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{{quote|''"Interior Crocodile Alligator, I drive a Chevrolet Movie Theater!!!"''
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?
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See also [[Everything's Even Worse with Sharks]], [[Shark Pool]] and [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]].
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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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* [[Ranma ½]]: The Kodachi household keeps a pet crocodile named Mister Turtle.
== Comic Books ==
* [[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]].
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** 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 ==
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* Subverted with Louie the alligator in ''[[The Princess and the Frog]]''. All he wants to do is play jazz, but of course the humans only see a giant gator trying to get close to them (never mind that it's playing a trumpet). Played straight with the other bad alligators.
* 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|turn into a prince]].
** The same alligators pose a real threat later, when Odette's friends must free her and Bromley from the dungeon below Swan Lake.
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* When the monsoon floods Alan's house in ''[[Jumanji]]'', the protagonists are attacked by a crocodile, so Alan fights it and miraculously survives. It's sucked out into the street when the front door is broken up and swims past Carl, scaring him to no end.
* 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 ==
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* 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 ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', Ace Rimmer's Nazi enemy has a crocodile for a pet, keeping it on his lap and stroking it affectionately, parodying [[James Bond|Blofeld]]'s [[Right-Hand-Cat]]. He throws it at Ace and jumps out of the plane they're on, but Ace overpowers it and [[Badass|proceeds to "surf" on it in free fall]].
* 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 ==
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* 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: A New Legend Begins|Alundra 2]]'' is a crocodile with a poison gas spewing mushroom growing out of its back.
* In Disney's ''[[Where's My Water?]]'', this is subverted by the friendly nice guy Swampy, and played straight by the grumpy [[Jerkass]] Cranky.
* [[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 ==
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* 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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