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-->'' '''Mr Burns''': I suggest you leave immediately.''
-->'' '''Homer''': Or what? You'll release the '''dogs?''' Or the '''bees?''' Or the dogs with bees in their mouths, and when they bark they shoot bees at you? Well, go ahead -- do your worst!''
-->''TheSimpsons''


[[IncrediblyLamePun Bee afraid. Bee]] ''[[IncrediblyLamePun very]]'' [[IncrediblyLamePun afraid.]]

Have you ever been to a picnic where everyone freaks out when a bee buzzes by? Wouldn't it bee great if you could take that primal reaction and channel it for your own purposes?

As it turns out, quite a few writers have had just that thought. Enter the BeeBeeGun -- the weaponization of flying, stinging insects. Bees tend to be effective weapons of terror for a number of reasons -- they're too small to shoot or stab, they always seem to come in [[ZergRush swarms]] that can cover every inch of a person, they're difficult to outrun or outmaneuver, and they make that terrifying buzzing noise. Unlike honeybees and some others in the real world, these ones don't seem to die after the first sting. God help you if you're allergic. ([[{{Futurama}} "Your insides will boil out of your eye sockets like a science-fair volcano!"]]) And if you're ''not,'' well, beeing stung to death by thousands of bees would bee [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath a rather slow and unpleasant]] way to go.

A foraging bee isn't likely to sting you unless you try to touch it or happen to be covered in sweet stuff, but around hives they are extremely protective. (Yellow jackets, on the other hand, are just plain sadistic, but they are also wasps, not bees.) A stinging bee releases attack pheromones that attract and rile up more bees. Bee venom is designed to make you think you've been hurt badly, and enough of it causes your throat to swell enough that you asphyxiate. The pheromone sticks around and does not wash off quickly. Water is not an ideal deterrent - bees will sting whatever parts are above the water, and come after you when you get out.

Ironically, a true swarm of bees is not particularly hostile, some people swear by bee venom therapy, and when bee workers kill their queen they do so not by stinging, but by balling up around her and vibrating her muscles until the heat kills her (Mmmm... popcorn...).

'''The BeeBeeGun comes a few varieties, such as:'''
# An actual gun that shoots bees.
# A special ability to control bees.
# [[TheWormThatWalks A character that is actually made of bees.]]
# [[TheSimpsons Dogs with bees in their mouths so when they bark they shoot bees at you]].

A subtrope of AbnormalAmmo.
Note that [[OverusedRunningGag beeing]] able to control all kinds of insects is a semi-common StockSuperpower, but bees, specifically, just seem to [[RuleOfThree bee]] the go-to insect for this kind of thing. Must be that whole HiveMind idea. Or maybe it's because "bees" [[InherentlyFunnyWords just sounds funny]]. Or it may [[OverlyLongGag bee]] that they're one of the more terrifying insects one may see on a regular basis.
For instances where the attacking bees are not under someone's control, see {{Gosh Hornet}}.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* One of the competitors in the Hunter test arc of ''HunterXHunter'' used bees.
* One of the QuirkyMinibossSquad from ''NinjaScroll'' had a beehive for a back.
** Technically Mushizo's little friends were wasps but the overall effect is the same.
* The Aburame clan in ''{{Naruto}}'' uses insects that live in their body for fighting and tracking, but they mostly stuck to various kinds of beetles and flies. In an early filler episode, they were rivals of another ninja clan that ''did'' use bees.
* Arukenimon of ''DigimonAdventure02'' could control insects with her flute. This included a swarm of Flymon, who, despite the [[NonindicativeName misnomer]], are bees. (It ''also'' included Digmon and Stingmon, two insectoid ''protagonists.'')
* The ''GetBackers'' manga has Dokubachi, a villain whose body is made of bees.
* Although they're not ''technically'' bees, at one point in the ''{{InuYasha}}'' manga, Moryomaru shoots the bee-like Saimyopushou. ''[[http://www.onemanga.com/Inuyasha/364/10/ From his mouth.]]''
* In episode 7 of the original ''Yatterman'' cartoon, the evil Dokurobei drops a beehive on his subordinate, Doronjo, and her two henchmen. Much swelling results.
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* ''MagicTheGathering'' has the artifacts [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=5173 Hornet Cannon]] and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=135253 The Hive]]; the spells [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=6633 Bee Sting]] and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3419 Unyaro Bee Sting]] (functionally identical but the latter with more flavor); and the creatures [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=2221 Killer Bees]] and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=113579 Unyaro Bees]] (which, as you may note, combined Killer Bees with Unyaro Bee Sting), [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=19865 Caustic Wasps]], [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=122313 Giant Dust Wasp]], and [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=142355 Hornet Harasser]]. [[http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=153478 Belligerent Hatchling]] matches up with description #4.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Swarm.JPG Swarm]] is a MarvelComics supervillain who is a sentient HiveMind swarm of bees with Nazi sympathies, generally keeping to a humanoid form. Sometimes the skeleton of the Nazi scientist eaten by his [[ILoveNuclearPower irradiated mutant bee colony]] is under the bees, sometimes not. Either way, he appears to be in charge. ''"Everybody hates Nazis, and everybody is scared of bees. [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Together, they're the perfect foe!]]''"
** A version of Swarm also appeared in {{Ultimate Marvel}}, but because she was simply a woman with the power to control bees, was significantly less awesome.
---> [[http://www.beaucoupkevin.com/2005/05/i-dont-want-to-go-all-daves-long-box.html What good is hellfire against fascist bees, really?]]
* In the ''Amazons Attack'' storyline in DCComics, the Amazons deployed a secret weapon: bees. This prompted the infamous above quote from Batman.
** The "bees" in question were giant "stygian killer hornets" whose sting could kill a person within... hours. Of course, being "giant" meant they were not very hard targets to hit from a safe distance (unlike regular sized insects), and since their venom took "hours" to kill someone (unless a cure was found) they were arguably far less deadly than a weapon that killed someone instantly. For a "secret weapon" unveiled by an invading nation that was already supposedly bringing America to its knees they left something to be desired.
*** And there was only about a dozen of the things anyway.
** Parodied in ''Blue Beetle'', where Traci Thirteen uses a staff to cast "Gds Ddly Wpon" - magical Bees. (Obligatory response from Jaime's father? "My God.")
** There was also a running gag in ''Wonder Woman'', post-AA, in which a special agent had to keep being reminded he wasn't recovering from an ''ordinary'' bee sting.
* 'Barnaby's Spelling Bees' in ''Viz'' ... one of their usual spoof characters whose schtick is that he has a swarm of killer bees that attack on command ... so long as their target begins with 'B'. HilarityEnsues as normal.
* The GoldenAge superhero the Red Bee's entire shtick was ''a single trained bee that he kept in his belt buckle''; being so ridiculous, he's mentioned with surprising frequency by modern writers.
** Straight from the golden age, [[http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2008/11/20/thursday-whos-who-the-red-bee/ Red Bee]]! Knowing more about him makes it much, much worse. And it took him ''how long'' to die?
** And there was even a ripoff of the Red Bee, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket_(Charlton) the first Yellowjacket]].
* Recurring DC villainess The Queen Bee is an alien empress with insect-like strength and speed, projectile stingers, and mind-control pollen that can turn ordinary humans into "drones" for her hive.
* A strip appeared in a British AnthologyComic in the 1960s entitled "The Stinging Swarm". It was about a gang of thieves that used a swarm of robot bees armed with paralyzing stings. While their victims were paralyzed, the gang would rob them blind.
* The Flea from ''{{PS238}}'' can control insects -- bees included. And while all his other bug attacks are annoying, only the bees have so far made a power armoured soldier run around in a panic screaming '''"BEEES!"''' until his MissionControl could activate counter-measures.
* The GoldenAge hero Captain Freedom once fought an evil hillbilly beekeeper who had the Amazons beat--he created [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot giant killer vampire bees]].
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''TheWickerMan'' remake: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MqTCIDKhU "Not the beeeeeeeees! Aargh, they're in my eyes!"]] There was NightmareFuel potential here somewhere, but it ended up as just the {{Narm}}iest moment of Nicholas Cage's career.
** It is worth noting that there were no bees whatever in the original. There were some apples, but they never attacked anyone.
*** [[ThePuppetMasters They didn't need to]].
* Little Nicky, by the new Devil: "So while we wait, for your enjoyment, I bring you a dear sweet man and an international icon...Henry Winkler! '''Covered in bees!'''"
* In the ''SpeedRacer'' movie, one member of the Viking-themed racer team had her car equipped with a beehive catapult. It is a testament to CrazyAwesome that this doesn't seem out-of-place ''at all''.
* Ruthless People: When Barbara learns of her husband's infidelity (and refusal to pay her ransom) she fantasizes about how she would punish him by covering him with honey and taking him to a bee farm.
* When title character in ''Candyman'' opens his coat, he's revealed to be little more than a skeleton wreathed in the many thousands of bees that killed him.
* ''The Deadly Bees'' (shown on ''{{MST3K}}'') has a mad bee farmer who bred a special breed of bee that will attack anyone or anything that has a trigger scent on it.
* In ''MeetTheStupids'', Stanley Stupid is at one point assaulted by the dreaded Drive Bee, sent by his nemesis Mr Sender to kill him. Or at least that's what he thinks, since he's a complete {{Cloudcuckoolander}}. It does make him drive off the road though.
* ''SleepawayCamp'' had a scene where Angela kills a bully by locking him washroom stall before cutting open the window above him and dropping a beehive on him.
* Western ''RioLobo'' has a Confederate raiding party throw a hornets' nest into a train car carrying some Union soldiers and a large gold supply they were guarding. One of the Union soldiers even dies from injuries sustained by throwing himself out of the train to escape said bugs.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* {{Tad Williams}}' novel ''War of the Flowers'' features a variation on this trope: the [[TheFairFolk fairies]] in the story use [[MagiTek magic guns]] that shoot METAL BEES that fly forever until they hit something.
* In Rudyard Kipling's ''[[TheJungleBook Second Jungle Book]]'' story "[[http://www.junglebook-collection.nl/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main.RedDog Red Dog]]", Mowgli stirs up a hive of wild bees to attack the marauding wild dogs of the title, having smeared himself with garlic so the bees won't attack him before he can reach the comparative safety of the river.
* The Wicked Witch of the West has control over a swarm of bees in ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
** Elphaba retains this ability in Gregory [=McGuire's=] revisionist book ''{{Wicked}}: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West''.
* In RayBradbury's ''The Martian Chronicles'', the first humans to land on Mars are killed by a native Martian's Bee Gun.
* In Robin Hobb's Farseer trilogy, Molly once tricked a squad of guards into thinking she could control bees. She made sure she was in shadow while the guards were brightly lit (knowing that the bees would fly towards light), opened the beehive and told the bees to kill them all.
* The ''{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Lords and Ladies'' has Granny Weatherwax figure out how to possess the entire HiveMind of a beehive just in time for a BigDamnHeroes moment.
* ''{{Goosebumps}}'': BEE THROWING! [[http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2006/03/15-you-cant-scare-me.html This blog]] explains it much better than I ever could.
* In LoisMcMasterBujold's ''The Sharing Knife: Beguilement'', Dag defends himself against a group of village toughs trying to disrupt his wedding by dropping a wasp's nest on their heads. That he was able to magically convince the wasps to climb up pant legs and down shirt collars and to follow the boys all the way downriver was really just icing on the cake there.
* Something similar happens in {{Redwall}} at least twice:
** The original ''Redwall''; Jess Squirrel and Silent Sam put a hornets' nest in a barrel and drop it over the wall onto the bearers of the battering ram.
** ''Marlfox''; the Abbeydwellers see that the titular villains and their followers are knocking down an old tree to use as a battering ram. They do nothing, because they know that said tree is full of wasp and termite nests, and the attackers suffer the consequences.
** Not quite the same, but Martin and his friends in ''Martin the Warrior'' get trapped in a clearing full of angry bees.
** In the most recent novel ''Doomwyte'', some of the characters are attacked by bees apparently ruled by an elderly female hedgehog who is... a few honeycombs short of a full hive, so to speak. Unfortunetly, the plot device they need is in her possession and she won't give it up so easily. [[spoiler: Eventually, however, she is killed by her own bees.]]
** Then there's Owch Mansions in ''Eulalia'', designed to be a paradise for wasps. Very handy when vermin come to call.
* In the novel ''The Road to Damascus'', a [[TankGoodness Bolo]] story written by Linda Evans and JohnRingo, at one point in an alien invasion of their world, some protagonists throw the bee hives used for making honey into a barn where several of the invader's soldiers are found, the swarming bee's stings killing the soldiers. Which incidentally happened to be engineered to be meaner than the local variants.
* In P.C. Hodgell's ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath book ''To Ride a Rathorn'', protagonist Jame and insect-attracting boy Gari jointly kill someone by sending a swarm of bees down their throat.
* In RobinMcKinley's ''Chalice'', the heroine is a [[FisherKing Fisher Courtier]] who's also a beekeeper. Most of the book she just has magic honey, but at dramatically appropriate moments she has magic bee swarms as well.
* In ''[[OutboundFlight Survivor's Quest]]'', the [[spoiler: Vagaari]] have swarms of "schostri", yellow and black insects that can hide under their clothing or swarm in a protective spherical pattern around their handler. Their stings are quickly fatal to most life-forms. If this seems like a [[NewJediOrder Vong]] thing... who knows? Maybe it is.
* In Suzanne Collins's novel ''The Hunger Games'', Katniss, the heroine, gruesomely kills one of her opponents by dropping a hive of hyper-angry, mutated wasps on her. The author describes, in full detail, the girl's slow, painful, seizure-filled death; and how the once "breathtakingly beautiful girl" is now unrecognizable from the stings.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* There was a bee-based villainess in the second season of ''WhoWantsToBeASuperhero''.
* In the robot rumble episode of ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', Hal constructed a robot that shot a laser-guided stream of bees at the opposing robot's controller.
* There was supposed to be a villain named Kane in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' season 2 that could control insects, with bees being his main "weapon". But he never showed up. This may be because of the Writer's Strike, or perhaps due to SpecialEffectsFailure.
** Or, more likely, given that this is ''Heroes'', they didn't have the budget to show it more than once.
* ''{{Smallville}}'': One of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Krypto-Freaks of the Week]] was a girl who could control bees with her mind, which she used to eliminate her competition for class president.
* ''{{X-Files}}'', "Zero Sum." The conspiracy decides to test the viability of killer bees as a weapon.
** In another episode, titled "X-Cops", Mulder and Scully wind up on the TV show "Cops" in Los Angeles chasing a monster that assumes the form of its victim's worst fear. Though the viewers don't get to see it, one of the cop's fears is a bee-man and the man is nearly stung to death.
** And TheMovie had [[spoiler:the government genetically engineering bees that could deliver TheVirus in their sting]]. X-Files ''really'' loves this trope.
* ''{{Rescue 911}}'': One of the segments detailed a traffic accident that involved a driver stuck in his vehicle, which was turned on its side--and the vehicle was a truck carrying bees. Of course, the bees were released. The fact that it happened at night didn't help; the bees were even more agitated by the headlights and sirens. This resulted in several [[EmergencyServices rescue workers]] being sent to the hospital as well, and that stretch of the roadway had to be shut off for a few days. Ah, a testament to the power of bees.
* A villain in ''PushingDaisies'' killed the VictimOfTheWeek by siccing trained bees on her.
* The episode "Cupid's Quiver" of ''FridayThe13thTheSeries'' had the surprisingly creepy villain kill a girl by trapping her in a car with a sack containing a beehive.
* In ''[[DoctorWho Time and the Rani]]'', the titular MadScientist had spheres full of killer insects in the village she had subjugated.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The song "Lord of the Hornets" by Robert Calvert of Hawkwind is about a crazy guy who breeds the aforementioned insects to attack people.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In ''[[TheWorldOfDarkness Hunter: the Vigil]]'' one of the Endowments that could be afforded to hunters to put them on an equal level with supernatural beings was a Personal Defense Swarm, which was, in essence, a magical hand that shoots bees. The bees are hinted to be made from [[PrometheanTheCreated a Pandoran]], and the user is advised to keep their emotions in check - one guy had found out his partner was sleeping with his wife; when he let the bees out against a bunch of monsters, they slaughtered his partner while the monsters tore the rest of the group to shreds.
* Numerous Tyranid bioweapons in ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' fire the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts alien equivalent]] of bees. Which then chew through the target's insides.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''BlazBlue'''s Arakune is undoubtedly the ultimate summation of this trope. After he curses his opponent with any of his Drive attacks, he can press the same button again to summon, yeah, BEES! But these aren't just any bees. These are bees that repeatedly hit you and keep you juggled in the air. Worse still is the fact that if you block, you remain in blockstun until they go out of range, leaving you in a very vulnerable state as Arakune rushes in to throw you. [[TierInducedScrappy No wonder he's so hated.]]
* The Witch Doctor from Diablo 3 has an insect swarm as one of his main attacks... Locusts, actually, but probably close enough to this trope to count.
* A plasmid in ''{{Bioshock}}'' turns your arm into a living beehive and shoots bees at your enemies.
** And as soon as you compare yourself to a magical hand that shoots bees, [[ZeroPunctuation you're going to f**king lose.]]
* The Pain, a boss from ''MetalGearSolid 3'', is a soldier whose body is also a living beehive. He uses bees and hornets offensively and defensively, as well as conventional weapons.
** This was mocked constantly in [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=289 The Last Days of FOXHOUND]]. "'''I'm covered in BEES!'''"
** The official explanation for his abilities are... interesting at best. He got stung enough that the hornets thought he was a hornet too. Plus he kept a Queen Hornet a pack at his hip. Apparently that's all you need to control hornets with your mind.
*** And apparently all that you need to make hornets turn into a Tommy gun is a persuasive argument.
** The [[ImageBoards lurkmore]] [[TheWikiRule wiki]] has [[http://lurkmore.com/wiki//v/#The_Pain the "Fresh Prince" version]] archived. The rest of the page may scar you for life. In case that wasn't clear, NSFW.
*** Considering how big they are, The Pain appears to control Japanese Giant Hornets; which frankly count as NightmareFuel.
***Add to the fact that this troper has a severe phobia of bees of any type and The Pain became HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
**Another interesting point to make is that the ''player'' can control bees. If you defeat The Pain by stamina-killing him (lowering his stamina meter as opposed to his health meter) you get the Hornet Stripe camo, which lets you control bees if you shoot down a beehive close to you. You can then make the bees ''attack enemy soldiers'' if you get close enough to them.
* ''HalfLife'' had the hive hand weapon, which shot alien bees.
* There's an enemy in ''KingdomOfLoathing'' named "[[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Guy_Made_Of_Bees The Guy Made Of Bees]]". Guess what his gimmick is.
** And guess how effective attacking is ... or how effective ''getting'' attacked is.
*** If you do manage to defeat him, you get a Guy Made Of Bee Pollen.
** There's also a door in the Sorceress's tower that shoots bees at you if you enter the wrong code.
* In ''TheLegendOfZelda: A Link To The Past'', you can catch bees and use them to attack enemies. The special "Golden Bee" returns to you afterwards.
** Normal bees return as well, but will start stinging you unless you catch them again.
*** Normal bees will also only sting the enemies a few times before flittering off the screen. Golden bees stick around forever. Given enough time they will kill entire screenfuls of enemies.
* The ''{{Pokemon}}'' named Vespiquen is a queen bee who uses combees to attack, defend, and heal herself, as well as Beedrill, which is a giant bee with enormous spikes on its legs.
* The ''Custom Robo'' series has a recurring Hornet Gun.
* ''{{Oddworld}}: Stranger's Wrath'' had ''several'' Bee-based weapons.
* In ''MegaManBattleNetwork 6'', some of the enemies were beehives that, when you shot them, shot bees out at you. The battlechip you got from defeating them? It shot bees that home in on enemies. And if you deployed the beehive at just the right moment, when an enemy hit you, he'd stir up the hive and summon more angry bees at himself.
* Speaking of [[FanNickname The Blue Bomber]], ''MegaMan 9'' features a robot master named Hornet Man. Guess what he does.
** And [[{{MegaManning}} his weapon]], the ''Hornet Chaser'', lets MegaMan do it too. The strangely adorable bugs not only attack enemies, but fetch power-ups to return to the "queen" (Mega Man). This is the only way to get some of them. Best not to [[{{Squick}} think too hard]] about why Splash Woman is weak to them. Something about her having lighter armor than the other masters...
* ''Mega Man X3'' has Blast Hornet, who shoots hornets at you as a primary attack. His weapon, the Parasite Bomb, is an AwesomeYetImpractical bomb that latches onto the enemies it hits and rams them into the nearest enemy they can find, blowing both of them up... until you charge it up. Then it shoots homing bees.
* Q-Bee in ''{{Darkstalkers}}'' is a [[CuteMonsterGirl Cute Monster Bee-Girl]] who uses smaller (that is, about football-sized compared to her) bees in many of her attacks.
* Bees are the symbol of ''EveOnline'''s infamous Goonswarm for just this reason.
* ''RatchetAndClank'' has two examples: Nano Swarmers in ''Tools Of Destruction'' and the Bee Mine Glove in ''Size Matters''.
* Both ''Civilization IV'' and the ''Medieval 2 : Total War'' add-on feature the Mayan Hornet Thrower. See below.
* ''HellgateLondon'' has the Hive Blade/Swarm Edge swords and the Wasp/Windhopper/Swarm Hive guns. Of course, this is the same game with Electric Eel Launchers, so it's no surprise there. Also, the spell "Venom Armor" automatically sics bees on anyone that attacks you.
* The aerial shooter ''Snoopy Vs the Red Baron'' has one of these as a weapon for Snoopy to mount on his Sopwith Camel.
* ''Secret Of Evermore'' has the hard to find spell Sting which summons a swarm of bees that attack enemies.
* ''The Incredible Hulk'' had the Enclave (A Secret Society of [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]]) attacking the titular Hulk with a wide variety of weapons. Including The Swarm, which are... swarms. Of presumably bio-engineered bees. They are actually effective against the friggin' ''Hulk'', who've proven capable of shrugging off nuclear weapons. Fortunately, his signature 'hand clap' attack is effective at dispersing the little buggers...
* ''Resident Evil 0'' features as enemies men made out of ''leeches'', who are all controlled by a scientist who was eaten by a leech and whose personality was digested into its genetic memory.
* [[{{Everquest}} Champions: Return To Arms]] had the Iksar Shaman, a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot man-sized sentient magic lizard]] who, for one spell, shot out bees. To balance that out, though, his [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway animal summoning spell was a badger.]] [[BlessedWithSuck Who will die a lot.]] [[RuleOfFunny I named him Kenny.]]
* The monstrous Devouring Earth in ''CityOfHeroes'' have "the Swarm", roughly spherical masses of bees that may be encountered independently or summoned by certain monsters. They're more a nuisance than a threat, except in large numbers; their stings do mild continuing damage and slow down the speed of your movement and attacks.
* The Stranger in Stranger's Wrath gets Stingbees and Super Stingbees (these ones can home in on Outlaws) for his crossbow.
* In the {{ARG}} "I Love Bees", one half of a fractured combat AI is sent back in time, finding its way to a website about bees and honey. Everything about it, up until the conclusion, revolved around...well, you can guess.
* The Hornet's Nest ring from ''[[GaiaOnline zOMG!]]'' has you throw a [[CaptainObvious hornet's nest]] to the ground, releasing a swarm of angry hornets that sting enemies and make them ''run in fear''.
* One of the traps in ''EvilGenius'' releases a swarm of bees that attacks nearby characters.
* The Deathbellows Transgenants of ''[[UFOAfterBlank UFO: Aftermath]]'', which emit clouds of nondescript insects (likely bees, though) as a rapid-fire sustained area-effect weapon, can and WILL be your squad's number 1 cause of death until the Reticulans start bringing in bioengineered rocket launchers.
* ''[[RivierathePromisedLand Riviera]]'' has a one-use weapon called the Hornet Vulcan. It's a killer bee nest that the player has the option of retrieving. When the player uses it, massive damage ensues. Of course, there's always the chance that the bees will go for you rather the opponent...
* In the LetsPlay of ''BaldursGate 2'', sir Anomen is killed when he falls into a gate to the elemental plane of bees. At least, that's what the protagonist insists is what happened...
* In ''TheConduit,'' the Hive Cannon shoots ''exploding'' bees.
* In ''WorldofWarcraft'', druids who choose Balance talents can eventually learn the Insect Swarm ability. Bees are summoned, mayhem ensues.
* ''Mother3'' has the honey spray. Using it covers an opponent in honey, who is then [[{{Combos}} chain-stung]] by a few bees. [[{{Softspoken}} This troper]] isn't sure if this is better or worse than being attacked by a more [[EverythingIsWorseWithBears intuitive animal]].
*''BanjoKazooie'' has beehives that you can break to get a health refill. However, later in the game, the hives actually have bees swarming around them, and will attack you if you break apart their home.
*In {{Dragon Age}}, mages get access to the Stinging Swarm spell, which engulfs enemy targets in a swarm of bees. Mages who specialize in shapeshifting can even transform themselves into a particularly large swarm.
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''GetMedieval'' brings us the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome unforgettable]] [[http://get-medieval.livejournal.com/133974.html Bee siege]].
* One recurring character in the [[DadaComics Dada Comic]] ''[[http://www.witchsbrew.org/ Witch's Brew]]'' is Twenty Bees Man, a sort-of superhero with a beehive for a head and the ability to summon twenty bees to do his bidding.
* House assaulting Foreman with [[http://community.livejournal.com/mspaint_lolz/1128.html bees]] is a RunningGag in MSPaint TV.
* Subverted in a ''{{Dr McNinja}}'' side story: Beeman prepares one of these, but it's not very effective because he loaded it too far in advance and all the bees died.
** Don't know about bees per se, but dead wasps can still sting you if you're not careful.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* On ''TheSimpsons'', in the episode "Burns' Heir", Homer guesses that Mr. Burns's home is guarded by dogs, bees, and dogs with bees in their mouths so that when they bark, they shoot bees at you.
* In ''The Terrible Thunderlizards'', the Thunderlizards used bazookas, grenades, and guns that shot bees.
* The ''ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Risky Beesness" was about a wacko woman who wanted to break into the music business in the worst way -- by hypnotizing bees into doing her bee-dding: getting them to seal away Iron Goose and keep people from leaving the concert. She also used them to attack the Rangers when they attempted to stop her.
* ''InvaderZim'' features bees amongst its other animal references, such as when a single bumblebee took down Zim's Voot Cruiser in "Attack of the Saucer Morons". Jhonen Vasquez has admitted on the DVD commentary that he has a thing for bees.
* ''{{Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends}}'' did an episode where a glowing meteor crashes to Earth and creates a "body" for itself out of a swarm of bees. This entity, calling itself Swarm (see Comic Books above), sadly does not shoot pieces of itself, but instead energy blasts that turn humans into mind-controlled bee-hybrids.
* ''JohnnyTest'' has a recurring villain called the Bee Keeper who uses bees as a weapon and speaks in bee puns. In his first appearance, his ''raison d'etre'' is to eliminate all the sweet foods from the town of Porkbelly with his bees... [[spoiler:so that people will eat his all-natural honey bars. Turns out he was the old guy from the adverts.]]
* {{Sealab 2021}}: "BEEEEEES!"
** Subverted because [[spoiler:it's actually a swarm of Bs. ]]
* ''Justice Friends'' in DextersLaboratory also has a whole episode dedicated to this: ''"Bee Where?"''. Complete with the yell as noted above... ''BEEEEEEE!!!''
* An episode of the animated {{Plastic Man}} show included a bee-themed villainess (with ''honey''-blonde hair) who turned out to be an apiologist. She'd appeared in the beginning of the episode, claiming that bees would take over the world someday. Her response to the Colony Collapse Disorder epidemic in North America in 2006 is unavailable.
* The Disney movie about Tinkerbell features a scene where Tink and the other Fairies play darts with bees. Tink pulls out a slingshot/crossbow to fire hers instead.
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* The Mayans had soldiers specializing in throwing hornet nests at their enemies in battle. They covered themselves in thick mud to protect themselves from the obvious side effect.
* According to William Gurstelle in "The Art of the Catapult," Alexander the Great had his catapults fire hornets' nests onto the decks of enemy galleys during the Siege of Tyre. Which is just ghastly.
* Any twelve-year old who has filled a jar full of bees and thrown it into a crowded area.
* The Battle of Tanga in WW1, where startling idiocy was compounded by a great many killer bees...
* A canceled US Army weapons project involved a chemical weapon that, when dropped on enemy troops, would attract and enrage any bees, wasps, or related insects in the area. This troper is sad the project was never fully realized.
** Bees and wasps emit an attack pheromone that attracts others to the target, usually when the hive is perceived to be threatened.
** The venom of the Asian Giant Hornet is not only one of the most painful in the world, but it also contains an enzyme that marks the unfortunate victim so that other Asian Giant Hornets in the vicinity will home in and attack the target. It also ''[[NightmareFuel dissolves human skin]]''
* One episode of the Discovery show ''[[BillyMays Pitchmen]]'' featured an aspiring inventor trying to sell windshield wipers that could, among other things, remove splattered bugs from a windshield. To demonstrate the product, his friend designed a gun that shot bees at a windshield at a high velocity.
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