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* ''FanFic/PrincessOfTheBlacks:'' Comes up with regard to the black magic of Tiamat. As befits her title of "Mother of Monsters", Tiamat requires her female followers to literally give birth to the chimeric monstrosities they create through her magic.
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* The theme of the Urashima Woman from ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', a spirit who appears in the form of a pregnant woman. It's revealed that she was killed after childbirth by her midwife and had her baby stolen; she roams the lake searching for her child, and kills those who can't tell her where he is (or those who throw rocks into the lake, as she interprets it as an attack on the dead fetuses that were dumped there). After she's pacified, it's implied that the midwife filled her swollen stomach with rocks to weigh her down when she was thrown into the lake.
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* The alien knock-off Inseminoid(aka horror planet) features a woman getting impregnated by an alien well excavating an ancient civilization and giving birth to mutant children.
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* The 1989AfterTheEnd [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] horror film The terror within ''The Terror Within'' has a race of mutant known as gargoyles capturing and impregnating human women.
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** While not as obviously horrific as the above example, this is part of what makes [[spoiler:Morrigan's]] proposed ritual so disturbing; she wants to become pregnant [[spoiler:by a male warden (either the player character or Alistair) so that the baby will have the soul of an old god - the Archdemon before it got The Blight.]] While there are benefits for the player to go along with this (namely, it means that [[spoiler:the warden can kill the Archdemon without dying]]), but the uncertain nature of what this baby could become is presented as a major con.
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* The alien knock-off Inseminoid(aka horror planet) features a woman getting impregnated by an alien well excavating an ancient civilization and giving birth to mutant children.
* ''Film/{{Xtro}}'' infamously features a woman in a cabin getting FaceFullOfAlienWingWong and then giving birth to a full grown man.
* Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild has the main protagonist getting pregnant and Freddy Kruger attempting to possess the baby.
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* ''Film/{{Xtro}}'' infamously features a woman in a cabin getting FaceFullOfAlienWingWong and then giving birth to a full grown man.
* Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild has the main protagonist getting pregnant and Freddy Kruger attempting to possess the baby.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': The winds of Chaos blowing from the polar vortexes can cause spontaneous in-utero mutations, causing the child born part beast. These children are often exposed, abandoned in the forest for fear they are cursed by the Ruinous Powers. This curse is, unfortunately, all too real and the resulting spawn grow up to be Chaos-enslaved, civilization-hating [[Characters/WarhammerBeastsOfChaos Beastmen]].
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* ''Film/{{INSIDE}}'' is an extremely gory French horror film about a pregnant woman being stalked by an insane woman who wants to cut up her stomach and take her child. [[spoiler:The insane woman succeeds at the end.]]
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Usually, motherhood is seen as something nurturing and life-giving. It's something to look forward to. BabiesMakeEverythingBetter, after all. Except in this case. This in when things get bad, creepy, or downright terrifying. Like its counterparts EyeScream and BodyHorror, this trope is dependent on the primal fear of things going wrong with a pregnancy, taken to disturbing levels.
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Usually, motherhood is seen as something nurturing and life-giving. It's something to look forward to. BabiesMakeEverythingBetter, after all. Except in this case. This in when things get bad, creepy, or downright terrifying. Like its counterparts EyeScream and BodyHorror, this trope is dependent on the primal fear PrimalFear of things going wrong with a pregnancy, taken to disturbing levels.
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* In ''VideoGame/Drakengard'', during ending D, [[spoiler: The Watchers descend upon the world after Manah is killed. They look like giant babies with fully formed teeth. They are led by the Queen Beast, who resembles a giant woman. Near the end of this ending, she appears to become pregnant and her womb swells to an unnaturally large size]].
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* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "Pro-Life", a sheltered, heavily pregnant teenage girl runs away from her deeply religious relatives to request an abortion at a local clinic. An armed stand-off ensues when her father and brothers show up to take her back so she can deliver her child. Then at the end it's revealed that she was literally impregnated by a demon, who shows up purely to collect his demon spawn.
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* ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1]]'': Human Bella gets impregnated by vampire Edward, and the {{Dhampir}} fetus starts slowly killing her. [[spoiler:After she dies from the pregnancy and/or [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine emergency non-medical C-section]], Edward gives her an EmergencyTransformation into a vampire to save her life.]
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* The titular Brood from ''Film/TheBrood'' are a group of monstrous {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are born from a psychoplasmically-induced external womb growing from Nola. These creatures are connected to Nola on an empathetic level, acting out her desires in the form of murdering people that enrage her and kidnapping her daughter Candice when her father tries taking full custody of her.
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* Creator/BarbaraEden is pregnant with what turns out to be an invasive alien baby in the 1974 made-for-TV movie "The Stranger Within." The first signs that something is amiss.... 1.) The fetus is fully developed and birth is imminent, even though she is only five months along, and 2.) X-rays show that [[BizarreAlienBiology the baby has two hearts.]]
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* The Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise are meant to invoke this in conjonction with rape horror, in particular their life cycle consisting of [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong involuntary fertilization]] from a facehugger leading to a ChestBurster. This intent was confirmed by [[WordOfGod screenwriter]] Dan O' Bannon in the Alien Saga documentary.
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* One of the nightmares Vincent faces in ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' is a giant amalgamated horror in the shape of a baby known as "The Child". It's covered in VolcanicVeins as if still developing in the womb, and chases after Vincent, wanting to play with his "daddy". It represents Vincent's fear of losing his freedom as a bachelor and having to settle down when learning that Katherine might be pregnant. He later experiences another nightmare in the form of "The Child With A Chainsaw", where the baby transforms and reveals grotesque rusted robot parts, including a sharp pincing claw for a left hand and a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] for a right. It represents Vincent's fear that the child might not even be his, which means that Katherine is cheating on him just as much as [[ItMakesSenseInContext he might be cheating on her.]]
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* ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1]]'': Human Bella gets impregnated by vampire Edward, and the {{Dhampir}} fetus starts slowly killing her. [[spoiler:After she dies from the pregnancy and/or [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine emergency non-medical C-section]], Edward gives her an EmergencyTransformation into a vampire to save her life.]]
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* Roulette in ''Literature/WildCards'' apparently had this happen to her. She was infected with the Wild Card virus while pregnant. She became an Ace with the power to produce [[{{Squick}} toxin vagina secretions]], making sex with her quite risky (hence the name). Her still developing fetus, on the other hand, well, let's just say that the reason she became an assassin for the BigBad of her story arc was because he was a telepath who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia promised to remove the memories]] of what she gave birth to.
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* Creator/NKJemisin's ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'': {{Implied|Trope}} with Yeine's mother, who famously crossed her legs in an attempt not to give birth and who later had to be prevented from [[OffingTheOffspring killing her]]. It's revealed to be because [[spoiler:she acquiesced to a LeonineContract with the gods to make Yeine a vessel for the dead goddess Enefa's soul, and later had a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment]].
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'''Mulder:''' Apparently not much in this case if she just threw it out with the trash.
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* One of the nightmarish scenes at the end of the "Sex Survey Results" video of ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' features a scene of a woman giving birth into a toilet. She proclaims in Polish that she gave birth to "A human curse", and that if she asks for grace, she won't get it, only having her soul "swallowed and vomited and swallowed again". Looking into the toilet reveals the baby is wearing Jon Arbuckle's shirt.
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* ''VideoGame/{{The Binding Of Isaac}}'' has tons of this stuff - it is, after all, a game about a small child and his apparently psychotic mother. Among the enemies you'll meet in her basement are creepy blood-stained floating fetuses that emit a shrill scream when they see you and can even teleport behind your back. All the more disturbing that they, as well as many, many others, are supposed to be [[spoiler:Isaac's mutilated brothers and sisters]].
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** Among the enemies you'll meet in her basement are creepy blood-stained floating fetuses that emit a shrill scream when they see you and can even teleport behind your back. All the more disturbing that they, as well as many, many others, are supposed to be [[spoiler:Isaac's mutilated brothers and sisters]].
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** And once you beat the game for the first time, you get access to [[spoiler:The Womb, which is literally a whole level in Isaac's mother's insides. Almost anything you'll see there falls under this trope, but the most prominent part is the deformed-looking naked humanoids tethered to the walls by their umbilical cords, constantly trying to break free. It's best you don't let them succeed.]]
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** And once you beat the game for the first time, you get access to [[spoiler:The Womb, which is literally a whole level in Isaac's mother's insides. Almost anything you'll see there falls under this trope, but the most prominent part is the deformed-looking naked humanoids tethered to the walls by their umbilical cords, constantly trying to break free. It's best you don't let them succeed.]]
** And, of course, [[there's the final boss of The Womb. A giant heart that summons enemies is more or less normal by the standards of this game, but after some playthroughs it grows vestigial limbs and a head, turning into some kind of baby/organ hybrid.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': PlayedForLaughs in one sketch, where a giant monster hand coming out of a woman's womb and dragging the doctor inside.
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It's painful, traumatic, bloody, and potentially life-threatening. Babies may turned into grotesque monsters, which is common in works about fearing parenthood. This trope often carries supernatural elements, with women carrying literal devil-spawn or a HalfHumanHybrid, as somewhat of the evil version of a MysticalPregnancy.-- most often, this supernatural baby is a ChildByRape. Rape scenarios are common even without the supernatural, however. Another theme that may occur is abortion or miscarriage. The imagery may also be entirely metaphorical, with ''references'' to wombs and pregnancy rather than anything explicit.
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It's painful, traumatic, bloody, and potentially life-threatening. Babies may turned turn into grotesque monsters, which is common in works about fearing parenthood. This trope often carries supernatural elements, with women carrying literal devil-spawn or a HalfHumanHybrid, as somewhat of the evil version of a MysticalPregnancy.-- most often, this supernatural baby is a ChildByRape. Rape scenarios are common even without the supernatural, however. Another theme that may occur is abortion or miscarriage. The imagery may also be entirely metaphorical, with ''references'' to wombs and pregnancy rather than anything explicit.
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Usually, motherhood is seen as something nurturing and life-giving. It's something to look forward to. BabiesMakeEverythingBetter, after all. Except in this case. This in when things get bad, creepy, or downright terrifying. Like its counterparts EyeScream and BodyHorror, this trope is dependent on the primal fear of things going wrong with a pregnancy, taken to disturbing levels.
It's painful, traumatic, bloody, and potentially life-threatening. Babies may turned into grotesque monsters, which is common in works about fearing parenthood. This trope often carries supernatural elements, with women carrying literal devil-spawn or a HalfHumanHybrid, as somewhat of the evil version of a MysticalPregnancy.-- most often, this supernatural baby is a ChildByRape. Rape scenarios are common even without the supernatural, however. Another theme that may occur is abortion or miscarriage. The imagery may also be entirely metaphorical, with ''references'' to wombs and pregnancy rather than anything explicit.
SuperTrope to TraumaticCSection. SisterTrope to ImperiledInPregnancy, where the horror isn't so much the pregnancy itself as what might happen during it.
Can overlap with FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, WombLevel, SpawnBroodling, ChestBurster, and BreedingSlave. FetusTerrible is a specific example of this. See also BizarreBabyBoom and MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.
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* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** Guts and Casca's unborn child is corrupted in the womb when Griffith, a DemonOfHumanOrigin, brutally rapes Casca. After she miscarries the demonic fetus, it suddenly teleports away.
** [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Trolls]] are seen to reproduce by raping human women, who are [[ChestBurster eaten alive]] by the fetus. Like other Qliphoth inhabitants, Trolls are formed in part from the darkest elements of humanity's collective subconscious.
** The Kushan Empire uses demonic soldiers called Daka as shock troops. These are obtained by plunging pregnant women into vats of demonic essence, corrupting the fetus so it quickly grows and eats its way out of the mother's womb.
* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Goblins reproduce by capturing the young women who enter their lairs and using them as {{Breeding Slave}}s for the rest of their lives, assuming they don't die from the treatment before that.
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* The Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise are meant to invoke this in conjuction with rape horror, in particular their life cycle consisting of [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong involuntary fertilization]] from a facehugger leading to a ChestBurster. This intent was confirmed by [[WordOfGod screenwriter]] Dan O' Bannon in the Alien Saga documentary.
* ''Film/BrainDead'': In the climax, Lionel's zombie mother assumes a OneWingedAngel form and drags Lionel back into her womb, forcing him to fight his way out.
* The Director's Cut of ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'' has a scene towards the end where [[spoiler:Evan strangles himself as a fetus in the womb of his mother so he [[SuicideForOthersHappiness would never be born to cause harm to the ones he loved]]]]. It's rather played for drama than horror though. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/ixYWkDAPPzA?t=23 here]].
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'': Shaw gets a helping of this after [[spoiler:sleeping with her [[TheCorruption black oil]]-infected husband]], culminating in her desperately trying to override an automated surgical unit to abort the fast-growing alien FetusTerrible before it can tear its way out of her.
* ''Film/RosemarysBaby'', in which Rosemary's pregnancy becomes a nightmare as she fears she is carrying the spawn of Satan.
* ''Film/SpeciesII'': The male astronaut infected with alien DNA impregnates human women with hybrid fetuses... which [[ExpressDelivery gestate and are born in just two minutes]]. The end result is rather like a ChestBurster, though lower on the torso and coupled with belly inflation.
* ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1]]'': Human Bella gets impregnated by vampire Edward, and the {{Dhampir}} fetus starts slowly killing her. [[spoiler:After she dies from the pregnancy and/or [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine emergency non-medical C-section]], Edward gives her an EmergencyTransformation into a vampire to save her life.]]
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* One of ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Malloreon]]'''s darker moments has the protagonists find a [[ReligionOfEvil demonic cult]] waiting for a grotesquely, impossibly pregnant woman to deliver. Whatever TeamMom Polgara the Sorceress does with them isn't described, but is strongly implied to involve {{Mercy Kill}}ing the mother and driving an unborn {{Demon Lord|sAndArchdevils}} back to {{Hell}}.
In Creator/GrahamMasterton's ''Literature/TheManitou'', the Indian medicine-man Misquamacus chooses to re-enter the world as a monstrous foetus attached to an external womb on the back of a human host.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Daenerys has a run-in with some BloodMagic, which causes her to give birth to a stillborn deformed winged reptilian fetus.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': The second episode opens with a hook-up ending in a pregnancy that is well along before the woman can get a few steps away from the motel. She doesn't survive, even after being brought to the hospital.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Home": Mrs Peacock gives birth to a horrifically disfigured and deformed baby that is later buried alive by the Peacock brothers. Agents Mulder and Scully are both extremely uneasy during the autopsy. The baby's face is distorted and its legs are bent out of shape.
-->'''Scully:''' Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?
-->'''Mulder:''' Apparently not much in this case if she just threw it out with the trash.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The Chilean HipHop group ''Tiro de Gracia'' has a crude song called "Viaje sin Rumbo"[[note]]Aimless Trip[[/note]] about a guy who's a AddledAddict and has a couple who always has sex. Then he got sick and was diagnosed with AIDS, he told it to his girl and she didn't care, then they had sex and got pregnant (and infected). The last part is about she goes in the middle of her pregnancy and wanted to do an abortion, dying with the baby. Of all the song, this final lines are the creepiest of all:
-->''"Muere en las manos de un falso doctor, el olor a la putrefaccion de los tres es nuestra leccion"''[[note]]"She dies in the hands of a quack doctor, the smell of the rot of the three is our lesson"[[/note]]
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Daemonculaba was an attempt at mass-producing Chaos Space Marines, involving taking female {{Breeding Slave}}s and mutating them so their wombs could accommodate [[{{Squick}} an adolescent human and his growing into a seven-foot tall Astartes]], who was reborn without skin. If the newborn was deemed acceptable, skin from other slaves was grafted onto him, if not, he was rejected into the sewers, where some survived as the Unfleshed (who somehow resisted falling into Chaos and instead still venerate the GodEmperor).
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* One of the nightmares Vincent faces in ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' is a giant amalgamated horror in the shape of a baby known as "The Child". It's covered in VolcanicVeins as if still developing in the womb, and chases after Vincent, wanting to play with his "daddy". It represents Vincent's fear of losing his freedom as a bachelor and having to settle down when learning that Katherine might be pregnant. He later experiences another nightmare in the form of "The Child With A Chainsaw", where the baby transforms and reveals grotesque rusted robot parts, including a sharp pincing claw for a left hand and a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] for a right. It represents Vincent's fear that the child might not even be his, which means that Katherine is cheating on him just as much as [[ItMakesSenseInContext he might be cheating on her.]]
* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' begins with Dante being sent to Purgatory before making his way deeper into Hell. Purgatory contains enemies in the form of demonic unbaptized babies who spawn out of fiery furnaces shaped like a woman's enlarged birth canal.
* The broodmothers in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' fit this trope to a T. Being [[BreedingSlave forcibly impregnated]] by [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong grotesque monsters,]] [[SpawnBroodling eventually giving birth to legions of them?]] Check. Bloating up to a deformed, grotesque monster in the process? Check. Being associated with motherhood due to their name? Check.
* The playable teaser of the now cancelled ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' involved some pregnancy-based horror such as [[spoiler:the talking fetus in the bathroom]].
* In ''VideoGame/SonicDreamsCollection'', the second-to-last stage of ''Sonic Movie Maker'' is initially set in what looks like some giant creature's stomach, until you fall down in a hole and come out... revealing it was [[spoiler: Rouge the Bat's uterus]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': It turns out that a type of faulty [[PowersViaPossession demonic seed]] that's been distributed to members of the Sharen clan causes this. Effects range from the mother miscarrying early in the pregnancy, to giving birth to a horribly deformed baby, or at worst the baby [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9776 ripping out her stomach]] and leading her possessed body around.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* One of the nightmarish scenes at the end of the "Sex Survey Results" video of ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' features a scene of a woman giving birth into a toilet. She proclaims in Polish that she gave birth to "A human curse", and that if she asks for grace, she won't get it, only having her soul "swallowed and vomited and swallowed again". Looking into the toilet reveals the baby is wearing Jon Arbuckle's shirt.
* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'''s [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-231 SCP-231-7]] is the last survivor of seven pregnant women extracted from an ApocalypseCult. Her predecessors underwent progressively more catastrophic [[NothingIsScarier [DATA EXPUNGED][==]]] upon dying or giving birth, such that the Foundation projects that #7 could kick off the Apocalypse. Whatever procedure they use to keep her from delivering, even members of an organization ConditionedToAcceptHorror routinely volunteer to have their memories wiped of the experience.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': PlayedForLaughs in one sketch, where a giant monster hand coming out of a woman's womb and dragging the doctor inside.
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Usually, motherhood is seen as something nurturing and life-giving. It's something to look forward to. BabiesMakeEverythingBetter, after all. Except in this case. This in when things get bad, creepy, or downright terrifying. Like its counterparts EyeScream and BodyHorror, this trope is dependent on the primal fear of things going wrong with a pregnancy, taken to disturbing levels.
It's painful, traumatic, bloody, and potentially life-threatening. Babies may turned into grotesque monsters, which is common in works about fearing parenthood. This trope often carries supernatural elements, with women carrying literal devil-spawn or a HalfHumanHybrid, as somewhat of the evil version of a MysticalPregnancy.-- most often, this supernatural baby is a ChildByRape. Rape scenarios are common even without the supernatural, however. Another theme that may occur is abortion or miscarriage. The imagery may also be entirely metaphorical, with ''references'' to wombs and pregnancy rather than anything explicit.
SuperTrope to TraumaticCSection. SisterTrope to ImperiledInPregnancy, where the horror isn't so much the pregnancy itself as what might happen during it.
Can overlap with FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, WombLevel, SpawnBroodling, ChestBurster, and BreedingSlave. FetusTerrible is a specific example of this. See also BizarreBabyBoom and MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.
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!! Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
** Guts and Casca's unborn child is corrupted in the womb when Griffith, a DemonOfHumanOrigin, brutally rapes Casca. After she miscarries the demonic fetus, it suddenly teleports away.
** [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Trolls]] are seen to reproduce by raping human women, who are [[ChestBurster eaten alive]] by the fetus. Like other Qliphoth inhabitants, Trolls are formed in part from the darkest elements of humanity's collective subconscious.
** The Kushan Empire uses demonic soldiers called Daka as shock troops. These are obtained by plunging pregnant women into vats of demonic essence, corrupting the fetus so it quickly grows and eats its way out of the mother's womb.
* ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'': Goblins reproduce by capturing the young women who enter their lairs and using them as {{Breeding Slave}}s for the rest of their lives, assuming they don't die from the treatment before that.
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[[folder:Film]]
* The Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise are meant to invoke this in conjuction with rape horror, in particular their life cycle consisting of [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong involuntary fertilization]] from a facehugger leading to a ChestBurster. This intent was confirmed by [[WordOfGod screenwriter]] Dan O' Bannon in the Alien Saga documentary.
* ''Film/BrainDead'': In the climax, Lionel's zombie mother assumes a OneWingedAngel form and drags Lionel back into her womb, forcing him to fight his way out.
* The Director's Cut of ''Film/TheButterflyEffect'' has a scene towards the end where [[spoiler:Evan strangles himself as a fetus in the womb of his mother so he [[SuicideForOthersHappiness would never be born to cause harm to the ones he loved]]]]. It's rather played for drama than horror though. Watch the scene [[https://youtu.be/ixYWkDAPPzA?t=23 here]].
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'': Shaw gets a helping of this after [[spoiler:sleeping with her [[TheCorruption black oil]]-infected husband]], culminating in her desperately trying to override an automated surgical unit to abort the fast-growing alien FetusTerrible before it can tear its way out of her.
* ''Film/RosemarysBaby'', in which Rosemary's pregnancy becomes a nightmare as she fears she is carrying the spawn of Satan.
* ''Film/SpeciesII'': The male astronaut infected with alien DNA impregnates human women with hybrid fetuses... which [[ExpressDelivery gestate and are born in just two minutes]]. The end result is rather like a ChestBurster, though lower on the torso and coupled with belly inflation.
* ''[[Film/{{Twilight}} Twilight: Breaking Dawn -- Part 1]]'': Human Bella gets impregnated by vampire Edward, and the {{Dhampir}} fetus starts slowly killing her. [[spoiler:After she dies from the pregnancy and/or [[ArtisticLicenseMedicine emergency non-medical C-section]], Edward gives her an EmergencyTransformation into a vampire to save her life.]]
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[[folder:Literature]]
* One of ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Malloreon]]'''s darker moments has the protagonists find a [[ReligionOfEvil demonic cult]] waiting for a grotesquely, impossibly pregnant woman to deliver. Whatever TeamMom Polgara the Sorceress does with them isn't described, but is strongly implied to involve {{Mercy Kill}}ing the mother and driving an unborn {{Demon Lord|sAndArchdevils}} back to {{Hell}}.
In Creator/GrahamMasterton's ''Literature/TheManitou'', the Indian medicine-man Misquamacus chooses to re-enter the world as a monstrous foetus attached to an external womb on the back of a human host.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': In ''Literature/AGameOfThrones'', Daenerys has a run-in with some BloodMagic, which causes her to give birth to a stillborn deformed winged reptilian fetus.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': The second episode opens with a hook-up ending in a pregnancy that is well along before the woman can get a few steps away from the motel. She doesn't survive, even after being brought to the hospital.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'', "Home": Mrs Peacock gives birth to a horrifically disfigured and deformed baby that is later buried alive by the Peacock brothers. Agents Mulder and Scully are both extremely uneasy during the autopsy. The baby's face is distorted and its legs are bent out of shape.
-->'''Scully:''' Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?
-->'''Mulder:''' Apparently not much in this case if she just threw it out with the trash.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* The Chilean HipHop group ''Tiro de Gracia'' has a crude song called "Viaje sin Rumbo"[[note]]Aimless Trip[[/note]] about a guy who's a AddledAddict and has a couple who always has sex. Then he got sick and was diagnosed with AIDS, he told it to his girl and she didn't care, then they had sex and got pregnant (and infected). The last part is about she goes in the middle of her pregnancy and wanted to do an abortion, dying with the baby. Of all the song, this final lines are the creepiest of all:
-->''"Muere en las manos de un falso doctor, el olor a la putrefaccion de los tres es nuestra leccion"''[[note]]"She dies in the hands of a quack doctor, the smell of the rot of the three is our lesson"[[/note]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Daemonculaba was an attempt at mass-producing Chaos Space Marines, involving taking female {{Breeding Slave}}s and mutating them so their wombs could accommodate [[{{Squick}} an adolescent human and his growing into a seven-foot tall Astartes]], who was reborn without skin. If the newborn was deemed acceptable, skin from other slaves was grafted onto him, if not, he was rejected into the sewers, where some survived as the Unfleshed (who somehow resisted falling into Chaos and instead still venerate the GodEmperor).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* One of the nightmares Vincent faces in ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'' is a giant amalgamated horror in the shape of a baby known as "The Child". It's covered in VolcanicVeins as if still developing in the womb, and chases after Vincent, wanting to play with his "daddy". It represents Vincent's fear of losing his freedom as a bachelor and having to settle down when learning that Katherine might be pregnant. He later experiences another nightmare in the form of "The Child With A Chainsaw", where the baby transforms and reveals grotesque rusted robot parts, including a sharp pincing claw for a left hand and a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]] for a right. It represents Vincent's fear that the child might not even be his, which means that Katherine is cheating on him just as much as [[ItMakesSenseInContext he might be cheating on her.]]
* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' begins with Dante being sent to Purgatory before making his way deeper into Hell. Purgatory contains enemies in the form of demonic unbaptized babies who spawn out of fiery furnaces shaped like a woman's enlarged birth canal.
* The broodmothers in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' fit this trope to a T. Being [[BreedingSlave forcibly impregnated]] by [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong grotesque monsters,]] [[SpawnBroodling eventually giving birth to legions of them?]] Check. Bloating up to a deformed, grotesque monster in the process? Check. Being associated with motherhood due to their name? Check.
* The playable teaser of the now cancelled ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' involved some pregnancy-based horror such as [[spoiler:the talking fetus in the bathroom]].
* In ''VideoGame/SonicDreamsCollection'', the second-to-last stage of ''Sonic Movie Maker'' is initially set in what looks like some giant creature's stomach, until you fall down in a hole and come out... revealing it was [[spoiler: Rouge the Bat's uterus]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'': It turns out that a type of faulty [[PowersViaPossession demonic seed]] that's been distributed to members of the Sharen clan causes this. Effects range from the mother miscarrying early in the pregnancy, to giving birth to a horribly deformed baby, or at worst the baby [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9776 ripping out her stomach]] and leading her possessed body around.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Original]]
* One of the nightmarish scenes at the end of the "Sex Survey Results" video of ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'' features a scene of a woman giving birth into a toilet. She proclaims in Polish that she gave birth to "A human curse", and that if she asks for grace, she won't get it, only having her soul "swallowed and vomited and swallowed again". Looking into the toilet reveals the baby is wearing Jon Arbuckle's shirt.
* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'''s [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-231 SCP-231-7]] is the last survivor of seven pregnant women extracted from an ApocalypseCult. Her predecessors underwent progressively more catastrophic [[NothingIsScarier [DATA EXPUNGED][==]]] upon dying or giving birth, such that the Foundation projects that #7 could kick off the Apocalypse. Whatever procedure they use to keep her from delivering, even members of an organization ConditionedToAcceptHorror routinely volunteer to have their memories wiped of the experience.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': PlayedForLaughs in one sketch, where a giant monster hand coming out of a woman's womb and dragging the doctor inside.
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