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== [[Film]] ==
* Happens in a horrifying manner in ''[[Indiana Jones and
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Mark Twain]] once wrote in a story that although ants are very strong, they're also very stupid.
* The [[
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Fifth-gen ''[[Pokémon]]'' include Durant, which is quite powerful, quite [[Meaningful Name|durable]], and also a Steel-type, so pretty much the only thing that works against it at all is [[Kill It
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Normally in many early cartoons ants are portrayed as a single-file line that has a "[[Determinator]]" quality. They have two versions, the first being that they don't stop for anything and pick up anything that happens to be in their way. The second being food hunters that won't stop until their desired target is obtained. They both are usually unstoppable, are a plot driving force, and defy physics by marching up perfectly flat surfaces or carrying objects MORE than 10 times their size. Occasionally a colony may also be portrayed as an army, with a commander and everything.
* Some [[Donald Duck]] cartoons have this trope, including one in which a whole colony of ants comes and picks up a sleeping Donald and carries him away.
* Launchpad McQuack of ''[[
* ''[[The Ant and
* Taken to extremes with ''[[The Atom Ant Show]]''.
* One of the most famous ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' episodes featured this as the plot, complete with infectious [[Ear Worm]]. Two later episodes had callbacks to it.
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