History Main / SomeoneToRememberHimBy

Usually an EndingTrope, so there will inevitably be '''spoilers''' in the examples section. Sometimes a {{Beginning Trope|s}}, to introduce TurnOutLikeHisFather -- and sometimes both, as ChangingOfTheGuard occurs.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' uses this trope at the end of a film Abe Lincoln made.

* The ''ComicBook/{{Transformers}}: Sector 7'' comic has William Simmons sacrifice his life while fighting a traitor in order to let his wife (who has just found out she's pregnant) escape before his grandfather Joseph Simmons dropped a liquid nitrogen bomb on the location in order to keep [[strike:Megatron]] [[InsistentTerminology NBE-1]] on ice. Even then, she only survives because of Jetfire, whose life William spared during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Jetfire also tells Joseph that she's carrying William's child. Joseph tells her to abandon this life and keep her child away from it. She opens a deli and has a son named Seymour, the same guy we see in the movies.

* ''Series/TidelandsNetflix'': Not long after they find out that Violca is pregnant, Colton's killed.

%%* Dr Sara in ''Series/PrisonBreak''

* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'': Jason's adoptive daughter Helena Wayne is the biological daughter of his own adoptive father Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. Selina discovered she was pregnant about one month after Bruce was murdered by the Joker, which led her to leave Gotham [[GiveHimANormalLife in hopes of giving Helena a normal life]]. Ultimately, it didn't take: Black Mask II tracked her down ten years later and tried to force her to work for him, which caused Selina to flee ''back'' to Gotham in hopes of getting the Bat-Family's protection. She was killed before she could reach them, but not before sending Helena to Jason, who would take her in as his daughter. Helena would later grow up to be Robin, Huntress, and eventually, Batwoman.

* The end result of the story of ''The Hazards of Love'', Music/TheDecemberists 2009 concept album.
** Actually a subversion, as the lyrics of the last song imply that [[spoiler:the whole family - father, mother, and unborn child - die together. There is no mention of the child's birth or a miscarriage, and Margaret is obviously in the sinking boat with William when the river claims them (she is described as arranging rocks around the hull to weigh it down)]]. A better Decemberists example of this trope would be "Yankee Bayonett," a surprisingly cheerful love song between a pregnant woman and her dead soldier lover.
* Gender-flipped in the music video for Music/TravisTritt's 1994 song "Tell Me I Was Dreaming". The song is the second of a trilogy (with 1991's "Anymore" and 1998's "If I Lost You") where Tritt plays a Vietnam veteran in the music videos of the trilogy. In this video, his wife, who is heavily pregnant, falls off a boat dock and hits her head on the way down. Their child is born, but she dies. The baby is even named after his wife, Annie.

* "Never Went To Church", by British rap group The Streets, plays with this trope. It's about a man, the narrator, lamenting his father's death and emulating his actions, both on purpose and subconsciously. In the last verse, it is revealed that the narrator himself embodies this trope.

* In the storyline accompanying the ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' game, [[MeaningfulName Kitsune]] [[LukeYouAreMyFather Kurita]] is a gender inversion of this; mother dies, father lives on. He was secretly born to [[YamatoNadeshiko Omiko Kurita]], fathered by [[WarriorPrince Victor Davion]]. Both their families and realms they ruled were [[StarCrossedLovers traditionally enemies]] but found a [[EnemyMine mutual greater enemy]] in the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Clans]] at the time. During a summit to discuss the Clan threat, the two took a shine to each other, and it blossomed into an illicit romance over time. Omi was later killed by an assassin hired by Victor's treacherous sister, and he thought her gone forever... until Kitsune came back years later, already a man and making a name for himself, and declaring to the whole Inner Sphere his true parentage. A cabal of reactionary Draconis hardliners were disgusted to learn their prospective PuppetKing was "tainted" with Davion blood, and [=FedSun=] hardliners painted Omiko as some Kurita harlot who seduced and corrupted gallant Victor. Victor himself? He was just elated to see ''some'' legacy of his romance with Omi survive. Omi chose "Kitsune" for the boy's name, in honor of his paternal grandfather, First Prince Hanse "[[MagnificentBastard The Fox]]" Davion.[[note]]"Kitsune" is Japanese for "Fox"[[/note]]

* This is how Frollo views [[RelatedInTheAdaptation his nephew]] Quasimodo in ''Theatre/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' following the death of his estranged brother [[TheHedonist Jehan]]. His treatment of Quasimodo, however, makes it clear he just wants to control him in the way he couldn't control his late brother.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' has a sidequest where Shepard has to resolve a debate between a woman, Rebekah, and her brother-in-law, Michael. Rebekah's husband, Jacob, died recently and she's pregnant with his baby. It turns out Jacob had a rare heart defect that could shorten the baby's lifespan. Michael wants the embryo to get routine genetic therapy to eliminate the possibility of the baby developing the same condition, but Rebekah refuses because it has a tiny chance of killing the baby.
** After the TimeSkip in [[VideoGame/MassEffect2 the sequel]], the two can be seen again in the Citadel, discussing other ways to improve the health of the new toddler, also named Jacob.
** The couple are seen arguing ''again'' in [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 the third game]], this time over whether Jacob should be allowed to socialize in daycare or if he should be kept at home to minimize the danger to him during the Reaper War.
** If you encouraged her to hook up with Charr in the second game, Ereba will be pregnant with his baby in [[VideoGame/MassEffect3 the third game]]. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, he gets killed after only six months of marriage. [[TearJerker You have to bring her his final letter.]]]]
** It isn't outright stated, but in her scene before the final push on Earth, it's hinted that a romanced Liara is [[BizarreAlienBiology impregnating herself]] when she telepathically shares a memory with Shepard.
* This can potentially occur at the end of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''. When a Grey Warden slays an [[BigBad Archdemon]], both of their souls are destroyed, and both perish. If the PC is male and romances Morrigan, she will want him to make love to her on the eve of the final battle, as part of a magic ritual where they will conceive a child that will absorb the soul of the Archdemon instead of him, and save his life. However, if he refuses to do so, she gets upset and leaves, and if he subsequently slays the Archdemon himself, he will die. The epilogue in that case reveals that she already became pregnant at some point before the endgame (since the ritual was refused), and is now carrying his child. [[spoiler:Said child is then encountered in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' if the relevant world state is imported; if Alistair is the Grey Warden ally, he and Morrigan have a remarkably civil conversation about the boy's father.]]
** Discussed in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' between Aveline, whose husband Wesley dies during the prologue, and Bethany. They have a serious conversation about why Aveline and Wesley never had children, and then Bethany asks whether Aveline regrets it now that Wesley is gone. Aveline (not at all unkindly) tells Bethany that the subject is too personal.
* Played with in the ending of ''VideoGame/OverlordRaisingHell''. After you complete the BonusLevelOfHell only to get stuck down there, the final cutscene shows [[TheDragon Gnarl]] reminiscing on the sinister exploits of the VillainProtagonist, and discovering that the Overlord's mistress is bearing the Overlord's child. "Evil always finds a way..."
* ''Franchise/FireEmblem'':
** One of the more absurd examples occurs in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn''. [[spoiler:Ena]] discovers she's pregnant [[spoiler:with Rajaion's child 23 years after the last time it would have even been possible for him to get her pregnant]]. [[AllThereInTheManual Additional materials]] reveal that the child even becomes a DeadGuyJunior. [[spoiler: This could be explained by the fact that she's a dragon, but it becomes confusing again when the sporadic accounts of Ena's almost-sister-in-law Almedha's pregnancy makes it clear that it did not last nearly as long.]] (Though to be fair, [[spoiler: ''Almedha's'' baby daddy was a human and their kid was a [[HalfHumanHybrid Branded]]..]].)
** This can potentially happen in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', if a married [[spoiler: first generation]] male character who isn't a Lord is killed in battle while his girlfriend/wife survives to the end, since [[spoiler: their KidFromTheFuture is slated to be born after the game's ending. This might also happen to a Second Generation male, should said girlfriend/wife [[PlayerCharacter be a Female Avatar]]]].

* Occurs in ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}''. [[spoiler:Tsugumi is pregnant with Takeshi's children after he dies on [=LeMU=]. However, subverted because [[UnexplainedRecovery he gets better]].]]
* Noh is implied to be pregnant in her ending for ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 2'', despite the fact that historically she never bore UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga any children.
* The ending of ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited'' [[spoiler:has Takeru's girlfriend and their daughter standing on a field of a distant planet, looking towards the night sky in the direction of the Earth. Takeru himself had died in the last stand of humanity against the BETA back on Earth]].
* ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'': Sometime between the conclusion of ''SC IV'', yet prior to ''V'', series' protagonist [[StarCrossedLovers Xianghua and Kilik]] finally consummated their feelings for each other. But since [[TheAtoner he]] was still plagued by feelings of guilt, due to being infected by The Evil Seed, he [[spoiler: left her before she awoke and departed for the Astral Chaos to train, in hopes of purifying himself]]. Kilik hasn't been seen, or heard from since; leaving Xianghua to wonder what's become of him [[spoiler: and ultimately [[SecondLove marry another man]] to rebuild her life on her own]]. What he didn't know is that he had left her with child: [[spoiler: their then-unborn son, Xiba]].
* In the "Severed" DLC for ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' [[spoiler:Lexine is pregnant with Gabe's child; both the Government and ReligionOfEvil had plans for her. Gabe sacrifices himself in order to allow Lexine to get away from the Necromorph-infested Sprawl]].
* In ''VisualNovel/{{Sampaguita}}'' (the 3rd game of the ''VisualNovel/{{Yarudora}}'' series), this happens in [[spoiler:the 3rd Good Ending: the main protagonist ultimately dies, and his soul lingers for several years in Japan, before he finally manages to go find his lover Maria; she's now returned to her native Philippines and lives with her family. She now has a child, who's the fruit of the time she and the protagonist spent together during the storyline. The child is able to see his father's soul, so they can meet for the first time]].

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'': The canonical version is that LSM!Revan trucked off to the great unknown to fight the True Sith, never returning, and leaving Bastila knocked up (with the likely prospect of exile, among other consequences). Their descendant [[IdenticalGrandson Satele Shan]] is a major NPC in ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic''.
* After completing the bonus dungeon in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', [[spoiler: the origins of TheHero are revealed: a girl from the Dragovian Tribe visited the human world and fell in love with a human prince. The girl's father disapproved of their courting, and took his daughter away, back to the Dragovian Village. The prince searched all over the world for his lost love, eventually dying just before he could reach the village. The girl was heartbroken, but soon after she received word of his demise, she discovered she was pregnant with [[TheHero his child]]]]...
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': While it has been known that [[spoiler:Solid Snake is a clone of Big Boss]] since very early in the series, it's revealed near the end of the series that [[spoiler:he wasn't grown in a test tube but inside an actual woman. The clones were created by the Patriots when Big Boss appeared to be mortally wounded, and the woman who volunteered was his occasional girlfriend EVA, who (by her own account) loved him and wanted this trope to happen]].
* In the final route of ''VideoGame/DuelSaviorDestiny'' Taiga goes off to fight an eternal battle. Apparently, though, he had gotten Crea pregnant a few days before despite being unconscious during their only time together. [[spoiler:He does return a few years later, though]].
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', this shows up at the end [[spoiler:if the player chooses the "Deal" ending and Roman dies at his wedding. Malorie reveals she is pregnant after Niko avenges his death. In the "Revenge" ending, this doesn't apply]].
* Another gender-flipped example in the After Story of ''VisualNovel/{{CLANNAD}}'', with [[spoiler:Nagisa]] dying giving birth to Ushio, leaving Tomoya alone. [[spoiler: Subverted, the True Ending fixes this and Nagisa is saved.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' has a two-in-one: the time-travelling Joseph Oberf was born after both his father (Rikk) and his genetic mother (Rumy) were killed, since he was implanted as a fetus in his birth mother (Ally).
* Suspecting he might die if he goes off to war, Candi invokes this trope by trying to get herself pregnant with Donte's child in the ''Webcomic/CiemWebcomicSeries''.

* ''Webcomic/AntiBunny'': Though Mors dies, his wife Knell survives to later give birth to their child.
* In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'', Oggie, a member of the [[ThoseTwoGuys trio of]] [[SuperSoldier Jagermonsters]] that frequently are in [[TheHero Agatha's]] party, is a rarity among his [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld long-lived brethern]]: he has descendants. He takes solace in that he never has truly completely lost his [[MayflyDecemberRomance beloved wife]], because he can see glimpses of her in all of their descendants. [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20200415 This page and the next]] show Oggie reminscing fondly about her and their shared legacy.
* ''Webcomic/WhaleStarTheGyeongseongMermaid'': Yeongyeong lost her husband to torture by the Japanese and now raises their infant son without him.
* ''Webcomic/MyDaughterIsAZombie'': Jeonghwan starts a romance with his childhood friend Yeonhwa before a resident in their town finds out his daughter Su-ah is a zombie. He plans to skip town without saying goodbye, but he is caught by soldiers, asks Su-ah to bite him, and is shot as he turns into a zombie. Yeonhwa has a child by him, and his mother wonders when they had the time to get busy.

* Part of the backstory to ''Literature/TheScholomance''. Gwen Higgins' lover Arjun saved her from a Maw-Mouth on their graduation day about seventeen years back, [[FateWorseThanDeath going into it's gullet]] [[HeroicSacrifice in her stead]] [[DyingDeclarationOfLove as he told her he loved her]]. [[TheHero Galadriel]] was born six months later, and favors her Mumbai-born father greatly.
* ''Literature/AMemoirByLadyTrent'': At the end of the first book, after [[spoiler:Jacob]] dies saving Isabella, she discovers she's pregnant, and [[DeadGuyJunior names her son after his father]].
* ''Literature/Timeline191'': When Yossel Reisen dies in World War I, his fiancee Sophie names her unborn son after him. Yossel II grows up just in time to serve in World War II, though he survives.
* In ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive The Latest on Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte'', Fiene was conceived when Elizabeth and August decided to consummate their relationship during the last days of August's life; he died around the same time when Elizabeth found herself bearing his child.
* ''Literature/RedQueen'': Farley finds out that she is pregnant with Shade's baby shortly after he dies. She plans to name the baby after him if it is a boy, but it ends up being a girl, so she names her after her mother Clara instead.
* Gender-inverted example in ''[[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Twilight]]'' book ''Literature/BreakingDawn''. Vampire-human hybrids always kill their mothers during childbirth, leaving the fathers with only the hybrids as consolation. This happened to Joham, a vampire who impregnated three human women who died giving birth to his children, and nearly happens to Edward when Bella ends up dying after delivering their hybrid daughter Renesmee, until Edward decides to turn Bella into a vampire at the last minute.
* ''Literature/NighttimeIsMyTime'' features a deconstruction and subversion with Jean and Reed's daughter; she had told him she was pregnant with his child shortly before his untimely death and prior to that tragic event she'd intended to raise the baby. However, Reed's death was what made her decide to give the baby up for adoption, because without him she didn't have anyone to help her (her parents were too wrapped up in themselves and their bitter marriage, while Reed's family didn't even know he was dating Jean and she wasn't sure they'd support her). She was also [[TeenPregnancy only eighteen years old]] at the time. [[spoiler:She is eventually happily reunited with her daughter though]].
* A twisted version in ''Literature/WhoIsThePrey'': He Yan ends up having [[spoiler: [[BigBad Fu Shenxing's]] baby after [[DrivenToSuicide he dies,]] as Yuan Ze pleaded with her not to abort it, saying the baby was innocent of Fu Shenxing's crimes. It's unknown exactly how she feels about the child.]]

* ''Series/Mouse2021'': Hong-ju was pregnant with Yo-han's child when Yo-han died.
* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'': Subverted. Shortly after Han Fei's death, Lady Han discovers she's pregnant with his child. Unfortunately, by the time she learns of her pregnancy, she's become one of Ying Zheng's concubines. Another concubine has her assassinated while she's still pregnant.

* Happened to Karen after [[spoiler: Keith dies]] in ''Series/OneTreeHill''. She has a daughter she names Lily.
* Parodied in ''Series/TheKidsInTheHall'', with a sketch where recurring character Flying Pig is killed by flying into power lines. Then, we see some pregnant chick lifted off her feet. That's right, she's [[{{Squick}} having Flying Pig's baby]]!
* Inverted in an episode of ''Series/PrivatePractice''. An older women (about sixty) and a young man (thirty) are married. The woman is nine months pregnant after being artificially inseminated, ready to have her baby. The baby has complications, Addison fixes it, but the mother dies after giving birth due to complications associated with her age. The woman very nearly says this trope's name.

%%* Dr Sara in ''Series/PrisonBreak''
* Baby William becomes this for a short time on ''Series/TheXFiles''. Luckily, [[spoiler:Mulder isn't as dead as we thought]].
* Painfully subverted in ''Series/{{Skins}}'' when [[spoiler:Jal terminates her pregnancy by recently deceased Chris]]. This is particularly heartbreaking because [[spoiler:the condition that has just killed Chris is genetic and had also killed his brother some years before. Had Jal chosen to invoke this trope and have the baby so she could hold onto Chris, she would have also chosen a life of constant fear that her child might die from this condition at any moment. It is heavily implied that this exact fear is what led Chris' mother to abandon him in the first season]].
* Gender flipped at the end of ''Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}'', when [[spoiler:Mac discovers that the girl he loved and wanted to marry back in college had given birth to his son, and he now has someone to remember ''her'' by]].
* Gender flipped in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Reunion". K'ehleyr, who Worf had sex with in second-season episode "The Emissary", introduced him to their son, Alexander, then was murdered.
* At the end of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' with [[spoiler:Kasidy, who was revealed to be pregnant with Ben Sisko's child in an earlier episode. This is a variation as Sisko isn't dead; he's gone to live with the Prophets, and nobody knows when he'll be back]].
* ''Series/MiraiSentaiTimeranger'': Subverted at the end where Honami Moriyama gives birth to the child of [=Domon/TimeYellow=]. Why is it a subversion? [[spoiler:Because Domon doesn't really die, he just goes back to his time.]] In ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' episode 40, SixthRanger Gai Ikari meets Honami and her son (named Mirai[[note]]Japanese for "future"[[/note]]) and even [[spoiler:sends a photo of them to Domon when [[TransformingMecha GoJyuDrill]] returns to the 31st Century]].

* Played with in an episode of ''Series/ChicagoHope''. A woman suffers a miscarriage and her husband dies of a heart attack on the same day. She convinces the doctors to artificially inseminate her with her husband's sperm before they too die off and she successfully becomes pregnant.
* ''Series/TheShadowLine'' has [[spoiler:Jonah Gabriel's wife, who gives birth to his son after he's been shot dead]].
* Genderflipped in ''Series/{{Angel}}'', where Darla dies giving birth to Connor.
* Genderflipped in the finale of ''Series/ChinesePaladin'', when [[spoiler: Ling'er dies in a heroic sacrifice, leaving Xiaoyao to return home with their infant daughter]]. For additional irony points, the baby is [[DeadGuyJunior named after Xiaoyao's ''other'' dead love interest]].
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Teyla's pregnancy seemed to be going this way, as the (previously unmentioned) father of her child was kidnapped by [[BigBad Michael]] and (as she found out later when she was also kidnapped), experimented on. Ultimately subverted when the BigDamnHeroes rescue Teyla, her baby, ''and'' Kanaan, and Dr. Keller is able to undo his mutation.

* ''Series/DowntonAbbey'':
** Genderflipped. [[spoiler: Sybil dies from eclampsia just hours after giving birth to her daughter, leaving Branson to raise the baby alone.]]
** Happens in the Series 3 Christmas special when [[spoiler: Matthew Crawley dies in a road accident while driving back to Downton just after Mary has delivered their baby]].
** DA also subverts the romantic aspects. Housemaid Ethel's [[{{Jerkass}} upper-class lover]] has already rejected their illegitimate child by the time he is killed in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. The consequences of unmarried motherhood in the early twentieth century are not pretty for Ethel; then the father's parents swoop in offering to raise the baby so that ''they'' can have someone to remember their son by. [[spoiler: Ethel refuses but by S3 has descended even further into poverty and prostitution, and eventually decides she must give up her child to his grandparents for his own good.]]
** A more traditional example is [[spoiler: Edith, who gets pregnant after spending one night with her lover, Michael Gregson- who then goes to Berlin and disappears. It is later confirmed that he was killed by the brownshirts]].
* In the ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode "[[Recap/BlackMirrorBeRightBack Be Right Back]]", a woman's boyfriend is killed the day after they move into their new house, and she discovers shortly afterwards that she is pregnant. Her grief drives her to use new software to create a clone "substitute" of him.
* ''Series/{{Everwood}}'': {{Defied|Trope}}. One episode featured Dr. Brown's patient whose husband died several years ago, but tried to invoke this trope during his illness. He made her promise to have in vitro with his sperm and have his child. He really longed to propagate. She wants to do it for him, but it took her a long time to recover from her grieving and prepare to go through it. She's also in a new relationship. Her new spouse originally claimed he was OK with it, but in fact he was very uneasy about the whole thing and wanted to conceive his own child. She considered breaking up with him but Dr. Brown ultimately convinced her that it was unfair of her late husband to ask her for such a thing and that she's not bound to fulfil his wish.
* Referenced in ''Series/{{Bones}}'': In "The Critic In the Cabernet", Brennan decides she wanted to have a baby via artificial insemination, and wants Booth to be the donor. Later, after Booth starts to hallucinate [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Baby Stewie haranguing him]], Brennan has him rushed to the hospital, where he is diagnosed with a brain tumor. Before the surgery, Booth tells Brennan that if he doesn't make it, he wants her to use some of his "stuff" to have a baby.
** Then later, just before [[spoiler: Sweets]] dies, we find out [[spoiler: Daisy]] is pregnant with his child. Overlaps with DeadGuyJunior, as the boy is named [[spoiler: Seeley Lance Sweets-Wick]].

* In a non-romantic gender-flipped example, several young women were [[BreedingSlave kidnapped and forced to bear children]] for an evil infertile couple on ''Series/CriminalMinds''. One of the captives was murdered after having a girl (the couple wanted boys to act as a [[ReplacementGoldfish surrogate]] for their own stillborn son), but genetic tests revealed that a toddler raised by the couple was actually her son, leaving her parents with Someone To Remember Her By. The grandparents are also granted visitation rights to their granddaughter, who has been HappilyAdopted.
* ''Series/GreysAnatomy'' combined this with a TimeSkip in the two-part episode after [[spoiler:Derek's death: a grieving Meredith flees town with her two children and at some point finds out that she's pregnant again. She returns to Seattle a year later after the birth of her daughter Ellis]].
* At the conclusion of the MiniSeries ''Children Of The Dust'', Rachel is seen embracing the child of the man she'd loved since they were children--her being white and him being Native American meant they could never be together and he was killed by a mob after killing her abusive husband.
* ''Series/EastEnders'' had Abi Branning having an affair with Steven Beale, the fiancee of her sister Lauren. This resulted in her becoming pregnant with his child and [[spoiler: after his death from injuries he received trying to rescue Abi from a fire, she decided to keep the baby]]. And Lauren never found out about it!
* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': [[spoiler: Glenn]] is killed while [[spoiler: Maggie]] is pregnant with his child, although in this case, they both already knew this before his death.

* ''Literature/NOS4A2'': Just after losing her boyfriend in the effort to stop Manx, Vic learns that she's pregnant by him.
* ''Series/TheWarOfTheWorlds2019'': Sometime after the invasion, Amy gives birth to her and George's son, [[DeadGuyJunior named George Jr]], [[spoiler:after George has been killed protecting them]].

* ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'': Maya got pregnant with Wataru shortly before Otoya died.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'': Gender-flipped in World of Kiva, where AR Wataru's father is the Fangire King and his mother, a human, has died; leaving Wataru as his father's only memory of her.
* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Deirdre discovered she was pregnant from her tryst with Patrick after his death (which she believes was a murder to keep them apart), and was very depressed for much of her pregnancy as a result. [[spoiler:It's later revealed however that Rowan's father was Cortland, due to him [[ChildByRape raping Deirdre]], who's [[SubvertedTrope still living]].]]

* It does not happen at the ''end'' of the book, but in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' the Whistler husband died a few months before the book started. Eldest Mother had slept with him the night before the accident, but initially assumed that the early signs of pregnancy were actually the signs of approaching menopause. Social conventions hold that talking openly about a pregnancy will jinx it, so her family keeps quiet. [[spoiler: At the end of the book it turns out to be a healthy boy.]] Since men are generally more susceptible to heart attacks, disease, and inherited weaknesses, this actually isn't uncommon in the book.
** Technically [[spoiler: Eldie was this for Keifer to [[BrotherSisterIncest his sister]] Kij]], five years before book's start.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'':
** Played with in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' when the mother dies and leaves behind a child for the father to remember her by — an eight-year-old child that the mother had until then kept secret from the world.
** A particularly bizarre version happens in ''Literature/SkinGame'', in which it's revealed that [[spoiler: Lash, the mental copy of the fallen angel Lasciel that used to live in Harry's head, had committed an "act of love" when she sacrificed herself to save him, resulting in the creation of a new spiritual entity formed of herself and Harry, which has been dwelling and growing within Harry's mind ever since, and now needs to leave to be able to continue its growth. Or, as Harry puts it, he's pregnant]].
* In Creator/JasperFforde's ''[[Literature/ThursdayNext The Woman Who Died a Lot]]'', when Thursday is attacking her irresponsibility, one of Tuesday's defenses is that she might get this trope if Gavin does indeed die on destiny's schedule.
* In ''Literature/TheBlackMagicianTrilogy'', after the Ichani invasion in which her lover Akkarin is killed, Sonea realizes that she is pregnant by him.

* In the {{backstory}} to Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Gods of Mars]]'', Dejah Thoris was consoled for losing John Carter with his son, Carthoris. It was when Carthoris vanished as well that she did something foolish.
* ''Literature/ColdMountain'':[[spoiler: between Inman and Ada]]. Apparently this is [[TruthInTelevision based off of the real conception of the author's great-great aunt]].
** This book contains multiple examples of this trope. Again, its use is somewhat justified--it takes place during the American Civil War, prior to which [[MustNotDieAVirgin many]] [[NowOrNeverKiss couples were married]]--and then, of course, many of the guys didn't come back...
* At the end of ''[[Literature/TheHungerGames Mockingjay]]'', [[spoiler:Annie]] has this from [[spoiler:Finnick]]. (Katniss also finds it something of a consolation.)
* In Michelle Magorian's ''A Little Love Song''/''Not a Swan'', Hilda, who is a nurse during World War I, falls in love with an injured soldier. They have sex just before he has to go back to war, and then he dies in battle. Even more heart wrenching in that when Hilda's brothers find out she's pregnant, they put her in a mental institution and force her to give up the baby for adoption as soon as he's born.
* Subverted in Creator/RobinMcKinley's ''Beauty''. Grace's father suggests that she and Robbie marry quickly and "get started on a baby" before he departs for his voyage, but both Robbie and Grace refuse, preferring to wait until he returns.
* In ''Beyond the Summerland'', the first book of L.B. Graham's ''The Binding of the Blade'' series, [[spoiler:Joraiem]] is murdered right after the end of his and [[spoiler:Wylla]]'s honeymoon; in the epilogue, when they are bringing his dead body home to his parents, we find out that [[spoiler:Wylla]] is pregnant with his baby.
* In Sharon Draper’s ''[[Literature/TheJerichoTrilogy November Blues]]'', the story starts with the titular character November finding out that she is pregnant with the child of her boyfriend, who [[spoiler:died in a tragic hazing accident prior to the events of the book]].

* Similar to the midpoint of ''Literature/TheThornBirds'', where Meggie becomes pregnant by [[spoiler: Father Ralph just before he leaves her and returns to the Church]] and specifically says that this baby will be a part of him that she can keep. The child becomes one of the two major protagonists of the second half of the novel, and is a prime example of the "TurnOutLikeHisFather" trope. Her mother Fee did this with her son Frank, since she and his father could not be together (he was married).

* A side plot in Jill Paton Walsh's ''A Presumption of Death'' concerns a young RAF aviator who has disappeared, leaving a pregnant fiancee in great want. Harriet determines that he died the day after the two of them consummated their relationship, [[spoiler:but that the military is covering up his death because they planted false information about Norwegian defences on his body, then secretly dumped it off the coast of Germany to be found by the Nazis]]. Lord Peter is able to convince the military to declare the young man dead, which frees up his estate.

* Inverted in Creator/DouglasCoupland's ''Girlfriend in a Coma'', as Karen, the titular girlfriend gives birth while in a coma, giving her boyfriend someone to remember her by.
* Subverted in the ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''/''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' novels, seeing as male gods love to impregnate female mortals and then leave, never to see them or the kid again. This is Percy's main criticism of his father, Poseidon. However, it is subverted by the fact that some of them occasionally visit their lovers/kids (like Hermes, for example, though it is rare). Most are pretty much out of the picture though.
** You could also argue that the female gods pull similar shit on male mortals, deliberately having a one night stand to purposely impregnate herself, and then dumping the guy with a baby nine months later with no convictions to pay child support or help raise it. (Like Athena, for example)
* ''Literature/TheLastWerewolf'' [[spoiler: ends with Jake's death, but Talulla already knows she is pregnant with his baby, although she never gets a chance to tell him that. In the second book in the series, ''Talulla Rising'', she gives birth to twins]].
* At the end of 'Secret Sacrament' by Sheryl Jordan we find out that Gabriel has (and will no doubt die of) the disease that has been plaguing the Shinali and it's also revealed that his Shinali girlfriend is pregnant. The sequel is about his daughter.
* 'Tandia' by Bryce Courtenay (sequel to 'The Power of One') ends with the protagonist Peekay dead but the woman he loves - Tandia alive, safe and carrying his baby in Switzerland
* ''The Bronze Horseman'' ends with Alexander arrested by the Soviet secret police, but his wife Tatiana makes it to America with their baby (then Paullina Simons wrote a sequel getting them back together via a number of {{Contrived Coincidence}}s).
* ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': The end of David's first story, ''Snigger and the Nutbeast''. And at the end of the third book, [[spoiler: Zanna reveals she's pregnant with David's child]].
* In Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold's novel ''Literature/{{Barrayar}}'', Padma is in fact killed while his wife is in labor, but Alys finds baby Ivan if not a consolation at least a distraction from grief.
* ''Literature/KingdomOfLittleWounds'' looked at this trope and said "nope." Ava is left pregnant after Jacob runs away, but she miscarries. Isabel is still pregnant when Christian dies, but she also miscarries. Midi manages to carry her baby to term, but she's not sure who the father is and the afterword would suggest she's not so attached to Arthur, the man she supposedly loved, after all.
* In Robert Buettner's ''Orphanage'' the besieged Ganymede Expeditionary force have finally located the enemy base. Because it's on the other side of Ganymede and they are about to be overrun, their only hope is for their mothership to bombard the site the next time it overflies the target. The ship's captain Metzger confesses that their computers are out and that it'll be another orbit before they can take the shot, which will too late. The expeditionary force's CO then tells Metzger that Mrs Metzger, currently on the surface, is pregnant. Evacuating the rest of the crew, Metzger manually pilots the ship to crash into the enemy base, saving the expeditionary force and his unborn child.

* The Literature/SallyLockhart novel ''The Shadow in the North''. Though this does address the "unwed mother in 1870s England" issue by making the custody of Sally's child a plot point in the next book.
* In ''Literature/ReapersGale'', book seven of the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', [[spoiler:Seren Pedac]] discovers she is pregnant after her love interest [[spoiler:Trull Sengar]] has a particularly random [[DroppedABridgeOnHim bridge dropped on him]] via a random knife InTheBack. It even manages to check all the bonus points: they have sex exactly once, on the night of the book's final, and it's also the latter's first time (technically). At least that last part is gender flipped.
* [[spoiler: Xavier Lightman]] has sex with his wife just before the final battle in ''{{Literature/Armada}}''. After his HeroicSacrifice, we skip ahead a year to discover she's given birth to a son.
* ''Literature/{{Stinger}}'': "Treasure" Lochett died [[DeathByChildbirth giving birth to Cody]], whose distant father only comes out of TheMourningAfter enough to appreciate this trope (in a HeelRealization manner) during the main story, almost twenty years after her death, when their son is in danger.
-->''Treasure was in Cody. She had left him part of herself, and he’d tossed the gift aside like a snotty rag.''

* Malorie Blackman's ''Literature/NoughtsAndCrosses'' - a pretty big plot point towards the end, with a bit of a twist. [[spoiler: Callum gets Sephy pregnant, and soon after gets arrested for terrorism and raping Sephy (the latter is a lie, it was consensual) but Sephy's dad, a high-ranking government official, offers them a choice: he will free Callum if Sephy has an abortion, or if she keeps the baby, Callum will be hung. They choose the latter, resulting in this trope and a HeroicSacrifice of sorts from Callum.]]
* ''Literature/TimeScout'': Carl's got a baby on the way.
* Both of Cathy's sons in ''Literature/PetalsOnTheWind'' were born after their fathers died. Jory's father Julian killed himself shortly after Cathy found out she was pregnant, and Bart Jr.'s father was killed when Foxworth Hall burned down shortly after his conception.
* In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Dinah becomes pregnant by Prince Shalem, which she discovers after her {{Jerkass}} brothers kill him. She has a GutFeeling that the baby is a boy, and wants to name him Bar-Shalem ("Son of Shalem"). But, her mother-in-law doesn't want any mention or reminders of the son she lost, so she takes the baby to raise as ''her'' son, and calls him Re-Mose instead, telling him that he's an Egyptian and that [[FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo Dinah is only his nursemaid (not his mother)]]. [[spoiler: When he finds out the truth as a teenager, he is DrivenToSuicide, because he feels that his whole life has been BasedOnAGreatBigLie.]]
* In the Creator/NgaioMarsh book ''Vintage Murder'', an English theatre impresario is killed during a theatrical tour of New Zealand. His wife, the leading lady, is suspected of having committed the murder along with the leading man, with whom she is supposedly having an affair. It turns out that [[spoiler:the wife had indeed fallen in love with her leading man but refused to have an affair, citing moral grounds; after her husband's death, she agrees to marry the leading man only to discover, joyfully, that she's pregnant with her husband's child]]. The killer is [[spoiler:the deceased's business partner, who has a secret gambling problem]].

* Gender flipped in ''[[Literature/DragonridersOfPern The Masterharper of Pern]]'' when Robinton's boyhood friend F'lon loses his wife Larna to DeathByChildbirth. Robinton, whose own wife Casia died on their honeymoon, sends his heartfelt condolences to his old friend - but at the same time is a bit jealous that F'lon at least has a son to remember ''her'' by.
* In ''[[Literature/PlanetPirates Generation Warriors]]'', this happened on a society-wide level with the heavyworlders during their colony's harsh first winter. The men impregnated their wives, then [[HeroicSuicide committed suicide so that they wouldn't be a drain on their wives' resources]], [[NoPartyLikeADonnerParty their wives could eat their bodies]], and the colony as a whole could survive. Their children are not happy with the Federation of Sentient Planets, who dropped their parents into this situation with no support and are now trying to tell them how to live.
* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' has this among two brothers, Hurin and Huor. Huor is killed and Hurin is captured after the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, with their wives giving birth to children months after the battle.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** Queen Rhaella Targaryen was pregnant with her daughter Daenerys when King Aerys II was killed in the Sack of King's Landing.
** Tragically subverted with Daenerys' son, Rhaego. In hindsight, her husband, Drogo, was going to die either way; had she not agreed to revive him using BloodMagic, she would have given birth to his healthy baby. Instead, Rhaego is rendered stillborn to revive Drogo into a vegetative state, forcing Daenerys to kill him to end his suffering, meaning she loses her husband ''and'' son.
** Gilly gives birth to her son by Craster around the same time that he is murdered during the mutiny at his keep.
* ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'': Raeleth and Niha meet and fall in love in the [[PlaceBeyondTime temporally displaced]] city of Zvaelar, then become separated again when the time bubble collapses, sending them both back to their own times. It's not until after her return that Niha finds out she's pregnant.

* The end of the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10028774 Gone But Not Forgotten]]'' reveals that [[spoiler: Miss Pauling is pregnant with Scout's son]] after the latter dies on the battlefield.

* Johnny Lightfoot died in the final arc of ''Sonic the Comic''. In the fan sequel ''Webcomic/SonicTheContinuation'', it's shown that he was together with Vanilla and that Vanilla was pregnant with Cream when Johnny died.
* In [[https://www.wattpad.com/user/HeatAndChills HeatAndChills]]' ''Film/CabinFever'' microfic, ''[[https://www.wattpad.com/story/197976919-cabin-fever-promises-to-keep Cabin Fever: Promises To Keep]]'', this is the outcome of Paul and Marcy's one night stand. [[FixFic Marcy survives]]; Paul doesn't. [[TearJerker Marcy decides to name their daughter]] after their mutual friend and Paul's true love, Karen, while giving her the middle name Pauline, in remembrance of her father.
* ''Fanfic/CheckmateAnlashok'' has [[OCStandIn Johanna Mason]] coming from a long line of tributes; due to some ancestor doing something to piss off the Capitol several generations ago, at least one member [[ExecutiveMeddling has been reaped for the Games every generation]]. Johanna says that her mother deliberately got pregnant in order to leave someone behind due to suspecting that it would be her turn the next year, and she did indeed get reaped when Johanna was a couple months old.
* In ''Fanfic/TurningTables'', it is after [[TheBadGuyWins Thanos wins]] does Peter discover that Pepper was pregnant with Tony's child.
* Deconstructed by ''Fanfic/ADovahkiinSpreadsHisWings'', as Ned was so traumatized by his sister Lyanna's DeathByChildbirth he became rather controlling and smothering towards her child. He needs to be called out on this ''three'' times before reconciling with his nephew.
* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/930434/godzilla-2000-new-era-part-1 Godzilla 2000: New Era]]'' has Asuka Shinoda die in childbirth from radiation sickness complications after being too close to Godzilla during the 1984 attack. Her and her husband's daughter Io is remarked to look a lot like her as she starts to grow up, with her godmother and Asuka's midwife Dr. Chapman even getting teary eyed at the resemblance.
* With Matt's supposed death at Midland Circle in ''Fanfic/HellsKitchenFullOfGrace'', Jessica thinks she's doing this when she decides to keep Peter. It isn't until after he's born does she find out that Matt survived.
* A rather weird variant in ''Fanfic/FateEnds'', since Shen Qingqiu died from a qi deviation only for Harry to transmigrate within his body. Yue Qingyuan decides Harry is as good as Shen Qingqiu's child, and treats him as such.
* The ''Theatre/WestSideStory'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7697142/West-Side-Story-Somewhere-a-Place-for-You-Maria Somewhere a Place for You, Maria]]'' has Maria learn that she's pregnant with Tony's child after his death. She gives birth to their daughter Felipa in the penultimate chapter.

* Deconstructed in ''Fanfic/ASongOfIceFireAndHeart'', as Roxas is somewhat unsettled and annoyed by people constantly comparing him to his assumed father Ventus when he doesn't know anything about the guy.
* ''Fanfic/OneDayAtATimeFanfic'': Jason's adoptive daughter Helena Wayne is the biological daughter of his own adoptive father Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. Selina discovered she was pregnant about one month after Bruce was murdered by the Joker, which led her to leave Gotham [[GiveHimANormalLife in hopes of giving Helena a normal life]]. Ultimately, it didn't take: Black Mask II tracked her down ten years later and tried to force her to work for him, which caused Selina to flee ''back'' to Gotham in hopes of getting the Bat-Family's protection. She was killed before she could reach them, but not before sending Helena to Jason, who would take her in as his daughter. Helena would later grow up to be Robin, Huntress, and eventually, Batwoman.
* The premise of the ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' fanfic ''Fanfic/ConsequencesAndControl'' is that Mary finds herself pregnant with Kemal Pamuk's child after [[OutWithABang he dies having sex with her]].
* ''Fanfic/QueensOfMewni'': Febe the Red One was almost DrivenToSuicide after her husband was assassinated in an attack [[TakingTheBullet meant for her]] when she realized the nausea she felt was MorningSickness and she was pregnant with the future Festivia the Fun.
* ''Fanfic/EdenObsessmuch'': [[spoiler:Lucius fathers Hermione's son, but dies long before his birth. She raises the child with Ron, never telling him the truth of who his father actually is due to promising his wife.]]
* In ''Webcomic/NaruHinaChronicles'', Ino has an aunt named Hotaru, who ends up having the baby of her deceased boyfriend.
* ''Fanfic/WeMustBeKillers'': The male District 6 tribute in ''Nobody Decent'' leaves behind a pregnant girlfriend. Possibly subverted, as she kills herself at some point after his death in the arena and it is never mentioned if she waited to have her baby first.

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* ''Film/AnUnfinishedLife'': Jean was pregnant when her husband died in a car crash, and named her daughter after him. Her father-in-law doesn't learn this until ten years later.

* ''Film/BlackChristmas1974''. Somewhat subverted in that [[spoiler: the father was depicted as kind of a jerk, and the heroine may have had an abortion, assuming she never learned the truth about what actually happened]].

* Subverted in ''My Life'' in which Creator/MichaelKeaton's character [[spoiler: isn't expected to live long enough to see his baby born. He does anyway]].

* ''People Will Talk'', this is the basis for the plot with the added complication that they never married. When the doctor tells her about her pregnancy, she is so distraught about having to break her father's heart and admit to premarital sex that she attempts suicide. The doctor tells her that there was a mix-up with the tests and she wasn't pregnant, then proposes so that when she does have the baby, there will be nothing shameful (except the fact that she will give birth about seven months after the wedding, which no one seems to notice.)

* In ''The Shaft (2001)'', [[spoiler: Mark's partner Jeff]] leaves behind a pregnant wife after [[spoiler: being strangled to death by elevator cables]].

* ''Film/{{Sleepers}}'': Carol has a child with John, a son she names after the father, Michael, and Tommy. Her pet name for her son is Shakes.

%%* ''Literature/TheWorldAccordingToGarp''. See Literature.
* Discussed in ''Film/Scream4''. This trope is listed as one of the signs that a cop will die in a horror movie, along with being about to retire and “being better looking than the other person.”

* ''Manga/MyGirl'': Kazama Masamune spent the last few years of his life pining after his old girlfriend, who after a long relationship had suddenly moved away and cut off all contact with him. He was never able to move on from her and never started up any relationship since. He ends up being contacted by the girl's mother years later... to be told his old love had just died suddenly in an accident. Soon after he meets the girl's daughter, who is in fact ''his'' daughter, who he had no idea existed until that point...

* After [[spoiler:Asuma Sarutobi]] dies in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', [[spoiler:Kurenai Yuuhi]], hinted to be having a relationship with, is revealed as pregnant.
* ''Manga/CeresCelestialLegend'' has Aya realize that she might be pregnant while there's an important infiltration mission going on at Mikagi HQ. And shortly after, [[spoiler:upon overhearing Suzumi's phone conversation indicating that Tooya died]], she learns that she is indeed pregnant and in her third month. Considering that her lover had just died, she was less than very happy about the news.
* Happens at the end of ''Manga/ShadowStar''. There's a bit of ArtisticLicenseBiology in there, since the father conceived the kid while dying of radiation sickness from having a tac-nuke dropped on him.

* Possibly ''{{inverted|Trope}}'' in the {{backstory}} of ''VisualNovel/{{Air}}'' when [[spoiler:Ryuuya finds out he is slowly dying of a curse. Uraha suggests that the only way he can work to save the soul of their beloved Kanna is for him to leave a line of descendants to do it for him and offers herself to be the mother of his child. He dies when she is heavily pregnant and their child becomes the ancestor of the series' main character Yukito]].
* [[spoiler:Mine Kujyou]] discovers she is pregnant by [[spoiler:Shuro (a.k.a. Akiba)]] at the very end of ''Manga/EternalSabbath'', after [[spoiler:Shuro has died in the final battle with Isaac]].

* Happens in the little-known anime movie ''Anime/LikeTheCloudsLikeTheWind''. It's an especially sad example since the male member of the couple kills himself soon after having sex with his wife for the first time.

* Gender-flipped in ''Manga/{{Nicoichi}}'', when the main protagonist adopted the son of his single mother girlfriend, who had passed away after being involved in a traffic accident. This act became the [[PlotTriggeringDeath trigger for the plot]] of the series.
* In ''Manga/AiRen'', Ai and Ikuru ''both'' die, but their child - gestated in an artificial womb - is "born" and taken care of by Haruka-sensei, who possibly would have been Ikuru's lover had circumstances between them been different.
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' Jonathan Joestar is killed by his ArchEnemy Dio Brando during his honeymoon with Erina Pendleton. Erina wants to be TogetherInDeath with Jonathan, but he tells her to escape and rescue a recently orphaned baby girl in the process. As it turns out, Erina was already pregnant with Jonathan's son whom she names George [[spoiler: and who will be the father of Joseph, with the mother being Elizabeth/Lisa-Lisa aka the little girl that Erina rescued]].

* A different take on this appears in ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. [[spoiler:After the Hilshire/Triela fratello are killed during the Turin operation, Roberta Guellfi talks of how she resents being left alone again after discovering love with Hilshire. Turns out Hilshire had a hospital preserve some eggs from his cyborg Triela, whom he once promised to help live a normal life (after she got turned into a cyborg, this was impossible due to the danger and the [[BlessedWithSuck fatal effects of her conditioning]]). [[DeadManWriting He leaves a letter]] asking Roberta to carry on in their stead; Roberta carries and gave birth to the child, [[DistantFinale eventually revealed to be a girl named Speranza]], though it's not revealed if her father was Hilshire himself or an anonymous sperm donor.]]
* In ''Literature/{{Koizora}}'', after [[spoiler: Hiro dies of cancer]], Mika reveals that she's pregnant with his child again.

* Meroune in ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' tries to invoke this when the girls fear Kimihito is about to die. Hoping to tell her children the tragic story of how their father died. Miia stops her before she can get anywhere though.
* Mikan Sakura (or more appropriately, Mikan [[spoiler: Yukihira]]) in ''Manga/GakuenAlice'' was revealed to be this. Her father was accidentally killed by [[spoiler: his student Persona]] right after the first (and last) time he slept with Yuka, who then didn't even know she was pregnant until Mikan's [[spoiler: uncle Kazumi, the High School principal of the academy]] discovered there was a new light inside Yuka's stomach thanks to his own Alice a few days later. Despite her love for Mikan, Yuka later had to [[GiveHerANormalLife abandon her baby to a kind old man]] in a rural area to [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou protect her from the]] BigBad.
* A rather....um, odd example in ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': [[spoiler: technically speaking, Fuura Kafuka is DeadAllAlong and has been possessing the twelve girls (and one guy) who received her organs, whom eventually [[MarryThemAll marry Nozomu]]. All the girls have children by Nozomu. They all look and act ''eerily'' like Kafuka]].
* In the final chapters of ''Lady Georgie'', [[NotBloodSiblings Abel confesses his love for Georgie]] while he is in prison, and they have sex. Abel is killed and Georgie finds out she is pregnant with his child, [[DeadGuyJunior whom she names Abel Jr]]. This subplot doesn't exist in the anime adaptation.
* In ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'', this is why Hakari was conceived - her mother Hahari had fallen in love with a terminally ill fellow student, and knowing that he didn't have long to live, she had herself artificially inseminated with his sperm so that they could be a family before he died.

* The Wash one-shot "Float Out" of the ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' comic ''ComicBook/ThoseLeftBehind'' features a memorial of sorts for Wash that takes place after his death in the film. The last page reveals a ''very'' pregnant Zoe. The child, a daughter named Emma, is born in the first chapter of ''ComicBook/LeavesOnTheWind''.
* Crossing over with RealLife, in Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical comic ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'', she tells the story of one of her relatives who was in jail, and about to be executed by the government. His girlfriend bribed a guard so they could have one last night together, ''wanting'' a baby to remember him by. He's not happy about it and warns her about how terrible life is for an unwed mother, especially in totalitarian Iran. Fortunately, according to the uncle that told her the story, she managed to get to Switzerland safely with her child.
* GenderInvertedTrope with ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''. He conceived Ellie with Carmelita the one time they had sex during a time Carm thought she was going to be killed. It's unknown if she was a virgin, but the encounter resulted in Ellie. Deadpool doesn't find out until she tracks him down much later and he chases them away to protect them. Sadly, the meeting happens in front of [[MadScientist Butler]], who kidnaps Carm and orders her death. Deadpool did manage to reunite with Ellie. They talk about Carm briefly and she asks if Deadpool knew her mom. He admits he didn't really know her, but he wanted to. He says he never got the chance and Ellie ask if she died. He silently turns away from her in grief.
* In ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'', [[spoiler:Krim is revealed to be pregnant with Sust after Skot dies]].

* The ''ComicBook/{{Transformers}}: Sector 7'' comic has William Simmons sacrifice his life while fighting a traitor in order to let his wife (who has just found out she's pregnant) escape before his grandfather Joseph Simmons dropped a liquid nitrogen bomb on the location in order to keep [[strike:Megatron]] [[InsistentTerminology NBE-1]] on ice. Even then, she only survives because of Jetfire, whose life William spared during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. Jetfire also tells Joseph that she's carrying William's child. Joseph tells her to abandon this life and keep her child away from it. She opens a deli and has a son named Seymour, the same guy we see in the movies.
** This puts a whole new spin on Seymour not wanting his mother to know about his research. It's not that she's unauthorized to know. It's that she knows this life got her husband killed and doesn't want to lose her son.
** This contradicts with the ''Ghosts of Yesterday'' novel, which states that Seymour's father is named Walter, and he is alive and well in the late 60s. In the comic, William dies in 1954.
* ComicBook/CaptainAmerica:

* Much of the last volume of ''ComicBook/StrangersInParadise'' revolves around the characters attempting to fulfill this trope.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Three}}'', Damar [[PreClimaxClimax has sex with Klaros]] on their final night in the gully before the Spartiates attack and kill him. She conceives twin boys, who she [[DeadGuyJunior names after him and Terpander]], the third member of their group who also died.
* At the end of ''ComicBook/Camelot3000'', [[spoiler: King Arthur has laid down his life in defense of the Earth, leaving the reincarnated Lancelot and Guinevere - free to be together, yet devastated to lose him - among the war's survivors. When she reads off the result of her pregnancy test, they ''both'' express hope that it's ''Arthur's'' child she's carrying]].

* The whole reason [[spoiler: why everyone is going after C.C]] in a ''Anime/CodeGeass'' continuation, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6969408/1/In_the_End In the End]]''.
* Toward the end of ''Fanfic/ASadStory'', [[spoiler:Harry]]'s girlfriend Maria tells him that he's going to be a father, and thus can't die yet.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' badfic ''Lisa Is Pregnant'', Bart dies while trying to keep Lisa from freezing to death by having sex with her. This results in her getting pregnant, and Marge opposes Lisa getting an abortion because the last living part of her child is inside Lisa, causing Lisa to change her mind and have the baby out of respect for Bart.
* The ''Film/{{Titanic|1997}}'' fandom uses this trope all the time, on the assumption that Jack ''could've'' gotten Rose pregnant when they [[AutoErotica made love in that Model T]].
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' fanfic frequently invoked this trope after [[spoiler: Wash's death in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'']], even before it was confirmed by the canon comic "Float Out", due to [[spoiler:Wash and Zoe discussing starting a family in "Heart of Gold"]].

* The ''WesternAnimation/LegendOfKorra'' fanfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8120153/1/Two-Wrongs-and-a-Right Two Wrongs and a Right]]'' has this and a DeadGuyJunior. [[spoiler:''And'' a FamilyRelationshipSwitcheroo.]]
* In the ''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'' fanfic ''Fanfic/WhoSilencedEllyPatterson'', [[spoiler: it's implied this happened with John and his second wife Kortney, with hints that he died not long after she gave birth to his twin sons]].

* [[spoiler:Jeyne Westerling]] in ''Fanfic/TheNorthRemembers'', who discovers her pregnancy while at [[spoiler:Greywater Watch, after being led there by Ser Brynden Tully for her safety]]. At first she's shocked, and then overjoyed because [[spoiler:the potions she was given by her mother were actually contraceptives intended to stop her from conceiving an heir for Robb Stark. Unfortunately, the baby boy she delivers is blind and has no right arm because of this, and so the crown to the North passes to Sansa instead]].

* In ''Fanfic/RemembranceOfTheFallen'', Tiana Lanstar is in her third trimester with a baby conceived ''in vitro'' using {{technobabble}} applied to her Bajoran wife Sobaru's genome.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10028750/1/Popcorn-Love Popcorn Love]]'', a ''Series/OnceUponATime'' TransplantedCharacterFic in which Regina is a businesswoman in New York and Emma is a college student she hires as a babysitter (only for romance to blossom between the two), and Henry is Regina's biological child by her boyfriend Daniel, who died in a car accident three days after Henry was conceived.
* An ''Series/{{ER}}'' fic titled "One Candle Burns" is a re-write of Doug Ross's departure that had him going to Croatia to aid in the war effort. Carol gets word that he has been killed in the chaos, but consoles herself with the birth of their twin girls. [[spoiler: Subverted at the story's end, when he is revealed to be alive.]]

* A ''Film/Scream2'' fanfic titled ''Scream 2: Aftermath'' has Sidney finding out she's pregnant with Derek's child shortly after his death in the film.
* The end of the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' fanfic ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/10028774 Gone But Not Forgotten]]'' reveals that [[spoiler: Miss Pauling is pregnant with Scout's son]] after the latter dies on the battlefield.

* ''Fanfic/TheDifferentverse'': During the group's trip through the Everfree, Derpy reveals that her husband died of a heart attack during her pregnancy, making Dinky into this trope.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13122614/1/A-Bolt-of-Light A Bolt of Light]]'' gave Oliver Queen, [[GenderFlip Barry Allen]] and Sara Lance a threesome two weeks before the ''Gambit'''s sinking. When she heard about the tragedy, Barry revealed her pregnancy to Moira Queen, reassuring her they would still have Ollie's child to love.
* ''Fanfic/FrostbittenFlower'' starts with a heavily pregnant and recently widowed Celia mourning her husband Jack's death. He died a few weeks before their daughter was born.
* GenderInvertedTrope in ''Fanfic/FlamesShade''. Ruby goes to a pillaged village and finds out that her half-sister's distant mother Raven has died. Raven left behind an infant daughter, who [[PromotionToParent Yang and Ruby decide to raise]].

* In [[https://www.wattpad.com/user/HeatAndChills HeatAndChills]]' Film/CabinFever microfic, [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/197976919-cabin-fever-promises-to-keep Cabin Fever: Promises To Keep]], this is the outcome of Paul and Marcy's one night stand. [[FixFic Marcy survives]]; Paul doesn't. [[TearJerker Marcy decides to name their daughter]] after their mutual friend and Paul's true love, Karen, while giving her the middle name Pauline, in remembrance of her father.

* ''Film/{{Inside}}''. As depressing as it is, it only begins this way and gets much, much worse. The 2016 remake has a happy ending.

%%* Dr Sara in Series/PrisonBreak

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': [[spoiler: Glenn]] is killed while [[spoiler: Maggie]] is pregnant with his child, although in this case, they both already knew this before his death.

* ''Film/HarrisonBergeron'': Phillipa turns out to be pregnant with her and Harrison's child. We later see him illegally watching the videos which Harrison broadcasted with a friend.

* ''Fanfic/{{Checkmate}}'' has [[OCStandIn Johanna Mason]] coming from a long line of tributes; due to some ancestor doing something to piss off the Capitol several generations ago, at least one member [[ExecutiveMeddling has been reaped for the Games every generation]]. Johanna says that her mother deliberately got pregnant in order to leave someone behind due to suspecting that it would be her turn the next year, and she did indeed get reaped when Johanna was a couple months old.

* Gender-inverted example in ''Literature/{{Twilight}}''. Vampire-human hybrids always kill their mothers during childbirth, leaving the fathers with only the hybrids as consolation. This happened to Joham, a vampire who impregnated three human women who died giving birth to his children, and nearly happens to Edward when Bella ends up dying after delivering their hybrid daughter Renesmee, until Edward decides to turn Bella into a vampire at the last minute.

* ''Fanfic/{{Checkmate}}'' ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8852698/1/Checkmate]]'' by Anla'Shok has [[OCStandIn Johanna Mason]] coming from a long line of tributes; due to some ancestor doing something to piss off the Capitol several generations ago, at least one member [[ExecutiveMeddling has been reaped for the Games every generation]]. Johanna says that her mother deliberately got pregnant in order to leave someone behind due to suspecting that it would be her turn the next year, and she did indeed get reaped when Johanna was a couple months old.

* ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'': Sometime between the conclusion of ''SC IV'', yet prior to ''V'', series' protagonist [[StarCrossedLovers Xianghua and Kilik]] finally [[CoitusEnsues consummated their feelings for each other]]. But since [[TheAtoner he]] was still plagued by feelings of guilt, due to being infected by The Evil Seed, he [[spoiler: left her before she awoke and departed for the Astral Chaos to train, in hopes of purifying himself]]. Kilik hasn't been seen, or heard from since; leaving Xianghua to wonder what's become of him [[spoiler: and ultimately [[SecondLove marry another man]] to rebuild her life on her own]]. What he didn't know is that he had left her with child: [[spoiler: their then-unborn son, Xiba]].

The intersection of HerHeartWillGoOn with BabiesEverAfter. May involve a BirthDeathJuxtaposition, or result in DeadGuyJunior. This trope seems to be a recurring theme in horror films, sort of an extension of the puritanical belief that [[DeathBySex sex equals death]]. For when "Someone" wants to know about "Him", see TellMeAboutMyFather.

* ''Series/MayfairWitches'': Deirdre discovered she was pregnant from her tryst with Patrick after his death (which she believes was a murder to keep them apart), and was very depressed for much of her pregnancy as a result.

* *''Series/LawAndOrder'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' badfic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3739288/1/Lisa_is_Pregnant Lisa Is Pregnant]]'', Bart dies while trying to keep Lisa from freezing to death by having sex with her. This results in her getting pregnant, and Marge opposes Lisa getting an abortion because the last living part of her child is inside Lisa, causing Lisa to change her mind and have the baby out of respect for Bart.