1 | '''Basic Trope''': A pregnancy ends in miscarriage in order to avoid changing the plot too much. |
2 | * '''Straight''': Alice is pregnant, but in a later episode she has a miscarriage. |
3 | * '''Exaggerated''': Alice gets pregnant several times over the course of the series, always resulting in miscarriage. |
4 | * '''Downplayed''': |
5 | ** Alice gives birth to a healthy baby, but immediately puts it up for adoption. The baby is never seen or mentioned again. |
6 | ** Alice gives birth to a healthy baby, but it [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse inexplicably vanishes]] [[ResetButton before the next episode.]] |
7 | ** Alice gives birth to a deformed baby that dies almost immediately. |
8 | ** Alice is sad that she miscarried, but her [[JerkAss friends are thankful.]] |
9 | * '''Justified''': Alice has a rare condition that makes it harder for her to give birth successfully. |
10 | * '''Inverted''': |
11 | ** Alice does not want a baby, and deliberately exposes herself to several conditions that would make it ''much'' more likely for her to miscarry. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a healthy baby. |
12 | ** [[LawOfInverseFertility Alice's miscarriage is inconvenient to both the plot and the characters.]] |
13 | * '''Subverted''': |
14 | ** Alice always miscarries early on (possibly as a RunningGag) except this time. |
15 | ** Alice is pregnant for the second half of one season. In the next season's premiere, Alice is shown with a baby. |
16 | ** The baby dies...oh, wait, no, correction, the baby [[DisneyDeath Disney dies]]. Welcome to the show, little Faye. |
17 | * '''Double Subverted''': |
18 | ** Alice has a stillbirth at thirty-six weeks. |
19 | ** The baby is Alice's niece or nephew. |
20 | * '''Parodied''': |
21 | ** Alice gives birth to a healthy baby, but suddenly [[StatusQuoIsGod the Status Quo God]] enters the hospital room and uses a BoltOfDivineRetribution to [[BlackComedy kill the baby]] against Alice's will. |
22 | ** A scene mirrors a reveal scene for this trope in a previous work, but ends with a healthy birth instead of a miscarriage. |
23 | * '''Zig Zagged''': Alice is pregnant for the second half of one season. In the next season's premiere, Alice is shown with a baby. The baby is revealed to be Alice's niece or nephew, but it is later revealed that Alice carried the baby ... as a surrogate for her sister, Carol. |
24 | * '''Averted''': |
25 | ** Alice gives birth to a healthy baby. |
26 | ** There is no pregnancy storyline. |
27 | ** Alice thinks she might be pregnant but then finds out that she isn't. |
28 | * '''Enforced''': |
29 | ** Adding a baby to the show's cast would alter the plot too much, but the writers still want to use pregnancy for dramatic effect. [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion And for obvious reasons, an abortion would cause network troubles.]] |
30 | ** Denise is pregnant while playing Alice, but the writers can't easily add a baby to the cast and writing Alice out of the series for several months isn't a option either. Instead of [[TheOtherDarrin recasting Emma as Alice]] or trying to [[HideYourPregnancy disguise Denise's condition by dressing Alice in loose clothing]], they keep Denise and say Alice became pregnant. It is stated that Alice (the character) miscarried after the baby is born in RealLife. |
31 | ** Alternatively, Denise was pregnant and this was {{written in|Infirmity}}to the show, but ''she'' miscarried and [[RealLifeWritesThePlot they had to account for her belly being its normal size prematurely.]] |
32 | ** The original plan was to add the baby to the cast. However, [[ExecutiveMeddling the producers]] decide to have Alice miscarry for dramatic effect. |
33 | * '''Lampshaded''': |
34 | ** "It's a good thing you miscarried, Alice. If you had a baby to look after, you couldn't hang out with [[JerkAss us.]]" |
35 | ** [[Webcomic/CtrlAltDel "Is this loss?"]] |
36 | * '''Invoked''': Alice knows that she always miscarries due to her rare condition, but continues to get pregnant anyway, possibly hoping she'll get lucky and give birth to a live baby. |
37 | * '''Exploited''': Charles TheCasanova, doesn't want to find a DoorstopBaby at his house, so he only has sex with women who always miscarry (like Alice) or who are sterile. |
38 | * '''Defied''': |
39 | ** Alice refuses to have sex, for fear that she will miscarry again. |
40 | ** Alice gets sterilized. |
41 | * '''Discussed''': "So Alice is pregnant, is she? Odds are it'll end in a ConvenientMiscarriage." |
42 | * '''Conversed''': "Why do pregnancies on TV always end in miscarriage?" "I assume it's to avoid changing the plot. The MoralGuardians would pitch a major fit if they wrote about an abortion, you know." |
43 | * '''Implied''': Alice gains weight over the course of one season of the show, but then suddenly loses it, and there is no sign of a baby at her house. |
44 | * '''Deconstructed''': |
45 | ** No matter how many times Alice insists that she miscarried, everyone assumes she had an abortion. [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion She becomes an outcast.]] |
46 | ** Alice is [[TruthInTelevision severely traumatised by her miscarriage, and falls into depression over the death of her child.]] |
47 | * '''Reconstructed''': |
48 | ** Bob convinces everyone in town that Alice did not have an abortion. |
49 | ** Alice gets over it by whatever means or circumstance. |
50 | * '''Played for Laughs''': [[BlackComedy Alice has a dark sense of humor about her own miscarriage:]] [[GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion ("I didn't terminate my pregnancy.]] [[StatusQuoIsGod God did.")]] |
51 | * '''Played for Drama''': Alice dies [[DeathByChildbirth giving birth to her stillborn]], and Bob is DrivenToSuicide over her death. |
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