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First Period Panic

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First Period Panic	comment	Blood appearing on your clothing is worrying. Blood continuously appearing without any visible wound is very worrying. Wait, what's that? It's normal? Oh. Not everyone gets The Talk in time. Menstruation is varyingly a footnote to a chapter of its own depending on the assigned gender of the child. Sometimes, because they're Raised as the Opposite Gender, they are never told about it to maintain the deception. If they're Raised by Dudes, the parent or guardian might be putting off "the talk" for his own comfort until it's too late. Otherwise, it may be that the guardian is overly neglectful or prudish about the whole business. Or it can simply mean that mom or dad or parental substitute wasn't expecting to need to give the talk that soon, and they get caught out by menarche coming at a younger age. A somewhat tamed variant happens when the girl knows what is happening, but she's extremely surprised, extremely worried, or extremely uncomfortable by its messiness. Or the cramps might be really bad. Or the timing might be really inconvenient — she might be out of home (a school trip, an after-school activity, some out-of-town fancy occasion, a summer camp, etc.) or in bed and it's really bad when she can't ask her mom for the hygienic supplies. It might happen that her mom is away or out of the picture, and she doesn't have anyone to ask for pads or tampons. Going shopping for these at that fragile age is usually considered quite embarrassing (and even moreso if it's in the form of a Tampon Run). Menstruation is often seen as a symbol of adulthood and for girls, it's usually part of a Coming of Age Story. And if unprepared for this very real proof of Puberty, it can signify how wrong the child's upbringing has gone. It may be related to Miss Conception if the girl is utterly clueless about its meaning. Lots of works of fiction are strictly No Periods, Period and women menstruating will never be mentioned. Generally speaking, there are two major exceptions: Menstruation signifies a young girl's transition into womanhood (which is this trope) or missing a period and being late is used as a sign that a woman might be pregnant (see Pregnancy Scare). Male-to-female Gender Benders are likely to experience their first period and the audience is likely to experience it with them in graphic detail. Compare All Periods Are PMS. See Menstrual Menace for when a first period triggers supernatural powers. Sub-trope of Baffled by Own Biology. Has nothing to do with the first period of school nor punctuation.
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First Period Panic / int_1248906e	comment	Shion no Ou: Shion suffers from hemophobia (fear of blood) due to her parents' murder. When she wakes up in episode 3 with bloody sheets from her first period, the shock and trauma put her in the hospital for several days.
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First Period Panic / int_1493b445	comment	In Workin' Moms, Alice has her period while Kate is there. Terrified and confused, Alice locks herself in the bathroom. Kate consults her about the realities of being a woman and offers her support.
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First Period Panic / int_15e33029	comment	Little Demon: Chrissy suffers her first period while being threatened by bullies, which triggers the emergence of her satanic powers. When Satan claims that he found her when she drew first blood, she thinks it was when her period came, only for him to clarify that it was because she killed the bullies right after.
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First Period Panic / int_19455c1c	comment	In the first episode of Blossom, Blossom starts menstruating. She knows about it and what it means, but her panic comes in when she has to go to the store and buy feminine hygiene products. At first, she's not sure what to get - so she ends up putting everything in her cart. Then she sees that the person at the cash register is a cute boy from school. She feels so embarrassed about buying all that stuff from him, that she doesn't get any of it.
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First Period Panic / int_19c38111	comment	Ask Lara has an episode called "Oh No! Itâ€™s Here!" that deals with the main character having her first period. Lara is not as flustered about having her period as she is about that it had to happen on the day of an important exam. Lara has two best friends: Akira, who already started her period and offers her advice about it, and Monica, who is anxious to get hers and even says she feels envious when Lara tells her about the physical discomforts caused by it. Meanwhile, her two male friends, Tony and Gabriel, are worried that after getting her period, she will stop hanging out with them to only focus on older boys, but at the end that does not happen.
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First Period Panic / int_1b71921c	comment	Misfile: Ash, originally a boy, winds up horrified when Emily points out that the current symptoms he is experiencing are occurring after a certain amount of time Ash has been a girl. From then on, Ash will occasionally bring up the subject when he is feeling particularly irate.
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First Period Panic / int_1ec294c7	comment	The Ghost and Molly McGee: Season 2's "A Period Piece" focuses on Libby going through the trials of getting her first period. Surprisingly, Andrea (who had had her first period three months ago) is quite supportive, even presenting Libby with a spare pair of pajamas. The main conflict of the episode features Molly feeling left out and struggling to be as mature as her friends.
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First Period Panic / int_1ed2c571	comment	The Cosby Show: Rudy knows what her period is, but thanks to the plethora of urban legends that have been passed around, thinks that she needs to eat beets to prevent anemia and can't go swimming in the ocean because she'll attract sharks.
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First Period Panic / int_20ac8a71	comment	Doom Patrol: Dorothy Spinner recalls her first period being a frightening experience, with an issue of Grant Morrison's run having her remark that no one told her about the blood and an arc of Rachel Pollack's run going into more detail about when she started menstruating (in particular, establishing that some bullies made fun of her for menstrually bleeding in front of them by calling her a "monkey on the rag"). What makes menstruation an especially horrifying thing for her to endure is how her powers are really difficult to control during that time of the month.
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First Period Panic / int_2275c659	comment	House: Implied in episode "Act Your Age". When the medical team is searching for the right diagnosis on a 6-year-old girl, find a bloodied piece of clothing hidden in her room. At first, they consider it coming from physical or sexual abuse at the hands of her relatives, but doctors find the blood to be menstrual. The girl has apparently already hit puberty due to abnormally high hormone levels, the source of which is later found in the episode. The family has no mother, so she couldn't have easily consulted someone about what's happening to her body.
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First Period Panic / int_23185c00	comment	Taken: In "Charlie and Lisa", the 13-year-old Lisa Clarke has her first period on February 13, 1986. Considering the aliens' interest in her, it does not go unnoticed. In the absence of her mother Carol, she calls her new friend Nina Toth and asks her to buy sanitary pads for her. After Nina leaves, Lisa walks her dog Watson around her trailer park and sees an image of the carny that frightened Jesse as a child. He says, "Lisa, today you are a woman." She is then abducted by the aliens for the first time.
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First Period Panic / int_2372359	comment	Polgara the Sorceress: Polgara and Beldaran freak when they find bloodstains on their bedding. But their mother died when they were born, and that's not really something you can discuss with your uncle. Poledra isn't really dead, and explains matters to them. Why she didn't plan ahead isn't answered, but she might not have thought about it — wolves don't menstruate.
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First Period Panic / int_24705e44	comment	Professional wrestler A.J. Lee said that when she had her first period at 13, the panic came more from her mother, who made her drop her pants and submit to an inspection to make sure her hymen was still intact, thinking the blood was from AJ losing her virginity.
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First Period Panic / int_26c74483	comment	In Bloody Reunion, The incident where Jung-wo was humiliated for supposedly soiling herself in class was actually her first period starting (if the Unreliable Narrator is to be believed).
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First Period Panic / int_284882f8	comment	In the WarioWare fanfic "Even Witches Get It", Ashley gets her first period. Even though her mother is never around, Ashley at the very least has Mona (and Red) to ease her distress.
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First Period Panic / int_288d084d	comment	The Queen's Gambit: Beth gets her first period during an important chess tournament, and doesn't realize why she's feeling so nauseous until she runs to the bathroom and finds blood running down her leg. Annette, a girl Beth previously defeated in the tournament, finds her and is very sympathetic, offering her a pad, but she's too embarrassed to admit she doesn't know how to use it, so she layers her underwear with toilet paper until she gets home, at which point her adoptive mother teaches her what to do.
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First Period Panic / int_2a929dfc	comment	Better Things: Duke, after running into her grandma's car while skateboarding, worries that she's been injured as she gets her period until Frankie realizes what's going on and gets her a tampon.
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First Period Panic / int_2c456eca	comment	In one episode of the shoujo anime Mizuiro Jidai, the main girl Yuko gets her first period. She is very fearful and embarrassed for most of the episode. She even faints in gym class.
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First Period Panic / int_32318e9a	comment	Roseanne: Darlene gets her first menstruation. She's upset and finally blurts it out when Roseanne and Dan won't stop nagging her about what's wrong. It turns out her distress is because she thinks that this now means she has to give up all her tomboyish pursuits, but Roseanne assures her otherwise.
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First Period Panic / int_324cf914	comment	Lalola is an Argentinian comedic soap about a Handsome Lech transformed into a beautiful woman by a magical curse. An entire episode is built around the main character Lola's first period and the epic disaster it turns out to be, even if the chaos is played largely for comedy. To begin with it hits Lola at the worst possible time when she is on an already extremely awkward 'date' with Facundo, she is wearing a white dress and has to abandon the restaurant without a word. In the pharmacy (after getting advice from Grace on the phone) Lola is too self-aware and humiliated to buy tampons and tries to hint to the chemist behind the desk what she wants. The chemist looks at the late twenty something/early thirtysomething woman in front of her, asks if it is Lola's first time and at Lola's vigorous nodding produces... a pregnancy test. Things don't go any better when she eventually gets tampons and towels and tries them on in their bathroom with Grace advising behind a door.
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First Period Panic / int_331ed304	comment	Sweet Valley Twins: A slight case when a secondary character gets hers. Her panic is not from being ignorant, but from being completely unprepared as she wasn't expecting it (she's only in sixth grade and while it's not impossible for a girl to start at this age, it's slightly younger than normal)
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First Period Panic / int_33fdae4d	comment	Mad Men, episode "Commissions and Fees": Sally is having a date with Glenn in a museum in New York when she's staying at Don and Megan's (her divorced father and his young wife). She suddenly feels ill and uncomfortable and excuses herself. She discovers she's had her first period. Megan comes home and finds Glen's gym bag but no Sally. It turns out Sally took a taxi and went back to the Francis's residence, her permanent home. She runs into the bathroom, tells her mom Betty that she got her period and didn't know what to do, that she just wanted to come home. Betty tells her that they'll take care of it and Sally hugs her. Betty is usually not a very good or caring mom, but in this episode, she's nothing but sweet and supportive.
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First Period Panic / int_3b34143f	comment	In the Harry Potter fanfiction Hermione Gets Her Period, Hermione gets her first period and doesn't realize it's normal.
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First Period Panic / int_3efdce9	comment	Edgedancer: In this novel of The Stormlight Archive series, the 13-year-old Blithe Spirit orphan Lift has her first period. Although she doesn't know precisely what's going on, she's fairly optimistic that it's natural; however, she'd made a deal with a powerful Spirit so that she would never have to change, so the period makes her worried that her boon wasn't working properly.
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First Period Panic / int_3f029847	comment	In Anne with an E, Anne panics really badly, and thinks that she is dying. She hadn't learned anything about periods, and is horrified to find out that they happen every month.
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First Period Panic / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe: Happens a few times, with Male to Female Gender Benders. Usually, it's a big reminder that yes, they are a woman now: Tennyo: She panics, but gets over it quickly. Miyet: She was a macho bully until her transformation, and seemed to have been unaware of what a menstrual period was when it happened. Bladedancer, in her origin story, Destiny's Wave, had the help of a talking sword that was once a female human. The story says:
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First Period Panic / int_455e3038	comment	The King of the Hill episode "Aisle 8A": Connie has her first period while her parents are away on business and she's left in Hank's care. Connie doesn't panic; she's just embarrassed and has to write down the news because she can't bring herself to say it out loud. It's the adults who freak out — first Hank, then Connie's parents when he tells them. It gets worse for Hank when he has to sacrifice his dignity as a man and go down the women's health products aisle to get Connie her tampons. It gets so bad that he later calls the police to bring Peggy to the house when Connie asks how to put her tampon on.
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First Period Panic / int_46eb42f2	comment	Everwood: Delia Brown gets her first period like a champ. She has it tough because her mom died and she lives with her dad and her older brother. She's not feeling too well but insists she wants to play ice-hockey (she's a major tomboy and her teammates depend on her). She's embarrassed when her father tells her coach about it and he repeats that out loud in front of all the boys who laugh at her. Also, she's thrown off balance a bit when she goes shopping for pads with her dad — brand Always doesn't sound good, but Andy assures her it usually lasts from 3 to 7 days. Her cramps are pretty bad, too, because when Andy suggests she takes pain killers, she asks if she can have ten.
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First Period Panic / int_4bd693d0	comment	Menstruation gets a passing reference in As Told by Ginger (the series instead focuses on the A-Cup Angst portion of puberty) when the girls watch a Sex Ed video. They're not pleased by the thought of it.
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First Period Panic / int_51fec6c1	comment	In Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, the prequel TV series to the film, a young girl is taking part in camp activities when she suddenly has a horrified expression. She runs to the bathroom and a camp advisor chases after her. The advisor takes a friendly approach outside the toilet stall, as she suspects what has happened. The door opens, revealing it's Abby, played by (the adult counterpart) actress Marisa Ryan. It is metaphorical for her transformation into womanhood, and relates to the running joke of parodying Dawson Casting.
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First Period Panic / int_5283bd72	comment	In contrast, Keladry in Protector of the Small is very displeased to find that what she thought was a Potty Failure was in fact her first period—but she only needs to stare at her bloody hose for a few moments before realizing this was one of the things her mother told her about (unlike Alanna, who had a deceased mother and a painfully neglectful father, Kel has Good Parents). She's upset about it only because it's going to make training harder and because she turns out to be someone who gets weepy at that time of month.
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First Period Panic / int_528b9c6d	comment	In Summer Camp Wawanakwa, Noah (a trans boy) gets his first period in chapter 7, which Chris is completely unprepared for. This is what leads to Alejandro and Sierra getting hired in the next chapter.
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First Period Panic / int_556b60f5	comment	Parodied in Movie 43 where one skit has two middle school boys and their young girl-friend panicking over her first period. It reaches the point where one of them called 911 about it.
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First Period Panic / int_5841681f	comment	Played for laughs in The Middle: During a camping trip with her family, Sue discovers she's having her first period, but her period blood has attracted the attention of a bear nearby.
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First Period Panic / int_585e7625	comment	Sam: When Sam experiences his first period after undergoing his Gender Bender, he assumes that he is haemorrhaging. It is up to his best friend Doc, who is a gynaecologist, to explain what is happening.
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First Period Panic / int_598b70a1	comment	Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed: Diana is from a land of immortal women who do not age and is the only Amazon to have a menstrual cycle. Her moon-bleeds are thus cause for concern, considered a fascinating medical phenomenon and make her very uncomfortable as there is really very little information on them, and what information they do have pertains to mortal women. This is part of what gets her called a changeling, in a non-malicious way that nonetheless makes her feel an outcast.
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First Period Panic / int_5a5d2b34	comment	A flashback in To Strip the Flesh reveals that Chiaki got his first period when he was out playing with Takatou at the arcade. This is a bad enough scenario for anyone's first period, but as a young trans boy in the closet it's a deeply upsetting experience for Chiaki, who actually ends up vomiting from stress.
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First Period Panic / int_5b3356f8	comment	Turning Red: When Mei wakes up to find that she's turned into a giant red panda, her parents hear her freaking out from inside the bathroom, and not aware of what's actually happening, her mother Ming thinks she might have started her first period.
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First Period Panic / int_5d3af8f7	comment	Among the first storylines in the comic strip Luann is eighth-grader Luann panicking over and dealing with her first period.
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First Period Panic / int_641203c1	comment	SchittsCreek: In "Ronnie's Party," David is looking after his boss's stepdaughter at the motel when she gets her first period while sitting on David's Egyptian cotton sheets. He gives her some of Alexis's feminine hygiene products.
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First Period Panic / int_6b1b1791	comment	Dead of Summer: Drew had this, since as a trans boy, getting his first period was not a happy experience, especially since this led to his mom telling him that he's "now a woman".
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First Period Panic / int_6ed09d93	comment	Big Mouth: Jessi gets her first period on a school field trip while wearing white shorts. She has a minor breakdown while hiding in a public washroom and gets a no-nonsense lecture about the travails of womanhood from the Statue of Liberty, but eventually rallies.
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First Period Panic / int_6ed555bb	comment	A Stone Soup storyline involves Holly starting her period on the family's camping trip. Wally is the one that has to buy her supplies, much to his chagrin.
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First Period Panic / int_71101323	comment	In Fear of Flying, adult Isadora recounts the story of getting her first period at thirteen on a trans-Atlantic naval voyage with her family: going with her older sister to buy pads; hiding it from their younger sisters; unsure how often to change her pad, she changed it twelve times in one day, flushed them all, and stopped up the toilet in their cabin, and got yelled at by the steward who had to unclog it.
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First Period Panic / int_752fb3f6	comment	Baymax!: In Episode 3, the plot centers around Baymax aiding a middle school girl through advice and fetching her supplies as she gets her first period. Baymax himself acknowledges that it can be an uncomfortable subject to discuss, but adds that it is nothing to be ashamed of as it is just simple AFAB biology, as a trans man also recommends the pads he uses for Baymax to buy for Sofia.
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First Period Panic / int_7695c1d3	comment	A Dog's Purpose. Bailey is reincarnated into a female dog named Ellie. Having always been male before, and having always been neutered as a puppy, she has no clue what her heat is. She just thinks it's a gross, uncomfortable scent. Ellie never does learn what heat is because she's spayed afterwards.
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First Period Panic / int_7832b74c	comment	In the Steven Universe fanfic "Echoes" (a story where the Gems also get periods), Connie attains her menarche.
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First Period Panic / int_79ab0b3c	comment	Tortall Universe: In Song of the Lioness, Alanna (disguised as a boy so she can train for the knighthood) panics when her first period starts since she was never told about it. She has to out herself to her friend George because she thinks something horrible is happening and his mother Eleni is a healer. In contrast, Keladry in Protector of the Small is very displeased to find that what she thought was a Potty Failure was in fact her first period—but she only needs to stare at her bloody hose for a few moments before realizing this was one of the things her mother told her about (unlike Alanna, who had a deceased mother and a painfully neglectful father, Kel has Good Parents). She's upset about it only because it's going to make training harder and because she turns out to be someone who gets weepy at that time of month.
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First Period Panic / int_7a8dc374	comment	The Afterward: Olsa gets hers after training in combat and thinks she was injured. She doesn't realize what her bleeding and cramps are actually caused by. Being sixteen, she's late for menarche, which is a result of suffering malnutrition from living on the street. Prior to being told about it she didn't even know what menstruation was due to her lack of education. She also hadn't developed breasts yet from her being malnourished too.
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First Period Panic / int_7ac0e0b0	comment	In I Was a Teenage Exocolonist, the protagonist gets their first period when they're 13 if the player selects the corresponding puberty option for them. They can discreetly ask their mom for help, and she assures them that it's alright because it's just a sign that they're growing up, and the narration states that they can get hormone blockers if it's bothering them too much.
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First Period Panic / int_7b6c4921	comment	Degrassi: The Next Generation: While sitting outside with Manny, Emma realizes she got her first period, which soaks through her white skirt. Manny gets Emma to the washroom and brings her a pair of baggy gym shorts that she wears to class. J.T. makes comments about it and Emma's classmates begin to laugh until Emma bluntly tells them that she got her first period which shuts them up.
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First Period Panic / int_7d5871b	comment	The first page of After School Nightmare has the intersex protagonist getting his first period. Being male-identified, he freaks out.
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First Period Panic / int_7dce7773	comment	In With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, Cleo TelerÃn, an eight-year-old undergoing early puberty, gets her period and thinks she's dying. When she tells the kids' babysitter Dream Wizard what happened, Dream Wizard explains it to her.
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First Period Panic / int_7e67ad4f	comment	In Cuties, Amy doesn't know what to do when she has her first period in front of her parents.
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First Period Panic / int_8cfcf2f4	comment	The Sex Trip: Eddie goes into the bathroom to get undressed when he's about to have sex with Steve. Immediately, he screams, and Steve runs in to see Eddie covered in blood, with bloody handprints on the glass and on his face, claiming that he's dying. They go to the hospital, and the next scene features them both laughing about being so clueless.
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First Period Panic / int_8dba7131	comment	In Song of the Lioness, Alanna (disguised as a boy so she can train for the knighthood) panics when her first period starts since she was never told about it. She has to out herself to her friend George because she thinks something horrible is happening and his mother Eleni is a healer.
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First Period Panic / int_8eda89ef	comment	Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor has Suou transitioning into being a Contractor and womanhood. Luckily, the friendly neighborhood cross-dresser was on hand to give her the necessary supplies and painkillers. (Hei was certainly not going to be of any help, though.)
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First Period Panic / int_8f36f969	comment	The The Loud House fanfic Period Pains involves an 11-year-old Lori getting her first period while she's at school, causing discord among her class until her school day is ended early for her to be taken to a doctor's appointment.
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First Period Panic / int_8f9c0e62	comment	In My Girl, Vada apparently has never heard of menstruation. She visits the bathroom, then calls for her father in a panic. Her father is not available, so she tells the only other adult present that she is hemorrhaging. Fortunately for Vada, the adult present is a very kind and understanding woman who sympathetically calms her and explains the matter. The woman in question ends the movie as Vada's new stepmother. Apparently, Vada's widower father was either too squeamish to have that talk with his daughter, did not think it was necessary yet, or lacked certain info himself.
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First Period Panic / int_90032631	comment	On Orange Is the New Black, Pennsatucky recalls when she got her first period at age 10 and thought she was dying. Her mother hadn't told her anything, because she didn't think a girl that young could start menstruating. After getting over the initial shock, she tells young Pennsatucky that she isn't dying, that this is completely normal... and also that now men and boys are going to start looking at her differently, and might rape her...and that's normal, too.
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First Period Panic / int_91e45f5	comment	In the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney fanfic "Daddy's Little Girl", Trucy gets her first period and sends her adoptive father Phoenix into a panic.
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First Period Panic / int_95f6fd49	comment	Natsume panics in A Few Needed Adjustments when she wakes up with bloody bedsheets. She puts her period panic aside after realizing she's changed into a fox-looking form overnight.
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First Period Panic / int_981dffb4	comment	Just as Long as We're Together: Steph gets her first period at a school dance and can't get a pad from the bathroom vending machine because she doesn't have any money with her. She tries putting paper towels in her underwear instead, but that turns out to be uncomfortable, so she tells her female teacher what's going on and the teacher gets her a pad from the machine.
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First Period Panic / int_9a539f56	comment	In the PokÃ©mon Super Mystery Dungeon doujin Strawberry Moon Pie, Chespin is quite embarrassed and frightened when she gets her first period. Fortunately, school nurse Audino and Nuzleaf are there to provide help and comfort for her.
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First Period Panic / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Sansa Stark freaks out when she sees her bedsheets stained with blood and attempts to burn them to hide it. But in her case it's that she knows exactly what it means: she's old enough to be forced to marry Joffrey.
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First Period Panic / int_a23b15c8	comment	Discussed in Rain (2010). Heather, who is intersex, doesn't have a uterus and therefore doesn't get periods. She didn't fully realize the situation or how she was different, until her younger sibling Ky started menstruating and asked Heather for help. Heather was worried Ky was dying, and had no idea what was going on so she couldn't help.
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First Period Panic / int_a34863aa	comment	In the Turtles fanfic aptly titled That Time of the Month, the (now adult) Turtles panic when Raphael's daughter gets her first period. They aren't panicking over the period itself; they're panicking because Raph's daughter inherited her father's Hair-Trigger Temper and All Periods Are PMS. The four of them end up hiding from her until Splinter's able to get her to calm down a little.
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First Period Panic / int_a802819e	comment	In Variation Modification, Karkat (a trans guy) gets his first period in Chapter 14, and is flat-out horrified.
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First Period Panic / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Hannelore Ellicot-Chatham of Questionable Content spent most of her life living with crippling OCD and anxiety issues. When one of her friends asks her what her first period was like, she responds, "We don't talk about that day."
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First Period Panic / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: As in the books, Sansa is horrified when she wakes up to find the blood from her first period on her bedsheets. She notes that her mother had warned her in advance about what would happen and her panic is because this means she can now bear Joffrey's children (with all that that implies).
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First Period Panic / int_b30bcd12	comment	The Bluest Eye: Pecola gets her first period and thinks something is wrong. The blood begins to spill down Pecola's legs when she's outside with Claudia and Frieda, Claudia's older sister. Pecola and Claudia are scared, but Frieda knows that Pecola is getting her first period. Frieda tries to attach a pad to Pecola's dress. Rosemary, spying from the bushes, yells to Mrs. MacTeer that the girls are doing something perverted. Mrs. MacTeer sees Pecola's bloody legs and takes her inside to clean her up.
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First Period Panic / int_b449f790	comment	Paper Girls (2022): Erin gets her first period in episode 4, but though she's clearly surprised, she doesn't begin to actually panic until the next episode. First she's dismayed by the vague instructions and warnings on a box of tampons, then is further confused by the others misbeliefs about them. The poor girl gets so rattled she stops thinking rationally and tries to "quit".
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First Period Panic / int_b5a05fb6	comment	Ready or Not (1993): Busy gets her first period during band practice at school and anxiously runs out of the classroom. When Amanda learns about it, she screams in excitement over the phone and is a bit jealous that Busy has â€œreached womanhoodâ€� first. She helps Busy with pads and tampons despite not having begun menstruation herself because she's learned everything there is to know about periods.
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First Period Panic / int_b5c89107	comment	Carrie has one of the most infamous examples of this trope. The titular character is humiliated when her first period begins in the gym showers during her senior year of high school. She initially thinks that she is bleeding to death, and instead of helping her, her classmates start taunting her and pelting her with tampons while chanting, "Plug it up! Plug it up!" (in the 2013 film, Chris Hargensen, the ringleader, twists the knife in the wound by filming Carrie with her phone and posting it on YouTube) She causes a lightbulb to explode, signaling the growth of her telekinetic powers. Her mother is a religious fanatic with a pathological fear of sex and sexuality, such that Carrie wasn't informed about menstruation at all, much less that it's a natural process that every girl and woman goes through. Inverted when Carrie's gym coach remembers her own first period: she was eleven years old, knew exactly what was going on, and was excited to tell her mother about it, although in the 2002 TV adaptation, she mentioned that she was mortified at having her first period when she was 10, as she wore white pants during that time.
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First Period Panic / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Modern Family: Lily (who's only 12) is having her first period and barricades herself in the bathroom, Cam and Mitchell, given that they're absolutely clueless about menstruation, they ask for help from the entire family.
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First Period Panic / int_b96adef8	comment	In Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, 13-year-old Colleen gets her first period shortly after her mother dies and she gets adopted by Dr. Mike. She's shown to be uneasy for days and refuses to have a swim with her brothers, even though she loves swimming in the river. Turns out she got her period and never received the talk, even though her mother was a midwife and her adoptive mother is a medical doctor. Mrs. Quinn (her adoptive grandma) finds her crying, comforts her and talks with her.
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First Period Panic / int_bd311b2e	comment	Tornado Brain: Thirteen-year-old Frankie realizes she's gotten hers when she notices she's left a red stain on a motorcycle at the arcade. Dismayed, she hides in the bathroom and texts Tess, who's already had hers, to bring a sweatshirt she can wrap around her waist while she goes home.
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First Period Panic / int_bf3a0285	comment	Without a Trace: In one episode, the team is tracking a young girl who's being exploited by her pedophilic uncle. They talk to a shopkeeper who sold the pair some clothes, who describes how she found the girl sobbing in the dressing room after getting her first period. The girl said she knew what it was and begged the shopkeeper not to tell her uncle, but the shopkeeper still did, assuming it was better for the girl to get his support. In this case, her panic is less about the period itself and more about what a pedophile is going to do to his victim once she's no longer a child.
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First Period Panic / int_bf949aad	comment	Superstore: Amy's daughter Emma gets her first period while Jonah is watching her in "Shoplifter". He's more or less just a stranger to her: a guy her mom works with. She's fairly embarrassed she has to ask for hygienic supplies.
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First Period Panic / int_bfb77387	comment	The Thorn Birds: Thanks to her mother never bothering to explain anything to her, poor Meggie Cleary spends the first few months of her period thinking that she's dying of a tumor.
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First Period Panic / int_c15c0cdb	comment	Restraint: A flashback shows Azula getting her first period at twelve. Because her mother left years ago, no one told her about it and she thought she was dying.
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First Period Panic / int_c60b2567	comment	Khaos Komix: Tom, a transgender boy, gets quite distressed when his first period starts, more because of the dysphoria than the period itself.
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First Period Panic / int_c70bf81a	comment	Catherine Called Birdy (2022): Birdy gets her period and instantly assumes she's dying. As she's a medieval noblewoman there's extra weight as her parents can now begin shopping her around to potential husbands, so she tries to hide it for as long as possible.
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First Period Panic / int_c738fe9d	comment	A variation occurs in Ma Fille; Katrina is only freaked out by her first period because she wasn't expecting it, and the real stressor is her not wanting to tell her single father about it.
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First Period Panic / int_c879d790	comment	Camp Camp: In "Nikki's Last Day on Earth", Nikki believes that's she's dying due to drinking one of Neil's experimental formulas. We later find out that she was having her first period, and after Gwen explains it to her, she becomes excited at the idea of bleeding for days on end and never dying.
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First Period Panic / int_c891d851	comment	IS: Otoko demo Onna demo Nai Sei is a manga about intersex people. At least one of the characters has been shown to menstruate. She was raised as a boy, secretly identified as a girl, and only got her period as a late teenager. This caused her confusion that led her to come out as a girl.
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First Period Panic / int_ce0e264f	comment	In Chapter 11 of Lost Together, Ranko outright screams in horror when she goes to the bathroom and finds blood on her legs, wondering if she's sick. Lotion reassures her that it's only her body being ready for motherhood, mentally pitying the amnesiac girl for having forgotten what periods are — however, the situation is a smidge more complicated, since Ranko is under a sexshifting curse and would have been given the "talk" for boys, even if she could remember.
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First Period Panic / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER: Rachel Greene starts her period while at Thanksgiving dinner with her grandfather and her father's girlfriend Elizabeth. Elizabeth sends her grandfather to the store to get pads and he ends up buying every kind available because he has no idea what the "right" kind is.
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First Period Panic / int_d5da533c	comment	The Fallout: Played for Drama. Early in the film, Vada's middle-schooler sister Amelia texts her in a panic because she got her first period. In order to handle it, Vada goes to the bathroom â€” and she's there when the school shooting begins. Amelia thinks Vada is angry at her for most of the film because Vada blames her for making her leave the classroom, putting her in more danger than if she'd stayed put. Vada has to clarify that it's not the case.
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First Period Panic / int_d7f09913	comment	Gender Queer: A Memoir: Maia is quite dismayed after getting eir first period, at first trying to cover it up until e tells eir mom. It's also a continuing source of gender dysphoria for em.
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First Period Panic / int_d9c602eb	comment	Mocked in South Park: There's an intestinal ailment going around that makes you bleed out of your ass. But the boys don't know about it and think that when Cartman (and later Kenny) are bleeding that means that they have their periods. It doesn't help that an adult they ask about it says that when it happens you bleed - "you know, down there." Kenny ends up dead from Toxic Shock Syndrome, having shoved a tampon up his ass.
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First Period Panic / int_da948186	comment	Beautiful Music for Ugly Children: Gabe got his first period while bowling when he was thirteen. Being trans, he was much more upset by it than most kids, so much so that he considered committing suicide by jumping off an overpass. Paige talked him out of it and said she'd help him with his gender, but neither mentioned it again until Gabe formally came out to her five years later.
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First Period Panic / int_db06439	comment	Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.: After Gretchen has her first period, she tells her friends (who've yet to get theirs) that it's nothing to worry about. Nancy, though, is jealous as she thought she would be the first and shortly thereafter she claims to have gotten hers, only to panic the day it happens for real.
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First Period Panic / int_dc217e32	comment	In PokÃ©mon Reset Bloodlines, there is a sidestory centered on Iris. She tells Ash and Misty about the first time she had a period and how her adoptive Pokemon family freaked out about it, and she's very much relieved to know it's something all human women go through.
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First Period Panic / int_de4c0209	comment	Wandering Son: Takatsuki is quite stunned when they get their first period, but it's more because of gender dysphoria than anything. Chapter 30 shows a panicky Maho waking up in the night with bloody pajamas and sheets from her first period.
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First Period Panic / int_e11de2a2	comment	In the Doom Patrol (2019) episode "Dad Patrol", Dorothy gets her first period while out shopping with her father, and flees to the nearest bathroom in panic. Thankfully, the shopkeeper comes and finds her and explains that this is actually normal. She also sets Dorothy up with some clean clothes. In this case, Dorothy's panic is more justified than usual, because her menstruation allows the Candlemaker to breach reality and cause havoc.
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First Period Panic / int_e542f05b	comment	In Relic Of The Future, when Emerald first wakes up to bloody sheets, she calmly tells Jaune she's dying. Jaune spends several minutes freaking out before realizing what's really going on.
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First Period Panic / int_e7107eb3	comment	In Inside Mari, a man finds himself in the body of a teenage girl (or so it's initially believed). When Mari's period arrives, Komori freaks out and goes into a Heroic BSoD.
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First Period Panic / int_e8620c77	comment	A Summer's End â€” Hong Kong, 1986: At one point Sam remembers her experience with her first period at 12 years old, in which trying to tell her older brother only results in him tell her to talk to her dad, who in turn tells her to go to the drug store. When she asks the man at the counter for "a medicine for bleeding," he misunderstands and tells her to go to the hospital, which understandably left the young Sam in a panic. At one point she was convinced she was going to die, but luckily she explains what's happening to a nurse at the hospital, who laughs and gives her a sanitary pad.
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First Period Panic / int_ea49d044	comment	The Red Tent: During the Time Skip, Dinah's cousin Tabea got her first period, but rather than it being celebrated or her even being told what was happening to her (as it would be in Dinah's immediate family), Tabea was simply shut into a dark hut, not allowed to leave until she stopped bleeding, and told she was "impure". (She does, however, get to wear a belt or apron that marks her as an adult woman instead of a little girl.) When Rebekah finds out about this, she is enraged, and sends Tabea away, along with her aunt, never to be seen again. Dinah is upset that this happened to her Only Friend, but Leah defends Rebekah, saying that it was Necessarily Evil to protect their customs.
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First Period Panic / int_ef08c84	comment	Wonder Showzen has an animated skit where a young girl gets her period in bed and thinks that she's dying, until Aunt Flo (that is, a physical manifestation of her period) arrives and teaches her what she's going through.
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First Period Panic / int_efccb9da	comment	In the Voltron: Legendary Defender fic Thicker than Blood, Pidge ends up getting her first period. While she's more annoyed and embarrassed about it than anything, Allura and Coran (as well as a naive Keith) think she's been injured and start panicking. Ultimately, Lance and Hunk (who are well used to this sort of situation) spirit her away to get cleaned and leave poor Shiro to explain things to the others.
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First Period Panic / int_f0c8db7	comment	In the premiere of Everything's Gonna Be Okay, Genevieve gets her first period. This in itself is merely an embarrassment for her, but it creates problems for her at school, because she has been lying for the past two years about getting her periods, and her sister Matilda unwittingly exposes the fact that she lied to her friends.
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First Period Panic / int_f2acd322	comment	A minor version occurs in The Baby-Sitters Club (2020), when Kristy gets her first period at her mother's wedding. She knows what's happening but is understandably flustered by the timing and is also worried about ruining the very expensive dress her stepfather bought for her (especially because she'd had a major fight with her mother over the cost of the dress earlier that day). Fortunately, her friends are there to help her, with Mary Anne giving her a pad and explaining to her how to use it.
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First Period Panic / int_f2d501d6	comment	In Runaways, Molly Hayes wants to talk to the other girls about times when she's bleeding from - but then gets cut off because they don't want to talk to her. Later she tries to talk to her parents but they don't want to discuss it either. Subverted as it turns out though that she's talking about having nosebleeds when her Super-Strength power manifests itself. In Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), Abigail is so mortally afraid of getting her period that she magically halted her aging at 13 - way back in the 1960s. In the present, she tries to get Molly to follow her example, claiming that no one will like her anymore once she starts menstruating.
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First Period Panic / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: At the start of season 2, Delenn, ambassador for the Minbari race, emerges from a chrysalis as a Half-Human Hybrid. In "Soul Mates", she consults Commander Ivanova for advice adjusting to her new human features, and mentions she's been having strange cramps.
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