Swampy

“	Swampy the Crocodile is sneaky, brutish, sly, greedy and above all dastardly! Swampy doesn't like frogs. In fact, Swampy does not like most things. Most of all he really doesn't like Frogger. He's out for revenge, and his plans involve the Frog Babies. But he's very clever — what else is he up to?	„
	~ Official description from Swampy's Revenge

Swampy the Crocodile, commonly referred to simply as Swampy, is the main antagonist of Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge. He is the canonized crocodile who was repeatedly stepped on and used as an impromptu floating platform in the original Frogger arcade game.^[1] This is further supported as his official bios states that he is "out for revenge", referring to Frogger.

He was voiced by popular English children's television presenter Justin Fletcher.

History[]

Swampy is a large swamp crocodile from the original 1981 arcade video game who Frogger repeatedly used as a stepping platform to get home. For this audacity, he has become hopelessly vengeful toward him. In his first outburst, Swampy hops into a truck and attempts to run over Frogger, but luckily, his girlfriend Lillie arrives just in time and saves him. Other than this, Frogger and Lillie live a peaceful life in their swamp, where Lillie also takes care of her dozens of little siblings.

Still on his quest for revenge, Swampy secretly abducts all of the babies and puts them in a sack. However, while escaping, a branch rips it open and some of the babies manage to get out. Frogger and Lillie soon realize what has happened and give chase to Swampy by following the trail of escaped babies. The heroes manage to corner the crocodile on a bridge located between an old mine and a pyramid. Looking for a way to distract them, Swampy throws one baby to the mine and another to the pyramid, forcing the heroes to split up; he then plunges into the river below and escapes.

Still escaping from the frogs, Swampy arrives to a launching station, where he gets inside a spaceship and flies into outer space. He arrives to a Space Station, where it is revealed he plans to release his own video game, Swampy: The Game. Using the station's antenna, he transmits an advertisement for his game to all the TVs on Earth, which shows a female crocodile (Swampy wearing a blond wig) screaming on a chair while lots of baby frogs are jumping in her house. A Rambo lookalike (also Swampy in disguise) then kicks down the house's door and starts shooting at the babies, with the bullets writing "Swampy" on the wall.

Satisfied with how things are turning out, Swampy enters a room with a big portal to continue the next step of his plan. However, he is interrupted by Frogger, who flew in a rocket to the space station. Taken by surprise, Swampy trips and falls inside the portal carrying the sack with the babies. Frogger jumps inside too, which takes him to an old graveyard where he sees Swampy running inside a decrepit old house.

Frogger makes way to the haunted house, where he reunites with Lillie; but while he knocks on the door, a trapdoor opens below Lillie and she falls through a chute. The door then opens and Frogger is allowed in. Meanwhile, Lillie ends up in the basement where Swampy has his hideout, and she gets imprisoned in a cage and hung over a pool of lava. Frogger soon also arrives to the hideout, but he is captured as well.

Delighted by how things have turned out, Swampy activates a machine that slowly descends the cage with the frogs into the lava pool, and then he turns on another machine which starts packing up the babies with the copies of his game. Luckily, one of the babies named Tad manages to escape and rescues Frogger and Lillie. They set all the other babies free and then the hideout blows up with Swampy still inside. A UFO is seen emerging from the debris of the destroyed house, implying Swampy survived the blast.

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Since Swampy is playable in Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, there can be two Swampys on the screen at the same time in Space Chase.
11 years after the release of Swampy's Revenge, an alligator character also named Swampy debuted on Disney's video game Where's My Water?, reappearing on its many sequels and starring in his own animated web series Swampy's Underground Adventures in 2012. It is unknown if the Disney character was inspired by Frogger's Swampy.

References[]

↑ During the introduction cutscene of Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, Swampy is seen reminiscing on how Frogger used him as a stepping platform in both the original Frogger arcade game, as well as in its remake/reboot from 1997.

External links[]

Swampy at the Villains Wiki

[1] During the introduction cutscene of Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, Swampy is seen reminiscing on how Frogger used him as a stepping platform in both the original Frogger arcade game, as well as in its remake/reboot from 1997.

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