39,327
edits
Surprise Pregnancy: Difference between revisions
m
Mass update links
m (Mass update links) |
m (Mass update links) |
||
Line 9:
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' -- Kunio Murai's [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]] didn't realize the implications of her sudden weight gain at first.
* In ''[[Kodomo no Omocha]]'' Sana's biological [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]] mom Keiko actually didn't know she was preggers ''until she gave birth''. Somewhat more understandable in the manga, where Sana's birth happened when Keiko was 14 (she's still very young in the anime, but not THAT much), and it's strongly implied she's also a [[Child
* This happens to Shigeru in ''[[Akkan Baby]]'', though in her case it's not so much "[[But I Can't Be Pregnant]]" as "how is babby formed?"
* This trope was played tragically straight in ''[[Berserk]]'', where Guts and a now insane Casca only discovered that she was in her beginning stages of pregnancy after she miscarried their child under the severe trauma that she sustained from the Eclipse.
Line 24:
* In the satirical 'legend' of Pope Joan, a woman went to Catholic school disguised as a boy and worked her way through the ecclesiastic ranks to Cardinal and finally Pope. Her cover was blown when she put her foot in the stirrup to mount her horse and promptly gave birth before a shocked audience.
* In a subversion, Maya Angelou relates that she knew she was pregnant in ''[[I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings]]'', but the surprise was certainly on her family after she hid it from them for eight months.
* Implied in ''[[Discworld
* Daisy's mother in ''[[The Stone Diaries]]'' is unaware that she's pregnant.
* Bluestar in ''[[Warrior Cats|Bluestar's Prophecy]]'', thanks to her one-night stand with Oakheart. She is unaware of her pregnancy until another cat points it out.
| |||