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Literal Bookworm
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They're a common face in children's entertainment: literal bookworms, tubiform bugs that live inside or surrounded by books. Their default depiction is that of keepers of knowledge, which is followed closely by another portrayal of insatiable book munchers. At times, the two versions overlap when the bookworm has the power to acquire knowledge by eating books instead of reading them. The duality is reflected in the design choices. Purely destructive bookworms look like (stylized) regular insects, while it is a rarity for the knowledge-acquiring bookworm to not be an Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal. Nerd Glasses and neckties are the usual two attributes. Literal bookworms are Always Male, possibly because Boys Like Creepy Critters. They are prone to either having an Alliterative Name, or to simply be named "Bookworm". Outside of fiction, "bookworm" is in use as an umbrella term for any and all bugs that eat materials that go into books, such as paper, cloth, leather or glue, or the mold that'll grow on improperly stored books. The bugs are more elusive than the damage they leave behind, so while it's not just one pest that's responsible, it is easy to imagine it is. Among the real-life bookworms are beetles, silverfishes, booklice, cockroaches, moths, and bugs that normally go after wood such as may be incorporated in a bookcase. None of the aforementioned creatures are wormly beyond the larval stage, so the literal bookworm has little in common with them in terms of appearance. That is, the designs of literal bookworms range from earthworms to caterpillars to larvae-as-adults to indeterminable snakelike bugs. By far the most common color for the creature is green and earthworm pink makes for a good second. Literal bookworms may have Prehensile Tails to hold their books but more likely are designed to have hands. It's tempting to think that the "bookworm" as a literal book-devourer inspired the "bookworm" as metaphorical book-devourer, but the available evidence suggests it's the other way around. "Worm" has a long history of being in use as an insult, particularly in the Elizabethan era. The earliest known mention of the term "bookworm" is in Three Proper and Witty Familiar Letters from 1580, where it serves as a pejorative reference to people who read a lot. It takes about a century more, in the Micrographia of 1665, for "bookworm" to refer to a bug. An illustrated entry for "silver-colour'd book-worm" describes and depicts the silverfish.note As an aside, a section earlier, Hooke relays his observations on a pseudoscorpion or "book scorpion". Pseudoscorpions are found around books because they dine on book-eating bugs. Today, pseudoscorpions may or may not be grouped with real-life bookworms depending on whether bookworms are defined by their occurrence or eating habits. So it would be that the insult "worm" inspired the insult "bookworm" which became a term in its own right that was picked up when a word was needed for book-eating pests. The insult "bookworm" shifted to a neutral meaning during the 19th Century and it seems the reader and the bug found each other thereafter. A Phenomenal Fauna from 1901 is the first work known to depict a reading worm. Sub-Trope of Bookworm (a literal bookworm is always wormly, so examples of other kinds of reading bugs go on the Super-Trope) and Pun-Based Creature. Depictions of real-life bookworms and the damage they do also don't qualify for this trope. Compare Termite Trouble, another destructive bug, and The Short Guy with Glasses, who also tends to be short and studious. |
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Om Nom Stories: Om Nom and Om Nelle visit the library in "Bookworm". Om Nom is enthusiastic about getting to read a particular book, but upon opening it finds that it is mostly consumed by a pesky purple worm. Said worm proceeds to openly antagonize Om Nom and eat even more books until Om Nelle freezes the both of them. | |
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The Magic Voyage: Pico is a woodworm, but he also functions as a literal bookworm. As much as he eats wood, he eats books and this is why he's so knowledgeable. He meets Christopher Columbus when the latter wants to propose that the world is a cube rather than flat, at which point Pico jumps in to correct him that the world is an orb. It is the start of a beautiful friendship. | |
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Looney Tunes: Debuting in the short "Sniffles and the Bookworm", a worm with glasses is occasionally seen as a companion to Sniffles the Mouse. Tiny Toon Adventures: The original Bookworm from the "Sniffles" shorts returns as the librarian of the Looniversity. There's also a student counterpart of him who shares his name. This Bookworm is a small, cute, green, bespectacled bookworm who loves reading books as well as eating them as they are his primary food source. Sweetie regularly attempts to eat him, but always fails one way or another. |
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Hi-5 House: There are two puppet bookworms named Aristotle (yellow with a bowtie) and Horace (blue with glasses). They're part of the cast of The Chatterbox segment, which aims to teach the audience the English language. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy 5: Book Worms belong to the Worm species, a class of low level foes and summons. Book Worms are orange worms that wear glasses and they are at home in the Greenwood Library. They're highly intelligent critters that memorize the contents of every book they ever eat, but they can only recite it in worm language. Book Worms attack physically and have access to supportive magic, most of which relates to status effects. They are vulnerable to bio and ice attacks. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): In "Ponies in Book Land", Twilight's library becomes infested by a bookworm resembling a fat green caterpillar, which begins eating its way through the stories in her books — not the physical books, but the stories themselves. Twilight, Rarity, Pinkie and Rainbow Dash use magic to pursue it into the books, where they discover that it's devouring stories because none exist about itself and it wants to create a new one by devouring older stories. | |
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Sing Me a Story With Belle features Lewis and Carol, a pair of bookworms named for Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland who inhabit Belle's library and listen to the stories that Belle tells them and the children who visit. Lewis has yellow and red stripes and wears glasses, while Carol has light green and dark green stripes. | |
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Discworld: There's a creature known as the 0.303" Bookworm. It evolved in magical libraries and can eat through a whole shelf of semi-sentient magical texts so quickly that they don't have a chance to respond. The ping and richochet of the 0.303" Bookworm is yet another thing that makes magical libraries a hazardous place to work. | |
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The Berenstain Bears: In the Living Books adaptation of The Berenstain Bears in the Dark, clicking on one of the books in the library will cause a glasses-wearing bookworm to pop out, who rubs his tummy in satisfaction and says, "Mm! I love a good book." | |
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Culdcept Second: Book Worm is a water-type monster with an item limit for scrolls. It looks like a fleshy worm with a Lamprey Mouth and is the bane of magic users whose spell books and scrolls it consumes. | |
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Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy: In "It's a Worm Day", Auggie has befriended Irving at the public library. Irving is a bookworm with vast knowledge and Doggie Daddy doesn't like that Auggie now goes to him for help with his homework. As such, he tries to kill Irving, but is so incompetent neither Auggie nor Irving take offense. Doggie Daddy's antics get him arrested and Auggie gets him Irving as his lawyer. | |
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Awful Hospital: Professor Lexicovermus is a hyperdimensional bookworm who lives in a book who was once a man. | |
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The Owl House: Bookworms are mentioned to exist on the Boiling Isles, though they're never seen. The context in which they're mentioned (plus the fact that the Boiling Isles in general is a Death World) leads Luz to assume that they're probably some sort of "unholy, blood-sucking snake monster" and point out the contrast with what the term usually means on Earth. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Bookworms, described in the 1983 Monster Manual II, are tiny worms with Lamprey Mouths and Chameleon Camouflage. While harmless to people, bookworms can prove to be the undoing of anyone dependent on books and scrolls, such as magic users. The bookworms' own bane is ink, which they can't digest and which stacks up in their bodies until it poisons them. On the plus side, the ink stored inside their corpses is a potent ingredient for Anti-Magic. | |
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Psychonauts 2: Some bookworms appear in the library level of "Cassie's Collection" in Cassiopeia's Mind. Like a lot of cartoon versions, they wear glasses and academic caps. | |
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Looney Tunes: One Mary Jane and Sniffles comic in Four Color Comics #402 sees the two protagonists come to the aid of a spelling bee and his hive, which is under attack by bumblebees. The trio escapes capture and finds sanctuary with a Queen's English-speaking bookworm, Chopper J. Binding, inside the M-volume of an encyclopedia. He buys them time to come up with a plan. | |
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In "The Bookworm", the witches from Macbeth want a bookworm to add to their brew, seemingly as the "blind-worm's sting" ingredient. They enlist the raven from "The Raven" to catch the bookworm and are additionally assisted by the other villains of literature. However, the bookworm outsmarts the raven and when by luck the villains get the upper hand, the heroes of literature come to save the bookworm. | |
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Plasmo: "Plasmo and the Bookworm" features a large bookworm that has bored through various books at the library, in an attempt to gain their knowledge. All he's gained instead is a bad case of indigestion, and has trouble using the books to learn how to read, as he's now forced to use "the abridged version". | |
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Shazam!: Pre-Crisis Mister Mind is one of the Marvel Family's greatest archfoes... and yet he's a Venusian worm whose initial design borne of this trope. He's a cartoonish green worm with spectacles and a voicebox around his neck. Though he's not directly linked to literature, as his name indicates, his greatest power is his mind in contrast to the Marvel Family of Physical Gods. | |
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The Hugga Bunch: Bridget Severson seeks a youth medicine for her grandmother and visits the elderly Bookworm who resides within a mountain of giant books in Hugga Land because he is supposed to know everything. While not sympathetic to Bridget's plight, because aging is a part of life, he tells her about the Youngberry Tree in the Country of Shrugs, which one of his giant books is a gate to. If Bridget gives her grandmother one of the tree's fruits, she'll become young again. However, the Country of Shrugs is a dangerous place and the Bookworm is confident Bridget won't ever return from it. | |
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Crayon Chronicles: Among the many pun-based enemies in the library are Arrogant Book Worms. They're green worms with glasses and a grad cap sticking out of an apple. | |
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Pokémon: Blipbug is based off a bookworm. Its eyes don't have pupils and have the appearance of glasses and its neck has pieces that resemble a bow tie. According to Pokedex entries, Blipbug is a constant collector of information and is very intelligent. | |
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Toy Story 3: One of Lotso's (possibly strong-armed) henchmen is Bookworm, a booklight in the shape of a bookworm. He's the keeper of a library of instruction manuals within Sunnyside Daycare and the one who gives Lotso and later Barbie the Buzz Lightyear instruction manual. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: Bookwurm depicts a wurm — a kind of limbless, snake- or worm-like dragon — bursting through a set of library shelves. | |
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Strawinsky and the Mysterious House: The Globglogabgalab takes things to uncomfortable new heights. Not only does he sing about books, he also depends on them for sustenance, eating their thoughts and ideas by shrinking and absorbing himself into the books, and upon emerging, caresses himself and giggles with glee from these feeding sessions. He used to be a handsome elf, but exposure to books turned him into wormly humanoid blob. | |
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Barney & Friends: There are two cases, one an instance in Season 1 and the other a recurring character starting Season 5. In "Let's Help Mother Goose!", unseen bookworms are heard eating all the pages in Mother Goose's book. She asks Barney and the children to help her remember the rhymes which were in the book so she can write them all down (again). Booker T. Bookworm, who debuts in "It's Time for Counting", is an orange worm with blue glasses and a green plaid bowtie that works as an imaginary librarian at the school library. |
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Spider-Ham: The Bookworm is villain appearing in "TV or Not TV, Or... Read a Good Book Lately?". He's an earthworm whose parents were librarians and instilled him with a deep love for books. He became a librarian himself, but had to close down the library when television sets became a household standard. Some time thereafter, a book fell on his head and The Bookworm became a low-key Reality Warper with the skill to summon literary figures into existence, order them around, and dismiss them out of existence. In order, he summons The Three Muskrateers, The Raven, and Quasidodo to ruin the Eggy Awards, destroy the state-of-the-art dish of a new television network, and kill Spider-Ham. Spider-Ham defeats The Bookworm by dropping another book on his head to remove his powers. | |
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Timon & Pumbaa: In "Library Brouhaha", Timon and Pumbaa visit the library with the express purpose of dining on a bookworm. The resident bookworm defends itself by coaxing the duo into making noise time and time again, for which the librarian kicks them out. Another attempt sees all three be crushed by a bookcase, causing them to temporarily be transported to book land and thereafter be sent to the hospital. While all bandaged up, Timon and Pumbaa attack the bookworm and finally eat it. | |
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Bookworm: We have the titular bookworm Lex, who is an intelligent green bookworm with glasses and a red bowtie. The premise of the game is to feed Lex by creating words with the tiles given to you. The sequel, Bookworm Adventures, introduces Mirage Xel. Mirage Xel is an Evil Counterpart version of Lex (although Xel says Lex is the evil version) and also is real as a Hollywood Mirage. Xel is purple, wears a black tie and black pointy glasses, and he's the boss of Chapter 7 of Book 2 as the guardian of the Robe of the Unseen. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: The original Bookworm from the "Sniffles" shorts returns as the librarian of the Looniversity. There's also a student counterpart of him who shares his name. This Bookworm is a small, cute, green, bespectacled bookworm who loves reading books as well as eating them as they are his primary food source. Sweetie regularly attempts to eat him, but always fails one way or another. | |
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MGM Oneshot Cartoons: Two cartoons feature a literal bookworm, whose vast knowledge comes from him literally devouring books and who wishes his life was more exciting. His friends and adversaries are the characters written about in books that are capable of stepping out of the pages. In "The Bookworm", the witches from Macbeth want a bookworm to add to their brew, seemingly as the "blind-worm's sting" ingredient. They enlist the raven from "The Raven" to catch the bookworm and are additionally assisted by the other villains of literature. However, the bookworm outsmarts the raven and when by luck the villains get the upper hand, the heroes of literature come to save the bookworm. In "The Bookworm Turns", the raven is convinced by Jekyll and Hyde from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that he needs the bookworm's brain for an intelligence transplant. He captures him relatively easily this time and the transplant is a success, but Hyde wants to experiment further with the bookworm and makes him bigger. With new strength, the bookworm escapes to get revenge on the raven. Jekyll fixes Hyde's mistake by capturing both test subjects through a process that undoes the transplant. The raven settles for being tutored by the bookworm. |
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Word Rescue has a green, bespectacled worm named Benny Bookworm as one of the protagonists. The player character has to help him steal back all the words stolen by the Gruzzles and return them to their books. In the sequel, Math Rescue, he becomes Benny Butterfly, meaning Benny was a caterpillar in the first game. | |
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The sequel, Bookworm Adventures, introduces Mirage Xel. Mirage Xel is an Evil Counterpart version of Lex (although Xel says Lex is the evil version) and also is real as a Hollywood Mirage. Xel is purple, wears a black tie and black pointy glasses, and he's the boss of Chapter 7 of Book 2 as the guardian of the Robe of the Unseen. | |
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Literal Bookworm | |
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Brain Dead 13: If accessed from the right entrance, the library is infested with bookworms. Lance can either escape the lot of them or get eaten. | |
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Literal Bookworm | |
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Tibia: Enraged Bookworms are enemies encountered in Yalahar Library during the Shadows of Yalahar Quest. They're fairly weak and turn into fishing bait upon defeat. | |
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In "The Bookworm Turns", the raven is convinced by Jekyll and Hyde from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that he needs the bookworm's brain for an intelligence transplant. He captures him relatively easily this time and the transplant is a success, but Hyde wants to experiment further with the bookworm and makes him bigger. With new strength, the bookworm escapes to get revenge on the raven. Jekyll fixes Hyde's mistake by capturing both test subjects through a process that undoes the transplant. The raven settles for being tutored by the bookworm. | |
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Disney Fairies: In Secret of the Wings, Tinker Bell looks for information on why her wings sparkle in the Library. Specifically, she seeks out the book Wingology, but the pages relevant to her question have just been eaten by a bookworm. Said bookworm quickly makes itself scarce. | |
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Strawberry Shortcake: Bosley Bookworm of Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures is a bookworm and assistant of Blueberry Muffin at Blueberry Books, a book store and library located in Berry Bitty City. Whenever she needs advice, she knows to ask Bosley. | |
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Cranium: One of the four main characters in the game is Word Worm, a bookish worm who wears glasses and a mortarboard. His card challenges are word problems such as anagrams, spelling words backwards, and word definitions. | |
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Literal Bookworm | |
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King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow has Alexander meeting a green, bespectacled bookworm on the Isle of Wonder, where pretty much everything is based on a pun. He lives in a junkyard of books and acts a bit rude at first, but when Alexander returns his "Dangling Participle", he gives him a special, rare book. | |
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