# What's the largest beast depicted on film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2013, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510 "2013-12-16T22:43:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/21 "2013-12-17T02:14:37Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > There was the one in Woody Allen’s _Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask_. > > Oh wait, that was the largest _breast_. Yeah, I was thinking it must have been in a Russ Meyer film. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/22 "2013-12-17T02:30:06Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Dang, **Der Trihs** beat me to it. Me too! ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/23 "2013-12-17T07:54:43Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > How about robots? Unicron was a planet-devouring planet that transformed into a giant robot. Technically he’s an ancient god who took planet/robot form when his brother Primus (aka Cybertron) tricked him into it. Anyway, the winner has to be Eternity, the entity made up of the entire Marvel Universe. If you know someone bigger than him, well, don’t let him sit on you. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/24 "2013-12-17T11:39:12Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Technically he’s an ancient god who took planet/robot form when his brother Primus (aka Cybertron) tricked him into it. > > Anyway, the winner has to be Eternity, the entity made up of the entire Marvel Universe. Which film? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/25 "2013-12-17T12:08:36Z")
How big was V-Ger, before it sodded off to a new plane of existence? The whole endless structure, I mean; not just the little Voyager pod in the middle. It seemed to take days to reach the middle but that was probably just the pacing of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![yellowjacketcoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/4bbf92/32.png) [@yellowjacketcoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowjacketcoder)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/26 "2013-12-17T13:44:56Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > How big was V-Ger, before it sodded off to a new plane of existence? The whole endless structure, I mean; not just the little Voyager pod in the middle. It seemed to take days to reach the middle but that was probably just the pacing of the movie. According to [Memory Alpha](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/V%27Ger), the entire V’ger complex was 2AU in diameter (or roughly the size of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. That makes it larger than anything else in the thread except for the universe spanning entities. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/27 "2013-12-17T15:02:58Z")
[This was a pretty large beast](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TU70HwSpQY). At least the actor portraying it. Also one of the scariest. Or funniest, depending upon how you look at it. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/28 "2013-12-17T15:07:12Z")
The beast with a billion backs from Futurama spanned dimensions and could stretch seemingly ad infinitum. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/29 "2013-12-17T15:16:29Z")
> [@yellowjacketcoder](#): > > According to [Memory Alpha](http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/V%27Ger), the entire V’ger complex was 2AU in diameter (or roughly the size of Earth’s orbit around the Sun. That makes it larger than anything else in the thread except for the universe spanning entities. I think the cloud was only a defense mechanism or screen of some kind. IIRC, when V’Ger arrived in Earth orbit, it dispersed the cloud. Further down in that article, it states that the physical ship was given (in the novel) as 78 km long. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/30 "2013-12-17T17:34:48Z")
In Alan Dean Foster’s very good novelization of the _Star Trek: The Animated Series_ episode “The Eye of the Beholder,” he writes of jawandas, enormous but very thin, sheetlike energy-based beings which live in interstellar space. Jawandas won’t enter star systems to avoid being trapped by the gravity wells of stars or planets, but the largest, it’s said, could envelop a star if it chose to. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/31 "2013-12-17T18:24:45Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > There was the one in Woody Allen’s _Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask_. > > Oh wait, that was the largest _breast_. > [@gaffa](#): > > Yeah, I was thinking it must have been in a Russ Meyer film. [Chesty Morgan](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0604553) ---
**Author:** ![YoungKusher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3e96dc/32.png) [@YoungKusher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoungKusher)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/32 "2013-12-19T06:49:43Z")
Well since the limitations weren’t clearly defined I’ll go ahead and add this one, even tho it loses to a lot of the other entities/creatures already mentioned. The kraken from Clash of the Titans. That thing looked to be the same size as the city it was about to destroy. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510/33 "2013-12-19T07:53:52Z")
The Lexx is pretty big. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-largest-beast-depicted-on-film/676510.md?page=1)