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%%* Mentioned offhandedly in Creator/CharlesStross' ''Literature/IronSunrise''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' TV movie ''Fairly [=OddBaby=]'', Wanda explains that in the Fairy World, male fairies carry the offspring in response to Timmy's inquiry about Cosmo being pregnant with his and Wanda's baby, Poof. Presumably fairy reproduction really does work like seahorses. Averted with the Anti-Fairies, however - Anti-Wanda was the one who gave birth to Foop.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch"

** "The Route of All Evil" has Bender "pregnant" with home-brewed beer. Complete with "birth". "It's an ale! 5 gallons, four ounces!"

** In "The Bird-Bot of Ice-Catraz", the penguins that were covered in [[OurDarkMatterIsMysterious liquid dark matter]] as a result of Bender tearing the hulls of a transport ship on an iceberg not only become hyperfertile, the males start laying eggs as well.

* Downplayed in ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': Among the Cabal, the females gestate the young, but the rest of their development occurs when they're transferred to the male's marsupial-like "brood pouches" [[LactatingMale to nurse until they're mature enough to wean]], which is referred to as pregnancy.

* ''Murikuri'' (the title means "Forcibly") is a one-shot manga containing several short stories by Creator/{{CLAMP}}, which plays the trope for laughs in one of them -- a man discovers he's carrying a baby (which will grow in his back), which distresses him because it means he and his wife can't be intimate until "the stability period".
* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'': Cuuko eventually develops some feelings for Mahiro, and decides [[HaremSeeker she, Nyarko, and Mahiro should be a family]], with Mahiro bearing her child. Mahiro is freaked out, not just for the obvious reasons, but because Cuuko is simply the human form of a [[Creator/HPLovecraft Lovecraftian]] alien being and thus might actually be able to make it happen.

* ''LightNovel/{{Kampfer}}'': The series may or may not have a really weird subversion. At the end of episode 12, a female adult Natsuru is seen reading a Christmas story to a little girl, her husband comes over... and it's revealed to be male Natsuru. With a mustache. [[FlatWhat Wut.]]

* In ''The Beast that was Max'' by Gerard Hoaurner, Max the assassin is an ultraviolent killer fuelled [[SuperpoweredEvilSide by the Beast]] inside of him. When Max loses the Beast, he's vulnerable to the ghosts of legions of women he's raped and murdered. So they curse him with pregnancy in an attempt to kill him, the plan might have worked but Max has some demigod friends so instead he has a son he named Angel.
* This is how Cockatrice was born in ''Literature/TheBookOfTheDunCow''.

* In the Creator/WilliamSchoell sci-fi/horror novel ''Dragon'', several workers helping to uncover an ancient temple become sick and are taken to the local hospital. After doing exams, the stunned doctor declares that somehow, they're pregnant. [[spoiler:It turns out this is one stage of the temple's secretly super-advanced defense system. The men are "pregnant" with hideous monstrosities which, like in ''Alien'', burst out of them and proceed to kill everyone in the hospital.]]

* Done with the titular alien species in Chalker's ''Web of The Chozen'': Female choz lay six eggs and both males and females incubate them in brood pouches. The sex of the offspring is determined by the sex of the incubating parent with the normal ratio being 2 males to 4 females. The hero of the story is the only male choz who produces female offspring.

* In the direct-to-video Roy "Chubby" Brown vehicle ''Film/{{UFO}}'', Chubby unwittingly gets this done to him as a punishment for the lewd and sexist nature of his act (the alternative punishments being chemical castration, physical castration, or having his testicles beaten with a cricket bat and having a red-hot poker shoved in his anus). Part of the treatment involves his body being modified so that the child will be born through Chubby's backside, which goes FromBadToWorse when it's revealed that he'll get pregnant every year for thirty years, which will leave him with "an arsehole the size of the Grand Canyon" when all is said and done (though he ultimately only has to give birth once).

* In the horror movie ''Amulet'' a soldier takes a job aiding a young woman and her rather unusual mother. The film ends with [[spoiler: the soldier giving birth to an eldritch abomination]]

* In the 2016 cult horror film ''Night of the Virgin'' a naïve twenty year old goes out on New Years to lose his virginity, and ends up in the home of a priestess to an ancient goddess, who is searching for a man to bear her child.

* In ''Paternity Leave'', a man finds out that he is pregnant with his partner's baby. No real explanation is given, however, the story is less about biology and more speculation on how the dynamics of an unplanned pregnancy might affect a gay male relationship.

* In ''Ten Brothers (1995)'', the ten magical siblings were born when their mother ate the Ten Fairies' Pearls. In the end [[spoiler:her husband is mortally wounded and on the brink of death. The ten siblings sacrifice themselves by changing back into the pearls since their magical power can save their dad if he eats them. Their mother feeds the pearls to him and he is indeed healed. Then they both notice that his belly is swelling...]]

* In the direct-to-video Roy "Chubby" Brown vehicle ''UFO'', Chubby unwittingly gets this done to him as a punishment for the lewd and sexist nature of his act (the alternative punishments being chemical castration, physical castration, or having his testicles beaten with a cricket bat and having a red-hot poker shoved in his anus). Part of the treatment involves his body being modified so that the child will be born through Chubby's backside, which goes FromBadToWorse when it's revealed that he'll get pregnant every year for thirty years, which will leave him with "an arsehole the size of the Grand Canyon" when all is said and done (though he ultimately only has to give birth once).
* 1972's ''What Do I Tell the Boys at the Station?'' was an independently made low-budgeter about a police officer who has a fling and winds up getting pregnant. Also known as ''The Broad Coalition'' and ''That Man is Pregnant,'' it becomes a satire of radical movements of the time like Women's Lib.

* The video for Will Young's single, ''Hopes and Fears''. Pass the BrainBleach.

* The theme song for ''Series/BillNyeTheScienceGuy'' is sometimes parodied like this:
-->''"Bill Nye, his mom's a guy!"''
* In the video for Chromeo's "When the Night Falls," the singer manages to impregnate a multitude of female fans via the PowerOfRock. He later does this to himself, accidentally, while looking in a mirror, before its revealed to be AllJustADream.
* Music/JonathanCoulton takes this trope literally with his song "Seahorse", which describes the feelings of a male seahorse looking for a loyal bride.

* Similarly, ''Motherhood'' by Babybird.
* The video for Music/TomPetty's "Yer So Bad" has a man with a very pregnant abdomen and breasts appearing in the background, shown a few seconds after a man reads a tabloid with an article headline "New Device Helps Men Feel Pregnant."

* In Inuit religion, the first two humans were Aakulujjuusi and Uumarnituq, and were both males. [[SituationalSexuality Being the only two humans, they got lonely and decided to mate]]. Uumarnituq got pregnant, but obviously, he couldn't give birth. So a spell was put on to give him a vagina, and he became the first female.
* OlderThanDirt: In a Hittite legend, Kumarbi wants to overpower Anu, bites off his genitals, and becomes pregnant with his children. Kumarbi being male, they can't get out, so the gods have to cut Kumarbi open, or realize a magic ritual, DependingOnTheWriter. One text states the three new gods exited through Kumarbi's "good place."

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* In the ''Literature/WildCards'' series, Dr. Tachyon has his [[FreakyFriday mind swapped]] by his AxeCrazy grandson Blaise, who leaves him a teenaged girl's body. Blaise rapes her repeatedly, eventually getting her pregnant shortly before leaving Earth (with the girl [[GrandTheftMe trapped in Tachyon's original body]] in tow). By the time Tachyon has gotten back into his original body, s/he had not only given birth, but had gotten pregnant again.

[[caption-width-right:350:Find this concept weird? Creator/DannyDeVito does too.]]

%%* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'' combined this with GenderBender and ADateWithRosiePalms. Unfortunately it only lasted one episode.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekEnterpriseS01E05Unexpected Unexpected]]", a particularly irresponsible GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe assumes that the pregnancy-inducing GreenRocks used by her people won't work on a human, and invites chief engineer Trip Tucker to play with their mind-linking capabilities. Her assumption proves wrong, and HilarityEnsues. The Klingons were especially amused. T'Pol later notes that Trip is the first Earthling male to get pregnant. He wasn't very happy. Considering how Earth governments probably banned all research into human augmentation and assisted reproduction in the post-Khan era, that's probably justified, despite ''Enterprise''-era medical advances. When Trip later [[BoldlyComing gets friendly with another alien babe]], T'Pol is quick to bring this up once more.

* Lister in ''Series/RedDwarf'', through having sex with his counterpart from a gender-reversed AlternateUniverse.
** Cat becomes pregnant when a polymorph uses him to host her eggs in "Can of Worms".

* In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "Unexpected", a particularly irresponsible GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe assumes that the pregnancy-inducing GreenRocks used by her people won't work on a human, and invites chief engineer Trip Tucker to play with their mind-linking capabilities. Her assumption proves wrong, and HilarityEnsues. The Klingons were especially amused. T'Pol later notes that Trip is the first Earthling male to get pregnant. He wasn't very happy. Considering how Earth governments probably banned all research into human augmentation and assisted reproduction in the post-Khan era, that's probably justified, despite ''Enterprise''-era medical advances. When Trip later gets friendly with another alien babe, T'Pol is quick to bring this up once more.

** This was introduced in ''VideoGame/TheSims2''. Adult male Sims who are abducted by aliens get their FaceFullOfAlienWingWong (mercifully offscreen), and become pregnant when they are returned to Earth. The result of this pregnancy is the same as the result of a human pregnancy in the game, except that the baby will have alien features, including green skin, black eyes and extreme personality traits.

* WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn ''thinks'' he has become this in a ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' cartoon after Dawg pulls a joke on him and puts an ostrich egg under him in his sleep. Nonetheless, he becomes a vicious PapaWolf when Dawg repeatedly calls the newborn ostrich ugly.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'', Ben ends up giving birth while in one of his alien forms. With no accompanying {{squick}} and/or HeroicBSOD on his part (though the [[NauseaFuel audience may differ]]). This might not be due to the Mister Seahorse so much as when/how the implied impregnation occurs. The alien in question is said to be asexual.

* This is practically the driving premise of Storm Constantine's ''Wraeththu'' novels, in which it is executed for entirely "straight" dramatic ends.