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* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers1963'' #200, ComicBook/MsMarvel got spontaneously pregnant, went through [[ExpressDelivery hyper-accelerated gestation]], and gave birth to a child who rapidly grew into an adult and mind-controlled her into being his lover. Not only is it {{squick}}y almost beyond description, it's nigh-unfathomable how this got past, well, anyone in a [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics-Code]] approved book in 1980.

* In Literature/VanasHeritage Siyana feels that her Baby ist possessed by an evil force, after she get impregnated by the man-wolf Vladr. It has quite an effect on her.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'': In issue #200, ComicBook/MsMarvel got spontaneously pregnant, went through [[ExpressDelivery hyper-accelerated gestation]], and gave birth to a child who rapidly grew into an adult and mind-controlled her into being his lover. Not only is it {{squick}}y almost beyond description, it's nigh-unfathomable how this got past, well, anyone in a [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics-Code]] approved book in 1980.

* For his creator-owned series ''ComicBook/CaptainVictoryAndTheGalacticRangers'', Creator/JackKirby created a villain called [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/85865900@N00/90612917/ Paranex the Fighting Fetus]], a cosmic unborn being feared by everyone.

* ComicBook/PowerGirl's pregnancy during ''ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime''; the father was revealed to be [[spoiler:her grandfather, Arion (in ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity)]]. The baby grew up to become Equinox, who promptly defeated Scarabus, disappeared, and was never seen nor mentioned again.

** ''Repentance'' introduces [[spoiler:Tainted Lilith]], whose only method of attach is to release her demonic fetus, named Gello, out of her womb, wherein it becomes controllable and fires tears at enemies. Beating [[spoiler:Delirium]] with this character unlocks a Gello item that gives other characters the same ability, albeit once every two rooms.

* For his creator-owned series ''ComicBook/CaptainVictoryAndTheGalacticRangers'', Creator/JackKirby created a one-shot character called [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/85865900@N00/90612917/ Paranex the Fighting Fetus.]]

* For his creator-owned series ''Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers'', Creator/JackKirby created a one-shot character called [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/85865900@N00/90612917/ Paranex the Fighting Fetus.]]

* In ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', ComicBook/MsMarvel got spontaneously pregnant, went through [[ExpressDelivery hyper-accelerated gestation]], and gave birth to a child who rapidly grew into an adult and mind-controlled her into being his lover. Not only is it {{squick}}y almost beyond description, it's nigh-unfathomable how this got past, well, anyone in a [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Comics-Code]] approved book in 1980.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}'': Pre-''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'', Barbara Gordon was impregnated with one of these by [[spoiler:Brainiac]]. It made her a {{Technopath}} for a while, until she had to abort it for her own survival.

* In ''ComicBook/Earth2: World's End'', one of the Furies of Apokolips is Death, a Martian woman pregnant with what turns out to be a grotesque death entity.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Snow White gets pregnant by the Big Bad Wolf and gives birth to six babies. [[spoiler:What she doesn't know at first is that she actually had seven babies. The seventh child was an invisible being made of wind and wound up killing some people to feed itself.]] Things get better after that, though.
* One of the most horrible stories in ''ComicBook/HackSlash'' has the slasher turn out to be a stunted murderous fetus who emerges from his obese adult twin brother's belly through a slit camouflaged between two rolls of fat. A very short story in the same series has a fetus carve its way out of its laboring mother ''with a knife'', kill the attending doctor, and attempt to crawl ''[[OrificeInvasion into]]'' Cassie Hack while she's waiting for a gynecological exam. Hack promptly squashes it, but still... ''where did it get the knife?''
* One of the main characters in ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' was impregnated by a pack of cards. With twins. One of which she managed to kill while it was technically unborn, the other took her hostage until she negotiated with it.

* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' villain Ember is an unborn dragon fetus that is [[AndIMustScream puppeteering a human body]] Ember uses to [[TheVamp lure]] and scorch unsuspecting victims to death as a hired assassin.

** One BigBad of ''ComicBook/XFactor1991'' was [[spoiler:Haven, who sought to bring about the foretold apocalypse today instead of waiting for it to happen on its own after still more centuries of human suffering. She was led to do it by visions sent to her by "him," but never elaborates upon just who "he" is, though you figure she's talking about God. She's not: she's pregnant, and "he" is her unborn child and the true source of her power]].

* ComicBook/PowerGirl's pregnancy during '' ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime''; the father was revealed to be [[spoiler:her grandfather, Arion (in ComicBook/PostCrisis continuity)]]. The baby grew up to become Equinox, who promptly defeated Scarabus, disappeared, and was never seen nor mentioned again.

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* ''AudioPlay/WereAlive'' has a type of EliteZombie called "Little Ones." Turn out these Little Ones are actually the "grown up" fetuses of infected pregnant women that were fed massive amounts of growth hormone while in utero. The results were baby zombies that grew at massively accelerated rates and became giant killing machines in a matter of months.

* Half of all comic-book pregnancies.
** Most notably, that of [[ComicBook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]]. Donna's friend and fellow [[ComicBook/TeenTitans Titan]] ComicBook/{{Raven|DCComics}} ''is'' one of these, which is why her mom was spirited away to Azarath and allowed limited at best contact with her daughter. How well Raven can resist her "daddy's girl" tendencies determines which side of the HeelFaceRevolvingDoor she's stuck on for a story arc.
** The worst would have to be ComicBook/MsMarvel in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', who got spontaneously pregnant, went through [[ExpressDelivery hyper-accelerated gestation]], and gave birth to a child who rapidly grew into an adult and mind-controlled her into being his lover. Not only is it squicky almost beyond description, it's nigh-unfathomable how this got past, well, anyone in a Comics Code approved book in 1980.
** The same thing happened to ComicBook/PowerGirl during '' ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime''; just replace "rape" with "incest", as the father was revealed to be [[spoiler:her grandfather, Arion (in Comicbook/PostCrisis continuity)]]. The baby grew up to become Equinox, who promptly defeated Scarabus, disappeared, and was never seen nor mentioned again.
* One BigBad of ''ComicBook/XFactor'' was [[spoiler:Haven, who sought to bring about the foretold apocalypse today instead of waiting for it to happen on its own after still more centuries of human suffering. She was led to do it by visions sent to her by "him," but never elaborates upon just who "he" is, though you figure she's talking about God. She's not: she's pregnant, and "he" is her unborn child and the true source of her power]].
* One of the main characters in ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' was impregnated by a pack of cards. With twins. One of which she managed to kill while it was technically unborn, the other took her hostage until she negotiated with it.
* ''ComicBook/NewXMen'': Cassandra Nova, the parasitic twin sister of Professor Xavier, was one of these. In fact, Professor X's very first act of superheroism with his PsychicPowers was to fight her while they were both in the womb. [[spoiler:It turns out she was an astral parasite (known as a Mummudrai) who was Xavier's opposite: Every bit evil as Xavier would be good.]] She's since become one of the ComicBook/XMen's top villains.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Fables}}'', Snow White gets pregnant by the Big Bad Wolf and gives birth to six babies. [[spoiler:What she doesn't know at first is that she actually had seven babies. The seventh child was an invisible being made of wind and wound up killing some people to feed itself.]] Things get better after that, though.
* Pre-''ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics'', [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] was impregnated with one of these by [[spoiler:Brainiac]]. It made her a {{Technopath}} for a while, until she had to abort it for her own survival.
* Zigzagged with Rahne "Wolfsbane" Sinclair of ''ComicBook/XFactor2006'' and her son Tier. At first, it seems to be played straight; [[ExpressDelivery he develops at a freakish speed]] and kicks so hard that she needs an [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands Emergency Power Up]] of SuperToughness to cope with it, and eventually she gives birth to him by ''vomiting him out of her mouth''. Averted in that not only can all of this be explained reasonably (Rahne's a mutant, dad's an [[PhysicalGod Asgardian]] [[UpliftedAnimal wolf-spirit]]), Tier himself isn't evil.
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': Billy's motivation against supers comes from the fact that his wife was raped then impregnated by one. The superpowered fetus then escaped her womb (via heat-vision then flying around, making it clear the Homelander was responsible) before Billy managed to kill it. [[spoiler:Except he wasn't: his clone Black Noir, created to kill the Homelander if he went rogue, decided he'd had enough of waiting for his life's purpose, so he went around filming himself committing atrocities and sending the pictures to the Homelander, {{gaslighting}} him into going rogue]].
* In ''ComicBook/Earth2: World's End'', one of the Furies of Apokolips is Death, a Martian woman pregnant with what turns out to be a grotesque death entity.

* In the ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'', the unborn children of the [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans three Russian women]] who were non-consensually inseminated appear to be this. Whilst the human cast are unfortunately late to the realization, it's clear enough to the reader that the babies are related to Ghidorah and that Ghidorah itself has long-term plans for them.

* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', obviously. There's a ''reason'' why the newlyborn is called a [[ChestBurster chestburster]]. It's made all the more horrible in ''Film/Alien3'', when [[spoiler:Ripley is impregnated and you ''know'' that she will die, [[HeroicSacrifice one way or another]]]]...

* A movie made in the mid 1990s called ''Film/{{Aswang}}'' has this. Basically, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswang Aswang are Philippine vampires whose tongues are abnormally long and are used to suck the innards out of sleeping people]]. The film's version plays on this as the Aswang in this American movie [[EatsBabies feed on unborn children]], but the survivors of an Aswang attack become Aswang themselves. [[spoiler:At the end of the movie, the mother is running away for her life, stumbles and is preparing to be killed by the house help when she feels something tickle downwards past her legs: It's an abnormally long tongue belonging to a baby Aswang.]]

* A particularly creepy example happens in ''Film/JuOn: The Grudge 2''. The protagonist, Kyoko, is pregnant at the beginning of the film, only to lose her unborn child in a car crash [[spoiler:caused by Toshio]]. However, later in the film, after a visit to the hospital, she discovers that her baby is ''somehow still alive''. How can this be? All is revealed at the end of the film, when she [[spoiler:gives birth to some dreadful, unseen thing, the sight of which causes all the present doctors to go insane and die horribly]], while it shrieks inhumanly. Shortly after [[spoiler:the adult spirit of Kayako ''crawls out of her womb'']], and, when Kyoko awakens from passing out, she sees [[spoiler:her baby on the floor, tightly wrapped in a bloodstained piece of plastic]]. The finale of the film subsequently reveals that the child is [[spoiler:Kayako reborn (or a child simply possessed by Kayako, depending on which fan theory you believe)]].

* Damien Thorn Jr in ''[[Film/TheOmen Omen]] IV: Armageddon 2000''. The pregnancy caused his mother terrible suffering and she died giving ''rectal birth''.
* Isaac Bashevis Singer's short story, ''The Black Wedding'' is about a Rabbi's daughter who is married to a demon and is eventually killed from the inside by her fetus. This story has a CuckoosNest twist though, as it is possible to read the character as being crazy and only hallucinating that her boisterous husband and his community are demons, and her ultimate death is merely from normal complications.
* Mordred Deschain in ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' -- while in the womb he forces his mother to eat frogs. He also has ''four'' parents, two of whom are human (and two of the main heroes). The other two are the BigBad and the gender-bending incorporeal sex demon who raped the aforementioned humans at various points in the story.
* The Creator/ChristopherPike novel ''The Grave'' was about a young woman who is impregnated by one of TheUndead and killed by being dumped in a freezer. She becomes one of the undead herself and it is revealed that the fetus she is carrying [[spoiler:was specifically bred by a MadScientist to become the antichrist. But by the end it's revealed that the scientist has failed, being more a balance between good and evil who destroys the scientist and goes on his merry way]]. Oh, and this book was aimed at teenagers. Really.
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* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', Bile's experiments aboard the ''Fleshmarket'' include his attempts at [[spoiler:cloning the Primarchs, most of which ended up as horribly malformed, but nevertheless sentient fetuses capable of communicating through telepathy.]]
* Creator/DamonKnight's short story ''Special Delivery'' features a couple discovering that their unborn child is a hyper-intelligent telepathic bastard (in the {{magnificent|Bastard}}, not biological, sense), but when [[spoiler:he's born, the abrupt change in atmosphere turns him into an ordinary infant]].
* In ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', [[TheGrimReaper the personification of Death]] is the child of the angel Sin and her ''[[ParentalIncest father]]'', {{Satan}}. Her giving birth to him was so painful that it caused her to cry out "death", with the scream reverberating across the universe, and creating a child with the ability to destroy anything except for {{God}}. He subsequently raped her, resulting in a group of ''demonic dogs'' inhabiting her womb, causing her to exist in eternal agony. It's a weird, weird poem.
* In David Shobin's ''The Unborn'', a pregnant woman takes part in an experiment where she's hooked to a super-computer. The fetus begins communicating with the computer and controlling the mother through hormones. Much horror ensues, including a failed abortion attempt, and worries about the baby being some sort of monster when born. At the end the baby is born, and is perfectly normal, hence a {{subver|tedTrope}}sion.

* Glen Cook's ''Dread Empire'' books have the Unborn, a creature created [[spoiler:by Varthlokkur]] from the (yes, unborn) fetus of a pregnant woman who was murdered. Played with in that while the thing is immensely creepy to everyone around it, it's not really evil [[spoiler:and is actually essential as one of the few beings capable of reliably using magic when all magical energy starts becoming unreliable]].
* In Richelle Mead's ''Literature/DarkSwan'' series, it is prophesied that the first-born child of the protagonist, Eugenie Markham, will bring about the end of the human world.
* To avoid horrible spoilers, let's just say that this trope plays a plot-critical role in ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' as the [[spoiler:origin story of one of the major characters]].
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has [[LightIsNotGood Melisandre]] and her shadow assassins. Every so often, she'll lie with Stannis Baratheon, who she believes to be her religion's Messiah come again; when one of Stannis's enemies needs to be killed, she'll get in close and give birth to some''thing'' made of shadow that can cut through steel and bone like paper ([[spoiler:as his brother Renly found out]]).
** Mirri Maz Duurr believed that Daenerys Targaryen's child with Khal Drogo was this. [[spoiler:So, she did something about it. According to the possibly exaggerated tales of the other women present, the stillbirth was hideously deformed, with scales and bat wings.]]
* The novel ''Literature/ParasiteEve'' ends with [[spoiler:the psychoactive child destroying everything around it as it goes through its birth phase before it is inevitably killed by male zygotes, which means that [[WeaksauceWeakness sperm hurts it]]]].
* The titular monstrosities of the short story "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory", from Creator/OrsonScottCard's collection ''Literature/MapsInAMirror'', don't appear in an unborn state, but they look an awful lot like stillborn fetuses (with a fair amount of demon mixed in). The term used for them is significant: "Eumenides" are otherwise known as "[[Myth/ClassicalMythology Furies]]", and these freaks are the main character's punishment for [[spoiler:ParentalIncest]].
* Particularly powerful psychics in Julian May's ''Literature/GalacticMilieu'' setting often develop powers and consciousness in utero. Fury, the BigBad of the series [[spoiler:used his Coercive powers to corrupt several of the Remillard dynasty's children before they were born]]. Later on, the WellIntentionedExtremist Marc Remillard's plan to boost human evolution would come unstuck when Fury's servants [[spoiler:infiltrated the clinic where hundreds of unborn fetuses were being given metapsychic training and corrupted them all]].
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in the case of Jon Remillard. Sentient, aware, and superbly powerful from the first trimester, destined by genetics to become something thoroughly inhuman, he is the closest thing to a BigGood the series has.
* Creator/DeanKoontz:
** In ''Literature/DemonSeed'', the [[AIIsACrapshoot sapient computer Proteus IV]] is unable to experience true life himself, so he settles for using Susan's ovaries and womb to produce a perfect human child that will have his personality. [[spoiler:In the original 1973 novel and [[Film/DemonSeed the film based on it]], Susan initially [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild wants to kill the thing she helped give birth to]]; however, when she finds that Proteus's child has been genetically tailored by Proteus to physically be identical to her dead daughter, she appears to accept it. In the 1997 revised version, she does kill the far-less-human-looking avatar.]]
** In his short story "We Three" from ''Literature/StrangeHighways'', two brothers and sister, gifted with immensely far-reaching psionic powers, kill the entire human race. After that, they beget a baby via BrotherSisterIncest... and the baby, still in utero, proves to be stronger that they three combined. [[spoiler:There's a strong possibility that the baby is a {{hermaphrodite}}, so it won't need the three protagonists after birth...]]
* In K.A. Applegate's ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'' series, there is "The Baby", [[spoiler:born during the 500-year space flight and controlling its mother Tamara through a psychic connection until she becomes a mere husk of her former self]].

* Ben Lovatt from Doris Lessing's ''Literature/TheFifthChild''. Hariett Lovatt and her husband have a really great family of six, but Harriet's fifth pregnancy is a nightmare -- she feels like the fetus tears her apart from inside and is consumed with pain and exhaustion. Ben, when born, is a most unusual and frightening kid whose presence ruins the family.
* In ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'', Voldemort's soul is described as looking like a horrific, shriveled, bleeding fetus. The reason is because making his [[SoulJar Horcruxes]] has brutally torn and maimed his soul beyond repair. According to WordOfGod, Voldemort's final fate is to [[AndIMustScream lie in Limbo between life and death for eternity as that shriveled, semi-conscious fetus]], never living in the physical world but never moving onward into the comfort of death.
** [[Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows The film]] takes the horrible image and ups it by giving it a head and face that's still recognizably the same as his adult body.
** And before he got his new body, he took the form of a small, monkey-sized humanoid that resembled a fetus (Creator/JKRowling has mentioned that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar this is the bit she's most surprised got past the editors]]).

* The ''Skyscraper Throne'' has Reach, King of the Cranes, an EldritchAbomination who tears down the city and all the spirits within it as part of his attempt at being born.
* In ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Mallorean]]'', Garion and company come across a temple in which a woman is giving birth. The father is ''[[DemonLordsAndArchDevils the demon lord Nahaz]]''. Neither child nor mother survive.
* In Cassarabia, a neighboring imperial power from the ''Literature/JackelianSeries'', this trope has actually become ''industrialized'', as sorcerers known as "womb mages" use magical genetic engineering to produce new life forms that are gestated inside female slaves. These unwilling "producers" seldom survive more than a few years' of forced surrogacy, as the resulting artificial life forms are often ''much'' larger than any human ''adult'', let alone a human infant: some "producers" are kept in nutrient vats to sustain their pregnancies, and have ''ribs and pelvic bones'' surgically removed to accommodate their over-sized pseudo-offspring.

---> "If she doesn't do this, she will die. The spawn of the serpent-creature will eat their way out of her, killing her in an agonizingly painful, slow death. She will die in the dream world, and she will die in the real world. Before she dies in the real world, though, she will be driven mad by what is happening to her." She looked at me with a level gaze. "You have no choice. She must take the medicine, and you must incant the spell I tell you if you wish to save her life."
* Fëanor of ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' is an example of the "normal pregnancy gone wrong." He was so incredibly HotBlooded ''in the womb'' that giving birth to him depleted his mother's life energy--elf mothers pass part of their own living spirit into their children and Fëanor had ''all'' of it. She didn't resent him for it, but she was so spiritually exhausted that she passed away shortly into his childhood. Fëanor went on to become the mightiest and most skillful elf whoever lived--but also the most vainglorious, selfish, and hubristic one too.

* One of the unsubs in ''Series/CriminalMinds'' is a teen boy who claims that his mother turned him into a monster by hating him since he was born. She eventually admits to hating him because she "was pregnant with twins, and then [she] wasn't." The show does point out that he's too young to be diagnosed with psychopathy, so it's unclear who's right (whether he committed his first murder in the womb, or whether his mother's mistrust of him drove him to rise to her expectations).

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'':
** Kelly Kline's Nephilim child, the son of Lucifer, is a being so powerful his birth outright kills his mother, and before his birth both angels and demons consider him a borderline apocalyptic threat. ''Supernatural'' puts a spin on this by having Jack be a rather nice person who doesn't really want to hurt anyone, much to the disappointment of his father.
** Jack then proves himself to be the ideal replacement for his malevolent grandfather God a.k.a. Chuck Shurley, after he and the Winchesters figured Chuck is a sadistic jerkwad fanfic writer that is torturing everyone in the multiverse for his personal amusement as he only sees them as characters of the story he writes, he loves downer endings at the expense of the people he tortures and he never cared about anyone interpersonally.

* In one of the more nightmarish episodes of ''Series/UltramanAce'', Yapool curses a pregnant woman by transforming her unborn child into a monster called Mazarius. To make matters worse, after Mazarius is "birthed,"[[note]]due to being a fetus, part of the creature's life is still in the mother's womb[[/note]] Yapool transforms the pregnant woman into the source of the creature's life force meaning the only way Ace can kill Mazarius is to somehow lift the curse of its "mother".

* Abigail, in the Music/KingDiamond album of the same name, possess her mother before being born. She is also an example of ExpressDelivery.
* '':wumpscut:'''s Womb is about the Fetus Terrible delivering a BreakThemByTalking to the mother.
* Music/{{Nirvana}}: Inverted and subverted. Cobain was fascinated by the concept of birth and evoked the imagery often in his work. The album art of ''Music/InUtero'' also references childbirth by showing the inside of a female body and imagery of fetuses. However, to the audience this all comes across as being nauseating and creepy.
* The Cover of ''Music/{{ASP}}'''s ''Requiembryo'' shows the albums BigBad, the Black Butterfly, as an Embryo. Nothing is said about this on the album.

* In the massive ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' romhack ''Dragoon X Omega'', the BigBad is revealed [[spoiler:to be a goddess, corrupted by her unborn child. After the first round, it tears from her womb to continue the fight]].

* ''VideoGame/NeoContra'' has [[spoiler:Gegebonne the Saprophagous Head and Shadow Beast Kimkoh]].

* The first ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' becomes a race to stop this in the game's latter half. In a strange twist, the pregnant "woman" in question is doing this deliberately.

** After the TimeSkip, a pregnant [[spoiler: Shinae]] gives birth to a still born baby... Which has been infested and twisted by the demonic taint inside her, leaving it something that barely looks like a baby. Her lover and the babies' father [[spoiler: Gailen]] takes one look at it and orders the fetus be ''burned''.

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* Completely and utterly inverted in ''Podcast/MetamorCity'' with Darla, who is an abnormally intelligent with massively powerful telepathy and precognition. Despite this, she is a completely innocent unborn child. [[spoiler:She is so powerful enough that she could stun Victor when he was telepathically listening despite him having a partially cybernetic brain to protect his mind that protects against and fools other powerful telepaths.]] Unfortunately, her death at the hands of her psychotic father is a ForegoneConclusion.

** There's also [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1782 SCP-1782]]: [[spoiler:Or rather, ''was'' also SCP-1782- it was a RealityWarper even before it was born, but it drove its mother insane, so she tried to abort it. It... [[DownerEnding didn't go well for either of them]].]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'', Antagone, becomes pregnant and due to her exposure to radioactive waste and ants, her unborn child mutates into an enourmous mutant ant-baby. "Hero" of the show Xander Crews tries to stop the baby from being born. [[spoiler: He fails (or rather, the man he sends to do it refuses to follow through), and the baby is born, eats Antagone and goes on a rampage.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' villain Ember is an unborn dragon fetus that is [[AndIMustScream puppeteering a human body]]. Ember uses to [[TheVamp lure]] and scorch unsuspecting victims to death as a highered assassin.

** A particularly gory episode, "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E14WoodlandCritterChristmas Woodland Critter Christmas]]", has this with a pregnant porcupine, bringing a whole new meaning to GrotesqueCute.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' game ''Neo Contra'' has [[spoiler:Gegebonne the Saprophagous Head and Shadow Beast Kimkoh]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', we find out in the first season finale that [[spoiler:Dr. Venture ''himself'' was one. When his was in the womb, he ''ate his own brother'', who later turned out to have survived inside his body for his entire life to come out as a baby that is missing an arm and has the head of a full-grown man]]. It's also an exaggeration of what [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(genetics) occasionally happens]] in the womb.

* ''VideoGame/{{Covetous}}'' [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible seems to have this going on]], but in a case of Fetus in Fetu rather than actual pregnancy. The game involves a parasitic twin consuming its attached brother's cells/organs [[spoiler:and eventually rips out of the brother's chest. Unless he has a change of heart]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Covetous}}'' [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible seems to have this going on]], but in a case of Fetus in Fetu rather than actual pregnancy. The game involves a parasitic twin consuming its attached brother's cells/organs [[spoiler:and eventually rips out of the brother's chest]].

* The ''Webcomic/SupernaturalLaw'' storyline [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly entitled]] "[[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/supernaturallaw/slaw/series.php?view=archive&chapter=16002 I'm Carrying Satan's Baby!]]" The story deals with the unlucky woman's attempt to get an abortion without the consent of her husband, who [[DealWithTheDevil sold his soul to the devil]] and is now under his control.

* [[spoiler:Envy]]'s true form in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is one, though borders on UglyCute.

** After [[spoiler: being raped by a newly-demonic Griffith]], Casca gives spontaneous birth to one of these, which is actually the [[spoiler: unborn child of her and the protagonist Guts, who was conceived as a normal baby but was corrupted by the aforementioned rape]]. It's hideously malformed, teleports away if threatened, and has a certain amount of control over the demons that constantly come after her. However, it's only terrible in appearance: the thing is apparently mindless, yet drawn to its parents like all children, and is [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas willing to protect its mother]]. [[spoiler: Eventually it merges with an egg-bodied demon, and Griffith is reborn through it.]]
** Ganishka's demon soldiers, which are created by dropping pregnant women into a pool of liquid from captured Apostles and then burst from their mothers' stomachs ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' style, could count too.
** Trolls breed by capturing and raping human women. After a short amount of time, the woman's stomach explodes and a group of baby trolls emerges from her bloody corpse.
* Meruem from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' initially was this, literally, he ignored his mom when she pleaded him to stay in her womb until she is ready to give birth to him, but he told her to shut up then bursted out of her belly and let her die. Then he killed and canibalized anyone he pleased, wanting to eat their meat, as punishment for insulting him and out of boredom. Meruem planned to rule the world and turn all humans in cattle, he also wanted to prove he is the best strategist so he dared to top players of all games to challenge him, he beat and eaten all except a blind girl named Komugi, which makes him feel humiliated and desperate to prove he is the ultimate lifeform, but as he tried time and time again to defeat Komugi, he started to empathize and befriend her, making him reconsider that other lifeforms aren't cattle and he should protect them
* Yuca Collabel from ''Manga/ImmortalRain'' {{re|incarnation}}surrects himself this way. Specifically, after his surrogate mother is unwittingly artificially inseminated with him, he rapidly grows to term in two months, causing his mother's stomach to get so huge that she couldn't walk. Why does she get so big? Because he's ''already aged to the form of a prepubescent boy in utero.'' Unsurprisingly, when she goes into labor, instead of taking the usual route, he just bursts out ''Aliens'' style.
* Hao from ''Manga/ShamanKing''. His regular rebirth through conception is treated as an Anti-Christ thing by his clan. They have a special 'kill the infant' thing around the time of the Shaman Fight because one of them will be him.
* Pinoko in ''Manga/BlackJack'' started out as a fetal mass of underdeveloped flesh with psychic powers, encrusted as a huge parasitic tumor in the body of a woman (of whom she would've been her twin). Black Jack took pity on her as [[PluckyGirl she wanted to live at all costs]], and finally made her a doll-like body.

* The A.I.M BURST from ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun''. It is [[spoiler: the collective sorrow and despairs from the low-level Espers that used the Level Upper]]. Although it's not a ''human born'' fetus, it certainly qualifies for the ''terrible'' part. It's also the first arc's FinalBoss.
* In Chapter 49 of ''Manga/HydeAndCloser'', we get a story about five people trapped in a tunnel: A business man, a wealthy couple, a policeman and a pregnant lady. The story basically tells how each one of them die one after another because of some creepy accidents. The catch is [[spoiler:during the time they are trapped in the tunnel, the policeman was giving reports about how many people were still alive. He always gave the right number, but he always forgot to count one of them, the unborn child. The unborn baby was so furious for not being counted that he created those accidents to kill the people that were excluding him. In the end, he crushed his own mother under a rock and still managed to survive.]] Ouch.

* Arguably, Miaka's unborn child in the 3rd ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' OVA counts as this, as it leads [[DesignatedHero Mayo]] to [[spoiler: the fake]] Suzaku. Subverted, however, because [[ApocalypseMaiden the rest is all Mayo's doing]]... and eventually [[spoiler: allows her and Miaka to summon the ''real'' Suzaku]].
* In ''Manga/DescendantsOfDarkness'', [[spoiler:Hisoka's mother Rui has been pregnant for ''at least'' [[LongestPregnancyEver two years]] with a sort-of demon god.]]
* In ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS'', [[spoiler:all twelve [[{{Cyborg}} Numbers]] bear a clone of [[MadScientist Jail Scaglietti]] in their wombs. If he dies, a clone of him with all of his memories will be reborn and it will grow instantly into an adult. It's also ParentalIncest]].

** Cordelia becomes pregnant and possessed with a Fetus Terrible ''twice.'' If you count the "eye-in-the-back-of-the-head" thing, ''three times''. It was even {{lampshade|Hanging}}d.
** Played with in the pregnant Darla storyline. It was written for a few eps as though she was pregnant with something terrible, although it was ultimately subverted.
* Phoebe on ''Series/Charmed1998'' becomes pregnant with Cole's child (conceived while he was possessed by [[MadeOfEvil the Source]], and was thus destined to become the ruler of the underworld if born). The kid is able to make Phoebe throw fireballs, force her to shove Paige out of a third floor window and turn fruit into raw meat all while still in the womb. Ultimately, the fetus was magically transferred to the Seer, who, unable to handle the sheer power it had come to develop, exploded violently enough to take down the ''entire Infernal Council'' with her.

* ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses'' parodied this with the birth of Del Boy's son, Damien. When Rodney discovers the name to be given to the child, he is tortured by fantasies and nightmares that the as-yet-unborn child will grow up to be an evil, manipulative Antichrist. Of course, the boy is nothing of the sort, but this doesn't stop Rodney from reading far too heavily into the small child's rebellious antics.

* Let us not forget the long, drawn-out story arc on ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' in which Gabrielle is impregnated by the demonic god Dahak.
* When Gail is pregnant with Lucas Buck's child in ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'', she sees the baby as this during her ultrasound.
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Kelly Kline's Nephilim child, the son of Lucifer, is a being so powerful his birth outright kills his mother, and before his birth both angels and demons consider him a borderline apocalyptic threat. ''Supernatural'' puts a spin on this by having Jack be a rather nice person who doesn't really want to hurt anyone, much to the disappointment of his father.
** Jack then proves himself to be the ideal replacement for his malevolent grandfather God AKA Chuck Shurley, after he and the Winchesters figured Chuck is a sadistic jerkwad fanfic writer that is torturing everyone in the multiverse for his personal amusement as he only sees them as characters of the story he writes, he loves downer endings at the expense of the people he tortures and he never cared about anyone interpersonally.

* ''Series/{{LOST}}'''s Aaron may grow into something terrible, depending on who you ask about the woman raising him.
* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''
** Played with when Dewey is encouraged by his unborn brother to make mischief.
** Another example is in a flashback when Lois is pregnant with Reese, and he kicks so hard that it's clear that he already has a nasty violent streak.
* Subverted in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E1TheChild The Child]]", in which Deanna Troi becomes mysteriously pregnant, which makes some people very nervous, but it's really just a friendly alien wanting to learn about humans by incarnating as one for a short time.
* One episode of ''Series/ReGenesis'' involves a baby specifically bioengineered by terrorists as a purpose-built carrier of a deadly, contagious hybridized plague, and implanted into the fetus of an unsuspecting mother in an attempt to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* ''Series/GhostWhisperer'''s Melinda is pregnant, and the Other Side has told her that her son will have even more powers than her, which will presumably draw unsavory spirits to them.
* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "White Light", the unborn Isabelle uses her abilities to injure Jordan Collier in such a way that Shawn is unable to completely heal him more than a year later.

** The episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E07TermsOfEndearment Terms of Endearment]]" is all about a demon who's trying to father a child that ''isn't'' this. He just wants a normal human baby and marries women and then kills them when they inevitably give birth to demon babies. (He kills the babies, too.) Unfortunately for him, he eventually marries a woman who ''wants'' a Fetus Terrible.
* ''Series/{{Riget}}'': In the haunted Danish hospital, Dr. Judith Petersen's fetus develops much, much, ''much'' too fast. The mysterious father has disappeared, and her new boyfriend tries to convince her to abort the FT. [[spoiler:However, the child gets born towards the end of the first season, just when they try to carry out the abortion, and we follow its trials and tribulations throughout the second season. It turns out that the child isn't evil at all. The father, on the other hand...]]
* In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'', [[spoiler:Vivian is pregnant with a demon spawn.]]
* In season 9 of ''Series/StargateSG1'', the Ori impregnate Vala with the Orici, basically their version of the Antichrist. As Vala herself put it:
-->'''Vala:''' Let's get something clear. She's not my daughter, Daniel. The Ori impregnated me against my will and forced me to bring her into the galaxy. I was an incubator. A shipping crate. And nothing more.
* In one of the more nightmarish episodes of ''Series/UltramanAce'', Yapool curses a pregnant woman by transforming her unborn child into a monster called Mazarius. To make matters worse, after Mazarius is "birthed,"[[note]]due to being a fetus, part of the creature's life is still in the mother's womb[[/note]] Yapool transforms the pregnant woman into the source of the creature's life force meaning the only way Ace can kill Mazarius is to somehow lift the curse of its "mother".
* Zigzagged in the original ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' franchise, as Robin's pregnancy by a Visitor at first looks like this trope, causing her to crave raw meat and nearly killing her when an abortion is attempted. [[spoiler: She gives birth to twins: a daughter who looks human, then reveals a reptilian tongue and poison spit, but grows up to be one of the good guys; and a short-lived scaled son who's the carrier of a toxin that becomes the heroes' chief weapon against the alien invaders. So he's a Fetus Terrible for humans in looks and ''for the aliens'' in physiology.]]
* {{Discussed}} in ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010''. Lori briefly expresses concern over what would happen if she suffered a miscarriage, and her unborn child ''turned in the womb.''
* One of the unsubs on ''Series/CriminalMinds'' was a teen boy who claimed his mother turned him into a monster by hating him since he was born. She eventually admits to hating him because she "was pregnant with twins, and then [she] wasn't." The show does point out that he's too young to be diagnosed with psychopathy, so it's unclear who's right (whether he committed his first murder in the womb, or whether his mother's mistrust of him drove him to rise to her expectations).
* Ben Chang on ''{{Series/Community}}'' claims to have eaten his twin sister in utero. However, it is also possible that he just made this story up, which seems just as likely [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} given the source]].
* In ''Series/Evil2019'', Eleanor is in the ninth month of her fraternal twin pregnancy, and comes to believe the male twin is malevolent, and requests an exorcism. She is initially rebuffed by the church, as an exorcism on a womb is highly unorthodox. Later, while attending mass, she appears to suffer a miscarriage, but her son is shown to still be alive. However, her daughter now mysteriously no longer appears on the ultrasound. Eleanor's doctor attributes this to Vanishing Twin Syndrome, whereby one twin absorbs the other. However, he conveniently ignores that this should only be possible about 12 weeks into the pregnancy, not 9 months (nearly-born babies don't absorb eachother). Eleanor, horrified by the whole ordeal, attributes this to her son ''eating'' her daughter. David later arranges an emergency exorcism, but she gives birth before it can be completed, to a seemingly-healthy baby boy.

* The creation myth in some [[Myth/NativeAmericanMythology American Indian]] cultures features the Good Twin and the Evil Twin. The Evil Twin is evil from the womb, and typically kills his mother trying to get born too quickly. He goes on to create death, disease and the Rocky Mountains.[[note]]That's not ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, as the Rockies are an extremely dangerous and inhospitable mountain range, particularly before modern times.[[/note]]
* [[Literature/TheBible Esau and Jacob]] fighting in Rebekah's womb and causing her lots of trouble... {{E|vilTwin}}sau in particular.

* Ye olde ever relevant ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' calls these little nasties "Unholy Scions" in the supplement "Heroes of Horror", giving the fetus a +6 intelligence bonus while still in the womb (the rough equivalence of taking an animal and making it a slightly stupid person, or of taking an average person, and making them a genius). Comes with a no-save allowed charm effect on the mother so a woman who becomes pregnant with one will suddenly find herself compelled to do horrible things such as committing murder and will have no idea why. Unholy Scions are conceived when a fiend has a child with a female mortal in an area highly tainted with evil. They can also be created by an evil spirit permanently merging with a developing fetus. The child is a biologically a fiend, but their appearance is that of their mother's race with only a subtle wrongness instead of being visibly half-fiend.

* This is a motif for around 80% of Zombie Spawn in TabketopGame/{{Mortasheen}}, which mainly comes from the fact that they are the horrifying results of [[NauseaFuel two zombies copulating]].
* The first edition of ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' has the ''unihar'', or "ghost children," which are created when two werewolves have a sexual relationship and the female gets pregnant. At birth, a twisted malformed spirit emerges and flees into the Shadow Realm, waiting to grow more powerful and exact revenge upon its parents. Averted in 2E, wherein the product of two werewolves is simply almost certain to be a [[HalfHumanHybrid wolfblood]] likely to undergo the First Change.

** The ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' supplement ''Intruders: Encounters With The Abyss'' has the Nativity, children born from the Abyss impregnating unfortunate {{Muggles}}. They are Paradox magnifiers, [[WeirdnessMagnet living curses of bad luck]], cause the mother to become overprotective to the point of paranoia...''[[ChildrenAreInnocent And have no idea they're causing any of this]]'', leading to ''major'' [[TheWoobie sympathy]] as everyone blames them for a crime they didn't know they commit. WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, ahoy!

* This is how Genestealers from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' differ from [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Facehuggers]], [[VideoGame/HalfLife Headcrabs]] and most other providers of the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong - they corrupt the DNA of the victims so that the offspring are horribly mutated, but hypnotise the parents (or this happens as part of the infection) into looking after it. From the parents' point of view, they aren't this at all.
* "Blood Babies" from ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}} Classic'' are "Abominations" from the southern parts of America that superficially resemble newborn human children and have a penchant for clawing their way out from inside a woman's uterus. [[spoiler:[[SpoofAesop And this, friend, is why you should always boil water before you drink it.]]]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{FATAL}}'' has a particularly depraved version in which people can be made pregnant by a ''rapist sword'' and give birth to ''another'' sword. And this, friends, is one of many, many reasons why you Should Not Play ''FATAL''.

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Heather is "pregnant"[[note]]her uterus isn't actually involved[[/note]] with a freakish God (or devil, whichever you like). Made more terrible when she vomits up quivering God-fetus. Made more more terrible when Claudia ''eats'' it.]]
* The demon's final form in ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' is a scary-looking green demonic foetus with horns and red eyes, in an incubation chamber located in the heart of it's lair.
* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': After the [[spoiler:abortion]] scene you have to [[spoiler:fight off waves of aborted {{Nazi Zombie|s}} fetuses ending in a boss battle against the huge mutant undead fetus from Khloe Kardashian's latest abortion]]. It's one of the most disturbing parts of the game, especially if sympathise with the [[spoiler:dead]] babies.
* The first ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' becomes a race to stop this in the game's latter half. In a strange twist, the pregnant "woman" in question is doing this deliberately.
* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has as one of the three last major enemies Noah, god of solitude. [[spoiler: Isamu as the core, curled up in a fetal position surrounded by a red orb]] Equal parts this trope, BodyHorror and pure terror.
* In the massive ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI'' romhack ''Dragoon X Omega'', the BigBad is revealed [[spoiler: to be a goddess, corrupted by her unborn child. After the first round, it tears from her womb to continue the fight.]]
* In ''VideoGame/HauntingGround'', [[spoiler: Riccardo needs Fiona's womb/azoth so she can ''give birth to him (possibly repeatedly) as a means of living forever.'']]
* At the end of ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR 2]]'', [[spoiler: Alma "rapes" Beckett and gets pregnant. Alma then puts Beckett's hand to her stomach and a little voice, which is not Alma's, says "daddy".]]
* At the end of ''VideoGame/OverlordRaisingHell'', it is shown that the Overlord's mistress is pregnant. Said hellspawn is the protagonist of Overlord II.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Lucrecia Crescent allowed her unborn child to be injected with Jenova cells. The direct result of this experiment was the main antagonist Sephiroth. During her pregnancy, Lucrecia got horrible pain attacks and visions of what her son would become. Granted, it was actually the Jenova cells causing the illness and visions, not the fetus itself, but still.
* The Nihilanth from ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' resembles a giant fetus (with a third arm growing out of it's chest and a head that opens up).
* ''VideoGame/MeatBoy'': Dr. Fetus is probably the most actively evil fetus ever, and he does it all in his mechanical, tuxedo and monocle wearing preservative jar. Can possibly be an EnfantTerrible since he's out of the womb, but he's also still a fetus.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' features a Fetus Terrible as an important plot point in the climax. [[spoiler:It's revealed that an archdemon is killed, the Old God that inhabits it will simply jump into the next tainted creature nearby. The only thing to prevent this is to have a Grey Warden deal the killing blow as they gain their powers from the taint but still have their own souls, so the soul of the Warden and the Old God will annihilate each other. Your companion Morrigan offers to perform a ritual that enables her to become pregnant with the child of a Grey Warden. When a Grey Warden deals the killing blow to the archdemon, the Old Gods spirit will jump into the tainted child instead and save the Warden from having to sacrifice themselves.]] Morrigans only condition for going through with it is that she is to leave after the battle and raise the child on her own. In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', [[spoiler:the Inquisitor encounters Morrigan and her now ten-year old son Kieran, a normal looking but [[CreepyChild creepy]] and [[WiseBeyondTheirYears suspiciously knowledgeable]] child. The Old God's soul is eventually extracted from Kieran, rendering him a human child and ultimately subverting the original implication that he was going to become an Old God in human form.]]
* In ''Franchise/DeadSpace'', there are the Lurkers. Originally, they were clone-fetuses being grown in PeopleJars as spare body parts for the miners aboard the Ishimura, but became [[OurZombiesAreDifferent necromorphs]]. They crawl up the walls and shoot slime at you from their CombatTentacles.
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', [[spoiler:if you search Joker and Harley's HQ, you can find a positive pregnancy test laying around indicating that Harley is pregnant with The Joker's child. The fact that the child was conceived while The Joker was suffering the side-effects of [[PsychoSerum Titan]] can lead to some pretty terrifying implications.]] However, it's revealed in ''Harley Quinn's Revenge'' that [[spoiler:Harley merely got a false positive on her test after a long string of negatives]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'':

** [[VideoGame/MeatBoy Dr. Fetus]] makes a cameo appearance as an unlockable item - the Fetus In A Jar, which replaces your tears with bombs. There's also the Epic Fetus item, which drops [[InfinityPlusOneSword absurdly powerful]] ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill missiles]]'' [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill onto your enemies]]. The unlock image even has the Epic Fetus FlippingTheBird at you as missiles rain from the sky!

** ''Repentance'' introduces [[spoiler: Tainted Lilith]], whose only method of attach is to release her demonic fetus, named Gello, out of her womb, wherein it becomes controllable and fires tears at enemies. Beating [[spoiler:Delirium]] with this character unlocks a Gello item that gives other characters the same ability, albeit once every two rooms.
** ''Repentance'' also has Vis Fatty enemies, which have a demonic fetus - called Fetal Demons - attached to an umbrical cord that chase after the player, though are limited in range due to being tethered. Killing the Vis Fatty first will allow the Fetal Demon to fly around the room and chase after the player freely.

* Medivh from the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' series. He was possessed by the spirit of Sargeras (''Warcraft'''s equivalent of {{Satan}}) while he was still in his mother's womb. [[spoiler:He got better by the time of the third installment]]. It latter turns out that [[spoiler:[[GeniusLoci Azeroth itself]] is in danger of becoming this should the [[TheCorruption Old Gods]] manage to corrupt the nascent Titan world-soul slumbering within its core]].
* The third ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' game has one, [[TheAntichrist the Shintai]], as a plot element - one of the titular Darkstalkers, Jedah, is hoping to use it to rewrite reality. It's shown in the background of the "Fetus of God" stage, and its [[BodyHorror disgusting, skinless look]] has been known to unsettle players.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', the source-of-all-evil Yami appears to be some kind of giant, modular mechanical orb, but when you finally manage to cut through his layers of defense, his core is a clear bubble with a small fetus-like creature inside. This may be a metaphor for the evils of technology.
* The [[BigBad ORN]] [[FinalBoss Emperor]] from ''[[VideoGame/ThunderForce Thunder Force VI]]'' is an extremely ugly and monstrous infant with 3 eyes and varying number of irises in each of them. Apparently, the design was lifted from a character from a manga the project director had once drawn.
* ''[[VideoGame/{{Contra}} Neo Contra]]'' has [[spoiler: Gegebonne the Saprophagous Head and Shadow Beast Kimkoh.]]
* Played very tragically in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''. Botchlings are monsters born from the tortured souls of stillborn babies who were hastily discarded and buried without proper ceremony. They look like deformed toddler-sized fetuses, caked in dried blood, their umbilical cord wrapped around them like a strangling vine, and their enormous mouths filled with many sharp teeth. While they normally only prey on pregnant women, they can transform into a larger and more powerful form if directly threatened, a form akin to an alghoul. It is also possible to appease one into becoming a gentle guardian spirit for the family household, but this requires one of the parents to undergo a ritual which is both physically dangerous and emotionally traumatising.

* ''VideoGame/{{Darius}} II'' has the Bio Strong, a giant embryo, as the final boss of Zone V and Zone Z. It has a pitiful moveset consisting of only two different attacks, but that's not to say they're easy to dodge... The updated version, Super Darius II, meanwhile has ''Mech.'' Bio Strong, which is best described as a {{Cyborg}} fetus. This one has more moves than its organic counterpart, though one can find a safe spot if they park their ship so that it lines up with the chest of the boss.
* Lore entries in ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'' reveal that [[spoiler: Uta Bloody Valentine AKA the White Rabbit]] started out as an example of embryonic cannibalism, for though she was ostensibly an ordinary human embryo, she assimilated her twin sisters in the womb - and the birth was so difficult that it ended up killing her mother too. As a result of this, she was born with [[ManySpiritsInsideOfOne the souls of her dead siblings rattling around inside her head]] and [[ChildMage an unprecedented prowess in magic]]. For good measure, lore for her mentor [[HumanoidAbomination Lilith]] actually features references to the real-world phenomena of embryonic cannibalism among sharks.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'': In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIII'', the Orb of Light is given to Erdrick by the Dragon Queen, moments before she dies in birthing the egg of her heir. Return later, and the egg is gone— and an NPC will comment on how ''something'' flew down into the Pit of Gaia, the only passage between the Upper World and Alefgard, while it was still open. Coupled with greater hints in the ''Emblem of Roto'' manga, all signs point that her child ultimately became the Dragonlord who conquered Alefgard in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestI''.
* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'' is [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo, an evil and destructive [[TelepathicSpacemen psychic alien]] whose brainwaves have put the Beast Pack under its control. While not ''technically'' a fetus, its appearance while shut up in the Eternal Capsule looks like an enormous embryo.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Covetous}}'' [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible seems to have this going on]], but in a case of Fetus in Fetu rather than actual pregnancy. The game involves a parisitic twin consuming its attached brother's cells / organs [[spoiler:and eventually rips out of the brother's chest]]. (Warning: the game features some ''[[SensoryAbuse incredibly]]'' strong flashing lights and can give headaches or seizures as a result, so research with caution.)

* Played with in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfGynostar''; Douglas is the fetus one of the villains kept in a jar in her house, apparently he's her child. Later on, he joins Gynostar's team of superheroes, having acquired a robot suit that enables him to walk and shoot lasers.

** There's also [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1782 SCP-1782]]: [[spoiler:Or rather, ''was'' also SCP-1782- it was a RealityWarper even before it was born, but it drove its mother insane, so she tried to abort it. It... [[DownerEnding didn't go well for either of them.]]]]
* Completely and utterly inverted in ''Podcast/MetamorCity'' with Darla, who is an abnormally intelligent with massively powerful telepathy and precognition. Despite this she is a completely innocent unborn child. [[spoiler: She is so powerful enough that she could stun Victor when he was telepathically listening despite him having a partially cybernetic brain to protect his mind that protects against and fools other powerful telepaths.]] Unfortunately her death at the hands of her psychotic father is a ForegoneConclusion.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

* Morocco Mole of ''WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel'' was constant bullied by his EvilTwin ever since the both of them were fetuses. Scirocco (the evil one) said it begun when their parents met.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', we find out in the first season finale that [[spoiler:Dr. Venture ''himself'' was one. When his was in the womb, he ''ate his own brother'', who later turned out to have survived inside his body for his entire life to come out as a baby that is missing an arm and has the head of a full-grown man.]] It's also an exaggeration of what [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(genetics) occasionally happens]] in the womb.

* Meruem from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' initially was this, literally, he ignored his mom when she pleaded him to stay in her womb until she is ready to give birth to him, but he told her to shut up and bursted out of her belly and let her die. Then he killed and canibalized anyone he pleased, wanting to eat their meat, as punishment for insulting him and out of boredom. Meruem planned to rule the world and turn all humans in cattle, he also wanted to prove he is the best strategist so he dared to top players of all games to challenge him, he beat and eaten all except a blind girl named Komugi, which makes him feel humiliated and desperate to prove he is the ultimate lifeform, but as he tried time and time again to defeat Komugi, he started to empathize and befriend her, making him reconsider that other lifeforms aren't cattle and he should protect them