Super Drowning Skills/Quotes

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What the fuck, this girl's got tits! S-she can't float?
PlayItBogart, Rollergames
This guy can go all over fighting hordes of evil monsters, but he can't even fucking swim?
"5...4...3...2...1...0"
—The infamous Sonic the Hedgehog drowning countdown
How is Indiana Jones such a wimp that he can't set foot in water more shallow than a kiddie pool?
"Finally, a hero in a sandbox game that can justify the fact that he can't swim"
—Ben "Yahtzee" Crowshaw, Zero Punctuation Reviews Infamous at the end credits
"I am Isildur, King of Gondor! With the hilt-shard of Narsil, I cut the One Ring from Sauron's finger during the siege of Mordor. Oh! I stepped in a creek and died."

> SWIM

Not in this game, Swimmer Dan! In this game, you drown.
"I'm a Warrior Hero Adventurer Goddess who CAN'T SWIM, OKAY?!"
Skye of the Skittles promotional videogame Darkened Skye
"If only we had some minions who could swim... or float... or not drown quite so quickly..."
Overlord
[Altair] has been hampered since birth with a genetic deformity that makes him water soluble.
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, Assassin's Creed 2 review
Minions can't swim, Master, but they are remarkably good at drowning.
"Don’t you know that you never learn to swim until the sequel?"
Comic Book Guy, The Simpsons Game.
Water: My arch nemesis!
Quark, Ratchet and Clank Future: A Crack In Time
Oh, that's just great! I can run at supersonic speeds but I can't even get out of a kid's swimming pool? What the hell has Sonic Team been smoking all these years?
You've obviously never seen turians swim. Lots of flailing and splashing interrupted by occasional bouts of drowning.
Garrus Vakarian, Mass Effect 3