Line #30 PlayingWith/ConvenientMiscarriage


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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