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Tart: Riz! Are you all right!?
Riz: Yes... It's just very tough.
Tart: Of course it is! It's a crab after all, right?
Riz: ...
Tart: Huh? Riz, you don't know what a crab is? It's got this armored shell and clamps for hands and goes like this... (Pinchy! Pinchy!)
Riz: I know what it is! Yes, it does have a tough shell, but it is dangerous to judge Witches simply by looks alone.
Tart: Oh... Okay!
Riz: Yes... It's just very tough.
Tart: Of course it is! It's a crab after all, right?
Riz: ...
Tart: Huh? Riz, you don't know what a crab is? It's got this armored shell and clamps for hands and goes like this... (Pinchy! Pinchy!)
Riz: I know what it is! Yes, it does have a tough shell, but it is dangerous to judge Witches simply by looks alone.
Tart: Oh... Okay!
— Puella Magi Tart Magica, volume 2
Film — Animated
HOLY CRAB!!
— Sid, Ice Age: Continental Drift
Film — Live-Action
Once... they were men. Now they are land crabs.
— Scientist, Attack Of The Giant Crabs
Literature
I reached the promenade, a big shopping mall that took up the whole middle of the ship, and I stopped cold. In the middle of the courtyard stood a fountain. And in the fountain squatted a giant crab.
I'm not talking "giant" like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I'm talking giant like bigger than the fountain. The monster rose ten feet out of the water. Its shell was mottled blue and green, its pincers longer than my body.
I'm not talking "giant" like $7.99 all-you-can-eat Alaskan king crab. I'm talking giant like bigger than the fountain. The monster rose ten feet out of the water. Its shell was mottled blue and green, its pincers longer than my body.
— Percy Jackson, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Last Olympian
Live-Action TV
My books always say something, even if it's just something simple like "Don’t genetically-engineer crabs to be as big as men."
Video Games
A giant crab from the depths of Transylvanian history.
— Enemy Data for Brachyura, Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Don't fail again! Release Heavy Lobster!
— Captain Vul, Kirby Super Star
This time we will succeed! Heavy Lobster, away!
— Captain Vul, Kirby Super Star Ultra
With a name like theirs, these colossal crustaceans were kind of railroaded into antagonism by a society that didn't want to understand them. Would it surprise you to learn that Giant Enemy Crabs have an entire culture of their own? Schools of philosophy? Arts and education? Bigotry truly is a sad, sad thing.
— Giant Enemy Crab bestiary entry, Vampire Survivors
Web Animation
A knife is useless against those massive claws! They could rip a tank apart!
Webcomics
Vexxarr: Seafood? Well...how does it taste?
Drone: WITH ITS NIGHTMARISH AND MERCILESS MANDIBLES!!
Vexxarr: Ah, that seafood...
Drone: WITH ITS NIGHTMARISH AND MERCILESS MANDIBLES!!
Vexxarr: Ah, that seafood...
— Vexxarr
Web Original
I can see the headlines now: "Giant Crabs Roam City, Rebuild Infrastructure, Revitalize Economy."
