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* In ''{{Zombieland}}'', the Zombies would do this, so one of Columbus's rules was "Avoid Bathrooms".

* ''TheOnion'': "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/osama-bin-laden-killed-while-sitting-on-toilet-nat,20302/ Osama bin Laden killed while sitting on the toilet, Nation likes to imagine]]"

* Julian's favorite theory of assassination in TheMatador.

* In {{Zombieland}}, the Zombies would do this, so one of Columbus's rules was "Avoid Bathrooms".

* In TheSwordOfTruth, a general tells he once crushed a rebellion with vastly inferior forces - using the fact that most of the rebels were literally with their pants down.
* In RobertAspirin's Myth series, Skeeve's various bodyguards have made it a point to state that people have often been killed going to the can or on the can. Thus they always precede him into and out of the can, and only leave him alone there if they're very confident.
* TerryPratchett mentioned this in one of the witch books, set in Lancre. Sometimes the royal succession has been hastened thanks to a very determined assassin crawling up the privy. Which is at the top of a tower.

* TropeNamer is Jeff's analysis of the girls' strategy in the {{Community}} episode "[[{{Recap/CommunityS1E23ModernWarfare}} Modern Warfare]]".

* There's a [[TheFarSide Far Side]] cartoon depicting a hunter near a toilet with a picture of a deer on it, with the caption, "He only had to wait. The deer would come. The deer would come."

* This is one of the ways you can ambush other players in the Source GameMod TheShip.
* A VERY good tactic in {{Hitman}} games, both for knocking people out and outright killing them.
* A lot of multi-player FPS games, especially the ones based in smaller locations like CounterStrike and such, you can often surprise someone doing this.

* There's a GaryLarson cartoon depicting a hunter near a toilet with a picture of a deer on it, with the caption 'He only had to wait. The deer would come. The deer would come."

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* Lampshaded by Spider Jerusalem in ''{{Transmetropolitan}}'' when he's attacked by two assassins. To paraphrase: "You can't even come up with a good murder plan. I consume drugs in every form 24/7 and spend four hours a day on the crapper! Murder me ''then''!" and one of the assassins agrees with him, saying: "Bob, this really was a crappy plan."

* [[PantyAndStockingWithGarterbet Panty]] tries this against Stocking (who responds by wearing diapers) when [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext they were conducting full scale warfare while transformed into alien robots]].

[[caption-width-right:300: Is that hat, a garbage can lid?]]

-->-- ''Community''

->'''Julian Noble:''' I am a big fan of the "Everybody's got to pee" theory of assassination.
-->-- ''TheMatador''

If the toilet is ''used'' for the kill, then TheCanKickedHim.

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*Julian's favorite theory of assassination in TheMatador.

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