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Giant Enemy Crab is an Internet meme created in video game forums in 2006. It achieved notable popularity in the gaming press and was also referenced by video game developers.

1 History
2 References in other games
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

History

The meme originated during the demonstration of Genji: Days of the Blade at the Sony E3 2006 press conference. The producer Bill Ritch claimed that Genji 2's epic battles were based on "famous battles which took actually took place in ancient Japan." Almost immediately after this was spoken, the gameplay footage demonstrated contained a boss battle against, in his own words, a "giant enemy crab." Popular memes originating from the Genji demonstration included the game features described such as "you attack its weak point for massive damage" and "real-time...weapon change," despite neither of these being at all new to video gaming, being staples of classic 1980s games such as Metroid. In IGN's E3 2006 wrap-up, they listed a number of Genji 2 quotes.^[1]

References in other games

There have been many references to this meme in other games and pop culture:

The Xbox 360 game Viva Piñata makes fun of the quotes "real-time weapon change" and "massive damage."^[2]
The demo version of MotorStorm features a "massive damage" reference.^[3]
The final version of MotorStorm includes a race/event called "Giant Enemy Crab".
In a trailer for the PlayStation 3 game, LittleBigPlanet, Giant Enemy Crabs can be seen in one of the levels.^[4]
In the World of Warcraft expansion, Wrath of the Lich King, a quest in Dragonblight called "The Bait"^[5] involves killing a Giant Enemy Crab.
The Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts allows the player to summon an enormous crab by typing in the phrase "giant enemy crab" or "massive damage."^[6]
In Pokémon Battle Revolution the narrator sometimes says "Massive Damage!" when a Pokémon's HP is greatly reduced by an opponents attack.
In Borderlands, the The Secret Armory of General Knoxx expansion contains a boss fight against Crawmerax the Invincible, a giant, purple crab that is powerful enough to kill a player in one hit.^[7]
In Monster Hunter: Freedom Unite, there is a quest entitled "Giant Enemy Crab" where you must kill a Daimyo Hermitaur.