

Even female characters that attack with their rear ends are usually portrayed as cutesy or graceful (though the latter a rarer example) and tend to be portrayed as hygienically conscious, so doing such an action willfully is out of the question most of the time for girls. In Video Games, the user tends to be male most of the time. This trope has little to do with the real-life petard, a siege explosive ironically derived from peter, the Medieval French verb for 'breaking wind'. Unless the show in question is a Grossout Show, to begin with. Largely limited to shows or video games geared at kids, because adults tend to have a lower tolerance for Toilet Humour. Its stench is so great, it's corrosive or toxic.In cartoon land, however, lighting the proverbial match may just make the whole room go "Boom". While it's true that intestinal gas is flammable, the puff of flame you'll get is. Its methane content is greatly exaggerated.In this case, rather than clearing a room by making people not want to be there, it can clear the room by physically launching them out of it.

expelled with such force, it can serve as a source of propulsion in times of need. There, the lowly flatus is often elevated to the status of Weapon of Gas Destruction: And perhaps serving as an impromptu blowtorch, if you're really, really dumb. In real life, the powers of flatulence are largely limited to clearing a room.
