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Along with Corona, Igneous, Prince Lumen, Princess Sparkle, and the former wanderer Magma, Hunter fights against Mantid and his Insector army, trying the prevent them from collecting the four Oracle Keys.
A rather underrated anime, due to its strange title and premise, a broadcast cut short on American TV, and its [[Genre Busting
There is also a novel series, online game, and canceled manga as part of the franchise.
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* [[A Boy and His X]]: A boy and his ten-foot spider.
* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]: Lumen is 12 and Sparkle is 8. There's no king or queen to be mentioned.
* [[Action Girl]]: Corona, Aqune and Sparkle.
* [[Audience Surrogate]]: Hunter, in that he's new to the Inner World, thus things need to be explained to him, as well as viewers.
* [[Backup From Otherworld]]: {{spoiler|Quake/Brade fills the spot of the 8th Rider needed to awaken Spirit Oracle}} even though he's dead. The Lost Mariner, also dead, helps the Riders escape an attack at sea.
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* [[Beast and Beauty]]: Buguese and Aqune, in a way.
* [[Bee People]]: The Insectors/Invectids. Though ironically, Mantid is more their "queen" than Beerain.
* [[
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Sparkle.
* [[BFS]]: Stags' sword definitely counts for this one.
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Aqune is frequently mind controlled throughout the show, but towards the end {{spoiler|Mantid's ultimate Machine-sector turns out to be a trap, and her mask merges with it, becoming even creepier. She then drains the power from Hunter's Oracle Keys, much to the surprise and horror of Buguese, who was sitting next to her and perfectly convinced that he was in control. After this, Mantid lends her additional power and pits her against the Spider Riders. Fortunately, Buguese stops her from killing Hunter}}.
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Lumen.
* [[Brother
* [[Bug War]]: It's there, but very much subverted in that the Insectors are both humanoid and sympathetic.
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: All the Riders do this.
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* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: Hunter, {{spoiler|who even reaches the point of wanting to save the Invectids/Insectors, after realizing that they're being wronged and oppressed}}.
* [[Cosmic Keystone]]: The Oracle Keys
* [[Cry for
* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Katydid fits into this trope, but Beerain subverts it.
* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]:The spiders themselves, also. {{spoiler|It takes being brought directly into Mantid's citadel for Hunter to finally grasp what his "enemies," who live in a world of darkness, are really fighting for. Of course, Mantid himself turns out to be insane anyway}}.
* [[Dead All Along]]:
** The Lost Mariner.
** {{spoiler|Quake/Brade}}.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Shadow.
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** And for whatever reason he decided to throw ''Imma go to the outer world {{spoiler|again}} and take it over'' in.
* [[Dub Text]]: Hunter and Aqune's promises to each other. Actually, most indication that Hunter had romantic interest in her. The same could probably go for Buguese calling her "my beautiful" and "my sweet." Considering that the dub even went as far as to remove some of the Hunter/Corona, perhaps they just wanted to hook Aqune up with someone.
* [[Early
* [[The Emperor]]: Mantid, although the specific term isn't mentioned in the dub. {{spoiler|Buguese probably becomes this at the end}}.
* [[The End of the World
* [[
* [[Evil Redheads]]: Beerain
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: U.S. dub, "Calling All Spider Riders"
* [[Expy]]:
** Similar to other Bee Train anime(Madlax, Noir), Spider Riders features Corona and Aqune, two girls with no memory of their past, and some sort of connection. Aqune and Madlax even share the same seiyuu.
** Slate/Grey is debatably an Expy of Petra from the novels, with a gender flip.
* [[Facial Markings]]: The Insectors/Invectids have them. Whether they're genetic or painted is never bought up.
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Between humans and Insectors/Invectids.
* [[Five
* [[Finishing Move]]: Any of Hunter's Oracle Key attacks
* [[Flying Dutchman]]: The Lost Mariner.
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* [[Giant Spider]]
* [[Gladiator Games]]: On several occasions, the Riders are to fight minor Insector soldiers, or Machine-sectors inside a generated "Coliseum."
* [[Green
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Lumen.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Applies to {{spoiler|all of the Big Four}}.
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** {{spoiler|And Finally Buguese, who turns on Mantid only after being betrayed. He then frees Aqune from Mantid's control and makes it his mission to defeat his former leader himself}}.
* [[Horrible Judge of Character]]: {{spoiler|Buguese, who continued to follow Mantid loyally, despite knowing some of his intentions, believing that there would be no other way to restore sunlight to his land. He didn't even consider that the ultimate weapon Mantid just handed to him might've been part of a trap}}.
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: All of the Machine-sector's fit into this, {{spoiler|even though only the last can actually be piloted}}.
* [[Idiot Hero]]: Hunter.
* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Igneous.
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* [[Kid Hero]]: This one basically applies to the whole Spider Rider team.
* [[Killer Yoyo]]: Sparkle's weapon fits perfectly here
* [[
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Sure, Sparkle's cute, but if you piss her off, she AND her adorable spider will kick your ass.
* [[Lolicon]]: It's better not to think of [[Rule
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Beerain-Buguese-Aqune-Hunter-Corona. And Sparkle seems to have a thing for Hunter too. Lumen also hits on Sparkle in the Japanese version, and has declared his true love for Beerain. But he'll fall in love with just about anything female.
* [[Love Martyr]]: Beerain.
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* [[Miniature Senior Citizens]]: Quake/Brade.
* [[Minion Shipping]]: {{spoiler|Beerain is deeply infatuated with Buguese, who in turn has a strong care for Aqune, debatably romantic attraction. Aqune cares about Buguese, but not necessarily on a romantic level. Buguese also respects and cares for Beerain as a comrade, though never returns her romantic feelings}}.
* [[Mon Machine]]: The Manacles
* [[Mood Swinger]]: Stags. Enough said.
* [[Mook Promotion]]: The Big Four were minor characters in the novels
* [[Morality Pet]]: Sparkle to Grasshop, and to an extent, Aqune to Buguese.
* [[Motor Mouth]]: Grasshop.
* [[My Sister Is Off
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Corona and Aqune. But At least we get to find out most of Corona's.
* [[Non
* [[Oddly
* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Mantid}}.
* [[The Only One]]: The Arachnian military is generally incompetent, leaving the Spider Riders to bail them out on occasions.
* [[Only One Name]]: Everyone from the Inner World. The dub gave Grasshop a full name, though.
* [[The Pawn]]: {{spoiler|The Big Four and Aqune}}.
* [[Raised
* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Sparkle.
* [[Reincarnation]]: According to original plans for the series, Aqune was the Oracle's reincarnation. Because the plot was [[What Could Have Been|changed so much]], there's no way of telling if that's still true.
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* [[Seashell Bra]]: Aqune's transformed outfit.
* [[Shrines and Temples]]
* [[Spell My Name
** Aqune is Aquine in the online game. Her name is often mistakenly written as Akune or Aquna by the fans.
** Igneous's name in became Ignus in the anime (the dub bought it back to Igneous, as it was in the novels) because it was easier for the Japanese to pronounce.
** Try to find people in fandom who know how to spell Buguese. You'll have trouble. Doesn't help that his name is written as Baggus in Japanese either.
* [[Shell
* [[Spider Tank]]: The entire show is based around this trope.
* [[Spoiler Opening]]: The second OP is really bad about this. {{spoiler|For one, it shows Aqune with the Spider Riders, even though she doesn't officially join them until the fourth-to-last episode}}. Next, it reveals the existence of {{spoiler|Quake/Brade, as well as the fact that he's a Spider Rider, and has a younger form. Although I suppose viewers could assume that younger Quake/Brade was a different person entirely}}.
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* [[Sword Fight]]
* [[Sword Sparks]]
* [[Talking to Himself]]: Grasshop and his wife in English and Japanese; also in the English dub, Hunter shares a [[Julie Lemieux|voice actress]] with the Oracle, Lilly and Queen Illuma. And yes, there's times when either women are talking with him.
* [[Theme Naming]]: With Hunter and Aqune as exceptions, the humans have mostly sun related (Corona, Sparkle, Lumen) or Earth related (Igneous, Magma, Grey) names. There are even more cases in the dub, due to the name changes. The Insectors names are all bug-related.
* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Aqune. {{spoiler|Towards the end, the other Riders pick up this way of thinking too, thanks to Quake/Brade}}.
* [[Transformation Sequence]]: Always a sign of lazy animators. [[Dub Text|In the English version,]] during one battle, Grasshop actually comments that the children take too long to transform.
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* [[Transformation Trinket]]: Manacles.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Hunter in the Inner World.
* [[Turncoat]]: {{spoiler|Grasshop}}.
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* [[Whip It Good]]: Beerain.
* [[Whip Sword]]
* [[White
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Hunter and Corona. So much shiptease…
* [[Writing Around Trademarks]]: Despite being known as Insectors in both the novels and the Japanese version, they were changed to Invectids in the dub due to legal reasons, or so says [[Word of God]].
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Igneous' is blue. Aqune's is purple, Hunter's is a pinkish-orange, Lily's is lavender, and Illuma's is green. Most other characters actually have plausible colors.
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* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Buguese, after finding out the truth and realizing how much he wronged his comrades in his efforts to capture the Oracle Keys, decides to crash Dark Opal into Mantid's castle, taking out Mantid with him. When he fails at this, he even admits that he doesn't feel he deserves to live}}. Pretty dark for a kids show.
* [[Drowning My Sorrows]]: Grasshop does this once... only with milk.
* [[Dub
* [[Hands
* [[Hostage Situation]]: Corona by Buguese, in exchange for both the Oracle Keys and Aqune {{spoiler|Although Aqune was willing to return to him anyway in the Japanese version, and he's only able to get her back, because the other Riders return to retrieve the keys}}.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Corona, in one particular episode. The rest seem to have no problem being Spider Riders, Hunter loving it enough to abandon whatever old life he might have had.
* [[No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Dine]]: Hunter is treated quite well when taken prisoner by the Insectors. Mantid even offers him Aqune. {{spoiler|But as it turns out, Mantid was just trying to convince him to give them the Oracle Keys, which he didn't even have with him. Fortunately, Brade intervenes and rescues him}}.
* [[No One Could Survive That]]: {{spoiler|Stags}} manages to survive after purposely falling backwards off a building, which was already floating high in the air. More surprisingly, he didn't even appear hurt. <ref>He IS based on a Stag Beetle insect. Beetles have hard exoskeletons in real life to protect them, it's possible this also applies to the Insectors.</ref>
* [[Obvious Trap]]: How about following the only villager left in a conspicuously empty village into a cave? Genius, if you ask me.
* [[Plot Armor]]: Could anyone honestly believe {{spoiler|Hunter was killed in his fight against Stags, 3/4 into the show}}?
* [[Recap Episode]]: Episode 41. It doesn't really use much stock footage, but it basically just re-accounts the Nuuma arc.
* [[Romantic Runner
* [[Save Both Worlds]]: Averted! The [[Big Bad]] ''says'' that he intends on conquering the Outer World, but he's defeated before he can even get there. Considering that this is an anime that involves a boy from earth getting [[Trapped in Another World|sucked into a subterranean world beneath our own]], the fact that we didn't even see some [[Everything Is Online|strange phenominon]] going on in the outer world, this is rather unique.
* [[Shipper
* [[Take My Hand]]: Towards the end {{spoiler|Beerain saves Buguese in this way. Also, Hunter offers his hand to Mantid, which he actually does except}}.
* [[Theme Tune Cameo]]: in one episode, Aqune hums the 2nd ED theme
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