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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: They honestly don't hold a grudge against the Kurta clan.Each member displays various skills that make them worthy threats to the heroes and Kurapika. Alas, Poor Villain: The deaths of several of their members are played up quite tragically, right down to the surviving members mourning the deaths of their True Companions which contrasts their otherwise amoral nihilism.In both cases, It's Personal, because Kurapika and Hisoka are both responsible for the deaths of several of their members. Arch-Enemy: Towards Kurapika and much later Hisoka.In short, Spider shall never kill a fellow Spider, but Hisoka would be the exception to this. This could also be applied on a larger scale to Meteor City itself.
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Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: While they don't necessarily hold themselves as being morally superior, they place zero value on the lives of outsiders, hypocritically place value on each other's lives to varying degrees, and are forbidden to seriously attack one another.Animal-Motif Team: Membership in the group is denoted by a spider tattoo and they're often called "The Spiders" or the like when referred to.Affectionate Nickname: Shar, Fei, Bono, Uvo, Paku.Affably Evil: Many of the members can be geniunely amicable and reasonable if the situation calls for it, despite otherwise being ruthless murderers.On the flipside they're Unperson inhabitants of a city-sized garbage dump, two (and later on, another two) of their members have died, their leader is Brought Down to Normal and they're at the mercy of a boy half some of the members' age. 13 Is Unlucky: To the public, they're so strong that the entire Mafia is powerless against them and they had to call in the strongest characters known to the readers at the time to put them down.If a member dies, they simply get replaced. They have a peculiar organization, being villainous True Companions of Ubermenschen (this doesn't go without the occasional internal frictions, though they have strict rules about settling those), and while they have a leader, the survival of individual members (including the leader) is not a priority the survival of the group as the whole is. Indeed, most of the members seem to be in specifically for the carnage. In fact, as they already steal all the common objects they need on a daily basis, they have very little interest in the luxury items they target, and seem to chose them mostly because they know these items will be heavily guarded.
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Which is why they get such a reputation: They are less famous for what they steal than for the hundreds of people they kill in the process. Unlike most other thieves, they generally don't rely on subtle strategy or minuted actions perpetually reenacting the Gordian Knot parable, they prefer to resort to brute force. Introduced as "the most horrible group of criminals in all history", they are a group of 13 thieves who specialize in very difficult targets.