History Main / PregnantHostage

* Among the injured in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Seattle_Jewish_Federation_shooting 2006 Seattle Jewish Federation shooting]] was Dayna Klein, five months pregnant at the time. After shooting Klein in the arm, he cornered her in her office and held her at gunpoint. Klein put him on the phone with the 911 dispatcher, who was able to talk him down without further incident. He surrendered to police shortly thereafter.

* In the third leg of the Arcos Special of ''Fanfic/SaviorOfDemons'', the fact that [[NominalImportance the female Arcosian held in the prisoner ship isn't named in the story]] should be a red flag to [[{{Tearjerker}} her]] [[KickTheDog fate.]] The whole scene plays out, for both the readers and [[spoiler: [[BreakTheCutie Frieza]]]] as NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel [[{{Squick}} combined.]] InfantImmortality is also notably averted.

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* Inforced and Envoked in ''Series/DoctorWho'',When Amy was taken for the exact reason that she was pregnant.

* Poor, poor 15 year old [[DarkChick Diana Ladris]] from ''[[Literature/{{GONE}} FEAR]]''. No one bothers trying to bail her out *Or rather, they couldn't if they tried*, either. And she's left to give birth in a scorching hot, pitch black mine with two pyshcopaths [[NightmareFuel who like to torture her.]] Fans of the character were reasonably miffed.

* Zig-zag: The ''Series/PunkyBrewster'' episode "Ouch!" starts off dealing with the guilt Cherie feels for causing Punky to break her leg. At the hospital, Cherie is in a stalled elevator with a pregnant woman going into labor. Cherie winds up delivering the baby herself, and as the elevator car is finally repaired, she is crying hysterically over what she did and went through.

* ''{{Archipelago}}'': Pictured on top of this page. Salvo was already doing his best up to that point to define himself as a [[JerkAss jerk.]] Taking Deliza hostage [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=611 (seen on this page)]] proved that he had crossed the MoralEventHorizon.

* Played with in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', as the central plot features Max driving an oil-rig where two of the group of five runaway women are pregnant, and they end up becoming ''his'' captors after he first threatens them with a gun and forces them to help him drive the rig. The women are the private harem of the BigBad, meaning they're carrying his sons. This makes his soldiers reluctant to hurt them.

* Zig-zag: The ''PunkyBrewster'' episode "Ouch!" starts off dealing with the guilt Cherie feels for causing Punky to break her leg. At the hospital, Cherie is in a stalled elevator with a pregnant woman going into labor. Cherie winds up delivering the baby herself, and as the elevator car is finally repaired, she is crying hysterically over what she did and went through.

* In ''Manga/FairyTail'', Jackal gives Lucy a SadisticChoice over whose life she should save--an old councilor or an InnocentBystander--or else both will die. The panicking councilor rants that of course his own life is more important since killing him ''might'' [[BarrierMaiden trigger a dangerous superweapon]],[[note]]This turns out to be false[[/note]] even when it's revealed the bystander is pregnant. Thankfully, Natsu manages to save both (and giving the councilor a well-deserved deck to the head for good measure).

* Happened at least twice on ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit''. One was a 12-year-old girl with religiously- inspired StockholmSyndrome... that is, until the week's CultColony CloudCuckooLander BigBad [[spoiler:says a BlasphemousBoast that earns him a couple of pistol slugs straight to Hell]].

* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': In "Tragedy", Detectives Benson and Stabler try to find a kidnapped woman with a high-risk pregnancy.

* During ''Series/Waterloo Road'': When Bolton Holds Grantly And His Class Hostage in their classroom this troop in invoked when among the students being held hostage pregnant teen Jade is among them but is quickly let go along with fellow student Kacey who helps her out of the building.

* Breezepelt does this to Poppyfrost, a heavily pregnant she-cat, in ''Literature/WarriorCats'' and even threatens to kill her to frame Jayfeather. Surprisingly, it's not Poppyfrost's mate who saves her but [[TheMedic Jayfeather]] and [[spoiler:a deceased Honeyfern, who was Poppyfrost's sister]].

* In ''Film/TheWayOfTheGun'', Ryan Philippe and Benicio del Toro kidnap a heavily pregnant Creator/JulietteLewis.

* Played with in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', as the central plot features Max driving an oil-rig where two of the group of five runaway women are pregnant, and they end up becoming ''his'' captors after he first threatens them with a gun and forces them to help him drive the rig.

* [[spoiler:Janis Hawk]] in the finale of ''FlashForward2009''.
* In the "Backscatter" episode of ''{{Numb3rs}}'', one of the hostages was pregnant.

* Unknown to her, Amaka is pregnant when she's held hostage by the baby's father in ''{{Tinsel}}''.

* In ''[[{{Deryni}} Camber of Culdi]]'', one of the [[DisproportionateRetribution fifty human hostages taken after a Deryni lord is murdered]] is a pregnant woman. Cathan [=MacRorie=] pleads for their release and is offered the chance to take one of them; he first chooses the pregnant woman, only to be asked if he wants her or her baby. Cathan tries to argue, then chooses to take a teenaged boy instead. [[spoiler: The woman gives birth in captivity and is later hanged like the rest of the hostages.]]
* She is the main female lead and ''not'' [[ObviousPregnancy obviously pregnant]], but nonetheless this happens in ''[[{{Literature/TalesOfKolmar}} The Lesser Kindred]]''.

* A particularly nasty version happens in ''Manga/AirGear'', where [[spoiler: the kidnapper of the pregnant Rika Noyamano is ''her baby's father'', Sora Takeuchi, who also goes as far as ''brainwashing'' Rika to force her fight the protagonists.]]

* In ''CSINewYork'', the season finale had Mac involved in a hostage situation in a bank. The first person he convinces the man to release is pregnant.

* ''MyNameIsEarl'': In "Randy in Charge (...of Our Days and Our Nights)", Earl has to point out to Frank that the very pregnant Joy makes the perfect hostage for a hostage situation.

* ''{{Archipelago}}'': Pictured on top of this page. Salvo was already doing his best up to that point to define himself as a [[JerkAss jerk.]] Taking Deliza hostage [[http://archipelagocomic.com/comic/?id=611 (seen on this page)]] proved that he had crossed the MoralEventHorizon

It seems to be a law of TV and film land, that any hostage situation will include at least one [[ObviousPregnancy heavily pregnant woman]]. This can either be used to show how inhuman the hostage takers are by having them [[KickTheDog use her as greater leverage]], or to show them in a better light by [[PetTheDog having them treat her with compassion]]. If she's more than eight months, she'll probably go into labor, and give birth to a healthy baby with the help of a nearby know-it-all kid, [[ChekhovsHobby med-school dropout]] or, if they're really lucky, an off-duty nurse]]. Or maybe even [[DeliveryGuy one of the hostage takers]]. The PanickyExpectantFather will rarely be held hostage with her, and may even be with the police, constantly telling them, "My Wife's in there!".

It seems to be a law of TV and film land, that any hostage situation will include at least one [[ObviousPregnancy heavily pregnant woman]]. This can either be used to show how inhuman the hostage takers are by having them [[KickTheDog use her as greater leverage]], or to show them in a better light by [[PetTheDog having them treat her with compassion]]. If she's more than eight months, she'll probably go into labor, and give birth to a healthy baby with the help of a nearby know-it-all kid, [[DeliveryGuy med-school dropout]] or, if they're really lucky, an [[ChekhovsHobby off-duty nurse]]. Or maybe even one of the hostage takers. The PanickyExpectantFather will rarely be held hostage with her, and may even be with the police, constantly telling them, "My Wife's in there!".

It seems to be a law of TV and film land, that any hostage situation will include at least one [[ObviousPregnancy heavily pregnant woman]]. This can either be used to show how inhuman the hostage takers are by having them [[KickTheDog use her as greater leverage]], or to show them in a better light by [[PetTheDog having them treat her with compassion]]. If she's more than eight months, she'll probably go into labor, and give birth to a healthy baby with the help of a nearby know-it-all kid, med-school dropout or, if they're really lucky, an off-duty nurse. Or maybe even one of the hostage takers. The PanickyExpectantFather will rarely be held hostage with her, and may even be with the police, constantly telling them, "My Wife's in there!".

It seems to be a law of TV and film land, that any hostage situation will include at least one [[ObviousPregnancy heavily pregnant woman]]. This can either be used to show how inhuman the hostage takers are by having them use her as greater leverage, or to show them in a better light by having them treat her with compassion. If she's more than eight months, she'll probably go into labor, and give birth to a healthy baby with the help of a nearby know-it-all kid, med-school dropout or, if they're really lucky, an off-duty nurse. Or maybe even one of the hostage takers. The PanickyExpectantFather will rarely be held hostage with her, and may even be with the police, constantly telling them, "My Wife's in there!".

* ''ComicStrip/DicTracy'': In a 1979 arc, a very pregnant Tess Tracy is kidnapped (along with Vitamin Flintheart) by aspiring punk rocker Bony and his girlfriend Claudine.