History Main / TheSwarm

* In {{Bioshock}} series, the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Insect Swarm"]] Plasmid allows you to release a swarm of bees from your hand.

* The page quote comes from Nicholas Cage's character in ''The Wicker Man'', where Edward is subject to the bee mask by the villagers.

* {{Biomeat}} has these BMs that can attack in swarms. They could call each other and gang up on prey.

* Every ''IndianaJones'' film has had a large swarm of disgusting creepy-crawlies to torment Indy, his love interest, and anyone else following him. The first film had [[WhyDidItHaveToBeX snakes]], the second insects and other bugs, the third rats and the fourth giant ants. However, the giant ants in ''Kingdom of the Crystal Skull'' were made of such ConspicuousCG that they weren't anywhere as scary as the critters from the first three.

Sometimes overlaps with HiveMind. If they take a humanoid form, they could be TheWormThatWalks. Tactics typically take the form of the ZergRush. Often found in a HornetHole.

* AlienSwarm gives us [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the swarm]]

* TheXFiles: in one of the most purely terrifying episodes ever aired (...in any series, ever), season one's ''Darkness Falls'' tells the story of a previously-unknown, multi-hundred thousand year old species of web-weaving insects that [[spoiler:cocoon their animal victims before draining them of their vital fluids]]...and which only come out at night, as well, thus adding another primal fear to the situation. By the end, just how frightening were they...? [[spoiler:When the forces of the Shadow Government, operating under the auspices of an environmental hazard unit, arrive and make it clear to a traumatized-by-attack yet slowly recovering Mulder that they will stop at nothing to end the creatures' threat...you realize that you're rooting for the erstwhile fascists]].

* TheXFiles: in one of the most purely terrifying episodes ever aired (...in any series, ever), season one's ''Darkness Falls'' tells the story of a previously-unknown, multi-hundred thousand year old species of web-weaving insects that [[spoiler:cocoon their animal victims before draining them of their vital fluids]]...and which only come out at night, as well, thus adding a primal fear to the situation. By the end, just how frightening were they...? [[spoiler:When the forces of the Shadow Government, operating under the auspices of an environmental hazard unit, arrive and make it clear to a traumatized-by-attack yet slowly recovering Mulder that they will stop at nothing to end the creatures' threat...you realize that you're rooting for the erstwhile fascists]].

* [[TheXFiles]]: in one of the most purely terrifying episodes ever aired (...in any series, ever), season one's ''Darkness Falls'' tells the story of a previously-unknown, multi-hundred thousand year old species of web-weaving insects that [[spoiler:cocoon their animal victims before draining them of their vital fluids]]...and which only come out at night, as well, thus adding a primal fear to the situation. By the end, just how frightening were they...? [[spoiler:When the forces of the Shadow Government, operating under the auspices of an environmental hazard unit, arrive and make it clear to a traumatized-by-attack yet slowly recovering Mulder that they will stop at nothing to end the creatures' threat...you realize that you're rooting for the erstwhile fascists]].

Sometimes overlaps with HiveMind. If they take a humanoid form, they could be TheWormThatWalks. Tactics typically take the form of the ZergRush.

* "Leiningen Versus the Ants", a short story by Carl Stephenson about a Brazilian plantation owner who takes on a mass of army ants. Adapted for an episode of the ''Escape'' radio program, the movie ''The Naked Jungle'', and even an episode of ''MacGyver''.

Sometimes overlaps with HiveMind. If they take a humanoid form, they could be TheWormThatWalks.

-- '''Edward Malus''', TheWickerMan'' (2006)

* The [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Grex from]] the ''SwarmOnTheSomme'' series.