The Great Army of the Ant-Men is a fictional team of supervillains of the telenovela The Mutants - the Ways of the Heart. They are also known as the Ant Horde and Ant Drones. Their headquarters are in the old Ant-City (Formigopolis in the original Portuguese). They are some of the main antagonists of the second season. Like many other characters in the series who are inspired by another fictional work, the Ant-Men are inspired by the monster enemies from the Locust Horde in the game Gears of War and also draw elements from the 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants" by H. G. Wells.
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Powers and abilities
All Ant-Men possess scales over their body and bloodshot eyes. They have superhuman strength compared to fifty times their own size (an in-joke, as ants often appear in cartoons stealing food several times larger than themselves). They are highly social and super organized, rarely splitting up during incidents, and they will fight until death. Their appearance is like aboriginal tribes as they carry spears, darts and aborigine-like shields, and they are seen worshiping several idols across the island. So far the Ant Queen and Carpenter ant are the most powerful of them all and it's possible if the Ant Queen is impregnated by a superhuman mutant, she will conceive a new generation of hybrid ant-men with their male progenitor's abilities.
Os Mutantes - Caminhos do Coração
The Ant-Men begin their fight against the League of Good when they try to enter Doctor Juli di Trevi's lab. They fight against Bobby and Perpetual, but capture Noah, Mary, Cleo and Tony. These four are taken to the voluptuous and sultry Ant Queen, who wants to make Noah and Tony her Ant Princes in hope of them impregnating her, so that she might give birth to a new and more powerful generation of Ant-Men. The Ant-Men are ordered to kidnap several men around the island to become the Ant King for the Queen.
The Reptilian forces order the Ant-Army to destroy the Agartha Kingdom and they march in, but unknown to them, the Ant-Men are Juli di Trevi's pawns. They will not even get close to the kingdom borders and will fight in the sewers while Juli's agents kidnap the Prophecy's babies, and the League of Good go to their rescue only to leave the Agartha Kingdom unprotected for the Reptilians to invade. The Ant-Men, having felt the Reptilian betrayal and abandoned before their enemies, fight against the League of Good and the Agarthian Army and are massacred to the last one in a single battle. An entire race is wiped out as the Ant Queen, the only fertile female of their army, is also killed.