History Main / PregnantBadAss

** Her pregnancy wasn't used in series, but on ''StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher) shot one of her best episodes ("Remember Me") while heavily pregnant, including doing her own rather strenuous stunt (dangling from a wall-mounted chair and flailing as air was blasted at her, so it would look like she was being sucked into a vortex).

* Averted with Padme from the StarWars prequels in a case of BadassDecay. In the second film, she is running around baring midriff and firing a blaster at enemy droids. In the third film however, once she becomes pregnant, she is very much a DistressedDamsel, more emotionally than in the literal sense

* In his autobiographical book ''All Souls'', [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Patrick_MacDonald Michael MacDonald]] tells a story of his mother (who was eight months pregnant) beating up a drunk neighbor who was harassing their family.
* MariaTheresa had ''sixteen'' children before anesthetic which is in itself a {{Badass}} form of [[MachoMasochism Feminine Macho Masochism]] . She did this while administrating an empire and waging continent wide wars.

** And when she's [[DarkEmpire pregnant with her third child]] she shows herself capable of matching Luke in a lightsaber duel.

* [[OrSoIHeard I've heard tell]] that during ''[[{{Farscape}} The Peacekeeper Wars]]'', Aeryn Sun fires on her enemies ''while in labor''.

** You have heard correctly. And it's even ''more'' awesome than it sounds.
*** And, a few moments after giving birth, she's up and shooting again.

* Averted with Padme from ''AttackOfTheClones'', in a case of BadassDecay. In the second film, she is running around baring midriff and firing a blaster at enemy droids. In the third film however, once she becomes pregnant, she is very much a DistressedDamsel, more emotionally than in the literal sense

* Not quite as action-oriented as other examples, but in StargateSG1, Vala was pretty badass during her pregnancy. Even if you ignore the whole "left outside for several days while pregnant" thing, she later risked her life to warn Earth of the impending war and then insisted on traveling into said war with her husband. Granted, she was probably hoping to get back to Earth (which she did) but that's still pretty badass, especially for a heavily pregnant woman.

* The possibility of dying along with her baby on the island takes ''Lost'''s Sun from TheStoic to this trope in season four. Reaches its apex when a very pregnant Sun informs her JerkAss father that [[TookALevelInBadass she's bought out his corporation and now, * he* works for * her.* ]]

* Fox of ''{{Gargoyles}}'' -- Granted, it's before she's far enough along to be impreded, but she still announces her pregnancy dangling from a rope ladder from a helicopter after staging a take over (by force) of her father's company, strictly ForTheEvulz.

* Pacha's wife Chicha in ''TheEmperorsNewGroove'' is pregnant throughout the movie (and shown realistically), but with the help of her young children is more than a match for the villain Yzma.

* In ''WickedCity'' Makie experiences a sudden explosion of power in the film's climax as a result of being pregnant with her demon/human hybrid child.

* The mother of the twins from ''{{Monster}}'' made an escape attempted involving crawling through some vents while heavily pregnant. Read "heavily pregnant" as "goes into labour just as she gets out of the building". So close...

* The title character of the now-defunct MagicalGirl webcomic ''Brigadier Swirl'' becomes a badass as direct result of becoming pregnant; her unborn twins are the ones with all the power, she just gets access to them by proxy. She and her four similarly powered-up friends (who were also pregnant, btw) go on to save the world from evil repeatedly... or would have, had the strip not ended after just two issues.

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* Rene Russo's character in ''LethalWeapon 4''.
* Marge Gunderson in ''{{Fargo}}'' does a nicely realistic interpretation.
* Most Fruitful Yuki, a [[ShowWithinAShow fake manga character]] in the movie ''{{Juno}}''.
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* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Sforza Caterina Sforza.]] [[XJustX Just.... Caterina Sforza. ]]

* Teyla in ''Stargate Atlantis''. In one episode, the bad guy made a comment about Lorne's men letting her doing the interrogation; she responded by tapping the guy's shoulders with the log she used to knock him out earlier, then threatening to frame him to the villagers as a Wraith worshipper. And that's after Sheppard took her off active duty when she confessed that she's pregnant. SoYeah...

* Marvel Comics' Jessica Jones ([[CaptainObvious before she gave birth). Highlights include beating up the Green Goblin with his own glider when she thought something had happened to her baby, and disarming Kang the Conqueror and pointing his own {{BFG}} at him when he tried to threaten her in YoungAvengers.

* In ''Dies the Fire,'' first volume of S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series, Juniper Mackenzie, nine months pregnant, leads the Clan Mackenzie in battle against a group of Eaters (crazed cannibals), goes into a holy berserker-trance in which she invokes the Blood-Crow aspect of the Goddess, and opens the battle by killing the first Eater with an arrow. The Mackenzies win. The moment the battle is over, Juniper goes into labor and delivers Rudi Mackenzie.

* In ''[[DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness]]'', Susan gets pregnant with [[spoiler:Ernie's]] child. Naturally, she continues to train until the rest of the DA force her to rest.