Basic Trope: Dead characters do not void their bowels at death.
- Straight: Jasmine has A Death in the Limelight, and no excretory matter is released from her body during or after her death.
- Exaggerated: Jasmine doesn't even release so much as one last puff of carbon dioxide.
- Downplayed: Jasmine does not void her bowels, but some other characters do when they die.
- Justified:
- If Nobody Poops while they're alive, why start now?
- Jasmine used the bathroom before she died.
- Jasmine had been fasting or otherwise not eating before she died.
- Inverted:
- Alice gives birth, and the birth is clean and quick, and Alice does not defecate while pushing the baby out.
- Jasmine explicitly voids her bowels when she dies.
- Subverted:
- A mention is made of corpses excreting all manner of waste.
- Jasmine soils herself in her final confrontation with Evil the boss.
- Double Subverted:
- But no dead bodies are ever seen doing so.
- But that was before she got killed, not post-mortem.
- Parodied:
- This is when Jasmine's Bottomless Bladder runs out.
- Jasmine requests prune juice and Prune Bran cereal before her execution, so she can do a final Take That! at the society that put her on death row.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Jasmine urinates and defecates when she dies.
- No characters ever die.
- Enforced:
- "Let's keep the Nausea Fuel to a minimum, OK?"
- Artistic License – Biology, as applied to the digestive and urinary tracts.
- It's not really important to acknowledge that people tend to experience Potty Failure when they die, so it's just not included. Besides, suddenly stating that a character urinated/defecated themselves after a dramatic death would probably add some unintentional Toilet Humor.
- Lampshaded: "Don't dead bodies usually poop?"
- Invoked: Jasmine makes sure to use the toilet before facing the Big Bad, just in case she dies.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Jasmine makes sure not to use the toilet before facing the Big Bad.
- Discussed: "Use the bathroom before the Final Battle, just in case you get killed. You wouldn't want to leave a shitty corpse, now would you?"
- Conversed: "Death on TV usually isn't so clean."
- Played for Laughs: Toilet Humor
- Played for Drama: A character who witnesses this has a Contemplate Our Navels moment at the irony.
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