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* ''ComicBook/{{PS238}}'' has The Flea, who can talk to, [[AnimalEyeSpy see and hear through]], and control insects. He's also extremely good at it. If he weren't FunPersonified he'd probably be absolutely terrifying.
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* MarvelComics. At one point in his superhero career Henry Pym went by the name ComicBook/AntMan and wore a helmet that could control ants.
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* Stratos from ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' has this power, dubbed "Fly". At least, in the same way that Film/{{Inception}} is a {{Cyberpunk}} film.[[note]]They're actually fly-shaped particles, [[AllThereInTheManual but you'd never get that information in the game itself.]][[/note]]
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* Stratos from ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' has this power, dubbed "Fly". At least, in the same way that Film/{{Inception}} "Fly"... For all intents and purposes. The flies his body is a {{Cyberpunk}} film.[[note]]They're made of are actually fly-shaped particles, but other trappings of this trope (such as HorrorHunger and [[DoingInTheWizard what appears to be]] decaying flesh) apply. [[AllThereInTheManual but Of course, you'd never get that information in the game itself.]][[/note]]]]
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* Stratos from ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' has this power, dubbed "Fly". At least, in the same way that [[Film/Inception]] is a {{Cyberpunk}} film.[[note]]They're actually fly-shaped particles, [[AllThereInTheManual but you'd never get that information in the game itself.]][[/note]]
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* Stratos from ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' has this power, dubbed "Fly". At least, in the same way that [[Film/Inception]] Film/{{Inception}} is a {{Cyberpunk}} film.[[note]]They're actually fly-shaped particles, [[AllThereInTheManual but you'd never get that information in the game itself.]][[/note]]
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* Stratos in '''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''' has this power, dubbed "Fly". At least, in the same way that Inception is a {{Cyberpunk}} film.[[note]]They're apparently fly-shaped particles.[[/note]]
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* Stratos in '''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''' from ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt'' has this power, dubbed "Fly". At least, in the same way that Inception [[Film/Inception]] is a {{Cyberpunk}} film.[[note]]They're apparently actually fly-shaped particles.[[/note]]particles, [[AllThereInTheManual but you'd never get that information in the game itself.]][[/note]]
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* Stratos in '''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt''' has this power, dubbed "Fly". Despite the name, the insects he controls are rather generic, and implied to be artificially made.
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* Old DCUniverse covers on ''Website/{{Superdickery}}''.
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/1027_4_054.jpg Jimmy Olson is the King of the Giant Ants!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/superboyv1n127.jpg Lana Lang becomes the Insect Queen!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/216_4_237.jpg Superman and his giant grasshopper friends!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/97_4_0000296.jpg Superman leads giant soldier ants to capture Lois so they can make her their queen!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/1027_4_054.jpg Jimmy Olson is the King of the Giant Ants!]]
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* The {{Batman}} villain Ratcatcher, who trains and controls rats.
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* Friesia from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' has the ability to control swarms of bugs.
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* The Godhand member Conrad from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is capable of using plague carrying rats.
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* Tommyrod from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. For bonus disturbing points, he keeps the eggs of his insects ''inside his stomach'' and hatches them at will, ''vomiting'' them at the enemy. Yes, this includes even the [[BigCreepyCrawlies enormous insectoid chimera abominations many times the size of a human]].
* Tommyrod from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. For bonus disturbing points, he keeps the eggs of his insects ''inside his stomach'' and hatches them at will, ''vomiting'' them at the enemy. Yes, this includes even the [[BigCreepyCrawlies enormous insectoid chimera abominations many times the size of a human]].
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* This is a power that the [[CatPeople ecaflip race]] from ''Videogame/{{Dofus}}'' and especially ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' have. They can [[LifeDrain siphon HP]] from enemies using [[MixAndMatchCritters "fleeces"]]that can be [[BigCreepyCrawlies as big as a hand.]]
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* MarvelComics. At one point in his superhero career Henry Pym went by the name AntMan and wore a helmet that could control ants.
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* Shino and the Aburame clan from ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' allows chakra bugs to live inside their bodies while giving them control over said bugs. They mainly used the bugs to subdue their opponent quickly by sucking their chakra off their body.
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Subtrope of TheBeastmaster and TheMinionMaster. SuperTrope to BeeBeeGun; bees are indeed among the most popular choice of insect, for many good reasons.
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Subtrope of TheBeastmaster and TheMinionMaster. SuperTrope to BeeBeeGun; bees are indeed among the most popular choice of insect, for [[BeeAfraid many good reasons.reasons]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has Patrick Poundstone aka [[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Ratboy Ratboy]] from the episode, "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E9Rats Rats]]", who can control the giant rats that live below Gotham He is a StalkerWithACrush to Dana Tan, Terry's LoveInterest and kidnaps her. When she rebuffs him, he orders his rats [[IfICantHaveYou to kill her]] but batman manages to save her. [[spoiler: Other people were not so lucky.]]
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* ''Videogame/{{MortalKombatX}}'' 's D'vorah is a woman whose body is infested with symbiotic insect minions, mostly maggots. She is unharmed by them, but she can command them to [[DeadlyEuphemism take temporary residence]] [[FinishHim in her defeated opponents]].
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* In the Literature/MarlaMason series, Somerset--a former chief sorcerer of Felport--had the power to control hordes of rats and pigeons. Marla calls this "[[{{Whatevermancy}} vermomancy]]".
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* Abaddon in ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania}}'' is usually a grasshopper looking humanoid who commands swarms of locusts.
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* The BigBad of ''The Spiral Labyrinth'' by Creator/MatthewHughes has an army of insects at its command. Under its control, they can even take down attacking dragons.
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* The Rat King from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' tends to be depicted as having control over rats in some adaptations. In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the first cartoon]], he is initially capable of doing so via a flute ala ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', and in later episodes he can do it psychically. In the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003]] and [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012]] cartoons, he is able to do so mentally from the start.
* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', there is the Piper, an homage to ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', who is capable of controlling pesky ghosts via his music. Subverted however though since he is actually a ghost himself who was scamming people, and the pesky ghosts he was controlling were actually a part of him.
* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', there is the Piper, an homage to ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', who is capable of controlling pesky ghosts via his music. Subverted however though since he is actually a ghost himself who was scamming people, and the pesky ghosts he was controlling were actually a part of him.
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* The Rat King from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' tends to be depicted as having control over rats in some adaptations. In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the first cartoon]], he is initially capable of doing so via a flute ala ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'', and in later episodes he can do it psychically. In the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003]] and [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012]] cartoons, he is able to do so mentally from the start.
* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', there is the Piper, an homage to''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin'', who is capable of controlling pesky ghosts via his music. Subverted however though since he is actually a ghost himself who was scamming people, and the pesky ghosts he was controlling were actually a part of him.
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* The Rat King from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' tends to be depicted as having control over rats in some adaptations. In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the first cartoon]], he is initially capable of doing so via a flute ala ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin''. ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', and in later episodes he can do it psychically. In the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 the 2003]] and [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 cartoon]], 2012]] cartoons, he is able to do so psychically.mentally from the start.
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When you think of AttackAnimal, you'll probably think of something big and/or badass, such as wolves, or tigers, or even dragons. Some people, however, have a kick with using... [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal a certain creepier kind of creature.]]
This trope is a StockSuperpower of pest manipulation (most common with insects, although rodents and arthropods and the like also counts here). The pest in question could be from little tiny life-eating bugs to [[BigCreepyCrawlies more gigantic ones the size of buildings.]] Those who have this ability will often be portrayed as creepy themselves - they may be wicked, but they may just as often be just a decent, if quirky, fellow. Expect TheSwarm and ZergRush to be their standard tactic.
Sometimes the controller doesn't only control insects but is also ''made of them'', in which case this overlaps with TheWormThatWalks. They may also be FriendToBugs (especially for the insects version), but not always.
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* ''Manga/GetBackers'' has an entire race of this, the Kiryuudo race. They even have different "clans", where each clan control different type of bugs (one clan controls spiders, one clan controls butterflies, and so on). They're the Arch Enemy of the Maryuudo race, who controls more traditional beasts.
* Lutecia Alpine from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' could control insects on muliple levels, even summon one as large as Kaiju monsters.
* Shino and the Aburame clan from ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' allows chakra bugs to live inside their bodies while giving them control over said bugs. They mainly used the bugs to subdue their opponent quickly by sucking their chakra off their body.
** Another example is one of the Sound Four, Kidomaru, who can summon and control either a swarm of big spiders, or a GiantSpider.
* The clone of Jean Henri Fabre in the ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' OVA can control bees and other bugs. The giant grasshopper he rides is mechanical, but the smaller bugs seem to be normal, organic insects.
* The Taoist Shiki in ''Manga/BlackCat'' uses multiple insect-related attacks, such as with moths, bees, and he can even ride on a giant dragonfly.
* Friesia from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' has the ability to control swarms of bugs.
* The Godhand member Conrad from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is capable of using plague carrying rats.
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* MarvelComics. At one point in his superhero career Henry Pym went by the name AntMan and wore a helmet that could control ants.
* Old DCUniverse covers on ''Website/{{Superdickery}}''.
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/1027_4_054.jpg Jimmy Olson is the King of the Giant Ants!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/superboyv1n127.jpg Lana Lang becomes the Insect Queen!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/216_4_237.jpg Superman and his giant grasshopper friends!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/97_4_0000296.jpg Superman leads giant soldier ants to capture Lois so they can make her their queen!]]
* Parodied with ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'': she has the uncanny ability to control squirrels. It is actually rather [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower powerful]] since she has defeated many super powered beings with it, most notably Doctor Doom.
* ''ComicBook/TheMovement'': Jayden Revell aka the Mouse showed a closeness with rodents even as a baby, his parents were once horrified to find him sleeping soundly in his crib with rats. As he grew older, his learned to talk and control rats and mice.
* The {{Batman}} villain Ratcatcher, who trains and controls rats.
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* Giselle from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has a singing voice that can summon animals to aid her in housework chores ala Snow White. In the beautiful animated land of Andalasia, these animals are the sweet forest animals. In the real world of New York, these animals are [[DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce cockroaches, pigeons, flies and rats]].
* In ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'', Creator/JenniferConnelly has the power to control insects, and uses corpse flies to assist in a murder investigation.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the BigBad--Oogie Boogie--is [[ExaggeratedTrope an insect that controls other insects]]. His origin story reveals that he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of a forgotten holiday devoted to insects, meaning he's the ''[[ExaggeratedTrope embodiment]]'' of this trope.
* ''BruceAlmighty'' has the eponymous character use his newly acquired [[JerkassGods "God-hood"]] to [[LaserGuidedKarma get revenge]] on a group of gang members who jumped him earlier in the film. When they refuse to apologize, he [[spoiler: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor makes a monkey come out of the lead gang member's butt]]]] and spews a swarm of flies from his mouth, sending the others [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCf_t9aRgXc running away in panic.]]
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* In Creator/PCHodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', a dozen or so of the students at Tentir, the military college, can "bind" animals. One (Gari) can control insects, another can control small rodents (mice and rats).
* The ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'' is renowned for his MagicMusic to enthrall rats. So much so that many similar characters found in other works are usually homages to him.
* Willard, in the original ''Literature/RatmansNotebooks'' novel, the 1971 film entitled with his [[CharacterTitle name]], and the 2003 film remake, has a deep affinity for rats that he is able to command them to do his bidding. However, it is not total control as the rats tend to outright turn on him when they have a falling out with him.
* In Thomas Disch's ''The Roaches'' the main character discovered that she possessed the ability to telepathically communicate with and command cockroaches. Let's just say that it turned out to be not so good of a thing in the end...
* In one Homer Price story the town hires a pied piper type who uses a mechanical contraption to play the music in order to lead mice out of town. Homer and his friends decide to follow along and see what happens, but since Homer is GenreSavvy he has all the kids stuff cotton in their ears so they won't hear the music. Despite this, when the adults see the piper with a gaggle of kids following behind they fear the worst.
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* Luna, the first BigBad of the Chinese Pretty Cure ''Series/BalalaTheFairies'', has the power to use insects, which come in handy in many tough problems.
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* Beezelbub is literally "Lord of the Flies" and is attributed the power to both summon and dismiss pestilence and disease.
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* ''Franchise/{{BIONICLE}}''. There is a Kraata with the Insect Control ability. By extension, Makuta have this power as well.
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* In the both the [[OldWorldOfDarkness Old]] and NewWorldOfDarkness game lines, many of the splats have powers that can allow them to control vermin. Vampires have the Animalism Discipline, werewolves and other shifters have Gifts, mages can use the Life Sphere, etc. Some of the splats even have a more intimate relationship with vermin, like the Nosferatu and Baali vampires, Ratkin wererats, Black Spiral Dancers werewolves, Fomors and Nephandi mages.
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* Abaddon in ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania}}'' is usually a grasshopper looking humanoid who commands swarms of locusts.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars'' has the Scrin, where the commanders can control some bug-like creatures such as Buzzers and Disintegrators.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has the Antogonizer, a woman with a comic supervillain-themed costume and personality who can controls giant ants to "terrorize" the nearby town (although it's actually more of a series of show fights against her nemesis The Mechanic).
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', after killing the antlion queen, a vortigant extracts a gland which lets you control her spawn. You then invade Nova Prospekt backed up by a HordeOfAlienLocusts.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', this is explicitly Wriggle Nightbug's ability. Somewhat justified, since Wriggle is a firefly youkai, and thus an insect herself.
* The Tento Clan in ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'' are a {{Ninja}} clan summon [[BigCreepyCrawlies gigantic insects]] for boss fights. Their preferred method of assassination is using tiny luck locusts to steal someone's luck which results in them being killed in an unfortunate accident.
* Crypt Lords like Anub'Arak in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' are giant bugs who can summon carrion beetles from corpses and a swarm of angry locusts to attack their enemies.
* ''MajorasMask'' has Odalwa, the boss of the Woodfall Temple. Among his many abilities, he can summon [[ZergRush swarms of]] [[GoddamnBats moths]] and beetles to attack Link.
* One of the more iconic abilities that Corvo from the game ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'' can use is the ability to summon a swarm of rats to attack enemies.
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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is WebSerialNovel centred around Taylor, a teenager who can psychically command invertebrates, such as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. She has lots of fine control over them, to the point where she can summon them unconsciously to aid her when under stress. Uses for the power include making a costume out of spider silk [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes and threatening people with brown recluse spiders]]]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Insect Inside". The villain Roach Coach can control an army of cockroaches. Played with since Roach Coach is revealed [[spoiler: to be a roach himself, controlling a [[MobileSuitHuman robotic suit made to look like a man]] ([[SpoilerTitle the episode title is a bit of a give-away]]). His ability to control roaches has less to do with being a superpower, and more to do with being a charismatic leader.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' has the Sheng Gong Wu, the Tongue of Saping, which allows the user to talk to insects and somewhat control them. Sometimes, it can work too well...
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': The fake monster in "[[Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS1E13WhenTheCicadaCalls When The Cicada Calls]]" is able to control cicadas and is covered in a swarm as their disguise.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' "Side Effects": While redeveloping a dilapidated residential area, the workers run afoul of Clancy, homeless man who can control bugs who taken up residence in one of the buildings to be demolished. When the building is destroyed in a fight with Ben, he vows revenge. He then tries to causie a nuclear meltdown, planning to survive the blast with an armor made of cockroaches.[[spoiler: He is eventually defeated after being frozen by heatblast (who was turned AnIcePerson due to a cold) and his control over insects was disrupted by Max's homemade medicine. He later shows up as part of the Negative 10, somehow becoming an insect-human hybrid.]]
* The Rat King from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' tends to be depicted as having control over rats in some adaptations. In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the first cartoon]], he is capable of doing so via a flute ala ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin''. In [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 cartoon]], he is able to do so psychically.
* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', there is the Piper, an homage to ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', who is capable of controlling pesky ghosts via his music. Subverted however though since he is actually a ghost himself who was scamming people, and the pesky ghosts he was controlling were actually a part of him.
* Confectioner Heinrich von Sugarbottom uses mind control juice injected via intelligent mosquitos to compel the local wildlife, including the visiting ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'', to transplant cacao trees closer to his Incan temple ''cum'' SecretBase in the CDRR episode "Chocolate Chips."
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has Patrick Poundstone aka [[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Ratboy Ratboy]] from the episode, "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E9Rats Rats]]", who can control the giant rats that live below Gotham He is a StalkerWithACrush to Dana Tan, Terry's LoveInterest and kidnaps her. When she rebuffs him, he orders his rats [[IfICantHaveYou to kill her]] but batman manages to save her. [[spoiler: Other people were not so lucky.]]
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This trope is a StockSuperpower of pest manipulation (most common with insects, although rodents and arthropods and the like also counts here). The pest in question could be from little tiny life-eating bugs to [[BigCreepyCrawlies more gigantic ones the size of buildings.]] Those who have this ability will often be portrayed as creepy themselves - they may be wicked, but they may just as often be just a decent, if quirky, fellow. Expect TheSwarm and ZergRush to be their standard tactic.
Sometimes the controller doesn't only control insects but is also ''made of them'', in which case this overlaps with TheWormThatWalks. They may also be FriendToBugs (especially for the insects version), but not always.
Subtrope of TheBeastmaster and TheMinionMaster. SuperTrope to BeeBeeGun; bees are indeed among the most popular choice of insect, for many good reasons.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/GetBackers'' has an entire race of this, the Kiryuudo race. They even have different "clans", where each clan control different type of bugs (one clan controls spiders, one clan controls butterflies, and so on). They're the Arch Enemy of the Maryuudo race, who controls more traditional beasts.
* Lutecia Alpine from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'' could control insects on muliple levels, even summon one as large as Kaiju monsters.
* Shino and the Aburame clan from ''{{Manga/Naruto}}'' allows chakra bugs to live inside their bodies while giving them control over said bugs. They mainly used the bugs to subdue their opponent quickly by sucking their chakra off their body.
** Another example is one of the Sound Four, Kidomaru, who can summon and control either a swarm of big spiders, or a GiantSpider.
* The clone of Jean Henri Fabre in the ''Anime/ReadOrDie'' OVA can control bees and other bugs. The giant grasshopper he rides is mechanical, but the smaller bugs seem to be normal, organic insects.
* The Taoist Shiki in ''Manga/BlackCat'' uses multiple insect-related attacks, such as with moths, bees, and he can even ride on a giant dragonfly.
* Friesia from ''Manga/NanatsuNoTaizai'' has the ability to control swarms of bugs.
* The Godhand member Conrad from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' is capable of using plague carrying rats.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* MarvelComics. At one point in his superhero career Henry Pym went by the name AntMan and wore a helmet that could control ants.
* Old DCUniverse covers on ''Website/{{Superdickery}}''.
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/1027_4_054.jpg Jimmy Olson is the King of the Giant Ants!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/other/superboyv1n127.jpg Lana Lang becomes the Insect Queen!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/216_4_237.jpg Superman and his giant grasshopper friends!]]
** [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/dick/97_4_0000296.jpg Superman leads giant soldier ants to capture Lois so they can make her their queen!]]
* Parodied with ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'': she has the uncanny ability to control squirrels. It is actually rather [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower powerful]] since she has defeated many super powered beings with it, most notably Doctor Doom.
* ''ComicBook/TheMovement'': Jayden Revell aka the Mouse showed a closeness with rodents even as a baby, his parents were once horrified to find him sleeping soundly in his crib with rats. As he grew older, his learned to talk and control rats and mice.
* The {{Batman}} villain Ratcatcher, who trains and controls rats.
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[[folder:Film]]
* Giselle from ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'' has a singing voice that can summon animals to aid her in housework chores ala Snow White. In the beautiful animated land of Andalasia, these animals are the sweet forest animals. In the real world of New York, these animals are [[DisneyCreaturesOfTheFarce cockroaches, pigeons, flies and rats]].
* In ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'', Creator/JenniferConnelly has the power to control insects, and uses corpse flies to assist in a murder investigation.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'', the BigBad--Oogie Boogie--is [[ExaggeratedTrope an insect that controls other insects]]. His origin story reveals that he's the AnthropomorphicPersonification of a forgotten holiday devoted to insects, meaning he's the ''[[ExaggeratedTrope embodiment]]'' of this trope.
* ''BruceAlmighty'' has the eponymous character use his newly acquired [[JerkassGods "God-hood"]] to [[LaserGuidedKarma get revenge]] on a group of gang members who jumped him earlier in the film. When they refuse to apologize, he [[spoiler: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor makes a monkey come out of the lead gang member's butt]]]] and spews a swarm of flies from his mouth, sending the others [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCf_t9aRgXc running away in panic.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Creator/PCHodgell's ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', a dozen or so of the students at Tentir, the military college, can "bind" animals. One (Gari) can control insects, another can control small rodents (mice and rats).
* The ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'' is renowned for his MagicMusic to enthrall rats. So much so that many similar characters found in other works are usually homages to him.
* Willard, in the original ''Literature/RatmansNotebooks'' novel, the 1971 film entitled with his [[CharacterTitle name]], and the 2003 film remake, has a deep affinity for rats that he is able to command them to do his bidding. However, it is not total control as the rats tend to outright turn on him when they have a falling out with him.
* In Thomas Disch's ''The Roaches'' the main character discovered that she possessed the ability to telepathically communicate with and command cockroaches. Let's just say that it turned out to be not so good of a thing in the end...
* In one Homer Price story the town hires a pied piper type who uses a mechanical contraption to play the music in order to lead mice out of town. Homer and his friends decide to follow along and see what happens, but since Homer is GenreSavvy he has all the kids stuff cotton in their ears so they won't hear the music. Despite this, when the adults see the piper with a gaggle of kids following behind they fear the worst.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* Luna, the first BigBad of the Chinese Pretty Cure ''Series/BalalaTheFairies'', has the power to use insects, which come in handy in many tough problems.
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[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]
* Beezelbub is literally "Lord of the Flies" and is attributed the power to both summon and dismiss pestilence and disease.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* ''Franchise/{{BIONICLE}}''. There is a Kraata with the Insect Control ability. By extension, Makuta have this power as well.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* In the both the [[OldWorldOfDarkness Old]] and NewWorldOfDarkness game lines, many of the splats have powers that can allow them to control vermin. Vampires have the Animalism Discipline, werewolves and other shifters have Gifts, mages can use the Life Sphere, etc. Some of the splats even have a more intimate relationship with vermin, like the Nosferatu and Baali vampires, Ratkin wererats, Black Spiral Dancers werewolves, Fomors and Nephandi mages.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* Abaddon in ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania}}'' is usually a grasshopper looking humanoid who commands swarms of locusts.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer3TiberiumWars'' has the Scrin, where the commanders can control some bug-like creatures such as Buzzers and Disintegrators.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' has the Antogonizer, a woman with a comic supervillain-themed costume and personality who can controls giant ants to "terrorize" the nearby town (although it's actually more of a series of show fights against her nemesis The Mechanic).
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', after killing the antlion queen, a vortigant extracts a gland which lets you control her spawn. You then invade Nova Prospekt backed up by a HordeOfAlienLocusts.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'', this is explicitly Wriggle Nightbug's ability. Somewhat justified, since Wriggle is a firefly youkai, and thus an insect herself.
* The Tento Clan in ''VideoGame/RaidouKuzunohaVsKingAbaddon'' are a {{Ninja}} clan summon [[BigCreepyCrawlies gigantic insects]] for boss fights. Their preferred method of assassination is using tiny luck locusts to steal someone's luck which results in them being killed in an unfortunate accident.
* Crypt Lords like Anub'Arak in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' are giant bugs who can summon carrion beetles from corpses and a swarm of angry locusts to attack their enemies.
* ''MajorasMask'' has Odalwa, the boss of the Woodfall Temple. Among his many abilities, he can summon [[ZergRush swarms of]] [[GoddamnBats moths]] and beetles to attack Link.
* One of the more iconic abilities that Corvo from the game ''Videogame/{{Dishonored}}'' can use is the ability to summon a swarm of rats to attack enemies.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' is WebSerialNovel centred around Taylor, a teenager who can psychically command invertebrates, such as insects, arachnids, and crustaceans. She has lots of fine control over them, to the point where she can summon them unconsciously to aid her when under stress. Uses for the power include making a costume out of spider silk [[spoiler:[[BewareTheNiceOnes and threatening people with brown recluse spiders]]]].
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Insect Inside". The villain Roach Coach can control an army of cockroaches. Played with since Roach Coach is revealed [[spoiler: to be a roach himself, controlling a [[MobileSuitHuman robotic suit made to look like a man]] ([[SpoilerTitle the episode title is a bit of a give-away]]). His ability to control roaches has less to do with being a superpower, and more to do with being a charismatic leader.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' has the Sheng Gong Wu, the Tongue of Saping, which allows the user to talk to insects and somewhat control them. Sometimes, it can work too well...
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': The fake monster in "[[Recap/ScoobyDooMysteryIncS1E13WhenTheCicadaCalls When The Cicada Calls]]" is able to control cicadas and is covered in a swarm as their disguise.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' "Side Effects": While redeveloping a dilapidated residential area, the workers run afoul of Clancy, homeless man who can control bugs who taken up residence in one of the buildings to be demolished. When the building is destroyed in a fight with Ben, he vows revenge. He then tries to causie a nuclear meltdown, planning to survive the blast with an armor made of cockroaches.[[spoiler: He is eventually defeated after being frozen by heatblast (who was turned AnIcePerson due to a cold) and his control over insects was disrupted by Max's homemade medicine. He later shows up as part of the Negative 10, somehow becoming an insect-human hybrid.]]
* The Rat King from ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' tends to be depicted as having control over rats in some adaptations. In [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 the first cartoon]], he is capable of doing so via a flute ala ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin''. In [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 the 2012 cartoon]], he is able to do so psychically.
* From an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'', there is the Piper, an homage to ''Literature/ThePiedPiperofHamelin'', who is capable of controlling pesky ghosts via his music. Subverted however though since he is actually a ghost himself who was scamming people, and the pesky ghosts he was controlling were actually a part of him.
* Confectioner Heinrich von Sugarbottom uses mind control juice injected via intelligent mosquitos to compel the local wildlife, including the visiting ''WesternAnimation/ChipAndDaleRescueRangers'', to transplant cacao trees closer to his Incan temple ''cum'' SecretBase in the CDRR episode "Chocolate Chips."
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has Patrick Poundstone aka [[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/Ratboy Ratboy]] from the episode, "[[Recap/BatmanBeyondS2E9Rats Rats]]", who can control the giant rats that live below Gotham He is a StalkerWithACrush to Dana Tan, Terry's LoveInterest and kidnaps her. When she rebuffs him, he orders his rats [[IfICantHaveYou to kill her]] but batman manages to save her. [[spoiler: Other people were not so lucky.]]
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