History Main / AntWar

* Film/TheAntBully has a subplot about a war of the ants with the dragonflies, though by the end they go EnemyMine against the larger threat, the Exterminator and by the end it seems they have struck a permanent peace.

* BernardWerber's ''Literature/EmpireOfTheAnts'', especially the first book.

* Happens (perhaps without the metaphor) in ''SimAnt'', naturally.

* Somewhat in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', with a belligerent colony of ants half the size of motorcycles and a friendly [[hottip:+: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).

* ''A Rustle in the Grass'' by Robin Hawdon, about an ant colony fighting off an invasion by a more aggressive species of ant, told in a HeroicFantasy style.

* In the ''Manga/HelenESP'' chapter "Helen And The Dream", [[spoiler: two warring ant colonies turn out to be who Helen has been advising. This results in a bit more... complex war than normal.]]

* The DuelingMovies ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'' both had such wars -- in the former, between ants and termites, in the latter, between ants and marching locusts (who were [[ArtisticLicenseBiology called 'grasshoppers']]).

* GeorgeRRMartin wrote "Sandkings," a short story about a species of warring, antlike creatures sold as pets. It doesn't end well.

* ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The Punis aren't exactly insects, but their war with the "rival tribe" of mosquito like Jabbis plays out as this trope.

* ''BattleBugs'' is a RealTimeStrategy all about such a war.
* Somewhat in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout3}}'', with a belligerent colony of ants half the size of motorcycles and a friendly [[hottip:+: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).
* The RealTimeStrategy game adaptation of ''Empire of the Ants'' not only features wars with other ant species, but also against bees and wasps.
* ''BuckBumble'' 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.

* One episode of the ''{{Jumanji}}'' animated series featured a war between giant red ants and black ants started by a [[SillyReasonForWar rather stupid reason]].

* Yes, ants really do have wars. TruthInTelevision.

* BernardWerber's ''EmpireOfTheAnts'', especially the first book.

* In ''TheOnceAndFutureKing'', 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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* Yes, ants really do have wars. TruthInTelevision.

* ''PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': The Punis aren't exactly insects, but their war with the "rival tribe" of mosquito like Buzzis plays out as this trope.

* ''A Rustle in the Grass'' by Robin Hawdon, a novel about ants fighting off an invasion by a more aggressive species of ant, told in a HeroicFantasy style.

* Done in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' including one intentionally started war to get attacking ants off an unconscious Rachel.

* The video game adaptation of ''Empire of the Ants'' not only features wars with other ant species, but also against bees and wasps.

* ''ProfessorMmaasLecture'' makes references to frequent termite-ant wars. [[spoiler:In the end, the war indeed erupts.]]

* Done in ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' including one intentionally started war to get attacking ants off an unconscious Rachel.

* In a very old example of an UnbuiltTrope, GreekMythology, the soldiers Achilles commands in the ''Literature/{{The Iliad}}'' are called the Myrmidons, or, in Greek, "ant-people." This name came from their origin as ants turned into warriors by Zeus in answer to a king's prayer to repopulate his country after a plague. The word "myrmidon" has come to denote any mindless group of subordinates, and is essentially the source of the allegory on which this trope is based.

* ''BattleBugs'' is a RealTimeStrategy all about such a war.

* In the ''MerrieMelodies'' cartoon "The Fighting 69½th", red ants and black ants go to war over picnic food.
* One episode of the ''{{Jumanji}}'' animated series featured a war between giant red ants and black ants started by a [[SillyReasonForWar rather stupid reason]].

* The DuelingMovies ''WesternAnimation/{{Antz}}'' and ''ABugsLife'' both had such wars -- in the former, between ants and termites, in the latter, between ants and marching locusts (who were [[ArtisticLicenseBiology called 'grasshoppers']]).

* The DuelingMovies ''{{Antz}}'' and ''ABugsLife'' both had such wars -- in the former, between ants and termites, in the latter, between ants and marching locusts (who were [[ArtisticLicenseBiology called 'grasshoppers']]).

* TerryPratchett once depicted War (the [[FourHorsemen horseman]]) watching a battle between red and black ants.

* In the ''Manga/HelenESP'' chapter "Helen And The Dream", [[spoiler: two warring ant colonies turn out to be who Helen has been advising. This results in a bit more...complex war than normal.]]

* In the ''HelenESP'' chapter "Helen And The Dream", [[spoiler: two warring ant colonies turn out to be who Helen has been advising. This results in a bit more...complex war than normal.]]