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* The Dark Destroyer in the second ''ComicBook/AtariForce'' comic book series pulls this on a backwater planet creature that he enters into to become born in the form of Martin Champion, speeding up the process to the point where it ends up killing the mother.
* In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Tigra discovered she was pregnant by the Skrull impersonating Hank Pym. She disappears shortly after Norman Osborn takes power without so much as a baby bump, reappearing in time to take part in the Siege of Asgard. Afterwards, she reveals that she'd already given birth to a son, William, in the time between her escape from Osborn and her joining the battle there. Handwaved with a throwaway line about her race of cat people having two month gestational periods.
* In the Creator/DCComics, one member of the China's ComicBook/GreatTen is Mother of Champions, whose entire super power is her ability to go from conception to birth in three days. She also gives birth to [[ExplosiveBreeder litters]] of kids with SuperStrength and who [[YoungerThanTheyLook age ten years for every day they're alive.]] If she mates with one of her teammates, the offspring have other superpowers, as well -- though in the case of the radioactive Socialist Red Guardsman's children, the birth was painful unlike any she'd had before.
* Happened to ComicBook/MsMarvel in a fairly {{Squick}}-inducing storyline in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. She gave birth to a fast-aging baby who grew up into his own father and took her as a wife. [[note]]Squick for her and for the audience, but originally a occasion of mirth and rejoicing for the rest of the Avengers -- including Beast offering to sit in as a living teddy bear for the resulting child -- until Carol explains what happened to her and gives the Avengers an epic WhatTheHellHero speech.[[/note]]
* Happens in ''ComicBook/ThePulse'', but not to an extreme degree. Jessica's enhanced genetics mean that she ends up delivering a healthy, full-term baby at only six months.

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* ''ComicBook/AtariForce'': The Dark Destroyer in the second ''ComicBook/AtariForce'' comic book series pulls this on a backwater planet creature that he enters into to become born in the form of Martin Champion, speeding up the process to the point where it ends up killing the mother.
* In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Tigra discovered she was pregnant by the Skrull impersonating Hank Pym. She disappears shortly after Norman Osborn takes power without so much as a baby bump, reappearing in time to take part in the Siege of Asgard. Afterwards, she reveals that she'd already given birth to a son, William, in the time between her escape from Osborn and her joining the battle there. Handwaved with a throwaway line about her race of cat people having two month gestational periods.
* In the Creator/DCComics, one member of the China's ComicBook/GreatTen is Mother of Champions, whose entire super power is her ability to go from conception to birth in three days. She also gives birth to [[ExplosiveBreeder litters]] of kids with SuperStrength and who [[YoungerThanTheyLook age ten years for every day they're alive.]] If she mates with one of her teammates, the offspring have other superpowers, as well -- though in the case of the radioactive Socialist Red Guardsman's children, the birth was painful unlike any she'd had before.
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''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': Happened to ComicBook/MsMarvel in a fairly {{Squick}}-inducing storyline in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse.''ComicBook/TheAvengers1963'' #200. She gave birth to a fast-aging baby who grew up into his own father and took her as a wife. [[note]]Squick for her and for the audience, but originally a occasion of mirth and rejoicing for the rest of the Avengers -- including Beast offering to sit in as a living teddy bear for the resulting child -- until Carol explains what happened to her and gives the Avengers an epic WhatTheHellHero speech.[[/note]]
* Happens ''ComicBook/GreatTen'': Mother of Champions entire super power is her ability to go from conception to birth in three days. She also gives birth to [[ExplosiveBreeder litters]] of kids with SuperStrength and who [[YoungerThanTheyLook age ten years for every day they're alive.]] If she mates with one of her teammates, the offspring have other superpowers, as well -- though in the case of the radioactive Socialist Red Guardsman's children, the birth was painful unlike any she'd had before.
* ''ComicBook/JessicaJones'': This happens
in ''ComicBook/ThePulse'', but not to an extreme degree. Jessica's enhanced genetics mean that she ends up delivering a healthy, full-term baby at only six months.



* When Rahne from ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' reappears at the team's HQ, she looks about seven months pregnant, [[spoiler:leading poor Rictor to believe it's actually his child]] while she's actually only been pregnant for several weeks. This is explained in a throwaway line by her child being a hybrid of semi-god magical wolf and a werewolf-esque mutant human and with wolves having an average gestation period of two months.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Tigra}}'': In the aftermath of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'', Tigra discovered she was pregnant by the Skrull impersonating Hank Pym. She disappears shortly after Norman Osborn takes power without so much as a baby bump, reappearing in time to take part in the Siege of Asgard. Afterwards, she reveals that she'd already given birth to a son, William, in the time between her escape from Osborn and her joining the battle there. Handwaved with a throwaway line about her race of cat people having two month gestational periods.
* ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'':
When Rahne from ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' reappears at the team's X-Factor's HQ, she looks about seven months pregnant, [[spoiler:leading poor Rictor to believe it's actually his child]] while she's actually only been pregnant for several weeks. This is explained in a throwaway line by her child being a hybrid of semi-god magical wolf and a werewolf-esque mutant human and with wolves having an average gestation period of two months.
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* ''Fanfic/JWITCHSeries'': As shown in Nerissa's StartOfDarkness chapter, [[spoiler: her MysticalPregnancy carrying Drago only lasts a few hours from conception to birth]].
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* During the opening of the 90's Amiga game ''Heimdall'', Thor needs to father a half-divine hero to recover the weapons of the gods and beds a fair maiden. When she wakes up the morning after, she's nine months pregnant, to her ''complete'' bafflement. Clearly, the gods were in a bit of a rush to get their stuff back.
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* Music/PaulaCole's iconic "I Don't Want To Wait" (best known as the theme song to ''Series/DawsonsCreek'') contains the lyrics "She had two babies; one was six months, one was three", suggesting that this trope was in play in order for them to have been born so close together.

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* Most ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games have you wait 60 in-game days (two in-game seasons) from the announcement of the pregnancy until the birth of the child. Not ''Animal Parade''. Exactly seventeen days after your spouse remarks, "If we're going to have kids, we've got our work cut out for us", the child is born. And the second one only takes ''fourteen days''. Even in Harvest Moon time, [[note]]1 month = 1 season[[/note]] that's equivalent to a month and a half. [[RuleOfFun But who wants to wait two months to see their kid, anyway?]]


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* Most ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'' games (formerly known as ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'') have you wait about 60 in-game days from the announcement of the pregnancy until the birth of the child--which is semi-realistic as the AlternativeCalendar has a season last 30 days, so it's about half the year after discovery.
** Not ''VideoGame/HarvestMoonAnimalParade''. Exactly seventeen days after your spouse says "If we're going to have kids, we've got our work cut out for us", the child is born. And the second one after the first only takes ''fourteen days''. Even in Harvest Moon time, [[note]]1 month = 1 season[[/note]] that's equivalent to a month and a half. [[RuleOfFun But who wants to wait two months to see their kid, anyway?]]
** In ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons2014'', after marriage and once the house is large enough at two stories, the female half of the pair will feel ill and go to the clinic with her husband, and they'll be informed by Marian that there's a set amount of days until the baby (they didn't know about) will be born. The length of the pregnancy is determined by the expense of the wedding, with 30 days for a cheap wedding, 20 days for a modest wedding, and only ''15'' days after you're informed if the most expensive wedding is done. You can in theory be parents a mere two weeks after you get hitched.
** ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasonsTrioOfTowns'' makes you wait until you've seen a special event with your spouse at least 31 days after marriage and upgrade your house to be large enough, but the pregnancy lasts a mere 45 days. If you're married to Woofio or Stephanie, there's no spouse event, and if you're married to Inari, you'll just get the baby the next day after the spouse event.
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* In the ''Music/{{Abigail}}'' album by Music/KingDiamond, Miriam becomes pregnant and gives birth to the FetusTerrible Abigail in the same day.

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* In the ''Music/{{Abigail}}'' ''Music/{{Abigail|Album}}'' album by Music/KingDiamond, Miriam becomes pregnant and gives birth to the FetusTerrible Abigail in the same day.
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* Invoked with magic twice in ''Series/OnceUponATime'': When Emma [[spoiler:becomes the Dark one]], at one point she puts a magic substance in Zelena's food which causes her pregnancy to progress faster so that Emma can kidnap her after she's given birth. The season after that, Rumplestiltskin considers doing this to Belle using the same substance (Which is revealed to cause rapid ageing to anyone who isn't pregnant), but ultimately doesn't go through with it. [[spoiler:However, [[EnemyWithout the Evil Queen]] does...]]

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* Invoked with magic twice in ''Series/OnceUponATime'': When ''Series/OnceUponATime''; when Emma [[spoiler:becomes the Dark one]], at one point she puts slips a magic substance in into Zelena's food which causes her pregnancy to progress faster so that Emma can kidnap her after she's given birth. The season after that, Rumplestiltskin considers doing this to Belle using the same substance (Which (which is revealed to cause rapid ageing to RapidAging in anyone who isn't pregnant), but ultimately doesn't go through with it. [[spoiler:However, [[EnemyWithout the Evil Queen]] does...]]

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