worm, a worm which makes minor/cameo appearances in various of the Mr. Men books, appearing in the background of almost all of them. Not named as Walter until latterday additions to the Mr. Men canon. He later received his own book in the series.

Comics

Television, music and film
  • In the Star Wars universe, space slugs, also called exogorths or "giant asteroid worms",[10] are silicon-based gastropods, capable of surviving in a vacuum. First seen in The Empire Strikes Back.
  • The Graboids in the Tremors films and television series[2]
  • Jeff, the giant subway worm in the film Men in Black II
  • The ghost-eating sandworms in the film Beetlejuice
  • Benny Worm, a character from the 2018 music video "It's Benny Worm" created by Jack Stauber
  • 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.[11]
  • 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, 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 times in the TV series Primeval. These worms live on sulphur gases which come from the anomaly; oxygen is poison for them.
  • The titular character in the They Might Be Giants song "Dr. Worm", a worm that can play the drums.
  • In the Worms series of video games, 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, a 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, supporting character on the cartoon show Tiny Toon Adventures
  • The Bookworm, characters in 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, plush stuffed toys for children
  • The Slurm Queen from Futurama, the only source of the Slurm brand of soda
  • Mr. Mind, the super-intelligent 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 memory worm from Doctor Who
  • 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
  • Winny the Worm, mascot of Whiteworms Studios and main character in a series of stop-motion short films[12]
  • Jane Prentiss, a woman whose body hosts a large colony of worms, and is the main antagonist from season one of the horror anthology podcast The Magnus Archives.
  • Turner the Worm, a comic strip written by Paul Rose for the now-defunct UK Teletext service[13]
  • Metal sandworm, more likely giant whirling tunneling tornadoes of metallic scrap, in the film Vexille
  • Guph's Giant Dirt-Devouring Worm from the 1986 TV series The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
  • Memory worm from the Doctor Who episode "The Snowmen"
  • Shelby, the worm who lives in Jake's violin in Adventure Time with Finn & Jake
  • Trill symbionts are worm like aliens in Star Trek
  • In the It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia episode, 'The Gang Tends Bar,' Frank intentionally gives himself a tapeworm he called Jerry.

Role-playing games

Video games

References
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  2. Trent Walters (2005), "Snakes and Worms", The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy, 2, p. 729, ISBN 978-0-313-32950-0
  3. William Morris (1911). The collected works of William Morris, Volume 7. Longmans, Green and company. p. 328.
  4. Drout, Michael D. C. (2007). J.R.R. Tolkien encyclopedia: scholarship and critical assessment. CRC Press. p. 636. ISBN 978-0-415-96942-0.
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  12. http://www.whiteworms.com/about-us/winny-the-worm/
  13. http://everything2.com/title/Turner+the+Worm
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