List of fictional worms

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Worms are often used in fiction. This is a list of fictional worms.

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[edit] Legends

The Lambton Worm, of 15th-century English legend
The Worm of Sockburn, of 14th-century English legend
The Worm of Linton, of 12th-century Scottish legend
Great Orms of fresh and salt water in early Gaelic and Brythonic legends
The Jörmungandr or Midgard Serpent of Norse Mythology
The Mongolian Death Worm, a cryptozoological creature reported to exist in the Gobi Desert.

[edit] Books, television, music and film

Lair of the White Worm is a novel by Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It was published in 1911. It was made into a 1988 film by director Ken Russell.
The Bookworm character of various children's reading programs
The .303 Bookworm in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
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 Beetle Juice
Sandworms in the books, film and TV series Dune
Mr. Mind, the super-intelligent arch-nemesis of DC's Captain Marvel character
Fip, the word-eating worm in the book, The Word Eater
Slimey, pet of Sesame Street's Oscar the Grouch
Lowly Worm, from Richard Scarry's Busytown
Lazy Jay Ranch's worms in Rocky and Bullwinkle
The documentary The Future Is Wild featured three species of worms: garden worms, slickribbons and gloomworms.
In the 2005 film King Kong, a giant bloodworm-like predator called the carnictus 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.
Evil Jim, Earthworm Jim's evil twin from the Earthworm Jim TV series.
The Bookworm in Warner Brothers "Sniffles" cartoons
The Bookworm in Tiny Toons
Doctor Worm, from the They Might Be Giants song featured on Nickelodeon's Kablam.
One of the unrecorded cases of Sherlock Holmes involves a "worm unknown to science."
A family of worms in Jim Davis' comic strip US Acresr
Flobberworms dull wormlike magical creatures in the Harry Potter universe.
Alaskan Bull Worm from the television show Spongebob Squarepants.
Boreworms an (unseen) animal used as an implement of torture in the movie Flash Gordon.
Phish performed a version of the song "Swingtown" in Amsterdam, about giant worms in the city's sewers, known as "Wormtown".
Worm, being Pink's inner judge in Pink Floyd: The Wall
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.
"Just a worm" living in the walls of the outer Labyrinth in the Jim Hensen movie of the same name.
The Bookworm, a character Spider-Man fought in an episode of The 1970's PBS TV series The Electric Company
The Slurm Queen from Futurama, the only source of the Slurm brand of soda.
Chestbursters, from the Alien and AVP series

[edit] Video games

Annelids, from System Shock 2.
Multiworms and hyperworms, from X-COM: Apocalypse.
The worms from the Worms series.
Earthworm Jim, the protagonist of the video game series with the same name.
Earthworm Kim, the female version of Jim from Earthworm Jim 3D.
Tapeworm Slim, a new character from the upcoming Earthworm Jim PSP.
Sandworms, from the Final Fantasy series.
Mindworms, from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
The Pit Worm and Geneworm from Half-Life: Opposing Force.
The various types of Worms in Guildwars.
Sandworms, from the Dune computer and video games.
Sandworms, from the Diablo I & II computer and video games.
Long and purple worms, from Nethack.
The King of Worms, a fictional character from the games Daggerfall and Oblivion in the Elder Scrolls series.
Boreworms, from Splatterhouse.
Zerg larvae and Cerebrates.