History Main / PottyFailure

** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]: Happens to Weather Report and Jolyne after a stand that messed with gravity caused them to need to piss, luckily Weather used his stand to bring in a cloud to absorb it.

* The seventh episode of the ''Anime/PaRappaTheRapper'' anime has Mr. Tambourine refuse to let his daughter date the firefighter Chief Puddle because he's had a problem with firefighters since childhood where he wets himself every time he sees a firefighter.

* In the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fanfic ''Too Much H2o'', Ash has a PottyEmergency, leading to this.

* Perhaps the most popular example of this trope is the ''WesternAnimation/{{Pingu}}'' episode "Pingu's Lavatory Story," where it happens ''twice'' after [[ItMakesSenseInContext two characters enjoy several glasses of drinks]]. The first time, Pinga ends up whizzing a little on the ground before Pingu scolds her and sends her to her potty, finishing her urination there. Then, when Pingu ends up having to go himself, he has to distract his father, who went to the toilet before he could, to finally get in the bathroom. Unfortunately for Pingu, the toilet is too high for him to reach, resulting in him ''whizzing all over the floor''. The depiction was so realistic that the episode was banned in many countries.

* In ''Nekomew's Potty Trouble'', failure to reach the bathroom in time results in the titular character doing it all over himself, followed by a jumpscare and a GameOver.

-->'''Neil:''' Vyvyan,can you actually kill yourself with laxative pills?
-->'''Vyvyan:''' I dunno Neil,but I'm gonna stick around to find out!

* A minor one happens in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'', when the group ends up high in the air. After somewhat safe landing Konoka jokes how she almost wet herself... right next to clearly embarrassed Yue.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': In "An Incident At Owl Creek", Stan dines on a particularly greasy brisket at a neighbour's pool party, feels the urge to poop, and attempts a cannonball into the pool. Do the math. An interesting side note: the ensuing Failure is actually the kickoff point for the rest of the episode.

** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]: Anasui uses his stand Diver Down to insert a frog into enemy stand Yo-Yo Ma, causing it to adopt the behaviors of said frog, including pissing itself as a self-defense mechanism when seeing a bird.

** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]: The Stand Yo Yo Ma wets itself after having a frog implanted in its brain by Anasui’s Stand Diver Down

** [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]: Happens to W.W. and Jolyne after a stand that messed with gravity caused them to need to piss, luckily W.W. used his stand to bring in a cloud to absorb it.

* In the Christian movie ''Tribulation'' from the {{Film/Apocalypse}} film series, young Calvin Canboro wets his pants while he and his brother Tom wait for their sister Eileen to finish her prayer to God about the tree she carved their names into. Years later, [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten Tom Canboro keeps bringing it up]], and their sister Eileen doesn't even remember whether it happened or not (or so she says).

* Kelly from Series/{{Ash Vs Evil Dead}} end up peeing her jeans during a exorcism to rid her of Eligos in “The Host".

* ''{{Series/Trotsky}}'': Trotsky's son Sergei pisses himself when a man threatens his father right in front of him with a gun.

* Cottar "Teeny" Gamwich ([[{{Hobbits}} Ratling]] sniper, chef, and resident butt-of-all-jokes, played by Daniel) cooked (and served) a batch of poisonous space tubers in [[Podcast/{{Fandible}} Fandible's]] single Actual Play session of ''TabletopGame/OnlyWar''. Almost the entire group of hardened guerilla soldiers ended up needing a change of pants. In his defense, Teeny [[LaxativePrank didn't]] ''[[LaxativePrank intend]]'' [[LaxativePrank for them to get explosive diarrhea]], and he'd even warned them that he'd only managed to get ''most'' of the poison out of the tubers.

* {{VideoGame/Bully}} protagonist Jimmy can choose to humiliate the overweight nerds and make them wet their pants.

* In ''VideoGame/MyTamagotchiForever'', your Tamagotchi alerts you when it needs to go to the bathroom. If you don't respond to the alert in time, it will poop on the floor.
* ''Videogame/PlagueInc:'' Combining symptoms will get you useful, but attention-raising combinations. And combining both Diarrhea and Sneezing will get you the "Oops" combo, which will lower productivity (thus slowing down cures) as the combination causes some deeply unwanted accidents in the middle of work.
* In ''VideoGame/OxygenNotIncluded'', this will happen if you don't build (enough) bathroom facilities or your Dupes get stuck somewhere, or they are just too far away to get to the bathroom in time. It makes nasty germy "polluted water" which stresses out your Dupes, requires cleaning, and can possibly end up contaminating your clean water supply depending on where the accident happened.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'': In several Party Chat conversations, eight-year-old Parry alludes to having trouble with wetting the bed.
* In ''VideoGame/HoneyIJoinedACult'', when a cultist can't reach the toilet on time they suffer a large mood penalty and their turd pile is a major hit to the room's prestige. A cultist in a bad enough mood can just [[ExcrementStatement shit on the floor in rage]].
* In ''Nekomew's Potty Trouble'', failure to reach the bathroom in time results in the titular character doing it all over himself, followed by a jumpscare and a GameOver.

* Discussed in ''WebComic/{{Shortpacked}}'': what finally changes Robin's mind on getting pregnant (as opposed to Leslie doing it) is finding out pooping herself during labor is a possibility.

* Akatsuki Ousawa from ''LightNovel/AestheticaOfARogueHero'' can invoke this trope by using his powers to make girls lose control of their bladders. He did this in the second episode of the anime and the third episode of the specials

The Stand Yo Yo Ma wets itself after having a frog implanted in its brain by Anasui’s Stand Diver Down

* ''G-Spot Express'': In the first episode, Sayaka needs to piss really badly, but thanks to a certain subway groper, well... and believe it or not, this is actually the SignatureScene of that very {{Hentai}}.

** In "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5435148/1/Right-Place-Wrong-Time Right Place, Wrong Time]]" John Gage is tied up and left in a basement for two days. You can guess what happens.
** In "[[http://web.archive.org/web/20080424102900/exit3.i-55.com/~ffaller/dark.html One Dark And Stormy Night]]", Gage is, you guessed it, kidnapped, and this happens. Roy is so angry later, when John tells him in humiliation that though he got clean jeans, but not underwear, that he wishes he could leave the guys tied up to see how they like it.
** In a non-Gage one, it happens to Chet in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1282739/1/The-Other-Foot The Other Foot]]" after he'd been shot and tortured. It was somewhat fear of his captor but also his injuries and being bounced around in Gage's rover.

** After failing to get away from Broly long enough to go to the washroom in the movie ''Anime/DragonBallZBrolySecondComing'' Trunks is captured by Broly and is unable to hold it any more and ends up peeing on Broly's head.

** For the anime: In Season 1, Hakufu wets herself when Ryomou is strangling her, and Chinkyu does the same when Rikaku beats her up (though it's hard to notice). In Dragon Destiny, Bashoku Youjyou wets herself when Kakuka is about to rip out her heart [[spoiler:shortly before she kills him]], Teni when Ryomou is strangling her, and Kan'u twice (first when Genchoku weakens her with the incense, similar to the above mentioned instance with Tanfuko, and again when being tortured by Chouko). Ryofu wet herself [[spoiler:when the real Genpou Saji revived her with a kiss]].
* Koichi Hirose in the ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'' gets kidnapped by an extreme {{Yandere}}, Yukako, who is rigging the house with sadistic tests designed to help him "become a better student". At one point Koichi is desperately trying to open the lock of the bathroom, which uses Christopher Columbus' date of birth as its combination. The next chapter starts with Yukako depositing the just washed pants and underwear of Koichi on a table, while he looks embarrassed. Unfortunately for Koichi, this didn't make her dislike him, in fact she affirmed that doing his laundry made her happy.
* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean'' Happened to W.W. and Jolyne after a stand that messed with gravity caused them to need to piss, luckily W.W. used his stand to bring in a cloud to absorb it.

* ''VisualNovel/{{Nekopara}}'': In episode one of the anime, Cinnamon asked Maple why she changed her underwear, after complaining she's taking too long to get ready. Maple embarrassingly admits that she really had to pee but Cinnamon was taking too long in the bathroom, so she peed herself a little bit on purpose to relieve some pressure.

** For the anime: In Season 1, Hakufu wets herself when Ryomou is strangling her, and Chinkyu does the same when Rikaku beats her up (though it's hard to notice). In Dragon Destiny, Bashoku Youjyou wets herself when Kakuka is about to rip out her heart [[spoiler: shortly before she kills him]], Teni when Ryomou is strangling her, and Kan'u twice (first when Genchoku weakens her with the incense, similar to the above mentioned instance with Tanfuko, and again when being tortured by Chouko). Ryofu wet herself [[spoiler: when the real Genpou Saji revived her with a kiss]].

* The rare PlayedForDrama example happens in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''. [[spoiler: A not-older-than-five-years-old Ringo gets up to ask either Mom or Dad to help her go to the bathroom... and walks on them having a fight. As she watches them verbally discuss how they should deal with the loss of her sister Momoka (Dad believes they should let go, Mom says she can't do it), little Ringo quietly pees herself while standing.]]

* ''Fanfic/EscapeFromTheMoon'': Doa apparently experienced this during her second [[spoiler: or so the reader is lead to believe]] trip outside, but omits it from her journal entry.

* In ''Film/MidnightCowboy'', the tuberculosis-racked Rizzo wets his pants on the bus to Florida, [[spoiler: not long before he dies.]]

* In the ''Just'' book "Just Stupid", which inspired ''WesternAnimation/WhatsWithAndy'', the story "Busting" has a hippie ''think'' Andy has wet his pants, but it's actually water. [[spoiler: He does wet the bed, though.]]

* In the ''Series/{{Bones}}'' episode "The Glowing Bones in the Old Stone House", when Hodgins and Cam examine the trunk of the car that Abby was rescued from after being locked inside by the murderer, Cam says it smells like a urinal, to which Hodgins comments that she was in there for 36 hours, but assures Cam that Abby was only worried about surviving (having been buried alive once, though with more room than her). [[spoiler: Turns out, Abby is the murderer and locked ''herself'' in the trunk to look like another victim, but due to the rain keeping hikers away she was found much later than she had intended.]]

* A memorable ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch was a commercial for the Bathroom Businessman, a portable workstation you can set up in an office bathroom stall to avoid wasting time on the toilet. Unfortunately, it turns out [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome assembling an entire workstation from parts actually takes quite a while,]] and by the time the worker is finished, he's rather desperate...and then sees that he assembled it in such a way that he can't reach the toilet or leave the stall, and the inevitable happens. [[spoiler: And then it turns out it wasn't a commercial at all, but a PSA warning people to stop using the Internet on the toilet, before it comes to this.]]

** Subverted in Episode 53. Deandra thinks [[spoiler: Saison peed on the cafeteria floor, but it turns out that Saison's water has broken]].

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/TimesLikeThis''. [[spoiler: In the future, everyone will poop their pants... but their nanotech-enhanced underwear will instantly vaporize the excrement.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BigMouth'': In late season 6, Andrew develops incontinence as a stress reaction to his parents' constant fighting. Embarrassingly, he has to wear an adult diaper to school to take care of it.

* ''Manga/FutokuNoGuild'': In episode 8 or chapter 15 after Tokishikko ends up having a [[PottyEmergency potty emergency ]] after drinking too many mana potions, and dressed in only panties and pantyhose after all her other clothes got burned off in a fight, she ends up trying to ignore her urge to pee & seduce Kikuru, this didnt end so well since the urge came back but it was too much for her and she wets her panties on top of him

* ''Manga/FutokuNoGuild'': In episode 8 or chapter 15 after Tokishikko ends up having a [[PottyEmergency]] after drinking too many mana potions, and dressed in only panties and pantyhose after all her other clothes got burned off in a fight, she ends up trying to ignore her urge to pee & seduce Kikuru, this didnt end so well since the urge came back but it was too much for her and she wets her panties on top of him

* ''Anime/FutokuNoGuild'': In episode 8 or chapter 15 after Tokishikko ends up having a potty emergency after drinking too many mana potions, and dressed in only panties and pantyhose after all her other clothes got burned off in a fight, she ends up trying to ignore her urge to pee & seduce Kikuru, this didnt end so well since the urge came back but it was too much for her and she wets her panties on top of him