War on termites

A Bug's life: 😊😊😊😊 Antz: 💀🪖🔫🗿

Holding friends decapitated head while the head is saying it's final will. kids movie

You gotta remember: in battle the termites may ACT like savage beasts, but earlier on it was established they were peaceful neighbors to the ant colony and the general used them as a ploy to wipe out the ant soldiers loyal to the queen. The termites were only defending their home and people from an unprovoked attack, and were completely exterminated for it. The final shots of the aftermath of the battle don't just show the countless dead ants, but all the TERMITES who were killed unjustly as well. Both sides were innocent pawns of a corrupt and selfish political figure who manipulated the masses into dying for his own agenda and taking out an enemy that didn't even really exist. Frankly, I've never seen a better allegory for war in any other film.

When you’re on your first mission as a Helldiver

This is basically the kid's version of Starship Troopers

This movie is waaaaaay darker than i remember

Ladies and gentlemen, a 90s kids' movie. Nothing today's kids' movies can compare to. The brutality is spot on.

"It was a brutal war." "It was a bitter war." "And most importantly, it was a visually spectacular war."

"Don't make my mistake, kid. Don't follow orders your whole life. Think for yourself." - Barbatus

Let's be real, Barbados is one of the best minor characters in an animated movie ever

Fun Fact: the longest-lasting and most catastrophic conflict in Earth’s entire history is between rivaling ant colonies.

One thing this scene does well is that it definitely has sympathy for both sides, The Ant soldiers are being sent on a suicide mission, just so they won’t interfere with the villains plans, and the termites are defending themselves from and unprovoked attack….. Man this movie goes deep….

The general sends forces loyal to the monarch on a suicide war, while keeping forces loyal to him fresh to fight against the monarch.... I was there, when Horus slew the Emperor....

so you're telling me theres been thousands of wars in my back garden

"Our platoon has the best assignment of all - we're the first into battle!" -true warrior's wisdom

Barbatus was such a badass. Gives his spear to Z and climbs up the termite, attacking either barehanded or with a knife of some kind.The after the battle scene is just amazing too.

The immune system when you get a cut:

Everybody gangsta till the walls start speaking termite

Antz in my opinion is a perfect depiction of war for a young adult, z was Practically a teenager sent into a violent battle completely unprepared and Barbados was the only ant to have his back and treat him like a friend and died before he did and Z had to be with him in his dying moments. in only knowing him a few short hours Z trusted him and survived an apocalyptic battle and watch thousands of his fellow ants and his only friend die it’s a harsh reality of what war really is.

“We have the saddest ant death scene in film”- Antman “Hold my beer”- Antz