It's safe to say that Lara Croft is a household name. In fact, it is rare to find a female video game protagonist with as much recognition as her. I guess it's just a coincidence that she's attractive and has an unrealistic body type, but I digress. Thankfully, it is not just her image that has called many fans to her stories. The Tomb Raider series has long been an industry standard for what an adventure game should be, and w𝕴ith the success of the recent reboওot, it looks like Lara Croft's legacy will continue.
Croft is a kind of Indiana Jones meets James Bond, but she brings so much more to the table. She comes from an aristocratic and wealthy family that got rich from the lucrati𒀰ve business of archaeology, she is skilled in multiple๊ forms of combat that have no connection to each other, and she has the remarkable ability to survive wounds and athletic feats that would leave most people crippled. Oh, I'm sorry, do all those things combined sound a tad unbelievable. That's because they are.
Despite being a household name/game, Lara Croft's Tomb Raider is a study in nonsense. I love her games, don't get me wrong. In fact, I'm currently replaying the 2013 Tomb Raider, and I think it's phenomenal. But that doesn't mean that I don't think the character of Tomb Raider can be a bit...implausible. If you do not believe me, just wait till you see what we've got on this list. Read on if you want to learn how Lara Croft simply d𝓡oes not make sense.
25 The Whole Dual Pistols Thing 🔜
I highly doubt most of us gamers have held actual dual pistols in our hands, but even couch potatoes like uꦑs can think about their use with some plain common sense.
Dual pistols are in no way more accurate than a single pistol.
Lara Croft's signature look with a pistol in each hand makes no logical or tactical sense. And accuracy aside, just imagine what it would be like to actually reload those things. No way are two pistols able to be relꦜoaded as quickly as Croft reloads her 🦩guns.
24 🥃 The Plots For Most Of Her Games
Anyone who has played games from the Tomb Raider series will be familiar with this pattern. Lara wants to find this mythical aꦛrchaeological artifact that has been separated into several pieces that coul♕d cause the world's end if put together. Some bad guy wants it too. Lara has to scramble to find several pieces before the bad guy.
Unfortunately, the bad guy steals them from her and sets the destruction of the Earth in motion. Lara then has to destroy the artifact in order to prevent global catastrophe. One question: Why doesn't Lara just destroy an artifact when she first finds it?
23 Is Thiꩵs Really Realistic?
I've never come across a body type like Lara Croft's in the real world. And by the "real world," I mean not in the movies or in video games. The earlier you go in Tomb Raider's history, the more unrealistic she looks.
In the first few games, her top size was nearly double her waist size.
I know Lara's look is what some gamers come to the Tomb Raider series for, but they should know they are drooling afte🅠r something that doesn't exist outside of those pಌixels.
22 🌠 Has She𒊎 Gotten A Tetanus Shot?
Right off the bat, the 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider series let us know that they were taki𝓀ng a grittier and more survival-oriented look at Lara Croft. After being captured by this random dude, wrapped in a body bag, and tied to t🦋he ceiling, Lara escapes by burning the bag and falling down.
Unfortunately, she falls right onto a rusted metal spike that was covered in dried blood. That can't be sanitary. Lara should not have survived that initial blow, let alone the raging infection that should have plagued her afterwards.
21 ꦚ Alien Life: Confirmed
Tomb Raider, apparently, does not solely take you to ancient ruins and underground caverns. (You know, typical places you would expect a tomb to be.) Lara Croft has had to break into Area 51 in order to steal Element 115 from those shady government types.
I'm sorry, but when did my archaeology adventure game turn into a sci-fi shooter? Tomb Raider definitely pulled a Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, if you know what I mean.
20 ꦆ How Many Hobbiesꦆ Does Lara Have?
I get that Lara Croft comes from a rich family, so she would have the money and the opportunity to learn many skills. But let's just look at all that she can do for a moment. She can rock climb, shoot a gun and a bow and arrow, ride a motorcycle, stitch tapestries, perform extreme skiing, and more.
And that is just the physical aspect of her hobbies. She also has an extensive knowledge of languages, archaeology, and basic survival skills. In many Tomb Raider games, we meet her 🎃when she's a young 𝓡girl. When did she learn all this?
19 Thanks For The Helping Hand 🐻
In any Tomb Raider game where Lara has allies, they do surprisingly little to help her. You would think people in a life-threatening situation would try to do more to improve their own situation, but it seems like every time, they are content to let Lara do all the heavy-lifting.
How is she not more ticked off at these "friends" of hers? Eve🌠n in the new games, her allies do not assist in completing objectives nearly🔜 as much as they should. They kind of just camp out waiting for Lara to be a total hero.
18 Questionable Treatment Of Butlers ♐
In Tomb Raider 2 and 3, players could lock Winston the creepy butler, who followed Lara around Croft Manor, in the freezer. This was a small and funny activityꦫ gamers could participate in. This has actually become canon.
In DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider, a document can be found where it is revealed that when Lara was a young girl, she locked Winston in the freezer as a form of rebellion. I find this inclusion of fan habits endearing, but I do wonder if it's okay for young Lara to be portrayed as a burgeoning psychopath.
17 Worst Time T🌄o Have Narcolepsy
Lara was understandably exhausted in the beginning of the 2013 Tomb Raider game. She had just survived a shipwreck, being captured by an island inh🐻abitant, and receiving a ghastly wound t💖o her abdomen.
But later on, when she was finally reunited with her friend Sam and a strange old man named Mathias, was that the best time for a nap? 🌠Lara falls asleep while Sam and Mathias are talking, and when she wakes up, the two of them are gone. Definitely not the best time or place to fall asleep.
16 Survival Of The Youngesꦉt
In one version of Lara's background, she survives a plane crash with her mother when she is nine years old. The t𓆉wo of them had been flying over the Himalayas when the plane crashed. After making her way out of the wreckage, Lara trekked her way to the village of Katmandu. Once there, she called her father for help.
Lara is officially a wunderkind. Not only did she miraculously survive the plane crash, but she also survived journeying through deep snows and intense cold.