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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"When every private widow well may keep
''By children's eyes her husband's shape in mind."''
|'''[[William Shakespeare]]''', "Sonnet 9"}}
Just before the [[Big Damn Heroes]] scene, or just after the hero's done his [[Heroic Sacrifice]], the girl he left behind discovers that she's pregnant. He's gone, but not forgotten. Subtrope of [[New Child Left Behind]].
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== [[
* The Wash one-shot "Float Out" of the ''[[Serenity]]'' comic features a memorial of sorts for Wash that takes place after his death in the film. The last page reveals a ''very'' pregnant Zoe.
* Crossing over with [[Real Life]], in Marjane Satrapi's autobiographical comic ''[[Persepolis]]'', she tells the story of one of her relatives who was in jail about to be executed by the government. His wife bribed a guard so they could have one last night together, the result being...
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** This puts a whole new spin on Seymour not wanting his mother to know about his research. It's not that she's unauthorized to know. It's that she knows this life got her husband killed and doesn't want to lose her son.
** This contradicts with the ''Ghosts of Yesterday'' novel, which states that Seymour's father is named Walter, and he is alive and well in the late 60s. In the comic, William dies in 1954.
* [[Ultimate Marvel|Ultimate]] [[Captain America (comics)|Captain Marvel]] slept with his girlfriend just before his fateful mission. The child ended up being raised practically from birth by the US Government, trying to create a new Cap. [[Gone Horribly Wrong|What they got was]] the [[Complete Monster|Ultimate Red Skull]].
** Mainstream Cap also got Sharon Carter pregnant before he his death ([[Unexplained Recovery|He got better.]]).
== [[Fan
* The whole reason {{spoiler|why everyone is going after C.C}} in a ''[[Code Geass]]'' continuation, ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6969408/1/In_the_End In the End]''.
* Toward the end of ''[[A Sad Story]]'', {{spoiler|Harry's}} girlfriend Maria tells him that he's going to be a father, and thus can't die yet.
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== Film ==
* During the credits of the 2010 [[Live Action Adaptation]] of ''[[Uchuu Senkan Yamato|Space Battleship Yamato]]'' {{spoiler|Yuki is seen with her son from Kodai who died destroying the last Meteor Bomb}}. This is during the ending credits no less.
* A variation occurs in ''[[
* ''[[A Nightmare
* ''[[Austin Powers]]'', the supposed reason why Scott was created. It would later turn out to be not totally true.
* ''[[Candyman Farewell to The Flesh]]''. Paul dies, but not before leaving Annie a parting gift.
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* ''[[The Terminator]]''; Kyle Reese dies after impregnating Sarah Connor, enabling her to give birth to John Connor.
* ''[[Cold Mountain]]''; {{spoiler|the main character, after reuniting with his wife}}.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean
* ''[[Planet Terror]]'' ("I told you, I never miss.")
* ''[[Premonition]]'': Apparently this is supposed to make the film's ending uplifting rather than horribly depressing.
* ''[[Inside''. As depressing as it is, it only begins this way and gets much, much worse.
* In ''[[Taking Lives]]'', after taking out the
* ''[[Revelation]]'' sees our hero and heroine searching for an ancient box containing the nails that held Jesus on the cross, while trying to evade an evil cabal. Upon finding the box, the cute but bookish heroine notices it has a male/female symbol on the front and has a sudden urge to "love thine neighbor", of course the guy, whom she's known for all of 12 hours, has no problem in putting off their escape from the baddies for a couple minutes while he takes care of business. The goons show up
* ''[[Rumpelstiltskin (film)|Rumpelstiltskin]]''. Partially subverted in that {{spoiler|the father is temporarily brought back via a wish made by his grieving wife, however, whether this wish was real or an illusion is not made clear (although, given the demonic nature of the wish-granting title character, it is probably the latter).}}
* The ending of ''[[An American Werewolf in London]]'' is set up so that, {{spoiler|while David is killed,}} his relationship with Alex ensures the possibility of a bouncing baby sequel. Although not explicitly stated, the character played by Julie Delpy in the ''[[An American Werewolf in Paris]]'' was, in fact, intended to be David's daughter.
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* In the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' film this is used as a beginning trope.
** Although, not ''completely'' true to form. Baby Jim Kirk was born moments before dad died, and Dad got to name him, instead of being conceived without soon-to-heroic-sacrifice dad knowing as is typical with this trope.
* Subverted in ''[[My Life]]'' in which Michael Keaton's character {{spoiler|isn't expected to live long enough to see his child. He does anyway.}}
* Forms the plot of the 2009 tearjerker ''[[The Greatest]]''. In this case, parents of a dead teen take in his pregnant girlfriend.
* Happens in the epilogue of Dario Argento's ''[[The Card Player]]''.
* ''[[Pearl Harbor]]'' leaves Our Heroine and Our Hero together with the [[Murder the Hypotenuse|Dead Hypotenuse's]] baby.
* In the third ''[[Hellraiser|Hellraiser III: Hell
* ''[[A Mighty Heart]]''{{context}}
* ''[[Braveheart]]''
* In the 2009 film ''Grace'', the father-to-be dies in a car accident. {{spoiler|The unborn child dies as well, but she gets better...sort of.}}
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