The Great Army of the Ant-Men is a fictional team of supervillains of the telenovela

Telenovela

A telenovela is a limited-run serial dramatic programming popular in Latin American, Portuguese, and Spanish television programming. The word combines tele, short for televisión or televisão , and novela, a Spanish or Portuguese word for "novel"...

 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

Gears of War

Gears of War is a military science fiction third-person shooter video game developed by Epic Games and published by Microsoft Game Studios...

and also draw elements from the 1905 short story "Empire of the Ants

Empire of the Ants

"Empire of the Ants" is a 1905 short story by H. G. Wells, which inspired a film of the same title in 1977. The story involves an explorer who is dispatched to South America to investigate reports of intelligent ants destroying a colony. It was published in 1905 in The Strand...

" by H. G. Wells

H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells was an English author, now best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many other genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social commentary, even writing text books and rules for war games...

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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

Indigenous Australians

Indigenous Australians are the original inhabitants of the Australian continent and nearby islands. The Aboriginal Indigenous Australians migrated from the Indian continent around 75,000 to 100,000 years ago....

 tribes as they carry spear

Spear

A spear is a pole weapon consisting of a shaft, usually of wood, with a pointed head.The head may be simply the sharpened end of the shaft itself, as is the case with bamboo spears, or it may be made of a more durable material fastened to the shaft, such as flint, obsidian, iron, steel or...

s, darts

Dart (missile)

Darts are missile weapons, designed to fly such that a sharp, often weighted point will strike first. They can be distinguished from javelins by fletching and a shaft that is shorter and/or more flexible, and from arrows by the fact that they are not of the right length to use with a normal...

 and aborigine-like shields, and they are seen worshiping several idols across the island. So far the Ant Queen and Carpenter ant

Carpenter ant

Carpenter ants are large ants indigenous to many parts of the world. They prefer dead, damp wood in which to build nests. They do not eat it, however, unlike termites. Sometimes carpenter ants will hollow out sections of trees. The most likely species to be infesting a house in the United States...

 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.