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* [[BitchInSheepsClothing Sae]] - the malicious ''frenemy'' of the leading female in highschool drama ''Manga/PeachGirl'', falls pregnant [[spoiler:only after she conveniently gets attacked. It turns out her pregnancy was a phantom one.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'': In ''The Human Dilemma'', [[spoiler:Larry]] [[OneNightStandPregnancy impregnates a one-night-stand]] while [[spoiler:cheating on his fiancee]]. She miscarries the same day they had planned to talk over their options and future, and she hysterically and somewhat self-aware-ly notes he's "off the hook".

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark''. Jaka, Cerebus' love interest, reunites with him after a long separation, only to tell him that she is now married and expecting a child. Cerebus is angry, but eventually relents and gives her some money for the baby. When he next sees her, her pregnancy is seemingly [[HandWave handwaved]] away with a single line about a miscarriage. It looks like Jaka has fallen victim to this trope...[[spoiler:until the end of the story arc, where we learn that Jaka did not miscarry, she had an abortion behind her husband's back. This leads to the end of her marriage, and to her eventually getting back together with Cerebus. In the world Cerebus takes place in, abortion is very, very illegal, and while Jaka's husband did want to have a child, her main motivation for lying to him was to protect him from criminal liability if she was found out]].
* A disturbing example occurs with Erishad, a minor character in ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}''; an immortal who appears to be a young woman is going to some pretty extreme lengths to end her immortality and thus her life. When one of the other minor characters asks her why immortality is so terrible, she explains: [[spoiler:every morning her body is reset to one day of her mortal life, so she has had the same miscarriage every day for four thousand years]].

* In ''Webcomic/HowIBecameYours'' 15 year old Katara's baby with Zuko is a stillbirth because of a poisoned fruit delivered by [[DesignatedVillain Mai]]. It's supposed to be a MoralEventHorizon for Mai and a dramatic moment for Katara, but it falls flat because [[JerkassHasAPoint Mai had a pretty good reason to do it]] (mainly, political fallout from having a bastard heir) even if it wasn't a ''nice'' one and the fact that all it does for Katara is provide cheap {{Wangst}}.
* Twice this happened to Deanna Patterson in ''FanFic/TheNewRetcons''. The first was a result of ButWeUsedACondom, the second was very ''much'' wanted. [[spoiler:Both might have happened because Millborough, the main characters' home town, was built on top of a nuclear dump site, which has left adverse effects on its citizens, including birth defects and miscarriages.]]

* ''Fanfic/PerfectDiamondWorld'': [[spoiler:Iris]] ends up pregnant by her lover [[spoiler:Tycho]]. The problem is that he loves her, but she doesn't feel the same (she is only using him, plus she's [[IncompatibleOrientation lesbian]]). She worries if having parents in a loveless relationship is best for the baby. All this thinking is moot because she ends up losing the pregnancy to infection after being shot. [[spoiler:Or [[ImprobableInfantSurvival not]]. Iris actually lied and ran off with her son because she doesn't care about Tycho]].

* Subverted in ''Film/TheGodfather Part II'': Kay, the wife of Michael Corleone, apparently suffers this trope, [[spoiler:only to be revealed later that she aborted the child, out of hate towards her criminal husband. However, some argue that her "confession" is a lie meant to hurt Michael.]]

* ''[[Film/{{Crossroads 2002}} Crossroads]]'' features Mimi as a pregnant girl, who falls down some stairs and loses the baby. Of course she was also confronted with her date rapist [[spoiler:who was also her friend Kit's fiancee]] beforehand. Slightly unusual in that she had (some semblance of) a plan to raise it and was 6 or 7 months pregnant, making it technically a stillbirth (the line is at about five and a half months).

* In ''Film/AKidLikeJake'', Alex and Greg get pregnant with their second child. Due to the stress of their son's behavior, Alex ends up miscarrying. This leads to a fight which lets Alex and Greg vent out their frustration, which in end leads to them coming to a mutual conclusion that their son Jake should see a therapist.

* Used in the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series. Despite Shota's warnings that a child born of Richard and Kahlan would bring about a cataclysmic disaster, they go ahead and get pregnant. (They had an artifact to prevent conception which [[ButWeUsedACondom failed to work as advertised]]). Soon afterward, Kahlan is struggling over drinking a miscarriage potion and finally decides against it, pouring it away. However, she is then beaten by a gang of thugs to an inch of her life, losing the baby anyway.
* In Creator/RobinMcKinley's ''Literature/{{Deerskin}}'', the female protagonist is [[RapeAsDrama raped]] [[spoiler:by her FATHER]] and then subsequently miscarries. In the middle of the wilderness. In a hut half-buried in the snow. This book doesn't just BreakTheCutie, it tries to tear her psyche apart.

* Near the end of the ''Franchise/FridayThe13th'' spin-off novel ''Hate-Kill-Repeat'', the [[TeenPregnancy teenaged]] protagonist, who had earlier discovered she was pregnant, miscarries when Jason nonchalantly punches her in the stomach.

* In the ''[[Literature/SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley University]]'' series, Steven's girlfriend Billie had one of these just when it was looking like she might finally decide to go through with an abortion.
* Subverted in ''Literature/NewesOfTheDead'' Anne is pregnant out of wedlock and tried an abortion, which didn't work. After giving up on it she miscarries several later. That would be convenient ... except it happens while she's supposed to be working, there is blood everywhere, Anne is too upset to think of a lie to explain all of it, and even though the miscarried fetus is not nearly large enough to be alive, she is accused of infanticide.

* Lorna in the series ''Series/BombGirls''. Though she is an older woman.

** Later, Lana. [[spoiler:[[ThePlan She was never pregnant to begin with]]]].

** Subverted later with Susan, who falls down the stairs while having a fight with Mike. He takes her to the hospital, and it turns out that both of them are alright.
*** Also done with Lynette, although only one of her twins is dead. More realistic in that she suffered from major stress and pain due to A PLANE crashing onto Wisteria Lane. She also worries that the other may be disabled for life.

* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'''s Cristina Yang unequivocally wanted an abortion in the first season, but never got to go through with it due to falling ill from her ectopic pregnancy (which, [[RuleOfDrama also-of-course]], was when the father found out about it, after he dumped her in a previous episode for not [[MakeUpOrBreakUp letting him into her life enough]] just as she was about to tell him about the pregnancy). When she gets pregnant later, she doesn't miscarry so she goes through with the abortion.
** When Callie gets pregnant it complicates things a lot since she just got back together with her girlfriend. Soon there seem to be a problem with the baby and Callie thinks that she miscarried. [[spoiler:The baby is fine and Callie is just panicking]].

* A strange example ''Series/{{Nashville}}'': Starlet Juliette Barnes has an unexpected pregnancy (that coincided with the real-life actress' pregnancy) and carries it to term. She thought the baby was a one-night stand but the father was actually her boyfriend Avery. Several seasons later, up and comer Scarlett becomes estranged from long time boyfriend Gunnar and gets pregnant. This time the baby is not Gunnar's but her one night stand's, and this time she miscarries later on.

** Since then, abortions have become so commonplace in UK drama and especially soaps that they barely cause any controversy at all. One [[{{Squick}} squicky]] example from the last months of ''Family Affairs'' (which probably avoided controversy on the grounds it was Britain's least watched soap opera and no-one noticed): A 14-year-old girl became pregnant by a boyfriend that the viewers [[TheGhost never even saw]], had an abortion the following week without her parents even knowing she was pregnant (although they found out immediately after) and was promptly PutOnABus.[[note]]Having an abortion while underage without parental knowledge is legal, because having an abortion is probably a better decision than becoming a mother below school-leaving age, so it protects girls from parents who might otherwise punish their daughters for their decision. Such an abortion can also be no-questions asked, with exceptions, so that girls don't have to worry about being forced to turn in their boyfriends for statutory rape.[[/note]]
* ''Series/TheNanny'' appeared to have this late in the series, but [[spoiler:it turned out Fran was never actually even pregnant; her pregnancy test had been a false positive. She later got pregnant for real and had twins.]]

* In season five of ''Series/{{Stromberg}}'', Jennifer gets pregnant. Stromberg would have been the father. She pondered the idea of abortion and then after deciding to have the child, she miscarries.
* Clare on ''Series/{{Degrassi}}''. She became pregnant in the middle of her senior year and intended to keep the baby. But obviously the writers weren't going to have their main character [[GraduateFromTheStory graduate (and therefore leave the show)]] while still pregnant, so she had a late term miscarriage shortly before graduation. In universe, Clare was absolutely devastated, but the miscarriage did give her an optimistic ending where her future was looking brighter than ever.
* On ''Series/OneLifeToLive'', following fights with their respective partners, a despondent and drunken Will and Jessica had sex, resulting in pregnancy. After the requisite waffling over having an abortion, marrying her boyfriend (who graciously offered to step up and "do the right thing" even though he wasn't the father) or placing the baby for adoption, Jessica ultimately decided to keep and raise the baby herself. In what has to be one of the most ridiculous examples of this trope, she was ''hit by a car as she was going into labor'' (She had gone for a walk to escape the chaos of her baby shower), thus eliminating any chance of the show handling this realistically.
** From the same show, a near-term Blair getting into a car accident, killing her and Patrick's baby, just after each of their respective partners had accepted the baby's existence and the changes it would bring to their lives.

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Before she was a fast-talking Hollywood agent, Princess Caroline was the Southern-born, starry eyed daughter of a clingy, alcoholic housekeeper to a wealthy family who owned an answering machine tape empire. In their last year of high school, she has a fling with the son and gets pregnant. Princess Caroline is upset, but her mom is ecstatic, because this means [[HonorableMarriageProposal the boy will have no choice but to marry her before she starts to show, as to avoid a scandal for his affluent family]]. This makes her mom happy, knowing that Princess Caroline will become rich and never leave home. Then, Princess Caroline has a miscarriage, meaning the son no longer has any obligation to marry her, allowing her to set herself free from her toxic mother, go to college in California, and follow her own dreams.

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* The ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' comic ''Batman: Son of the Demon'' uses the variation. Batman joins up with his WellIntentionedExtremist enemy Ra's al Ghul, marries his daughter, Talia, and gets her pregnant. Talia decides that to defend her and the baby would hold Batman back from his mission, and fakes the miscarriage; the last we see is their son, in an orphanage, holding the necklace Bruce gave to Talia. This story was [[{{Retcon}} retroactively declared]] an {{Elseworld}} and then {{retcon}}ned right back to being canon years later, when Talia presented Bruce with his son [[MeaningfulName Damian]], now 10 years old.

** Mary Jane in the comics, as part of [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse Marvel]]'s constant [[ExecutiveMeddling effort to keep Spidey young]]. It was revealed that the baby had actually been born healthy and spirited away, but we never saw any more of this plot, except in the ''[=MC2=]'' AlternateContinuity, where said baby eventually became ComicBook/SpiderGirl.

** Mary Jane's pregnancy was originally supposed to tie in to ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga''. At the time, Peter was going to be revealed as a clone and not the real Peter. Since Peter wasn't the real Peter anymore, this allowed the writers to get around the problem of a baby making Peter too old, but later Marvel changed their minds about Peter being the clone because the fans complained about it. If there had been no complaints, Pete and MJ would have had their baby and been PutOnABus, and all storylines afterwards wouldn't have included them at all. And yes, folks, that means it's our fault ''One More Day'' happened.

* Subverted in ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark''. Jaka, Cerebus' love interest, reunites with him after a long separation, only to tell him that she is now married and expecting a child. Cerebus is angry, but eventually relents and gives her some money for the baby. When he next sees her, her pregnancy is seemingly [[{{handwave}} handwaved]] away with a single line about a miscarriage. It looks like Jaka has fallen victim to this trope...[[spoiler:until the end of the story arc, where we learn that Jaka did not miscarry, she had an abortion behind her husband's back. This leads to the end of her marriage, and to her eventually getting back together with Cerebus. In the world Cerebus takes place in, abortion is very, very illegal, and while Jaka's husband did want to have a child, her main motivation for lying to him was to protect him from criminal liability if she was found out]].
* A disturbing example occurs with Erishad, a minor character in ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}''; an immortal who appears to be a young woman is going to some pretty extreme lengths to end her immortality and thus her life. When one of the other minor characters asks her why immortality is so terrible, she explains: [[spoiler:every morning her body is reset to one day of her mortal life, so she has had the same miscarriage every day for four thousand years]].

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A subtrope of ThePlotReaper. Compare with TragicStillbirth, PrematureBirthDrama, and ForcedMiscarriage.

[[caption-width-right:295:It's quite a [[MemeticMutation loss]].]]

A subtrope of ThePlotReaper. Compare with TragicStillbirth and ForcedMiscarriage.

* Margaret in ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'' gets beaten so severely by her husband (in the first episode) that she loses her baby. Not really to avoid her having children (she already had two); probably more so that [[spoiler:she and Nucky could get to a sexual relationship that much quicker]].

** A classic example in the ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' fanfic "[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/9820206/1/Choices Choices]]" that has CP Alesha Philips conceiving as a result of her rape. When she decides to keep the baby, DS Matt Devlin offers to step in as the baby's father. When she miscarries it draws them even closer, with Matt outright offering to light a candle, for ''our'' baby, thus playing this trope twice--not only does Alesha not have to carry her rapist's baby, losing it makes she and Matt realize how much they love each other.

** A classic example in a ''Series/LawAndOrderUK'' fanfic that has CP Alesha Philips conceiving as a result of her rape. When she decides to keep the baby, DS Matt Devlin offers to step in as the baby's father. When she miscarries it draws them even closer, with Matt outright offering to light a candle, for ''our'' baby, thus playing this trope twice--not only does Alesha not have to carry her rapist's baby, losing makes she and Matt realize how much they love each other.

* In Margaret Mitchell's ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', Scarlett O'Hara suffers a miscarriage after falling down a flight of stairs.

A subtrope of ThePlotReaper. Compare with TragicStillbirth.

* ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'': In ''The Human Dilemma'', [[spoiler:Larry]] [[OneNightStandPregnancy impregnates a one-night-stand]]]] while [[spoiler:cheating on his fiancee]]. She miscarries the same day they had planned to talk over their options and future, and she hysterically and somewhat self-aware-ly notes he's "off the hook".

* ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'': In ''The Human Dilemma'', [[spoiler:[[OneNightStandPregnancy Larry impregnates a one-night-stand]]]] while [[spoiler:cheating on his fiancee]]. She miscarries the same day they had planned to talk over their options and future, and she hysterically and somewhat self-aware-ly notes he's "off the hook".

* ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}'': In ''The Human Dilemma'', [[spoiler:Larry]] impregnates a one-night-stand while [[spoiler:cheating on his fiancee]]. She miscarries the same day they had planned to talk over their options and future, and she hysterically and somewhat self-aware-ly notes he's "off the hook".

* ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'': Before she was a fast-talking Hollywood agent, Princess Caroline was the Southern-born, starry eyed daughter of a clingy, alcoholic housekeeper to a wealthy family who owned an answering machine tape empire. In their last year of high school, she has a fling with the son and gets pregnant. Princess Caroline is upset, but her mom is ecstatic, because this means [[WedLocking the boy will have no choice but to marry her before she starts to show, as to avoid a scandal for his affluent family]]. This makes her mom happy, knowing that Princess Caroline will become rich and never leave home. Then, Princess Caroline has a miscarriage, meaning the son no longer has any obligation to marry her, allowing her to set herself free from her toxic mother, go to college in California, and follow her own dreams.

* In a recent arc of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'', the title character's sometimes-girlfriend Agent [[ComicBook/{{Agent 13}} Sharon Carter]] of ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} discovered that she was pregnant. She was then taken captive by ComicBook/RedSkull and, after a fight, was found stabbed in the abdomen. The next issue revealed that she had done it to herself to keep her baby away from the Skull. No one blames her. (It's hinted that Red Skull was going to use her baby as his new body.)

* In ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'', Hopey has a ConvenientMiscarriage after accidentally getting pregnant through a drunken three-way. The actual description of it is her narration, though, so it's [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion just possible]] that it wasn't a miscarriage.

* Played in-universe in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''. In ''Catching Fire'', Katniss pretends to be pregnant in order to gain sympathy in the Quarter Quell. However, when she has to become the face of the rebellion in ''Mockingjay'', pregnancy would be inconvenient (and it would become obvious after a while that she was not really pregnant), so Katniss and the other rebels HandWave this as a ConvenientMiscarriage.

* ''Fanfic/PerfectDiamondWorld'': [[spoiler:Iris]] ends up pregnant by her lover [[spoiler:Tycho]]. The problem is that he loves her, but she doesn't feel the same (she is only using him, plus she's [[IncompatibleOrientation lesbian]]). She worries if having parents in a loveless relationship is best for the baby. All this thinking is moot because she ends up losing the pregnancy to infection after being shot. [[spoiler:Or [[InfantImmortality not]]. Iris actually lied and ran off with her son because she doesn't care about Tycho]].

** ''Series/CSIMiami'' has a subversion of this. A man's second wife gets pregnant and he does not want to go through the process of raising a kid. He sabotages her car and hires some goons to have her carjacked with the intent that this causes a Convenient Miscarriage and his life goes back to 'normal'. The carjackers end up beating the wife almost to death which gets massive attention from the police. [[spoiler:The mother and baby live.]]

* Near the end of the ''Friday the 13th'' spin-off novel ''[[Literature/FridayThe13thHateKillRepeat Hate-Kill-Repeat]]'', the [[TeenPregnancy teenaged]] protagonist, who had earlier discovered she was pregnant, miscarries when Jason nonchalantly punches her in the stomach.

* ''Fanfic/PerfectDiamondWorld'': [[spoiler:Iris]] ends up pregnant by her lover [[spoiler:Tycho]]. The problem is that he loves, but she doesn't feel the same (she is only using him, plus she's [[IncompatibleOrientation lesbian]]). She worries if having parents in a loveless relationship is best for the baby. All this thinking is moot because she ends up losing the pregnancy to infection after being shot. [[spoiler:Or [[InfantImmortality not]]. Iris actually lied and ran off with her son because she doesn't care about Tycho]].

* In ''Film/WhatToExpectWhenYoureExpecting'', the only woman who became pregnant from a one-night stand, rather than as part of an established couple, is also the only character to miscarry.

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[[caption-width-right:295:It's quite a loss.]]

* Page image: Lilah in ''[[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'' had a miscarriage which was supposedly caused by her immune system detecting the unborn child as a foreign object, which ''does'' happen in real life. This would have been particularly dramatic [[CerebusSyndrome had the comic not been mostly light-hearted and comedic up until then]], and [[MoodWhiplash had the author not broken up the story with regular game jokes]]. Plus, at the end of the arc, Lilah acted like her having a HeroicBSOD over losing her child was just crazy bitching.

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* “WesternAnimation/{{BojackHorseman}}”: Before she was a fast-talking Hollywood agent, Princess Caroline was the Southern-born, starry eyed daughter of a clingy, alcoholic housekeeper to a wealthy family who owned an answering machine tape empire. In their last year of high school, she has a fling with the son and gets pregnant. Princess Caroline is upset, but her mom is ecstatic, because this means [[WedLocking the boy will have no choice but to marry her before she starts to show, as to avoid a scandal for his affluent family]]. This makes her mom happy, knowing that Princess Caroline will become rich and never leave home. Then, Princess Caroline has a miscarriage, meaning the son no longer has any obligation to marry her, allowing her to set herself free from her toxic mother, go to college in California, and follow her own dreams.

* ''Series/{{NYPD BLUE}}'': Diane miscarries her child with Bobby. (He later meets him in the afterlife.) Another time, Danny has a crisis when he gets his girlfriend pregnant, but she has a miscarriage at the end of the episode. (''Entertainment Weekly'' complained at the time that it was a cop-out way to end that storyline.)

* In ''HighCrimes'', Tom and Claire have been trying for a baby for a while and Claire finally gets pregnant, but miscarries the baby following an ambush attack on her car. [[spoiler:In a TwistEnding, Tom turns out to have been the killer all along after Claire spent the whole movie trying to exonerate him of the massacre of village peasants in El Salvador. Tom is killed by the El Salvadorian witness to the crimes]]. This means that Claire [[spoiler:doesn't have to raise a baby alone and also doesn't have to raise a baby who will remind her of her husband's crimes and betrayal, in a bittersweet way.]]