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9->''Sergeant Foley, can't you see,\
10A Puget Deb is after me!\
11Please don't let 'em catch my tail,\
12I'd be better off in the country jail!\
13My mom was a deb, my grandma too;\
14That's all them gals know how to do!''
15-->--A marching song from ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman''
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17Someone in a relationship deliberately causes a pregnancy without their partner's consent, usually by lying about or sabotaging birth control, in order to [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe bind their partner to them]]. The character's motivations run the gamut from understandable to reprehensible: sometimes they're just [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy]] and/or desperate to get hitched [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking or have a child]]; other times they feel the relationship is on the rocks and believe that {{babies make everything better}}; still other times they feel the pregnancy will establish a claim on the other person ([[GoldDigger or their resources]], such as pursuing an inheritance or child support payments) or make it harder for him/her to leave. In accordance with the {{law of inverse fertility}}, attempting this even once will invariably result in pregnancy, with all attendant drama.
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19A variation involves a woman [[FakePregnancy faking a pregnancy]] with the intention of faking a {{convenient miscarriage}} after the wedding, or actually being pregnant but lying about who the father is. Can lead to a {{shotgun wedding}}, or a {{very special episode}} about abortion or adoption, but more often drama or {{hilarity ensues}}, depending on what sort of show we're dealing with.
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21While it's usually made clear that this is a cheap, sneaky thing to do, rarely is it pointed out that it's actually a form of spousal and/or child abuse.
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23The character doing this is usually female, often a teenage girl, because of [[MarsAndVenusGenderContrast gender stereotypes]] that say all women are [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking desperate to get married and have babies]] while all men flee commitment as long as they can. (This is dependent upon several factors within real life, such as abortion rights. These laws can cause a huge imbalance in agency, where either a woman has all control over what happens within her body or none at all. This can also put pressure on the father as well, who has to either [[HonorableMarriageProposal make an "honest woman"]] of her or take financial responsibility.) Because of this, female characters who are disliked by their male partner's friends or family may be suspected of plotting to use this trope on him even if there's no evidence of any such thing. The moral tone also depends on several factors, such as the gender doing the trapping and the circumstances in which the sex took place. For example, a man who traps a woman is portrayed as planting something within her body that she ''does not'' want there. The greater problems of {{Double Standard Rape|Female On Male}} and MaritalRapeLicense also create deeper concerns.
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25This usually involves some form of ContraceptionDeception. The most common example of this ([[ButWeUsedACondom poking a hole in a condom with a pin]]) is a mild example of artistic license; it's possible but much harder to do (at least without the partner noticing) than it looks on TV. Condoms are designed so that failure is usually obvious. Most of the time, using a condom with even a small hole will result in the whole thing shredding apart under use.
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27It's quite easy, however, to stop taking birth control pills without telling the partner, which is also a common form of this trope.
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29See also FakePregnancy. Compare GoldDigger and HoneyTrap. Has nothing to do with ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}''.
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37* ''Shonan 14 Days'', a ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'' spinoff, uses baby trapping as part of the FreudianExcuse for a pair of CreepyTwins: their mother was having an affair and had the kids in an attempt to blackmail the father into marrying her.
38* In the sequel to ''Literature/HalfPrince'', Lan's brother pokes a hole in a condom to force Lolidragon to marry him when she's hesitant to commit.
39* In the manga version of ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'', [[spoiler:Souichiro Arima's birth mother Ryouko does this to squeeze child support money out of his father Reiji because she knows Reiji is the son of a rich doctor. (What she doesn't know is that Reiji is illegitimate, much younger than his father's legitimate children, and actively hated by all of them except Souji, the eldest). She leaves Soichiro to ''[[OffingTheOffspring die]]'' sometime after finding this out, but Soichiro is saved by Reiji's timely arrival and ends up being adopted soon after by Souji and his wife Shizune, who can't have children of their own.]]
40* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'' plays around quite a bit with this in a rare example of this being done for non-selfish reasons. After a particularly nasty battle in the second season, [[PluckyGirl Atra]] gets it in her head to have a child with the protagonist [[AntiHero Mikazuki]] to give him a reason to live and snap him out of his self-destructive tendencies. And if it's not with her, then him impregnating [[TheOjou Kudelia]] is another option. [[spoiler:Hilariously, when she finally does ask Mika about it, his response is basically "Yeah, sure"... Unfortunately, he winds up dying in the end anyway, leaving Atra to raise little Akatsuki with Kudelia.]]
41* ''Manga/NagasareteAirantou'': Ayane once planned to do this to Ikuto to make him more unwilling to leave the island. [[ButtMonkey For once]] her plan works and she manages to pin down Ikuto under her while being half naked. Unfortunately she has no idea what they are supposed to do next. [[spoiler:At least she gets their FirstKiss out of it!]]
42* In ''Manga/OishiiKankei'', [[spoiler:Kanako tries to pull this on Keiji to force him to marry her. She was, in fact, pregnant, but the baby wasn't his, but from her boss.]]
43* Sae of ''Manga/PeachGirl'' believes herself to be pregnant (this is later proved to be psychological) and tries to use this to bind Ryo to her who she loved who loved Misao instead. When Ryo refuses her and tries to leave with Misao she blurted out that she was pregnant.
44* ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'': In the anime version, [[spoiler:Kotonoha is convinced Sekai trapped Makoto and cuts open Sekai's belly to "make sure" after [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering her]].]] Is this what ''actually'' happened? [[spoiler:The show's ambiguous on it: Sekai has a fairly strong claim in regards to pregnancy itself, but it's left up in the air whether she deliberately pulled the trope, or this is just TeenPregnancy without the baby trap itself behind. (Some fans speculate that Sekai might not have been pregnant, but sincerely believed she was due to having symptoms that could easily be mistaken as those of pregnancy)]].
45* Downplayed in ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears''. Mami tells Makoto she's pregnant (after they broke up) and she wants to get married, but she didn't do it on purpose. [[spoiler:They end up running away to start a new life before she finds out she's not pregnant after all.]]
46* Subverted hilariously in ''Anime/TenchiMuyoRyoOhki'', when Ryoko implies that her ship's egg is actually her and Tenchi's child. Tenchi's family and even Sasami are actually happy for them (though obviously not Ayeka), totally ignoring Tenchi's denials. The egg quickly hatches and is revealed to be the rabbit-like Ryo-Ohki, but some swear they still see a resemblance to Tenchi.
47* In the ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' sequel, Touka tells Kaneki she’s trying to find a way to keep him at her side, then jumps him while he's emotionally vulnerable and has just confided in her about how much he misses Hide.
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51* Carol Leifer, the RealLife inspiration for [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} Elaine Benes]], had this variant:
52-->''He tricked me into marrying him. He told me he was pregnant.''
53* Creator/AliWong:
54** She talks about this trope throughout her standup special "Baby Cobra". Specifically, she talks about turning her dating life around from the losers she used to date when she met her husband and going out of her way to be sure to get into a relationship with him and get him to propose to her because he had much better prospects for the future than any man she might otherwise date. She specifically, and repeatedly, describes it as "trapping" him, with the hope that thanks to his business background she could retire early and still live a happy, prosperous life of comfort. But at the very end of the special, it turns into a subversion when she describes discovering that his Harvard education had left him massively in debt and they would, in fact, be relying on ''her'' money from writing for shows like ''Series/FreshOffTheBoat'' to take care of it.
55--->Worked hard to trap his ass, got him to propose to me, oh my God, then we got married, my dream is coming true, then we got pregnant, and recently we bought our first home together. And two weeks into the escrow process, I learned that my beautiful, Harvard-educated husband was ''seventy thousand dollars'' in debt. And me, with my hard-earned T.V. money, wound up paying it all off. [{{beat}}] So as it turns out, he's the one who trapped '''''me!''''' ... Now if I don't work, we die! Why else do think I'm doing this show while seven and a half months pregnant?!
56** Her second special, ''Hard Knock Wife'' goes further into it. She jokes about how her husband knows how loaded she is and so doesn't give a fuck about himself in his business life and he knows his wife is totally loaded. She darkly admits the irony of trying to trap him but in reality trapped herself into a marriage that she is at the least very happy with.
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60* The retelling of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s tryst with Talia in the New 52 plays along these lines; Talia spikes Bruce's drink with ''something'' before they get to it, and the morning after tells him that their son will be a worthy successor to the two of them.
61* Subverted and later played straight with [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Cheshire]].
62** Subverted in the case of her daughter Lian, who wasn't planned. Cheshire still followed through on the pregnancy and gave birth to Lian as part of her revenge plan against [[ComicBook/GreenArrow Roy Harper]] for walking out on her. Her goal was to torment Roy, first by revealing their child's existence but never letting Roy near them, later by feeding Roy the barest details about Lian's development and how all of it was happening without him. Even after Roy gained permanent custody of Lian, Cheshire was still capable of manipulating Roy by relying on her connection to Lian.
63** Played straight with her son Tommy, who was deliberately conceived for this trope. While being blackmailed into joining the ComicBook/SecretSix, Cheshire singled out Catman as the most desirable candidate and seduced him to get pregnant again. She did this for two reasons. The first being that she would now have ''a'' child in case Mockingbird followed through on his threat to detonate a bomb in Lian's head. The second is that she would rely on Catman to protect her from the Six's eventual retaliation after she betrayed them to the Secret Society.
64--->'''Cheshire''': Mockingbird ''may'' kill my beloved child. So isn't it fortunate that I will soon have a replacement?
65* In ''[[http://comicboxcommentary.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/back-issue-holiday-box-dcu-infinite.html DCU Infinite Holiday Special issue #1]]'', ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} must reunite a little girl with her father, a jerkass drunk who thinks his ex-wife got pregnant to force him into a marriage.
66-->'''Fred:''' Or that he never would have married that witch if she hadn't skipped her pill on purpose--!
67* ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'': In #55, it is revealed that Myke's former boyfriend--a sleazy CIA agent named Markham--tried to trap her into marriage by switching her birth control pills so she'd get pregnant.
68* ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'': [[ShakespeareInFiction Shakespeare's]] wife implies she did this to Will and Will seems to think his eldest daughter is planning the same for her boyfriend.
69* It's been {{Retcon}}ned that ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'s widow Wanda purposely stopped taking her birth control pills in hopes that a baby would change Al, who back in the day was a ruthless assassin. He ends up punching her in the stomach, killing the baby as well as all speculation that Cyan is his daughter.
70* In ''ComicBook/XFactor'', Rahne, who is very Protestant and pregnant with a mutant-Wolf God hybrid baby, lets ex-boyfriend Rictor assume that he's the father of her baby after returning to find him about to get busy with [[HoYay Shatterstar]].
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74* ''Batman: Angel of Death'': Part of the [[InfoDump backstory dump]] Selina tells Damian is that her mother Isabella was mistress to a wealthy man ([[MythologyGag implied to be mafia don Carmine Falcone]]), and got pregnant hoping he would leave his real family for her. It didn't work at all, so Isabella quickly pulled this on Selina's "legal" father, Brian Kyle, who did marry her. This is what first comes close to endearing her to Damian, who is [[CommonalityConnection the product of similar circumstances]].
75* ''Fanfic/BestServedColdNyame'': Inverted. Tommy accuses Laurel of doing this to Malcolm, ignoring the fact that they were already married by the time she fell pregnant. In reality, ''Laurel'' is the one who didn't want the baby (she wanted children, just not with Malcolm), but agreed to have it so as to not piss Malcolm off so soon before she was supposed to finally turn on him. They were supposed to wait until after the Undertaking to start trying for children, but Malcolm got insecure after Oliver (Laurel's FirstLove) was rescued and returned to Starling, and pushed up the timeline to put a "claim" on her.
76* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13980772/4/Between-Thought-and-Reality Between Thought and Reality]]'' Harry has had so many witches cancel their anti-conception spells mid-coitus in an attempt at this that he drinks a sterility potion before any sexual encounters.
77* Mariella Zabini from ''Fanfic/BlackSky'' is purely motivated by her desire to escape her life as a prostitute when she engages in an affair with the Prince of Sabina, whom she ''knows'' is without a male heir to succeed her. Unusually for this trope, the baby's birth would have been a boon for every party involved: Sabina gets an Heir and Mariella as the mother gets to spend her life in comfort and safety. Unfortunately, the Prince wasn't keen on acknowledging he fathered a bastard, [[spoiler:so he brutally mind-wiped Mariella and abandoned her to die in a slum, with her son who later grows up to become Xanxus of the Vongola.]]
78* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12464607/1/Crazy-Little-Thing-Called-Love Crazy Little Thing Called Love]]'' Astoria falls in love with Harry while having an affair with him. Afraid that he's going to end it due to feeling guilty, she drinks a fertility potion before their next meeting.
79* ''Fanfic/DoingItRightThisTime'': In this story, Naoko was supposed to use Gendo's wife Yui's eggs to create Rei. Instead of it, she used her own eggs. Ritsuko thinks her mother was trying to baby-trap Gendo, but Gendo doubts Naoko swapped her genetic material with Yui's because she was trying to make him committed to her.
80-->''"Look! Read the results. They still had Mom's DNA profile in the records. She must've had an egg left over from the MAGI, and... Oh, fucking hell. She was sleeping with him. She must have been. Why else would she do this? She was trying to baby trap Gendo."''
81* the ''Series/StargateSG1'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2491548/1/The-Dorsa The Dorsa]]" features Captain Selena Sanchez, who develops such a twisted obsession with Daniel Jackson that she uses alien pheromones to basically drug Daniel into a heightened state of arousal so that she can rape him and impregnate herself, threatening to abort the baby if he won't dump Sam Carter (who he has recently started dating) and marry her. Fortunately, her subsequent hearing rules that she isn't mentally stable enough to make a choice about getting an abortion for herself, and she is forced to carry the child to term, the baby being given to Daniel and Sam after the birth as Sam affirms that she will never see the child as anything less than her own daughter.
82* The ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2172417/1/False-Smiles False Smiles]]'' features a variation of this where both parties ''believed'' that the pregnancy was real, with Faith realising that her period is late after her night with Xander. As the two adjust to the idea of becoming parents, Xander's growing interest in Faith's life leads to him managing to stop her accidentally killing Deputy Mayor Finch, allowing them to outright prevent the ascension. On a more personal level, the two develop genuine feelings for each other beyond just a one-night stand, so that by the time they learn Faith ''isn't'' pregnant (Angel was away and unaware of this belief, but confirms the truth through his enhanced senses), they realise that they are now genuinely in love. It is revealed to the reader that Whistler actually faked at least one of Faith's pregnancy tests to ensure that Faith would stay with Xander and avoid her canon fate.
83* Referenced in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/30374208 He Can Only Blame Himself]]''. After Marinette [[PlotIncitingInfidelity catches Adrien cheating on her]] with Lila, she warns Gabriel that his new girlfriend is a ManipulativeBitch and that she might attempt this:
84-->'''Marinette:''' Also, I'd see about putting Adrien on Dimethandrolone undecanoate as soon as possible. I wouldn't put it past her to 'accidentally' forget her birth control and get pregnant. Also, you'd do well to investigate any pregnancy claims she makes. Also, demand a DNA test. Consider it free advice. For old times' sake.
85* A male version is attempted in ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of Ashes]]''. Smaug decides to impregnate Kathryn partly because having a child with him would tie her to him more than ever. When she has her menstrual period following several times of copulation, Smaug angrily reveals what he's been trying to do. Kathryn is hurt and furious with him for trying to impregnate her without first speaking with her about having a baby.
86* ''Fanfic/InTheBleakMidwinterTheLoud'': When Fiona sees Hermione breastfeed little Tommy, she jumps to the conclusion that he must be Hermione's, not Merope's, and that Hermione is just trying to extort something from the Riddles. Hermione's explanation that she's taken a wet nurse potion is not necessarily convincing, but it certainly changes the subject.
87* In the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MaFille'', Katrina's EvilAunt Laura attempts to claim that Katrina's father Glass Joe is also the father of her baby. However, this fails as a) Joe has a restraining order against Laura, b) he hadn't seen her in over two years, c) he's gay, and d) he's married. Laura eventually relents and admits her baby's father is an anonymous sperm donor.
88* ''Fanfic/TheNewRetcons'': When Elizabeth comes back from her honeymoon pregnant, Elly is excited that she did it "so soon" and winks at her. This is later revealed to be because Elly tried this with [[spoiler: her first husband Stan Watson out of fear he would cheat on her or leave. Not only did it not work, it resulted in Michael.]]
89* ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'' features on interesting variant. [[spoiler:After the events of ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTroubleInTokyo'', Slade forced a team of scientists to create a child from the DNA of Robin and Starfire, with the intention of raising the child as his apprentice. However, one of those scientists was Oracle, who escaped and impregnated herself with the child, whom she intends on using to force Robin and Starfire to stay together. She's convinced this is the only way to stop Robin from becoming a lonely brooder like Batman.]]
90* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': In the sequel ''Picking up the Pieces'', some of Deep Blade's past lovers have tried to do this via FakePregnancy in order to have an excuse to marry into his family. When Sergeant Summer Nights finds out, she notes that such actions are a crime.
91* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7077352/6/Viper Viper]]'' Ginny is pregnant with her married lover's baby and tries to convince Harry that it's his, despite the pesky little fact that he's no longer in a relationship with her and a virgin.
92* In the ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'' [[AlternateUniverse AU]] fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/24654493/chapters/59615725#workskin What to Expect When You're On the Run]]'', [[{{Yandere}} Vanessa]] purposely got herself pregnant because she wanted her husband to leave his university and be with her more permanently.
93* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4816968/18/Do-Not-Meddle-In-The-Affairs-Of-Wizards Do Not Meddle in the Affairs of Wizards]]'', Ginny manages to magically steal Harry's sperm to get pregnant so (she thinks) she can force him to marry her. [[spoiler:He responds by invoking her Life Debt to him to force her to concede the child completely to him immediately at birth, then somehow arranges for said child to magically become the offspring of Luna and the late Neville.]]
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97* At the start of ''Film/EightMile'', Rabbit says his girlfriend might be pregnant. She later says she just said that in an effort to make him stay.
98* Attempted in ''Film/TheAssociate'' on a non-existent man who was, when he appeared, a cross-dressing woman.
99* The [[{{Golddigger}} gold-digging]] eponymous ''Film/BadTeacher'' mentions that she tried doing something like this to basketball players (as mentioned below), but that they were always smart enough to make sure that the condom was intact ''and'' to take it with them after the deed was complete.
100* ''Film/BigDaddy'' features a rare GenderFlip variant: through a clerical mix-up, the protagonist Sonny Koufax becomes the legal guardian for a small child, but rather than attempt to amend the situation decides to adopt the child in hopes that this will help fix his failing relationship with his girlfriend. One of his friends [[DiscussedTrope explicitly compares]] the situation to a woman who attempts to get pregnant in hopes of fixing a failing marriage.
101* In ''Film/DropDeadFred'', the reason Lizzie's mother Polly was so cruel to her was that she used this trick to try and save her marriage. When it didn't work, [[NeverMyFault she placed the blame squarely on her daughter's shoulders]].
102* ''Film/FrenchTwist'': A lesbian asks her girlfriend's husband to get her pregnant. The film then picks up again after she's had the baby, and ends with [[spoiler:the four of them (lesbian, girlfriend, husband, and baby) living together happily.]]
103* ''Film/GoneGirl'' has an interesting variant. Nick wants to have children with Amy, to the point of starting fertility treatments, but Amy changes her mind and has the sperm samples destroyed.[[spoiler:... or so Nick thinks. Amy turns out to have kept the sample on ice. After she frames Nick for her murder, he naturally wants nothing more to do with her, but she impregnates herself with his stored sperm, believing that he'd rather stay with her than abandon his child. It works.]]
104* ''Film/AHomeAtTheEndOfTheWorld'': A gay man named Johnathan is attempting to get his best friend, a straight woman named Clare, pregnant so they can both raise the baby together. When Jonathan's old boyfriend Bobby enters their life and also begins a sexual relationship with Clare, it obviously creates huge discourse within the trio. When Johnathan has finally had enough a threatens to leave them both, Clare reveals that she's pregnant, [[spoiler:although she doesn't mention who the father is]]. This causes both Bobby and Johnathan to [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter put aside their differences and they all raise the baby together as a family unit]].
105* ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'': In the film version, Lestat seems to first see Claudia as the "baby" for his version of this, to force Louis to stay with him.
106* In ''Film/{{The Invisible Man|2020}}'', Cecilia had a secret stash of birth control pills because she knew Adrian, her abusive husband, wanted to have a baby to enact this trope. However, Cecilia [[spoiler: gets committed to a mental hospital]] after Adrian [[spoiler: killed her sister while wearing his invisible suit in the restaurant she and Cecilia were eating dinner]]. When she gets a medical check, she finds out that she's [[spoiler: pregnant with Adrian's child, and finds out that [[ContraceptionDeception he replaced her secret birth control pills with placebos]]]] shortly before she ran away from the house as a way to ensure [[spoiler: that she would return to him]].
107* ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'': Though it's a recurring point, the movie also tries something different: [[spoiler:Lynette only claims to be pregnant so that Sid stays in a relationship with her. She spills the beans when he resigns from the military to be with her, which she didn't want. One has to wonder when she would have confessed her lack of pregnancy otherwise.]]
108* When Julianne Moore's character gets pregnant in ''Film/NineMonths'', her boyfriend and his best friend ponder the possibility of her using this trope, as he's much happier in their childless, unmarried relationship than she is.
109* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'': Angelica tries to stop Jack from abandoning her on the desert island by lying that she is pregnant with his child; however, Jack isn't fooled.
110* ''Film/TheRedPill'':
111** Activists within the film argue that if a woman enacts this on a man, he has pretty much no legal recourse from being saddled with a child he didn't want or wasn't prepared for. In some cases, a man is legally obligated to care for a child even if he isn't the biological father.
112** Activists mention France's banning of "at-will" paternity tests without a court order, which limits options for men to prove actual paternity.
113** One of the activists in the film Jaye interviews alleges that it was done to him by his own wife, who trapped him in their marriage by getting pregnant, and then describes the hell she put him through in their custody battle.
114* ''Film/RevengeOfTheBridesmaids'': When Caitlyn [=McNabb=]'s mom grows too old to snag her fourth husband, Caitlyn [[GoldDigger carries on the family tradition.]] After an impulsive one-night stand with her friend Rachel's super-rich ex-boyfriend Tony, she fakes a pregnancy to trick him into marriage, even though he's still in love with Rachel and vice versa. She even cheats on a doctor's test using her best friend's sister's urine, who's constantly pregnant due to being married to an Irish Catholic. [[spoiler:By the end of the movie, Tony's suspicious of her true motives, and lies about his family losing his fortune to test her. Once she thinks that Tony's broke, Caitlyn loses all interest and reveals her lie, and the wedding is called off.]]
115* ''Film/TooCloseToHome'': Diana believes that a baby trap was pulled on her son to get him to marry his child's mother. She's proven wrong; the son's wife confessed to her pregnancy after he asked her to marry him.
116* ''Film/{{Unforgettable|2017}}'': After he broke up with her, Tessa intentionally got pregnant with David's baby so he'd stay with her, on her mother's advice as a means to insure this. However, this only extended their relationship for a time, and they got divorced when their daughter was fairly young.
117* ''Film/WatchIt'': Subverted; [[spoiler:Ellen, who had been happily seeing Rick until he started acting like a jerk toward her, tells Rick she's pregnant and is keeping the baby. However, it turns out to be a practical joke she and John (his roommate) cooked up to get Rick to grow up and be a man]].
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121* In ''Literature/ThreeHundredSixtyFiveDays'', Massimo lies about providing Laura with birth control as he hopes that if she becomes pregnant, she will definitely stay with him. Laura is unimpressed by this, declaring that if she does find out she's pregnant, she will leave him and raise their child by herself. But then when she ''does'' get pregnant, she insists on staying with Massimo and raising their child together.
122* In ''Literature/{{Accelerando}}'', Mannfred Macx's girlfriend ''rapes'' him to have his child and forces him to be what she sees as a responsible adult. Ultimately subverted; while she does have a daughter, and Mannfred does what he can to be a part of her life, he continues his lifestyle as before.
123* In ''Literature/TheAgeOfInnocence'', Newland Archer expresses his desire to give up his law practice and travel the world (what he really wants to do is escape his loveless marriage and follow his wife's cousin Ellen to Paris). His wife May gently tells him, "I'm afraid you can't, dear. Not unless you take me with you. That is if the doctors will let me go..." thus revealing that she's pregnant.
124* In ''Literature/BraveStory'' we eventually learn that [[spoiler:Wataru's mom]] faked a pregnancy to get her ex (who was already in a relationship with another woman) to marry her. He does, but it doesn't end well.
125* In the Creator/MaeveBinchy novel ''Literature/CircleOfFriends'', after being ditched by her lover and not wanting to have an abortion, a desperate Nan seduces Jack—''her best friend's boyfriend''—and tells him he's the baby's father, knowing that he'll do the right thing and offer to marry her.
126* Creator/JenniferCrusie's works:
127** In ''Literature/WelcomeToTemptation'', this happens twice. The main male character (many years before the book starts) marries his girlfriend at the time who becomes pregnant after lying to him about using birth control. A minor main character also marries a girlfriend who claims she's pregnant (also many years earlier), despite being in love with someone else. As the book puts it, "Eleven months later, sure enough, she had a baby."
128** In ''Literature/WhatTheLadyWants'', Armand first gets [[spoiler:June pregnant, then when that child dies he brings home his orphaned niece so she wouldn't leave.]] Then there's Stormy, who [[spoiler:poked holes in the condoms so Armand would marry her, not knowing he had a secret vasectomy years before.]]
129** In ''Literature/TellMeLies'', while preparing to file for divorce, Maddie finds a letter with her husband, Brent's, things, in which another woman tells him that she's pregnant. It takes her most of the book to figure out what actually happened. She eventually finds out that [[spoiler: years before the story opens, Maddie's best friend, Treva, got accidentally pregnant by Brent when they cheated on their partners together, wrote the letter in question, then tricked her boyfriend, Howie, into thinking the baby was his and marrying her. However, Treva and Howie ended up HappilyMarried, and it turns out Howie figured it out very early on due to blood typing and was initially upset but got over it.]]
130* ''Literature/DarkHeart'': Wyre claims to be pregnant by Raine after they have sex, so he feels duty-bound to marry her. It turns out she isn't and was just lying to manipulate him.
131* In ''Literature/DavidMeyerIsAMother'' the title character wants a child so badly that when his girlfriend refuses, he switches her birth control pills for baby aspirin and, when she finds out she is pregnant, manages to convince her to have the child with the assurance that he will be solely responsible for its care and upbringing.
132* ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'': Evelina plans to get pregnant by Marcus and rope him into marrying her or making her his mistress. She even gets him aroused with absinthe for this. It doesn't work due to him having an allergic reaction, but she has sex with another man instead and then plans to pass off any baby which results as his anyway for the same purpose. [[spoiler:It doesn't work since she didn't get pregnant.]]
133* Subverted in ''Literature/EgaliasDaughters'' - men are the ones responsible for oral contraception and have to earn a woman's approval to become social fathers to a child. There is a very tragic male character who works as a teacher, and one of the boys in his class is his biological son, with whom he had no contact prior to that.
134* In ''Literature/GoneWithTheWind'', the novel at least, Scarlett kicks herself for not thinking of this as a means of marrying Ashley after someone tells her about Rhett refusing to marry a girl he "ruined".
135* ''Literature/InterviewWithTheVampire'': Supernaturally invoked when Lestat changes Claudia [[UndeadChild into a vampire]] so Louis will not leave him -- if Louis leaves, Lestat will starve Claudia to madness.
136* ''Literature/JudeTheObscure'': Arabella, acting on the advice of her friends, uses this ploy to get Jude Fawley to marry her. It works but, oddly enough, she forgets about the baby till Jude reminds her months later. She just makes up a miscarriage and he believes her. At first. Though she's certainly not above doing it, it's a bit more ambiguous than that, since she tells her friends (to whom she has no reason to lie) that she genuinely thought herself pregnant. It gets weirder though when eight years later, [[spoiler:after they've divorced, she tells him that they did indeed have a child together, born after they were separated, and could he please look after the kid now?]]
137* In ''Literature/KillTimeOrDieTrying'', a girl claims to be pregnant with Kevin's child, and the group [[spoiler:plot to steal a sample of her urine for a home pregnancy test. Successfully.]].
138* In ''Literature/MoralityMeat'' by James Tiptree Jr., a woman gets pregnant because her boyfriend pokes holes in the condoms. She finds out about it after she heard him tell a friend to "keep his women a little bit pregnant". Classy.
139* In ''Literature/MyNextLifeAsAVillainessAllRoutesLeadToDoom'', this is very subtly implied to be Geordo's plans for his fiancee Catarina. He has directly proclaimed that the moment he can have Catarina alone long enough, he will "help himself to all of [her]" in order to create a "fait accompli" (aka, an act which cannot be undone). This greatly implies that his goal is to impregnate her as an InstantWinCondition against his rivals -- something that both Keith and Mary are well aware of, as both refuse to let Geordo be alone with Catarina for too long.
140* ''Literature/MySweetAudrina'' has Vera ''attempt'' to do this with Lamar Rensdale, so that he'll take her with him to New York, but she suffers a ConvenientMiscarriage shortly after announcing the pregnancy.
141* ''Literature/ParadesEnd'': in England before WWI, a beautiful but manipulative socialite tricks a wealthy aristocrat into marrying her when she discovers she's pregnant after having a quickie with him after a chance meeting on a train. Worst still the baby may not even be his due to the woman's promiscuous ways, though he does leave her for another woman he actually loves in the end.
142* In ''Literature/{{Rubbernecker}}'', the nurse Tracy Evans starts sleeping with Mr Deal, the husband of a comatose woman, and stops taking her birth control in order to trap him into a relationship. It works -- when Tracy tells Mr Deal she's pregnant, he turns one of his spare bedrooms into a nursery and buys a crib, toys, and baby clothes. Tracy hates the effect that pregnancy has on her figure, but she looks forward to quitting her job, and she's sure that once her daughter is born she'll lose the weight and enjoy life as a rich man's wife. [[spoiler:It's implied that before she gives birth, her husband kills her by [[StaircaseTumble pushing her down the stairs]], the way he tried to kill his first wife.]]
143* ''Literature/SalemsLot'': In a particularly dark example, Reggie Sawyer punishes his wife for her adultery by repeatedly beating and raping her...after flushing her birth control pills down the toilet. Reggie [[AssholeVictim richly earned]] the LaserGuidedKarma that he got later.
144* ''Literature/TheSchoolForGoodAndEvil'': The third book reveals [[spoiler:the main characters, Sophie and Agatha, are the result of this. Their mother Vanessa orchestrated a one-night stand with Stefan, the man she was obsessed with, so he would have to marry her. When she could only give birth to stillborns, Vanessa took a fertility potion and had twin girls, abandoning the ugly one but keeping the beautiful one to save her marriage. While Stefan stayed for his daughter's sake, like all Vanessa's past and future attempts, it failed to make him love his wife.]]
145* In ''Literature/TheSecretLoveChild'', the hero either sabotages the condom or simply chooses not to tell the heroine that it broke. Naturally, she gets pregnant. Naturally, they get together and it is All Very Romantic. Luckily she apparently really really wanted to have babies.
146* ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'': In the second book, [[spoiler:a girl that Kostos slept with does this in order to guilt him into marrying her.]] In the fourth book, it's revealed that [[spoiler:she faked the pregnancy.]]
147* ''Literature/SistersFound'' [[{{Deconstruction}} deals with the aftermath of a baby trap]], where one of the lead characters had been adopted for just this reason. When it wasn't enough for the adoptive father to stay, the adoptive mother became an alcoholic and resented the hell out of her daughter. To make things worse, said daughter later finds out [[spoiler:that she was the only one of identical triplets to be given up - one of the other two had a medical problem and the cost of hospital bills was such that it was either give up one child or lose them all when Social Services saw they couldn't support their family]]. Not surprisingly, she has ''major'' commitment/abandonment issues.
148* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': Mentioned at the beginning of the first book. Used by Drefan Rahl's mother with [[BigBad Darken Rahl]]. Her theory was that if she could give birth to a magically gifted child and heir, Darken Rahl would shower her with riches and status. When Drefan was born and found to be non-gifted, his mother [[OhCrap began to realize]] that her new son was now a liability and that her master plan was probably not the smartest thing she'd ever done. Before Darken Rahl found out about the child, she brought him to a remote monastery to be raised by monks and, in perpetual fear of the infinitely creative ways Darken Rahl would end her life if she were found, poisoned herself. [[spoiler:Drefan [[TurnOutLikeHisFather turned out like his father]].]]
149* Meggie essentially pulls this on Luke in ''Literature/TheThornBirds'', hoping that a pregnancy will make him leave the cane fields and settle down with her. It doesn't work at all--he's angry about it, given that he made it quite clear that he wanted to wait until they were financially secure before having children, and he doesn't change his behavior one bit.
150* In ''Literature/TroubledBlood'', from the ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'', Robin Ellacott's estranged husband Matthew has been dragging out their divorce but then suddenly abruptly agrees to her terms during mediation without even a bit of discussion. She learns from him afterwards that Sarah Shadlock, who he cheated on her with, is pregnant, and strongly suspects it to be an example of this trope. Whether or not it's really the case is left slightly ambiguous, though given what's been revealed of Shadlock's past history, it seems likely.
151* ''Literature/WhoIsThePrey'': Fu Shenxing ends up wanting to impregnate He Yan both in order to force her to stay with him, and out of a sick desire to have a life and family with her. He even denies her birth control pills at one point.
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155* ''Series/AllAmerican'': In the second season, Jordan is confronted by one of his past flings, Simone, who says that he knocked her up. It is later revealed that the baby is not Jordan's; Simone was impregnated by a JerkJock, who refused to take responsibility for it. Simone saw Jordan as the next best thing, which was why she went to him.
156* ''Series/AllMyChildren'':
157** An Li tries to pull this on Brian as she knows that their CitizenshipMarriage is ending now that she has her green card. While it works temporarily, friend Terrence browbeats her into admitting that she's lying, telling her that she is not the kind of cruel, deceitful person to pull a stunt like this.
158** Allie tries to pull this on Jake by not wearing her diaphragm. It backfired in two ways -- when he found it after they had sex and dumped her, angry at her attempt at pulling this trope, and when she failed to conceive.
159** Speaking of Jake, when ex-girlfriend Liza asks him to father her baby (the very reason that the jealous Allie tried to pull the above-mentioned stunt), her ex-husband Adam enlists Allie to switch Jake's sperm sample for his. Liza unwittingly ends up pregnant with Adam's baby and not until after they've remarried and she's given birth does she learn the truth. She's horrified and outright says that Adam raped her.
160** Kendall tries to pull this with Anton... and, of course, it doesn't work. He doesn't believe her for a second, given how diligent she was about taking the pill. She caves in pretty quickly and tells the truth once he drags her to the doctor, who needs to give her a full set of tests ''and'' a needle, but Kendall is AfraidOfNeedles and freaks out, admitting she's lying.
161** Taylor tries to pull this on Noah, but it fails--he leaves her for Julia anyway, even though he makes it clear that he's not abandoning her and the baby. She desperately seduces a friend of hers hoping that ''he'll'' get her pregnant and she can pass the baby off as Noah's, but she fails to conceive from that either and ultimately has to resort to lying that she miscarried.
162* An unusual version on ''Series/BigLove''. Despite already being married to Bill and having two children with him, Nikki claims she wants another baby, even though she doesn't. This is because she knows that Bill is technically fooling around with his first wife Barb (he's not supposed to sleep with her on nights designated for the other wives) and is desperate to secure some of his affection (Nikki is fully aware that out of his three wives, she's TheUnfavorite.)
163* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'':
164** A male version has Sly poking a hole in the condom so that he could "do the right thing" and marry his girlfriend Jessica -- and get his hands on her money. It fails when he was too drunk to complete the deed.
165** A variation when Sheila did not intentionally get pregnant and is genuinely shocked to learn that she is. But sure enough, she uses her pregnancy to successfully drive a wedge between the baby's father and his wife.
166* In an early episode of ''Series/{{Bones}},'' this is what got the victim killed. She was sleeping with a foreign diplomat's husband, who showered her with gifts until he got bored with it. Her mother advised her that he'd do the right thing, so she attempted to reseduce him. When that didn't work, she went after his son instead.
167* In ''Series/BlueMountainState'', a stalker named Ron, desperate to have a son to watch and play football with, along with being driven insane from having five daughters and no sons, steals a condom full of Alex's semen and threatens to impregnate one of his five daughters and make Alex his son-in-law if he doesn't keep dating said daughter. Alex and Thad manage to steal the condom back and to add insult to injury, Sammy impregnates the girl instead.
168* ''Series/BostonLegal'' came up with a pretty good if extremely far-fetched argument for a court-ordered abortion, possibly inspired by one of the real-life examples below. A woman gave her boyfriend oral sex (to which he "barely consented"), then spat the semen into a cup and used it to impregnate herself and didn't tell him until she knew it worked. The man argued that he was tricked into impregnating the woman, and additionally, it imposed a dilemma upon him, as he was known to be outspoken on the issue of absentee black fathers and would have to choose between being a hypocrite or help raise a baby he didn't want. The judge admitted that the case was compelling, but not quite enough to warrant the extreme measure of ordering the woman to undergo an abortion.
169* Played with in ''Series/Charmed1998.'' After Cole is possessed by the Source, the Seer leads him in impregnating Phoebe, as the child of the Source and a Charmed One will be a being of immense magical power, and if they can control the circumstances of the conception, that power will fall under the Evil alignment. She even provides him with a potion to supercharge Phoebe's fertility and "bypass any precautions she may have taken." And the pregnancy is a major factor in Phoebe's decision to remain loyal to Cole and (temporarily) become the Queen of Hell. But ultimately, the Seer wanted the baby for herself so that she could use it to legitimately claim the title of Source, and even though possessed-Cole willingly went along with the plan, his goal wasn't to manipulate Phoebe, only to have a child (albeit, an extremely powerful and evil one).
170* Another unusual version on ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', where the friend that Denise is planning a bridal shower for admits that she got pregnant on purpose, but not to make her boyfriend marry her, but so that their parents would allow them to (the couple was madly in love but both sets of parents were insisting that they wait to complete college before marrying).
171* Subverted in ''Series/{{Coupling}}'': Susan tells Steve, "don't worry about it" when he asks about whether they're using contraception. He later learns in an infertility specialist's office that unbeknownst to him, they've been "trying" for six months [[LawofInverseFertility without success]]. Of course, [[spoiler:Susan later discovers that she is pregnant, in what is debatable either playing it straight or a double subversion.]]
172* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' features this with Kat Adams, revealing she's pregnant with [[spoiler:Reid's]] child while playing mind games with him. There's been no sexual relationship, but he did have a blackout period after being drugged several months earlier, which is when she claims she had an accomplice... "get him in the mood." The paternity isn't technically proven, but the team determines the real father is a prison guard, since that would allow her to leverage him for months whereas she only needed to unsettle [[spoiler:Reid]] for a few hours.
173-->'''JJ:''' Here's the thing? Do we believe her or not? On the one hand, getting pregnant is straight out of the female psychopath's handbook...
174-->'''Prentiss:''' But on the other hand, that would mean she sent her lesbian lover down to Mexico to... ''[[{{Squick}} Ew.]]''
175* A variation in the ''Series/{{CSI}}'' episode "4x4". An aging non-prostitute tries to get herself pregnant [[spoiler:by a client who rejected her as too old, via some semen in one of his used condoms]]. This being CSI, it ends badly for her.
176* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' has a rare version where the man ''knew'' that he wasn't the father. After a teenage girl was raped, she only confided in her friend. When she learned she was pregnant, he claimed he was the father to spare her the humiliation of telling everyone what had happened to her. Desperate for some [=TLC=] after her ordeal, she began using the pregnancy to draw closer to him. When she miscarried after falling down, she blamed it on his girlfriend, putting the final nail in the coffin of their relationship, until she finally admits that she'd tripped on her own, rather than being shoved.
177* ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'': Anya tries to trap Sav with a pregnancy announcement, but she ends up telling him and taking the morning-after pill.
178* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'':
179** Orson ended up married to his first wife when she trapped him. Then after he divorced her and remarried, she raped him in order to get pregnant and trap him again.
180** Inverted in the case of Edie, who convinced Carlos to stay with her by promising she'd have a baby with him but continued secretly taking birth control.
181** For a bit of irony, before the incident with Edie, Carlos managed to get Gabrielle pregnant by sabotaging her birth control, then blaming it on his deceased mother. He wanted children, and she didn't. It ends badly for everyone involved.
182* This was the subject of a ''Series/DrPhil'' episode and one couple involved a man having sex with his wife ''while she was asleep'' to get her pregnant. In the same episode, another woman deliberately sabotaged/stopped taking her birth control so she'd get pregnant. Of course, in both cases, the doctor tore right into them.
183* In ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' Season Three episode "Mama's Baby, Carlton's Maybe" features a woman trying to do this to Carlton, [[spoiler:who's too embarrassed to admit he never actually slept with her and thus goes along with pretending the kid was his]].
184* Stacey attempts this in ''Series/GavinAndStacey''; they're already married, but were living a long distance apart, and she wanted him to move to Wales to live with her. To make it worse, she's been trying to get pregnant for a ''year'' without his knowledge.
185* Terri on ''Series/{{Glee}}'' discovers she's suffered a hysterical pregnancy and continues to lie to her husband about it in order to keep him. Meanwhile [[AlphaBitch Quinn]] discovers she's pregnant and lies to her boyfriend Finn by telling him it's his [[spoiler:when in actuality it's his best friend Puck's and she and Finn haven't even had sex. The two stories then merge when Terri contacts Quinn and tries to secretly take the baby.]] Needless to say, both relationships ended when the truth came out.
186* ''Series/TheGoodWife'': One of sleazy rich guy Colin Sweeney's ex-girlfriends sues him for child support, but he insists he always used condoms with her. Then the paternity test comes back ''positive''. David Lee theorizes, correctly, that she impregnated herself with a used condom... and Sweeney is so [[RefugeInAudacity impressed by her audacity]] that he settles the case and starts dating her again for the next couple seasons.
187* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', after Adalind gets pregnant with Sean Renard's child, she tries to pass it off as the child of Sean's half-brother Eric, the rightful son of the King, especially since she's currently sleeping with Eric in order to get in the Royals' good graces. After Eric's death, some of the Royals wonder who the real father is, but, in the end, it doesn't matter to them, since the child is still a Renard and has Royal blood. Later, after she finds out she's pregnant with [[spoiler:Nick]]'s baby, she tries to pass it off as Viktor's (Eric's cousin) child, despite the fact that they never had sex. Kenneth (another Royal) tells her, in a "by the way" manner, that Viktor is sterile.
188* ''Series/GuidingLight'' had Annie damaging her diaphragm rather than the condom. It backfired for the same reason -- husband Josh had told her he wanted to wait to have kids and her deception was the last straw. She miscarried and framed his ex Reva for manslaughter by making it look like she'd pushed her down the stairs.
189* In ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' season 2, Lily considers doing this to prevent Marshall from falling for Chloe. The alternative is called "Chloe's accident". When Lily leaves him, Marshall laments that he should have 'knocked her up when he had the chance'.
190* ''Series/JaneTheVirgin'': Petra planned to have a baby with her infertile-due-to-cancer husband's last sperm sample in order to save their marriage so [[GoldDigger she could get the money specified in their prenup]]. Unfortunately for her, her gynecologist and sister-in-law accidentally inseminate Jane instead. Later, [[spoiler:upon learning that there's ''another'' sperm sample after Rafael breaks up with her, Petra uses it to impregnate herself in what she admits is a ploy to get him back. This time the pregnancy takes.]]
191* In ''Series/LALaw'', a woman sues a rich Basketball player for child support. It was implied that she insisted that the man use the condom she provided when they had sex, and she had intentionally damaged the condom to produce a child, all for the money. When the man requested that she give him sole custody of the child, she got big 'money eyes' and quoted a price of five million dollars. The Basketball player's lawyers warned him that the agreement was non-enforceable, and she could well come back for more money in the future.
192* ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'':
193** In one episode, the wife sabotaged her husband's condoms and secretly gave him some fertility drugs to boost his sperm count in order to impregnate her boss. She did this because she had planned on blackmailing her boss at a later date into giving her some money so she could buy a farm and a horse.
194** Another episode was about a woman who got pregnant by her rich boyfriend. She chose to keep the baby despite the fact that she was aware the baby might have a potentially serious birth defect and even went out of her way to find a doctor who wouldn't run the relevant tests. Then, when her husband died and she wanted more money, she tried to sue the aforementioned doctor for malpractice for not running said tests.
195* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': An unusual male example occurs with a narcissistic man who pokes holes in condoms to force women to have his children. He's not particularly interested in staying in a relationship with any of these women, he just thinks the world would benefit from having lots of his offspring around. He personally thinks that he's a great father, as he financially supports all of them, but the mothers, naturally, don't. It finally ends badly for him, when one of the women he was trying to get pregnant decides to strike back.
196* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': Subverted when Claire gets pregnant [[ButWeUsedACondom despite being on the pill]]. At first, her boyfriend is supportive and convinces her to keep the baby. Once the reality of the situation hits him [[{{Jerkass}} he]] turns around and accuses her of lying about taking her birth control to get him to stay with her. Claire rightfully calls him out on his selective memory and after he leaves makes arrangements to have the child adopted.
197* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'': An inversion happens in one episode, an elderly Bundy relative dies and leaves all his money to the next Bundy to conceive a child. Hoping to cash in, Al persuades Peggy to try having another child but secretly takes birth control pills since she doesn't want more kids, and is just using the situation to have as much sex as she wants (the stress of which makes Al age prematurely).
198* There are times that some of the women on ''Series/{{Maury}}'' seem this way. Although, instead of convincing the man to marry them, they usually seem to just want to extract child support out of them, since more than a few basically say they want nothing to do with him except for a check every month.
199* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS24E1 The Devil's Work]]", Jordana Linsbury fakes a positive pregnancy test in an attempt to trick Francis Shirewell into marrying her. This being Midsomer, [[MurderIsTheBestSolution it ends very badly for her]].
200* A woman tries this in an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}''. In a twist, [[spoiler:she isn't actually pregnant, although her receptionist is. The woman used the receptionist's urine to get a positive pregnancy test for the trap. Regardless, it doesn't end well.]]
201* This happened to Mork on an episode of ''Series/MorkAndMindy''. The woman was trying to extort child-support hush money from Mork, and poor Mork was too naive to know that Earth women don't get pregnant if you don't have sex with them.
202* In ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Kelly tells Ryan she is pregnant to get him to agree to go out with her again. Immediate cut to Kelly silently shaking her head at the camera.
203-->'''Ryan:''' You lied about being pregnant.\
204'''Kelly:''' Right. So?\
205'''Ryan:''' You really don't understand why that might make me kind of angry?\
206'''Kelly:''' No!\
207'''Ryan:''' We are ''never'' getting back together.\
208'''Kelly:''' ''[whining]'' Why not?
209* ''Series/OneLifeToLive'' had Blair ensnaring Todd this way to get her hands on his money. Todd became suspicious after her ex-husband Asa warned him that Blair had pulled the same stunt on him and demanded that she take a pregnancy test. Much to her shock and relief, it was positive--Blair had in fact conceived at some point. But she was still found out months later when she miscarried and Todd realized she wasn't as far along as she should have been.
210* This happens more than once ''Series/PeakyBlinders'', first starting with [[spoiler: Grace]], who uses it as leverage so that [[spoiler: Tommy is forced to pick her over May and Lizzie after Grace cheats on her husband with Tommy and they are married in Season Three]], then happens ''again'' [[spoiler: with Lizzie in Season Four after she gets pregnant with Tommy's daughter. Like with Grace, he marries her shortly after.]]
211* Sophie, Mark's baby-desperate (ex?) wife on ''Series/PeepShow'' tries to trap Mark and/or his roommate Jez this way, although it was pretty clear that [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking having a baby]] was her first priority, not a romantic relationship with either of the guys.
212* ''Series/{{Reba}}'': In the episode "Locked and Loaded", Brock gets his vasectomy reversed, but decides not to tell Barbra Jean since he believes that [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter having another baby would help solve their marital problems.]] Reba forces Brock to tell Barbra Jean the truth. She doesn't react well at all and not only forces Brock to [[ExiledToTheCouch sleep on the couch]], but the two announce their separation the next day (fortunately, they ultimately stay together.)
213* ''Series/{{Revenge}}''
214** Victoria apparently faked a pregnancy to get Conrad to marry her and then faked a ConvenientMiscarriage to cover it up.
215** Emily later does the same thing when Daniel decides to call off the wedding because he realized that he was still in love with his ex-girlfriend. It shows how far into RevengeBeforeReason Emily has slipped. When Daniel finds out the truth, he takes it very badly [[spoiler:and shoots Emily]].
216* ''Series/SantaBarbara'''s Kirk Cranston successfully impregnated his rich wife Eden Capwell after replacing her birth control pills with placebos. He wanted his child to receive the largest share of the Capwell inheritance, and he also believed that through his child, he would become related to the Capwell family by blood.
217* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'':
218** Discussed in a ''Weekend Update'' bit with Creator/PeteDavidson back when he was engaged to Music/ArianaGrande. He's so afraid she's gonna leave him that he considers switching her birth control with sugar pills so she can't.
219** A Season 47 episode has Creator/JasonSudeikis as the Devil accuses Colin Jost of pulling the baby trap to stay with Scarlett Johansson, who was pregnant at the time.
220* ''Series/Scoundrels2010'': Cal doesn't think much when Nina Hong, the TrophyWife of his boss, decides to [[MrsRobinson seduce him]] and [[SleepingWithTheBosssWife have non-stop sex with him]] for a while (mostly because it's [[SexGoddess the best sex he's ever had]]). Later, he finds out Mr. Hong is actually infertile and Nina seduced him in order to get pregnant and pass Cal's child as Mr. Hong's, so she could secure her [[GoldDigger gold ticket as Mr. Hong's wife]]. Cal is horrified when he finds out and tries to convince her to get him to be a part of the child's life, but she laughs him off and makes it clear her husband ''will'' kill him if Cal ever exposes the truth.
221* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
222** Carla tries to do this with Turk. Later, she and Turk have an open and honest discussion in which they agree they both want to have kids ... after which he starts slipping her contraceptives when she's asleep.
223** This is completely inverted with Jordan, who actually lies to Perry and claims the baby isn't his, because they both have feelings for each other and she wants to make sure their relationship is based on real attraction rather than an obligation to do the right thing. They get together anyway, and he bonds with the baby before finding out he's the biological father.
224** Also inverted with Kim, who leaves the hospital and fakes a miscarriage rather than have J.D. feel trapped in a relationship. Then he finds out the truth and decides he wants to be with her, then he changes his mind but can't tell her, then he finally breaks off the relationship ''while she's giving birth''.
225* On ''Series/TheSecretLifeOfTheAmericanTeenager'', [[spoiler:Adrian plans to try this on Ben]] in an attempt to save their marriage since [[spoiler:they only got married because [[ShotgunWedding Adrian was pregnant]], and [[GriefInducedSplit their relationship started to deteriorate after their daughter was stillborn]]]]. Since things were great [[spoiler:when she was pregnant, she seems to think [[BabiesMakeEverythingBetter another baby will fix things]]]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:she gives up on the plan when her doctor talks her out of it]] and when [[spoiler:Ben finds out her plan, keeps rejecting her advances, and finally confronts her about it. Though it seems he was willing to go along with it and genuinely sad when she really "wanted out".]]
226* Early in ''Series/SingleFather'', Rita mentions to Sarah that she wants another baby and intends to have one without talking to her partner about it. Sarah expresses shock, but it's revealed at the end of the series that Sarah purposely got pregnant by Dave and didn't intend to tell him.
227* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', there's a male example in which [[spoiler:Lex Luthor]] does this to [[spoiler:Lana Lang]]. It's even more of a dick move than most because [[spoiler:the baby isn't real; he's been slipping her hormones to make her ''think'' she's pregnant, likely intending to play the ConvenientMiscarriage card on her after the wedding]].
228** Not to mention that the doctor who reveals this to [[spoiler:Lana]] accuses ''[[spoiler:her]]'' of trying this on ''[[spoiler:Lex]]''. Admittedly it would make more sense that way to an outsider...
229* Seska, of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', uses her pregnancy to manipulate both Chakotay and the Kazon Culluh, telling both of them the child was theirs in order to get what she wants. In Chakotay's case, the baby is used as bait for a ''literal'' trap, as she's counting on ''Voyager'' to come rescue him so that the Kazon can seize the ship. [[spoiler:It's Culluh's, and Seska's manipulations end when she's mortally wounded in an explosion, and Culluh escapes with his son.]]
230* In ''Series/{{Weeds}}'', there's a rare male case; [[spoiler:Silas Botwin]] does this to [[spoiler:Meghan]] to keep her from going away to college. Apparently, he thought this would lead to them becoming HappilyMarried. It does not go well.
231** Later, [[spoiler:Nancy]] does it to [[spoiler:Esteban]]. This was less about maintaining a relationship than self-defense against murder.
232* ''Series/TheYoungAndTheRestless'': Sharon technically does this to Nick even though they're actually very HappilyMarried. But she's insecure about the relationship (his mother dislikes her) and figures this is the best way to hang onto him. It pays off, as her mother-in-law finally warms up to her once news of the pregnancy gets out.
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236* [[Music/TupacShakur 2Pac]] references it in his song "Do for Love"
237-->Soon as I broke away and I'm feeling happy, you try to trap me,\
238You say you're pregnant and guess who's the daddy?
239* ''Dr. Dre 2001'' had a track with comedian Eddie Griffin ranting about this:
240-->''Tell the kid! "Mama was a ho. I was weak and pussy. I had you to keep the nigga. It didn't work out".''
241* Referenced in the early '70s song ''Stick-Up'' by Honey Cone:
242-->I'll set a tender trap,\
243He'll be unaware,\
244I'll wear a smile down the aisle,\
245'Cause he's the father of my child.
246* Music/MichaelJackson's "Music/BillieJean" is about this. Namely, all the "Billie Jeans" his older brothers had to deal with when they were together in the Jackson 5. The song is [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe ambiguous about whether the narrator really is the father]].
247* "Stupid Marriage" by Music/TheSpecials is a song about a young woman who does this:
248-->He wanted to be something but she knows he never will,\
249She's got him where she wanted and forgot to take her pill,\
250And he thinks that she'll be happy when she's hanging out the nappies\
251If that's a happy marriage I'd prefer to be '''unhappy'''.
252* Music/DieTotenHosen "Sekt oder Selters". Whereas it's somewhat disputable that the female was ''actively'' involved (could also be the usual irresponsibility of the male part), the rest of the trope is played straight as hell. ([[SarcasmMode The worst thing:]] no more binge drinking with his buddies.)
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256* Done many, ''many'' times. The most obvious recent one is Wrestling/{{Kane}} doing this to Wrestling/{{Lita}}, though he was as much trying to gain an heir for himself as to keep her around. Terri Runnels and Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon ({{kayfabe}}) each faked a pregnancy to try and trap Val Venis and Wrestling/TripleH, respectively. It didn't really end well for any of these examples.
257** Stephanie's false pregnancy was found out in a most ingenious way though - Linda discovered that Steph's "doctor" was actually some infomercial host, and showed Wrestling/TripleH the evidence a few minutes before the trap would have been sprung.
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261* In "Marry The Man Today" from ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls'', Sarah suggests this as one way to keep a husband from straying:
262-->'''Sarah:''' Have a baby.\
263'''Adelaide:''' Have two!\
264'''Sarah:''' Six!\
265'''Adelaide:''' Nine!\
266'''Sarah:''' Stop!
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270* This provides the motive for the murder in the VideoGame/CriminalCaseTheConspiracy case ''[[Recap/CriminalCaseTheConspiracyCase16BuzzKill Buzz Kill]]''. Beckett Blanton, the victim, was in a FriendsWithBenefits relationship with [[spoiler:his business partner Prisha Chandra.]] However, while she was fine with their relationship being like this, Beckett wanted them to be a couple. To accomplish this, he [[AssholeVictim swapped out her birth control with placebos]] to knock her up without her knowledge. This led to [[spoiler:Prisha]] knocking him into a set of beehives and killing him, [[AccidentalMurder albeit accidentally]].
271* In ''VideoGame/{{Delicious}}: Emily's Miracle of Life'', Mary-Lynn pulls this to try to get her boyfriend Andy to stay with her. It doesn't work, however the next installment, ''Emily's Moms vs. Dads'' has Andy attempting to win Mary-Lynn back after the baby is born.
272* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' plays this for laughs in one of the sidequests: A Nopon woman attempts to pull one of these... except she isn't actually pregnant, so she tries to use a badly-made doll in the place of a baby.
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276* In ''VisualNovel/{{Clannad}}'', in Kappei's path, [[spoiler:Kappei is borderline suicidal after learning his leg has to be amputated. His girlfriend Ryou, desperate to give him a reason to live, lies about being pregnant with his child. Kappei sees through it right away, though, since he and Ryou have never had sex (Ryou had somehow forgotten this minor detail when putting the plan together). Nonetheless, that she would go to such lengths impresses on him the fact that she truly loves him and would feel terrible if he died, so he begins to turn his attitude around.]]
277* In her Love Suite Event in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', Miu Iruma tries to invoke this on Shuichi Saihara, believing it is the only way to make sure that he would not abandon her too.
278* A self imposed example in ''VisualNovel/TheEdenOfGrisaia''. Unable to pick just one girl to commit himself to, Yuuji decides that he'll marry the first one that gets pregnant but doesn't tell them. However, four of the five use birth control. When they're finally told what's going on when the last girl does get pregnant, they ruin the plan by planning to get pregnant themselves.
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282* ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'':
283** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdG4JHlDt4Q Akamatsu]] falls into this while he was cheating on his fiancé Yuri with a hostess, Akane, [[spoiler: with the latter saying she was pregnant with his baby, forcing him to marry her instead.]]
284** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jYjCKRIHXA Yuzuriha]] [[spoiler: drugs Tokusa inside her house in an attempt to make him think that he impregnated her, in reality, she was already pregnant with Hiiragi's baby. Fortunately, Tokusa was able to run away from Yuzuriha's scheme, and also exposed her and Hiiragi to the campus and the latter's household.]]
285* ''WebAnimation/MangaTurtleMangame'': When [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GoqSpQSs0 Seiya]] refused to pay for Ren's abortion, she threatened to tell her parents that the baby was his. Though it later turned out that Ren wasn't even pregnant and it was just a ploy to get his money.
286* ''WebAnimation/MangaWaido'':
287** In this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnavgT1jcko video]], [[spoiler: Ai tries to fool Kota by claiming that she was pregnant with his baby, but he knew the baby wasn't his because he was infertile. Using this knowledge, Kota exposes Ai's affair in front of her father with a lot of evidence, causing her to be disowned.]]
288** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrjrALbg-jM Akira]] tells his pregnant lover to sleep with Kouichi to fool him into believing that the baby was his. Fortunately, the lover spills everything to Kouichi when he refused to sleep with her.
289* ''WebAnimation/MoniRobo'':
290** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwrZx5nHh9c "My wife cheated on me to make me jealous, and got pregnant…"]]: Sari blurted out she was pregnant while her husband Kei confronted her for her affair. She tried to reassure Kei that the baby was his, but he doesn't fall for it since he was infertile and divorces her.
291** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KCyrko-yg "After my wife kept denying to sleep with me, one day she begged to have my child…"]]: Yuko tries to sleep with her husband Tamanosuke to make him think that he was the father of the baby, which was conceived from her affair with Naoto, who she was initially hoping would marry her due to her pregnancy. Fortunately, Tamanosuke already knows about her affair and continues to refuse to sleep with her until she is confirmed to be pregnant via a pregnancy test, prompting him to divorce her.
292** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8QEw3m0NC4 "My boyfriend got my subordinate pregnant..."]] features a successful example of one; Manami got both Satsuki and her fiancé Takuya hammered so she could take the latter to a love hotel, sleep with him, and bear his child. Despite being forced to pay Satsuki's compensation fees, she got away with it for five years until Takuya found out via a DNA test that the child wasn't even his, which prompts him to divorce her.
293* ''WebAnimation/RefreshingStories'': In stories where Hiroshi's girlfriend/wife/fiancée becomes pregnant from an affair, she may try anything to trick Hiroshi into thinking it's his, but he eventually learns the truth before applying the corresponding punishment.
294** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m26flFJbXBA "A Sudden Pregnancy Report when I’m Actually… Infertile"]]: After Hiroshi saves her from an alleged throng of punks who wanted to "get" her, Mitsuko tells him that she became pregnant with twins at an online meeting and demanded more money than necessary for childcare. Moreover, she also had her dad next to her to corroborate it. However, Hiroshi suspected their claims as he was diagnosed with stress-caused infertility. At their next video meeting, Hiroshi questions their relationship and reveals he's infertile. Moreover, he also summoned the aforementioned punks, whom Mitsuko came at with the same lie.
295** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ny2JS0wHE "My wife was cheating on me but I decided to let her to see what she would do"]]: Ruriko cheats on Hiroshi with a playboy named Masaji Manabe. When she finds out she became pregnant with her lover's child, Manabe suggests she pretend it's Hiroshi's. However, her increasingly desperate attempts to make Hiroshi sleep with her fail because he already caught them on their first date. Eventually, Hiroshi calls his in-laws to collect both Ruriko and Manabe and have them both work several jobs to pay Hiroshi the damages.
296** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDvE2-XdroI "On my way back from a business trip, I ran into my wife in front of the ob-gyn…"]]: After Yaruko becomes pregnant with Akio's child, she plotted to trick Hiroshi into thinking it's his child. Months later at her appointment with the OB/GYN, Hiroshi returns early from his business trip and catches her on her way there. When Akio stumbles upon them, Hiroshi learns about the affair and confronts them.
297* ''WebAnimation/RevengeFilms'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5Gaj3MZsxA Rachel]] suggests Thea do this to the latter's boyfriend (who is the former's ex-boyfriend) in order to avoid being dumped. Thea tries to pull this at his workplace, which resulted in the man being let go. He tried to apply for work elsewhere only for the same to occur there too. Furthermore, he couldn't take it anymore and ran away.
298* ''WebAnimation/SparkTales'':
299** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9U1baQh2_U "Husband Leaves Infertile Wife for Sister: His Despair After Truth Revealed!"]]: After Lisa reveals Gideon's infertility, Mia and Noah back her up by revealing Audra slept with Gideon's father; the cheaters also knew it and tricked Gideon into thinking the baby was his.
300** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8bpivN99E8 Cheating Husband's Plan Foiled: Mistress's Secret Revealed!]]: Trenton's mistress and new wife, Nia, is revealed not only have cheated on Trenton and become pregnant with her lover's child but that she used her pregnancy to marry Trenton and leech off his family to live a lavish life with her lover. Moreover, it turns out Nia's pregnancy [[spoiler:was a lie she made up to marry Trenton more quickly]].
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304* ''Webcomic/HowToBeAWerewolf'': Flora tried to force her werewolf boyfriend to stay with her by letting her birth control spells lapse while lying to him about it. He didn't appreciate it, but still tried to get her to accept help from his pack, since otherwise the pregnancy would kill her due to the nature of her magic. Flora refused, and found a much [[LivingBattery more horrific solution]].
305* For a rare variant in ''WebComic/JoyceAndWalky'' it's the ''mother'' of the woman who pokes holes in her future son-in-law's condoms, because she's ''that'' [[IWantGrandkids desperate for grandchildren.]] [[spoiler:It's implied in a few timelines it ''works'', as the moment Walky discovers Carol poking holes, fifteen of the [[KidFromTheFuture kids from the future]] the Head Alien kidnapped disappeared.]]
306* In ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive,'' Faye once considers doing this to her son Davan and his then-girlfriend Branwen, because [[IWantGrandkids she wants grandkids]]. Her husband Fred is rather surprised, since ''she's'' usually the sane one in the family.
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310* [[http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sea/274495936.html This story]] tells of a man who had his girlfriend try this on him. Unfortunately for her, he had gotten a vasectomy and had the paperwork to prove it.
311* A favorite tactic of Creator/{{Laina}}'s [[ImageMacro "Overly Attached Girlfriend"]].
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315* Parodied in the ''WebVideo/FiveSecondFilms'' video "The One". A guy and a girl are about to do the deed, and she asks him if he's sure that she's the one for him. He reassures her, and is then shown poking holes in his condom while whispering that he's gonna ''make'' her "the one". Still quite creepy.
316* In one of WebVideo/ThomasSanders' "Siri's a bitch" Website/{{Vine}}s, she pulls this on him.
317-->'''Thomas:''' Siri, can you--\
318'''Siri:''' Thomas, I'm pregnant and it's yours.\
319'''Thomas:''' What?! You told me you were on the pill!\
320'''Siri:''' I lied.\
321'''Thomas:''' ''Gasp!''
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324[[folder:Western Animation]]
325* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': Stan and Francine once did this to ''another couple'', who they befriended without knowing the other couple were about ten years younger than them and found it impossible to keep up with their hard-drinking, active lifestyle. Rather than give up the friendship (knowing that the couple had previously drifted apart from their last friends for this same reason) Stan and Francine tried to slow them down by sabotaging their birth control, thinking that having a baby would make them just as exhausted. [[spoiler: It doesn't work, the couple almost divorces over it due to neither feeling ready to have a child and when Stan admits what they did, they stay together but never want to see the Smiths again]].
326* ''WesternAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'': Toast gets pregnant in order to force her residency with the father's family, although it's the baby's ''aunt'' she's trying to trap since she's obsessed with the aunt as her one-sided rival. The father seems totally fine with the situation and the only part that fazes him is his sister's furious reaction.
327* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
328** In an episode, Stewie pulls this on Brian in order to salvage their friendship. [[MisterSeahorse How he does this]] [[{{Squick}} is very disturbing]]. Ironically, he didn't even need to do this, as the reason it seemed they were drifting apart was because of a mutual misunderstanding (Brian seemed distant because he thought Stewie was moody, Stewie seemed moody because Brian was distant).
329** Played for laughs in one episode which revolved around Meg having a huge crush on a classmate who turned out to be gay. After the disastrous events of the episode, Brian tells her she'll find someone someday, by using this trope in college.
330--->'''Brian:''' All it takes is for one guy to make one drunk mistake, and you refusing to do what any sane woman would. You got him, Meg, you got him for life!\
331'''Meg:''' ''[sincerely]'' Thanks, Brian!
332* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'':
333** In an episode, Donna mentions on her blog that she wants a baby, then jokes that she might conveniently "forget" to take her birth control pill before a date.
334** In a separate episode, Bobby pranks Luanne by replacing her birth control with sweet tarts. The change was obvious but Luanne and Bobby's parents, tired of the pranking, convince Bobby that the birth control just stopped working, and she would immediately become pregnant, with him as the father, forcing him to "marry" her. But Hank and Peggy one-up them and get Luanne back as well for her involvement by tricking her into thinking that Bill is actually a priest and she really is married to Bobby.
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