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* The xenomorphs of the ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'' series have a queen as the center of their hive. Though normally stationary, she is the biggest, strongest, and smartest member of her species.

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* ''TheAntBully'' has the Queen, who is huge and has a very different design from the regular ants. Although she's barely seen, she seems to be venerated and almost worshipped by the rest of the colony.

* Classic ''Series/TheOuterLimits'' episode "ZZZZZ". A giant mutant queen bee takes human form so she can mate with a human male. She can control her fellow bees and make them attack people, such as the wife of the man she wants to seduce.

* The Nerubians of ''WarcraftIII'' play with this trope, being weird combination of arachnids and insects. The nerubians are mostly spider-themed, but with a social structure more or less based on social insects, with their most powerful units called Queens. In the campaign, they are often found alongside massive clutches of spiderling eggs (although one unit splits into two lesser Nerubians on death, justified as it carrying its young into battle). The social aspect is further removed when the expansion shows that they also have kings, who are a mishmash of beetle and praying mantis that apparently carry locusts in their carapaces.

* D'Vorrah in ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'', who can command all manner of creepies (like slugs and bees). She herself is part insect, as her compound eyes can attest to, and she keeps her bugs inside her stomach cavity.

* ''Main/ElHazard'': [[CuteMonsterGirl Queen Diva]] is the ruler of the Bugrom Empire. As such, part of her duty is to ensure there are a sufficient number of troops for their army and to sustain the Bugrom Citadel, which requires that she mate with someone. So, when [[LaughablyEvil Jinnai]] notes the shortage of troops and suggests she lays more eggs, [[FunnyMoments she takes him up]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale on the offer.]]

* Queen Sectonia from ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' is a giant wasp who wears classical royal attire and leads the Sectras in an invasion of the sky kingdom of Floroald.

* Queen Chrysalis of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' draws similarities to this, being the Queen of the Changelings, an insectoid/equinoid species who imitate other ponies and [[EmotionEater feed on their love]]. Her goal is to conquer Equestria and use the land and its inhabitants as a virtually infinite food source for her subjects. However, it is not explicitly stated the changelings are of an eusociality or the changelings are her children, particularly given how the, albeit Gothic, more pony-like appearance of the Changeling Kingdom in the IDW comic series.

* Queen Chrysalis of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' is the leader of the insectoid/equinoids called Changelings, who imitate other ponies and [[EmotionEater feed on their love]]. Her goal is to take over Equestria and use the land as a virtually infinite food source for her colony.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', there is the Queen of the Ants and later her daughter Princess Atta who is given the crown at the end.

* Queen Sectonia from ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'' is a giant wasp who wears classical royal attire. Unlike most examples, she seems to be self-proclaimed instead of being designated queen by a larger insect entourage.

* Queen Sectonia from ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'', is a giant wasp who wears classical royal attire. Unlike most examples, she seems to be self-proclaimed instead of being designated queen by a larger insect entourage.
* Q-Bee from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is the queen of the Soul Bees; monsters that imitate the appearance of humans then prey on their souls.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': Queen Bee or the Honey Queen is the queen of all bees in the universe, and dresses in appropriate regalia. She's also playable in ''VideoGame/MarioKart 7'', where she is [[YourSizeMayVary decidedly smaller.]] She's probably the only KingMook (or King NPC) in the Marioverse that's female, as opposed to King Bob-omb, King Goomba et al.

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* ''Anime/ElHazard'': [[CuteMonsterGirl Queen Diva]] is the ruler of the Bugrom Empire. As such, part of her duty is to ensure there are a sufficient number of troops for their army and to sustain the Bugrom Citadel, which requires that she mate with someone. So, when [[LaughablyEvil Jinnai]] notes the shortage of troops and suggests she lays more eggs, [[FunnyMoments she takes him up]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale on the offer.]]

* ''Anime/ElHazard'': [[CuteMonsterGirl Queen Diva]] is the ruler of the Bugrom Empire. Part of her duty is to ensure there are a sufficient number of troops for their army and to sustain the Bugrom Citadel, which requires that she mate with someone. So, when [[LaughablyEvil Jinnai]] notes the shortage of troops and suggests she lays more eggs, [[FunnyMoments she takes him up]] [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale on the offer.]]

* In ''Anime/ElHazard'', one of the duties of the Bugrom Queen (who is also a CuteMonsterGirl) is to lay eggs to hatch into more Bugroms. And she does indeed need to mate in order to produce them: when a male human villain with whom she has made an alliance suggests that she should try to produce more eggs, she says that he will have to give her some help with that.

Writers of fiction pick up on this and often associate insects with queens or vice versa. She is generally accompanied be a swarm of other insects, generally bee-like, and having hordes of insect at her command, sometimes used as WeaponizedOffspring. She is depicted as [[LargeAndInCharge bigger and more physically powerful]] than her minions. Because she has many minions, she's almost always a villainess.

A common fixture of the HiveCasteSystem. Subtrope of MonsterLord. '''Frequently overlaps, but not to be confused with HiveQueen (which is the controlling core in a unified network mind).'''

* The {{Pokemon}} [[Characters/PokemonGenerationIVFamilies Vespiquen]]. She only evolves from female Combee, and has signature moves that involve ordering other Combee to attack, defend, or heal her.

* From ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' and [[WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim its respective cartoon]], there is Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-Filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt who's a queen termite with a very squicky self explanatory name.
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' the Hivers have a HiveCasteSystem with similarities to feudalism, with one Queen and several Princesses. The Princesses birth clans of workers, warriors, and Princes who fill command roles and are exchanged between clans for alliances, while the Queen is the only one who can make new Princesses and when she dies her daughters fight amongst themselves for the right to eat her ovaries and become the next Queen.
* The boss of Ant Land in ''VideoGame/ChameleonTwist'' is a Queen Ant that dresses in victorian era fashion. She attacks by laying ants from her giant abdomen that the player has to eat and spit out at her. MakesAsMuchSenseInContext
* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': Queen Bee or the Honey Queen is the queen of all bees in the universe, and dresses in regalia. She's also playable in MarioKart 7 where she is [[YourSizeMayVary decidedly smaller.]] She's probably the only KingMook (or King NPC) in the Marioverse that's female as opposed to King Bob-omb and King Goomba etc.
* The Gohmas of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' are generally portrayed this way (mostly as a Arachnid Queen, but fits nonetheless). They appear as bosses of the dungeon in which their offspring appear as enemies, and they often release their offspring as a FlunkyBoss.

* Queenie is a cartoon queen bee of a happy hive in the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Risky Beesness." Her subjects are drawn away by the hypnotic music of Irwina Allen, an entomologist who would turn the worker bees into her personal mindless minions. Queenie rules her hive by concensus, fulfilling this trope, while Irwina is usurper befitting the HiveQueen trope.

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