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Virtuous Bees
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Bees are among the few arthropods to enjoy consistently positive portrayals in fiction: for centuries, bees have been associated with hard work, community, self-sacrifice (as most honeybees die when they sting, it's easy to frame their attacks as the bees selflessly giving everything to protect their hives and sisters; other bee species like bumblebees can sting an unlimited number of times like wasps can) and other virtues associated with productivity and communal life. They also make honey and pollinate flowers, which does a fair bit to ingratiate them to human society. Bees can be, and are, also portrayed as aggressive, territorial and quick to sting in anger — but even then, depending on the exact motivations and behavior of the stingers and the stingees, it's entirely possible for the angry swarm to end up being the sympathetic party. The only bees consistently portrayed as vicious and hostile are the infamous Africanized bees, due to them being an extremely invasive, dangerous pest species in the Americas, their aggressiveness and the lengths to which they will pursue intruders. Since Tropes Are Flexible, this trope can extend beyond actual real life bees — fictional bee-like creatures, bee-based Animal Themed Superbeings, and non-bee characters strongly associated with these insects are all fair game, provided their nature as or association with bees is closely enough linked to their heroic or virtuous nature. Compare Amicable Ants, another social arthropod that is often depicted as friendly for many of the same reasons, and Pretty Butterflies, which may not be industrious, but are still just as friendly. Contrast Wicked Wasps, with which Virtuous Bees are often in conflict, Bee Afraid for more aggressive portrayals of bees, and Scary Stinging Swarm for aggressive swarming insects in general. Subtrope of Animal Stereotypes. |
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Boo Boom! The Long Way Home: One of the heroes is a honeybee named B-17. | |
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In Honey Baby Natascha has a connection to bees due to being raised on a bee farm, and in the finale of Tom's dream sequence bees bring her back to life after she's shot. | |
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Digimon: FunBeemon are described as cheerful and dedicated workers devoted to the furthering of their beehive, the Royal Base, even while belonging to the Virus attribute (note that they're considered Viruses because they consume data for the sake of the hive, not because they're inherently evil). When they evolve, they become fierce protectors of their hives. | |
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Clan Apis: Nyuki is an adorable worker bee. Her mentor, Dvorah, also fits this trope. | |
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Maya the Bee: All the heroes/good guys are honeybees, and they and their world are extremely lovable and cute. | |
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Miraculous Ladybug: The bee miraculous and associated kwami Pollen, who are meant to be a force for good by empowering bee-themed heroes. Their most recent partner is... perhaps less than virtuous, but she's started moving in this direction since becoming Queen Bee. | |
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The Unofficial Hollow Knight RPG: The Apidaen Union ruled Oakshade long ago, before they were ousted by the Vespine Authority. Not much detail is given on them, but they're described as being deeply spiritual, approached their subjects on more equal footing than the wasps, and despite having an Insect Queen they were actually a representative democracy where the queen only served as a temporary leader in times of crisis, all of which paints them in a very positive light. | |
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Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends has a number of bee characters, which are all portrayed as virtuous. The most notable is Beetrice, the queen bee, who is good friends with Miss Spider. | |
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BioShock Infinite: Jeremiah Fink has a great fondness for bees and their untiring, uncomplaining attitude towards work, or so he claims in the propaganda he broadcasts to motivate his workers. | |
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Maya the Bee: Bees, especially the titular Maya and her friend Wily (created for the anime), are the main heroic characters of the work. The bees are not entirely good — they are rather traditionalist and hidebound, best seen when they exile Maya for breaking the rule against leaving the hive, but they're still shows as a largely benevolent group. This is especially emphasized in the anime series, which drops the exile angle altogether. | |
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I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What?: Bees are one of Taylor's least dangerous minions, being generally peaceful unless you attack them or mess with their hive rooms. They also produce useful honey and wax. | |
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Conker's Bad Fur Day: One of the game's quests sees Conker helping a sympathetic queen bee who is being terrorized by a group of evil wasps who stole her hive away. In the "Barn Boys" chapter, Conker encounters swarms of bees who are pacifists, and would rather tickle people than sting them. Conker needs to gather enough of them to tickle the Big-breasted Sunflower so that their king can pollinate her, then he can bounce on her breasts to get the money on the ledge above her. |
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Banjo-Kazooie: In Banjo-Tooie and Banjo-Kazooie: Grunty's Revenge, Banjo and Kazooie meet Honey B, Mistress of the Honey. When they collect enough empty honeycombs, they can trade them to her for extensions to their life bar. | |
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The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast: Lizzie Bee is portrayed as an industrious and cheerful worker who only takes a single day off (to attend the Ball, of course). | |
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Milon's Secret Castle: The Hudson bee appears as an ally to give you a forcefield to protect you. | |
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The History Of Bees: Characters devote their lives to the study and exploitation of bees. The future section of the book paints a miserable world without bees to really hammer home how great bees are. | |
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In the Bee Movie, bees are viewed as hard workers who work themselves ridiculously hard and don't deserve to have their honey stolen by humanity. | |
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Bug Fables: The Bee Kingdom is a Double Subversion. Vi (who herself is an example), was bullied and harassed by the other bees for wanting to be an explorer bug rather than work to make more honey, and ran away. When she returns with the other two members of her exploration team however, Queen Bianca welcomes her back with open arms and expresses pride that her daughter became so strong. It takes a bit longer for the other workers (particularly her sister, Jaune) to come around though. | |
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In Orpheus: A Poetic Drama, Aristaeus's bees, and others like them, can penetrate the gates of Elysium to pollinate the flowers, bringing life back to the dead and wisdom of the dead back to the living world. | |
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In Mr. Holmes, the titular character opines that bees are fundamentally good, because they pollinate and create honey. Wasps, by contrast, he sees as inherently bad and unpleasant insects. | |
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Buck Bumble: One of the few games where you can actually play as a bee is the obscure N64 title. In fact, he's not just a bee, but a partially robotic one who can pick up some really cool guns. He's so awesome that he even has his own catchy rap song! | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Charmy Bee, a bee who works for the Chaotix detective agency. In Sonic Heroes, he serves as Team Chaotix's flight member, is able to carry Espio and Vector into the air despite his small size, and he can use his stinger to open mechanical flowers that transport them to other areas. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy: The Honeyhive Galaxy is inhabited by a race of friendly bees and the Honey Queen, the galaxy's benevolent queen bee. | |
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King's Quest V has King Graham rescue a hive of bees from a hungry bear. The hive's queen, Beatrice, gives him sincere thanks and allows him a piece of honeycomb. | |
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In APICO, There are many non-aggressive bee species, but Industrial Bees are the most productive ones, having evolved to become more hardworking by being near Honeycore technology. | |
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Tumble Leaf: The bees are friendly. The heroes' obstacle when trying to get honey from Hive Hollow was not the bees, but the snapping flowers outside the beehives. | |
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Masters of the Universe has Buzz-Off, a heroic bee man. The franchise's sister line She-Ra: Princess of Power has Sweet Bee, a heroic bee woman. | |
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Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous heroic detective, is a hobbyist beekeeper; at the end of his career, he retires to keep bees in the Sussex Downs. | |
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The Hive is an entire animated series in which all of the main characters are bees living in a bee society. | |
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Terra Nil: Beehives can be placed in trees to convert nearby grassland into a Fynbos. Without the flower fields they create it's impossible to progress into the game. | |
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Black House: Due to his adventures in The Talisman, Jack is able to call upon bees to come to his aid. When he, Dale, Beezer and Doc break into the eponymous Black House, a massive swarm of bees comes to his aid. | |
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Transformers: Bumblebee, who shares a few motifs with his namesake insect, is one of the nicest and most heroic Autobots in most continuities. | |
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The Georgics: The first half of Book IV is spent explaining how wondrous and special bees are for their skillful creation of honey and incredible organization. | |
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