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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