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11->''"Welcome to the Honeyhive Kingdom! Our queen rules this land."''
12-->-- '''Honeybee''', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy''
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14A level seen in video games that takes place almost exclusively inside a beehive. Due to the nature of this level, it is in the realm almost exclusively of {{Platform Game}}s. It has sticky honey or beeswax that will get stuck on characters and will often have a [[TheMaze mazelike]] level design, with hexagonal background tiling evoking honeycombs (though this geometry rarely influences gameplay). It's almost obligatory that there will be a Queen or [[AnimalGenderBender King]] bee that needs to be fought.
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16Of course, this videogame setting isn't limited to bees. Wasps, hornets and other suitably annoying flying, stinging insects can have their homes invaded by intrepid heroes as well. Since this level is full of enemy types that usually can't be defeated by traditional means, it can easily become ThatOneLevel.
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18Related tropes that can be seen in this type of level are ScaryStingingSwarm, HiveMind, SynchronizedSwarming, WickedWasps, BeeBeeGun and BeeAfraid. [=NPCs=] or friendly characters will often be VirtuousBees. If there's a boss, you can bet it will be an InsectQueen.
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25* ''VideoGame/{{Zapper}}'': The first of the game's four secret levels is Crazy Apiary, which takes place in a beehive. The level is a looping autoscroller where you have to collect all of the orbs before the timer runs out. Shooting the flying bees out of the air increases the time limit. There are also much larger bees sticking out of the honeycomb that act as traffic hazards.
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29* ''VideoGame/MetroidOtherM'': The [[JungleJapes Biosphere]] has a single room that is a giant hive of Ki-Hunters, aggressive insectoid enemies driven only more aggressive by a roar heard nearby. You fight a bunch of them and then the King (who just sits in his hive) as a minor boss fight.
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33* ''VideoGame/LittleBigAdventure 2'' has the island of the Mosquibees which includes a large hive although [[spoiler:you spend more time fighting the invading Francos]].
34* ''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'' has a friendly Hornet Hole hidden away inside a clifftop. The "bees" inside are actually intelligent.
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38* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': While the beehive itself is simply a peaceful town and the bees are friendly [=NPCs=], the Honey Factory crosses this theme with EternalEngine. The environmental hazards include large pits and moats filled with honey, and the enemies consist of robotic bee drones, honey-shooting turrets, and globs of living honey. The final boss is a giant-sized version of the living honey creatures, the Ahoneynation.
39* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': The Castelia Gym is, understandably for a Bug gym, themed around a beehive, complete with sticky honey walls to break through and trainers who specialize in using [[BigCreepyCrawlies Bug-type]] Pokémon.
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43%%* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': The Apiary.
44%%* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2: Seeds of Evil'': The Mantid Hive.
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48%%* ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}} 3D'': Honey Bee Hollow.
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52* The UsefulNotes/ArcadeGame ''Beezer'' (1982) is set in a hexagonal honeycomb maze, with gates the player can close to trap killer bees within the cells.
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56%%* ''VideoGame/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnline'': The Queen's Nest on Isla Perdida.
57* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' has the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj, an underground hive for the Old God-worshipping insectoid Qiraji, and Heart of Fear, a palace built out of amber occupied by a related insect race called the mantid.
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60[[folder:Platformers]]
61* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' has this in a very limited fashion in the Click Clock Wood. There are also the highest parts of Cloud Cuckooland's mountain in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie''.
62* ''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}}'' has a level and a boss fight that both take place in a beehive. The type of enemies include the flying bees that appeared in the earlier two levels that try to sting you, muscular worker drone bees that fire their stingers at you, and bee larvae with bee heads and stingers sticking out of them; the normal bees and muscular drones die once they lose their stingers. The first level to take place in the beehive also has honey, which if you land in it is a one hit kill as you sink in it and lose a life (unless you have the swim in water-type that would normally kill you cheat on), as for the boss fight you do battle against a queen bee who shoots honey and summons the bee larvae with the heads sticking out.
63* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' has the eponymous character going into a hornet's hangout to rescue a beehive, [[BookEnds both at the start of the Windy chapter and much later when it's revisited for its conclusion]]. Here the bees are pretty OK. Hornets aren't.
64* ''Franchise/DonkeyKong'':
65** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' has [[TropeNamer Hornet Hole]], Rambi Rumble, Parrot-Chute Panic, and a boss level, King Zing Sting. They're beehive levels inhabited by giant wasps called Zingers with sticky honey on the ground (where it has to be jumped out of) and on the wall (where it enables {{Wall Jump}}ing).
66** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' has level Beehive Brawl in Juicy Jungle. It is a bee colony set within a gigantic beehive. There are numerous nectar waterfalls with falling platforms, smaller beehives camouflaged with a grass layer, and bees transporting grass and dirt (and the bees are also as big as DK himself).
67* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'': The temple area in Pangu Lagoon is overrun with wasp/bee-like enemies that have converted the lower levels of the stage into a hive. They spawn endlessly if you fall to those levels.
68* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Hive]] in the Kingdom's Edge region where all enemies, who are linked to bees or hornets, are protecting their [[spoiler:deceased]] queen: you fight bees [[TheGoomba who content themselves to float near you]], zombie bugs wearing small beehives around themselves that spawn out small bees, large bees who pull out their dart [[LeeroyJenkins and attempt to sting you]], and giant bees [[UnskilledButStrong who bounce through walls]], [[spoiler:but also a desperate knight [[UndyingLoyalty watching for his queen's grave]]]]. Its decorations and items are also bee-themed -- the geo deposits found elsewhere in the game are replaced by chunks of honey studded with coins, while several areas have walls of wax or crystallized honey that must be broken to progress.
69* ''[[VideoGame/IceAge Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs]]'': Not entire levels, but Buck must destroy multiple massive beehives.
70* ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' has this in Desert Ruins Zone 2, technically a mach speed-type of level with bee-like robots while speeding through multiple beehives, before coming face-to-face with Zomom.
71* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} in [[VideoGameRemake Spelunky HD]]: sometimes a jungle level will have a beehive area, containing some honey patches that cause items to stick, a number of [[http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Killer_Bee giant bees]], and a [[http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_Bee queen bee]]. The queen drops royal jelly when killed, which is the second most potent source of healing in the game.
72* ''VideoGame/SpyroEnterTheDragonfly'' has the Honey Marsh level, which is this crossed with BubblegloopSwamp. A level of the same name appears in the earlier GBA game ''VideoGame/SpyroSeasonOfIce'', but it's a straighter example in that game.
73* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
74** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' has Honeyhive Galaxy and the Gold Leaf Galaxy, airy woodland areas populated by giant talking bees, and the Honeyclimb Galaxy, made up of enormous walls of honeycomb. ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' features the more pastoral Honeybloom and Honeyhop galaxies. The bees are friendly, and the sticky honey can be used to scale walls when the Bee powerup is in use.
75** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'': Stage 4 of the Tree Zone takes place inside a giant beehive built within an enormous tree, and sees Mario menaced by a variety of giant bees, grubs and [[NightOfTheLivingMooks skeletal bees]].
76** ''VideoGame/MarioPinballLand'' has two beehives on the Grass Table.
77* ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'': The first game turns the tree you go into after getting past the Red Knight into one of these. It's the only area in question where you have to fight bees.
78* ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'' plays with this by making the indoor portions of the HubLevel, Hivory Towers, an industrial/corporate building with a honeycomb theme, where everything from doorways to bookshelves are hexagons. It is indeed run by a giant bee -- the game's BigBad -- but he's also the only one in the game.
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82* ''VideoGame/{{Meteos}}'' has Hanihula, an entire planet with this theme. The intelligent bees that live on it are actually friendly and happy, however (its sound effects set even consists of children laughing and people cheering), and developed space travel to find things to pollinate on other planets. Nevertheless, half of the planet's surface is covered in beehives.
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86* ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'': The battle stage Honeybee Hive, which takes place inside a giant hollow beehive and houses a swarm of the bee-like Stingby enemies that will damage any driver they come in contact with.
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90* ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'': A few rooms, complete with queen bee.
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94* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has "Honeycomb Herald!", an [[RiseToTheChallenge upwards-scrolling level]] inside a beehive with a rising pool of honey, mindless briefcase-toting worker bees as enemies, and honeycombs decorated like little offices. The bosses are a bee cop who plants striped bombs and Rumor Honeybottoms, the queen bee intent on eating Cuphead.
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98%%* ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'': The Hive. Hope you like fighting killer bees.
99* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'': The derelict Collector Ship can be considered this due to their general layout and hive-like design, including millions of victims in pods upon the walls.
100* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VIII'' has the Wasp Nest in the Alvar region, which is the nest of the Alvarian giant wasps. The main special thing is that it is set up so that to navigate inside the nest requires Jump magic (your ordinary jumps are not high enough), though fortunately it has several entrances, allowing parties with Fly magic/special abilities (which only works outdoors) to reach most parts of it by taking detours on the outside.
101* ''Franchise/{{Thunderscape}}'': ''Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall'' has a hive of giant bee/wasp-like creatures called Panorpids as one of its dungeons.
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105* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has beehives that generate in the underground jungle. They're small, but breaking the hive blocks [[BeeAfraid spawns bees that attack you]], and [[MamaBear killing the larva found inside summons]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the giant queen bee boss]]. The "Not the Bees" secret seed creates an entire world where hive blocks replace stone, and bees and hornets can be found everywhere.
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109%%* ''VideoGame/{{BIONICLE}}'': The Nui-Rama hive in the Mata Nui Online Game.
110%%* ''VideoGame/{{Zapper}}'' has one called Crazy Apiary. It also doubles as an UnexpectedShmupLevel.
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117* ''[[Fanfic/ForewarnedIsForearmed Forearmed: Inaba]]'': Chapter 3 centers around the [[MentalWorld Palace]] of Rina Fujisawa, an OriginalCharacter at [[VideoGame/Persona3 Gekkoukan High School]] who takes "[[AlphaBitch Queen Bee]]" to the literal extreme.
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122* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': The gnome pest controller Wee Mad Arthur likes to go on what, for somebody his size, are big game hunts. He describes his strategy for dealing with wasps, which is to fight his way into the hive, killing wasps in hand-to-sting combat, and planting substantially large bombs (heavily modified fireworks), set the fuses, and then fight his way out again before they explode. He says it isn't sporting to do anything other than bring them down on the wing, and brandishes a tailor-made very small crossbow to prove the point.
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125[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
126* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': In adventure "[=WG7=] Castle Greyhawk", in the level "Queen of the Honeybee Hive", the [=PCs=] must fight a group of opponents with bee-themed names.
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