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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}}.

This often makes use of ParasiticHorror. Can overlap with FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, WombLevel, SpawnBroodling, ChestBurster, AbortionFalloutDrama, and BreedingSlave. FetusTerrible is a specific example of this. See also BizarreBabyBoom and MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.

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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.
* The ''Alien'' knock-off ''Film/{{Inseminoid}}'' features a woman getting impregnated by an alien while excavating an ancient civilization and giving birth to mutant children.

* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild'' has the main protagonist getting pregnant and Freddy Krueger attempting to possess the baby.
* The 1989 [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] horror film ''The Terror Within'' has a race of mutant known as gargoyles capturing and impregnating human women.
* ''Film/TalesFromTheHood2'': In "Good Golly", Audrey tells Golly Gee that she loves him and expresses her desire to simply stay with him. [[spoiler:Months later, Audrey is ready to give birth and tells the owner of the museum that she wishes to go to a hospital for the delivery for the sake of the child but the owner says that he would not be able to explain the situation. Multiple golliwog dolls then burst out of her stomach. As more Gollys are born, Audrey dies.]]
* ''Film/TheFly1986'': Because it's likely that Seth impregnates Veronica after his DNA has already been merged with the fly (due to his SlowTransformation having an enhanced libido as a side effect), she understandably worries what effect this could have on the child and tries to have it aborted. During a NightmareSequence, ''she gives birth to a giant maggot''. The sad thing? When Seth finds out about her intentions, he's upset because there is a chance that the child was conceived ''before'' he had his TeleporterAccident, in which case it would be both fully human and the last remnant of the man he once was. The audience never learns which situation applies due to the film ending right after [[spoiler: Veronica mercy kills Seth]], leaving it to the 1989 sequel ''Film/TheFlyII'' to reveal it is indeed an UnevenHybrid.
* The first half of ''Film/GoodManners'' is this. Wealthy woman Ana is pregnant and hires protagonist Clara to take care of the soon-to-be-born child. Ana experiences terrible cramping and sleepwalks during full moon nights, craving flesh to the point of killing and eating a cat, which Clara ultimately connects to the baby. [[spoiler: Ana gruesomely dies giving birth to a werewolf, thus starting the second act of the movie]].

* 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]].

* 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.) Her husband had a vasectomy three years ago, and she has not been unfaithful. 2.) The fetus is fully developed and birth is imminent, even though she is only five months along, and 3.) X-rays show that [[BizarreAlienBiology the baby has two hearts.]]
* 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.
* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', when [[SupermanSubstitute Homelander]] talks to Vogelbaum about [[spoiler: Rebecca Butcher, who disappeared after being raped by Homelander]], Voglebaum mentions that she was rushed to their facility, but the baby used its HeatVision and SuperStrength to claw its way out. [[spoiler: It's not true, and Homelander takes Billy Butcher, Rebecca's husband, to the house where she is raising their son, and whose location he "[[UncertainDoom squeezed out" of Voglebaum]].]]

* ''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 [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Chaos-enslaved, civilization-hating]] [[Characters/WarhammerBeastsOfChaos Beastmen]], the first target of whom is usually its parents.

* 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]].
* ''VideoGame/MotherChefTheMusical'': After Mother Chef eats all the food, the game suddenly cuts to a black screen, where the player can only hear the sounds of a woman giving birth.

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* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', when [[SupermanSubstitute Homelander]] talks to Vogelbaum about [[spoiler: Rebecca Butucher, who disappeared after being raped by Homelander]], Voglebaum mentions that she was rushed to their facility, but the baby used it's HeatVision and SuperStrength to claw its way out. [[spoiler: It's not true, and Homelander takes Billy Butcher, Rebecca's husband, to the house where she is raising their son, and whose location he "[[UncertainDoom squeezed out" of Voglebaum]].]]

* The first half of the Brazilian Fantasy Drama ''Good Manners'' is this. Wealthy woman Ana is pregnant and hires protagonist Clara to take care of the soon-to-be-born child. Ana experiences terrible cramping and sleepwalks during full moon nights, craving flesh to the point of killing and eating a cat, which Clara ultimately connects to the baby. [[spoiler: Ana gruesomely dies giving birth to a werewolf, thus starting the second act of the movie]].

* 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 that he was a telepath who [[LaserGuidedAmnesia promised to remove the memories]] of what she gave birth to.

* In ''Literature/TalesFromCherryshrubMississippi'', a nameless woman is given a potion by a shady man as a remedy for her bareness. What he ''doesn't'' mention is that she would be giving birth to a spawn of an ancient EldritchAbomination who enlisted her cult with gestating different women so she could rule over the known universe.

This often makes use of ParasiticHorror. Can overlap with FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, WombLevel, SpawnBroodling, ChestBurster, and BreedingSlave. FetusTerrible is a specific example of this. See also BizarreBabyBoom and MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.

Can overlap with FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, WombLevel, SpawnBroodling, ChestBurster, and BreedingSlave. FetusTerrible is a specific example of this. See also BizarreBabyBoom and MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.

* ''Film/TheFly1986'': Seth impregnates Veronica after his DNA has already been merged with the fly. She worries what effect this could have on the child, and tries to get it aborted. During one NightmareSequence, ''she gives birth to a giant maggot''.

* In ''Series/TheBoys2019'', when [[SupermanSubstitute Homelander]] talks to Vogelbaum about [[spoiler: Rebecca Butucher, who disappeared after being raped by Homalnder]], Voglebaum mentions that she was rushed to their facility, but the baby used it's HeatVision and SuperStrength to claw its way out. [[spoiler: It's not true, and Homelander takes Billy Butcher, Rebecca's husband, to the house where she is raising their son, and whose location he "[[UncertainDoom squeezed out" of Voglebaum]].]]

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 PrimalFear of things going wrong with a pregnancy, taken to disturbing levels.

* ''Film/{{Xtro}}'' infamously features a woman in a cabin getting FaceFullOfAlienWingWong and then giving birth to a full grown man.

* 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.

* 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.

* 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:

* ''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).

* The playable teaser of the now cancelled ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' involved some pregnancy-based horror such as [[spoiler:the talking fetus in the bathroom]].

* ''Webcomic/MonsterPulse'' is a Mon series with the twist that the monsters are people's body parts disembodied and mutated into a monster whose abilities derive from that part's function. A member of the clandestine organization responsible for this is paranoid about such a thing happening to her, and has a nightmare of her womb turning into a monster.

* The first half of the Brazilian Fantasy Drama ''Good Manners'' is this. Wealthy woman Ana is pregnant and hires protagonist Clara to take care of the soon-to-be-born child. Ana experiences terrible cramping and sleepwalks during full moon nights, craving flesh to the point of killing and eating a cat, which Clara ultimately connects to the baby. [[spoiler: Ana dies gruesomely giving birth to a werewolf, thus starting the second act of the movie]].

* ''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 [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Chaos-enslaved, civilization-hating]] [[Characters/WarhammerBeastsOfChaos Beastmen]].

* The first half of the Brazilian Fantasy Drama ''Good Manners'' is this. Wealthy woman Ana is pregnant and hires protagonist Clara to take care of the soon-to-be-born child. Ana experiences terrible cramping and sleepwalks during full moon nights, craving flesh to the point of killing and eating a cat. [[spoiler: She dies gruesomely giving birth to a werewolf, thus starting the second act of the movie]].

* 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.

* ''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.

* A trope that pops up in fetish fiction is unbirthing or vaginal vore, which is when a person sucks another person into their vagina. It can be played for horror when it is nonconsentual. The victim may be turned into a fetus and rebirthed as the predator's child or kept trapped inside the predator forever.