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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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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[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.
* ''[[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]] ==
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** 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]] ==
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** 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,
== [[Real Life]] ==
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