What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
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What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
What kind of spider is SHE based off of?
It hunts the mantises like a trapdoor spider.
But it shoots webs
and it jumps around like a jumping spider in final wars
It hunts the mantises like a trapdoor spider.
But it shoots webs
and it jumps around like a jumping spider in final wars
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
A giant spider.
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
It’s just a conglomerate of many spiders.
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Palpatine: "I am all the Sith!"
Rey: "And I... I'm all the Jedi."
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
Kumonga has features of many spiders, just like Ebirah has features of different crustaceans.
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
Trap door spiders spin webs too they're just concealed in their burrows. No spiders spin it from their mouths though.
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
I never really thought he was supposed to be any specific spider (literally no spider spouts out web from the mouth like it does, aside from the spitting spider, but that's venom, not silk) and it's not really helped by the fact he's kind of a mutant than was transformed by radiation and isn't what he originally was suppose to be.
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
Probably scytodes kumonga
No, I did not make that up! It's a new species of spider just discovered last year. They named it after the kaiju of course. Actually the resemblance is pretty striking, at least color-wise. I tried and failed to include a pic, but it's easily Google-able.
I also found a tweet from I think one of the arachnologists who discovered and/or named it, by the name of Alireza Zamani, and he references web-spitting! Although from the wording I couldn't tell if he was referring to the real spider or just its fictional namesake. I think the latter. But that would be wild, wouldn't it?
EDIT: Oh wow, I didn't realize this was my first post. I've been just lurking with this account for so long, silently slipping in and voting in the design bracket, etc... anyway, hello!
No, I did not make that up! It's a new species of spider just discovered last year. They named it after the kaiju of course. Actually the resemblance is pretty striking, at least color-wise. I tried and failed to include a pic, but it's easily Google-able.
I also found a tweet from I think one of the arachnologists who discovered and/or named it, by the name of Alireza Zamani, and he references web-spitting! Although from the wording I couldn't tell if he was referring to the real spider or just its fictional namesake. I think the latter. But that would be wild, wouldn't it?
EDIT: Oh wow, I didn't realize this was my first post. I've been just lurking with this account for so long, silently slipping in and voting in the design bracket, etc... anyway, hello!
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
Actually, there is spider silk in what the Scytotidae family spits.Gigantis wrote: ↑Mon May 10, 2021 5:04 am I never really thought he was supposed to be any specific spider (literally no spider spouts out web from the mouth like it does, aside from the spitting spider, but that's venom, not silk) and it's not really helped by the fact he's kind of a mutant than was transformed by radiation and isn't what he originally was suppose to be.
And there's nothing that actually suggests Kumonga's a mutant. Saeko, the closet thing Sollgel has to a native, makes no comment and gives no reaction to Kumonga's monstrous size, only to it being awake, and Dr. Matsumiya's research indicates that Kumonga was indeed always gigantic.
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Life imitates art.
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him.
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Re: What kind of Spider is Kumonga supposed to be?
NSZ nailed it.
Natural giant who's probably some primitive mix of multiple spiders.
Natural giant who's probably some primitive mix of multiple spiders.
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