Isn’t it bad enough to know there are 21 quadrillion normal spiders running around?
I already think we need to throw Earth out and start over just with that.
That’s actually good.
I love spiders.
I got a cutesy little Jumping Spider exploring my computer table right now. It’s adorable! 
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Jumping spiders are definitely something I could call cute. Harmless little pest control professionals right there.
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You’re starting to sound a bit like a Resident Evil villain; or just a mad scientist, either/or.
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The reason why humans are among the “largest and strongest” animals in the world is that for millions of years groups of humans using superior weapons hunted down the larger herbivores until most became extinct.
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Fire! I learned this from Kipling’s Jungle Books.
So the next expansion after Midnight should have the tardigrades (Water Bears) from three body problem as the villains right?
IRL, today I just loaded four steers I sold into my stock trailer to take them to the ranchers who bought them. First sorted the bull out from the rest of the herd, along with one ornery longhorn cow. Then penned the rest of the herd and sorted the rest of the herd out from the steers that needed to be loaded. This is a do-over weekend, because last weekend one of the steers literally climbed a five-foot tall corral panel after we got them penned and turned it into an interesting piece of modern art. He’s probably about 1,000 lb. Not full grown.
This weekend we got the four we wanted into the sweep, and one loaded, but the other three got themselves in a traffic jam at the chute. The one that loaded came bursting back out of the trailer back at the other three, panicking them, and I just opened the sweep a couple notches when he came right at it, looking crazy. He tried to climb the gate of the steel sweep, again, about five feet tall. Bent the top bar. Another wrangler and I just dived for safety. Fortunately he gave up on it and we were able to turn them all around and get them loaded.
Anyway, that’s a long-winded way of saying that human strength is literally nothing against even a medium-sized steer. We’re like tissue paper to them. They can go right through us — right through steel bars – and trample us to mush without working up a sweat. If they were predators instead of prey animals, we’d be toast.
Yeah, humans are bigger than raccoons, coyotes and chipmunks and crap, but many of the animals that are bigger than us completely outclass us. We only control them because of our brains.
Our muscle density is lower, too. A 200 lb. calf or goat buck can overwhelm a 200 lb. man in a head-to-head contest of strength. Again, we win because of our brains.
I’m not saying we are the absolute strongest species on earth. A lot of species are stronger than us.
But we are bigger and stronger than the vast majority of animals because the vast majority of ranges from tiny bugs to microscopic thingamajigs.
Like, yeah, I can’t beat any of the 450000 elephants in a contest of strength.
But I can beat every single one of the 21000000000000000 spiders and every single one of the 1000000000000000000000 copepods on earth. That easily puts me on the top 0.00001% of strongest animals in the world.
It’s just that there’s a LOT of animals, so you can always find something stronger.
It may be a pyrrhic victory if you later die from spider venom!
What if, after you ran the numbers, because there are so many microscopic lifeforms, it turns out the average size of a creature on Earth is microscopic? Should we have microscopic PCs? 
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I mean, we are not competing venom.
I don’t reckon I qualify as one of the most venomous animals on earth lol
Yes.
I reckon we should get a Copepoden Allied Race.
“Nobody can see my transmog! And my hitbox is way too big!”
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You know what.
It would be hilarious if Blizzard announced a new microscopic Allied Race, and it turns out that it doesn’t have a model at all because it’s so small that we can’t see it 
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