Babies Make Everything Better: Difference between revisions

* Played utterly straight in ''[[Elf Quest]]''. Even when the characters ''really'' didn't want a child (as is the case with Dewshine and Tyldak), the baby is still treated as a small miracle. Later on in the comic, Dewshine is seen absolutely beside herself with joy because her lifemate, Scouter, has made another girl pregnant. Several healers, including Leetah and Rain, have made it practically their life's work to increase the tribe's fertility. Leetah's sister Shenshen is one of her village's most respected members because she's a midwife. Lord Voll forces an entire tribe to bend to his will just so he can see the chief's children; later Winnowill, the [[Big Bad]], uses one of the kids both as [[Human Shield]] against the tribe and as motivation for her human pets, who understood elves to be basically sterile. Nonna and Adar, two humans, lead lonely and meaningless lives because they're barren, and are only shown to be truly happy once they've adopted three young orphans. Krim is willing to sacrifice her own life during the war until she finds out she's pregnant. Tyleet adopts a human baby who gets abandoned by his parents. And so on and so forth. The in-story justification for this, at least for the elves, is that elves have long lives and extremely low fertility, so every birth is celebrated no matter how strange the circumstances. As a further touch, almost every elven birth is caused by Recognition, a magical way to ensure that the child is specially gifted as a consequence of that particular genetic union. Of course, none of this stuff explains why the trope is implied to the relatively primitive humans present in the setting.

* An undercurrent in the general Fables storyline. When Snow White and Bigby's seven children are born, it's treated as a miracle amongst the Fables community. As revealed in ''Peter and Max'', {{spoiler|the wicked [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin|Max Piper]] made all Earth-based Fables sterile during his revenge on his brother in the 1920's}}. The only other birth, Beast and Beauty's recent newborn, is celebrated while shrouded in omens (Frau Totenkinder knits a baby outfit with six limbs). Abortion is forbidden, {{spoiler|though Frau Totenkinder owns a chain of abortion clinics to keep her magic powers fully fueled.}}

 

 

* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'': Once [[Cousin Oliver|Poof]] was born, this trope started appearing. His very laughter causes good things to happen, and in "Wishology" {{spoiler|his smile turns The Darkness into The Kindness}}. Poof is also literally ''magical'' and the first of his kind born in thousands of years.

* Completely averted in ''[[American Dad]].'' Stan and Francine meet a young, wild couple who just want to have fun partying and doing extreme activities, stating that they don't want kids for years. When Stan and Francine can't keep up with their lifestyle, they mess with their birth control, which causes the wife to become pregnant. This ends with the couple divorcing and breaking things off with Stan and Francine.

 

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