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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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* 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 ½]]: The Kodachi household keeps a pet crocodile named Mister Turtle.
== Comic Books ==
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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 & Dragons]]'' have had both regular size and giant crocodiles.
** 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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* 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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