Basic Trope: A pregnant teenager gives birth (or at least goes into labor) at her high school prom.
- Straight: Alice goes into labor at the prom
- Exaggerated:
- Alice actually gives birth at the prom, then goes back to the dance floor as though nothing happened.
- Every girl going to prom is pregnant and ends up going into labor while they're there.
- Downplayed: The other prom-goers ignore the birth.
- Justified:
- Alice is experiencing a Surprise Pregnancy.
- Alice has been hiding her pregnancy.
- When teenage-girl drama at the prom gets real, Alice has a Maternity Crisis.
- Alice is due soon, but has been going to school and attempting to lead a normal life up until now.
- Inverted: Alice and Bob conceive a child on their prom night.
- Alice has her period on prom night.
- Subverted:
- Alice appears to be going into labor, but it's just Braxton-Hicks contractions.
- Alice makes it through the prom OK.
- Alice is in pain, but it's just gas.
- Alice became pregnant over the summer, but had an abortion, long before the prom in April.
- Although it is Prom Night, Alice isn't attending.
- Alice is pregnant at the prom, but she's only 6 months along.
- Double Subverted:
- She goes into labor for real later that night.
- But she goes into labor at the post-prom party.
- Except it turns out she actually had a miscarriage.
- She becomes pregnant again around Valentine's Day, and miscarries at the prom.
- She went into labor early that morning and went to the hospital, and gives birth while her friends are at the prom.
- She goes into labor prematurely.
- Parodied:
- Express Delivery
- All the girls in the class go into labor at once.
- Bob gives birth at the prom.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Alice is not pregnant, or at least doesn't give birth in-story.
- Enforced: Rule of Drama
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Alice conceives a child with Bob right around homecoming, and continues going to school and such, perhaps hiding her pregnancy.
- As strange as it sounds, Alice doesn't realize she's pregnant.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alice chooses not to go to the prom and/or has dropped out of school, due to bullying and Slut-Shaming.
- Alice has an abortion (or at least a miscarriage) early in the pregnancy.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A baby is found abandoned, and Alice has blood on her prom dress.
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