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It's generally considered ''very'' romantic, even in historical settings where a single mother can be expected to have a hard time of it (especially during wartime; even if he didn't die in the war itself--or at all--she can say he did), on top of all her other problems. Unsurprisingly, it is assumed in these circumstances that [[Babies Make Everything Better]].

 

 

Usually an [[Ending Trope]], so there will inevitably be spoilers in the examples section. Sometimes a [[Beginning Tropes|Beginning Trope]], to introduce [[Turn Out Like His Father]] -- and sometimes both, as [[Changing of the Guard]] occurs.

 

If the trope is ever gender flipped, the baby will be found somewhere around the female's corpse.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** One memorable episode was about the vengeful girlfriend of a criminal Leon killed in the line of duty. D manages to break the cycle of revenge by appealing to her that she did not want her unborn child's mother to be a murderer.

** A second, much darker version occurs in Pet Shop Of Horrors: Tokyo. A woman's dead boyfriend is temporarily brought back to spend O-bon with her on the one-year anniversary of his death. At the end, he prepares to return to the land of the dead, but she is unwilling to let him go. She is found a week later in her apartment with the rotting corpse of her boyfriend... and now pregnant.

 

 

* In the [[Backstory]] to [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]'s ''[[John Carter of Mars|Gods of Mars]]'', Deijah Thoris was consoled for losing John Carter with his son, Cathoris. It was when Cathoris vanished as well that she did something foolish.

* ''[[Cold Mountain]]'': {{spoiler|between Inman and Ada}}. Apparently this is [[Truth in Television|based off of the real conception of the author's great-great aunt, but still.]]

* Similar to the midpoint of ''The Thorn Birds'', where Meggie becomes pregnant by {{spoiler|Father Ralph just before he leaves her and returns to the Church}} and specifically says that this baby will be a part of him that she can keep. The child becomes one of the two major protagonists of the second half of the novel, and is a prime example of the "[[Turn Out Like His Father]]" trope.

* After Claire leaves Jamie in the 1700s, their daughter Brianna fills this role at the end of the second book in the ''[[Outlander (Literature)|Outlander]]'' series.

* The end result of the story of ''The Hazards of Love,'' [[The Decemberists]] 2009 concept album.

** Actually a subversion, as the lyrics of the last song imply that {{spoiler|the whole family - father, mother, and unborn child - die together. There is no mention of the child's birth or a miscarriage, and Margaret is obviously in the sinking boat with William when the river claims them (she is described as arranging rocks around the hull to weigh it down).}} A better Decemberists example of this trope would be "Yankee Bayonett," a surprisingly cheerful love song between a pregnant woman and her dead soldier lover.

 

 

** After the [[Time Skip]] in [[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|the sequel]], the two can be seen again in the Citadel, discussing other ways to improve the health of the new toddler, also named Jacob.

* Played with in the ending of ''[[Overlord]]: Raising Hell''. After you complete the [[Bonus Level of Hell]] only to get stuck down there, the final cutscene shows [[The Dragon|Gnarl]] reminiscing on the sinister exploits of the [[Villain Protagonist]], and discovering that the Overlord's mistress is bearing the Overlord's child. "Evil always finds a way..."

** Possibly justified because {{spoiler|she's [[Our Dragons Are Different|a dragon]], and considering they live for thousands of years, gestation period could be really long.}}

*** The problem with that argument though {{spoiler|is that there is at least one other dragon that we know for sure had a child, and she definitely wasn't pregnant for over twenty years.}}

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