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People die, for whatever reason. Some die a natural death, some get killed, some kill themselves, but still [[Killed Off for Real|dead is dead]]. A natural occurrence is after all is said and done, is that someone tries to retrieve the body of the dead person. However, biology does not stop at death. Muscles control the retention of wastes in the bladder and the rectum, and these muscles relax soon after death. If the rectum or bladder happens to be occupied at the moment of death, the result in [[Real Life]] is the people who find the body wishing the dead person [[Bring My Brown Pants|had worn brown trousers]] (and wishing they had brought a gas mask).
In fiction, this practically never occurs. Therefore, we have a case of '''No Dead Body Poops''', where the death scene is almost always much much ''much'' less nasty than it could be in real life. This is not surprising, given that most people are [[Did Not Do the Research|not aware]] someone dying can be a [[A Worldwide Punomenon|crapshoot]].
Even rarer than the post-mortem evacuation in fiction is recognizing the fact that serious abdominal injuries - gut shootings/stabbings and the like - can often let out what's supposed to stay in.
For examples of living people whose biological functions of this type aren't shown, see the [[Super-Trope]] [[Nobody Poops]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]]'s ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' novels,
* Referenced in the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' manga when [[Psycho for Hire|Jin-e]] tries to kill [[The Chick|Kaoru]]
* In ''Yomigaeru Sora Rescue Wings'' an earthquake victim suffers from crush syndrome and is shown becoming incontinent.
* Leina wets herself twice in the first episode of ''[[Queen's Blade|Queens Blade]].'' The second is a [[Bring My Brown Pants]] moment, but the first is this trope as she wets herself due to being strangled by Melona.
* Seiko in [[Corpse Party]] averts this as she is hanged to death. Naomi tries to save her, but
▲* Seiko in [[Corpse Party]] averts this as she is hanged to death. Naomi tries to save her, but realizes she is too late when she sees Seiko's urine soaking the front of her skirt and flowing down her legs as she died.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[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 two separate occasions in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'', a man is hanged, and on both of them, the corpse visibly voids its bowels. On one of them, a man who doesn't know better was [[Squick|standing under the body]].
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▲* On [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'s twitter account he acknowledged it at least three times, one time being about how they pissed themselves though.
== Fan Works ==
* 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.
* Subtly referenced in the ''[[NCIS]]'' fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6613086/1/bDetermined_b Determined]'' by Sergeant Conley.
{{quote|There lay the still bleeding body of Stan Merdetzky, surrounded by the stink of death and its unpleasant releases.}}
* ''[[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.
== Film ==
* 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".
* A related example is from the film ''Point Of No Return'', the [[Foreign Remake|American Remake]] of ''[[La Femme Nikita]]'', where Maggie urinates after being given a lethal injection.
* In ''[[Repo! The Genetic Opera]]'', after finishing disemboweling his latest victim, the victim's waste is emptied onto Nathan Wallace's shoes, as far as we can tell from his expression and the subtle sound effect.
* At the start of ''Black Belt Jones'', a pair of Mafia thugs kill a man, then hide his body in a wine cask. Their boss then orders, "Mark this one down to five dollars a bottle - he shit his pants when he died."
* In ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'', after a man is killed by the silver sphere, a pool of pale urine slowly spreads across the floor from the corpse's legs.
* The [[Takashi Miike]] film ''[[Visitor Q]]'' shows the father, erm, [[I Love the Dead|getting acquainted with]] the corpse of a female coworker. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]] when her bowels let loose ''[[Brain Bleach|and he keeps going]]''.
* In ''[[The Human Centipede]]'', which is already teeming with [[Body Horror]], this occurs upon the death of one of the victims. Too bad {{spoiler|that victim's anus is sewn to another's mouth.}}
* In ''[[Se7en]]'', the guy who ate until he burst (guilty of the sin of Gluttony, obviously) is reported to be "sitting in a pile of his own piss and shit"- an easy way for the police to tell that he was dead without having to check his vital signs.
* Kate Hudson voids her bladder in ''The Killer Inside Me'' after Casey Affleck beats her to death.
* In the little known New Zealand film ''Carry Me Back'' the lads take their dead father back home, on several occasions the corpse farts prodigously.
* In ''Monsters Ball'', when a condemned criminal is to be executed he is shown with adult diapers.
* A dying character shits himself at least twice in ''Cannibal''.
* There's a strangely brutal scene in which Bundy is shown getting cotton jammed up his ass before his execution in ''Ted Bundy''.
* [[Monster Clown]] butler Mr. Mascaro comments on this phenomenon while killing a security guard in ''Blood Dolls''.
{{quote|'''Mr. Mascaro:''' Two kinds of people I know about, little man - The kind that piss their pants when you kill them, and the kind that don't. Now, which kind do you think you are?
[guard dies, Mascaro looks down at the body]
'''Mr. Mascaro:''' Pisser. }}
== Literature ==
* 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.
* In [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]'s ''[[Chronicle of a Death Foretold]]'', after Santiago Nasar {{spoiler|gets stabbed in the belly}}, his fiancee's family notices the smell of shit coming from {{spoiler|his protruding bowels}}.
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', where {{spoiler|Tywin Lannister}} very obviously defecates after being shot. With a crossbow. On the toilet. And {{spoiler|[[Brick Joke|he does not, in the end, shit gold]]}}.
* [[Tamora Pierce]] averts this some of the time, such as when one of the teenage gang members is strangled in ''[[Circle of Magic|Street Magic]]''.
** Also mentioned in ''[[Tortall Universe|Squire]]'', where Kel knows she's fatally wounded a centaur because of the stink that alerts her to damaged (human) intestines. She ends up having to perform a [[Mercy Kill]] because no healer can cure a "belly wound".
* ''[[The Godfather]]'' includes a scene where one traitor to the Corleones is garroted in a car and craps himself. The killer then rolls down the window to let out the stink.
** Also the description of the garroting of Luca Brazzi.
* In [[The Bible]]'s Book of Judges, chapter 3, King Eglon is stabbed in the gut by the left-handed Ehud, causing "the dirt" to come out. The fact that "dirt" is excrement is made even clearer when Eglon's personal guard delay going in to check on him because they believe him to be relieving himself- they can smell it.
* Most of the deaths in the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series involve people being blown up in space, but one in particular notes this as occurring. An undercover agent, realizing he's been made, judo flips over and snaps the neck of the man who's caught him, and notes in narration the smell of the voided bowels, presumably while his victim is still upside down.
** [[David Weber]] also makes reference to this in ''[[Safehold]]'', when "the stink of voided bowels" follows a character being killed.
* This is referenced in ''Mission Earth'' series by [[L. Ron Hubbard]]. It is one of the alien invaders who are attempting to turn the world's population homosexual uses it to argue that this means the sphincter is central to life.
* In Bryce Courtenay's book ''Tommo And Hawk'' this is used to confirm a character is dead.
* In ''[[The Witcher]]'' novel, when Ciri's team gets slaughtered by a [[Psycho for Hire]], he makes her take a look at the bodies "See, that's how people die. In their own piss."
* [[Justified]] in ''Enderby'', by Anthony Burgess: The title character, about to commit suicide, is very careful to empty his bowels first.
* The trope is noted several times in ''[[The Acts of Caine]]'' books. Within the first few pages of the first book, in fact.
* 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.
* Has been referred to indirectly in ''[[Discworld]]''. In ''[[Discworld/A Hat Full of Sky|A Hat Full of Sky]]'' Granny Weatherwax depicts the chores done by a witch on a regular basis, which includes sitting with an old man during his last moments and helping the widow clean the body and change the bedsheets, which is no chore for the faint of heart.
** In ''[[Discworld/Making Money|Making Money]]'' Moist von Lipwig has just, [[Pet Heir|for intents and purposes]], inherited the Royal Bank after its president passed away. He's trying out the bed in the suite provided, noticing that it feels all warm and squishy, then immediately shoots up and asks ''where'' his predecessor died. He's informed she died at her desk, sitting in her chair (which has since been replaced).
* 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.
* ''[[Conan]]'' at one point justifies putting a man out of his misery with a list of what he would have had to endure before dying anyway. The stink of his own guts<ref>from the abdominal injuries variant</ref> is on the list.
* In the ''[[Realm of the Elderlings|Liveship Traders]]'' trilogy, Davad Restart returns to his carriage to find a dead pig hanging out of the window and the word "traitor" written on the vehicle in blood. It is also noticed that the pig's bowels had losened in death and as a result the coach was smeared with the pig's shit as well.
* The [[Ender's Game]] companion, Ender's Shadow, averts this, as {{spoiler|Achilles}} talks about how {{spoiler|Poke}} voided her bladder and bowels as she died.
* The [[Gentleman Bastard Sequence]] Sequence features a scene where young Locke and the twins end up buying a corpse from the day's hanging (long story) and Locke is annoyed that he had to be downwind of the corpse because ... well.
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