History Main / PowerPincers

* Mr. Scroop from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is an InsectoidAlien with crab-like claws that he sometimes uses as weapons.

* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' contains mechanical GiantEnemyCrab mooks called "Forbici" in the third stage, whose main attacks are snapping at you with their metal pincers. It was actually lampshaded from their names - "[[GratuitousItalian Forbici]]" means "scissors" in Italian.

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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': Gundam Kyrios has a shield that can become one of these. It's successor unit in Season 2, Arios Gundam, can essentially [[TransformingMecha transform into]] a giant version of Kyrios' claw.
* "Crab Hand" Gyro, a minor character in ''Manga/OnePiece'', derives his nickname from the massive metal pincer replacing his right arm, which he attempts to use against Hody Jones.

* The BigBad of the ''Manga/YuGiOhGX'' manga, Tragoedia, has a pincer as his right hand.

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* Some of the giant insects in ''Film/KingKong2005'' have crab-like pincers.

* Perseus in ''Film/{{Clash of the Titans|2010}}'' at one point had to battle giant scorpions, which of course not only pincers but a stinger in their tails.
* Ebirah from ''Film/EbirahHorrorOfTheDeep'' naturally has these being a giant shrimp. While they are effective in crushing ships, they aren't very effective against Franchise/{{Godzilla}}. [[SubvertedTrope The giant dinosaur just tears the claws off and even teases Ebirah with one of them.]]

* ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'': The crab-themed Kamen Rider Scissors not only has his BondCreature Volcancer, which naturally has a pair of these, but he himself can summon one of its claws for his personal use. On a related tangent, his Card Visor is [[ShearMenace scissor-shaped]].

* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:
** Almost all Daemons of the Chaos God [[SexIsEvil Slaanesh]] from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' sport at least one hideous lobster-like claw. These Daemons use their claws to shred an enemy to ribbons with a lucky hit even able to punch through medium vehicular armor. The claws of [[HotAsHell Daemonettes]] of Slaanesh are particularly insidious as, when combined with the minor level of MindRape powers that they possess, their claws are capable of leaving incredibly painful wounds that leave their targets [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything spasming in ecstasy]].
** In ''TabletopGame/{{Mordheim}}'', the great claw mutation causes the arm of a {{Mutant}} or [[DemonicPossession Possessed]] to transform into a large, crab-like claw that boosts their strength in close combat.
** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
*** Orks like to use [[PowerFist Power Klaws]], big hydraulic pincers sheathed in an energy field that can rip right through armor.
*** Commissar Sebastian Yarrick (pictured above) killed the Ork that severed his right arm, ripped off its Power Klaw, and had it fitted to replace his arm. This is just one more reason [[TheDreaded the Orks fear and respect him]].
*** Crushing Claws of some [[{{HordeOfAlienLocusts}} Tyranid]] units fit the trope, also evoking somewhat GiantEnemyCrab-like image. Rule-wise, it's slow, but one of the strongest melee weapons available to these guys, allowing them to cut open [[{{NighInvulnerable}} freaking Land Raiders]] like cheapest tin cans.
*** Some Dreadnought fists work like this, though with flat flaps instead of pincers.
*** The Striking Scorpions Exarch gets the option of rolling the Scorpion's Claw, which has a built-in shuriken catapult.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': The Crab and King Crab Battlemechs both have arms that end with stylized pincers, which close over the weapon barrels in the arms to protect them when the mech makes melee attacks. Fully weaponized pincers are covered as a Claw-type melee weapon.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' newsletter ''Roleplayer'' #10 (May 1988), adventure "The Isle of Night". The EldritchAbomination T'Soquat has large claws that can do 4-14 HitPoints of damage. If the spell to summon it succeeds, the native villagers under its control will transform and their hands will become claws that do 1-6 HitPoints of damage.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'', ''The Compleat Arduin Book 2: Resources'':
** Great Black Scorpions can grow larger than a Sherman tank and have huge dangerous claws.
** The Ghost Crab is a GiantEnemyCrab with two pincers that each do 4-48 HitPoints of damage and drain a point of Constitution on each hit.
** The Greater Demon Carchanore the Death Mole has two nine-foot long arms ending in large crab-like pincers that can inflict 31-50 HitPoints of damage.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Varanae}}'' generic RPG supplement ''Monstrum 1'': The Forester is a tree-like monster with pincers on the ends of two its branches. Each pincer does 1-10 HitPoints of damage.
* Creator/{{Chaosium}}'s ''All the Worlds' Monsters III'' has examples including the [[ShockAndAwe Shocker]] [[GiantEnemyCrab Crab]], Crystal Creature, and [[ScaryScorpions Black Scorpion]].

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** The move Vice Grip is an attack described as clamping down on the target with the user's claw. It can generally be learned by any pokemon with pincers.
** There's also the move Crabhammer which is only learned by Pokemon based off of crabs. This attack involves using crab pincers for bludgeoning rather then snipping.
** Pokemon with pincers include various insect and crustacean based ones, with the exception of Tapu Koko, who has pincers largely to emulate a chicken's beak when it brings them together. Notable among them are the Clawitzer and Crabominable line; the former uses their one larger claw as a cannon, while the latter uses them for boxing.

* In ''Videogame/SengokuBasara'', one of Goto Matabe's moves involves using his PrecisionGuidedBoomerang like a pincer by trapping an enemy between the blades and crushing them with it as slowly and torturously as possible.
* ''{{VideoGame/Sipho}}'': The Claw zooid takes the form of a large pair of pincers. This is especially in play with the Guardian of the Depths boss, which has two arm-like structures each ending with a Claw.
* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' contains mechanical GiantEnemyCrab mooks called "Forbici" in the third stage, whose main attacks are snapping at you with their metal pincers. It was actually lampshaded from their names - "[[GratuitousItalian Forbici]]" means "scissors" in Italian.
* Skeleton Prime from ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the Prime Vice arm, a melee arm with a pincer that tries to make contact with the player and deals very heavy damage should it succeed.

* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'': Clawful

* [[GiantEnemyCrab Chrome Claw]], Dr. Blowhole's GiantMook has a large [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin claw made of chrome]] in ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar''.

* Seen on [[TheBerserker Rampage]], whose beast form is a crab, in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''.
** Also seen on Scorponok, Squeezeplay, and Pincher in ''Franchise/TransformersGeneration1''.
** Tankor from ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'' has giant pincers for hands, as do his Tank Drones (and any character repainted from Tankor).

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': [[NonIndicativeName Burn Bot's]] primary offense is a pair of sharp metal pincers, which are strong enough to slice through the Tornado's wing.

-->-- '''Mr. Krabs''', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants''

** Two of the Barraki have them. Mantax has a single small pincer on one hand , despite being mutated into a manta ray. Carapar, fittingly for being mutated into a crab, has two (and can detach one, which is why his set only included one) and they're much bigger and stronger than Mantax's. Both their pincers are small enough that they don't need any associated function.

* ''Toys/HeroFactory'': Core Hunter's Core Remover.

** Two of the Barraki have them,. Mantax has a single small pincer on one hand (despite being mutated into a manta ray), but Carapar, fittingly for being mutated into a crab, has two (and can detach one, which is why his set only included one) and they're much bigger and stronger than Mantax's. Both their pincers are small enough that they don't need any associated function.

** Two of the Barraki have them, given that they were mutated into monstrous humanoid sea creatures. Manatx has a single small pincer on one hand, but Carapar has two (and can detach one, which is why his set only included on) and they're much bigger and stronger than Mantax's. Both their pincers are small enough that they don't need any associated function.

* In ''LightNovel/NinjaSlayer'', Lobster has really big ones which he apparently uses to communicate.

** House Robot Sir Killalot main weapon is his large crushing claw modeled after the Jaws of Life.

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* The Scorpion Lady from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' seems to wield a sort of trident, but it really was her pincers.
* ''Literature/StormSlayer'': The Abyssal Horror is an octopus-looking beast with giant crab-like Power Pincers which it uses to attack.
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[[folder:Film]]

* Mr. Scroop from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' is an InsectoidAlien with crab-like claws that he sometimes uses as weapons.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation''

** Almost all Daemons of the Chaos God [[SexIsEvil Slaanesh]] from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' sport at least one hideous lobster-like claw. These Daemons use their claws to shred an enemy to ribbons with a lucky hit even able to punch through medium vehicular armor. The claws of [[HornyDevils Daemonettes]] of Slaanesh are particularly insidious as, when combined with the minor level of MindRape powers that they possess, their claws are capable of leaving incredibly painful wounds that leave their targets [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything spasming in ecstasy]].

* The Kuwagamon species from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has a pair of giant pincers protruding from its head.

* The Kuwagamon species from ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' have pincer arms. Although those are not their main weapons.

* The BigBad in ''Film/TheMummyReturns'' besides Imhotep, [[spoiler: The Scorpion King, is revealed to be human from the waist-up with scorpion pincers for arms.]]

** The move Vice Grip.
** Pokemon with pincers include Krabby, Kingler, Pinsir, Gligar, Scizor, Corphish, Crawdaunt, Skorupi, Drapion, Gliscor, Clauncher, and Clawitzer.

* "Crab Hand" Gyro, a minor character in ''Manga/OnePiece''.

The pincers may be part of the creature's body, or some ArtificialLimbs (compare PowerFist). Compare ShearMenace, where a character carries scissors as weapons.

** Pokemon with pincers include include Krabby, Kingler, Pinsir, Scizor, Corphish, Crawdaunt, Skorupi, Drapion, Clauncher, and Clawitzer.

* Doctor Strange is challenged to a duel by Dormammu using [[AlliterativeName Pincers of Power]] that make pincers out of energy that can bind and numb limbs, or cause unconsciousness if applied to the head. Dormammu chose that method to prove that he could defeat Strange on equal footing, and not just because of an overwhelming difference in raw power. It doesn't work out in his favor.

* Seen on [[TheBerserker Rampage]], whose beast form is a crab, in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersBeastWars''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' contains mechanical GiantEnemyCrab mooks called "Forbici" in the third stage, whose main attacks are snapping at you with their metal pincers. It was actually lampshaded from their names - "Forbici" means "scissors" in Italian.

* Aside from the massive pincers well-known on crustaceans and scorpions, echinoderms sport ''thousands'' of clusters of miniature versions of these on their skin. Called pedicelariae, these micro-pincers can be used for discouraging parasites, in self-defense against larger threats, or for trapping small prey. In some sea urchins, they're launchable like tiny harpoons, or even ''venomous''.