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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The first episode of ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]:[[Stand Alone Complex]]'' revolves around solving the mystery of what happened in the men's room of a restaurant that led to all the geisha robots to take a group of politicians hostage and almost kill one of the politicians assistant. The last thing the security records show is the assistant trying to flee from the men's room right before she suffered a severe head trauma.
** In one episode Batou breaks into a building through a bathroom window, but not before pulling them man inside out through the very same window.
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* The horrible toilet scene in ''[[Majin Devil]]'' where a teenage girl gives birth to a giant spider in the toilets at school, and it jumps at her yelling "Mommy!"
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* One issue of ''[[Planetary]]'' has Elijah subdue the guard of a facility run by The Four when he goes to the bathroom. Elijah has the power to freeze things on a molecular level. Guess what he does to make sure the guard can't move
* In ''[[Watchmen]]'' Rorschach kills two inmates who were trying to kill him using toilets, then [[Bond One-Liner|makes a crappy pun about disposing of waste in the toilet]].
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* [[The Darkness|Jackie Estacado]] takes out a mob boss with his Darklings this way.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* [[M. Night Shyamalan]] seems to have a thing about this.
* In ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'', [[James Bond]] punches a guard who was using the toilet ("Beg your pardon. Forgot to knock").
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* The bathroom sequence in ''[[The Lost Boys]]''
* In the first ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' film, Morpheus makes his suicidal sacrifice to save Neo by fighting Agent Smith in a bathroom, and he gets his head slammed through a toilet bowl as well. He doesn't die, however, but only because the Agents [[I Want Them Alive|want him alive]] for some very valuable intel.
** Parodied in ''[[Gorsky and Butch]]'' comic where the heroes escape through the pipes but Gorsky has to stay behind to flush them.
* ''[[Angela's Ashes]]'' features the death of an [[Ill Girl]] on a toilet.
* '[[Terminator]] 3'': the TX and Ah-nold basically destroyed a row of toilet cubicles in the midst of one of their fights.
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* A girl is knifed in the back, then dunked in a filthy, leech-infested outhouse until she dies in ''[[Sleepaway Camp]] II: Unhappy Campers''.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* Moaning Myrtle in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' died in a girls' bathroom and now lives (so to speak) in the toilets.▼
▲== Literature ==
▲* Moaning Myrtle in ''[[Harry Potter]]'' died in a girls' bathroom and now lives in the toilets.
** While she primarily lives in the bathroom where she died, she can move throughout the plumbing at Hogwarts and sometimes spies on good-looking students when they bathe.
** In the first book, Hermione went to a bathroom to cry after Ron teased her. The same night that someone let a troll into the castle. Luckily, Ron and Harry went looking for her to warn her about the troll; by time they found her, any warning was rendered moot, but they were able to keep the troll from killing her.
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* ''[[Encyclopedia Brown]]'' had [http://www.amazon.com/exploding-plumbing-other-mysteries-Encyclopedia/dp/0590014129 "The Case of the Exploding Plumbing"], though no death resulted.
* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' Tyrion murders Tywin while he is on the privy, giving us the immortal line: ''"Tywin Lannister did not, in the end, shit gold"''.
* The story ''[http://www.daliso.com/heroicproportions.htm Heroic Proportions]''{{Dead link}}
* Mentioned in one of the Myth books. (Skeeve mentions that his bodyguards even accompany him to the toilet.)
** "Jeez, boss! You know how many guys got whacked while they were on the can? Just pretend like we're not here."
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** Averted later, when King Saul, while chasing David, goes into a cave to take a dump, and while "his vision is darkened" David sneaks up on him... and merely takes a piece of his coat.
* One of the [[Discworld]] books describes death via red hot pokers coming up through the privy hole. Kings live dangerous lives, sadly.
** Magrat also defeats an elf by kicking him down the privy in ''[[Lords and Ladies]]''. He survives though, due to landing in "something soft".
** And then the Lancre garderobes (advanced privies) are used in ''[[
* The act of assassinating someone by waiting inside his privy hole is [[Discussed Trope|discussed]] at the beginning of Ed Greenwood's novel Making of a Mage. Later, one villain is assassinated [[Foreshadowing|exactly in such way]].
* [[Dean Koontz]]'s novel ''The Face'' describes the death of the protagonist's ex-friend, gangster Duncan "[[Punny Name|Dunny]]" Whistler. He owed some guys money, so they sent a couple of thugs around, who submerged his head in a toilet for long enough to put him into a coma and eventually kill him.
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* ''Quiller's Run'' by Adam Hall. [[Quiller]] is being stalked by an assassin who always uses the garrote. He tries to lure him into attacking by hanging out on a darkened lawn, but the assassin sees the trap and instead waits in the nearest toilet, knowing Quiller will eventually become thirsty in the warm night air and head for the nearest tap. Quiller just misses getting his head taken off by piano wire, and after a tense struggle kills the assassin with broken glass from the toilet mirror.
* ''[[IT]]'' lives under the town of Derry, and makes its way up primarily through the sewer systems. Guess where it tends to come out when it strikes in one's home?
* In ''[[Ender's Game]]'', Ender Wiggin is cornered in the bathroom by Bonzo Madrid and a gang of bullies. Ender is in the shower, naked and dripping, without any help or escape route. He uses this to make himself seem pathetic, and imply that Bonzo is scared to take on some naked little kid alone. Bonzo is goaded into making it a one-on-one battle, which [[Curb Stomp Battle|doesn't end well for him]].
* In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's ''[[Footfall]]'', a character is killed by holding his face in a toilet until he drowns.
* The President of the United States in ''The Buck Passes Flynn''
* Within the first
* In Michael Slade's ''Ripper'', the toilet is one of many, many fixtures in the mansion which the serial killers Skull and Bones have turned into a [[Death Trap]].
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==▼
▲== Live-Action TV ==
* One episode of ''[[CSI]]'' featured a toilet which exploded (though without fatality) due to dry ice flushed away.
* In the very first episode of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'', the owner of the funeral home [[Karmic Death|dies while using the bathroom]].
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* [[Red Dwarf]]: when the Cat feels the need to go behind the bushes and do some private cat business. On Backwards Earth. Where things happen backwards. Everything happens backwards.
* In ''[[Frasier]]'', Roz tells the following story:
{{quote|Lupe Velez, the movie star in the '30s. Well, her career hit the skids, so she decided she'd make one final stab at immortality. She figured if she couldn't be remembered for her movies, she'd be remembered for the way she died. And all Lupe wanted was to be remembered. So, she plans this lavish suicide - flowers, candles, silk sheets, white satin gown, full hair and makeup, the works. She takes the overdose of pills, lays on the bed, and imagines how beautiful she's going to look on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. Unfortunately, the pills don't sit well with the enchilada combo plate she sadly chose as her last meal. She stumbles to the bathroom, trips and goes head-first into the toilet, and that's how they found her. ... Will you ever forget that story? }}<ref>In the interests of accuracy, we should note that this is an [[Urban Legends|Urban Legend]] first recounted in the 1959 book ''Hollywood Babylon'' by Kenneth Anger, and repeated since. Velez' death certificate lists an overdose of Seconal as her cause of death, not drowning, and her body was found on her bed.</ref>
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'': [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BjJkqybz8 The Toilet Death Ejector] is a [[Parody Commercial]] advertising a product that transports dying elderly from their toilet onto their bed.
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* ''[[Dilbert]]'' once featured a device called the Can-O-Matic, which masqueraded as a restroom stall and would randomly fire people by slapping a pink slip on their backs and then hurling them out of the building.▼
* [[WWE]]: The Big Show was "pwnd" by [[Eddie Guerrero]] after Show stole Eddy's bag full of burritos. The burrito's? Spiked with Ex-Lax.▼
* ''[[Garfield]]''; one of the earliest cases of a strip regarding Garfield hating Mondays (from 1978, in fact) was where he was chasing a fly, leapt at it, and wound up falling into a toilet.
** Another Monday strip (in 1996), something similar happened after he slipped on Odie's ball.
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
▲* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]: The Big Show was "pwnd" by [[Eddie Guerrero]] after Show stole Eddy's bag full of burritos. The burrito's? Spiked with Ex-Lax.
** Chris Masters tried to jump [[Triple H]] in a stall, but failed.
* I seem to remember a match between Raven and Taz where Taz was given a [[Squick|yellow swirlie.]]
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the official scenarios of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Fantasy Role Play'', old toilets were a 'traditional' place to encounter a giant amoeba.▼
** In [[Dungeons & Dragons]], these attacks are traditionally by carrion crawlers.▼
* ''Grimtooth's Traps Too'' has the "Cranequin Goose" trap (a pressure-triggered crossbow hidden down the privy) and calls it "A fine way for a high and mighty hero to die."▼
* The short-lived [[Cosmic Horror]] [[Collectible Card Game]] "[[Hecatomb]]" had at least one monster that was based around a killer toilet. Well, specifically, it was a carnivorous ooze-monster made from animated sewerage, which was depicted as having risen out of a toilet and eaten the unlucky cleaner.▼
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' toyline had Fearsome Flush, a "haunted" toilet that, when pushed forward, would sprout menacing eyes, teeth, and tongue.▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Hitman]]'' series, if there's an available bathroom, it is almost always the best place to hide a body, and within the bathroom, toilet stalls are the best place to put them. Oddly, random people tend to look into large body-sized containers with regularity, but will not consistently open an unlocked toilet stall door blocked by a corpse.
** This is enhanced even further because pretty much everybody has to go sooner or later and a person standing in a room by themselves with their face against the wall just screams "Easy kill!" Even if your primary target doesn't take bathroom breaks, odds are his personal bodyguards will so you can easily get their clothes and go anywhere you like.
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* Like with the MGS example above, in [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]], the last mission of the first area has you sneaking into a warehouse... through the sewer systems. When you come up to ground level, you're directly across from a bathroom where one of the guards is taking a leak. If you're stealthy enough, you can sneak up on him and kill him silently.
* Travis gets attacked by some guy named Jupiter (at least, that's what the belt buckle says) while sitting on the toilet in the ending to ''[[No More Heroes]]''. If you got the good ending, Henry will show up and cut him in half for you.
* In ''[[MadWorld]]'', you can give your enemies lethal swirlies, though they're not so much swirlies as just dunking their heads into the toilet and waiting for them to explode into tiny chunks.
* The start of the Facility stage from ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye
** [[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|The Wii remake]] has a similar scene, kept true to the original movie with a quick-time event to knock the guard's lights out.
* ''[[Doom]] 3'' has some particularly dangerous bathrooms, complete with spooky mirrors and impatient zombies.
* Every ''[[Silent Hill]]'' game has a bathroom, and three out of four start in one. While nobody can be specifically said to die in one unless you're killed by one of the resident enemies, there are certain hints:
** In ''Silent Hill 1'', you can hear a girl sobbing in one of the bathrooms of the Darkside school.
** In ''Silent Hill 2'', one of the stall doors in the Toluca Jail has something blocking it, and as you leave there's a sudden weird noise from that stall.
** In ''Silent Hill 3'', you can knock on one of the stalls in the bathroom you start out in, and someone will knock back. You're unable to open the stall in Lightside Silent Hill, but in Darkside, the door swings open to reveal an empty stall with the walls splattered with blood.
** In ''Silent Hill 4'', the tunnel to other worlds opens itself slowly in the bathroom in Henry's apartment, and also opens out onto a bathroom in one of the subway paths. Specifically, Cynthia runs into the bathroom to vomit, monsters eventually come out instead of her. When Henry goes in, he doesn't find Cynthia, but does find a fresh hole. After going through it to his apartment, Cynthia calls begging him to come back, and is abruptly cut off. When he returns, he finds a white statue of her with bloody hands in one of the stalls, and shortly after that, she is found at the brink of death in another bathroom.
* The murder in ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' occurs in the bathroom of a diner.
* Troopers in ''[[Duke Nukem]] 3D'' can sometimes be encountered in bathroom stalls. They're even considerate enough to flush before attacking.
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* Inverted in ''[[Dead Rising]]''. The bathrooms double as Save Rooms so zombies will almost never spawn inside, making them some of the safest parts of the mall.
* The Hanako ghost also exists in ''[[Persona]]''. It consists of a mobile toilet from which a gruesome demon peeks out and lashes out at the party... and [[Demonic Spiders|it knows]] [[One-Hit Kill|Mudoon]].
* Subverted in ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* In ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]]'', one of the [[Nintendo Hard|many,]] ''[[Nonstandard Game Over|many]]'', '''''[[Have a Nice Death|many]]''''', [[The Many Deaths of You|ways]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|to]] [[Yet Another Stupid Death|die]] involves ''flushing a backed-up toilet.'' [[Guide Dang It|Of course, you're required to use the toilet for]] [[One Hundred Percent Completion]], [[Guide Dang It|and one would instictively flush it for more points.]]
* The TV studio mission in ''[[Champions Online]]'' at one point has you cornering several of Foxbat's mooks in the studio bathroom.
* Similar to the Fearsome Flush example below, ''[[Ghostbusters the Video Game]]'' has a Cursed Artifact in the form of an absolutely ''disgraceful''-looking toilet. When you collect it, your HUD reads: "This toilet is making frightening noises...is someone drowning?" Turns out the thing has a bloodthirsty demon bound to it, and was involved in an assassination many years ago.
* In ''[[Fallout 3]]'', most of the toilets don't seem sanitary in the first place, but the protagonist can actually heal himself by drinking from one (admittedly a last resort when you're low on health). However, the ones at the {{spoiler| Friendship Metro Station restroom}} are booby-trapped, and being low on health if you use it will likely kill you.
* ''[[A Hat in Time]]'' has the Toilet of Doom! Truthfully, this chapter in Subcon Woods is arguably [[Awesome Bosses|the most fun boss in the game.]]
* In ''[[Injustice 2]]'', one of the stage hazards you can use against your opponent is a toilet; if you are using a character that does not have [[Super Strength]] (like say, Harley, the Joker, or Black Canary) using it simply throws your opponent onto it, causing it to shatter. However, if your character ''does'' have Super Strength, they rip it off the floor and hurl it at the opponent. Ouch!
* ''[[Deception]]'' has a lot of ways for the [[Villain Protagonist]] to utterly humiliate victims before finishing them off; one of which in the fourth game involves throwing the victim onto a toilet that then releases a geyser to shoot them upward.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'', Crystal mentions she assassinated someone while they were on the toilet, and got to keep their newspaper as a bonus. She later ends up getting ambushed and killed by Haley after coming out of the shower.▼
▲* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', Crystal mentions she assassinated someone while they were on the toilet, and got to keep their newspaper as a bonus. She later ends up getting ambushed and killed by Haley after coming out of the shower.
* Reversed in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''. Kevin resorts to a loan shark who shows up via his toilet. The next strip shows little Coney in potty training on the same toilet, and the results: One dead loan shark, one full bunny. When asked about the effects of the shark would be on the young girl, she shows in a later panel what results: she visits the bathroom with a fishing rod.
* [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF213-Mario_Too.jpg This strip] of ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' where "Mario" apparently drowned himself in a toilet.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* And the toxicity of the toilet in Townsville Jail made it a substitute for Chemical X so Mojo Jojo could create [[The Powerpuff Girls|The Rowdyruff Boys]].
** [[Incredibly Lame Pun|The Can Bore Him]]??
* On her first appearance on ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Skinner's mother is the victim of one of Bart's pranks when he drops a lit cherry bomb down a toilet, causing all the other toilets in the school to blow.
* ''[[Animaniacs]]''
**
** And then Wakko's issues trying to relieve himself in 'Potty Emergency'. He finally has to settle for breaking a fourth wall.
*** "Ewww
** During "The Monkey Song", one of the indignities the Warner siblings inflict on poor Dr. Scratchnsniff is being flushed down the toilet. Notably, this is where he threatens to ''sue'' them.
* Clyde's mother in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode 'Reverse Cowgirl' constantly harps on him for leaving the toilet seat up, insisting that she might fall in. Guess how she dies later in the episode?
* Played for laughs in the ''[[Hazbin Hotel]]'' episode "Dad Beat Dad". During Alastor's [[Villain Song]], he shows how helpful he can be by unclogging a toilet, the clog in question being [[The Ditz| Niffty]], who had accidentally flushed herself while cleaning it.
== [[Other Media]] ==
* Numerous urban legends feature a veritable rogue's gallery of horrible critters (spiders, snakes, crocodiles, other insects) crawling up from the bowels of the sewage system to enter our homes through.... the toilet!▼
** There's a practically classic Australian song, "Redback on the Toilet Seat" that goes along these lines. ''There was a redback on the toilet seat, when I was there last night. I didn't see it in the dark, but boy, I felt its bite!''.▼
*** Possible [[Truth in Television]]. Redbacks like to hide under toilet seats, what with them being dark and enclosed. Someone sitting on it understandably startles them, and they bite. Luckily, the bites are rarely fatal, though they can be extremely painful.▼
* The story of Hanako-San (mentioned in the Anime section above) was inspired by a Japanese [[Urban Legend]] (far from the only such story to be made into Japanese media) of a girl who was murdered in a bathroom stall and continues to haunt the lady's room. Much like the story of [[Bloody Mary]], students often try to summon her on a dare; to do so, one must enter a girl's restroom (usually on the third floor of a school), knock three times on the third stall, and ask if Hanako-san is present. If she is, she will reply with some variation of "Yes, I am." Actually entering the stall might lead to her attacking the student; how malevolent she is depends on the version. Sometimes she is depicted as a trickster who will give the intruder a [[Swirlie]], other times she might do so with the intent to drown them, or possibly even flush the intruder down the toilet, an act [[Dragged Off to Hell|that sends them to Hell.]]
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* Famously, [[Elvis Presley]] was found dead on the can. The stock response to conspiracy theories about how he's really alive and living in ______ is, "If you were going to fake your own death, would you have picked that?"
** As was Don Simpson and (possibly) [[Lenny Bruce]].
*** [[Brittany Murphy]], dead in the shower. Bummer.
* Catherine The Great had a stroke on the toilet and later died in her bed. A poem by Aleksandr Pushkin popularized the notion that she died ''on'' the toilet with an ambiguous final line.
* In the 1980s the IRA planned to cause carnage at the busy London Bridge Station by planting a bomb in a men's toilet on the platform. Luckily there was nobody inside when the bomb detonated, and the thick walls absorbed most of the blast.
* Several Japanese generals were assassinated on the toilet during the feudal era. Traditional sword arts prescribe fully removing one's pants and keeping one's sword on hand when on the pot.
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* Not exactly a bathroom, but Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated while urinating at a roadside.
* Edward II of England was allegedly killed by an assassin hiding in his toilet pit with a red hot poker (ouch).
▲== Other ==
▲* Numerous urban legends feature a veritable rogue's gallery of horrible critters (spiders, snakes, crocodiles, other insects) crawling up from the bowels of the sewage system to enter our homes through.... the toilet!
▲** There's a practically classic Australian song, "Redback on the Toilet Seat" that goes along these lines. ''There was a redback on the toilet seat, when I was there last night. I didn't see it in the dark, but boy, I felt its bite!''.
▲*** Possible [[Truth in Television]]. Redbacks like to hide under toilet seats, what with them being dark and enclosed. Someone sitting on it understandably startles them, and they bite. Luckily, the bites are rarely fatal, though they can be extremely painful.
▲* In the official scenarios of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Fantasy Role Play'', old toilets were a 'traditional' place to encounter a giant amoeba.
▲** In [[Dungeons & Dragons]], these attacks are traditionally by carrion crawlers.
▲* ''Grimtooth's Traps Too'' has the "Cranequin Goose" trap (a pressure-triggered crossbow hidden down the privy) and calls it "A fine way for a high and mighty hero to die."
▲* The short-lived [[Cosmic Horror]] [[Collectible Card Game]] "[[Hecatomb]]" had at least one monster that was based around a killer toilet. Well, specifically, it was a carnivorous ooze-monster made from animated sewerage, which was depicted as having risen out of a toilet and eaten the unlucky cleaner.
▲* ''[[Dilbert]]'' once featured a device called the Can-O-Matic, which masqueraded as a restroom stall and would randomly fire people by slapping a pink slip on their backs and then hurling them out of the building.
▲* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' toyline had Fearsome Flush, a "haunted" toilet that, when pushed forward, would sprout menacing eyes, teeth, and tongue.
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