Spider Riders: Difference between revisions

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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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* [[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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* [[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.

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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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* [[Even Heroes Have Heroes]]: Magma turns out to be a huge fanboy of Brade/Quake, to the point where the man is somewhat afraid of him.

* [[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 34|the porn of 8-year-old Sparkle out there]]. 13-year-old Corona and Aqune (whose age was never stated but she can't be much older than Corona) have their fair share as well, but at least they look older. Furthermore, there's more than one way of interpreting Buguese and Aqune's complicated relationship. [[Dub Text|The dub]] doesn't help matters.

* [[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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* [[Seashell Bra]]: Aqune's transformed outfit.

* [[Shrines and Temples]]

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]:

** 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.

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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.

{{quote|'''Grasshop:''' So you finally finished transforming? About time!}}

* [[Transformation Trinket]]: Manacles.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: Hunter in the Inner World.

* [[Turncoat]]: {{spoiler|Grasshop}}.

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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 Induced Plot Hole]]: According to episode 23 of the dub {{spoiler|The sun was taken from the "Invectid" world as punishment for their race eating all the plant life}}. What actually happened was {{spoiler|Mantid caused its disappearance when he once collected the four Oracle Keys, and the plant life died as a result}}. The dub goes with the true story later, making the already bizarre edit seem even more awkward. One could argue that all the Invectids/Insectors believed and perhaps were told (by Mantid) the first story in order to make them hate the humans and The Oracle, when the second story was in fact the truth.

* [[Dub-Induced Plot Hole]]: According to episode 23 of the dub {{spoiler|The sun was taken from the "Invectid" world as punishment for their race eating all the plant life}}. What actually happened was {{spoiler|Mantid caused its disappearance when he once collected the four Oracle Keys, and the plant life died as a result}}. The dub goes with the true story later, making the already bizarre edit seem even more awkward. One could argue that all the Invectids/Insectors believed and perhaps were told (by Mantid) the first story in order to make them hate the humans and The Oracle, when the second story was in fact the truth.

* [[Hands-On Approach]]: As Hunter obviously isn't a handmaiden, {{spoiler|he's unable to place an Oracle Key into the barrier, in Nuuma castle. Corona helps him by putting her hand on his, and they break through together}}.

* [[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-Up]]: Igneous

* [[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.

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