History Main / FriendToBugs

** Gil Grissom of ''{{Series/CSI}}'' has a pet cockroach, and in one episode he takes it to an entomologist convention to participate in "roach races."
** After spending an entire episode looking for the killer of a famous chef in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', it was discovered that the murderer was a sous chef who did it...to prevent the chef from killing a cockroach that had wandered into the kitchen and obviously was a health hazard. A cockroach that was covered in gold plating and had a very valuable emerald glued to its back (it was the pet of an eccentric model who lost it), but a roach nevertheless, and the sous chef only cared about its life and not the baubles. Detective Messer, who has to hear to the man's gleeful MotiveRant about how roaches are awesome, [[DisappointedByTheMotive can only drawl out a disbelieving]] "you killed a man...''over a cockroach?''"

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseMadisonRussell Madison]] shows signs of forming a bond with Mothra when the latter is in her grub form. Her Monarch profile also says that she likes to study backyard insects.

* The title character in ''Film/Lucas'' is a nerdy 14-year old boy who's fascinated by insects. He doesn't collect and pin them like most entomologists, however, because that would mean killing them.

* ''Franchise/DanganRonpa'':

They may or may not be able to [[PestController control the bugs to aid them.]] Not to be confused with BeetleMania and/or BugCatching, which explicitly describe interest and collection but not necessarily endearment. [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Also not to be confused for being friends with]] [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny a certain cartoon rabbit]]. If the bug dies, it's usually played for laughs in a BlackComedyPetDeath.

* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseFamilies Madison]] shows signs of forming a bond with Mothra when the latter is in her grub form. Her Monarch profile also says that she likes to study backyard insects.

* In ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', Nausicaa is sympathetic toward the giant insects of the poisonous forest, particularly the dinosaur-sized ohmu. She even attempted to keep a tiny ohmu as a pet as a small child, though eventually the adults found it. One of the inspirations for ''Nausicaa'' was an old Japanese tale ''The Lady who Loved Insects''.

* One of ComicBook/SpiderMan's [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain less formidable enemies]] was Buck Mitty, aka the Humbug. Originally an entomologist at Empire State University, he tried in vain to convince the rest of the Science Department of the value insects had to humans (he perceived more of a value than they did) only for his funding to be cut off. Desperate to continue his research and prove his theories, he cobbled together a sonic weapon system that amplified the sounds of insects into destructive beams, but wasn't much of a crook. (In his first attempt, he tried to steal an armored car full of black pearls, only to blow the tires and leave him with no way to transport them. The second time, he tried to rob ESU, and broke into the girls' locker room by mistake. When he took a woman hostage, Spidey actually convinced him to give up by threatening to smash a specimen jar full of roaches.) He later acquired actual superhuman powers due to a deal with some mutated ants, but ironically, when he tried to make a HeelFaceTurn after the ''ComicBook/CivilWar'', it turned out those ants were using him as a Trojan Horse to get at the Brood Queen, their ArchEnemy. Dying and in agony, the martial arts hero Shang-Chi slew him as a MercyKill.

* ''Literature/TheSagaOfDarrenShan'': Darren loves spiders, as does an elderly vampire named Seba Nile, who teaches him about the spiders in Vampire Mountain. Eventually, Seba names a new breed of spider after Darren.

* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': Eccentric scientist Enrique Borgos is downright soppy about his genetically-engineered 'butter bugs', so nicknamed after the bland but nutritious substance they produce; he even cries whenever a queen dies. These are creatures described as looking like a cross between a cockroach, a termite, and a ''pustule''.

* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' has Haruhi; in episode 8, when she finds a centipede on a crab, instead of killing it she simply picks it up and throws it aside. When asked if she could have been easier on it, she said "''it takes a lot more than that to kill a bug.''"

* ''Franchise/CSIVerse]]

* A flashback in ''Manga/ScienceFellInLoveSoITriedToProveIt'' shows Himuro as a child researching isopods and their ability to navigate a maze. A bully even wrote "bug girl" on her bag.

* Shilo Wallace from ''Film/RepoTheGeneticOpera''.

* Gil Grissom of ''{{Series/CSI}}'' has a pet cockroach, and in one episode he takes it to an entomologist convention to participate in "roach races."
* After spending an entire episode looking for the killer of a famous chef in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'', it was discovered that the murderer was a sous chef who did it...to prevent the chef from killing a cockroach that had wandered into the kitchen and obviously was a health hazard. A cockroach that was covered in gold plating and had a very valuable emerald glued to its back (it was the pet of an eccentric model who lost it), but a roach nevertheless, and the sous chef only cared about its life and not the baubles. Detective Messer, who has to hear to the man's gleeful MotiveRant about how roaches are awesome, [[DisappointedByTheMotive can only drawl out a disbelieving]] "you killed a man...''over a cockroach?''"

* ''VideoGame/IdentityV'' has The Entomologist Melly Plinius. Her power is to release a swarm of bugs that can carry her teammates, or push the Hunter away from them.

* Blathers is a pretty infamous aversion in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' (although he still begrudgingly accepts and cares for them out of professional courtesy), but all of the available villagers will happily accept an insect that you offer them as a gift, and the player is obviously free to adopt any they catch as pets.
** Flick in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' is a straight example, buying your bugs to study them for his art commissions. This was implied to put a strain on his relationship with his father Nat (who ate any bugs that were given to him).
* Tallulah in ''VideoGame/NewStyleBoutique3StylingStar'' is an entomologist who never quite grasps that other people don't find bugs as cool as she does, at one point letting a jar full of insects loose in the live music club on open mike night. At the end of her storyline, her final outfit is either green or flowery, all the better to resemble bugs' natural habitat.

* ''WebAnimation/TheOdd1sOut'': James and his sister Faith once adopted a moth named Harry, but he died. They were ''very'' sad when he died.
* Implied in the ''WebAnimation/TranslationsGoneWrong'' video where the Cutie Mark Crusaders enthuse about "ear moths" and "nits".

* In a stark contrast to her peers, Gawr Gura of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' does not find bugs inherently creepy or gross. Among other things, she has mentioned that the grub she found when shucking corn in her youth seem like they're just chilling, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDT5pC8c2g has told Kiara that she's looking to get a pet tarantula]], and she doesn't dislike cockroaches though she understands the worry of them being potential disease vectors.

* Jumpy Ghostface of ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'' has a soft spot for many insects, even going as far as defending them from his own teammates (such as [[TheSwarm a swarm of voracious locusts]] in one episode). [[KarmicJackpot His compassion gets returned in kind]] at least a few times when said insects end up coming to his aid.
%%* Raj of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'' in one episode.

-->-- '''Fluttershy''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHf-YnY9k7k "May the Best Pet Win"]]

* Fu in ''Fanfic/TruePotential'' has the ability to talk with insects thanks to her Tailed Beast, and she seems to be very friendly terms with every bug she meets.

* The ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series includes many examples. Heck, Satoshi Tajiri based the entire concept of Pokemon on catching bugs as a child and making them fight with his friends' bugs, so [[AuthorAppeal it's only natural that the series is full of bugs and bug trainers]].

** Flick in ''New Horizons'' is a straight example, buying your bugs to study them for his art commissions. This was implied to put a strain on his relationship with his father Nat (who ate any bugs that were given to him).

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' villain Clancy is this, considering his numerous bug minions to be his family. He even refers to himself in a HiveMind mentality.