History Main / NobodyPoops

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'' ''do'' use toilets ([[UseItem literally, as the only word given is "Use"]]). One of their motives is Bladder; unlike Energy or Hunger they can't die of it being too low, but will soil themselves, making their Comfort need empty. However, ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' doesn't retain this, meaning that many players will enact this trope by not making Sims use chamberpots unless a quest tells them to. Interestingly, male Sims will sit down on the toilet if their Bladder is below half, otherwise they'll use it while standing up; likewise, urinals can only be used if the motive is above half.

* The player character can poop in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrosaingNewHorizons'' to get rid of excess food energy that’s used to break rocks and move trees. Naturally, there’s no nudity involved, the character just sits and then gets a message that says “And that takes care of that”

* The [=AU=] ''{{Series/CSI}}'' [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3875819/1/H5N1 H5N1]]” takes place after an apocalyptic ThePlague situation. There’s a mention of Grissom and Sara having to make an improvised bucket commode since they lack running water in their cabin. Grissom also pees outside the house when coyotes become a problem. He’s hoping they’ll be deterred by smelling the pee of another male animal, a potential larger predator than them.

* The AU ''{{Series/CSI}}'' fic “[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3875819/1/H5N1 H5N1]” takes place after an apocalyptic ThePlague situation. There’s a mention of Grissom and Sara having to make an improvised bucket commode since they lack running water in their cabin. Grissom also pees outside the house when coyotes become a problem. He’s hoping they’ll be deterred by smelling the pee of another male animal, a potential larger predator than them.

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Averted normally, and taken UpToEleven in one Kero Zero chapter. [[spoiler: Basically, the mothership taking our heroes to Earth starts rationing all food and water when its onboard farms fail to produce any crop - our heroes wind up holding it all in for a week when they can't even use the toilet, then desperation forces them to dump it all ''all over the onboard farms'', inadvertently fertilising the soil and allowing it to function again.]] They don't actually touch the food produced for some time, though.

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': While waiting for Rorschach to finish up in the men's room[[note]]He's there to chase down and kill Big Figure, not to take a potty break[[/note]], Nite Owl II mentions an incident where a drug dealer got away while he was using the bathroom. He subsequently redesigned his costume to speed up that part of the process.

* In ''Fanfic/AzumangaUndPanzer'', during the match with Anzio, [[Anime/GirlsUndPanzer Anteater Team]] suffers a PottyEmergency mid-battle, and in stroke of luck, ends up in an optimal position to attack the enemy flag tank and win the match.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' ParodyFic "Farce Contact", time agent Daniels teleports Captain Archer off the toilet [[InconvenientSummons in order to speak to him]], as Starfleet toilets are in a state of temporal non-existence thanks to this trope.
* {{Justified|Trope}} and {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimal'', as when people [[BrainUploading emigrate to Equestria]], Celest-A.I. eliminates the need to do so, along with removing other tedious biological functions. Ones that people enjoy such as eating are still kept however, unless a person also wants them removed.

* In the ''Fanfic/ProjectDarkJade'' fanfic ''Fanfic/QueenOfShadows'', Shadowkhan apparently don't need to use the restroom.

* ''Film/RiseBloodHunter'': Midway through the movie Sadie uses the bathroom while handcuffed, and has Rawlins put them in front as otherwise it would be impossible. However, she's still unable to pull her pants up afterward (he does it for her). She's never actually heard doing anything nor flushing however.
* ''Film/{{RoboCop|2014}}'' (2014) shows [=RoboCop=] undergoing dialysis at the end of each day to compensate for the loss of bodily functions, and that's thankfully as close as it gets.

* In ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', when the Gummers return from searching for signs of the creatures that have been killing people and livestock, Burt Lampshades the lack of any "spoor". Justified because the Graboids live and travel underground, so presumably do their business there, not at the surface. Averted with humans in the very first shot, of Val seen from behind as he takes a leak over the edge of a cliff.
* Averted in ''Film/CrystalFairyAndTheMagicalCactus''. An early scene has a prostitute awkwardly peeing into a bush while her friend tries to cover her.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'' is a serious offender:
** Questions of Darth Vader's biological needs have plagued fans since the first film, though [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack the second]] shows his Star Destroyers have special facilities in which he can remove at least parts of his suit, and ''Film/RogueOne'' takes the further by revealing he can remove almost all his prostetics in special bacta tanks.
** Throughout the franchise, countless jail cells (Leia's in the first movie, the ship brigs in the TV series and the panopticon-style Republic Prison in ''WesternAnimation/TheCloneWars'' have lacked any sort of toilet. Though that last example is probably a mercy...
** Fighter pilot have special suits and catheters that X-Wing and similar cockpit-only ships' pilots could have equivalents to to go #1 while flying [[BizarreAlienBiology (assuming they're humanoid]] in the right ways. Making devices for female pilots is evidently hard enough). However, X-Wings are hyperspace-capable, meaning that they'd have to either hold #2 in for hours if not longer if they couldn't find a safe place to land.
** Averted in at least two instances [note: three if you count a non-canon joke comic showing a toilet that can accompany every possible alien anatomy]:
*** There's a room inside of a starship in ''Dark Forces'' which appears to be filled with urinals. Kyle can, of course, [[CampingaCrapper kill the enemies as they do their business]].
*** ''Series/TheMandalorian'' shows that the ''Razor Crest'' has a refresher (and the foot rest for said toilet seems to be one of the few things that survived its destruction).
* ''Film/{{Lycan}}'': {{Averted}}. Isabella goes off to pee, and Blake follows her, leading to awkwardness then a suggestive verbal exchange while he looks away as she does her business.

* ''Literature/AdrianMole'': Subverted in that toilets (or more usually "lavatories") are mentioned frequently.

* ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Subverted in that toilets are mentioned quite a few times.
** Fred and George talk of sending their mother a Hogwarts toilet seat.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', a disused bathroom is central to the plot, and Polyjuice Potion is brewed actually on a toilet, in a cauldron above a magical waterproof fire.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Dumbledore tells the story of how when he had an exceptionally full bladder, he came across a room containing a magnificent selection of chamber pots.
** In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'', Dumbledore excuses himself to go to the bathroom, so that Harry can talk to Horace Slughorn. When he has spent a long time there, Slughorn asks Dumbledore if he had an upset stomach.

* In ''Literature/MyTeacherIsAnAlien,'' Peter, newly arrived on a spaceship with many different alien species, asks the computer where he can find a bathroom. It then proceeds to ask a series of very personal questions (which we do not get to read) in order to figure out exactly what sort of facilities he needs.

* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'': Averted by a Verdant Company soldier who the villains ambush as he's going to "answer a call of nature", and it's explicitly mentioned that his trousers are open. It's otherwise played straight though, most notably with Blackmail, who [[TwentyFourHourArmor never removes his armor]] (though it's later explained due to magic).

* Whedon was careful to show a toilet on ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. The first shot on the show inside a crewman's quarters was Mal buttoning up and kicking the toilet back into its resting place.

* In the infamous [[Recap/ICarlyS03Ep17IPsycho ''IPsycho'']] episode of ''Series/ICarly'' the gang gets trapped in a recording booth by [[LoonyFan Nora Dershlit.]] They stay in the room for at least twelve hours, and Nora intended on keeping them far longer. And while Nora is shown giving them food through a slot, there's absolutely no mention of bathroom breaks (and the gang would have ganged up on Nora and escaped as soon as she opened the door.)
** In the episode ''I Reunite With Missy'', a [[EnfantTerrible child seeking revenge on Spencer]] traps him in a storage locker, explicitly for two days. Ironically, though, this trope is averted in another way, as the boy sprays Spencer with a water gun filled with "[[UrineTrouble Fluids]]."
* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': In the pilot, Mando's bounty target excuses himself from the cockpit to look for a bathroom... except he finds the toilet belowdecks right away and instead goes looking for Mando's weapons locker. Mando wasn't fooled for a minute and quickly shoves him into the nearby carbon-freezing booth, thereafter to ride to prison as a [[HumanPopsicle nonhuman popsicle]].
* Becomes a plot point in the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Philly". An MI6 agent is reported missing, and is later found tied up as a prisoner. However, Torres notices that the agent's so-called prison has no toilet, or even buckets. This leads him and Abby to question what his captors did when he had to use the facilities, which has them checking the security footage of the nearest shop with a bathroom, revealing that the agent is actually [[DirtyCop working with his "captors"]].
* ''Series/SchittsCreek'': Subverted. Thanks to the poop joke in the show's title, the writers incorporate both obvious and subtle poop jokes into the story on a regular basis. This begins in the first episode when Mayor Roland Schitt uses the Roses' motel bathroom for an uncomfortable amount of time.

* Several people have [[http://star-trek.answers.wikia.com/wiki/Why_does_it_seem_that_there_are_no_bathrooms_on_Star_Trek said]] that bathrooms don't exist in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe, however there have been a few bathroom references (Neelix mentioning that they are down to four lavatories in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', a girl asking where it goes when you flush the toilet on the Enterprise in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'', diapers mentioned in several episodes, etc.). The official schematics of the ship show where some toilets are (by the bridge) and we even see random crewers exiting them on occasion, though it's never explicitly identified.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** While latrine duty is still a part of the Imperial Guard and Space Marines have TwentyFourHourArmor, it's only referred to in passing, with other factions not mentioning this at all (fortunately so in the case of Nurglites). Zigzagged with the Orks: Literature/CiaphasCain mentions Orks answer the call of nature whenever it happens, and only building designated facilities to insult and deface whatever was there before, ComicBook/DeffSkwadron shows that they're part of the squig feeding process.
** [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/The_Toilets_of_the_41st_Millennium Fandom to the rescue.]]
** The simplest answer is most often the correct one: going to a toilet isn't important enough to be written down.
** It's mentioned that the [[ExtremeOmnivore Kroot]] don't have a dedicated excretory system, this is explained through BizarreAlienBiology as the Kroot almost completely break down whatever creature they eat and what few bits they can't digest are simply vomited out.

* After playing this straight for the prior games in the ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series[[note]]The toilet could only be used for sitting on, like a chair[[/note]], ''[[VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons New Horizons]]'' finally averts it. When your villager's stomach is filled with fruit, it's possible to use a toilet to empty any "excess fruit energy".
* Your poop is part of the gameplay mechanics of ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved''. As your food meter decreases, it will turn light blue to indicate that feces have formed in your bowels and you can take a dump with Numpad +; if you don't defecate at this moment, the game will eventually do it for you. When this happens, you can grab your poop and deposit it directly into a crop plot as plant fertilizer, mix it with thatch in a Compost Bin, let it sit for about one in-game day and turn it into a very high quality Fertilizer, or feed it to a tamed dung beetle that will turn it into one portion of fertilizer and one portion of oil. You can also kill yourself by eating enough of your own poop (useful if you're playing PVP to evade being captured and held prisoner), and in the ''Aberration'' expansion some mushroom spores will give you explosive diarrhea and empty your entire food meter, leaving you weak and starved. In addition, if you feel like grabbing your own poop is too gross, you can build a toilet in your house and flush it away safely and cleanly.

* ZigZagged in ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}: Dark Days Ahead''. The game's developers have a philosophy of "if it's not perfectly realistic, and we can change it to be more realistic, we will do so", but one notable exception is that players will never urinate or defecate: you can fill your stomach with food and drink, and its contents will just disappear into the void after being digested. However, animals are exempt from this trope and will produce dung that can (with some exceptions) be used to craft fertilizer.
* ''VideoGame/CenozoicSurvival'': None of the animals, from dodos to dire wolves to humans defecate.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' clarifies that the Undead do not, in fact, have to poop (courtesy of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Excrement Smeared Ashes]]). Which makes sense, as the game also reveals that your LifeMeter is the undeads' and unkindleds' [[HeroicWillpower will to live]] ([[{{Determinator}} and not a measure of their actual physical condition]]). As [[HealingPotion Estus]] is that will in liquid form, it makes sense that there'd be nothing, er, coming out the other end after drinking it. FlavorText suggests that at least some undead associate pooping [[WhatHaveIBecome with their former lives]] and [[{{Squick}} wish for "that smell" again]].

* Toilets are one of the things the developer is explicitly ''not'' adding in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''; most of the playerbase is in agreement that having to design efficient sewer systems for your fortresses is just excessive.

* In this trope is generally played straight in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', where no toilets and outhouses are to be found anywhere in most of the games. Strangely enough, both ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' do feature {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}}s in their capital cities, but no toilets attached to them. ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim,'' averts this trope, as there are small rooms containing a low stool, and a bucket directly behind it. Interestingly, none of these quaint little arrangements appear anywhere in actual inhabited buildings; they're all found in various dungeons or bandit hideouts.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', the Knight Academy has a public toilet that Link can sit on. It will even flush when he gets up.

* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'': Zigzagged. Your monster never needs the bathroom and you can't make bathrooms, and your Moshlings never use the bathroom either, but a toilet is seen in a pile of rubbish in the mission "Super Weapon Showdown", Simon Growl mentions your monster can sit in the seat of his airplane at the back, by the toilets, and in one of the magazines, poop is outright shown. Also, Humphrey is said to dislike the smell of manure in the morning and some babies wear diapers, while some don't.
* ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': Zigzagged. You can put toilets into the Neo Homes, but pets are never seen using them. Petpets, it's been established, do use bathrooms as it's one of their needs in "Petpetsitter" in addition to litter boxes being available for them. Also, some baby Neopets wear diapers and some don't, and you never have to change their diapers. And to top it all off, for the longest time there was no toilet paper in Neopia.

* Averted in ''VideoGame/OxygenNotIncluded''. Dealing with your dupes' waste products is essential to keeping a working base.
* Zigzagged in ''VideoGame/Persona4''. On finding the TV World for the first time, Yosuke panics because he has to pee and he's trapped in a world shrouded in fog that may or may not have toilets. The gag persist through your time there, including a bit about how he tries to relieve himself there but can't do it with Yu and Chie in the room, but it's never resolved if he managed to find a bathroom or not. Averted later on, when you can spend time in the bathroom at school in "quiet reflection".

* Averted in Law's ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 6'' ending. Paul, Law and Steve had agreed to share the prize money, but Law uses laxatives to incapacitate them and give him enough time to steal all the money for himself (what a Jerkass). Paul's ending also implies that Law used these laxatives throughout the tournament to cheat their way to victory.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': Since for most of the game it's ambiguous as to what exactly the warframes ''are'', it's not that surprising that there's no bathroom on the Orbiter. Eventually one of the locked rooms opens up, filled with a small ecosystem of plants and animals, in addition to some machines. Ordis explains it's for attending to the Operator's biological needs, which seems to include both food and cleansing.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{CatDog}}''. Kind of self-explanatory. Turns out they do in fact poop. [[{{Squick}} Now as for HOW...]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'' averted in the episode "Scanbo" when we see a very enraged Goran Vedmire drop a dookie when Scanlan sneaks into his bathroom during him releaving himself. It is subject to CensorShadow but you do see and hear it fall to the bowl as he stands up.
* Never happens in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' universe. At least in the original cartoons. In ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'', it was a little different.
* Zig-zagged in ''WesternAnimation/MagicAdventuresOfMumfie'': The characters don't need the toilet after eating or drinking, and Mumfie doesn't wear underwear (WordOfGod said that having him do so would result in Administrivia/PeopleSitOnChairs). However, it's averted twice-when Fluffy the cloud leaks on Scarecrow's chair, and whenever Scarecrow falls, he [[BowelBreakingBricks poops straw]].
* The animated series of ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus'' plays it straight, even when the subject of the episode is the digestive system. The producer end-segement, though, provides a very good reason why:

* Averted and played with in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostBusters'' and ''Slimer! And the Real Ghostbusters''. In ''The Real Ghostbusters'', while chasing after a ghost, Winston falls out of a doorway and toilet paper rolls falls out as well. Peter remarks, "Should have thought of that before we left the Firehouse." In an episode of ''Slimer!'', Slimer goes into a restroom, slamming a stall door behind him. A flush is soon heard, and he then exits the stall by going right through the door, leaving slime on the door in his wake. Even though by all rights, ghosts shouldn't need to use the restroom.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': PlayedForLaughs in "[[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E17DoubleAgentDroid Double Agent Droid]]" when AP-5 [[NoSenseOfPersonalSpace walks in on]] Wedge while he's trying to use the [[CallARabbitASmeerp refresher]] in order to voice his concerns about Chopper. Later, Zeb mentions that AP-5's [[NoodleIncident done it to him, too]].

** This one is so ingrained in culture that when the crew had to submit an episode description to the TV guides for a pivotal episode without [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil revealing anything important]], they settled on "We finally see inside Steven's bathroom." And so we do: [[spoiler:it becomes the living space of recurring villain Peridot after she's finally caught and forced to work together with the Crystal Gems]].
** It's sort of a [[RunningGag running joke]] that circumstances keep forcing Steven to [[NatureTinkling pee outside]].
** It's also implied that [[TheNeedless the Gems]] would still need to use the bathroom [[EatingOptional if they were to eat or drink anything]]. Pearl is disgusted by the concept whereas Amethyst is amused by the sensation of "goop" passing through her.

*** There's a room inside of a starship in Dark Forces which appears to be filled with urinals. Kyle can, of course, [[CampingaCrapper kill the enemies as they do their business]].
*** Series/TheMandalorian shows that the ''Razor Crest'' has a refresher (and the foot rest for said toilet seems to be one of the few things that survived its destruction)

* One scene in the pilot episode of ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'' had to be reshot when [[MoralGuardians standards and practices]] noticed [[FreezeFrameBonus a toilet tank in the corner of a shot.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' [[HandWave explains this]] by stating that monster food, being made of magic, is digested completely, leaving nothing to... come out the other end. A monster in Grillby's talks about human food being "gross" for passing all the way through the body, [[NightmareFetishist and expresses interest in trying some]]. This doesn't stop Papyrus and Alphys from [[INeedToGoIronMyDog getting out of awkward situations by claiming they need to use the bathroom]].

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13505568/1/Bubble-Baby-Daddy-Boomer Bubble Baby Daddy Boomer]] has Bubbles use the bathroom very often due to her pregnancy. Granted, Blossom, Buttercup, Bunny, Boomer, Brick & Butch go to the bathroom as well at some points in the story, but since frequent urination is a symptom of pregnancy, Bubbles pees a whole lot until chapter Fifteen.

** In the episode ''I Reunite With Missy'', a [[EnfantTerrible child seeking revenge on Spencer]] traps him in a storage locker, explicitly for two days. Ironically, though, this trope is averted in another way, as the boy sprays Spencer with a water gun filled with "[[UrineTrouble Fluids."]]

->''"Well, I feel that films -- the film industry -- has increasingly failed to reflect reality as people live it. No-one goes for a piss in ''Franchise/StarWars'', you can watch the whole of ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' and no-one brushes their teeth, and in ''Film/LostInTranslation'', [[TakeThat nothing happens. At all."]]''

* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', Roman Torchwick's cell on the Atlesian Airship (which he stayed in from the end of Volume 2 to the end of Volume 3) and the force-field cells [[spoiler:Jacques, Qrow and Robin]] stay in for several days in Volume 8 lack any toilets (and everyone can see everyone else in the latter case.) Granted, even dangerous huntsmen can still be restrained and taken out, but it'd provide them far more opportunities to escape than simply building cells with proper facilities.

* In ''WebAnimation/RWBY'' Roman Torchwick's cell on the Atlesian Airship (which he stayed in from the end of Volume 2 to the end of Volume 3) and the force-field cells Jacques, Qrow and Robin stay in for several days in Volume 8 lack any toilets (and everyone can see everyone else in the latter case.) Granted, even dangerous huntsmen can still be restrained and taken out, but it'd provide them far more opportunities to escape than simply building cells with proper facilities.

* The larval states of some insects, like antlions, don't produce any waste until they pupate. Antlions can remain in their larval state for several years.

* Lethal white syndrome is a condition in horses that causes them to be born with a underdeveloped digestive system. These horses are normally put down because they can't defecate and otherwise will die very painfully within a few days. The gene that causes this incidentally also causes these horses to be completely white, hence the name.

* Never happens in the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' universe. At least in the original cartoons. In WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes, it was a little different.

* Lampshaded for laughs in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'': when Bob and Mike the TV are waiting around for something in one episode, there is montage of them bored and shifting position slightly in each shot. One shot shows only Mike, with Bob nowhere to be seen; after a moment, the sound of a toilet flushing offscreen is heard.