History Characters / ArachnidMainCharacters

* BigBadWannabe: Megumi appears full of herself in ''Blattodea'' as a terrible leader of a prison-shelter who wants both Chiyuri and Setsuna raped and killed ForTheEvulz. However, she's merely a ArcVillain compared to the proper BigBad Serena. Sne also has no authority over Shoichiro the security officer and still retains some sympathetic qualities by how she cares about Alice.

** When Kabutomushi is having a hard time fighting Dorcus titanus, Goki gets to bring Kabuto's secret weapon to her. This is what let her graduate from [[OrphanageOfFear Pomario]] after her failure to kill Imomushi.
** "Saved" Alice from Hibiki, who actually had just rescued Alice from Sara and the Media army ants.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Goki seriously considers employing emotional manipulation and rape on Alice, but won't go as far as raping Alice while she's too injured to even move (though she kinda regrets it).

* InformedAttribute: Is supposedly a competent up-and-comer assassin [[{{Jobber}} when she really isn't]] and is supposedly a CombatSadomasochist despite rarely if ever acting the part.

* SmugSuper: She's very confident about her speed, but it [[SmugSnake doesn't look all that special]] when a ''lot'' of the other assassins are stealthy or fast enough to seemingly teleport around in all sorts of ways.

* SuddenSequelHeelSyndrome: She's always been mean, but Oki debuting in ''Blattodea'' in the same evil mastermind role Sara and Akiho had in the previous series while plotting to manipulate and kill Chiyuri is one of the story's early major twists.

** After being saved by Hanakamakiri and declared the new Boss of the Organization, Alice tries to turn the job down due to her promise to Kumo. Karina calls it stupid and tries to lure her with offers of unlimited Kumoitos, but even then Alice is indecise and asks for time to think it over. Alice later admits becoming a criminal overlord and killing people ''does'' appeal to her deep down at this point, but first she wants to make sure that the Organization's genocidal actions [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans somehow are a net positive for the world]].

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Alice, Arisu, Fuji, Fujii. [[InsistentTerminology Everyone calls Alice by her full name with "Alice" in katakana]], but Alice herself says it using homophone kanji. One early scene has clarifying how it's pronounced to a teacher, given how it is a foreign name. Western fans in general, an omake in ''Manga/AkameGaKill'' and the official 2015 French translation published by Soleil always used "Alice", but at least one Japanese merchandise and the official 2022 English translation at Manga UP! uses "Arisu". Interestingly, at first Manga UP! ''did'' refer to her as "Alice" only in the synopsis but later commited to "Arisu" on all instances. Worth noting is that "Arisu" makes a pun with "Turis(u)" from ''Jackals'', whom she is based on.

* AsskickingLeadsToLeadership: After surviving the Arachnid Hunt, Alice is roped into the Organization as their new boss and is expected to do something about the zombie apocalypse problem.

* SanitySlippage: After the Arachnid Hunt, Alice accepts she's close to her breaking point and will eventually end up killing anyone who remotely presents a threat to her. In ''Blattodea'', she also admits to having a warped desire to become the new Organization Boss if she's convinced it is the right thing to do. It's to be seen if it'll actually happen, though, as no matter how much she's hyped up as a Natural Born Killer she's also a Good Girl in general.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS:
** "Fujii" or "Fuji"? Also, "Alice" is rendered as "アリス" in katakana and spelled as "Arisu" in some Japanese merchandise for the series, though a scene early in ''Arachnid'' with a teacher asking Alice about it makes it clear that it's meant to be pronounced the Western way. Western fans in general and the official 2015 French translation published by Soleil always used "Alice", but the official 2022 English translation at Manga UP! uses "Arisu". Interestingly, at first it ''did'' refer to her as "Alice" only in the synopsis but later commited to "Arisu" on all instances. Worth noting is that "Arisu" makes a pun with "Turis(u)" from ''Jackals'', whom she is based on.
** Another example of official English material using the "Alice" spelling was the mini crossover in volume 7 of ''Manga/AkameGaKill''.

* BigBadWannabe: During ''Blattodea'', Goki acts like a ruthless ruler figure who will manipulate and kill Chiyuri while also wanting to reunite with Alice and take care of her. It doesn't help that she's in the role of SinisterSurveillance previously held by not-quite-main-villainesses Sara ([[spoiler:a decoy to Kuramoto]]) and Ageha ([[spoiler:who's actually Imomushi's sister driven crazy]]). Then it turns out the superior Kagimushi is Goki's co-director at Hibarigaoka prison and both her and Geji are afraid of him bonking them on the head for fooling around.

* BringMyBrownPants: Oki wets herself when Alice overpowers her and fires a gun too close to her face.

** From a meta angle, too. In ''Manga/KillingBites'', Eruza is obviously "Gokiburi with a cat-girl theme" when she's first introduced and she too gets beaten up a lot. Despite being the one who finishes off the main villain of the Destroyale arc, she then gets knocked out by a cowardly bunny-girl due to a fluke. In ''Choubu no Shinobi'', Goki gets a counterpart with blue hair. She seemingly gets poisoned to death right after scoring her first kill, but actually just sits out of the conflict until the end and tries to assassinate the protagonists. Then the story's child counterpart of Kabutomushi slams her head-first into the floor.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[IDidWhatIHadToDo Survival-driven]] Alice doesn't really find her killings excusable, but they all count under this trope. Including how she beat up and got close to killing [[TheBully Yoriko]], [[PsychoLesbian Oki]] and [[AxCrazy Dinoponera]].

* PlotInducedStupidity:
** At one point she carelessly stumbles upon Imomushi's group despite being able to listen to sounds from afar with the Kumoito and doing this multiple times before and after to paranoid extremes.
** Alice is uncharacteristically trusting of Bekkobachi and Hanakamakiri, who are complete strangers who want to force her to be the new Boss of the Organization. This causes Alice to get beaten up by Hanakamakiri and ambushed by Bekkobachi, though the latter does let Alice leave to Hibarigaoka Prison anyway for her own purposes.

* CrazyPrepared: Thanks to her "Congenital Excessive Concentration" and string skills, she can trap and defeat people when they least expect it. [[spoiler:Hell, it turns out Alice not only had nearly the whole school covered in traps before the Arachnid Hunt, but she was already aware of Kuramoto's identity during her capture because she [[ProperlyParanoid had set a thread on Kuramoto just before they got separated]]]].

* DeathGlare: Alice has a piercing, psychotic glare with [[ExoticEyeDesigns rippling]] and [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] eyes when she's really angry or intending to kill.

* InformedFlaw: Alice is surrounded by horrible people who insist she will [[SheWhoFightsMonsters eventually turn evil]] or that she already was inherently as rotten as the people she fights. Alice herself says she'd let the world turn to ruin just to protect her own freedom, but she never quite does anything worse than killing a few antagonists in self-defense.

** Alice spends a year hopelessly fighting zombies all alone in the apocalypse after ditching Megumi for rather drama queen reasons. When she ends up at the Organization's with Hanakamakiri and Bekkobachi trying to force her to be the Boss, Alice grows maladjusted to being treated with any decency (she even gets to eat pudding) and laments as much when Hanakamakiri drops the facade and starts beating the snot out of her.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: After surviving the Arachnid Hunt, Alice is roped into the Organization as their new boss and is expected to do something about the zombie apocalypse problem.

* TheChick: Doesn't have a very nice personality to match the trope but isn't a fighter and encourages Alice and Oki from a distance, while also [[MoralityChain being a reason]] Alice tries to not get too carried away with her killing instinct.

* NeckSnap: Kills [[spoiler:Kuramoto]] by crushing her neck with thread. [[FridgeHorror Would she have done the same to Oki]] had the roach chickened out or betrayed her back when she tried to convince Hibiki to leave them alone?...

* NoSocialSkills: She was enough of a shut-in to not even know what a shopping mall is. One omake later in the series had the author emphasizing how Alice is just as socially inept as Dinoponera in her own way.

The main characters from ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': a Japanese Spider-Girl[[note]]created years before ''Spider Verse'' made it popular[[/note]] and her [[TheBully two]] problematic [[PsychoLesbian friends]].

* ItsNotYouItsMe: Alice leaves [[spoiler:Gokiburi at the end not because the roach wanted to force her to have sex, but because Alice can't stand the thought of snapping and harming Goki no matter the reason]].

* LuminescentBlush: Gets tomato-red when she's embarrassed or worried.

* MiniDressOfPower: Her blue school uniform.
* MissingMom: Her mother committed suicide due to depression. Alice is traumatized about it and can't clearly remember that incident's details. When Alice remembers, she realizes her mother must actually have been assassinated by the Organization.

* PragmaticHero: More like, "Pragmatic Heroine"; she is willing to kill as a last resort to protect herself and her friends.

* PuppetQueen: Alice is eventually pulled into the Organization as the new Boss and has Bekkōbachi and Hanakamakiri as her CoDragons, but [[DragonWithAnAgenda both of them have ulterior motives]]. Bekkōbachi in particular wants to play Alice like a fiddle and force her into evil, while Hanakamakiri is more neutral and is worried Alice might be too smart for them to fool.

** After being saved by Hanakamakiri and declared the new Boss of the Organization, Alice tries to turn the job down due to her promise to Kumo. Karina calls it stupid and tries to lure her with offers of unlimited Kumoitos, but even then Alice is indecise and asks for time to think it over. It doesn't help both Hanakamakiri and especially Karina are anything but trustworthy.

* SanitySlippage: Towards the end, Alice accepts she's close to her breaking point and will eventually end up killing anyone who remotely presents a threat to her. It never actually happens, though, as no matter how much she's hyped up as a Natural Born Killer she's also a Good Girl in general.

** Oki is the one who gets into some of the most embarrassing situations in both stories and basically gets her butt kicked constantly. In the prequel, all she does is stand to the side looking stupid, scared of whatever Kabutomushi is currently handling. Oddly enough, she swaps roles with Dinoponera of all characters in ''Blattodea'' -- Dinopo becomes rather cowardly and frail as Chiyuri's sidekick while Goki becomes a tough prison director offscreen and submits both of them to TheWorfEffect on their first meeting.
** From a meta angle, too. In ''Killing Bites'', Eruza is obviously "Gokiburi with a cat-girl theme" when she's first introduced and she too gets beaten up a lot. Despite being the one who finishes off the main villain of the Destroyale arc, she then gets knocked out by a cowardly bunny-girl due to a fluke. In ''Choubu no Shinobi'', Goki gets a counterpart with blue hair. She seemingly gets poisoned to death right after scoring her first kill, but actually just sits out of the conflict until the end and tries to assassinate the protagonists. Then the story's child counterpart of Kabutomushi slams her head-first into the floor.

* {{Irony}}: She seems to like telling enemies to be her slaves, but gets "enslaved" by Alice and brainwashed by Anabachi.

* LoveAtFirstPunch: Oki got interested in Alice when she became a threat to the Organization. After being defeated and spared, Oki comes to respect and admire her more.

* PetTheDog: Oki does care for Alice a whole lot and repeatedly puts her life on the line for her, which combined with just how much of an asshole everyone else is in comparison makes it surprisingly hard for readers to lose much symphathy for the roach even when she starts openly shouting she wants to rape the spider-girl.
* PlayboyBunny: Oki wears a black bunny costume in the prequel.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It would seem that Hibarigaoka Prison is barely any different from the rape zombie apocalypse outside, but good old Gokiburi happily enables all of it. It's downplayed, or played with, or ''something'', in that she isn't intended to be hateable -- the series has made such a mockery of the GratuitousRape trope at this point that Megumi, the protagonist's girlfriend, repeatedly trying to get the other protagonist-and-girlfriend duo raped to death can come across as bizarrely trivial.

* {{Lilliputians}}: One of Sato's contributions to the series prior to marrying Murata [[https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/21611860 is a comic]] sold at the 2010 Winter Comiket where an inexplicably pocket-sized Megumi moves under Alice's clothes [[ExtremeOmnivore and eats her panties]].

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Hits Dinoponera with her bloody palm after faking not being able to avoid her attacks. Up until then, no one had been able to harm or intimidate Dinoponera.

** When Kabutomushi is having a hard time fighting Dorcus titanus, Goki gets to bring Kabuto's secret weapon to her.

** As an antagonist in ''Blattodea'', Oki wears a military blazer draped over her shoulders, suspenders on her skirt and a garter belt. She's just missing a commissar cap for that baroness look Akiho had.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It would seem that Hibarigaoka Prison is barely any different from the rape zombie apocalypse outside, but good old Gokiburi happily enables all of it. It's downplayed, or played with, or ''something'', in that the series has made such a mockery of the GratuitousRape trope at this point that Megumi, the protagonist's girlfriend, repeatedly trying to get the other protagonist-and-girlfriend duo raped to death can come across as bizarrely trivial.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: "Fujii" or "Fuji"? Also, "Alice" is rendered as "アリス" in katakana and spelled as "Arisu" in some Japanese merchandise for the series, though a scene early in ''Arachnid'' makes it clear that it's meant to be pronounced the Western way. Western fans in general and the official 2015 French translation published by Soleil always used "Alice", but the official 2022 English translation at Manga UP! uses "Arisu". Interestingly, at first it ''did'' refer to her as "Alice" only in the synopsis but later commited to "Arisu" on all instances. Worth noting is that "Arisu" makes a pun with "Turis(u)" from ''Jackals'', whom she is based on.

* AnAxeToGrind: After losing the Kumoito, Alice fights the zombies who took over Japan with a hatchet. The opening scene in ''Blattodea'' is after she's completely dismembered a zombie girl as a form of CruelMercy.

* BigBadWannabe: During ''Blattodea'', Goki acts like a ruthless ruler figure who will manipulate and kill Chiyuri while also wanting to reunite with Alice and take care of her. It doesn't help that she's in the role of SinisterSurveillance previously held by not-quite-main-villainesses Sara ([[spoiler:a decoy to Kuramoto]]) and Ageha ([[spoiler:who's actually Imomushi's sister driven crazy]]). Then it turns out Kagimushi is Goki's co-director at Hibarigaoka prison and both her and Geji seem afraid of him bonking them on the head for fooling around.

* DependingOnTheArtist: At some point, Ifuji Shinsen started portraying Goki with the ends of her hair dyed pink. This is ignored by Hayami Tokisada in ''Blattodea''.

* FlashStep: She constantly does those.

* GoThroughMe: When she defends a weakened Alice from Sasori.

* HeroismMotiveSpeech: She tells Geji during their fight that she doesn't care about the Organization anymore and will kill or protect people according to her own wishes.

** Oki relishes in being a villain during ''Blattodea''. She antagonizes Chiyuri just for being [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne her junior in roachery]] and arrests her for hard labor at Hibarigaoka prison, telling the girl that if she doesn't like it she can make herself useful by providing "relief" to the prison's inmates. She then kicks Chiyuri and Setsuna in the Takobeya labor accommodation room, saying their bodies will be put to work soon. Not a minute goes by and the hobo-roach and her ant friend are at risk of being raped and turned into sex slaves by Juzuhigemushi.

* PantyThief: On her first night with Alice, she sneaks away to mess around with her beloved's panties.

* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: It would seem that Hibarigaoka Prison is barely any different from the rape zombie apocalypse outside, but good old Gokiburi happily enables all of it. It's downplayed, or played with, or ''something'', in that the series has made such a mockery of the GratuitousRape trope at this point that Megumi, the protagonist's girlfriend, repeatedly trying to get the other protagonist and her girlfriend raped to death can come across as strangely trivial.

* BerserkButton: Alice becomes awfully violent at any sign of her or her friends being threatened. Her freedom being compromised is a major sore spot too, as she rejects the Boss mainly because of her mind control powers and ditches Oki because she probably would react very badly to the roach-girl trying to dominate her even if she does reciprocate her feelings. This has been PlayedForLaughs in omakes like a [[https://twitter.com/jojojon/status/986962866421968897 crossover with]] ''Killing Bites'' where Alice threatens to kill Yuuya in a food contest.

* AmbiguouslyGay: Alice doesn't show romantic interest in any guys (though, granted, [[ImprobablyFemaleCast there aren't that many male characters]] to begin with), but she does have a fair amount of Les Yay with Goki, Yoriko, and Kuramoto. In fact, at a few points, Alice all but says she's in love with the roach girl.

* OnlySaneWoman: For someone who's repeatedly called a natural-born bloodthirsty murderer who's always thinking up ways to kill everyone she meets, Alice is very reasonable and never really does anything that could make her unsympathetic to the reader.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Who becomes a spider-themed assassin.

** Alice is uncharacteristically trusting of Bekkobachi and Hanakamakiri, who are complete strangers who want to force her to be the new Boss of the Organization. This causes Alice to get beaten up by Hanakamakiri, which prevents her from leaving to Hibarigaoka Prison and encountering Chiyuri too soon.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fujii[=/=]Fuji. And then there's Alice[=/=]Arisu... Western fans in general and the official 2015 French translation published by Soleil always used the first, but the 2022 English translation at Manga UP! uses the latter. At first it did refer to her as "Alice" only in the synopsis but later commited to "Arisu" on all instances. While "Arisu" makes a pun with "Turis" from ''Jackals'', whom she is based on, this is questionable because a scene in the end of the first volume emphasizes how "Alice" is a foreign name her teachers have trouble pronouncing.

* SuicidalOverconfidence: When Sasori shows up to dare Alice to a fight after Yoriko is killed for real, Alice accepts it despite Kabutomushi's protests, the loss of the Kumoito and being barely able to even stand. Kabutomushi just blasts Alice out of the air in response, so the spider-girl is at least spared from possibly being humiliated like Dinoponera or even straight-up killed.

** The only time Alice is shown taking pleasure in injuring someone is when she smiles smugly after crashing the Kumoito on Suzumebachi. She's getting a bit edgy, but it is well earned.

** The only time Alice is shown taking pleasure in injuring someone is when she smiles smugly after crashing the Kumoito on Suzumebachi. She's getting a bit edgy, but good for her.

* KnifeNut: The Kumoito is a flying [[Webcomic/{{Hiimdaisy}} knifegun]], but for most of the story Alice rarely stabs anyone with the blade and mostly uses the weapon to set her magic strings. It is only towards the end that she learns to unite her senses with the Kumoito, making it tear through people [[AbsurdlySharpBlade like butter]] across massive distances. Like the fangs of a tarantula, as she puts it (is that what Manga/KillingBites is?).
** In ''Blattodea'', Karina convinces Alice to stay in the Organization by granting back the Kumoito, stating they can make an unlimited amount of it and that the knife can determine whether a person is worthy of being their Boss. After being so reluctant in becoming the Boss, Alice spends the remainder of the scene just gazing at the Kumoito in amazement.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fujii[=/=]Fuji. Also, the 2022 official translation for the series at first referred to her as "Alice" in the synopsis while spelling her name as "Arisu" in the actual pages but then commited to the latter spelling on all instances. While "Arisu" makes a pun with "Turis" from ''Jackals'', whom she is based on, this is questionable because a scene in the end of the first volume emphasizes how "Alice" is a foreign name her teachers have trouble pronouncing.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Dinoponera notes that Alice fights in a sloppy way to distract and bait her opponents into the traps she sets... but still falls for them.

* ShipTease: Alice goes from being understandably annoyed at Oki's StalkerWithACrush tendencies to having outbursts of jealously when the roach girl is near a half-naked Geji. She also gets a little tease with Kuramoto and Dinoponera. [[spoiler:She kills the first and is on bad terms with the latter. She also ditches Oki in the end because she's tired of people trying to jump on her and thinks being alone with Oki could only end with her unintentionally going berserk and strangling the hapless roach to death]].
* ShovelStrike: Alice smashes a guy's face so hard with a shovel that [[EyeScream his eye gets ripped out]]. Notably, it's the last attack she uses in the story after losing her thread-knife-gun.

* ShrinkingViolet: Has been growing out of this since Kumo died.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fujii[=/=]Fuji. Also, the 2022 official translation for the series at first referred to her as "Alice" in the synopsis while spelling her name as "Arisu" in the actual pages but then commited to the latter spelling on all instances. This is questionable because a scene in the end of the first volume emphasizes how "Alice" is a foreign name her teachers have trouble pronouncing.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fujii[=/=]Fuji. Also, the official translation for the series refers to her as "Alice" in the synopsis but spells her name as "Arisu" in the actual pages.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Fujii[=/=]Fuji.

* FlashStep: Eventually surpasses Dinoponera on this, practically teleporting away from her attacks even though Dinoponera ''[[UpToEleven can perceive things in slow motion]]''. It turned out that Alice was using her threads to both move herself and to make Dinoponera miss her attacks while not realizing what Alice was doing.

The main characters from ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': a Japanese Spider-Girl[[note]]created years before ''SpiderVerse'' made it popular[[/note]] and her [[TheBully two]] problematic [[PsychoLesbian friends]].

The main characters from ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': a Japanese Spider-Girl[[note]]created years before ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' made it popular[[/note]] and her [[TheBully two]] problematic [[PsychoLesbian friends]].

The main characters from ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'': a Japanese Spider-Girl[[note]]created years before ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'' made it popular[[/note]] and her two [[TheBully problematic]] [[PsychoLesbian friends]].

The main characters from ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}''.

* {{Expy}}: Murata once briefly talked [[https://twitter.com/jojojon/status/1536276519739609093 on Twitter]] about ''Manga/SpiderMan'' having some influence on ''Arachnid'', though it is very understated on the actual work in comparison to its other blatant references (Hibiki being a Kamen Rider, Setsuna being Cure Black+Sailor Pluto, etc). Alice matches portrayals of Peter Parker as a troubled student who gains spider-like powers overnight and the action poses she often makes do bring Spider-Man to mind. Too bad neither her Anti-Uncle Ben who dies in her origin story nor her master ever taught her about [[ComesGreatResponsibility great responsibility]]...