Reacher
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars promotional artwork: A Reacher
First appearance Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (1996)
Latest appearance Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch) (2023)

Reachers are skeletal ghosts who inhabit the Sunken Ship in the game Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars and its remake. They resemble large, sad, humanoid skeletons whose bodies are obscured by tombstones. Reachers attack by reaching towards a party member (hence the name) with their long skeletal arms. They can also attack by hurling a large bone (similar to Dry Bones) or by singing Elegy, which prevents a party member from using magic.

Like most powerful enemies in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, only one Reacher appears at a time in battle. Reachers are aided by other ghouls in combat like Greapers.

An unused enemy that appears in the game's programming seems to be a relative of a Reacher, but then with a blue chest. This look-a-like is known as Juju. It was stronger and had a better variety of special attacks such as Silver Bullet and Knock Out, and its thought is 'K-9 is after my Bones!'.

The original artwork for Reacher has blue eyes, while in the game, it has green eyes.

Profiles and statisticsEdit

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven StarsEdit

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars enemy
Reacher
  HP 184 FP 100 Speed 3
Location(s) Sunken Ship Attack 95 Magic attack 8
Role Common Defense 75 Magic defense 0
Bonus Flower Defense Up! (60%) Yoshi Cookie Pick Me Up Morph rate 100%
Evade 0% Magic evade 0% Spells None
Weak Thunder Strong None Sp. attacks Strong Bone Toss, "Bone Toss", Elegy
Coins 8 Exp. points 30 Items Pick Me Up (25%), Royal Syrup (5%)
Psychopath "Hope you'll stay close."

Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)Edit

Reacher
 
HP 184
Exp. 30
Weak Elements  
Weak Statuses     
Drops Pick Me Up
Rare Drops Royal Syrup
Found In Sunken Ship
Monster List profile
The way they throw dreadfully big bones, with their dreadfully long arms, is so dreadful that one might think of them as otherworldly.
Thought Peek
Whenever I reach out my hand, there you are.
Animations

GalleryEdit

TriviaEdit

  • In the Japanese version of the remake, and the English translation thereof, Reacher's thought has been switched with Straw Head's from the original game. This error is fixed in the 1.0.1 version patch.

Names in other languagesEdit

ReacherEdit

Language Name Meaning
Japanese グレイビー
Gureibī
From "grave" and diminutive "-y"

Chinese 墓碑怪
Mùbēi Guài
Tombstone Monster

Dutch Zerker
Portmanteau of zerk ("gravestone") and werper ("thrower")
French Tontombe
Portmanteau of tonton ("uncle" in familiar way) and tombe ("tomb")
German Greifer
Grasper
Italian Lapidio
Pun on lapide ("tombstone") and lapidare ("to stone")
Korean 그레이비
Geureibi
Gravy; from the Japanese name

Spanish Lapidario
Lapidary; also includes lápida ("gravestone")

JujuEdit

Language Name Meaning
Japanese グレイバー
Gureibā
Agent nouns of "grave"