Basic Trope: A character has trouble urinating as they are shy.
- Straight: Alice cannot urinate despite having a Potty Emergency because she is worried other people in the toilets would hear her urinating.
- Exaggerated: Alice can't urinate unless she's at home alone.
- Downplayed: Alice can actually go but she has trouble doing so, or she only has trouble peeing when someone else is watching her.
- Justified: Alice is easily embarrassed, or is a shy person.
- Inverted:
- Alice cannot urinate unless people are with her.
- Alice cannot drink with people watching her.
- Nobody can pee when Alice is near them.
- Nobody can drink when Alice is near them.
- Subverted: Alice goes to therapy and is cured of her shy bladder.
- Double Subverted: It comes back.
- Parodied: Alice becomes an Omnicidal Maniac and kills everyone so she can pee in peace.
- Zig Zagged: Sometimes Alice can pee around other people, sometimes she's too shy.
- Averted: Nobody Poops, or nobody is shy about peeing.
- Enforced: The writers do this to introduce a shy character while throwing in some Toilet Humor.
- Lampshaded: "I can't pee with you here."
- Invoked: Bob dares Alice to pee in front of him.
- Exploited: Alice's shy bladder comes in handy when the Big Bad asks her to pee for a D.N.A. test that will lead to something bad happening.
- Defied: Alice is having such a severe Potty Emergency she doesn't care.
- Discussed: Bob, who is a scientist, tells Alice the science of shy bladder.
- Conversed: "Why can't these characters pee?"
- Implied: Bob is seen standing at the urinal not peeing and looking awkwardly at Charlie.
- Deconstructed: Alice, due to her shy bladder, gets an infection from holding it too long.
- Reconstructed: She can urinate if she's desperate enough.
- Played for Drama: Alice has a shy bladder and has to give a urine sample to cure her Soap Opera Disease.
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