History Characters / BlattodeaMainCharacters

* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Kung-Fu Girl]]: Her nonchalance about everything says it all.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Gets a very embarrassing slap from Alice that doesn't hurt her but does damage her confidence and shocks her to the verge of tears.

* AudienceSurrogate: Chiyuri is a mostly normal girl who's suddenly thrust into the apocalyptic scenario caused by the Organization. She is retconned into Dinoponera's backstory to look after her, and so she works perfectly as a self-insert to any readers who cared for the ant-girl and hoped for her to somehow recover from being zombified.

* AlternateCharacterReading: Her name is given with "巨針蟻/Oo-hari-ari" in brackets. That refers to the [=Giant/Asian=] Needle Ant or ''Pachycondyla chinensis'', which she ''isn't'' compared to despite ''Pachycondyla'' being the sister group of ''Dinoponera''. Fan translations use the common name for ''Dinoponera'', "Giant Amazonian Ant", instead.

* ChildrenAreInnocent: She's depicted as such on flashbacks, despite all the killing. And she's still [[SkilledButNaive rather naive]] despite her experiences in war.

* GivenNameReveal: Dinoponera was only a few months old when Paraponera picked her from her mother's corpse, so her birth name is completely unknown. ''Blattodea'' establishes Paraponera named her "Setsuna" after a character from the ''Sailor-Force'' anime she likes so much.

* InnocentFanserviceGirl: She doesn't mind sleeping or walking around in her underwear, and doesn't bat an eye at having to fight a nude Dinoponera.

** Dinoponera casually kills a random worker of the school just to intimidate Kabutomushi. She feels guilt upon considering that they could be related, but they weren't, so why should she care? And later she picks on Alice and tortures her badly for no good reason.

* DarkSkinnedBlond: Has dark skin and white hair, and is southeast asian.

* SmallTaxonomyPools: This girl might be the first character to ever be based on ''Dinoponera'' ants, and even then her motif is lumped together with ''Paraponera clavata'' ants since both are popularly called "bullet ants" due to their painful stings. They have a number of differences, and the ant genus that actually is closely related to ''Dinoponera'' is ''Pachycondyla'' -- which Dino is only vaguely themed after by the "Giant Needle Ant" (''Pachycondyla[=/=]Brachyponera chinensis'') alternate reading of her codename. ''Blattodea'' then starts giving her more ponerine motifs such as ''Megaponera analis''. In fact, the particular research on ''M. analis'' the story references is from just two years before it started.

* MacguffinDeliveryService: Yamato tells Chiyuri that only by delivering Dinoponera to the new Organization Boss, Alice, the outbreak can be stopped... but Bekkōbachi later tells Hanakamakiri getting the cure requires convincing Alice to ''kill'' Dinoponera.

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Like all other girls in the series, Chiyuri packs a lot of power and endurance despite her slender figure, and can power herself up to get on Kabutomushi's level.

** She sleeps wearing just a white tank top and panties and sometimes [[PantyFighter fights like that]] too. Much like Imomushi back in ''Caterpillar'' and also Hitomi from the author's ''Manga/KillingBites'', actually...

* TrainingFromHell: She couldn't stand Kabutomushi's training at Pomario and managed to escape from there. Under Yamato's guidance, she turned out very strong all the same.

* MacGuffinSuperPerson: Dinoponera basically got called to Japan just to get raped in the army ant outbreak, which only due to ''[[BatmanGambit sheer coincidence]]'' she survives due to Alice making her stab herself with her own venom which produced antibodies against the deadly queen substance virus. So then Yamato tasks Chiyuri with bringing Dinopo to Alice so they can put an end to the outbreak, but a year goes by and they don't find her. What's worse is that the Organization actually wants to extract the antibodies from Dino's dead body and they plan to convince Alice to kill her for them.

* ParentalAbandonment: The narrator explains Chiyuri was abandoned due to being born with a "serious condition", but all the reader can see is that she was born a roach-girl.

* AllWebbedUp: Alice eventually incapacitates Dinoponera like this without her noticing.

** ''Blattodea'' shows the outcome of Dinoponera's rape-zombification, with her stumbling around while crying out for Chiyuri and falling victim to ''yet more rapists'' before going into a frenzy and raping them right back. She does soon recover her senses, but is left traumatized from the experience.

* AxCrazy: Her cutesy looks are accompanied by insane glee whenever she pummels people. It only worsens as she gets more riled up, with her becoming foul-mouthed and thinking up much nastier ways of kiling her enemies.

* GivenNameReveal: ''Blattodea'' reveals Paraponera named her Setsuna. She was previously thought to only have her Dinoponera codename or some fake name given by the Organization.

* IJustWantToHaveFriends: Dinoponera does sincerely want friends, [[JerkassWoobie but being far too picky]] and beating to death anyone she can't symphatize with unsurprisingly does her no good.

* TheNameless: Dinoponera was only a few months old when Paraponera picked her from her mother's corpse, so her birth name is completely unknown. Then out of nowhere, ''Blattodea'' establishes Paraponera named her "Setsuna" after a character from the ''Sailor-Force'' anime she likes so much.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: She beats down Imomushi, Kabutomushi and Alice ''badly''.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: ''Blattodea'' turns Dinoponera into this, as she tends to relapse into a half-zombie and thoughtlessly force herself on Chiyuri. Juzuhigemushi also gets her affected by aphrodisiacs, so then she starts masturbating practically naked while crying and denying she's being lewd. Also, every time somebody mentions her Poneratoxin acting against the army ant virus, Dinopo is portrayed naked on an ImagineSpot while looking quite annoyed to be there.

* SpannerInTheWorks: ''Blattodea'' reveals there ''was'' a major reason for Dinoponera's seemingly random shenanigans -- her venom produces antibodies that counter the Queen's Rule virus.

* AwesomeMcCoolName: Turns out "Dinoponera" isn't just a codename but also her surname -- she's actually called Setsuna Dinoponera. "Setsuna" is the smallest unit of time in Buddhism, befitting her powers, but adding "Dinoponera", after the ant, to that makes her name somewhere between cool and something right out of ''Metal Gear Solid''.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: This girl might be the first character to ever be based on ''Dinoponera'' ants, and even then her motif is lumped together with ''Paraponera clavata'' ants since both are popularly called "bullet ants" due to their painful stings. They have a number of differences, and the ant genus that actually is closely related to ''Dinoponera'' is ''Pachycondyla'' -- which Dino is only vaguely themed after by the "Giant Needle Ant" (''Pachycondyla[=/=]Brachyponera chinensis'') alternate reading of her codename. ''Blattodea'' then starts giving her more ponerine motifs such as ''Megaponera analis''. In fact, the particular research on ''M. analis'' the story references is from just two years before it started.

* CryCute:
** Dinoponera once recalls her past self breaking down crying after barely surviving a battle, which explains why she's so sensitive about hard work and showing she isn't ''too'' bad of a person. She also becomes a puppy-eyed crying mess when restrained by Alice and hit by her own venomous needle, while apologizing and begging to be spared.
** She has a breakdown upon confessing to Chiyuri and Yamato she did get raped by the army ants during the Arachnid Hunt. She also looks quite pitiful and teary-eyed when beaten up by Imomushi or restrained by Chiyuri and later Geji.

* NiceHat: Wears a round piece of cloth on her head that conceals her antennae, so it seems she must always remove it to fight properly.

** When she saves Chiyuri, the narrator talks about how ''Megaponera analis'' ants retrieve injured comrades and nurse them back to health. Dinoponera herself never had anyone looking out for her either when she was raped or even when she was tagging along with Paraponera as a child. Also, the research paper that references is from 2017 so Dinopo only got to have such a triumphant comeback from her 2014 zombification by sheer happenstance.

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

While resuming [[Characters/ArachnidMainCharacters Alice's]] story, ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}'' introduces Chiyuri as a deuteragonist and pairs her with former antagonist Dinoponera. [[Characters/CaterpillarMainCharacters Hanakamakiri]] also returns as a bodyguard for Alice who welcomes her into the Organization.

* HairAntennae: In the setting, roaches like her and Megumi are the only bug-people shown to have functional antennae which they use for detecting and avoiding threats.

** Chapter 16 shows part of her costume is just transparent tights under a shirt barely long enough to cover her panties. This actually contradicts past chapters where the camera points to her butt and her panties aren't visible, as if she was wearing leggings instead... and by the next chapter they're opaque again. What.

** When she realizes Dinoponera is immune to blunt force, Chiyuri wonders if she'll need to kill her somehow but decides against it and cleverly talks things out instead. Later Yamato remarks he taught her to be able to survive without killing. The zombies are fair game though.

* TrainingFromHell: She couldn't stand Kabutomushi's training at Pomario and managed to escape from there.
* UnPerson: She couldn't go job hunting if she wanted because the Organization has claimed all her documentation.

* ManiacTongue: While in half rape-zombie mode she tends to stick her tongue out ''a lot'', in a way that makes her look very silly and not sexy at all.

* ReluctantFanserviceGirl: ''Blattodea'' turns Dinoponera into this, as she tends to relapse into a half-zombie and thoughtlessly force herself on Chiyuri. Juzuhigemushi also gets her affected by aphrodisiacs, so then she starts masturbating practically naked while crying and denying she's being lewd.

* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Dinoponera's habits of repeatedly impaling people and taking pleasure in dominating and brutalizing them to the ground can easily be read from a sexual angle. At first she's shown to be innocent in such matters, but after turning into a half-rape-zombie she does get aroused from stabbing people.

** Actual ''Dinoponera'' ants aren't agressive like this dummy--they can be [[https://twitter.com/CesarFavacho/status/1223252203860889600 held on one's hand without issue]] and if startled tend to flee before attacking. ''Paraponera clavata'', on the other hand, are known to be agressive.
** ''Dinoponera'' ants have stings powerful enough to prey on small reptiles and threaten allergic people but they don't hurt as much and for as long as a ''Paraponera'''s sting (then again, pain is relative), giving them the moniker of "false-tocandira" in Brazil. In the story, Dinopo is ultimately viewed as far weaker than her father Paraponera.
** Dinoponera is a lonely girl who's looking for friends. ''Dinoponera'' colonies have low numbers and the workers forage individually. This is never pointed by the narrator.

* MakeMeWannaShout: Bowl-haired Setsuna and her father are able to stun people with sudden screams. This is treated as exclusive to them even though several other characters in the series are themed after bugs capable of stridulation.

* GoingCommando: Dinoponera has no upskirt shots for the entirety of ''Arachnid'', but the redraw of her debut in ''Caterpillar'' gives her panty shots. ''Blattodea'' then starts focusing on how she ended up bottomless after being gangraped. A year goes by after joining Chiyuri and she's ''still'' like that.

** Dinoponera's habits of repeatedly impaling people and taking pleasure in dominating and brutalizing them to the ground can easily be read [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence from a sexual angle]], even if she's shown to be innocent in such matters. As the thugs who try to rape her right after she left the Arachnid Hunt as a zombie learn, she will beat people up and force herself on top for some very rough sex with a demented grin on her face.
** Dinoponera seemingly tries to harm Chiyuri upon finding her, but instead fully regains consciousness and saves her upon finding Chiyuri about to get raped by her now infected homeless friends. However, Dinoponera is later shown to have become nearly as perverted as Gokiburi since she loses control and tries to force herself on an half-asleep Chiyuri, who nonchalantly pins her to the floor as punishment.

* ClingyJealousGirl: She acts possessive towards Alice only a few minutes after meeting her. Later on ''Blattodea'', however, Chiyuri pretty much [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage flirts with Imomushi]] to Dinopo's face and we don't even get to see the ant-girl react to that.

** She sleeps wearing just a white tank top and panties and sometimes fights like that too. Much like Hitomi from the author's ''Manga/KillingBites'', actually...

* ClingyJealousGirl: It's rude to act like this towards a girl ''you just met'', Dino...

* ExoticEyeDesigns: [[CrosshairAware Crosshair-like]] waving irises indicate her use of Concentration Driving Force [[{{Foreshadowing}} even before she explains it.]]

* [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Pink Hair]]: Her hair is colored or slighty shaded between pink and purple [[HairColorDissonance on some illustrations.]]

* BlackComedyRape: Dinoponera was the only named character who got helplessly raped by the zombies at the Arachnid Hunt, all while Sasori mocked her for "making a lot of friends". Once she leaves the school, she gets raped again but turns out to be a nymphomaniac in that state, pinning down and having a rough DestructoNookie with her assailants. Her going lucid for real and saving Chiyuri from also getting raped is a major MoodWhiplash from how graphic Chiyuri's molestation was -- even as Dinopo is trying to be dramatic and heroic, the story overfocuses on the loss of her panties as if it's a BrickJoke to how she was intentionally portrayed without panty shots in ''Arachnid''.

* {{Foil}}: Every single one of Dinoponera's traits paint her as an EvilCounterpart for Alice, to the point of her being an IdenticalStranger who's only a day younger and both girls [[RuleOfSymbolism repeatedly getting scenes that mirror each other]].

** Dinoponera tries to force herself on a half-asleep Chiyuri just like Gokiburi wanted to do on Alice back in ''Arachnid'''s ending. It's implied her perverted behavior is more of a side-effect of being [[CorruptTheCutie raped and zombified]] rather than something she could've done all along, and Chiyuri merely brushes her off without any of the melodrama Alice had when she ditched Gokiburi.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Dinoponera says she and Alice have the "same power", her eyes begin to be depicted with a waving effect similar to Alice's, further implying that her ability involves concentration.

** After being unfazed by a million punches from Chiyuri, Dinoponera bleeds to a physical blow for the first time when she gets hit by Imomushi's headbutt cannon in ''Blattodea''. Another moment that shows just how frail she's become is when she gets knocked out cold by a Wave Cannon from Chiyuri that likely wasn't meant to hurt her much.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: The ''Blattodea'' sequel reveals Paraponera named her Setsuna. She was previously thought to only have her codename or some fake name given by the Organization.

* ChasteHero: After Megumi was said to have ExtremeLibido due to being a cockroach-girl, the narrator babbles about female roaches mating once and staying pregnant for life to make Chiyuri into this trope instead. Too bad for Dinoponera, who turned into a nymphomaniac after the zombies got her and keeps bugging Chiyuri for sex to no avail...

** Chapter 16 shows part of her costume is just tights under a shirt barely long enough to cover her panties. This actually contradicts past chapters where the camera points to her butt and her panties aren't visible, as if she was wearing leggings instead.

* RapePortrayedAsRedemption: After being so bitchy to everyone, Dinoponera gets horribly gangraped for hours while paralysed and is turned into a sex-crazed zombie. ''Blattodea'' then establishes she did have a friend, Chiyuri, who she is desperated to meet back with. She struggles to keep her consciousness, is visibly traumatized but not outright broken and is forced to learn some humility and empathy to move on. It is shown that this was a sordid and convolulted plan from Suzumebachi to make Dinopo become the cure for the zombie outbreak.

* MadeOfIron:

** After being unfazed by a million punches from Chiyuri, Dinoponera bleeds to a physical blow for the first time when she gets hit by Imomushi's headbutt cannon in ''Blattodea''.

** Imomushi does much better in her rematch against Dinoponera and hits her with a headbutt right in the nose before threatening to break her leg while she's downed. This makes it necessary for Chiyuri to come to help, and the roach doesn't have an easy time either. After outright no-selling so many beatings, this is the first time Dinoponera bleeds from a physical blow in the entire series so far.

* ButtMonkey: ''Blattodea'' gives her a co-protagonist role, but not exactly in a flattering way. She's depicted as more of a CuteClumsyGirl, starts getting pushed around by Chiyuri despite her domineering attitude with everyone else, badly loses a fight to Imomushi and the after-effects of her rape are both PlayedForDrama ''and'' [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]. Even the synopsis page for the magazine chapters picked [[https://arachnid-manga.fandom.com/wiki/File:Blattodea_Full_Synopsis_Page.jpg a silly panel for her profile]].

* LittleMissBadass: Both as a child and as her present 15 years-old self.

** When Chiyuri and Dinoponera meet the staff of the Takobeya room at Hibarigaoka prison and encounter Juzuhigemushi, it is revealed the mineral water bottles they were given by the female workers were laced with aphroadisiacs. Poor Dinoponera had drank way more than Chiyuri by then and starts the fight already looking incapacitated.

* FriendlessBackground: She could only relate to her father Paraponera, but she also says she doesn't consider him a friend. It's suggested that although he was her only family and treated her well, she couldn't rely on him during combat and was left to die if she couldn't keep up with him. One taunt from Sasori also implies that he eventually abandoned her. ''Blattodea'' subverts this by establishing she made friends with Chiyuri just before arriving at the Ouran highschool.

* RapePortrayedAsRedemption: After being so bitchy to everyone, Dinoponera gets horribly gangraped for hours while paralysed and is turned into a sex-crazed zombie. ''Blattodea'' then establishes she did have a friend, Chiyuri, who she is desperated to meet back with. She struggles to keep her consciousness, is visibly traumatized but not outright broken and is forced to learn some humility and empathy to move on. It is shown that this was a sordid and convulted plan from Suzumebachi to make Dinopo become the cure for the zombie outbreak.