Basic Trope: Using something else when you don't have a diaper.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are babysitting baby Charlie, but when Charlie wets his diaper and they have to do The Diaper Change, they don't have any extra diapers, so Alice uses an old towel instead.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob have to find makeshift diapers for an entire nursery full of babies.
- Bob uses his own shirt, another shirt from a laundry hamper, or Alice’s dress as a diaper.
- Downplayed: Items such as Depends (adult diapers) are used instead.
- Justified: The babysitting comes as a surprise so they didn't have time to buy extra diapers.
- Inverted:
- Charlie is Alice and Bob's own son and when Alice forgets to wash any underwear, she takes a diaper out of the pack and puts it on instead.
- Alice is locked naked in a daycare. She finds a diaper and puts it on to cover her genitals.
- Subverted: Alice is about to put the towel on Charlie as a diaper, but then Bob finds a diaper and uses that instead.
- Double Subverted: But when Charlie messes that diaper, they have to use the towel.
- Parodied: Alice and Bob realise too late that the towel they used was a priceless ancient cloth.
- Zigzagged: Alice and Bob search frantically for a diaper, and several times they consider using something else but change their minds.
- Averted: Alice and Bob do not diaper Charlie with anything except a diaper.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Did you really just put a towel on Charlie's butt to use as a diaper, Alice?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Alice didn't like the towel anyway, so now's the chance to throw it away.
- Defied:
- Alice and Bob always have diapers on hand in case they have to babysit a baby.
- Alice and Bob decides to let Charlie go naked.
- Discussed: "Could a towel theoretically be used as a diaper?"
- Conversed: "It's a bit squicky when characters use things that are not diapers as diapers, isn't it?"
- Implied: Charlie is seen wearing what looks like a towel.
- Deconstructed: The towel gets all dirty.
- Reconstructed:
- Charlie didn't have time to use it.
- The towel wasn't much of a loss so Alice just throws it away.
- The towel can be washed.
- Played for Laughs:
- Toilet Humour.
- Alice uses a Daily Mail newspaper as a diaper.
- Played for Drama: ???
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