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* In ''Star Wars: A Lost Hope'', a parody trailer for ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Padme announces to Anakin, "I'm preggers!" Anakin replies, "How do you know?" - seemingly oblivious to what looks like a ''gigantic beachball'' under Padme's clothes.

* In the webcomic, Hominids Zona was shown to have an extremely large and rounded pregnancy bump from chapter 6 onwards.
* In the webcomic, Rogus of Clwyd- Rhan both Kel and Ragna were shown to have an extremely large and rounded pregnancy bump each from the chapter The Corby Clan until the chapter which feature the birth of their babies.

* Averted in the 3rd {{OVA}} to ''FushigiYuugi''. Mayo is at best barely showing. Justified as the pregnancy was transferred supernaturally from Miaka to Mayo, and Miaka was only 3 months along.

The opposite is HideYourPregnancy.

* In ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'', chapter #220 ("Izuna Becomes A Mother!?") greedy amateur exorcist Izuna dispels a weak [[{{Obake}} cat Henge]] who is haunting a full-term pregnant mother, but accidentally displaces her Boze (the spirit of her unborn child), which promptly takes refuge inside of Izuna in order to shelter from {{youkai}} known as [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Boze-Eaters]], causing her to look ready to give birth herself. Given what Boze-Eaters [[http://ninpuchan.dreamhost.com/comics/nuube/p13.html look like]], it's not surprising that it refuses to leave her until one shows up and scares it so badly it flees from person to person, each of whom looks heavily pregnant while possessed as well.

* Invoked in ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/goblin-hollow-0389/ the goblins are surprised]], but that's because they haven't noticed it's been eight months.

* [[UltimateMarvel Ultimate Hela]], after Thor knocked her up as part of their deal. Made more obvious by her {{Stripperific}} outfit. Somewhat justified by the fluid nature of time in the underworld -- even though Thor thought the conception had only happened the night before, enough time has passed in the afterlife that Hela is already in her last trimester.

* Invoked in ''Webcomic/GoblinHollow'': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00388.html the goblins are surprised but that's because they haven't noticed it's been eight months]].

* On ''{{ER}}'', the pregnancies of two actresses were incorporated into the show. Problem is, both actresses were quite far along at a point where their TV pregnancies hadn't even been disclosed or discovered, so both of them still had to conceal their developing tummies until this time.

* The DCComics Chinese "super-functionary" Mother of Champions lives this trope. Then again, her metahuman power is the ability to conceive, safely carry and deliver [[ExplosiveBreeder inhumanly large litters]] of children (up to twenty five babies in one pregnancy), and a secondary power is that gestation, from conception to birth, takes only three days.

* In ''Star Wars: A Lost Hope'', a parody trailer for ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Padme announces to Anakin, "I'm preggers!" Anakin replies, "How do you know?" seemingly oblivious to what looks like a ''gigantic beachball'' under Padme's clothes.

* As a RunningGag on ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', Dr. Huxtable's patients frequently included pregnant women who'd dreamt of lashing out at their husbands.

--> ''"Dad said we'd know if Mom was having a kid because she'd look like a hippopotamus with a gland problem."''
---> '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''

* In ''TheThrawnTrilogy'' comics, this is both used and averted. Leia Organa Solo is pregnant until fairly early in the third book. In ''Heir to the Empire'' this isn't exactly evident, even when she's in basically a bra and panties. In ''Dark Force Rising'', she's showing. Explicitly said to be a month later, in ''The Last Command'' she's ''very'' pregnant before she gives birth. Part of this can be chalked up to the fact that each book was penciled [[DependingOnTheArtist by a new artist]].

* In ''{{Webcomic/Drowtales}}'' Zala'ess shows up with [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=10402 a very visible belly]] despite appearing [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=8023 a few chapters before]] with no such visible sign of it. It turns out [[spoiler:she was never actually pregnant to begin with, and was [[InvokedTrope invoking this trope]] as a trick against Quain'tana, whose own infertility is a sore point.]]

* In ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Chicha is obviously pregnant, and the first pregnant woman to be shown onscreen in a {{Disney}} film.

---> '''Calvin''', ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', by Bill Watterson

* In ''DoctorSlump'', this not only happens to Midori Yamabuki, but is actually lampshaded when Senbei promptly freaks out over her apparently abnormal development and gives her medical examinations to see if there's something strange going on. Well... [[GagSeries stranger than usual,]] anyway.

* In ''WoodenRose'', Nessa's pregnacy is blatantly obvious, making the doctor say she must be four months pregnant and causing Lillian to exclaim that she hadn't known him that long. However, her pregnancy reaches full term in a week.
* Invoked in ''GoblinHollow'': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00388.html the goblins are surprised but that's because they haven't noticed it's been eight months]].
* In ''DocRat'', [[http://www.docrat.com.au/default.asp?thisItem=950 number two is on the way.]]

* Mrs. Gloria Duwong from ''TheWeekenders'' was obviously pregnant [[LongestPregnancyEver for just about the entire series.]]

* In ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'', Chicha is obviously pregnant, and the first pregnant woman to be shown onscreen in a {{Disney}} film.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Total Drama|Island}}'' story, ''Fanfic/{{Legacy}}'', Heather is almost eight months pregnant. This causes her some trouble in getting out from behind the steering wheel of her car.

* Inverted on ''Series/{{Charmed}}'' with Piper's first pregnancy, where people started complaining she took too long to show. Piper's second pregnancy goes right from conception to six months (to accommodate Holly Marie Combs' pregnancy)

** Same thing happens earlier with Teyla on StargateAtlantis, but this is largely because they had been hiding Rachel Luttrel's real life pregnancy for quite a while by that point.