Basic Trope: A character asks their spouse or significant other to procreate.
- Straight: Alice and Bob are in their late thirties or early forties and have three children at home. Alice wants to have another baby while she still can, but Bob doesn't.
- 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 doesn't even want one child.
- Downplayed:
- Alice and Bob have ten children. Alice thinks it would be nice to have another, but knows that Bob doesn't want to, and so says nothing.
- Sometimes Alice wishes that she had one more child, but usually, she doesn't.
- Justified:
- My Biological Clock Is Ticking
- They have three boys. Alice always wanted a little girl.
- Inverted:
- Bob wants to abandon their children, but Alice wants to keep them.
- Both Alice and Bob want a baby, but their friends don't want them to have one.
- Subverted:
- Alice decides she doesn't want another baby after all.
- It turns out that Bob does want a baby, but knows that he and Alice can't afford one.
- Double Subverted:
- She's using Reverse Psychology.
- Bob changes his mind, throwing caution into the wind.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted:
- All couples are happy with their family situations.
- All characters in the work are single.
- Enforced: Rule of Drama
- Lampshaded: "Look, Alice. I'm not going to give you another baby. No means no!"
- Invoked: Bob vows not to have sex with Alice no matter what she thinks.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- 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 takes a baby off someone else's doorstep.
- Alice has an affair with Charles, and tells Bob that she was raped.
- Discussed: "Are you sure you don't mind having another baby, Bob?" "No, of course I don't. Anything for you, my love."
- Conversed: "Give it up, Alice! Bob's not going to crack. He doesn't want another baby, and you should understand that."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice divorces Bob.
- Alice rapes Bob.
- Reconstructed:
- Bob is happier after the divorce, because no one is pestering him to have sex.
- Alice has a Convenient Miscarriage, but still wants a baby.
- Played For Laughs:
- Alice and Bob have been in a Sexless Marriage for the past five years. As a Running Gag, Alice asks Bob if tonight is the night they will finally have sex. Bob invariably replies, "Not tonight, honey."
- 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.
- Played For Drama:
- Alice murders Bob because he refuses to crack.
- Alice is Driven to Suicide because Bob won't have another baby.
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