Basic Trope: A female (or, at least assigned female at birth) character getting worried over first periods.
- Straight: Alice gets her first period and is scared as to why there's blood coming out of her.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice suddenly gets her first period, assumes she's dying, and calls 911.
- All of the girls are scared of getting their periods.
- Downplayed:
- Alice hasn't gotten her period yet but is scared of the idea of it.
- Alice does know what a period is but is surprised to be getting it.
- Justified:
- Alice never received The Talk.
- Alice is somewhat unusually young to get her first period (such as 8-10), so it's understandable that she'd be confused as to why she got it so early.
- Alice finds the idea of bleeding from her private parts every month for a week extremely terrifying regardless.
- Alice has heard of how bad periods are and doesn't want to deal with it.
- Alice thought she was infertile.
- Alice bleeds High-Pressure Blood from her first period.
- Alice is hemophobic.
- Alice mistakenly believed she had blood in her urine.
- Alex is a transgender boy, and the idea of going through a phase of female puberty gives him gender dysphoria.
- Inverted: For some reason, Alice is excited to get her first period.
- Gender Inverted: Bob gets his first Raging Stiffie and is scared of the seminal fluid leaking out from it.
- Subverted:
- Alice is worried about her period but finds that it's not so bad.
- Alice thinks she had her period, but it was actually something else.
- Double Subverted:
- At least, that's how she feels about it the first time, thinking it's just a one-time thing. After finding out she's gonna have to go through that every month, she realizes This Is Gonna Suck.
- When she does actually get her first period, she's terrified, though.
- Parodied: Bob is a cisgender boy that is scared of getting his period.
- Zig-Zagged: Multiple kids get their periods; some don't mind it, others do.
- Averted: No Periods, Period
- Enforced:
- Based on the author's experiences.
- To teach the audience about periods.
- Lampshaded: "Everyone knows the first period is always the scariest."
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Before Alice actually gets her first period, she is told about periods so she'll be prepared for them.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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