Potty Failure/Playing With

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  • Basic Trope: Someone fails to make it to the bathroom on time.
  • Played Straight: After searching desperately for a place to relieve herself and finding none, Alice finally loses control and disgraces herself.
  • Exaggerated: Alice's accident unleashes a tsunami that floods the entire city.
  • Downplayed: Alice almost makes it, but suffers latchkey incontinence and loses it at the last moment.
  • Inverted: Alice relieves herself in the nearest toilet or some other such appropriate place.
  • Justified: Alice has drunk far too much and misjudged the strength of her bladder to get home in time.
  • Subverted: Alice finds a bathroom just in the nick of time.
  • Double Subverted: But all the stalls are full, the bathroom is closed for maintenance, etc. and she can't hold it anymore.
  • Deconstructed: Alice is publicly humiliated, and will have to walk around in smelly wet clothes.
  • Reconstructed: Alice finds a place where she can get cleaned up and get some clean clothes, and nobody mentions the incident.
  • Parodied: Someone tells Alice to take one for the team and drink a huge soda before cheerleading in the big game to create a great crude comedy scene as she pisses all over her colleagues. She obliges because she doesn't want the show to get cancelled.
  • Lampshaded: Someone comments that drinking that massive soda before going on a road trip was a very stupid idea.
  • Averted: Alice makes it to a bathroom in time.
  • Enforced: We need something that can be played as Toilet Humor, or, in the case of omorashi enthusiasts, sex appeal.
  • Invoked: Alice is into omorashi and has an accident on purpose for sexual gratification.
  • Defied: Alice wills herself to hold it longer so as not to humiliate herself.
  • Discussed: "Did she just soil herself?" "Judging by the smell, she definitely did."
  • Conversed: "I would hate to be Alice right now!"
  • Played For Laughs: Usually.
  • Played For Drama: It causes lots of social embarrassment for Alice.