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A 'tropical', or template, is a common pattern in a story,
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or a character recognizable characteristics that lets the audience know about the figure.
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A trope becomes a cliche when it is subject to excessive use
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Unfortunately, some of these tropes help to reinforce negative stereotypes.
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One of the things I love about science fiction is the genre's ability to explore complex issues.
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Because this genre separation from our present, the addressere socio-economic and cultural issues in different immersive ways.
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But if there's one thing I've learned by watching a lot of television series in sci-fi and fantasy genre,
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it's that you never ever need to want you to get pregnant on television.
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Some of the most famous and beloved female characters come from sci-fi universe, but it is not always a bed of roses to be them.
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It is common for Hollywood television scriptwriters to check a pregnancy in the operation of their female characters.
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These plots are almost always built around women whose ovaries harvested by aliens
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or acting as human incubators for alien offspring - the characters are short, reduced to their biological functions.
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You are sure to come across this trope so many times. Think of the middle of the '90s where X-Files
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had a plot where FBI agent Dana Scully was abducted and tvangsbefrugtet,
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which of course later resulted in a hybrid child, half human, half alien.
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More recently, in Battlestar Galactica Season 2 was rated Starbuck's ovaries harvested
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the Cylons in their attempts to create human-cylon fetuses.
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Then there's Gwen Cooper, a protagonist in Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood , which is bitten by an alien one evening,
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and the next morning she wakes up and is extremely pregnant with rumvæsnets offspring.
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This stereotype was Cordelia from Angel - a spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer - exposed to
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not one, but two times!
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Vala in Stargate SG-1 is tvangsbefrugtet and must give birth to a lightning-aged child being.
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"Although I have heard that children grow fast, but this is pure madness!"
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Both Xena and Gabrielle had the baby problems of the enigmatic kind at different times in Xena .
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In the series Fringe is Olivia's parallel reality doppelganger Faux-livia subject of a kidnapping,
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to accelerate her pregnancy to her newborn baby's blood can be collected,
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and act as fuel for a doomsday weapon.
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Deanna Troi from Star Trek: Next Generation is perhaps the main example the template "Riddle Full Pregnancy"
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since her body and consciousness periodically filled borrowed, undermines and offenses against the aliens.
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In the "child" in season 2, the Counselor Troi fertilized with a lightning-aging rumfoster of a flying ball of "rumenergi".
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Imagine that you discover that you are pregnant, you give birth 36 hours later, bringing up the child in the course of a single day, and so dies the child, or disappear.
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We never see Troi deal with the emotional consequences of the traumatic process,
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and the course is never mentioned again in the series' life.
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Now I must apologize in advance for my more religious viewers, but we must not forget the original Enigmatic Pregnancy Story:
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The Immaculate Conception.
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In this story rises an omnipotent being down from heaven and fertilizes a young woman
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so she is going to carry the Chosen One who must save the world and humanity's souls.
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It's almost an unwritten rule that the authors behind every sci-fi - or fantasy series
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during the series fertilize their female protagonists with a gruesome pregnant with experience.
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The Enigmatic Pregnancy is one of the plot templates that I despise most,
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because it not only describes women as stereotypes, the framework also at a biological level.
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Yes, some of us are physiologically unable to bear children,
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but no, it does not mean that this capability be exploited and abused as a plot element in your stories.
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Laura Shapiro, who make fanvideoer to sci-fi television, calling the mysterious pregnancy a form of reproductive terrorism
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the template is pregnancy to seem offensive, frightening and nightmarish.
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Laura continues, "The problem is, as I see it, that pregnancy and childbirth are natural processes,
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are distorted to engage in torture porn, and instead acts as a punishment for women, so women horror can be fuel on the fire of action. "
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