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7	[[quoteright:350:[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_5ed_307_killer_bees.png]]]]
8	[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Pun}} Bee-ware]] of the ScaryStingingSwarm [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal soaring straight into the sanguine slaughter with spiny spears and sharpened swords and sturdy shields!]]]]
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10	[[ComicBook/AmazonsAttack Bees. My God.]]
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12	Just as often as they can be seen portrayed [[VirtuousBees positively]], bees can as easily be depicted in negative light. Their intimidating black-and-yellow coloration, painful stings, aggressive and overly territorial nature, tendency to [[ScaryStingingSwarm attack in swarms]], and their sheer determination in pursuing the perceived threats to their hive left a long-lasting impression of a dangerous insect that should not be messed with.
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14	As such, it's not uncommon to see bees depicted as menacing and dangerous. If they are non-sapient, they will be featured as aggressive, vicious animals, often known to attack in swarms en-masse; while sapient bees can range from simple bullies to vile totalitarian {{Control Freak}}s obsessed with bringing everything and everyone under their control. Characters with bee motifs, whether simply using the imagery or actually closely associated with bees, are not always pleasant, either.
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16	Can often be seen in the HornetHole or living in {{Stock Beehive}}s. May be under the HiveMind.
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18	Compare WickedWasps, bees' even meaner cousins, and AntAssault for another troublesome members of ''Hymenoptera'' order. Often overlaps with ScaryStingingSwarm and BeeBeeGun. Contrast VirtuousBees, where bees are depicted as pleasant instead.
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26	* ''Manga/CityHunter'': Kazue's late fiancé was duped into creating bees with such a toxic venom they can kill ten men with one sting, and then [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness he was murdered]]. In order to avenge him, she is trying to create a cure (too bad her first test cure caused impotence and Ryo got stung by a bee).
27	* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': In Chapter 269, the Yorozuya trio is hired to exterminate a gigantic beehive... which ends up being filled with alien half-man, half-bee gangsters. They manage to spare themselves a stinging by agreeing to find a replacement queen after their original died in an accident caused from Kagura kicking the hive, only to provoke the wrath of two other similar hives when Gintoki accidentally knocks them down. It ultimately ends up being subverted when it turns out that three bee colonies are sworn enemies and decide to fight with each other instead of going after the ones who wrecked their hives.
28	* Beedrill have appeared multiple times in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''. The vast majority of those times, they appear in swarms as a threat to hero and villain alike (often after being disturbed in some form).
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32	* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' has the Beekeeper, an older supervillain who attacks folks with deadly bee swarms.
33	* The second Red Bee from ''ComicBook/FreedomFightersDCComics'' underwent a brief FaceHeelTurn after she was mutated into a human-bee hybrid by an alien insect colony, which made her want to colonize the entire earth. She wound up retiring from superheroics after this was reversed.
34	* The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' Creator/DCComics story ''Bee Ball!'' is about the giant bees who are allegedly mutants created by a local bee farmer (however, as one would expect, they turn out to be a ScoobyDooHoax).
35	* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' villain Swarm is a Nazi possessing a colony of mutant bees. The bees in question were apparently also man-eating, since being devoured by them was how they absorbed his mind in the first place.
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39	* In the BatmanColdOpen of "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6197915/1/Danny-Phantom-A-Family-Thing A Family Thing]]" from the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', Danny and Sam take on a giant ghost bee. In addition to proving to be a bit of a challenge, it was also shown to be dangerous to the environment when it sucked an entire flower bed dry of its nutrients.
40	-->'''Sam:''' I'm all about bees being essential to the enviroment and all, but only when they're from, oh you know...OUR OWN PLANE OF EXISTENCE!
41	* ''Fanfic/ARavenUnderTheStarlight'': [[WesternAnimation/StormHawks Cyclonis]] and [[OriginalCharacter Phoenix]] at one point briefly come into conflict with Crystal-Bees, which are bee-shaped crystalline security robots with offensive capabilities, engineered on Terra Gonksia.
42	* ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/whiskersdadeviantkat/art/Luffy-Selects-the-Bees-905670607 Luffy Selects the Bees]]'' is a prime example. [[spoiler: At the end, Luffy is all but confirmed to have died from a large swarm of bees when he gets sacrificed to the Lord of the Bees.]]
43	-->[[spoiler:[[GratuitousSpanish Adios, capitan]].]]
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46	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
47	* In the silent Creator/BusterKeaton film ''Film/SevenChances'' (1925), there is a [[ChaseScene chase scene]] that cuts across a field full of kept beehives.
48	* There was a swarm of bad [[RunningGag B-movies]] about Killer Bees back in the '70s.
49	** ''Film/TheSwarm1978'' (1978), starring Creator/MichaelCaine, has killer bees invading Texas. There are scenes of them dropping helicopters, crashing a train and making a nuclear plant explode.
50	** Several [[MadeForTVMovie made-for-TV movies]]:
51	*** ''Killer Bees'' (1974), in which Creator/GloriaSwanson (yes, [[Film/SunsetBoulevard Norma Desmond]] herself) plays the bees' ruler.
52	*** ''The Savage Bees'' (1976) and its sequel ''Terror Out of the Sky'' (1978)
53	*** ''The Bees'' (1978)
54	** Back in 1967 there was ''Film/TheDeadlyBees'', known mostly today for [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E05TheDeadlyBees being featured]] on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000''.
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58	* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': The vestibule of Hell, which contains people who weren't actively evil but too cowardly or apathetic to stop it, includes being stung by bees and wasps as part of the punishment.
59	* ''Literature/HopOnPop'': The three bees chase after the two doglike creatures, and one of them stings the smaller one.
60	* In ''Literature/OfBloodAndHoney'', Florian Honeywell may use his bee swarm for good, but the Queen Bee who lives inside him has a rather malevolent edge. While they seem to share control of the swarm itself, there are moments she has taken complete control to use the swarm for her own purposes, and is happy to punish Florian for "poor" behavior.
61	* ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': When there is enough heavy weapons fire during an AirJousting battle Akira takes part in, it draws the attention of a NeglectfulPrecursors air control drone that's a MechanicalMonster giant bee whose legs shoot a BeamSpam and whose stinger is a WaveMotionGun. It also serves as a DroneDeployer for smaller drones with mirrors on them for a MirrorsReflectEverything effect of redirecting its smaller lasers.
62	* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Joseph Albright tricks the Sword Roses, Fay Willock, and Stacy Cornwallis into having a three-on-three duel inside a hive of giant "stinger bees" in the labyrinth, and [[SoreLoser summons the bees to attack the others after losing fairly to Oliver]].
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66	* The ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' version of the villainous Bug-Eyed Bandit is entirely bee-themed, with a swarm of dangerous, robotic bees at her disposal.
67	* Beezack from ''Series/BFighterKabuto'' is one of the members of the [[PsychoRangers B-Crushers]]. He is modeled after a bee and a recurring villain.
68	* ''Series/BlackMirror'': "[[Recap/BlackMirrorHatedInTheNation Hated in the Nation]]" plays with this trope. The "bees" are actual replacement [[MechanicalInsects mechanical bees]] due to depopulation -- and they are being reprogrammed so they could drive themselves into people's brains to murder them, often so painfully that their victims kill themselves mid-attack to make it stop.
69	* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' has several MonstersOfTheWeek who are based on bees. Below is a list of recurring characters with this theme.
70	** Downplayed in ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'' with Kamen Rider Thebee. Most users of this suit do act as an antagonist to the titular character, but mostly because of orders from above. Their primary mission is to protect the world from evil shapeshifting aliens. The show also isn't sure on wether this Rider falls under this trope or WickedWasps, as the name of this suit is The'''bee''', while its transformation announcement is 'Change Wasp'.
71	** Aguilera from ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'' has a bee themed monster form. She is also the leader of a cult trying to bring a demon lord back to life. [[spoiler:After her HeelFaceTurn, she goes for the VirtuousBees trope, by gaining a bee themed Rider from]]
72	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E18Zzzzz ZZZZZ]]", the queen of a hive of intelligent bees takes human form in order to mate with an entomologist and create a HalfHumanHybrid race that will TakeOverTheWorld. When the entomologist's wife interferes, the queen sics a swarm on her in order to MurderTheHypotenuse.
73	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' and its adaptation ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' have several bee themed monsters during their long runs. For western fans, the most iconic of these is probably Grumble Bee from ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', who was actually created as a petty insult to [[TheSmartGuy Billy]] after he received a B instead of an A on a school exam.
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77	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' features several bee-based cards, depicting them in dangerous light.
78	** [[https://scryfall.com/card/5ed/307/killer-bees?utm_source=mci Killer Bees]] depicts a special crossbreed of bees that went beyond just stinging people and figured out how to forge metallic weapons.
79	--->''The communal mind produces a savage strategy, yet no one could predict that this vicious crossbreed would unravel the secret of steel.''
80	** [[https://scryfall.com/card/tsp/231/unyaro-bees?utm_source=mci Unyaro Bees]] are especially dangerous and vicious species of bees that spread itself across entire Dominaria once their home jungle was destroyed.
81	--->''With no jungle left to contain it, the [[ScaryStingingSwarm "plague of daggers"]] spread across Dominaria.''
82	* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The Battlewasp archetype is themed after bees, or wasps in the TCG, and can deal a lot of damage, be it from battle or from effects.
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86	* In ''Theatre/OrpheusAPoeticDrama'', Hades is not happy that bees are tearing down the barriers between the mortal realm and the Underworld, and frequently tries to stop them getting in.
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90	* In ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}'', some bee species are so aggressive, they stop working and won't let you collect anything from their hive unless you calm them with fragrant scents using the Smoker. You can also permanently tame them by extracting the [[{{Pun}} salt]] from their bodies with the Degrumpifier.
91	* ''VideoGame/BackToTheFuture1989'' has bees as a constant enemy during the street levels.
92	* ''VideoGame/{{Bug\|1995}}'' has bee enemies in Insectia and Splot named [[PunnyName Bee-52]] in the manual. Being AirborneMooks, they were [[GoddamnedBats incredibly annoying]] to fight -- some of them even appeared out of nowhere to ambush Bug! There's even [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFBwRnf3ZUQ#t=06m02s entire areas filled with them]]!
93	* ''VideoGame/{{Bugdom}}'': Levels 4, 5, 6 and 7 all feature bees in one of three varieties (plus the Queen Bee boss in level 7), all of which are out to get Rollie.
94	* ''VideoGame/BugFables'':
95	** {{Subverted\|trope}} with flesh-and-blood bees, as they are not enemies in the game. However, according to Vi, they did mock and bully her for wishing to be an adventurer instead of an artist or maintenance worker, yet when she returns in the Hive, the queen welcomes her back with open arms and other bees don't seem to mind her being an adventurer, though some, like her elder sister Jaune and her former boss Malbee, had to be convinced to accept her newfound role.
96	** Played straight with Bee-Boops, [[MechanicalInsects robotic bee-like drones]], who went out of control during emergency and would attack anything on sight, and their larger version, Heavy Drone B-33, that aims to destroy anyone it interprets as a threat to the factory core.
97	** Also played straight with [[spoiler:[[ParasiteZombie Zombees]], cordyceps-infused undead bees who were created as experiments of the [[MadScientist Roach Scientists]] in their quest for [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality]].]]
98	* ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}'' has giant mutant bees and wasps. They are a major threat, especially for poorly-equipped characters.
99	* ''VideoGame/ClunkyHero'': One of the enemy types encountered in the game are wasps about as big as [[PlayerCharacter Rufus]].
100	* ''VideoGame/CrayonChronicles'' has [[PunnyName Spelling Bees]], which are bespectacled bees.
101	* ''VideoGame/CrystalsPonyTale'' has giant bees dropping drop honey on you, which are accompanied by Rimski-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee".
102	* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': Queen Bee Rumor Honeybottoms is very dangerous and is not handing over her Soul Contract without a fight... especially when her [[RiseToTheChallenge flooding honey attempts to drown you]].
103	* ''VideoGame/DarkStalkers'': Soul Bees feed on people's souls to survive.
104	* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry''
105	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'' and its sequel have Zingers as enemies, giant bees in multiple varieties that appear all over the place in levels. Many serve as bosses too, and there's that one in the terrifying chase scene in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest''. In fact, their designer, Steve Mayles, is afraid of wasps and translated this fear into the Zingers' design, in [[https://www.mariowiki.com/File:Zinger_DKC2.png a curious blend of cartoonish and horrifying]].
106	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' replaces Zingers with Buzzes and features a level in which the player must outrun a swarm of miniature bees. Completing it within one minute and fifteen seconds unlocks a bonus area.
107	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': Zingers return and come in three versions: one that appears in DK Isles and the earlier levels and only attacks by charging at the Kongs, another that appears in the other levels and drops explosive green oranges, and a mechanical version found in Frantic Factory that is similar to the later Zingers but usually takes two hits to destroy.
108	** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' has the Buzzies, enormous chubby bees with a mean-looking face that chase after Donkey Kong to sting them. To put their size into perspective they are ''as big as DK himself''.
109	* ''VideoGame/DonPachi'': Hibachi, the TrueFinalBoss, is a giant bee that [[BulletHell seems to shoot every bullet ever fired in World War II at you]] while she's [[InfernalRetaliation on fire]]. And Hibachi's theme song in ''Daioujou'' has extremely rapid guitar noises [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvQdhgocOl4 designed to sound like buzzing bees]] as the harmony.
110	* ''VideoGame/DontStarve'':
111	** Normally [[AvertedTrope averted]] with regular bees, which will only attack the player if aggroed (such as by attacking them or their hive). In the ''Reign of Giants'' [[DownloadableContent DLC]], however, during the Spring season, bees will turn aggressive, and attack if the player gets close.
112	** Played straight with [[UndergroundMonkey killer bees]], which will [[ZergRush attack the player in large swarms]] at the slightest provocation, such as by simply being close to their hive, and can [[DeathOfAThousandCuts seriously damage them]] if not careful enough.
113	* ''VideoGame/{{Dungeonmans}}'': Some of the most deadly enemies early on are bees. Some sting you at a distance, some charge you and do heavy melee damage, others are carpenter bees that build up fortifications and restrict movement. The game description even treats them as especially dreaded.
114	-->''Bees are punishment for man's hubris''
115	* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' has the Honeybeast, a mutated bee [[BigCreepyCrawlies the size of a car]] that has beehives on it that can [[BeeBeeGun launch regular-sized bees]] to attack you. Fortunately, due to [[SquareCubeLaw its massive size]], it is [[MightyGlacier also much slower]], and because it's too heavy to fly, it can't sting you either, though it can still bite you in half.
116	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has bees and wasps in certain dungeons that are no more menacing than the average monster, but they may unleash a LastDitchMove called Final Sting, which will do a ''lot'' of damage. The attack will very likely kill anyone that is not a tank and even tank players can be taken out by Final Sting if their HP isn't full. A dungeon in the Heavensward expansion has a massive beehive you have to go through and, naturally, the boss in that area is a giant bee with several lesser bees that aids it in battle.
117	* ''VideoGame/FlynnSonOfCrimson'': Bees serve as enemies in the game. There's small bees that fly toward you, big bees that shoot stingers at you, and beehives that constantly spit out more bees.
118	* ''VideoGame/ForgeQuest'': One of the first enemies that you face in the game is bees about as big as the PlayerCharacter.
119	* ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'': Hymenoptera enemies come in two kinds: regular Bees who simply fly back and forth; and Killer Bees who float stationary as perpetually firing their grenade launchers.
120	* ''Videogame/HarmoKnight'' makes you have a ''boss battle'' with a giant robotic bee. The bee's name is [[spoiler:[[PunnyName Buzzoka]]]], which makes sense since he shoots out [[GoddamnedBats smaller bees]] at you.
121	* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': Bees are common enemies in [[HornetHole the Hive]], willing to protect it to death against anything they perceive as a threat, and they succumbed to the Infection much like everything else in Hallownest. There are three types of bee enemies: Hivelings, small bees who carry out simple tasks; Hive Soldiers, who attack the Knight with their spinning drill-like stingers; and Hive Guardians, [[GiantMook giant bees]] who attack everything by smashing it with their huge bodies. There is also a boss bee named Hive Knight, a bipedal wingless bee who compensates his lack of flight with huge speed and powerful nail-wielding skills.
122	* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', the squeedgers are bee-like aliens that attack you if provoked, but since they have a rudimentary danger system, they're easy to sneak past to harvest their honey from the queen. When female squeedgers mature into queens, they metamorphose into immobile hives to nourish their larvae with the honey they secrete from their deep, tunnel-like pores, and they also protect them with an acid mist.
123	* One of the enemies from the ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'' games are bees. The first type in the first game aren't anything special aside from flying back and fourth and hurting the player when he touches them. The second type in the first game are armed with laser canons. The bees from the second game are much more aggressive and hard to avoid as they actively chase the player to sting them when they are close enough to the bees.
124	* ''VideoGame/JimmyAndThePulsatingMass'': As the first bit of DisguisedHorrorStory, when returning to the Buddy Beehive and find it's suddenly turned into a nightmarish labyrinth of [[spoiler:undead mutated]] bees, to be fought instead of the friendly ones from earlier.
125	* ''VideoGame/KaoTheKangaroo'': In ''Kao The Kangaroo: Round 2'', the first level has bees that will hit the ground where you just stood, and will remain stuck there for a brief moment so you can attack them.
126	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'''s first ever challenge path was "Bees Hate You". In this run, not only are angry bees out to get you, so is ''[[WorldOfPun the letter "b"]]'', which means you can't use any items containing the letter "b" and wearing equipment containing the letter damages you every turn.
127	* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
128	** ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' features Buttonbees, aggressive yellow members of the Buttonfly family who attack Kirby with their stingers.
129	** ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' serves as the debut appearance for Pierces, yellow airborne spear-wielding bee enemies that can be sucked up and swallowed for Spear Copy Ability.
130	** The BigBad of ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', Queen Sectonia, is a regal wasp-like creature [[spoiler:who plots to shroud Popstar in what she believes is "true beauty". However, as shown by the Sectonia Clone in ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', this wasn't always the case.]]
131	** Similarly, [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin Dark Taranza]]]] from ''VideoGame/TeamKirbyClashDeluxe'' has a very similar bee motif like Queen Sectonia. [[spoiler:He's also the one who brainwashed the main Taranza via the Black Mirror and the true instigator of the monster attacks in the Dream Kingdom.]]
132	* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' has giant bees appear throughout various locations such as the Southern Swamp and Snowhead. In the Pirates' Fortress, in particular, Link can shoot down a beehive so that the giant bees emerging from it will scare the Gerudo Pirates out of the room.
133	* ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' (and its sequel) has the Queen Bee, a bee-like AnimalisticAbomination who can spread spores and turn your employees into her mooks.
134	* ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'': The killer bees attack in large groups, fast and has a poisonous sting. A good tactic against them is to fight them in corridors, as being a rougelike, one square can only be occupied by one monster regardless of size.
135	* ''Videogame/{{Oddworld}}: Abe's Oddysee'' has killer bees as a puzzle obstacle. They'll kill you if you stand still, and once they start chasing you the ''only'' way to get rid of them is to pass them off to [[PowerUpMount Elum]] or another Mudokon (who strangely will survive).
136	* ''VideoGame/OffspringFling'' has these as an enemy, first appearing around level 51.
137	* ''VideoGame/{{Phoenotopia}}'' and ''VideoGame/PhoenotopiaAwakening'' have the Bull Bees. In the Sunflower area they are mostly peaceful, but will chase you if they see you kill one. Their overworld encounters in ''Awakening'' are aggro to begin with.
138	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''
139	** Beedrill is a giant poison bee with three large stingers and is more offensive than its traditional counterpart Butterfree, but it [[SubvertedTrope isn't too bad]] due to its status as a CrutchCharacter and being nigh-on useless after the early parts of the game. Then ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire]]'' gave it a [[SuperMode Mega Evolution]], which [[TookALevelInBadass not only makes it look far more menacing, but also buffs its Attack and Speed up to near-legendary levels while giving it the STAB-boosting Adaptability ability]]. [[FromNobodyToNightmare Bee VERY afraid]].
140	** Vespiquen is a queen bee whose exoskeleton is shaped like wax cells to house its pre-evolved form, Combee. It has three [[SecretArt signature moves]]: Heal Order has Vesipquen's underlings heal her, Defend Order has them form a protective shield, and Attack Order sets a swarm of angry bees on Vespiquen's enemies.
141	* ''{{VideoGame/Revita}}'': One area modifier will give a chance of rooms spawning Beyes, a drill like bee that lunges towards the player and tend to get stuck in the walls and floors. Then there's [[spoiler: the secret second area, the Hollow Hives, which has a plethora of bee themed enemies.]]
142	* ''VideoGame/SeriousSamII'' has the end boss of the Magnor levels, Zum-Zum, a giant bee who doubles as MookMaker by sending small swarms of smaller bees towards Sam during the boss fight.
143	* ''VideoGame/SnufkinMelodyOfMoominvalley'': While stepping through flower patches can get you more [[ExperiencePoints Inspiration]], it may also sometimes disturb a swarm of bees who will attack Snufkin. When that happens, you'll have to use the flute to calm them down. Toffle's sidequest also revolves around this, as he's trapped in a tree by some angry bees and needs Snufkin to calm them down.
144	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Sonic frequently faced various [[MechanicalInsects bee-based Badniks]] over the course of his adventures:
145	** Buzz Bombers (called Beetons in original Japanese version) are the recurring {{airborne\|Mook}} Badniks modelled after bees (though some materials refer to them as [[WickedWasps wasps]] instead) who fire lasers at the titular blue hedgehog whenever they spot him.
146	** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogCD'' features the debut of the new type of Badniks, called simply Robot Bees (or Poh Bees in Japanese). In place of stingers, they have either cannons or {{Epic Flail}}s.
147	** ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3DFlickiesIsland Sonic 3D Blast]]'' has Bee, a robotic bee that inhabits [[RuinsForRuinsSake Rusty Ruin Zone]]. He buzzes around set points in erratic motions and can only harm Sonic if the hedgehog bumps directly into him.
148	** The first boss fight of ''VideoGame/SonicForces'' pits Sonic against [[spoiler:illusionary]] Zavok riding on the giant mechanical [[InsectQueen queen bee]], called the Death Queen. It possesses six laser cannons in place of legs, extremely sharp stinger, and jet boosters that allow it to charge at Sonic stinger-open. It can also [[FlunkyBoss call forth]] the Buzz Bombers, either as mooks to fight or as [[ActionBomb kamikaze bombers]].
149	* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'': Killer bees occasionally show up in Jungle biomes when a hive spawns and will try to attack the player via contact. They only have 1 HP but their unpredictable flight pattern makes them harder to hit. Fortunately, they won't poison you. The Queen Bee is bigger and has much more health and drops Royal Jelly that give a huge amount of HP.
150	* ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'' has the titanic, spacefaring Chorister Bees, which attack in huge swarms and produce music with their wings. Notably, the floral town of Titania, being built on top of a gigantic flower, has very serious problems with these creatures which often ravage it.
151	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
152	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand'' has the Bunbun, spear-wielding giant bees that throw their weapons at Mario.
153	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' has the normal-sized Bibi and the bigger Buuichi (both exclusive to [[TreeTrunkTour Tree Zone]]), giant bees that attack with their stingers. Bibi fly around and chase Mario down, while the Buuichi stay in one place and attempt to crush Mario when he approaches it from below. There are also the stronger, skull-headed Skeleton Bees found later in the level.
154	** ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' have Stingbies, large bees with a stinger on their "nose" that appear in some grass-type levels, and attack by simply trying to fly into Mario. They also appear in the battle stage Honeybee Hive in ''VideoGame/MarioKart7''.
155	** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPGLegendOfTheSevenStars'': Buzzers are common enemies found in [[TheLostWoods the Forest Maze]], which attempt to attack Mario and his party by flying stinger-first into them. Stingers are a stronger variant found later in the game, but otherwise behave in the same way.
156	** ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'': Bzzap! are anthropomorphic bee-like enemies found in the Flower Fields and the Forever Forest. They attack by stinging Mario or by summoning swarms of smaller bees to attack him.
157	** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'' has a minigame called Beeline Shrine where the players are attacked by a swarm of bees in a forest. The bees fly around in various patterns, and the players must run and jump around them to avoid getting stung.
158	* ''VideoGame/SuzyCube'': One of the enemy types you encounter are giant cube-shaped bees.
159	* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'': Giant Bees are a possible enemy in the type of the first set of overworld enemy batches.
160	* ''VideoGame/TargetAcquired2016'': One of the MechaMooks [[PlayerCharacter Yura]] faces while chasing [[BigBad Cammy]] includes giant robot bees.
161	* ''VideoGame/TaskMaker'': Zig-zagged. Worker Bees have a Good alignment and nearly no health or attack, while Giant Hornet, Giant Wasp, and Giant Killer Bee are monsters.
162	* The ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series has bees in ''2'', ''3'' and ''4'', which can sting Wario, causing his head to swell up and carry him upwards like a balloon until he makes contact with something solid and deflates.
163	* ''VideoGame/WeirdDreams'': Early on, Steve is ambushed by a giant bee intending to kill him that he must run away from. Later on, to access the second half of the game, Steve must then fend it off with an electric eel.
164	* ''VideoGame/YookaLaylee'': The BigBad is Capital B, a giant CorruptCorporateExecutive bee.
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168	* ''Webcomic/LittleLapses'': In Chapter 4, Cinnabar unknowingly kicks a flaming pinecone into a beehive, causing a swarm of angry [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Combee]] to pursue her and her friends. When they hide in a log, the Combee knock it into a river below.
169	* In ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'', the protagonist Tip Wilkin is deathly afraid of his boss, Gavotte, because he is allergic, and she is a [[TheWormThatWalks swarm of bees]]. She can be quite scary if you're not on her good side, too.
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173	* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'': Spike the Bee (also known as Buzz-Buzz or Barrington) is a frequent tormentor of WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck, first debuting in ''Window Cleaners'' short and then going on to co-star with Donald in no less than seven shorts (and with [[WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup Pluto]] in one short). In these shorts, the two frequently end up in conflict for one reason or another, and most of the time, it results in Spike trying to sting Donald. However, it's subverted in one of the last shorts, called "Let's Stick Together", as Donald and Spike finish the picture as good friends.
174	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
175	** On the show's old website, one of the random lines that Stewie could say when you view the main page:
176	--->'''Stewie:''' How did you find me? Who sent you? You shall pay dearly for this intrusion! Release the Africanized bees!
177	** In "Roads to Vegas", before the second commercial break, [[FatIdiot Peter]] is shown about to attempt to get the honey out of a beehive. Thankfully, we don't see the aftermath.
178	** In "Gronkowsbees", Stewie and Brian start a bee farm and decide to give the bees steroids to boost honey production, making them very strong and very angry.
179	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E12TheSting The Sting]]" revolves around an attempt to get space honey from space bees, which are "as large as a Buick and twice as ugly", and whose sting is deadly at best and capable of inducing fatal BodyHorror in the allergic. The Professor has apparently sent several crews to their death getting their honey. One of the {{Christmas Episode}}s episode has the bees return, though they're distracted by in-fighting. Then Hermes uses the magic of Kwanzaa to unify them again, and things quickly go south. [[Recap/FuturamaS1E1SpacePilot3000 The very first episode]] claimed the last crew were ingested by space wasps (possibly a misnomer for the space bees mentioned above).
180	-->'''Leela:''' What happened to the last crew?\
181	'''Professor:''' Oh those poor sons of b-- but that's not important!
182	* ''WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour'': In "Valley of the Giants", Majors and Quinn were kidnapped by giant, pickup truck-sized bees and imprisoned in a wall of wax.
183	* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' features giant mutant bees as [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Week]] of the episode "Hive". They were mutated and grown to {{Kaiju}} sizes by irradiated lava. They are capable of firing their stingers like projectiles, and their [[InsectQueen queen]] can even quickly regrow lost stingers, which allows her to fire them akin to a machine gun. Said queen also returns in the "Monster Wars" three-parter under control of the aliens, where she was sent to attack Moscow, but was finally killed when the aliens lost their control of monsters.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E18AHealthOfInformation A Health of Information]]" has Fluttershy attempt to obtain honey from Flash Bees to cure Zecora of a deadly disease. The Flash Bees have the ability to [[ShockAndAwe generate lightning]] on top of standard bee stingers, and they do '''NOT''' take kindly to ponies trying to swipe their honey. The bees make another appearance in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E20AHorseShoeIn A Horse Shoe-In]]" when Trixie teleports a patch of swampland into a classroom, which unknown to her includes a Flash Bee hive.
185	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "War of the Bee Battalion", criminals force a scientist who has created a growth ray for honeybees to use the device to attack Metropolis.
186	* ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'': One of the members of the titular rock band of anthropomorphic insects in the short "The Feelers" is a bee named Stinger who plays the bass guitar. While not necessarily evil, he does have a temper, has to be restrained by Mo Skito when his anger at hearing two human musicians sing a romantic duet gives him the urge to sting and at the end of the short is encouraged by Mitzi Moth to get Crusty's attention by stinging him in the butt.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'': In "[[Recap/RugratsS4E2MothersDay Mother's Day]]", Angelica wants Chuckie to pick a flower that a bee is on to complete the macaroni sculpture she plans to give to Charlotte as a Mother's Day present. Rightfully so, Chuckie is afraid to do so out of fear of the bee stinging him. Sure enough, the bee chases Chuckie when he picks the flower.
188	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRobotsInDisguise2015'': Zizza is a Decepticon who transforms into a giant mechanical bee, and she can use her toxins to brainwash humans and Cybertronians alike to make them her slaves.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'':
190	** Wanna-Bee is a bee member of F.L.O.P.P., a group of wannabe criminals whose [[PokeThePoodle "crimes"]] are not as bad as they think (though in the end they [[NotSoHarmlessVillain do prove themselves to be a threat]] by using lost D.O.O.M. technology). Wanna-Bee in particular is very enthusiastic about [[CardCarryingVillain being "super bad"]]. In fact, in several episodes when F.L.O.P.P. is OutOfFocus, he himself goes solo as a supervillain, with his crimes becoming more dangerous than as a F.L.O.P.P. member.
191	** In the episode "To Bee Or Not To Bee", Petropolis gets attacked by killer bees that were created by Keswick and his friends a long time ago when they were [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy loopy from]] [[DrunkOnMilk Amazon's jungle water]]. Led by Wanna-Bee's brother, Rumble Bee, they attack people with [[EnergyWeapon lasers fired from their stingers]] and intend to use a device known as a Sting-Ray to turn all of Petropolis' citizens into "zom-bees".
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195	->''"[[Film/TheWickerMan2006 NOT THE BEEEEES!]]"'' (Well, we had to have a [[ObligatoryJoke stinger]].)
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