Reacher
| Reacher | |
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| 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 | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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HP | 184 | Weak Elements | 
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Drops | Pick Me Up | |||
| Exp. | 30 | Weak Statuses |    
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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 | |||||||||
- Thought Peek quote in other languages:
- Japanese:
最近、おもうんだよね。いっそ、土にかえろうかなって
(Translation: Lately, I've been thinking: maybe I should just go back into the ground.)
- Japanese:
Gallery
The unused Juju
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.
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" |
