History Characters / CaterpillarMainCharacters

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Nobody in the story bats an eye at the young adult Imomushi, who's both female and hot, lusting over a boy around six years younger than her, because it's consensual and hardly as bad as all the sexual violence both of them are constantly exposed to. Alice, the series' overall protagonist, even imagines them getting married.

* BlackComedyRape: Kinohadakamakiri's constant rape of him to make him submissive is [[RapeAsDrama played for drama]], but some of the other attempts at him are instead played for comedy as the assaulters, some of which are female, have no idea what to do with his massive genitals. In one such case, Kinohadakamakiri and his master attempt to rape Hanakamakiri while he's unconscious, but the boy instinctively spends hours trying to rape ''them'' instead while they run in a panic.

* AmazonianBeauty: She's the tallest female in the cast at 1.70m and has a well toned abdomen to convey her toughness and the way she swings her body back and forth as a means of attack. The occasional half-naked or outright naked brawl in ''Caterpillar'' doesn't hurt either... However, only Ifuji Shinsen and Isuka Hakozaki portrayed her properly as this trope. Tokisada Hayami draws her with a more cute and delicate look most of the time except for some artwork like the third volume cover of ''Blattodea''.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Nobody in the story bats an eye at the young adult Imomushi, who's both female and hot, lusting over a boy around six years younger than her, because it's consensual and hardly as bad as all the sexual violence both of them are constantly exposed to. Alice even imagines them getting married.

* BaitTheDog: He cooks pudding for Alice and promises to keep making more as long as she remains the new Organization Boss. He's pretty much the only person in there who wouldn't be overly malicious to the spider-girl, though he also doesn't mind Karina manipulating her into accepting the job -- a contrast to how worried he was when Mika appeared before Imomushi two years earlier. When Alice tries to find the truth behind Hibarigaoka Prison, he just bum-rushes in to drag her back to her room through violence.

* AttemptedRape: Kabutomushi gets dropped by Sara into her rape zombie basement and is surrounded by the crazy mob of brainwashed students. She is able to fight them offscreen and eventually shows up to save Alice. It's worth noting that as of ''Blattodea'', Kabuto as a major cast member stands out for having to deal with the least amount of attempted rapes in the series.

* DeusExitMachina: Chapter 33 of ''Blattodea'' explains the powerful pair of Kabutomushi and Imomushi have been just hanging out in a [=WcDonald's=] to prevent the zombies from running over the nearby Hibarigaoka Prison. While Imomushi is available to help Alice and Hanakamakiri, Kabutomushi refuses to go there one way or the other because she considers it a lost cause.

** Even though Kabutomushi, the SadistTeacher of an OrphanageOfFear, works to keep the zombies out of Hibarigaoka Prison, she hates how her pupil Megumi and the other scumbags in there run the place as a human experimentation slavery camp.

* ConflictBall: He's paranoid that Imomushi is going to get assassinated if he doesn't force Alice to become the new Boss of the Organization, but we never see Imomushi being threatened by anyone or anything other than the zombies. This leads to Hanakamakiri senselessly beating the snot out of Alice to get her to comply, making the girl [[CorruptTheCutie even more bitter about life]].

* {{Foil}}: Imomushi is a tomboyish delinquent girl who's honest to a fault. Hanakamakiri is a crossdressing boy who's been conditioned to deceive others.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite working for a network of assassins, Kabuto doesn't like personally killing people unless it is an emergency or to prevent enemies from coming back for revenge. She's also upset to see Gokiburi talking out loud about wanting to rape Alice despite the roach having become FireForgedFriends with the spider since they first met.

* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Nobody in the story bats an eye at the young adult Imomushi lusting over a boy around six years younger than her, because it's consensual and hardly as bad as all the sexual violence both of them are constantly exposed to. Alice even imagines them getting married.

* HarmfulToMinors: Tiny Kabutomushi was abandoned by her parents and ended up in the care of a child murderer who killed her best friend and that could get rid of her at any time. Upon succeeding Hercules as the Pomario director, Kabutomushi is unable to make any real change and becomes about half as bad as him, to the point she's also got students trying to kill her for the abuse she inflicted on them.

* HarmfulToMinors: As a child, Imomushi a bunch of rapists who had strangled her sister Mika to death, and found it was because of her own behavior that Mika had been coerced into being a sex slave in the first place.

* ItsAllMyFault: She regrets that it was for her sake that Mika died.

* BlackComedyRape: Kinohadakamakiri's constant rape of him to make him submissive is [[RapeAsDrama played for drama]], but some of the other attempts at him are instead played for comedy as the assaulters, some of which are female, have no idea what to do with his massive genitals.

* ChildSoldier: Seems to have been brought in the Organization a couple of years prior to him meeting Imomushi.

* ConflictBall: He's paranoid that Imomushi is going to get assassinated if he doesn't force Alice to become the new Boss of the Organization, leading to him senselessly beating the snot out of the girl to get her to comply. This only serves to make Alice [[CorruptTheCutie even more bitter about life]].

* CuteAndPsycho: Subverted. He confesses to Kinohadakamakiri he hopes to cut Imomushi's limbs like a literal caterpillar and turn her into a mindless sex slave, only for it to be a lie to distract his sadist teacher.

* DistaffCounterpart: To vanilla Kamakiri from the main story, [[WeHardlyKnewYe who died too soon]]. Obviously the cool mantis theme couldn't be left to waste.

* RapeAsBackstory: His master Kinohadakamakiri used to regularly rape him with a wire, hoping to make the boy fully submissive to him. It is implied this is outright a tradition among mantis-themed people in the Organization, with Kinohada having his own psycho master in Chatatemushi, who he fully respects.

** Kabutomushi turns one of Sara's own giant ant soldiers into a [[DropTheHammer makeshift hammer]] and tries to crush her with him.

The main characters from ''Manga/{{Caterpillar}}'', a spinoff-prequel to ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}''.

* OddFriendship: She and Kabutomushi started out hostile to each other and interacted little after their fight was interrupted, but ''Blattodea'' shows they ended up living together in a WcDonalds for around a year during the zombie outbreak -- like a yuri couple, [[https://twitter.com/jojojon/status/1633814560464601088 says Murata]].

* LikesOlderWomen: Falls in love with Imomushi, who is around five years older than him.

* DoubleWeapon: The Hercules, which is hinted at in ''Arachnid'' but is only in ''Caterpillar'', is a massive double ended blade that [[ShearMenace can be folded]] to chop enemies.

* InSeriesNickname: She asks people to call her "Kabu". Nobody does.

** Downplayed in ''Blattodea'', where she's hanging out at a WcDonalds with Kabutomushi and doesn't seem to have much personal stakes on the plot. She only joins the cast properly once she reunites with Hanakamakiri in chapter 25.

* StockholmSyndrome: It's implied some amount of begrudging gratefulness to Kinohadakamakiri for his training is the reason why Hanakamakiri was content with taking just one eye from him as revenge for his abuse and why he tolerates him after their duel despite getting a panic attack upon first encountering him again.

Although Kabutomushi is introduced in ''Arachnid'', ''Caterpillar'' is what gives her a little story arc and goes over her backstory. After the Arachnid Hunt, she and Gokiburi travel around Japan to find the missing Alice... but then she gets sidetracked and starts working at [[BlandNameProduct McDonald's stand-in]]...

* KlingonPromotion: Averted; she kills the Boss and Kirigirisu reports that to the Organiazation but he, Suzumebachi and Hanakamakiri were already plotting to make Alice the new Boss instead. So far it is unknown if Kabutomushi suffered any consequences for what she did, but she goes rogue anyway to get Alice out of their clutches.

* BoobsOfSteel: Well-endowed and well able to pound heads into paste.

* BoobsOfSteel: Kabutomushi was busty during the events of ''Caterpillar'' and is awfully strong. From ''Arachnid'' on, she somehow ages down a couple of years and becomes flat.

* BladeOnAStick: Fights with a "Kabuto Horn" spear, which she can swing with amazing speed.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kabutomushi is an assassin who doesn't actually kill anyone and who's one of the least evil Pomario managers, so it's assumed that's why she was sent to the Death Caterpillar game to die. In ''Arachnid'' nothing is said about this, but when she ends up killing the Boss it is reported that it was her and she appeared to go rogue while looking for the disappeared Alice. Then in ''Blattodea'' it's largely unknown if she's facing any consequences for what she did ot not, but she's oddly stuck at a BlandNameProduct/WcDonalds instead of working at Pomario.

Although Kabutomushi is introduced in ''Arachnid'', ''Caterpillar'' is what gives her a little story arc and goes over her backstory. After the Arachnid Hunt, she and Gokiburi travel around Japan to find the missing Alice... but then she gets sidetracked and starts working at BlandNameProduct/WcDonalds...

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Already an orphan for 4 years, Hanakamakiri lost his foster family to a robber who wanted to rape him and had to kill him when he got home from school. He was then adopted and trained as an assassin by the extremely controlling and abusive Kinohadakamakiri, who frequently raped him anyway.

* ElegantGothicLolita: Mainly dresses in such a costume.

* RapeAsBackstory: His master Kinohadakamakiri used to regularly rape him with a wire, hoping to make the boy fully submissive to him. It is implied this is actually a tradition among mantis-themed people in the Organization, with Kinohada having his own psycho master in Chatatemushi, who he fully respects.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Kabutomushi is an assassin who doesn't actually kill anyone and who one of the less evil Pomario managers, so it's assumed that's why she was sent to the Death Caterpillar game to die. In ''Arachnid'' nothing is said about this, but when she ends up killing the Boss it is reported that it was her and she appeared to go rogue while looking for the disappeared Alice. Then in ''Blattodea'' it's largely unknown if she's facing any consequences for what she did ot not, but she's oddly stuck at a BlandNameProduct/WcDonalds instead of working at Pomario.

* BareYourMidriff: Wears a crop top.

* DemotedToExtra: Despite being hyped in her introduction scene, Imomushi doesn't get to do much in ''Arachnid'' and we only find out what became of her in the ending of the spinoff. In ''Blattodea'', she's one of the main characters with less personal stakes on the plot and only joins the cast properly once she reunites with Hanakamakiri in chapter 25.

* OneWomanArmy: Especially when the zombie apocalypse happens to Japan and she survives it on her own for a whole year.