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|'''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}kZwhNFOn4ik Chip Tha Ripper]''', ''[[Memetic Mutation|SLAB Freestyle]]''}}
Everyone knows that [[Everything's Even Worse
▲{{quote|''"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZwhNFOn4ik Interior Crocodile Alligator, I drive a Chevrolet Movie Theater!!!]"''|'''Chip Tha Ripper''', ''[[Memetic Mutation|SLAB Freestyle]]''}}
▲Everyone knows that [[Everything's Even Worse With Sharks]]. They make the sea a scary, dangerous place. However, they live only in the sea, so that means rivers and lakes are safe. Right?
[[It Got Worse|Enter the Crocodile!!]]
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The trope is sometimes subverted by making the croc a comedic glutton or a [[Cool Pet]].
See also [[Everything's Even Worse
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== Advertising ==
* Averted with Sir Chomps-A-Lot from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH1LhN7naSE this 1994 commercial]. He seems like a decent sort.
* Sugar Bear deals with one in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_xFVr0PlX4 this 1987 commercial] for Super Golden Crisp.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* In one ''[[Lupin III]]'' movie, the resident [[Master Swordsman]] Goemon Ishikawa subdue a huge alligator and [[Badass Normal|ties it up with his kimono]].
* ''[[Ninin ga Shinobuden]]'' subverts the trope by introducing Devil, the talking crocodile who is just as zany as the rest of the cast.
* In ''[[Heat Guy J]]'', there is a [[Shout
* Averted in ''[[The Idolmaster (
* In '[['Digimon]]'', the largest of the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Seven Great Demon Lords]] is Leviamon, who's a big red crocodile and represents the sin of Envy.
* The very first target of ''[[Toriko]]'' was the "Gararadile", a huge, eight-legged crocodile and a class 5 monster. That particular one was a 300 years old and huge gararadile and a class 8 beastie, [[The Worf Effect|but was easily killed and eaten by Toriko]].
* [[Ranma
== Comic Books ==
* [[Batman]] - Killer Croc. [[Depending
▲* [[Batman]] - Killer Croc. [[Depending On the Writer]], he's a man with a serious skin disease which make him look very reptilian or a full-blown crocodile man.
* One early ''[[Cattivik]]'' story involves a large Nile Crocodile attempting to eat the eponymous character, [[Subverted Trope|but without much success]].
* Another aversion is Albert from ''[[Pogo (
* Seemingly every story featuring [[Corrupt Hicks]] set in a bayou has them raise alligators as a way to dispose of evidence (''[[Jonah Hex]]'', ''[[The Punisher]]''...)
* ''[[Tintin
** In ''Tintin in the Congo'', Tintin is tied up by [[The Heavy]] over a river and left to be eaten by crocodiles. Later the two have a confrontation and fall over a cliff into a river. Tintin is saved by the back of a hippopotamus, but [[The Heavy]] lands in the water and is eaten by crocodiles.
** In ''Prisoners of the Sun'', Tintin and the Captain come across a river. Tintin believes it to be full of logs, which, of course, are all alligators.
** In ''Tintin and the Picaros'', the amnesiac Captain Haddock wanders into a swamp, attracting the attention of an alligator. It silently approaches...[[Always a Bigger Fish|and then is attacked by an anaconda]], allowing the captain to get out.
== Films -- Animated ==
* In ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', the main villain possesses two pet gators. In the sequel, the climax includes several crocodiles. [[Disney Villain Death|And a waterfall]].
* ''[[
* Subverted with Louie the alligator in ''[[The Princess and
* Ben Ali Gator and his retinue in the "Dance of the Hours" segment of ''[[Fantasia]]''. Not very vicious, but a bit of a lech.
* Subversion: the original [[
* In ''[[The Swan Princess]]'', Swan Lake has many flowers, but [[Baleful Polymorph|Jean-Bob the frog]] wants to fetch the flowers in the middle of the lake, past two hungry alligators, to give to Odette. If she finds that he's risked his life to give them to her, he reasons, she'll be impressed and [[True Love's Kiss|kiss him]], and then he will [[The Frog Prince
** The same alligators pose a real threat later, when Odette's friends must free her and Bromley from the dungeon below Swan Lake.
* The crocodile from ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'' actually made a brief cameo in [[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|the 1960 Disney animated short]] ''Goliath II''.
* The first animal Mad Madam Mim turned into during the [[Wizard Duel]] from ''[[The Sword in
* One of the animals [[Dark Is Not Evil|Gus the raincloud]] made in [[Pixar Shorts|''Partly Cloudy'']] is a crocodile.
* [[Big Bad|Yzma]] secretly owns a pit full of crocodiles beneath Kuzco's palace in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* Captain Crocodile from ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]''.
* The [[Villain Protagonist|title character]] of ''[[Megamind]]'' has crocodiles living inside his lair.
* The villain of one ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' [[Sequelitis|sequel]] appears to be a giant crocodile named Dil who for some reason actually hates her partner-in-crime, Icky, who is a prehistoric seagull. At the end of the film, Dil finally gets fed up with Icky, and as a result she kicks him away, only to end up being chased away by an angry plesiosaur shortly afterwards.
* Before finally settling on a beaver, Tramp from ''[[Lady and
* In ''[[The Thief and
* See "Literature" below for ''Peter Pan''.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* Several B-movies involving large crocodiles haunting sewers or [[Misplaced Wildlife|mountain lakes]], expecially ''[[Lake Placid]]''.
* ''[[
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
* In the 007 movie ''[[Live and Let Die (
** Trope comes to play again in ''[[
* After the tourist boat crashes in ''[[Hatchet (
* Australian film ''[[Rogue (
* Crazy hotel owner in ''[[Eaten Alive (
* ''Dark Age'' has a giant crocodile terrorizing Australian outback.
* The [[MacGuffin]] in ''[[Romancing the Stone]]'' is temporarily lost when a crocodile swallows it along with [[Big Bad]]'s hand.
* The titular monster in ''[[Dino Croc]]'' was a mix of Sarcosuchus (an extinct species of large crocodilian) and an unspecified dinosaur. In practice it was basically a Spinosaurid dinosaur that swam like a crocodile.
* When the monsoon floods Alan's house in ''[[
* In ''[[Adaptation]]'', John Laroche is killed by an alligator [[Deus Ex Machina|that comes out of nowhere.]]
* The Chinese film ''[[Million Dollar Crocodile]]'' features a giant man-eating crocodile swallowing a purse full of money ala [[Kangaroo Jack]]
* In ''[[Rampage (film)|Rampage]]'', Lizzie is far more dangerous than [[Killer Gorilla| George]] or [[Big Badass Wolf| Ralph]], probably because they only inhaled the mutagenic chemical, while Lizzie swallowed an entire canister of it.
== Literature ==
* ''[[Peter Pan]]'' has the large sea crocodile who ate Captain Hook's hand and now is looking for the rest of the dish. The [[Trope Namer]] is a [[Cut Song]] from the Disney version, which showed up in a Disney Sing-Along Songs video (specifically Volume 6: [[The Little Mermaid|Under the Sea]]).
** In the film ''[[
* In the novel ''Amazon'' at one point the heroes have to face two colossal caimans in a lake.
* In one of the ''[[Grail Quest]]'' books, the final opponent is the dreaded [[Punny Name|Alligatoad]].
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* The Mugger of Mugger-Ghaut in [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s ''Second Jungle Book'' story "The Undertakers". The accompanying poem "A Ripple Song" demonstrates what happens when you don't watch out for concealed crocs.
** Also in ''Just So Stories'', a crocodile pulls the baby elephant's nose (thereby creating its trunk) in "The Elephant's Child".
* One of the ''[[
** Earlier than that, in ''Skeleton Key'' a gang of black-marketeers attempt to blackmail the [[Big Bad]], so he tricks them into crashing their plane into a swamp, where they are attacked by crocodiles.
* In [[Carl Hiaasen]]'s ''Tourist Season'', several characters are eaten by a North American crocodile named Pavlov.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* In an episode of ''[[The X
* In an episode of ''[[Bones]]'', the heroes found the [[Victim of the Week]] by finding a foot inside a gator in the Florida Everglades.
* In ''[[
* The BBC's ''Prehistoric Park'' docu-fiction features host Nigel Marven traveling back in time and setting an elaborate (but truthfully realistic) trap and successfully corralling a Deinosuchus (a 10.6 meter cretaceous crocodilian) into a time portal to the present so it can be kept in the park. {{spoiler|Later Nigel is being chased by an escaped T-Rex and intentionally runs through the Deinosuchus habitat so it will attack the T-rex}}.
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== Tabletop
* The various editions of ''[[Dungeons
** Module U2 ''Danger at Dunwater''. The [[
** Module EX1 ''Dungeonland''. If the PCs go around the Pool of Tears, they'll be attacked by a giant crocodile.
** One of the worst examples is the Oblivion Maw in the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', a gigantic crocodile lurking around White Plume Mountain. Anything eaten by it ends up in the Swamp of Oblivion (part of the Paraelemental Plane of Ooze) but should anyone actually ''want'' to go to that place, there are far safer methods.
* Some of Chaosium's Basic Roleplaying System games had crocodiles.
** ''Stormbringer'' had both small and large crocodilians. The PCs could encounter them if they went through "The Hall of Risk" adventure in the ''Stormbringer Companion'' supplement.
** ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' had crocodiles of all sizes. They could be encountered as wandering monsters in the "Valley of the Four Shrines" adventure in ''The Second Cthulhu Companion'' supplement.
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Titan Quest]]'', the Nile river banks in Egypt are overrun with massive Croc men, which are one of the toughest monsters around.
* In ''[[
** They're in Final Fantasy IV as well, in the sewers and water caves.
* In one of ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]'' video games, crocodiles appears as enemies. In another one, a [[Attack of the 50
* ''[[Will Rock]]'' has [[Misplaced Wildlife|crocodiles in Greece]] met in underwater. Oddly enough, they don't chase you on the ground.
* There's a gargantuan, virus-mutated alligator in the sewers in ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'', and another one in the Raccoon Zoo in ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak|Outbreak File #2]]''. Crocodiles appear as enemies in the swamp level in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', but they aren't mutated, just very large. Did I mention that both kinds [[One-Hit Kill|can kill your player character in one bite?]]
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|Albino Ghoul Alligators]] are met in the sewers of New York in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Redemption]]''. And boy, [[Demonic Spiders|they're TOUGH!]]
* The Crocodog enemy in ''[[
* ''[[
* The Daedroths from ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' are large, demons with crocodilian heads.
* In ''[[Drakensang|Drakensang 2: The River of Time]]'', the party meet Eilif [[Large and In Charge|Thunderfist]], who has a small troop of Marus (read: Giant armored humanoid gators]] who serves as her bodyguard. They're described in game as powerful but not too smart, {{spoiler|and are brainwashed by the enemy sorceress, forcing you to kill them}}.
* Subverted with ''[[Croc]]'', as he is the hero.
* The Kremlings, the principal baddies of the ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series games, are more or less anthropomorphic crocodiles.
* Some Egyptian stages in ''[[Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped]]'' has pits with crocodiles jumping from them.
* Castle Daventry has a crocodile filled moat in the original version of ''[[King's Quest I]]''. In the remake, these have been replaced by serpentine "moat monsters".
* Boss of the sewer level in ''[[Alundra 2:
* In Disney's ''[[Where's My Water
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Vector the Crocodile]] is another subversion. He may be loud, bossy, and rude, but he's a good guy at heart, often taking cases for free.
* In ''[[Pitfall]]'', one recurring hazard that Harry has to maneuver over is a pit with three crocodiles. This in emphasized in the ''[[Saturday Supercade]]'' shorts, the three crocodiles being [[Super-Persistent Predator]]s who follow him ''everywhere''.
* In ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' crocodiles and alligators are fairly nasty, but normally just lie in ambush until the food presents itself. They are also domesticable, and [[Milking the Monster|often end up]] bred as source of valuable materials (especially Cave crocodile), as guard beasts (you can't train them like war dogs, but at their size, there's not much need) and for producing [[Explosive Breeder|lots of eggs]]. Goblins also sometimes breed cave crocs, and ''[[Horse of a Different Color|use them as mounts]]''.
* ''[[Frogger]]''; the river that the player has to cross has alligators in it, [[Helpful Mook]]s so long as they stay away from their mouths. Plus one will occasionally lurk in one of the lily pads that serve as the goal, making that pad unsafe for a minute or two.
== Western Animation ==
* Croc, the main villain on ''[[The Wuzzles]]''.
* On ''[[Futurama]]'', as Fry and Leela jump a lunar ridge on a lunar rover, crocodiles underneath snap at them. Wearing air helmets. [[Fridge Logic|Don't ask what the point is]], [[Rule of Funny|it's just funny]].
* One episode of ''[[
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Johnny Bravo]]'', Johnny managed to wrestle and beat a live crocodile while trying to hit on a woman. That was before [[Badass Decay]] came along....
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' has at least two examples:
** "Treasure of the Temple". While being pursued along an underground river, the Quest team is attacked by crocodiles. Race Bannon has to fight one to rescue Jonny. Then several of them attack the villains, with [[Scream Discretion Shot|nightmarish screaming]].
** ''Turu the Terrible''. While traveling along a jungle river, a boat is attacked by crocodiles. They're kept off only by gunfire.
* In ''[[Archer]]'', when Lana and Archer are protecting an oil pipeline in the middle of the Everglades from a radical environmentalist, it's revealed that Archer is afraid of being eaten by crocodiles, and of course one attacks them, their boat capsizes and they lose all their weapons and are stranded on the oil rig in the middle of no where waiting for the croc to eat them.
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* In one episode of ''[[The Perils of Penelope Pitstop]]'', Penelope is standing on a floor whose halves slowly separate. Below is a crocodile eager to devour her.
* Lest we forget the aversion with [[Wally Gator]] from [[Hanna-Barbera]].
* A [[The Goomba|rucurring enime]] from [[My Gym
* Averted in ''[[Sitting Ducks]]'' by Aldo, the protagonist's best friend. Of course almost all the other Alligators play this completely straight, and devour the ducks from Ducktown whenever they can. It's Aldo's refusal to do this, and his forbidden friendship with Bill that forms the central plot of the series.
* Also averted with Roger from ''[[The Penguins of Madagascar]]''.
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