History Main / FetusTerrible

* In ''Series/{{Evil}}'', 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 only thing creepier and more dangerous than the EnfantTerrible. The Fetus Terrible hasn't even been born yet, but will become TheAntichrist or a demon prophesied to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt once it escapes from its womb. The woman carrying this (often literally) hell-born spawn is usually an innocent, unwittingly impregnated by the Devil himself, and the other characters have to race to prevent the birth or stop the child from becoming the ultimate EnfantTerrible. Occasionally this can result of a perfectly normal pregnancy GoneHorriblyWrong pre or post conception, where the issue can be a {{mutant|s}}, HybridMonster, UndeadChild or some other abomination. This trope can also overlap with WombHorror, especially if the mother knows what's growing inside her.

* In Creator/DeanKoontz's short story ''We Three'', 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:And there's a strong possibility that the baby is a {{hermaphrodite}}, so it won't need the three protagonists after birth...]]
** Who can forget the child/avatar of Proteus 4 in ''Demon Seed.''?

** Jack then proves himself to be the ideal replacement for his malevolent grandfather God AKA Chuck Shurley, after he and the Winchesters figured Chuch 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

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

* In ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', the plot revolves around a still unborn son-of-lucifer who should prove to be many times worse than the father.

* A less apocalyptic but no less creepy version can be found in the ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, where a woman is bitten while pregnant and succumbs to the zombie plague. Her baby turns into a zombie fetus and is later born in a very gory scene.

* The third act of ''Film/TheFly1986'' involves, among other things, the possibility that Veronica's carrying a mutant child, since most of her relationship with Seth came ''after'' he accidentally turned himself into a HalfHumanHybrid of man and insect. In a memorable NightmareSequence, she imagines herself giving birth to a giant maggot. For his part, Seth is against her intentions to have an abortion because it's possible the child is fully human, and thus the last remnant of [[SplitPersonalityTakeover his own dying humanity]], and in the climax he [[spoiler:attempts to genetically fuse himself with her and the unborn child to save himself ''and'' create "the ultimate family"]]. (The film ends without resolving this plot thread, so the BTeamSequel ''Film/TheFlyII'' is about the SpinOffspring, who turns out to be a good-hearted UnevenHybrid.)
* The movie ''Film/{{Grace}}'' is about one of these. A mother survives a car crash, but her fetal daughter is killed -- but she insists on carrying to term. She does, and the baby is born seemingly alive. Only she bruises in sunlight, and has a thirst for blood...
* ''Film/ItsAlive'': The first thing the baby does when it's born is slaughter the attending medical staff. And in the sequels, the creatures get even more horrific...

* The God of Machines in ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'' has the shape of a baby's head. Any similarity ends there.

* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' picks up this trope from the previous ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' films and has a ball with it: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Shaw recognizes right off that her pregnancy is abnormal, since she can't have children in the first place. Plus, it's grown far too quickly in the available time to possibly be human. ''Then'' she learns exactly what's growing inside her and immediately performs a Cesarean section on herself ''without adequate anesthetic,'' she's that desperate to get it out of her. The resulting baby/squid/facehugger hybrid proceeds to face-rape the Engineer and begin a ''very'' familiar cycle.]]
* Popularized by '' Film/RosemarysBaby'', the entire plot of which is "an unsuspecting woman is impregnated with a half-demon to serve as TheAntiChrist".
* The psychic fetus in ''Film/{{Scanners}}''.
* The demon foetus in ''Film/SeedingOfAGhost'', who is an aborted baby who's brought back from the dead to wreak havoc. The same foetus later ''impregnates'' a woman to assume a humanoid form.
* The final scene of ''Film/{{Splice}}'' reveals that [[spoiler:Elsa is pregnant by Dren's male adult form, and she's persuaded by the genetic engineering CorruptCorporateExecutive ''not'' to abort the whatever-it-is she's carrying, so that it can be studied alive]].
* Barbara Eden once starred in a film called ''The Stranger Within'', where she plays a woman who's taken over by the alien fetus she's carrying. In the end, [[spoiler:it turns out that several women were impregnated, and they all get whisked off into space by the babies' father(s)]]. It becomes HarsherInHindsight considering what happened to Barbara Eden's own child.

* 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 the MadScientist has failed, being more a balance between good and evil who destroys the MadScientist and goes on his merry way]]. Oh, and this book was aimed at teenagers. Really.
** See also ''The Cold One.''

* 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 Milton's ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', 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.
* 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 subversion.
* Renesmee of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' bears all signs of being this, seeing as she ''feeds only on human blood'' and ''shatters her mother's ribs, pelvis and spine'' -- but once she's born (by gruesome vampire-tooth C-section), she ends up a shockingly well-adjusted CreepyChild.

* To avoid horrible spoilers, let's just say that this trope plays a plot-critical role in Creator/TadWilliams' ''Literature/{{Otherland}}'' as the [[spoiler:origin story of one of the major characters]].

* 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, meaning [[WeaksauceWeakness sperm hurts it]]]].

* Used twice in ''Literature/{{T|heDarkglassMountainTrilogy}}encendor'' metaseries. The first, nearing full-term, Gorgrael eats his way out of his mother in the prologue, and in the third novel his nephew, Dragonstar Sunsoar, orchestrates his elder brother's kidnapping by Gorgrael from within the womb.
* Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Perfume}}: The Story of a Murderer'', whose mother, as all characters who encountered him, died shortly after giving birth. Admittedly, she thought he was still born and decided to just throw him away with the debris of cleaning fish, but Grenouille emitted a piercing cry, and his mother was tried and executed for attempted child murder.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter'', 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.
** TheMovie 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 (Rowling has mentioned that this is the bit she's most surprised got past the editors).

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Multiple:

* 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). 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.

* ''TheMountainAndTheWolf'': Subverted, to the Wolf's clear disappointment: despite multiple Chaos-infused warriors having sex with Cersei several times a day for several months, her baby is born completely free of any Chaos corruption or mutation.

* After [[spoiler: being raped by a newly-demonic Griffith]], Casca gives spontaneous birth to one of these in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', 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.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': Billy's motivation against supers comes from the fact that his wife was raped then impregnated by one. The spuperpowered 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]].

* Half of all comic-book pregnancies. Most notably, that of [[Comicbook/WonderGirl Donna Troy]]. In fact, just check out the trope StuffedIntoTheFridge for a listing. Donna's friend and fellow [[Comicbook/TeenTitans Titan]] Comicbook/{{Raven}} ''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.

* ''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]]).

* Brought up and explicitly feared in Literature/TalesOfKolmar. [[spoiler:A dragon was turned into a human and married another human]], which was prophesied to result in monster children and later a world brimming with demon fire with nothing to stop it. When Lanen got pregnant this pregnancy almost killed her several times, since the mingling of such different kinds of blood was hard on her body, but ultimately the trope was subverted.

* Brought up and explicitly feared in Literature/TalesOfKolmar. [[spoiler: A dragon was turned into a human and married another human]], which was prophesied to result in monster children and later a world brimming with demon fire with nothing to stop it. When Lanen got pregnant this pregnancy almost killed her several times, since the mingling of such different kinds of blood was hard on her body, but ultimately the trope was subverted.
* In ''Waging Good'' by Creator/RobertReed, the [[DeathWorld Earth's]] atmosphere is full of a variety of deadly nanomachines and tailored viruses after losing a war with its former colonies on the Moon and beyond. One type of artificial virus targets unborn children - mutating them into [[BodyHorror hellish abominations]], like hiding poison factories in their stomach - or bladed monsters which try kill anything they see as soon as they are born. Because of this, Earth has "Jurors", people who test any newborn children as soon as they pop out. If they appear subverted, the Juror crushes their head against the nearest wall or table.

* ''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.

* ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth'': After the [[spoiler:abortion]] scene you have to [[spoiler:fight off waves of aborted NaziZombie 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.

* In ''Film/TheAstronautsWife'', Jillian becomes pregnant after her husband returns home from a questionable space expedition, and it's suggested that the fetus isn't entirely human. At the end, we learn that she had [[spoiler:CreepyTwins]], and [[spoiler:they're possessed by aliens, as is she, after the being inhabiting her husband's body transferred into her when she killed him.]]
* A movie made in the mid 90's called ''Aswang'' had 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 feed off of 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.]]
* The direct-to-DVD movie ''Born'' revolves around this trope, where the pregnant protagonist's demon fetus causes her to kill people so that she can give birth. Then when the baby is born (looking just like a human baby even though her ultrasounds show it as a gremlin-like creature), she's told that she has a chance of saving it- when it's said throughout the movie that its birth would bring hell on Earth.

* ''Film/DeadNight'': Implied to be the [[{{HumanoidAbomination}} main antagonist]] of the film, a woman is shown giving birth to one of these in the movie's opening. It flexes out her midsection in ways often seen in this trope.
* The ending of ''Film/{{The Doll|2017}}'', after Sanaa has destroyed the evil demon CreepyDoll, has her go to her obstetrician for an ultrasound, only to see the doll's face on the fetus.
* The third act of ''Film/TheFly1986'' involves, among other things, the possibility that Veronica's carrying a mutant child, since most of her relationship with Seth came ''after'' he accidentally turned himself into a HalfHumanHybrid of man and insect. In a memorable NightmareSequence, she imagines herself giving birth to a giant maggot. For his part, Seth is against her intentions to have an abortion because it's possible the child is fully human, and thus the last remnant of [[SplitPersonalityTakeover his own dying humanity]], and in the climax he [[spoiler: attempts to genetically fuse himself with her and the unborn child to save himself ''and'' create "the ultimate family"]]. (The film ends without resolving this plot thread, so the BTeamSequel ''Film/TheFlyII'' is about the SpinOffspring, who turns out to be a good-hearted UnevenHybrid.)

* ''Film/ItsAlive''. The first thing the baby does when it's born is slaughter the attending medical staff. And in the sequels, the creatures get even more horrific...

* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' picks up this trope from the previous ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' films and has a ball with it: [[spoiler:Elizabeth Shaw recognizes right off that her pregnancy is abnormal, since she can't have children in the first place. Plus, it's grown far too quickly in the available time to possibly be human. ''Then'' she learns exactly what's growing inside her and immediately performs a Cesarean section on herself ''without adequate anesthetic,'' she's that desperate to get it out of her. The resulting baby/squid/facehugger hybrid proceeds to face-rape the Engineer, and begin a ''very'' familiar cycle.]]
* Popularized by the 1969 film, '' Film/RosemarysBaby'', the entire plot of which is "an unsuspecting woman is impregnated with a half-demon to serve as TheAntiChrist".

* The final scene of ''Film/{{Splice}}'' reveals that [[spoiler: the female lead is pregnant by Dren's male adult form, and she's persuaded by the genetic engineering CorruptCorporateExecutive ''not'' to abort the whatever-it-is she's carrying, so that it can be studied alive.]]
* Barbara Eden did a film called ''Film/TheStrangerWithin'', where she plays a woman who's taken over by the alien fetus she's carrying. In the end [[spoiler: it turns out several women were impregnated, and they all get whisked off into space by the babies' father(s).]] It becomes HarsherInHindsight when you know what happened to Barbara Eden's own child.

* A 1991 movie called ''The Unborn'' was all about this. It was about a couple who had fertility problems for a long time. They eventually undergo an experimental in-vitro fertilization procedure in order to successfully have a child. At first, they're ecstatic to be pregnant. Unfortunately, [[spoiler: the doctor who performed the procedure was experimenting on the infertile women to produce creepily-intelligent, genetically modified babies]]. It was advertised as a horror film, but it was mostly [[FromBadToWorse depressing]].

* 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 [[HornyDevils 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 the MadScientist has failed, being more a balance between good and evil who destroys the MadScientist and goes on his merry way.]] Oh, and this book was aimed at teenagers. Really.

* Renesmee of ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' bears all signs of being this, seeing as she ''feeds only on human blood'' and ''shatters her mother's ribs, pelvis and spine'' - but once she's born (by gruesome vampire-tooth C-section), she ends up a shockingly well-adjusted CreepyChild.
* 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.

** 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 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 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.
* In Creator/DeanKoontz's short story ''We Three'', 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:And 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.]]
* Used twice in Literature/{{T|heDarkglassMountainTrilogy}}encendor metaseries. The first, nearing fullterm, Gorgrael eats his way out of his mother in the prologue, and in the third novel his nephew, Dragonstar Sunsoar, orchestrate's his elder brother's kidnapping by Gorgrael from within the womb.
* Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, the protagonist of ''Literature/{{Perfume}}: The Story of a Murderer'', whose mother, as all characters who encountered him, died shortly after giving birth. Admittedly, she thought he was still born and decided to just throw him away with the debris of cleaning fish but Grenouille emitted a piercing cry and his mother was tried and executed for attempted child murder.
* Ben Lovatt from Doris Lessing's ''The fifth child''. Hariett Lovatt and her husband have a really great family of six, but Harriets 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.

* Phoebe on ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' 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). 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 anti-christ. 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.
* There is a Colombian {{Telenovela}} titled "''MeLlamanLolita''" where the heroine fell in love with the male protagonist since she was ''in her mother's womb'', and her feelings radiated to her mother, leading to a series of tragic situations. Granted, she's not ''evil'', but the whole premise is {{squick}}y as hell.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' has an episode where Gwen gets her FaceFullOfAlienWingWong at her Hen Do (Bachelorette Party) and she is tracked by the genetic mother of the fetus who wants to rip Gwen apart to get her baby. The trope predominantly comes from Gwen and Rhys's parents thinking she's gonna have their grandkid juxtapositioned with Torchwood trying to figure out how to kill the fetus.

** 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.

* 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 then her, which will presumably draw unsavory spirits to them.

** Episode "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 convinces her to abort the F. T.. [[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.]]

** TheMovie takes the horrible image and cranks it UpToEleven.

* The final scene of ''Film/{{Splice}}'' reveals that [[spoiler: the female lead is pregnant by Dren's male adult form, and she's presuaded by the genetic engineering CorruptCorporateExecutive ''not'' to abort the whatever-it-is she's carrying, so that it can be studied alive.]]

* The final scene of ''Film/{{Splice}}'' reveals that [[spoiler: the female lead is pregnant by Dren's male adult form, and she's being bribed and pressured by the genetic engineering CorruptCorporateExecutive ''not'' to abort the whatever-it-is she's carrying so that it can be studied alive.]]

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* Popularized by the 1969 film, '' Film/RosemarysBaby'', the entire plot of which is "an unsuspecting woman is impregnated with a half-demon to serve as TheAntiChrist".

* A less apocalyptic but no less creepy version can be found in the ''Film/DawnOfTheDead2004'' remake, where a woman is bitten while pregnant and succumbs to the zombie plague. Her baby turns into a zombie fetus and is later born in a very gory scene.
* Barbara Eden did a film called ''Film/TheStrangerWithin'', where she plays a woman who's taken over by the alien fetus she's carrying. In the end [[spoiler: it turns out several women were impregnated, and they all get whisked off into space by the babies' father(s).]] It becomes HarsherInHindsight when you know what happened to Barbara Eden's own child.
* The psychic fetus in ''Film/{{Scanners}}''.
* In ''Film/{{Constantine}}'', the plot revolves around a still unborn son-of-lucifer who should prove to be many times worse than the father.
* 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)]].
* The direct-to-DVD movie ''Born'' revolves around this trope, where the pregnant protagonist's demon fetus causes her to kill people so that she can give birth. Then when the baby is born (looking just like a human baby even though her ultrasounds show it as a gremlin-like creature), she's told that she has a chance of saving it- when it's said throughout the movie that its birth would bring hell on Earth.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild'' has Freddy trying to turn the main character's unborn son into one of these, feeding the fetus souls to strengthen it, presumably intending to either make the baby into his agent, or possess it. In a nightmarish flashback to Freddy's own birth, he's also depicted as one of these.

* A movie made in the mid 90's called ''Aswang'' had 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 feed off of 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.]]
* Oskar from ''Literature/TheTinDrum'' never committed any acts from the womb but he did have the very eerie ability to understand everything going on outside ([[NoInfantileAmnesia as well as remember it years later]]) and hate the world for it.
* In ''Film/TheAstronautsWife'', Jillian becomes pregnant after her husband returns home from a questionable space expedition, and it's suggested that the fetus isn't entirely human. At the end, we learn that she had [[spoiler:CreepyTwins]], and [[spoiler:they're possessed by aliens, as is she, after the being inhabiting her husband's body transferred into her when she killed him.]]

* The main antagonist of ''Film/TheSuckling'' is an aborted fetus mutated into a horrifying monster.
* ''Film/DeadNight'': Implied to be the [[{{HumanoidAbomination}} main antagonist]] of the film, a woman is shown giving birth to one of these in the movie's opening. It flexes out her midsection in ways often seen in this trope.
* The plot of the film ''Film/{{Prevenge}}'' sees the main character's unborn child willing her to perform a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, although it is implied that [[spoiler:this is almost certainly a case of EnemyWithin]].
* ''Film/CradleOfFear'': After spending the night with The Man, Melissa begins hallucinating about the people around turning to her with monstrous faces and voices. Melissa goes to Nikki's house to seek help, then a creature bursts out of Melissa's womb and attacks Nikki, killing both.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Kelly Kline's Nephilim child, the son of Lucifer, a being so powerful his birth outright kills his mother. 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.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''
** A particularly gory episode, "Woodland Critter Christmas", had this with a pregnant porcupine, bringing a whole new meaning to GrotesqueCute.
** When Kenny's mother is pregnant in "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", Kenny, who spends the episode trying to get rid of it for [[HarsherInHindsight whatever reason]], has a [[DreamSequence nightmare]] about the child's inevitable birth where it turns out to be a demonic creature of some sort, [[TheyKilledKennyAgain killing him]] and everyone else in the hospital room.
* 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.

* 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 the intro to ''WesternAnimation/TheCrampTwins'', while their mother is pregnant, Wayne punches his twin brother Lucian inside her womb.

** The same thing happened to ComicBook/PowerGirl during '' ComicBook/ZeroHour''; 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.

** The worst would have to be ComicBook/MsMarvel in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'', who got spontaneously pregnant, went through 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.