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11[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Pun}} Holy crab]]! Where the hell is the [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak point?!]]\
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14->''"Once... they were men. Now they are land crabs."''
15-->-- '''Dr. Brewer''', ''Film/AttackOfTheCrabMonsters''
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18Crabs.
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20They've got [[PowerPincers big pincers]]. They've got googly eyes. They've got a thick exoskeleton. They've got a funny sideways walk. They're capable of living both on land and in water. In some parts of the world, they make delicious meals. In others, they name [[TheTopicOfCancer deadly diseases]] after them.
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22But what happens when you decide to ''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever enlarge one]]?'' You get a scary-looking monster fit for a BossBattle. And possibly an extra-large delicious meal if you decide to cook it afterward.
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24Like BigCreepyCrawlies, inefficient oxygen use renders the truly huge ones impossible. However, around 450 million years ago marine arthropods did grow to large sizes, up to 2.5 metres in the case of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid Eurypterids.]]
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26[[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.
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28See SeaMonster for other monsters from the deep, and see PennyPinchingCrab for other crabs. Often similar to a GiantSpider, but not quite as creepy (and theoretically, giant enemy crabs are more tasty). A mechanical version would be a form of SpiderTank. Can be found on an IsleOfGiantHorrors. Subtrope of DireBeast.
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30!!Examples of Giant Crabs:
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35* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUegf4odxRY This]] commercial for Joe's Crab Shack.
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39* ''Literature/{{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.
40* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'': Terrorclaw is a giant crab. Gundalian Invaders will have another one called Lythirius.
41* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
42** At the end of episode 205, all of the spiritual energy being released in the kemari game summons a giant crab-like hollow. After Uryu and Chad attack it, Ichigo kills it with a single blow.
43** Findorr Calius is an Arrancar who is basically a crab-man with big ol' claws in his released mode, the larger of which is capable of [[MakingASplash shooting highly pressurized water capable of cutting through solid concrete.]] And considering how most Adjuchas used to look before going humanoid, he was likely a giant bony crab sometime in the past.
44* ''Manga/{{Dandadan}}'': [[{{Yokai}} Turbo Granny]] has one as a BondCreature, and sends it to chase after Ayase and Okarun when they've trapped her spirit. After she escapes, she fuses with it to become a OneWingedAngel.
45* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': A filler scene in the Namek arc has Bulma going after a dragon ball that's gotten away from her, and ends up fighting a giant Namekian crab. Turns out the crab was just [[MonsterIsAMommy protecting her eggs]].
46* ''Anime/GenesisClimberMospeada'': The Inbit (a.k.a. ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'''s Invid) are an invertebrate hive-minded species of bipedal, crab-like crustaceanoids indigenous to the planet Optera, the solitary inhabitable world of the Tzuptum System. They have warriors who are [[MechaMooks permanently bonded into giant bug-shaped mechanical exoskeletons]].
47* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
48** The MA-06 Val Walo from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory'' is a mobile armor jet themed after this concept.
49** The [=YMAF-X6BD=] Zamza-Zah from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny'' is a bit closer in terms of design to this than the Val Walo.
50** ''Anime/SDGundamWorldHeroes'': Sun Jiang Gundam Astray, Sun Quan Gundam Astray, Benjamin V2 Gundam, and Edward Second V end up fighting one of these after dealing with a bunch of smaller crabs. Oh, and all of the crabs are also based on the Val Walo.
51* ''Manga/TheHuntersGuildRedHood'': While travelling along a seaside road, what else should attack Velou and Grimm's [[HorseOfADifferentColor tractor hermit crab]] wagon[[note]]her name is Amber[[/note]] but a hostile armor crab wearing a discarded tank with a smaller, more dexterous plier crab running the turret.
52* In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', [[MoneyFetish Takarada]] uses a giant gold-plated crab mecha against Satsuki's army. It even has a [[AttackItsWeakpoint weakpoint]] which [[AssShove can be attacked]] for massive damage.
53* ''Manga/{{Mahoromatic}}'' features "Cloud Crab", a crab-like alien robot. Mahoro actually does AttackItsWeakPoint for massive damage.
54* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Zarigan G8 was a Mechanical Beast shaped like a orange-and-red giant crab with large eyes and a long tail. It was amazingly fast and agile underwater and beat the ''crab'' out of Mazinger-Z -- that had always been a lousy fighter underwater -- during their battle.
55* ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'': The Animal Path of Pain has this as one of its (many) Summons. In the video game, [[MemeticMutation you attack its legs for maximum damage]]. The Three-Tails has characteristics of a crab.
56* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': A crab larger than the trees of the jungle she fell into chases Chisame at the start of the Magic World StoryArc.
57* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'': The first real foe Saitama faced is a giant humanoid crab monster named Crablante who tried to kill a little kid [[DisproportionateRetribution for drawing nipples on his shell while he was sleeping]].
58* ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'': The class bus is captured by a Giant Enemy Crab. Even the aliens get worried at this one.
59* ''Anime/RageOfBahamutGenesis'': A Giant Enemy Crab attacks Favaro and Amira's ship. Amira manages to rip its guts out, [[BigEater although she notes that they're not tasty]].
60* ''Manga/SchoolRumble'': Harima takes on a Giant Enemy Crab 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.
61* ''Anime/ShimaShimaToraNoShimajiro'': The 2014 movie has a giant crab as the antagonist in the filmā€™s climax. [[AttackItsWeakPoint Apparently it's weak point is it's extremely ticklish and it can't stand whalesong]]. Although it undergoes HeelFaceTurn and DefeatEqualsFriendship at the end of the movie, and gets over its weakness to whalesong.
62* ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': Subverted by Super Yadokaritchi in ''Yume Kira Dream'' episode 28; while the Tamagotchis perceive him as a monster when they find him taking up space that they need in Ikaritchi's garage and are careful not to make him too angry in luring him out, he's really not a bad guy once they get to put TranslatorMicrobes on him and hear what he's saying.
63* ''Anime/TearsToTiara'': In episode 4 , the main characters accidentally call out an entire beach's worth of Giant Enemy Crabs. Since the hunting party has among their number two BadassNormal warriors, a WhiteMage, an OldMaster cleric, and a resurrected ''demon king'', the crabs still get slaughtered. The party celebrates with crab hot pot, ''using the crabs' shells as cooking pots''.
64* ''Anime/TekkamanBlade'': During the year 2300 AD, otherwise known as United Earth Year 192, the Earth is under attack from an extraterrestrial enemy known as the Radam. The Radam forces comprise of grotesque bug-like monsters (spider-crabs) that are led by armoured soldiers known as the Tekkamen.
65* ''Anime/TokyoMewMew'': A [[MonsterOfTheWeek Chimera Animal]] from late in the show is basically, well, a rather large crab.
66* ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'': From the QuirkyMinibossSquad, Chongire is a large crab that's surprisingly capable in combat, he was able to take on Manatsu and almost defeated her too if it wasn't for Laura coming in.
67* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'': The {{Youkai}} Kijimun is a massive, spiked crab monster whose pincers are composed of suffering and grotesque human faces. However, [[CurbStompBattle when faced by the Beast Spear]], attacking the weak spot is redundant.
68* ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'': Inverted by Vandread Jura: not only is it a crab-mech piloted by the protagonists, but it is also primarily used for its defensive abilities.
69* ''Anime/VoltesV'': [[RoBeast Beast Fighter]] Kanigan. He becomes a mass-produced {{Mook|s}} in several of the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' games in which Voltes appears, most notably ([[FanTranslation to the English-speaking audience]]) ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsJudgment''.
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73* The ''Art/CartaMarina'' of 1539 shows a kind of giant lobster between Orkney and the Hebrides, holding a man in his claw. According to the commentary, this monster is called "Polypus" and is considered very dangerous (although he also claims it can change colour, so there may be some confusion with another multi-limbed marine invertebrate -- the octopus; since "polypus" simply means "many-footed", it was often used as a catch-all term for anything with more than six limbs).
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77* In the ''Animation/GajuBhai'' episode "Tiku Thakela", the MonsterOfTheWeek is a giant red crab named Crabadu who uses a giant tank on its back to absorb energy from the people of Gajrajpuri.
78* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': A large red crab appears in ''Great War in the Bizarre World'' episode 12, waking up and chasing after the goats and Jollie 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 Jollie 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.
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82* One ''TabletopGame/{{Pachimon}}'' collectible card depicts a giant crab monster from outer space descending on Paris Harbour, and about to crush an unfortunate passsing ship with it's ''foot''.
83* While ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' does have a literal [[https://scryfall.com/card/tmp/66/giant-crab Giant Crab]], it looks absolutely puny when compared to the [[https://scryfall.com/card/jud/56/wormfang-crab Wormfang Crab]]. Yes, those are mountains it's stepping over. Suffice to say that there are [[https://scryfall.com/search?q=t%3Acrab&unique=cards&as=grid&order=name other]] giant crabs as well -- a whole creature type of them.
84* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Number_52:_Diamond_Crab_King Number 52: Diamond Crab King]]. It's certainly much bigger than any ordinary-sized human.
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88* In ''Airboy Comics'' #103, ComicBook/TheHeap battles the Great Black Crab of Brittany, which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
89* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'': Atomic Robo encounters a MadScientist in Japan who has turned himself into a giant crustacean monster.
90-->'''Robo:''' Why do we even ''have'' the SquareCubeLaw?
91* ''ComicBook/{{Critter}}'': In the "High Tide" arc, Schoolgirl is trapped atop a buoy by giant crabs, leading to a ThatCameOutWrong moment as she calls for help.
92* ''ComicBook/GoldDigger'': The ruler of Atlantis has a crab big enough to put an aircraft carrier on its head as a pet. It is also [[GrotesqueCute adorable.]]
93* ''ComicBook/MouseGuard'': The first volume features a battle against several normal-sized Enemy Crabs, but since the main characters are mice...
94* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': The first issue of the pirate story ends on a cliffhanger involving a giant crab rising up from a pit.
95* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}'': RELEASE THE HOMICIDE CRABS! The Homicide Crabs were one of H.A.T.E.'s many weapons used against the Nextwave Squad in War Garden 6, Wyoming. They were deployed to face off against the team's leader, Monica Rambeau, but were relatively easily fought off.
96* ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' has the Decepticon Squeezeplay, a Headmaster whose alt-mode was [[InformedSpecies supposedly]] a giant crab (it actually looked more like a mutant gorilla with pincers instead of hands with a vaguely crab-like shell on its back). His Japanese version is even called Cancer because of it.
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100* ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide:'' A boxer's worst nightmare. "It's no use, doc. No matter what I do, he just goes to the side!"
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104* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' references the Namekian crab scene, but being [[TheAbridgedSeries an abridged series]], it cuts the MamaBear angle altogether. '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-H59eQU80M&feature=related KILLING CRABS! IN THE OCEAN! KILL IT FAST! PAIN EXPLOSION, YEAH!]]'''''
105* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': [[https://derpibooru.org/tags/rarity+fighting+a+giant+crab "Rarity versus The GIANT CRAB!"]] is a meme that the fandom had a great deal of fun with after one of the creators jokingly suggested it as a Season 3 spoiler on Twitter, and appears in a considerable amount of fan works.
106* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11298331/1/A-different-weasel-makes-a-difference A different weasel makes a difference]]'', the Others send an enormous crab (either reanimated or brainwashed, it isn't clear) against Dragonstone. It proves to be AwesomeButImpractical, it shrugs off anything the defenders hit it with, and its claws can easily rip people apart; but it is too big to fit through the gate, not agile enough to climb over the walls, and not strong enough to crack dragonfire infused stone, leading to a stalemate. [[spoiler: Then Daeneryes arrives, and roasts it with her dragons]].
107* ''Fanfic/TheSoulmateTimeline'' has Cancri, [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica the Depth-sounding Witch]], who takes the form of a giant crab made of musical instruments which fights Mami and Homura.
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111* In any entry of ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' in any ocean/island setting, you can expect to be attacked anytime by giant crabs, including in ''Literature/SeasOfBlood'', ''Literature/DemonsOfTheDeep'', ''Literature/IslandOfTheLizardKing'', ''Literature/{{Magehunter}}'' and several others.
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115* ''Animation/TheCrabs'' involves a MadScientist building an army of self-replicating, metal-eating robot crabs as part of an experiment in MechanicalEvolution. The crabs get bigger and more elaborate as they go along, until the only one left is a life-like giant crab that simply crushes its prey with rocks and its massive claws.
116* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gandahar}}'': Enormous crablike creatures protect the city of Jasper. They serve as the cityā€™s last line of defense against the invading Metal Men.
117* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'': When Manny, Sid and Diego encounter such a gigantic crab while being lost and facing a raging storm.
118-->'''Sid''': [[OhCrap HOLY CRAB!]]
119* ''WesternAnimation/MinionsTheRiseOfGru'': Since Jean Clawed is half crab, he rides in a multi-legged vehicle that's made to look like a crab, with giant pincers to destroy and grab things.
120* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'', Moana helps Maui recover his magic fishhook from Tamatoa, a vain, gigantic, talking coconut crab.
121* ''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.
122* ''WesternAnimation/PinocchioInOuterSpace'': On the surface of Mars, Pinocchio finds animals made gigantic by atomic mutation, including [[http://animated-views.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/pinspacebon.jpg huge crabs with fangs]].
123* ''WesternAnimation/TheSeaBeast'': One of the sea beasts is a gigantic purple crab that attempts to eat Jacob and Maisie, but the Red Bluster [[BehemothBattle fights it off]].
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127* ''Film/Aquaman2018'': The Brine have a giant crab as part of their arsenal.
128* ''Film/AttackOfTheCrabMonsters'': 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.''
129* ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'': The Garthim are hulking, crab-like creatures used as minions, solders and enforcers by the villainous Skeksis. They've even got a bit of Fiddler-Crab likeness to them. One arm is a massive slicing claw, the other is a powerful gripping hand.
130* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'': [[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah Destoroyah]] is made of ''thousands'' of these -- which are already giant by themselves.
131* ''Film/LandOfTheLost'': A giant crab appears during one scene in which it tries to attack the protagonists while they are stoned. However, it is killed by a geyser and is then eaten by the protagonists instead.
132* ''Film/TheLostContinent'': Giant crabs are some of the many perils that the main characters have to endure besides killing sea weed and UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition.
133* ''Film/LoveAndMonsters'': The pirates' attack animal is a mutant ten-ton crab they control with an electrical cable. [[spoiler:Joel realizes it's actually a GentleGiant tortured to do their bidding and once he sets it free, [[TheDogBitesBack it immediately kills and eats the pirates]].]]
134* ''Literature/TheMist'': One of these is what finally takes out Ollie the assistant manager in the movie adaptation.
135* ''Film/MonsterSeaFoodWars'' is a kaiju parody film where three sea monsters attacks Tokyo, one of them being a giant crab (the other two are respectively an octopus and a squid).
136* ''Film/MysteriousIsland'' features a giant crab animated via stop motion. Supposedly, Harryhausen used the shell of an actual crab to construct the creature.
137* ''Film/PacificRim'' has the crustacean-like Onibaba, the {{kaiju}} from Mako's [[HeroicBSOD RABIT memory]].
138* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'': The villain is Davy Jones, who, while still being more-or-less humanoid, has a crab's leg instead of one of his human ones and a crab's claw instead of his left hand (meant to imitate the "traditional" peg-leg and hook hand normally associated with pirates). He's also significantly larger than most of the main cast.
139* ''Film/SpaceAmoeba'': The eponymous alien takes control of a crab named Ganimes and enlarges it.
140* ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIAttackOfTheClones'': The [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Acklay acklay]] is a monster that's part giant crab, part [[SlayingMantis mantis]], part [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent lizard]].
141** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIIIRevengeOfTheSith'' includes the CIS' LM-432 crab droids in the Battle of Utapau. They are a lot smaller than your average giant crab, though.
142* ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'': Especially in ''Film/TransformersRevengeoftheFallen'', [[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 claw-like, 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''.
143* ''Film/{{Wapakman}}'': The Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao fights one of these.
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147* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': Visser Three morphed a chameleon-like color changing one in a book that took place UnderTheSea.
148* Creator/LarryNiven'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 SuperSpeed'']]. To get a feel for how big they are, note that the colonists name the first Scribe they meet "Asia".
149* In ''Literature/TheBeyonders,'' the first [[PlotCoupon word fragment]] is unintentionally guarded by a giant crab. Originally it was guarded by a hermit; the crab moved in on her own. She's ''terrifyingly'' fast as well as {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le, and escaping her is a chore and a half for the protagonists.
150* J. M. Busby's science-fiction horror novel ''Cage A Man'' features the Demu, a race of aliens who resemble human-sized crabs. They're ScaryDogmaticAliens who believe they are the only true intelligence in the universe, and seek to turn all other intelligent species into more of themselves.
151* ''The Clickers'' by J.F Gonzalez is a splatterpunk story involving prehistoric, blood-thirsty giant crustaceans that can spit up acid and the larger ones have shells that'll easily stop anything short of a .50 caliber bullet.
152* ''Literature/ErecRex'': One of the monsters is a type of giant crab called a ginglehoffer. They can be dangerous, but are held back by their [[WeaksauceWeakness crippling fondness combined with allergic reaction to marshmallows.]]
153* ''Literature/FrannyKStein'': The Pumpkin-Crab Monster that Franny faces in the first book ''Lunch Walks Among Us'' is essentially a giant crab monster with [[PumpkinPerson a pumpkin for a head]].
154* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Hagrid's infamous [[http://www.hp-lexicon.org/bestiary/skrewts.html Blast-Ended Skrewts,]] a hybrid between Manticores and Fire-crabs. They start out as being merely a poor choice of a Care of Magical Creature class project, but fully mature they become so distinctly sinister and dangerous that they are employed for the Third Triwizards Champions task.
155* In ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'', 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 [[ItMakesSenseInContext make sense in context]], that's the whole point.
156* Creator/GuyNSmith wrote a series of low-rent horror novels in which giant killer crabs scuttle amok, beginning with ''Literature/NightOfTheCrabs''.
157* ''Literature/NuklearAge'': There's the memorable Crushtaceon; a giant prehistoric crab formerly frozen in ice that is... attracted to the sounds of Angus's bagpipes
158* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': ''The Last Olympian'''s first chapter features one. Percy even [[AttackItsWeakPoint Attacks Its Weak Point]] for massive damage.
159* ''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.
160* ''Literature/ThePolity'': The Prador from ''Prador Moon'' are giant enemy crabs. Giant, sociopathic, cannibalistic, man-eating enemy crabs with a penchant for enslavement and massive firepower.
161* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': When you're a mouse, all Crabs are Giant. Case in point: In ''Mossflower'', the Salamandastron Quartet end up having to get past a Mama Crab that's bigger than Chibb the robin. There was also a lobster in ''Mariel of Redwall''.
162* The ''Literature/{{Spooksville}}'' book ''Attack of the Killer Crabs'' has giant crabs attacking the beach. [[spoiler: They all turn out to be giant ''robot'' crabs.]]
163* ''Literature/TheSunEater'' had the Enar. These extinct crustacean aliens were roughly about the half height of a human, but many times wider. The Enar were an AlwaysChaoticEvil species who were a ServantRace to the [[EldritchAbomination Watcher]] that successfully conquered the galaxy in an attempt to destroy the physical universe. But due to a StableTimeLoop, the Enar were incapable wiping out physical existence so they committed species-wide suicide. This ancient event allowed the rise and evolution of humanity, as humans expanded through the cosmos unchallenged until they met [[ServantRace the Cielcin]].
164* ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannara'' has one with tentacles. Later revisions added metal plating to them. And created multiples.
165* ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'': The Time Traveller encounters some rather menacing giant crabs on his way to the end of the world.
166* ''Wall Around A Star'' has the glassy crabs grown by the Cuckoo cultists on Earth as well as found naturally on Cuckoo itself (if anything there can be described as natural).
167* In ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'', huge crabs appear, which should be bad enough for the characters, but furthermore it has a shell, similar looking to rock, thus giving it the name of, Rock Crabs, making it very hard to kill.
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171* ''Series/BabylonFive'': While not actual crabs, the Shadows have enormous black spaceships resembling crabs. {{Living Ship}}s, at that, with a memorable psychic scream (not without reason) and they can cut through any other warships like soft cheese.
172* ''Series/DeadliestCatch'': A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IemmcE4HPUM short promo]] features a giant crab emerging from a lake and attacking some men in a boat.
173* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
174** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E7TheMacraTerror "The Macra Terror"]] is about a society menaced [[spoiler:and brainwashed]] by creatures that look like giant crabs. Really low-production-value ones.
175** The Macra returned in CGI for the new series episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock "Gridlock"]].
176** Intelligent crab monsters show up in the Sixth Doctor Telos Novella ''Shell Shock'', apparently for AuthorPhobia reasons.
177* ''Series/TheGoodies'' are attacked by a giant crab claw coming out of the ocean in the "Lost Island of Munga" episode.
178* ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' has a few of these. And by extension, so does ''Series/KamenRiderDecade''. Downplayed size-wise in [[Series/KamenRiderRyuki Kamen Rider Scissors]], whose contract monster is a humanoid crab. Same goes for Scissors' [[Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight American counterpart]], Kamen Rider Incisor. There's also Marshall Armor from ''Series/KamenRiderV3'', who turns into a giant crab monster when he shows up in ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits''.
179* ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP-rkzJ6yZw sketch]] about an alien invasion by vast metallic crablike creatures.
180* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' features several crab or crustacean-based {{kaiju}}:
181** The original Ultra examples are Zanika and Yadokarin from ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'', the latter being a monster from a planet in the constellation of (where else?) Cancer that was devoured by a PlanetEater, while the former was a hermit crab with vaguely mammalian features that turned a crashed space station into its home.
182** King Crab from ''Series/UltramanAce'' doesn't actually look anything like a crab despite his name, but is able to transform into a horseshoe crab to hide from his enemies (though it must be noted horseshoe crabs are not crustaceans).
183** Ganza from ''Series/UltramanTaro'' was so giant that ZAT mistook him for an island when they encountered it sleeping. Fittingly, his name is derived from the Japanese word for crab, "gani".
184** ''Series/UltramanLeo'''s Black Dome was one of the FlyingSaucer [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Beasts]], appearing as a giant saucer-shaped fiddler crab able to spray acidic foam capable of turning a concrete building into mush in seconds.
185** Reicubas from ''Series/UltramanDyna'' is considered to be the most popular and iconic of Dyna's foes and possesses the ability to switch between breathing fireballs and icy mist.
186** Crabgan from ''Series/UltramanGaia'' was a symbiotic lifeform from the Cambrian period that returned in the present as a ghost seeking to reunite with its evolutionary partner Anemos.
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190* Music/TheDarkness: One appears in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU video]] for "I Believe In A Thing Called Love", along with a giant space squid.
191* Kitsune^2: An entire song about giant enemy enemy crab crab crab: "Giant Enemy Crab". (Attack its weak point for massive damage!)
192* Music/TheProdigy: The crab on the album cover ''Music/TheFatOfTheLand'', due to being shot in close-up.
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196* Carcinus, the delicious sidekick of the Lernean Hydra sent in by Hera to distract Heracles. It was the biggest crab in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]] ([[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Lernaean_Hydra_Louvre_CA598_n2.jpg for certain value of giant]], given that it was [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] said to be have been simply crushed underfoot of Heracles, if he didn't just literally kick it to a TwinkleInTheSky). As compensation for his service, Hera turned it into the constellation of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancer_(constellation)#Mythology Cancer]].
197* While [[KrakenAndLeviathan the Kraken]] is usually depicted as [[GiantSquid a gigantic squid or octopus]], in some versions from the original Myth/NorseMythology the Kraken is crab-like.
198* Some {{Turtle Island}}s in medieval bestiaries (particularly the Arabic ones) are described as gigantic crabs.
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202* ''VideoGame/CrueBall'': Crabula, who releases maggots and requires numerous hits to destroy.
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206* Chaosium's ''All the Worlds' Monsters''. The Giant Alaskan King Crab is a possible opponent of a player party. It is a huge version or a normal crab, measuring 20 feet across.
207* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'': In ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources'', the Ghost Crab is a giant crab with up to 80 HitPoints and two PowerPincers that each do 4-48 HitPoints of damage and drain a point of Constitution on each hit.
208* ''TabletopGame/BaronMunchausen'' refers to "The giant crabs of [[ShoutOut Ancient Nippon]], whose [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak spots may be struck]] for massive damage."
209* ''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. Aside from being a HumongousMecha, the King Crab has an additional claim to giant status: it has a smaller 45-ton counterpart simply known as the Crab.
210* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
211** 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. 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.)
212** The 8-foot-wide LawfulEvil hydrax in Basic ''D&D'' is a crab-shaped water elemental composed entirely of ice.
213** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'' has the [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/d&d_carcass_crab_3e.jpg carcass crab]], a giant crab that adorns its shell with battlefield detritus such as bits of armor, weapons, body parts and bodies.
214** 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.
215** The Far Corners of the World brings the "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, but is generally considered a match for ''7th''-level parties, and will likely lead 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.
216** ''Stormwrack'' 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.
217** The little-known, Aztec-themed first edition module ''The Lost Shrine of Tamoachan'' presented the characters with a talking giant hermit crab, and his KidWithTheLeash, a ''normal-sized'' talking lobster. Anyone fluent in their language was likely to be able to talk their way past the two, since "talking" didn't necessarily mean "clever" in this case.
218** ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine #39 article "Inhuman Gods". The deity of the crab men is T'Ka Boolk'na, who takes the form of a gigantic (20 foot diameter) crab with large GlowingEyes whose shell is as hard as stone.
219** 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.
220* ''TabletopGame/DystopianWars'': The Covenant of Antarctica's Landship is a Giant Victorian Steampunk Enemy Crab.
221* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' features Novacrab pod-morphs, vat-grown cyber-crabs that may be player characters. Due to the setting's ubiquitous BrainUploading, players can select a novacrab body as well, providing a huge bonus to strength and able to survive in just about any environment.
222* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'': The supplement ''Mysteries of the Hollow Earth'' has a giant crab that can grow up to 25 feet long and has [[PowerPincers claws that are six feet long]].
223* ''It Came From The Late Late Show''. The Giant Crab is a Monster found on remote tropical islands. It can ruthlessly crush Cast Members caught in its PowerPincers.
224* ''Judges Guild'' adventure ''Tegel Manor'' (revised and expanded, 1989) has a giant crab creature in the Sauna that's posing as a statue. When the sauna activates, so does the creature. Not only do its pincers inflict serious damage, they can also each grab and hold up to three opponents.
225* ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'': Steel Shell Crabs are a unit for the Tritons. Also, the [[strike:Crustaceor]] Lobstroyer monster.
226* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
227** Giant crabs can vary in size from rock crabs larger than a human to the appropriately-named shark-eating crabs to the literally giant-sized great reef crabs to whale-sized shipwrecker crabs.
228** The first issue of ''Pathfinder Chronicles'' features a giant hermit crab that uses a giant's helmet as its shell. The game's ''Bestiary'' features several sizes of giant crabs. Including one called a "''Shark'' Eater".
229** The last book of the ''Skull & Shackles'' adventure path, ''From Hell's Heart'', details some of Golarion's unique and legendary sea monsters. One of these is Buklok the Crabfather, a rock crab big enough to have a four-foot statue embedded in its shell. In battle, it can summon swarms of regular crabs, invoke foul weather and even affect its enemies' minds to force them to evoke unpleasant memories.
230* Titans from ''TabletopGame/PiratesConstructibleStrategyGame''; 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.
231* ''TabletopGame/{{Rolemaster}}'' ''Shadow World'' setting, supplement ''Kingdom of the Desert Jewel''. In the Halls of the Mountain King there's a beach next to an underground river. If the {{PC}}s come within 30 feet of its lair, a giant crab will attack them and try to turn them into dinner.
232* ''TabletopGame/TailsOfEquestria'': Carcinuses are crabs the size of office buildings. They mostly live deep beneath the ocean, but occasionally attack coastal cities.
233* 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''.
234* Supplement ''Trollpak'', "Book of Uz" part 2. The crabs tamed and used by trolls can weigh more than 2,000 lbs.
235* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': While not strictly a Crab per se, Old One Eye and most Tyranid Monstrous creatures can take Crushing Claws, which are described as crab-like. Being Monstrous creatures, they tend to be around tank-sized if not larger.
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239* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Manas crabs, extremely aggressive and powerful Rahi that are sometimes employed as guard animals for villains, namely [[BigBad Makuta]].
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243* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland'': The sixth boss of ''Adventure Island III'' is a large crab wielding an EpicFlail. The second boss of ''Adventure Island II'' is large hermit crab.
244* In ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'', playing the Greeks you can get access to a giant crab unit called the Carcinos with the right god.
245* ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' has a crab equipped with an ArmCannon. It also outsizes every other creature that appears in its respective chapter. Oh, it is also a CigarChomper. Guess what it does with its cigar since its ArmCannon is of the early Blackpowder-era variety?
246* In ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'', beneath Freeway 42 is a mini-boss, a large crab creature encased in stone, where it summons small crab-like variants while tossing debris and launching projectiles from its shell.
247* ''VideoGame/ArcAngle'' has the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-CAz1kDHko Crabburn]] boss. It's larger than a small city and utilizes deadly EyeBeams and MacrossMissileMassacre.
248* ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved: Aberration'' introduces giant mutant spider crabs called Karkinos. Instead of tranquilizers, you have to knock them out with cannonfire or catapults to tame them, and they're big enough to ''[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/arksurvivalevolved_gamepedia/images/4/48/Karkinos_transporting_Stegos.jpg dual-wield live Stegosaurus]]''.
249* ''VideoGame/AvencastRiseOfTheMage'': One of the handful of bosses in the cavern of trials is a giant crab lacking even a weak spot; it requires environmental traps to kill.
250* ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' has you fighting a giant hermit crab (Nipper) in order to obtain the Jiggy inside its shell. It is the boss of the second world (Treasure Trove Cove).
251* ''VideoGame/BargonAttack'': A giant crab spawning normal-sized crabs has to be fought.
252* ''VideoGame/BattleAxe'' has a crab-like monstrosity on spindly legs walking sideways as the boss of the underground caverns. It lacks pincers, oddly enough, and has the ability to jump and crush you under it's belly.
253* ''VideoGame/BioHazardBattle'' had one of these as a MiniBoss that [[MookMaker spawned mini crabs]] that fired at the player. And it appeared ''[[RecurringBoss twice]]'' in the same level.
254* ''VideoGame/BlasterMaster'''s [[ThatOneBoss fifth boss]], Hard Shell, is one of these. As well as the first and third bosses in its EnhancedRemake, ''Blaster Master Overdrive''.
255* ''VideoGame/BodyHarvest'': The first major boss, Leviathan, is a giant alien crab with missile launchers.
256* ''VideoGame/Bomberman93'' has a DualBoss version in the Cockle Twins.
257* ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'' has a giant enemy crab called a Larva Crab Worm. [[AttackItsWeakPoint If you shoot it directly in its eye]], [[CriticalHit you score a critical hit for thousands of damage]], [[OneHitKill an ungodly amount at that point in the game, and one-shot it]]. Later on, with the "Secret Armory of General Knoxx" DLC, the secret final boss (who is pointed out with signs saying "SECRET FINAL BOSS THIS WAY" from the '''Second area of the DLC''') is Crawmerax, a ''Giant'' Giant Enemy Crab whose level is [[SerialEscalation always three levels higher than the game's current level cap.]]
258* ''VideoGame/BraveSoul'' gives us the Giant Enemy Fire-Breathing Crab!
259* ''Literature/BraveStory: A New Traveler'' has a Giant Enemy Conch named "Boogaboo Crab" in the Seaside Cave. It has trees growing out of the moss on its shell and the 'crab' goes "BOOGA-BOOGA-BOOGA-BOO."
260* ''VideoGame/BravelySecond'' has a monster literally called "Enemy Crab", which has an attack called "Massive Damage" and a defensive ability called "No Weak Point".
261* ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'': Tick has a skin called King Crab Tick which turns him into this. Fitting, considering it was released during the Summer of Monsters season.
262* ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'': ''Bubble Symphony'' has a Giant Enemy Robot Crab that uses the [[BossSubtitles Huge Battleship]] Yamato as a shell.
263* ''VideoGame/BulletHeaven'''s tenth regular level is a boss battle against a giant crab.
264* ''Burai Fighter'' has Giganticrab, the first boss.
265* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'' features a WakeUpCallBoss battle against Brachyura, a "giant crab from the depths of Transylvanian history" (the [[BraggingRightsReward medal]] for defeating it without getting hit actually calls it a "giant enemy crab") whose attack patterns have much more internal variation than those of the first two bosses. Also becomes ThatOneBoss for people who can't figure out that they [[PuzzleBoss need to drop the elevator on it]] (which is [[LudicrousGibs probably the most satisfying boss gib EVER]]).
266* ''VideoGame/ChipWits'' has the "electrocrab."
267* ''VideoGame/ClockworkAquario'': The second boss of the game is a mechanical version of this trope. It's a giant crab-shaped mecha piloted by Dr. Hangyo, who drives it back and forth on the stage while leaving little [[MechaMook robotic wind-up crabs]] in its wake.
268* ''VideoGame/Commando2'': Crabocolypse is a robotic version. You stand on a train when you fight it, while it does a WallCrawl on the train track support beams.
269* ''VideoGame/CoolSpot'' toys with this: its crabs are regular-sized, but they're quite big from the viewpoint of the player character, the spot from the logo on a 7-Up bottle.
270* ''VideoGame/{{Coryoon}}'' has a giant crab as a MiniBoss in the underwater stage, who stays at the bottom of the screen but has [[ExtendableArms extendable pincers]] snapping at you throughout the fight. And then you fight the stage's actual boss, a giant lobster.
271* ''VideoGame/CrabWar'' features a variety of very large crabs.
272* ''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 volcano, an area you wouldn't expect to fight crustacean-based enemies.
273* ''VideoGame/TheCrownOfWu'' has a robotic crab as one of the bosses, where it runs circles around you while spamming projectile attacks. You need to cripple the crab by [[HobblingTheGiant attacking the legs]]; depleting the leg's health cripples it momentarily and exposes it's weak spot.
274* ''VideoGame/CrystalStory'': The boss of the quest to rescue a missing cat, fully formed from MemeticMutation, being referenced after Tristam notifies the party about it:
275--> '''Phoebe:''' [[AC:Attack its weakpoint for massive damage!!!!!!]]\
276'''Reuben:''' OK! That is really lame.
277* ''VideoGame/CthulhuSavesTheWorld'': One of enemies. As their description helpfully points out, they are immune to attacking their weak spot for massive damage.
278* Among the various [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial flying mechanical fish]] enemies in ''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'', there's [[https://darius.fandom.com/wiki/Yamato Yamato/My Home Daddy]] from ''Super Darius'' (a hermit crab) and the aptly-named [[https://darius.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Crab Red Crab]] from ''Darius II'' (a giant fiddler crab). ''Darius Gaiden'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_miYUNz9AoQ Hysteric Empress]], a Japanese Spider Crab, as one of its final bosses. Since she's a FinalBoss of a ''Darius'' game, ''she'll'' attack ''your'' weak point [[ThatOneBoss for massive damage to your continues]].
279* ''VideoGame/DarkAgeOfCamelot'' has a house-sized crab called the [[http://camelot.allakhazam.com/db/search.html?cmob=3891 bone snapper.]]
280* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'':
281** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' has the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L598rTZ55Q Black Phantom Vagrant]], a giant crab born from people in other worlds leaving their souls and items on the ground for too long. They have crab legs, crab pincers, and they happen to be able to shove a MacrossMissileMassacre at you.
282** ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' has a few of these hanging around Farron Keep and the Smouldering Lake as a BossInMookClothing. Their long reach, tough exoskeletons, and quick movements for their size make them very tough to fight. They're large enough that they're capable of eating a man whole (which they will do if they manage to grab you).
283* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': In the Coves lie the Ucas, gigantic crab enemies who have some of the highest protection and bleed on non-boss enemies. They stand upright, are decorated with bits of shipwrecks, and have a preference for using a more defensive style of fighting.
284* ''VideoGame/DensetsuNoStafy4'' has Choking, a crab with a change purse-like body who is one of Degil's minions and the boss of the Tree of Beginning.
285* In ''Don Doko Don'', the Round 30 boss is a Giant Enemy Hermit Crab that, like other bosses, produces smaller versions of itself.
286* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'': The bosses of the beach are the Scurvy Crew, a trio of Giant Enemy Crab {{pirate}}s. They aren't monstrously huge, but they're slightly bigger than DK, which is still pretty giant. And yes, you do flip them over and [[AttackItsWeakPoint attack their weak points]] for massive damage.
287* ''VideoGame/DeadstormPirates'' have giant coconut crabs as a recurring enemy, with their ''massive'' claws capable of blocking gunshots. They thankfully lower their claws before striking players, revealing their weaker frontal bodies which is vulnerable. There's also an AdvancingBossOfDoom Giant Lobster which pursues the heroes in a narrow canal.
288* ''VideoGame/{{Drakensang}}'' features enormous blue crabs as dangerous enemies both because of their shells and because of their powerful attacks (capable of dealing wounds to players, which cripples them). The prequel ''The River of Time'' has the BonusDungeon filled to the brim with many giant crabs, often attacking en masse, and the hideously mutated Crab Beast laying in wait at the very bottom of the temple.
289* ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' has to face many Small Enemy Crabs along with the giant ones. There's actually an implied explanation for this at the end of ''Tides of Time''; [[spoiler:the Vortex ended up becoming the ancestors of arthropods, so it may be that these creatures hate Ecco due to species memories]].
290* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The Lands Between is populated by massive, highly-aggressive crabs and lobsters that litter bodies of water. Some will remain hidden under the sand until the player steps into their aggro range, causing them to pop out and start wailing on you.
291* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
292** Mudcrabs are a moderately large crab, with several regional variations appearing throughout the series. Most are roughly the size of a large tortoise and [[TheGoomba aren't threatening in the least]], being just a step above the series' RodentsOfUnusualSize for low-level critter enemies.
293** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'':
294*** The buildings in Redoran lands are made out of the shells of an extinct giant crab species known as the Emperor Crabs. They range in size from small one-room homes to large enough to fit an entire ''district'' inside. According to one LooseCanon developer written supplemental text, the Dunmer resurrected the Emperor Crab to battle the [[TheLegionsOfHell hordes of Daedra]] during the Oblivion Crisis.
295*** The Mudcrab Merchant subverts the ''enemy'' part of the trope. It looks the same as any other mudcrab (and has the same in-game name), but instead of being hostile it is a merchant, with [[LethalJokeCharacter the most gold for bartering in the vanilla game]].
296** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' includes a literal giant crab as an EasterEgg enemy, although this is a coincidence since the game came out before the ''Genji'' incident.
297** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
298*** Mudcrabs, but not just the ones that annoy you every time you come near a river. Just southeast of Rorikstead, there is a mudcrab-infested pool of water that appears to be ridged on all sides with rocks. On closer inspection, it turns out the "rocks" on one side are the corpse of a mudcrab bigger than everything except mammoths and dragons! [[spoiler:And you can fight the ghost of said giant Mudcrab in a quest!]]
299*** [[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]]''. Which appears in the official "Fishing" Creation... as a '''''ghost'''''.
300* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
301** The Mirelurks in ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' are super-mutated, bipedal crabs. It's worth noting that said Mirelurks have [[AttackItsWeakPoint a weak point that you can hit]] for massive damage. Mirelurk meat is also one of the better foods in the game, healing a large amount of health. Mirelurk cakes are a popular snack among wastelanders. Fortunately, they don't appear in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas''... though their "relatives", the turtle-based Mirelurk Kings (renamed "Lakelurks") do!
302** Mirelurks reappear in ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', here redesigned to a more centaur-like body configuration, though still man-sized and grotesquely human-like crab-things. For their "relatives", the Mirelurk Hunters and Queens, as well as the Fog Crawlers and Hermit Crabs, see the Videogames folder under Other Crustaceans below.
303* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': There are quite a few of these in the series:
304** Crabs are ''very'' common targets in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'', as they're less dangerous than most monsters. Case in point, [[http://wiki.bluegartrls.com/images/7/75/Update03-22-2010_2.jpg KRABKA]][[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa TOA]]
305** The boss of River Belle Path in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles1'' 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''.
306** A giant fiend in the shape of a crab-like spider is the boss of the first dungeon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''. A {{palette swap}}ped version appears in Via Infinito.
307** An early boss in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyMysticQuest'' is the Snow Crab, which despite its name is not weak to fire. Benjamin can AttackItsWeakPoint to inflict massive damage using an axe. A {{palette swap}}ped version is used later as a normal enemy type, which also shares the weakness to axes.
308** The Zeromus summon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', associated with the Cancer Zodiac (which is a crab) has numerous crab-like attributes.
309** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' features the "Devil Crab" and later the [[PaletteSwap palette swapped]] Acrophies as normal enemy types. Both of them have elemental [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak points you can attack]] for massive damage.
310** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has a variety of crustacean enemies, the smallest of which tend to still be nearly human-sized. The largest are the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin megalocrabs]], which vary in size anywhere between car and [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever house]]. The meme is directly referenced in the English translation; a timed event featuring a huge crustacean in Upper La Noscea has the title of "Giant Enemy Crab".
311* ''VideoGame/{{Fraxy}}'' has the Original ''Cancer'' and the Giant. Enemy. Crab.
312* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'': The end-boss of the UnexpectedShmupLevel "Bakunawa Chase" is a colossal, crab-like robot called Crabulon. A model replica can even be constructed at the Avian Museum's Gallery section with a model of Zao's Airship to see how large it truly is.
313* ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'': There was a mod for the standard ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' headcrab that made it near-impossible to kill, screamed like Godzilla and devoured anything within seconds of it getting in range. It could be taken down with SEVENTEEN simultaneous rockets, something that could potentially crash the server.
314* ''VideoGame/{{Genji}} 2: Days of the Blade'', the TropeNamer themself, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktHrtxUHbg "Giant Crab, Enemy Crab"]]. A game featuring "actual battles" [[SarcasmMode that actually took place]] in Ancient Japan. At one point you have to flip it over and AttackItsWeakPoint . Fortunately for [[TokyoFireball Japanese civilization]], the game features RealTimeWeaponChange. Silliness aside, in-game the giant crabs were likely based on the Heike-gani, RealLife crabs whose shells actually resemble ferocious masks and were believed to host the grudge of the fallen Heike warriors.
315* ''VideoGame/GianaSistersDS'': Enemy Crabs are man-sized yellow spider crabs who will rush to pinch Giana.
316* ''VideoGame/GodHand'', at one point, features a fight between [[TheHero Gene]] and a Giant Enemy Crane (complete with pincers). Also, the entirety of the game's fourth world takes place on a Giant [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robot]] Crab. The game even makes further references to this meme: one of the Chihuahuas in the Chihuahua Races is named "Massive Damage".
317* ''VideoGame/GiraffeAndAnnika'': One of the bosses Lily battles you with is a giant king crab (king in the sense that it wears a crown).
318* ''VideoGame/GrandFantasia'': The final boss of the first dungeon is Emissary -- Greed, with the title [[RedBaron Giant Enemy Crab]].
319* Variant in ''VideoGame/{{Hoa}}''. Your character is a finger-sized pixie-thing, and you encounter slightly-larger-than-average crabs in the underwater levels. They're among the few friendly giant crab creatures in video games, who offers you a ride and doesn't hurt you in any way.
320* The Shell-Walker in ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' is a Giant Enemy ''Robot'' Crab. Specifically, it's a walking transport vehicle based on a hermit crab, with its "shell" on the back being a cargo container that you can break off and loot.
321* ''Videogame/HungrySharkEvolution''. The only boss is literally a giant crab that attacks you for a while and then gives you time to hit its weak spot.
322* In ''VideoGame/IdleChampionsOfTheForgottenRealms'', there are Giant Crab enemies and a Giant Spiked Crab boss.
323* One appears in ''[[VideoGame/TheImpossibleQuiz The Impossible Quiz Book: Chapter 2]]'' very late into the quiz. Since this entire chapter is dedicated to video game references this question is very likely referencing the {{Trope Namer|s}}.
324* ''[[http://www.charliesgames.com/wordpress/?page_id=399 Irukandji]]''[='=]s only boss is a giant crab. Even the page for the game calls it a "Giant Enemy Crab."
325* ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'': One of the bosses ''Jazz Hackrabbit 2'' is a large crab in a green shell which has a circle of normal-sized crabs around him. After the player shoots all the crabs, he starts to spin fast towards the player, who can only attack him when he comes out of his shell.
326* ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy''. The first game even has a level ("Make Cancer") devoted solely to rolling up crabs. And yes, the coconut crab is one of the types to be rolled up.
327* In ''VideoGame/KeioFlyingSquadron 2'', the heroine is kidnapped by a giant rocket-powered crab at the end of one stage.
328* ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' features a Slightly Larger Than Average Enemy Crab as a boss battle. There's also regular-sized crabs for Kirby to munch on.
329* ''VideoGame/KnightmareIITheMazeOfGalious'': The boss of World 6.
330* ''VideoGame/KrutTheMythicWings'' have giant crustacean creatures as the first enemies you encounter, since the first stage is set on a beach. Later inland you can fight their cousins, giant conches. More giant crabs reappear in a later stage atop a floating DerelictGraveyard.
331* ''VideoGame/KrushKillNDestroy'' had the Evolved faction, who could train giant beasts to fight for them in place of armoured tanks. One of their largest units is a giant crab with a missile launcher strapped to its back.
332* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' features an alternate skin for their quadra-pedal undead cyborg Urgot called "Giant Enemy Crabgot." He fires his claw at his enemies.
333* The first boss of ''VideoGame/LegaiaIIDuelSaga'' is the Gather Crab, which is taller than the protagonist Land.
334* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrails'' series, there are often requests to exterminate large monsters that appear in areas, with some being giant crabs such as the [[VideoGame/TrailsInTheSky Helmet Crab]] or the [[VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel Omegacean]].
335%%* ''VideoGame/LegendOfKay'': Crabs are among the last {{Mooks}} that Kay encounters on his quest.%%Giant?
336* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
337** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI (NES)'': Gohma, the boss of the Level 6, has a robust crustacean body and a large eye that serves as its weak point. Later incarnations veer towards GiantSpider or CreepyCentipedes.
338** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'' has you face Rocktite, a large crustacean monster with a rocky exoskeleton, 3 times. And it can put a shell on its [[AttackItsWeakPoint weak point]] whenever it wants the second and third time. And gets little ones to help the third time. And the third time, [[ThatOneSidequest you need to transport Dark Ore]].
339** ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriorsAgeOfCalamity'' has Mutated Ganon, a big, lobster-like creature of Malice and energy blades.
340* In ''[[VideoGame/LandOfIllusion Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse]]'', one serves as the boss of the [[PalatialSandcastle Sand Castle]]. As [[UnderwaterBossBattle the battle takes place underwater]], Mickey needs to mind his OxygenMeter as he battles the crab. When Mickey defeats the crab, it is revealed to be WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck under the Phantom's spell.
341* ''VideoGame/LetsGoIsland'', being a tropical-themed action game where your player gets attacked by hostile marine life, have giant crabs as enemies in the beach areas.
342* ''VideoGame/LostKingdoms'': One of the many enemies is a Giant Crab, and as said, it's an enemy, making it a Giant Enemy Crab.
343* ''VideoGame/LostWinds'': Of the very few varieties of mooks, one is inexplicably a crab. The Kalarab is an armoured, crab-like Glorb made of stone. Using the power of Vortex on a Kalarab essentially transforms it into a boulder.
344* ''VideoGame/Magicka2'' features crabs as enemies, first fittingly in a beach based level, then less so in a cave based one. The sizes range from mooks similar to the player character, through three times as big mini bosses, to the name-dropped Giant Enemy Crab which we only see a pincer of; it appears that the last one is roughly twice as big as mini boss variety.
345* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
346** ''VideoGame/MegaManV'': Venus 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.
347** ''VideoGame/MegaMan8'': The boss of the tutorial level is a large mechanoid modeled after a hermit crab with a seashell-shaped carapace. To defeat it, Mega Man has to hit the face when the carapace isn't protecting it.
348** ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'': The Crab Puncher. When the eyes are forward, [[FeedItABomb the Commando Bomb can be fired at the mouth]].
349** ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends2'': The Jagd Krabbe is a giant crab mech piloted by Tron Bonne. Its name is German for "hunter crab".
350%%** ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'': Bubble Crab.
351%%** [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Gazamir Gazamir]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManZero2'', [[http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Crabs-Y Crabs-Y]] from ''VideoGame/MegaManX8''.
352* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': In ''Metal Slug 3'', several giant crab enemies appear in the first stage and fourth stage (one of the route), ranging from man-sized creatures to a gigantic hermit crab with tank for its "shell".
353* ''VideoGame/MetalSlugCodeJ'' brings back the giant crabs from the original series, with the Ohumein-Conga, usually depicted as GiantMook enemies, being upgraded into {{Mini Boss}}es that takes several minutes to even defeat.
354* ''VideoGame/MonsterEye'' have a stage in a Marine aquarium where the crystal virus have caused the animals in it to mutate to hostile, savage monsters. The crabs, growing to the size of small boats, will crawl out of their pools and attack you with their pincers.
355* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' has several different flavours of Giant Enemy Crab across all incarnations, all of which belong to an order of monster called a Carapaceon. Although there are other Carapaceons than described here, they more closely resemble [[ScaryScorpions giant scorpions]].
356** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter2Dos'':
357*** The game introduces the most common of the bunch, the Hermitaur and Ceanataur, led respectively by the [[KingMook Daimyo Hermitaur and Shogun Ceanataur]], which have a pair of big meaty claws like a shield and a pair of thin, bleeding-inducing claws like scythes, respectively. They also wear monster skulls like hermit crabs and will dig underground to find new ones once their [[AttackItsWeakPoint soft, fleshy abdomen]] gets exposed. Their brains are apparently a delicacy.
358*** There's also the Shen Gaoren, an absolutely ''titanic'' crab that towers over buildings and unleashes tremors with every step. It's not so much a Giant ''Enemy'' Crab as it is [[GentleGiant just a giant crab]]; it's just too darn ''big'' to not cause mass destruction as it goes, hence why it has to be hunted.
359** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterFreedom2'': While the game itself merely brings back the crustacean monsters featured in the second mainline game, the expansion ''Freedom Unite'' introduces the subspecies Plum Daimyo Hermitaur and Terra Shogun Ceanataur. The former has a tendency to jump in order to GroundPound onto the hunter and also has a better control when shooting water, while the latter attacks more relentlessly and spends more time in the ceilings instead of the floor.
360** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterFrontier'' introduces the Taiken Zamuza. In a similar gimmick to Shara Ishvalda in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'', it's covered in armor that gets broken away as the fight goes on. When all of its layers of armor are removed, it's actually quite small for a large monster!
361** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterGenerations'' introduces the deviants Stonefist Hermitaur and Rustrazor Ceanataur; the former has a [[RedRightHand black claw]] sturdy enough to deflect any attack, unlike a normal Hermitaur, and the latter's become [[AlienCatnip so addicted]] to sharpening its claws on its fancy new Glavenus skull that its claws can inflict Defense Down on top of bleeding.
362** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterOnline'' gives us the Baelidae, a Carapaceon with a skull marking on its back [[RedEyesTakeWarning that glows red when it's angered]]. Interestingly, it mixes this trope with GiantSpider: it can shoot webs like a spider, walks like a spider, and even attacks like a spider, but on the inside, it's a Carapaceon through and through.
363* In ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher 2'', if you send your monster on Skill (accuracy) Errantry and it makes it to the final segment, it will have to "fight" a giant crab by throwing coconuts at it. If it fails, the crab will squash your monster into a pancake.
364* In ''VideoGame/MikuMonogatariYumeToTaisetsuNaMono'', a gigantic crab (presumably an unusually huge specimen of the already large Japanese spider crab) serves as a boss in Stage 1 - 4. It shoots purple energy orbs to attack.
365* ''VideoGame/MugenSouls'' has this as the name of an enemy in Water World, but strangely enough, aren't very large at all -- their model is only about a quarter as tall as Chou-Chou. The Crab Catchers in the same area are much larger (slightly taller than Chou-Chou).
366* Nussoft's ''Neo Aquarium: King Of Crustaceans'' and ''Ace Of Seafood'' have YOU as a potential giant crab. A giant crab that shoots lasers against other giant crabs, barnacles, lobsters and fish.
367* ''VideoGame/NinjaBlade'': The sub-boss of the third mission is the Carrion Claw: a giant mutant crab that you dismember limb by limb.
368* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': Giant crabs are enemies you can encounter in the forest and mountain levels, when you attempt to cross rivers on shallow, underwater bridges. These enemies takes up entire sections of the bridge you encounter them on, so a battle is inevitable, although you can take them out from a distance thanks to your limitless supply of throwing knives.
369* ''VideoGame/Nioh2'': the first DLC features the Bakegani (Monster Crabs): massive, upright-walking crabs with a monstrous humanoid face on the shell. Again, they're a nod to the Heikegani.
370* ''VideoGame/TheOceanHunter'' has "Karkinos" as one of the bosses (aka Cancer). [[AttackItsWeakPoint Attack Its]] [[GoForTheEye Eyes]] for massive damage!
371* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'' has crab mooks in and near the [[UnderTheSea Luma Pools]] region. Ironically, [[SuperDrowningSkills knocking them into water kills them instantly]], just like other land-borne mooks.
372* ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' has a giant crab boss in the warehouse. There's also one in the [[BonusDungeon Chrysler Building]].
373* ''VideoGame/{{Patapon}}'' features two crab bosses named Cioking and Ciokina. You get to cook them.
374* ''VideoGame/{{Perish}}'', set in the Greek underworld, has a giant crustacean monster called Karkinos (named after the same crab monster from Greek myths) as a boss fought near an underground pool.
375* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'': The Crabahda is more of an annoyance then a proper threat, due to its sluggish attacks, high damage resistance outside of its weak point (its eye), and ability to enter a defensive stance where it takes even less damage on top of concealing its weak point.
376* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarNova'' presents Erude, a truly gigantic Enemy Crab armed with [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] and tons and tons of [[MacrossMissileMassacre missiles.]]
377* ''VideoGame/PiratesNIX'' have a giant crab as the boss of the underground cavern. It's as huge as the cavern itself, and [[WeaponizedOffspring will release smaller crabs the size of dogs]] to swarm all over you until it's defeated.
378* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfTheBlackBuccaneer'': One of the bosses is a giant crab that you can defeat using both hand grenades and the cannon that you used earlier to blow up the bars to get the trinket to turn into the Black Buccaneer.
379* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfBlackKat'': The third boss is a giant crab. And yes, the trick to beating it is by flipping it over onto its back and...well, [[AttackItsWeakPoint you get the idea]].
380* ''VisualNovel/{{Planetarian}}'' features a mechanical one.
381* Some crustacean Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, especially the evolved ones, fall under this trope:
382** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' has Kingler, which is a crab that is 4 foot tall.
383** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'': [[MakeMyMonsterGrow The Dynamax feature]] lets you make certain crustacean mons such as Krabby and Kingler bigger. Kingler even gets a special Gigantamax form, standing over 20 meters tall.
384** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'': The games introduced a Rock-type crab-like PokĆ©mon species called Klawf. One Klawf is much bigger than the others and stands taller than an adult person, and is one of the Titan PokĆ©mon (itself known as the Stony Cliff Titan) encountered in the gameā€™s "Path of Legends" storyline.
385* In ''VideoGame/PotionPermit'', Sunclaws are crablike monsters that reach up to the Chemist's waist. Their giant pincers, which they use to fight one-on-one to the death, are used as potion ingredients.
386* ''Anime/PrettyCure'': The OriginalGeneration villain for the CrossOver game on the Platform/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.
387* ''VideoGame/{{Pronty}}'' has a mini-boss called the ''Gatling'' Crab, a giant curstacean monster severaal times larger than your titular fish-boy. And since every enemy is bionic, instead of having pincers the Crab has [[ArmCannon cannons for arms]].
388* The ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'' sequel, ''Universal Tour'', starts with three new monsters as playable characters, one of them being Ruby the giant lobster. Her [[Main/TornadoMove Lobster Corkscrew]] is one of the more devastating attacks in the game.
389* ''VideoGame/RazingStorm'': The third boss looks like either a HumongousMecha version of this, or a {{Giant|Spider}} SpiderTank.
390* ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}'': Depending on how you look at it, the third boss has [[MeaningfulName Volcanicrab]] as a boss fought twice in the game. Its invincible until flipped over with bombs to AttackItsWeakPoint [[SubvertedTrope for large amounts of damage.]]
391* ''VideoGame/RefleX'' has the close-combat hyperspace warship [[MeaningfulName Cancer]], whose design is actually more of a fiddler crab than the standard crab.
392* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' has you fight the U8 in an elevator shaft. Given Umbrella's penchant for using animal test subjects as B.O.W.'s, it's no wonder you'd have to fight a giant mutated crab at some point.
393* In ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'', Sparkster battles a robotic version of one of these in the middle of Stage 3, which is piloted by one of Emperor Devligus Devotindos' Pig Soldiers.
394* ''VideoGame/RType'': Course Crab in ''R-Type III'' is the boss of Heavy Metal Corridor and a giant crab-like Bydo , and Gironika in ''R-Type Final'' who is a large biomechanical Bydo, often used to guard areas or serve as heavy support for Bydo ground forces.
395* ''VideoGame/{{Scaler}}'': Rattlecrab is a giant flying crab that chases Scaler while he is riding on the Repbaldactile.
396* ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'': Inputting the trope name will summon one of these. One also appears in a level with three samurai (Hint: "For massive damage!")
397* ''VideoGame/ShiningInTheDarkness'': The Kaiser crab is the first boss.
398* ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'' has the Crab Seemer boss in the middle of the first actual stage.
399* ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' has the Crustacrab and its shell-less, baby variants (who are still as large as Red himself). Unlike many of the others on this page, you do not AttackItsWeakPoint for massive damage. Instead, you [[TennisBoss catch the rocks it throws and toss them back]] to stun it, then steal its shell so you can toss the crab around. There are also ''even larger'' hermit crabs who have taken over ''entire battleships'' as their shells in the FishingMinigame.
400* ''VideoGame/SonicBlastMan'' had a ''robotic'' one as the Level 4 enemy. This one was particularly horrifying since it could crush SBM to death with its claws even after ''losing'' them. Fortunately, he can take it out with a single MegatonPunch.
401* The first boss of ''VideoGame/SonicDreamTeam'' is [[BalloonOfDoom a giant robot made of balloons]] named Dr. Crabulous, who looks like a Crabmeat Badnik with Eggman's mustache on it. If the player chooses Sonic to fight the boss, he'll even name drop the trope name in his pre-fight dialogue.
402-->'''Sonic''': Seaside dream... giant enemy crab! Why am I not sur... wait, is that a moustache?
403* ''VideoGame/StarCraft: The Zerg's fielded Guardians: giant ''flying'' crabs.
404* ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand''[='=]s Fichina stage has you fight against the [[StayingAlive thought-to-be-dead]] Andrew Oikonny, who battles you in a mech called the "Death Crab." You shoot off its legs, then its face for mass...oh forget it. The original ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox|1}}'' has large mechanical crab enemies on Titania.
405* ''VideoGame/StarSoldier'': In ''Star Parodier'', the Stage 3 mid-boss is a pair of giant cartoon crabs that move sideways.
406* ''VideoGame/{{Stormrise}}'': One of the units the Sai have access to is the Matriarch, a giant, genetically engineered crab that has mouths on its pincers, can spawn smaller crabs called broodlings and can shoot acid over large distances.
407* ''VideoGame/Strikers1945'': The last level features giant robot alien crabs as enemies.
408* ''VideoGame/SuikodenIV'': An early boss and later OptionalBoss. 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.
409* ''VideoGame/SummonNight'': The King Crabber boss in ''Summon Night: Swordcraft Story''. {{Go For the Eye}}s!
410* ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'' has its share of these:
411** Auroral Megalops are the smallest of the lot, merely being the size of a fishing boat. They're stated to be able to messily and quickly devour an entire horse, and will charge any and all boats leaving London. Still, they're not too terrible.
412** Angler crabs, in their three different varieties, are the adult versions of the above. They're about as wide as a frigate is long, have pincers that could pinch a watchtower in half, and are quite hungry for zailors, attacking boats in a variety of areas to get at them. Problematic, to say the least, but not the biggest problem you will face, and also rather tasty.
413** The king of these in the game, however, is Temtum, the titanic crab that crawls along the zeefloor that carries the entire city of Hideaway on its back without complaint. Thankfully, it's a GentleGiant that won't attack you and actually cares for its trainer and the city, but like any such giant it's best not provoked; if its trainer gave the order, it could tear down entire cities. [[spoiler:This can be observed when going through the Immortality ambition's tale; if you wish to breach the walls of Nidah, you will either need nuke-yield experimental munitions or a favor from the trainer so Temtum can knock them over, and in the latter case he topples the gigantic basalt walls like they were made of meringue.]]
414** In the setting as a whole (which includes ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' and ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'') there's the Star Messengers, which are stated to look rather like absolutely humongous crabs ([[spoiler:and among which is the Bazaar, who qualifies by both being notably crustacean and housing a good chunk of London on itself]]). In the latter game, the player can find the corpse of one floating within the Reach, and it looks big enough to build a proper metropolis on.
415* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
416** ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' has Sidesteppers, crabs that are over half the size of the eponymous brothers. Mario and Luigi have to hit the floor they're moving through from below; this puts them upside down and vulnerable to the brothers' next attack.
417** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'': Clawgrip, the boss of World 5. It attacks Mario and his friends by throwing large boulders at them. These boulders can be seized once they're rolling on the floor or grabbed mid-air from above and then thrown back at the boss (it takes five hits to win the battle), but trying to catch them from below will only result in taking damage due to their weight.
418** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'': Clawdaddies are large hermit crabs that can enlarge their claws to have a better chance at hitting Yoshi.
419** ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'': The Crabbles are large, sturdy hermit crabs that can walk on the ground, walls and the ceilings; their color changes when Yoshi hits them with eggs (they cannot be stomped on): Blue by default, green after the first hit and red after the second. They're defeated with three hits, but they have MercyInvincibility upon each hit so they won't go down so quickly.
420** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'': Crabbers. Their claws and front body are hit-proof, but their backs are vulnerable. There's a cyan-colored variant [[MetalSlime that is more elusive and drops an extra life upon defeat]].
421** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'': Huckits have the looks and size of Sidesteppers, but throw small rocks like Clawgrip (though the stones aren't affected by gravity).
422** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': Hermie III is the second one in the series to serve as a boss, guarding a fragment of the Beanstar. Unusually, his shell is themed after a Christmas tree. His claws serve as CognizantLimbs, and must be destroyed at intervals to weaken him.
423** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'': In "Smash and Crab" the three-player team controls a giant hammer-wielding crab mech, and must crush the remaining lone player with one of the hammers. One player controls the crab's body and can move the mech left and right, while the other two each control one of the hammers and can slam it down with a press of the button.
424* ''VideoGame/TalesOf'': A common enemy type in the 3D games. They're usually about the size of a small car.
425** Subverted in ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', where you can fight an ordinary sized crab. The fact that the ''boss theme'' plays while you do so might give one the impression that [[KillerRabbit it's actually dangerous]], but it doesn't do anything other then run around at an absurd speed, which coupled with its sky high defense stat and tiny size, just makes it annoying for a lower leveled party to kill.
426** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheWorld: Narikiri Dungeon X'', Mel and Dio can be giant ''ally'' crabs with a certain costume, that while lacking in attacks, possess the same ridiculous speed and defense as the aforementioned crab.
427* In ''VideoGame/{{TERA}}'', one of the many Big Ass Monster (or BAM; yes, that is an official name) types is a giant crab. Like other [=BAMs=], they are ''not'' meant to be fought solo.
428* The ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' mod ''[[VideoGame/TerrariaCalamity Calamity]]'' has Crabulon, a large, mushroom-covered crab found within the Glowing Mushroom biome.
429* In ''VideoGame/TheWizardOfOzBeyondTheYellowBrickRoad'', there are Crabby Crabs, hard-shelled monsters that snip at the air constantly.
430* ''VideoGame/TitanQuest: Immortal Throne'' has regular crabs (of beach and swamp variety), and then it has the Giant Karkinos (no prizes for guessing what it is). The sixth act features The Ancient One as a monstrous crab-like boss monster.
431* In ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', the [[WarmUpBoss very first boss, Fullmetal Hugger]], is a giant, evil crab.
432* ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'': The toughest beast that Nero Chaos possesses is some sort of crab spider thing that is larger than an elephant. Presumably, it's tougher than the dragon he had used before, but it doesn't matter much when your opponent kills everything in one hit regardless of anything like armor or actually damaging you.
433* ''VideoGame/TwinCaliber'' have a giant crab monster as one of the few non-undead bosses. Your character lampshades it in the cutscene prior to the boss battle: "Glad I don't have crabs like this every day!"
434* ''VideoGame/TykeAndSonsLumberCo'' has Summercrab/Springcrab, an anthropomorphized, human-sized robot crab who is one of the killer robots you must defend yourself against at night.
435* ''VideoGame/UFOAftermath'' has Car Crabs which are like hermit crabs except they are big enough to wear cars as shells.
436* ''VideoGame/UltimateCrabBattle'', obviously, is a battle against one of these.
437* ''VideoGame/UmiharaKawase'' features one as the boss of field 56. It's one of the more sensemaking enemies in the game.
438* ''VideoGame/{{Unravel}}:'' Mundane crabs become Giant Enemies when you are a tiny woollen creature.
439* ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' has an entire family of {{palette swap}}ped crabs, named "Iron Crab", "Giant Crab", and "Damascus Crab".
440* ''VideoGame/VegaStrike'' has large ''friendly'' crabs, known as Rlaan.
441* In ''VideoGame/{{Viewpoint}}'', the Stage 2 boss is a giant crab mecha armed with a BubbleGun and RocketFist pincers.
442* ''VideoGame/WildGuns'': The mine boss is a giant ''robotic'' crab.
443* The old PC game ''Winged Warrior'' has a powerful Cave Crab serving as a DiscOneFinalBoss. Unusually, you encounter it in a cave in the middle of the ''forest'', instead of near a beach or anywhere a player would expect to encounter crab-based enemies.
444* ''VideoGame/TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings'' has the Kayaran, the first boss of the game, who is a combination of this and a [[GiantSquid giant octopus]], as it has the both body of a crab and giant tentacles.
445* ''VideoGame/WonderBoyIIIMonsterLair'' has Taramba, the boss of Round 11.
446* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'': The Deah-Kani enemy type, based somewhat on the Japanese Spider Crab. Yes, you AttackItsWeakPoint for massive damage, by cutting off its legs to bring it to the ground and stun it, and pry open its shell using Unite Claw in order to expose the weak point. It's the only way to do any real damage to it most of the time, even.
447* ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'': The "Carcino" type of Noise--folk, ska, metal, samps, and punk--all take the form of giant crabs.
448* ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'': ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', ''VideoGame/LegendOfMana'' and ''VideoGame/DawnOfMana'' feature Giant Enemy Crabs as boss battles (usually called "Fullmetal Hugger"). There are also significantly smaller but still much larger than normal crabs that show up as standard enemies in some games.
449* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': There are a lot of crabs in various beaches, ranging from normal-sized to big to a few giant ones. Notably, in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion there is a Giant ''Friendly'' Crab as a quest-giver. Considering Blizzard's tendency to include {{Shout Out}}s and {{Pun}}s as {{Easter Egg}}s in their games, it's certainly possible this is a reference.
450* ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'': The Chryssalids look like huge humanoid crabs with a black carapace and two huge pincers. Unlike the Chryssalids from the original ''[[VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense X-COM]]'' (who were more humanoid in appearance), the remake's Chryssalids' attack is not a OneHitKill (except again civilians). Just like every other enemy, they must first batter down your soldiers' HP before they can be turned into zombies. Unfortunately, [[DemonicSpiders they are very good at said-battering]].
451* ''[=XScape=]'' on Platform/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.
452* In the second installment of ''VideoGame/YokaiWatchBlasters'', one of the boss Yokai is Kanibouzu (literally means "crab monk"), a giant crab-like Yokai. It is based on a dengerous Yokai of the same name.
453* ''VideoGame/ZeiramZone'' have crabs the size of humans in the ruins, and three tank-sized crab monsters as bosses you have to defeat in different areas.
454* ''VideoGame/{{Zeliard}}'': Cangrejo, the first boss is a giant crab who is The Boss of the Caverns.
455* ''VideoGame/ZeroDivide'': One of the fighters introduced on the roster of ''Zero Divide: The Secret Wish'' is named "Cancer" who in this case is a giant robotic crab equal in size to all the all the other combatants.
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459* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'''s ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2'' [[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.
460-->So we have scenarios where you're [[TooAwesomeToUse 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]].
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463[[folder:Web Comics]]
464* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfTheGreatCaptainMaggie'': [[http://adventuresofmaggie.webcomic.ws/comics/187 King Crab]] of Crab Cove is a giant crab wearing a crown on its head whose appearance by rising out of the sand under which he had been hiding causes the characters to flee.
465* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'': [[spoiler:Fire Slicer]], who, after eating a crab, turned into a very tall crab with super-duper sharp claws that could stab bad guys in the heart and pinch.
466* ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion'': Shadow Nexus has Clawborr who actually transforms into a giant [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/comic/issue-06-page-32-strategy/#.VNYSWvmUd8F Rampaging crab.]]
467* ''Webcomic/ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse'': While exploring a pier jutting out into the void, the Everyman and Mary are attacked by a large void spider crab about twice their height.
468* ''Webcomic/CassiopeiaQuinn'': Clawlossus is a tremendously large, heavily armored, talking crab BountyHunter whose first appearance sees him coming after Cass. He doesn't have a weak spot, so Motor Minx just made her own by stabbing him through a claw.
469* In ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=1742 the Balvhakara]] [[TravelCool make an entrance]] in a HumongousMecha SpiderTank Giant Enemy Crab [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot golem submarine]]. Or, [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne rather]], from the Sharen point of view, a Giant ''Ally'' Crab.
470* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has a [[SpiderTank Giant Mechanical Crab]] type clank that attacks the traveling circus [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20041117 early on]].
471* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' has one showing up out of nowhere in Chapter 32. It turns out to be [[spoiler:Lindsey, the Giant ''Engineer'']] Merostomatazon. [[BizarreAlienBiology They have 47 eyes and 15 not-eyes, and their brains function partially in another dimension.]] Subverted with [[spoiler: [[TinyGuyHugeGirl 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"]].
472* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
473** Karkat's guardian is two-and-a-half out of three. He's definitely giant and he's definitely a crab, but while Karkat does fight him, he's more of a [[RaisedByWolves parental figure]] than an enemy. Played straight, however, when he dies and the comic's {{Mooks}} begin to take on his characteristics.
474** A much bigger and meaner version of crabdad shows up on Jake's island later in the story, filling all three points.
475* ''Webcomic/TheHorrifyingExperimentsOfDrPleasant'': Cathy. On one hand, she is an average sized girl. On the other hand (the other hand in this case being a giant crab claw), her claw is about 100 times larger than the average crab.
476* In ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', the party [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/gamespyarchive/index.php?date=2002-03-13 meeting a giant crab]] inspires them to pull out the '''Crab Cracker + 5''', '''Decanter of Endless Butter''' and '''Bibs of Protection'''.
477* ''Realms Of Ishikaze'': Chapter 15 has one of these as a boss of the Ruins of Amilleo. Arashiko must attack its soft underbelly for massive damage.
478* ''Webcomic/RedMeat'': Stiff Stacy is attacked by an infestation of "crabes", which are pubic lice the size of normal crabs.
479* ''Rough Housing'' has two characters call [[GratuitousSpanish El Cangrejo Diablo]] aptly: "Giant crab!" "Enemy crab!" "Giant enemy crab!"
480* ''Webcomic/SaffronAndSage'': Saffron, Sage, and Cassette encounter a massive crustacean monstrosity guarding a horde of treasure in chapter 1, Dr. Crabotnik.
481* ''Webcomic/SamuraiPrincess'''s Massive Antagonistic Crustacean
482* ''Webcomic/{{Vexxarr}}'': The Lattroxx race, or at least the warrior drones. On the plus side, at about 10 feet in height they're not as big as some examples. On the [[ExtremeOmnivore down side]]...
483-->'''Captain bot:''' Status report! Where is my welcoming team?\
484'''Vexxarr:''' Feeding the Lattroxx.\
485'''Captain bot:''' I don't recall sending down food.\
486'''[[SnarkKnight Vexxarr]]:''' They improvised.
487* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': At the end of one of the first chapter's 'arcs', the protagonist Fern is put up against a creature called the [[Spoiler:Final Jayslob]] which, as a nod to the various themes of carcinisation present throughout the rest of the comic, resembles a massive crab made out of human bits.
488[[/folder]]
489
490[[folder:Web Original]]
491* ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'' features the giant enemy [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/krabhorrent.htm man-crab]] the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/cockatross.htm chicken-crab]], and the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/malaclutch.htm man-lobster]].
492* ''Website/TheOnion'': [[https://www.theonion.com/experts-agree-giant-razor-clawed-bioengineered-crabs-p-1819594782 Experts Agree Giant, Bioengineered Crabs Pose No Threat]].
493* From the creator of ''Webcomic/RomanticallyApocalyptic'' comes [[http://alexiuss.deviantart.com/art/On-the-Beach-468488021 this thing]] that probably won't ever see the comic.
494* ''Website/SCPFoundation''
495** [[http://scp-wiki.net/scp-863 SCP-863 ("Patchwork Crabs")]]. These crabs can grow so large that they can use an entire human body as a replacement arm and use human legs to walk around on.
496** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1527 SCP-1527 ("Our Bellmaker, Our Radiant Skies")]]. SCP-1527-A are giant crustaceans with dimensions up to 1.5 meters by 2.7 meters by 2.9 meters. They have clawed hands and arms used for digging and can inflict telepathic attacks on opponents.
497** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1568 SCP-1568 ("Kingston the Crab")]]. SCP-1568 is a hermit crab 25 meters long and 10 meters wide. It uses boats as its shell (SCP-1568-1). When it outgrows its shell it will sink and inhabit another boat, killing and eating anyone aboard.
498* ''Tales of the Blode'' shorts on rathergood.com.
499** 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.
500** They feature the characters' mentor, the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom.
501* ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos:'' The Suez Canal Crab counts in size and ([[CallASmeerpARabbit vague]]) crustacean-ness, awakening in the Suez Canal after the USA tried to nuke the bay so the waves would dislodge the Ever-Given freighter. All its antagonism was entirely accidental though; the crab ended up either wearing or merging with the freighter, walking into Cairo, then tripping and falling to thr ground, knocking down Cairo Tower in the process.
502* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2lYjwdxINg This guy]] makes a SpiderTank model out of an actual crab shell. It's only "giant" to gaming miniatures, though.
503* ''WebVideo/DynamoDream'', episode 1: A news broadcast shows a giant crab attacking a convoy of freight trucks; another TV show has a human fighter in a HumongousMecha taking on another crab, which steals his weapon and [[BrickJoke is later seen after escaping the arena]].
504[[/folder]]
505
506[[folder:Western Animation]]
507* One of these appears in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' episode "Family Fishing Trip", with moss and flowers growing on it's back [[ThatsNoMoon making it seem like an island.]]
508-->'''Anne:''' This crab is making me very scared... ''(mouth watering)'' but also very hungry!
509* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'' once showed Bionic Bunny (FictionalCounterpart to Franchise/{{Superman}}) fighting a giant crab.
510* ''WesternAnimation/TheBabaloos'': In ā€œCastle Under Siegeā€, the Babaloos have to defend a sand castle from a crab intent on destroying it. This trope is subverted a bit in the sense that the crab isnā€™t actually larger than normal; the Babaloos are just tiny.
511* Rampage of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' is a TransformingMecha who chose a king 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]].
512* [[spoiler: Theresa]] summons one in the finale of ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans''.
513* ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' has aptly-named [[http://www.canalj.fr/var/jeunesse/storage/images/canalj/la-tele/dessins-animes/code-lyoko/images/les-personnages/krabe/4277635-1-fre-FR/Krabe.jpg Krabes]] as virtual monsters.
514* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep2015'', 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.
515* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In the episode "A High Seas Adventure", Cuphead and Mugman encounter a gigantic crab in Cala Maria's cove, resembling the Crabby Clawster from [[VideoGame/{{Cuphead}} the original game]].
516* In the ''WesternAnimation/DrDimensionpants'' episode "Viking Games", Thora unleashes one of these crabs on Phillip and Kyle after the two refuse to fight each other any longer in the titular viking game. The crab even follows them back to their home dimension and is still bothering Phillip by the end of the episode, but Kyle, having promised to keep secrets from now on, refuses to tell Phillip about the crab's weak spot.
517* ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' had a Neosapien [[HumongousMecha E-frame]] design styled after crabs, which was admittedly one of the most powerful frames in the show (evident in the fact that Shiva, the best Neosapien General, preferred it to all others). Also, the crablike [[HalfHumanHybrid Neo Warriors]] were among the nastiest enemies the Terrans encountered.
518* Used in a CutawayGag on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', where for no reason a giant crab repeating "no-no-no" is blocking people from entering the Griffins' home.
519* In one ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode, the Decapodians conquer Earth. Their ships are all shaped like robot crabs, as is their Mobile Oppression Palace. Also that episode where Zoidberg is 500 feet tall.
520* One of the microscopic monsters in ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'' episode "Tiny World of Terror'' is a giant crab.
521* The ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode "Terror Island" had a car-sized crab, a mutation caused by bacteria.
522* Averted with Taxicrab, the cabana owner from ''WesternAnimation/JungleJunction''.
523* Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/MobyDickHannaBarbera''. In the episode "The Crab Creatures", Moby has his tail pinched by a giant crab under the title creatures' control.
524* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'' had the Crabnasties from the episode "Fugitive Flowers". [[spoiler: Despite a bad first impression, they turn out to be the good guys.]]
525* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' episode "You Snooze, You Lose", Buttercup takes instructions to find and retrieve a "crustacean" to mean "find and battle a giant crab".
526* WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters face a giant crab {{Kaiju}} in episode "Attack of the BMovie Monsters" right out of the movies. Probably an expy of Ebirah.
527* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': A pair of bulky humanoid crabs called "The Sando Brothers" serve as recurring villains in this show.
528* There's one ''WesternAnimation/{{SpongeBob SquarePants}}'' episode where Plankton switches lives with Mr. Krabs, and the result is (from Plankton's perspective) a giant enemy Mr. Krabs.
529* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "Crab People! Crab People! Taste like crab, talk like people!"
530* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'' episode "Attack of the Saucer Crab". A flying saucer invades our galaxy and starts destroying buildings and killing people with a DisintegratorRay. It can deploy 6 legs like a crab's to walk around on and can extend a huge claw to capture opponents.
531* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Rising Tides; Crashing Skies", while Ronaldo is trying question Steven and the Gems, he comes by them fighting a large gem-crab creature by the beachside.
532* ''WesternAnimation/{{Stripperella}}'' once had to go to the supervillain [[HurricaneOfPuns Queen Clitoris' hidden lair on a bushy island, down under, that was infested and guarded by Giant Crabs]]. Yeah, it's that kind of show.
533* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' has a giant robot crab/factory that [[MundaneUtility leveled entire forests to make elevator buttons]].
534* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' season 5 episode "Venture Libre" featured a giant crab as one of [[FrankensteinsMonster Venturestein]]'s "science-abused comrades". While non-speaking, the creature had a gender-specific name and was mourned after being killed by a [[SpikesOfDoom punji sticks pit]]. Hank Venture (on a caffeine-induced power trip as '[[Franchise/{{Batman}} The Bat]]') later eats the meat and transforms the shell into a rocket-propelled "Hank Mobile."
535* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' special ''The Legend of Ogrest'', Ogrest has to fight a giant crab-like crustacean whose back is covered with corals and other underwater growth. He does so by [[ColossusClimb climbing it]] and, with the crab being already blind in one eyestalk, [[GoForTheEye going for the valid one]].
536[[/folder]]
537
538[[folder:Real Life]]
539* The overly large ''Macrocheira kaempferi'', the giant Japanese spider crab, which can reach sizes of up to 12' 6'' across, making it the world's largest crab. And arthropod, for that matter. 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. [[note]]By the way, it has a ventral nervous system, so its weak point for massive damage is on the middle of its belly[[/note]]
540* The ''Paralithodes camtschaticus'', the Red King Crab is the second largest crab in the world. It reaches a carapace width of 11 in (28 cm) and a leg span of 6 ft (1.8 m).
541* Although they don't have the leg span of the Japanese spider crab or red king crab, Tasmanian giant crabs have absolutely monstrous carapaces, reaching widths of up to 46 cm (18 in). They're pretty massive too, reaching weights of up to 17.6 kg (39 lb), second only to the Japanese spider crab.
542* The coconut crab, ''Birgus latro'', is the largest living terrestrial arthropod, with a body length of up to 16 inches, a leg span of up to 3 feet, and a weight of up to 9 pounds.
543* With regard to crab intelligence rather than size: computer theorist Lucy Black has written about using the hive intelligence of a swarm of soldier crabs to power a working computer. [[http://www.i-programmer.info/news/112-theory/4071-a-crab-based-computer.html Quite convincingly, too.]]
544* The crab from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOe5Lmyyxiw this video]] is this to the ants.
545[[/folder]]
546
547!!Other Crustaceans of Unusual Size
548
549[[folder:Card Games]]
550* In addition to the giant crabs mentioned above, ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' also gave us the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1876 Homarids]] (effectively barely-anthropomorphic lobsters at war with the local merfolk when introduced), [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=1871 some of which]] were clearly a bit bigger than the others...
551[[/folder]]
552
553[[folder:Comic Books]]
554* Nautilator of ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMarvel'' turns into a giant robot lobster.
555[[/folder]]
556
557[[folder:Fan Works]]
558* ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'' has the Angel Shamshel take this form, giving us this little exchange.
559-->'''Misato:''' The enemy is a Giant Crab!\
560'''Rei:''' Hit its weak point for MASSIVE DAMAGE!\
561'''Misato:''' Rei! Get off the damn channel!
562[[/folder]]
563
564[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
565* The Leviathan from ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'', a giant mechanical lobster.
566[[/folder]]
567
568[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
569* Ebirah from the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films ''Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep'' and ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars'' is a shrimp. Which also happens to be a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever 50 m]] Kaiju.
570* In ''Film/PacificRim'', the Kaiju named Onibaba looks eerily like a giant crustacean. [[http://oi44.tinypic.com/4iypfn.jpg]]
571* ''Film/TeenagersFromOuterSpace'' features the gargon, a space alien played by a lobster... [[SpecialEffectFailure 's shadow]]. It was [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3Ked]], enough said.
572[[/folder]]
573
574[[folder:Literature]]
575* The aptly-named Lobstrosities from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDrawingOfTheThree''. They will constantly question you ''(dad-a-chick?)'' while ripping your extremities apart.
576* One of the bizarre inhabitants of Creator/BrianLumley's Lovecraft-pastiche ''Dreamlands'' novels is a giant pillbug referred to as "the Running Thing". It's friendly to humans, and is a subterranean predator of various deep-dwelling nasties [[spoiler: up to and including dholes]].
577* The various deadly LostWorld life forms of ''Literature/{{Fragment}}'' are distant cousins of mantis shrimp, although they've long since evolved into whole classes, possibly even phyla, of their own.
578* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'':
579** The book has the massive lobster-like creatures known as chasmfiends. They are powerful enough to flatten even somebody wearing the setting's resident {{Magitek}} PoweredArmor. Shallan notes that they should [[SquareCubeLaw collapse in on themselves]], but they bond with [[GravityMaster gravity altering]] spren to function.
580** Most creatures native to Roshar are actually crustacean in nature, and megafauna are fairly common. So there are many creatures that could probably qualify for this trope, it's just that so far in series, the chasmfiends are the only really huge crustaceans to have been actively battled.
581[[/folder]]
582
583[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
584* ''Series/MonsterWarriors'': In "The Giant Lobster Invasion", a giant lobster attacks the beaches of Capital City and the Monster Warriors learn an alien force might be behind it.
585* Countless ones in ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', though the most memorable one would be Commander Crayfish from the first season. He even comes with his own crew of [[ThePsychoRangers Psycho Rangers]]. An inversion of the "Enemy" part can be found in the [[Series/PowerRangersSamurai Samurai Gold Ranger's]] Clawzord; it's a giant mech-lobster.
586* Alien Bira from ''Series/UltraSeven'' is designed after a slipper lobster, and its BossSubtitles is "Space Shrimp-Man".
587[[/folder]]
588
589[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
590* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Early editions had giant crayfish as monsters.
591* ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'': The Tritons have a monster called Crustaceous, a giant bipedal lobster.
592* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' has Giant Mantis Shrimp. The shockwave from their claw attack does sonic damage and stuns nearby targets.
593[[/folder]]
594
595[[folder:Video Games]]
596* ''VideoGame/AlienSoldier'' has a large unnamed lobster as a boss that appears in a BigLippedAlligatorMoment. Your character saves a blue teddy bear from kissing aliens. Said teddy bear then decides to help you by driving a powerboat to your destination. After fending off its minions, this big crustacean swims up to your boat, [[KickTheDog grabs the teddy bear and]] ''[[KickTheDog throws him off the boat]]'', and proceeds to fight you.
597* The Snow Beast RecurringBoss from ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'', which is a four-legged, crab-like necromorph. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d, as the audio-log dealing with it states one would expect to find such a creature on a deep-sea expedition, rather than an ice world. [[spoiler:Makes more sense when you find the log showing that Tau Volantis ''was'' a water world before its inhabitants froze it over.]]
598* The Blisk from ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'', aliens described by Pox as brutes with large claws who look like the result of a cockroach mating with a lobster.
599* ''[[VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future]]'' has a boss fight with the giant Crayfish.
600* Dreugh in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls''. In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' they look like a cross between a humanoid, a crab, and a squid. In ''Oblivion'', you get ''land'' dreugh, which is kinda like a crab/centaur mix.
601* ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'' has Chattur'gha, an EldritchAbomination lobster.
602* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' has some large, dangerous F.O.E. of this kind:
603** ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyI'': Aquatic Butchers are large crabs with overgrown pincers that appear in Azure Rainforest. At first, they lay hidden beneath the water; but when the character party enters a battle against normal enemies, a nearby Butcher will sense the violence and begin approaching the whereabouts of the fights to join the enemies. There's also the Iron Crab, a creature of exceptional strength that appears in the BonusDungeon, Claret Hollows.
604** ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyVBeyondTheMyth'': The Iron Crustacean is a species of FOE that can lurk on land as well as underwater, which can make them difficult to evade because the party can only walk on the ground (though they're docile otherwise, so they won't attack the party unless there's a clash); during battle, the attack with a slice imbued with ice. There's also a MiniBoss version called Hurt Crustacean, which is fought during a specific field event.
605** ''VideoGame/EtrianOdysseyNexus'': The game has the Platinum Pillbug in Western Shrine, as well as the related Silent Assassin in Abyssal Shrine. At first, they will be completely docile and can even be pushed up to twice (which is handy in BlockPuzzle-type gameplay), but will chase the player's party if pushed for a third time. Their KingMook is the Bugbeast, a gigantic armored pillbug with a wide array of attack-based skills as well as the ability to self-heal up to three times during battle.
606* ''VideoGame/EvilIslands'': The Armadillos in Gipath.
607* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' has not only the crab-based Mirelurks, but several additions, some directly related to the family, others not so much.
608** Mirelurk Hunters are man-sized lobsters that use projectiles of [[HollywoodAcid corrosive]] (and sometimes radioactive) spittle and their huge claws to rip and tear whatever they encounter.
609** Resembling a semi-bipedal (in the same "tauric" fashion as the lesser Mirelurks) horseshoe crab, the Mirelurk Queen is one of the largest enemies in the game and one of the most deadly, easily dwarfing the Deathclaw and Super Mutant Behemoth in size and power. One of them is even fought as a boss with many allies helping the player out, and it can take out said allies (and the player) in one or two shots.
610** Far Harbor features the Fog Crawlers, mantis shrimps that grow ''two stories tall'', with chitinous blades for arms that will rip you apart, and a hide thick enough to shrug off even a Gauss Rifle.
611** Hermit Crabs are, as their name suggests, once-harmless softshelled crabs that have grown bigger since the nukes dropped. Now they're big enough that they hide out in ''trailers'', waiting for prey to wander by. And humans are just the right size to make a tasty snackā€¦
612* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyV'' had the Karlabos/Cray Claw boss that resembled an lobster/earwig hybrid, both of which reappear alongside similar enemies in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''.
613* ''VideoGame/{{Geist}}'': The boss of Chapters 4 (Medical) and 7 (Captured) is a giant shelled pillbug capable of rolling around the battlefield and shooting numerous projectiles in succession.
614* Crawdaddy from ''VideoGame/TheGuardianLegend'' is a giant crawfish encountered at the end of one of the [[UnderTheSea Aquatic corridor levels]] that primarily attacks by throwing its pincers.
615* ''VideoGame/InjusticeGodsAmongUs'' Aquaman aids the heroes in rescuing Batman in Stryker Island, by summoning an army of giant lobsters to distract the Regime. Being King of the Seas doesn't seem so lame now does it.
616* The Char Clawbster and Chill Clawbster in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''. They have a pair of propellers on their backs for flight and claws that can fire a variety of weaponry such as bombs, sleeping gas, and lasers.
617* Crush Crawfish from ''VideoGame/MegaManX3''. Like his name suggests, he ''will'' crush you with those pincers for massive damage if it gets a hold of you.
618* One room in the first level of ''VideoGame/MonsterParty'' has a giant ''dead'' crab, the name source for the {{LetsPlay}}er LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab.
619* Claude the Lobster, particularly in ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}} Nights''.
620* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarNova'' has Erude, a gigantic [[OrganicTechnology machine-lobster hybrid]] capable of launching a MacrossMissileMassacre, firing [[StuffBlowingUp miniature nukes]], using [[WaveMotionGun twin laser cannons]], and [[BoringButPractical claw strikes.]]
621* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'':
622** ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'': The Segmented Crawbster, a boss enemy, is a colossal elongated crustacean with a massive, club-like right arm. It trie to crush your leader by curling into a ball and rolling over him, but doing so can cause it to hit a wall and flip over on its back. When this happens, its only weak point -- its soft belly -- is exposed to your Pikmin's attacks.
623** ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'': The Bugeyed Crawmads are minibosses that appear twice in story mode and a few more times in bonus levels and resemble heavily built, heavily armored mantis shrimp. They're some of the largest non-boss enemies in the games by a fairly substantial margin, dwarfing both the player characters and the smaller Hermit Crawmads they sometimes appear alongside. Naturally, [[AttackItsWeakPoint they too have weak points to attack]] -- two of them in fact, [[GoForTheEye their giant dangling eyeballs]] and then their soft belly.
624** ''VideoGame/HeyPikmin'' has the Armurk, a massive pillbug-like creature that can roll into a ball and try to squash the Pikmins. It appears as the boss of the Sparkling Labyrinth.
625* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
626** ''VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire'': Crawdaunt and Armaldo are giant enemy crayfish and ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalocaris Anomalocaris]]'', respectively.
627** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': Crustle is a hermit crab that lives in a giant rock stratum instead of a seashell.
628** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'': Clawitzer is a pistol shrimp whose right claw is larger than ''even its own body''.
629** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' Golisopod puts the "giant" in "giant isopod", standing over 6 feet tall and looking like a cross between an isopod and a samurai.
630* ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'': One of the EliteMooks are humanoid crawfishes that are first encountered in the [[DownTheDrain Dribble Fountain]].
631* ''VideoGame/{{Spyborgs}}'' has a robot crab monster called the Quad Hunter as the largest mook-variety enemy, towering over the heroes. They even have a KingMook version faced near the end.
632* ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'': At least [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-rkw0p3y7k&feature=relmfu one boss]] is a Giant Crab, despite looking more like a lobster.
633* ''VideoGame/{{Subnautica}} 2'' has Leviathan-class animals called Chelicerate that can best be described as whale-sized, man-eating shrimp.
634* ''VideoGame/SuperCyborg'' have a deformed, eldritch-looking crab-monster boss called the Seamegnon Creature, who's several times larger than you and uses pincers to attack.
635%%* ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'': The Craymen and Craybeasts.
636* in ''VideoGame/TouhouChireidenSubterraneanAnimism'': A ShoutOut to this trope exists in the form one of Reimu's options, which has her identifying [[GiantSpider Yamame]] as a "giant enemy arthropod".
637* ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'': The Vampire coast has the large Rotting Prometheans and the huge Rotting Leviathans, massive undead hermit crabs who wear other monsters skulls and sunken ships, respectively, as shells.
638* ''VideoGame/{{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.
639* The Lobstermen from ''VideoGame/XCom: Terror from the Deep''. Very nasty aliens [[ImplacableMan with insane defense that lets them laugh at rockets]].
640* ''VideoGame/YsVITheArkOfNapishtim'' has Zonplas, a giant bat-winged lobster-type thing, somewhat reminiscent of the Mi-go from Creator/HPLovecraft lore.
641* ''VideoGame/ZeiramZone'' have three humongous crab monsters in the ruins as bosses, which Iria must confront and defeat one at a time, at different stages. In-between, there are smaller crab enemies which ''still'' counts under this trope since they're individually the size of a human being.
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645* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' has the Robster, a tricky lobster man.
646* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':
647** One of the types of Geisterdamen draft animal is some kind of [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20060710 gigantic pale crustacean.]]
648** One of the side stories adapted from the "radio plays" mentions Agatha and company facing off against a legion of lobster men, then enjoying a sumptuous seafood dinner afterward.
649* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'''s [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/06/19/ Claw Shrimp]].
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653* Godzilla's very first enemy in ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' was a monstrous crustacean dubbed "C-Rex".
654* One of these, a lobster, appeared in a special episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' during their battle with their arch enemy, the evil dolphin Dr. Blowhole, as a GiantMook known as....
655-->(''With deep dramatic voice'') '''CHROME CLAW'''.
656* ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'': One of the many creatures that attack the heroes in the titular island are gigantic crab monsters that hide beneath the ground, waiting to ambush prey.
657* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': Master Monk Guan's monstrous form from the alternate timeline resembles some kind of crustacean.
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661* Giant Isopods, marine cousins of the pillbugs (a.k.a. [[IHaveManyNames rolly-pollies, sowbugs, woodlice]]) you can probably find eating rotted plant matter in your compost heap are quite common around deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Unlike their terrestrial relatives, some species of giant isopods can grow as long as 20 inches in length, over double the size of your average housecat.
662* Lobsters. While people are probably most used to 1--2 pound lobsters (i.e. the kind you eat) those are around 7 years old and nowhere near as big as lobsters get. A very long-lived lobster is also a very large lobster, with a length of over 4 feet and a weight of over 30 pounds.
663* Barnacles are usually no more than an inch or so across, but one variety that lives symbiotically on the flukes and jaws of humpback whales can grow to the size of a plate. The whales carry their barnacles into swarms of plankton which both species consume, so they eat ''much'' better than sessile barnacles do. It was long thought that the whales didn't get anything out of the arrangement, but it's since been discovered that the barnacles' hard, sharp shells attached to the humpback's long pectoral fins are actually used by the whales to deal extra damage when they fight killer whales, making the barnacles the [[EquippableAlly organic equivalent]] of brass knuckles.
664* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_crab Coconut Crabs]] (aka robber crabs) are giant shell-less terrestrial hermit crabs that live across the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. They're the largest land-living arthropod in the world, and [[http://i.imgur.com/BCFHK3R.jpg seriously big enough to ruin your day]]. They're not overly dangerous or aggressive, but they're notorious for not wanting to let go if they grab onto you, stealing shiny objects, and eating virtually anything from coconuts to corpses.
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