History Main / WickedWasps

* i ''Anime/FLCLProgressive'': As it turns out, Haruko Haruhara is using AFormYouAreComfortableWith, and her true form is a giant, monstrous wasp. She's also the villain of the series.

* As it turns out in ''Anime/FLCLProgressive'', Haruko Haruhara is using AFormYouAreComfortableWith, and her true form is a giant, monstrous wasp. She's also the villain of the series.

* Played for laughs in a season 2 episode of ''Series/HannahMontana'', where a large wasp enters the family home and startles Jackson, causing him to kill it with his sister's childhood teddy bear. When he explains to his family why the bear was in pieces and brings up the wasp, the father ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice also grabs the wrecked bear to use against the wasp]]''.

** Calistria, in addition to her better known role as the goddess of lust, is also a deity of revenge. Her sacred animal is the Wasp and one of her titles is the Savored Sting.
* Among the [[CrapsackWorld many]], ''[[CosmicHorrorStory many]]'' reasons life in the universe of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' absolutely sucks, we have the charming creature called the Psychneuein. These are nine-foot long psychically-attuned wasps which can turn themselves intangible at a thought, and have a taste for sentient creatures as prey. If you're lucky, they'll just eat you, if not, they'll implant their larva into you, which devours you from within until it [[PopGoesTheHuman tears its way free]]. They are also quite possibly sapient, and are capable of using the local space elf species' ancient PortalNetwork to spread throughout the galaxy, so it's theoretically possible to find them ''anywhere''.

* ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'': Cazadores are giant mutated [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk tarantula hawk spider wasps]], created by gene-splicing experiments in a military research lab. They are incredibly fast and carry a deadly venom, making them one of the most formidable enemies in the game.
* The protagonist in the InteractiveFiction story ''Sting of the Wasp'' is repeatedly likened to one; it's both a pun on the acronym for "white Anglo-Saxon Protestant" (the game takes place at a [[AcceptableTargets country club]]) and to how unpleasant, vicious, and cruel the character is.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E39FutureVision Future Vision]]", Steven asks [[{{Seers}} Garnet]] about ways he could be hurt, one of which is getting attacked by wasps. The corresponding ImagineSpot portrays Steven being repeatedly stung by a pair of giant anthropomorphic wasps, [[GigglingVillain which giggle and smile at his pain]], until [[PopGoesTheHuman Steven swells up and explodes]].

%%* In the ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987'' episode "Revenge of the Fly", April O'Neil is turned into a wasp.%%Where does wickedness come in?
* MonsterOfTheWeek Queen Wasp from ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has this as her motif, being an evil version of heroine [[VirtuousBees Queen Bee]], with the ability to also summon swarms of wasps.
* The ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'' episode "The Climb" has the main trio coming across a swarm of wasps which they treat as TheDreaded. And for good reason too, as one of them ends up stinging J.P.

* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDUrbervilles'': In contrast to how Holmes practices beekeeping as a hobby, the evil Professor Moriarty breeds wasps.

* ''Film/TheWaspWoman'' is a 1960s horror film about, as you may guess, a woman turning into a monstruous wasp hybrid as a result of the experiments of a MadScientist who was fired from his previous job at a honey farm for his experiments with wasps. Remade by Creator/RogerCorman in the 90s for ''Roger Corman Presents''.

* ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'': In contrast to how Holmes practices beekeeping as a hobby, the evil Professor Moriarty breeds wasps.

* A popular internet meme with several variations (like [[https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Y1PpjUPLJq4/VtdSW1yg6NI/AAAAAAAAIW0/A_tfZ7IC9Vc/s1600/BeeWaspMemeRawDevHenderFB2.jpg this]] and [[https://pics.me.me/bees-vs-wasps-makes-honey-does-bugger-all-just-wants-11423134.png this]]) depicts a fake chart claiming to depict the difference between bees and wasps. The descriptions given for wasps include "Does bugger all" and "Just an asshole".

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As a result, wasps have developed strongly negative reputations in popular culture. Non-sapient wasps will be vicious, aggressive animals or roving swarms of droning pain; sapient wasps run the gamut from simple bullies to ferocious raiders and barbarians preying upon their fellow insects -- or, [[BigCreepyCrawlies if large enough]], preying upon people. Wasp-themed characters, whether they simply use wasp imagery or are associated with actual wasps, are rarely pleasant people either.

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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The MonsterOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E7TheUnicornAndTheWasp The Unicorn and the Wasp]]" is a Vespiform: a gigantic, blasphemous wasp driven to commit murder.

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''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'': Grommet Claus, a [[BadSanta murderous Santa Claus]] created, essentially, by one god to kill another, rides a sleigh pulled by enormous coal-black wasps instead of the usual reindeer. He feeds them naughty children.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'': Blast Hornet is a hornet robot who's one of the bosses. He used to be a good guy -- part of the Maverick Hunters, in fact -- but he gets infected by the Maverick Virus, does a FaceHeelTurn and goes on a rampage.
** Likewise for [[VideoGame/MegaMan9 Hornet Man]], a honeycomb-shaped Robot Master with [[BeeBeeGun the power to fire hornet drones]]. He was just a benign flower park manager until he was reprogrammed by Dr. Wily.

* In ''Anime/MayaTheBee'''s two-part GrandFinale, Maya is captured by a nest of hornets, who are the mortal enemies of honeybees in real life, especially in Japan, home of the Asian Giant Hornet, and are plotting to attack her hive.

* In one episode of ''Anime/MayaTheBee'', Maya is captured by a colony of hornets, who are the mortal enemies of honeybees in real life, especially in Japan, home of the Asian Giant Hornet.

* The primary villains of the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 1990s comic]] ''ComicBook/{{Cyberfrog}}'' are an alien species of giant wasps that require human bodies to breed.

* The primary villains of the [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks 1990s comic]] ''Cyberfrog'' are an alien species of giant wasps that require human bodies to breed.

* ''Anime/HoneybeeHutch'': The story is kicked off when a swarm of wasps [[DoomedHometown attacks and destroys Hutch's beehive]], leaving him stranded on his own.

* ''Anime/TheAdventuresOfHutchTheHoneybee'': The story is kicked off when a swarm of wasps [[DoomedHometown attacks and destroys Hutch's beehive]], leaving him stranded on his own.

** Particular type of these wasps, mud daubers, have caused a few hundred deaths by building nests in airplane altimeters and air speed indicators, which have resulted in fatal crashes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars'': Waspinator is one of the evil Predacons, a group made of Transformers based on traditionally "evil" or unpleasant animals such as a {{sc|aryScorpions}}orpion, two {{spiders|AreScary}}, a PteroSoarer and a ''TyrannosaurusRex''. [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain He's the least scary amongst them.]]

* Among the [[CrapsackWorld many]], ''[[CosmicHorrorStory many]]'' reasons life in the universe of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' absolutely sucks, we have the charming creature called the Psychneuein. These are nine-foot long psychically-attuned wasps which can turn themselves intangible at a thought, and have a taste for sentient creatures as prey. If you're lucky, they'll just eat you, if not, they'll implant their larva into you, which devours you from within. They are also quite possibly sapient, and are capable of using the local space elf species' ancient PortalNetwork to spread throughout the galaxy, so it's theoretically possible to find them ''anywhere''.

* Among the [[CrapsackWorld many]], ''[[CosmicHorrorStory many]]'' reasons life in the universe of ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' absolutely sucks, we have the charming creature called the Psychneuein. These are nine-foot long wasps which can turn themselves intangible at a thought and have developed a taste for feeding on humans, having evolved on a world with a natural connection to that universe's Hell (which is also the source for psychic powers, hence their abilites). They are also quite possibly sapient, and are capable of using the local space elf species' ancient PortalNetwork to spread throughout the galaxy, so it's theoretically possible to find them ''anywhere''.