History Main / BabyFactory

* In ''Series/{{Underground}}'', we get several mentions of breeding farms where slave women are forced to produce a future generation of slaves, having up to a dozen children that are sold off immediately after birth. Henry came from one of these farms.

* A '''very''' distressing example occurs in ''Series/StargateSG1''. SG-1 finds a planet where the people have developed a virtual panacea which keeps them in perfect health. They later find out that the drug is basically "ground up Goa'uld", as Jack puts it, harvested by enforced breeding of a captive Goa'uld queen. Things get even worse when they find out that the queen in question is Egeria, the mother of the Tok'ra, and pretty much the [[HeelFaceTurn only good Goa'uld queen ever]]--and so (thanks to Goa'uld GeneticMemory) the "Goa'uld" they're grinding up are actually ''[[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch Tok'ra]]''. (The people doing this don't know that--they actually are only scarcely aware of the Goa'uld species generally and had never even heard of the Tok'ra before SG-1 showed up. Still, the Tok'ra are understandably incensed at this abuse, even if it was unwitting, of their mother and lost siblings--and [[spoiler:since the process ends up killing Egeria, mournful that they are now officially a DyingRace with little to no hope of restoring their numbers, ever]].)

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* The MacGuffin of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' are the Five Wives, the harem of Immortan Joe that he was using to breed male children who aren't damaged by radiation. If they fail to produce a healthy baby boy after three tries, he casts them out.

* The ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' ExpandedUniverse: while all able-bodied men were conscripted into the armed forces after E-Day, all fertile women were required to help repopulate Sera. They were relocated to creches where they could be forced to bear children, and if a female was too young, the doctors would resort to pumping them full of artificial hormones to make them mature faster. Though these women got better food rations than front-line soldiers, some of those front-liners considered time with the women at the "breeding farms" a reward. Pregnancy is mandatory at these facilities, and the people in charge don't care [[ChildByRape how it happens]].

* In ''VideoGame/Dota2'', the character Oracle's background lore describes that he was created in The Ivory Incubarium, described as a place where Oracles were specially made to order (presumably in exchange for money) for use as advisors to kings, by 'Pallid Sybils who bred and birthed them'.

* In "VideoGame/Dota2", the character Oracle's background lore describes that he was created in The Ivory Incubarium, described as a place where Oracles were specially made to order (presumably in exchange for money) for use as advisors to kings, by 'Pallid Sybils who bred and birthed them'.

* The horror manga ''Starving Anonymous'' decided to apply the logic of industrial livestock farming to human beings (since its story is about aliens raising humans as cattle), including in the breeding domain. The protagonists enter the "breeding area" of one of those human farms, and it is not a pleasant picture at all. All the "breeders" are kept in cages and naked, like animals. On one side men that several years of pure steroids and lust-inducing drugs turned into mindless brutes and sex-obsessed rapists. On the other women that were raped so many times and bore so many children through the years their bodies became distorted and their mind were completely broken. One of them is seen unable to let go of the rotting remains of her latest baby, that died at birth. And the worst part is that all of these descriptions were directly taken from the RealLife fate of animals in intensive farming industries.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', a BreedingCult keeps women for the purpose of bearing either a "pure" heir or a disposable TykeBomb. [[spoiler: Rize Kamishiro]] managed to escape this fate.
* Gender Inverted in ''Manga/WorldsEndHarem'', where the few non-infected men are woken up from cryogenic sleep so they can impregnate enough women to possibly bear a non-infected male child. There's a bit of leeway to how the women accomplish this, from setting up a TrumanShowPlot staffed by haremettes, to creating a brothelesque catalog, to outright restraining and pumping them full of hormones.

* There's an [[{{Hentai}} NSFW webcomic]] titled ''Goblin Treasure'' that revolves an adventurer named Darren, who at the beginning cleared out a goblin nest with another member of his guild, and when they find a female goblin, Darren's companion says he'll cut her head off and mount it as a trophy in his house, since female goblins are rare to find, only for Darren to say he wants to take her with him. Back in his home, Darren immediately starts using her as [[SexSlave a living sex toy]], though as the story progresses, he stars regretting his mistreatment of her, and names her Gobu, and even thinks of setting her free. When they encounter a goblin hunting party, he asks Gobu if she wants to go with the male goblins and become part of their nest, but she refuses, insisting that she wants to stay with him. Just then, the goblin hunting party is wiped out by a woman named Sally, who when she sees Gobu, rushes over to her and Darren, and introduces herself as a goblin biologist. Sally explains that she's surprised to see a female goblin out and about, especially one in such good health as Gobu, and when Darren calls her out on killing the goblins that wanted to rescue Gobu, Sally says that the goblins had no intention rescuing her. Sally states that the male goblins planed to kill Darren, steal anything of value, and force Gobu back to their nest to breed with all the male goblins. Sally then asserts that the reason why seeing a female goblin is so rare is because they die young as a neglect from [[BreedingSlave being forced to keep mating in order to produce newer generations of goblins]], as well as from neglect due to being forced to stay in the nest with little to no food.

* There's an [[{{Hentai}} NSFW webcomic]] titled ''Goblin Treasure'' that revolves an adventurer named Darren, who at the beginning cleared out a goblin nest with another member of his guild, and when they find a female goblin, Darren takes her with him as a trophy, and immediately starts using her as [[SexSlave a living sex toy]]. As the story progresses, he names her Gobu, and even starts to have second thoughts about his mistreatment of her, and even thinks of letting her go to become part of another goblin nest. When they encounters a goblin hunting party, he asks Gobu if she wants to go with the male goblins, but she refuses, which is when Sally ambushes the hunting party, and introduces herself as goblin biologist, and explains that the male goblins had no intention of rescuing Gobu, their plan was to kill Darren and force Gobu to their nest. Sally mentions that she's surprised to see a female goblin in such good health, because female goblins die young as a result of [[BreedingSlave being forced to keep mating in order to produce newer generations of goblins]], as well as neglect due to being forced to stay in the nest with little to no food.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' it is mentioned that some noble families, as well as some commoners, only seek out women who have a crest for the possibility that they will pass on their crest to their children. [[spoiler:The third wave DLC reveals that this would have been Mercedes’ fate. When she and her mother fled the Bartels family, her half brother Emile stayed behind in the hopes that her step father wouldn’t seek her and her mother out. When he found out that Mercedes and her mother were living in a church, and the her mother was past the age to bear children, he intended to marry Mercedes to produce more crest babies. This caused Emile to snap, and he wiped out the entire Bartels family, leading to the creation of his [[SuperPoweredEvilSide split personality]], the [[TheDreaded Death Knight]].]]

* There's an [[{{Hentai}} NSFW webcomic]] titled ''Goblin Treasure'' that revolves an adventurer named Darren, who at the beginning cleared out a goblin nest with another member of his guild, and when they find a female goblin, Darren takes her with him as a trophy, and immediately starts using her as [[SexSlaeve a living sex toy]]. As the story progresses, he names her Gobu, and even starts to have second thoughts about his mistreatment of her, and even thinks of letting her go to become part of another goblin nest. When they encounters a goblin hunting party, he asks Gobu if she wants to go with the male goblins, but she refuses, which is when Sally ambushes the hunting party, and introduces herself as goblin biologist, and explains that the male goblins had no intention of rescuing Gobu, their plan was to kill Darren and force Gobu to their nest. Sally mentions that she's surprised to see a female goblin in such good health, because female goblins die young as a result of [[BreedingSlave being forced to keep mating in order to produce newer generations of goblins]], as well as neglect due to being forced to stay in the nest with little to no food.

* There's an [[{{Hentai}} NSFW webcomic]] titled ''Goblin Treasure'' that revolves an adventurer named Darren, who at the beginning cleared out a goblin nest with another member of his guild, and when they find a female goblin, Darren takes her with him as a trophy, and immediately starts using her as [[SexSaleve a living sex toy]]. As the story progresses, he names her Gobu, and even starts to have second thoughts about his mistreatment of her, and even thinks of letting her go to become part of another goblin nest. When they encounters a goblin hunting party, he asks Gobu if she wants to go with the male goblins, but she refuses, which is when Sally ambushes the hunting party, and introduces herself as goblin biologist, and explains that the male goblins had no intention of rescuing Gobu, their plan was to kill Darren and force Gobu to their nest. Sally mentions that she's surprised to see a female goblin in such good health, because female goblins die young as a result of [[BreedingSlave being forced to keep mating in order to produce newer generations of goblins]], as well as neglect due to being forced to stay in the nest with little to no food.

Take the female body. Now, instead of visualizing a human being, with all the markings of independent thought and higher intelligence, visualize [[MookMaker an organic device that can be used to create babies]]. This is no doubt rather creepy (particularly for our female viewers), but sometimes this is because it is believed to be necessary, to deal with a heavily depleted species. On the other hand, this trope can just as easily be engaged in for the sake of evil. Babies can be sold for delicious, delicious profit. Or alternatively, [[EatsBabies they're just delicious]]. [[BreedingCult You can guess]] [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil what a sufficiently evil character]] [[SexSlave will do]] [[BreedingSlave from this point]].

See also: MotherOfAThousandYoung, and PeopleFarms, for other human ranching purposes. See also MandatoryMotherhood and BreedingCult. Particularly dark examples of this trope often overlap with BreedingSlave. Sometimes involves a ChosenConceptionPartner.

* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' contains a gender-reversed example: The males of Lyrane II are non-sentient and about four feet tall.

[[caption-width-right:190:It turns out [[TomatoInTheMirror we]] are the [[GreyGoo Von Neumann machines.]]]]

* In ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers #199]]'' (written by David Michelinie), when [[Characters/MarvelComicsCarolDanvers Carol Danvers]] is introduced to the Avengers, we're told that she has become eight months pregnant by an unknown father, or by some unknown force. In issue #200 we get the baby delivery as well as Marcus Immortus (son of Kang the Conqueror and Revelation) admitting he'd kidnapped Ms. Marvel and tried wooing her with expensive clothes, serenading her with history's best musicians, etc. But apparently she hadn't been won over because he says, "with a boost" from his father's "mind machines", Ms. Marvel finally gave in. The reaction of the entire team is to throw a baby shower. (Err?)
** Creator/ChrisClaremont explicitly called out the company’s editors for their handling of the whole affair, both in having [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/779496.html#cutid1 Carol herself call it out]] in ''Avengers Annual #10'' and in ''The X-Men Companion II''. This issue effectively killed Marcus' character as the company hurried to distance themselves from the nonsensical storyline.
---> '''Claremont:''' Now, if that had been the point David [Michelinie] was trying to make, that these other Avengers are [[SuperDickery callous boors]], okay then, I may disagree with the point, but if he followed through on it, it would have made sense. But it seemed to me, looking at the story, looking at the following story, that he was going for: “This is how you respond to a pregnancy.”
* The [[https://comicvine.gamespot.com/psions/4060-56376/ Psions]] in Franchise/TheDCU treat their females like this.
* ''ComicBook/{{Elephantmen}}'' were made by Mappo's genetic engineering, and grown from embryos using local African women as surrogates. The mothers were kept under anesthetic and fed with [=IV=]s for the whole pregnancy and gave birth by c-section. More accurately had the newborn extracted from what was left of their bodies, as bearing an elephantman to term is 100% fatal. It's not discussed why some other species of mammal wasn't used, other than "Mappo is a monster".
* In ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'', Ninjette's own ''father'' wants to reduce her to this. Ninjas sent from the clan have no qualms about chopping off her limbs to make this easier.
* ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost'': Dr. Sarah Kinney is forced to become one by Zander Rice when she disobeys her superiors' orders by attempting to create a female clone of Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}. When she successfully creates the female embryo, Rice forces ''her'' to act as the surrogate. Nine months later, [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] is born.
* A rare voluntary and one-off example occurs with [[Characters/BatmanLadyShiva Lady Shiva]]. She allowed herself to be impregnated solely as a business transaction, to provide a test subject for the child's father, and gave up [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 the girl]] immediately after she gave birth, not meeting the girl again for another seventeen years.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': It's eventually revealed that [[spoiler:[[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon Ghidorah]] intends to forcibly impregnate Monster X (specifically Vivienne) with a "Death-Child", as another way to torment and break her before it finally assimilates her as its fourth head]].

--->'''Queen Aemma:''' "We have royal wombs, you and I. The childbed is our battlefield."