History Characters / ArachnidCaterpillarAssassins

The former director of the Pomario orphanage. For his successor, see the [[Characters/CaterpillarMainCharacters Main Characters]] page.

* CasualtyInTheRing: He accidentally killed an opponent in a match once, and retired because he thought it was the will of God for him to kill more people with his skills. Incidentally, a minor character in ''Killing Bites'' has nearly the same backstory.
* DoubleWeapon: Owned the Heracles Horn, a large double-bladed sword based on the Alligator the protagonist of ''Jackals'' wielded.

[[folder:Migratory Locust/Tonosamabatta]]
!!Migratory Locust (トノサマバッタ; Tonosamabatta)
The assassin ranked 8th within the Organization.

* TheGhost: He hasn't actually appeared in any installment of the series so far.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: His face does appear in a bonus poster for one of the ''Caterpillar'' volumes and he looks like how Oda Nobunaga is portrayed in ''Manga/ChoubuNoShinobi''.

[[folder:Swallowtail Butterfly/Ageha (Unmarked Spoilers)]]
!!Swallowtail Butterfly, Akiho Yanagi (Ageha, Yanagi Akiho)
The director of an orphanage Imomushi and her sister Mika lived in. Has become the leader of a shadowy group who's baiting Imomushi into a CarnivalOfKillers for their own entertainment. However, the truth is she had been killed all along by Imomushi, but not before driving Mika insane to the point the girl developed a split personality transformation based off her.

* AnimalMotifs: ''[[StrongAnts Paraponera]]'' ants, also known as Bullet Ants. They're rather big and agressive, plus their stings have a reputation for being able to inflict one of the worst pains in the world.

* AnimalMotifs: Not fireflies, but [[MacabreMothMotif Pidorus glaucopis moths]], which are known as "firefly moths" in Japan. She deceives people to her advantage, like how hotarugas hide among fireflies.

* AnimalMotifs: [[StrongAnts Paraponera ants]], also known as Bullet Ants. Their stings have a reputation for being able to inflict one of the worst pains in the world.

* DiedStandingUp: [[spoiler:He defeats Imomushi and is about to shoot her to death, but then suddenly passes away from his injuries. [[DeadMansTriggerFinger The gun then goes off]] while she is walking away, but luckily Paraponera's still dead and pointing at the opposite direction. This also was his fate in the pilot for the manga.]]

* GunsAreWorthless: ''Bullet'' Ant here is very skilled with firearms, but for what? The guy gets a minigun out of nowhere and unloads it on Kumo, but the bullets bounce off Kumo's magical string armor and he's merely knocked on his ass. Once Imomushi comes along, [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy stormtrooperisms ensue]]. When he finally gets her on gunpoint for real, [[spoiler:his body fails him and he dies on the spot. His corpse only pulls the trigger several seconds after Imomushi stands up and leaves]].

* NotQuiteDead: He recovered from his first battle against Imomushi and has been watching her fight inside the Ageha group's ship.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Gives Hanakamakiri some trouble, then gets punched out by Imomushi when her plan fails.

* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Not really friendship, but she's spared and taken out of the Ageha ship in amicable terms. Or maybe they just don't realize she's next to them.

* ControlFreak: Because he couldn't relate to others he sought to control Hanakamakiri and turn her into his mini-me.
* TheCorrupter: He hoped for Hanakamakiri to turn into a sadistic assassin. When Hanakamakiri claims she'd like to turn Imomushi into a limbless sex slave, Kinohadakamakiri is pleasantly surprised by how she can even consider that, even thought it's an obvious lie.

* HeelFaceTurn: After taking a beating from his former student, Kinohadakamakiri hands over his envelope and decides to help her along.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: At one point he grabs Hanakamakiri from behind and starts licking her neck. His backstory shows Kinohadakamakiri treated the girl like this as soon as he got her as a student.

* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: A male example.

* TrainingFromHell: Subjected Hanakamakiri to harsh training which just happened to involve regularly shoving a gordian worm-like device up her ass.

* VillainousBreakdown: Once Riock breaks through her wire gimmick and knocks her down, Ichijikukobachi [[BringMyBrownPants pisses herself]] from fear and gets a [[DefeatByModesty wardrobe malfunction]]. She surrenders and gives her envelope MacGuffin to him, then cries to herself she's done fighting.

* DarkActionGirl: The three Dorcus girls and Prosopocoilus.

* ButtMonkey: Much like Oki in this spinoff, Miyamakuwagata, Prosopocoilus and Aegus just kind of stand quietly to the side making [[OhCrap funny faces]] while Dorcus and Kabutomushi fight. When they do attack the rhino beetle, only Miyamakuwagata does any semblance of damage to her.

* FlatCharacter: Prosopocoilus and Aegus get next to no characterization and their attempts to beat up Kabutomushi are so lackluster it's hard to believe they're her graduates.
* SatelliteCharacter: The Dorcus gals are the only ones out of those people who matter. Miyamakuwagata does at least get a backstory, but the other two don't even get that[[labelnote:*]]An illustration in volume 9 implies Aegus and Prosopocoilus came from opposite social classes, with sawtooth girl being the dirt-poor one.[[/labelnote]].
* ScaryTeeth: Prosopocoilus has sawtooth teeth.

* BadassTeacher: Likely the only one in either story who didn't act like a total jerkass to his pupil.

* BigBad: Of the ''Caterpillar'' storyline.

[[Characters/{{Arachnid}} Character Index]] [=|=] Main Characters: [[Characters/ArachnidMainCharacters Arachnid]], [[Characters/CaterpillarMainCharacters Caterpillar]], [[Characters/BlattodeaMainCharacters Blattodea]] [=|=] Organization "Bugs": [[Characters/ArachnidRecurringAssassins Recurring]], [[Characters/ArachnidMainSeriesAssassins Exclusive to Arachnid]], '''Exclusive to Caterpillar''' [=|=] [[Characters/ArachnidOtherCharacters Other Characters]]

[[folder:Swallowtail Butterfly/Ageha (Unmarked Spoilers)]]
!!Swallowtail Butterfly, Akiho Yanagi (Ageha, Yanagi Akiho)
The director of an orphanage Imomushi and her sister lived in. Has become the leader of a shadowy group who's baiting Imomushi into a CarnivalOfKillers for their own entertainment.

* PuttingOnTheReich: Akiho dresses in a nazi uniform with swastikas and all. [[http://arachnid-manga.wikia.com/wiki/File:Chapter_44_(Caterpillar).png Chapter 44 even has her]] doing the pose from the cover of ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS''. This is censored on the volume releases, though.

[[folder:Migratory Locust/Tonosamabatta]]
!!Migratory Locust (トノサマバッタ; Tonosamabatta)
The assassin ranked 8th within the Organization.
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* TheGhost: He hasn't actually appeared in any installment of the series so far.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: His face does appear in a bonus poster for one of the ''Caterpillar'' volumes and he looks like how Oda Nobunaga is portrayed in ''Manga/ChoubuNoShinobi''.
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[[folder:Migratory Locust]]

!!Ground Beetle (オサムシ; Osamushi)

* AnimalMotifs: Velvet worms, which aren't insects but do descend from a common ancestor. And crickets as well.

* OvernightAgeUp: The reason Himekuwagata wears oversized clothes is because she can force her body to grow when she is in danger and needs more power. Her teen and adult forms turn out to have split personalities of their own.

* MsFanservice: When Dorcus grows into her voluptuous titanus form and rips her clothes off, [[MaleGaze no points for guessing how that is portrayed]]. She has a FanDisservice aspect to her, though, since not only Dorcus was a kid with no underwear just a few minutes before, that child self is still conscious on her head.

* ChainmailBikini: When the dorcus girl turns into a curvy woman, her school uniform is torn apart to reveal she was wearing a {{Stripperiffic}} BDSM armor of straps. [[FridgeLogic Even though]] the previous chapters [[GoingCommando suggested she had no underwear on.]]

* {{Foil}}: Besides being the giant stag to Kabutomushi's rhino beetle, the dorcus girl has an ability related to her age and sidekicks who hardly do anything but look stupid in the background.

* MsFanservice: When Dorcus grows into her voluptuous titanus form and rips her clothes off, [[MaleGaze no points for guessing how that is portrayed]]. She has a FanDisservice aspect to her, though, since not only Dorcus was a kid just a few minutes before, her child self is still conscious on her head.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: An odd case where the character in question is ''from the same story''. Ookuwagata is essentially a PaletteSwap of Dinoponera, as if to highlight the themetic parallels between Kabutomushi's fight against the stags and the one against Dinoponera in ''Arachnid''. Hiratakuwagata even is incapacitated from losing a leg much like Dinoponera loses from getting forced to stab her own leg, with the implication that maybe Kabutomushi could've killed Dinoponera if she had brought Hercules Horn with her to the Arachnid Hunt.

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Kabutomushi eventually catches Dorcus off-guard with the scissor function of the Hercules Horn and chops her right leg off]].

* GracefulLoser: After losing [[spoiler:a leg]] to Kabutomushi, who doesn't want to kill her, Hiratakuwagata gets mad and tries to stand back up, only for her own arm to grab herself by the head and smash it on the ground. Ookuwagata takes over and calmly admits defeat while explaining what's going on elsewhere in the ship.

* ReusedCharacterDesign: An odd case where the character in question is ''from the same story''. Ookuwagata is essentially a PalleteSwap of Dinoponera, as if to highlight the themetic parallels between Kabutomushi's fight against the stags and the one against Dinoponera in ''Arachnid''. Hiratakuwagata even is incapacitated from losing a leg much like Dinoponera loses from getting forced to stab her own leg, with the implication that maybe Kabutomushi could've killed Dinoponera if she had brought Hercules Horn with her to the Arachnid Hunt.

* {{Expy}}: Ookuwagata heavily resembles Dinoponera from ''Arachnid'' and her fight against Kabutomushi hits much of the same notes from Kabuto's battle against Dinopo in that story. The adult Dorcus even is incapacitated from [[spoiler:losing a leg much like Dinoponera loses from getting forced to stab her own leg]], with the implication that maybe Kabutomushi could've killed Dinoponera if she had brought Hercules Horn with her to the Arachnid Hunt.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Dorcus' eyes change from brown to a bright red when she turns into an adult.

* AttemptedRape: Hanakamakiri asks that she stops at the massage services so she wouldn't've come for nothing, but Kyoko gets him drowsy with pleasure and forces herself on him anyway.
* EpicFail: Imomushi got scared of Hanakamakiri's equipment when she tried to have sex with him, so she asks Kyoko to do it instead. Kyoko boasts about her erotic techniques as a bed bug, which turn out to be trying to dunk a onahole on the boy rather than proper intercourse. This, ''of course'', correlates to how bed bugs of both sexes have fake genitalia to deal with traumatic insemination from males.

The author of the ''Kahen Rider'' series and Imomushi's master.

* ChekhovsGunman: He first appears as a MrExposition who lectures the reader about crickets.
* CoolOldGuy: He's the ''Kamen Rider'' mangaka as a kickass assassin.
* CoolShades

!!Bed Bug (ナンキンムシ; Nankinmushi)

* CallingTheOldManOut: Dorcus wants to prove herself to Kabutomushi and avenge her fellow students [[OffscreenVillainy who died under Kabuto's care]]. Lucanus is more selfish in that his flashback shows Kabuto was right to keep him from brewing trouble. The other two, then... [[FlatCharacter what other two?]]

** Lucanus holds Kabutomushi and flips around smashing her head on the ground until she pushes his face over hers and he gets hit instead.

* ButtMonkey: Much like Oki in this spinoff, Lucanus, Prosopocoilus and Aegus just kind of stand quietly to the side making [[OhCrap funny faces]] while Dorcus and Kabutomushi fight. When they do attack the rhino beetle, only Lucanus does any semblance of damage to her.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Lucanus has been training his body even since he was a freaking baby... only to be outperformed by [[MusclesAreMeaningless some match stick girlies anyway.]]

* SatelliteCharacter: The Dorcus gals are the only ones out of those people who matter. Lucanus does at least get a backstory, but the other two don't even get that[[labelnote:*]]An illustration in volume 9 implies Aegus and Prosopocoilus came from opposite social classes, with sawtooth girl being the dirt-poor one.[[/labelnote]].

[[caption-width-right:160:Dorcus in Himekuwagata mode, (top) and her cronies.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler:Kabutomushi eventually catches Dorcus off-guard with the scissor function of the Hercules Horn and chops her right leg off]].

* AxCrazy: Adult Dorcus goes loose while trying to kill Kabutomushi. In comparison, her child self is bratty and her teen self is more level-headed.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Not blades, but various kinds of stag beetle mandibles instead.
* BoobsOfSteel: Dorcus titanus has a chest as large as Ichijikukobachi's and the strength to match them.
* ButtMonkey: Much like Oki in this spinoff, Lucanus, Prosopocoilus and Aegus just kind of stand quietly to the side making [[OhCrap funny faces]] while Dorcus and Kabutomushi fight. When they do attack the rhino beetle, only Lucanus does any semblance of damage to her.

* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Lucanus has been training his body even since he was a freaking baby... only to be outperformed by [[MusclesAreMeaningless some match stick girlies anyway.]]
* CombatPragmatist: Dorcus rectus' visible left arm is actually fake and serves to hide that she's holding a gun in her real left hand.
* CreepyChild: The youngest of the four is clearly the leader and does all the talking, fancying herself a pro assassin. Then she goes and transforms into an adult.
* CurbStompBattle: When Dorcus rectus gets walloped into the sea, the other three take their chances at fighting Kabutomushi. Each one then gets shoved aside with increasingly less effort from her. Aegus even goes down without doing anything!
* CuteButPsycho: Dorcus is cute, smug and violent -- [[SplitPersonality times three]].
* DarkActionGirl: Dorcus and Prosopocoilus.
* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted, as Dorcus rectus gets smacked by Kabutomushi into the sea ([[RunningGag Kabutomushi's overall score: 5]]) but survives and makes a comeback.
* {{Expy}}: Dorcus curvidens heavily resembles Dinoponera from ''Arachnid'' and her fight against Kabutomushi hits much of the same notes from Kabuto's battle against Dinopo in that story. Dorcus even is incapacitated from [[spoiler:losing a leg much like Dinoponera loses from getting forced to stab her own leg]], with the implication that maybe Kabutomushi could've killed Dinoponera if she had brought Hercules Horn with her to the Arachnid Hunt.
* FlatCharacter: Prosopocoilus and Aegus get next to no characterization and their attempts to beat up Kabutomushi are so lackluster it's hard to believe they're her graduates.

* GracefulLoser: After losing [[spoiler:a leg]] to Kabutomushi, who doesn't want to kill her, Dorcus titanus gets mad and tries to stand back up, only for her own arm to grab herself by the head and smash it on the ground. Curvindens takes over and calmly admits defeat while explaining what's going on elsewhere in the ship.
* GunsAreWorthless: Dorcus rectus shoots Kabutomushi down at one point, but Kabutomushi has armored organs and doesn't get hurt much. When she tries to shoot her again Kabutomushi just counters and launches her into the sky.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
** Lucanus holds Kabutomushi and flips around smashing her head on the ground until she pushes his face over hers and he gets hit instead.
** Dorcus curvidens attempts to throw Kabutomushi over herself, but Kabuto lands on her and starts choking her.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: One of them is a little girl who first appears sitting on top of a burly man.
* KickThemWhileTheyreDown: Dorcus titanus kicks Kabutomushi several times at one point, only stopping when Lucanus calls her to hand over her weapons.
* MetronomicManMashing: Dorcus curvidens swings the Kabuto Horn with Kabutomushi on the other end and slams her to the floor, almost crushing Gokiburi at the same time.
* MsFanservice: When Dorcus rectus grows into her voluptuous titanus form and rips her clothes off, [[MaleGaze no points for guessing how that is portrayed]]. She has a FanDisservice aspect to her, though, since not only Dorcus was a kid just a few minutes before, her child self is still conscious on her head.
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Only Dorcus seems to become anything of a threat to Kabutomushi once she swims back to the ship and gets serious.
* OvernightAgeUp: The reason Dorcus wears oversized clothes is because she can force her body to grow when she is in danger and needs more power. Her teen and adult forms turn out to have split personalities of their own.
* PainfulTransformation: When Dorcus transforms into a teen or an adult, she suffers from severe convulsions.

* QuirkyMinibossSquad: It was taking quite a while for Kabuto to have a stag opponent, so how about four at once? They're a group formed by a little girl who piggybacks on a tough man who wears shades, a girl with PeekABangs and [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily shark teeth]] and a [[FatBastard practically spherical fat]] [[BaldOfEvil bald dude]] who's [[PerpetualSmiler always grinning]].

* SelfMadeOrphan: Little Dorcus killed her AbusiveParents by [[{{Gorn}} crushing their heads into paste]].
* SignatureLaugh: Each one has a unique laugh, written in different fonts.
* SplitPersonality: Dorcus' transforming body is shown to be a bizarre condition caused by split personalities, with two of them assisting the dominant one [[TalkingToThemself from inside her mind]].
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Aegus only has underwear on. And then there's Titanus and her ChainmailBikini that comes out of nowhere.
* TattooedCrook: Dorcus titanus has a upside down cross tattoo over her chest and a broken heart under her navel, bordering on the IntimateMarks trope.

[[caption-width-right:160:Dorcus (top) and her cronies.]]

* CreepyChild: The youngest of the four is clearly the leader and has done literally all the talking so far. Then she goes and transforms into an adult.

* {{Expy}}: Dorcus curvidens resembles Dinoponera from ''Arachnid'' and her fight against Kabutomushi hits much of the same notes from Kabuto's battle against Dinopo in that story.

* GracefulLoser: After losing [[spoiler:a leg]] to Kabutomushi, Dorcus titanus gets mad and tries to stand back up, only for her own arm to grab herself by the head and smash it on the ground. Curvindens takes over and calmly admits defeat while explaining what's going on elsewhere in the ship.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Blackmailed a young girl into becoming a sex slave to her and her mooks for kicks until they ended up killing her. And Ageha pretty much is only still after Imomushi just for revenge about having her fun ruined back then.

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[[folder:Swallowtail Butterfly/Ageha]]
!!Swallowtail Butterfly, Akiho Yanagi (Ageha, Yanagi Akiho)
The director of an orphanage Imomushi and her sister lived in. Has become the leader of a shadowy group who's baiting Imomushi into a CarnivalOfKillers for their own entertainment.

* AbsoluteCleavage
* AnimalMotifs: [[PrettyButterflies Swallowtail]] [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth butterflies]].
* TheBaroness: A gorgeous sadist in nazi-style dominatrix clothing.
* BigBad: Of the ''Caterpillar'' storyline.
* BondageIsBad: Forced a little girl to be her sex slave for 5 years.
* CommissarCap
* DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler:It is revealed Imomushi actually brutally killed Akiho when she found Mika was being abused to near-death. Mika was later revived and was made to replace Akiho, whom Mika had already started to act like out of madness. When the two sisters meet, Imomushi does all she can to reason with her, only for Paraponera to fatally injure Mika. Only when Mika is about to die do they make peace.]]
* OrcusOnHisThrone: Just watches the ongoing battles from a ballroom along with her attendants.
* PsychoLesbian: Her deal as a psycho dominatrix is reminiscent of the Army Ant Queen from the main story, but Ageha has no understandable FreudianExcuse for why she's so warped.
* PuttingOnTheReich: Akiho dresses in a nazi uniform with swastikas and all. [[http://arachnid-manga.wikia.com/wiki/File:Chapter_44_(Caterpillar).png Chapter 44 even has her]] doing the pose from the cover of ''Film/IlsaSheWolfOfTheSS''.
* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Blackmailed a young girl into becoming a sex slave to her and her mooks for kicks until they ended up killing her. And Ageha pretty much is only still after Imomushi just for revenge about having her fun ruined back then.
* SinisterSurveillance
* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler:Because Mika starts believing herself to be Akiho, her body transforms to look like Akiho.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: There's something off about her...
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[[folder:Paraponera]]
!!Paraponera
A former UN soldier who became a wanted man after mindlessly slaughtering american troops in the Middle East. While hiding in southeast Asia, he found an orphaned baby in Burma and raised her as his daughter. Years later, Paraponera worked under Ageha's orders to murder Imomushi, but [[DoomedByCanon got killed by her at some point.]]
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* OneManArmy: Took on battlefields on his own, and was in fact a bad team player. Even Dinoponera could only follow him from behind and never quite understood how he was able to always predict the trajectory of bullets despite having no superpowers.

* {{Gonk}}: A case of DependingOnTheArtist. In ''Arachnid'' he doesn't look ''that'' bad, but during the events of the prequel he looks just plain ''fugly''.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Can stun people by screaming at them.

* OneManArmy: Took on battlefields on his own, and was in fact a bad team player.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It is left ambiguous if he really cared for Dinoponera.

* PetTheDog: So far, his relationship with Dinoponera is mostly portrayed in a positive light. One omake even shows him giving a Moon Scepter toy to her for an assassination job done well.

* TheCorrupter: He naturally made Dinoponera into a remorseless murderer, but he seems to have raised and treated her surprisingly well despite how much of a despicable person he is.