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1'''Basic Trope''': A character asks their spouse or significant other to procreate.
2* '''Straight''': AliceAndBob are in their late thirties or early forties and have three children at home. Alice wants to have another baby [[MyBiologicalClockIsTicking while she still can]], but Bob doesn't.
3* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob are in their early twenties and only started dating recently. They both want to marry, but have very different plans for the future: Alice wants to have a large family, but Bob [[ChildHater doesn't even want one child]].
4* '''Downplayed''':
5** AliceAndBob have ten children. Alice thinks it would be nice to have another, but knows that Bob doesn't want to, and so says nothing.
6** Sometimes Alice wishes that she had one more child, but usually, she doesn't.
7* '''Justified''':
8** MyBiologicalClockIsTicking
9** They have three boys. Alice always wanted a little girl.
10* '''Inverted''':
11** Bob wants to [[ParentalAbandonment abandon their children]], but Alice wants to keep them.
12** Both Alice and Bob want a baby, but their friends don't want them to have one.
13* '''Subverted''':
14** Alice decides she doesn't want another baby after all.
15** It turns out that Bob ''does'' want a baby, but knows that he and Alice can't afford one.
16* '''Double Subverted''':
17** She's using ReversePsychology.
18** Bob changes his mind, throwing caution into the wind.
19* '''Parodied''': ???
20* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
21* '''Averted''':
22** All couples are happy with their family situations.
23** All characters in the work are single.
24* '''Enforced''': RuleOfDrama
25* '''Lampshaded''': "Look, Alice. I'm not going to give you another baby. No means no!"
26* '''Invoked''': Bob vows not to have sex with Alice no matter what she thinks.
27* '''Exploited''': ???
28* '''Defied''':
29** Knowing that Bob won't give her a baby, Alice decides to adopt one; she either claims that she's single so she doesn't need Bob's input, or just [[DoorstopBaby takes a baby off someone else's doorstep]].
30** [[ChocolateBaby Alice has an affair with Charles, and tells Bob that she was raped.]]
31* '''Discussed''': "Are you sure you don't mind having another baby, Bob?" "No, of course I don't. [[HappilyMarried Anything for you, my love.]]"
32* '''Conversed''': "Give it up, Alice! Bob's not going to crack. He doesn't want another baby, and you should understand that."
33* '''Deconstructed''':
34** Alice divorces Bob.
35** Alice {{rape|AsDrama}}s Bob.
36* '''Reconstructed''':
37** Bob is happier after the divorce, because no one is pestering him to have sex.
38** Alice has a ConvenientMiscarriage, but still wants a baby.
39* '''Played For Laughs''':
40** AliceAndBob have been in a SexlessMarriage for the past five years. As a RunningGag, Alice asks Bob if tonight is the night they will finally have sex. Bob invariably replies, "[[CatchPhrase Not tonight, honey.]]"
41** Bob is so dead set against having a baby that he refuses to even partake in solo masturbation, for fear that Alice will secretly inseminate herself with his sperm.
42* '''Played For Drama''':
43** Alice [[DisproportionateRetribution murders Bob because he refuses to crack]].
44** Alice is DrivenToSuicide because Bob won't have another baby.
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