Basic Trope: Ants are some of the nicest insects around.
- Straight: In the Insect Kingdom, ants are some of the nicest creatures around.
- Exaggerated: Ants are constantly victimized by literally all other insect species because they're too trusting.
- Downplayed: Alice the Ant is the nicest of the main characters, but no other ants are shown so it's unclear whether this is a character trait or a species trait.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: Hordes of ants hunt down other insects and pillage their colonies just for sport.
- Subverted: Alice the Ant is the nicest of the main characters, but when they visit an ant colony they find out all other ants are jerks.
- Double Subverted: ...but they only act this way because they've been taught not to trust anyone after cockroaches rampaged their lands.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: There are no ants in the work.
- Enforced: The movie gets most of its funding from an ant-advocating NPO.
- Lampshaded: "Does every ant in this kingdom act like a sweet old grandma?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Aaron the Ant is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing, but because everyone thinks that ants are nice, they fall for his underhanded tactics.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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