History Main / WickedWasps

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': 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.

* ''[[WebAnimation/RedVsBlue Family Shatters]]'' had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_TUXaxdxlw one episode]] where Shatter Squad [[MundaneMadeAwesome loses it regarding a wasp]] - nevermind they're all in PoweredArmor! Although their attempts to fight the bug reveals it ''is'' a big menace, capable doing a MetronomicManMashing and such.

** The ''Caterpillar'' prequel has the unnamed Fig Wasp, a woman who after murdering her rapists goes on [[RapeLeadsToInsanity psychotic episodes]] trying to stab people as if she's raping them back. After being turned into an assassin by the Organization, she uses a drill on a wire themed after the stings of fig wasps to penetrate her victims.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-772 SCP-772]], a species of parasitic wasps, uses organisms as vessels to store eggs. They have stingers [[BewareMyStingerTail longer than their bodies]] which they use to inject eggs under the skin, are [[BigCreepyCrawlies MUCH larger]] than even the biggest hornet, and will eat away parts of their host's body. Did we mention that they are [[ImmuneToBullets Immune to Bullets]]?

* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'': 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 ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex''. [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain He's the least scary amongst them.]]

* In ''Nekomew's Potty Trouble'' and ''Nekomew's Nightmares'', one of the nightmare monsters is a wasp caretaker who zips around in a blink of an eye, keeping things in check. The latter game elaborates on this; as one of the unlockable memories reveals that she was only tidying up the orphanage's playroom and carefully inspecting the children. Her otherwise frightening appearance is what drove Nekomew to have nightmares of her.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-772 SCP-772]], a species of parasitic wasps, uses organisms as vessels to store eggs. They have stingers [[BewareMyStingerTail longer than their bodies]] which they use to [[CrossesTheLineTwice inject eggs under the skin,]] are [[BigCreepyCrawlies MUCH larger]] than even the biggest hornet, and will eat away parts of their host's body. Did we mention that they are [[ImmuneToBullets Immune to Bullets]]?

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Among the [[CrapsackWorld many]], ''[[CosmicHorrorStory many]]'' reasons life in the fortieth millennium 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''.

* Several species of hoverfly take advantage of this trope by having black and yellowish stripes. They don't sting, but some predators will mistake them for wasps or bees and leave them alone to avoid getting stung.

* ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlue Family Shatters]]'' had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_TUXaxdxlw one episode]] where Shatter Squad [[MundaneMadeAwesome loses it regarding a wasp]] - nevermind they're all in PoweredArmor! Although their attempts to fight the bug reveals it ''is'' a big menace, capable doing a MetronomicManMashing and such.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphecius_speciosus Cicada killer wasps]] largely avert this trope, since they usually take a rather high amount of provocation to sting (with said sting often being described as not much worse than a pinprick), and in fact the males have no stinger at all. They are, however, very large and intimidating, so many people still consider them to be quite scary.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'':
** The [[TheEmpire Wasp Kingdom]] is the main antagonistic faction to the Ant Kingdom the protagonists hail from. They are a dictatorship ruled by a cruel king who wants the immortality of the Everlasting Sapling so he can TakeOverTheWorld, and whenever wasp soldiers are seen, they are up to no good. [[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/ABugsLife'':
** {TheEnemies} The wasp enemies in the game fly around the place. If Flik ends up underneath them or they fly directly above him they will try to sting him by doing a ground pound move onto him by positioning their stingers below them and falling directly onto him. This is their method of stinging.

* The ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheApt'' series by Adrian Tchaikovsky deals with the kinden, fantasy nations of humans patterned on the appearance, behaviour and abilities of various insects. The main antagonist of the series is the fierce and conquering "Empire in Black and Gold", or simply the Wasp Empire, a polity of humans based on wasp behaviour and abilities.

* The ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheApt'' series by Adrian Tchaikovsky deals with the kinden, fantasy nations of humans patterned on the appearance, behaviour and abilities of various insects. The main antagonist of the first book in the series is the fierce and conquering "Empire in Black and Gold", a polity of humans based on wasp behaviour and abilities.

** 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]].

* 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.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has the Bewasp, a bee-analogue that is around twice the size of the Asian Giant Hornet and is fiercely territorial. It also stings like the dickens thanks to serrated barbs and a virulent venom, and a swarm of bewasps can handily drive armed infantry off the field. Even native-born citizens consider them to be unusually aggressive when 'offworld invaders' show up. Amusingly inverted by the ''Wasp'' class [[HumongousMecha BattleMech]], which is not considered to be particularly mean or threatening by post-3050 standards, even among infantry.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet Asian Giant Hornet]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7zWGOGjLxs video from National Geographic here]]), a massive wasp with a needle-sized stinger, is a terrifyingly aggressive large insect with alarm pheromones that call her sisters to the hunt. The thing that makes these killer wasps absolutely feared by humans is that their stings inject a venom that partially digests the victim, which normally renders the innards of insect prey into a protein soup for their larvae to consume, and is potent enough to do severe damage to human flesh (potential side effects include severe bleeding due to destroyed red blood cells, necrosis, and kidney failure), in addition to making their stings excruciatingly agonising. These menaces are so feared by humans that on at least [[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465276/Killer-hornets-nest-destroyed-FLAME-THROWER-Chinas-army.html one occasion in China]], the villagers called for the People's Liberation Army to deploy men with [[KillItWithFire flamethrowers]] to burn out their nest when it was too close to a farming settlement. These hornets are documented to have a legitimate death toll of humans on an annual basis, and against unprepared honeybee hives, a handful of them can slaughter hundreds of bees effortlessly. As of late April 2020, they've been spotted in the USA, resulting in a mad rush by ecologists to destroy their population before their mating season can come around (the official reason is that they're an invasive species in the US whose presence there would cause immense amounts of damage to the local environment, but the general public also tends to attribute it to the species's not-entirely-undeserved reputation as "murder hornets"). A Japan-specific 'cousin' exists, appropriately known as the Giant ''Japanese'' Hornet, and it is every bit as territorial and aggressive.

->''"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, the least you can do is have a little empathy. Now come have dinner with my beautiful family. And drop the Hitler stuff, Wasp!Morty has been on some crazy message boards."''
-->-- '''Wasp!Rick''', ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''

** The {TheEnemies} The wasp enemies in the game fly around the place. If Flik ends up underneath them they will do a ground pound onto him by positiong their stingers below them and falling directly onto him. This is their method of stinging.

* ''VideoGame/ABug'sLife'':

* ''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.