Brie Larvan

"I’m the queen of this hive."

- Brie Larvan to Felicity Smoak

Brie Larvan, styled as Queen Bee, and nicknamed Bug-Eyed Bandit by Cisco Ramon and Ray Palmer, is a former mechanical engineer at Mercury Labs. After her termination, Brie became a criminal, seeking revenge on those who enabled this with an army of robotic bees she designed herself. She eventually became a member of the Young Rogues.

Working at Mercury Labs
Brie Larvan once worked at Mercury Labs, developing robotic bees for agricultural purposes. However, she continued to develop them for unauthorized military-grade application, leading to Lindsay Kang and Bill Carlisle reporting her to their boss, Tina McGee. Afterwards, she was fired.

Targeting her former co-workers
Growing bitter from being fired, Larvan began to go after her former co-workers. She sent her bees remotely after Kang and then Carlisle, killing them both by injecting copious amounts of apitoxin. She was almost thwarted by The Flash and his team, but the bees stung The Flash, nearly killing him. Brie sent her bees after Tina McGee, but before long she was located by the S.T.A.R. Labs team, who sent The Flash. She sent some bees to swarm him but was fought for control by an unknown hacker. In the end, Larvan's opponent was able to both turn the bees off and redirect those directed at Dr. McGee, in turn short-circuiting them. Larvan was ultimately captured by the Flash and arrested. She was incarcerated at Iron Heights Prison.

Taking Palmer Tech hostage
Shortly after being imprisoned at Iron Heights, Larvan learned that a cancerous tumor was attached to her spine and the surgery to remove it would cost her the use of her legs. Not wanting this outcome and learning about the implantable bio-stimulant which helped Felicity Smoak to walk again, Larvan hacked prison records to change her release date to March 29, 2016.

Larvan then reactivated and added upgrading software to her bees. She then broke into Palmer Technologies and held its board of directors hostage, killing a member in the process with her bees and demanding to know where Felicity was. She then sent a message throughout the building, demanding Felicity to surrender herself in 10 minutes or she would start killing the board members. After several minutes of Larvan's bees chasing Felicity, Thea Queen, and Donna Smoak, the Green Arrow, Black Canary, and Spartan showed up. They attempted to get inside the building but were stopped by Larvan's bees, resulting in the Green Arrow getting stung and forcing Larvan to add another 5 minutes to her demands due to the sudden appearance of the vigilante archer.

After Felicity and Thea rescued the board members, Larvan proceeded to take them hostage in the CEO's office. Trying to stall for time, Felicity gave Larvan access to the lab where the designs for the spinal chip was held. However, while studying the designs, Larvan recognized Felicity's code as similar to that used by the hacker who sent her to jail a year prior. Wanting revenge for her imprisonment, Larvan went back to Felicity's office to kill her. Suddenly, the Green Arrow burst into the room, having recovered from their earlier encounter. The vigilante then fired an arrow which held a virus developed by Curtis Holt at Larvan's bees, allowing Curtis to shut them down. Larvan then shot the Green Arrow with her gun and began to threaten everybody in the room. However, Curtis reactivated the bees himself and proceeded to have them sting Larvan multiple times, causing her to fall into a coma.

The SCPD then picked up Larvan up and took her to Starling General Hospital to be treated.

Personality
The zealous scientific mind Brie Larvan possessed is only matched by her ambition and vengeance. Originally designing robotic bees for agriculture and defense she became obsessed with designing them for military purposes - not realizing the destructive potential for such an endeavor caused her to believe her co-workers, Lindsay Kang and Bill Carlisle, whistle-blowing and superior, Tina McGee, firing her was an act of betrayal that caused them to deserve their death. Larvan is only concerned with her own welfare and being, and her lack of morals make her actions in this regard leads her to take extreme measures; Larvan didn't want to be rendered paralyzed from a surgery to save her life, to the point that she was willing to murder an entire board of innocent victims to steal Felicity Smoak's technology.

Larvan has a deep affinity for bees and their paraphernalia. From designing miniature robotic bees and outfitting her lair with hive designs, Larvan also dressed accordingly with colors such as yellow and honeycomb patterns.

Despite her cold and bitter nature, Larvan is not without a sense of humor, particularly when it concerns bees. For example, Larvan Tina McGee if she could be "buzzed" in, described her vengeance to Barry Allen as a "sting of betrayal" and continuously enunciated "bee" in the words of her sentences during her siege of Palmer Technologies.

With or without this humorous edge, Larvan does not shy from brutal means to obtain revenge, such as suffocating Carlisle with her bees and stinging Kang to death for telling on her. Though brilliant, her vengeful and arrogant nature are more prevalent such as defying the Flash despite her lack of powers, which caused her to be easily restrained when her bees were deactivated, and going to excessive lengths to murder Felicity despite having already obtained the technology required to prevent her paralysis.

Powers

 * Robotic bee application: Using her swarm of robotic bees, Brie is able to mimic the powers of meta-humans.
 * Hive-mind: Brie is able to control her robotic creatures at will and give them specific commands.

Abilities

 * Genius-level intellect/Master engineer: Brie is a highly intelligent engineer. After years of research, she was able to develop perfected agricultural, and later weaponized robotic bees with real venom and later design them to evolve in response to attacks.
 * Computer specialist/Master computer hacker: Brie is a highly skilled computer specialist and hacker, as she was able to hack into the computers from S.T.A.R. Labs and cause one of the monitors to explode. Her computer skills are able to rival those of Felicity Smoak's, although she was ultimately beaten in their hacking battle for control over the robotic bees. Brie was able to change her prison release date using a basic computer at Iron Heights. She even deduced that Felicity was the same hacker who worked with Team Flash to send her to prison a year prior due to the similarities between the coding.
 * Skilled hand-to-hand combatant: Brie is proven to have some combat skills; as she able to quickly knock out an armed guard.
 * Skilled markswoman: During her attack on Palmer Technologies, Brie was proven to have expertise in using a gun. Later on, she used a specialized arm cannon.

Weaknesess

 * Medical ailments:
 * Paralysis: Brie was in danger of fast becoming a paralytic, and now requires Felicity Smoak's technology to be able to walk again.
 * Coma (formerly) : After being stung by her own bees, Brie fell into a coma. However, she was treated well enough to leave the hospital and join the Young Rogues later on.

Equipment

 * Bug-Eyed Bandit's robotic honey bee.pngRobotic bees: Brie created robotic bees for agricultural use. However, she later designed them for military use, with the venom in each their stingers powerful enough to kill a full-grown elephant. Brie was later able to ensure they adapt and evolve in response to cyber, sonic, etc. attacks. Brie later modified them into a gauntlet, an arm cannon, which can appear upon her hand at will.

Trivia

 * Brie Larvan is the first case of gender-bending in ​​​. The others are Linda Park of Earth-2, Rosa Dillon, Mina Chaytan, Izzy Bowin, Janet Petty, Spencer Young, Joslyn Jackam, and Raya Van Zandt.

Behind the scenes

 * In the DC comics, Bug-Eyed Bandit is a villain of The Atom, but is, in fact, a man named Bertram Larvan.
 * Cisco initially planned on naming Brie "Queen Bee". In the DC comics, Queen Bee has been a name shared by four super-villains, two of which are extraterrestrials who rule over an insect planet, while the other two are human queens of the fictional nation of Bialya. Some incarnations have been associated with H.I.V.E. and were known under the alias of the H.I.V.E. "Queen".
 * In when called "Bug-Eyed Bandit", Brie angrily asks not to call her that, as it is "THEIR nickname" for her, showing that she prefers the "Queen Bee" moniker.