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| title = Leiningen Versus the Ants
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| author = Carl Stephenson
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| elevator pitch = Ravenous ants are coming, but Leiningen refuses to leave.
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| publication date = December 1938
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{{quote|''"You're insane! They're not creatures you can fight--they're an elemental--an 'act of God!' Ten miles long, two miles wide--ants, nothing but ants!"''}}
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* [[The Swarm]]
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=== The movie ''[[The Naked Jungle]]'' provides examples of ===
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Leiningen pulls one: after fellow plantation owner [[Smug Snake|Gruber]] accuses him of stealing contract workers (whom he recognizes by their whip scars), Leiningen acknowledges that they probably are under contract...but they're murderers, and he has to hang them first. Which he proceeds to do, until the Comissioner steps in and points out that they are entitled to a fair trial (which will certainly find them innocent) first.
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