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Whaddaya mean wimpy?
~ The Crab's response to Fly calling him wimpy.

The Crab is a major antagonist in the 2000 Danish animated film Help! I'm a Fish. He is a king crab who serves as a minion of Joe.

He was voiced by Ulf Pilgaard in Danish and David Bateson (who also played the Shark in the same film and Agent 47 in the Hitman video game series) in English.

Biography[]

When Joe acquired the antidote that enhanced the intelligence of fish, he found the Crab and gave him a little drop. Afterward, the Crab became enhanced, and became the leader of an army of crab soldiers. The Crab became one of Joe's minions, alongside Joe's enforcer, the strong but dimwitted Shark.

Once Joe captured Fly, Chuck and Stella and locked them into the cage, Crab counted repeatedly, Fly then insults the Crab by calling him "a poor excuse for a soldier". And compared him to what a real soldier is like. While angered by this, Crab tries to prove how strong he is, and is about to chop the bars with his claw, to demonstrate his strength. But he believes that cutting the bars is too easy for him, and fly tries to convince him to cut the bars, but the Crab instead chopped the key in half, and fell asleep until Stella's seahorse friend Sasha disturbed him. Sasha succeeded in breaking the cage, leaving them free, but Crab called in his soldier crabs and ordered them to attack Fly and his friends.

Crab, Joe, the Shark and their armies eventually find the group. After Crab strikes down Fly with a powerful punch of his claw, he was mutated into a more anthropomorphic form upon drinking the potion, replacing his claws with hands. The potion caused Crab to become more greedy and egoistical, and he decided to take over by stealing Joe's title as the new ruler of the fish. However, his plans were stopped by a whirlwind caused by Professor Mac Krill's suction device, resulting in Crab, Joe, and the Shark and their armies getting sucked up. Crab got into a heated argument with Joe and the Shark, which ended when the Shark devoured him.

Appearance[]

Having been transformed by the antidote, he has a large head with an enlarged chin and sharp teeth. He wears a metal helmet on his head. Later, after drinking more antidote, he gets hands and starts standing on his hind legs.

Personality[]

The Crab had a simple animalistic personality before getting the antidote, but after getting it, he became a cunning commander and dogmatic soldier, although a little vain (a trait and weakness fly exploits to escape) and cantankerous. Initially he was truly sycophantic to Joe and followed his orders blindly. The Crab also enjoys counting, repeatedly saying "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6." while watching over Fly and his friends. When Crab drank even more of the the antidote and became more enhanced, he also became arrogant and egotistical, betraying Joe in order to become the ruler of the ocean by using an all-crab armada to overwhelm Joe's forces.

Trivia[]

  • Out of all the villains, Crab is the one that came closest to successfully kill the protagonists. However, unlike Joe, who is always portrayed seriously, Crab is often shown to have comedic moments and is not treated as a sufficient threat for most of the film, especially when combined with his undignified demise, in which he literally is devoured by the Shark after declaring himself the new leader.

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