User:Sorbetti/Red Crabber
| Red Crabber | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Screenshot from Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Switch) | |||
| First appearance | Super Mario Galaxy (2007) | ||
| Latest appearance | Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 (2025) | ||
| Variant of | Crabber | ||
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Red Crabbers[1][2] are enemies in Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2. They are red-colored Crabbers that, unlike Blue Crabbers, are more numerous and aggressive towards the player character. They are commonly encountered in sand galaxies, wandering around, and upon noticing Mario (or Luigi), they will move in a zigzag pattern toward him. They can be defeated by spinning at their rear. Like most enemies in both games, if a Red Crabber successfully lands a hit, it will laugh at the player character.
History
Super Mario Galaxy
Red Crabbers first appear in Super Mario Galaxy and reappear in its Nintendo Switch port. They appear in groups with always a Blue Crabber among them.
Red Crabbers appear in the following list of galaxies and missions. If no mission is stated, Crabbers appear during all missions:
- Dusty Dune Galaxy ("Sunbaked Sand Castle", "Bullet Bill on Your Back")
- Bigmouth Galaxy
- Sea Slide Galaxy ("The Silver Stars of Sea Slide", "Hurry, He's Hungry")
- Deep Dark Galaxy ("The Underground Ghost Ship", "Bubble Blastoff", "Guppy and the Underground Lake", "Boo in a Box")
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Red Crabbers reappear in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and its Nintendo Switch port alongside Blue Crabbers. Yoshi can lick up Red Crabbers to spit out their big pincer in the same manner as a Spiny Egg or Bullet Bill. The pincer acts as a boomerang, as it flies out for some distance, then returns. The pincers are unable to destroy glass cases. If the pincer hits a wall or flies for long enough, it will be destroyed.
Red Crabbers appear in the first two missions of Starshine Beach Galaxy, where they can be found mainly on the Tropical Cloud Tower Planet as common enemies. After the player enters in the Teleporter near the cabin at the start of the planet, they will be teleported to a bonus planet inhabited by Crabbers, and if Mario defeats them all within the time limit, he gets three 1-Up Mushrooms. They also appear in all missions of Battle Belt Galaxy, where they have a dedicated planet in which the player must defeat all of them to progress. And the Prankster Comet mission of Boulder Bowl Galaxy, named "Rolling Crabber Romp"; as the planet this is on is made of hollow metal, they cannot burrow here.
Gallery
Data-rendered model of a Red Crabber from Super Mario Galaxy
Red Crabbers in Sea Slide Galaxy.
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Naming
Internal names
| Game | File | Name | Meaning
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|---|---|---|---|
| Super Mario Galaxy Super Mario Galaxy 2 |
SystemData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl | KaninaRed | Transliteration of below |
| Super Mario Galaxy 2 | StageData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl SystemData/ObjNameTable.arc/ObjNameTable.tbl |
カニーナレッド (Kanīna Reddo) | Crabber Red |
Names in other languages
The contemporaneous name for each language is listed first. Subsequent names are listed in chronological order for each language, from oldest to newest, and have the media with which they are associated in the "notes" column. Names exclusive to localizations of the Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia are not prioritized due to concerns about circular reporting, and are only listed first for their respective languages if they are the only ones available.
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | あかカニーナ Aka Kanīna |
Red Crabber | [3] | |
| カニーナ（赤） Kanīna (Aka) |
Crabber (Red) | [4][5][6] | ||
| French | Crustina (rouge) | Crabber (red) | [7] | |
| German | Rote Kanina | Red Crabber | [8] | |
| Kanina (rot) | Crabber (red) | Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia | [9] | |
| Italian | Grankyo Rosso | Red Crabber | [10][11] | |
| Spanish | Pinzón rojo | Red Crabber | [12] |
References
- ^ English Super Mario Galaxy entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 12, 2022, 23:39:09 UTC via archive.today[deprecated link].)
- ^ English Super Mario Galaxy 2 entry on the official Mario Portal. nintendo.co.jp. Retrieved August 13, 2022. (Archived August 12, 2022, 23:39:46 UTC via archive.today[deprecated link].)
- ^ スーパーマリオギャラクシ | ヒストリー | マリオポータル. Nintendo (Japanese). Retrieved March 26, 2025.
- ^ Watanabe, Takashi, Noriko Oketani, Geasen Ueno, Kiyotaka Iwaya, Tatsuhiko Mizutani, Kensaku Tanaka, Mizuho Nitta, Junko Fukuda, and Kunio Takayama, editors (2007). 『スーパーマリオギャラクシー: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-227115-9. Page 409.
- ^ Tachibana, Tadashi, Isamu Horie, Shinji Kutsuzawa, Itaru Nakatani, Seishiro Fuwa, Kimihara Hongo, and Toshimune Suzuki (2010). 『スーパーマリオギャラクシー2 任天堂ゲーム攻略本』. Tokyo: ambit (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-8399-3630-3. Page 18.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2015). 『スーパーマリオブラザーズ百科: 任天堂公式ガイドブック』. Tokyo: Shogakukan (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-09-106569-8. Page 127, 159.
- ^ Ardaillon, Joanna, and Victoria Juillard-Huberty, editors (2018). Super Mario Encyclopedia. Translated by Fabien Nabhan. Toulon: Soleil Productions (French). ISBN 978-2-3020-7004-2. Page 127, 159.
- ^ Browne, Catherine (2010). Super Mario Galaxy 2 Das offizielle Lösungsbuch. Translated by Andreas Kasprzak. Lübbecke: Grinning Cat Productions, Prima Games (German). ISBN 402-0-628-08787-6. Page 26.
- ^ Scholz, Sabine, and Benjamin Spinrath, editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy" in Super Mario Encyclopedia - Die ersten 30 Jahre : 1985-2015. Translated by Yamada Hirofumi. Hamburg: Tokyopop (German). ISBN 978-3-8420-3653-6. Page 127.
- ^ Browne, Catherine (2010). Super Mario Galaxy 2 Guida Strategica Ufficiale (Multiplayer.it Edizioni). Translated by Christian La Via Colli, Francesca Noto, and Virgina Petrarca. Terni: Multiplayer Edizioni, Prima Games (Italian). ISBN 9788863551198. Page 26.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), and Marco Figini, editors (2018). Super Mario Bros. Enciclopedia. Translated by Marco Amerighi. Milan: Magazzini Salani (Italian). ISBN 889367436X. Page 127, 159.
- ^ Sakai, Kazuya (ambit), kikai, Akinori Sao, Junko Fukuda, Kunio Takayama, and Ko Nakahara (Shogakukan), editors (2017). "Super Mario Galaxy" in Enciclopedia Super Mario Bros. 30ª Aniversario. Translated by Gemma Tarrés. Barcelona: Editorial Planeta, S.A. (European Spanish). ISBN 978-84-9146-223-1. Page 127.
