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{{quote|''"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZwhNFOn4ik Interior Crocodile Alligator, I drive a Chevrolet Movie Theater!!!]"''|'''Chip Tha Ripper''', ''[[Memetic Mutation|SLAB Freestyle]]''}}
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The trope is sometimes subverted by making the croc a comedic glutton or a [[Cool Pet]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
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* Another aversion is Albert from ''[[Pogo (Comic Strip)|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 (Comic Book)]]'':
** 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.
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* 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 [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment]] from ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]''. When the gargantuan alligator is about to devour the hero, he's surprised by his voice and spares him. {{spoiler|He even gets to eat the [[Big Bad]] later.}}
* 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
** 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)|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 The Stone (Disney)|The Sword in The Stone]]'' is a pink crocodile.
* 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
* Captain Crocodile from ''[[Robin Hood (Disney)|Robin Hood]]''.
* The [[Villain Protagonist|title character]] of ''[[Megamind]]'' has crocodiles living inside his lair.
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* In an episode of ''[[The X Files]]'', Mulder and Scully were hunting The [[Stock Ness Monster]] but it turned out to be just an [[Mundanger|everyday, run of the mill]] killer crocodile, but at the end of the episode, it is revealed that {{spoiler|the monster is real, but it's not a threat.}}
* 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 (TV)|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
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* In one of ''[[Tarzan (Disney)|Tarzan]]'' video games, crocodiles appears as enemies. In another one, a [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|really gigantic croc]] is a [[Action Command|boss fight.]]
* ''[[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
* [[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 ''[[Dragon Quest VIII (Video Game)|Dragon Quest VIII]]'' is a giant, floating crocodile.
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** Averted in the episode 'Kill the Alligator and Run.' The eponymous alligator, named Captain Jack, is quite docile, friendly, and loved by the locals. His death due to Homer's stupidity causes trouble for the family in Florida.
* 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
* A [[The Goomba|rucurring enime]] from [[My Gym Partners a Monkey]] is a crocodile who keeps showing up after the Jungle Man episode.
* 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.
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