History Main / BottomlessBladder

* In ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'', the consistency of a character's urine becomes a major plot point.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery'' 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/BackToTheFuturePartII'', 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 ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. 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), 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.

%%* Averted, subverted, and played with in ''Film/GalaxyQuest''.
* Ogre takes a really long pee in ''Film/RevengeOfTheNerds II: Nerds In Paradise''.
* In ''Film/TheNakedGun'', Drebin takes a noisy leak, unaware that a press conference can hear his radio microphone. It goes on .. [[OverlyLongGag and on.. and on..]]
* John [=McClane=] in most ''Franchise/DieHard'' movies. The most flagrant are in installments three (where John's hungover) and four (both John and the hacker he's escorting go through 36 hours without bathroom breaks and barely a snooze).

* Subverted in Diane Carey's Franchise/StarTrek novel, ''Battlestations!''. The main character / semi-MarySue, Lt. Piper, is helping Spock fight the ''Enterprise'' singlehandedly due to an incapacitation-gas attack on the crew, and are in the midst of a major melee when suddenly... ("And when I got back, the Romulans had arrived.")

** The first instance being, when Takashi rescued Alice from being eaten by zombies. As he was carrying her on his back on the top of the wall, [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11317-42/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-7.html she said needed to pee]]; leaving him no choice but to [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11317-43/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-7.html let her pee down his back]], while a horde of corpses were trying to grab him and pull him off.
** Also seen when he and Saeko had taken shelter at an abandoned Shinto shrine. Just as they were getting settled in so they could talk, he pulled out a container and told her [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11327-14/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-17.html it was a portable toilet.]], [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-11327-15/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-17.html which made her laugh.]]
** And Zeke turned what was meant to be a dramatic moment, into a comical one, [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-58604-24/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-28.html by peeing on Takashi's leg.]] Alice chides him for it [[http://www.mangareader.net/170-58604-25/high-school-of-the-dead/chapter-28.html while the others share a laugh.]]

** When the characters are trapped in an [[OntologicalMystery endless, featureless]] BlankWhiteVoid, after wandering for a while they are perturbed to realize that the only other object in it, apart from themselves, is their own waste from when they had to answer nature's call, [[http://bobadventures.smackjeeves.com/comics/2800714/20140729/ still faintly visible in the distance.]]

* Has popped up [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20080603.html a couple]] [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20101211.html of times]] in ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' The second instance actually [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20101221.html drags it out a bit.]]

* Averted in ''Manga/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."

* Averted in ''Comicbook/{{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...

* Also subverted in ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' in the scene where Rorschach pursues the Big Figure into the men's room. Assuming that Rorschach insisted on stopping there for the usual reason, Nite Owl recalls an occasion where he lost a target because he had to take a bathroom break.
* Averted at one point in ''ComicBook/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."

* ''Franchise/StarWars''

* ''Series/DoctorWho''

* In ''VideoGame/{{Alundra 2}}'', a child asks you to travel the world and document all of the world's toilets. All 3 of them!

* 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 ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' you can eat (but it's never mandated) and you ''can'' sleep (but it's never mandated), and you ''can'' "use" a toilet...but you probably don't ''want'' to. From the sound effect and the game mechanics, the Vault Dweller seems to ''drink'' from irradiated toilets [[NobodyPoops instead of using them in the conventional sense]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/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.

* ''VideoGame/MetalGear''

* 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 ''VideoGame/{{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.

* 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.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'': As in ''Persona 3'' and ''4'', there are bathrooms all over the game, ''but you never need to use them''.

* ''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!

*** Somewhat subverted within the game; early on in the last day, the player character will start occasionally saying things 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.]] Noteworthy as well is that using the function is entirely optional, so you can go the entire week without ever going to the bathroom (at least on-screen), even allowing you to skip the errand to cure yourself entirely if you get to the end of the day without taking a leak.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''

* ''VideoGame/{{Thief}} II: The Metal Age'' has very well designed levels which feel like the [=NPCs=] actually could live in them, which generally include toilets. The exception is Life of the Party where a huge tower full of people manages to get on fine without any toilets at all...

* The InteractiveFiction game ''[[VideoGame/{{Planetfall}} Planetfall]]'' had an amusing if rather cruel aversion. The game would inform you that your character had a gradually increasing discomfort in his abdomen. If you didn't figure out this meant that he needed to pee, his bladder would explode and he would die.

* One level of ''VideoGame/GoldenEye1997'' has the player drop in on a guard who is ostensibly using the john, after which [[TheCanKickedHim 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.

** 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.]]

* 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 ''VidoGame/{{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.

* There seems to be GoodiesInTheToilet 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.

* Averted in some of the ''Literature/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.

* ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'' is a rare exception, with nearly '''every living creature on the map''' (excluding only aquatic animals and small insects) stopping to defecate regularly. The player character is not exempt from this, and the toilet is a craftable piece of furniture for your base. ARK has suck an extensive pooping mechanic that it's actually crucial for farming, as well as for raising dung beetles, AND it happens in proportion to the amount of food consumed by domesticated creatures. On top of all that, a certain status affliction, 'hallucinogenic spores', causes symptoms that wreak havoc on the player's body... including causing them to void their bowels uncontrollably. ARK pays a worrying amount of attention to its pooping mechanic.

*** At one point, [[PlayerCharacter Mario]] is locked in a room where a toilet is his only escape. After jumping in, he crawls trough the pipe and get out of a toilet in a different bathroom. This can give some weird ideas about all other pipes Mario seems to willingly jump into...

See NobodyPoops. Contrast FlushingEdgeInteractivity, PottyEmergency and PottyFailure, when the Bladders ''weren't'' Bottomless. Pretty common in works with an ExtremelyShortTimespan.

--> Twelfth Doctor: Who needs loos? There's probably an app for that.

--> Twelfth Doctor: I died a few hours ago, then I refused to regenerate. It catches up with you, you know, ''it's like a big lunch''..

An AcceptableBreakFromReality, because if video game characters had the same needs and limitations that humans in RealLife have, then that would [[ItSucks Just Plain Suck]].

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* At the end of the first run of ''WebComic/DarthsAndDroids'' (''Film/ThePhantomMenace''), 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.

* One SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} scene {{lampshade|Hanging}}s 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 [[EvenEvilHasStandards tells him to go back in and wash his hands]].)

* 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.

See NobodyPoops. Contrast FlushingEdgeInteractivity and PottyFailure, when the Bladders ''weren't'' Bottomless. Pretty common in works with an ExtremelyShortTimespan.

* {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in Michael Stackpole's ''[[Comicbook/XWingSeries X-Wing: The Bacta War]]'' Franchise/StarWarsLegends 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.

** There is a tale of one unfortunate DM. A PC went to the bathroom and whined to the DM that he deserved [[CharacterDevelopment character roleplaying XP]] for the deed (since no one usually paid attention to that stuff). The DM grudgingly awarded him a few points of XP. The other [=PCs=] caught on to this, and by the end of the session the dungeon was so [[ToiletHumor full of poop that the entire goblin army that inhabited the caverns had drowned.]]

** ''Wrath of the Lich King'' gets some ToiletHumor out of a questline in Grizzly Hills that starts when the player eats some seeds that he shouldn't have, and subsequently has to find the means with which to ... expel them. This is the first and only time in the game that your player "officially" poops.
** ''Cataclysm'' features a questline in Mount Hyjal where the player, impersonating some badguys, gets his orders from an NPC hiding in an outhouse. One of the quests involves impersonating an Ogre by hiding in ''their'' outhouse to don a costume. No ToiletHumor this time, though.

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** There is a tale of one unfortunate DM. A PC went to the bathroom and whined to the DM that he deserved [[CharacterDevelopment character roleplaying XP]] for the deed (since no one usually paid attention to that stuff). The DM grudgingly awarded him a few points of XP. The other [=PCs=] caught on to this, and by the end of the session the dungeon was so [[ToiletHumor full of poop]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments that the entire goblin army that inhabited the caverns had drowned.]]

** ''VideoGame/DisgaeaD2ABrighterDarkness'' has Etna ordering the Prinnies to put up statues of Laharl. She added a fountain to one in a strategic place, making it look like Laharl is endlessly urinating, and thus in possession of a literally Bottomless Bladder. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments He is not pleased when he sees it.]]

* Not exactly an exception but rather quite an odd example in otherwise realistic VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney. While related topics are mentioned several times throughout the game, like Phoenix's quirk about cleaning the toilet or "My perfect little Dollie doesn't poop!", in ''Trials & Tribulations'' there's Godot... who no less than "never drinks more than 17 cups of coffee during any given trial". Even if said trial DOES have a recess, that would still make it some 8-9 cups of coffee within the span of 2-3 hours, which is quite a mighty bladder!