History Main / InsectQueen

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has both the Vespoid Queen (a KingMook version of the Vespoids) from ''Freedom Unite'' and the Seltas Queen (and by extension the Desert subspecies) from the fourth generation of games. The Vespoid Queen is aided by the smaller Vespoids during battle, but otherwise she's not too difficult to defeat; but the two Seltas Queens are more powerful as, with their male Seltas partners, they make up for more lethal duos when confronting the hunter.

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has a card named "Insect Queen". If she destroys an enemy monster, she generates a weak Insect-type token monster on your side of the field. However, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen she has to eat her subjects before she can attack.]] [[WouldHarmAChild Her sacrifice is more than likely one of the aforementioned offspring.]]

* ''Literature/{{Riftwar}}'': The Cho-ja are insectoid beings larger than a human, allied with the Tsurani Empire. The Empire trilogy reveals that they are born in individual hives, ruled by queens.

* ''VideoGame/ArmorinesProjectSWARM'': The Queen(s). Each stage usually contains a large one that apparently all the other bug-aliens respond to. The final level plays this one most seriously, with the whole series of levels being a giant insect hive in space.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'': Despite being crustaceans, the enormous mirelurk queens fit most points of this trope. They appear to be where most horseshoe crab-type 'lurks come from, even being able to quickly eject barrages of hatchlings as a weapon and distraction, and are easily the largest and toughest members of the mirelurk species complex.
* ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': The Empress Bulblax is based on queen termites. She is a large, bloated Bulborb that attacks by rolling about and releasing Bulborb Larvae to devour your Pikmin.
* ''Franchise/{{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.
* ''VideoGame/KirbyTripleDeluxe'': Queen Sectonia is a giant wasp who wears classical royal attire and leads the Sectras in an invasion of the sky kingdom of Floralia. [[spoiler:It's strongly implied in subsequent games that she wasn't always a wasp and used to look like Taranza, not to mention that she was actually a good ruler until she became corrupted by the [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Dimension Mirror]]]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'': Q. Bee is the queen of the Soul Bees, monsters that imitate the appearance of humans then prey on their souls.
* ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'': Evil Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-Filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt (Or Queen Slug-for-a-Butt for short), a queen termite with a very squicky self-explanatory name. Her absolute control and her subjects [[ScaryDogmaticAliens blind, dogmatic]] worship of her are exactly how one would expect intelligent termites that follow their earthly animal counterparts pattern to behave.
* ''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. When she dies, her daughters fight amongst themselves for the right to eat her ovaries and become the next Queen.
* ''VideoGame/ChameleonTwist'': The boss of Ant Land 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 appropriate regalia. She's also playable in ''VideoGame/MarioKart7'', where she is [[YourSizeMayVary decidedly smaller.]]
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': The Gohmas are generally portrayed this way (mostly as an 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. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' also has Twilit Bloat, the fly-like queen of the Shadow Insects.
* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The Queen Bee. A giant bee boss that shoots out smaller bees which attack you until you kill them.

* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'': Queen B., queen of the wasp-like Zingers. The [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest sequel]] introduced her apparent mate, King Zing, boss of an area full of [[HornetHole Hornet Holes]].
* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'': The primary raid boss battle for the "Little Skyfarer: A la Sacre Blumiel" event is Queen Bee, a humanoid woman with the lower body of a bee.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': The Nerubians 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.
* ''VideoGame/{{Nefarious}}'': Princess Apoidea fits the bill, despite only being, well, a princess. It's implied in the sequel webcomics that this world doesn't even have the concept of a queen (or a king for that matter), because PrincessesRule, which means that's really as high as it gets.
* ''VideoGame/MortalKombatX'': D'Vorah, 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.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'': The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonesses]] that make [[DealWithTheDevil contracts]] with the Umbra Witches invoke this trope. Bayonetta is contracted to Madama Butterfly, a massive butterfly woman, while Jeanne is contracted to Madama Styx, a massive moth woman who is even described as being the Queen of the River Styx. In ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' [[spoiler:[[SecretCharacter Rosa]] has her own demoness she is bound too, a massive scarab woman named Madama Khepri who is said to be a Goddess in [[{{Hell}} Inferno]] with dominion over time and the sun.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'': Rumor Honeybottoms is a huge queen bee that fights you inside a honeycomb/office building hybrid that [[RiseToTheChallenge is constantly filling with honey]]. In her first phase she sends a bee policeman after you, but afterwards she'll show she's very adept at magic spells.

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'': The [[TheCorruption Falspawn]] consist of a number of subgroups, each led by a corresponding [[EldritchAbomination Dark Falz]]. Dark Falz Apprentice, a vain, beauty-obsessed [[TheVamp Vamp]], commands the insectoid Falspawn. Her Apprezina form leans into this with a combat style that revolves around summoning drones to fight for it. [[spoiler:The [[SuperMode Dark Blast]] version makes it even more explicit by giving the related skills royalty-themed names.]]

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'', a game that revolves around insects, naturally has these for each kingdom of social bugs.
** The Ant Kingdom has Queen Elizant I, who was a kind and gentle queen who sought to find the Everlasting Sapling to ensure her benevolent rule would last for generations, only to fail and pass the task to her daughter, Queen Elizant II, who struggles with keeping up the legacy of her mother.
** The Bee Kingdom has Queen Bianca, another queen known to be a kind and gentle ruler, whose focus on scientific advances greatly improved the kingdom, making her one of the most popular rulers. She is also the close friend to Queen Elizant II, and the latter occasionally asks her for advice in times of need.
** The Termites have not only a queen, but a king as well.[[note]]Termites [[ShownTheirWork have kings in real life]].[[/note]] They are ruled by Queen Layra II and King Hector IV. While the relationship between ants and termites is rocky, they had peaceful relationship during the rule of Queen Elizant I, but the alliance fell apart after Queen Elizant II came to rule. King Hector IV is known to be very short-tempered and being a grudge-holder, with Queen Layra II serving as a voice of reason.
** DoubleSubverted with the Wasp Kingdom, as they are ruled by the [[BigBad Wasp King]] instead of a queen. However, [[spoiler:the Wasp King is actually TheUsurper who used the ancient crown to brainwash wasps into his servitude, and he's not even a wasp but a wasp mimic fly. Their true ruler is peaceful Queen Vanessa II, who, after the Wasp King's defeat, [[RightfulQueenReturns reclaims her throne]] and works to undo the damage done by his tyrannical rule.]]
* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' features Honey B., who lives in a beehive in the Plateau area of Isle O' Hags. She can increase the LifeMeter of the starring duo in exchange for the Empty Honeycombs scattered in the game's worlds.
* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' has both a Queen Bee and a King Bee, but as of the game's events they split up due to marital differences; the Queen cries in despair when her honeycomb is stolen by the wasps in the Windy chapter, while the King spends all the time lusting for a busty sunflower in the Barn Boys chapter. Conker helps the Queen retrieve the honeycomb twice (in both cases, only because of the money he'll receive as reward) and also helps the King hook up with the sunflower; but the two regal characters never reconcile, and [[spoiler:the Queen dies when the windmill explodes accidentally due to Rodent's impact and the resulting debris smashes her ''and'' the honeycomb]].

* ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'': Averted. There's Cassiopeia, queen of the bee colony across the street from Lindesfarne and Fenton. However, she says the drones ''aren't'' her children and "queen" in this context is more like "fraternity house mother". (For bonus points, they live right near an university.) She's also not really any different in size or shape to the drones, the main difference being she has a bigger neck ruff. She's also not a villain: the worst she and her colony have done was keep the nocturnal Lindesfarne and Fenton awake with their buzzing, and once they knew, they agreed to keep it down.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In one episode the class gets shrunk down and enters an ant hill so Keesha can make a movie about them. She's fixated on having the queen as her star, seeming to think of queens as we know them, and is disappointed when she turns out to be just a giant ant who lays eggs.
* 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 consensus, fulfilling this trope, while Irwina is a usurper befitting the HiveQueen trope.

* A villainous example is the evil Bug Queen in ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack''. We see several queens in the show and all of them are monsters. They colonize other worlds just by breeding thousands of bugs and extinguish the natives.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' Has the Slurm Worms from Wormulon, slug-like creatures that can replicate themselves when cut in half and they work on the very popular soft drink Slurm. They also have a much larger Queen Slurm, but she is not shown producing offspring. [[spoiler: She is, however, the one that produces all the Slurm by ejecting it from her backside. It seems that new queens can be produced by submerging someone in Royal Slurm, but according to one of the workers, a queen formed by a lower caste produces foul-tasting Slurm]].
* ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' doesn't involve any real insect queens, but it does reference this trope for comedic purposes: [[CloudCuckoolander Inferno]], who transforms into a massive ant, frequently refers to Megatron as his "queen," much to the latter's chagrin. Towards the end of the series, Inferno more often uses the term "royalty" instead, possibly to avoid drawing Megatron's ire.

* The Chimera Ant Queen from ''Manga/HunterXHunter''. While the other Chimera Ants are generally humanoid (albeit usually with insectoid features) she's totally insect like apart from her body proportions and unable to speak, so she communicates telepathically with her children. She also lacks any fighting ability and has to rely on them for protection. She eventually suffers DeathByChildbirth giving birth to The King, Meruem, who was born with the best traits of everything she had ever consumed.

* The various villainesses bearing the name "Queen Bee" from Franchise/TheDCU. A few of them have been aliens who lead invading swarms of insects.
* In the [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]], ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' character ComicBook/LanaLang sometimes gained insect attributes to become a heroine aptly known as "Insect Queen." In a nod to this, there was a Modern Age villain known as Insect Queen, ruler of an imperial group of insects called the All-Hive (not remarkably different from the alien incarnations of Queen Bee) who reshaped her body to be like Lana. In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Death and the Family]]'', Insect Queen takes over Lana and attempts to invade Metropolis with an army of giant insects.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', there is the Queen of the Ants and later her daughter Princess Atta who is given the crown at the end, and who interestingly seems to share her authority with the rest of the Council of Elders of whom she is a member, making her title institutional to a certain extent.

* 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.

* The Hive Queen in Creator/OrsonScottCard's [[Literature/EndersGame Enderverse]] is both this and, well, a HiveQueen. She is both the telepathic center of her species' HiveMind and its sole breeding female.

* The Cho-ja of Raymond Feist's Riftwar saga are insectoid beings larger than a human, allied with the Tsurani Empire. The Empire trilogy reveals that they are born in individual hives, ruled by queens.

* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E18Zzzzz ZZZZZ]]". When an entomologist gives a hive human intelligence, the queen bee takes human form so she can mate with a human male, thus creating a race of [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]] who will TakeOverTheWorld. She can control her fellow bees and make them attack people, such as the wife of the man she wants to seduce.

* In ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1702 SCP-1702 ("The French Hive")]] is a hive of bee people under France, with a hive caste system. The Queen of SCP-1702 (SCP-1702-1) is highly intelligent, lays eggs that become the other members of the hive, and is killed by the sterile females (SCP-1702-3) if she becomes flawed in any way. Any female human being who happens to be inside SCP-1702 when this happens becomes the new Queen.

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has a card named "Insect Queen." If she destroys an enemy monster, she generates a weak Insect-type token monster on your side of the field. However, [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen she has to eat her subjects before she can attack.]] [[WouldHarmAChild Her sacrifice is more than likely one of the aforementioned offspring.]]

* 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. When she dies, her daughters fight amongst themselves for the right to eat her ovaries and become the next Queen.

* ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}'': If you're (un)lucky, you'll fight one near the end of a nest. The idea of the Insect Queen is actually played with in-game. The descriptions for the Queen admit that it is not certain whether she really does control the hive, or whether the Gloople swarm has no true ruler and the Insect Queen is just another member of it, albeit a very powerful one. There is a step above the normal Insect Queen, too...

* In ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', the primary raid boss battle for the "Little Skyfarer: A la Sacre Blumiel" event is Queen Bee, a humanoid woman with the lower body of a bee.

* ''VideoGame/{{Anthill}}'' naturally has the ants' queen appear.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Colobot}}'', an alien insect queen is the game's FinalBoss. She regularly lays eggs from which insect units spawn, and she's resistant to any attacks that don't come from the specialized super gun you uncover in the last level.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'', a game that revolves around insects, naturally has these, for each kingdom of social bugs.
** Ant Kingdom has Queen Elizant I, who was a kind and gentle queen who sought to find the Everlasting Sapling to ensure her benevolent rule would last for generations, only to fail and pass the task to her daughter, Queen Elizant II, who struggled with keeping up the legacy of her mother.
** Bee Kingdom, meanwhile, has Queen Bianca, another queen known to be a kind and gentle ruler, whose focus on scientific advances greatly improved the kingdom, making her one of the most popular rulers. She is also the close friend to Queen Elizant II, and the latter occasionally asks her for advice in times of need.
** Termites have not only a queen, but a king as well.[[note]]Before you ask, yes, termites ''do'' [[ShownTheirWork have kings in real life]].[[/note]] They are ruled by Queen Layra II and King Hector IV. While the relationship between ants and termites was rocky, they had peaceful relationship during the rule of Queen Elizant I, but the alliance fell apart after Queen Elizant II came to rule. King Hector IV is known to be very short-tempered and being a grudge-holder, with Queen Layra II serving as a voice of reason.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has both the Vespoid Queen (a KingMook version of the Vespoids) from ''Freedom Unite'', and the Seltas Queen (and by extension the Desert subspecies) from the fourth generation of games. The Vespoid Queen is aided by the smaller Vespoids during battle, but otherwise she's not too difficult to defeat; but the two Seltas Queens are more powerful as, with their male Seltas partners, they make up for more lethal duos when confronting the hunter.

In works that feature a HiveCasteSystem or cartoonish depictions of eusocial insects, writers like to portray the queens (and occassionally king insects) as ''[[VisualPun literal]]'' monarchs, complete with crown, royal attire, and a court of loyal subjects. Even if the colony is less like a human-like monarchy and more of a HordeOfAlienLocusts, expect the queen to at least possess traits resembling regalia that indicate their authority, such as a [[ CrownShapedHead biological "crown"]]. If [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil]], expect the queen to act akin to an EvilMatriarch, with no qualms about siccing her WeaponizedOffspring on her enemies since she can [[WeHaveReserves always make more]].

In works that feature a HiveCasteSystem or cartoonish depictions of eusocial insects, writers like to portray the queens (and occassionally king insects) as ''[[VisualPun literal]]'' monarchs, complete with crown, royal attire, and a court of loyal subjects. Even if the colony is less like a human-like monarchy and more of a HordeOfAlienLocusts, expect the queen to at least possess traits resembling regalia that indicate their authority, such as a biological "crown". If [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil]], expect the queen to act akin to an EvilMatriarch, with no qualms about siccing her WeaponizedOffspring on her enemies since she can [[WeHaveReserves always make more]].

* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 16, Twilight and her friends learn that there are multiple changeling queens, some of whom make their debut in chapter 25; one is a recent promotion to the position, and Twilight volunteers to help another changeling by giving him the magic and love needed to fuel their metamorphosis into a full Queen. [[spoiler:Or king, as it may be - it's Thorax from canon, making his debut in-story.]]
* Subverted in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal. Pessimal began with the canonical situation of the Republican Bees, a species who are threatened because they had a revolution and threw out the monarchy as an outmoded symbol of repression which was typical of the violence inherent in the system. [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7485737/7/Zoo-Tales The City Zoo, reponsible for the last known hive of a seriously extinction-threatened bee, thinks creatively about the situation]]. Witches are good with bees. And one Witch working in the city is not only a [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]]. She also has [[Creator/KarlMarx the right mind-set]] to communicate with the bees. A session of Borrowing later, she has suggested to them that there should be a General Secretary for the Hive who will also double as Comrade Commissar for Egg-Laying and Larval Management. The Drones should be reformed as a Glorious Red-And-Black Army for hive defence. And...

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': The Empress Bulblax is based on queen termites. She is a large, bloated Bulborb that attacks by rolling about and releasing Bulborb Larvae to devour your Pikmin.

* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'': The [[TheCorruption Darkers]] consist of a number of subgroups, each led by a corresponding [[EldritchAbomination Dark Falz]]. Dark Falz Apprentice, a vain, beauty-obsessed [[TheVamp Vamp]], commands the insectoid Darkers. Her Apprezina form leans into this with a combat style that revolves around summoning drones to fight for it. [[spoiler:The [[SuperMode Dark Blast]] version makes it even more explicit by giving the related skills royalty-themed names.]]

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has both the Vespoid Queen (a KingMook version of the Vespoids) from ''Freedom Unite'', and the Seltas Queen (and by extension the Desert subspecies) from the fourth generation of games. The Vespoid Queen is aided by the smaller Vespoids during battle, but otherwise she's not too difficult to defeat; the two Seltas Queens are more powerful, as their male Seltas partners make up for more lethal duos when confronting the hunter.

* ''VideoGame/BugFables'', as the game that revolves around insects, naturally has these, for each kingdom of social bugs.

** DoubleSubverted with the Wasp Kingdom, as they are ruled by the [[BigBad Wasp King]] instead of a queen. However, [[spoiler:Wasp King is actually TheUsurper who used the ancient crown to brainwash wasps into his servitude, and their true ruler is a peaceful Queen Vanessa II, who, after the Wasp King's defeat, [[RightfulQueenReturns reclaims her throne]] and works to undo the damage done by his tyrannical rule.]]
* ''[[VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Banjo-Tooie]]'' features Honey B., who lives in a beehive in the Plateau area of Isle O' Hags. She can increase the LifeMeter of the starring duo in exchange for the Empty Honeycombs scattered in the game's worlds.

In works that feature a HiveCasteSystem or cartoonish depictions of eusocial insects, writers like to portray the "queen" (and occassionally "kings") as ''[[VisualPun literal]]'' monarchs, complete with crown, royal attire, and a court of loyal subjects. Even if the colony is less like a human-like monarchy and more of a HordeOfAlienLocusts, expect the queen to at least possess traits resembling regalia that indicate their authority, such as a biological "crown". If [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil]], expect the queen to act akin to an EvilMatriarch, with no qualms about siccing her WeaponizedOffspring on her enemies since she can [[WeHaveReserves always make more]].

Writers of fiction often pick up on the similarities between eusocial insects and human civilization, resulting in the "queens" being depicted as not only being baby factories responsible for birthing the entire colony, but also as matriarchs who rule over it to varying degrees. The "queen" in question may be [[LargeAndInCharge bigger]] and much [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking stronger or dangerous]] than the rest of her kin, and tends to be portrayed as being capable of commanding swarms of drones as her own personal minions and/or bodyguards in a similar manner to {{Hive Queen}}s. This is TruthInTelevision to some extent (queens are bigger and can and do fight in at least some species, and also communicate with and "command" their children through pheromonal influences), but fiction tends to exaggerate it considerably.

In works that feature BeePeople or cartoonish depictions of eusocial insects, these individuals are almost always portrayed as ''[[VisualPun literal]]'' queens, complete with royal attire and a court of loyal subjects. Even if the colony is less like a human-like monarchy and more of a HordeOfAlienLocusts, expect the queen to at least possess traits resembling regalia that indicate their authority, such as a biological "crown". If [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil]], expect the queen to act akin to an EvilMatriarch, with no qualms about siccing her WeaponizedOffspring on her enemies since she can [[WeHaveReserves always make more]].

Writers of fiction often pick up on the similarities between eusocial insects and human civilization, resulting in the "queens" being depicted as not only being baby factories responsible for birthing the entire colony, but also as matriarchs who rule over it to varying degrees. The "queen" in question may be [[LargeAndInCharge bigger and much stronger or dangerous]] than the rest of her kin, and tends to be portrayed as being capable of commanding swarms of drones as her own personal minions and/or bodyguards in a similar manner to {{Hive Queen}}s. This is TruthInTelevision to some extent (queens are bigger and can and do fight in at least some species, and also communicate with and "command" their children through pheromonal influences), but fiction tends to exaggerate it considerably.

In works that feature BeePeople or cartoonish depictions of eusocial insects, "queens" are almost always portrayed as ''[[VisualPun literal]]'' queens, complete with royal attire and a court of loyal subjects; even if the colony is less like a human-like monarchy and more of a HordeOfAlienLocusts, expect the queen to at least possess traits resembling regalia that indicate their authority, such as a biological "crown". If [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen evil]], expect the queen to act akin to an EvilMatriarch, with no qualms about siccing her WeaponizedOffspring on her enemies since she can [[WeHaveReserves always make more]].

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
** The drow deity Lolth can take the form of a giant spider. She has complete command over all types of spiders and usually has a variety of spiders and spider-like beings attending her.
** Module [=WG7=] ''Castle Greyhawk'', level 7 "Queen of the Honeybee Hive". The BigBad of the level is Aunt Bee. She was originally a human being, but was turned into a giant queen bee by her addiction to royal jelly. She rules over all of the bee (and bee-like) monsters in the level.

Writers of fiction often pick up on the similarities between eusocial insects and human civilization, resulting in the "queens" being depicted as not only being baby factories responsible for birthing the entire colony, but also as matriarchs who rule over it to varying degrees. The "queen" in question may be [[LargeAndInCharge bigger and much stronger or dangerous]] than the rest of her kin, and tends to be portrayed as being capable of commanding swarms of drones as her own personal minions and/or bodyguards in a similar manner to {{Hive Queen}}s.

[[quoteright:215:[[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/honey_queen.png]]]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}'': If you're (un)lucky, you'll fight one near the end of a nest. The idea of the Insect Queen is actually played with in-game. The descriptions for the Queen admit that it is not certain whether she really does control the hive, or whether the Gloople swarm has no true ruler and the Insect Queen is just another member of it, albeit a very powerful one. There is a step above the normal InsectQueen, too...

* The Queen(s) from Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. Each stage usually contains a large one that apparently all the other bug-aliens respond to. The final level plays this one most seriously, with the whole series of levels being a giant insect hive in space.
* The Empress Bulblax from ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' is based on queen termites. She is a large, bloated Bulborb that attacks by rolling about and releasing Bulborb Larvae to devour your Pikmin.
* The Franchise/{{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.
* 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 Floralia. [[spoiler:It's strongly implied in subsequent games that she wasn't always a wasp and used to look like Taranza, not to mention that she was actually a good ruler until she became corrupted by the [[VideoGame/KirbyAndTheAmazingMirror Dimension Mirror]]]].
* Q. Bee from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is the queen of the Soul Bees; monsters that imitate the appearance of humans then prey on their souls.
* From ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' and [[WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim its respective cartoon]], there is Evil Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-Filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt (Or Queen Slug-for-a-Butt for short), who's a queen termite with a very squicky self-explanatory name. Her absolute control and her subjects [[ScaryDogmaticAliens blind, dogmatic]] worship of her are exactly how one would expect intelligent termites that follow their earthly animal counterparts pattern to behave.

* 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.

* The Gohmas of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' are generally portrayed this way (mostly as an 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. ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight Princess]]'' also has Twilit Bloat, queen of the Shadow Insects.

* Queen B., queen of the Zingers, from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1''. The [[VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest sequel]] introduced her apparent mate, King Zing, boss of an area full of [[HornetHole Hornet Holes]].

* The Nerubians of ''VideoGame/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.
* Princess Apoidea from {{VideoGame/Nefarious}} fits the bill, despite only being, well, a princess. It's implied in the sequel webcomics that this world doesn't even have the concept of a queen (or a king for that matter), because PrincessesRule, which means that's really as high as it gets.
* D'Vorah 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.
* The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonesses]] that make [[DealWithTheDevil contracts]] with the Umbra Witches from the ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta}}'' series invoke this trope. Bayonetta is contracted to Madama Butterfly, a massive butterfly woman, while Jeanne is contracted to Madama Styx, a massive moth woman who is even described as being the Queen of the River Styx. In ''{{VideoGame/Bayonetta 2}}'' [[spoiler:[[SecretCharacter Rosa]] has her own demoness she is bound too, a massive scarab woman named Madama Khepri who is said to be a Goddess in [[{{Hell}} Inferno]] with dominion over time and the sun.]]
* The video game VideoGame/{{Anthill}} naturally has the ants' queen appear.
* Rumor Honeybottoms from ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' is a huge queen bee that fights you inside a honeycomb/office building hybrid that [[RiseToTheChallenge is constantly filling with honey]]. In her first phase she sends a bee policeman after you, but afterwards she'll show she's very adept at magic spells.

* The [[TheCorruption Darkers]] of ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' consist of a number of subgroups, each led by a corresponding [[EldritchAbomination Dark Falz]]. Dark Falz Apprentice, a vain, beauty-obsessed [[TheVamp Vamp]], commands the insectoid Darkers. Her Apprezina form leans into this with a combat style that revolves around summoning drones to fight for it. [[spoiler:The [[SuperMode Dark Blast]] version makes it even more explicit by giving the related skills royalty-themed names.]]

* Fanatical cryptid hunter Stefanie Kane is kidnapped by the moth men in the final arc of ''Webcomic/ParanormalMysterySquad''. By the time her younger sister Katie finds her she's been transformed into their new queen and is enthusiastically "giving her all" to repopulate the species.
* Averted in ''WebComic/KevinAndKell'': there's Cassiopeia, queen of the bee colony across the street from Lindesfarne and Fenton. However, she says the drones ''aren't'' her children and 'queen' in this context is more like 'fraternity house mother'. (For bonus points, they live right near an university.) She's also not really any different in size or shape to the drones, the main difference being she has a bigger neck ruff. She's also not a villain: the worst she and her colony have done was keep the nocturnal Lindesfarne and Fenton awake with their buzzing, and once they knew, they agreed to keep it down.

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' has the Ant Queen, fought as a MiniBoss in the first game (as well as the remake ''Millenium Girl''), third (''The Drowned City'') and sixth (''Nexus''). If the egg sacs she drops aren't gotten rid of prior to the battle, the newborn Ants will eventually join the battle, making things more difficult.

Many insect species in the orders Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps) and Isoptera (termites) exhibit a behavior known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality Eusociality]], a behavioral structure which involves a singular "queen" whose only or primary purpose is to [[MookMaker lay eggs]]. The other members of the queen's colony have the purpose of mating with her, tending to her, or protecting her.

** Queen Chrysalis has 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 in canon that the changelings are of an eusociality or the changelings are her children, particularly given the, albeit Gothic, more pony-like appearance of the Changeling Kingdom in the IDW comic series.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicSchoolBus'': In one episode the class gets shrunk down and enters an ant hill so Keesha can make a movie about them. She's fixated on having the queen as her star, seeming to think of queens as we know them, and is disappointed when when she turns our to be just a giant ant who lays eggs.