History Anime / SpiderRiders

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: 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]].

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Hunter, [[spoiler:who even reaches the point of wanting to save the Invectids/Insectors, after realizing that they're being wronged and oppressed]].
* CosmicKeystone: The Oracle Keys

* DrowningMySorrows: Grasshop does this once... only with milk.

* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Buguese.

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.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Mantid. [[spoiler: My girlfriend died, so the world who took her away from me needs to be destroyed. Yeah...]] In all fairness he said he'd sufferd MANY losses.

** Grasshop also does this at least once.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[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. [[hottip:*: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.]]

* ShellShockedVeteran: The show takes this trope ''very'' seriously. Especially during the Nuuma arc and beyond.

* RoyalswhoActuallyDoSomething: Lumen and Sparkle... although Lumen would prefer to be lazy

* TheReveal: A big dose is revealed near the end of the series when Mantid admits that [[spoiler:he's an earthen like Hunter. On top of that, it's also a subtle callback to the beginning of the series.]] Some characters spoke of a prophecy for a short time, and pretty quickly stopped mentioning it. The prohecy stating that an Earthen would bring great evil to the Inner World...[[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything and one did.]]

* EvilForeigner: Prophecies said that one from the Outer World would threaten the Inner World. Turned out to be right.

* TransformationSequence: Always a sign of lazy animators.

* {{BFS}}: Stags' sword definitely counts for this one

* BrotherSisterIncest: 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 I can think of.

* CrossDressingVoices: Hunter and Lumen both have female seiyuu. While Hunter also has a female VO in the English dub, Lumen was voiced by a then 14-year-old Cameron Ansell (male). On the other hand, Grasshop's wife is voiced by a man, who also voiced Grasshop himself.

* DeadpanSnarker: (Shadow)
* TheDeterminator: (Hunter)

* {{Expository Theme Tune}} U.S dub, "Calling All Spider Riders"

* FanNickname: Iggy for Igneous.

* HeyItsThatVoice:
** English -- Hunter is [[{{Bakugan}} Runo]], Aqune is [[ResidentEvil Claire Redfield]], [[TheFamousJettJackson Dr. Hypnoto]] is Mantid, [[MegaManLegends Tron Bonne]] is Venus, Shadow is [[{{Medabots}} Medabee]], Ebony is [[{{Shinzo}} Dr. Daigo Tatsuro]], the opening Narrator is [[TheRippingFriends Man Man]] and Prince Lumen is Franklin the Turtle.
** Japanese -- [[MotokoKumai Hunter]] is [[CardCaptorSakura Syaoran Li]]/[[FlameOfRecca Kaoru Koganei]], [[ShigeruChiba Grasshop and Brutus]] are [[DragonBall Raditz]]/[[OnePiece Buggy The Clown]]/[[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Corset]], [[MegumiToyoguchi Lumen]] is [[BlackLagoon Revy]]/[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Hikari]], [[YuuAsakawa Hotarla]] is [[AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]]/[[{{Vocaloid}} Luka Megurine]], [[ToshihikoSeki Buguese]] is [[GundamWing Duo Maxwell]]/[[RanmaOneHalf Mousse]], Igneous is [[KeroroGunsou Kururu]]/[[SoulEater Excalibur]], [[SanaeKobayashi Venus and Aqune]] are [[{{Madlax}} Madlax]]/[[ElfenLied Lucy]] and Stags is [[DarkerThanBlack Genma Shizume]]/[[TransformersEnergon Omega Surpreme]].

* SayMyName: Watch any episode (besides the first). Try and guess Corona's favorite word.
** This is abused in the series in general.

* DeadAllAlong: The Lost Mariner.

->'''Hunter''': [[CatchPhrase Never give up]].

Within the Earth exists the Inner World, created and blessed by a being known as Spirit Oracle. There, a war has been waging between the humans and Insectors (or Invectids.) Following the journal of his late grandfather, 13-year-old Hunter Steele finds himself drawn into the Inner World. He soon encounters the independent spider Shadow, who eventually becomes his partner despite their initial attitudes towards each other, as well as the mysterious girl Corona, one of the elite warriors known as Spider Riders, who welcomes Hunter into their team.

* CrossDressingVoices: Hunter and Lumen both have female seiyuu.
** On the other hand, Grasshop's wife is voiced by a man, who also voiced Grasshop himself.
** While Hunter also has a female VO in the English dub, Lumen was voiced by a then 14-year-old Cameron Ansell (male).

* DisproportionateRetribution: Mantid. [[spoiler: My girlfriend died, so the world who took her away from me needs to be destroyed. Yeah...]]In all fairness he said he'd sufferd MANY losses.

* TheEmperor: Mantid, although the specific term isn't mentioned in the dub.
** [[spoiler:Probably Buguese at the end]].

* {{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 one to Petra in the novels, with a gender flip.

** [[spoiler:Grasshop first, when he ultimately decides to rescue Sparkle (as well as Igneous and Lumen.) He then remains an ally to the Spider Riders, traveling with them until the end]].

** English - Hunter is [[{{Bakugan}} Runo]], Aqune is [[ResidentEvil Claire Redfield]], [[TheFamousJettJackson Dr. Hypnoto]] is Mantid, [[MegaManLegends Tron Bonne]] is Venus, Shadow is [[{{Medabots}} Medabee]], Ebony is [[{{Shinzo}} Dr. Daigo Tatsuro]], the opening Narrator is [[TheRippingFriends Man Man]] and Prince Lumen is Franklin the Turtle.
** Japanese - [[MotokoKumai Hunter]] is [[CardCaptorSakura Syaoran Li]]/[[FlameOfRecca Kaoru Koganei]], [[ShigeruChiba Grasshop and Brutus]] are [[DragonBall Raditz]]/[[OnePiece Buggy The Clown]]/[[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Corset]], [[MegumiToyoguchi Lumen]] is [[BlackLagoon Revy]]/[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Hikari]], [[YuuAsakawa Hotarla]] is [[AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]]/[[{{Vocaloid}} Luka Megurine]], [[ToshihikoSeki Buguese]] is [[GundamWing Duo Maxwell]]/[[RanmaOneHalf Mousse]], Igneous is [[KeroroGunsou Kururu]]/[[SoulEater Excalibur]], [[SanaeKobayashi Venus and Aqune]] are [[{{Madlax}} Madlax]]/[[ElfenLied Lucy]] and Stags is [[DarkerThanBlack Genma Shizume]]/[[TransformersEnergon Omega Surpreme]].

* HoYay: Most the cast is male. What do you expect? Magma constantly clings onto other men, Grey/Slate and Igneous have a little less.
** Of course that's all just fan interpretation run amok. Igneous once had a crush on Queen Elma/Illuma, and Magma is to busy trying to hook-up [[spoiler:Hunter and Corona]] to be in any relationship of his own.

* {{Lolicon}}: It's better not to think of 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.
** And there's more than one way of interpreting Buguese and Aqune's complicated relationship. [[DubText The dub]] doesn't help matters.
** As well as [[spoiler:Corona and Aqune]].

* OnlyOneName: Everyone from the Inner World.
** The dub gave Grasshop a full name, though.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Aqune is Aquine in the online game. And her name is often mistakenly written as Akune or Aquna by the fans
** And Igneous's name in fact 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

* ShellShockedVeteran: Believe it or not the show actually takes this trope very seriuosly. Especially during the Nuuma arc and beyond.

* ThouShaltNotKill: (Aqune)
** [[spoiler: Towards the end, the other Riders pick up this way of thinking too, thanks to Quake/Brade]].

* DubInducedPlotHole: 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. At least, that's what this troper thinks.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[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.
** He IS based on a Stag Beetle insect. Beetles have hard exoskeletons in real life to protect them, what's to say the Insectors don't either?

* SaveBothWorlds: Averted! The series's titular {{BigBad}} ''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 [[TrappedInAnotherWorld sucked into a subterranean world beneath our own]], the fact that we didn't even see some [[EverythingIsOnline strange phenominon]] going on in the outer world, this is rather unique.
* ShipperOnDeck: There's been evidence on a few occasions of Magma trying to help Hunter and Corona's relationship, [[spoiler:such as restraining Igneous so Corona could be the first to greet him after they were separated]].
** There's Corona's sister's too, and many other residents of her hometown.

** English - Hunter is [[{{Bakugan}} Runo]], Aqune is [[ResidentEvil Claire Redfield]], Prince Lumen is Franklin the Turtle.
** Japanese - [[ShigeruChiba Grasshop and Brutus]] are [[DragonBall Raditz]]/[[OnePiece Buggy The Clown]]/[[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt Corset]], [[MegumiToyoguchi Lumen]] is [[BlackLagoon Revy]]/[[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Hikari]], [[YuuAsakawa Hotarla]] is [[AzumangaDaioh Sakaki]]/[[{{Vocaloid}} Luka Megurine]] and Stags is [[DarkerThanBlack Genma Shizume]]/[[TransformersEnergon Omega Surpreme]].

* SaveBothWorlds: Averted! The series's titular {{BigBad}} ''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 [[TrappedInAnotherWorld sucked into a subterranean world beneath our own]], the fact that we didn't even see some [[EverythingIsOnline strange phenominon]] going on in the outer world, this is [[PerhapsYouWereExpectingATrope rather unique.]]

* [=~Beginner'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.