Basic Trope: A pregnant woman ends up in a dangerous situation.
- Straight: Alice is six months pregnant and is kidnapped by a ruthless gang who threaten violence if she tries to escape and keep her in unsanitary conditions.
- Exaggerated: Alice is due to give birth any day now and is seriously injured in the crossfire of a shoot-out between her rescuers and the kidnappers...and then her waters break.
- Downplayed:
- Alice is only a few weeks pregnant and neither she or her kidnappers realise this until after she's rescued.
- Alice trips over whilst pregnant and sprains her ankle.
- Justified:
- The kidnappers are members of a cult who believe Alice's unborn child will be their Dark Messiah; they kidnapped her to take her baby.
- Alice's husband owes the kidnappers money, and knowing that his wife and unborn child are one of the things he truly cares about, they kidnapped Alice to put pressure on him.
- Inverted: Whilst pregnant, Alice kidnaps and threatens someone.
- Subverted:
- Alice turns out to be a Pregnant Badass who quickly manages to fight off and escape her kidnappers.
- Alice lied about her pregnancy to try and gain sympathy from her captors, hoping they wouldn't harm a pregnant woman.
- Double Subverted: During her escape, Alice is wounded and must find a hospital quickly to save herself and her unborn child, whilst avoiding her kidnappers.
- Parodied: Whilst pregnant, Alice gets a papercut and her husband freaks out, bundles her into a blanket and drives her to the nearest hospital.
- Averted:
- Alice isn't pregnant.
- Alice has a perfectly safe, normal pregnancy.
- Enforced: "If we have the villains kidnap Alice whilst she's pregnant, it'll be much more dramatic because Women Are Delicate and Children Are Innocent. It'll also show how evil and ruthless the villains are!"
- Lampshaded:???
- Exploited: Alice uses her pregnancy to guilt-trip one of her kidnappers into releasing her.
- Defied: "We can't kidnap a pregnant lady! That would make us some kind of monsters!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: The shock of being kidnapped and kept in such unsanitary conditions causes Alice to suffer a miscarriage.
