Basic Trope: Something gets shoved into someone's rectal cavity.
- Straight:
- Bob and his friends enter a bar bet or drunken contest or similar where the loser sticks an object up their butt.
- Bob is a spy or drug trafficker who conceals an item in his butt.
- Bob receives Medical treatment involving a gloved hand in his butt.
- Bob is sexually harassed or rape, and the assault involves anal penetration.
- Exaggerated:
- As in this infamous story
, the butt is large enough to hold an entire party's weapons and armor in a Dungeons & Dragons game. - Bob has the Eiffel Tower, Tokyo Tower, Burj Khalifa and the Jeddah Tower all shoved up his ass and somehow lives.
- As in this infamous story
- Downplayed:
- The bet or drunken contest or similar requires someone to stick their finger up their butt.
- Not having any major hate or love of anal sexuality, or not even mentioning it.
- The concealed item is... a flared base plug.
- Bob receives medical treatment involving a small suppository or small-volume enema and barely noticeable until effective.
- Justified:
- Bob and his friends are doing stupid things while drunk or high.
- Bob and his lover are interested in these kinds of sexual activity and BDSM/fetish play.
- Bob wants to conceal something in a place people would be uncomfortable searching.
- The medical procedure and treatment require this.
- Bob is constipated in a way that it requires someone to pull the crap out from him.
- Victims of rape or sexual harassment - which is a sad Truth in Television.
- Inverted:
- Normal defecation or passing gas.
- Golytely/Colate/Miralax/etcetera, where the indigestible solution is drank or pumped in to the stomach in such volume as to force uncontrollable and rapid defecation.
- With or without the violent intent normally found in the straight version of the trope, something gets pulled out of someone's ass that you wouldn't normally expect to be in there.
- Subverted:
- Bob has his pants pulled down by a dominatrix in a Naughty Nurse Outfit, only to be spanked.
- Bob is concealing contraband and acts like he's concealing in his ass - to get a cavity search as a distraction, while his partner who has the contraband strapped to his body and in the luggage can walk on through. He later sues, making the plan even more of a success.
- Double Subverted:
- The mooners are then all subjected to "kancho" or "oil check."
- Bob is spanked... but just when he thinks the scene is over, the person pulls on the gloves...
- Bob has some of the banned item in his rectum too, in an attempt to use every bit of body space possible.
- Parodied:
- Bob's ass is hammerspace and the Bag of Holding all in one - it's not just drugs or money or the like they have in there, but an armory worth of military-grade weaponry, a library's worth of any needed books, all of the Mac Guffins and other items including Shop Fodder. If the the party needs anything, it will be in the Rectal Vault.
- Bob receives a Smack on the Back. Immediately, something falls out.
- Bob smuggles illegal immigrants across the border by hiding them in their ass, similar to this.
- Bob hee-haws at the intrusion.
- Zig Zagged:
- Alice and Bob is considering fetish play but then settles for something a bit more vanilla for whatever reason - only to, later on, be interested again in the fetish play.
- Bob is receiving medical treatment for severe constipation, which generally involves the trope being played straight, possibly repeatedly and in different ways, and (hopefully for the patient) ends in an inversion of the trope with relief.
- Averted: No one has anything shoved up their ass for any reason at all.
- Enforced:
- Playing To The Fetishes if done in an erotic sense.
- Rule of Funny and Vulgar Humor when someone doesn't care about the Black Comedy Rape implications and sees a place it would work as a joke, or, with a more enlightened writer, does care about the implications and uses one of the non-rape versions (consensual fetish/sex, character doing it to himself/herself).
- Rule of Drama any of the (rare) times it's a non-comedic and non-erotic example.
- Lampshaded:
- "That must be uncomfortable."
- The Greys realize some people seek Anal Probing and set up a business providing exactly that.
- A gastroenterologist/proctologist office is introduced as the setting and someone comments "if you've seen enough (genre that includes a lot of this) we all know where this is going..."
- Invoked: "They'll be WAY too squeamish to hunt for it there."
- Exploited:
- The Ass Shove is the beginning of a sex scene.
- The Ass Shove is Black Comedy Rape or a murder with VERY
Unfortunate Implications, as it most usually is, aimed at the (although not necessarily) homophobic young straight male viewer for whom being penetrated is A Fate Worse Than Death yet somehow "funny" when it isn't him.
- Defied:
- "What the hell? Are you seriously suggesting people bet on what they can put up their bum? Get out of my pub now and never come back."
- Alice and Bob is "exit only" for both partners and doesn't explore in this direction.
- Bob knows about cavity searches and advanced scanners, and knows whatever he's trying to smuggle won't go undetected (at least in that place) even if it is in his rectum. Instead, he finds a less guarded route and uses his clothes or body wraps to conceal the contraband, sneaks it into a legitimate shipment on his truck or aircraft, or finds some other way of concealment that is far more likely to be successful and far less painful.
- The doctor realizes Bob is a malingering fetishist and refuses to provide any treatment involving this form of entry, unless there is absolutely no alternative.
- The Greys engage in some nasty, horrible, nonconsensual procedures and tortures, but they refuse to do Anal Probing because "We know everything about Uranus already: nothing but gas there. "
- The macguffin is immensely sharp and pointy specifically because it'll prevent it being hidden like this.
- Discussed: Some doctor characters mention unusual objects they've had to remove from patients' asses.
- Conversed: "I don't think the author realizes how... non-consensual this trope is."
- Implied:
- We hear that a character went in for a doctor's appointment yesterday, and then see the person in question limping about...
- Or we see the doctor lubing up.
- Bob the thief is asked where they hid the diamonds. They reply "somewhere private" and then shift around uncomfortably.
- Alice performs a time reverse spell and wonders "what will happen to someone on the toilet".
- Bob threatened with this trope; "I'll wear you like a handpuppet if that keeps up!"
- Deconstructed: Bob suffers medical consequences (rectal bleeding, intestinal damage...) which can be fatal in worst case scenarios.
- Reconstructed: One simply needs to proceed carefully, be it by using lubricant in the bedroom, Police being properly trained for cavity searches, Doctors dexterously using proper equipment, and most importantly knowing the limits of one's anus.
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