Line #28 PlayingWith/BringMyBrownPants


1	'''Basic Trope''': A character gets so frightened that they urinate or defecate in their clothing.
2	* '''Straight''': While hiking in the woods, Alice runs into a grizzly bear. Alice is so scared that she wets her pants.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Bob startles Alice; Alice has explosive diarrhea.
5	** Aliens begin to invade the world; everybody, everywhere simultaneously craps themselves.
6	** Alice defecates herself at the slightest shock.
7	** Alice is naked or bottomless for some reason and the crap goes straight to the floor.
8	* '''Downplayed''':
9	** Alice runs into a grizzly bear, she is a little frightened and farts.
10	** Alice suffers a PottyEmergency due to fear.
11	** Alice wets her pants, but it's only a drop.
12	* '''Justified''':
13	** Alice is a child.
14	** Alice has a medical problem.
15	** Alice already had a PottyEmergency; the shock of running into a bear disrupted her ability to hold it in.
16	** TruthInTelevision, voiding one's bowels (or bladder) is an appropriate response to being very scared.
17	* '''Inverted''':
18	** Alice scares off a bear by crapping/wetting her pants.
19	** Alice frightens off a bear by yelling and screaming, in her excitement she accidentally craps her pants.
20	** Alice [[StressVomit vomits when afraid]].
21	** Alice has a nervous tic that causes her to excessively eat and/or drink whenever she is frightened.
22	** Alice is a superhero [[BlessedWithSuck whose butt sucks up feces]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway whenever she experiences intense fear.]]
23	** Alice constipates or has a ShyBladder when she's afraid.
24	** Alice encounters a bear, and the bear is so startled, it craps.
25	* '''Subverted''': It's well known that Alice has a bowel-control problem and a leaky bladder and whenever she experiences an intense emotion, she has a tendency to either defecate or urinate on herself. One day, while hiking in the woods with Alice, they run into a Grizzly bear that growls and roars to them. They are both very frightened and run away:
26	-->'''Alice (''panting''):''' "Wow, that was close!"\
27	'''Bob(''also panting''):''' "Yeah, we were almost bear food! Here, I got your extra pair of pants in my backpack."\
28	'''Alice:''' "Oh, thanks, wait..." '''(Feels her butt.)''' "I don't need them."\
29	'''Bob (''confused''):''' "You didn't crap your pants?"\
30	'''Alice (''excited''):''' "I didn't crap my pants!"
31	* '''Double Subverted''':
32	** Alice is so excited that she didn't crap her pants, she craps her pants.
33	-->'''Alice:''' "Dammit. Pass me those pants."
34	** Bob then reveals that ''he'' is the one that needs a change of clothes.
35	-->'''Bob (embarrassed)''': Well, I guess that makes one of us. (gets out some some clothes from his backpack)
36	** Then she realizes that she did ''wet'' her pants.
37	* '''Parodied''':
38	** Alice’s pants are sentient and discourage her from doing this.
39	** Alice’s superpower is [[BlessedWithSuck extreme]] [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway urinary incontinence]] that activates whenever she is afraid. Of course, [[StealthPun she has no control over this.]]
40	** Alice [[BowelBreakingBricks literally shits a brick.]]
41	** Alice worries about ruining her pants when she gets scared, but laughs when she remembers that she is a HalfDressedCartoonAnimal and therefore has no pants to soil.
42	* '''Zig Zagged''': Alice slowly empties out her back pockets after mistaking the items one by one for crap in her pants.
43	* '''Averted''': Regardless of the situation, Alice has excellent mastery over her bowels and bladder.
44	* '''Enforced''': The writers of a kid show want to have a very frightening villain while still keeping the tone light-hearted.
45	* '''Lampshaded''':
46	-->'''Bob:''' "Um, Alice, did you crap your pants?"\
47	'''Alice:''' "...Yeah. I did. I sorta have problem with shitting myself when I get scared."\
48	'''Bob:''' "Is that why you're always wearing brown pants? I just thought that you had a poor fashion sense."\
49	'''Alice:''' "Pretty much."\
50	'''Bob:''' "Well I'm busy, so don't invite me."\
51	'''Alice:''' "What? Invite you to what?"\
52	'''Bob:''' "To the [[{{Pun}} potty]] in your pants."
53	* '''Invoked''': Carol has a grudge against Alice and sets her up to be terrified by a bear attack as a cruel prank.
54	* '''Exploited''':
55	** Evil aliens with very sensitive senses of smell plot to invade the world. As such, the heroes bring in Alice, who has a bladder control problem when she gets scared.
56	** Alice takes her pants and underwear off and uses it to distract the bear so she can flee half-naked.
57	* '''Defied''':
58	** Alice takes some pills ''before'' she gets scared which will prevent this.
59	** [[BigBrotherInstinct Bill]], a DrillSergeantNasty in his work hours, gets in everybody's face and roars out that the first person to so much as think of reacting to Alice wetting herself in fear from the moment he finishes saying his threat onwards, let alone actually saying anything about it, will be shitting themselves in a much worse - as in [[NoDeadBodyPoops terminal]] - way. [[AppealToForce Everybody keeps quiet forevermore]].
60	* '''Discussed''': "I was so scared I thought I was going to piss myself!"
61	* '''Conversed''': "She spends the entire episode walking funny because the bear scared him in the ColdOpen."
62	* '''Implied''':
63	** Alice gets attacked by a bear and runs back home:
64	-->'''Alice:''' "Good thing I ran away or else I could've lost more than just my pants."\
65	'''Bob (''confused''):''' "But the bear didn't take your pants."\
66	'''Alice:''' "Oh trust me, these pants are done for."
67	** After her escape, people are seen wincing and crinkling their noses when nearby Alice, who appears very embarrassed.
68	** Alice is naked from the waist down after she escapes, and refuses to explain why.
69	* '''Deconstructed''':
70	** Alice shits her pants when confronted by a bear but doesn't get a chance to switch her pants and ends up getting diaper rash.
71	** Alice shits her pants but doesn't get a chance to change them because she is lost in the woods so she just removes her pants and leaves them in the forest. When she finally escapes the woods, she is arrested for public nudity.
72	* '''Reconstructed''':
73	** Alice's diaper rash heals over a couple weeks.
74	** Alice's lawyer gets her acquitted.
75	** The disgusted bear leaves her.
76	* '''Played For Laughs''':
77	** Alice emits a comically loud farting sound.
78	** The bear gets distracted by the smell, he runs away screaming like a woman.
79	* '''Played For Drama''':
80	** Alice’s soiling of herself is used to emphasize how [[NightmareFuel genuinely terrifying]] her situation is.
81	** Alice is bullied over soiling herself once the news comes out.
82	** Alice suffered injuries to her rectum due to a [[RapeAsBackstory particularly violent rape]] in the past.
83	** Alice's soiling of herself was brought on due to torture and starvation.
84	* '''Played For Horror''':
85	** Alice's farting is a DeadlyGas, making all of the creatures around her gag and suffer a CruelAndUnusualDeath.
86	** HorrorHatesARulebreaker, and the rule is "body waste release in designated bathrooms only". Being scared out of your mind is most definitely not a mitigating factor for this rule. Alice broke it. [[DisproportionateRetribution Oops]].
87	----
88	Ahhhhh!\
89	OhCrap\
90	...BringMyBrownPants.

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