History Main / MysticalPregnancy

* In "Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration" Deanna Troi is impregnated by glowing space energy and gives birth to a mysterious rapidly-aging child, an alien life form that comes and goes this way.

* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', Fauxlivia is subjected to horrifying medical experiments to artificially accelerate her pregnancy, both because the pregnancy would kill her and because Walternate wants the baby's blood to power a DoomsdayMachine.
* A classic example occurs early in the run of ''Series/TheXFiles'', as Scully finds herself impregnated by aliens.

Feminist criticisms of this trope center around both the female character's loss of agency as well as the trope's use of women's reproductive capabilities as a means to terrify, humiliate, and degrade women. An event as traumatic as a Mystical Pregnancy would likely tremendously affect a person, probably for many years--but the character's emotional aftermath will rarely even be touched upon, let alone examined. The female characters' *bodies* are exploited for the sake of an episode's plot (or, at longest, a sub-season story arc) but the female *characters themselves* are almost incidental.

* In "Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration" Deanna Troi is impregnanted by glowing space energy and gives birth to a mysterious rapidly-aging child, an alien life form that comes and goes this way.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', companion Amy's pregnancy during the Eleventh Doctor's era. The baby was conceived aboard a TARDIS in flight, giving her *three* parents (and primitive Time Lord DNA), and Amy was held prisoner during her pregnancy so that the {{BigBad}}s could steal her newborn daughter.
* In ''Series/Fringe'', Fauxlivia is subjected to a horrifying medical experiment to artificially accelerate her pregnancy.

** Cordelia was used by a Power That Was as an incubator for that Power's own birth after that Power had instigated several miracles which were pre-requisite for It's own birth.

* In "Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration" Deanna Troi gives birth a mysterious child, an alien life form that comes and goes this way.

** There also seems to be a trend of SurprisePregnancy in Literature/TheBible, where Sarah and Elizabeth (both are elderly women, and both struggled with infertility throughout their reproductive years) get pregnant because God pretty much says they can.

** There also seems to be a trend of SurprisePregnancy in Literature/TheBible, where Sarah and Elizabeth (both are elderly women; the latter is even infertile) get pregnant because God pretty much says they can.

* In the ForgottenRealms ''Pools of Radiance'' trilogy, Kern's mother was affected by magic during her pregnancy. Kern gestated at an amazing rate, but didn't age any faster. He's also nearly [[AntiMagic immune to magic]], including [[BlessWithSuck healing magic]] and other helpful magic, which appears to be a result of what happened to his mother.

* '''Supernatural conception''': The pregnancy is unnatural from the very beginning, such as Jesus's conception in ''TheBible''. {{Half Human Hybrid}}s and [[MisterSeahorse babies conceived through Mpreg]] are examples of this. This is normally a good time to exclaim "ButICantBePregnant," where there is understandable reason to be [[SurprisePregnancy surprised]] about the pregnancy.

* From ''TheBible'':

** There also seems to be a trend of SurprisePregnancy in TheBible, where Sarah and Elizabeth (both are elderly women; the latter is even infertile) get pregnant because God pretty much says they can.
* ''TheQuran'' also ackowledges the birth of ''Aïssa'' (Jesus' name in Islam) from ''Mariam'' (Mary) as a virgin birth.

*** Further example from Berserk: Ganishka's demon-soldiers are created by dropping heavily-pregnant women into vats of demonically-charged amniotic fluid which instantly corrupts and mutates the foetus into a demon, who then claws and bites his way out of the womb.

** In an early episode Cordelia has a one-night-stand with a guy who turns out to be a demon and has impregnated her, and the baby grows and almost comes to term in just a few days.
** Jasmine somehow impregnated Cordy with herself and uses Cordy's body as an incubator.
** Although Buffyverse vampires can't have children, Angel and Darla did – and the baby was human. Darla was also unable to give birth, and had to stake herself to save the baby.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': A character [[spoiler:(Bella)]] ends up impregnated by a vampire [[spoiler:{Edward}]] and giving birth to a HalfHumanHybrid {{dhampyr}} that ends up growing supernaturally quickly.

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* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': A character ends up impregnated by a vampire and giving birth to a HalfHumanHybrid {{dhampyr}} that ends up growing supernaturally quickly.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Blade}}'' is a {{Dhampyr}} because his mother was attacked by a vampire while giving birth to him.

* The Invisible Woman of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' had already had a difficult prenancy with her first child, Franklin. Susan's second child was conceived in the Negative Zone, and resulted in a stillbirth.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': [[spoiler: Bella gets pregnant with Edward's half-vampire child that develops abnormally quickly, putting her life in danger]]

* In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Shmi Skywalker says that Anakin has no father, which Qui-Gon assumes to mean that he was conceived by the will of the Force. In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Palpatine's comments about Darth Plagueis experiments include a pointed comment that suggests Plagueis's experiments may have been responsible for Shmi's pregnancy.

** '''Supernatural conception''': The pregnancy is unnatural from the very beginning, such as Jesus's conception in ''TheBible''. {{Half Human Hybrid}}s and [[MisterSeahorse babies conceived through Mpreg]] are examples of this. This is normally a good time to exclaim "ButICantBePregnant," where there is understandable reason to be [[SurprisePregnancy surprised]] about the pregnancy.
** '''Supernatural pregnancy''': The baby is ''conceived'' normally, but during pregnancy something mystical happens to the mother and/or the fetus. Unfortunate women subjected to [[GuineaPigFamily experimentation]] either through a MadScientist or a BackAlleyDoctor can end up with this.
** '''Both'''. The baby is conceived and carried to term through supernatural means.

* In season 9 of StargateSG1, Vala is impregnated by the Ori (god-like aliens) with their version of the Messiah. For a while, Vala just knows that she didn't have sex but she isn't sure how it happened. It isn't until late in the pregnancy that she finds out the child is "the will of the Ori."

* {{Blade}}'s mother was bitten by a vampire not long before he's born. The result: He's a {{Dhampyr}}.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'': The pregnant queen becomes deathly ill, and the kingdom's soldiers seek out a mystical [[FountainOfYouth flower]] that could heal her. When she ingests it, she is cured, and her daughter is born with hair with healing powers.

* ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' hints that Anakin Skywalker (aka [[StarWars Darth Vadar]]) was conceived this way.

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'' this happens to Cordelia a couple of times.
** In an early episode she has a one-night-stand with a guy who turns out to be a demon and has impregnated her, and the baby grows and almost comes to term in just a few days.
** Jasmine somehow impregnated Cordy with herself and uses Cordy's body as an incubator.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': [[spoiler: Bella gets pregnant with Edward's half-vampire child that develops abnormally quickly, putting her life in danger]]
* In the '' Elder Races'' stories by Thea Harrison, the pregnancy resulting from the marriage of Dragos Cuelebre and Pia Giovanni was complicated to say the least. For starters, Dragos is actually an immortal dragon in human form and Pia is [[spoiler: the offspring of a human and a unicorn in human form; Pia herself can turn into a unicorn.]]. Since the pregnancy was utterly unprecedented, no one knew for sure how long it would go on or what form the offspring would take. Fortunately [[spoiler: at nine months, the fetus transformed itself ''in utero'' to a human baby and was born normally]]