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* In ''{{Sugar Rush}}'', Kim's mother Stella becomes pregnant after getting back together with Nathan, even though in the first series she told her lover that he had had a [[spoiler:vasectomy]].

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* ''Film/{{Starman}}'': "I gave you a baby tonight."

* ''{{Dogma}}''. Despite having been infertile for apparently years, at the end of the movie Bethany is told by Metatron that she's [[RapeIsOkayIfItsDivineOnMortal miraculously]] pregnant (necessary because she's the Last Scion - need to keep that bloodline going). It's heavily implied that because she's a descendant of the Virgin Mary her pregnancy is similar to Mary's conception of Jesus.

--->'''Dr. Cox''': Never. They ''never'' say "ribs."

* Examples from TheBible: Abraham and Sarah in the book of Genesis, where Sarah didn't believe it at first when Abaraham revealed that God had told her she'd be pregnant, as she was past childbearing age. Subverted with the Virgin Mary in the synoptic Gospels, since ''she'' knew beforehand that she'd be the mother of Christ, but Joseph [[MistakenForCheating suspects her of infidelity]] until an angel shows up to personally set him straight. There's also the infertility example with Elizabeth and Zechariah, parents of John the Baptist. Here it's Zechariah who utters the "but that's impossible" line. He's struck with dumbness until the child is born as punishment.

* In ''{{House}}'', House confronts a complainy teenage girl on an airplane:

* ''StarTrekVoyager''. HalfHumanHybrid B'Elanna Torres is surprised when this happens with her human boyfriend Tom Paris, as the odds against a Klingon woman and a human man having children naturally is so high[[hottip*:when we see the first such hybrid in ''TNG'' it had a human mother and Klingon father, which was also seen as surprising but not impossible]]. The actress playing B'Elanna had become pregnant several years earlier, which was hidden by having her WrenchWench character wear a work smock with tools in the top pocket.

* In the film ''WomenInTrouble'', porn starlet Elektra Luxx is informed by her doctor that she is now gravid, and she responds by quoting this trope's name verbatim:

* ''BabyMama'' [[spoiler: the final twist at the end when Kate, who was supposed to be infertile or close to discovers she's pregnant]]

* {{Dogma}}. Despite having been infertile for apparently years, at the end of the movie Bethany is told by Metatron that she's [[RapeIsOkayIfItsDivineOnMortal miraculously]] pregnant (necessary because she's the Last Scion - need to keep that bloodline going). It's heavily implied that because she's a descendant of the Virgin Mary her pregnancy is similar to Mary's conception of Jesus.

* Once Bella becomes pregnant in TheTwilightSaga: Breaking Dawn Edward asks if it's even possible because after all he is a vampire.

* In the {{The Time Travelers Wife}} Clare gets pregnant [[spoiler:after Henry has a vasectomy, by having sex with an early version of Henry who traveled from before his surgery]].

** An episode of {{Sisters}} had oldest sister Alex thinking she was pregnant because her period was late and that "the last time that happened, we named her (her daughter) Reed!." Of course, it turned out to be menopause.
** On LifeGoesOn, Libby believed she was experiencing symptoms of early menopause, only to find she was pregnant--and very worried, as she already had a Down's Syndrome child and knew this and her advanced age made it likely that she'd have another (she didn't).

** ''GilmoreGirls'' did the same thing with Sookie and Jackson when they wrote in Melissa [=McCarthy's=] pregnancy despite having an episode two seasons earlier where Jackson had a vasectomy that he didn't want. They retconned it by having Jackson say he lied about getting it since he hadn't wanted it in the first place, and that [[TooDumbToLive he thought Sookie would stay on her birth control pills to keep her skin looking fresh]].

* Of course, Scully in ''TheXFiles'' (got pregnant about four seasons after being diagnosed as infertile. Interestingly, the actress' real-life pregnancy had taken place, and been somewhat clumsily covered with big coats, sitting at desks, etc. about two years before the character was supposedly rendered infertile).

* In the first season of ''TheLWord'', long term couple Tina and Bette are trying to have a baby. Tina [[spoiler:gets pregnant, but loses the baby]] towards the end of the season. In the second season opener, Tina is shown to be visibly several months pregnant, due to actress Laurel Holloway's real life pregnancy. They wrote it in as [[spoiler:Tina had been inseminated again secretly but didn't want to tell Bette until she was sure she wouldn't miscarry. She then didn't tell Bette as Bette had cheated on her in the finale of season one]]. Slightly subverted as for two or three episodes, none of the characters know she is pregnant, but the audience does.

** A subversion or inversion... a version, anyway, happens in "Joy to the World," where a woman is pregnant even though she and her fiance are waiting till marriage, and she swears she hasn't cheated. A skeptical House runs a DNA test and returns dumbfounded to tell them that there actually is no father, and the woman is the first ever case of human parthogenesis, an incredible phenomenon... except she's not, she just cheated on her fiance, and he's lying so that they'll be bowled over with elation and gratitude and get him a Christmas present, which he bet Wilson he could get a patient to do.

** Of course, this leads to a bit of FridgeLogic - B'Elanna herself is the child of a Klingon woman and a human man. Being [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]], shouldn't it be easier for her than it was for her mother?

* Claudia Black, who played Vala Mal Doran on StargateSG1, got pregnant with her first child shortly into fliming for the ninth season. She was reportedly worried about being taken off the show or ruining the plot.. fortunately the creators were already planning a storyline involving her being pregnant. As a result, Vala ended up lost in the Ori's home galaxy for much of Season 9, and when she came back in the last few episodes, was revealed [[spoiler: to be pregnant with a [[DarkMessiah child conceived by the Ori]] so as to [[{{BatmanGambit}} get around the rules barring them from interfering with an Ancient-protected galaxy.]] ]]

* ''{{Coupling}}'' had a pregnancy scare storyline at the end of season 3 - Sally is the one who believes she's at risk and asks the other girls to take a test as well as a control group. She then gets the tests mixed up, so when she finds out one of them is positive, she realises it can be any of them. While they're waiting to go back and buy more tests, [[spoiler:Susan]] reveals that she just found out she's infertile. Towards the end, [[spoiler:Jane]]'s test comes back negative, which results in [[spoiler:Sally]] assuming it's her (and becoming deeply unhappy since it probably wrecks her chances with [[spoiler:Patrick]]. And then [[spoiler:Susan]] walks in with a positive test. It's kind of a spoilery season finale. With a Spider-Man dance. ItMakesSenseInContext. More or less.

* ''MarriedWithChildren'' subverted this when a deceased relative's will stipulates that any family member that conceives a new child will get a $500,000 inheritance. Al and Peg naturally go for it, ''but'' Peg doesn't want to pregnant. She just wants regular sex, so she secretly takes birth control. Al finds out eventually and gets his revenge by faking Peg's home pregnancy test for a positive result. Peg goes into this mode, but Al twists the knife further by saying another relative beat them to the inheritance and reminds her of everything she went through with Kelly and Bud (morning sickness, weight gain and diaper changes). Peg effectively GoesMadFromTheRevelation, while Al is gleeful over this CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* Played with in [[MetalGearSolid2 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty,]] when Rose tells Jack she's pregnant but [[spoiler:it's part of a surreal sequence of events where you can't trust anything that's happening]]. Also, it's possible she can't be pregnant because [[spoiler:she might not actually exist]]. It turns out she is, and, obviously, she does, but the whole of ''MetalGearSolid2'' was such a MindScrew that it takes until ''[[MetalGearSolid4 the fourth game]]'' for any of this to be clear.

* {{Paradise}}: In "Reverberations," a story in this setting, a [[GenderBending gender-bent]] character's unexpected pregnancy causes the {{Masquerade}} concealing her new gender from friends and family members to fail.

** And then there's that one infamous woman who has brought five different men on the show. Claiming they're all the father. Of the same child. This has to be related to this trope somehow. Inevitably:
--->"This one's the father, I know it! I'm 100% sure."\\
"[[GirlOfTheWeek Guy of the Week]], you are ''not'' the father!"
*** There was trailer where the same woman was coming on with guy number 8. The kid isn't gonna have any blood left to test at this rate.

* Played with in [[MetalGearSolid2 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty,]] when Rose tells Jack she's pregnant but [[spoiler: it's part of a surreal sequence of events where you can't trust anything that's happening.]] Also, it's possible she can't be pregnant because [[spoiler: she might not actually exist.]] It turns out she is, and, obviously, she does, but the whole of MGS2 was such a MindScrew that it takes until ''[[MetalGearSolid4 the fourth game]]'' for any of this to be clear.

* On ''{{Angel}}'', Connor, the [[{{Dhampyr}} human offspring]] of a fling between the vampires Angel and Darla. Vampires were canonically stated to be infertile. Darla apparently responds by going on a world tour searching for someone who can tell her what's going on and/or kill the mystically protected child, leaving corpses in her disappointed wake.

* Played with in [[MetalGearSolid2 Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty,]] when Rose tells Jack she's pregnant but [[spoiler: it's part of a surreal sequence of events where you can't trust anything that's happening.]] Also, it's likely that she can't be pregnant because [[spoiler: she may not actually exist.]] It turns out she is, and, obviously, she does.

* ''Film/VillageOfTheDamned'' (from the sci-fi novel ''TheMidwichCuckoos'' by John Wyndham). Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to the above incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.

* ''VillageOfTheDamned'' (from the sci-fi novel ''The Midwich Cuckoos'' by John Wyndham). Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to the above incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.

* In the last issue of the {{Hentai}} ''BoysEmpire'', [[spoiler:Hitomi]] finds out she's pregnant. [[spoiler:She's all of [[{{Squick}} twelve and hasn't started her periods yet;]] unfortunately, the first period can be preceded by the first ovulation...]]
** The first period is normally preceded by the first ovulation; it is the result of the first egg cell not being fertilized. Young women are fertile a few weeks before they know they can have children.

* Examples from TheBible: Abraham and Sarah in the book of Genesis, where Sarah didn't believe it at first when Abaraham revealed that God had told her she'd be pregnant. Subverted with the Virgin Mary in the synoptic Gospels, since ''she'' knew beforehand that she'd be the mother of Christ, but Joseph [[MistakenForCheating suspects her of infidelity]] until an angel shows up to personally set him straight. There's also the infertility example with Elizabeth and Zechariah, parents of John the Baptist. Here it's Zechariah who utters the "but that's impossible" line. He's struck with dumbness until the child is born as punishment.

*** There was trailer where the same woman was coming on with guy number 8. The kid isn't gonna have any blood left to test at thist rate.

"[[GirlOfTheWeek Guy of the Week]], you are ''not'' the father!"
*** [[WaterWorks * Runs off the stage, crying* ]]
**** I caugha trailer where the same woman was coming on with guy number 8. The kid isn't gonna have any blood left to test at thist rate.
*** A ridiculous example was this teenage girl who brought this guy onto the SallyJesseRaphael show because she was ''convinced'' he was the father, because apparently he was the only guy she'd slept with. He was relieved when it turned out not to be his child, but she was still really confused. Turns out that she'd been regularly sleeping with her step-brother, and she was under the impression that she couldn't get pregnant by him. He was the father, of course.

* ''GeneCatlow'': This is Cotton's reaction when Tativana tells him she's pregnant. They had never [[PowerPerversionPotential (physically)]] made love. Cotton's shock lasts all of five seconds, since [[HandWave they decide]] their PsychicBond is so powerful, their spirtual humping [[AWizardDidIt spilled over into the physical world.]]

* Recently in ''{{Shortpacked}}'', Amber finds out she's pregnant with Mike's child. And is confused since she's been taking her birth controls pills faithfully. Turns out Robin thought they were mints, and had been sneaking them and replacing them with actual mints. [[MST3KMantra Best not to think too much on the logic of that scenario.]]

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