History Main / BugsHeraldEvil

-->-- '''Description of the growing influence of Kyuss''', ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'', ''Elder Evils''

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': The first season has an episode called "Bugs" revolving around deaths occurring in a localized area and always involving bugs of some sort. It turns out that these murderous bugs are manifestations of an IndianBurialGround curse -- for 6 days on each spring equinox, the curse activates and kills anyone in the area as vengeance for 6 days of American calvalrymen raping, pillaging, and burning the area's Yuchi population.

* ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'': Inverted, as TheHero has [[PestController a telepathic connection to insects]] which she uses to get their help in a murder investigation.

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* ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' has the Flesh Hive, which manages to be both the monster ''and'' the herald. It's a manipulative HiveMind that lives to infest and corrupt people with its bug of choice, turning them into walking nests. Jane Prentiss, the most well-known example and one of the most fearsome ones, was infested with silver worms, though it's also been known to work through flies, wasps, and ants. Not spiders, though. [[spoiler:Spiders belong to a different [[EldritchAbomination Power]].]]

That's not to say you ''can't'' have such bugs used for this trope, it's just harder to work with them. On the topic of notable exceptions, perhaps the most common iteration of this trope in Japan is ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth due to the symbolism described on that page. While it's a far-reaching trope, you're far more likely to find it used for horror--ranging from vaguely sinister to gory--in Eastern and Eastern-influenced works.

This may be explicitly justified in-universe when the villain the bugs herald is a PestController or a MonsterProgenitor, and thus explicitly called or created the swarms there to begin with.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the aqir, a race of insects that were born from the organic matter seeping from the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] when they first landed upon Azeroth. They are almost always found serving the Old Gods and are almost AlwaysChaoticEvil, so whenever the player runs into aqir--or their descendant races, the qiraji and the mantid--that usually means there's Old God activity.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the aqir and their descendants, a race of insects that were born from the organic matter seeping from the [[EldritchAbomination Old Gods]] when they first landed upon Azeroth. They are almost always found serving the Old Gods and are almost AlwaysChaoticEvil--including the [[SpiderPeople nerubians]], who are generally cold and cruel even though they no longer serve the Old Gods and at war with the much more evil [[NightOfTheLivingMooks Scourge]], and the [[AffablyEvil Klaxxi]] of the mantid race, who [[EnemyMine seek the player character's help]] with defeating their insane empress but side with [[BigBad Garrosh]] once he gains the powers of the Old God they worship.

->''"Sign: Infestation. Vermin swarm out from Wormcrawl Island under the influence of the obelisk."''
-->-- '''Description of the growing influence of Kyuss''', [[http://anyflip.com/ogyal/jdos/basic D&D 3.5, Elder Evils]]

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