History Main / GiantEnemyCrab

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Mr. Waternoose looks very crab-like in appearance. His status as a villain, though, isn't revealed until near the end of the movie.

*** [[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]]''.

[[TropeNamers This trope is named for a mid-2000s meme]], where during Creator/{{Sony}}‘s infamous [[UsefulNotes/ElectronicEntertainmentExpo 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.

* ''Anime/PrettyCure'': The OriginalGeneration villain for the CrossOver game on the UsefulNotes/NintendoDS turns into a Giant BLUE Enemy Crab as its OneWingedAngel form. Worse, it fights with {{Breath Weapon}}s ([[MemeticMutation Shoop Da Whoop]] [[JustForFun/XMeetsY meets]] Giant Enemy Crab?). He's still easy as long you avoid said beams.

* ''[=XScape=]'' on UsefulNotes/DSiWare (made by the same company who made ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand'' and the director of the original ''VideoGame/StarFox1'', both of which incidentally had Giant Enemy Crabs of their own) has a so-called "ancient" weapon called the Gigacrab, referred to in the Quest menu specifically as a giant enemy crab.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' has the King Crab, a 100 ton [[HumongousMecha assault mech]]. Should you find yourself fighting it, rest assured that [[AttackItsWeakPoint critting its ammunition bin]] will result in massive damage.

* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Sunclaws are crablike monsters that reach up to the Chemist's waist. Their big pincers are used as potion ingredients.

* ''Pirates Constructible Strategy Game'': Each titan has four pincers that function as masts[=/=]cannons in game, and unlike the KrakenAndLeviathan of the setting they can carry crew. However, they fall into AwesomeButImpractical for several reasons: They're usually ridiculously expensive, can only move with a certain facing at any one time, and without a crew they are useless as attack units and vulnerable to getting shot to pieces before having the chance to strike.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'', the Nektons end up discovering a species of giant hermit crabs who took a man's fridge and water tank to use as new shells.

* King Krabby is just one of ''three'' ultra-sized critters threatening The City in "Annoy All Monsters!", a B-movie style adventure in the ''TabletopGame/{{Toon}} supplement ''Toon Tales''.

* ''VideoGame/AlienSoldier'' has Madam Barbar / Madam Barber. It's claws are going to cut more than [[JustForPun just your hair]]...

*** One quest 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]]''.

** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith'' includes the CIS' LM-432 crab droids in the Battle of Utapau.

* ''[[Literature/ThePolity Prador Moon]]'': The Prador are giant enemy crabs. Giant, sociopathic, cannibalistic, man-eating enemy crabs with a penchant for enslavement and massive firepower.

* ''Literature/{{Phantoms}}''. The protagonists are in the lobby of the Hilltop Inn after dark. The Ancient Enemy sends two crabs, each the size of a car, to harass them. It has one climb up the side of the building and the other appear in the darkness at the limits of their vision to frighten them.

** In module ''S2 White Plume Mountain'', the [=PCs=] could fight a giant crab in an air bubble inside an area filled with boiling hot water. [[http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/wpm_gallery/WPM_Room17.jpg An illustration from the module]]. Said crab has obtained [[ThatOneBoss notoriety]] for [[TotalPartyKill killing even well-prepared, powerful parties]]. Giant monsters in confined spaces can be very nasty. The [[http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20051207a revised version for 3e]] uses an advanced version of the infamous That Damn Crab below. It's just as ridiculously deadly as the original. In ''Return to White Plume Mountain,'' a group of adventurers who explore the same dungeon many years later battle the ''invisible zombified shell'' of the crab. (May generate cries of CoolButStupid from your gamers.)
** The 8-foot-wide LawfulEvil Hydrax in Basic ''D&D'' is a crab-shaped water elemental composed entirely of ice.
** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has the [[http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/eb/20040511a Carcass Crab]], a giant crab that adorns its shell with battlefield detritus such as bits of armor, weapons, body parts and bodies.
** The Siege Crab of the 3.5 edition ''Monster Manual 3'' is a 20-foot-wide, 15-foot-tall crab transformed by the [[FishPeople Kuo-Toa]] (although the secrets to creating them have fallen into the hands of other aquatic races) into a living war machine, complete with a hatch that allows one to climb into the crab's insides and control it.
** The Far Corners of the World brings the [[http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/fw/20040221a Monstrous Crab]], better known as That Damn Crab for its tendency to grapple party members and drag them to a watery grave (assuming they somehow manage to live past the first round) as well as its insane damage output, high AC, and mindless immunity to illusions. It's listed as an appropriate encounter for 3rd level parties and is generally considered a match for 7th level parties and likely leads to {{Total Party Kill}}s if used as printed. The monster was also reprinted with only minor tweaks in ''Stormwrack'' and given cousins of all sizes. The book also adds the Hammerclaw, which is a lobster with all the same strengths plus the ability to hide in coral/rocks and to stun the party with an at-will sonic attack for the same CR.

** Ever since First Edition, ''D&D'' has had Crab Men. Back when they first appeared in the ''Fiend Folio,'' they were just armored humanoids with big claws and beaky faces; but in second edition, the artists took to depicting them as literally giant crabs walking around on two legs.

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': Mr. Waternoose looks very crab-like in appearance. His status as a villain, though, isn't revealed until the very end of the movie.

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