Character
Space Worm
Space Worm in Futurama (1999), played by Maurice LaMarche.
A colossal creature drifting through the void, the Space Worm is less a character than a cosmic hazard the Planet Express crew stumbles into — vast, wordless, and utterly indifferent to the tiny ship buzzing around it. It exists to be enormous, strange, and a little bit gross.
Futurama loves throwing its crew up against things too big and absurd to reason with, and the Space Worm is a pure example of that gag: scale as comedy. Maurice LaMarche gives it just enough guttural presence to feel alive without undercutting the joke that it barely notices humanity exists.
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Futurama1999