History PlayingWith / HonorableMarriageProposal

* '''Justified''': The setting they live in sees the idea of sex before marriage as inexcusable.

* '''Downplayed''': Alice and Bob were already engaged when she got pregnant, so they just move the wedding date to avoid rumors from ruining Alice's reputation.

* '''Inverted''': Alice proposes to Bob when she gets pregnant, even though she knows he's not the father.

* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob goes back and forth about marrying Alice.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob don't truly love each other, and their marriage ends up being a miserable one that ends in their divorce.
* '''Reconstructed''': By the time this happens, the town's gossip machine has moved on to other things, so Alice's honor is secure, and she lives a fine life with her child.
* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice's child is a ChildByRape, and Alice was drugged so much she can't recall the night she was raped. If she gets an abortion, then people will still know she had sex out of wedlock and she'll still deal with SlutShaming from people who don't know the full context of her situation.

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%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

^ '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Invoked''': [[TheBabyTrap Bob intentionally gets Alice pregnant to force her to marry him.

* '''Double Subverted''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': ???

* '''Inverted''': ???
* '''Subverted''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': ???
* '''Straight''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???
* '''Justified''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': ???

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'''Basic Trope''': A man proposes marriage to a pregnant woman to protect her reputation.
* '''Straight''': Alice finds out she's pregnant, but has no idea who the father is. Bob agrees to marry her.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob meets Alice (six months pregnant) for the first time on the bus. He sees that she has no ring, and proposes to her right then and there.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Bob ''is'' the father, and he feels that the honorable thing to do is to be there for Alice and his child, so [[ShotgunWedding he asks Alice to marry him]].
** Alice is in a relationship with Bob, and one day she is [[RapeAsDrama raped on her way home from work]]. She finds out she is [[ChildByRape pregnant]], and Bob (already supportive of her) asks her to marry him, so he can be there for her all the time.
* '''Justified''':
** AliceAndBob live in a world where a woman who is pregnant outside of wedlock is considered DefiledForever.
** Single motherhood is ''hard''. Alice is a [[PlatonicLifePartners dear friend]], and Bob just wants to make sure she'll have someone around to help take care of the baby and bring in money.
** Alice can't afford health insurance, and is worried about what would happen if she and her child were to get sick. Her close friend Bob works a job with ''great'' insurance for its employees... as well as their spouse and spouse's children.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice is pregnant, and has no idea who the father is. She asks Bob to marry her... Or [[MyNameIsEarl tricks him into doing so.]]
** Bob turns down Alice because she's pregnant and/or because the child is not his.
** The father of Alice's baby, afraid of being tied down to a woman he doesn't love out of duty, is spurred on to elope with the one he does.
* '''Subverted''':
** Bob asks Alice if she'd like to marry him, but Alice says she doesn't need a man to provide for her or the baby.
** Bob takes notice of Alice and her conspicuously absent wedding ring, gets down on his knees... And prays that this sinful woman will see the light of God. Then he walks away, whistling.
* '''Double Subverted''': But Bob forms a close bond with Alice, helps her to raise the baby, and eventually they do get married.
* '''Parodied''': Alice buys a puppy. Bob thinks it's terrible that a single woman could even think of making that kind of commitment without a man around to provide for her, and proposes.

* '''Averted''': Alice is pregnant outside of wedlock, but Bob doesn't ask her hand in marriage.
* '''Enforced''': The writers had always planned to turn the PlatonicLifePartners into a family unit, but [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Alice's actress' real-life pregnancy]] comes a bit too early to write into that storyline, so they take a shortcut.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, Bob... That's very sweet, but we're not in some 19th century Irish village."
* '''Invoked''': Alice fakes a pregnancy, and spins a heartbreaking sob-story around it, in order to convince NiceGuy Bob to marry her.

* '''Defied''':
** Bob is afraid of what others will think of him for taking "[[DefiledForever damaged goods]]" as his wife, so he does nothing.
** Alternatively, Alice turns down the proposal. (She doesn't know Bob well enough, she doesn't find him attractive, she doesn't like him, she doesn't feel like she needs a man to provide for her or the baby, she wants to MarryForLove, etc.)
* '''Discussed''':
-->'''Bob:''' I do love you, Alice, but... Platonically, you know?\\
'''Alice:''' Hmm... Would you marry me if we're both single when we're forty?\\
'''Bob:''' ''[laughing]'' No.\\
'''Alice:''' What if some heartless cad gets me pregnant and runs off in the night, leaving me raising a baby alone [[DeterminedHomesteadersWife with crops to harvest and bandits to fight off?]]\\
'''Bob:''' It's a deal.
* '''Conversed''': "Ugh, she's not really going to marry ''that'' loser, is she?" "Well, [[ValuesDissonance we may not like it]], but in the world they live in it's realistically her only chance for a decent life..."
* '''Deconstructed''': This has a lot of ValuesDissonance; in some more traditional cultures, this is a way of protecting a woman's reputation and ensuring that ''someone'' will be able to support her ''and'' the baby (see "Justified"). In other societies where sex and babies outside of marriage are more or less accepted, this is seen as anachronistic and sexist.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice marries Bob because she loves him, not because she's knocked up and needs a provider.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is MistakenForPregnant, and Bob has been reading too many {{Chivalric Romance}}s.

* '''Justified''': AliceAndBob live in a world where a woman who is pregnant outside of wedlock is considered DefiledForever.

* '''Basic Trope''': A man proposes marriage to a pregnant woman to protect her reputation.
* '''Played Straight''': Alice finds out she's pregnant, but has no idea who the father is. Bob agrees to marry her.

** Bob ''is'' the father, and he feels that the honorable thing to do is to be there for Alice and his child, so [[ShotgunWedding he asks Alice to marry him]].

* '''Justified''': AliceAndBob live in a world where a woman who is pregnant outside of wedlock is considered DefiledForever.

** Alice is pregnant, and has no idea who the father is. She asks Bob to marry her...or [[MyNameIsEarl tricks him into doing so.]]
** Bob turns down Alice because she's pregnant and/or because the child is not his.

** Bob takes notice of Alice and her conspicuously absent wedding ring, gets down on his knees... and prays that this sinful woman will see the light of God. Then he walks away, whistling.

* '''Deconstructed''': This has a lot of ValuesDissonance; in some more traditional cultures, this is a way of protecting a woman's reputation and ensuring that ''someone'' will be able to support her ''and'' the baby (see "Justified"). In other societies where sex and babies outside of marriage are more or less accepted, this is seen as anachronistic and sexist.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice marries Bob because she loves him, not because she's knocked up and needs a provider.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Oh, Bob... that's very sweet, but we're not in some 19th century Irish village."
* '''Averted''': Alice is pregnant outside of wedlock, but Bob doesn't ask her hand in marriage.

* '''Defied''':

* '''Discussed''':
-->'''Bob:''' I do love you, Alice, but... platonically, you know?
-->'''Alice:''' Hmm... would you marry me if we're both single when we're forty?
-->'''Bob:''' ''[laughing]'' No.
-->'''Alice:''' What if some heartless cad gets me pregnant and runs off in the night, leaving me raising a baby alone [[DeterminedHomesteadersWife with crops to harvest and bandits to fight off?]]
-->'''Bob:''' It's a deal.

* '''Played For Drama''': Almost always is.

** Alice is in a relationship with Bob, and she is [[RapeAsDrama raped by a gang of thugs]] on her way home from work. She finds out she is [[ChildByRape pregnant]], and Bob (already supportive of her) asks her to marry him, so he can be there for her all the time.

** Bob is afraid of what others will think of him for taking "damaged goods" as his wife, so he does nothing.

* '''Conversed''':

** Bob proposes to Alice, but she is not pregnant.

** Bob takes notice of Alice and her conspicuously absent wedding ring, and [[MyGirlIsNotASlut shakes his head disapprovingly]].
* '''Double Subverted''': But Bob forms some kind of relationship with Alice, and eventually does marry her.

* '''Parodied''':
** See "Exaggerated"
** It turns out Alice is already married but either doesn't have a wedding ring or had taken it off (perhaps due to pregnancy-related finger swelling), and Bob's proposal leads to awkwardness.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You need someone to take care of you and the kid...I could be that someone."
* '''Averted''':
** Alice is not pregnant.
** Alice is pregnant, but she was already married to Bob before she got pregnant.
** Alice is pregnant outside of wedlock, but Bob doesn't ask her hand in marriage.
* '''Enforced''': The setting of the story demands it.
* '''Invoked''': Alice is raped, and Bob hears about it. He's a NiceGuy, and he worries about the implications of DefiledForever for her, so he marries her and raises the rapist's child as his own.
* '''Defied''': Bob is afraid of what others will think of him for taking "damaged goods" as his wife, so he does nothing.

* '''Discussed''':
* '''Conversed''':
* '''Played For Laughs''':

* '''Downplayed''': Bob ''is'' the father, and he feels that the honorable thing to do is to be there for Alice and his child, so [[ShotgunWedding he asks Alice to marry him]].

* '''Inverted''': Alice is pregnant, and has no idea who the father is. She asks Bob to marry her...or [[MyNameIsEarl tricks him into doing so.]]

* '''Subverted''': Bob asks Alice if she'd like to marry him, but Alice says she doesn't need a man to provide for her or the baby.

* '''Parodied''': See "Exaggerated"

* '''Averted''': Alice is not pregnant.