The Baby Trap: Difference between revisions

* In [[Jennifer Crusie|Jennifer Crusie's]] ''Welcome to Temptation'', this happens TWICE. The main male character (many years before the book starts) marries his girlfriend at the time who becomes pregnant after lying to him about using birth control. A minor main character also marries a girlfriend who claims she's pregnant (also many years earlier), despite being in love with someone else. As the book puts it, "Eleven months later, sure enough, she had a baby."

** Also used in ''What a Lady Wants''. Armand first gets {{spoiler|June pregnant, then when that child dies he brings home his orphaned niece so she wouldn't leave.}} Then there's Stormy, who {{spoiler|poked holes in the condoms so Armand would marry her, who didn't know he had a secret vasectomy years before.}}

** It's also speculated that this was the reason the Muggles of Tom Riddle Sr.'s village used to explain why he inexplicably abandoned his previous girlfriend and ran off with a poor girl who lived in a shack - that Merope lied to him that she was pregnant with his child.

* In ''[[Brave Story]]'' we eventually learn that {{spoiler|Wataru's mom}} faked a pregnancy to get her ex (who was already in a relationship with another woman) to marry her. He does, but it doesn't end well.

* Invoked in a supernatural and [[Ho Yay]] way in ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'': Lestat changes Claudia [[Undead Child|into a vampire]] so Louis will not leave him—if Louis leaves, Lestat will starve her to madness.

* In the second book of [[The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]] series, {{spoiler|a girl that Kostos slept with does this in order to guilt him into marrying her.}} In the fourth book, it's revealed that {{spoiler|she faked the pregnancy.}}