Spider Beastman

**Spider Beastman**(クモ獣人 *Kumo jūjin*) is a Spider-based Beastman from Episode 1 of Kamen Rider Amazon.

He is voiced by **Kazuo Hayashi**.

## Personality

The Spider Beastman is a sneaky savage animal who always ambushes his prey. However, he is also shown to be cowardly as he’ll immediately run away when injured.

## Appearance

The Spider Beastman has a big red/black-striped body with six arms, two of which end with pincher-like claws, and all of his limbs are covered with long thorns. He also has a hairy head with big red eyes and an orange-colored mouth.

## Biography

After an attack on the amazon jungle by the Ten-Faced Demon Gorgos, the Elder Bago uses his Incan science to modify a Japanese youth who was raised in the amazon, Yamamoto Daisuke, into a remodeled human. With the rest of the Incan tribe killed by the Ten-Faced Demon, Elder Bago entrusts the GiGi Armlet, the very thing that Gorgos is after, to Daisuke and tells him to head to Japan and find a scientist named Kousaka before dying. As Daisuke makes his way out of the jungle, one of Gorgos’ Beastmen, called the Spider Beastman, spies on him through the trees.

Before Daisuke could reach Tokyo, Gorgos’ empire, Geddon, has already reached Japan where the Spider Beastman starts entangling humans with his webs and Red Followers start kidnapping them. One of the Spider Beastman’s webs gets discovered by Kousaka and his assistant, Matsuyama, where they witness it disappearing right in front of them. As Kousaka realizes that Geddon has arrived at Japan, Matsuyama discovers the Spider Beastman flying through the air, so the two chase after him. The Spider Beastman arrives at a ship port where Daisuke arrives at. The Spider Beastman ambushes Daisuke and the two fight. When Kousaka and Matsuyama arrive, Daisuke runs into them where Kousaka makes a hand sign showing that he’s an ally. The Spider Beastman finds them, so they hide in a nearby building that happens to be filled with the Beastman’s webs and crawling with abnormal-sized spiders. As they make their escape, Matsuyama gets caught by the webs and ends up dying, forcing Kousaka to leave him behind. Kousaka and Daisuke make it out of the building, but the Spider Beastman appears and attacks Kousaka, injuring him, so Daisuke fights the Beastman off until it retreats.

Afterwards, As Kousaka is recovering in a hospital, his nephew, Masahiko, finds Amazon in a warehouse and befriends him. As they talk to each other, the Spider Beastman suddenly appears to ambush Amazon again. The two fight each other, resulting in some of their blood splattering around, until Daisuke uses the power given to him to transform into Amazon. They continue fighting each other where they head outside. The Spider Beastman jumps up to Amazon, only to get one of his limbs bitten off. With one of his limbs bitten, the Spider Beastman makes his escape while his lost limb grows back.

However, the Spider Beastman afterwards sneaks into the hospital and reaches Kousaka’s room through the vents. As Kousaka is talking with his niece, Ritsuko, the Spider Beastman unleashes his webs and entangles the professor while Ritsuko makes her escape. Daisuke, hearing Kousaka’s cries, makes his way to the hospital room through the windows only for the Spider Beastman to retreat again. Despite the Spider Beastman retreating upon Daisuke’s arrival, he had succeeded in his objective and kills Kousaka with his webs, enraging Daisuke. The Spider Beastman then chases after Ritsuko and webs her up. Masahiko tries to help her but ends up getting sticked to the web. The Spider Beastman approaches them, but fortunately, Daisuke appears and faces against the Beastman. Daisuke transforms back into Amazon and starts wrestling with the Spider Beastman where the Beastman spits webs into Amazon’s face, but Amazon manages to tear off three of the Beastman’s limbs, biting one of them off and making it bleed orange blood, and claws his chest. With the amount of injuries he has gotten, the Spider Beastman decides to retreat once again, making Amazon the victor of the fight. The Spider Beastman makes its' way to the Geddon base and approaches Gorgos. Seeing the Spider Beastman as a disgrace for not killing Daisuke, Gorgos threatens to kill him. Despite the Spider Beastman’s plea, Gorgos unleashes flames from the mouth of his big face and sets the Spider Beastman ablaze. Gorgos laughs manically as the Spider Beastman burns to death.

## Powers/Abilities

* **Poisonous Webs**: Spider Beastman can unleash streams of spider web from his mouth to entangle his victims. If they get discovered by enemies, they vanish into thin air. The webs also contain a deadly poison that is capable of killing off any victims entangled in them. He can also use his webs to escape.

* **Flight**: Spider Beastman is able to fly through the sky like a jet.

* **High Jumping**: Spider Beastman is shown to be able to jump at a great height when fighting his enemies.

* **Regeneration**: Spider Beastman is able to grow back any dismembered limbs on its body in a short amount of time.

## Trivia

* The Spider Beastman is the second Kaijin to be a first Kamen Rider Kaijin based off a Spider, starting off & continuing the Kamen Rider Series tradition to have most of the first Kamen Rider Kaijin to be based on spiders.
	+ The Spider Beastman design is also very similar to Spider Man’s design, most likely to make him a homage.