History Main / BeehiveBarrier

* In ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'', Nanao creates a wall-shaped barrier after a smoother version is destroyed. However, this is actually said to make the barrier weaker, with the intention of baiting the enemy into a trap that is never seen because they see right through the ploy.

* OlderThanTheNES: The ''Mazinger'' series already used the trope in TheSeventies:
** The Photonic Research Institute in ''Anime/MazingerZ'' uses a Beehive Barrier to protect the facility when under attack.

* Used by Xellos in one early episode of ''Anime/{{Slayers}} NEXT''. In fact it looked uncannily like an AT field, too.

* In ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueDoom'', [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] creates a huge barrier of this shape to stall a solar flare.

* From the looks of it, the pterosaur aviary in ''Film/JurassicWorld''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}} HD'' has this.
** It was turned into a usable item in ''VideoGame/PlaystationAllStarsBattleRoyale''. It [[SuperArmor prevents interruption]] and can protect against a [[LimitBreak Super Attack]].
* In ''VideoGame/MegaManX 7'' and ''X8'', if you shoot an enemy when it isn't vulnerable, bits of Beehive Barrier appear to let you know. Zero also projects one when using one of his weapons (a [[PaperFanOfDoom fan]]) in the latter.
* Bass.EXE had a geodesic aura protecting him in the first ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' game. (It was spherical in all his later appearances.)

* Used in the semi-unreleased game ''SCARAB'', where your Beehive Barrier has to be rotated or your opponent will simply shoot out one of the hexagons, then shoot '''you''' through the hole.
** Additionally, when one of them has been hit and no longer stops incoming fire, it also turns opaque, allowing people to see how damaged the shield is, and preventing the victim from seeing where the fire is coming from.

** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' the protect spell causes a ring shaped barrier to appear. Portions of it will appear again when you take damage until the spell wears off.

* Several protective spells in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' look like this.

* Appears when guarding in ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'' hexagons are used in several parts of the Nanosuit design. Especially in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcMv_9zs6E Armor mode]].

* In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'', the Monado Shield art briefly creates one around the party when it's used.

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* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'': Aelita uses her power to create a Beehive Barrier (as a curved wall instead of a sphere, though) for the ''Skidbladnir'' in "Replika"

SubTrope of DeflectorShields and HighTechHexagons. For shields made out of [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant actual]] [[BeeBeeGun bees]], see OrbitingParticleShield.

** There's also the Reflect and Dark Shield spells in ''KHII'', which momentarily create a Beehive Barrier around the user. The former follows up with a burst of magic if an enemy attack actually connects with the barrier, making it one of the most dangerous spells in the game once it's been levelled up.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Final Mix+ '', Aqua creates a barrier around someone else (Terra) in the secret movie. It's also her regular guard ability in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage 0.2]]'', emphasising her MagicKnight / SquishyWizard status. By ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' she even has the ability to make [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence arena borders]] using this magic.
** By ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', Barrier abilities are available to Riku, Mickey, Aqua, Kairi and a few of Sora's Formchanges, while Mickey, Aqua and Xion collaborate on a massive Reflect shell large enough to shield the whole party.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' has Brainiac 5's force field.

SubTrope of DeflectorShields and HighTechHexagons. Despite the name, these shields almost never involve [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant actual]] [[BeeBeeGun bees.]]

* One of the characters in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' had a shield entirely too similar to Evangelion's AT fields to be anything but a deliberate homage.

* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', Phantom, one of the three main baddies, uses a beehive barrier to defend from ranged attacks, and once even fires it at his opponent afterwards,

** In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPear'', Ash and the others enter a beehive. One of the walls, a barrier between the heroes and Vespiquen, is made out of Combee, ''literal'' beehive barrier.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In an episode of the anime, Ash and the others enter a beehive. One of the walls, a barrier between the heroes and Vespiquen, is made out of Combee, ''literal'' beehive barrier.

* Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy to an extent. The convergence and interlocking of the Nova Corps in anticipation of air raid prevention.

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Subtrope of DeflectorShields and HighTechHexagons. Despite the name, these shields almost never involve [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant actual]] [[BeeBeeGun bees.]]

* In ''Series/TheGifted,'' Lauren’s power is something she described as ‘pushing things together,’ able to use whatever material is around to make what pretty much amounts to force fields, such as her usual technique of condensing the air around her until it’s as hard as a wall. When she uses it to its maximum, it looks like a dome or wall of translucent hexagons.

** In the ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "The Tholian Web", the Tholians are making a spherical geometric web thing to trap the ''Enterprise''. In this case, the barrier is to keep the ''Enterprise'' in.

* One of the characters in ''LightNovel/TrinityBlood'' had a shield entirely too similar to Evangelion's AT fields to be anything but a deliberate homage.
* Used by Xellos in one early episode of ''Anime/{{Slayers}} NEXT''. In fact it looked uncannily like an AT field, too.

* In ''Franchise/{{Zoids}}'', buildings and certain Zoids were equipped with this.
* In ''Anime/MyHime'', Yukino's element takes the form of several hexagonal mirrors, which are used for defense.

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': While it is a solid barrier rather than a force field, [[TheGoodCaptain Captain Bravo's]] jacket buso renkin, the Silver Skin, is made up of tiny, NighInvulnerable hexagons that become viable when it is struck, and can regenerate extremely quickly if something does manage to break through. Due to these abilities, the Silver Skin is considered the best defensive capabilities of any buso renkin.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch's personal Knightmare frame, the Shinkirou, uses a nearly impenetrable defense field made out of hexagons. The barrier isn't a complete sphere, but the individual pieces can be manipulated in any fashion; however, doing so requires a very quick mind, playing to Lelouch's strengths.
* ''Phantom of M?'' uses a Beehive Barrier in the form of a flat wall, rather than a dome or bubble.
* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'':
** Rarely used, but Vita's DeflectorShields do take this form during her first battle against a newly upgraded Nanoha in ''A's''.
** Precia's energy shield is shown to consist of hexagonal bits when [[spoiler:Arf, in response to Precia [[AbusiveParents abusing Fate one too many times]], flipped out and attacked her]].
* The hedron shields of ''Anime/HeroicAge'' were a multipurpose psionic tool created by the Golden Tribe. In addition to functioning as a shield, it can also create [[SlowLaser Slow Lasers]], repair and even create spaceships out of nothing, and create a region of livable atmosphere and temperature.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In an episode of the anime, Ash and the others enter a beehive. One of the walls, a barrier between the heroes and Vespiquen, is made out of Combee. A LITERAL beehive barrier.
** In a later episode, the move Light Screen is [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/File:Ricky_Elgyem_Light_Screen.png depicted]] as a more usual version of this trope.
* In ''Manga/{{MAR}}'', Phantom, one of the three main baddies, uses a beehive barrier to defend from ranged attacks, and once even fires it at his opponent afterwards,
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** The Devil Gundam can generate one in ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', matching up with the hexagonal pattern of its DG Cells. In the same series, the battle arenas of the Gundam Fight finals are enclosed by a hexagonal-patterned shield, mainly to protect spectators from the Gundams' attacks.
** The Lightwave Barrier in ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed'', as used by the asteroid fortress Artemis.
* ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'': Cure Sunshine's Sunflower Aegis is a Beehive Barrier shaped like a sunflower. Holds up just as well.
* In ''Anime/{{Bleach}}'', Nanao creates a wall-shaped barrier after a smoother version is destroyed. However, this is actually said to make the barrier weaker, with the intention of baiting the enemy into a trap that is never seen because they see right through the ploy.
* The Mental Models of ''Manga/ArpeggioOfBlueSteel'' can generate and [[BarrierWarrior use them as weapons]].

** And in the ''Manga/ShinMazingerZero'' manga, [[{{Fembot}} Minerva X]] used a BeehiveBarrier to protect Kouji Kabuto and Mazinger Z.

** ''VideoGame/Halo3'' has the Bubble Shield. The shield will completely stop bullets, plasma bolts, grenades, rockets and explosions of all sorts. This BeehiveBarrier doesn't offer complete protection, however -- players and vehicles can pass straight through as if it didn't exist.

* Used in the semi-unreleased game ''SCARAB'', where your BeehiveBarrier has to be rotated or your opponent will simply shoot out one of the hexagons, then shoot '''you''' through the hole.

* In ''VideoGame/TooHuman'', named/boss-styled Goblins have a glowing red BeehiveBarrier that needs to be knocked down before Baldur can start eating away at their actual HP.

** The WhiteMage merit spell Shellra V in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' forms very much like a BeehiveBarrier when cast.

* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', whenever an attack is reflected due to game mechanics, a BeehiveBarrier of thousands of tiny tesselated hexagons will briefly flash as the inertia of the blow or the magical energy bounces off it and hits the caster.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', anyone who wields the [[TurtlePower Turtle]] [[TransformationTrinket Miraculous]] can create one of these. So far, the only person who has been seen doing such is [[TotallyRadical Nino Lahiffe]], aka Carapace.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': Agents North and South of ''Project Freelancer'' use the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' barriers, once weaponizing it, and North using Theta to open small windows allowing him to fire through the barrier while under full assault.

** There's also the Reflect and Dark Shield spells in ''KHII'', which momentarily create a Beehive Barrier around the user. The former follows up with a burst of magic if an enemy attack actually connects with the barrier, making it one of the most dangerous spells in the game once it's been levelled up.
** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII Final Mix+ '', Aqua creates a barrier around someone else (Terra) in the secret movie. It's also her regular guard ability in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', emphasising her MagicKnight / SquishyWizard status.

* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'' uses these in the physical and magical barriers.
* They're everywhere in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games whenever you come across the [[InsurmountableWaistHeightFence border of a particular level]].

* In ''VideoGame/CrashFever'' damage reduction effects appear this way, gaining more tiles the more potent they are.

* The Inhibitor bloodline of ''VideoGame/BloodlineChampions'' has a Rune Shield ability which does this. It reduces damage taken, but the real best part of it is if it takes enough damage, it will end, exploding - which means it damages and stun enemies around the shielded target.

* The Leviathans in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' protect themselves with glowing blue barriers composed of interlocking hexagons.
** As does Samus herself with the Hazard Suit upgrade.