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{{quote|'''Kif:''' Amy, isn't it wonderful? I'm pregnant!
'''Amy:''' Yes it's... great. A great miracle.
'''Leela:''' And not one of those bogus everyday miracles like a sunrise. Aren't you a male?
|''[[Futurama]]'', "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch"}}
A male character gets pregnant through [[Functional Magic]], [[Mad Scientist|weird science]], [[Gender Bender|gender-bending]], [[Bizarre Alien Biology]], [[Freaky Friday|body swapping]], [[Furry Fandom|actually being a seahorse]], [[Artistic License: Biology|outright ignorance of human biology]] or just plain bad writing. Usually played for laughs, but it can be done seriously or even tragically, especially when it's an [[Alien Impregnation]] from a [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong]].
Sometimes
In case you missed that class in
This is ''theoretically'' possible in real life.
May involve [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] and [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]. If the other parent is also male, you've got [[Homosexual Reproduction]]. See also [[Nightmare Fuel]] and [[Body Horror]], men. Ladies, we respect you greatly for doing this for the species; please don't laugh too hard at how much this can freak us out. See also [[Chest Burster]] and [[Ass Shove]] for the potential non-C-section routes of exit.
Probably the most understandable reason to say "[[But I Can't Be Pregnant]]". If the character actually
{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* A Dairy Queen ad ran in 2008 depicting a young couple enjoying their ice cream and fantasizing about the future. The man imagines that he is blessed with a son. The woman imagines she is the one holding the video camera while the man gives birth, screaming at her ''"you did this to me!"''
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTJPPAJp9U This] commercial for Dream Ice Cream, via [[Imagine Spot]].
== Anime
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'',
* In ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', the primary villain ends up pregnant after the 'dance of feathers', with the protagonist... and then later miscarries, though this is the least strange plot point in this series.
* In ''[[Futaba-Kun Change!
* [http://www.aestheticism.com/visitors/manga/patarillo/ Patarillo]'s [[Bishounen]] Maraich is somehow able to become pregnant twice despite being 100% male and human.
** Bancoran is just 'that' manly.
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** Years later, male pregnancy is ''still'' kept as a sacred tradition to birth new rulers.
* Purple [[Planet Eater]] Galactus was recently revealed to have a daughter, Galacta, which led to some rife speculation about who her mom was. Turns out it was also [[Truly Single Parent|Galactus]]. He also specifies that he was pregnant with her.
* In ''[[Nightmares and Fairy Tales]]'', a character ends up pregnant after messing with [[Our Mermaids Are Different|an otherworldly creature]]. When he complains, another character points out that it wouldn't have happened if [[Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil|he'd simply left the creature alone]].
== Fan Works ==
* The trope of [[wikipedia:Omegaverse|Omegaverse]] AU (also known as [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Alpha/Beta/Omega Alpha/Beta/Omega, A/B/O] or, more sarcastically, "dogfuck rapeworld"), a kink trope where people have a "subgenre" on top of being male or female that defines whether they are able to impregnate or be impregnated, with "alphas" being able to impregnate and "omegas" being able to be impregnated. Naturally, this means that omegas can be impregnated by alphas of their same sex. Initially beginning in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' [[Real Person Fic|RPF]] slash fandom in the late 2000s, it soon expanded to every fandom under the sun (to the point of replacing every other version and excuses for MPreg used previously), and eventually jumped into an actual mainstream-ish genre of erotica.
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* In the ''[[Hellsing]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2847586/1/The_bWay_b_to_an_bHeir_b The Way To An Heir]'', Alucard attempts to impregnate Integra with a spell, but ends up getting himself pregnant. While somewhat bizarre, it actually makes sense ([http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=§ion=&q=girlycard#/d1tpqnr Girlycard duh!])
* Only slightly less disturbing are [[Slash Fic|slash fics]] that use male pregnancy as [[You Fail Biology Forever|a natural]] [[Critical Research Failure|consequence of]] gay sex. One ''[[Death Note]]'' fanfic
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5140063/1/B_is_for_Baby THIS] ''[[Death Note]]'' fanfiction averts and/or parodies the trope in a bizarre way when Beyond Birthday appears to L claiming to be bearing his child.
* In the ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' Fandom:
** This happens so often to poor Duo Maxwell that you could probably find such a fic in five random searches.
** Heero is popular too, by rape at times, since he was experimented on and all.
** Quatre sometimes gets pregnant too, how empathy relates to that, I haven't a clue.
* Mpreg is ''very'' popular in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', as states and provinces are often depicted as the children of nations. However, if you applied a bit of [[Fridge Logic]] to this, you would realize that a country's states are actually parts of their physical body, such as America's [[Idiot Hair|ahoge]] as Nantucket, and [[Know-Nothing Know-It-All|Korea's]] as Seoul, so the entire premise is built upon the [[MST3K Mantra]].
** Poor [[Love Freak|America]] seems to suffer the most from this, with a ''entire livejournal community'' [http://community.livejournal.com/raising_states/ dedicated to his pregnancies]. Such is the popularity of giving America the seahorse treatment that [http://www.angelfire.com/un/cozz/hetalia.html someone actually did a chart] detailing the most likely fathers of the respective states with comments on the circumstances of their conception (for instance, Alaska is "Most likely to have resulted from hate-sex").
** Although there ''is'' the canon presence of Hong Kong, a city in China, who's sometimes taken by the fandom to be China and England's love child. And Cyprus, another official (if yet-to-appear-in-canon) character, is often similarly viewed as Turkey and Greece's love/hate child.
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** There is the strip that shows Japan conversing with his provinces, depicted as fully grown and taller than Japan himself. [[Bellisario's Maxim|Don't think about it too hard.]]
** There is actually [http://hetalia-kink.livejournal.com/11411.html?thread=22705811#t22705811 a request] in the fandom's [[Kink Meme]] asking for a parody of this, and the fills are ''hilarious''. Though when you think about it, it actually sorts of makes sense. Especially when you consider that the Nations aren't even ''human'' to begin with.
* The ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4925872/1/Cockroach Cockroach] by Thoth Moon is a brilliant [[Deconstruction]] of this trope. It features [[Mind Game Ship|Sensui]] [[Mad Love|and Itsuki]], the [[Kill All Humans|last two guys in YYH]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|who should be having a baby]] and is presented as a very scary [[Body Horror]] story, with [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]] added for good measure because of the characters involved. {{spoiler|After numerous failed abortion attempts, Itsuki gives birth through a very painful dimensional rift between his legs. So painful, in fact, that he passes out for a few hours during labor in the bathtub. They end up keeping the dead baby in their freezer after Sensui's "Kazuya" personality slaughters it.}}
** Whenever mpreg isn't being [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]], however, Kurama's usually the one getting pregnant. Hiei's capability of getting pregnant has also been questioned, considering his mother's side of the family.
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]'' slash authors love doing this to Hatori, who transforms into a seahorse if hugged by a woman.
* A popular element of ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' fanfiction. Guaranteed to be a ''FOURTH'' of the total fanfics available of this fandom. Possibly justified with {{spoiler|Count D, as he is not human... But ''Leon''?!}}
* There are a lot of ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' fanfics that have either Goku or Vegeta pregnant with each other's baby.
* There's a ''[[
* Poor, poor [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Edward Elric]]. This canonically extremely badass teenage [[Child Soldier]] character seems to do nothing in Yaoi fanfics except get pregnant and suffer ''horrible'' [[Badass Decay]] every time he turns around. The other father is most commonly his commanding officer who is fourteen years older than him.
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2077901/1/Dark_Humor Except for that time Envy was the "mom."]
* In the ''[[Naruto]]'' fandom, Naruto would get impregnated (usually because of Sasuke) because of several reasons; the Kyuubi is a female (despite the fact it is basically just a mass of malevolent chakra with no real gender), the "fact" that demons can reproduce regardless of gender and this was carried on into Naruto (or other jinchuuriki like Gaara, opening up a whole new can of worms), there is a jutsu that enables males to get pregnant, [[Gender Bender|Sexy no Jutsu]] somehow alters the user's entire biology, or Orochimaru is being his usual sick self and experimented on male pregnancies for some completely unknown reason. Take your pick.
** In the rare chance that Sasuke gets pregnant (in the NaruSasu pairings) it's usually because of the Kyuubi's chakra that causes his pregnancy. That or Orochimaru/Kabuto did some rather [[Critical Research Failure|interesting]] [[You Fail Biology Forever|experiments]] on poor Sasuke, leading him impregnated by everyone and anyone, including [[Brother-Sister Incest|his own brother]]. Occasionally it's Sexy no Jutsu gone wrong, but since he has the Sharingan wouldn't he just be able to perfectly copy the jutsu?
*** The second part of Sasuke's goal is to repopulate the Uchiha clan... but in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2427539/1/SelfReliance Self Reliance]'', he doesn't trust any females he knows to carry his child. So he decides the logical course of action is to carry the child himself.
** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3758047/1/ Companion Crisis]'' takes this to a whole new level, with Itachi, Hidan, and Deidara getting pregnant, as well as Konan. However, [[Better Than It Sounds|the author makes it plausible and it sucked this troper right in. One of the few I can say I would ever want someone to read]].
** ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3661130/1/Kyuubi_the_Btch Kyuubi the Btch]'' is [[Body Horror|a deconstruction of the biological aspects of stereotypical MPREG stories]]. You want to know what happens when a pubescent boy spontaneously develops a functional uterus without a vagina? {{spoiler|[[Nausea Fuel|He menstruates, and the pressure relieves itself by punching a hole in his rectum]].}}
*** That is also the story which has a fox trying to hump Naruto. Hilarity ensues. Repeatedly.
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6792475/1/What_to_Expect_When_Youre_Not_Expecting This] [[Bleach]] Mpreg fic actually does some rationalizing...a bit. The author fully admits that it isn't really good science but that it works for her. She then takes it [[Up to Eleven]] by having the character give birth...in enemy territory.
* Parodied in the [[Code Geass]] fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5683549/1/Ambiguous Ambiguous] wherein Suzaku mysteriously gets pregnant by Lelouch. The natural way. The [[You Fail Biology Forever|biological impossibility]] of this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]], amongst other improbabilities found in Mpreg fanfics such as the credibility of the doctor to reach such a conclusion, and of course, male seahorses.
* Done many times in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'' Fanfic. Usually [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by {{spoiler|Jaden/Judai's fusion with Yubel}} granting him (some of) the necessary equipment.
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* Based on a recent arc in the ''[[Mighty Avengers]]'' where Tony Stark was turned into a woman temporarily; a mpreg fic called [http://pandax-pro.livejournal.com/794.html#cutid1 Moth] has been written.
** It counts because Tony is now back to being a guy and the other parent is Steve Rogers.
* A decent [[Affectionate Parody]] of the genre is ''[http://dorksidefiker.livejournal.com/148547.html That Damn MPreg]'', featuring the ''[[Young Avengers]]'' characters Wiccan and Hulkling. Oddly enough, these two characters are relatively easy to explain away in terms of an [[
** The universe also has Grace Summers, the daughter of Sean Cassidy-Guthrie and Christian Summers. Carried to term by Christian though the circumstances regarding what allowed the pregnancy remains a mystery.
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120517113804/http://
* Naturally, the Parody Fic series ''[[Sith Academy]]'' had a couple of things to say on this topic. In the first, no actual [[
* Used in the ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4735614/1/Parental_Guidance Parental Guidance]'' in which it's [[Transvestite|Dr. Frank N. Furter]] who ends up pregnant. Most of the ''questionable'' aspects of Mpreg are [[Hand Wave|Handwaved]]/explained via [[Bizarre Alien Biology]]. Long story short, Frank becomes pregnant (the "father" is yet to be revealed), [[Temporary Bulk Change|grows]] ''[[Balloon Belly|really]]'' [[Temporary Bulk Change|fat]], and, instead of giving birth to live young (which is the standard for most Mpreg fics), ends up laying a clutch of eggs.
* ''[[X-Men:
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* ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic writers love this to death. At least the unpredictably of magic gives it a fair reason/excuse. Most of the time.
** It's perfectly common to see Harry knocked up with twins, usually, from Draco or Snape, or anyone really.
** A Snape/Lupin mpreg story can be read
** There was a ''Harry Potter'' fanfiction in which Ron and Draco had a fertility potion spilled on them during a private detention in Snape's dungeon, leading to Ron becoming pregnant by Draco, who left him, so Ron ran off to have sex with Harry, who dumped him after finding out Ron had slept with Draco; then Ron started going out with Gary Stu!Neville, who just so happened to have a crush on Blaise, leading to Ron and Neville making out in front of Blaise and Draco in order to make them jealous, which preceded Neville finding out about Ron's pregnancy and declaring that he wanted to be the baby's father, while Mentor!Snape helped them along. There wasn't a female character in the fic.
** There is a ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fanfic where Harry gives birth to a kitten, after having gay sex with Voldemort while transmuted. Couldn't make this up if I tried, people.
** ''[[My Immortal]]'' unintentionally references this in the line where Harry fends off two peeping toms by yelling "ABRA KEDAVRA!" and "pointing his [[Rouge Angles of Satin|womb]]".
** The ''threat'' of Snape impregnating him prompts a panic-driven accidental apparition by Harry at the start of ''[[The Girl Who Loved]]'', setting in action the events of the story and its sequel, ''Violence Inherent in the System''.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'':
** The creators of ''[[Bag Enders]]'' are also known for comedic mpreg, and described it thus in their "[
** Feel free to alternate between [[Squick|cringing]] and [[So Bad It's Good|cracking up]] while reading the ultimate Legolas/Aragorn. {{spoiler|"My assumption is correct: your birth canal has formed."}} [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3515296/1/Hidden_Child NO. WORDS.]
* One ''[[Redwall]]'' fanfic unintentionally references this. The [[Mary Sue]] heroine's sidekick was supposedly the daughter of the canon characters Brome and Keyla. Brome is a male mouse, and Keyla, despite the [[Gender Blender Name]], is a male [[Improbable Species Compatibility|otter]]. As they didn't appear in the fic, one can only assume the author forgot the gender and/or species of at least one of them, but the mental image wasn't fun. [[Fetish Fuel|Unless you're into that.]]
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* [http://www.englishchick.com/badfic/biology.htm This] ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' fanfic is a classic parody of mpreg fanfic cliches.
* A number of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' fanfics feature Mohinder giving birth to Sylar's baby. This is normally justified by the good doctor's [[Professor Guinea Pig|experimentation]] with a defective [[Super Serum]]. In an alternate future, the formula transformed him into some sort of bug mutant, so who's to guess what all ''else'' it might have done to him. Though, one has to imagine it could just as easily be written the other way around since Sylar is a shapeshifter.
* ''[http://scarletts-awry.livejournal.com/205432.html I've Heard Nothing If It Wasn't the Wind],'' an [[Alternate Universe]] ''[[CSI: NY]]'' fanfic that treats the trope as horror and features {{spoiler|Danny as Mister Seahorse and Mac as the father, sort of (via a vengeful and very nasty demon)}}.
* There is an ''[[Andromeda]]'' [http://www.squidge.org/mufa-mpreg/viewstory.php?sid=4 fic] (NSFW) where {{spoiler|Tyr finds himself a highly evolved lover who cannot have children due to her body rejecting the sperm. So, her eggs are implanted into Tyr (no operation - a subconscious desire come true). Her nanobots even rebuild him so he gives birth the natural way.}}
* There's a ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' fanfic that fits the trope, with a [[Crack Fic|crackfic-ish]] [[Knocked Up|inspiration]]. Read it [
* [[Star Trek: The Original Series]] slash writers are fond of this trope, often utilizing Spock's alien-human hybrid status or random alien-induced mutations as a justification for some truly bizarre biology.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5442234/1/ This] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fanfiction has the Doctor {{spoiler|revealing that he became female during his last regeneration and getting pregnant with Jack's baby. Twice. And the second time, Jack isn't there.}} It's explained fairly well, though. The title is "57 Academics Just Punched the Air". A cookie if you know where that's from.
** There are a couple of fairly [[squick]]y Doctor/Master slash fics involving the Master (usually in a position of some power) forcibly impregnating the Doctor through magic Time Lord science. Whilst these rarely raise [[For the Evulz|the question of why]] he would make the Doctor carry a fetus to term only to have to surgically remove it, some are well-characterized enough to point out that the Master is bat-shit insane. [http://www.whofic.com/series.php?seriesid=938 Here it is.]
* This trope has finally, officially reared its ugly head in the ''[[The Big Bang Theory|Big Bang Theory]]'' fandom with [http://archiveofourown.org/works/60048 this charming little tale.] If you can't face it, but are still curious as to who the victim is: {{spoiler|It's Sheldon.}}
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{{quote|'''Gaius:''' "It's yours, Sire."}}
*** Arthur is understandably horrified... Considering that they've never had sex.
* An [[Doorstopper|extremely long]] ''[[American Idol]]'' fanfic titled ''Cambios'' narrates the entire life chronicles of David Cook and David Archuleta's kids, beginning with their daughter Reyna who was conceived accidentally during their time at AI (meaning Archie was 16, people!), with very little explanation (something about some guys being able to get pregnant). The two go on to have four more children, and Archie looks 'exactly the same' a decade later. It ends with Reyna auditioning for American Idol, and the judges proceed to tell her that she looks like both Archie and Cook, and her singing voice is a mixture of the two.
** ... there's ''[[American Idol]]'' fanfiction? [[Flat What|What.]]
* Very common in the ''[[Glee]]'' fandom with Kurt/Blaine shippers. Finn supossedly utters the line 'don't get my baby brother pregnant' a lot.
* Numerous ''[[Sherlock]]'' fanfics. Usually Sherlock/John By far the weirdest one is this [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6920912/1/Waking_Up_To_Us one].
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* There's a [[Dragon Force (
** [[Completely Missing the Point|Aren't you supposed to be sober to consent to surgery like that?]]
** And there's one (by the same author) where a hermaphroditic Fred Leclercq conceives sextuplets after being raped by one of his bandmates from Maladaptive. [[Dude, Not Funny|It's significantly less funny.]]
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* As if [[Twincest]] wasn't [[Squick]] enough ([[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]), many [[Tokio Hotel]] fanfics involve Tom impregnating Bill somehow.
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* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2991810/1/Repercussions_Of_Femininity
* ''[http://www.tf2chan.net/fanfic/res/6000.html Surrogate]''{{Dead link}} is a ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' fanfic dedicated to deconstructing [[
* Used to be [[Fanon|a fairly common speculation]] about draenei among the ''[[WoW]]'' fanbase (due, for what it's worth, both to their [[Bizarre Alien Biology|extra-Azerothian origin]] and to [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism|the males of the race]] being [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl|so much bigger than the females]]). While this is now pretty much [[Jossed]] by [[The Reveal|Garona's canonical origin]], the more-or-less tame—and evocatively titled—fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5774839/1/Hippocampi Hippocampi]'' is nonetheless worth a chuckle.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4507792/1/Stages This] ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'' fanfiction applies this to Megaman, but does a surprisingly well job in explaining it.
** There are also other [http://shadowshinobi.insanejournal.com/tag/robot+mpreg Megaman fanfics]{{Dead link}} that involves Robot Masters getting pregnant for unknown reasons. These fanfics were made by Shadowshinobi.
* [http://magicrat.deviantart.com/gallery Magicrat of Deviantart] has written several of these, mostly for ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' and ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. The ''Team Fortress 2'' ones make it plausible (at least in the ''Team Fortress 2'' verse) by explaining it as an implant and an attempt to remove women from the process.
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* Toby "Radiation" Fox, one of the composers for ''[[Homestuck]]'', wrote "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131027072019/http://super-villain.org/whywouldyoudothis/thebabyisyou.html I'm Having A Baby And The Baby Is You]", a deliberately [[So Bad It's Good]] "[[Rock Opera]]" about [[Crack Fic|Dave giving birth to John]] (a thirteen-year-old John is also [[Timey-Wimey Ball|there at the time and has to help deliver the baby]]). This was written to [[Troll Fic|protest a new forum rule]] saying that [[Censorship Bureau|no depictions in fanfic or fanart of the child characters may show sex or imply sex has happened]], including (specifically) pregnancy. While it's completely stupid, the mods clamp down pretty hard on any discussion on it at all.
* One of the plot devices in the [[Crack Pairing]] thread in the ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' forums. It doesn't get used very often, though, but when it does, it is [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarious]].
* Even ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff (Webcomic)|Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' is [http://hannz0rz.deviantart.com/art/COKMICK-258324496 not immune]. Definitely [[Played for Laughs]] and [[Fan Disservice]].
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* [http://taekarado.livejournal.com/21601.html?thread=888673#t888673 This] is a suprisingly well-done (and [[Nightmare Fuel]]-ish) [[Dark Fic]] about [[The Nostalgia Chick]] getting [[The Nostalgia Critic]] pregnant with an [[Eldritch Abomination]]. [[Better Than It Sounds]].
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* There's male pregnancy as horror fanfic. There is a [[Teen Titans (animation)|''Teen Titans'' animated series]] fic where Robin was used (quite unwillingly) for a Mad Science experiment...and impregnated with several hundred sea monster embryos. ''Monsters in the Closet'' - it can be found [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3063575/1/Monsters_in_the_Closet here] in all its debatably wonderful, [[Nightmare Fuel]] glory.
* ''[[The Crack|The Mind of a Hero]]''. The circumstances behind it, while [[Weird Science]], are far from happy. It involves an odd device to bring Danny's inner shadow forth... and his first words: "Why my mother?!"
** The same writer has also done [[
*** Well, the Transformers thing is kinda understandable, since the robot characters (obviously) don't really ''have'' genders. As to how a robot would actually ''get'' pregnant in the first place...
**** Pregnant nothing, they explicitly reproduce by [[MacGuffin]] in that season, and one of 'em needs [[Brain Bleach]] after being told where human babies come from.
* Some ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' slash writers have the disturbing tendency to get Zuko knocked up, usually with Jet's spawn. Worse, one particular author wrote ''two'' fics on the subject using the dreaded [[Rape Is Love]] plot device (as if Zuko hasn't already suffered enough in canon, jeez). But to be fair to her, she did at least give semi-plausible explanations for Zuko's ability to carry children.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4018157/1/In_Short_Supply This]'' ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fanfic shows an interesting take on this trope.
== Film ==
* The 1998 ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'' film (the one with [[In Name Only|GINO]]). GINO is allegedly a male lizard, who is pregnant, and yes, does lay eggs.
* The [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]/Danny DeVito vehicle ''[[Junior]]'', in which Arnold plays a scientist who is willing to get pregnant. The movie is a comedy, but the pregnancy is played surprisingly seriously here, leading to some emotional development in Arnold's character.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20081230220027/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=
* ''Rabbit Test'', a 1978 film directed by Joan Rivers and starring Billy Crystal.
* A slightly squickier variant happens in the ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' movies, wherein people of any gender and presumably any species can be [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|impregnated]] with baby aliens. The first victim in the series is, notably, male. In fact, it was John Hurt.
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** This is explained as the one of the many safeties built into the device (its magitech), a partially transformed being is incapable of pregnancy, a pregnant person cannot be transformed, a gender switched individual who becomes pregnant is permanently changed to a woman, and food is handled in such a manner that shrinking/enlargement is harmless (even if you enlarge, eat food, then shrink due to the effect wearing out rather than a second hit).
* The aforementioned [[Exalted|Luna]] appears [http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0191.html here] in ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'', although he appears to be in an adult male form.
* This is pretty much how Akihiko and Fuuka justify both {{spoiler|the existence of Ryoji}} and [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822095426/http://www.drunkduck.com/Persona_3_FTW/index.php?p=641344 the MC's weird cravings] in [[Persona 3 FTW]]: he was pregnant the whole time.
* Done as a {{spoiler|false}} story-arc in [[Boxer Hockey]]. A character named Charles (often called Chuck) gets pregnant via virtue of a character Rittz' semen-stained toilet seat.
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* [[Manly Gay|Kronar]], [[Homosexual Reproduction|Son of Man]], from ''[[Oglaf]]'', and his entire tribe of woman-hating barbarians.
* ''[[Vinci and Arty]]'': Arty's coworker Arkie Illions is an actual [[Funny Animal|anthropomorphic seahorse]], and [[Cloudcuckoolander|apparently unaware that he's expecting]].
== Web Original ==
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** Another episode has Bender "pregnant" with home brewed beer. Complete with "birth". "It's an ale! 5 gallons, four ounces!"
** [[The Neidermeyer|Zapp Brannigan]] technically has this happen to him in one of the comics. Captured by a species of alien he was leading a war against, they secretly implant larva in his body and stuff him with food, intending to use him as a kind of combination unwitting suicide bomber and troop transport. Basically, the oblivious Brannigan would be returned to his side when the larvae were near complete development, enabling them to rip their way out of his body and start killing the other high-ranked officials.
* In the ''[[The Fairly
* This happens in the ''[[Dilbert]]'' TV show, when Dilbert launches a rocket that is supposed to go to other planets and bring back alien DNA, but it malfunctions and circles around the town after getting a sample of alien DNA, picking up random bits of Earth animal DNA (and robot parts), and then hits Dilbert and lodges itself in Dilbert's body. The result is that Dilbert becomes pregnant with a mutant being.
** Of course, in the actual comics, there was a short plot where Dilbert ''thought'' he was pregnant. 'Turns out, he was just ''eating way too much''.
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== Real Life ==
* Just so it doesn't get added here again: There was a hoax/art-project about actually accomplishing this a while back by a guy called Lee Mingwei. It never happened. You can be forgiven for thinking it did, though:
** Turns out this ''is'' apparently based on [[
** In the mid-eighties, following up on some work he had done on the topic, popular-science writer Dick Teresi wangled $500,000 from the publisher of [[Omni]] Magazine to work with prominent fertility researcher [[wikipedia:Cecil Jacobson|Cecil Jacobson]] on the first human male pregnancy (and secure a multi-million dollar book deal in the process). Unfortunately, he had second thoughts when he realized (a) how dangerous an [
** What interested Jacobson in the idea is that he claimed to have successfully [[Animal Testing|impregnated a male baboon]] in the 1960s, which carried the fetus for four months.[http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/27/magazine/how-to-get-a-man-pregnant.html?pagewanted=all\] No, not like ''[[Squick|THAT!]]''
* Jean Drapeau, Mayor of Montreal from 1954-1957 and 1960-1986, said "The Olympics can no more lose money than a man can have a baby." Political cartoons showed him as very pregnant following the 1976 Olympics, which left Montreal with a 1 billion dollar debt that took them a full 3 decades to pay off.
* Female-to-Male [[
** [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] News reported in March 2008 about Thomas Beatie, a transgendered female-to-male resident of Bend, Oregon who never had genital reconstructive surgery (since it is not necessary in order to legally change one's sex in that state). Since his wife could not get pregnant and his own biologically-female reproductive system was still functional, he offered to carry the child himself. Using artificial insemination, Beatie has given birth to a girl and a boy as of this edit (June 17, 2009) and is planning to have a third child.
** Discovery Health ran a special called 'Transgendered and Pregnant' recently. A married couple consisting of a trans woman<ref>Male-to-Female.</ref> and trans man<ref>Guess.</ref> get pregnant during the latter half of their hormone therapy. The dad of the pair is the one carrying the child.
* Also the condition of [[wikipedia:Fetus in fetu|Fetus in Fetu]], in which a baby develops a second (at least partial) twin inside itself. The result is that the outer human can [https://web.archive.org/web/20130319040647/http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2346476 appear pregnant].
* Science fiction Author [[Larry Niven]] actually suggested this as the only safe way Superman and Lois Lane could have a baby in ''[http://www.rawbw.com/~svw/superman.html Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex]''. Superman would have to carry.
* [http://hinoneko.deviantart.com/art/Seahorse-Fanfiction-75876070 This] little comic parodies this with cute little seahorses.
* Many different species of fish can change gender back and forth in order to maintain population ratios. Hyenas also had a reputation for being of only one gender {{spoiler|that impregnate and birth through their penis}}, although science has shown that they're actually just androgynous. Cross reference [[wikipedia:Hermaphrodite|Hermaphrodite at The Other Wiki]].
** They do, however still give birth through
* There is a condition known as couvade syndrome (aka sympathetic pregnancy), in which men with pregnant spouses will experience symptoms of pregnancy themselves, such as morning sickness or weight gain. It was originally assumed to be an old wives tale, although recent research has found that men actually do experience hormonal changes during pregnancy, possibly as the result of
* The rare case of a successful abdominal pregnancy, in which a fertilized egg travels through the Fallopian tube in the wrong direction and implants itself outside the uterus, suggests that having a uterus isn't 100% mandatory for carrying a child to term. Given the risks inherent in ectopic pregnancies, it's unlikely that fertility clinics will be offering this option to men any time soon.
* Sooner than we develop the medical procedures to make male pregnancy safe, we're very likely to develop the [[wikipedia:Artificial uterus|artificial uterus]], though we're still working out the kinks of both environment and transition process.
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