#identifiable

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KO Kabuto - Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

"With a cannon for a horn and an ironclad frontal defense, this sharpshooting beetle battler will be tough to dent unless you can get behind it."

A Dream Eater resembling a Japanese rhino beetle with four legs and two arms. Also has a stick statche. It has both Spirit and Nightmare versions, which essentially means that it's available both as a party member and as an enemy, with different colour schemes for each.

It is worth noting that its horn is a cannon, and has access to various ranged attacks. Also a defensive support move but that's still something it shoots out of its cannon horn. It does unlock a variety of defensive abilities for Sora or Riku though!

Y'know, I always forget that male Japanese rhino beetles have that smaller, horn-like bit sticking out of their thorax. It has always been there but somehow it never sticks in my memory.

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Messenger Moth - Black Skylands

Round, roughly chicken-sized moths used to deliver messages between floating islands and airships. Most NPC ones have a nice black and yellow colouration, although Luma, the one the player gets, is pure white.

Gameplay-wise Luma can be used to grab items and resources from a distance, carrying big boxes of ore and scrap dropped by destroyed airships to yours. A very strong moth!

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Worker Ant - Caves of Qud

"Fragrant sour gas plumes from the tiny pores scattered across its broad gaster, and scalded feelers writhe and rub the thickened air."

Giant ants that dwell in the ruins on their own, or alongside a Fire Ant Queen. They emit gas from their abdomens instead of flames.

While it lacks any of the fire-related mutations and heat resistance of other ants, it can emit corrosive gas and has heightened hearing. But the gas is indiscriminate, and other ants don't have any acid resistance, so it can be a big threat to the swarm as a whole. I've seen a Fire Ant Queen die from the gas produced by the Worker Ant it spawned...

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Spider Grub - FlyKnight

A standard, non-anthropomorphic spider. Quite round and cute.

Also hostile, and maybe a little more aggressive than grubs or stinkbugs, but still not much of a threat.

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Flying Flea - Vectorman 2

These large fleas have abandoned the ancient ways of their kind, and decided that flight is a better mode of transportation than hopping.

Real fleas do not have wings, of course, but they also don't drop explosives at things below them. And that is where this reality has failed us.

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Alice - Look Outside

"Look at my wings! Duh! And my magic fairy crown? AND my magic fairy wand? I think the evidence... speaks for itself."

A former human twisted into a new shape after Looking Outside, and one of David's students. She turned into a housefly person, and has a lot of fun flying around acting fairy-like.

She will offer to cast a fairy spell on the party, but will ask for $20 afterwards. Fairies gotta afford candy somehow too, it's tough out there.

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Black Arachnia, the Broodmother - Dota 2

It's a big ol' black widow-derived spider queen sorta character. Black and red colour scheme, the works. Nothing wrong with it, although I'm personally a little bored of this archetype. She has a vertebrate maw surrounded by palps and spider fangs, but her older design actually lacked the monster teeth and was a lot more spiderlike. I like that old version a lot better, it's cute. Like pulling a cat's skin back a little when petting them.

Lorewise, she used to just chill under a volcano with her brood until some dweeb wizard built a lair on it, using her habitat as an added layer of security against adventurers and looters. Having her kids get killed by travelers annoyed her immensely, and apparently she set out to make a compromise with the wizard, eating him only after he refused. This only caused MORE adventurers to trample all over her home so she decided that she's just gonna go out there and kill people until the repeated home invasions stop.

Very reasonable, all things considered.

Her abilities seem to be what I'd expect from such a character. She can spawn spiderlings, put down webs and weaken foes with a venomous bite. Nothing groundbreaking here, but I suppose the classics are classics for a reason.