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* In [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]]'s ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' novels, one character is described as losing control of their bowels while suffering a particularily violent death. Interestingly, she also seems to suffer a psychic version of this effect & begins uncontrollably broadcasting her worst memories into Amuro's mind in her death throes.

* Referenced in the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' manga when [[Psycho for Hire|Jin-e]] tries to kill [[The Chick|Kaoru]] and talks about how the corpse will get rid of saliva and waste.

* Seiko in [[Corpse Party]] averts this as she is hanged to death. Naomi tries to save her, but realises she is too late when she sees Seiko's urine soaking the front of her skirt and flowing down her legs.

 

* ''[[Empowered]]'', though it's not shown in panel.

{{quote|I '''wasn't''' a superhero back then, okay? I was… I was just a '''little girl'''… and watched my '''daddy''' fall on the floor and '''shudder''' and '''groan''' and ████ '''himself''' and then '''die'''.}}

* on [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'s twitter account he acknowledged it at least three times, one time being about how they pissed themselves though.

 

* Trivia and AKK's Fanfics will mention this. Not so shocking when you consider the fanfic writers themselves. Both have medical backgrounds and are known for their brutally frank exploration of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|things floated under the radar]]...[[Incredibly Lame Pun|including the obvious]].

* There's a ''[[Fallout]] 2'' fanfic where Lara (the chick from the Den) goes up to fight against Lo Pan, hand to hand. When it becomes clear that Lo Pan is losing, [[Combat Pragmatist|he pulls out a gun he hid under the fighting]] mat earlier (which is canon, by the way) and blows half her face away. As she lays dying, she involuntarily lets loose her bowels. Both of them.

* ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' doesn't shy away from this ([[War Is Hell]] being a central theme) with several scenes mentioning the stench of "corpse-shit" from the bodies littering the urban battlefields.

 

* Steve Martin plays an asshole action movie director in the Kasdan movie ''Grand Canyon''. In an early scene, he berates a flunky for cutting out a scene where a criminal is shot in the head because there was "too much blood splatter." Later, after he himself is shot by a mugger, he lies on the street bleeding, and the camera reveals he'd also urinated on himself.

* The Golgothan Shit Demon from the movie ''[[Dogma]]'' is a demon created from this exact excrement. Golgotha was the place where Christ was crucified so obviously it's made from the build up of hundreds of crucified criminals in a cursed place but on the other hand it was where ''Christ'' was crucified too so, while [[Stealth Pun|never stated]], it might quite literally be "Holy Shit".

'''Mr. Mascaro:''' Pisser. }}

 

* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Friday (novel)|Friday]]'', the heroine explains to her friends in graphic detail exactly ''why'' they do not want to drag a dead cop to their secret hiding place (which is accessible only through the hot tub).

* In Salman Rushdie's short story ''Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship,'' one of the dirty jobs Isabella gives Columbus is cleaning up the bodies of dead soldiers for burial, and the fact that they're wearing (usually full) diapers under their uniforms is mentioned.

* When Lestat, the main character of ''The Vampire Lestat'' of Anne Rice, is transformed into a vampire and has to "die" for this, it is described in great detail how his bowels empty while he isn't able to move and the rats come to eat the excrement. Yeah.

* When Junior in ''[[Under the Dome]]'' cozies up to the two girls he killed, he notes the fact that they've defecated in their death.

* In one of the [[Hitman]] novels, Agent 47 kills a clone brother, who makes a long "farting" sound as he's strangled to death. Realistic much?

* In [[John Varley]]'s ''Steel Beach'' we learn that low gravity + explosive decompression + no space suits/clothing (clothing optional moon colony) + bowel gas = the 'Brown Rocket' effect.

* One of the ''[[CSI: Miami]]'' tie-in novels averts it, the corpse is found in a car trunk and a 'number 3' is referred to, then it's explained.

 

* ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' does this with a bunch of people who died when the air supply to their bondage suits was cut off. When the suits are opened... eugh!

* Actually played for humor in ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', believe it or not. Sam is stuck in a [[Groundhog Day Loop]] where Dean dies (in various, hilarious ways) every day. Sam is aware of the repeating days; Dean is not. Sam tries to explain that in another version of that day, Dean got hit by a car and killed:

* Not involving death, but still extremely [[All the Tropes Wiki Drinking Game|egregious]]. In one episode of ''[[The Job]]'', [[Denis Leary|Mike]] is suffering a severe [[Potty Emergency]] when a criminal body-checks him into the bathroom wall, knocking him on his ass and unconscious. By all reasonable logic, this should have caused him to [[Potty Failure|shit his pants]].

 

* Referenced (sort of) in ''[[Waiting for Godot]]'', except it's about the penile sphincter rather than the anal one.

{{quote|'''Vladimir:''' What do we do now?

** Postmortem erections, by the way, are known as "angel lust," and occur when a body dies in an upright position. Gravity causes the person's blood to pool in his lower extremities, which causes the feet and legs to swell along with... the obvious.

 

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', one of the bosses alludes to this as he dies:

{{quote|'''Forgemaster Garfrost yells:''' Garfrost hope giant underpants clean. Save boss great shame. For later.}}

{{quote|'''Atari ST Version Text:''' You realize with horror that you will be found dead without a proper change of underwear and socks. [[Never Live It Down|You cringe in the worst way till death mercifully takes the unbearable thought away.]] Start again.}}

 

* Mentioned in Team Four Star's ''[[Dragon Ball Abridged]] Bardock Father of Goku'' special. Dodoria blasts Bardock and his dead teammates, the latter ending up in a pile on top of Bardock, and he remarks "Oh God, you really ''do'' soil yourself when you die."

* Also referenced in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged]]'', when Dio considers removing Jotaro's pants to see if he's really dead because "After all, they say after you die, you do sh*t yourself."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzFzherdWKo A fan-edit] for ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' crossed over with ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]'' showed this happening to {{spoiler|Mami/Miyako}}. Note that this did not happen in the actual episode.

 

* In ''[[The Venture Bros]]''. When Race Bannon dies, he evacuates his bowels. The boys get [[Squick]]ed out and Brock [[Reality Is Unrealistic|points out]] that, "They never show that part on TV".

* Averted in ''[[South Park]]'' as a [[Running Gag]] in ''Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes.''

** Brian comments that {{spoiler|Bertram}} voided his bowels upon being killed {{spoiler|by Stewie}}.

 

* Some [[Samurai]] would fast before a battle so that "their bodies would not pass dirt upon death" in order to avert this trope.

* Any mother who ever used the [[Stock Phrase]] "Always wear clean underwear, because it'll be shameful if you get run over by a car and are found to have been wearing dirty undies when you died". Er, hate to break this to you Mom, but, as [[Bill Cosby]] said in reference to mothers insisting that their children wear clean underwear in case they get in a car accident: "First you [[Oh Crap|think it]], then you say it, then you do it." He did come up with a workaround in that most mothers say "Have a clean pair of undies" when invoking this phrase, all he needs is to have them [[Exact Words|stored in the glove compartment]].

 

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