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* ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'': The player character may {{Invoke|dTrope}} this in an assassination {{Sidequest}}, slipping the target a [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink tainted pie]] so he'll run from the crowded tavern to the unguarded outhouse in the throes of intestinal distress.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'', [[spoiler:Nobliss Gordon, the CorruptCorporateExecutive who seems to [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty get away from manipulating everyone for his own interest]] was shot dead on the toilet in Ride Mass's revenge for Orga Itsuka, [[ItsPersonal the person whom Nobliss's hitmen killed in cold blood]].]]

* ''Film/AustinPowersInternationalManOfMystery''. The Irish assassin Patty O'Brien waits until Austin is in a public restroom stall to try to kill him. The resulting battle between the two sounds like Austin is struggling with constipation: "Do...you...work...for...Number Two?!? Do...you...work...for...Number Two?!?" [[{{Recut}} ("Who does Number Two work for?!? Who...does Number Two...''work for''?!?" in later DVD pressings).]]
** And in the sequel, Scott suggests that instead of going back in time to steal Austin's mojo, they should just go back and shoot him while he's sitting on the crapper.

* ''Film/JamesBond''

* Due to a rampant T-Rex, lawyer Donald Gennaro abandons the two Hammond children in a vehicle to take shelter in a washroom in ''Film/JurassicPark''. However, the bathroom is eventually destroyed around him, leaving a toilet-straddling Gennaro to become the first person eaten by CGI.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'' series, if there's an available bathroom, it is almost always the best place to hide a body, and within the bathroom, toilet stalls are the best place to put them. Oddly, random people tend to look into large body-sized containers with regularity, but will not consistently open an unlocked toilet stall door blocked by a corpse. This is enhanced even further because pretty much everybody has to go sooner or later and a person standing in a room by themselves with their face against the wall just screams "Easy kill!" Even if your primary target doesn't take bathroom breaks, odds are his personal bodyguards will so you can easily get their clothes and go anywhere you like.

* There are ''two'' Hanako ghosts in ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'' --one who died during a school fire and had tried to hide in the toilets, and another, more gruesome one that provided a hilarious ending after the former was sent to heaven. Then there was also a water-borne demon who kept trying to drown Noriko...and magically sealed the toilet stall and filled it with water.

* In ''Manga/MezzoForte'', the 'danger service agents' attempt to abduct a mob boss as he visits a toilet stall, and end up killing him.

* The first of the hapless vacationers to be killed in scandinavian [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi]] [[NightOfTheLivingMooks zombie]] flick ''Film/DeadSnow'' is in the cabin's outhouse when it happens. Though she'd gone there for [[DeathBySex a quick fuck]] instead of the usual business.

* In ''Film/SnakesOnAPlane'', three different people get attacked in the airline's lavatory by the eponymous snakes: a man on the toilet who receives a GroinAttack, and a young couple in the MileHighClub who suffer DeathBySex.

* In RealLife games of both ''Assassin'' and occasionally ''LARP/HumansVsZombies'' (essentially glorified games of tag with Nerf guns), this is also a very useful tactic. Although most sets of rules designate the bathroom ''itself'' as a safe zone, it's easy to ambush someone entering or exiting. It had to be modified to make the bathroom a safe zone after people abused the rules making nudity itself the safe zone. [[RefugeInAudacity By running around naked.]] Most games of [=HvZ=] have avoided this potential craziness by simply banning all indoors play altogether (especially since they'd otherwise get in deep trouble with their school's administration).

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* ''Literature/AngelasAshes'' features the death of an IllGirl on a toilet.

* In ''Literature/AngelasAshes'', [[ManicPixieDreamGirl Patricia Madigan]] dies in the bathroom when her [[IllGirl illness]] got the better of her. The narrator comments what a pity that someone so lovely had to die in such an undignified setting.

* The [[BolivianArmyEnding standard ending]] of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' ends with a new assassin attacking Travis while he's unarmed on the toilet. In the secret ending, [[spoiler:Henry saves him]]. Presumably this is why in [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle the sequel]], he keeps his various beam katanas at the ready on his belt.
** In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', [[spoiler:after Henry's boss fight, Travis uses the toilet as per usual, but Travis can't get up from the toilet and starts [[BreakingTheFourthWall yelling at the developers the game's bugged]]. Then the real Henry and [[ActuallyADoombot his fakes]] show up and kill Travis.]]

* In the first ''Film/BadBoys'' movie one of the protagonists is fighting desperately with a mook in the male toilets while his partner is blissfully enjoying the go-go dancers outside.

* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': When Matsuri is BroughtDownToNormal, Sosuke wants a one-on-one fight, and waits until he's alone in the bathroom. [[AccidentalPervert He doesn't appreciate]] that Matsuri [[GenderBender had been female]] for long enough [[PervertRevengeMode to get angry over a guy peeping at him]]. Matsuri then kicks open the door Sosuke was crawling over so he has time to get dressed.

* The 15th century Slovenian nobleman-turned-robber Erasmus of Lueg was killed at Predjama Castle after a long siege. An oft-repeated, if unsubstantiated, legend has it that he was killed while going to the bathroom in the lavatory, the most vulnerable part of the castle, after one of the servants of the castle betrayed him by lighting a candle in a window to signal the besieging forces where and when to launch a rock at him.

In ''Film/Extraction'', Nik shoots Amir in the head while he is at a urinal.

* In ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', one of Columbus's rules was "Avoid Bathrooms". Because if anyone ever got zombified in a bathroom, they'd pretty much just be stood there till someone came in and dropped their pants, making an easy target.

* ''Quiller's Run'' by Adam Hall. Literature/{{Quiller}} is being stalked by an assassin who always uses the garrote. He tries to lure him into attacking by hanging out on a darkened lawn, but the assassin sees the trap and instead waits in the nearest toilet, knowing Quiller will eventually become thirsty in the warm night air and head for the nearest tap. Quiller just misses getting his head taken off by piano wire, and after a tense struggle kills the assassin with broken glass from the toilet mirror.
** While in communist Poland, Quiller hides from a search in a train station restroom. When the search has been completed, he slips out the door only to run into a secret policeman returning to the restroom for its intended purpose, leading to a brutal hand-to-hand combat scene.

** In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroesIII'', [[spoiler:Travis is unable to get up from the toilet after the boss fight with Henry and [[BreakingTheFourthWall starts yelling at the developers he got glitched]], then the real Henry and his fakes show up to kill him.]]

* ''Literature/TheRoadToHell'': One soldier is "zapped while zipping", i.e. killed by a Vietcong guerrilla while taking a leak.

* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Some Red Ribbon Army mooks riddling a bathroom door with gunfire after Goku steps in to use it. Fortunately, even young Goku was ImmuneToBullets and the bullets only stunned him.

* Inverted in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''; [[spoiler: Flegel Reeves avoids dying alongside his father because he had stepped away to pee when [[BloodKnight Kenny Ackerman]] showed up.]]

** In ''Literature/FeetOfClay'', Vimes is in the bathroom shaving when an Assassin tries to shoot him. [[SubvertedTrope It doesn't work]]; Vimes can see the shot coming in his shaving mirror and ducks.

* Some Red Ribbon Army mooks try to do this with Goku in ''Manga/DragonBall'' - riddling a bathroom door with gunfire. Fortunately, even young Goku was ImmuneToBullets and the bullets only stunned him.
* The first episode of ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'' revolves around solving the mystery of what happened in the men's room of a restaurant that led to all the geisha robots to take a group of politicians hostage and almost kill one of the politician's assistants. The last thing the security records show is the assistant trying to flee from the men's room right before she suffered a severe head trauma.

* One of the many ways to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill a romantic rival]] or an [[HeKnowstooMuch incriminating witness]] in ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''. In [[{{Prequel}} 1980's mode]] this serves as the tutorial as Ryoba kills the girl who would become [[spoiler:The Phantom Girl.]]

* One of the many ways to [[MurderTheHypotenuse kill a romantic rival]] or an [[HeKnowstooMuch incriminating witness]] in ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator''.

* In the Kyoto arc of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', Konoka is kidnapped trying to use the toilet.