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Ant War
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War between social insects, usually ants against other ants. Though it takes place on a much smaller scale than human warfare, the insects will be regimented like human soldiers and use tactics familiar to humans. This familiar association makes political allegory all but inevitable. Expect lots of Zerg Rush, as in real life. Not to be confused with Bug War, where regular-sized humans are at war with Big Creepy-Crawlies. This trope is Truth in Television, making ants one of a handful of species, among such examples as chimpanzees and humans, to engage in organised warfare and even pre-meditated genocide. |
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War Swarms, the sequel to Swarm Simulator is all about this and it involves combat between swarms of Horde of Alien Locusts. | |
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In A Bug's Life, a swarm of marching locusts (who were merely called 'grasshoppers') constantly terrorize a colony of ants, stealing their food. The ants eventually rise up against their oppressors, resulting in this trope. | |
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In The Once and Future King, one of the animal transformations Merlyn performs on Wart is to turn him into an ant, and he finds himself in the middle of an ant war. | |
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In the Merrie Melodies cartoon "The Fighting 69½th", red ants and black ants go to war over picnic food. "Ant Pasted" had ants going to war against Elmer Fudd for trolling them with his fireworks. |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Sandkings", the titular Martian antlike lifeforms quickly evolve into two distinct groups, white sandkings and red sandkings, and position their colonies at opposite ends of the glass enclosure in which Dr. Simon Kress has placed them. The two colonies soon go to war with each other. The conflict is exacerbated by Kress denying them food as part of his experiment. | |
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The Army Ants comic has been converted into an RPG, basically G.I. Joe on a microscopic scale. The ants operate tanks and aircraft and carry guns, but the players are expected to basically use their own backyard as the world setting. A sandbox becomes a desert, a lawn becomes a jungle, and so on. It is possible to play an ant commando escorting workers to steal the Cheetos your players are eating. | |
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Professor Mmaa's Lecture makes references to frequent termite-ant wars. In the end, the war indeed erupts. | |
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The Berenstain Bears: Subverted in the Big Chapter Book And the Great Ant Attack, and it's not a good thing — ant colonies would normally fight when they encounter one another, but when three colonies of the super-ants team up instead, they become an even bigger problem. | |
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Chrysalis (RinoZ): As soon as the Formica Sapiens colony hears that there is a species of giant termites in the Dungeon, they all feel a deep need to exterminate. This quickly becomes all-out war between ants and termites, with tens or hundreds of thousands on each side, mixed with fortifications, traps, ambushes, ground-shaking charges, and due to their high spawning rates, endless reinforcements. | |
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Somewhat in Fallout 3, with a belligerent colony of ants half the size of motorcycles and a friendly note in gameplay terms, they don't attack unless provoked colony of ants the size of small dogs. You can help the underdogs win by killing the bus-sized enemy queen and injecting stimulants into the smaller ant's eggs (which helps somehow). | |
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Buck Bumble is about a war between technologically advanced bees against a collection of mutated insects organised under a Queen over control of a rural English garden. | |
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Empires of the Undergrowth is this trope distilled, with a good bit of Edutainment along the way, though it uses a fictional ant species, the Formica Ereptor, as a handwave to how different species coexist in the same colony. | |
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Team America: World Police. In the lyrics to "You Are Worthress, Arec Barrwin," which plays over the closing credits: | |
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Done in Animorphs when the Team first morph ants and have to pass through a different colony. This, and the general Hive Mind of ants, was so horrifying that they swore to never morph ants again. Their next attempt (termites), was only allowed because they promised the termite they would morph would be from the same colony that was in the mission area. They did social insects only one more time after that (bees), which were from the same hive as the one in the mission area. After the ant-morphing order, Marco comes across the page quote in a book, and concludes that it wouldn't even take a full week before nuclear war. Invoked another time. Rachel, as a grizzly bear, is injured and passes out near a colony. Said ants were eating her alive and unable to wake her, Jake lured a different colony to her hoping the war would buy enough time for her to wake. |
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Bee Fense is a tower-defense/RTS game about a war between the protagonist bees against the Hornet Queen and her swarm, as well as assorted other bugs such rhino beetles, fleas, and zombees. | |
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Bug Fables involves the Ant Kingdom being in conflict-turned-war with Wasp Kingdom over the Everlasting Sapling, an artifact which is said to grant immortality to whoever manages to eat just one of its leaves. The backstory also mentions that the Wasp Kingdom and the Bee Kingdom also had wars in the past, and the Ant Kingdom and the Termite Kingdom had always had a rocky relationship. | |
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Seen in Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants. A group of black ants is carrying a box of sugar cubes come across a squad of villainous red ants who promptly launch pursuit. This escalates into a war once the black ants reach their ant hill and they're helpless before the larger numbers and militaristic power of the red ants. They have a number of fireworks to turn the tides with, but only a single match, so the ladybug protagonist is sent into a search for a box of matches for its friends to use. | |
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Beware of Chicken: Vajra the queen bee, upon seeing mosquitoes sucking blood from the humans and spirit beasts on the farm, is enraged, and declares war upon the "black lances," taking their heads as trophies and making portraits to commemorate victories over them. Also, Vajira is a refugee from a war between a group of spirit bee queens and what's implied to be wasps or hornets, which the bees lost. | |
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Creepypasta Cookoff: In a story from 2013 by William Robinson, ants use tools against a rival colony. Before long, they start attacking humans too. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door: The Punis aren't exactly insects, but their war with the "rival tribe" of mosquito like Jabbis plays out as this trope. | |
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The premise of SimAnt (which inspired pretty much all of the later ant-based video games), where a black ant colony (controlled by the player) attempts to wipe out a neighboring red ant colony, take over the yard, and drive the humans out of their house. | |
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The Ant Bully has a subplot about a war between the ants and the wasps, though by the end they go Enemy Mine against the larger threat, the Exterminator and by the end it seems they have struck a permanent peace. | |
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In Antz, the Big Bad, an ant general, sends a troop of soldiers loyal to the current queen into a battle against a colony of much larger and stronger termites that they cannot win. They succeeded, but at such a heavy price. | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Greatest", among many other good deeds, Wander finds a blue ant fighting a red one over a peanut and intervenes by splitting it in half for them; doing so put a stop to a thousand year war between the blue and red ant colonies who were armed with mini catapults, tanks and warheads. | |
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In the Helen ESP chapter "Helen and the Dream", two warring ant colonies turn out to be who Helen has been advising. This results in a bit more... complex war than normal. | |
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One episode of the Jumanji animated series features a war between giant red ants and black ants started over an artifact called the "Bahoot", which turned out to be a big ball of black and red slime that had no apparent purpose. | |
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The music video for Rammstein's "Links 2 3 4" features an ant colony that gets attacked by giant beetles, then arranges itself into military formations to encircle and overwhelm the beetles in retaliation. | |
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