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Who is searching for whom varies widely, but it always involves a linear process-of-elimination search of the stalls. Expect a shot at foot-level at some point, and a [[Scare Chord]] when the last stall door is flung open. Variations on the basic structure are quite common.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Gunsmith Cats]]'', May drags an
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* In the [[The Punisher]] storyline "Suicide Run", a bunch of mafia [[Mooks]] hide in the bathroom. The Punisher is not sure which stall contains what, so he shoots through all of them.
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* ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', when Boo and Sully are hiding from Randall. He punches them open one by one, and Sully flinches as every door opens. {{spoiler|Randall actually slams open the stall Sully is hiding in, but isn't looking at the time. Momentum closes the door before Randall sees them.}}
* ''[[Nine to Five]]'': Happens during an [[Imagine Spot]].
* In ''[[The Sting]]'', Johnny Hooker is trying to escape a hit man trying to kill him. He goes into a restroom to hide. The hit man enters and starts opening doors to find him. He gets to the last stall and realizes there's a woman inside. He figures Hooker went out the window and does the same. It turns out Hooker was inside the stall with the
* In ''[[The Warriors (
* ''[[Max Payne (
* The Amish kid in ''Witness'' successfully hides from the murderers this way.
* ''[[
* ''[[Edge of Darkness]]''. Craven is being followed, and to lose his tails he goes into a highway rest stop bathroom. A moment later the tails enter the bathroom and search the stalls, only to discover that Craven has escaped out a window and lost them.
* ''[[
* ''[[True Lies]]''. Tasker hides from a gun-wielding terrorist inside a bathroom stall. The terrorist hoses down the stalls with his machine gun, and begins opening each stall. Before he gets to Tasker's hiding place, Tasker bursts out of his stall and escapes.
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'': The leader of a biker gang opens each stall and finds the person he was looking for in the last one.
* ''[[High School Musical]]'' used this to show us how Gabriella was able to turn invisible. Seriously: Sharpay hears her singing in the loo, sees nobody, checks out the stalls, ''kicks'' the lone closed-yet-vacant stall open, then spies herself in the mirror and leaves. Gabriella then reveals that she was behind the entrance wall (beside the basins). In a ''[[Fridge Logic|place Sharpay looked]]''. True, we don't actually see Gabriella's hiding place (so she could very well have been under the basins), but the way it's played makes us wonder why she doesn't slip out while Sharpay's back was turned.
* In ''[[Air Force One]]'', while he's being pursued by the terrorists through the plane's passenger levels, the President hides in the bathroom section. The terrorists then shoot up each stall, and check each door, only to find they're empty. Turns out the President [[Air Vent Passageway|used a different method to evade them]].
* In ''[[The Wall|Pink Floyd
* In ''[[Problem Child|Problem Child 2]]'', Trixie hides in the bathroom and stands on the toilet seats so her feet don't show. Junior looks underneath each stall, and doesn't see her feet, but he isn't fooled.
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* In the ''[[
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* ''[[The Secret World of Alex Mack]]'': Alex Mack once avoided detection this way, when her stall was opened for examination, she had liquefied and
* ''[[Law
▲* In [[Gunsmith Cats]], May drags an injuried Rally into a bathroom to hide from [[This Means War|Radinov]]. Played straight despite Radinov not checking the stalls because of the obvious bloodtrail. She is, however, dealing with [[Trap Master|Minnie May]] now.
== Other ==▼
* There's a Japanese [[Urban Legend]] about Hanako Of The Toilet, a schoolgirl murdered in a bathroom stall who kills anyone who happens to be using that particular toilet. According to the story, if one is unfortunate enough to be using that stall, they'll hear Hanako herself checking each stall, giggling to herself "No one in here," until she finds the victim. Then she kills them.▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' has a mission where a guy you're chasing runs in the bathroom. You have to open stall by stall to get him.
* ''[[Punisher]]'' (2005): A male mook sometimes will try to hide in the women's restroom (at Central Park Zoo). Doesn't work out, as Frank can explicitly drown him in the toilet. That's going to give a tourist a scare.
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* ''[[The Simpsons]]''. To paraphrase, "I've never seen anyone so desperate to avoid ten minutes of calisthenics".
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Brock is looking for Phantom Limb inside a bathroom. He begins searching each stall, encountering a different villain in each one, before finding his target.
▲== Other ==
▲* There's a Japanese [[Urban Legend]] about Hanako Of The Toilet, a schoolgirl murdered in a bathroom stall who kills anyone who happens to be using that particular toilet. According to the story, if one is unfortunate enough to be using that stall, they'll hear Hanako herself checking each stall, giggling to herself "No one in here," until she finds the victim. Then she kills them.
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