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There is also a novel series, online game, and canceled manga as part of the franchise.
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=== This show provides examples of: ===
* [[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.
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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.
* [[BeginnersBeginner's Luck]]: Subverted, in that Hunter begins as a complete loser. In his first fight against a member of the Big Four, it's Corona who deals the final blow. He's also humiliated when fighting Igneous to prove himself as a Spider Rider.
* [[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 -Sister Incest]]: There must have been a reason the dub cut a certain scene of Lumen watching Sparkle play and calling her "cute." And that's not the only instance that comes to mind.
* [[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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* [[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 As We Know It]]: Well, just the Inner World
* [[EverythingsEverything's Better With Princesses]]: Sparkle.
* [[Evil Redheads]]: Beerain
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: U.S. dub, "Calling All Spider Riders"
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* [[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 -Bad Band]]: Mantid and the Big Four fit this perfectly. I guess that would make Aqune the [[Sixth Ranger|sixth ranger]] and Portia [[Team Pet|team pet]].
* [[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 -Eyed Monster]]: At first, Corona refuses to accept {{spoiler|Aqune}} as an ally, mostly due to her jealousy of her closeness to Hunter. In turn, Buguese despises Hunter for multiple reasons, one being Aqune's affection toward him.
* [[Handsome Lech]]: Lumen.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Applies to {{spoiler|all of the Big Four}}.
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* [[The Knights Who Say Squee]]: 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 Thirty Four34|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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* [[My Sister Is Off Limits]]: Lumen is jealous when anyone gets close to Sparkle
* [[Mysterious Past]]: Corona and Aqune. But At least we get to find out most of Corona's.
* [[Non -Human Sidekick]]: Any of the spiders
* [[Oddly Named Sequel]]: "Spider Riders: Yomigaeru Taiyou," (The Resurrected Sun) honestly made no sense until the last episode {{spoiler|When the sun finally got resurrected}}.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Mantid}}.
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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.
** 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 -Shocked Veteran]]: The show takes this trope ''very'' seriously. Especially during the Nuuma arc and beyond.
* [[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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* [[Whip It Good]]: Beerain.
* [[Whip Sword]]
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]]: Buguese.
* [[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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* [[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.
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