History Main / MosquitoMiscreants

* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7p7AsOzWx4 this commercial]] for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, a mosquito appears, sucking the blood of a gamer, which the announcer [[TakeThat uses as an analogy for being charged up to $10.00 more to play games like]] ''VideoGame/MortalKombat1'' and ''VideoGame/NBAJam'' on the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem than on the Genesis. The mosquito appears looking quite plump, until the gamer swats it with a newspaper that says, '''WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL''', Sega's slogan at the time, in the crossword puzzle section.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "[[Recap/RugratsS4E17AngelicaNoseBestThePirateLight Angelica Nose Best]]", a mosquito bites Angelica's nose when she's asleep. She doesn't get sick, but it does swell up and she thinks it's [[PinocchioNose because she lies]], like [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]].

* ''VideoGame/AliceInWonderland'': The Mushroom Forest is populated with gigantic mosquitoes.

* ''Anime/OnePunchMan'': One of the first villains fought by Genos was a genetically engineered mosquito-woman, who ends up surviving but with major damage.

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* ''VideoGame/BugFables''

* ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'': The first mini-boss Rayman faces is Bzzit, a giant mosquito. After [[DefeatMeansFriendship beating and befriending Bzzit]] he helps Rayman through the Dream Forest to face Moskito, a red-colored mosquito that serves as the first boss in the game.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'': In ''VideoGame/SonicCD'', the Needlenose enemy is a robotic mosquito that plunges down at Sonic if he gets near him. This badnik re-appears in ''VideoGame/SonicTripleTrouble'' and ''VideoGame/KnucklesChaotix''.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Mischief, mayhem]] and [[BreadMilkEggsSquick malaria.]]]]

* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': One of the "jungle hazards" from the board game world of Jumanji is a swarm of [[BigCreepyCrawlies huge mosquitoes]], each with enough strength to pierce a car's visor with its proboscis. The sequel makes mosquitoes a fatal weakness of Seaplane {{McDonough}}.

* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': One of the "jungle hazards" from the board game world of Jumanji is a swarm of [[BigCreepyCrawlies huge mosquitoes]], each with enough strength to pierce a car's visor with its proboscis. The sequel makes mosquitoes a fatal weakness of Seaplane McDonough.

* ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'': One of the "jungle hazards" from the board game world of Jumanji is a swarm of [[BigCreepyCrawlies huge mosquitoes]], each with enough strength to pierce a car's visor with its proboscis.

* ''VideoGame/MisterMosquito'', casts you in the role of a Mosquito who spends the entire game driving the Yamada family crazy with his bloodsucking.

Mosquitoes. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick They ruin your picnics, disrupt your naps, and suck your blood.]] Although they measure less than an inch long at most, they kill more people than any other animal, up to 700,000 a year. They're responsible for the spread of diseases including, but not limited to, malaria, yellow fever, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, dengue fever, filariasis, and the Zika virus, and statistically, they basically caused the most deaths to humans by animals (even more than [[SnakesAreSinister snakes]]). Expect to [[BugBuzz hear]] [[HellIsThatNoise them]] long before you see them and the characters to run away in a hand swatting panic when [[TheSwarm they swarm on them]]; some might be covered in a plethora of bites when it's all over. Even if the situation isn't dire, expect someone to be immensely bothered by the tiny terrors. Typically found in [[SwampsAreEvil nasty swamps]] or [[JungleJapes the rainforest]]. It doesn't matter if they are actually called [[NonMaliciousMonster NonMaliciousMonsters]], as far as their victims, that is everyone, is concerned they are still miscreants.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Mischief, mayhem]] [[BreadMilkEggsSquick and malaria.]]]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'', Mos'quita-ra is a DesertBandit who hunts for sources of energy [[EnergyAbsorption to consume]]. She comes to blow with the Masters of the Universe when she gets the urge to feed on their Power of Grayskull.

Mosquitoes. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick They ruin your picnics, disrupt your naps, and suck your blood.]] Although they measure less than an inch long at most, they kill more people than any other animal, up to 700,000 a year. They're responsible for the spread of diseases including, but not limited to, malaria, yellow fever, Chikungunya, West Nile virus, dengue fever, filariasis, and the Zika virus, and statistically, they basically caused the most deaths to humans by animals (even more than [[SnakesAreSinister snakes]]). Expect to [[BugBuzz hear]] [[HellIsThatNoise them]] long before you see them and the characters to run away in a hand swatting panic when [[TheSwarm they swarm on them]]; some might be covered in a plethora of bites when it's all over. Even if the situation isn't dire, expect someone to be immensely bothered by the tiny terrors. Typically found in [[SwampsAreEvil nasty swamps]] or [[JungleJapes the rainforest]].

* ''Anime/OnePunchMan'': One of the first villains fought by Genos was a mosquito-woman, who ends up surviving but with major damage.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', Pleakley believes that mosquitoes are an endangered species, but changes his mind after getting up close and personal with them in Hawaii.
* One of the villain's henchmen in Creator/FleischerStudios' ''WesternAnimation/MrBugGoesToTown'' is a mosquito named Smack and the miscreant stereotype seems to apply to the insect world, along with the fly named Swat, too, as he doesn't wish to be seen hanging out with them.

* The PC ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' games made by Creator/HiTechExpressions under license of Creator/Capcom feature various nature menaces instead of robots, including giant mosquitoes that are hard to be killed, as many of the enemies of those games.

* The ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Chocolate Chips" has a swarm of mosquitoes as the minions of a German chocolatier. Their function: to administer the chocolatier's mind control juice to his zombie slaves.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'', episode "Skeeter Trouble", Huck's camping trip is thrown into chaos when a mosquito continuously tries to bite his nose. Things get worse later when a whole swarm comes after him.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode, "[[Recap/RugratsS4E17AngelicaNoseBestThePirateLight Angelica Nose Best]]", a mosquito bites Angelica's nose when she's asleep. She doesn't get sick, but it does swell up and she thinks it's [[PinocchioNose because she lies]], like [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqg16z8ehp0 "Self Service"]], a short by Bruno Bozzetto. The little pests make a whole capitalistic dream out of their source. Until it runs dry...

->'''''Game Clue:''' A tiny bite can make you itch/ make you sneeze, make you twitch.''

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* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' gives us a human-mosquito Chimera Ant early in the titular arc, a very AxCrazy LaughingMad one at that, which winds up [[YourHeadASplode being killed]] by Killua.

* Creator/AnnLeckie's ''Literature/TheRavenTower'': {{Inverted|Trope}} with the PhysicalGoddess known as "The Myriad", who prefers to manifest as vast clouds of mosquitoes, but is a CreepyGood friend of the narrator and a faithful patron to her human worshipers. However, it's mentioned that her name is used as a curse in other lands, so she might play the trope straight for those who don't enjoy her patronage.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHuckleberryHoundShow'', episode "Skeeter Trouble", Huck's camping trip is thrown into chaos when a mosquito continuously tries to bite his nose. Things get worse later when a whole swarm comes after him.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one episode (Little Girl in the Big Ten), Bart is bitten by a foreign mosquito that stowed away in a toy he got at the Krusty Burger and becomes very sick. He gets quarantined in a bubble out of fear that the disease is contagious.

* The ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "Of Thee I Sting" features mosquitos as an air force squadron training for a mission.