History Main / HornetHole

->“Welcome to the Honeyhive Kingdom! Our queen rules this land.”

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Hive]] in the Kingdom's Edge region where all enemies, who are linked to bees or hornets, are protecting their [[spoiler:deceased]] queen: you fight bees [[TheGoomba who contempt themselves to float near you]], hornets who pull out their dart [[LeeroyJenkins and attempt to sting you]], and giant bees [[UnskilledButStrong who bounce through walls]][[spoiler:, but also a desperate knight [[UndyingLoyalty watching for his queen's grave]]]].

A level seen in video games that takes place almost exclusively inside a beehive. Due to the nature of this level, it is in the realm almost exclusively of {{Platform Game}}s. It has sticky honey or beeswax that will get stuck on characters and will often have a [[TheMaze mazelike]] level design. There will be a Queen or [[AnimalGenderBender King]] bee that needs to be fought. Of course, this videogame setting isn't limited to bees. Wasps, hornets and other suitably annoying flying, stinging insects can have their homes invaded by intrepid heroes as well. Since this level is full of enemy types that usually can't be defeated by traditional means, it can easily become ThatOneLevel.

* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'': The temple area in Pangu Lagoon is overrun with wasp/bee-like enemies that have converted the lower levels of the stage into a hive. They spawn endlessly if you fall to those levels.

* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' has this in a very limited fashion in the Click Clock Wood. There are also the highest parts of Cloud Cuckooland's mountain in ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie''.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' has the eponymous character going into a hornet's hangout to rescue a beehive, [[BookEnds both at the start of the Windy chapter and much later when it's revisited for its conclusion]]. Here the bees are pretty OK. Hornets aren't.

** ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'': The battle stage Honeybee Hive, which takes place inside a giant hollow beehive and houses a swarm of the bee-like Stingby enemies that will damage any driver they come in contact with.

* ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' has this in Desert Ruins Zone 2, technically a mach speed-type of level with bee-like robots while speeding through multiple beehives, before coming face-to-face with Zomom.
* ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'': {{Downplayed|Trope}} in [[VideoGameRemake Spelunky HD]]: sometimes a jungle level will have a beehive area, containing some honey patches that cause items to stick, a number of [[http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Killer_Bee giant bees]], and a [[http://spelunky.wikia.com/wiki/Queen_Bee queen bee]]. The queen drops royal jelly when killed, which is the second most potent source of healing in the game.
* ''VideoGame/SpyroEnterTheDragonfly'' has the Honey Marsh level, which is this crossed with BubblegloopSwamp. A level of the same name appears in the earlier GBA game ''VideoGame/SpyroSeasonOfIce'', but it's a straighter example in that game.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Hive]] in the Kingdom's Edge region where all enemies, who are linked to bees or hornets, are protecting their [[spoiler:deceased]] queen: you fight bees [[TheGoomba who contempt themselves to float near you]], hornets who pull out their dart [[LeeroyJenkins and attempt to sting you]], and giant bees [[UnskilledButStrong who bounce through walls]][[spoiler:, but also a desperate knight [[UndyingLoyalty watching for his queen's grave]]]].
* ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'': The first game turns the tree you go into after getting past the Red Knight into one of these. It's the only area in question where you have to fight bees.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryTropicalFreeze'' has Beehive Brawl, home to bees as big as Donkey Kong himself.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' has [[TropeNamer Hornet Hole]], Rambi Rumble, Parrot-Chute Panic, and a boss level, King Zing Sting, beehive levels inhabited by giant wasps called Zingers with sticky honey on the ground (where it has to be jumped out of) and on the wall (where it enables {{Wall Jump}}ing).

* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has beehives that generate in the underground jungle. They're small, but breaking the hive blocks [[BeeAfraid spawns bees that attack you]], and [[MamaBear killing the larva found inside summons]] [[BigCreepyCrawlies the giant queen bee boss]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has "Honeycomb Herald!", an [[VerticalScrollingShooter upwards-scrolling level]] inside a beehive with a rising pool of honey, mindless briefcase-toting worker bees as enemies, and honeycombs decorated like little offices. The bosses are a bee cop who plants striped bombs and Rumor Honeybottoms, the queen bee intent on eating Cuphead.

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* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': The Apiary.
* ''VideoGame/{{Turok}} 2: Seeds of Evil'': The Mantid Hive.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Frogger}} 3D'': Honey Bee Hollow.

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* ''VideoGame/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnline'' has the Queen's Nest on Isla Perdida.

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* The first ''VideoGame/WizardsAndWarriors'' turns the tree you go into after getting past the Red Knight into one of these. It's the only area in question where you have to fight bees.

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* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' has one, but with a little twist: it's a honey factory.
* ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'': The Hive. Hope you like fighting killer bees.

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* The Nui-Rama hive in the [[VideoGame/{{BIONICLE}} Mata Nui Online Game]].
* The obscure game ''VideoGame/{{Zapper}}'' has one called Crazy Apiary. It also doubled as an UnexpectedShmupLevel.

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* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the gnome pest controller Wee Mad Arthur likes to go on what, for somebody his size, are big game hunts. He describes his strategy for dealing with wasps: which is to fight his way into the hive, killing wasps in hand-to-sting combat, and planting substantially large bombs (heavily modified fireworks), set the fuses, then to fight his way out again before they explode. He says it isn't sporting to do anything other than bring them down on the wing, and brandishes a tailor-made very small crossbow to prove the point.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has "Honeycomb Herald!", a [[VerticalScrollingShooter upwards-scrolling level]] inside a beehive with a rising pool of honey, mindless briefcase-toting worker bees as enemies, and honeycombs decorated like little offices. The bosses are a bee cop who plants striped bombs and Rumor Honeybottoms, the queen bee intent on eating Cuphead.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' has "Honeycomb Herald!", a upwards-scrolling level inside a beehive with a rising pool of honey, mindless briefcase-toting worker bees as enemies, and honeycombs decorated like little offices. The bosses are a bee cop who plants striped bombs and Rumor Honeybottoms, the queen bee intent on eating Cuphead.

Related tropes that can be seen in this type of level are ScaryStingingSwarm, HiveMind, SynchronizedSwarming, WickedWasps, BeeBeeGun and BeeAfraid.

Related tropes that can be seen in this type of level are TheSwarm, HiveMind, SynchronizedSwarming, WickedWasps, BeeBeeGun and BeeAfraid.

* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Hive]] in the Kingdom's Edge region.

** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' has [[TropeNamer Hornet Hole]], Rambi Rumble, Parrot-Chute Panic, and a boss level, King Zing Sting, beehive levels inhabited by giant wasps called Zingers.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworl}})'', the gnome pest controller Wee Mad Arthur likes to go on what, for somebody his size, are big game hunts. He describes his strategy for dealing with wasps: which is to fight his way into the hive, killing wasps in hand-to-sting combat, and planting substantially large bombs (heavily modified fireworks), set the fuses, then to fight his way out again before they explode. He says it isn't sporting to do anything other than bring them down on the wing, and brandishes a tailor-made very small crossbow to prove the point.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld))'', the gnome pest controller Wee Mad Arthur likes to go on what, for somebody his size, are big game hunts. He describes his strategy for dealing with wasps: which is to fight his way into the hive, killing wasps in hand-to-sting combat, and planting substantially large bombs (heavily modified fireworks), set the fuses, then to fight his way out again before they explode. He says it isn't sporting to do anything other than bring them down on the wing, and brandishes a tailor-made very small crossbow to prove the point.

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* ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' has [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Hive]].

* ''''VideoGame/{{Obduction}}'' has a friendly Hornet Hole hidden away inside a clifftop. The "bees" inside are actually intelligent.