History Main / BottomlessBladder

* The {{Commodore 64}}/{{Amiga}} game, ''VideoGame/LittleComputerPeople'' (basically the great-grand-daddy of ''VideoGame/TheSims'', circa 1985) featured a toilet, which your Little Computer Person would use at reasonable intervals. Also, if you didn’t top up his water tank and fill his cupboards when they were empty, he would sicken and eventually expire.

** And then they turned "[[MartialArtsAndCrafts Jarate]]" into an unlockable weapon with an ammo count of one jar. You get another after fifteen seconds. The InUniverse explanation for this is that the Sniper takes pills to triple the size of his kidneys for this impressive feat.
** Many servers boast "24/7" maps, where it's always one location being fought over ([[ComplacentGamingSyndrome usually 2Fort]]). Prepare to get booted for inactivity if you have to go away from the keyboard for a food and/or bathroom break.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in Michael Stackpole's ''[[Comicbook/XWingSeries X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'' StarWars Extended Universe novel, in which a character notices a stormtrooper coming out of the bathroom and wonders how they can possibly... It's worth nothing that the incredibly detailed diagrams of the Millennium Falcon have no bathroom. Although, one could potentially handwave it away by having Firefly-style toilets.

** Funnily enough, the player character is so alien to the idea of urinating and defecating that trying to use toilets will make the PC drink its water.

* Horribly averted in flash text-based game ''VideoGame/DontShitYourPants''. Going to the bathroom is the entire objective of the game, and if you take too long you'll...well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin look at the title]].

* Flash-based text game "Don't Shit Your Pants", going to the bathroom is the entire objective of the game, and if you take too long you'll...well, look at the title.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' averts this in a similar vein, as your [[CoolStarship starship Normandy]] has gender-separated bathrooms that can be entered. Since you can select your gender in that game, and your ship is equipped with an Artifical Intelligence that can see you no matter where you go; you can even get a helpful reminder by said AI that [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything you seem to have entered the wrong door]].

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!!Examples

* As part of the general crude and over-the-top humor of the game, ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' allowed the player to urinate into any toilets or urinals found in the game (of which there were several in some scenes). If the character uses a toilet or urinal, it flushes, then we hear him say, "Much Better!" and if his health is less than 100%, it is raised by 10% or until his health reaches 100%, whichever is less. He only gets to do every five minutes, subsequent flushes do not give him additional health. While the player wasn't required to do this, the game would at times mention that you "need to do something", and following this advice would restore some health points. If the player destroys a toilet or urinal, the player can gradually recover his health by drinking the fresh water billowing from the broken pipelines. It is possible, at least in the N64 version, to take a huge leak, destroy the toilet then regain health from drinking the water. Stay classy, Duke. Stay classy. At the end of the game Duke does create a rather...unusual toilet for his bathroom break. ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' has duke occasionally gain an ego boost from using the urinal. It should be noted that once you've started, you can keep going indefinitely, so this is a Bottomless Bladder of a different kind...

* Averted at one point in ''SecretSix'' when on a country wide road trip Scandal tells them to pull over for apparently yet another time. This prompts Comicbook/{{Deadshot}} to snark about her having a "bladder like a bullet."

So, the Hero has fulfilled every task he set out to accomplish. The BigBad is no more, those who were trapped under his power have been liberated, his minions are defeated, [[DistressedDamsel the fair maiden is rescued]], the hard-won PlotCoupons have served their purposes, and the [[SavingTheWorld world has been saved]]. And the Hero is still just as bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as he was at the moment he set out on his great adventure. Nope, navigating all of those [[DungeonCrawling treacherous, deathtrap laden dungeons]], [[OneManArmy hacking through hordes of enemies like thorn bushes]], [[BossBattle slaying all of those hideous monsters]], and traversing all sorts of terrain on foot through every kind of weather didn't wear him out one bit. And he never stopped to take a rest even once!

* Averted in ''DetectiveConan'': In one of the early cases in the anime ("Billionaire Birthday Blues"), Conan has to make for the bathroom, remarking with annoyance: "Little body, little bladder."
* Comically and realistically averted in ''HighschoolOfTheDead'' when Komuro rescues Alice from being eaten by zombies. As he's carrying her on his back on the top of the wall she complains about needing to pee. With no other options she's forced to pee down Komuro's back while 50 corpses are trying to grab him and pull him off.
* Averted and PlayedforLaughs in ''{{Naruto}}'', where Naruto DOES need to pee. But only when it's least convenient for everyone. Including in one filler episode, where he has to pee, and his hand is glued to Sasuke's using a ball of their enemy's "spoiled" chakra, which is impossible to remove.

* Averted in ''{{Transmetropolitan}}'', Spider Jerusalem is occasionally shown going through his morning routine, i.e., taking a piss and smoking something. Also, in one scene, Channon announces she's going to take a dump the size of a birthday cake. Good to see class and taste being used to address bodily needs. And let's not forget the numerous times Spider shows his distaste for the city by pissing over the side of his balcony...

* Averted at one point in ''SecretSix'' when on a country wide road trip Scandal tells them to pull over for apparently yet another time. This prompts [[DeadpanSnarker Deadshot]] to snark about her having a "bladder like a bullet."
* One {{Deadpool}} scene [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope. After complaining about having to pee for about three days comic-book time, he finally has time to take a bathroom break and spends [[OverlyLongGag the next page and a half]] inside the toilet while Mister Sinister waits outside. (And when he does finally come out, Mister Sinister tells him to go back in and wash his hands.)

* Subverted in one scene in ''ALeagueOfTheirOwn'', wherein not only does Tom Hanks' character take a leak, his all-female baseball team (whom he doesn't notice or doesn't care are there) actually time how long he pees.
** Come to think of it, Tom Hanks does this a lot. Mental_Floss has a whole "[[http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4531 quiz]]" on it.
*** That link's broken. Try this one on [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-actors-who-do-exact-same-thing-in-every-movie/ Cracked]]
* In ''TheUsualSuspects'', the consistency of a character's urine becomes a major plot point.
* Played with in ''{{Pleasantville}}''. When the main characters are sucked into an idyllic 1950s, black and white TV world, they quickly find the bathrooms have no stalls or urinals.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''.
** Cochran: "I gotta go take a leak." [=LaForge=]: "Leak? I'm not detecting any leak." Cochran: [[BreakingTheFourthWall "Don't you people from the 24th century ever pee?"]]
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Austin Powers: Internation Man of Mystery after Austin is thawed from [[HumanPopsicle cryogenic freezing]]. He literally has a Bottomless Bladder during the evacuation scene, much to the dismay of the [[ComputerVoice female computer voice]].
* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture Part II'', Marty apparently spent most of a day in 1955 locked in Biff Tannen's garage, from morning until nightfall. Once he's out, he immediately goes through several set-pieces which lead continuously into ''Part III''. You have to wonder...
** Of course, since he hadn't had anything to eat or drink in the whole movie (not even the Pepsi he ordered), so he never needed to go!
** Another possible explanation is that it was his garage so he could do what he needed to in the corner.
* A classic question that is asked about StarWars is how Darth Vader goes to the bathroom if he can't take off his suit. This actually is answered in-universe by means of built-in collection pouches, when Vader does have to go to the bathroom it is collected and recycled and the mechanisms in his suit which regulate his health decide when he can go to the bathroom. Plus Vader eats via nutrient tubes, and only has the luxury of eating an actual satisfying meal when he is in mediation chambers that provide purified oxygen for him to breathe without his mask, which means that Vader wouldn't have much waste flowing through his intestinal tracks for him to poop out so he doesn't even go to the bathroom that often.
** How do Rebel pilots relieve themselves on those missions that involve long journeys through hyperspace? Luke going to Dagobah had to have taken at least a couple days....
*** The obvious answer would be suits similar to astronaut suits, but the speed of hyperdrive is such that an X-Wing would take much less than a day to reach Dagobah.

* In ''[[RamonaQuimby Ramona]] The Pest'', Ramona gets sent out of class for persistently interrupting ''Mike Mulligan's Steam Shovel'' to ask why he never had to stop for a bathroom break.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Michael Stackpole's ''[[XWingSeries X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'' StarWars Extended Universe novel, in which a character notices a stormtrooper coming out of the bathroom and wonders how they can possibly...
** It's worth nothing that the incredibly detailed diagrams of the Millenum Falcon have no bathroom. Although, one could potentially handwave it away by having Firefly-style toilets.
* This is especially obvious in ''DanBrown'' novels like ''TheDaVinciCode'' and ''AngelsAndDemons'' which take place in a really short period of time, practically minute-by-minute, without the main character needing to eat, sleep, or use the restroom over more than a 24 hour period.
* Averted in some of the DragonridersOfPern books. Some vandals urinate on medical supplies in Renegades of Pern, and Jaxom overhears a plot to kill him while helping a very drunk Masterfisher Idarolan relieve himself in All the Weyrs of Pern. Dragon poop is also used as a fertiliser and a deterrent to keep the big cats of the Southern Continent away from human dwellings.

* Jack Bauer from ''[[Series/TwentyFour 24]]''. Naturally, the cast have been asked about this. The stock answer is "during the commercials."

*** Lampshaded in a ''WillAndGrace'' episode.

** In an early ''Enterprise'' episode, Trip has to answer an Earth child's letter asking how starship bathrooms work. The fact that we don't actually get to ''hear'' his explanation is possibly a {{Lampshading}} of this trope.

* Memorably and '''triumphantly''' averted on ''PicketFences'', when the collective efforts of the entire family (cheering, urging, turning on sinks full blast) finally succeed in spurring the older son's bladder to empty itself. All this effort is completely justified, as he'd suffered a paralyzing spinal injury earlier that season, so his urinating proved that his nerves were recovering.
* {{CSI}}, Grave Danger. Nick was in that box for almost a day, yet all he's got are ant bites and dirt all over, no sign of wetting his pants.
* Averted on the {{NCIS}} episode "Boxed In." After being trapped in a shipping container for most of a day, one of the first things Ziva does upon getting out is march away stiffly, stating she is going to find a ladies room.

* In ''{{Exalted}}'', the Infernal Exalted have access to charms that permanently remove human weaknesses. The charm Transcendent Desert Creature means you never need to use the bathroom again.

* One level of ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' has the player drop in on a guard who is ostensibly using the john, after which you have to take out a guard at a urinal and another inside another stall. However, the game apparently has no sitting animation (even though it has crouching), so the guards are just standing at the johns fully dressed with guns at ready.
** The remake for the Wii keeps faithful to the scene.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', there is a toilet visible in the dorm upgrade Squall moves into after he attains [=SeeD=] status.

* The ''Franchise/SilentHill'' series subverts this by having toilets galore, often very creepy ones.

* The ''BaldursGate'' series will start dealing your characters exhaustion penalties if they don't take time to sleep every so often. The [=NPCs=] will start complaining vocally when this happens. Food is not required, which ''BaldursGate 2'' notes humorously in one of the game tips: "While your character does not have to eat, remember that YOU do. We don't want to lose any dedicated players."

* There was a ''BeavisAndButthead'' videogame where eating too much food caused your characters to take a bathroom break that lowered health.
* In ''VideoGame/BetrayalAtKrondor'' and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Betrayal at Antara'', sleep and food are important concerns for the party on the go. Not so much in direct sequel ''ReturnToKrondor''.
* ''BreathOfFireII'' had toilets in most homes, though the characters never seemed to need to use them, aside from diving into them during ''two'' game events (with an honorable mention going to a lift that performs double duty as a toilet). They could also barge into occupied bathrooms, which would invariably piss off the occupant.
* In VideoGame/BraveFencerMusashi, you have a tiredness percentage that will increase the longer you go without rest. As your tiredness increases, your movements and attacks will slow, and eventually, if you hit 100%, you will fall asleep where you stand, even if in the middle of combat! You can restore your tiredness fully by sleeping at the inn or in your room, but if you're out in the wilderness you can find a safe spot to lie down and sleep to gradually restore your tiredness, up to 50%. Tiredness can also be reduced by certain consumable items, and sleeping outside is a good way to get to [[InUniverseGameClock events that only happen at a certain time of day]], as game time advances rapidly while you're asleep.

* ''ChibiRobo'' takes place inside a [[MouseWorld normal family's house from a small robot's perspective.]] While the house contains a number of well-outfitted and detailed rooms, ''none'' of these rooms is a bathroom.

* Subverted to humourous effect in LucasArts’ ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga''. One of the Imperial bases that you have to penetrate has a large toilet facility, and a number of Imperial stormtroopers can be found standing in the stalls with their backs to you.
** Once the stormtroopers are dead, you can examine the urinals and discover that they have... staining...
* ''DarkSeed'' forced you to sleep at the end of every day, at the risk of falling unconscious and losing all your inventory.
* In ''DeadRising'', beating the game unlocks infinity mode, where your health degrades from starvation and you must eat in order to survive. During the normal game, the only way to save is by curling up to sleep on a safe couch or using the restroom. It is hilarious when a blood-stained, half-dead Frank fights through a wall of zombies in order to relieve himself.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' averts this in a similar vein, as your [[CoolStarship starship Normandy]] has gender-separated bathrooms that can be entered. Since you can select your gender in that game, and your ship is equipped with an Artifical Intelligence that can see you no matter where you go; you can even get a helpful reminder by said AI that [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything you seem to have entered the wrong door]].
* As part of the general crude and over-the-top humor of the game, ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' allowed the player to urinate into any toilets or urinals found in the game (of which there were several in some scenes). If the character uses a toilet or urinal, it flushes, then we hear him say, "Much Better!" and if his health is less than 100%, it is raised by 10% or until his health reaches 100%, whichever is less. He only gets to do every five minutes, subsequent flushes do not give him additional health. While the player wasn't required to do this, the game would at times mention that you "need to do something", and following this advice would restore some health points. If the player destroys a toilet or urinal, the player can gradually recover his health by drinking the fresh water billowing from the broken pipelines. It is possible, at least in the N64 version, to take a huge leak, destroy the toilet then regain health from drinking the water. Stay classy, Duke. Stay classy.
** Of course at the end of the game Duke does create a rather...unusual toilet for his bathroom break.
** ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' has duke occasionally gain an ego boost from using the urinal. It should be noted that once you've started, you can keep going indefinitely, so this is a BottomlessBladder of a different kind...

* ''EverQuest'' and ''[=EverQuest 2=]'' both require your character to eat. You can't starve to death, but without food, you'll lose the ability to regenerate. "Better" food items allow for faster regeneration and stat bonuses.
* Spiderweb Software's ''VideoGame/{{Exile}}'' series uses a generic food stock for the whole party. Within a town, city, village, etc., the party can walk around forever without needing to eat, but once outside, they consume food at regular intervals based on movement, and lacking food leads to significant damage from starvation. In the first ''Exile'' game, for example, the first {{NPC}} -- if you bother to talk to him -- will tell you where to pick up free supplies (including free food); if you just leave town and try to explore the area, you keel over after a couple dozen steps or less. You also can't sleep to recover health or spell points if you don't have any food. In the ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'' series, the 2 1/2-D remake of the ''Exile'' games, the only thing you need food for is in order to "rest" and regain health and MP -- if you wanted, you could always use potions or stay at an inn to restore yourself, and never need to get any food (though it would be considerably harder).

* While not strictly necessary, in the game ''{{Fahrenheit}}'' (also known as ''Indigo Prophecy'' in the States), you can have the characters get a drink or a bite to eat, shower, change clothes, or go to the bathroom (with appropriate discretion shot) if you've got the free time. Doing so will usually increase their [[SanityMeter mental stability]] by a few points, the first time you do it in a scene, and is a worthwhile activity: big morale gains are few and far between, while big losses are frequent, so the little things help out a lot. Bottoming out in mental stability leads to [[NonStandardGameOver suicide]] or other bad endings.

* Similarly, in ''ShadowHearts'', there are a couple plot events and side quests that revolve around a bathroom in a tavern in Prague. None of the main characters ever need to use the facilities, but [=NPCs=] do.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Gothic}}'', the player character only uses food and sleep to recover health points, but the {{NPC}}s live fairly normal lives - they sleep at night, and at least one of the less sympathetic male characters will, if watched for long enough, wander off to take a piss against a tree.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto: San Andreas'', the main character has to eat occasionally. Sleeping is implied to occur when game time is skipped (when saving, periods in jail or hospital), but otherwise the player character becomes hungry after a somewhat realistic amount of time, first losing fat reserves, then muscle mass, then the health bar. If not countered by eating, you end up in the hospital.
* A perfect example of this trope (not a subversion of it) is ''SuperMario64''. The player can visit every single room in Princess Toadstool's castle, and not one is a bathroom. Nor do bathrooms show up in any other incarnation of her castle seen in the past twenty plus years. Of course, this is the same princess who is routinely kept in small dungeons and cages for entire games without the problem of sanitation ever coming up, so perhaps this is justified.
** It should be noted that the castle doesn't have a bedroom, a kitchen, a living room, or a dining room either. It has a rec room in the DS version, but that's about it.
** When the castle is revisted (with the same design!) in VideoGame/PaperMario there is a kitchen and a bedroom, but no bath.
** One could start to wonder what she needs a plumber for in the first place.
** Luigi's Mansion has at least two bathrooms.
* In some {{RPG}}s, such as ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', food [[HyperactiveMetabolism can be used as healing items]]. ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' played off this, with an automatic healing machine that restored HP and MP, but reminded you that you were still hungry. ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' also has five bathrooms (two mens', two womens', one unisex), but they are always occupied, and thus, the player can never use them. Curiously, none of these bathrooms are located in a person's house. ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' is also noteworthy for having toilets. They work!
* Although nobody uses them, the final area of ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}'' includes, of all things, a bathroom [[TheMaze maze]], where you have to choose the right stall to proceed. The other stalls may contain items, enemies, and the Ultimate Chimera.
* In the early days, many InteractiveFiction games attempted to add "realism" by requiring the player to eat. This often added to the difficulty by requiring the players to find (rare) food items, pretty much constantly, as authors never really got how long a human in a crisis could go without eating. In one {{egregious}} example, the protagonist of {{Infocom}}'s ''VideoGame/{{Stationfall}}'' had to eat almost hourly lest he fall into a coma and die (within the parody-SpaceOpera setting, this was explained by the comically low nutritional value of futuristic food).

* ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'' and its descendant ''VideoGame/NetHack'' both require the player character to eat, but at relatively realistic intervals. While ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'' merely provided generic "food", ''[=NetHack=]'' includes a wide variety of comestibles, ranging from fruit and iron rations to the corpses of the monsters you slay (which may give you powers or weird afflictions) and on occasion even tins of preserved food (which the player can also make himself from monster corpses if he has acquired a tinning kit...). ''[=NetHack=]'' also tracks the freshness of various foods; it is possible to get sick and die from eating spoiled or tainted meals. On top of this, eating too much (usually to acquire stat boosts from monster corpses) can cause you to choke and die from a burst stomach. Food can also be used to tame enemies and to train pets to steal from stores.
** ''[=NetHack=]'''s descendant, ''VideoGame/SlashEm'', contains toilets. While the character still does not ''need'' to use them, doing so will increase hunger, lowering the risk of dying from overeating.
* In the classic game ''ManiacMansion'', you do encounter a restroom at one point, but your characters never feel the urge to use it. In fact, if you tell them to use it, they'll respond, "I'd like a little more privacy for that!" They do think it's fun to flush it, though.
* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in ''NeverwinterNights'': "While the adventurers don't need to eat, the monsters do. They eat adventurers."
** In the ''Hordes of the Underdark'' Expansion, the Protagonist's kobold companion Deekin will narrate your progress through certain areas. Often these are lampshades of this Trope, mentioning how sore his feet are and how he wishes that 'the Boss' would let him stop for a bathroom break.
* In the browser-based {{MMORPG}} ''KingdomOfLoathing'', food and booze are how a player acquires more turns, or 'adventures'. This is limited - a player can only eat so much before they become too full to eat any more, and can only drink so much alcohol before they become too drunk to adventure. These limits are reset once per day. Also, "Pastamancers" are more adept at creating food than the other character classes, and likewise "Disco Bandits" are masters of the art of cocktailcrafting.
** ''KingdomOfLoathing'' also lampshades the bladder variant, in a small, random adventure:

* The online game ''VideoGame/TheShipMurderParty'' uses food, drink, and various other needs as a way of stopping people from simply waiting for the round to end in a dark corner instead of actually looking for your target/avoiding your killer. However, the game designers failed to notice the fact that players could simply wait in areas that everyone needed to go to, then attack them there. That's kind of another reason they put those in: a great time to kill your quarry was to wait until they needed the toilet and ambush them there.
* ''VideoGame/{{Postal}} 2'', a PC game in which you play the role of an amoral sociopath, allows you to urinate completely at will. Your "bladder" has a bottom, but refills rather quickly. Urinating is done mainly to annoy people - try urinating on the cops and see what happens!
** Try getting a cop outfit so you're not arrested, then throwing a doughnut on the ground, pissing all over it, pick it up, then find a cop and give them a tasty treat. Also, your piss can be turned into a stream of napalm in [[NewGamePlus enhanced mode]], immediately setting people, cats, your dog etc. on fire.
*** Somewhat subverted within the game; early on in the last day, the player character says something along the lines of "I really gotta take a whiz". Doing so reveals his urine is now green and brown and thick: he's contracted gonorrhea, and he makes a note to get cured. Of course, [[VideogameCrueltyPotential you can go on urinating on people all the same, causing them to vomit.]]
* Subverted in ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/{{Chulip}}'' by having the heroes go to the bathroom in order to save the game.
* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', there are a few areas with toilets (Most notably the area before the MindScrew Psycho Mantis BossBattle) in which the guards can be found relieving themselves (A funnier example of this is in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2''), [[FridgeLogic which leaves one to wonder]]: was it the nanotechnology in Snake's body that renders it unnecessary for Snake to take a break?
** Either that, or the suit's just very, very self-contained. Y'know. Like an astronaut's.
*** Considering the game takes place over the course of a few hours, tops, it's probable that he just ''holds it in''. Adrenaline can do that, ya know. Also, the notable time period where he ''is'' required to waste a lot of time (assumed to be three or four hours, maybe more), he's being ''tortured'', which tends to have the unfortunate side effect of loss of bladder control...

** Lets not forget that a huge portion of the gameplay of ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'' is finding and eating various things, though he still never has to relieve himself...Well, then again, Naked Snake does wet himself upon being electrocuted in the torture scene...
*** It's implied that he does that whenever you save, along with sleeping.
* In the same vein of space suits that seem to possess extraordinary bladder-emptying technology, the Master Chief in ''{{Halo}}'' never seems to need the bathroom, or food.
* Samus Aran of the ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' series also has no problem with this, though that might be what Save Points are all about. Not to mention you can return her to her albeit tiny ship regularly throughout the games and there may be a potty on it. Unlikely though. It's also possible that her PoweredArmor has some sort of recycling system built into it.
* In many western {{RPG}}s you ''can'' explicitly sleep if you want, but you don't ''have to''. You can stay awake for months (of the game time) without ever having to sleep. ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' and ''VideoGame/{{Fable}}'' are prominent examples of this.
** It should be noted however, that in ''Oblivion'' while it isn't technically required, the player needs to sleep when they level up.
* The CommodoreSixtyFour[=/=]{{Amiga}} game, ''VideoGame/LittleComputerPeople'' (basically the great-grand-daddy of ''VideoGame/TheSims'', circa 1985) featured a toilet, which your Little Computer Person would use at reasonable intervals. Also, if you didn’t top up his water tank and fill his cupboards when they were empty, he would sicken and eventually expire.
* In the Commodore 64 game ''ImpossibleMission'', Dr. Elvin Atombender’s spacious underground lair featured, alongside the usual computers and tape drives vital to any world domination exercise, many items of domestic furniture including toilets. Of course, the player didn’t get to ''make use'' of these, only search them for codes.

* Jack Thompson's "A Modest Video Game Proposal" laid out a spec for a game in which the player character gets revenge for the murder of his son. As part of the revenge, the player murders the CEO of the company that made the game that his son's killer played, as well as the CEO's family, and then urinates on their brainstems, "like in ''{{Postal}} 2''." Though it was intended as parody, a few independent game designers created games based around Thompson's proposal. In one such game, "I'm O.K: A Murder Simulator," not only was the urinating on brains part included (as a bonus stage in which the brains bounce across the stage), but in later levels urinating can be used to put out fires.

* The classic Scott Adams (no, not [[{{ComicStrip/Dilbert}} that Scott Adams]]) text adventure, ''TheCount'' has a bathroom in the vampire's castle, which, one presumes, is leftover from before it was a vampire's castle. In the tradition of the simplistic commands of the time ("go north", "go bed"), you were capable of saying, "go toilet". The response was, "Ah, that feels better." There was, however, no obligation to do so.
* ''TheWitcher'': Geralt doesn't need to sleep, or eat (but he can for minor health boosts that happen quicker naturally then going through the menu to do it) etc. Being a Witcher is an [[{{Handwave}} implied explanation]] for sleeping (he meditates instead) and a possible mutation is being able to eat non-food.
* Somewhat subverted in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay''. One boss sends fire imps after you, the only way to beat them is to drink a whole bunch of beer and pee on them. When you run out of pee you have to sober yourself up before you can drink again.
** Several [=NPCs=] also use the washroom during the game, although not in the washroom. Not to mention a boss that is a Big Mighty Poo.
** One multiplayer level has a set of washrooms in it, the only weapon you can use when you enter it? Your urine.
* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' video "Meet the Sniper," with an increasing number of jars filled with yellow liquid.
** And then they turned "[[MartialArtsAndCrafts Jarate]]" into an unlockable weapon with an ammo count of one jar. You get another after fifteen seconds. The InUniverse explanation for this is that the Sniper takes pills to triple the size of his kidneys for this impressive feat.
** Many servers boast "24/7" maps, where it's always one location being fought over ([[ComplacentGamingSyndrome usually 2Fort]]). Prepare to get booted for inactivity if you have to go away from the keyboard for a food and/or bathroom break.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', using the restroom is not ''required'', but is one of two ways to obtain the ever-useful "Great" health status (the other way is to skip studying in favor of going to bed early). It is, in fact, more likely that you can heal your own "Tired" or "Sick" status by using the restroom than by [[AdultsAreUseless seeing the]] [[MadScientist school nurse]].
** ''Persona 3'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' are also notable for not directly modeling having to eat constantly, but in a very ''realistic'' way; the way the game breaks up into "morning/noon/afternoon/evening" allows for the idea that things like eating and restroom usage are done "off-camera"; it's also quite possible to spend time on a "significant" meal or the like (which will raise a [[LevelUpAtIntimacy5 social stat]], usually) and a lot of the "Social Links", especially in 4, occur at mealtime. The end effect is a very realistic feeling that characters are in fact living day-to-day lives.

* In ''{{Shenmue}}'', the main character Ryo Hazuki did not need to eat, but did need to return home every day for sleep, except for plot purposes when he was woken up in the middle of the night.

* [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] late in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest V: The Next Mutation'', when, as Roger Wilco approaches the enemy spaceship, he belatedly realizes that he hasn't gone to the bathroom for the entire game, and his bladder emits a small whimper (or something to that effect).

* In Tycoon games, like ''VideoGame/RollerCoasterTycoon'', ''VideoGame/ZooTycoon'', etc. bathrooms and snack facilities are vital parts of the environments you manage. Truly sadistic players will charge for the use of the bathroom in question.
** Naturally, if it's a ''zoo''-sim game, the animals also require food and water, and deposit plenty of poop in their enclosures.

*** [[{{Lexx}} "The dead do not poo."]]

* In the first ''TyTheTasmanianTiger'' game, the checkpoints in levels are outhouses. If Ty ends up using one, he comes out accompanied by an 'Ahhh...' sound.
* In ''[[HarvestMoon Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life]]'', a particular house upgrade includes a bathroom and a room to wash your hands in. Nothing's ever seen though (thank goodness), and you can abuse the system by making your farmer go to the toilet over and over and over.....
** It's actually a tub room and a shower room. Nami's child will sometimes ask you to take a bath with them, and the two of you enter one of the rooms. It doesn't help that the tub room sounds a lot like pooping.
* Future Games' ''Next Life'', aka ''Reprobates'', allows your character to regain a little health if he eats, drinks, and/or uses one of the urinals in the huts. ''Just'' the urinals, mind: he never has to defecate, although another character is seen seated on the toilet, moaning about his bowels.
* Near the end of ''GrimFandango'', in Hector Le Mans' casino, Manny can use the men's room. He comes out exclaiming: "''¡Qué alivía!''" ("What a relief!"). Notable in that Manny is a resident of the Land of the Dead, and lack of normal bodily functions would therefore be justified.
* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' doesn't have a need for any biological functions on account of being a robot, but he can still sleep in various beds throughout the game to refill health. In fact, at one point late in the game, you need to rest in order to trigger one EventFlag.
* Both used and inverted in the ''VideoGame/{{Overlord}}]] games. Your main character never needs to eat or use the toilet. However, you can order your goblin minions to plunder alcoholic beverages which they will immediately guzzle down. About 5 seconds later they will urinate it all back out again.
* There seems to be toilet bowls EVERYWHERE in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', indoors and out throughout the entire game. All of them are openable and they all contain ammo refills. The only logical conclusion is that the {{mooks}} of Planet Pandora crap out live ammunition and never flush afterwards.
** Lampshaded in Tartarus Station in the new ''Claptrap's Robot Revolution'' DLC. There is a row of stalls with (ammo-containing) toilets in them. One stall, however, is occupied by a non-hostile NPC ''sitting on the lid''. When you talk to him, he says, [[spoiler: "Hey, you know when the water's gonna come back on?"]]
** Further lampshaded by one of [[spoiler: Claptrap]]'s announcements over the PA system in ''Claptrap's Robot Revolution'': [[spoiler: "C'mon! Give in! You'll have fun being a robot! You'll never have to pee again, and I'll even let you pick your paint job!"]] Gearbox must've paid attention to the fan response to this trope.
* Averted in ''TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood'' where there is a bathroom in Club 41 and Guybrush does use it.
* Played with in the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' game series, where some of the {{NPC}}s visit the facilities so frequently that they should probably see a doctor about it. Typically, they are either the mission's target or someone else the player could benefit from knocking out/killing. However, they are generally the ''only'' characters in a given level who use the restrooms.
* ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' series require the character to both eat and sleep regularly, dying from exhaustion/hunger is very possible. Luckily, the inns provide both of these services in all games, and travel rations are always available at modest prices.
* In Episode 1 of ''SamAndMax: Season 1'', clicking on the bathroom door in Bosco's Inconvenience Store will cause Max to use it, and will make Whizzer have to pee upon hearing the toilet flush. (you will need to make good use of this gag later on, when you have to catch Whizzer) You can click on the door many times, and Max will keep using the toilet, leaving one to wonder if Max has a bladder problem just like Whizzer...
* In ''VideoGame/ChaosRings'', the lack of toilets is lampshaded when the characters discuss it the shopkeeper Piu-Piu. Apparently, their sense of time is being fooled and they haven't been in the Ark for long enough to need a toilet break.
* ''{{Okami}}'' allows you to pee and poop on enemies.

* Made fun of in [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/01202007/ this]] ''{{Goblins}}: Life Through Their Eyes'' strip.

* At the end of the first run of DarthsAndDroids (The Phantom Menace), Qui Gon's player emphatically argues against using a special reroll power that might have NOT gotten him cut in half, because that specific ability can only be used once a day and they never stopped to sleep during their entire adventure, so it MUST have been just one day (how do you measure a day in space anyway?). It's not until the exasperated DM concedes the point and declares his character DEAD that the player realizes what his nitpicking just accomplished.
* Has popped up [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080603.html a couple]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20101211.html of times]] in ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' The second instance actually [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20101221.html drags it out a bit.]]

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* In ''{{Gothic}}'', the player character only uses food and sleep to recover health points, but the {{NPC}}s live fairly normal lives - they sleep at night, and at least one of the less sympathetic male characters will, if watched for long enough, wander off to take a piss against a tree.

'''Note: Nearly every video game ever made poses an example of this with its characters, so it's simply easier to list the few exceptions:'''

* Yahtzee Croshaw's [[http://www.fullyramblomatic.com/reviews/animalcrossing.htm review]] of ''AnimalCrossing'' heavily lampshades the way the inhabitants of [[HelloInsertNameHere "Assfuckville"]] seem to living in a grim parody of human life based on a fundamental lack of understanding how and why things happen and work, rather than anything resembling a person-including the lack of facilities, mentioning that while one character does have a toilet, it's in the middle of his living room. The toilet is, in fact, an item you can acquire and it can be sat on. It even makes a flushing noise when you get off. An aversion, if you're willing to cope with the notion that you just crapped ''through'' your pants.

* In the Rogue-like adventure game ''AlphaMan'', the main character must eat periodically, or he will die. Conversively, if he eats too much at once, he'll die of overeating. He also must fall asleep at night unless he hasn't had coffee. He still never needs to poop or pee, and when he finds a Porta Potty, a [[VendorTrash useless item]] he just says "Whoever used this before was sick!".

* In Tycoon games, like ''RollerCoasterTycoon'', ''ZooTycoon'', etc. bathrooms and snack facilities are vital parts of the environments you manage. Truly sadistic players will charge for the use of the bathroom in question.

* ''TheUnrealWorld'', a survival roguelike set in iron age Finland, has a fairly detailed system for warmth, hunger, and thirst. While this is all part of the charm of the game, it becomes extremely tempting to [[ImAHumanitarian go Hannibal Lecter]] on your opponents, and find a new source of provisions.

* The ''PokemonMysteryDungeon'' series sits on the fence with this one. The game's "Belly" mechanic forces you to take along/find Apples to eat in the dungeons or you'll starve and start losing health with every step you take. But you'll never hear Pikachu complain about the [[NobodyPoops lack of facilities]] in a 99-floor dungeon...

-->''TheSims3''

** In ''TheSimsMedieval'' Sims still need to eat and sleep, but not to pee. They can use chamberpots for a small mood buff, but they're never required to.

* [[TheWitcher Geralt]] doesn't need to sleep, or eat (but he can for minor health boosts that happen quicker naturally then going through the menu to do it) etc. Being a Witcher is an [[{{Handwave}} implied explanation]] for sleeping (he meditates instead) and a possible mutation is being able to eat non-food.

** And then they turned "[[MartialArtsAndCrafts Jarate]]" into an unlockable weapon.
*** With an ammo count of one jar. You get another after fifteen seconds.