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{{trope}}
[[File:giantcrabcw resized 7685.jpg|frame| [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Holy crab]]! [[Memetic Mutation|Where the hell is the]] [[Attack Its Weak Point|weak point?!]] ]]
{{quote|''"[[Was Once a Man|Once... they were men]]. Now [[Shocking Swerve|they are land crabs."]]''|'''Scientist''', ''[[Attack of the Crab Monsters]]''}}
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See [[Sea Monster]] for other monsters from the deep. Often similar to a [[Giant Spider]], but not quite as creepy (and theoretically, giant enemy crabs are more tasty). A mechanical '''Giant Enemy Crab''' would be a form of [[Spider Tank]].
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=== Advertising ===
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-UUaJa27Zo This] commercial for Joe's Crab Shack.
=== Anime & Manga ===
* Harima takes on a Giant Enemy Crab in ''[[School Rumble]]'' in the middle of a search for cooking ingredients, and kills it offscreen with a trident. The anime exaggerated its size so that it towered over him.
* The Radham Beasts (called Spider-Crabs in the dub) of ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]''.
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=== Card Games ===
* While ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' does have a literal [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=4703 Giant Crab], it looks absolutely puny when compared to the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=34927 Wormfang Crab]. Yes, those are mountains it's stepping over. Suffice it to say that there are other giant crabs as well.
=== Comics ===
* The first volume of ''[[Mouse Guard]]'' features a battle against several Normal-Sized Enemy Crabs, but since the main characters are mice...
* The ruler of Atlantis in ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' has a crab big enough to put an aircraft carrier on its head as a pet.
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=== Films ===
* The [[Harryhausen Movie]] ''[[The Mysterious Island]]'' features a giant crab.
* Roger Corman's immortal ''[[Attack of the Crab Monsters]]''—People are trapped on a shrinking island by intelligent, brain-eating giant crabs. Not only were they big crabs, they could ''imitate people's voices.''
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* In [[Transformers (film)|the live-action ''Transformers'' films]] (and especially in [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen|''Revenge of the Fallen'']]), [[Big Bad|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 [[Transformers: Dark of the Moon|the third]].
=== Literature ===
* Prador from Neal Asher's ''Prador Moon''.
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''Beowulf's Children'' introduces the Scribe, which resembles a giant land-dwelling horseshoe crab. Fortunately, they're also [[Gentle Giant]]s...with defenses that deter all potential predators, even the grendels {{spoiler|and the ''huge flesh-eating "bees" with [[Super Speed]]''}}. To get a feel for how big they are, note that the colonists name the first Scribe they meet "Asia".
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=== Live Action TV ===
* ''[[Kamen Rider Hibiki]]'' has a few of these.
** And by extension, so does ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]''.
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=== Music ===
* One appears in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU video] for "I Believe In A Thing Called Love" by [[The Darkness]], along with a giant space squid.
* An entire song about giant enemy enemy crab crab crab: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sChhpIbVbjI "Giant Enemy Crab"] by Kitsune^2. (Attack its weak point for massive damage!)
=== Mythology ===
* Carcinus, the delicious sidekick of the Lernean Hydra that was crushed by a foot of Heracles. It was the biggest crab in [[Greek Mythology]].
=== New Media ===
* According to ''[[The Onion]]'', [http://www.theonion.com/content/video/experts_agree_giant_razor_clawed Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat].
=== Tabletop Games ===
* Classic monsters in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons|Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
** 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].
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=== Toys ===
* The Manas crabs in [[Bionicle]]. Subverted, however, with [[Call a Rabbit a Smeerp|Ussals]], who can only be described as [[All Animals Are Dogs|Giant Friendly Crabs]].
=== Video Games ===
* Most famously, ''[[Genji]] 2: Days of the Blade'' ([[Trope Namer]] via [[Memetic Mutation]]), which inspired the [[Stupid Statement Dance Mix]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1fr5vk72M "Giant Crab, Enemy Crab."] A game featuring "actual battles" [[Sarcasm Mode|that actually took place]] in Ancient Japan. At one point you have to flip it over and [[Attack Its Weak Point]] [[For Massive Damage]] (yes, the same meme named those two as well). Fortunately for [[Tokyo Fireball|Japanese civilization]], the game features [[Real Time Weapon Change]].
** Interestingly, the massive damage part out-meme'd the [[You Fail History Forever|historical accuracy]] of giant crabs.
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=== Web Comics ===
* A Clank in [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041117 early] ''[[Girl Genius]]'' that attacked the traveling circus.
* Chapter 15 of ''Realms of Ishikaze'' has one of these as a boss of the Ruins of Amilleo. Arashiko must attack its soft underbelly for massive damage.
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=== Web Original ===
* ''Tales of the Blode'' shorts on rathergood.com.
** 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.
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=== Western Animation ===
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' has a giant robot crab/factory that [[Mundane Utility|leveled entire forests to make elevator buttons]].
* In one ''[[Futurama]]'' episode, the Decapodians conquer Earth. Their ships are all shaped like robot crabs, as is their Mobile Oppression Palace.
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=== Real Life ===
* Haha, just kidding. Crabs like that can't exist exist in real life, right? [http://blog.rifftrax.com/wp-content/photos/coconut_crab.jpg RIGHT!?!?].
** Holy cow! What could possibly [[wikipedia:File:Spider crab at the Kaiyukan in Osaka, Japan.JPG|top that]] thing?!<ref>Macrocheira kaempferi, the giant Japanese spider crab, which can reach sizes of up to 12' 6'' across, making it the world's largest crab. It is usually harmless to humans, but a few Japanese fishermen, who catch the crabs for food, have reported it can inflict serious injuries or even kill with its giant claws. [[GameFAQs]] and GameSpot users used that animal as an example to prove the trope naming presentation was right, Medieval Japan had giant crabs...</ref>
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=== Card Games ===
▲== Card Games ==
* In addition to the giant crabs mentioned above, ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' also gave us the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=1876 Homarids] (effectively barely-anthropomorphic lobsters at war with the local merfolk when introduced), [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?id=1871 some of which] were clearly a bit bigger than the others...
* 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 Fiction ===
* ''[[Nobody Dies]]'' has the Angel Shamshel take this form, giving us this little exchange.
{{quote|'''Misato''': The enemy is a Giant Crab!
'''Rei''': Hit its weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE!
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=== Films ===
* Ebirah from the ''[[Godzilla]]'' films.
* The Leviathan from ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire]]'', a giant mechanical lobster.
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=== Literature ===
* The aptly-named Lobstrosities from [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower|The Drawing Of The Three]]''.
** They will constantly question you ''(dad-a-chick?)'' while ripping your extremities apart.
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=== [[Live Action Television]] ===
* 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.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''. Early editions had giant crayfish as monsters.
* ''[[Monsterpocalypse]]'' the Tritons have a monster Crustaceous which is a giant bipedal lobster.
=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Warcraft]]'' games have Lobstrocs/Makruras (both names seem to be used interchangeably) and the Bogstrok, which are lobster people. They're about the same size as most other humanoids, making them very large for crustaceans. There's also the truly gigantic Rokmar the Cracker as a boss encounter.
* The Lobstermen from ''[[X-COM]]: Terror from the Deep''. Very nasty aliens [[Implacable Man|with insane defense that lets them laugh at rockets]]. You better hope your troops have [[This Is a Drill|drills]] by the time they appear.
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=== Web Comics ===
* ''[[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 ===
* One of these, a lobster, appeared in a special episode of ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]'' during their battle with their arch enemy, the evil dolphin Dr. Blowhole, as a [[Giant Mook]] known as....
{{quote|(''With deep dramatic voice'') '''CHROME CLAW'''.}}
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=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Giant marine cousins of the pillbugs (a.k.a. [[I Have Many Names|rolly-pollies, sowbugs, woodlice]]) you can probably find eating rotted plant matter in your compost heap are quite common around deep-sea hydrothermal vents.
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