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What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
If a cartoon regularly had episodes featuring characters going to the toilet I’d assume the writer had some kind of fetish.
 
What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
From my horribly biased perspective, a lot of tropes list by exception when they are so omnipresent that listing when a production defies norms and acknowledges certain real-world phenomena is easier than listing straight examples, which will likely include every production ever made.
 
What really gets me about tropes like "Nobody Poops" and "No Periods Period" is that they only list instances where it DOESN'T happen. If a trope is so common that aversions are more notable than straight occurrences, then why not make the opposite situation into a trope?
I'll go to bat for this choice, actually. It's a media convention that everyone accepts because more often than not, showing these events would either disrupt the pacing of the story or just be gross.
A character performing an action isn't a trope in itself, but it's notable as an exception to the convention since it highlights the actual trope audiences take for granted.
 
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