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* Averted in ''{{Firefox}}''. Creator/ClintEastwood's character hides from a KGB check in a public restroom, but a plainclothes KGB officer follows him in there and Clint is forced to kill him.

* Subverted in ''BoardwalkEmpire''. Agent Sebso is delivering a witness to another prison in order to protect him. He pulls over the car saying he needs to relieve himself. [[TheMole Sebso]] then kills the witness and hits himself on the head with a rock to MakeItLookLikeAStruggle. When asked later, Sebso says that the witness said he wanted to use the bathroom and then tried to make his escape after Sebso removed his cuffs.

* Averted in ''{{Firefox}}''. ClintEastwood's character hides from a KGB check in a public restroom, but a plainclothes KGB officer follows him in there and Clint is forced to kill him.

* Series/TheEqualizer is not impressed when a little old lady does a DitchTheBodyguards stunt on one of his associates this way. She was a fan of murder mysteries and espionage thrillers, so probably learned of the technique from them.

* TheEqualizer is not impressed when a little old lady does a DitchTheBodyguards stunt on one of his associates this way. She was a fan of murder mysteries and espionage thrillers, so probably learned of the technique from them.

* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', Emp talks about how she thought about doing this but decided against it, because it might dissaude crooks from allowing captured heroines to use the bathroom in the future.

* Happens to Provenza and Flynn in ''TheCloser'' episode "Layover", when they allow two stewardesses they are arresting to use the bathroom before taking them down to the station. To add insult to injury, the stewardesses then steal Provenza's car.

* Subverted in one of the ''ChappellesShow'' Tyrone Biggums sketches. Tyrone has promised to give up crack and asks the people in his intervention to let him use the bathroom. He walks into the restroom and says "aw man, how come they don't have any windows in here?"

* TheEqualizer is not impressed when a little old lady does a DitchTheBodyguard stunt on one of his associates this way. She was a fan of murder mysteries and espionage thrillers, so probably learned of the technique from them.

* In ''Push'', this is where the female mind controller orders one of the sniffers to kill himself with his own gun.

* In ''Bollywood/{{Lajja}}'' [[PinballProtagonist Vaidehi]] escapes through a window in the airport's restroom when she finds out that her {{Jerkass}} husband intends to kill her after their baby is born.

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* In ''{{Lajja}}'' [[PinballProtagonist Vaidehi]] escapes through a window in the airport's restroom when she finds out that her {{Jerkass}} husband intends to kill her after their baby is born.

* In ''MythAdventures'', Skeeve tried to escape from the bar on Perv through the backdoor in the bathroom. Unfortunately Pervish thugs turned out to be GenreSavvy enough to wait him outside.
* In Dorothy L. Sayer's ''Unnatural Death'', Bunter shadows the (female) suspect all the way to a major London railway station, where he sees her enter the ladies' room. He waits at the door. . .and waits. . . and waits. The suspect, thinking she might be trailed, had earlier that day checked a suitcase containing a black cloth coat and a black felt hat; she put these on, re-packing the case with her fur coat and red straw hat. (Remember, women's hats in those days frequently concealed most of the face.) Hence, Bunter was looking for an empty handed woman in a fur coat and a red straw hat; he never noticed the woman in the black cloth coat and chat carrying a suitcase.

* In one of the various incarnations of the FairyTale ''LittleRedRidingHood'', Red escapes the BigBad Wolf (or tries to, anyway) by using this excuse.

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* Probably as an homage to this trope (among other EscapeTropes), in ''ToyStory3'' Woody initially breaks out of the day care centre through a bathroom window.

* In the ''CircleOfMagic'' series, Tris tells the others that she needs to use the privy ''now''. It's just an excuse to get away from them and go to try and fight off the pirates on her own.

* Double subverted in ''FairyTail''. Lucy is captured by Jose, and says she needs to go to the bathroom. [[GenreSavvy He hands her a bucket.]] It looks like she's going to use it, but instead she [[GroinAttack kicks him in the groin from behind]] and escapes.

* Bob from ''KnightsOfTheDinnertable'' does it to escape from Nitro's game when sitting for Weird Pete in "A Man Out Standing In His Field".

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* In Push, this is where the female mind controller orders one of the sniffers to kill himself with his own gun.

* Done in MalcolmX when the titular character has to get away from the gangsters on his tail.

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* In MythAdventures Skeeve tried to escape from the bar on Perv through the backdoor in the bathroom. Unfortunately Pervish thugs turned out to be GenreSavvy enough to wait him outside.

* In ''TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody, Carrie apparently escaped from a date once by going to the bathroom and escaping out the window.