History Main / NobodyPoops

* ''VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel'' of all games has an example-- on rare occasions during the game's intermissions, one of the kids on the Taranis will have their desire in the notebook written as being "…", and their model will be shown perspiring in-game. It's at this time where a duck-themed potty will appear on the roof on the Taranis, and when the child in question selects it, a small cutscene will be shown [[TakeOurWordForIt of their expression changing]], followed by art of a [[RelaxOVision field of flowers]]. Per interviews with Famitsu, Creator/CyberConnect2 CEO Creator/HiroshiMatsuyama insisted that this mechanic (the "Secret Garden") be implemented as the intermissions already had mechanics that involved the kids eating, farming and doing laundry, despite how the game was already [[https://www.famitsu.com/serial/fuga/202205/31263019.html significantly late in development and over-budget]] by that point.

* Lampshaded in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestV'': as you're approaching the final area of the game ([[spoiler: the mutagen-contaminated ''SCS Goliath'']]), you can look at as per usual. Rather than giving a description of it, however, the narration points out that you're actually pretty scared, and also realizing that you haven't got to the bathroom for the entire game, which is rapidly becoming a problem, as you're not in a position where you can do that. It's only a throwaway gag, though.

->''"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]]."''

* Lampshaded in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', where Zephram Cochrane asks Geordi if anyone pees in the 24th Century.

* The title characters of ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy'' are occasionally seen sitting on the toilet, and from time to time the mother of the boy whose house they were staying at would inform them that "Cartoon characters don't need to use the bathroom!"

* ''{{Literature/Animorphs}}'' #14 features an aversion that turns to be a critical discovery for the heroes. When trying to figure out how the evil Yeerk aliens intend to infiltrate a military base, they spot a horse herd nearby with several of the animals pooping. However, while most of the horses show no shame about defecating in public, one of them seems oddly unwilling to be seen doing so, which causes the heroes to realize some of the horses are being possessed by Yeerks. [[spoiler:It also later turns out that the piece of alien technology kept in the base is actually a discarded alien toilet.]]

* Snape lampshades this in ''FanFic/ALittleLightReading'' as he notes that "the book hasn't mentioned so much as a bathroom break."

* Lampshaded in the new radio series of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''. The teleportation devices in Slartibartfast's [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum Bistromatic Ship]] are in the bathroom cubicles. Just before they set off, Arthur says, "You know, in all this time, I have never once [[SoundEffectBleep *flush*]]"

* ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' lampshades the aversion to the trope. They have bathrooms in the game, but they all are occupied or otherwise unusable. In the first bathroom you come to, walking towards the door will result in a cutscene where one guy rushes in ahead of you. Attempting to enter will make him say: "Occupied!"

* Lampshaded and zig-zagged in the ''Videogame/InFamous'' games: Cole [=MacGrath=], being a Conduit with electrical-based superpowers, cannot submerge himself in water without electrocuting himself, which one would think might complicate things when he has to drink, bathe or pee (none of which he ever does). Though this only applies to large amounts of water, as he can drink and sponge bathe without getting harmed and as for the bathroom issue, Eugene in ''Videogame/InFamousSecondSon'' outright says – albeit offhandedly – that Conduits do not have to use the bathroom, though he likely meant that they do it less frequently than regular humans, as Hank Daughtry said that the Conduit prisoners in Curden Kay prison were bound so that they couldn't use their powers, "which also meant they had to feed us, wash us and even wipe our goddamn asses".

* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': This became something of a RunningGag for the fandom after the game was released in 1994, as Citadel Station was equipped with offices, executive suites, and even indoor gardens, but no bathrooms. As such "There are no toilets on Citadel Station" became a common refrain. The sequel averts this, and the spiritual successor, VideoGame/{{Bioshock}}, turns it into a sort-of scavenging mechanic where the player has to pay to open coin-operated bathroom stalls and hope whatever they find is worth it.

** Eventually disproved by [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the show itself]], in which at [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup one point]] Pinkie ''[[PottyEmergency really]]'' needs a bathroom.

* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': When all the Titans save Cyborg are trapped in Atlas's "Trophy Cases," [[DeadpanSnarker Raven]] asks if they get bathroom breaks. [[FridgeHorror given how sociopathic Atlas is]] and how he made it clear there was no way out of the cases and he said he'd keep them as trophies, they'd likely have died of dehydration in those cases of Cyborg hadn't saved them.

* ''Manga/CityHunter'': Lampshaded in the second Union Teope arc: after finding out that Ryo had not left her behind to go into battle but was in the toilet, Kaori screamed at him that nobody had ever heard of an hero that goes to poop before the battle, only for Ryo to reply that it's the smart thing to do (and calling her constipated).

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMitchellsVsTheMachines: The pods that PAL traps most of the humans in are lacking toilets. Justified in that her plan is once they're launched into space, they will all suffocate and die.

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->''"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'', nothing happens at all."''
-->-- ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook''

->''"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'', nothing happens. At all."''

-->'''Director:''' What makes me incredibly proud of that moment is that when it was first shown in the cinema, quite a lot of the audience actually went to the loo at the same point. Well, I assume they went to the loo. But they left anyway.

* Averted in the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Philly", where Torres sees photos of a location where an MI6 agent was supposedly held captive for days, and notes that there's no bathroom, or even a bucket to use as a toilet. This observation pokes holes in the agent's story and ultimately exposes him as a DirtyCop.