Line #356 Characters/ArachnidCaterpillarAssassins


1	[[WMG:[[center:''{{Manga/Arachnid}}'' [[Characters/{{Arachnid}} Character Index]]\
2	Main Characters: [[Characters/ArachnidMainCharacters Arachnid]], [[Characters/CaterpillarMainCharacters Caterpillar]], [[Characters/BlattodeaMainCharacters Blattodea]]\
3	The Organization's "Bugs": [[Characters/ArachnidRecurringAssassins Recurring]], [[Characters/ArachnidMainSeriesAssassins Exclusive to Arachnid]], '''Exclusive to Caterpillar''', [[Characters/ArachnidBlattodeaAssassins Exclusive to Blattodea]]\
4	[[Characters/ArachnidOtherCharacters Other Characters]]\
5	Related series: Characters/{{Jackals}}, Characters/ChoubuNoShinobi, Characters/{{Himenospia}}]]]]
6
7	The bug-themed psychos who oppose Imomushi in ''Manga/{{Caterpillar}}'', a spinoff to ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}''.
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9	[[foldercontrol]]
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11	[[folder:General]]
12	* AnimalMotifs: All of those assassins have a arthropod motif, ranging from simply wielding weapons related to them to behaving like bugs and [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing having superpowers.]] Any outlandish things they do are followed by documentary-style explanations on insects that are often [[HandWave far from a satisfying explanation]] of ''why'' seemingly [[BadassNormal normal people]] have such abilities.
13	* NoNameGiven: The Organization members are only known by their codenames and fake names, as they have [[UnPerson no real names or family registers.]]
14	* HerbivoresAreFriendly: The characters introduced in this spinoff tend to be based on non-carnivorous insects but no, they ''are'' assassins after all and most of them are bloodthirsty psychos too.
15	* ProfessionalKiller: Some of the Organization's hitmen are cold and professional, while all the others are [[PsychoForHire blood-thirsty psychos]].
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17	[[/folder]]
18
19	[[folder:Firefly/Hotaruga]]
20	!!Firefly (ホタルガ; Hotaruga)
21	Imomushi's partner who gives intel for her, until she betrays Imomushi for a reward given by Ageha.
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23	* AnimalMotifs: Not actual 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.
24	* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: To the point Imomushi would've probably just accepted how Hotaruga is and spared her if she didn't keep shooting.
25	* DecoyProtagonist: Introduced as Imomushi's partner, only to soon betray her and get killed within the first volume of ''Caterpillar''.
26	* MoeGreeneSpecial: Imomushi kills Hotaruga by shooting her in the eye.
27	* TheMole: While pretending to be Imomushi's ally, she was also giving information to Paraponera.
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29	[[/folder]]
30
31	[[folder:Paraponera]]
32	!!Paraponera
33	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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35	* {{Acrofatic}}: Extremely agile despite his fatass build.
36	* AnArmAndALeg: Lost his left arm to a grenade's explosion while fighting Imomushi.
37	* AnimalMotifs: ''[[StrongAnts Paraponera clavata]]'' 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.
38	* ArmCannon: While trying to free himself from Kumo's noose in a storage room, Paraponera swings over [[CrateExpectations to a crate]] and shoves his artificial blade-arm on it. It gets [[GatlingGood neatly attached to a minigun]], with his enemies reacting in confusion as they wonder why he hadn't been using it in the first place.
39	* AxCrazy: After his initial defeat, Paraponera becomes much more unhinged and savage.
40	* BadassAndChildDuo: Used to have a little girl helping out with his killing sprees.
41	* BadassInANiceSuit: Dresses sharply for the battles in the Ageha ship.
42	* BadassNormal: He has no unusual powers, but is portrayed as one of the Organization's strongest hitmen.
43	* BaldOfEvil: Balding and evil, alright.
44	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Paraponera wears his gauntlets with poisoned elbow stingers more discreetly than his daughter, and since Imomushi is immune to poison, he ends up not using them much on-screen. His lost left arm then gets replaced with a launchable blade.
45	* BloodKnight: Only cares about fighting and murdering people.
46	* 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. He even named her Setsuna after a character she likes.
47	* TheDeterminator: His defining quality as an assassin, as he fights on no matter the circumstances and actually would have killed Imomushi if [[spoiler:he didn't abruptly pass away on the spot]].
48	* 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, where it instead happened right after Imomushi killed Hotaruga.]]
49	* TheDragon: Presented as one to Ageha early on, but it turns out there's another assassin ranked above him.
50	* TheDreaded: Kumo and others from the Organization acknowledged him as the strongest killer in the world.
51	* EnfantTerrible: He was highly violent as a boy and killed his own parents for trivial reasons.
52	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: It is left ambiguous if he really cared for Dinoponera and ''Caterpillar'' never touches the subject from his perspective at all.
53	* EyeScream: The grenade Imomushi bounced back at him took his left eye, too.
54	* FairWeatherMentor: He wouldn't help Dinoponera if she couldn't keep up with him.
55	* FatBastard: Fat, ugly and balding so you know he's totally evil.
56	* FinalBoss: The last opponent Imomushi faces in the Death Caterpillar game.
57	* {{Gonk}}: A case of DependingOnTheArtist. The ''Arachnid'' illustrator doesn't portray him ''that'' badly, but the two prequel illustrators draw him just plain ''fugly''.
58	* UsefulNotes/TheGulfWar: Paraponera went into hiding on Thailand after fighting on the second Gulf War.
59	* GunsAreWorthless: ''Bullet'' Ant here is very skilled with firearms, but that does nothing on any named characters. 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]].
60	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Imomushi shoots a grenade back at Paraponera, then finishes him by hitting his forehead with a throwing knife he had used to stab her leg.
61	* LackOfEmpathy: Paraponera only used people to satisfy his thrist for battle. However, he did somehow raise a daughter. ''Caterpillar'' curiously avoids showing their relationship from his perspective despite his major role in the story, just having Dinoponera appear from out of nowhere instead as she did in ''Arachnid''.
62	* MadeOfIron: Is left terribly wounded floating on a river with a knife stuck on his head. Comes back with a vengeance later.
63	* MightyRoar: Can stun people by screaming at them, which the narrator compares to ants stridulating.
64	* NearVillainVictory: He defeats Kumo, but switches targets to Imomushi as she arrives on the scene. [[spoiler:He then actually defeats Imomushi too and is about to execute her when he ends up passing away from his mortal injuries.]]
65	* NotQuiteDead: He recovered from his first battle against Imomushi and then watched her fight inside the Ageha group's ship.
66	* OneManArmy: Took on battlefields on his own, and was in fact a bad team player. Even Dinoponera could only barely follow him from behind and never quite understood how he was able to always predict the trajectory of bullets despite having no superpowers.
67	* ParentalSubstitute: Found a baby Dinoponera under her dead mother and raised her.
68	* PetTheDog: His relationship with Dinoponera is mostly portrayed in a positive light. It is shown he didn't mind her being a fan of animes, as he named her Setsuna after a ''Sailor-Force'' character and rather morbidly gave a Moon Scepter toy to her that belonged to some kid of a family they were hired to murder. But ultimately he ended up abandoning her.
69	* PoisonedWeapons: Has blades with bullet ant venom on them. This ant's venom usually can't kill humans, but it does cause some of the most intense, searing pain ever known and it lasts for several hours while the victim suffers from side effects such as fever and nausea.
70	* PosthumousCharacter: Imomushi killed him at the end of the Death Caterpillar battle royale, but during the events of ''Arachnid'' other characters eleborate on how tough he was in his prime and Dinoponera reminisces about her childhood under his care.
71	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: He's introduced raping a woman he was sent to kill, [[CoitusUninterruptus only stopping because]] Imomushi [[MercyKill kills her instead.]]
72	* {{Sabotutor}}: He was a terrible teacher to Dinoponera. His way of training the little ant was just handing her a gun and expecting her to imitate what he did, not coming to her aid if she couldn't keep up. It is implied he just abandoned her when she didn't perform up to his expectations.
73	* SilentAntagonist: In contrast to how he acted as a taunting scumbag to Imomushi in the beginning of ''Caterpillar'', Paraponera goes almost completely silent when he fights Kinohadakamakiri, Kumo and Imomushi in the ''Ageha'' ship.
74	* StarterVillain: He is Imomushi's first noteworthy enemy in ''Caterpillar'', and one much more danguerous than how Kamakiri was to Alice.
75	* WorldsBestWarrior: Very feared by his peers, though the prequel shows he was actually ranked 2 amongst them, with Osamushi being the first.
76	* WorthyOpponent: He considered Imomushi the first person he felt connected to after his first defeat to her and was really eager for a rematch.
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78	[[/folder]]
79
80	[[folder:Dead Leaf Moth/Murasakishachihoko]]
81	!!Dead Leaf Moth (Murasakishachihoko)
82	A master of disguise who is the first enemy to encounter Hanakamakiri on the ship.
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84	* AnimalMotifs: [[MacabreMothMotif Uropyia meticulodina moths]], aka Dead Leaf Moths, which have incredibly detailed wings that look ''exactly'' like curled dead leaves.
85	* DarkActionGirl
86	* MasterOfDisguise: Disguises herself as Imomushi, a [[FatBastard fat man]] and Hanakamakiri ''on the fly''. She calls it her "Scale Powder Makeup".
87	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Gives Hanakamakiri some trouble but gets punched out by Imomushi when her plan fails.
88	* SpotTheImposter: She disguises herself as Hanakamakiri to trick Imomushi, but fails [[ImposterForgotOneDetail because she couldn't have known]] that Hanakamakiri is a crossdressing boy.
89	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Isn't shown escaping from the ship at the end but isn't shown dead either.
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91	[[/folder]]
92
93	[[folder:Weevil/Zomushi]]
94	!!Weevil (Zomushi)
95	An insane armored guy.
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97	* AnimalMotifs: Weevil beetles.
98	* DisneyVillainDeath: Riock punches him out of the Ageha ship.
99	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Gets close to killing Hanakamakiri, but is quickly taken down by Riock.
100	* NoSell: Zomushi's armor greatly protects him from damage, and he can close it over his face, too... but it doesn't matter when Riock just punches him into the sea.
101	* SlasherSmile: His default expression.
102	* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: As a child he loved to rip stuffed toys apart and that led to a bizarre obsession with becoming a fully armored and muscular man so everyone else would be soft by comparison.
103	* WouldHurtAChild: He tries to suffocate and rip Hanakamakiri apart.
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105	[[/folder]]
106
107	[[folder:Stick Insect/Nanafushi]]
108	!!Stick Insect (Nanafushi)
109	A machine gun-toting girl who can make people subconsciously ignore her presence.
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111	* AchillesHeel: Nanafushi's power is weakened when she gets too emotional.
112	* AnimalMotifs: Stick insects.
113	* BadassInANiceSuit: Shame her classy suit [[ClothingDamage gets ruined]] by Hanakamakiri, though.
114	* DarkActionGirl
115	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Unable to [[PowerIncontinence understand and control her ability]], Nanafushi grew mad from isolation and [[{{Patricide}} killed her mother]]. Even then nobody noticed she existed, so she flipped out for good and became an assassin.
116	* 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. Interestingly, it has been hinted by the author that she'll be allied with Hanakamakiri and Alice in ''Blattodea''.
117	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Gives some trouble to Riock but is defeated by Hanakamakiri.
118	* PerceptionFilter: People subconsciously ignore her existence unless she goes out of her way to interact with them. However, fridge logic indicates her power actually weakened over time -- she never got caught for killing her mother despite being very emotionally unstable and yet Hanakamakiri disables her powers with just a little intimidation.
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120	[[/folder]]
121
122	[[folder:Planthopper/Unka]]
123	!!Planthopper (Unka)
124	[[quoteright:151:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/27157232e6cf410a1635e6a5bbac053f.jpg]]
125	An old man with cybernetic legs who encounters Imomushi.
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127	* AnArmAndALeg: Lost his legs due to a land mine mishap while going after Paraponera in the battlefield.
128	* AnimalMotifs: Young Leafhoppers have a gear-like mechanism in their legs that lock together to ensure they'll both move with precise synchronization, allowing them to jump 100 times their length. Rather ironic that an old man is using this ability to replace lost limbs, as leafhoppers lose it when they mature into their adult form.
129	* ArtificialLimbs: Got mechanical replacements after losing his legs to an explosion.
130	* CallForward: He fails to keep up with Paraponera and is told it was because of his own weakness, in a parallel to Dinoponera's backstory in ''Arachnid'' where she is abandoned by her father.
131	* EvilOldFolks: An old and antagonistical soldier.
132	* FlashStep: In his case, it is flash jumping.
133	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Ok, the gears on leafhoppers are cool. Next.
134	* OldSoldier: A retired soldier who's now a cyborg assassin.
135	* UseYourHead: His bionic legs allow him to launch himself and perform powerful headbutts.
136	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Isn't shown escaping from the ship at the end but isn't shown dead either.
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138	[[/folder]]
139
140	[[folder:Former Rhinoceros Beetle/Kabutomushi]]
141	The former director of the Pomario orphanage. For his successor Ran Kabuto, see the [[Characters/CaterpillarMainCharacters Main Characters]] page for ''Caterpillar''.
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143	* AnimalMotifs: Rhinoceros and Hercules beetles.
144	* 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 ''Manga/KillingBites'' has nearly the same backstory.
145	* DissonantSerenity: He casually killed children at Pomario as if eating snacks at night and could only nonchalantly scold Ran for breaking into his room when she found Yuki horribly impaled on the Heracles blade.
146	* DoubleWeapon: Owned the Heracles, a large double-bladed sword based on the Alligator the protagonist of ''Manga/{{Jackals}}'' wielded.
147	* NoNameGiven: Averted as his real name is Otani Hercules, in a rare case of a bug assassin in the series being named before ''Blattodea''.
148	* WouldHurtAChild: Little Kabuto-girl thought of him as a father figure until she found her only friend gruesomely killed by him because he felt she was too weak.
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150	[[/folder]]
151
152	[[folder:Bark Mantis/Kinohadakamakiri]]
153	!!Bark Mantis (キノハダカマキリ; Kinohadakamakiri), alias Oscar Iizuka (オスカル飯塚)
154	Hanakamakiri's former master who attacks the boy during the Death Caterpillar game to attempt to make him his slave again.
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156	* AbusiveParents: He's made even creepier by how he's a parental figure to whom poor Hanakamakiri feels indebted or even ''grateful'' to some extent despite everything that happened.
157	* AnimalMotifs: [[SlayingMantis Bark mantises]]. Their coloration enables them to hide on tree trunks.
158	* BadassTeacher: Was the one who taught the mantis fighting style to Hanakamakiri. He's also Ichijikukobachi's master and they get along swimmingly due to the girl already having been deranged for a long time.
159	* BeautyIsBad: Kinohadakamakiri is a handsome man who's an evil and sadistic pedophile. Made more pronounced by how the young Hanakamakiri was forced to kill a [[EvilMakesYouUgly monstrous-looking]] rapist right before he was forced to live with Kinohadakamakiri.
160	* CharacterTic: He rates everything everyone around him does, including himself when he screws up.
161	* ControlFreak: Because he couldn't relate to others he sought to control Hanakamakiri and turn him into his mini-me.
162	* TheCorrupter: He hoped to turn the pure and traumatized Hanakamakiri into a sadistic assassin like himself. When Hanakamakiri claims he'd like to turn Imomushi into a limbless sex slave, Kinohadakamakiri is pleasantly surprised by how he's capable of imagining that, even though it's an obvious lie.
163	* DudeLooksLikeALady: Has very delicate looks, but unlike Hanakamakiri he is immediately recognized as a man.
164	* ElegantGothicLolita: Dresses in this fashion, with fanciful clothes and a hat.
165	* EasilyForgiven: Downplayed. Kinohadakamakiri is shown to have terribly abused and raped Hanakamakiri after adopting him, to the point the boy has a nervous breakdown upon meeting him again during the Death Caterpillar game. Even so, Hanakamakiri has just enough begruding respect for his master to only have claimed one of his eyes when they parted ways and acts polite around him while cooperating to let Imomushi find Ageha. The incident on the cruise ship ends with a badly injured Kinohadakamakiri being helped out of there by his pupil, and laughing at the ironic humiliation of needing the boy's support.
166	* EvilMentor: Raised Hanakamakiri into a formidable assassin, but also frequently abused and raped the boy in order to make him as depraved as himself. Hanakamakiri was never quite brought into his influence, but is implied to have some measure of Stockholm Syndrome from the whole ordeal.
167	* EyeScream: Hanakamakiri lured Kinohadakamakiri during graduation by acting like they should remain as servant and master, only to stab him in the eye and run away.
168	* EyepatchOfPower: Wears one over his right thanks to [[TheDogBitesBack Hanakamakiri stabbing his eye]] after graduation. And it just so happens that he's friends with a very busty lady, like Sara and Kuramoto from ''Arachnid''.
169	* GracefulLoser: He acknowledges Hanakamakiri's strength when the boy fights him to a standstill.
170	* {{Hammerspace}}: Where he presumably pulls his scythes out of.
171	* HeelFaceTurn: After taking a beating from his former student, Kinohadakamakiri hands over his envelope and decides to help him along. He still isn't remotely presented as a good guy, and neither does Hanakamakiri go back to him or anything after the Death Caterpillar incident is over.
172	* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: At one point he grabs Hanakamakiri from behind and starts licking his neck. His backstory shows Kinohadakamakiri treated the boy like this as soon as he got him as a student.
173	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Gets badly wounded by Paraponera's launchable arm blade.
174	* KarmaHoudini: He loses an eye to Hanakamakiri after repeatedly raping and grooming the boy into becoming a gothloli assassin. However, considering how vile Kinohadakamakiri is, he can be said to ultimately have gotten away with everything by the end of ''Caterpillar'' considering he and his pupil end up having some kind of mutual respect as fighters.
175	* KickingAssInAllHerFinery: A male example with his frilly goth costume.
176	* NoSell: Successfully blocks a massive SpamAttack from Hanakamakiri.
177	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Regularly raped Hanakamakiri while training him, and is awfully proud of that. It is shown this is a running thing among the mantis assassins, as his own master is also a mad rapist.
178	* SinisterScythe: Wields a dark blue pair like the ones used by the other mantis people.
179	* TrainingFromHell: Subjected Hanakamakiri to harsh training which involved killing crowds of people, working as a maid and regularly shoving a gordian worm-like device up his ass.
180	* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Has white hair and is a pretty awful guy.
181	* TheWorfEffect: He's the first one to take on Paraponera inside Ageha's ship. This predictably doesn't go too well for him, and then Kumo also loses to establish the villain's threat level right before Imomushi arrives.
182	* YouAreAlreadyDead: He makes blades magically pop out of people from a distance, but no damage is done for a set amount of time. He even calls the trope by name.
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184	[[/folder]]
185
186	[[folder:Fig Wasp/Ichijikukobachi]]
187	!!Fig Wasp (イチジクコバチ; Ichijikukobachi)
188	[[quoteright:164:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/625c0a09e82084e979745382ea993d0f.jpg]]
189	A pupil of Kinohadakamakiri who fights Riock while he goes after Hanakamakiri.
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191	* AnimalMotifs: Fig wasps, which have their stings on the end of a cord.
192	* AxCrazy: She often goes unhinged during combat and delights in stabbing men as if she's raping them.
193	* DarkActionGirl: A evil female assassin who fights the heroes.
194	* DarkAndTroubledPast: She [[RapeAsBackstory was raped]] when she was 14-years old, [[RapeLeadsToInsanity reasoned life boiled down to dominating others]] and stabbed her assailants to death with a pencil.
195	* ImprobableWeaponUser: She manipulates a tiny but powerful drill hooked to a length of wire, slashing and stabbing people from a distance instead of using it as a tool for traps like Alice.
196	* MonsterOfTheWeek: She keeps Riock busy while Kinohadakamakiri goes after his pupil.
197	* PhallicWeapon: Her drill wire is meant to evoke penis envy, with her maniacally telling Riock that "girls want to penetrate men too"!
198	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Her dress gives a generous view of her bust, especially when [[WardrobeMalfunction she's knocked over and her breasts are left exposed]].
199	* 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'd rather quit her job at this point.
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201	[[/folder]]
202
203	[[folder:Stag Beetles/Kuwagata]]
204	!!Stag Beetles (クワガタ; Kuwagata)
205	[[quoteright:160:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arachstagprofile.png]]
206	[[caption-width-right:160:Dorcus in Himekuwagata mode (top) and her cronies.]]
207	A group of four stag beetle people who hold a nasty grudge against their former teacher Kabutomushi.
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209	!!!Tropes that apply for all of them:
210	* AnimalMotifs: Kabutomushi has taken a wrong turn into the [[JapaneseBeetleBrothers Lucanidae]] neighborhood.
211	** The little girl is a Dorcus rectus beetle (aka "princess dorcus[=/=]himekuwagata") who turns into a Dorcus curvidens (Kurubidensu Ookuwagata) and a Dorcus titanus (Hiratakuwagata) by aging back and forth at will.
212	** The guy with the CoolShades is a Lucanus maculifemoratus (Miyamakuwagata, "miyama stag beetle").
213	** The red-headed girl is a Prosopocoilus inclinatus (Nokogirikuwagata, "sawtooth stag beetle").
214	** The bald guy is an Aegus laevicollis (Nebutokuwagata).
215	* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Not blades, but blunt weapons shaped like various kinds of stag beetle mandibles instead.
216	* CallingTheOldManOut: Himekuwagata wants to prove herself to Kabutomushi and avenge her fellow students [[OffscreenVillainy who died under Kabuto's care]]. Miyamakuwagata is a selfish guy who wants to get back at Kabutomushi for how she humiliated him with her supernatural strength. The other two, then... [[FlatCharacter what other two?]]
217	* CurbStompBattle: When Himekuwagata 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. Nebutokuwagata even goes down without doing anything!
218	* DarkActionGirl: The three Dorcus girls and Nokogirikuwagata.
219	* HoistByHisOwnPetard:
220	** Miyamakuwagata holds Kabutomushi and flips around smashing her head on the ground until she pushes his face over hers and he gets hit instead.
221	** Ookuwagata attempts to throw Kabutomushi over herself, but Kabuto lands on her and starts choking her.
222	* MonsterOfTheWeek: Only Himekuwagata seems to become anything of a threat to Kabutomushi once she swims back to the ship and gets serious.
223	* 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 bangs and [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily shark teeth]] and a [[FatBastard practically spherical fat]] [[BaldOfEvil bald dude]] who's [[PerpetualSmiler always grinning]].
224	* SignatureLaugh: Each one has a unique laugh, written in different fonts.
225	* {{Stripperiffic}}: Nebutokuwagata only has underwear on. And then there's Hiratakuwagata and her ChainmailBikini that comes out of nowhere.
226
227	!!!Tropes for Himekuwagata and her sisters:
228	* AnArmAndALeg: Kabutomushi eventually catches Hirata off-guard with the scissor function of the Hercules Horn and chops her right leg off.
229	* ArtificialLimbs: After losing her right leg to Kabutomushi, she reappears a couple years later with an adjustable SeadogPegLeg. And a post-apocalyptic cape too, why not.
230	* AxCrazy: Hiratakuwagata goes loose while trying to kill Kabutomushi. In comparison, her child self is bratty and her teen self is more level-headed.
231	* TheBusCameBack: After ''Caterpillar'', Hime reappears as a guard for Hibarigaoka Prison in ''Blattodea'' chapter 36, like Murata implied in a Twitter Spaces roundtable interview held in 2023 when volume 6 was published.
232	* CatchPhrase: While fighting, Hirata repeatedly asks Kabutomushi to do crazy things with her.
233	* 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. Even though the previous chapters [[GoingCommando showed she had no underwear on.]]
234	* CombatPragmatist: Himekuwagata's visible left arm is actually fake and serves to hide that she's holding a gun in her real left hand.
235	* CreepyChild: She is the leader of the quartet and does all the talking, fancying herself a pro assassin. Then she goes and transforms into a crazed and scantily clad adult.
236	* CuteButPsycho: Himekuwagata is a cute, smug and violent kid; Ookuwagata is an AffablyEvil teen and Hiratakuwagata is a curvy and unhinged woman.
237	* DisneyVillainDeath: Subverted, as Himekuwagata gets smacked by Kabutomushi into the sea ([[RunningGag Kabutomushi's overall score: 5]]) but survives and makes a comeback.
238	* DidntSeeThatComing: Hiratakuwagata gets defeated by Kabutomushi chopping one of her legs off upon suddenly using the Heracles as a giant pair of scissors, after both of the stag beetle's younger selves were so confident that she could still finish Kabuto off.
239	* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: Ookuwagata repeatedly asks Kabutomushi to not harm her "little sister" or to surrender to her and Ageha under threat of extreme violence. While Kabuto did spare Himekuwagata as asked during training, she is of course too proud to step down during their second confrontation.
240	* {{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. There are also thematic parallels with Dinoponera, as detailed below.
241	* DualAgeModes: Himekuwagata losing her innocence to extreme parental abuse caused her to develop split personalities that make her physically morph into teen and adult versions of herself.
242	* GivenNameReveal: She is introduced as "Hime Kuwano" in ''Blattodea''.
243	* GracefulLoser: After losing a leg to Kabutomushi, who doesn't want to kill her, Hiratakuwagata [[VillainousBreakdown 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.
244	* GoingCommando: It is made obvious that Himekuwagata isn't wearing panties, but when she becomes Hiratakuwagata a ChainmailBikini inexplicably shows up on her.
245	* GunsAreWorthless: Himekuwagata 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.
246	* HellishPupils: Bright slits on the dorcus girl's pupils. In her adult form, little spikes [[ExoticEyeDesigns come out of her irises]].
247	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She starts as a little girl who first appears sitting on top of a burly man.
248	* KickThemWhileTheyreDown: Hiratakuwagata kicks Kabutomushi several times at one point, only stopping when Lucanus calls her to hand over her weapons.
249	* MetronomicManMashing: Ookuwagata swings the Kabuto Horn with Kabutomushi on the other end and slams her to the floor, almost crushing Gokiburi at the same time.
250	* MsFanservice: When Ookuwagata 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 she was a kid with no underwear (as implied by several obscured upskirt shots) just a few minutes before, that child self is still conscious in her head.
251	* PainfulTransformation: When Himekuwagata transforms into a teen or an adult, she suffers from severe convulsions.
252	* PintSizedPowerhouse: Even as a little girl, Himekuwagata is strong enough to lift Kabutomushi with one arm.
253	* ThePowerOfHate: They say their split personality-induced transformations are stabilized by a shared hatred of Kabutomushi.
254	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Hiratakuwagata has bright red eyes.
255	* ReusedCharacterDesign: An odd case where the character in question is ''from the same story''. Ookuwagata is essentially a PaletteSwap of Dinoponera with similar mannerisms, 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.
256	* SelfMadeOrphan: Himekuwagata killed her AbusiveParents by [[{{Gorn}} crushing their heads into paste]], or rather, it was Ookuwagata who did it when they attempted to drown her.
257	* 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]]. They consider each other sisters.
258	* StevenUlyssesPerhero: Himekuwagata's name is "Hime Kuwano".
259	* TattooedCrook: Hiratakuwagata has a upside down cross tattoo over her chest and a broken heart under her navel, bordering on the IntimateMarks trope.
260	* TransformationIsAFreeAction: The other three beetles stand before Himekuwagata and Kabutomushi when Ookuwagata "emerges", telling their master to not disturb her transformation.
261	* VillainousFriendship: She considers Ageha[[spoiler:/Mika]] a friend and taught her how to control split personalities via the power of hate.
262	* YouKilledMyFather: Himekuwagata loathes Kabutomushi for killing her sister, which Kabuto doesn't even remember doing. Turns out this "sister", Ookuwagata, is really one of her two split personalities who asked Kabutomushi to dial down on all the deadly TrainingFromHell in exchange for her going dormant and not beating the crap out of Kabuto.
263
264	!!!Tropes for the other three stags:
265	* ButtMonkey: Much like Oki in this spinoff, Miyamakuwagata, Nokogirikuwagata and Nebutokuwagata 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.
266	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Miyamakuwagata was born with a condition that made his muscles hyper developed and became a major bully over the years, but his pride was crushed once match stick cyborg Kabutomushi began humiliating him at Pomario. He dedicates himself to surpass her since then.
267	* FlatCharacter: Nokogirikuwagata and Nebutokuwagata get next to no characterization and their attempts to beat up Kabutomushi are so lackluster it's hard to believe they're her graduates.
268	* 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 outside of an illustration in volume 9 implying Nebutokuwagata and Nokogirikuwagata came from opposite social classes, with sawtooth girl being the dirt-poor one.
269	* ScaryTeeth: Nokogirikuwagata has sawtooth teeth to match her bug motif.
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271	[[/folder]]
272
273	[[folder:Bed Bug/Nankinmushi]]
274	!!Bed Bug (ナンキンムシ; Nankinmushi), alias Kyoko Minami
275	A prostitute who works for the Organization. Imomushi asks her to [[MustNotDieAVirgin take Hanakamakiri's virginity]] before they go on their mission on the Ageha cruise ship, but...
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277	* AttemptedRape: An annoyed Hanakamakiri asks that Kyoko gives him only the massage services so she wouldn't have come for nothing, but Kyoko gets him drowsy with pleasure and forces herself on him anyway.
278	* BitCharacter: Only appears on a single gag BreatherEpisode.
279	* 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 just be trying to dunk a onahole on the boy rather than proper intercourse. A flabbergasted Imomushi catches her on the act and makes her stop. This, ''of course'', correlates to how bed bugs of both sexes have fake genitalia to deal with traumatic insemination from males.
280	* ExoticEyeDesigns: Her eyes have lines that form a rhombus pattern.
281	* SeriesContinuityError: Chapter 64 starts with her naked while trying to fuck Hanakamakiri. Once we see HowWeGotHere she suddenly has underwear on, which is especially odd given how otherwise the story was published in a seinen magazine and had no problem with showing nudity with other female characters either before and after this.
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283	[[/folder]]
284
285	[[folder:Leaf Beetle/Togehamushi]]
286	!!Leaf Beetle (トゲハムシ, Togehamushi)
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288	* AnimalMotifs: Themed after spiny leaf beetles.
289	* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: Long spikes can protrude out of her entire body.
290	* BringMyBrownPants: Shoichiro pretends to hit her with a lightning-fast MegatonPunch, stopping short of her face. She's so scared that she falls on her back peeing and admits defeat to him.
291	* DontMakeMeDestroyYou: She discourages Riokku and Shoichiro from attacking her and triggering her spikes, even going out of her way to spare Riokku because he's too stupid to listen.
292	* DropDeadGorgeous: Downplayed; Togehamushi is stabbed in the abdomen and her nude body is prominently shown as she collapses and lies on the floor but she doesn't outright die. To add to her humiliation, the last we see of her is her unconscious bare butt as Riokku carries her out of the cruise ship once the incident is over.
293	* EyeScream: It doesn't hurt her, but when Shoichiro defeated her she suffered a brief PowerIncontinence and spikes even came out of her eye sockets.
294	* FullFrontalAssault: Because of her power to pop up spikes all over her body, she doesn't bother wearing anything other than a robe.
295	* HeelFaceTurn: Guides Shoichiro and Riock around the ship towards Ageha after she's defeated.
296	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
297	** Glomps Riock's face with her entire body before wrecking him with her spines, but deliberately doesn't kill him.
298	** Osamushi impales her navel with a rapier and she passes out for the rest of ''Caterpillar'', [[ThisCannotBe much to her disbelief]].
299	* ImmuneToBullets: As her spikes instantly react to any danger, she claims not even bullets can hit her.
300	* InertialImpalement: Her power is revealed when Riock attempts to [[{{Fingore}} punch her face.]]
301	* MonsterOfTheWeek: She's just somebody for Shoichiro to have a very brief fight against.
302	* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: She believes her spikes can counter anything, but freaks out and gives up when Shoichiro proves he could punch her head off before they can trigger. To make things worse, she's then stabbed in the belly by Osamushi and faints.
303	* RapeAsBackstory: She became so emotionally repressed in an effort to avoid harming others with her spikes that she let a rapist take her to a hotel without any resistance, only to instinctively kill him anyway.
304	* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: She's more stoic than lascivious, but walks around naked and gives [[DeadlyHug deadly hugs]] to people with a smile. It's a kindness from the story that the girl is punished but not outright murdered for behaving like this, like what happened to the Army Ant Queen, Iroha and Ayano in other installments of the series.
305	* SpikeShooter: She was born with a condition that makes long spikes appear all over her body when she's emotional or threatened. It's essentially an [[PhallicWeapon anti-rape mechanism]] she has, turning her fight with Riock into a BrickJoke since it comes after he fought Ichijikukobachi, an unhinged rape victim who wanted to penetrate him with a drill.
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307	[[/folder]]
308
309	[[folder:Ground Beetle/Osamushi]]
310	!!Ground Beetle (オサムシ; Osamushi), alias Osamu Tsukado
311	The mysterious 1st ranker of the Organization, and Shoichiro old missing teacher.
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313	* ActionBomb: His death causes a nuclear explosion that kills all the guests in the ship.
314	* AlmightyJanitor: Imagine a world where ''Osamu Tezuka'', the God of Manga, was secretly a killer for hire.
315	* AnimalMotifs: The Carabinae subfamily of beetles. The self-defense abilities of Bombardier beetles are specifically compared to how Astro Boy is powered by a nuclear reactor.
316	* {{Expy}}: Osamushi is designed after Manga/BlackJack, which is made ironic by how he's an assassin and not at all a surgeon.
317	* GracefulLoser: Upon losing a clash of punches and being mortally wounded, Osamu acknowledges Shoichiro's strength and tells him to leave the ship before his nuclear reactor explodes, actually bragging that he's victorious in how he's dying in service of the Organization. He dies alone but at peace, singing the ''Astro Boy'' opening theme and wishing Shoichiro well as his last words.
318	* KickTheDog: Stabs Togehamushi before she does anything just to piss Shoichiro off.
319	* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: An example of a fool is about to punch you in the face? Turn your arm into a shield to avert it. Continuing the bug theme, the shield has a fancy stag beetle coat of arms on it.
320	* MegatonPunch: He mentions he could shift his Atomic Fist into anything he wants, from the scalpel of Manga/BlackJack to the mandibles of Manga/DonDracula and the wings of the Manga/{{Phoenix}}, but would rather finish his opponents with the weapon in its default fist shape, as Astro Boy is his dearest creation.
321	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: He's a portrayal of Creator/OsamuTezuka as a master assassin who supports Japan nuking itself on purpose and even willingly nukes ''himself'', all to make the real deal spin in his grave. At least his work as a mangaka is depicted respectfully... Appearance-wise, Osamushi resembles Black Jack and not Tezuka's AuthorAvatar, but he does at least wear his signature beret hat.
322	* NothingLeftToDoButDie: He seemingly meant to disappear and commit suicide after reaching his peak as an assassin-mangaka, but [[CareerEndingInjury when his right arm became disabled]] he was actually still doing derivative works of his own series in secret. Ageha took advantage of Osamushi's frustration by convincing him to help her in exchange for regaining his youth and replacing his right arm with a wondrous shape-shifting weapon. The incident on the cruise ship still causes him to die anyway, with a bizarre sense of pride, as he nukes himself for the Organization's sake.
323	* OlderThanHeLooks: Looks younger than Shoichiro due to some treatment he was given by Ageha.
324	* PosthumousCharacter: A flashback in ''Blattodea'' expands on his relationship with Kagimushi and Yamato Gokiburi.
325	* PunnyName: ''Osamu''shi. His actual name is also just Osamu, with a "Tsukado" surname instead of "Tezuka".
326	* RealMenWearPink: He's a powerful bishonen with pink hair who first appears after having sex with Ageha.
327	* RedRightHand: Has a scar that goes over his forehead from the right and curves towards his left cheek. He also has a shapeshifting right arm.
328	* ShapeshifterWeapon: His right arm, named Atomic Fist (one reading of Astro Boy's original name is Iron Arm Atom), can morph into various weapons according to the wielder's imagination and has considerable range. It can even melt and spread over the floor for surprise attacks.
329	* SuperpowerMeltdown: He's nuclear-powered and eventually explodes into a mushroom cloud while singing the ''Astro Boy'' theme song, accomplishing the Organization's plan to erase all the V.I.P.s on the ''Ageha'' ship.
330	* WorldsBestWarrior: Is said to have killed more people than anyone else in the whole damn Organization.
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332	[[/folder]]
333
334	[[folder:Pscoptera/Chatatemushi]]
335	!!Pscoptera（チャタテムシ; Chatatemushi）
336	----
337	* AnimalMotifs: Booklice bugs.
338	* AttemptedRape: Attempts to rape Hanakamakiri after drugging him to sleep, only to end up running away for six hours when the boy's own subconscious rapist urges are awakened.
339	* BitCharacter: Only appears in a flashback from when Hanakamakiri was training under Kinohadakamakiri.
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341	[[/folder]]
342
343	[[folder:Migratory Locust/Tonosamabatta]]
344	!!Migratory Locust (トノサマバッタ; Tonosamabatta)
345	The assassin ranked 8th within the Organization. Doesn't actually appear during the Death Caterpillar incident and is only mentioned in a promotional poster for ''Caterpillar''.
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347	* TheGhost: He hasn't actually appeared in any installment of the series so far.
348	* 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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350	[[/folder]]
351
352	[[folder:Swallowtail Butterfly/Ageha (Unmarked Spoilers)]]
353	!!Swallowtail Butterfly, Akiho Yanagi (Ageha, Yanagi Akiho)
354	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.
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356	* AnimalMotifs: [[PrettyButterflies Swallowtail]] [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth butterflies]], relating to how she "dies" and is reborn with the goal of ruining Imomushi.
357	* TheBaroness: A gorgeous sadist in nazi-style dominatrix clothing.
358	* BigBad: Of the ''Caterpillar'' storyline. Specifically a BigBadFriend as she's really a deranged Mika.
359	* BondageIsBad: Ageha forced a little girl to be her sex slave for 5 years.
360	* CainAndAbel: Mika wants to kill Imomushi because she sacrificed everything for her in vain, but ends up deliberately confronting Imomushi in a way that lures Paraponera into aiming for herself first and is fatally wounded. Imomushi, who acknowledged she deserved to die by Mika's hand, laments that despite everything Mika was still looking out for her.
361	* DeadAllAlong: The real Akiho got her head [[CruelAndUnusualDeath crushed into paste]] by Imomushi, and the one seen throughout ''Caterpillar'' was Mika transformed into her appearance.
362	* DropDeadGorgeous: After being raped and strangled by Ageha's goons, Mika is put in a body bag with a [[DiesWideOpen blank unblinking look on her face]] and is sent to the necrophiliac Shidemushi leader, who places her naked body on some kind of liquid tank. Then she turns out to be NotQuiteDead and breaks out of it.
363	* DyingAsYourself: Mika is mortally wounded by Paraponera after revealing her true identity to Imomushi, and dies in her normal form while glad to see her sister was still wearing the hair decoration she once gave her.
364	* NavelDeepNeckline: Wears her shirt open, exposing her cleavage and stomach.
365	* OrcusOnHisThrone: Just watches the ongoing battles from a ballroom along with her attendants.
366	* 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.
367	* 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''. The symbol is censored on the volume releases, though.
368	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil:
369	** Ageha blackmailed a young girl into becoming a sex slave to her and her mooks for kicks until they ended up (almost) killing her. Even some of the Shidemushi cleaners are disturbed by Ageha's actions when they dispose of her mutilated corpse.
370	** Mika wants Imomushi violated and killed because she [[RapeLeadsToInsanity snapped from all the abuse she suffered]] and feels [[ShaggyDogStory it was all wasted]] because Imomushi ended up captured by the Organization and turned into an assassin instead of living peacefully. The irony is that the Organization ''was plotting the apocalypse'', meaning Imomushi would never have had an easy life no matter what.
371	* RapeLeadsToInsanity: After being sexually tortured for a long time and almost dying, Mika gets a split personality and physically morphs into her own abuser while plotting to murder her sister Imomushi for being unwittingly responsible for everything.
372	* ShaggyDogStory: Mika sacrifices everything so her abusers wouldn't send Miki to a reformatory, but the girl ends up being turned into the assassin Imomushi instead. She then schemes to kill Imomushi just to hesitate at the last minute and get killed off for good by Paraponera, leaving Imomushi just as hollow inside. Then the Organization turns Japan into ruins, meaning Mika's efforts for Miki to have a normal life were all for nothing from the beginning.
373	* SinisterSurveillance: Watches Imomushi getting hounded by assassins from a secret ballroom.
374	* SplitPersonality: The traumatized Mika started coping by visualizing Akiho as an imaginary friend who cared about her. This turned into the shapeshifting split personality condition previously seen with Himekuwagata, which ended up saving her from death when she was strangled.
375	* WalkingSpoiler: Discussing Akiho at length reveals she is really Imomushi's sister Mika who went crazy from despair and is suffering from a bizarre shapeshifting condition.
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377	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / ArachnidCaterpillarAssassins