10 Videogame Characters Who Were Strangely Allergic To Water

4. Coco €“ Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex

Coco Bandicoot Coco isn€™t the most well-known person on this list, but she features so highly because she manages what no other character could €“ she forgot how to swim between games, an act of blazing idiocy that makes her infamous. Aside from being creepily humanised by Naughty Dog €“ seriously, there€™s something unnerving about a marsupial in dungarees €“ Coco seems at home on vehicles. She know she can€™t kick quite as much behind as her demented and oddly mute older brother Crash, but she finds her niche piloting machines and that€™s good enough. In Crash Bandicoot 3, one of these machines is a jetski, which for those of you who don€™t know or are insane enough to refute this basic rule, runs on water. Coco€™s jetski is liable to exploding, but because she€™s a trooper, she€™s capable of swimming on. Yet come the sequel €“ Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex €“ Coco appears to be just as useless in the water as her brother, who, let€™s be clear, is profoundly useless. The worst thing is that she appears to have not told anyone, including herself. When Crash attempts to take levels involving lots of water, Coco rocks up in the warp-stream, bouncing Crash away and taking itself. She appears confident that she can tackle any water, but spoiler €“ she can€™t, and instead drowns embarrassingly whenever she as so much gets her shoes wet. Swimming is a lot like riding a bicycle €“ once you know how to do it, surely you never forget. But not only does Coco forget, she chooses to forget in possibly the most dangerous places you can get swim-nesia, the silly girl-marsupial-thing.
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