History Main / WickedWasps

* ''VideoGame/Pokémon'': Despite its name, Beedrill is actually based on the Giant Asian Hornet, relative to the yellowjacket wasp. And like the insect its based on, it is highly aggressive, especially in a swarm.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pokémon}}'': Despite its name, Beedrill is actually based on the Giant Asian Hornet, relative to the yellowjacket wasp. And like the insect its based on, it is highly aggressive, especially in a swarm.

* ''VideoGame/Pokémon'': Despite its name, Beedrill is actually based on the Giant Asian Hornet, relative to the yellowjacket wasp. And like the insect its based on, it is highly aggressive, especially in a swarm.

* The Schmidt Sting Pain Scale, which measures the intensity of insect stings on a scale of 0 (least painful) to 4+ (most painful), has only three species that officially rank at 4 or higher. Two of them are wasps-- the tarantula hawk, and the warrior wasp, which are beaten only by the bullet ant, which is the only one at 4+. However there are two more species of wasp that haven't been officially rated yet that are reported to be even worse, and they are the Asian giant hornet and the executioner wasp, which is possibly the worst of all. One guy who deliberately stung himself with an executioner wasp reported that not only did it hurt worse than the bullet ant and giant hornet but it also left a permanent scare at the sting site.

* The Schmidt Sting Pain Scale, which measures the intensity of insect stings on a scale of 0 (least painful) to 4+ (most painful), has only three species that officially rank at 4 or higher. Two of them are wasps-- the tarantula hawk, and the warrior wasp, which are beaten only by the bullet ant, which is the only one at 4+. However there are two more species of wasp that haven't been officially rated yet that are reported to be even worse, and they are the Asian giant hornet and the executioner wasp, which is possibly the worst of all.

* Thanks to their agonizing stings (Only a little behind the three wasps at the top of the Schmidt Pain Scale in terms of severity) and their "Cow Killer" nickname, velvet ants have developed a reputation of being terrifying, highly lethal little monsters. Like other solitary wasps however, they're fairly docile and would prefer to run away rather than sting people, and they don't even kill cows either. But if you sufficiently provoke them, you absolutely ''will'' regret it

* The Schmidt Sting Pain Scale, which measures the intensity of insect stings on a scale of 0 (least painful) to 4+ (most painful), has only four species that rank at the highest level. Three of them are wasps-- the Japanese giant hornet, the tarantula hawk wasp, and the executioner wasp.

* ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': The Organization [[TheDragon frontman]] codenamed after Asian Giant Hornets is shown to be a powerful assassin with HyperAwareness and a knack for quickly killing people via anaphylactically shocking stings. It is later revealed he is under the mind control of an ageless paranormal woman themed after Strepsipteras -- bugs that parasite wasps -- and that her cruelty went as far as getting Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuked on purpose [[ForTheEvulz so she could lose WWII spectacularly]].

->''"Here's how it works with wasps. We eat our prey alive, and when we don't, we lay our eggs in their eyeballs so our young can feast on their brains when they hatch!... When you're born that big an asshole, [[PetTheDog the least you can do is have a little empathy]]. Now come have dinner with my beautiful family. [[ItMakesSenseInContext And drop the Hitler stuff]], [[DoubleSubvertedTrope Wasp!Morty has been on some crazy message boards]]."''

* The Buzzbomber enemies from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games are a robotic example. They are robot wasps created by Dr. Eggman who shoot lasers from their thoraxes.

* ''Manga/{{Himenospia}}'': A species of wasps parasitizes female humans by turning them into mutants with venomous VaginaDentata stings and brainwashing them so that they are driven mad and become terrorists once the wasp dies. The protagonist, [[BrokenBird Himeno]], is turned into an ageless Queen-ranked mutant and [[CorruptTheCutie gets increasingly embittered]] as she comes into conflict with both the Japanese goverment who wants to exploit her powers and an [[ShadowDictator American Queen]] who [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne has been murdering would-be-rivals]] for the past century.

When female, which is quite common given that most eusocial wasps function the same way eusocial bees and ants do, they embody the Dark Feminine of the LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine spectrum, especially when compared to gentler bees.

Often found in the HornetHole. See also UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart and AnimalJingoism for when villainous wasps are matched with VirtuousBees or ants, and ScaryStingingSwarm for when the wasps (or bees) go out in force to sting and harass their victims. Compare BeeAfraid for when it's bees who receive the unpleasant insect treatment, and AntAssault.

'''This is not a list of all wasps in fiction. This refers specifically to wasps being portrayed as more monstrous than they are in RealLife and/or ''defined'' by their monstrosity.'''

->''"Hoo! Allow me to share a fact with you! Wasps are sometimes called "meat bees" because... They. Eat. MEAT! MEAT! Of almost any sort! Surely you've seen what a menace they make of themselves at picnics. 'Tis hardly the worst of it, wot wot! Aggressive predators with venomous stingers, wasps not only hunt and eat other insects...they paralyze their prey, then drag their victims home ALIVE, leaving them for their larva to feed upon. [-Suddenly a simple sting seems quite tolerable.-]"''
-->-- '''Blathers''', ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons''[[note]]There are [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee a few species of bees]] that feed on meat as well.[[/note]]

** Soldiers from the Wasp Kingdom are set up as an antagonistic faction to the Ant Kingdom the protagonists hail from. [[spoiler: Subverted, as it turns out the Wasp Kingdom was under some kind of [[BrainwashedandCrazy mind control]] from the king, who isn't even a wasp himself.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{MetroidPrime}}'': The War Wasps are a recurring enemy throughout the trilogy, able to quickly swarm Samus and fire their projectile stingers with zero regard for their own survival.

When female, which is quite common given that most eusocial wasps function the same way bees and ants do, they embody the Dark Feminine of the LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine spectrum, especially when compared to gentler bees.

While bees have long been viewed as a friend to humanity, people have not, historically, had many reasons to like wasps. They don't make honey or (most of them) pollinate flowers, are far more aggressive, and can sting as many times as they like. They're also highly territorial and easily roused, even by mistake, in defense of their nests. People have therefore learned to associate them with [[ScaryStingingSwarm angry swarms]] and impending pain.