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=== Card Games ===
* While ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' does have a literal [
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* [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|The Last Olympian]]'s first chapter features a Giant Enemy Crab. Percy even [[Attack Its Weak Point|Attacks Its Weak Point]] [[For Massive Damage]].
* In H. G. Wells' novel ''[[The Time Machine]]'', the Time Traveler encounters some rather menacing giant crabs on his way to the end of the world.
* From ''[[Harry Potter and
* In ''[[John Dies at the End]]'', a gorilla riding a giant crab (or possibly a single creature resembling a gorilla riding a giant crab) violently escapes from a chemical plant that makes drain cleaner. No, it doesn't [[It Makes Sense in Context|make sense in context]], that's the whole point.
* There's also the memorable Crushtaceon from the novel ''[[Nuklear Age]]''.
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** In module ''S2 White Plume Mountain'', the PCs could fight a giant crab in a 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 [[That One Boss|notoriety]] for [[Total Party Kill|killing even well-prepared, powerful parties]]. Giant monsters in confined spaces can be very nasty.
*** The [https://web.archive.org/web/20060104004709/http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd
** The Apparatus of Kwalish is the Magitek version of this.
** The 8 foot wide [[Lawful Evil]] Hydrax (ice elemental crab) in Basic D&D.
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* There are quite a few of these in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series:
** Crabs are ''very'' common targets in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'', as they're less dangerous than most monsters.
*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20150428054953/http://wiki.bluegartrls.com/images/7/75/Update03-22-2010_2.jpg KRAB][[Incredibly Lame Pun|KA]][[wikipedia:Krakatoa|TO]][[SpongeBob SquarePants|A!]]
** The boss of River Belle Path in [[Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles]] is a nasty old crab with numerous weapons sticking out of its body from past battles. It reappears in the same position in ''Ring of Fates''.
** A giant fiend in the shape of a crab-like spider is the boss of the first dungeon in ''[[Final Fantasy X-2]]''. A [[Palette Swap|palette swapped]] version appears in Via Infinito.
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* The third boss of ''Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat'' is a giant crab. And yes, the trick to beating it is by flipping it over onto its back and...well, [[Attack Its Weak Point|you get]] [[For Massive Damage|the idea]].
* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' has large ''friendly'' crabs, known as Rlaan.
* ''[http://www.charliesgames.com/wordpress/?page_id=399 Irukandji]''{{'}}s{{Dead link}}
* ''[[Bio-Hazard Battle]]'' had one of these as a [[Mini Boss]] that [[Mook Maker|spawned mini crabs]] that fired at the player. And it appeared ''[[Recurring Boss|twice]]'' in the same level.
* ''[[Alien Soldier]]'' has Madam Barbar / Madam Barber. It's claws are going to cut more than [[Just for Pun|just your hair]]...
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** It turns out to be {{spoiler|Lindsey, the Giant ''Engineer'' Crab}}.
*** Subverted with {{spoiler|[[Huge Girl Tiny Guy|her husband]],}} a crab creature still significantly larger than most crabs but small enough to fit in a bucket and {{spoiler|supervise the kids "sneaking out"}}.
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20180427070718/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1742 the Balvhakara] [[Travel Cool|make an entrance]] in a [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Spider Tank]] Giant Enemy Crab [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|golem submarine]]. Or, [[I Take Offense to That Last One|rather]], from the Sharen point of view, a Giant ''Ally'' Crab.
* There's one [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] episode where Plankton switches lives with Mr.Krabs, and the result is a giant Mr.Krabs enemy.
* ''[[Samurai Princess]]'''s [http://www.samuraiprincess.com/index.php?action=main&page=52 Massive Antagonistic Crustacean]
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** In ''[http://www.rathergood.com/blode Tales of the Blode: Episode 1]'', Blode and his friends are threatened by an evil Nazi crab the size of a tank.
** They feature the characters' mentor, the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom.
* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'''s ''[[Mercenaries]] 2'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20131214221927/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/231-Mercenaries-2 review] uses the Giant Enemy Crab imagery to make a point about a certain habit of the average video gamer.
{{quote|So we have scenarios where you're [[Too Awesome to Use|sitting on a nuclear stockpile to shame North Korea and are throwing peas at a giant robot crab on the off chance that there might be a bigger giant robot crab just around the corner]].}}
* ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]]'' references the Namekian crab scene, but being [[The Abridged Series|an abridged series]], it cuts the [[Mama Bear]] angle altogether.
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* {{spoiler|Waternoose}}, the main villain of ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'' looks very crab-like in appearance.
* One of the animals Merlin turns into during the [[Wizard Duel]] from ''[[The Sword in the Stone]]'' is a blue crab.
* One of the microscopic monsters in ''[[The Herculoids]]'' episode "Tiny World of Terror
* Averted with Taxicrab, the cabana owner from ''[[Jungle Junction]]''.
* Used in a [[Manatee Gag]] on ''[[Family Guy]]'', where for no reason a giant crab repeating "no-no-no" is blocking people from entering the Griffins' home.
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== Other Crustaceans of Unusual Size ==
=== Card Games ===
* In addition to the giant crabs mentioned above, ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' also gave us the [https://web.archive.org/web/20080424122801/http://ww2.wizards.com/
* The collectible card/model series ''Pirates Of The Cursed Seas'' features a number of sea monsters in addition to its ships—amoung them, a handful of giant crabs.
=== Fan
* ''[[Nobody Dies]]'' has the Angel Shamshel take this form, giving us this little exchange.
{{quote|'''Misato''': The enemy is a Giant Crab!
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* Ebirah from the ''[[Godzilla]]'' films.
* The Leviathan from ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'', a giant mechanical lobster.
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=== [[Live
* Countless ones in ''[[Power Rangers]]'', though the most memorable one would be Captain Crayfish from the second season. He even comes with his own crew of [[Psycho Rangers]].
** An inversion of the "Enemy" part can be found in the [[Power Rangers Samurai|Samurai Gold Ranger's]] Clawzord; it's a giant mech-lobster.
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* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' has the Robster, a tricky lobster man.
* And lest we forget, ''[[Penny Arcade]]'''s [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/19/ Claw Shrimp].
=== Western Animation ===
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* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' was about Homer adopting a lobster in which he named "Pinchy."
* [[Hanna-Barbera]]'s ''Moby Dick''. In the episode "The Crab Creatures", Moby [[Pinching Pain|has his tail pinched]] by a giant crab under the title creatures' control.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
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