History Main / AntAssault

** Formians, introduced in ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'', are denizens of the [[EternalEngine Plane of Mechanus]] who resemble [[OurCentaurs are different tauric]] anthropomorphic ants; a humanoid ant's upper torso replacing the head of a massive ant. They are considered to be Outsiders who embody the concept of Law/Order as [[OrderIsNotGood an all-consuming, ever-expanding hive]], with no room for individuality or any concerns beyond the greater good of the colony -- this brings them into conflict with the Modrons, who embody Law/Order as a single great machine driven by pure logic. The spin-off game ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' reinvented them as world-conquering aliens.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'':

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* WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel: The episode "Greg" had a Gingerbread man who trained sugar ants to steal candy for him in order to make a giant monster gingerbread man. After Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole defeats/eats the giant, the ants turn on their master and eat the gingerbread man.

* WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel: The episode "Greg" had a Gingerbread man who trained sugar ants to steal candy for him in order to make a giant monster gingerbread monster. After Secret Squirrel and Morocco Mole defeats/eats the giant, the ants turn on their master and eat the gingerbread man.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'': Ants were among the handful of Earth creatures placed on the titular moon. Most of the species are fairly harmless but a few manage to become very dangerous.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} (1991)'': Near the end of "[[Recap/RugratsS4E8FairePlayTheSmellOfSuccess The Smell of Success]]", Tommy and Chuckie get chased by a bully. Chuckie [[NasalWeapon sneezes the bully into an anthill]], and the ants inside it crawl into the bully's pants and bite his butt.

* Music/TomWaits' song "Earth Died Screaming" lists this as one of many SignsOfTheEndTimes.

* While normally a docile species, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraponera_clavata Paraponera clavata]] is more commonly known as the '''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast bullet ant]]''' for an ''extremely'' painful sting that's comparable to being shot. Bullet ant stings reportedly take a full ''[[CreepyCrawlyTorture 24 hours]]'' to wear off, and [[FromBadToWorse to make matters worse]], it's full of [[PoisonousPerson neurotoxins]] that can cause edema and even make you ''[[BloodFromEveryOrifice shit blood]]''. The Schmidt Pain Index, used to classify insect stings, rates it [[FourIsDeath four out of four]], with this [[SarcasmMode lovely]] description:

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': In [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Strong World]], some of the first monsters we see are a horde of literal soldier ants, capable of reducing a sea monster to a skeleton in two seconds flat. They completely ignore [[DemBones Brook]] due to him having no meat on his bones...[[YouAreAlreadyDead and pay dearly for it]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}} (1991)'': Near the end of "[[Recap/RugratsS4E8FairePlayTheSmellOfSuccess The Smell of Success]]", Tommy and Chuckie get chased by a bully. Chuckie [[SneezeOfDoom sneezes the bully into an anthill]], and the ants inside it crawl into the bully's pants and bite his butt.

-->--'''The Ants''', WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends, "The Picnic Panic"

--> “The ants,” Qargon said. “They’re controlled by the hive blooms. Made to be slaves to the fungus and ensure its spread. They were one of the simpler but more dangerous creations of the Fungal Lords. Hit them wrong and they’ll explode; spores will get into your lungs. Then you become one of them.”

* ''VideoGame/MediEvil'': A side quest has the Witch of the Forest shrink Daniel so that he can collect amber from an anthill. The ants are about as tough as you expect when they’re the same size as you, plus they all spit acid. And naturally, you have to kill their Queen to be able to leave the dungeon.

** The last are the shogghoths, who arrive near the end of [[spoiler:Serina's habitable phase]]. They are descended from billion stingers who took their swarming behavior the its logical conclusion. By utilizing the bones of their prey as support and their fur and feathers for covering, they form [[TheWormThatWalks large tentacled bodies]] that travel the land in search of more prey.

For obvious reasons, this trope frequently overlaps with StrongAnts. May often be featured as one of the sides in the AntWar. Compare with TermiteTrouble and WickedWasps.

* In the ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' album ''"Canyon Apache"'', Luke is captured by an Apache tribe, tied to the ground and covered in honey in order to lure ants that will feed on him. He convinces an Apache child to free him.

* ''Ants!'', aka "It Happened at Lakewood Manor", is a 1977 TV movie about construction workers working next a hotel who accidentally unearth colonies of poisonous ants that proceed to attack the workers and later the nearby hotel and its guests.