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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Starman (film)|Starman]]'': After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.▼
* In ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] 2: The Golden Army'', {{spoiler|Abe finds out that Liz is pregnant with Hellboy's children. Later, Liz is seen going through about four or five pregnancy tests, on account of the pregnancy}} being physically impossible for several reasons.▼
* ''[[Baby Mama]]'': {{spoiler|at the end of the film, Kate, who was supposed to be infertile or close to, discovers that she is pregnant}}.
* ''[[Village of the Damned]]'' (from the sci-fi novel ''[[The Midwich Cuckoos]]'' by [[John Wyndham]]). Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to the above incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.▼
* ''[[Dogma]]''. Despite having been infertile for apparently years, at the end of the movie Bethany is told by Metatron that she's [[Double Standard Rape (Divine on Mortal)|miraculously]] pregnant (necessary because she's the Last Scion - need to keep that bloodline going). It's heavily implied that because she's a descendant of the Virgin Mary her pregnancy is similar to Mary's conception of Jesus.▼
* The Czech films ''[[Divided We Fall]]'' and ''[[Little Otik]]'' both in a sense follow this trope and subvert it. Both couples in both films are infertile (in both cases {{spoiler|it seems it is HIS fault, not hers}}), and both couples get around nature to create a child, either a real one - {{spoiler|by using someone else to impregnate the wife}} (''Divided We Fall'') or a monstrous one, {{spoiler|by using a piece of wood carved into the rough shape of a child as a doll, which then comes to life and starts to devour the household}} (''Little Otik''). In each case, it is the neighbours who are forced to suspend their disbelief at the "fact" the wife is pregnant, rather than the couple themselves, who collude in trying to bring a child into the world.
▲* ''[[Dogma]]''. Despite having been infertile for apparently years, at the end of the movie Bethany is told by Metatron that she's [[Double Standard Rape (Divine on Mortal)|miraculously]] pregnant (necessary because she's the Last Scion - need to keep that bloodline going). It's heavily implied that because she's a descendant of the Virgin Mary her pregnancy is similar to Mary's conception of Jesus.
* ''[[Extant]]'': The story revolves around astronaut Molly Woods, who returns home to her family inexplicably pregnant after 13 months in outer space during her mission.
* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant, ''but she's never had sex.'' Though not really religious, she begins to wonder if this is a second virgin birth. {{spoiler|She eventually learns that someone slipped her a date-rape drug at a party; she thought she had just been really drunk.}}▼
▲* In ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]] 2: The Golden Army'', {{spoiler|Abe finds out that Liz is pregnant with Hellboy's children. Later, Liz is seen going through about four or five pregnancy tests, on account of the pregnancy}} being physically impossible for several reasons.
* ''[[Prometheus]]'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: {{spoiler|Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself whilst conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb}}.▼
▲* ''[[Starman (film)|Starman]]'': After he and Jenny made love on the train Starman proclaims "I gave you a baby tonight." Jenny says that this is impossible because she is incapable of having a child. Starman explains that he used his powers to alleviate this.
* Once Bella becomes pregnant in ''[[The Twilight Saga]]: Breaking Dawn'' Edward asks if it's even possible as he is a vampire and Bella is a human.
▲* ''[[Village of the Damned]]'' (from the sci-fi novel ''[[The Midwich Cuckoos]]'' by [[John Wyndham]]). Aliens impregnate every woman of child-bearing age in a small English town. Initial reactions range from joy (from a previously childless couple) to suspicion (from a husband who's been away at sea) to the above incredulous reaction from a teenage virgin.
* In the film ''Women in Trouble'', porn starlet Elektra Luxx is informed by her doctor that she is now gravid, and she responds by quoting this trope's name almost verbatim:
{{quote| '''Elektra Luxx''': I can't be pregnant.<br />
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'''Elektra Luxx''': [[Captain Obvious|No]].<br />
'''Doctor''': Then you can be pregnant. }}
▲* A really interesting example in the French-Canadian film ''Familia'': teenage Marguerite learns she is pregnant, ''but she's never had sex.'' Though not really religious, she begins to wonder if this is a second virgin birth. {{spoiler|She eventually learns that someone slipped her a date-rape drug at a party; she thought she had just been really drunk.}}
▲* ''[[Prometheus]]'' uses this in the most horrifying way imaginable: {{spoiler|Even though she is unable to bear children, Elizabeth finds out that she is indeed pregnant, but with an alien abomination. And so she performs an emergency surgery on herself whilst conscious in order to remove the creature from her womb}}.
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