Yellow Jacket - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

The yellow jacket's most visible place in American popular culture is as a mascot, most famously with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, represented by the mascot Buzz. Other college and university examples include the American International College, Baldwin-Wallace College, Black Hills State University, Cedarville University, Defiance College, Graceland University, Howard Payne University, LeTourneau University, Montana State University Billings, Randolph-Macon College, University of Rochester, University of Wisconsin–Superior, West Virginia State University and Waynesburg University.

Notable secondary schools and school districts include Fort Mill High School (Fort Mill, SC) Franklin High School (Stockton, CA), Kingfisher High School (Kingfisher Oklahoma),Alvin High School (Alvin, TX) Sprayberry High School (Marietta, Georgia), Thomas County Central High School, (Thomasville, GA), Xavier University Preparatory High School (New Orleans, Louisiana), Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California), Freeport Area School District (Sarver, Pennsylvania), Ferndale Area High School (Johnstown, Pennsylvania), Llano High, Junior High, Elementary, and Packsaddle Elementary Schools (Llano County Texas), Cleburne High School (Cleburne, Texas), Mount Vernon High School (Mount Vernon, Ohio), Newark High School (Newark, Delaware), Osbourn Park High School (Manassas, Virginia), James Monroe High School (Fredericksburg, VA), Roane County High School (Kingston, TN), Sabinal School District (Sabinal, Texas), Perrysburg High School (Perrysburg, Ohio), Sidney High School (Sidney, Ohio), Girard High School (Girard, Pennsylvania), Vincent High School (Vincent, Alabama), McAdory High School (McCalla, Alabama), Thomas Jefferson High School (Council Bluffs, Iowa), Irmo Middle School, Irmo High School (Irmo, South Carolina) and Oxnard High School (Oxnard, California), Saint Augustine High School (Saint John's County FLA), Lee County Senior High School (Sanford, NC), Palo Verde Valley High School (Blythe, California), George Washington Carver High School (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) Northampton High School (Eastville, Virginia), Coffee High School (Florence, Alabama), Blue Ridge High School (Pinetop-Lakeside, Arizona), Sheridan School District (Sheridan, Arkansas), Oneonta High School (Oneonta, New York), Gwynn Park High School (Brandywine, Maryland), Ithaca High School (Ithaca, Michigan), Starkville High School (Starkville, Mississippi), St. Martin High School (St. Martin, Mississippi), Detroit Country Day School (Beverly Hills, Michigan), Woodford County High School (Versailles, KY), Oakleaf Junior High (Orange Park, FL), Spencer Middle School (Spencer, WV), and Colton High School (Colton, CA).

Also has been used as the name of multiple superheroes, including the third superhero identity of Marvel Comics character Hank Pym; the villainess turned hero Rita Demara, who stole the identity from Pym; and YellowJacket, a Charlton Comics character who got his powers from being bitten by mutant yellow jackets. A fictional type of yellow jacket was used in The Hunger Games. They are called "tracker jackers," a genetically mutated species that's lethal to all people from repeated stings.

In Dr. Steel's street team, the Toy Soldiers, the Yellowjacket award is a patch in the shape of a stylized wasp, which is given to Soldiers who make distinguished efforts and contributions.