History Main / AMistakeIsBorn

* In the FilmOfTheBook version of ''Film/{{Matilda}}'', Mr. Wormwood describes himself as being the father to 'one son, and one mistake'.

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* This is how [[Franchise/BerniceSummerfield Bernice "Surprise" Summerfield]] got her [[EmbarrassingMiddleName middle name]]. Apparently more of a happy accident than a ''mistake'', though. She also has one of these herself, which was particularly a mistake since [[GrandTheftMe her body wasn't even under her control]] when she got pregnant.
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'''Blossom:''' ''[[NoYou You're]]'' an accident!

--->'''Emily:''': Rory, I know you heard a lot of talk about various disappointments this evening, and I know you've heard a lot of talk about it in the past, but I want to make this very clear: you, young lady, your person and your existence, have never ever been, not even for a second, included in that list. Do you understand me?

* In ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', [=BoJack=] was conceived when his upper-class mother had an ill-advised fling with a literal workhorse. She has never let [=BoJack=] forget this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Jerry and Beth only got married because they accidentally conceived Summer when they were teenagers.

** Bart and Maggie were both mistakes, as can be seen from {{Flashback}} episodes, and both were shining examples of the LawOfInverseFertility: Bart was conceived before Homer and Marge decided to get married, while Maggie appeared just when Homer had settled all his debts and found a way to make the family's life work on a lower budget, allowing him to finally quit the power plant and hold a job he preferred. (DependingOnTheWriter, Lisa was anything from this to a welcome SurprisePregnancy to [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E13ThreeScenesPlusATagFromAMarriage the couple's only planned child]].)

** In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", during an argument between Homer and Grandpa, Abe blurts out that Homer himself was an accident, leading to some great HypocriticalHumor:

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Velma}}'': Aman mentions the titular character being an unwanted pregnancy when he and Velma talk about how to handle Diya finding out about Amanda without her knowing she is his daughter with Sophie.

A child was born, who [[SurprisePregnancy wasn't supposed to be born]]; this is due to many different factors (i.e. OneNightStandPregnancy, ChildByRape). Whatever the cause and effect, there is one thing that is for sure: the child is a "mistake", and more often than not, that child is painfully made aware of that fact, especially by a ResentfulGuardian who is trapped in what would be likely a ShotgunWedding. If the child takes it badly, could eventually lead to BastardBastard, BetrayalByOffspring, and even SelfMadeOrphan in the worst of the cases.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', "Superfriends"

** In a later episode, Marge considers having another child, and Homer incredulously responds, "An ''on-purpose'' baby?"

** In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", during an argument between Homer and Grandpa, Abe blurts out that Homer was an accident, leading to some great HypocriticalHumor:

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A child was born, who [[SurprisePregnancy wasn't supposed to be born]]; this is due to many different factors (i.e. OneNightStandPregnancy, ChildByRape). Whatever the cause and effect, there is one thing that is for sure: the child is a "mistake", and more often than not, that child is painfully made aware of that fact, especially by a ResentfulGuardian. If the child takes it badly, could eventually lead to BastardBastard, BetrayalByOffspring, and even SelfMadeOrphan in the worst of the cases.

* ''Fanfic/EnneaSeries'': Five-year-old Hawks' mother told him he was an accident that she and his father regret keeping during one of her drunken rants.

--> '''Tina:''' It was a mistake!\\

* In the French BlackComedy novel ''Literature/TheSuicideShop'', Alan's parents who run the titular suicide shop state that they didn't want a third child and that Alan was conceived when they [[ButWeUsedACondom tested a condom with a hole in it]] that was intended for customers who wished to off themselves by contracting a venereal disease. This plot point isn't brought up in [[WesternAnimation/TheSuicideShop the animated film]].

* In ''Literature/TheRedTent'', Dinah was completely unexpected. After some complications with her last pregnancy, Leah is cautioned by the midwife Inna to avoid pregnancy for a few more years, at least. Leah agrees, and she brews a tea out of a certain kind of fennel seed (possibly sylphium) which acts as a contraceptive. One day, she runs out of the seeds while Inna is away on business, and gets called to Jacob's bed again, and becomes pregnant once again. She wants to terminate the pregnancy, but Rachel and Zilpah advise her to keep it, because (somehow) they know that ''this'' baby is a girl (and they've been waiting for a daughter they can pass on ''their'' traditions to.)
* In ''[[Literature/InsubmissasLagrimasDeMulheres Unsubmissive Tears of Women]]'' Saura considers her third pregnancy this, as it happened after she had a fling with an ex-childhood friend. She had recently lost her husband and started dating the kid's father after a while, then got pregnant. She despised that pregnancy from the beginning, considering it a stain on her memories of her dead husband, being the physical proof she had slept with someone else. The kid's father, however, was happy with the pregnancy.

--> '''Yarisol'mun:''' “Papa get—got—loose in slave pens before other magi chop his balls off. [...] This one is accident."

* ''Series/{{Supernanny}}'': "The Fernandez Family" has Desiree revealing that [[AbusiveParents her mother]] replied to her with "Your whole life is an accident!" at least once in response to her having a minor screwup such as accidentally dropping a cup of water.

* {{Vaporwave}} artist Music/BlankBanshee has a song called "TeenPregnancy", in which it's only lyrics are a sample from ''Series/DegrassiJuniorHigh'' in which the pregnant character Spike says "I'm just a kid" and "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin I'm just a little mistake]]." This was confirmed by {{Simpsonwave}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg music video by Lucien Hughes]], in which the song is starred by [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart Simpson]] using various "flashback" chapters in which appears that Bart was a mistake, just like in those referenced episodes.

-->Life is good, and I feel great
-->'Cause mother says I was a great mistake

* PlayedForDrama in Music/DCTalk's "What Have We Become?". A girl overhears her parents' near-constant fighting, which always comes back around to them openly cursing their "mistake". [[DrivenToSuicide So she kills herself.]] [[TwistedChristmas At Christmas.]]

* In the series, ''Webcomic/ForLoveNorMoney'', the character of Heather Lees was conceived through [[spoiler: the sexual arrangement between John Lees and his sister-in-law, Aoife, but although she is John's daughter, a man her half-brother, Eamonn, despises, he still showers her with love as if she were fully his sister]].

* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': During Fred's playthrough of [[Creator/TakeshiKitano Beat Takeshi]] (one level of which ''requires'' the protagonist to beat the crap out of his wife and children), the live reenactment has Fred kicking one of the kids while yelling "Die you fucking genetic mistake!"

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': This is how Trunks is conceived when Vegeta and Bulma decide to act on their BelligerentSexualTension, turns out Vegeta being from outer-space has no idea what a condom is. Bulma did ask him if he was wearing "protection" but Vegeta thought she was asking about his body armour.

--->'''Bart:''' Gee, sorry for bein' ''born.''
--->'''Homer:''' [[SarcasmBlind I've been waitin' so long to hear that]]. ''(gives him a hug)''

--->'''Homer:''' He said I was an accident... he didn't want to have me.
--->'''Marge:''' You didn't want to have Bart.
--->'''Homer:''' I know, but you're never supposed to ''tell'' the child.
--->'''Marge:''' You tell Bart all the time! You told him this morning!
--->'''[[TroubledAbuser Homer]]:''' ''[flustered]'' But when ''I'' do it, it's cute!

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'':
** The Powerpuff Girls were born by a mistake of Professor Utonium, since he wanted to create a single girl as his daughter, but then the [[AppliedPhlebotinum Chemical X]] was added by mistake, giving birth to three little superheroines.
** Also, various supervillains are born by mistake in the series, prominently PPG's ArchEnemy, Mojo Jojo, who also has an accident with the Chemical X, transforming him from a normal monkey to an {{uplifted|Animal}} {{maniac|Monkeys}} [[DiabolicalMastermind mastermind]].
** The season 4 episode "Superfriends" introduces Robin Snyder, a new neighbor who moves in next-door to the girls and befriends them. While she's introduced to the professor, there's a [[DemographicallyInappropriateHumour (un)noticeable moment]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VjNjJ5Xkqs an uncomfortable conversation]] (shown above in the page quote).
** "Gettin' Twiggy With It" has this throwaway gag after Mitch flushes the class hamster down the toilet:
--->'''Mitch:''' ''(smiling nervously)'' It-it was an accident?
--->'''Blossom:''' ''[[NoYou You're]]'' an accident!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': In the origin story for the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/TheSmurfsS5E2Sassette Sassette]]" (where the Smurflings create a female Smurf their age), implied by Snappy, the Smurfling who helped create Sassette, when he is angry that he and the other Smurflings were punished "because of her." (They had gone to Gargamel's hovel and taken one of his spells, which was against Papa Smurf's rules. He assigns them extra chores as punishment.) Sassette sees her fellow Smurflings at work and, wanting to play, wonders what's up, after which Snappy makes his comments in anger, implying that Papa Smurf didn't want her. A devastated Sassette runs off and shows up at Gargamel's castle, thinking he's her true "Pappy." In the end, a search party finds Sassette, and Snappy apologizes for his words said in haste while Papa Smurf assures Sassette that she ''is'' wanted and a welcome part of the Smurf being [[spoiler: (after which, of course, he reverses a spell cast by Gargamel to use an unknowing Sassette as his hired gun)]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Across numerous episodes throughout the series, it is revealed that all three of the Griffin children were mistakes. Chris in particular was due to a condom break, for which the subsequent lawsuit paid for their house.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Jerry and Beth only got married because they accidentally conceived Summer when they were teenagers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'', [=BoJack=] was conceived when his upper-class mother had an ill-advised fling with a literal workhorse. She has never let [=BoJack=] forget this.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' has this exchange:
--> '''Dad:''' My dreams were shattered years ago.\\
'''Timmy:''' How many years ago?\\
'''Dad:''' How old are you?
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}},'' [[ExtracurricularEnthusiast Jodie]]'s baby brother, Evan, was unplanned by mother Michele's own admission. She's eager for him to go to daycare so that she can get back to her career; father Andrew, meanwhile, [[HeirClubForMen is just glad to finally have a son]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'', Gary is this according to his mother. It's not clear if she means he wasn't a planned pregnancy or if his birth threw off her wider plans, since the baby Gary crying resulted in her husband John discovering her [[HoneyTrap true]] [[InLoveWithTheMark allegiance]].

** Lampshaded by Lestat, who is Claudia's maker; in the fifth episode, he regrets turning her into a vampire, and tells her that she's a mistake.

** In the seventh episode, Lestat once again brings up that "[Claudia] should never have been made, Louis. Look what she did to us. She's corrupted everything." He uses it as justification to [[OffingTheOffspring murder her]].

* In [[''Literature/InsubmissasLagrimasDeMulheres'' Unsubmissive Tears of Women]] Saura considers her third pregnancy this, as it happened after she had a fling with an ex-childhood friend. She had recently lost her husband and started dating the kid's father after a while, then got pregnant. She despised that pregnancy, considering it a stain on her memories of her dead husband, being the physical proof she had slept with someone else. The kid's father, however, was happy with the pregnancy.

A child was born, who [[SurprisePregnancy wasn't supposed to be born]]; this is due to many different factors (i.e. OneNightStandPregnancy, ChildByRape). Whatever the cause and effect, there is one thing that is for sure: the child is a "mistake", and more often than not, that child is painfully made aware of that fact. If the child takes it badly, could eventually lead to BastardBastard, BetrayalByOffspring, and even SelfMadeOrphan in the worst of the cases.

* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle''

* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''

** Bart and Maggie were both mistakes, as can be seen from {{Flashback}} episodes, and both were shining examples of the LawOfInverseFertility: Bart was conceived before Homer and Marge decided to get married, while Maggie appeared just when Homer had settled all his debts and found a way to make the family's life work on a lower budget, allowing him to finally quit the power plant and hold a job he preferred. (DependingOnTheWriter, Lisa is anything from this to a welcome SurprisePregnancy or [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E13ThreeScenesPlusATagFromAMarriage the couple's only planned child]].)

** Bart and Maggie were both mistakes, as can be seen from {{Flashback}} episodes, and both were shining examples of the LawOfInverseFertility: Bart was conceived before Homer and Marge decided to get married, while Maggie appeared just when Homer had settled all his debts and found a way to make the family's life work on a lower budget, allowing him to finally quit the power plant and hold a job he preferred. (While most episodes imply Lisa to have been equally unplanned, "3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage" [[{{Averted}} averts]] this by explicitly making her the only planned child, with Homer and Marge deciding to give Bart a sibling after Reverend Lovejoy ascribed his behavioral problems to OnlyChildSyndrome.)

** Bart and Maggie were both mistakes, as can be seen from {{Flashback}} episodes, and both were shining examples of the LawOfInverseFertility: Bart was conceived before Homer and Marge decided to get married, while Maggie appeared just when Homer had settled all his debts and found a way to make the family's life work on a lower budget, allowing him to finally quit the power plant and hold a job he preferred. (While most episodes imply Lisa to have been equally unplanned, "3 Scenes Plus a Tag From a Marriage" [[{{Averted}} averts]] this by establishing that she was conceived because Reverend Lovejoy ascribed [[EnfantTerrible Bart's]] problems to OnlyChildSyndrome.)