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17	Usually, motherhood is seen as something nurturing and life-giving, something to look forward to. BabiesMakeEverythingBetter, after all. Except in this case: This is 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.
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19	It's painful, traumatic, bloody, and potentially life-threatening. Babies may 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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21	SuperTrope to TraumaticCSection. SisterTrope to ImperiledInPregnancy, where the horror isn't so much the pregnancy itself as what might happen during it.
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23	This often makes use of ParasiticHorror, PsychosexualHorror, and RapeAsDrama. Can overlap with FaceFullOfAlienWingWong, WombLevel, SpawnBroodling, ChestBurster, AbortionFalloutDrama, and BreedingSlave. FetusTerrible is a specific example of this. See also BabyFactory, BizarreBabyBoom, and MedicalRapeAndImpregnate.
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31	* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'':
32	** 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.
33	** [[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.
34	** 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.
35	* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'': Goblins are an all-male race and reproduce by capturing young women from other races (humans, elves, etc.) and using them as {{Breeding Slave}}s for the rest of their lives, assuming they don't die from the treatment before that.
36	* In ''Manga/{{Uzumaki}}'', the pregnant women in Kurozucho give birth to children who want to go back into the womb, prompting a doctor at the hospital to oblige by performing what could be described as a reverse c-section.
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40	* ''ComicBook/{{Habibi}}'': Dodola's pregnancy seems to be healthy and normal. However, she is [[ChildByRape pregnant by the sultan who holds her captive]]. She feels totally imprisoned, and regards her pregnant body with disgust. In her imagination, the child appears as a monster, [[InTheBlood like his father]].
41	* ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'': During the "Deathpocalypse'' event, female antagonist Atrocity becomes an ExplosiveBreeder variant of the MookMaker, serving as the mother to a very literally infinite army of demons sired by Insurrectus. The result is that she becomes obscenely pregnant, dwarfed by an immensely gravid belly many times bigger than she herself is even as endless newborn demons, many of them at ''least'' as large as a man, pour from her hidden birth canal like water from a faucet. Being that Atrocity and Insurrectus are both demons, they take the whole thing quite casually, and Atrocity even seems to feel genuine maternal pride for her fecundity and her endless offspring -- the horror is one part BodyHorror and one part the carnage that ensues as her hordes of children start slaughtering their way across the world.
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45	* ''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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49	* The Xenomorphs from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise are meant to invoke this in conjunction 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.
50	* ''Film/TheAstronautsWife'': Shortly after her astronaut husband returns from a dangerous mission, Jillian becomes pregnant. Spencer's increasingly-strange behavior leads her to think that the man who came back from space isn't entirely human anymore -- and by implication, neither are the twins inside her.
51	* ''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.
52	* The eponymous 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.
53	* 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]].
54	* ''Film/DeadtimeStoriesVolume2'': In "On Sabbath Hill", Professor Weaver's pregnant mistress is DrivenToSuicide when he callously abandons her. Afterwards, he is haunted by her VengefulGhost, who looks like a decaying corpse. Eventually, he sees her rotting body give birth to their monstrous child.
55	* ''Film/Evolution2015'': [[spoiler:The reason why the TownWithADarkSecret has a population made up only of adult women and young boys turns out to be because the women are actually {{Sea Monster}}s who [[MedicalRapeAndImpregnate surgically implant their biological offspring into abducted boys they have deceived into thinking of them as their mothers]]. Those who suffer a DeathByChildbirth are simply discarded into the sea. Precisely ''why'' they would use [[MisterSeahorse boys as surrogate mothers]] is presumably due to just RuleOfScary.]]
56	* ''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.
57	* 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]].
58	* ''Film/{{Horrific}}'': In ''Terror Vision'', the [[{{Oculothorax}} giant floating eyeball]] impregnates Rita and Jane to create an invasion force for its species.
59	* 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.
60	* ''Film/{{Inside\|2007}}'' 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.]]
61	* At the climax of ''Film/{{Men}}'', [[spoiler:the supernatural [[MrSeahorse male]] presence who has menacing Harper through out the film suddenly repeatedly swells up in pregnancy before he proceeds to give birth to the different versions of himself she has encountered through the film through increasingly strange and horrifying orifices]].
62	* ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet5TheDreamChild'' has the main protagonist getting pregnant and Freddy Krueger attempting to possess the baby.
63	* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': Ofelia's mother Carmen has a complicated pregnancy and suffers a bloody near-miscarriage. This inspires Ofelia to seek the Mandrake root to heal her. This magical plant-fetus is UglyCute and, at least to Ofelia, not horrifying. Things go wrong when Vidal finds and destroys the Mandrake: it seems to injure Carmen and force her into early labor.
64	* ''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.
65	* ''Film/RosemarysBaby'', in which Rosemary's pregnancy becomes a nightmare as she fears she is carrying the spawn of Satan.
66	* ''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.
67	* Creator/BarbaraEden is pregnant with what turns out to be an invasive alien baby in the 1974 made-for-TV movie ''Film/TheStrangerWithin''. 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.]]
68	* ''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.]]
69	* The 1989 [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] horror film ''Film/TheTerrorWithin'' has a race of mutants known as gargoyles capturing and impregnating human women.
70	* ''[[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.]]
71	* ''Film/{{Xtro}}'' infamously features a woman in a cabin getting FaceFullOfAlienWingWong and then giving birth to a full-grown man.
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75	* 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]].
76	* 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 HumanDemonHybrid back to {{Hell}}.
77	* 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.
78	* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': At the climax of volume 3, Ophelia Salvadori casts a [[RitualMagic "grand aria"]] to create a PocketDimension out of her own womb that allows her to endlessly birth chimeras by trial and error in pursuit of the "perfect being" once sought by her {{succubus}} foremothers, with her own body becoming part of the structure.
79	* ''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.
80	* In the ''Literature/TrickstersDuet'', Daine of ''Literature/TheImmortals'' is a VoluntaryShapeshifter and changed shapes while pregnant. Fortunately her unborn child changed shapes with her. Unfortunately it ''kept changing'', forcing her to spend the last months of her pregnancy changing her lower body from shape to shape to keep up. Daine's baby continued this even after being born, forcing her and her husband to carry it between them in a sheet rather than holding it as at any moment it could become a porcupine or a hippopotamus. Eventually they brought it to Daine's goddess mother who told it to choose a species and a sex and hold to that for five years - it chose human and female, and was finally named.
81	* 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.
82	* ''Literature/TheWayfarerRedemption'':
83	** The series begins with Gorgrael, a FetusTerrible, eating his way out of his mother's womb to save himself as she's dying of exposure to the extreme northern cold.
84	** The sequel series ''Literature/TheDarkglassMountainTrilogy'' has the story of [=SummerStar=], an Icarii Enchanter who attempted to befriend the Skraelings. A particular Skraeling was kind to her at first, but suddenly attacked and raped her. She fell pregnant and gave birth to a relatively normal Lealfast child... And then became pregnant ''again''. Turns out Skraelings [[BizarreAlienBiology literally mate for life,]] continuing to give birth until they die. [=SummerStar=] gave birth to over two hundred children before she died.
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88	* 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]].]]
89	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'': The episode "[[Recap/FringeS01E02TheSameOldStory The Same Old Story]]" 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.
90	* In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "[[Recap/MastersOfHorrorS2E5ProLife 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.
91	* ''Series/TheXFiles'': In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E02Home 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.
92	-->'''Scully:''' Imagine all a woman's hopes and dreams for her child and then nature turns so cruel. What must a mother go through?\
93	'''Mulder:''' Apparently not much in this case if she just threw it out with the trash.
94	* Throughout the first season of ''Series/{{Riget}}'', Dr. Judith Petersen is undergoing an eerily fast-paced pregnancy, where the fetus is growing more than three times as fast as it is supposed to. At the end of the season, [[spoiler:she attempts to have an abortion, only for it to fail to terminate the by-now supernaturally oversized fetus, it instead ends up kickstarting her giving birth to ''something'' that has the head of an adult man]].
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98	* The Chilean HipHop group ''Tiro de Gracia'' has a crude song called "Viaje sin Rumbo"[[note]]Aimless Trip[[/note]] about a guy who's an 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, the final lines are the creepiest of all:
99	-->''"Muere en las manos de un falso doctor, el olor a la putrefaction 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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103	* ''TableTopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
104	** Lamashtu, the Mother of Monsters, is basically the Goddess of womb horror, and both blesses her followers and curses her enemies with horrific, monstrous offspring. Female worshippers derive much honor from their monstrous births, and it's mentioned in some lore that female clerics often use variants of SummonMagic that cause the creature to manifest inside their womb and then need to be birthed. Abdominal scars from self-inflicted C-sections or the monstrous baby [[ChestBurster tearing its way out]] are badges of honor; the more scars, the higher the priestess will be in the church's rank. Lamashtu herself is depicted as a heavily pregnant three-eyed jackal-headed woman whose belly is covered in scars from such unnatural births. One adventure even revolves around a band of [[HeinousHyena gnoll]] Lamashtu cultists who honor their goddess by selling slaves who have been magically impregnated -- [[MisterSeaHorse including the men]] -- with half-gnoll or otherwise monstrous babies using dark magic.
105	** [[HumanDemonHybrid Tieflings]] descended from [[EldritchAbomination the Qlippoth]] are called the Motherless because they tend to be so mutated that the strain of birthing them kills the mother, with some even going so far as to [[ChestBurster rip their way out of their mother's belly rather than wait to be born]].
106	* ''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.
107	* ''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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111	* ''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.
112	** 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]].
113	** 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.]]
114	** And, of course, [[spoiler: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.]]
115	** Unlockable PlayerCharacter [[spoiler:Tainted Lillith, aka "the Harlot" (the Tainted version of Lillith, who has themes of birth to a much less Squicky extent)]] has a special ability that allows her to violently birth her ravenous, bullet-force-tears-spewing, tiefling child, Gello, through [[WoundThatWillNotHeal a never-healing Caesarian incision]] as an attack, and whip it back inside of herself for next time. [[BlackComedy Complete with cartoon whip-crack sound effect]].
116	* 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 pinching 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.]]
117	* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' begins with Dante being sent to Limbo before making his way deeper into Hell. Limbo contains enemies in the form of demonic unbaptized babies who spawn out of fiery furnaces shaped like a woman's enlarged birth canal.
118	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'':
119	** The broodmothers 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.
120	** 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.
121	* 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]].
122	* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', the main villain Sephiroth is eventually revealed to have had a rather unsettling gestation. [[spoiler:In an attempt to create to ultimate SuperSoldier, his scientist parents, while pregnant with him, allowed him to be injected with the cells of Jenova, an extraterrestrial life-form that crashed into the planet millennia ago. Afterwards, his mother was haunted by visions of her son's future atrocities before having her baby taken away at birth. When the adult Sephiroth discovers his origins, he goes insane, identifies Jenova as his "mother", [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope decides to destroy the world]], and starts by [[DoomedHometown burning down Cloud and Tifa's hometown]]]].
123	* ''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.
124	* The playable teaser of the now-cancelled ''VideoGame/SilentHills'' involved some pregnancy-based horror such as [[spoiler:the talking fetus in the bathroom]].
125	* 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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129	* 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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133	* ''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.
134	* ''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.
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138	* The ''Website/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.
139	** Anything related to [[LovecraftianSuperpower Sarkicism]]. Case in point, one of its patron saints is said to be constantly inseminated and birthing horrid monsters by the prophet of the religion.
140	* In ''Literature/TalesFromCherryshrubMississippi'', a nameless woman is given a potion by a shady man as a remedy for her barrenness. 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.
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144	* 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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148	* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'': PlayedForLaughs in one sketch, where a giant monster hand comes out of a woman's womb and drags the doctor inside.
149	** Another sketch was about the Island of Recalled Toys, ending with new arrival pregnant Barbie [[https://youtu.be/xGCyW5s5UAg showing off why she was recalled]].
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