History Main / FlushingEdgeInteractivity

* Proudly subverted by the ''NoMoreHeroes'' series, in which every save point is some kind of toilet, and your file data is on toilet paper.
* ''TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': possibly lampshaded as flushing every toilet in a certain area gives the player an easter egg.

* In ''{{Postal}} 2'' the player is actually able to wee the whole place upside down, and in fact even urinate on burning victims--the toilets, however, still serve no function.

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''.

* ''AnimalCrossing''.

The trope name is an allusion to gaming (particularly on the PC) in the early-to-mid-1990s, back when being able to interact with anything that wasn't gameplay-critical was regarded as "cutting-edge".

** In ''{{Postal}} 2'' the player is actually able to wee the whole place upside down, and in fact even urinate on burning victims--the toilets, however, still serve no function.

** In DukeNukemForever, the toilets can be used. Unfortunately, one of the toilets has already been used...and that person didn't flush. You can get an achievement for poking the matter in the unflushed toilet.

* Surprisingly averted in ''VideoGame/MOTHER3''. Chapter 8 has a whole toilet dungeon, but none of the toilets there can be flushed.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''--but go to the wrong restroom and the on-board AI will get snooty with you.

* ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': possibly lampshaded as flushing every toilet in a certain area gives the player an easter egg.

* In ''{{Postal}} 2'' the player is actually able to wee the whole place upside down, and in fact even urinate on burning victims--the toilets, however, still serve no function.
* ''VideoGame/{{HalfLife2}}'' allows the player to flush the toilets in Point Insertion apartment bathrooms. Later on, however, this option is mostly absent.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}''.
** "Your business is appreciated."
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2''.

* ''YumeNikki''. This is {{Justified|Trope}} here, however, because it's a dream.
* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series as the player can actually drink from the toilet -- though the water, like all non-purified water in the game, is irradiated.
* The ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' games have such toilets and many other objects than can be activated just for the sake of it.
* Inverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' where Homer was wearing a Motion Capture suit during a demonstration of the technology and went to the restroom. Everybody saw his avatar going through the motions of using a urinal, but it was a generic park background.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI''.

* The first ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry'' game has a toilet in Lefty's Bar that can be flushed. [[spoiler:Doing so floods the room up to the ceiling. HaveANiceDeath!]]
* ''AnimalCrossing''.
* ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.
** ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' takes it further with working sinks and hand dryers as well, so you can role-play going to the bathroom...if you really want to.
* ''TheSuffering'' features a restroom very close to your first cell and is the location of the {{Cutscene}} where you pick up Torque's first MoralityPet. Needless to say, the toilets needlessly work (though if your graphics card isn't up to snuff you can expect the most geometrically unsound flush imaginable).
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', the toilets and urinals can actually be used by Jimmy (though only to urinate), with a flush sound being heard should you choose to do so. You can also place firecrackers in the toilets. And if so inclined, you can drag another student over and give them a {{swirlie}}. All of this is purely optional, however.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' has a flushable toilet in Skyloft, though Link only sits on it.

* ''MassEffect2''--but go to the wrong restroom and the on-board AI will get snooty with you.

* The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' games. (The sinks and bathtub fixtures work as well, and are equally pointless.)

* The ''BioShock'' games. (The sinks and bathtub fixtures work as well, and are equally pointless.)

* ''TheDarkness''.

* ''YumeNikki''. This is {{Justified}} here, however, because it's a dream.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock2''.

* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series as the player can actually drink from the toilet (at a cost!)

* ''YumeNikki''.

* The first ''LeisureSuitLarry'' game has a toilet in Lefty's Bar that can be flushed. [[spoiler:Doing so floods the room up to the ceiling. HaveANiceDeath!]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bully}}'', the toilets and urinals can actually be used by Jimmy (though only to urinate), with a flush sound being heard should you choose to do so. You can also place firecrackers in the toilets. All of this is purely optional, however.

* ''TheChroniclesOfRiddick'': possibly lampshaded as flushing every toilet in a certain area gives the player an easter egg.

** "We appreciate your business."

* ''DukeNukem 3D'' has interactive toilets, but then again, a lot of stuff is more or less interactive in that game. Toilets and urinals can be used (the way they're typically used...) every few minutes to restore 10 health points, and they can also be destroyed to yield a stream of water that can heal the player to maximum, though ''very'' slowly.

* ''{{Bioshock}} 2''.

* Subverted in the ''{{Fallout}}'' series as the player can actually drink from the toilet (at a cost!)
* The ''MaxPayne'' games have such toilets and many other objects than can be activated just for the sake of it.
* Inverted in an episode of ''TheSimpsons'' where Homer was wearing a Motion Capture suit during a demonstration of the technology and went to the restroom. Everybody saw his avatar going through the motions of using a urinal, but it was a generic park background.
* ''FinalFantasyVI''.
* One house in ''VideoGame/JablessAdventure'' has a toilet which you can shoot with your gun for personal amusement.

* A great many fan-made {{ZZT}} games. Keys hidden in the toilet's water tank are also a favorite.
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* The first ''LeisureSuitLarry'' game has a toilet in Lefty's Bar that can be flushed. [[spoiler:Doing so fills the airtight room with water. HaveANiceDeath!]]

* ''{{Portal}}'' and ''{{Portal 2}}''.
* ''DeadSpace2''.

* Surprisingly averted in ''MOTHER3''. Chapter 8 has a whole toilet dungeon, but none of the toilets there can be flushed.

* In ''{{Bully}}'', the toilets and urinals can actually be used by Jimmy (though only to urinate), with a flush sound being heard should you choose to do so. You can also place firecrackers in the toilets. All of this is purely optional, however.