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** The inflatable 'stork' merely symbolizes the baby's arrival.
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** Storks don't actually deliver babies, but are still associated with pregnancy/childbirth.[[note]]This is actually how many modern depictions of this trope are. In fact, this is actually the reason Vlasic brand of pickles has a stork as its mascot, due to pickles being a common WackyCraving.[[/note]]
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** Storks don't actually deliver babies, but are still associated with pregnancy/childbirth.[[note]]This is actually how many modern depictions of this trope are. In fact, this is actually the reason Vlasic brand of pickles has a stork as its mascot, due to pickles being a common WackyCraving.{{Wacky Craving|s}}.[[/note]]
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** The stork that carried the baby misses it deeply while not having many years left to live.
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** The stork comes with a package instead.
** The blanket carried by the stork is empty.
** A ''pelican'' is carrying the baby.
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** ...but the baby is in the package.
** The stork comes with a package instead.
** The blanket carried by the stork is empty.
** A ''pelican'' is carrying the baby.
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** The stork comes with a package, but the package has a baby, and the baby is a doll, but it turns out to be a baby wearing a doll's head.
** Storks are associated with incarnation in general, not just birth or death.
** The stork comes with a package, but the package has a baby, and the baby is a doll, but it turns out to be a baby wearing a doll's head.
** Storks are associated with incarnation in general, not just birth or death.
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"Look honey, the stork just came with our baby!"
* '''Invoked''':???The couple calls the stork.
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* '''Defied''': ???Someone cancels the stork's delivery.
* '''Implied''': The couple's first child sees a white bird in the distance, and the couple shows their baby.
* '''Deconstructed''': Delivering babies this way would be a risky job, as you have to watch out for hunters and not drop the baby too soon.
* '''Reconstructed''': Hunting storks is completely illegal, and a secret organisation shows the storks how to fly safely while giving them directions.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The delivered baby ''dances'' when the stork comes.
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** The baby has to live with permanent injury after the stork drops it a few feet too high.
** The [[BigBad antagonist]] is a notorious stork hunter, and the storks have to defeat him somehow.
* '''Played for Horror''': The baby dies brutally when the stork drops it in the air, then the stork is shredded to bits by an airplane. ''Or both.''
* '''Deconstructed''': Delivering babies this way would be a risky job, as you have to watch out for hunters and not drop the baby too soon.
* '''Reconstructed''': Hunting storks is completely illegal, and a secret organisation shows the storks how to fly safely while giving them directions.
* '''Played for Laughs''': The delivered baby ''dances'' when the stork comes.
* '''Played for Drama''':
** The baby has to live with permanent injury after the stork drops it a few feet too high.
** The [[BigBad antagonist]] is a notorious stork hunter, and the storks have to defeat him somehow.
* '''Played for Horror''': The baby dies brutally when the stork drops it in the air, then the stork is shredded to bits by an airplane. ''Or both.''
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'''Basic Trope''': A stork brings babies.
* '''Straight''': A stork delivers a baby to a couple.
* '''Exaggerated''': Storks bring babies to ''anything'' that can reproduce.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Storks don't actually deliver babies, but are still associated with pregnancy/childbirth.[[note]]This is actually how many modern depictions of this trope are. In fact, this is actually the reason Vlasic brand of pickles has a stork as its mascot, due to pickles being a common WackyCraving.[[/note]]
** The couple does actually go through the right process of baby-making, though a stork eventually brings a baby to them.
* '''Justified''': The storks work somewhere that creates babies and brings them to people.
* '''Inverted''':
** CirclingVultures: Birds associated with death rather than birth.
** A stork kidnaps a baby.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''':
** A stork arrives at a woman's house, only to announce that [[BestialityIsDepraved they're going to make the baby together]].
** A FunnyAnimal stork works in a maternity/delivery ward.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Nobody ever gives birth in any way.
** Anyone who does give birth does so realistically, or in another way.
* '''Enforced''': "We need these characters to have a kid, but this is a work aimed at families, so we can't have them actually have sex or give birth. GRatedSex wouldn't work, how about we just have the stork deliver the baby instead?"
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': Because storks bring babies to people, even couples that are unable to reproduce (such as same-sex couples or infertile people) can have their own children.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': "Where do babies come from?" "Often, a stork brings them."
* '''Conversed''': "Why is it storks that are associated with bringing babies? Why not any other bird?"
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* '''Straight''': A stork delivers a baby to a couple.
* '''Exaggerated''': Storks bring babies to ''anything'' that can reproduce.
* '''Downplayed''':
** Storks don't actually deliver babies, but are still associated with pregnancy/childbirth.[[note]]This is actually how many modern depictions of this trope are. In fact, this is actually the reason Vlasic brand of pickles has a stork as its mascot, due to pickles being a common WackyCraving.[[/note]]
** The couple does actually go through the right process of baby-making, though a stork eventually brings a baby to them.
* '''Justified''': The storks work somewhere that creates babies and brings them to people.
* '''Inverted''':
** CirclingVultures: Birds associated with death rather than birth.
** A stork kidnaps a baby.
* '''Subverted''': ???
* '''Double Subverted''': ???
* '''Parodied''':
** A stork arrives at a woman's house, only to announce that [[BestialityIsDepraved they're going to make the baby together]].
** A FunnyAnimal stork works in a maternity/delivery ward.
* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Nobody ever gives birth in any way.
** Anyone who does give birth does so realistically, or in another way.
* '''Enforced''': "We need these characters to have a kid, but this is a work aimed at families, so we can't have them actually have sex or give birth. GRatedSex wouldn't work, how about we just have the stork deliver the baby instead?"
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': Because storks bring babies to people, even couples that are unable to reproduce (such as same-sex couples or infertile people) can have their own children.
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': "Where do babies come from?" "Often, a stork brings them."
* '''Conversed''': "Why is it storks that are associated with bringing babies? Why not any other bird?"
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