Spider

"Good card, eh?"

- Spider's victory line

"Listen, there isn't really anything complicated about why X decided to make friends with a lowlife bounty hunter like me. It's quite simple, really. Just like why I saved you. 'Cause I felt like it, Zero. That's it."

- Spider, upon saving Zero

Spider (スパイダー) was introduced as an ally in Mega Man X: Command Mission. He uses playing cards as weapons and has a high rate of evasion. He apparently was somewhat well-known in Giga City before the game took place, as at least one resident seems to know him.

Spider first appears in Chapter 2, when he is hired by Wild Jango to seek out and assassinate X. When he finds X in the Air City North Square, he engages him in combat, but the battle is interrupted by alarms. Not to be deterred, he returns not long after for a second strike, this time easily getting the upper hand. However, upon seeing the crest of his former comrade Aile in X's possession, he decides to join X and fight against his employer.

He stays with the party until X and the others are trapped by Incentas in Chapter 6, when Spider "sacrifices himself" to allow the others escape. In the final chapter, he reveals himself as being both Spider and the person in charge of the unit at Giga City, Colonel Redips, before using the Supra-Force Metal which he'd already obtained from X to take on an entirely new godlike form. Like Axl, Spider, or at least Redips, has the ability to assume multiple forms. This is how he carries on the masquerade of himself as both Spider and Redips as he motions towards the Supra-Force Metal.

Weaponry
Spider uses playing cards as weapons, all of which are Shot type weapons.


 * Spades: When Spider's Weapon Energy (WE) is at 75% or more, he attacks all enemies.
 * Clubs: With the WE at 75% or more, Spider hits an enemy twice. Its Power stats is higher than other card types, but also has the lowest defense.
 * Diamonds: Final blow boosts Zenny with WE at 75% or more. This card type reduces speed less than the other types.
 * Hearts: Final blow boosts EXP with WE at 75% or more.
 * Joker: Randomly produces one of the four effects from the other card types. Has balanced stats.

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Trivia

 * Redips is Spider spelled backwards. In the instruction booklet, Redips' name is misspelled "Rideps" in all instances, either by accident or to hide the otherwise obvious connection from being deduced by merely reading the book.


 * Following Epsilon's defeat, as X heads over to the base heliport to await transportation back home, Marino tells him in her first conversation that she researched the chameleon ability and found out that a long time ago, Spider was at a place that researched copy abilities. It is believed that Spider's DNA was somehow obtained in the occasion.


 * As Spider is actually Redips, every time Redips contacts X, Spider is absent. In the beginning of Chapter 6, Spider is seen using his copy ability to change form. In addition, Spider had started complaining about taking commands from Chief R, hinting towards being more comfortable being the one in charge, and talking about having "goals of [his] own", back when he and X first entered Tianna Camp to free Resistance POWs - the very first order of business shortly after teaming with X and reclaiming Central Tower for the Resistance.


 * A sub-mystery also surrounding the identity of Spider and Redips is as to whether Spider really knew Aile, or just simply fabricated/knew the story of being Spider's past bounty hunting partner to earn X's trust in order to join his faction. On one hand, Spider's turn from Rebellion mercenary to Resistance soldier upon seeing Aile's ID seems to indicate some level of camaraderie. On the other hand, he would later betray the very movement that Aile gave his life for simply to advance his own goals of ultimate power. Depending on when and how Spider and Redips became one and who is the true person of the two, either conclusion (or perhaps even both) is entirely possible.


 * Interestingly, despite the fact that Spider/Redips was the one who murdered Botos in Chapter 8, he doesn't see him in Chapter 10 as he did with the Rebellion Army members the Resistance defeated with him in tow (perhaps for that reason alone). Shadow was also exempt from duplication, probably because Spider had fully earned Zero's trust specifically by intercepting and destroying him. By logic, either duplication would have resulted in a clue that could have compromised his plan a bit too soon for his convenience.