Reacher

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 Peek 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 statistics

Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars

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)

Super Mario RPG enemy
Reacher
	HP	184	Weak Elements		Drops	Pick Me Up
	Exp.	30	Weak Statuses		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

Gallery

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  The unused Juju

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  Super Mario RPG (Nintendo Switch)

Trivia

• In the Japanese version of the remake, and the English translation thereof, Reacher's Thought Peek quote 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 languages

Reacher

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	グレイビー[?] Gureibī	From "grave" and diminutive "-y"
Chinese	墓碑怪[?] Mùbēi Guài	Tombstone Monster
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)

Juju

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	グレイバー[?] Gureibā	Agent nouns of "grave"