Basic Trope: A character gives birth offscreen by simply going to the hospital and coming back within a few minutes.
- Straight: Alice is about to have her baby, and disappears and comes back within 30 minutes.
- Exaggerated: Alice is gone for two seconds.
- Downplayed: Alice leaves and comes back in a few hours; a remarkably short time for someone to give birth, but not extremely unlikely.
- Justified: Alice is a being that can give birth in a remarkably short amount of time.
- Inverted:
- Alice leaves to give birth, and is gone for a whole of two days before finally coming back.
- Screaming Birth, where the details are shown onscreen.
- Subverted:
- Alice reveals that she actually wasn't pregnant - she was planning on adopting a baby instead.
- The time Alice took to give birth only seems short because of a Time Skip.
- Double Subverted: For the second subversion: It actually took a very short amount of time.
- Parodied: Alice outright says, "Oh yeah, I'm gonna go have my baby now. I'll be back in a few minutes."
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- Nobody gives birth.
- If someone does give birth, it takes a reasonable amount of time.
- Enforced: "Alice giving birth isn't very important to the plot, let's just have her leave for a few minutes and then come back with the baby."
- Lampshaded: "Well, that was quick."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why do characters take so short of a time to give birth?"
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