Herman Crab

Herman Crab V · T · F
Occupation	Veterinarian
Biological information
Reckoned birth year(s) (this is for age comparison purposes, and so may look odd; click on the question mark for details)?	1987
Documented age range (as recorded in court record profiles & case files)	40* (age at debut)
Eye color	Blue (?)
Hair color	Grey
Height (the metric (cm) values are sourced from official guidebooks and may not reflect the relative sizes of characters as depicted in-game or in other official media)	5'9"; 175 cm
Associates
Family	None mentioned
Friends	Sniper (hair penguin/adoptive child
Affiliates	Jack Shipley (deceased,boss) Shasha Buckler (co-worker) Marlin Rimes(co-worker) Ora (patient) Orla(patient) Rifle (patient) Various unnamed animals (patients)
Aliases/nicknames
Dr. Crabs
Names in other languages
Japanese (romanization written with the given name first)	巣古森 学 (Gaku Sugomori)
Miscellaneous
Debut episode	Turnabout Reclaimed
Musical theme	"Difficult People"

Herman Crab is a veterinarian wearing a penguin mask and has a penguin named Sniper in his hair.

Personality

Dr. Crabs is somewhat aloof and introverted, and spends almost all his time in his laboratory. He is shown to care about people and animals that are close to him. He often thinks people are trying to pick fights with him, often over simple misunderstandings. He does not like to pick sides in arguments, helping both the defense and the prosecution equally. However, his main concern is truth, as seen at the end of the Orla Shipley case, when he gives Phoenix a hint about there being two killer whales, securing the victory and saving both Shasha and Orla. 

Name

Herman Crab's mugshot.

• "Su" (巣) means "nest" and "gomori" comes from "komori" (子守), which means "to babysit".
• "Gaku" means "to learn".
• His English name "Herman Crab" is a play on the crustacean "Hermit Crab", possibly due to Dr. Crab living at the Aquarium in his laboratory.

Development

• The bird mask Herman wears is possibly a reference to the masks medival doctors would wear during the Black Death

Trivia

• When Dr. Crab is explaining about the TORNADO's full name, Phoenix wonders if it might be "super admin restricted desktop access password-protected". This is a reference to what has become a rather famous moment in Recipe for Turnabout, in which presenting unrelated evidence to Lisa Basil prompts her to state that the information is "SPARDA", prompting a reference to the movie "300" by Maya and Phoenix.

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