Mecha and Monsters from Crusher Joe

The following is a list of the various mecha and monsters that appeared in the 1983 anime movie *Crusher Joe* and its 1989 two part OVA sequel of the same name.

## Minerva Crew

### Minerva

The main space ship of the Crushers, included in it are the two Fighters, the Galleon, and an assistance robot named Dongo.

* **Length** 188.6 meters
* **Width**: 98.8 meters
* **Height**: 20.5 meters
* **Weapons**: Twin blasters on the bow, three anti-aircraft missile launchers (two in the underside and one in the top), and a double barreled swivel beam gun in top on the stern.

### Fighters

A pair of jet-like VTOLs marked 1 and 2, the former being colored blue and the latter red.

* **Length**: 13.7 meters
* **Width**: 14.2 meters
* **Height**: 2.97 meters
* **Weapons**: twin laser guns on the nose, dual wing laser cannons, and under nose gatling cannon, and twin underside missile launchers

### Galleon

An assault tank that was used to raid the Orbital Station Gamora and destroy the Powered Suit. It was capable of climbing vertical surfaces using its treads.

* **Length**: 6.1 meters
* **Width**: 2.8 meters
* **Height**: 1.9 meters
* **Weapons**: An electromagnetic gun on the top, dual laser cannons on the front, a right side machine gun called the Thermal Gun, retractable 7-tube missile launchers in the rear and left side, and a retractable bulldozer blade.

## Galactic Federation

### Central Intelligence Unit

* **Intelligence VTOL**: Used by Bard to save the Crushers from a carnivorous plant. Armed with a under cockpit laser cannon.
* **Dracoon**: Used by Bard to assist the Crushers and United Space Force fight the Murphy Pirates. Armed with dual wing laser cannons.

### United Space Force

* **Cordoba**: A giant battleship commanded by Captain Kowalski. Noted for having six hangers to store Assault Frigates and was armed with laser cannons.
* **Assault Frigate**: Blue space ships armed with laser cannons used to assist the Cordoba.

## Murphy Pirates

* **Orbital Station Gamora**: Armed with warheads, a weaponized warp drive that teleports objects, and 4-barreled laser turrets.
* **SR-5 Siren**: Green fighters armed with four laser guns in the nose.
* **TR-5 Harpy**: A red fighter used by Norma that has two laser guns each of its twin noses.
* **Crawler**: A wheeled automated tripod armed with a cannon for the head and twin 3-tube missile launchers on rear. One was spotted used as coast patrol for Murphy's island when the Crushers first came ashore.
* **Transport Jeep**: Armed with a rear laser cannon.
* **Security Turret**: The main security force outside of Murphy's based armed with twin laser guns.
* **Transport Hovercraft**: Armed with a rear machine gun.
* **Booby-Duck**: Green VTOLS armed with an underside laser cannon and twin machine guns under the cockpit.
* **Ostall**: Bipedal walkers armed with an underside laser cannon and twin 3-tube missile launchers.
* **Scout Helicopter**: Armed with no weapons and noted for having two seats without cockpit.
* **Desk Hound**: A type of night vision capable robot armed with twin machine guns on the head and noted for having a saucer-like body.
* **Skate Boy**: A type of night vision capable robot armed with a head laser gun and noted for having three legs ideal for water skimming.
* **Hunter**: A type of night vision capable robot armed with three laser guns on the lower body and noted for having six legs.
* **Gadfly**: A type of night vision capable robot armed with an underside machine gun and noted for being able to fly.
* **Red Escape Shuttle**: A red shuttle used by Murphy, Valentinos, and Roki to escape to Gamora.
* **Missile Frigate**: Armed with four missile launchers and twin laser cannons in the bow.
* **Battleship**: Winged space ships armed with laser cannons and noted for coming in multiple color schemes.
* **Powered Suit**: Used by Valentinos and armed with a cannon. It was destroyed by the Galleon.

## Lagoll Natives

* **Cyclops Ape**: Noted for having sharp claws and killing Killie.
* **Carnivorous Plant**: Noted for having thorny roots and a toothy maw in the flower.
* **Toad Chameleon**: Murphy's pet chameleon noted for eating fruit and being easy to humor. It was eventually killed by Roki following his master.
* **Cyclops Salamander**: Swamp dwellers capable of swimming.
* **Cyclops Rats**: scavengers that swarmed the trash tunnels under Murphy's island.

## Oughol Forces

* **Enslaver Robot**: Red robots armed with a taser to prevent the prisoners of the ice asteroid of Devill from ceasing to work..
* **Laser Satellite**: An orbital satellite armed with yellow lasers that caused Devill to change orbit after a computer malfunction caused a misfire on it.
* **Hume Battleship**: A space battleship used by secretary Hume that was armed with double and triple-barreled laser cannons around hull and was used to store Oughol fighters. It was quickly destroyed by a Cordoba after wondering out of Kidias territory.
* **Crockett Class Shuttle**: Shuttles from planet Oughol that were capable of exploding upon being detonated from the Hume Battleship.
* **News Space Pod**: A small broadcast space station used for news broadcasting noted for having a transparent dome.
* **Oughlo Fighter**: Orange starfighters that were armed with laser cannon under the cockpit and on each wing as well as twin missile launchers in each wing.

## Republic of Bandor Machines

* **Bandor Fleet**
	+ **Bandor Battleship**: Space battleships armed with energy cannons around the hull.
	+ **Bandor Military Helicopter**: Armed with dual wing 6-tube missile pods, a minigun on the right side of nose, a machine gun on the left side of nose, and a cluster bomb in each wing.
	+ **Bandor Tank**: Armed with a cannon with machine gun on the top.
* **Bandor Medical VTOL**: VTOLs used as glying ambulances for medical transportation.
* **Bandor Escort Helicopter**: Three legged helicopters used to transport medical vtols.
* **Cloaker**: Powers include thermal vision, flight, explode upon biting, strangling cable, and scan and EMP immunity thanks to their bio-chips.
	+ **Cloaker Replicator**: Giant mobile domes designed only for cloaker spawning.