Q-Bee

nihongo|Q-Bee|キュービィ|Kyū Bī is a video game character from the "Darkstalkers" fighting game series. Q-Bee appears as an enemy in Namco x Capcom, as well as a card in the series. The voice of Q-Bee is voice actor Miyuki Matsushita. She makes mostly 'buzzing' or bee-sounds but she does have a voice.

She is described as a bee-based monster called a "Soul Bee," born in Makai in an unknown year. Q-Bee and her race lived in the lands of the Dohma family. But during the time when Jedah was dead, her home began to crumble and her race was about to die. She headed toward the Majigen, which Jedah created after his resurrection, to gather souls to satisfy the hunger of the Soul Bees, as well as her own.

The Soul Bee race

Q-Bee may look human or display humanoid-type features, but this is only a deception; her actual species is an insect called a Soul Bee. One of the more obvious characteristic would be her idle stance, where she simply hovers in place with her limbs dangling freely. One characteristic most would not recognize is the placement of her eyes on the top of her head. This is apparent in her fighting style and posture: she appears to be looking at the ground while her real eyes are looking at her enemy. You can think of her as a bee incognito in a human body.

*In a one family of a Soul Bee race, roughly 50~150 bees live in a single hive, with the leader of the family being called Q-Bee. "Q-Bee" is a title instead of a name. The others are either called "P-Bee" or just "Bee".

*A Q-Bee works to raise the next leader of the family. Out of the baby Bees born, certain Bees are born with a 'honey capsule', which is an organ that is used to concentrate and accumulate nutrition. This Bee is raised to become the next Q-Bee.

*Within P-Bees there are male and female (the ratio is roughly 2:8). Their physical appearance is almost identical, with the male being slightly smaller. The male exists only to help reproduce. A male's regeneration ability is very weak compared to a female and, because the current Soul Bee race has a very strong self-reproduction and regeneration system, it is possible to give birth to new Soul Bees without the help of a male. In the near future, the male Soul Bees will most likely disappear.

*Their sense of touch can catch the smell of food; it's range is said to reach several hundred kilometers

*The intelligence level of an average P-Bee is equal to a human child around 4~5 years old. They can have simple conversations as well.

*Their appetite is the most important aspect of their behavior. To them, everything that moves (besides themselves) is food that is meant to be caught. They have an extremely powerful digestive ability and their stomach is rarely upset from eating bad food. Because their metabolism is very high, they cannot survive more than 32 hours without food.

*The attack names of the Q-Bee were taken from "Makai Evil Insect book", written by Varvle Mattlayer. The names were re-written in the nearest sounds to the human language.

Trivia

*Q-Bee is 1.25 m long and weighs 38.2 kg(84 lbs.).
*Her true form can be seen when she is hit by electric-based attacks.

External links

* Q-Bee's [http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Darkstalkers/Characters/Q-Bee Darkstalkers] entry at [http://strategywiki.org/ StrategyWiki.org]