History Main / SuperNotDrowningSkills

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfIllusion'':
** ''World of Illusion: Starring WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse & WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck'' (Genesis): The title characters swim underwater in big air bubbles, containing their whole bodies. Which is an example of AcceptableBreaksFromReality in itself.
** In ''[[VideoGame/DisneysMagicalQuest The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse]]'', Mickey's head is surrounded by an air bubble if he is wearing the magician outfit while underwater. With the other costumes, he has no air supply and takes damage after several seconds.
* ''VideoGame/PrinnyCanIReallyBeTheHero'': While the first game treats water as a BottomlessPit, the second game has a stage set entirely underwater, and our Prinny can stay down there for as long as he likes (barring the time limit, obviously). It's outright justified as Prinnies are the souls of criminals animating suits that lack organs, so the need to breathe isn't present. Other characters in this stage are depicted as wearing diving gear (minus wandering gag character Haldi, whom can be battled here if the stage is chosen third). In the same game's "Asagi Wars" campaign, Prinny Asagi is also able to breathe underwater indefinitely, and her opponent is an 8-bit version of herself whom likely doesn't need to breathe as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'': Robotnik is implied to have spent a whole weak underwater [[spoiler:after he was trapped in a frozen lake in "Sno Problem"]]. And no, he didn't have any extra oxygen.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'' usually goes out of it's way to avert this in the case of the [[SuperDrowningSkills Devil fruit users]] but there is one aversion in Jack whose is shown to still be alive despite being at the bottom of the ocean. Later, it’s revealed that he’s a fishman, a race that can breathe underwater. However it's shown that it only extends to him being able to breathe, other than that he's as helpless as any other Devil Fruit user when submerged.
* ''[[Manga/PokemonAdventures Pokémon Special]]'': Though not exactly Super Not Drowning Skills, more like Super breath holding skills, during the Aqua op at Mt. Chimney, Sapphire and Flannery are trapped in a [[DrowningPit air tight cable car that has filled with water]], and are able to survive about 7 minutes without oxygen, even though they're both just kids. Also apparently, [[FridgeLogic The girls can hear every word the bad guy was saying even though he was wearing a air filled helmet, and even if he wasn't, you can't hear stuff underwater as well as in air]]. (Some wild Pokémon can track their prey by sound or scent, and Sapphire would have to hold her breath and remain completely still to avoid detection in those instances. She is the WildChild of the dex holders, after all. That, and the other BadassNormal feats she performs, make this par for the course.)

* In ''Blue's Journey'' for the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo, the time Blue can spend underwater, even icy water, is limited only by the ordinary level timer.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pitfall}} II: Lost Caverns'' had elaborate parts where you swim -- and this is an UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} game.

%% No Context ** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' (UsefulNotes/GameBoy)

* In the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'' VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} roleplay, Fundy locked Technoblade in a dunk tank by (with the intent to drown him) as the latter was practicing trident leaps combined with "[[SoftWater MLG water saves]]" at the Manberg Festival. However, this backfired on Fundy as Techno demonstrated the power of a helmet enchanted with Respiration III by staying in the tank for several minutes and [[ChewingTheScenery overdramatically]] ''pretending'' to be in any real danger from suffocation while many of the other players awkwardly watched on.

* In the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'' VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} roleplay, Fundy locked Technoblade in a dunk tank by (with the intent to drown him) as the latter was practicing trident leaps combined with "[[SoftWater MLG water saves]]" at the Manberg Festival. However, this backfired on Fundy as Techno demonstrated the power of a helmet enchanted with Respiration III by staying in the tank for several minutes and [[ChewingTheScenery overdramatically]] ''pretending'' to be in any real danger from suffocation while many of the other players awkwardly watched on.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' is an interesting case. You start out with SuperSwimmingSkills, but you are unable to dive underwater. Once you gain the Kojin's Blessing in ''Stormblood'', you gain this ability which passes over to your mounts once you collect all the Aether Currents in an area. Hilariously, only two other Scions get this ability: Alisaie and Lyse

Compare with SuperSwimmingSkills, which is often a SisterTrope to this one; if a character has one, they'll probably have the other one as well. Characters with these abilities are particularly prone to SymbolicSereneSubmersion. For the same trope, but [[Justforfun/RecycledINSPACE IN SPACE]], see BatmanCanBreatheInSpace. For similar extraordinary skills of surviving in ice, see HarmlessFreezing. See also ArtificialGill, TheNeedless. A person may be using a ReedSnorkel.

* ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta}}''[='=]s eponymous protagonist can not only stay underwater indefinitely, but in ''Videogame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'', there are more water areas, several fights take place underwater, and she gains a transformation that improves her underwater mobility.

* The main character of ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}'' is able to go into deep pits of water for extended periods of time without losing damage, despite having no visible breathing apparatus. Interestingly, spiders do not posess this ability, and a spider falling in water will die instantly. Of course, oxygen is [[EverythingTryingToKillYou the least of Spelunky's worries underwater]]...

* In the first ''VideoGame/Rayman1'', the main character instantly drowned when he fell in water. In ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'', he can swim in every direction, but can only breathe for about 10 seconds unless assisted by Carmen the Whale's air bubbles. In ''VideoGame/Rayman3HoodlumHavoc'', swimming is simplified by him being able to breathe underwater indefinitely and being limited to moving in the X-axis. In ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' and ''[[VideoGame/RaymanLegends Legends]]'', every playable character can breathe underwater. Suspension of disbelief could be applied in ''Origins'' considering the characters are all inexplicable fantasy creatures, but that comes to a halt in ''Legends'' with the conception of the new playable heroine Barbara, who is obviously human.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Crysis}}'', the protagonist is wearing a super-tech nanosuit. Presumably this can act like a [=CO2=] scrubber, or just holds enough air in its structure to make it a non-issue.

* like Samus, the power armor worn by players in ''VideoGame/StarsiegeTribes'' and its sequels ''VideoGame/TribesII'' and ''VideoGame/TribesVengeance'' allow indefinite underwater lurking.

* ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' has multiplayer maps set underwater, with none of the playable races affected by it in the slightest. The Terrans can be explained by having air-tight PowerArmor and vehicles that are also capable of functioning in space. The Zerg are a race known for mutating to quickly adapt to new environments, so they likely just grew gills. The Protoss absorb the water they need to survive through their skin, and Dragoon/Immortal pilots are [[ManInTheMachine men in the machine]] kept in fluid-filled PeopleJars, so it's entirely likely that they can just breathe water.

* Fish. Though fish actually can drown if they're in water with insufficient oxygen molecules in it; while water molecules themselves contain oxygen, fish do not breathe that as they have no mechanism for separating the hydrogen from the oxygen. The extract the free oxygen that's dissolved in the water. And some types of fish, such as sharks, have to be moving forward in order for their gills to properly function; a shark ''will'' drown if it gets trapped in a net, for example.

* RealLife aquatic mammals such as whales and dolphins can hold their breath for periods ranging from several minutes to a few hours, depending on the species. Even they have to come up for air at some point though. Additionally, all mammals automatically slow their metabolism should they be submerged in cold water. Not very helpful for humans (you get hypothermia, ''then'' you drown), but this ability allows aquatic mammals to live in places like the arctic.

* In ''VideoGame/StarWarsJediFallenOrder'', Cal can swim in water just fine, but he cannot dive until after meeting with Tarfful on Kashyyyk. When he's given a special underwater breathing apparatus, Hal can then dive for as long as he wants with no ill effects on health,

** In the early ''WesternAnimation/PorkyPig'' cartoon ''Fish Tales'', Porky is able to survive being underwater while trying to escape from fish who want to eat him. Granted, [[spoiler:the whole thing turns out to be AllJustADream.]]