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Swimming isn't easy to animate in a video game. First of all there's the complexity of underwater effects. Then there's the freedom of movement in three dimensions, which is neat for the player, but a real pain to achieve in third-person games in terms of achieving an intuitive interface and a fluid camera. Then there's the problem of water meeting land — it's easy enough to have your character jump or fall into water, but to get them out again you'd need ladders, shores, so forth, so you're going to have to do your art direction with that in mind. And to be even slightly realistic you'll need to think about the character's oxygen supplies. Basically, having your character be able to swim means adding an entirely new form of gameplay that's usually boring, annoying and nowhere near worth it. The most common solution is to have no water, at least nothing more than ankle deep. But since our world is full of the stuff another very popular solution is to declare that the lead character of this game, no matter how athletic, trained and/or super-powered they may be, is just that: Lead. They cannot swim at all, not even enough to thrash around a bit. They just sink like a stone or are helplessly swept away by strong currents and are gone forever. It gives a new meaning to Hazardous Water. In some extreme cases, characters will drown in water that is visibly too shallow for anyone to drown in, coming up to their waist or even lower. In which case you may see them suddenly explode, thrash around while clearly being able to touch the floor if they tried, or just fall off the screen. Some games have decided that it is worth it, and thus attempt more realistic solutions, with varying degrees of effectiveness. Quake, an early example, would deal damage to your health if you were underwater too long. However, armor protects against this damage — meaning you can stay underwater longer if you wear full body armor. Earlier still, the Ultima Underworld or The Elder Scrolls: Arena games didn't let you go underwater — swimming was essentially the same as walking except you bobbed up and down more and couldn't use a weapon, but after some amount of time your health would start taking a battering. The Tomb Raider games and the later The Elder Scrolls have Oxygen Meters that would deplete as you swam, with running out causing lots of damage to be dealt, resulting in swift death. Other techniques have also been used to increase realism and decrease the prevalence of this trope. Another solution is to put the main character in an environment suit, like in Halo. Which doesn't explain why the apparently perfectly ordinary land vehicles don't suffer from hydrolock when submerged. Even then, some bodies of water may still act as Bottomless Pits. Even when the Player Character can swim, NPCs often still instantly drown, to avoid having to code swimming AI. Interviews with developers note that this trope exists to avoid a few other tropes, such as Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence or Border Patrol as water is a more "logical" method than a fence or invisible wall. Additionally it removes the need for extra assets taking up inventory slots that don't get used a lot. Sometimes, an item that allows one to swim will be presented — usually to keep the player from going places they shouldn't be able to yet. Important: If your drowning skills come with an Oxygen Meter, they're not Super. Compare Cannot Cross Running Water and Walk on Water. Contrast Super Not-Drowning Skills for characters who can stay underwater indefinitely with no apparent means of breathing, as well as Super Swimming Skills for those with more realistic submersion behavior but unrealistic swimming abilities. |
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Unbreakable: David learns that along with his superhero-like strength, he has an Achilles' Heel of water. Justified in that David both has a fear of water due to a childhood incident, and in the context of the movie, his powers are ill-defined. David is vastly healthier than normal (never getting sick, and being vastly stronger than his size indicates), but no limits are recorded (he stops measuring his strength before finding his limit, and while he is the sole survivor of a massive train wreck, he balks at trying to see if he's bulletproof). Since humans can't exactly survive underwater, either, his "weakness" may simply be panicking from his childhood combined with still needing oxygen. Glass confirms that his Super Drowning Skills are real, and end up taking him out for good. |
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In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Yukon Cornelius reveals the Bumble (Abominable Snow Monster) has only one weakness: he's a notorious sinker. | |
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The Super Mario Bros. Movie's version of Donkey Kong can't swim like his game version, which becomes important to the plot when Mario has to save him from drowning after falling into the water below Rainbow Road. | |
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And for that matter, so can Gaossmon from Digimon, according to supplementary materials. Finding one passed out in a puddle is apparently a common sight. | |
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Ranma ½: Akane Tend�'s swimming skills, or lack thereof, has earned her the nickname "hammergirl". Akane panics and cannot swim even when her life really does depend on it. Even wearing a flotation device, she manages to sink like a rock. Even when the water is only knee-deep. Until she was explicitly told otherwise near the end of the manga, she honestly believed you were supposed to breathe while underwater. Discovering that you have to hold your breath was nothing short of an epiphany for her. Played with in a very nasty way when, during the final arc of the manga, the villains kidnap her and deliberately drown poor Akane in a Jusenky� spring, creating the Spring of Drowned Akane. Fortunately, her experience with drowning is so extensive, she survives the ordeal. But it is still a surprisingly cruel reference to a character flaw that was always treated for comedy. | |
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Fray: Melaka realizes by the end of the series that this is her Treacherous Advisor Urkonn's biggest weakness, and uses it to kill him. Possibly justified, since he is a demon. | |
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X-Men: Colossus in his steel form is also too heavy to swim, though he at least has the advantage of not needing to breathe. | |
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The Rising of the Shield Hero: Upon learning the Carmia Island has a Dragon Hourglass, and a Wave is due to come in a little over two days, Ren tries to bow out. When questioned why by the others, he shouts that of course he can swim, why would you even ask that? Completely deadpan, Motoyasu and Itsuki proceed to grab him, frogmarch him outside and toss him into shallow water to test the obvious conclusion. He's drowning in less than waist high waters. | |
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It's revealed in A Quiet Place Part II that the aliens don't know how to swim. | |
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In Death Ship, neither Jackie nor Nick make any attempt to stop themselves from drowning when they're being hoisted into the water by the eponymous Ghost Ship's cable. Then again, by that point they're probably paralyzed by fear. | |
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Awaken: Baek Seung-jae drowns in a shallow pool. This is one of the reasons Jung-woo knows his death was murder, not suicide. | |
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Runaways: Klara Prast has explicitly stated that she does not know how to swim. | |
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The Belgariad: Garion had acquired this skill ever since he was hit by a log on a pond while attempting to swim. | |
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Ebina from Himouto! Umaru-chan does not know how to swim and drowns the second she touches the water. | |
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All-Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku: Nuku-Nuku can handle water just fine, but she can't swim because her robot body is too heavy to float and she sinks in any large body of water. She is eventually upgraded to get around this. | |
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In the Guardians of the Flame series, dwarves are noticeably denser than humans, with the result that they sink like a stone in water. This leads to a panic-inducing incident in one book when the dwarven member of the cast is tossed off a ship in the middle of a battle, with no one available to rescue him. Fortunately the ship is anchored, and he manages to get to the anchor chain and climb up it before drowning. | |
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In Sword Art Online, Suguha/Leafa, in spite of being the most athletically gifted player in reality, can't swim, so during a trip to the pool with other players, Asuna volunteers to teach her to swim. While she gets a hang of it in the real world, she needs help from the others to get to an underwater dungeon in Alfheim Online. | |
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The Daevabad Trilogy: Dara, a daeva Elemental Embodiment of fire, implies this, telling a human, "Can I swim? Can you burn?" Subverted when other daeva are revealed to be perfectly good swimmers; Dara simply has a severe phobia from having been drowned. | |
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In an episode of School Rumble Tenma (on behalf of her friends) challenges Nara and his buddies in a swimming competition. Since she knows she cannot swim herself, she expects that any of her friends will be able to win the competition (and the viewer may be led to believe that either Mikoto or Akira have better chances, at that). However, no sooner than they all dive, Tenma looks aside and sees... her three friends sinking behind her. | |
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The Last Leprechaun: Tommy has to save Finn from drowning in a tub of water. | |
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In Harry Potter, Harry's inability to swim well comes up a few times. He almost drowns in both the fourth and seventh books when he's forced to swim. In the sixth, Dumbledore (who's 115) has to do the swimming in the Horcrux lake because Harry can't. | |
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Assassination Classroom: This is one of Koro-sensei's greatest weaknesses. His body will bloat and become immovable when he's underwater due to being highly absorbent. Ironic, for a creature that looks like and often compared to an octopus. | |
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In Cracked: Landscapes That Murder You all but names this trope when describing the Bolton Strid (see Real Life below): The #16 Science Lesson as Taught by Famous Video Games is that Altair + Hâ‚‚O = death. |
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Doby & Disy: In the Season 5 episode "Diver in Maldives", Nigel wants to be a diver but can't swim. This becomes integral to his dream, where Doby rescues him from drowning in what turns out to be the shallow end of the water. Nigel gets over this by the end of the episode. | |
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Waterworld: Enola. Even though the entire Earth was covered with water decades or possibly centuries ago, this ten-year old girl can't swim. This is foreshadowing that she comes from Dryland. | |
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Gorillas cannot swim. This was even referenced in Planet of the Apes. | |
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1408: While Mr. Olin elaborates to Mike about the gruesome death record of room 1408, he remarks that one person who stayed in the room died by drowning in his chicken soup. Even Mike is momentarily befuddled at how he managed that. | |
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Meloetta: Melody of Discord: Pinkie and Miku instantly die when they fall into water. Possibly justified since Miku is an android, as for Pinkie... the water does seem to be very cold, considering that most platforms in those levels are ice. | |
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Jalan of The Red Queen's War never learned how to swim and is described as vaguely flailing in the direction he wants to go whenever he's in the water. So of course he winds up magically bound to a Viking and spends the majority of the books on a boat. | |
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Having grown up in an orphanage, neither Rinne or Fuka of ViVid Strike! ever learned how to swim. The rest of the cast teaches them during a minor subplot in the Beach Episode. | |
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WonderShock: Doctor Angus Bumby never learned how to swim, so the minute Alice pushes him into the water, all he can do is hopelessly flounder before the Atlantic Express crushes him. | |
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In the second season of Jack & Dean of All Trades, Jack and Dean lose their job as lifeguards after everyone finds out that Dean has no idea how to swim. | |
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The Ariana Black Series: While swimming to escape an underwater base, Ariana gets caught up in completely mundane seaweed and drowns. And while magic doesn't work to revive her, CPR does. | |
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Wolverine is sometimes written as being unable to float and barely able to swim because of the dense metal covering his skeleton. This especially dangerous because one story revealed that drowning is actually one of the few ways to permanently kill him, as his Healing Factor doesn't guard against lack of oxygen. | |
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When their first ship, the Milka, is sunk by Eldrago and his Scream-Scream Fruit, Ranma has to rescue Shampoo, whose newfound status as a Zoan causes her to sink helplessly into the depths. | |
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In Rupauls Drag Race, one challenge involved an underwater photoshoot, but not all the drag queens could swim. Hilarity ensued. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twisted Fates: In chapter 3 , Link saves Medli from drowning in the sea after she was knocked out of the sky by Seahats. As Medli explains, the Rito are meant to be in the air, not the sea, and thus none of them can swim. Also doubles as irony, since the Rito evolved from the Zora. | |
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Marvel Universe: Daredevil: Being immersed in water is Daredevil's Logical Weakness, since the water nullifies most of his Super-Senses. Runaways: Klara Prast has explicitly stated that she does not know how to swim. Wolverine is sometimes written as being unable to float and barely able to swim because of the dense metal covering his skeleton. This especially dangerous because one story revealed that drowning is actually one of the few ways to permanently kill him, as his Healing Factor doesn't guard against lack of oxygen. X-Men: Colossus in his steel form is also too heavy to swim, though he at least has the advantage of not needing to breathe. |
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Azumanga Daioh's Osaka is able to swim just fine, she just can't float. | |
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The above is a parody of a scene in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves which plays the trope straighter; Robin and Little John have a more dramatic stave fight which ends with Robin knocking John into an actual river... at which point he discovers John can't swim. Robin rescuing John earns John's gratitude and loyalty, and ends their battle. | |
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Hitoha in Mitsudomoe doesn't know how to swim and hates swimming because of this. | |
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Leafie, a Hen into the Wild: Leafie was a caged hen for most of her life, so she can't swim. This is noted several times by other characters. This causes problems as her son is a duck, who has a natural affinity for water. Leafie nearly drowned trying to "save" Greenie when he was a baby. The other duckings mock Greenie for having a mother who can't swim. | |
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In the Green-Sky Trilogy, Raamo slipped and fell into the Bottomless Lake and made no effort to try and swim or even let go of the "tool of violence" he was carrying. Snyder, realizing she really screwed up with this ending, authorized what was likely the first canonical video-game sequel to another medium's story...and even in that game, so much as touching the water would send the player back to their home with an ominous "You were found unconscious" message. | |
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Tasuki of Fushigi Yuugi, otherwise a Hot-Blooded badass, has a severe phobia of water and panics too badly to swim. | |
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In the Quantum Leap episode "The Wrong Stuff", the episode's antagonist falls into a water-filled ditch that can't be more than three or four feet deep, and Sam has to save him from drowning. This rescue naturally leads to the antagonist's change of heart, which resolves the episode's conflict. | |
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In Smallville, Lana manages to drown in less than 15 seconds. Don't worry, Clark saves her with some mouth-to-mouth. | |
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It's mentioned in chapter 7 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War that Shirogane is such a bad swimmer that he could drown in his own bathtub. This ties into his namesake in The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter, who nearly drowned at sea. It also turns out to be a vital plot point, since Kaguya never would have rescued Shizuku from drowning if he had been able to act first. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph mostly compensates for being blind by sensing vibrations through the ground. This doesn't work in water, so she never learned to swim. The one time she falls in, she's able to tread water and yell, but needs Suki to hold her steady and guide her to shore. | |
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Nobita Nobi from Doraemon can drown in puddles. He is hopeless at swimming despite being taught once how to swim and was once provided with an imagination pill to make him think that he was in a swimming pool. | |
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Hekikai No Aion: Seine can't swim. Even in a kid's pool with water-wings, she sinks like a rock. She also fights the people of the sea. The irony. | |
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GrailQuest: Featureless Protagonist Pip can't swim, and this comes up several times in The Den of Dragons, where you essentially have to roll dice to see if you can learn to swim on the spot. | |
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Billion Dollar Brain: Thinking that his agents in the Soviet Union have successfully spread a debilitating virus, General Midwinter leads his private army in a charge across the frozen Gulf of Finland, intending to invade (and "liberate") Latvia; however, his "agents" never existed: and a Soviet Airforce bomber drops a massive "Blockbuster" bomb on the ice; and the entire army, including the General, die horribly, in an "hommage" to Sergei Eisenstein's "Alexander Nevsky". | |
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Panthro from ThunderCats is a master of this technique. | |
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This figures into Augustus Gloop's undoing in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory — according to his mother "He can't swim a yard", so when he tumbles into the chocolate river he can only flail and call for help before getting sucked into a pipe, which saves him from drowning but turns out to be a case of Out of the Frying Pan. | |
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In Lexx, Kai is too dense to swim as a result of the decarbonization process that made him an immortal undead assassin. In Season 3 which alternates between a water world and desert world, falling into the ocean wouldn't destroy him, but he'd be stuck a hundred kilometers underwater til the end of time. | |
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In Lost, Sayid manages to drown beyond resuscitation about 5 seconds after he stops struggling. | |
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In an episode of American Dragon: Jake Long, Jake meets a mermaid named Silver who can't swim because she's hydrophobic. She gets better, though. | |
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Moana: A line from Maui's "I Am" Song suggests that he is this trope. Since he is a demi-god of the sea and he was stuck on an island for a thousand years, he's likely not joking. Presumably he never learned to swim because he was used to using his magic fishhook to turn into a fish whenever he went into the water. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: Diana actually has to stop her fight with Villainy, Inc. to save Eviless when she realizes the villain isn't coming back up after going into the ocean. Eviless does have the excuse of coming from a planet without large bodies of water, but she picked a fight on an island. | |
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Septimus Heap: Septimus near-drowns surprisingly quickly in after he's been thrown into the water by Queen Etheldredda. In the end of the book, Etheldredda drowns very quickly as well after she's slid into the river. |
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One Piece: Anyone who has eaten a Devil Fruit gains a special power, at the cost of losing the ability to swim in the ocean. In fact, having at least half of their body submerged will not only prevent them from using any abilities granted by the Fruit, but will drain all strength out of them to the point of near paralyzation, causing them to sink. This is inconvenient, since most of the characters are sea-faring pirates on a planet with even less landmass than the Earth. Note that only actual submersion and seawater counts; rain is harmless and DF users can still take showers according to Word of God. A few people (mostly winners of the Superpower Lottery) have Devil Fruit powers that at least partially negate this weakness. Aokiji for example, An Ice Person, freezes the water just by coming into contact with it, giving him a massive advantage over other Devil Fruit users; also, Protagonist Monkey D. Luffy still has an elastic body regardless of whether he's in water or not, so he can have somebody else stretch his head outside of the water (he'll still be paralyzed, but he will then be able to breathe, at least). Zig-zagged, ironically, with the Swim-Swim Fruit, wielded by Senõr Pink, which allows a person to swim in basically anything BUT water. Even before he ate the Devil Fruit, Luffy couldn't swim and was given the nickname "Anchor" by Shanks' crew, so he'd have Super Drowning Skills regardless. The worst part: at times, Tony Tony Chopper would jump in after Luffy if the latter ended up in trouble in the sea, forgetting he can't swim, either. Upon which Brook would jump in after Chopper, ALSO forgetting he can't swim. Then they get saved by Franky who swims perfectly despite being mostly made out of metal. A good example of the toll this can take is with Buggy. He "accidentally" swallowed a Devil Fruit he was planning to steal and sell when he was startled by Shanks. He still holds a grudge to this day. Why? Because he was an excellent swimmer before he ate it and planned to swim to a very large amount of treasure hidden in the sea. Fishmen, Mermen, and Mermaids who ate Devil Fruits won't be able to move when they are in the sea, but they won't drown. There are special bubbles that allow you to move in water as long you are inside the bubbles. Known Fishmen with Devil Fruit abilities are Van der Decken IX and Captain Jack, one of Kaido's top three subordinates. |
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The DCU: Outsiders: The Outsiders manage to stop an attempted invasion by Gorilla Grodd and his army by pushing the gorilla soldiers into the water — gorillas can't swim. Superman: In The Dominus Effect, the Superman of 2999 cannot survive in water, as he nearly drowns to death when a torrent of water washes through Metropolis to put out the fire caused by the incendiary bomb used to take down the robots that have Turned Against Their Masters. Wonder Woman Vol 1: Diana actually has to stop her fight with Villainy, Inc. to save Eviless when she realizes the villain isn't coming back up after going into the ocean. Eviless does have the excuse of coming from a planet without large bodies of water, but she picked a fight on an island. |
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Ami Nekota in Kamisama Kiss admits that she can't swim. | |
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The Most Popular Girls in School: Trisha nearly drowns in the Season 5 premiere... in the shallow end of the pool... while wearing water wings... despite being a rather tall teenage girl. Mackenzie has to try to fish her out of the water with a hook, before Trisha realizes she can Stop Drowning and Stand Up. And apparently, this isn't the first time this has happened. | |
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Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation: The XXVth century descendants of Superman and Supergirl are unable to survive in water because several generations ago the witch Hecate's curse made saltwater lethal to the House of El. Even a seconds-long dip in the ocean would kill them. | |
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The Boy Who Fell: While everyone is hanging around a pool while waiting to arrive at the next region, Sorian literally chucks Quartz into the water in a fit of rage. Unfortunately, being a rock demon, he can't float and immediately begins drowning. Later, Quartz is seen yelling at Sorian for nearly killing him. | |
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Played with in Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Robin Hood and Little John duel on a log bridge and are down to just slapping what's left of their shattered staves as if they were pencils. Robin gets the upper hand and boots Little John... into an itsy-bitsy stream, causing the man to flail and panic as if he's drowning. Robin can't help but look at the camera in disbelief before "helping" the man. | |
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In Episode 4 of Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na, Feena jumps into a river to save a drowning puppy. However, since she grew up on the moon, and water is a scarce resource up there, she never learned how to swim, so Tatsuya ends up having to save her and the puppy shortly afterwards. | |
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Glass confirms that his Super Drowning Skills are real, and end up taking him out for good. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Neither SpongeBob nor Patrick know how to swim in Goo Lagoon. At first, this sounds like a winking nod to the show's liberal use of the Water Is Air trope, until you remember sponges and starfish can't swim in real life, either. They crawl. | |
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Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!: The Kaiju spawn that Izuku encounters on Korusan Island are completely incapable of swimming, recoiling after they touch water for the first time. Ironically enough, they have the appearance of a shark's head atop a pile of tentacles. | |
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Sonic X: In the first episode, Sonic falls into a swimming pool and tries to get out for several seconds to no avail. Even better, in the episode "Sonic vs Knuckles", Sonic gets knocked into water by Knuckles. He instantly has a panic attack, splashing wildly and yelling. It takes him a few seconds to realise he's barely ankle deep, with Knuckles looking on at him with an annoyed look. | |
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Alien Exodus: Human Exodus mentions that Rodians cannot swim at all, because Rodia is a jungle world where rain evaporates as soon as it hits the ground, meaning that there are no open bodies of water. | |
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Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse: As a Crossover Fic between Ranma ½ and One Piece, it adheres to the rule that Devil Fruit users lose the ability to swim and instead are paralyzed when they are immersed in water. When their first ship, the Milka, is sunk by Eldrago and his Scream-Scream Fruit, Ranma has to rescue Shampoo, whose newfound status as a Zoan causes her to sink helplessly into the depths. Ranma ends up killing the Logia Gasparde by causing him to fall into the ocean, where he drowns. |
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Doctor Who: In "The Unicorn and the Wasp", the Vespiform, a giant alien wasp, drowns after being lured into a perfectly still lake. | |
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Leave Her Johnny: Apparently, all ship girls who are not submarines are incapable to dive underwater. Izumi does not take this well, and asks Goto if she can teach the rest of the Kanmusu how to swim. | |
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Daredevil: Being immersed in water is Daredevil's Logical Weakness, since the water nullifies most of his Super-Senses. | |
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Superman: In The Dominus Effect, the Superman of 2999 cannot survive in water, as he nearly drowns to death when a torrent of water washes through Metropolis to put out the fire caused by the incendiary bomb used to take down the robots that have Turned Against Their Masters. | |
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Ledo does this in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet when he first tries out one of the Earthling's yunboroid. While his own mecha can indeed maneuver underwater fairly well, the primitive controls on the Earth yunboroid isn't intuitive to him, so he flails around a bit before sinking. Justified however, because he was born and grew up in space, so there was no need for him to learn swimming skills. | |
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Gentoku Ryuubi from Ikki Tousen. Usually played for laughs since she's a klutz as well. It's played more seriously in when she jumps into a huge pond to rescue a drowning Koumei while fully knowing the risks. They survive, but barely. | |
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The famous three-breasted cat-woman in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. She leaps onto Kirk's back, is airplane-spun for a half-turn, then just gently tossed face-down onto a table where a variation of billiards is played, with a quarter-inch of water covering the playing field. She then just lays there, presumably insta-drowned. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series: Misty's Psyduck doesn't know how to swim despite being a Water type. A few attempts have been made, but it ends in failure every time. He seems happier with an inner tube, though. You'd think that maybe not it's so bad if you consider that a Psyduck, despite the name, is probably more of a platypus than a duck (no wings, doesn't learn a single "bird-related" move, can interbreed with mammals and assorted aquatic creatures rather than birds). The problem is that platypi naturally float, anyway, to the point of requiring constant swimming to stay submerged. Otherwise, they just bob right back up to the surface. This means Misty's Psyduck has even fewer excuses for its incompetence in the water than before. The Magikarp James bought from the salesman during the S.S. Anne mini-arc couldn't swim, either. It's a fish. That can't swim. (We saw Magikarp swimming in the first episode, for bonus points). Even more bizarre is that once it evolves into Gyarados, it becomes a relentless, powerful swimmer of the sea. |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: Numbuh Four. He later learns how to swim, but he's still not good at it and prefers to avoid it if possible. This actually ends up being a plot point in an episode: Numbuh One realizes the Utopian island he crashed into is a simulation because Numbuh Four is swimming at a pool party. | |
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Dragon Hunters: Gwizdo being unable to swim comes up a few times. If he's plunged into a body of water he'll sink straight to the bottom. Lian-Chu actually has to revive him with chest compressions in "The Stuff of Dreams". | |
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DSBT InsaniT: Water doesn't put Fire Guy out, he just can't swim! Robo won't short-out in water, he just can't swim. |
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Most Vampires in Vampire Hunter D cannot swim at all, and being submerged paralyzes them. And even D — a Dhampire of extraordinary caliber — can drown if he's in deep enough water to keep him immobile. | |
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Episode 2 of Angel Beats! saw a Dwindling Party scenario deep underground (it's the afterlife, so Death is Cheap and Played for Laughs). Right before the commercial break, the group is down to four members. Fujimaki predicts newcomer Otonashi will be the next to die. Right after the break, the group find themselves in the aftermath of a water trap. Guess who's floating like a dead goldfish? | |
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Chino from Is the Order a Rabbit? can't swim and is rescued from getting trapped on a sandbar. | |
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Rooster Fighter: Keiji can't swim and nearly dies when baby birds push him into a pond. He tries to excuse himself that he was practicing a new fighting style while screaming for help. He also tries to avoid a hot spring, despite it being pretty shallow. | |
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It becomes a running joke in Aubrey-Maturin that Doctor Stephen Maturin would always nearly drown when trying to board a ship. Considering how often he needs to go on and off ships as the Naval Surgeon... | |
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Yuno from Hidamari Sketch needs a swim ring to stay afloat or else she will drown. | |
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Invoked and Exaggerated in Futaba-kun Change!. Misaki, the main character's love interest and a member of her school's swim team, has such a sweet tooth that the school pool has a high sugar water content from her sweat making it immensely dense. When the swim team swims in any other bodies of water with less density, the find themselves unable to swim in it. | |
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In Cheaper by the Dozen, Mother sinks like a rock every time that Dad tries to teach her how to swim. The failures are so frequent and so complete that at one point Dad accuses her of deliberately resisting. | |
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Dwarves in the Dragonlance series are noted for swimming like stones. | |
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Klay World: Parodied in "Glass of Water", where a bunch of klaymen drown in a tiny puddle produced by a glass of water by sticking their faces in the puddle. And then several more are drowned by the towel used to clean up the puddle. In "Swimming Pool", one of the Klay Men decides to jump off a diving board into the swimming pool. However, being made of clay, he immediately sinks and drowns. It doesn't help that the lifeguard does absolutely nothing to help him. |
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Code Lyoko: Any monsters or heroes falling into the Digital Sea are "permanently virtualized", i.e. dead. Happens to a lot of monsters, and to Yumi and Aelita once each (they got better). There are also ordinary bodies of water in some sectors; terrestrial monsters just sink and drown there, but the heroes can swim through them. |
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In Superstar (1999), Slater can't swim, and still doesn't bother to learn after he almost drowns and Mary Katherine saves him the first time. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: Stitch is so dense that he will automatically sink if submerged in water. Of course, he ends up on an island in Hawaii, stymieing his inborn desire to find and destroy large population centers. Doesn't stop him entering Hawaiian Surf Competitions. | |
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Transformers: Nautilator has always been depicted as enthusiastic but completely incompetent in the water in all continuities of the comics. He rusts like a '67 Fiat, has the navigational skills of Roronoa Zoro, and in spite of being a giant living robot with an alternate mode made to traverse the ocean, he's been defeated by the tides changing. The Decepticons are hampered by just having him around. Inexplicably, the Decepticons made him part of their main underwater strike team (it's suspected that they might just have been trying to get him as far away from the Decepticons' main forces as they could). He does have a limited saving grace of accidentally finding valuable resources just about every time he gets stuck underwater, but that's not nearly enough to stop the rest of the Seacons from detesting being stuck with him. | |
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In Episode 3 of Free! the newest member of the team, Ryugazaki Rei, reveals that he can't actually swim. He chooses to reveal this by belly-flopping into the pool and nearly drowning so Nagisa and Haruka have to rescue him. Rei eventually learns how to swim. | |
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