This is an index of dirt, messes, and all manner of filth.
Contrast Cleanliness Tropes. Not to be confused with Filth or Sex Tropes.
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Related indices:
- Anuscape Plan: The easiest way to escape an organism is through the digestive tract... and it just so happens to be the dirtiest and thus least desirable way out.
- Bird-Poop Gag: Bird droppings comically landing on people or their belongings.
- Bring My Brown Pants: A character soils themselves in fright.
- Corpse Land: A land littered with dead bodies.
- Couldn't Find a Tissue: Blowing snot and tears on a non-disposable piece of fabric.
- Covered in Gunge: Someone gets covered in slime.
- Covered in Mud: Someone gets covered in mud.
- Creepy Cockroach: Cockroaches as dirty and unpleasant creatures.
- Dangerous Orbital Debris: Junk in orbit creating navigational hazards for space travel.
- Deceased and Diseased: Undead that spread disease.
- The Diaper Change: A character has to change a diaper.
- Dirty Foreigner: Depictions of a foreign people as unhygienic.
- Disgusting Public Toilet: A filthy public restroom.
- Down in the Dumps: Junkyards and dumps.
- The Dreaded Toilet Duty: A character is forced to clean toilets.
- Drool Deluge: Someone drools quite copiously.
- Dumpster Dive: Voluntarily climbing into a dumpster to find or retrieve something.
- The Dung Ages: Dark Age and Middle Ages Europe had terrible hygiene.
- Dung Fu: Throwing poop as an attack.
- Eat Dirt, Cheap: A character or species eats earthen materials.
- Egging: Throwing eggs at people or things such as cars and houses.
- Embarrassing Damp Sheets: Dirtying bedsheets while sleeping, usually through Potty Failure.
- Excrement Statement: Pooping or peeing on something to show disrespect.
- Fat Slob: A fat character who is slovenly.
- Filthy Fun: Somebody enjoys playing in the dirt.
- Foul Ball Pit: Ball pits and indoor playgrounds are filthy.
- Garbage Hideout: Hiding in a trashcan or dumpster.
- Gasshole: A character known for being gassy.
- Genius Slob: An intelligent character who is slovenly.
- Grimy Water: Toxic, deadly water.
- Gross Gum Gag: Gum is gross and germy, especially when chewed.
- Grossout Show: A show focused on being gross.
- Gross-Up Close-Up: Squick zoomed in on.
- Guys are Slobs: Manly men are slobs.
- Hairball Humor: Cat hairballs Played for Laughs.
- Horrible Housing: A small, messy, cramped home that emphasizes its inhabitants' poverty.
- Intentional Mess Making: Someone intentionally makes a mess.
- It Came from the Fridge: A dirty refrigerator's contents forming a disgusting new life-form.
- Jabba Table Manners: A villainous character has bad table manners.
- Jar Potty: A makeshift bodily waste container.
- Landfill Beyond the Stars: A planet used as a landfill.
- Men Can't Keep House: Men's bedrooms or houses are a big mess.
- Mess of Woe: Someone's living quarters grow filthy in the throes of depression.
- Messy Maggots: Maggots make things grosser.
- Messy Pig: Pigs are dirty, mud-loving animals.
- Muck Monster: A creature made of filth, poison, and refuse.
- Mucking in the Mud: Movement in mud is slowed or stopped completely.
- Mud Wrestling: Two people grappling in mud.
- Nose Nuggets: Snot-based humor.
- The Pig-Pen: A person normally covered in filth.
- Polluted Wasteland: A toxic wasteland stripped of all its resources.
- Pooping Where You Shouldn't: Pooping in a location not intended for pooping.
- Potty Failure: Someone pees or poops themselves.
- Powder Gag: Powder/dust is blown all over the place for comedic effect.
- Putting the Pee in Pool: Someone pees in a swimming pool.
- Revolting Rescue: An action that's heroic, but disgusting.
- Rainbow Puke: Somebody barfing up the seven colors of the rainbow.
- Road Apples: Animal poop.
- Slipping into Stink: A character slips on something disgusting.
- Smelly Feet Gag: Foot odor Played for Laughs.
- Spitty Speaker: A character splutters spit everywhere while talking.
- Stink Bomb: A weapon that releases a nasty odor on impact.
- Stink Snub: Body odor insults.
- Stress Vomit: Someone is stressed to the point of needing to vomit.
- Stuffed into a Trashcan: A bullying victim is stuffed into a trashcan.
- Swarm of Rats: Rats that gather together in disturbing quantities.
- Tinkle in the Eye: A baby pees on someone.
- Trash Landing: Landing in a dumpster.
- Trash of the Titans: Someone has an excessively messy, trash-filled bedroom.
- Uncleanliness Is Next to Ungodliness: Evil or otherwise unpleasant people have poor personal hygiene.
- Urine Trouble: Peeing on someone or something.
- Visible Odor: A visual shorthand to show something smells.
- Vomit Indiscretion Shot: A character vomits messily on-screen.
- Vomiting Cop: A police officer throws up upon seeing a particularly gruesome crime scene.
- "Wash Me" Graffiti: Writing a message on a dirty surface asking for someone to clean it.
- Waterfall Puke: When someone gets disgusted, vomit comes out of their mouth as a waterfall.
- Weaponized Stench: A character uses foul odors as an attack.
- Why We Need Garbagemen: Trash piles up because whoever's supposed to pick it up isn't doing so.
- Wilting Odor: A smell so awful it degrades the environment.
- Yellow Snow: Pee-colored snow.
- You Dirty Rat!: Rats as disgusting creatures.
- Zombie Puke Attack: Vomit as a long-range zombie attack.
