Basic Trope: A man offers to marry a woman to protect her honor.
- Straight: Alice is pregnant, so Bob proposes to her so she can avoid the inevitable Slut-Shaming that would occur if she weren't married.
- Exaggerated: Alice only kissed a man outside of wedlock, yet will still face rumors of Slut-Shaming if word gets out, so Bob proposes to her.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob were already engaged when she got pregnant, so they just move the wedding date up to avoid rumors from ruining Alice's reputation.
- Justified: The setting they live in sees the idea of sex before marriage as inexcusable. (Bob may additionally be doing it to Give the Baby a Father.)
- Inverted:
- Alice proposes to Bob when she gets pregnant, even though she knows he's not the father.
- Bob refuses to marry Alice, or vice versa, after she's become pregnant.
- Gender-Inverted: Bob is pregnant, so Alice proposes to him so he can avoid being considered dishonoured and tainted.
- Subverted: Bob proposes to Alice when she is pregnant outside of wedlock, yet had been planning to do so even if she weren't pregnant because he does genuinely love her. The pregnancy just happened to align with when he was planning to propose to her.
- Double Subverted: Bob was lying to spare her feelings.
- Parodied: Bob practices Polyamory and specifically marries hitherto single pregnant women.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob goes back and forth about marrying Alice.
- Averted: Bob never considers marrying Alice.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: Bob tells Carol and Charlie, "I married your mother because if I didn't, she would have been disgraced across town."
- Invoked: Bob intentionally gets Alice pregnant to force her to marry him.
- Exploited: Alice's relatives, figuring they have Bob under their collective thumbs now, get him to do all sorts of things for them, often in the least pleasant way possible.
- Defied: Alice rejects Bob's proposal because he's only doing it out of honor and not for love.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Alice and Bob don't truly love each other, and their marriage ends up being a miserable one that ends in their divorce.
- Reconstructed: By the time this happens, the town's gossip machine has moved on to other things, so Alice's honor is secure, and she lives a fine life with her child.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: Alice's child is a Child by Rape, and Alice was drugged so much she can't recall the night she was raped. If she gets an abortion, then people will still know she had sex out of wedlock and she'll still deal with Slut-Shaming from people who don't know the full context of her situation.
- Gender Flipped: Bob was raped and has his Child by Rape dumped on him. Alice being one of the few people to take his suffering seriously, marries him to prevent akward questions and the ensuing mockery
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