History Anime / SpiderRiders

* WillTheyOrWontThey: Hunter and Corona. So much ShipTease...

%%* {{BFS}}: Stags' sword definitely counts.%%How?

%%* {{Bishonen}}: Most of the male characters are handsome.%%Not the trope.

%%* ABoyAndHisX

%%* CallingYourAttacks: All the Riders do this.

%%* CookingDuel: Corona and Aqune have one in episode 32.
%%* CosmicKeystone: The Oracle Keys.

%%* DeadAllAlong:
%%** The Sea Buff Mariner/Lost Mariner.
%%** [[spoiler:Quake/Brade]].
%%* DeadpanSnarker: Shadow.

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * EvilRedhead: Beerain
%%* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Calling All Spider Riders" for the English dub.

%%* FinishingMove: Any of Hunter's Oracle Key attacks.
%%* FlyingDutchman: The Lost Mariner.

%%* GiantSpider

%%* KillerYoyo: Sparkle's signature weapon.%%Is what?

%%* MoralityPet: Sparkle to Grasshop, and, to an extent, Aqune to Buguese.

%%* ThePawn: [[spoiler:The Big Four and Aqune]].

%%* SwordFight
%%* SwordSparks

%%* TransformationTrinket: Manacles.
%%* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Hunter in the Inner World.
%%* TrueCompanions: The Spider Riders.
%%* {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler:Grasshop.]]

%%* WhipSword: Lumen has one.

* {{BFS}}: Stags' sword definitely counts.

* {{Bishonen}}: Most of the male characters are handsome.

* CallingYourAttacks: All the Riders do this.

* CookingDuel: Corona and Aqune literally have one in episode 32.
* CosmicKeystone: The Oracle Keys.

* DeadAllAlong:
** The Sea Buff Mariner/Lost Mariner.
** [[spoiler:Quake/Brade]].
* DeadpanSnarker: Shadow.

* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Calling All Spider Riders" for the English dub.

* FinishingMove: Any of Hunter's Oracle Key attacks.
* FlyingDutchman: The Lost Mariner.

* GiantSpider

* KillerYoyo: Sparkle's signature weapon.

* MookPromotion: The Big Four were minor characters in the novels.
* MoralityPet: Sparkle to Grasshop, and to an extent, Aqune to Buguese.
* MotorMouth: Grasshop. He can talk for several minutes straight without stopping.

* NeverSayDie: Actually averted in some of the dub episodes.
** It's played straight in the short-lived Kids WB cut of the same dub, however. Some awkward changes were made just to avoid references to death.

* ThePawn: [[spoiler:The Big Four and Aqune]].

* SwordFight
* SwordSparks

* TransformationTrinket: Manacles.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Hunter in the Inner World.
* TrueCompanions: The Spider Riders.
* {{Turncoat}}: [[spoiler:Grasshop.]]

* WhipItGood: Beerain.
* WhipSword: Lumen has one.

* CuriousQualmsOfConscience: Despite having pledged his loyalty to [[BigBad Mantid]], one Invectid sergeant decides [[spoiler:he's tired of the war with the humans, and has already been suspicious of Mantid's behavior for some time. He helps the Spider Riders infiltrate Mantid's palace]].

A rather underrated anime, due to its strange title and premise, a broadcast cut short on American TV, and its {{genre busting}}. Despite its inability to generate interest with general anime fans, the show did relatively well in Canada, where it was dubbed and funded.

There is also a novel series, online game, and canceled manga as part of the franchise.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Igneous' is blue, Aqune's is purple, Hunter's is pinkish-orange, Lily's is lavender, and Elma/Illuma's is green. Most other characters actually have plausible colors.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In one episode, Aqune hums the 2nd ED theme (Japanese version only).

* LullDestruction: The dubbers love this. In the Japanese version, long dramatic silences are everywhere. Roughly every time this happens, the dub will add a character whose face can't be seen on screen talking, often stating the obvious. If that's not possible, then we'll hear a character's inner voice instead.

* LullDestruction: Abused in the dub.

A rather underrated anime, due to its strange title and premise, a broadcast cut short on American TV, and its {{genre busting}}. Despite its inability to generate interest with the general audience, the show did relatively well in Canada, where it was dubbed and funded.

A rather underrated anime, due to its strange title and premise, a broadcast cut short on American TV, and its {{genre busting}}. Despite its inability to generate interest in most serious anime fans, the show did relatively well in Canada, where it was dubbed and funded.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Sparkle.

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[[caption-width-right:350:''Let's ride!'']]

* OnTheNext: Although cut from the dub, all the Japanese episodes featured previews narrated by various characters. The ones in the first season in particular could be pretty hilarious, and often very OOC, even when [[TheBigBad Mantid]] was the one narrating.

* EvilRedheads: Beerain

* FiveBadBand: Mantid and the Big Four fit this perfectly. That would make Aqune the SixthRanger and Portia TeamPet.

* FiveBadBand: Mantid and the Big Four fit this perfectly. That would make Aqune the SixthRanger and Portia TeamPet.

* [[ABoyAndHisX A Boy and his Giant Spider]]

* BadBadActing: While staring in a play to help out a struggling theater owner. Hunter plays the leading man, but his performance is stilted due to nerves, and his speech turns monotone. Corona isn't much better, turning into a LargeHam, while Lumen's performance is decent (until he's DistractedByTheSexy audience member). Igneous gets stuck playing an Invectid commander, and [[SoreLoser takes his frustration out on Hunter on stage]].

** Grasshop also does this at least once, in regards to the heroes' transformation sequence. In the Japanese version, he breaks the forth wall constantly, such as when he thanks the sound crew for playing fitting music.

* DubText: Hunter and Aqune's promises to each other. Most indication that Hunter had romantic interest in her were dub only. 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 moments, perhaps they just wanted to hook Aqune up with someone. Heck, the dub even hints at Aqune being interested in Quake/Brade.

* HostageSituation: Corona by way of 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.]]

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler:Not to debate whether their relationship was romantic or platonic, but fitting to Buguese, when he reluctantly freed Aqune, allowing her to be with her comrades.]]

* RaisedByWolves: Aqune was raised by Insectors/Invectids. The Insectors/Invectids act like human beings, so she does.

* SaveBothWorlds: Averted. The 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 strange phenomenon going on in the outer world is rather unique.

* MentorArchetype: Brade to Hunter. Igneous also plays this role to an extent.

* NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine: Hunter is treated quite well when taken prisoner by the Insectors/Invectids. 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]].

* OlderThanTheyLook: [[spoiler:Mantid. Keep in mind that he fought against the first Spider Rider, and Brade/Quake, who was either from King Arachna III's generation or later, is old enough to be an adult's great great grandfather.]].

** Though one could argue that all the Invectids 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.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Of course there's Grasshop and his beloved family.[[spoiler:Much later we learn of Lorraine, the woman Mantid loved.]]

->''"There exists within the planet Earth a fantastic lost world. In this Inner World, elite warriors ride huge spiders and bravely fight against evil. When the wicked rise, the call goes out: Calling all Spider Riders!"''

* InternationalCoProduction: Produced with CookieJarEntertainment in Canada and Creator/BeeTrain Production Inc. in Japan. The Japanese producers did most of the work (writing, directing, and animation), with the Canadian producers providing the funding and the basis they had to work with.

** Similar to other BeeTrain 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.

* InternationalCoProduction: Produced with CookieJarEntertainment in Canada and BeeTrain Production Inc. in Japan. The Japanese producers did most of the work (writing, directing, and animation), with the Canadian producers providing the funding and the basis they had to work with.

* CuteMonsterGirl: Lemin/Katy fits into this trope. Shinye is adorable, but Beerain subverts it.

* DubText: Hunter and Aqune's promises to each other. Most indicate 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 moments, perhaps they just wanted to hook Aqune up with someone. Heck, the dub even hints at Aqune being interested in Quake/Brade.

** [[spoiler:And finally Buguese, who turns on Mantis after being betrayed. He then frees Aqune from Mantid's control, and makes it his mission to defeat his former leader himself.]]

* SaveBothWorlds: Averted. The 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 phenomenon]] going on in the outer world is rather unique.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Of course there's Grasshop and his beloved family.
[[spoiler:Much later we learn of Lorraine, the woman Mantid loved.]]