History Main / NoDeadBodyPoops

* ''Webcomic/VGCats'' [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=240 example here.]]

WARNING: As a DeathTrope, all spoilers will be unmarked ahead. ''Beware!''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'': When [[WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest Race Bannon]] dies, he evacuates his bowels. The boys get {{Squick}}ed out and Brock [[RealityIsUnrealistic points out]] that, "They never show that part on TV".

* Invoked in ''WebVideo/JoJosBizarreAdventureAbridged'', Dio Brando believes dead people will poop, so he states he's going to pull off Jotaro's pants to check if he's really dead from his knife combo. Jotaro, [[FakingTheDead who isn't really dead]], evidently actually does crap himself to fool Dio. That doesn't stop Dio from going to grab a stop-sign to perform a quick decapitation, just to be on the safe side, though [[BigDamnHeroes Polnareff's intervention]] puts a stop to that.

* Trivia and AKK's Fanfics will mention this. Not so shocking when you consider the fanfic writers themselves. Both have medical backgrounds and are known for their brutally frank exploration of the effects of death...[[IncrediblyLamePun including the obvious]].

* In Literature/TheBible's Literature/BookOfJudges, chapter 3, King Eglon is stabbed in the gut by the left-handed Ehud, causing "the dirt" to come out. The fact that "dirt" is excrement is made even clearer when Eglon's personal guard delay going in to check on him because they believe him to be relieving himself-they can smell it.

However, a recent trend in popular fiction (particularly the DarkerAndEdgier variety) of characters {{lampshad|ehanging}}ing this trope has led to the growing belief that the ''opposite'' is true: that everyone shits themselves on death. You die, you shit yourself, that's the way it is. Actually, this trope ''is'' more or less TruthInTelevision. Exact statistics are hard to find (surprisingly, nobody has done a scientific survey), but anecdotal evidence suggests this happens only around 30% of the time. How the victim died is also a factor.

* {{Discussed|Trope}} and PlayedForLaughs in one episode of ''Series/BrooklynNineNine''. While faking Adrian Pimento's death, Pimento suggests pouring water on his crotch to make it look more realistic, and then offers to pee his pants for real when Jake refuses. Jake insists on taking the dead body picture from the waist up.

* Actually PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', believe it or not. Sam is stuck in a GroundhogDayLoop where Dean dies (in various, hilarious ways) every day. Sam is aware of the repeating days; Dean is not. Sam tries to explain that in another version of that day, Dean got hit by a car and killed:

* Mentioned in the pilot episode of ''Series/TalesFromTheCrypt''. A prison executioner (William Sadler) muses on the impending end of a death-row inmate's life and decides that the man will probably soil himself when he dies in the electric chair.

-->-- '''Creator/CharlieBrooker''', commenting on ''Survivors''

In fiction, much like many unpleasant and unromantic aspects of dying, this is almost always ignored. Therefore, we have a case of No Dead Body Poops, where the death scene is almost always much ''much'' less nasty than it could be in real life. This is not surprising, given most people are not aware that someone dying can be a [[{{Pun}} crapshoot]]. It is also somewhat [[UndignifiedDeath undignified]] -- it really wouldn't do for someone's HeroicSacrifice to end with a fart noise and a bad smell, would it?

-->'''Bronn''': Men shit themselves when they die. Didn't they teach you that at Fancy Lad School?

* In Literature/TheBible's Book of Judges, chapter 3, King Eglon is stabbed in the gut by the left-handed Ehud, causing "the dirt" to come out. The fact that "dirt" is excrement is made even clearer when Eglon's personal guard delay going in to check on him because they believe him to be relieving himself-they can smell it.

* In ''Film/Se7en'', the guy who ate until he burst (guilty of the sin of Gluttony, obviously) is reported to be "sitting in a pile of his own piss and shit"- an easy way for the police to tell that he was dead without having to check his vital signs.

* When Lestat, the main character of ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles The Vampire Lestat]]'' of Anne Rice, is transformed into a vampire and has to "die" for this, it is described in great detail how his bowels empty while he isn't able to move and the rats come to eat the excrement. Yeah.

* In the ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' fic [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9916984/1/One-Shot One-Shot]], where high school girls drive real tanks to fight each other, almost all, and eventually all of the girls are killed in the battles that take place. As the girls die, nearly all of them urinate and many of them defecate, filling the interior of their tanks with not only blood and innards but the girls' urine and feces. When the recovery teams go to retrieve the girls' remains, they recoil at the stench coming from the inside of the tanks.

* ''Webcomic/VGCats'' example [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=240 here]].

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has ???, who is a [[UndeadChild dead, cyanotic Isaac]] who starts off with an item that allows him to poop on command. Can't get closer to averting this trope than that.
** Taken further with ???'s alternate version, which is seemingly filled with poop, poops sometimes in battle, and can throw poop with various abilities in combat!

* In Bryce Courtenay's book ''Tommo And Hawk'' this is used to confirm a character is dead.

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