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A cisgender<ref>as in, born with a penis, and no sort of uterus to speak of</ref> 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]] 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]].
Especially common in [[Fanfic]]. The "MPreg" story is usually considered one of ''the'' scourges of fan writing, second only to [[Mary Sue]], because it is done ridiculously often and [[
Sometimes, [[M Preg]] is justified when the action takes place in the future or if the protagonists are aliens (especially if they are [[Hermaphrodite|hermaphrodites]]). Or if it's somehow in canon. Regardless of how it comes about, though, fanfic with this often turns into [[Kid Fic]].
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Probably the most understandable reason to say "[[But I Can't Be Pregnant]]" If the character actually is a female (or at least [[Transgender|has a uterus]]), that's [[Your Tomcat Is Pregnant]].
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** 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
** 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.
*** As Hong Kong is currently a Special Administrative Region operating with a government separate of China's, that might be why HK has its own personification, unlike the other provinces of China.
** There is the strip that shows Japan conversing with his provinces, depicted as fully grown and taller than Japan himself. [[
** 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
** 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.
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** [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
*** 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]].
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* [[The Lord of the Rings]]:
** The creators of [[Bag Enders (Fanfic)|Bag Enders]] are also known for comedic mpreg, and described it thus in their "[http://web.archive.org/web/20040803004651/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
* 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 [[Hot Skitty On Wailord Action|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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* There's a [[Dragon Force]] fanfic where Sam Totman gets "womb implant" surgery while drunk in Paris. And it will never stop being funny. Ever.
** [[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.]]
* There's even a [[The Beatles|Beatles]] mpreg fic in which Paul gets pregnant.
* As if [[Twincest]] wasn't [[Squick]] enough ([[Your Mileage May Vary|YMMV]]), many [[Tokio Hotel (Music)|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 'Repercussions of Femininity'] has one of these once it hits Atlantica. It's literally [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Mr Seahorse]].
* ''[http://www.tf2chan.net/fanfic/res/6000.html Surrogate]'' is a ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' fanfic dedicated to deconstructing [[M Preg]]. 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] [[Megaman 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] that involves Robot Masters getting pregnant for unknown reasons. These fanfics were made by Shadowshinobi.
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== Fanfiction based on [[Web Comics]] ==
* Toby "Radiation" Fox, one of the composers for ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'', wrote "[http://super-villain.org/whywouldyoudothis/thebabyisyou.html I'm Having A Baby And The Baby Is You]", a deliberately [[So Bad
* One of the plot devices in the [[Crack Pairing]] thread in the ''[[Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|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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* In the ''[[Prince Roger]]'' series, the "women" of Marduk are by the strictest definition ''male''. The "men" of the species have an organ which resembles human male genitalia, but it's actually an ovipositor. When a Mardukan man ovulates, he implants the ova into a woman, who fertilizes the egg and carries it to term.
* Stanley Pottinger's "[[The Fourth Procedure]]" features a VERY pro-life [[Straw Character|Strawman Politician]] being impregnated (very much against his will) by a VERY pro-choice surgeon.
* Mentioned in Lucian's ''[[True History (Literature)|True History]]''. The people of the moon are a [[One
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* Capt. Jack Harkness has a throwaway line in the first episode ("Everything Changes") of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' "Oh well, at least I won't get pregnant, I'm never doing ''that'' again."
** Harkness' home era is the 51st century. The first episode he appeared in showed a nanotechnology that repaired all physical injuries almost instantly and another one that changed humans into monsters and back. Having a male gestate with that level of technology should be trivial.
* In ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]'', a particularly irresponsible [[Green
** T'Pol later notes that Trip is the first Earthling male to get pregnant. He wasn't very happy.
*** Considering how Earth governments probably banned all research into human augmentation and assisted reproduction in the post-Khan era, that's probably justified, despite ''Enterprise''-era medical advances.
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* Used as a one-off joke in one of ''[[Scrubs]]''' many fantasy sequences. Carla is asked what she would do if she won the lottery, and she imagines Turk being pregnant instead of her.
{{quote| '''Turk:''' Stupid lotto.}}
* One episode of ''[[My Hero (TV)]]'' revolved around extraterrestrial George Sunday carrying an alien baby, and [[Hilarity Ensues|hilarity ensued]] when Dr. Piers Crispin saw the ultrasounds and thought it was Janet's father. (Just to make it a little crackier, the baby is revealed to be a ''gorilla''. Yes.)
** Subverted in another episode, where he decided to give "sympathetic pregnancy" a go by inflating his stomach. Janet was pleased at first, but quickly got sick of it. "I've heard of sympathetic pregnancy, but not with stretch marks."
* In the infamous [[Funny Aneurysm Moment]] of a season in ''[[Married With Children]]'' where Peggy and Marcy get pregnant at the same time, in one episode, Jefferson has a "sympathetic pregnancy".
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* Rembrandt Brown from [[Sliders]] suffered this when the team went into a world where the males get pregnant.
** Actually, it was a world where a global epidemic made women unable to carry to full term so men were fitted with vaguely marsupial artificial wombs to insure the child is fully developed.
* The Jaffa from [[Stargate SG 1]], who carry Goa'uld larvae in pouches on their stomachs, are a particularly seahorse-like example, since both genders have pouches--but special credit goes to {{spoiler|Jack, who once got turned into a Jaffa and nearly ended up carrying [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|Daniel's larva]].}}
* Jake from [[The Troop]] gets bitten by a Snark and impregnated. Afterwards, he has to raise the baby snark briefly, making him miss out on the b-plot and providing a thinly veiled Aesop on the issues of teen pregnancy.
* Aside from the time(s) [[Butt Monkey|Colin]] got stuck with this-- what with all of those [[Wholesome Crossdresser|female roles]] he ends up playing-- there's at least one Irish Drinking Song from [[Whose Line Is It Anyway]] that [[Invoked Trope|invokes]] this... which is promptly forgotten, next verse.
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* [[Choujuu Sentai Liveman]] Episode 31: "Mama! The Parasitic monster's cries": Junichi got impregnated by a Zuno beast, and out of it came a [[Cute Monster]] named Vega Baby, who sees Junichi as the mom. However, when the baby dies, He got a newfound respect for mothers.
* In one Sex-Ed PSA after two teenagers get magically transported to a gameshow style realm. After declaring that [[Straw Man|pregnancy is solely a girl's responsibility]] among other creeds, they temporarily made him pregnant to teach him some respect. It was certainly one of the more bizarre Sex-Ed videos out there.
* Max Sweeney in "[[The L Word]]" plays this trope for Drama. In a story [[Ripped
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== Web Comics ==
* The ''Bomberman Land'' Parody webcomics by Hienfan involves a man named Emon getting pregnant with twins. This was played for comedy like most of the other stuff in that webcomic
* In ''[[Narbonic]]'', the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=15096&mpe=1&step=1 strip] shows that it is Dave who carried Gamma to term, rather than Helen (they are [[Mad Scientist|mad scientists]], after all). This had been [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10272 suggested] earlier.
* In ''[[Sailor Sun]]'', Honey is Bay's [[Kid From the Future|time-traveling future daughter]]. This dismays the [[Gender Bender|gender-bending]] Bay to no end, since it implies that she never goes back to being Brad.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'' has a few strips which discuss the ramifications of the [[Gender Bender]] settings on the [[Transformation Ray]] in this regard, though it hasn't happened to anyone yet (apparently, this overrides the beam's time limit).
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'''Alice:''' Is the only evidence of your pregnancy your weight gain?<br />
'''Dilbert:''' Here comes another hogie, kids. }}
* In ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'', Filburt (a turtle) and Dr. Hutchinson (a lion) get married and have... [[Whale Egg|an egg]]. As a result of various events, Filburt has his friend Heifer (a steer) incubate it for him, causing Heifer to become possessive of it and develop maternal tendencies. When the egg hatches, out comes [[Gender Equals Breed|a lion, 2 turtles]]... and [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|a steer]].
** "It's a ''boy''!" "It's a ''girl''!" "...IT'S GOT THREE HEADS!!!"
* In an episode of ''[[Ben 10 Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', Ben ends up giving birth while in one of his alien forms. With no accompanying [[Squick]] and/or [[Heroic BSOD]] on his part (though the [[Nausea Fuel|audience may differ]]). This might not be due to the Mister Seahorse so much as when/how the implied impregnation occu-- ''[[Who Writes This Crap?]]?!'' The alien in question is said to be asexual.
** Ben later tries to use to bond with an alien criminal who is trying to steal earth's oceans to clone an army of her children. It works fairly well until he lets slip that his offspring took off for deep space as soon as they hatched.
* In an episode of ''[[Men in Black (Animation)|MIB: The Animated Series]]'', Jay gets pregnant by [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|ingesting an alien zygote]] that was undergoing fertilization at MIB's lab.
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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 [[But It Really Happened!|real science]]! See for instance [http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/malepreg.asp here] (the Snopes article debunking the hoax) and [http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2005-07/male-pregnancy-dangerous-proposition here] (the ''Popular Science'' article ''"Male Pregnancy: A Dangerous Proposition"''.
** 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/Male_pregnancy ectopic pregnancy] would be; and (b) that Cecil Jacobson had been arrested for [[Moral Event Horizon|artificially impregnating dozens of women with his own sperm]].
** 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!]]''
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