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'''Basic Trope''': Signs of pregnacy appearing in a rather overt manner.

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'''Basic Trope''': Signs of pregnacy pregnancy appearing in a rather overt manner.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Does no one think it's weird Alice is looks ready to pop for ''five months'' along?"

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* '''Lampshaded''': "Does no one think it's weird that Alice is looks ready to pop for ''five months'' along?"
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* '''Discussed''': Alice and Bob argue about when its okay to assumed a woman is pregnant, using their friends and family as examples.

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* '''Discussed''': Alice and Bob argue about when its okay to assumed assume a woman is pregnant, using their friends and family as examples.
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'''Basic Trope''': Signs of pregnacy appearing a rather overt manner.

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'''Basic Trope''': Signs of pregnacy appearing in a rather overt manner.



* '''Discussed''': Alice rants that about a movie with unrealistically large pregnant bellies, having been annoyed with how people misjudged how far along she was during previous pregnancies.
* '''Conversed''': Alice and Bob argue about when its okay to assumed a woman is pregnant, using their friends and family as examples.

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* '''Discussed''': '''Conversed''': Alice rants that about a movie with unrealistically large pregnant bellies, having been annoyed with how people misjudged how far along she was during previous pregnancies.
* '''Conversed''': '''Discussed''': Alice and Bob argue about when its okay to assumed a woman is pregnant, using their friends and family as examples.
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** The morning after sex, Alice's belly sells up as if she was pregnant for months.

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** The morning after sex, Alice's belly sells swells up as if she was pregnant for months.
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice enters most scenes struggling to fit through a door and knocking into people, bumb first.

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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice enters most scenes struggling to fit through a door and knocking into people, bumb bump first.

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* '''Parodied''': Alice appears hugely pregnant, babies visibly kicking, and she's staring in disbelief at a positive pregnancy test. Everyone else is likewise awestruck at the "news" despite Alice growing out of her clothes every scene.

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Alice appears hugely pregnant, babies visibly kicking, and she's staring in disbelief at a positive pregnancy test. Everyone else is likewise awestruck at the "news" despite Alice growing out of her clothes every scene.scene.
** The morning after sex, Alice's belly sells up as if she was pregnant for months.

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* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice's parents, invited over at the news of her pregnancy. While waiting for a response after pressing the doorbell, they wonder aloud when Alice will start showing. Alice opens the door on cue, visibly pregnant. Bob, Alice's gigantic husband ducks his head in and waves.



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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???

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* '''Exaggerated''': ???
Alice enters most scenes struggling to fit through a door and knocking into people, bumb first.
* '''Downplayed''': ???Alice is only slightly larger than average.



* '''Inverted''': By all accounts, Alice ''should'' be huge, but her belly is still almost flat.

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* '''Inverted''': '''Inverted''':
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By all accounts, Alice ''should'' be huge, but her belly is still almost flat.flat.
** HideYourPregnancy: Even Alice's actress is huge, but props, scenery, and cinematic slight of hand obscure her pregnancy.



* '''Averted''': ???



* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???

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* '''Lampshaded''': ???
"Does no one think it's weird Alice is looks ready to pop for ''five months'' along?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
Alice wanted the 'fullest' experience from pregnancy, so she took fertility pills and sends Bob on food errands at the slightest of cravings.
* '''Exploited''': ???
Alice figures society will bend over backwards for a pregnant woman, so she purposefully emphasizes her condition to milk the situation for all its worth. Pun intended.
* '''Defied''': ???
Alice comes from a long line of twins and triplets and avoids having kids because she refuses to be that big.
* '''Discussed''': ???
Alice rants that about a movie with unrealistically large pregnant bellies, having been annoyed with how people misjudged how far along she was during previous pregnancies.
* '''Conversed''': ???Alice and Bob argue about when its okay to assumed a woman is pregnant, using their friends and family as examples.



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* '''PlayedStraight''': The belly size, cravings, morning sickness, and moodswings all point to Alice being pregnant like blazing, neon signs.

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'''Basic Trope''': Signs of pregnacy appearing a rather overt manner.
* '''PlayedStraight''': '''Straight''': The belly size, cravings, morning sickness, and moodswings all point to Alice being pregnant like blazing, neon signs. signs.
* '''Exaggerated''': ???
* '''Downplayed''': ???



* '''Subverted''': Alice is [[PillowPregnancy faking]] as a ruse or to prank her boyfriend Bob.

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* '''Subverted''': '''Subverted''':
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Alice is [[PillowPregnancy faking]] as a ruse or to prank her boyfriend Bob.



** Alice is introduced in a funhouse mirror.
* '''DoubleSubverted''': Alice sports a huge belly, will eat anything, and goes from zero to crying at the drop of a pin. She "admits" its all a ruse, but eventually comes clean that she was expecting the entire time and didn't want to be doted on ''because'' of how obviously pregnant she was.

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** Alice is introduced in a funhouse mirror.
* '''DoubleSubverted''': '''Double Subverted''': Alice sports a huge belly, will eat anything, and goes from zero to crying at the drop of a pin. She "admits" its all a ruse, but eventually comes clean that she was expecting the entire time and didn't want to be doted on ''because'' of how obviously pregnant she was.



* '''Deconstructed''': Alice actually has to go to the hospital because her symptoms are that overblown. One of the many babies is endangered, Alice is admitted and put on bed-rest, and she is put on an IV drip to suppress her moodswings and cravings.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is taken to the doctor to be double-checked. She's given stern medical advice, and extensive treatment, but later uses her trying experience for hilarious anecdotes when someone mentions how big she's gotten and how weird she's been acting.
* '''ZigZagged''': Alice goes back and forth between saying she's faking and her symptoms proving otherwise until no one knows what to think anymore and question if she's actually expecting in the first place.

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* '''Deconstructed''': Alice actually has to go to the hospital because her symptoms are that overblown. One of the many babies is endangered, Alice is admitted and put on bed-rest, and she is put on an IV drip to suppress her moodswings and cravings.
* '''Reconstructed''': Alice is taken to the doctor to be double-checked. She's given stern medical advice, and extensive treatment, but later uses her trying experience for hilarious anecdotes when someone mentions how big she's gotten and how weird she's been acting.
* '''ZigZagged''':
'''Zig Zagged''': Alice goes back and forth between saying she's faking and her symptoms proving otherwise until no one knows what to think anymore and question if she's actually expecting in the first place.



** An incident with a pregnant belly prop is in the news leading up to the premiere. None of the actresses are protrayed as pregnant, at all, the entire show. Despite audience and media assumptions, the prop was for a completely different show.

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** An incident with a pregnant belly prop is in the news leading up to the premiere. None of the actresses are protrayed as pregnant, at all, the entire show. Despite audience and media assumptions, the prop was for a completely different show.* '''Averted''': ???



* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???



* '''LogicalExtreme''': Alice is from a planet where all women automatically become pregnant when they come of age, usually with multiples. When they come to term, the baby goes into suspended animation until the mother ''chooses'' to deliver. Most women on the planet choose to stay visibly pregnant than to bother raising children.
** Alice is ''literally'' the size of a house. The Ultrasound shows she's pregnant not only with multiples, but with ''more'' pregnant women.
* '''PlayedForLaughs''': A running gag has Alice and Bob meeting people; the people take one look at Alice and ask Bob "What '''are'''you?". Women back away as if its contagious.
* '''PlayedForDrama''': Alice has been impregnated by a malevolent force, whether it be an alien invasion force, a demon, or a rapist. Alice's symptoms serve as a grim reminder of what she went through, what she carries, and what is to come.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice joins a maternity club called "We're Not 'That' Big". The ''[=WNTB=]'' T-shirt doesn't even fit, as pointed out by a ''blind man''. The blind dude is never questioned because she's just ''that big''.
* '''Downplayed''': No one can look at the Alice without knowing she's pregnant. It's treated normally as it should be.
* '''GenderInverted''': Bob is [[MrSeahorse pregnant]] and can't hide it.

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* '''LogicalExtreme''': '''Deconstructed''': Alice actually has to go to the hospital because her symptoms are that overblown. One of the many babies is endangered, Alice is from a planet where all women automatically become pregnant when they come of age, usually with multiples. When they come admitted and put on bed-rest, and she is put on an IV drip to term, the baby goes into suspended animation until the mother ''chooses'' to deliver. Most women on the planet choose to stay visibly pregnant than to bother raising children.
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suppress her moodswings and cravings.
* '''Reconstructed''':
Alice is ''literally'' taken to the size of a house. The Ultrasound shows doctor to be double-checked. She's given stern medical advice, and extensive treatment, but later uses her trying experience for hilarious anecdotes when someone mentions how big she's pregnant not only with multiples, but with ''more'' pregnant women.
* '''PlayedForLaughs''': A running gag has Alice
gotten and Bob meeting people; the people take one look at Alice and ask Bob "What '''are'''you?". Women back away as if its contagious.
how weird she's been acting.
* '''PlayedForDrama''': '''Played For Drama''': Alice has been impregnated by a malevolent force, whether it be an alien invasion force, a demon, parasite, or a rapist.demon. Alice's symptoms serve as a grim reminder of what she went through, what she carries, and what is to come.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice joins a maternity club called "We're Not 'That' Big". The ''[=WNTB=]'' T-shirt doesn't even fit, as pointed out by a ''blind man''. The blind dude is never questioned because she's just ''that big''.
* '''Downplayed''': No one can look
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at the Alice without knowing she's pregnant. It's treated normally as it should be.
* '''GenderInverted''': Bob is [[MrSeahorse pregnant]] and can't hide it.
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*'''PlayedStraight''': The belly size, cravings, morning sickness, and moodswings all point to Alice being pregnant like blazing, neon signs.
*'''Justified''': Alice is having triplets and happens to be well overdue.
*'''Inverted''': By all accounts, Alice ''should'' be huge, but her belly is still almost flat.
*'''Subverted''': Alice is [[PillowPregnancy faking]] as a ruse or to prank her boyfriend Bob.
** Alice is actually going through a phantom pregnancy. She looks and acts the part, but isn't actually pregnant.
** Bob is dreaming or daydreaming and Alice snaps him out of it, revealing she's no bigger than expected for how far along she's supposed to be.
** Alice is introduced in a funhouse mirror.
*'''DoubleSubverted''': Alice sports a huge belly, will eat anything, and goes from zero to crying at the drop of a pin. She "admits" its all a ruse, but eventually comes clean that she was expecting the entire time and didn't want to be doted on ''because'' of how obviously pregnant she was.
*'''Parodied''': Alice appears hugely pregnant, babies visibly kicking, and she's staring in disbelief at a positive pregnancy test. Everyone else is likewise awestruck at the "news" despite Alice growing out of her clothes every scene.
*'''Deconstructed''': Alice actually has to go to the hospital because her symptoms are that overblown. One of the many babies is endangered, Alice is admitted and put on bed-rest, and she is put on an IV drip to suppress her moodswings and cravings.
*'''Reconstructed''': Alice is taken to the doctor to be double-checked. She's given stern medical advice, and extensive treatment, but later uses her trying experience for hilarious anecdotes when someone mentions how big she's gotten and how weird she's been acting.
*'''ZigZagged''': Alice goes back and forth between saying she's faking and her symptoms proving otherwise until no one knows what to think anymore and question if she's actually expecting in the first place.
*'''Averted''': Alice is showing exactly as much as expected.
**An incident with a pregnant belly prop is in the news leading up to the premiere. None of the actresses are protrayed as pregnant, at all, the entire show. Despite audience and media assumptions, the prop was for a completely different show.
*'''Enforced''': A producer thinks pregnancy is beautiful, cute, or funny, and demands the use of belly props on already pregnant acctresses.
*'''Implied''': Alice's pregnancy is joked about, but Alice never shows up in person.
*'''LogicalExtreme''': Alice is from a planet where all women automatically become pregnant when they come of age, usually with multiples. When they come to term, the baby goes into suspended animation until the mother ''chooses'' to deliver. Most women on the planet choose to stay visibly pregnant than to bother raising children.
** Alice is ''literally'' the size of a house. The Ultrasound shows she's pregnant not only with multiples, but with ''more'' pregnant women.
* '''PlayedForLaughs''': A running gag has Alice and Bob meeting people; the people take one look at Alice and ask Bob "What '''are'''you?". Women back away as if its contagious.
* '''PlayedForDrama''': Alice has been impregnated by a malevolent force, whether it be an alien invasion force, a demon, or a rapist. Alice's symptoms serve as a grim reminder of what she went through, what she carries, and what is to come.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice joins a maternity club called "We're Not 'That' Big". The ''[=WNTB=]'' T-shirt doesn't even fit, as pointed out by a ''blind man''. The blind dude is never questioned because she's just ''that big''.
* '''Downplayed''': No one can look at the Alice without knowing she's pregnant. It's treated normally as it should be.
* '''GenderInverted''': Bob is [[MrSeahorse pregnant]] and can't hide it.

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