Editing Clawgrip

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|image=[[File:Clawgrip.png|200px]]

|full_name=Clawgrip

|latest_appearance=''[[NES Remix 2]]'' ([[List of games by date#2014|2014]])

|latest_portrayal=[[Charles Martinet]] (2001)

{{quote2|Yar! You'll make a tasty treat!|Clawgrip|[[Super Mario Advance]]}}

 

'''Clawgrip''' ('''Clawglip''' in the cast roll of most versions) is a giant [[Sidestepper]] and a boss from ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]''.

[[File:Clawgrip-SMAS.png|frame|left]]

Fought in [[World 5 (Super Mario Bros. 2)#World 5-3|World 5-3]], Clawgrip would attack players by using his claws to throws boulders at them. In order to injure Clawgrip, these boulders would need to be caught by the player's character and thrown back at Clawgrip. After being hit five times, Clawgrip would be defeated.

In ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'', Clawgrip, instead of being a giant crab at the beginning of the battle against him, is simply a small [[Sidestepper]]. Clawgrip is grown to his giant size when he is engulfed by several [[bubble]]s which resemble the ones [[Wart]] is capable of spitting. Once at this size, Clawgrip, in a stereotypical pirate accent, will exclaim "Yar! You'll make a tasty treat!" and begin to throw boulders. It is possible to give him two damages if a player throws back the boulder when he is raising the rock to throw. After defeating him, he will say: "Yar! You got me" again in a pirate accent. He was voiced by Charles Martinet, owing to all the boss characters being voiced in the game.

Clawgrip returns with the other bosses from ''Super Mario Bros. 2'' in ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]''. Like in the first game, Clawgrip serves as a mini-boss, and is fought in a similar way as in his battle from ''Super Mario Bros. 2''.

 

[[File:CartoonClawgrip.jpg|thumb|right|Clawgrip, from ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' episode, "[[Mario of the Deep]]".]]

Clawgrip made three appearances in ''[[The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!]]'', where he, along with [[Mouser (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!)|Mouser]], [[Fryguy (boss)|Fryguy]], and [[Tryclyde]], was a minion of [[Bowser|King Koopa]] instead of [[Wart]]. In all of his appearances on the show, Clawgrip wore a blue bandanna on his head.

Clawgrip's debut in ''The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!'' was in the episode "[[Rolling Down the River]]", where he manned the help of [[King Koopa's alter egos|Captain Koopa]]'s ship, the [[Sinister Star]], while Koopa was making [[Mario]] walk the plank. The [[Mouth of the River]] used a [[cannon]] to fire a [[Vegetable|Turnip]] at Clawgrip, knocking him down onto the ship's lower deck.

Clawgrip's last appearance on the show was in "[[Mario of the Deep]]"; here, a Clawgrip attacks [[Mario]], [[Luigi]], [[Princess Peach|Princess Toadstool]], [[Toad]] and their [[Mermushroom]] companion in a sunken ship. The quintet avoid the Clawgrip by jumping over him and going through a hatch that was too small for Clawgrip to pass through. The characters commented that this Clawgrip was simply ''a'' Clawgrip, implying that Clawgrips are a species.

===Nintendo Comics System===

In [[Nintendo Comics System]], Clawgrip, instead of being a single character, was portrayed as a species, all of whom seemed to work for [[Bowser|King Bowser Koopa]]. In ''[[The Fish That Should've Gotten Away]]'', several Clawgrips appear among the monsters trying to defeat Mario. Mario manages to avoid these Clawgrips, all the while being annoyed by [[Stanley the Talking Fish]].

===Nintendo Adventure Books===

In ''[[Pipe Down!]]'', Clawgrip appears guarding a tunnel which leads to [[Pipe Land|Pipe World]] under the [[Princess Peach's Castle|Mushroom Palace]]. If Mario and Luigi give Clawgrip a noisemaker or a pair of boots, he will let them pass peacefully, but if they give him a balloon (which he accidentally pops) or try to run past, he will grow angry and give chase to them. The brothers can distract Clawgrip by throwing some coins at him, but if they do not have any or decide not to give any up, Clawgrip will catch up to the two, leading to a [[Game Over]].

===''Super Mario-Kun''===

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Clawgrip makes an appearance in volume 8 of ''[[Super Mario-Kun]]''. He is first seen shortly after [[Fryguy (boss)|Fryguy]] is defeated. Mario, Luigi, and Yoshi eventually fight him. As with the games, he fights by throwing rocks at them. In one twist, however, Mario molds a boomerang from a [[Small Heart]] and then throws it at him. Clawgrip then transforms into a large polygonal being. Mario uses a [[rocket]] to defeat him.

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File:ClawgripSMB2.png|''Super Mario Bros. 2''

File:Clawglip.png|''Super Mario Bros. 2''

|Jap=チョッキー<ref>Mario character book, [http://imgur.com/a/UvABP#54 page 111]</ref>

|JapM=Referring to ''chokichoki'', a cutting sound mainly by scissors.

|Chi=剪刀魔<ref>From the ending scenes of ''[[Super Mario Advance]]'' as localized by [[iQue]]. Reference: 无敌阿尔宙斯 (August 28, 2013). [http://tieba.baidu.com/p/2559790043 神游 超级马力欧2敌人官译]. ''Baidu Tieba''. Retrieved February 2, 2017.</ref>

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