1 | '''Basic Trope''': A woman who is capable of kicking ass and taking names despite being heavily pregnant. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Emperor Evulz has sent his {{Mooks}} to kidnap Rachel, who is eight months pregnant. Despite being outnumbered and physically disadvantaged, Rachel manages to dispatch several of them. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': |
4 | ** Rachel leads her forces into battle against Emperor Evulz's armies and storms his fortress while actually giving birth. |
5 | ** Emperor Evulz's forces are wiped out by an entire army of pregnant women. |
6 | ** Rachel is pregnant with quintuplets and yet can easily face off with [[PhysicalGod Evulz]] himself. |
7 | * '''Downplayed''': |
8 | ** Rachel is four months pregnant. She's also a badass. |
9 | ** Rachel is slightly physically handicapped by such things as morning sickness and not wanting to harm the baby, but still capable of holding her own in self-defense [[MamaBear or especially defense of the child.]] |
10 | ** Rachel recently gave birth, and is thus dealing with the aftermath of her pregnancy yet manages to fend off Evulz's assassin. |
11 | ** Rachel, though capable of holding her own if she must, is also accompanied by non-pregnant friends who'll help her. |
12 | * '''Justified''': |
13 | ** Considering that Rachel is nine months pregnant, Evulz's mooks believe that subduing her will be an easy matter. This lulls them into a false sense of security and they put their guard down, enabling Rachel to get the drop on them despite her physical disadvantage. |
14 | ** Rachel is prepared for Evulz's goons to track her down and has managed to secure herself in a hard-to-reach location that is advantageous to her. She is also heavily armed and capable of killing them before they get near her. |
15 | ** Rachel -- or the child she is carrying -- is supernaturally gifted, and is able to use these skills to defend herself even during pregnancy. |
16 | ** Rachel is from a telepathic race. Her brain isn't weakened by pregnacy. |
17 | ** Rachel is a BadassBookworm and a GuileHero. Being pregnant doesn't keep her from outwitting her enemies. |
18 | ** Rachel's baby is TheChosenOne. She is given powers to protect him while giving birth. |
19 | ** Rachel doesn't want a baby. In fact, she was going to get an abortion. So she is willing to put herself in the same dangerous situations as before even if it's harmful to the fetus. |
20 | ** Rachel has BizarreAlienBiology where being pregnant makes her stronger and enables her to thwart any dangers to herself or her unborn child. |
21 | ** Rachel is a MamaBear. |
22 | ** Rachel's pregnancy is actually unconventional, such as taking place in her soul, thus leaving her free of the normal hindrances. |
23 | ** Rachel is a RobotGirl and thus isn't physically weakened by her pregnancy. |
24 | ** Rachel is the Goddess of War & Childbirth, so being a pregnant warrior comes naturally to her. |
25 | ** Rachel is technically not pregnant herself, instead serving as a incubator. |
26 | ** [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies Rachel's]] "pregnancy" is just her holding onto her developing eggs until they're ready to lay. |
27 | ** Rachel is able to detach her soul from her own body, remotely using her meat puppet as if she wasn't even pregnant. |
28 | * '''Inverted''': |
29 | ** Rachel was a badass before she became pregnant, but turns into a complete DamselInDistress once she is. |
30 | ** Bob becomes a badass PapaWolf to his yet-to-be-born offspring after he impregnates Rachel. |
31 | ** Rachel is a complete wimp, ''[[GooGooGodlike the baby she’s pregnant with]]'' does all the asskicking. |
32 | * '''Subverted''': |
33 | ** Although Rachel puts up a brief struggle, she is easily subdued. |
34 | ** Rachel considers putting up a fight, but realizes the possible damage to her unborn child and is unwilling to risk it. She surrenders herself. |
35 | ** Rachel is perfectly willing to go down fighting in spite of being disadvantaged but the Mooks sent to get her are not heartless and ruthless monsters that would harm a pregnant woman and in spite of being perfectly able to take her they let her beat them up. |
36 | ** [[TheHeart Rac]][[DamselInDistress hel]] figures being pregnant would make her into a badass, however she just ends up getting hurt and beat instead. |
37 | * '''Doubly Subverted''': |
38 | ** Rachel feints giving up to allow her attackers to take her into custody without risking harm to herself or her baby; she escapes from their custody in an even more badass fashion than simply fighting them would have been. |
39 | ** However her maternal instincts ultimately drive her to train, [[TookALevelInBadass becoming]] a respectable and feared warrior despite being heavily pregnant. |
40 | * '''Parodied''': |
41 | ** Rachel's ability to easily kick the asses of the thugs she is surrounded with stems completely from her being pregnant in the first place, involves things such as her completely out-of-control hormones, the pent-up frustration resulting from the bad back and hemorrhoids that have been tormenting her for days, etc. |
42 | ** In a BlackComedy, she uses her unborn baby as a shield, using the extra tissue to block blows or even throws herself into the fight specifically to have an abortion. |
43 | ** She gives birth during the fight, and the baby immediately starts attacking mooks left and right. |
44 | ** Rachel, soundly on the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle from Evulz, asks to have sex with him as her LastRequest. [[AllMenArePerverts Evulz]] eagerly agreeing, the instant fertilization occurs Rachel completely flips the tables and has him dead to rights before he could even blink. |
45 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Rachel puts up a fight, but thinks better of it and surrenders herself, but then starts fighting again, but then becomes a weeping, panicking wreck. The confused Mooks theorize that her hormones are completely out of control, but it turns out that she's lulling them into a false state of security... |
46 | * '''Averted''': |
47 | ** Rachel in her current condition poses no realistic threat or possible resistance to the mooks. |
48 | ** Or Rachel isn't pregnant. |
49 | * '''Enforced''': Rachel's character is supposed to be an ActionGirl at the centre of the series, but Rachel [[RealLifeWritesThePlot discovered that she was pregnant halfway through the series]]. The writers decided to incorporate Rachel's pregnancy into the story and hope that WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief would get them through it rather than try to cover it up. |
50 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
51 | ** "I don't understand it! How the hell did a ''pregnant'' woman just about to drop manage to hand us ''all'' our asses?" |
52 | ** "You'll have to forgive me, I'm kicking ass for two now." |
53 | * '''Invoked''': |
54 | ** Despite being pregnant, Rachel has committed herself to being prepared to combat her enemies at any time. |
55 | ** Rachel is defending her own child, and her MamaBear instincts give her an edge. |
56 | ** Rachel deliberately becomes pregnant to ''become'' a badass. |
57 | * '''Exploited''': |
58 | ** Evulz causes Rachel to enter premature labor, forcing her to surrender to save her child. |
59 | ** Evulz impregnates his ''own'' female minions to make them a better match for Rachel. |
60 | ** Evulz specifically threatens Rachel's unborn child so she'll do as he says. |
61 | * '''Defied''': Evulz chooses a moment when Rachel's pregnancy is least likely to enable her to offer resistance to strike. |
62 | * '''Discussed''': "I still wouldn't get on the wrong side of Rachel -- pregnant or not, she could probably kick your ass any time." |
63 | * '''Conversed''': "Okay, I seriously doubt that Rachel is able to ''stand upright'' for longer than ten minutes at this point in the story, much less defeat Evulz's entire army." |
64 | * '''Implied''': Rachel, who maintains a regular diet and exercise routine, unusually seems to be gaining weight even as she becomes more active fighting Evulz's army. |
65 | * '''Deconstructed''': As soon as she dispatches the villains, Rachel grasps her stomach in pain; the exertion and damage she and her unborn child received during the fight triggers a miscarriage, which torments Rachel with grief and guilt and makes her a more vulnerable target. |
66 | * '''Reconstructed''': Given that the choice is between potentially losing the baby in a fight, and being kidnapped and likely killed, losing the baby anyway, Rachel makes extensive use of cover and defensive tactics to keep her and her baby safe, keeping a distance and using a ranged weapon. |
67 | * '''Played For Laughs''': Rachel [[ShrinkingViolet was formerly]] a meek woman, but upon becoming pregnant suddenly becomes a badass trash-talking curb-stomping engine of death and destruction. |
68 | * '''Played For Drama''': |
69 | ** Rachel is called out as callous and horrible by her friends & family for endangering her child, and even [[EvenEvilHasStandards Evulz]] is so appalled he tries to forcibly contain her instead of fight until she gives birth. |
70 | ** Rachel is overly reliant on pregnancy to keep herself a badass warrior, leading her to be consecutively pregnant and ending up dying because her body couldn't handle the strain. |
71 | ** Rachel, filled with hatred over being betrayed by her [[BigBadFriend boyfriend]] Evulz, goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, overcoming the downsides of pregnancy in the process. However, having neglected proper care for herself and child, she ends up prematurely giving birth to a disabled child. |
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73 | Be with you at PregnantBadass in a sec... Let me just elevate my legs... ''Surprise!'' ''[Roundhouse kick]'' |
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75 | %% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion: |
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77 | %%* '''Implied''': ??? |
78 | %%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ??? |
79 | %%* '''Played For Laughs''': ??? |
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