History Characters / BugFables

* OlderThanTheyLook: They are both stated by their creators to be around 20 years old to explain how they could travel alone and how Tanjerin owns a house.

* [[IntriguedByHumanity Intrigued by Bug Kind]]: WordOfGod states that she has a particular interest in stage plays and even loves the Bug Rangers for their chivalry. In fact, if one offers the Bug Ranger Plushie to one of her fly traps instead of the required sun or moon stones, she calls it a great offering and only spits it out once Kabbu tries to take it back by force. She also takes great pleasure in eating Fry's Queen's Dinner creation.

* GuideDangIt: There are ''no'' hints pointing to this fight's existing in normal gameplay. It only appears if [[spoiler:your inventory either has a Tangy Berry in the fourth item slot or three Tangy Berries in total]] -- something not likely to happen by mistake.
* MarathonBoss: Not only does it have 99 HP, it's the only enemy in the game to have a defense rating of 4 -- more than even Stratos.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Unlike with wasps, termites ''do'' have kings in real life. Their role in real life termite heirarchies isn't fully understood, aside from the fact that they continuously mate with the queen so she can keep having babies over the course of her incredibly long life.

* AllThereInTheManual: A lot of his backstory is actually only mentioned in the bestiary if you managed to throw in a Spy on him during the second fight against him, including his real name, [[spoiler:Hoaxe; and his species, a Mimic Fly]].

* KarmaHoudini: He runs for it after losing to Team Snakemouth, and is never seen again. Team Celia claims that he'll have a hard time hurting anyone else since his face is known across the kingdom, but it still rubs Team Snakemouth the wrong way.

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: In the Wasp Kingdom prison, Team Snakemouth can meet a lone peaceful Wasp Scout locked up in the prison. Once they dig into his cell and talk to him, he states that [[spoiler:every wasp in the kingdom went insane, and not even his best friend would listen to him. As subtle {{Foreshadowing}}, one of his antennae are broken off, which is [[DisabilityImmunity the reason]] he was ImmuneToMindControl]]]].

* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: In the Wasp Kingdom prison, Team Snakemouth can meet a lone peaceful Wasp Scout locked up in the prison. Once they dig into his cell and talk to him, he states that [[spoiler:every wasp in the kingdom went insane, and not even his best friend would listen to him]].

* FamedInStory: Kabbu mentions how many tales of her strength and journeys were told about how no obstacle would be a match to her when it comes to searching materials, even to the point of MemeticBadass levels when people claim that she once walked right through the boulder.

* AnAxeToGrind: She wields an axe.

* AnAxeToGrind: Wields an axe as his weapon of choice. [[spoiler:As revealed in the "Hoaxe: Origins" comic, the axe originally belonged to General Fuff, who gave up the axe to him after he was brainwashed into becoming General Ultimax.]]
* AxCrazy: He's ''incredibly'' violent and foul-tempered. Double points for [[AnAxeToGrind wielding an axe]], too.

* GodhoodSeeker: He seeks to seize the Everlasting Sapling for himself to become immortal, all-powerful tyrant, ruling Bugaria with an iron fist for all eternity.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Layra can be considered this, along with Chubee.

* BigBeautifulWoman: She's quite cute for such a girthy bug.

* ImmortalitySeeker[=/=]GodhoodSeeker: He seeks to seize the Everlasting Sapling for himself to become immortal, all-powerful tyrant, ruling Bugaria with an iron fist for all eternity.

* ImmortalitySeeker: He seeks to seize the Everlasting Sapling for himself to become immortal, all-powerful tyrant, ruling Bugaria with an iron fist for all eternity.

* LogicalWeakness: When in low-temperature mode, the constructs will be weaker to Kabbu’s horn, because their frozen components are extra sensitive to sudden shocks. Likewise, when they’re overheating, they’re sensitive to the sudden temperature changes caused by Leif’s ice magic. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome They’re still immune to the Frozen status effect while on fire, obviously.]]

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Mantises are common. But the same cannot be said for ''devil's flower mantises''.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Honeybees and bumblebees are common stock insects in fiction. The same can't be said about carpenter bees.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: He's a giant weta, a particularly huge species of cricket which is reflected in his bulkiness compared to other cricket NPC's.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Despite looking almost exactly like a bee, he's actually a type of bee-mimic hawk moth.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: [[spoiler:Flies mimicking wasps are a real thing, believe it or not.]]

* SeldomSeenSpecies: The game's other beefly.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: She looks like a stylized ant, but her species (Velvet Ant) is actually an obscure family of solitary wasps, of which the females are wingless like her.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: They are velvet ants, an obscure species family of wingless wasps.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: It's based on an Amazonian giant centipede, one of the most aggressive, dangerous and venomous centipede species.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: He's a damselfly, which are heavily overshadowed by the similar-looking dragonfly in the public eye.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Much like Riz, they all are damselflies, which are obscured by the more well-known dragonflies.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Acorn weevils are not really common in media.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: To name the few, there are pillbugs, mantidflies, mothflies, and water striders, who rarely get exposure in fiction. Several more notable examples include arrow worms (though, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology unlike in the game]], they [[MisplacedWildlife live in the sea]], not in the desert (or [[MouseWorld sandboxes]], for that matter)), giant water bugs (a.k.a. Belostomatidae, named Belostoss in this game), and mimic spiders.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: They are unicorn mantises; not the most common kind of mantis featured in fiction.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Leafbugs appear very rarely in media.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: It's not every day that you see a peacock spider.

* CreepyChild: If the theory about it being formely human is true, it is most likely some sort of [[UndeadChild heavily mutated human child]] given its morbid curiosity with its prey and that it doesn't try to eat Team Snakemouth and toys with them instead, much like how [[KidsAreCruel a child would toy with a bug out of sheer morbid curiosity]] [[FantasticRacism or purely out of spite for them being invertebrates.]]

* CreepyChild: If the theory about it being formely human is true, it is most likely some sort of [[UndeadChild heavily mutated human child]] given its morbid curiosity with its prey and that it doesn't try to eat Team Snakemouth and toys with them instead.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While she initially comes off as rude and even ungrateful at first, she does soften up to Vi and respects her decision to become an explorer, even if she's a bit biased to the thought of getting her back to working for her.
* MeanBoss: According to Vi, she is quite a hardass towards her workers. Her serious demeanor supports this.
* TheNapoleon: She's only the head taller than Vi, and has an attitude to boot.

* PoorCommunicationKills: [[AllThereInTheManual According to the artbook]], her constant preference to the Bee Kingdom's culture over all over kingdoms' is nothing more than poorly worded homesickness, something which Vi and her friends don't catch onto.

-->"I brought you into the scene… But I'll crush you nonetheless!"

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler:According to [[invoked]]WordOfGod (which was then confirmed in "Hoaxe: Origins" prequel comic), his parents were fleeing from the Dead Landers and abandoned him to save him. The Dead Landers got to them not much longer afterwards and he only survived by chance.]]

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: [[spoiler: According to WordOfGod, his parents were fleeing from the Dead Landers and abandoned him to save him. The Dead Landers got to them not much longer afterwards and he only survived by chance.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Was a victim of this as an infant. WordOfGod states that it was to save him and [[DeathByOriginStory his parents didn't last much longer against the Dead Landers after leaving him.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:His backstory is ''not'' a happy one. He was abandoned by his own parents in the ''[[EldritchLocation Dead Lands]]'' as a ''baby''. When he finally found a place he felt like he belonged in the Wasp Kingdom, no one there cared about him. All of a sudden, his obsession with having absolute control over everyone makes a lot more sense.]]

* ParentalAbandonment: Was a victim of this as an infant.