Lobster

Marco in lobster morph

"So exactly why was I spending my time morphing to lobster in order to crawl along the bottom of my swimming pool? I hadn't done the lobster morph in a long, long time. It seemed like a million years ago I'd used it to escape the Yeerks by hiding in a grocery store's fresh fish tank. The days, man. Those were the days."

―Marco

Lobsters are large marine crustaceans native to Earth. The American lobster, the heaviest crustacean and living arthropod on Earth, was acquired by Marco, Ax and Jake.

Acquiring

"It was a big lobster tank, fortunately. I hoisted myself up the side and climbed in. Jake was right behind me. We each grabbed a lobster and threw one to Ax. It was not easy "acquiring" the lobster. It took concentration. And all I could think was that there were an awful lot of cops outside the store, probably getting ready to rush in. And they would all have guns. The lobster went limp and passive, the way animals do when you acquire them."

―Marco

In The Predator, set in 1997, Marco, Jake and Ax ran into a grocery store while running from the police. Marco then hoisted himself into the lobster tank and picked up two lobsters, tossing one at Ax to catch, while Jake picked up a lobster as well. The three of them then acquired the lobsters they were holding.

Usage

Marco morphing into an American lobster

"Some reason why you're morphing to lobster?"
"Ummmm... I dropped my keys down in the pool? I was going to go get them?"
"Well, then it's a good thing you have the ability to turn into a lobster, because otherwise, what would you do? I mean, normal people, they drop their keys in the pool, they're just totally helpless. Those keys stay down there. Forever."

―Jake and Marco

In 1997, the lobster was first morphed by Ax, Marco and Jake, while hiding out in a grocery store that had been surrounded by police officers looking for them. Needing a way out of the store, Marco spotted the lobster tank and proposed the idea. Ax began to morph first, and when he was small enough, Marco and Jake helped him into the lobster tank before they began the morph themselves. As lobsters, the trio noted that all the lobster wanted to do was kill and eat, and they were surprised that lobsters were predators. Due to the lobster's poor eyesight, they decided to wait in the tank as close to the two-hour limit as possible. After an hour had passed, a woman came to the store to purchase six lobsters, and the three of them were chosen. They then had their pincers rubber-banded and were thrown into a bag of ice with the other lobsters, and the woman brought them home. While in her kitchen, Ax stated that they had only seven minutes left in morph. The woman then picked up Marco and was about to place him in a pot to boil him alive when he began to demorph, causing her to scream. Ax and Jake then demorphed as well, exacerbating her fear, but Marco and Jake told her that it was a dream before as Ax remorphed into his human morph and the three left the woman's house.

Two years later, in 1999, Marco suffered from morphing issues. While attempting to morph into an osprey, he began to morph into the lobster as well, causing him to become an osprey–lobster hybrid.

In 2003, Marco dropped his keys in the swimming pool of his mansion. In order to retrieve the keys, he decided to morph to lobster, and reminisced on how the last time he had morphed the lobster, it had been during the time he hid out in a grocery store and how that felt like a long time ago. However, Jake then walked in on him mid-morph and asked what he was doing. Marco explained his reasoning, but Jake sardonically remarked that it was a good thing he had the ability to turn into a lobster and joked that anyone else who dropped their keys in a swimming pool would never be able to retrieve them.

Appearances

• The Invasion (mentioned)
• The Message (mentioned)
• The Predator (American lobsters; acquired and morphed by Marco, Ax and Jake)
• The Exposed (mentioned)
• The Proposal (osprey–American lobster hybrid; morphed by Marco)
• VISSER (mentioned)
• The Familiar (mentioned)
• The Unexpected (mentioned)
• The Revelation (mentioned)
• The Beginning (partially morphed by Marco)

Known Morphers

• Jake
• Marco
• Ax

Gallery

"Someone took a picture of me? Not cool. Do you see what I'm wearing? I'm Spandex-boy. Totally not cool." The image gallery for Lobster may be viewed here