Line #5 YMMV/ChickTracts


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2	* AccidentalAesop:
3	** "[[http://www.angelfire.com/on/3angels/lisa.html Lisa]]": Viewing pornography and a breakdown in one's marriage leads to molesting children, among other things--or vice-versa. Also that raping a child, infecting her with an incurable STD, and allowing your neighbor to do the same is perfectly acceptable so long as you become a very certain type of fundamentalist Christian afterwards (hell, you wont even face any real world punishment), whereas not being a very certain type of fundamentalist Christian gets you thrown into hell even if you were a good person in life.
4	* AccidentalInnuendo:
5	** "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp But you have been trapped in a dungeon of bondage.]]"
6	** His site, chick.com, which probably gets quite a few hits from people looking for [[TheInternetIsForPorn porn]].[[note]]Althought this might be intentional.[[/note]]
7	** [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1032/1032_01.asp "Bad boys had mean plans for Betsy's kitty."]]
8	** From "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0022/0022_01.asp The Assignment]]":
9	--->'''Mr. Bishop''': Come on Cathy, share it with me.
10	--->'''Cathy''': Remember now -- you asked for it -- you'd better sit down, Mr. Bishop!
11	** [[https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5001/5001_01.asp "Hey computer man...Check out my dinosaur."]]
12	** Bob Williams [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5019/5019_01.asp?FROM=bibleseries says to one of his former Sunday School students]], "Back in those days you were such a tender boy." Not helped by that grin on his face.
13	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
14	** Ms. Henn is a {{Troll}}. Either she's deliberately tormenting Li'l Susy by bringing up topics she knows will be a BerserkButton for Susy, or she's secretly a fundamentalist Christian who's using PoesLaw to indoctrinate her students by making progressive secularists look like [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses]], and Susy is her shill who promotes the message she ''really'' wants the kids to get.
15	*** Susy has been interpreted as a impressionable orphan who's being warped by her grandfather's extreme religious views.
16	** Chick does this for other people's work. In "Humbug", he portrays [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Bob Cratchit]] as an Evangelical Christian.
17	** In "The Last Generation," are Bobby's parents right about his teachers having "ruined" him, or [[NeverMyFault are they trying to avoid taking responsibility for the person he's become]]?
18	* {{Anvilicious}}: A deliberate hallmark of his tracts. For example, to make sure you're aware certain characters are evil, he'll sometimes draw invisible demons hanging around them.
19	* ArchivePanic: There's more than 250 tracts.
20	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Certainly not from Chick himself, but Fred Carter's Bible story tracts look amazing.
21	* CanonDefilement: ''[[https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0092/0092_01.asp Humbug!]]'' is Jack Chick's adaption of Literature/AChristmasCarol. Needless to say, people weren’t happy with Chick rewriting it to back up his own evangelical craziness.
22	* ConfirmationBias: The tracts have been particularly criticized in how while they're intended to convert people to the author's version of Christianity (more often than not believing that the type of EasyEvangelism seen in the tracts [[WrongGenreSavvy actually works]]), most of the time they're used to preach to the choir. As if that wasn't enough, most of the non-Bible sources cited come from books also published by Chick Publications.
23	* CrossesTheLineTwice: The tracts often end up doing this unintentionally. For example the Grim Reaper's hilariously inappropriate "Hi there!". The "Dark Dungeons" movie is doing this ''quite'' intentionally. The theatrical trailer ends with the reveal that tabletop games aren't the product of Satan as Chick claims. No they're the product of ''[[RefugeInAudacity Cthulhu]]''.
24	* DesignatedHero: The way God is portrayed in the tracts does not come across as unimpeachably benevolent to all readers, though that is certainly what the author intends. Some even think that GodIsEvil in the tracts.
25	* DesignatedVillain: Numerous antagonists. Chick seems to believe that not being Christian automatically makes you a {{Jerkass}}, at least in private (which, when you think about it, [[BrokenAesop kind of flies in the face]] of the "faith not works" message). A good example is Dr. Westhall in "Reverend Wonderful," whose only "crime" is preaching that all religions should live in peace and who ''immediately'' does an about-face to a "HAW HAW HAW"-ing douche when the protagonist of the comic tries to convert him.
26	** The Pope is depicted in more than one chick tract as a very unappealing man who is claimed to be creating mass deceit in the world.
27	* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The tracts fall prey to this quite heavily.
28	** The notorious "Dark Dungeons" made roleplaying out to be an exciting life-or-death scenario that introduced real occultism and gave players fabulous supernatural powers that they can use to [[MindControl brainwash]] their parents into buying them stuff. [[MisaimedFandom More than a few roleplayers love the tract]] and it has been parodied and affectionately referred to in innumerable ways among the subculture. The tract has become so famous that a live-action movie was funded on kickstarter. [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/295102457/rpgs-are-evil-dark-dungeons-the-movie "Dark Dungeons: The Movie!"]] seems to have gotten most of its backers from the gaming community.
29	** In his anti-Catholic tracts, Chick shows very little downside to being one of those dastardly Papists, since they seem to have nothing but crazy sex parties and oodles of cash, and be secretly running the world. [[DraggedOffToHell Well, except that they end up burning in Hell forever, of course...]]
30	** Depending on the tracts, he'll even make the devils funny or sufficiently clever to provide comic relief (sometimes they're actually adorable cuddly-looking imps), which makes anyone who wins against them seem like a bit of a killjoy. Who wouldn't want to have help from a demon like Bruth from ''[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0064/0064_01.asp?Store=True&C=C The Poor Little Witch]]'', who can make your enemies look like fools and talks like a schmoozy Hollywood agent?
31	--->'''Bruth''': Gotcha, baby!
32	** Halloween is another Satanic thing, so he fully expects children to read tracts about how a holiday that involves dressing up and carving pumpkins and abstain from such a heinous holiday. One tract shows a bunch of "bad" people partaking in a huge Halloween party in a rented cabin, which looks like a ton of fun (barring the cat sacrifice at the end), while the "good" kid sits quietly in his house, praying to God and apparently having the most boring evening ever.
33	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
34	** Fang, a bizarre pet that seems to be a cross between a dog, cat, fox and rabbit, and continually makes background appearances. It's the sabre teeth and a saw-tail. And being the only character who never speaks.
35	** The Grim Reaper. "Hi there!" [[FridgeBrilliance This could be completely intentional, since the personification of death in traditional Christianity is an angel of God doing His will.]]
36	** The costumed new age healer from "The Last Generation" tract who became popular thanks to ''WebVideo/TheBibleReloaded'' giving him a name (Harold Penisman) and an expanded characterization that's just hilarious.
37	** Stinky, the little devil from the halloween-themed tract of the same name, is well liked by the ironic fans for being a UglyCute IneffectualSympatheticVillain
38	* EsotericHappyEnding:
39	** The tracts very frequently end with the death of one or several of the protagonists, so that a "judgment after death" scene can occur. This means that sometimes, protagonists die in cruel or painful ways, but due to the fact that they go to heaven, the tract treats it as a happy, even joyful ending (seen in, e.g. "Somebody Loves Me", "Hard Times" and "Bewitched?"). Special mention to "The Little Sneak", where the eponymous bad boy undergoes a HeelFaceTurn by 'accepting Jesus' -- then is struck by lightning and goes to Heaven; next, without any further explanation, his parents die too -- so the family is happily reunited in Heaven. The End.
40	** Even the people who live after their conversion may have lingering emotional scars, and there's often a fair amount of [[EasilyForgiven undeserved forgiveness]] and [[KarmaHoudini avoiding punishment]] in the name of turning the other cheek. And the tracts welcome the end of days, in which the true believers are whisked away to heaven while the majority suffer, die and go to hell.
41	* {{Glurge}}: Oceans and oceans worth! "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0006/0006_01.asp Somebody Loves Me]]" is the de facto example, though.
42	* SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}: Believe it or not, Chick actually managed to produce a rather touching tract, namely "[[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1060/1060_01.asp It's Not Your Fault]]," a story about genuinely overcoming adversity through finding faith, and containing no racism, conspiracy theories, or ranting about how TheEndIsNigh of any kind. It remains SoBadItsGood due to the ridiculous art and sheer {{glurge}} factor (seven-year-olds hanging themselves?), however.
43	* HilariousInHindsight:
44	** [[http://enterthejabberwock.com/pics/chick/bewitched/0045_06.gif The]] [[http://enterthejabberwock.com/pics/chick/bewitched/0045_09.gif demons]] in "Bewitched?" look eerily similar to [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/spiritedaway/images/c/c8/No-Face.png/revision/latest?cb=20120724115624 No-Face]] from ''Anime/SpiritedAway'', which was released a year after the tract.
45	** [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1080/1080_01.asp The Last Surprise]], coming from Chick Tracts, gets more hilarious when eventually the title was used as a catchy battle theme for ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' where the climax battle involves [[spoiler:the protagonist summoning their equivalent of Satan to shoot the equivalent of God in the face with a bullet.]] Jack [[Memes/{{Persona 5}} would never see it coming]], seeing that he died shortly after the game was released in Japan and it took the next year until the game was released at his home country.
46	** [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1041/1041_01.asp "Moving On Up!"]] includes the line "[[Music/KanyeWest I am]] [[Film/JennifersBody a god!]]"
47	** The name of the dark-haired teenage heroine who saved the world from the [[TheAntichrist vampire Antichrist]] in the "First Bite" tract is [[Characters/BuffyverseFaithLehane Faith]].
48	** The mother taking her son's place on the gallows in "The Execution" resembles a twist in ''Literature/HarryPotter''--a twist that's more complicated but that makes more sense than the one in the Chick tract. In the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire fourth]] ''Potter'' book, a Death Eater's mother is revealed to have taken his place in [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] after she and her son used a {{humanshifting}} potion to switch places. The mother drank the potion regularly until death and was buried under the guise of her son, while the son left prison (though his father confined him to their home for over a decade afterward).
49	* HoYay: Jim and Tim, "The Crusaders," from Chick's full-length comics are a pair of [[ManlyGay beefy]] PlatonicLifePartners with a fondness for tight t-shirts and calling each other things like "bright-eyes." In discussions over whether or not Chick is a [[PoesLaw Poe]], these two tend to be brought up.
50	** Female example: There is some chemistry between Holly and Samantha, the attractive young witches in [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5012/5012_01.asp "The Nervous Witch"]]. Sam tells her mother that she hates surprises (apparently because they interrupt their secret magic sessions together), and even appears jealous when Holly flirts with Mr. Williams.
51	--->'''Holly''': Get that robe off, Samantha.[[note]]For context, Samantha's wearing a short-sleeved T-shirt and overalls under the robe, but still...[[/note]]
52	* IronWoobie: The woman in the hijab from "Faithful". She converted to Christianity, and even converts her friend April. Unfortunately, at the end of the track, she is beaten by some Muslims that want to "teach her another lesson". She forgives them, of course, it's still disturbing that this happened at least once before.
53	* JerkassWoobie: Bruce in "Fallen." Granted, he's abrasive to others and displays indications of being an UngratefulBastard at times, but since the tract focuses on him getting his comeuppance rather than what he did to deserve it, his suffering can seem unfair. He also decides to wait to consider accepting Jesus, instead of rejecting Him outright, and ends up going to Hell merely for waiting.
54	* KarmicOverkill: The stories often feature {{Designated Villain}}s who end up in {{Hell}} for just being jerks but the most infamous instance is "Flight 144" where a humanitarian couple is sentenced to eternal damnation for [[HardWorkHardlyWorks trusting their good works more than Jesus' sacrifice]].
55	* MemeticMutation:
56	** [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sandwich-chef Sandwich Chef]][[labelnote:Explanation]]An edited panel from [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0076/0076_01.asp "Hi There"]] which alters the dialogue of a StrawAtheist soldier complaining about the sandwich his wife made him. The edit has the soldier (misconstrued as a chef due to the way his helmet gets cut off by the panel) proclaim that he's holding an "ass sandwich" that consists of [[ToiletHumour "ass and poo."]] Consequently, his angry expression instead reads as immense passion for his scatological meal. The silliness of the edit made it a popular exploitable, with people editing the soldier's dialogue in various ways.[[/labelnote]]
57	%%** "HAW HAW HAW!", which doesn't really represent laughter very well, but nonetheless appears in almost every opportunity.
58	%%** "'''[[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zRh0f9tF950/Spp5uA6AHRI/AAAAAAAAAaA/dFo3EkE2nWQ/s400/chick_moon_god_tract.JPG Moon god?]]'''"
59	** [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ClcHGYgUkAAMk8K.jpg This edited tract]] that replaces Jesus's dialogue with the text (which originates from the infamous Blog/{{Dril}} Twitter account) "blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin" (sic) is commonly brought up on Tumblr.
60	** Edits of [[http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/211/681/b1b.jpg this panel]] (from [[https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0039/0039_01.asp "Charlie's Ants]]) are the basis of the [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/most-people-rejected-his-message "most people rejected his message"]] meme.
61	** On Website/{{Twitter}}, the page [[https://twitter.com/No_Context_JTC "No Context Chick Tracts" (@No_Context_JTC)]] compiles screenshots of ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; pannels of Chick Tracts without context. Scroll through their pinned thread for a good laugh. Or, hear the Website/{{YouTube}}r [=DreadAnon=] do voiceovers of their posts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujUqkZLCBnw here]]!
62	* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales:
63	** A lot of religious skeptics (y'know, some of Chick's favorite targets of criticism) enjoy these tracts just for the sheer hilarious {{Narm}}.
64	** "Dark Dungeons" is also popular among tabletop gamers for the same reason.
65	** Some conservative Christians who [[StopBeingStereotypical have issues with the theology that's being preached within the strips]] still find the tracts entertaining because of the {{Narm}} in them.
66	* MisaimedFandom: Chick tracts are intended to be passed on indefinitely, but most people who pick them up (and don't throw them away) ''keep'' them. Many people actually collect them. Then there are the people who think [[PoesLaw the tracts are parodies]].
67	** The "Dark Dungeons" tract is very popular among role-playing gamers, and on gaming message boards it's not uncommon for people to make jokes about Black Leaf and "real magic."
68	** The tracts in general have a surprising and almost definitely unintended fandom among atheists and religious skeptics because of their [[NarmCharm hilarious campiness]] and bizarre theology.
69	* MusicToInvadePolandTo: The ''Deutschlandlied'' is performed by Neo-Nazis in "Holocaust".
70	* {{Narm}}: Heck, there's so many that Jack Chick ended up [[Narm/ChickTracts getting his own page]].
71	* OneSceneWonder: The Grim Reaper, who was popular enough that he got a cameo in a later tract and is probably the only Chick Tract character [[EnsembleDarkhorse that everyone actually likes]].
72	* SeasonalRot: As Hannah and Jake from ''WebVideo/TheBibleReloaded'' pointed out in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDOJr9mYZo&t=134s reading of "I See You,"]] one of the first tracts written and published after Jack Chick's passing, if you can believe it, the tracts are actually going ''down'' in quality. If you look at that tract for what it is, it's exactly what the Chick Tracts are, boiled down to their base elements; a message that you should be worried about being judged by God, to the point of being paranoid about not being in His good graces, images to reinforce the words, and narration that spells it all out to the readers. It's not even entertainingly bad like a lot of the ones that came before it, it's just what you expect instead of a story using InsaneTrollLogic to try to convince you to follow Christianity and its god. It's just so forced with the NightmareFuel that it ceases to be entertaining in its insanity at the very least.
73	* SpiritualAdaptation: Given its {{Western}} setting, [[OffModel wonky art]] (like most tracts.), and skewed morality (again, like most tracts.), "Gunslinger" is probably the closest thing to a comic adaptation of ''VideoGame/TheTownWithNoName.'' "Terrible Tom" even sounds like the name the outlaws you'd fight.
74	* SoBadItsGood: All of them. Every last one. Cheesy writing, worse art, {{Double Standard}}s and cringeworthy stereotypes abound, and yet it's impossible to look away. The number of blogs dedicated to ripping these things apart is literally in the double digits, and general consensus among them is that "Dark Dungeons" is the "best" of the lot.
75	** Dark Dungeons is so beloved in the RPG community that [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/295102457/rpgs-are-evil-dark-dungeons-the-movie "Dark Dungeons: The Movie!"]] is primarily funded by role-players.
76	* StrawmanHasAPoint: In [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0003/0003_01.asp "Somebody Goofed"]] as well as the "edited for black audiences" version [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1108/1108_01.asp "Oops!"]], a man named Bobby overdoses on speed and as his friends and family are gathered around, a Christian shows up to tell them all about how Bobby is burning in Hell right now. When another man shows up to stop him we're supposed to side with the Christian. Of course, whether the Christian is right or not, moments after the death of a loved one is usually not the best time to preach to people (let alone say he's suffering eternal damnation for his choices), making the other man totally justified in trying to shut him up. Less justified, but still understandable is when he [[IllKillYou physically assaults the Christian]].
77	** The construction workers in [[https://www.chick.com/products/tract?stk=0076 "Hi There!"]] talk about many reasons someone might not believe the validity of the Bible, such as it contradicting itself sometimes, many of its preachers obsessing over money instead of the gospel or their fellow man, and using scare tactics to try and get you to join (while being no less sinful or even more so than the average layman), and insisting that only THEIR denomination or church will keep you out of Hell. This being a Chick Tract, of course, God turns out to be real, but none of these points are addressed or refuted in any way by the comic itself.
78	* TearJerker:
79	** Everything Jimmy goes through in "Unloved?" His parents hate him for apparently no given reason, he's constantly compared to his [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter sister]] and that's just his childhood. [[TruthInTelevision The worst part is that abusive families like this exist in real life]].
80	** While this is not even once brought up in ''No Fear?'', the thought of having your best friend/loved one burning in Hell can be a ''very'' difficult thing to comprehend for both Christians and non-Christians.
81	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Unlike the typical UnintentionallyUnsympathetic preachy Chick hero, Faith from "First Bite" is a cheerful, likable [[TheIngenue Ingenue]]. It's too bad he never brought her back.
82	* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The EasyRoadToHell, along with the general idiocy of people in his setting, can provoke this feeling in many readers.
83	* UglyCute: Demons in general are portrayed as crankily incompetent [[CardCarryingVillain Card-Carrying Villains]] who look like grotesque Muppets. The gay demons in [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp "Birds and the Bees"]], though, cross the line from goofy and non-threatening to downright adorable. Seriously, look at [[http://media.chick.com/tractimages52764/1052/1052_04.gif panel six]].
84	** The demon befriending David in "Wounded Children" is downright handsome. Possibly too much so, as this is one tract that has since been recalled by Chick himself.
85	** [[EnsembleDarkhorse Fang.]]
86	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Most of Chick's "villains" and jerkasses are a lot more understandable than Chick probably meant them to be, since they tend to speak out against things like bigotry, insensitivity, and raging fundamentalism. This leads the heroes to have [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic the opposite problem]].
87	** Esau. The tracts involving the story of him and Jacob seem to imply that he deserves God's hatred for not valuing his birthright enough, and [[LeonineContract trading it for food when he was (possibly literally) starving]]. The fact that Jacob tricked their father into giving him a blessing and later reconciled with him when he was older don't seem to deter Chick from using them as parallels to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
88	** It's weird how well Satan comes off in the banned 'Wounded Children' Tract, considering he's ''The Devil''. Instead of being evil to the degree you'd expect, he comes off as a guy who fully accepts the main character of the Tract, David, as being gay when even ''his family'' wouldn't and encourages him to embrace who he is, even being his wingman when he goes to a gay bar. Then he gives David actually useful advice to take it slowly with understanding himself and his journey to accept his being gay. Sure, it's apparently Satan who put him on the track to being gay, but afterwards he actually legitimately tries to help David be gay in a time when that wasn't socially accepted. The tract, instead of being entirely about blaming homosexuality on Satan, comes off more like it's encouraging people to hate gays just because they're gay and influenced by Satan rather than any legitimate reasons. David himself comes off as a {{Woobie}} because he's not a bad person, he's just a guy trying to understand who he is and why. The tract even, most likely unintentionally, says being gay isn't a person's choice when it shows David struggling to be happy with himself before he accepts his homosexuality. Sure, he's influenced by Satan at most, but it's not a choice he would've made on his own.
89	** "The Nervous Witch" attempts to portray Holly as a hardened, demonic occultist, but she just comes off, as one blogger put it, as [[PokeThePoodle "The lamest Satanist ever."]] More likely, she's just a confused (and perhaps [[LesYay closeted]]) EmoTeen who's a bit of a DramaQueen. Chick liked her enough to bring her back in [[https://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5017/5017_01.asp "Gladys"]] (not that things ended well for her, though).
90	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
91	** The recurring [[EasyEvangelism Easy Evangelist]] CreatorsPet characters, Bob Williams and Li'l Susy, both come off as smug, patronizing know-it-alls, even though we're supposed to view them as pure, uncorrupted truth-tellers. Chick makes it even worse by putting them up against a StrawCharacter.
92	** As mentioned under StrawmanHasAPoint, the Christian who witnesses to people after a man's death through overdosing is supposed to be seen as trying to save people from hell, but comes off as callous and insensitive.
93	* ValuesDissonance:
94	** The extreme fundamentalist rhetoric clashes with many people harder than a fly clashes with the windshield of a car on a highway. Including the vast majority of Christians, as they typically don't hate everyone. Even those who do hate the tracts.
95	** In [[http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0070/0070_01.asp The Traitor]], an in-universe example comes up when the Hindu priest Ramu asks the Christian protagonist about how powerful Jesus is, asking about traits such as how many heads he has, what weapon he uses and the sacrifices he demands. ({{A\|rsonMurderAndJaywalking}}lso, the whole tract is an incredibly transparent ripoff of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.)
96	* TheWoobie: Quite a few of them, in fact.
97	** The protagonists of "Unloved", "Somebody Loves Me", "Hard Times", "Lisa", and "The Poor Little Witch" -- to name a few. Also, the various characters who end up being tossed into hell could be considered unintentional examples of this trope.[[note]]That said, it may not be completely unintentional-- the readers may well be supposed to feel sorry for the damned because they gave up their chance at salvation.[[/note]]
98	** The couple from "Flight 144" who spent 50 years of their lives improving those of thousands of people in Africa, who get tossed into hell because they [[HardWorkHardlyWorks trusted their ministry works more than they did Christ's sacrifice]].
99	** Juan from "Fat Cats". A WideEyedIdealist in a Latin American dictatorship, he joins a Communist revolutionary, believing the man will help him and his people, ignoring his father-in-laws warnings that the revolutionary is a snake. [[spoiler: Then, after the dictator is toppled, Juan learns that revolutionary's adviser murdered his family, and then the same adviser manipulates the revolutionary into murdering Juan. Once he dies, he is told by God he will rot in hell, rather then rejoin his family in heaven.]] ''Sheesh''...
100	** Ashley in "Baby Talk". Her family doesn't give a rat's ass about her and make her sleep on the couch once her brother's wife claims it for herself, her boyfriend dumps her after learning she's pregnant, and ends up nearly forced to get an abortion by her family when she's unsure what to do. [[spoiler: It does end happy for her, since her boyfriend does come back and they make up.]]

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