History Main / MisterSeahorse

* In ''Literature/AllYouZombies'', an intersex woman gives birth then gets a sex change and travels back in time and impregnates herself. By the end of the story the mother, father, baby, and narrator are all revealed to have been the same person. Aren't [[StableTimeLoop time travel loops]] fun?

* In the short story "Dark Angel" by Edward Bryant, a modern-day witch-for-hire gets revenge on a man who has wronged her by using voodoo to make him pregnant. This is played for horror because A: a condition of the spell is that no one else will know what's wrong with him and B: he has a uterus [[spoiler:''but no birth canal.'']]

* ''Literature/EggMonstersFromMars'': After being saved by a swarm of the titular egg monsters, who formed a blanket of sorts covering him and preventing him from freezing to death, the protagonist Dana then manages to escape... only to suddenly lay an egg the following day. It turns out that the monsters aren't protecting him so much as they're ''impregnating'' him.

** Played with in another episode, "[[Recap/StrongBadEmailE158Cliffhangers Cliffhangers]]" -- as part of a mock cliffhanger, Homestar reveals that he's become pregnant to Strong Sad, who reminds him that he can't be pregnant because he's a guy.

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]].

* The official Catholic stance on Family Planning (or, "the rhythm method") vs Birth Control has inspired an ad featuring Pope John Paul II, who is rubbing his very prominent belly and grinning, underneath is written, "Would he be more careful if it was him that got pregnant?"

* ''Literature/HalfPrince'': A scene in the epilogue has Gui and Lan deciding to have a baby. Because Lan can't stand pain and doesn't want to have to go through giving birth, Gui ends up pregnant with her child.
* ''Manga/AnimalX'': Yuuji, one of the main characters, a gender bender, has the ability to get pregnant and does several times through the series. The series is not only very mature, but provides an even more in depth view of MPREG than even Sex Pistols/Love Pistols.

* ''Literature/{{Gokudo}}'': Happens to Panda, who after swallowing an egg whole somehow gives birth to Goku trapped in a baby Gokudo's body.

* ''Literature/IfHerFlagBreaks'': Poked fun at, but ultimately defied by Megumu. Since everyone constantly mistakes him as a girl, someone eventually mentioned that he would have a much cuter child with protagonist Souta than one of the actual girls would, but he clearly said it isn't possible.
* ''Literature/{{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.]]

* ''Manga/TheLaughingSalesman:'' The last episode of the 1989 anime adaptation is an episode called "The Way of the Husband and Wife", which ends with the titular salesman, Moguro, punishing the episode's focal character Kaji Daisuke for giving up his job to become a househusband by making him the one to carry and give birth to the child he wanted.

* ''Literature/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.

* ''Sex Pistols'' (released in English as ''Manga/LovePistols''): This is more or less what the entire plot of the manga is... a bunch of somewhat-human guys and girls with animal spirits trying to breed with other guys and girls, where HomosexualReproduction is common place and men can become pregnant due to their unique physiology and this one ordinary teenage boy gets thrown into this mess and...Uh... Imagine ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' on amphetamines, throw some viagra and MoodWhiplash in and you're somewhere in the right ballpark. If you're on acid.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In one of the stories in ''ComicBook/TheJoker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing'' #4, the Joker flirts with ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}. She is repulsed, for obvious reasons, so she casts the curse, "On eno esle lliw reve evah ruoy ybab!" ("No one else will ever have your baby!") However, she really should thought her word choice through, since this causes ''Joker'' to become pregnant. He then vomits out a mud blob that shifts into a deformed mini-Joker.

* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Purple PlanetEater ComicBook/{{Galactus}} was recently revealed to have a daughter, ComicBook/{{Galacta|DaughterOfGalactus}}, which led to some rife speculation about who her mom was. Turns out it was also [[TrulySingleParent Galactus]]. He also specifies that he was pregnant with her.

-->"''What?'' Is he saying I'm going to have ''babies?'' I don't want ''that!''"
* ''ComicBook/{{Quasar}}'': Issue #29 had a cover image with Quasar in costume clutching a pregnant belly in the same fashion as Demi Moore's cover of ''Vanity Fair'' (see Print Media below).
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': After Peter is transformed into a giant spider by Adriana Soria, she intends to make him her mate and have him give birth to her offspring. Peter ended up getting pregnant, dying, and finally, giving birth to himself in human form with all of his memories intact and new powers. [[AudienceAlienatingEra This story has not been referenced much since]].

* ''Film/InAlienable (2008)'', featuring Walter Koenig and Richard Hatch, combines the trope in question with a struggle for legal custody.
* In the horror movie ''Film/{{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 ''Film/Godzilla1998'', it's revealed that the titular creature is actually capable of reproducing asexually. Nick Tatopoulos even referred to him as "a very unusual he".
* ''Film/TheImmaculateConceptionOfLittleDizzle'', wherein a group of janitors become guinea pigs for a new type of self-warming cookie. The chemicals used to create said cookie cause a sort of fishlike creature to grow in the males who eat them, which are later "birthed" through the anus.
* The Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger / Creator/DannyDeVito vehicle ''Film/{{Junior}}'' is basically TheMovie of this trope, in which Arnold plays a scientist who is willing to get pregnant for research purposes. The movie is a comedy, but the pregnancy is played surprisingly seriously here, leading to some emotional development in Arnold's character.
* PlayedForHorror in ''Film/{{Men}}'', [[spoiler: where all the men that Harper previously faced are shown giving birth to each other in [[BodyHorror a series of extremely graphic and gruesome bodily transformations]] that happen via increasingly insane orifices, leaving their bodies [[{{Gorn}}horrifically mutilated with much blood]].]]
* In ''Film/MonsterHunt'', the male protagonist Tianyin is implanted with the Monster Queen's egg ([[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong not by choice]]). His stomach immediately swells up and stays at full term size until [[spoiler: he vomits the monster baby up, back the way it was forced down]]. All is PlayedForLaughs.

* In the 2016 cult horror film ''Film/NightOfTheVirgin'' 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.

* This is [[DiscussedTrope discussed]] in ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian'':
-->"It's every man's right to have babies if he wants them."\\
"Right, but you don't have a womb! Where's the fetus going to gestate? You gonna keep it in a box?"
* In ''Film/PaternityLeave'', 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.
* ''Film/RabbitTest'', a 1978 film directed by Joan Rivers and starring Billy Crystal, in which Billy Crystal plays a meek night-school teacher who gets pregnant after a fumbling one-night stand with a woman his cousin set him up with.
* It happens, in an extreme BodyHorror way, to a few of the brainwashed townspeople in ''Film/{{Slither}}''. It almost happens to the main character but he escapes it due to a technicality.
* Creator/JohnHurt was alien-pregnant [[ActorAllusion again]] in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}''.
* ''Film/StingraySam''. The rich have only been having male children (via gender-decisive drugs) in order to perpetuate their dynasties and so are in danger of dying out. Doctors Fred and Edward come up with a solution by combining their DNA to create their son, Fredward. This leads to (another) BigLippedAlligatorMoment from our heroes, as they sing of this miraculous invention and all the ensuing {{Portmanteau Couple Name}}s.
-->Fredrick and Edward had a son named Fredward! Max and Clark had a son named Mark! Aldo and Rex had a son named Alex, Bob and Ringo had a son named Bingo, Zack and Deke had a son named Zeke... ([[OverlyLongGag etc]])
* In ''Film/TenBrothers (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...]]
* The 1940 GenderBender comedy ''Film/{{Turnabout}}'' ends with a husband and wife seemingly returning back to normal after spending most of the film in each other's bodies...until the ancient Indian idol that made the initial switch confesses that he's screwed up and informs the husband that he's now pregnant.

* 1972's ''Film/WhatDoITellTheBoysAtTheStation?'' 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.
* In ''Film/Zoolander2'', Hansel somehow manages to get every single member of his orgy pregnant. This includes a sumo wrestler and Creator/KieferSutherland, [[spoiler: who later suffers a miscarriage.]] The film being what it is, this is all PlayedForLaughs.
* In the 2016's Mamaboy A male high school student Kelly Hankins miraculously gets pregnant after undergoing an experimental procedure that enables him to carry his girlfriend's baby to term.

* In the 2022 film, ''Resurrection'', a woman is stalked by her ex-boyfriend, who killed their baby 18 years before. However, he claims that he merely swallowed the infant whole and that the baby has been alive inside him for all these years. At the film's climax, the woman ties him up and slices him open, revealing the live baby that she pulls out of his body. While it seems like she gets her happy ending, [[spoiler:the ending implies that she may have been hallucinating the whole ordeal.]]

* The [[http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html essay]] ManOfSteelWomanOfKleenex by speculative fiction write Creator/LarryNiven suggests that one way to avoid a superpowered fetus killing Lois Lane is by having Superman carry the baby instead.
* In the short story ''Literature/AllYouZombies'' by Creator/RobertAHeinlein, an intersex woman gives birth then gets a sex change and travels back in time and impregnates herself. By the end of the story the mother, father, baby, and narrator are all revealed to have been the same person. Aren't [[StableTimeLoop time travel loops]] fun?
* In Creator/WalterJonWilliams's novel ''Literature/{{Aristoi}}'', the (male) protagonist's boyfriend voluntarily becomes pregnant [[HomosexualReproduction with the protagonist's sperm]], using the commonplace technology of the far future (it's so far in the future that people have godlike powers and can do anything).

* In ''Literature/TheBeastThatWasMax'' 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.

* ''Literature/{{City of Bones|1995}}'' by Creator/MarthaWells: The bio-engineered krismen, male and female, have marsupial pouches to gestate their young, which start out as egg sacs that are manually transferred into the pouch.
* Creator/CordwainerSmith's "Literature/TheCrimeAndTheGloryOfCommanderSuzdal": The once-human klopts reproduce by implanting a lump of cells in the gut and give birth by C-section. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crime_and_the_Glory_of_Commander_Suzdal Plot of which can be found here]].
* [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks']] ''Literature/TheCulture'': Given that people tend to live several centuries in the far future society portrayed, life-long monogamy is exceptionally unusual. A couple who plan to stick together that long can engage in a process that involves this trope in order to emphasize their co-dependence. [[spoiler:A couple can impregnate each other in turn to give birth at the same time]][[labelnote:explanation]]First the male impregnates the female, then before the fertilized egg leaves the ovary both initiate a GenderBender (this process is trivial but takes up to a year to complete), the egg is kept in stasis in the ovary as it changes into a testicle, the originally female partner impregnates the originally male partner, the second egg is kept in stasis as the originally female partner changes back and once both individuals are female their pregnancies proceed more or less naturally ending with both giving birth at the same time[[/labelnote]] in a process called Mutualling. In ''Literature/{{Excession}}'', [[spoiler:the woman goes AxeCrazy with a knife and kills her partner's fetus (also nearly killing her originally male partner) when the (then female) partner has an affair with another woman while pregnant. The partner changes back and leaves the woman while the woman goes nuts and stabilizes her pregnancy to remain pregnant for the rest of her life]]. This sequence of events so disturbs [[DeusEstMachina the AI of the colony ship]] they lived on at the time (which had watched and subtly intervened in the lives of millions of people who lived on it over its existence) that it resolves to fix their broken psyches as a personal preoccupation. The story ends "happily ever after" with [[spoiler:the couple reconciled before once again going their own ways, the woman giving birth and then being allowed to raise the child she'd gestated for the last 20 years, and the partner (now male) gone off to become (physically) a member of a [[StarfishAlien species]] of [[StrawFeminist Straw Men]].]]
* In the short story ''Dark Angel'' by Edward Bryant, a modern day witch-for-hire gets revenge on a man who has wronged her by using voodoo to make him pregnant. This is played for horror because A: a condition of the spell is that no one else will know what's wrong with him and B: he has a uterus [[spoiler:''but no birth canal.'']]
* In the Creator/WilliamSchoell sci-fi/horror novel ''Literature/{{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.]]
* A literal example in Louise Searl's short story ''Birth Day'' from ''Literature/TheDreamEatersAndOtherStories''.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': In book 15, ''Literature/SkinGame'', [[spoiler:Harry discovers that his "parasite" is actually a child conceived from Lash's sacrifice as an act of unconditional love.]] Given that the book is about [[TheHeist robbing a near-impenetrable vault]] to steal from [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades' private treasury]], there are clear parallels between [[spoiler:Dresden's mind-child]] and [[spoiler:Athena, who burst, fully-formed, from Zeus' skull]].
* Dana, the protagonist from the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''Literature/EggMonstersFromMars''; after being saved by a swarm of the titular egg monsters, who formed a blanket of sorts covering him and preventing him from freezing to death, Dana then managed to escape... only to suddenly lay an egg the following day. Turns out the monsters aren't protecting him so much as they're ''impregnating'' him.
* In a variant, the Creator/ThomasMDisch short story "Emancipation" featured a man who gets surgically altered so he can ''breast-feed'' his child, in a future where gestation routinely occurs in PeopleJars. Counts as bad research since hormone treatments would be all that was necessary.

* In ''Literature/TheFresco'' by Creator/SheriSTepper, some aliens temporarily stranded on Earth pick on a group of powerful conservative American men to incubate their young, reasoning that since the men are opposed to abortion, they'll agree that it is their duty to help the aliens out. The men are not happy, especially when it turns out the young aliens will have to eat their way out of their bodies. The whole incident provides an {{anvilicious}} moral: don't force others to do what you aren't willing to do yourself.
* Stanley Pottinger's "Literature/TheFourthProcedure" features a VERY pro-life [[StrawCharacter Strawman Politician]] being impregnated (very much against his will) by a VERY pro-choice surgeon.
* Metaphorically present in ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''. The process of creating each new artificial life takes the titular doctor the better part of a year, with the hardest [[StealthPun labor]] coming near the end and leaving him mentally and physically exhausted. DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything
* In Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheGodsThemselves'', the aliens have three sexes: Rationals, Emotionals and Parentals. While only the Emotionals are referred to as 'she', it's the Parentals, consistently referred to as 'he', that actually bear the children.
* The short story "A Horse From A Different Sea", by Creator/AnneMcCaffrey, references the seahorse analogy with its title. In this story a doctor wondering at odd symptoms in several of his patients realizes that they're pregnant, and tracks down the common denominator - they all visited the same prostitute. When the doctor finds her he realizes that she's dying and she self-immolates as soon as he's left the room. Looking at news and medical reports, he finds that there have been similar cases in cities all along the coast, and concludes that these women are aliens. The doctor decides to perform abortions on all his male patients without telling them they're pregnant, since he has no idea how quickly the fetuses will develop, into ''what'', or how they'll ''leave'', and notes that the two he's already removed at that point "show different stages of freak-out evolution."
* Creator/StephenColbert explains the seahorse in ''Literature/IAmAmericaAndSoCanYou'' in his chapter on sex.

* Parodied in the last ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' book, where Count Olaf's ultimate disguise is of a pregnant woman. Even the people he's trying to fool think it's ridiculous.
* In ''Literature/TheStressOfHerRegard'', [[spoiler:silicon-based vampiric lifeforms from Earth's primordial past are roused from torpor when one of them, resembling a small statue, is implanted in the body of a living man. To send them back into hibernation, the obstetrician protagonist must perform a forced Caesarian section to extract the statue (which has ''grown'' since the first surgery!).]]
* Mentioned in Lucian's ''Literature/TrueHistory''. The people of the moon are a OneGenderRace (all males) and their sons grow inside the calves of the men.
* Occasionally mentioned in passing in some of S.L. Viehl's books; for example, a rumor circulates in ''Literature/{{Stardoc}}'' that Cherijo has impregnated Kao. And then, there's this exchange in ''Blade Dancer'':
-->'''Thgill:''' I'd love to have your offspring. How about we get intoxicated, go back to my place, and you impregnate me?\\
'''Jory:''' Doesn't work that way with my kind, pal.\\
'''Thgill:''' Pity.
* Done with the titular alien species in Chalker's ''Literature/WebOfTheChozen'': 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.
* Creator/JackChalker's transformation novels, such as the ''Literature/WellWorld'' series, often feature this happening to assorted characters, usually through BizarreAlienBiology. One was even [[{{Animorphism}} transformed into an actual seahorse]]. He didn't actually get pregnant, but the possibility was acknowledged.
* The Yilanè in Harry Harrison's ''Literature/WestOfEden'' trilogy are one of the best uses of this in fiction. The race function in much the same way as seahorses. Few males survive more than three brutal pregnancies, and the society is dominated by females who keep the males solely as breeders (despite them being every bit as intelligent as the females).
* In ''Literature/TheWhimsOfCreation'', by Simon Hawke, the baby incubators on a generation starship are believed to have been compromised by a rogue computer program. Several characters speculate that any existing fetuses may have to be gestated the old-fashioned way for the first time in centuries. When a female character takes exception, her husband reminds her that technology has advanced far enough to allow ''him'' to do all the hard work. [[spoiler:Although the incubator issue is resolved, the book ends with him giving birth to their daughter.]]
* This is practically the driving premise of Storm Constantine's ''Literature/{{Wraeththu}}'' novels, in which it is executed for entirely "straight" dramatic ends.
* Diane Duane's ''Literature/YoungWizards'': Briefly mentioned in ''High Wizardry'' -- while Dairine is at the spaceport trying to find a place to hide from the Lone Power's minions, she enters what looks like a bathroom. It's actually a birthing chamber for some species of aliens, and one male alien present is upset because Dairine's entrance interrupted him.

** It has been stated that [[EldritchAbomination Carmilla]] is capable of impregnating ''any'' human, regardless of either sex or fertility, though [[BodyHorror mercifully]] the details are not given. Just what this means for Carl isn't clear, though it is not as if there wouldn't be some LaserGuidedKarma in him getting pregnant. So far, the only one she has actually impregnated has been female.
* In the ''Literature/WildCards'' series, Dr. Tachyon has his [[FreakyFridayFlip 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.

* The Pregnant Man was one of the recurring characters on the Australian sketch comedy programme ''Series/AustraliaYoureStandingInIt''.

* Merton in ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'' after an alien abduction. He himself references ''Junior'' as part of his OncePerEpisode movie-buff routine, and then there's this shout out to ''Alien''...

'''Merton:''' Are you kidding? The 1979 Ridley Scott classic, featuring Sigourney Weaver in a career-defining role?\\

'''Merton:''' Oh! Remember the part where the alien ''bursts'' out of John Hurt's stomach? That was disgusting... you mean?\\

'''Merton:''' [[OhCrap *gulp*]]
* Also used in an episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' when Piper and Leo have their powers magically switched while Piper is pregnant. Leo also somehow got all of Piper's symptoms. And again in the Sandman episode in which Leo ended up pregnant with Piper's baby until he felt the baby kick.
* On ''Series/TheCosbyShow'', Cliff once went through a pregnancy along with every other man in the cast -- except Grandpa Huxtable, obviously, as he's old enough to have gone through man-o-pause -- apparently due to some odd contamination in the water supply. The women were ''very'' sympathetic. Clair was wheeling him into the delivery room and Bill stopped to ask another man how it had gone - and, specifically, how much pain it had been. The description almost made Bill find the strength to run away. The show ended with [[spoiler:Cliff delivering a six-foot sub sandwich and a two-litre bottle of orange soda; Denise's husband Martin delivered a toy sailboat. Theo, the unwed father, delivered a red convertible. Guess it was AllJustADream]].
* ''Series/Danger5:'' After the Dog Dome was destroyed, The Colonel ate an embyro and hatched the egg of Danger One, AKA [[spoiler: The Other Holly]].
* ''Series/DansUneGalaxiePresDeChezVous'' had an episode where Brad became pregnant with an alien. After it was born, he became very over protective of his offspring, but it all ended with a TearJerker when [[spoiler:the alien baby vanished from existence at the end of its life, making Brad teary eyed of his lost "child".]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' and the ''Franchise/{{Whoniverse}}'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E7TheLongGame "The Long Game"]]: Recurring character the Face of Boe makes a cameo on a news report, where it's mentioned that he's just announced his pregnancy.
** Capt. Jack Harkness has a throwaway line in the first episode ([[Recap/TorchwoodS1E1EverythingChanges "Everything Changes"]]) of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' "Oh well, at least I won't get pregnant, I'm never doing ''that'' again." Harkness's home era is the 51st century.
*** Now for the best part: [[spoiler:It's revealed in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]] that Captain Jack and the Face of Boe are almost certainly [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter one and the same]].]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS37E5TheTsurangaConundrum "The Tsuranga Conundrum"]]: Yoss. His species, the Gifftans, have both sexes able to get pregnant and only able to give birth to their own gender. He's mildly disgusted when told that human reproduction works differently.
* ''Series/DoomPatrol2019'': Larry births a baby [[EnergyBeing negative spirit]] following his visit to outer space.

* In ''Series/FullHouse'' episode "The Volunteer", the subplot involves Jesse making a bet with Becky that he can go a full day wearing a pregnancy suit to get a feel for what she's going through, the winner who gets to pick the attic wallpaper (she wants "Fun at the Circus", he, of course, wants "Elvis: The Wallpaper".) But soon he discovers it's a lot harder than he thought it was. [[spoiler: He eventually takes it off to take a break in hopes that Becky won't notice, but of course she does, and surely enough, he loses the bet, but learns [[AnAesop a valuable lesson]] from it.]]

* ''Series/TheGeorgeLopezShow'': Continuing after an episode of when Carmen runs away, one scene shows Carmen (his daughter) returning home, but with a twist -- [[TeenPregnancy she is pregnant!]] After this, George then realizes not only is his daughter pregnant, but also [[SurprisePregnancy his wife]] and [[ButICantBePregnant his mother]]. Then, his son Max walks into the room with a large belly as well. After asking his father, "[[GroinAttack Where is this going to come out?]]", George abruptly wakes up and responds aloud, "[[ScreamingBirth If you are lucky, your bellybutton!]]" I suppose it was AllJustADream induced from all the stress of worrying about to where had Carmen run away.
* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' has a episode with a pregnant man that Izzie, Christina, and Meredith abduct from the psych ward. He has the bump and all the symptoms, even a positive pregnancy test. Turns out that [[spoiler: he had a tumor-with teeth and hair, no less-growing inside him that produced the pregnancy hormone, thus the positive pregnancy test result. It was removed in surgery]]
* In the ''Series/{{House}}'' episode "Skin Deep", a subplot involved a man dealing with couvade syndrome, to the point of experiencing labor pains along with his wife. House was amused, though the couple were not. Incidentally, it [[spoiler:triggered a clue to the main story's problem.]] Also, see couvade in the Other category.

* In ''Series/TheOrville'', [[OneGenderRace Moclans]], including Bortus and Klyden, [[HomosexualReproduction produce eggs.]] Somehow.
* In the episode of ''Series/QuantumLeap'' titled "8½ Months", Sam leaps into a pregnant woman. Billie Jean Crockett is a pregnant teenager who will make the second biggest mistake of her life - giving her baby up for adoption - unless Sam, as Billie Jean, can convince someone to help her raise her child... before he goes into labor. Here's the specifics of how Sam becoming someone else works: Sam is always in his own body, and the person he swaps places with ends up back in the Waiting Room, though both people inhabit an outward aura of the other. After one leap where Al got droolingly distracted by Sam as a blonde bombshell, Project QL tweaked Al's "tuning" so that he would see through Sam's appearances from that point on. Hence why Al argues that Sam can't be pregnant -- Sam is still technically in a man's body. Yet, Sam experiences several physical symptoms of pregnancy, including sudden nausea, cravings, backaches, swelling feet, hot flashes, frequent urination, bouts of sleepiness, and mood swings. He also insists that he felt the baby kick. [[spoiler:When Sam goes into labor, the infant mysteriously vanishes from Billie Jean's womb in the future, while in the past the doctor is somehow able to see "a head of curls" and encourages Billie Jean to push. All the while, Sam is begging Al for help and screaming to "Get... it... out!"]]

* In the 2018 episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' hosted by Chadwick Boseman, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EVI7wIV7tk one sketch]] features the Fertility Frontier Project, which has successfully implanted an artificial womb in a man. The sketch feels more like a {{deconstruction}} of this trope; the man was supposed to have gotten a C-section, but the artificial womb was discovered by the scientists to be too fragile [[note]]in real-life, women with damaged or thin uteruses must have their babies conceived naturally, as a C-section could potentially cause further harm[[/note]]. As such, the child must be delivered through the patient's urethra, with attendant risk of "tuliping" (meaning that the patient's penis will peel backwards like tulip petals). The scientists spend the rest of the sketch talking over his attempts to find out more about this potential complication.
** This was apparently the case in between [[Creator/NataliePortman Natalie Portman's]] digital short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A0iftflme4 "Natalie Raps"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS8bma7LRX4 "Natalie's Rap 2"]], as in the second one Andy Samburg's character introduces her to their child whose existence she was unaware of.

* Rembrandt Brown from ''Series/{{Sliders}}'' suffered this when the team went into a world where a global epidemic made women unable to carry to full term so men were fitted with vaguely marsupial artificial wombs to ensure the child is fully developed.
* 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. 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.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' has a couple of references across the series to an Ensign, later Lieutenant, Vilix'pran, from an unspecified non-human species, undergoing "budding", his species' equivalent of pregnancy.

* Aside from the time(s) [[ButtMonkey Colin]] got stuck with this-- what with all of those [[WholesomeCrossdresser female roles]] he ends up playing-- there's at least one Irish Drinking Song from ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' that [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this... which is promptly forgotten, next verse.

I'm a dude-- what the hell!?
* Subverted in ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' – Vyvyan's pregnancy turns out to be [[spoiler:the '''BIGGEST CASE''' of trapped wind on record. The embarrassing part is that Vyvyan's studying to become a ''doctor''. He really should've known better.]]

* ''WebAnimation/StarshipRegulars'': The male Gerex can carry their babies after the females lay an egg inside the male. [[spoiler:Wilson made it up]].
* During the ''WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail'' episode 'Garage Sale', Coach Z seems to think he is pregnant.
-->'''Marzipan:''' This garage sale is more like a garbage sale.\\

** Played with in another episode, 'Cliffhangers', where, as part of a mock cliffhanger, Homestar reveals that he's become pregnant to Strong Sad, who reminds him he can't be pregnant because he's a guy.

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'''Amy:''' Yes it's... great. A great miracle.\\

--> ''"If the laws of nature allowed it, I would bear that man's children!"''

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://m.youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]].

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://m.youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]] .

** Nandan, a [[OddJobGods deity of]] trans women and transgenderism.

** Whether Birdo of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' is a trans woman or a cis woman [[ShesAManInJapan depends on which translation (or game) you go with]], but even the versions where Birdo is transgender have her shooting eggs from her mouth.

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://m.youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]] or transgender pregnancy.

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://m.youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]].

A male character gets pregnant through FunctionalMagic, [[MadScientist weird science]], [[GenderBender gender-bending]], BizarreAlienBiology, [[FreakyFridayFlip body swapping]], [[UnscaledMerfolk actually being a seahorse]], or ThePowerOfLove overcoming [[ArtisticLicenseBiology biology]] (read: bad writing). Usually played for laughs since PregnancyDoesNotWorkThatWay in real life, but it can be done seriously or even tragically, especially when it's from a FaceFullOfAlienWingWong.

Sometimes [=MPreg=] is explained by the action taking place in the future, the pregnancy being of [[MysticalPregnancy an explicitly supernatural nature]], or the man being [[BizarreAlienReproduction an alien]], especially if the aliens are hermaphroditic but [[OneGenderRace present as male to our eyes]]. Or if it's otherwise in canon. Regardless of how it comes about, though, fanfic with this often turns into {{Kidfic}}.

The trope name comes from the fact that male seahorses have an egg pouch. In it, they receive and fertilize the egg cells of their mates and carry them to term, a variation of how most other female fish lay their eggs in the water which are then externally fertilized by the male. Not quite the same as a mammalian pregnancy, but it certainly appears as such to human eyes, especially when the young leave the pouch.[[labelnote:note]]However, biologists have discovered that hormones similar to those found in pregnant female mammals are also active in the male seahorse, whose pouch lining becomes highly vasculatized to supply the embryos with oxygen and nutrients similar to a placenta, so for all intents and purposes it ''can'' actually be viewed as a pregnancy, so to speak.[[/labelnote]]

This is theoretically possible in real life. [[MadScientist A scientist]] was able to implant an embryo in the abdominal wall of a male baboon, and others report that it is indeed possible to get a man pregnant if the embryo is planted at the proper spot, but only if the man is pumped full of pregnancy hormones. The embryo [[TheMoreYouKnow can create its own placenta]].[[note]]http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-07/male-pregnancy-dangerous-proposition[[/note]] Unfortunately, the abdominal wall is not designed to detach from the placenta, resulting in [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank massive bloody injury]]. There's also no obvious route of exit, and the baby would have to be removed via c-section. Male volunteers, not wanting to risk their lives on such a venture, have not been forthcoming.

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://m.youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]] or transgender pregnancy

* [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks']] ''Literature/TheCulture'': An exceptionally icky example is present in ''Literature/{{Excession}}''. Given that people tend to live several centuries in the far future society portrayed, life-long monogamy is exceptionally unusual. A couple who plan to stick together that long can engage in a process that involves this trope in order to emphasize their co-dependence. [[spoiler:A couple can impregnate each other in turn to give birth at the same time]][[labelnote:explanation]]First the male impregnates the female, then before the fertilized egg leaves the ovary both initiate a GenderBender (this process is trivial but takes up to a year to complete), the egg is kept in stasis in the ovary as it changes into a testicle, the originally female partner impregnates the originally male partner, the second egg is kept in stasis as the originally female partner changes back and once both individuals are female their pregnancies proceed more or less naturally ending with both giving birth at the same time[[/labelnote]] in a process called Mutualling. In the specific example, [[spoiler:the woman goes AxeCrazy with a knife and kills her partner's fetus (also nearly killing her originally male partner) when the (then female) partner has an affair with another woman while pregnant. The partner changes back and leaves the woman while the woman goes nuts and stabilizes her pregnancy to remain pregnant for the rest of her life]]. This sequence of events so disturbs [[DeusEstMachina the AI of the colony ship]] they lived on at the time (which had watched and subtly intervened in the lives of millions of people who lived on it over its existence) that it resolves to fix their broken psyches as a personal preoccupation. The story ends "happily ever after" with [[spoiler:the couple reconciled before once again going their own ways, the woman giving birth and then being allowed to raise the child she'd gestated for the last 20 years, and the partner (now male) gone off to become (physically) a member of a [[StarfishAlien species]] of [[StrawFeminist Straw Men]].]]

Has nothing to do with Youtube comedian [[https://m.youtube.com/user/mrpregnant/videos Mr. Pregnant]]