 The Madagascar hissing cockroach has been known to be featured in Hollywood movies, prominently in "Bug" (1975) as cockroaches who could set fires by rubbing their legs together and, in "Damnation Alley" (1977), as post-nuclear-war mutant armor-plated "killer" cockroaches.In "Starship Troopers", a movie about a war against an enemy called "The Bugs", a teacher is shown encouraging her students to step on this species as part of a TV propaganda broadcast.A Madagascar hissing cockroach was used by artist Garnet Hertz as the driver of a mobile robotic artwork.