History Main / GiantEnemyCrab

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** The Wikipedia page not only mentions the meme, but manages to work the phrase "giant enemy crabs" into the plot summary.

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': A large red crab appears in ''Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 12, waking up and chasing after the goats and Jolly after [[ThatsNoMoon he's implied to be a large red rock]]. In the following episode, the goats are convinced that the crab is under Darton's power, and Jolly attempts to use the Luminous Ray to uncorrupt him. [[spoiler:It doesn't work because the crab isn't corrupted, leaving him furious that they would bully him and causing him and an army of crabs to go after the goats.]] Later, the crab and his friends attack giant frogs for ruining the altar that they were building.

* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Manas crabs. Subverted, however, with [[CallARabbitASmeerp Ussals]], who can only be described as [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Giant Friendly Crabs]].

* ''Animation/{{Gandahar}}'': Enormous crablike creatures protect the city of Jasper. They serve as the city’s last line of defense against the invading Metal Men.

* ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': Especially in ''[[Film/TransformersRevengeoftheFallen Revenge of the Fallen]]'', [[BigBad Megatron's]] physical appearance was actually designed after that of a fiddler crab's (especially with his arms, his right arm is extremely huge and clawlike, while his left is extremely thin and bony). This even carries into his altmodes in those films: a jet-tank hybrid in the first two, and an armored truck in [[Film/TransformersDarkoftheMoon the third]].

* Rampage of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is a TransformingMecha who chose a crab to transform into (or a tank-esque vehicle mode). He's quite a bit larger than most of the other Transformers in the series, frequently uses a giant-ass missile launcher, and is something of a Cybertronian Hannibal Lecter. Also, he's near immortal (having been a failed Maximal experiment to replicate [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformers Starscream's]] [[ContinuityNod immortal "ghost" spark]]) and his only weak point is [[spoiler: his spark, which Megatron has split in half so that he can keep Rampage in line by squeezing it and essentially disabling the insane robot]].

[[TropeNamers This trope is named for a mid-2000s meme]], where during Creator/{{Sony}}‘s infamous [=E3=] 2006 presentation, the presenters for ''VideoGame/{{Genji}}: Days of the Blade'' claimed that Giant Enemy Crabs appeared in [[ArtisticLicenseHistory "famous battles]] that [[BlatantLies actually took place]] in [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} ancient Japan"]]. When encountering one, you may AttackItsWeakPoint, [[MemeticMutation especially]] if [[ThisIndexHitsForMassiveDamage for massive damage]] while using RealTimeWeaponChange.

* The ''Paralithodes camtschaticus'', the Red King Crab is the second largest crab in the world. It reaces a carapace width of 11 in (28 cm) and a leg span of 6 ft (1.8 m).

[[TropeNamers This trope is named for a mid-2000s meme]], where during Creator/{{Sony}}‘s infamous [=E3=] 2006 presentation, the presenters for ''VideoGame/Genji: Days of the Blade'' claimed that Giant Enemy Crabs appeared in [[ArtisticLicenseHistory "famous battles]] that [[BlatantLies actually took place]] in [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} ancient Japan"]]. When encountering one, you may AttackItsWeakPoint, [[MemeticMutation especially]] if [[ThisIndexHitsForMassiveDamage for massive damage]] while using RealTimeWeaponChange.

[[TropeNamers This trope is named for a mid-2000s meme]], where during Creator/{{Sony}}‘s [=E3=] 2006 presentation, the presenters claimed that Giant Enemy Crabs appeared in [[ArtisticLicenseHistory "famous battles]] that [[BlatantLies actually took place]] in [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} ancient Japan"]]. When encountering one, you may AttackItsWeakPoint, [[MemeticMutation especially]] if [[ThisIndexHitsForMassiveDamage for massive damage]] while using RealTimeWeaponChange.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'': Hitagi Senjogahara starts out the series possessed by a Giant Crab. This leads Oshino to point out the real reason why Giant Crabs aren't to be messed with. They're hard to eat.

* In the second installment of''VideoGame/YokaiWatchBlasters'', one of the boss Yokai encountered is Kanibouzu, a giant crab-like Yokai.

* ''VideoGame/CrossedSwords'' have two giant crabs as bosses in the first game, the first which is red and fought near a beach, while the second is blue and oddly enough, is fought in a volcanoe, an area you wouldn't expect to fight crustacean-based enemies.

* ''VideoGame/RazingStorm'' is either a HumongousMecha version of this or a {{Giant|Spider}} SpiderTank.

* ''VideoGame/TwinCaliber'' have a giant crab monster as one of the few non-undead bosses. YYour character lampshades it in the cutscene prior to the boss battle: "Glad I don't have crabs like this every day!"

* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[RoBeast Beast Fighter]] Kanigan. He becomes a massproduced {{Mook|s}} in several of the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games in which Voltes appears, most notably ([[FanTranslation to the English-speaking audience]]) ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment''.

'''Ruben:''' OK! That is really lame.

* ''VideoGame/TwinCaliber'' have a giant crab monster as one of the few non-undead bosses. Uour character lampshades it in the cutscene prior to the boss battle: "Glad I don't have crabs like this every day!"

** One quest in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'' pits you against a giant Mudcrab ''ghost''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=eOUCDIP9uV0#t=196s Give the Bethesda devs a week to put in whatever they want,]] and they make one the size of a ''[[VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus Colossus]]''.

* ''VideoGame/SuikodenIV'': An early boss and later BonusBoss. The mandatory one required the protagonist to use the [[CastFromHitPoints Rune of Punishment]] first to make it damageable. ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' also has multiple Giant Enemy Crabs; they're something of a Suikoden tradition.

** Bubble Crab from ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'', and Cancer Bubble from ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce''. Cancer Bubble has also a slight subversion to him, in that, while much larger than your average crab, he's the absolute smallest of all the bosses (then again, his human half, [[MeaningfulName Claude Pincer]], is only in third grade).
** The Crab Puncher from ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'' is this as well. When the eyes are forward, [[FeedItABomb the Commando Bomb can be fired at the mouth]].
** [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Gazamir Gazamir]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManZero2'', [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Crabs-Y Crabs-Y]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManX8''.
** The Jagd Krabbe is a giant crab mech piloted by Tron Bonne as seen in ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends2''. Its name is German for "hunter crab".
** Venus from ''VideoGame/MegaManV'' is one of the first four Stardroids Mega Man must fight. He is a very aggressive Robot Master that walks sideways like a crab, unable to walk forward. His main weapon is the Bubble Bomb, a heavy bubble made of a soapy substance that explodes on contact.