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Red Crabber
Red Crabber from Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo Switch)
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
Relatives

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 throwing a Fireball at them, by hitting them with Rock Mario's boulder form or by spinning at their rear, which can be reached by jumping over the Red Crabber, spinning on its face, launching a Star Bit, or jumping on it (which will make the Red Crabber protect its face, leaving its rear vulnerable), and lastly, if the player runs around the Red Crabber, they can reach its rear thanks to its slow turn. Upon defeat, they drop three Star Bits. Like most enemies in both games, if a Red Crabber successfully lands a hit, it will laugh at the player character. If, after chasing the player, a Red Crabber moves too far from its original spot and loses the aggro towards the player, it will dig down and move back to its original spot, where it digs back up, as long as the player is not above it..

History

Super Mario Galaxy

Red Crabbers first appear in Super Mario Galaxy and its Nintendo Switch port. They mostly appear in groups with a Blue Crabber always among them. They are first encountered in the Dusty Dune Galaxy mission "Sunbaked Sand Castle", where only one appears on the Sand Tide Planet alongside other enemies. They later reappear in the Bigmouth Galaxy, where once again only one Red Crabber appears in the starting area. In the Sea Slide Galaxy, Red Crabbers only appear in the third mission "The Silver Stars of Sea Slide". Here they appear on the Penguru's Place planet, where several of them appear on the sand area of the planet guarding a Silver Star. Finally, Red Crabbers appear in the Deep Dark Galaxy, where they appear in all missions on the beach area of the starting planet.

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Rolling Crabber Romp from Super Mario Galaxy 2
Rock Mario attacking Red Crabbers in Rolling Crabber Romp.

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 the Starshine Beach Galaxy, where they can be found mainly on the Tropical Cloud Tower Planet as common enemies. After the player enters the Teleporter near the cabin at the start of the galaxy, they will be teleported to a bonus planet inhabited by Red Crabbers; if Mario defeats them all within the time limit, he gets three 1-Up Mushrooms. They also appear in all missions of the Battle Belt Galaxy, where they have a dedicated planet on which the player must defeat all of them to progress. Additionally, in the Prankster Comet mission of the Boulder Bowl Galaxy, "Rolling Crabber Romp", the player needs to defeat a large group of them along with a few Blue Crabbers before time runs out in order to make a Power Star appear. As the planet this takes place on is made of hollow metal, they cannot burrow here.

Gallery

  • Data-rendered model of a Red Crabber from Super Mario Galaxy
    Data-rendered model of a Red Crabber from Super Mario Galaxy
  • Red Crabbers in Sea Slide Galaxy.
    Red Crabbers in Sea Slide Galaxy.

Naming

Internal names

Game File Name Meaning

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.

LanguageNameMeaningNote(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]
FrenchCrustina (rouge)Crabber (red)[7]
GermanRote KaninaRed Crabber[8]
Kanina (rot)Crabber (red)Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia[9]
ItalianGrankyo RossoRed Crabber[10][11]
SpanishPinzón rojoRed Crabber[12]

Notes

A glitched Crabber
The glitch in action
  • In Surf, Sand, and Silver Stars, if the player spins a Red Crabber into deep water, the Crabber will dig back to the surface, but only half of it will appear. It is frozen, and the player cannot interact with it. After a couple of seconds, the Red Crabber will come back up, though a couple seconds after, it will be standing in midair. When it spots the player, it will fall back to the ground.[13][14]

References

  1. ^ 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].)
  2. ^ 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].)
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ A+Start (Mar 20, 2015) Super Mario Galaxy 2 Glitches - Son Of A Glitch - Episode 40 YouTube. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
  14. ^ Matthew Swith (Jul 22, 2010) Super Mario Galaxy 2 Glitch- Crabber Glitch YouTube. Retrieved March 6, 2017.
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