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== 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.
=== Fan Works based on [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* 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/4510558/1/Tears Tears]'' — for instance has Matt getting Mello pregnant, and L forcing Mello to get an abortion because [[Unfortunate Implications|it's impossible to be pregnant and clever at the same time]].
** [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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* 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 ''[[×××HOLiC]]'' fanfiction that can be found [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4159169/1/Magical_Donuts here] that has ''Doumeki'' getting pregnant after {{spoiler|eating a magic donut}}. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* 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.
=== Fan Works based on [[Comic Books]] ===
* 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 [[{{PAGENAME}}]]: Hulkling is a shapeshifter, and Wiccan can alter reality in a limited fashion (by way of example, the character who he is based off of, Scarlet Witch, got pregnant off a robot, which is on a level of insanity equal to [[{{PAGENAME}}]]).
** 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://nonartisticactie.deviantart.com/art/An-Unexpected-Miracle-98892118 This extremely frightening fic] has the Joker knocking up Scarecrow. It's [[The Dark Knight Saga|Nolanverse]] ... if that helps.
* Naturally, the Parody Fic series ''[[Sith Academy]]'' had a couple of things to say on this topic. In the first, no actual [[{{PAGENAME}}]] takes place; it is simply that an addled Yaddle ''assumes'' that all the patients for her free clinic are pregnant. The follow up to this involves [[Bizarre Alien Biology]] in the otherwise human-seeming [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Jon-Tra Volta]], and a wild night with a wookie.
* 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: First Class]]'', wherein just one [http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmu1ns2IfH1qlwxvho1_500.jpg hilarious macro image] launched an entire wave of fanfics wherein Erik impregnates Charles. The science is usually handwaved using the idea of Charles simply having a second mutation.
=== Fan Works based on [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[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 "[https://web.archive.org/web/20040803004651/http://bagenders.stormpages.com/story/define.html Horrifically Honest Guide to Fanfiction Terms]": "Since there exists no fanfic genre of ‘M-PMT’ or ‘M-bloody awful period pain’, this is one outlet to make your characters get all the suffering of being female with none of the benefits. Bwahahaahahaa!"
** 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.]]
=== Fan Works based on Live Action TV ===
* [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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20190928023814/https://zulu.livejournal.com/311285.html here].
* [[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.
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*** 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].
=== Fan Works based on Music ===
* 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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=== Fan Works based on [[Video Games]] ===
* 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 [[{{PAGENAME}}]]. It didn't [[It Got Worse|end well]].
* 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.
=== Fan Works based on [[Web Comics]] ===
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=== Fan Works based on [[Western Animation]] ===
* 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 [[{{PAGENAME}}]] for ''[[Ben 10]]'', ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', ''[[Invader Zim]]'', ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', and ''[[Transformers Animated]]''.
*** 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...
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* 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.
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