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* Jigsaw's wife in ''Film/{{Saw}} IV'' lost their unborn son due to a door violently smashed against her belly. This was the StartOfDarkness for him.
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* In ''[[Film/ChildsPlay Curse of Chucky]]'', a pre- doll transformation Charles Lee Ray is seen stabbing a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances.
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* In the opening of ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles'' Martha is about nine months pregnant when the Empire invades Bruhl, and she and Isara held at gunpoint by a pair of Imperial troopers. [[spoiler:Welkin and Isara manage to kill both troopers, but naturally [[MaternityCrisis the baby chooses that exact moment to show up]].]]
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* Celia Herondale from ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', committed suicide while pregnant.
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* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect's'' fic [[Fanfic/CrucibleMassEffect Crucible]], A bunch of women who was pregnant with Hybrid babies were kidnapped by the Quarians for testing. Luckily for them, Garrus and Avitus managed to find them thanks to the help of one of the boyfriends.
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** In [[BadFuture Alt. Future]], poor Amata suffered from this twice. The first time she lost her baby son. The second time, she was killed and her daughter didn't survive for long either. And with what Gaius found in the Quarians' labs, it was obvious that she wasn't the first mother to suffer this fate.
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** In [[BadFuture Alt. Future]], poor Amata suffered from this twice. The first time she lost her baby son. The second time, she was killed and her daughter didn't survive for long either. And with what Gaius found in the Quarians' labs, it was obvious that she wasn't the first mother to suffer this fate.
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* In TheMetabarons, the Metabaron Aghora has the brain of a male and female body of his twin sister since he was born dead and had his brain implanted into the body of his twin sister who was brain-dead at birth to become a S/he. S/he goes into a DespairEventHorizon after of the death of her pet spider-wolf and gets over this funk by getting her/himself pregnant. This is when enemies of the Aghora strike. Normally able of killing an entire universe, s/he's so badly weakened that she knows she can't win by fighting an army of clones. So she has take a desperation plan that has her sacrificing her quasi-magical sword to fly up into orbit and nuke the planet from safe distance. No other Metabaron except the first who was dying from an incurable disease, has ever shown that level of 'weakness'.
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* In TheMetabarons, ''ComicBook/TheMetabarons'', the Metabaron Aghora has the brain of a male and female body of his twin sister since he was born dead and had his brain implanted into the body of his twin sister who was brain-dead at birth to become a S/he. S/he goes into a DespairEventHorizon after of the death of her pet spider-wolf and gets over this funk by getting her/himself pregnant. This is when enemies of the Aghora strike. Normally able of killing an entire universe, s/he's so badly weakened that she knows she can't win by fighting an army of clones. So she has take a desperation plan that has her sacrificing her quasi-magical sword to fly up into orbit and nuke the planet from safe distance. No other Metabaron except the first who was dying from an incurable disease, has ever shown that level of 'weakness'.
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* In TheMetabarons, the Metabaron Aghnar Aghora has the brain of a male and female body of his twin sister since he was born dead and had his brain implanted into the body of his twin sister who was brain-dead at birth to become a S/he. S/he goes into a DespairEventHorizon after of the death of her pet spider-wolf and gets over this funk by getting her/himself pregnant. This is when enemies of the Aghnar Aghora strike. Normally able of killing an entire universe, s/he's so badly weakened that she knows she can't win by fighting an army of clones. So she has take a desperation plan that has her sacrificing her quasi-magical sword to fly up into orbit and nuke the planet from safe distance. No other Metabaron except the first who was dying from an incurable disease, has ever shown that level of 'weakness'.
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* In ''Film/MatchPoint'', [[spoiler: the protagonist kills his pregnant mistress because he can't choose to leave his wife and sacrifice his cushy lifestyle.]]
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* In ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'' X-Mas Special, a gangster's pregnant wife is the target of hitmen sent by a rival gangster out to wipe out her husband's entire family. The Punisher saves the pregnant target from the killers and helps her deliver the baby...at which point he [[WouldHitAGirl executes her himself]] for her own crimes, now that the innocent child is out of danger.
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* Later that same year (2008), Portia Perez went after mom to be and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} co founder Allison Danger. Unlike La Amazona, there was no mitigating circumstance, Perez knew exactly what she was doing, [[MoralEventHorizon taking the opportunity to end the career of a rival and something else along with it.]] This incident is also largely why the Eagles Club Audience loves [[BigDamnHeroes referee Bryce Remsburg]].
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* In IWA Puerto Rico, Genesis had a habit of ducking out of matches with La Amazona. She was injured, she was sick, ect. When she came to Amazona with "I'm pregnant", well Amazona [[CryingWolf did not seem to believe her,]] slapping Genesis after giving her congrats, causing EMTs to swarm to Genesis's aid before Amazona could do anything else
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her,]] slapping Genesis after giving her congrats, causing EMTs to swarm to Genesis's aid before Amazona could do anything else
* Later that same year (2008), Portia Perez went after mom to be and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} co founder Allison Danger. Unlike La Amazona, there was no mitigating circumstance,[[MoralEventHorizon Perez knew exactly what she was doing.]]doing, [[MoralEventHorizon taking the opportunity to end the career of a rival and something else along with it.]] This incident is also largely why the Eagles Club Audience loves [[BigDamnHeroes referee Bryce Remsburg]].
* Later that same year (2008), Portia Perez went after mom to be and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} co founder Allison Danger. Unlike La Amazona, there was no mitigating circumstance,
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* Later that same year (2008), Portia Perez went after mom to be and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} co founder Allison Danger. Unlike La Amazona, there was no mitigating circumstance, [[MoralEventHorizon Perez knew exactly what she was doing.]]
* Thankfully {{subverted| trope}} the next year in Wrestling/{{WSU}} when Princess Jana snapped and beat the stuffing out of her Soul Sisters partner Luscious Latasha, who had revealed she had been avoiding tagging in because she discovered she was pregnant. After getting back from the hospital it was revealed Latasha was ''not'' pregnant. Latasha was still upset with Jana because she wasn't lying, just mistaken.
* Later that same year (2008), Portia Perez went after mom to be and Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} co founder Allison Danger. Unlike La Amazona, there was no mitigating circumstance, [[MoralEventHorizon Perez knew exactly what she was doing.]]
* Thankfully {{subverted| trope}} the next year in Wrestling/{{WSU}} when Princess Jana snapped and beat the stuffing out of her Soul Sisters partner Luscious Latasha, who had revealed she had been avoiding tagging in because she discovered she was pregnant. After getting back from the hospital it was revealed Latasha was ''not'' pregnant. Latasha was still upset with Jana because she wasn't lying, just mistaken.
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* Carla Cassidy's ''Pregnesia'': Amnesiac widowed heroine, Good Samaritan hero, bad guys after the baby.
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* In ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', [[spoiler: Tara]] is kidnapped in the Second Season. When one of the kidnappers tries to kick her in the stomach, she begs him not to because she is pregnant. He stops and hits her in the face instead.
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* ''RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the baby after the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.]]
* ''RizzoliAndIsles'' has [[spoiler: Jane]] helping a teenage witness survive while trapped in a warehouse with a hitman. She is far from delicate and survives many perilous situations while pregnant, but [[spoiler: Jane later loses the baby after the hitman hits her in the stomach with a pipe.]]
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** In another episode, Teyla is using her limited psychic skills gained from her Wraith DNA to temporarily mind control a particularely strong Wraith Queen, who are the psychic heavyweights of the vampiric race. Trapped in her own mind, the Queen wonders how Teyla is suddenly so strong that she could pose a challenge for her until she realizes that Teyla's unborn son is helping her, and the Queen nearly kills the child in return.
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{{Supertrope}} to PregnantHostage. May involve a MaternityCrisis if the child chooses that exact moment to come into the world, or alternatively a ConvenientMiscarriage if child is lost as a result. Often the intersection of WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAGirl. Overlaps with PregnantBadass if the pregnant woman is an ActionGirl who extracts herself from the peril.
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{{Supertrope}} to PregnantHostage. Compare TraumaticCSection. May involve a MaternityCrisis if the child chooses that exact moment to come into the world, or alternatively a ConvenientMiscarriage if child is lost as a result. Often the intersection of WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAGirl. Overlaps with PregnantBadass if the pregnant woman is an ActionGirl who extracts herself from the peril.
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** In "The Darkness and the Light" a SerialKiller targets the surviving members of Kira's old [[LaResistance Bajoran resistance]] cell, eventually luring the very pregnant Kira to his hideout, stunning her, and then attempting to cut Kirayoshi out of her (the intent was to save the innocent baby and take revenge on Kira). She manages to turn the tables and shoot him.
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* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': A pregnant character is stabbed multiple times in the belly at one point, leading to the death of both her and her child. For bonus points, the character is a CanonForeigner,[[note]]who might be pregnant but is in any case [[DeathByAdaptation still alive]][[/note]] so the producers only added the pregnancy storyline for drama and gore points.
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* There's an anecdote about a group of child soldiers in the Sierra Leonean civil war that bet on the sex of an unborn baby, then cut it from her mother's womb to check.
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* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': As Teyla neared the end of her pregnancy, Michael kidnapped her to use her son as a testbed for his human-wraith hybrids. One AlternateUniverse shows that had he finished his experiments, he would have created an army that would have effectively taken over the Pegasus Galaxy, but Teyla [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness never saw it]]. In the proper time, the team manages to save Teyla and her baby.
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** As Teyla neared the end of her pregnancy, Michael kidnapped her to use her son as a testbed for his human-wraith hybrids. One AlternateUniverse shows that had he finished his experiments, he would have created an army that would have effectively taken over the Pegasus Galaxy, but Teyla [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness never saw it]]. In the proper time, the team manages to save Teyla and herbaby.baby.
** In another episode, Teyla is using her limited psychic skills gained from her Wraith DNA to temporarily mind control a particularely strong Wraith Queen, who are the psychic heavyweights of the vampiric race. Trapped in her own mind, the Queen wonders how Teyla is suddenly so strong that she could pose a challenge for her until she realizes that Teyla's unborn son is helping her, and the Queen nearly kills the child in return.
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* In ''Comicbooks/{{Watchmen}}'' The Comedian shoots a pregnant woman during the Vietnam War. Doubles as OffingTheOffspring, as the child was his.
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WomenAreDelicate. ChildrenAreInnocent. A ''pregnant'' woman combines these two ideas in one to create a woman whose condition rates as so vulnerable, so precious, that you never want to see anything bad happening to her.
But... what's happening? She got hurt! Worse, she's injured in a way that threatens her fetus's life! How much more brutal can a story get?
Often used to add drama and show [[WouldHurtAChild how ruthless the bad guys are]]. In most societies a pregnant woman is, for good reason, treated with courtesy and concern. She's carrying the life of another, innocent human being: protecting women like her is something we ''have'' to do, in order for our species to survive. Seeing a pregnant woman at the receiving end of violence is especially shocking for most viewers/readers.
Often turns out all right in the end, as both audiences and creators frequently find it unpalatable to play this trope through to the end.
{{Supertrope}} to PregnantHostage. May involve a MaternityCrisis if the child chooses that exact moment to come into the world, or alternatively a ConvenientMiscarriage if child is lost as a result. Often the intersection of WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAGirl. Overlaps with PregnantBadass if the pregnant woman is an ActionGirl who extracts herself from the peril.
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* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''
** A pregnant (not that this was known at the time) [[spoiler:Casca]] is raped by the demon Femto after his creation. This drives [[spoiler:Casca]] insane and corrupts the fetus into a demonic-like grotesque.
** Emperor Ganishka's demon soldiers are created by dumping heavily pregnant women into an enormous artificial womb that radiates the woman full of demonic energy. The now-demonic fetus rips its way out of the uterus and joins the others.
* In ''Manga/VinlandSaga'', Arneis (a slave) is secretly pregnant with her master Ketil's child. When her former husband comes to take her back - slaying several guards of the farm in the process - and she tries to escape with him, Ketil does not take it well. Just before her punishment, she reveals to him she is pregnant with his child; his response is to suspect that the child isn't his, and beat her half to death. And not only half, as she dies shortly after.
* The pilot of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' had a heavily pregnant woman on the run with a man wanted for drug smuggling, with the police in hot pursuit. [[spoiler:The belly turns out to be a huge bundle of pills.]]
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* In ''Main/SkyDoll'', the main character, a love doll named Noa has a very graphic hallucination when she is pregnant and her womb rips out. But it's all in a dream... or is it?
* In ''Comicbooks/{{Watchmen}}'' The Comedian shoots a pregnant woman during the Vietnam War. Doubles as OffingTheOffspring, as the child was his.
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* Played with at the end of ''Film/TakingLives'', the character played by Creator/AngelinaJolie is pregnant and gets stabbed in the belly, only to reveal the pregnancy was fake and the corner stone of an elaborate scheme to catch the killer.
* In ''Film/{{Thursday}}'', Casey has a flashback as to what it was that finally helped him decide to turn his life around from being a drug dealer: during a busted deal, his partner Nick repeatedly shoots an eight-month pregnant woman in the stomach, killing both the woman and the fetus.
* One of the HeadlessHorseman's victims in ''Film/SleepyHollow''. Her unborn child gets decapitated as well.
* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Jenny's baby was cut out of her after she got pregnant from Bill the Butcher, leaving a big nasty scar on her body and her traumatized
* A sixteen year old girl in ''Film/TheRite'' was raped and impregnated by her father, causing a demon to posses her. During her exorcisms, the demon causes her body to do very disturbing and unnatural things. She is later sent to the hospital where both she and the fetus are killed by the demon.
* Jigsaw's wife in ''Film/{{Saw}} IV'' lost their unborn son due to a door violently smashed against her belly. This was the StartOfDarkness for him.
* In ''Film/WhatToExpectWhenYoureExpecting'', Rebel Wilson's character tells her pregnant boss that her sister got herpes because of her pregnancy.
* In ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'', the Predalien is completely indiscriminate in its victims, invading a maternity ward in the town's hospital and implanting pregnant women with its own xenomorph embryos.
* In the French horror movie ''Film/{{Inside}}'', a pregnant woman is attacked by a stranger who wants to steal her baby. With scissors. [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday During Christmas Eve]].
* In ''[[Film/ChildsPlay Curse of Chucky]]'', a pre- doll transformation Charles Lee Ray is seen stabbing a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances.
* In the first ''Film/{{Warlock}}'' movie, the Warlock threatens to kill a priest's pregnant wife along with the child she's carrying to get the information he wants. Presumably subverted because the priest ultimately caves in to the Warlock's demands, although we don't get to see if he did leave them unharmed.
* Blade's origin story from the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' involved his mother being attacked by a vampire when she was heavily pregnant, causing her to die on an operating table and the boy turning into a [[{{Dhampyr}} human-vampire hybrid]]. Blade swore to find the vampire who killed her to avenge her death. Near the end, Blade discovers [[spoiler:that his mother is still alive after the vampire in question turned her, and it was actually Deacon Frost, the bad guy he had been pursuing the entire film]].
* In ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' a heavily pregnant Padmé goes gallivanting off to Mustafar after Anakin after Obi-Wan tells her Anakin has fallen to the dark side. When Obi-Wan turns up, having stowed away on Padmé's ship, Anakin {{Force choke}}s her. Padmé starts dying afterwards, forcing medical droids to induce labor and deliver Luke and Leia.
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* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames: Catching Fire'', while Katniss wasn't actually pregnant, Peeta manages to enrage the capitol citizens by claiming that she was right before the 75th Games started, trying to invoke this trope.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril, is stranded in besieged city held by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordelia is attacked with a poisonous gas while pregnant. The aftereffects of the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.
* Carla Cassidy's ''Literature/{{Pregnesia}}'': Amnesiac widowed heroine, Good Samaritan hero, bad guys after the baby.
* This is teased with Elayne in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', who gets impregnated in the ninth book. Thanks to a prophetic viewing, she is convinced her children can't be harmed and gets into trouble several times, finally coming to her senses after a particular wound runs dangerously close to her womb. Then things get brutal: during the climax of the last book, she runs afoul of a minor villain from previous books who intends to [[spoiler: cut out her unborn twins and use magic to keep them alive until they can be offered to the BigBad. He promises to rape her afterward. A timely plot device saves the day, however.]]
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the second episode of the short-lived 2000 Creator/{{ABC}} series ''Series/{{Wonderland}}'', a pregnant doctor gets stabbed in the stomach with a syringe by a mental patient.
* Played with in ''Series/DesperateHousewives''. A pregnant Bree gets stabbed in the belly. However, no blood appears because it's a fake belly. But it does threaten to uncover the truth.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Friday's Child", a usurper named Ma'ab kills Aka'ar, the Teer (tribal king), in an attempted coup. He then demands Aka'ar's pregnant wife Eleen and her unborn son killed, as the unborn son is the true heir of succession, and Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] have to go on the run with Eleen to keep her safe.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "Body Parts" Keiko O'Brien is badly injured in a shuttle accident, and Dr. Bashir is forced to transplant the unborn Kirayoshi O'Brien into Kira Nerys, the only other female present. In this case it was an EnforcedTrope: In real life, Creator/NanaVisitor (Kira) was married to Creator/AlexanderSiddig (Bashir) and had gotten pregnant with his baby, and rather than find some way to HideYourPregnancy they [[WrittenInInfirmity wrote it into the script]].
** In "The Darkness and the Light" a SerialKiller targets the surviving members of Kira's old [[LaResistance Bajoran resistance]] cell, eventually luring the very pregnant Kira to his hideout, stunning her, and then attempting to cut Kirayoshi out of her (the intent was to save the innocent baby and take revenge on Kira). She manages to turn the tables and shoot him.
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King" had the team defending a very pregnant Marine from mercenaries trying to get the baby, due to it being, if male, the only surviving heir to an Afghan tribe. (She'd fallen in love with the previous heir, who was later killed by the Taliban.) A MaternityCrisis ensues and Gibbs ends up [[DeliveryGuy delivering the baby]] in a gas station while Ziva fights off the mercs in the next room.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': A pregnant character is stabbed multiple times in the belly at one point, leading to the death of both her and her child. For bonus points, the character is a CanonForeigner,[[note]]who might be pregnant but is in any case [[DeathByAdaptation still alive]][[/note]] so the producers only added the pregnancy storyline for drama and gore points.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': As Teyla neared the end of her pregnancy, Michael kidnapped her to use her son as a testbed for his human-wraith hybrids. One AlternateUniverse shows that had he finished his experiments, he would have created an army that would have effectively taken over the Pegasus Galaxy, but Teyla [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness never saw it]]. In the proper time, the team manages to save Teyla and her baby.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Amy is once kidnapped while pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of the situations she ends up getting into with the Doctor, including her husband dying. Something like ten times.
** In the episode "Amy's Choice", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van into a cottage. And [[ButtMonkey her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* When Wrestling/{{Lita}} was carrying Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s baby, they ended the angle when Gene Snitsky knocked Kane into Lita which made her fall off the apron of the ring, losing the baby.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': In the Foundry mission [[Recap/StarTrekOnlineFoundryBaitAndSwitch "Bait and Switch"]] one of the slaves kidnapped by the Orion Syndicate is a six-months-pregnant Romulan. She and her husband get rescued by the PlayerCharacter.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* There's an anecdote about a group of child soldiers in the Sierra Leonean civil war that bet on the sex of an unborn baby, then cut it from her mother's womb to check.
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But... what's happening? She got hurt! Worse, she's injured in a way that threatens her fetus's life! How much more brutal can a story get?
Often used to add drama and show [[WouldHurtAChild how ruthless the bad guys are]]. In most societies a pregnant woman is, for good reason, treated with courtesy and concern. She's carrying the life of another, innocent human being: protecting women like her is something we ''have'' to do, in order for our species to survive. Seeing a pregnant woman at the receiving end of violence is especially shocking for most viewers/readers.
Often turns out all right in the end, as both audiences and creators frequently find it unpalatable to play this trope through to the end.
{{Supertrope}} to PregnantHostage. May involve a MaternityCrisis if the child chooses that exact moment to come into the world, or alternatively a ConvenientMiscarriage if child is lost as a result. Often the intersection of WouldHurtAChild and WouldHitAGirl. Overlaps with PregnantBadass if the pregnant woman is an ActionGirl who extracts herself from the peril.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}''
** A pregnant (not that this was known at the time) [[spoiler:Casca]] is raped by the demon Femto after his creation. This drives [[spoiler:Casca]] insane and corrupts the fetus into a demonic-like grotesque.
** Emperor Ganishka's demon soldiers are created by dumping heavily pregnant women into an enormous artificial womb that radiates the woman full of demonic energy. The now-demonic fetus rips its way out of the uterus and joins the others.
* In ''Manga/VinlandSaga'', Arneis (a slave) is secretly pregnant with her master Ketil's child. When her former husband comes to take her back - slaying several guards of the farm in the process - and she tries to escape with him, Ketil does not take it well. Just before her punishment, she reveals to him she is pregnant with his child; his response is to suspect that the child isn't his, and beat her half to death. And not only half, as she dies shortly after.
* The pilot of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' had a heavily pregnant woman on the run with a man wanted for drug smuggling, with the police in hot pursuit. [[spoiler:The belly turns out to be a huge bundle of pills.]]
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[[folder:Comics]]
* In ''Main/SkyDoll'', the main character, a love doll named Noa has a very graphic hallucination when she is pregnant and her womb rips out. But it's all in a dream... or is it?
* In ''Comicbooks/{{Watchmen}}'' The Comedian shoots a pregnant woman during the Vietnam War. Doubles as OffingTheOffspring, as the child was his.
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[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* Played with at the end of ''Film/TakingLives'', the character played by Creator/AngelinaJolie is pregnant and gets stabbed in the belly, only to reveal the pregnancy was fake and the corner stone of an elaborate scheme to catch the killer.
* In ''Film/{{Thursday}}'', Casey has a flashback as to what it was that finally helped him decide to turn his life around from being a drug dealer: during a busted deal, his partner Nick repeatedly shoots an eight-month pregnant woman in the stomach, killing both the woman and the fetus.
* One of the HeadlessHorseman's victims in ''Film/SleepyHollow''. Her unborn child gets decapitated as well.
* In ''Film/GangsOfNewYork'', Jenny's baby was cut out of her after she got pregnant from Bill the Butcher, leaving a big nasty scar on her body and her traumatized
* A sixteen year old girl in ''Film/TheRite'' was raped and impregnated by her father, causing a demon to posses her. During her exorcisms, the demon causes her body to do very disturbing and unnatural things. She is later sent to the hospital where both she and the fetus are killed by the demon.
* Jigsaw's wife in ''Film/{{Saw}} IV'' lost their unborn son due to a door violently smashed against her belly. This was the StartOfDarkness for him.
* In ''Film/WhatToExpectWhenYoureExpecting'', Rebel Wilson's character tells her pregnant boss that her sister got herpes because of her pregnancy.
* In ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'', the Predalien is completely indiscriminate in its victims, invading a maternity ward in the town's hospital and implanting pregnant women with its own xenomorph embryos.
* In the French horror movie ''Film/{{Inside}}'', a pregnant woman is attacked by a stranger who wants to steal her baby. With scissors. [[HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday During Christmas Eve]].
* In ''[[Film/ChildsPlay Curse of Chucky]]'', a pre- doll transformation Charles Lee Ray is seen stabbing a pregnant woman to cripple her unborn daughter after she rejected his advances.
* In the first ''Film/{{Warlock}}'' movie, the Warlock threatens to kill a priest's pregnant wife along with the child she's carrying to get the information he wants. Presumably subverted because the priest ultimately caves in to the Warlock's demands, although we don't get to see if he did leave them unharmed.
* Blade's origin story from the ''Film/BladeTrilogy'' involved his mother being attacked by a vampire when she was heavily pregnant, causing her to die on an operating table and the boy turning into a [[{{Dhampyr}} human-vampire hybrid]]. Blade swore to find the vampire who killed her to avenge her death. Near the end, Blade discovers [[spoiler:that his mother is still alive after the vampire in question turned her, and it was actually Deacon Frost, the bad guy he had been pursuing the entire film]].
* In ''Franchise/StarWars Episode III: Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' a heavily pregnant Padmé goes gallivanting off to Mustafar after Anakin after Obi-Wan tells her Anakin has fallen to the dark side. When Obi-Wan turns up, having stowed away on Padmé's ship, Anakin {{Force choke}}s her. Padmé starts dying afterwards, forcing medical droids to induce labor and deliver Luke and Leia.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheSharingKnife'', protagonist Fawn has left her home to avoid being shamed for her unwed pregnancy. Then an Eldritch Abomination ground-rips (tears the life-force out of) her unborn child. Things do get better for her, but she has one hell of a woobie-fied start.
* In ''Literature/TheHungerGames: Catching Fire'', while Katniss wasn't actually pregnant, Peeta manages to enrage the capitol citizens by claiming that she was right before the 75th Games started, trying to invoke this trope.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'':
** Alys Vorpatril, while pregnant with the baby Ivan Vorpatril, is stranded in besieged city held by a pretender desperately looking for distinguished hostages like Alys.
** Cordelia is attacked with a poisonous gas while pregnant. The aftereffects of the treatment that saved her life drive most of her son's life: Miles, the protagonist of most of the books, was dwarfed and crippled by the effects.
* Carla Cassidy's ''Literature/{{Pregnesia}}'': Amnesiac widowed heroine, Good Samaritan hero, bad guys after the baby.
* This is teased with Elayne in ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', who gets impregnated in the ninth book. Thanks to a prophetic viewing, she is convinced her children can't be harmed and gets into trouble several times, finally coming to her senses after a particular wound runs dangerously close to her womb. Then things get brutal: during the climax of the last book, she runs afoul of a minor villain from previous books who intends to [[spoiler: cut out her unborn twins and use magic to keep them alive until they can be offered to the BigBad. He promises to rape her afterward. A timely plot device saves the day, however.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the second episode of the short-lived 2000 Creator/{{ABC}} series ''Series/{{Wonderland}}'', a pregnant doctor gets stabbed in the stomach with a syringe by a mental patient.
* Played with in ''Series/DesperateHousewives''. A pregnant Bree gets stabbed in the belly. However, no blood appears because it's a fake belly. But it does threaten to uncover the truth.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Friday's Child", a usurper named Ma'ab kills Aka'ar, the Teer (tribal king), in an attempted coup. He then demands Aka'ar's pregnant wife Eleen and her unborn son killed, as the unborn son is the true heir of succession, and Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] have to go on the run with Eleen to keep her safe.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''
** In "Body Parts" Keiko O'Brien is badly injured in a shuttle accident, and Dr. Bashir is forced to transplant the unborn Kirayoshi O'Brien into Kira Nerys, the only other female present. In this case it was an EnforcedTrope: In real life, Creator/NanaVisitor (Kira) was married to Creator/AlexanderSiddig (Bashir) and had gotten pregnant with his baby, and rather than find some way to HideYourPregnancy they [[WrittenInInfirmity wrote it into the script]].
** In "The Darkness and the Light" a SerialKiller targets the surviving members of Kira's old [[LaResistance Bajoran resistance]] cell, eventually luring the very pregnant Kira to his hideout, stunning her, and then attempting to cut Kirayoshi out of her (the intent was to save the innocent baby and take revenge on Kira). She manages to turn the tables and shoot him.
* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' ChristmasEpisode "Newborn King" had the team defending a very pregnant Marine from mercenaries trying to get the baby, due to it being, if male, the only surviving heir to an Afghan tribe. (She'd fallen in love with the previous heir, who was later killed by the Taliban.) A MaternityCrisis ensues and Gibbs ends up [[DeliveryGuy delivering the baby]] in a gas station while Ziva fights off the mercs in the next room.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': A pregnant character is stabbed multiple times in the belly at one point, leading to the death of both her and her child. For bonus points, the character is a CanonForeigner,[[note]]who might be pregnant but is in any case [[DeathByAdaptation still alive]][[/note]] so the producers only added the pregnancy storyline for drama and gore points.
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': As Teyla neared the end of her pregnancy, Michael kidnapped her to use her son as a testbed for his human-wraith hybrids. One AlternateUniverse shows that had he finished his experiments, he would have created an army that would have effectively taken over the Pegasus Galaxy, but Teyla [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness never saw it]]. In the proper time, the team manages to save Teyla and her baby.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** Amy is once kidnapped while pregnant because [[spoiler:the Silence's boss thinks that her unborn child could be a Time Lord]]. Not to mention all of the situations she ends up getting into with the Doctor, including her husband dying. Something like ten times.
** In the episode "Amy's Choice", [[spoiler:one fake version of Amy is pregnant and trapped in a small town with aliens disguised as the elderly (again) ready to disintegrate everyone, but mostly her family.]] To get away, she drives a van into a cottage. And [[ButtMonkey her husband]] dies. [[RunningGag Three times]]. ''In one episode.''
* In ''Series/{{Grimm}}'', one of Sgt. Wu's Filipino friends gets attacked by an aswang, which nearly kills her fetus while she was sleeping. Nick and Hank were able to resolve the situation and save her again from the monster.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* When Wrestling/{{Lita}} was carrying Wrestling/{{Kane}}'s baby, they ended the angle when Gene Snitsky knocked Kane into Lita which made her fall off the apron of the ring, losing the baby.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'': In the Foundry mission [[Recap/StarTrekOnlineFoundryBaitAndSwitch "Bait and Switch"]] one of the slaves kidnapped by the Orion Syndicate is a six-months-pregnant Romulan. She and her husband get rescued by the PlayerCharacter.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* There's an anecdote about a group of child soldiers in the Sierra Leonean civil war that bet on the sex of an unborn baby, then cut it from her mother's womb to check.
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