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Future Trope Draft: Wasps of Wrath/Everything's Worse With Wasps/Wrathful Wasp/Hellish Hornet
It's hard to think of bugs that are more hated than wasps. While angry swarms of them can inspire fear, bees are generally beloved for having a more apparent positive effect on the environment as well as having calmer temperaments. Spiders are also notoriously scary, but there are just as many people who love them for keeping bug populations under control as there are those who loathe them. And even scorpions have a Creepy Awesome appeal going for them. But on a surface level, wasps are essentially nastier bees without any of their good traits: they're far easier to piss off, they can and will sting multiple times once angered, and in the cases of certain wasps, paralyze their prey with agonizing venom so they can lay eggs in them and have their young slowly eat their way out of the host bug.

And as one would expect, media portrayals of wasps tend to reflect how your average Joe views them: wrathful, spiteful, petty little bastards (or rather bitches, since male wasps can't sting) who will happily sting people for no reason. And while there is some level of Truth In Television regarding their aggression, it's also a huge oversimplification. Social wasps won't just sting people for no reason, but they are territorial and will defend their nests from any potential threats... and a lot of the time, a "threat" just happens to be some poor schmuck who doesn't realize that they're dangerous close to a wasp nest until it's too late. Solitary wasps such as cicada killer wasps or infamously, the tarantula hawk are also a lot more docile than their social cousins and won't sting unless you really go out of your way to piss them off.

Compare to Bee Afraid, which is more of a bee-focused version of this trope.

Anime and Manga

 * Soifon/Sui-Feng from Bleach is the Second Squad captain of Soul Society's Thirteen Court Guard Squads, and incorporates a lot of hornet motifs in her personality and fighting style... specifically, the infamously lethal Japanese Giant Hornet. Fittingly, she's a nasty and unpleasant little woman who bullies her subordinates, takes a lot of sadistic joy out of mercilessly crushing her opponents, and is capable of killing people in two hits with her Zanpakuto, which turns into a rocket launcher in its Bankai form. She does have a kinder side to her, but its usually saved exclusively for Yoruichi, her former mentor who she may or may not have a crush on.
 * Mushizo from Ninja Scroll is not only horribly ugly, but has a hornet's nest built into his back. He can use his hornets as living weapons against his enemies, as well as scouts to gather information with.

Comic Books

 * Ethan van Sciver's Cyberfrog has aliens that look like wasps as antagonists in one story arc.

Film

 * Corny 1950's horror flick The Wasp Woman has, you guessed it, the titular wasp woman. She was once a normal woman (albeit in charge of a company geared around beauty products), but thanks to taking an experimental treatment augmented with enzymes from wasp queen jelly (which doesn't exist, by the way), she periodically turns into a murderous wasp/human hybrid.