History Main / BabyFactory

* This is the big twist revealed at the end of [[spoiler: ''{{Literature/Borrasca}}''. As a result of iron ore leaking out into the town of Drisking's water table after they were blown up, most of the people are infertile. As a result, the people running the baby farm, called Borrasca, came up with the solution to kidnap fertile women and girls to impregnate and then sell the babies to the infertile townspeople so they could raise families again. This is the town of Drisking's [[TownWithADarkSecret dark secret]] that has been going on for decades by the time the story begins, and when the women become too sick or old to bear healthy children, they are put through an ore refinery (called the Shiny Gentleman) in order to dispose of them]].

* Yuki-onna in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' have a ''very'' limited window to get married and have children before they become infertile, and their race is close to dying out. This is PlayedForDrama with the yuki-onna Mizore, who is stuck between an ArrangedMarriage to one of the series' villains and unrequited love with the protagonist.

* ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost'': Dr. Sarah Kinney is forced to become one by Zander Rice when she disobeys her superiors' orders by attempting to create a female clone of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}. When she successfully creates the female embryo, Rice forces ''her'' to act as the surrogate. Nine months later, Comicbook/{{X 23}} is born.

* A '''very''' distressing example occurs in ''Series/StargateSG1''. SG-1 finds a planet where the people have developed a virtual panacea which keeps them in perfect health. They later find out that the drug is basically "ground up Goa'uld", as Jack puts it, harvested by enforced breeding of a captive Goa'uld queen. Things get even worse when they find out that the queen in question is Egeria, the mother of the Tok'ra, and pretty much the [[HeelFaceTurn only good Goa'uld queen ever]]--and so (thanks to Goa'uld GeneticMemory) the "Goa'uld" they're grinding up are actually ''Tok'ra''. (The people doing this don't know that--they actually are only scarcely aware of the Goa'uld species generally and had never even heard of the Tok'ra before SG-1 showed up. Still, the Tok'ra are understandably incensed at this abuse, even if it was unwitting, of their mother and lost siblings--and [[spoiler:since the process ends up killing Egeria, mournful that they are now officially a DyingRace with little to no hope of restoring their numbers, ever]].)

* A '''very''' distressing example occurs in ''Series/StargateSG1''. SG-1 finds a planet where the people have developed a virtual panacea which keeps them in perfect health. They later find out that the drug is basically "ground up Goa'uld", as Jack puts it, harvested by enforced breeding of a captive Goa'uld queen. Things get even worse when they find out that the queen in question is Egeria, the mother of the Tok'ra, and pretty much the [[HeelFaceTurn only good Goa'uld queen ever]]--and so (thanks to Goa'uld GeneticMemory) the "Goa'uld" they're grinding up are actually ''Tok'ra''. (The Tok'ra are understandably incensed at this abuse of their lost siblings--and [[spoiler:since the process ends up killing Egeria, mournful that they are now officially a DyingRace with little to no hope of restoring their numbers, ever]].)

* A '''very''' distressing example occurs in ''Series/StargateSG1''. SG-1 finds a planet where the people have developed a virtual panacea which keeps them in perfect health. They later find out that the drug is basically "ground up Goa'uld", as Jack puts it, harvested by enforced breeding of a captive Goa'uld queen. Things get even worse when they find out that the queen in question is Egeria, the mother of the Tok'ra, and pretty much the [[HeelFaceTurn only good Goa'uld queen ever]].

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* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Played with. In order to increase the number of children with the Bloodline trait, and increase the number of mutants in their families overall, the Bloodline set up a PeopleFarm project aboard the airship ''Jules Verne''... but instead of kidnapping women for the breeding program, they hire Exemplar women between the ages of 18 and 25 as surrogate mothers, paying them well and covering all of their medical expenses (there is even talk of offering college scholarships), and they only stay at the facility until their child is born (they only contract to have a single child). The children are then fostered to Bloodline members and given the best treatment and education available. While the protagonists still find the idea repulsive (understandably so, especially given [[StalkerWithATestTube how Envy first found out about the place]]), the women they talk to insist it was a good deal for them, as they were generally in desperate financial straits before the offer came along, the facilities at the Baby Farm are lavish, and the pay is excellent.
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* Brood Mothers from ''Franchise/DragonAge'' are this plus a MookMaker boss. Their creation is a pretty big example of BodyHorror: female captives of [[TheUsualAdversaries darkspawn]] are usually made into broodmothers. They contract the [[TheCorruption taint]] by being force-fed darkspawn tissue until they both mutate and develop cannibalistic urges, bloating significantly as they devour massive amounts of flesh, even from their own kin. The race of the broodmother is how the type of darkspawn she will give birth to is determined, but each one is capable of spawning thousands, at twenty or so per breeding.

--> '''Pema:''' All I want is one child like me, a nice normal nonbender who won't blow air in my face every five minutes.

* The controversial 1958 sci-fi story ''The Queen Bee'' by Creator/RandallGarrett. A spaceship crashlands on a planet and the women are told they are legally required to help populate it. When one women objects she's beaten into compliance, so another woman murders the remaining women to make herself too valuable to mistreat. Her punishment is a {{lobotomy}} so she'll still be available as breeding stock.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. Captain Janeway relates how, when she was an ensign, their rocketship was struck by a meteorite, killing everyone in the male berthing compartment. The surviving officers then decided to set down on a planet for repairs, but when they decided to make this an EnforcedTrope the women mutinied, using the legal justification that their officers [[SpaceMadness had gone insane]].

[[caption-width-right:190:It turns out [[TomatoInTheMirror we]] are the Von Neumann machines.]]

* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Doctor Pulaski ends up telling two [[LostColony colonies]] (one consisting of traditional Irishmen, and the other of slowly degenerating {{clone|Degeneration}}s) that they must engage in widescale polygyny and polyandry in order to gain an appropriate amount of genetic diversity. One Irishwoman expresses disdain that they apparently have to modify the entire way their culture examines the family for the sake of some oddly defined scientific reasons, but ends up agreeing to go along with it. The illogic of the trope being applied in this situation was deconstructed in a ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' novella that essentially spends the entire story asking "What were the ''Enterprise'' crew ''thinking''?" The in-show explanation is that neither colony has enough genetic diversity on its own to survive, though there's no reason they couldn't just open immigration from the Federation.
* ''Series/{{Sliders}}'':
** One world they encounter has recently suffered a massive decrease in the number of available fertile males- the male Sliders are promptly rounded up and sent to a breeding camp once they're discovered. Arturo points out that he could easily solve their problem by introducing artificial insemination (this world never developed it), but no one cares to listen to what a man has to say, only how many women he can impregnate per day. In addition, they also engage in some eugenics by limiting eligible women to young beautiful ones.
** The Kromaggs have to engage in this trope because their females, due to [[DepopulationBomb a biological attack by humans]], can't effectively propagate the race. Main character Wade ends up as one, and that's the last we hear of her until season five, where we find she and other humans are being used to power new sliding technology.
* ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' depicts the [=InVitros=] being born, fully grown, from one of these. Minor subversion, in that they are from *literal* factories, and no pregnancy is involved.

* A '''very''' distressing example occurs in ''Series/StargateSG1''. SG-1 finds a planet where the people have developed a virtual panacea which keeps them in perfect health. They later find out that the drug is basically "ground up Goa'uld", as Jack puts it, harvested by enforced breeding of a captive Goa'uld queen. Things get even worse when they find out that the queen in question is Egeria, the mother of the Tok'ra, and pretty much the [[HeelFaceTurn only good Goa'uld queen ever]].

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'':
** The female president of the colonies somewhat sensibly point out at one point that in order for humankind to survive in the long term following the destruction of the home worlds, its people have to start "making babies." Eventually, she reluctantly issues an executive order banning abortions (and establishing adoption procedures).
** The Cylons on Caprica try to establish an incredibly creepy version of this en masse, to create hybrid offspring (since one of their God's commandments is to "be fruitful" and they can't reproduce with each other). [[spoiler:It doesn't work, because it turns out Cylon biological reproduction (with humans or each other) requires the parents to actually love each other.]]
* In ''Series/{{Underground}}'', we get several mentions of breeding farms where slave women are forced to produce a future generation of slaves, having up to a dozen children that are sold off immediately after birth. Henry came from one of these farms.

* ''Series/BigLove'': Second and third wives Nicki and Margene fear that they're this in regards to first wife Barb, given that Barb can't have any more children.
* ''Series/TheHandmaidsTale'': This is the purpose of the Handmaids.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Ramsay Bolton's [[ClingyJealousGirl clingy, jealous mistress]] catches [[spoiler: Sansa]] trying to escape and implies that he will dismember her to the point of leaving her an immobile quadriplegic who can't escape again, but fulfill the only reasons Ramsay keeps her around: to birth legitimate children, and pacify the North by technically remaining married to House [[spoiler: Stark]]. Did we mention [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Ramsay might actually do that]]?
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In ''[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S11E03TheTimeTravelers The Time Travelers]]'', Reena is going to colonize a new planet, and says she's looking forward to the "minor population explosion" that's sure to happen once they arrive. Tom Servo quips that she'll be "Perpetually breeding like a termite queen..."
* ''[[Series/{{Survivors}} Survivors (1975)]]''. In "Corn Dolly", Charles believes that the British Isles' post-plague population, which he estimates at approximately 10,000, is so small that they may all die out within two or three generations. To prevent this from happening, he impregnates four of the women in his community, Lorraine, Isla, Tessa and Florence, and wants to do the same to Abby. Abby, Jenny and Greg are appalled and decide to leave and never come back. Charles tries to convince Jenny to remain and have a baby with Greg or any other man. He is desperate as Tessa and Florence both died from eating diseased fish and he is not certain whether Lorraine and Isla's pregnancies will be viable but his pleas fall on deaf ears. Later, when Charles was brought back as a main character, he seemed to have dropped this plan and instead was concentrating on rebuilding society and uniting the surviving people.
* A temporary one is clandestinely made in ''Series/Kingdom2019'', the Queen is faking a pregnancy and needs a royal heir to cement her position over the Crown Prince. She has a scheme where soon-to-be mothers who are down on their luck are taken in by a "wealthy patron" and housed and fed, to the delight of these expecting women. Should at least one son be born, he will be taken and passed off as the legitimate son of the now-zombified King.

* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'' the Nazis have a secret breeding program, with a lot of pure Aryan women involved, on Mercury.
* A particularly ghastly variant crops up in ''[[TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade House of Tremere]]'': it so happens that Clan Tremere preferred a highly ''organic'' means of creating [[OurGargoylesRock gargoyles]], namely by engineering Alvusia, a twenty-foot-tall gargoyle broodmare, and keeping her locked in the cellars. For good measure, her creators also sliced her limbs off and pulled her teeth in order to stop her from resisting the impregnation process -- [[BodyHorror which involves having her stomach repeatedly sliced upon, stuffed with embryonic gargoyle, and sewn up again]]. Needless to say, [[TheWoobie Alvusia is in constant agony, and spends most of her time screaming]]. In a final insult, the gargoyles born to her are trained to revere the scientists in charge of the process as their parents and gods -- leaving Alvusia regarded as little more than a convenient source of brothers and sisters ''by her own children.''

* In ''Super VideoGame/MondayNightCombat,'' one of the announcers can sometimes bring up the "Dame Of The Game" prize: One "lucky" female audience member is selected at random, given a bouquet of flowers, and then shipped off to an off world colony to help with re-population.

* [[TheHorde Caesar's Legion]] in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' believes that the only worth women have is to create more Legionaries. However, in Caesar's case, this is less sexism and more simply raw pragmatism in how he feels women are more useful as breeding chambers rather than fighters. Note that he sees men as only useful as slave soldiers. ''Everyone'' is a slave under Caesar.
* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', the Krogan can reproduce thousands of children very quickly. While among galactic society, they are the [[ProudWarriorRace biggest, toughest and most aggressive species there is]], on their homeworld [[DeathWorld Tuchanka]], they were basically the equivalent of rabbits. It becomes a plot point in the entire series regarding the [[SterilityPlague genophage]]. Once taken out of the hostile environment of Tuchanka and colonizing garden worlds, the birth rate went out of control and they started aggressively colonizing other species' worlds, kicking off the Krogan rebellions. The genophage was deployed to put an end to it. If Shepard cures the Krogan of it, Wrex boasts he'd be surprised how fast the females can churn them out. If Eve is alive, she'll tartly correct Wrex and let Shepard know that the galaxy doesn't have to worry about another Krogan rebellion.
** Referenced in ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''; an asari (a species that can mate with any species to produce children,) is considering whether or not to marry a krogan (who have been hit with said genophage that makes most of them incapable of having children with their own species,) and wonders if her boyfriend sees her as a "baby-making machine", since he seemed briefly surprised when she told him that any children they had would be asari rather than krogan, though he quickly assured her he'd love them anyway. You have the choice to advise her whether or not to trust that he loves her as a person or to break up with him because she doesn't trust him. If you advise her to marry him then ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' reveals that [[spoiler: he did very much love her for who she was, and she was pregnant with his child at the time of his horrible death]].

* Light-heartedly referenced in ''[[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Half-Life 2 Episode One]]'' when Alyx suddenly realizes that Dr. Kleiner, during one of his propaganda broadcasts, is encouraging people to "get busy" in order to repopulate.
* This is the implication of the evidence found on Half-Ogre Island in ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'', which shows that the half-ogres are the result of monstrous breeding camps between Half Ogres and females of other species, mostly humans and elves, which always resulted in death for the female. There were also experiments between female ogres and male humans which for obvious reasons did not lead to death, but these rarely yielded any offspring. Regardless, [[ItWasHereISwear the evidence mysteriously disappears later on]]. The operation was supposedly created by a conspiracy of gnomes who uses it to breed Half Ogre bodyguards for their criminal operations.
* Actually {{subverted|Trope}} in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings II''. While nearly every combination of ethnicity, religion, and government type in the game is patriarchal, it's possible for a character's wife to be more than just a way to produce heirs. They can be appointed to a number of court positions, particularly the role of spymaster, and female rulers can and do happen (though they're [[GameFavoredGender mechanically disadvantaged]]). With the ''Holy Fury'' DLC, the trope can even be {{inverted|Trope}} - any Pagan faith that takes the Enatic Clans doctrine can only have female-only or female-preference succession (neither of which are normally available), blocks granting titles to men who aren't already landed vassals, bars men from the council and minor titles, including military commandership, allows women to take men as consorts, whether they want it or not, and flips the gender of all the summon courtier decisions. The end result of this is that ''men'' no longer have any significant function in society, or at least noble society, beyond their role in providing genetic material to enable reproduction, and as a secondary advisory role to their wife.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', [[spoiler: this is Dumuzid's motivation. He wants men who will continue to populate the planet, and so he decides to do this by using a succubus to weed out men who reach a certain age without getting married and making babies]].
* In ''VideoGame/LastDream'', a plaque on the wall of Pandora Castle elevates "mothers of five or more males" to a higher status than common soldiers.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' it is mentioned that some noble families, as well as some commoners, only seek out women who have a crest for the possibility that they will pass on their crest to their children. [[spoiler:The third wave DLC reveals that this would have been Mercedes’ fate. When she and her mother fled the Bartels family, her half brother Emile stayed behind in the hopes that her step father wouldn’t seek her and her mother out. When he found out that Mercedes and her mother were living in a church, and the her mother was past the age to bear children, he intended to marry Mercedes to produce more crest babies. This caused Emile to snap, and he wiped out the entire Bartels family, leading to the creation of his [[SuperPoweredEvilSide split personality]], the [[TheDreaded Death Knight]].]]

* The world of ''Manga/{{Gangsta}}'' had a wee problem with many [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman Twilight]] women being subjected to rampant sexual abuse -- for both the reasons that people are just plain terrible and to create more Twilights, kids who would inherent the condition from their mothers and thus [[SuperHumanTrafficking feed the Twilight slave system further]]. So... actually, [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters both reasons are because people are just plain terrible]].

* Yuki-onna in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' have a ''very'' limited window to get married and have children before they become infertile, and their race is close to dying out. This is PlayedForDrama with the yuki-onna Mizore, who is stuck between an ArrangedMarriage to one of the series' villains and unrequited love with the protagonist.

* ''ComicBook/{{Elephantmen}}'' were made by Mappo's genetic engineering, and grown from embryos using local African women as surrogates. The mothers were kept under anesthetic and fed with [=IV=]s for the whole pregnancy and gave birth by c-section. More accurately had the newborn extracted from what was left of their bodies, as bearing an elephantman to term is 100% fatal. It's not discussed why some other species of mammal wasn't used, other than "Mappo is a monster".
* [[Comicbook/InnocenceLost Dr. Sarah Kinney]] is forced to become one by Zander Rice when she disobeys her superiors' orders by attempting to create a female clone of Franchise/{{Wolverine}}. When she successfully creates the female embryo, Rice forces ''her'' to act as the surrogate. Nine months later, Comicbook/{{X 23}} is born.

* Due to the presence of bloodlines in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', characters subject to the RonTheDeathEater trope in ''Naruto'' fanfictions are generally shown to be so evil [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil they're not above]] turning women (and more rarely, males), into baby factories if said women happened to have a bloodline. For example, this is a major plot point in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8898479/1/Uchiha-Heiress-Remix Uchiha Heiress Remix,]]'' as the main character, Satsuki Uchiha, is masquerading as a male in order to avoid such a fate.

* In ''Fanfic/WishCarefully'', the Dark Purebloods are desperate to get some fresh new blood into their limited gene pool, which is leading to rampant inbreeding that is causing more [[MuggleBornOfMages squibs]] to be born, so they resort to kidnapping several young witches from poor backwater areas across the globe to serve as {{Breeding Slave}}s.

* ''Film/ShootEmUp''. The reason the bad guys are trying to kill the BadassAndBaby. [[spoiler:Several women are impregnated with the semen of a senator who needs a bone marrow transplant. The villains try to kill the senator by killing the mothers; one runs into the protagonist just before she's killed (just after she gives birth).]]
* The MacGuffin of ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'' are the Five Wives, the harem of Immortan Joe that he was using to breed male children who aren't damaged by radiation. If they fail to produce a healthy baby boy after three tries, he casts them out.

* Kzinti females in ''Literature/KnownSpace'' are non-sentient versions of this trope, due to genetic engineering. [[spoiler: except when they are sentient, due to a long running conspiracy of sentient females]]

* On ''Literature/{{Gor}}'' the Priest Kings are - unknown to human Goreans - an insectoid species with a queen in the insect sense; she's revered but doesn't have any actual power. The power of the high council is invested in the First Five Born (of which by the time we meet them there are only two left). The Mother dies in the third book, and the plot of the fourth book concerns recovery of the last female egg, so as to restart the sequence (they already have a male).
* In ''Literature/{{Hexwood}}'' by Creator/DianaWynneJones, the corrupt and oppressive intergalactic government enforces its will by means of psychic assassins called Servants. They get more Servants by picking women with strong psychic abilities to breed to the current Servant and giving them drugs so that they have as many babies as possible (the women, naturally, get no choice in this matter). The children are taken away as soon as they're born, and... well, no one knows what happens to the mother after that.

* In ''Literature/TheGiver'', certain girls are selected at the age of twelve to begin training as Birthmothers, producing offspring for the Community that are immediately taken away. Once they meet their quota, Birthmothers spend the rest of their lives as factory labourers. The system is elaborated on in ''Literature/{{Son}}'', and it is as sterile and creepy as one would expect -- the women are even referred to as "Vessels" and their children as "Products," and they give birth blindfolded as not to get attached to their offspring.
* In Creator/SergeyLukyanenko's ''Literature/{{Spectrum}}'', a race of LizardFolk often travel with four-legged pets. It turns out these are their females who have lost their sentience as a result of a radical evolutionary change caused by an ancient cataclysm.
* ''Literature/{{Lensman}}'' contains a gender-reversed example: The males of Lyrane II are non-sentient and about four feet tall.
* How Werewolves view women in the ''Literature/WomenOfTheOtherworld'' series, as a result of GenderEqualsBreed.
* In ''Literature/WorldWarZ'', the Holy Russian Empire ends up resorting to these after the war ends, since there are so few young, fertile people left. The Russian woman the author interviews is currently pregnant with her ''eighth'' child; all her previous children are by different fathers, and they're taken away from her almost at once, presumably so she can get pregnant again as quickly as possible.

* ''Flash for Freedom!'' {{Literature/Flashman}} and the other crewmen on the slave ship are encouraged to sleep with as many female slaves as possible, as women pregnant with lighter skinned babies can be sold at a higher price. Oddly enough, given his usual lechery, Flashman isn't particularly keen on the idea, and takes a single slave as his concubine instead.
* ''[[http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_08_12/ Fade to White,]]'' an AlternateHistory short story by Creator/CatherynneMValente is set in a post-WorldWarIII United States where men and women are tested for intelligence, 'loyalty' and most important: fertility. Women who score highly get to raise their children in the more modern houses with the improved radiation-proofing. Men who score high become a Husband, serving as fathers to several families on a rotating basis. Society deliberately maintains the fiction that it's carrying on the [[TheFifties values of pre-war era]], giving the Husbands phony jobs and each family pretending the others don't exist. Less fertile men (or those who are black or asian) get either shipped out to the front line or take jobs where they must take regular hormone suppressants (so women will be encouraged to only have sex with the fertile Husbands).
* In ''Literature/{{Bumped}}'', teenage girls are heavily encouraged to be surrogate mothers for older couples after a SterilityPlague makes everyone over the age of 18 sterile.

* In one of the ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' books, there was a character who, having married a woman he despised for political gain, proceeded to impregnate her in the hope (eventually realized) that she would [[DeathByChildbirth die in childbirth.]]
** Queen dragons were treated as a non-human example during the Long Interval, as the dragons' numbers had declined to a point where there was only ''one'' breeding queen per generation, upon whom the perpetuation of the species depended. Queens weren't allowed to fly except to mate, and the notion of them flying against Thread was inconceivable.
* Literature/TheSagaOfSevenSuns has secret genetic and breeding experiments being performed for the purpose of [[spoiler:producing someone who could communicate with the hydrogues]]. An unusual example in that both genders are treated equally badly.
* This is Isabel's role at court in ''Literature/KingdomOfLittleWounds''. Notably right after her oldest daughter dies, the king comes to her bed to create another child as though Sophia were just a part to replace and Isabel a mechanism to make that replacement.

* In ''Literature/{{Dragonvarld}}'', members of the Sisterhood are typically [[VowOfCelibacy supposed to be virgins]] (well, at least with regard to ''men''), but that would lead to eventual extinction, so a group of them are designated as breeders. The process is controlled, and they do not have lasting contact with the fathers or with their specific offspring. Also, the first book has one of the main characters be subject to two different plans to produce a son with her who'll inherit her magic; neither party obtains her free consent, and she dies in childbirth.
* In the ''Literature/ErebusSequence'', this is the answer to the question of where the Orfani come from. The ''sanatorio'', supposedly an asylum for the mentally ill, is actually a place where the king breeds mutants with kidnapped women.
* In Philippa Ballantine's ''Literature/BooksOfTheOrder'' trilogy, the protagonists encounter a cave where female members of the eponymous Order are chained to walls and raped by demon males, to breed hybrids. [[spoiler:The main protagonist, to her horror, finds out that [[ChildByRape she is one such hybrid]], and her mother managed to get her out of the "factory", but couldn't escape herself.]]
* In ''Literature/BeyondTheImpossible'', Demeter sets up “breeding camps” on planet Myridia to supply her army with new soldiers. Healthy women are chained and give birth in captivity, while sick or sterile are killed.
* Somewhat inverted in the case of ''Literature/SevenEves'' -- eight women are all that remain of the human race, seven of whom are still capable of childbearing, and, with the help of a genetic engineer, they voluntarily become "baby factories" in order to birth seven new races of humans.
* In ''Literature/CaptainFrenchOrTheQuestForParadise'', a strange consequence of PopulationControl on many developed worlds (plus everyone being TheAgeless) is the appearance of a type of women the titular protagonist calls "frantic mothers". These women have their maternal instinct dialed UpToEleven, and they believe themselves to be wholly this trope. They are frequently the ones lobbying the governments to build colony ships and settle faraway planets. Eventually, governments give in and finance the costly undertaking, just to be rid of women like that. Many space traders (usually males) may also agree to transport groups of "frantic mothers" to young colonies, and the women are more than willing to pay for passage with sex, although they get testy if the space trader in question is sterile (perfectly reversible in this setting), ignoring the explanations of the problems of having a child in low gravity. While French dislikes such women, he does agree that they are a good reason why humanity has settled thousands of planets.
* Gender Inverted in Fyodor Berezin's ''Ash'', where the protagonist crash-lands on a thoroughly-nuked human colony world and discovered that an underground city still endures despite continued bombardment. The colonists, damaged by radiation and interbreeding, put him in a cell and proceed to pump him for sperm, but in a pragmatic, methodical way. They bring in a woman and have her strip and dance in front of him, but the guards won't actually let him touch her. Instead, he's then cattle-prodded to force ejaculation, and the sperm is then used to impregnate their women. Eventually, the leader of the city asks if the protagonist wants to actually have sex for variety's sake.
* ''Literature/TheNightOfTheTriffids'' is set after a catastrophe that crashed human civilization and reduced humanity to small isolated settlements that are each, as far as they know, the only one left, so that they each face the question of how to repopulate the planet. The protagonist's settlement avoided this trope, settling on a polyamorous model that guarantees self-determination for the women, but later in the novel he encounters another settlement that plays the trope straight.
* The controversial 1958 sci-fi story ''The Queen Bee'' by Creator/RandallGarrett. A spaceship crashlands on a planet and the women are told they are legally required to help populate it. When one women objects she's beaten into compliance, so another woman murders the remaining women to make herself too valuable to mistreat. Her punishment is a {{lobotomy}} so she'll still be available as breeding stock.
* Parodied in the 1960 short story ''Eve Times Four'' by Creator/PoulAnderson (possibly written as a TakeThat to ''Queen Bee'') when an officer on a spaceship 'accidentally' maroons himself on a planet with several attractive women (though one is [[AbhorrentAdmirer somewhat older than he expected]]) and tries to invoke this trope. They eventually figure out what he's up to, fix the LifePod's engine and take off without him.

** Creator/ChrisClaremont explicitly called out the company’s editors for their handling of the whole affair, both in having [[https://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/779496.html#cutid1 Carol herself call it out]] in ''Avengers Annual #10'' and in ''The X-Men Companion II''. This issue effectively killed Marcus' character as the company hurried to distance themselves from the nonsensical storyline.
-->'''Claremont''': Now, if that had been the point David [Michelinie] was trying to make, that these other Avengers are [[SuperDickery callous boors]], okay then, I may disagree with the point, but if he followed through on it, it would have made sense. But it seemed to me, looking at the story, looking at the following story, that he was going for: “This is how you respond to a pregnancy.”

* In one episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Doctor Pulaski ends up telling two [[LostColony colonies]] (one consisting of traditional Irishmen, and the other of slowly degenerating {{clone|Degeneration}}s) that they must engage in widescale polygyny and polyandry in order to gain an appropriate amount of genetic diversity. One Irishwoman expresses disdain that they apparently have to modify the entire way their culture examines the family for the sake of some oddly defined scientific reasons, but ends up agreeing to go along with it.
** The illogic of the trope being applied in this situation was deconstructed in a ''Literature/StarfleetCorpsOfEngineers'' novella that essentially spends the entire story asking "What were the ''Enterprise'' crew ''thinking''?"
*** The in-show explanation is that neither colony has enough genetic diversity on its own to survive, though there's no reason they couldn't just open immigration from the Federation.

* An episode of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' shows that the Taelons were using the cover of an infertility clinic to implant human females with fetuses that had neural implants.
** Another episode shows the [[LivingShip living]] Taleon motherhsip was growing Taelon embryos.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' has the female president of the colonies somewhat sensibly point out at one point that in order for humankind to survive in the long term following the destruction of the home worlds, its people have to start "making babies." Eventually, she reluctantly issues an executive order banning abortions (and establishing adoption procedures).
** The Cylons on Caprica try to establish an incredibly creepy version of this en masse, to create hybrid offspring (since one of their God's commandments is to "be fruitful" and they can't reproduce with each other). [[spoiler:It doesn't work, because it turns out Cylon biological reproduction (with humans or each other) requires the parents to actually love each other]].

** [[Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher Bill Maher]] has likewise attacked the celebration of a woman producing 8 or 9 babies, pointing out that "we're not repopulating after the Flood", so maybe it's time to stop celebrating this sort of thing.

* In ''Franchise/MassEffect'', the Krogan can reproduce thousands of children very quickly. While among galactic society, they are the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy biggest, toughest and most aggressive species there is]], on their homeworld [[DeathWorld Tuchanka]], they were basically the equivalent of rabbits. It becomes a plot point in the entire series regarding the [[SterilityPlague genophage]]. Once taken out of the hostile environment of Tuchanka and colonizing garden worlds, the birth rate went out of control and they started aggressively colonizing other species' worlds, kicking off the Krogan rebellions. The genophage was deployed to put an end to it. If Shepard cures the Krogan of it, Wrex boasts he'd be surprised how fast the females can churn them out. If Eve is alive, she'll tartly correct Wrex and let Shepard know that the galaxy doesn't have to worry about another Krogan rebellion.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': before [[spoiler: Harmonic Convergence, which brings with it a host of new airbenders,]], Tenzin seems to see his wife Pema as this. While he loves and respects her, he thinks it is his responsibility to bring back the Air Nation as the last airbender in the world. So, he has lots of children with Pema, who as an air acolyte is someone he's confident that will be able to give birth to airbenders. She even laments on this at one point.
--> [[Pema:]] All I want is one child like me, a nice normal nonbender who won't blow air in my face every five minutes.

* An episode of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' indicates that the Taelons, who were unable to reproduce themseleves, were using human clones and the cover of an infertility clinic to make [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]]. It also stated that Sandoval was also tinkering with the results as well.

* Due to the presence of bloodlines in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', characters subject to the RonTheDeathEater trope in ''Naruto'' fanfictions are generally shown to be so evil [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil they're not above]] turning women (and more rarely, males), into baby factories if said women happened to have a bloodline. For example, this is a major plot point in ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/8898479/1/Uchiha-Heiress-Remix Uchiha Heiress Remix]]'', as the main character, Satsuki Uchiha, is masquerading as a male in order to avoid such a fate.

* An episode of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'' indicates that the Taelons were using human clones and the cover of an infertility clinic to make [[HalfHumanHybrid Half-Human Hybrids]]. It also stated that Sandoval was also tinkering with the results as well.

* ''LightNovel/CrestOfTheStars'': This forms a central conflict on the prison world of Lobnas II. When the planet is conquered, the prisoners have their sentences annulled (since they were not sentenced under Abh law). The male prisoners have a dream of starting their own nation on the planet, and wish to keep the female prisoners on the planet by force if necessary, since if there are no women to birth children, the planet's future is doomed from the start. The female prisoners, many of them victims of sexual abuse, obviously want absolutely no part in this and want off the planet ''now''.

* Parodied in the 1960 short story ''Eve Times Four'' by Creator/PoulAnderson (possibly written as a TakeThat to ''Queen Bee'') when an officer on a spaceship 'accidentally' maroons himself on a planet with several attractive women (though one is [[AbhorrantAdmirer somewhat older than he expected]]) and tries to invoke this trope. They eventually figure out what he's up to, fix the LifePod's engine and take off without him.

* Parodied in the 1960 short story ''Eve Times Four'' by Creator/PoulAnderson (possibly written as a TakeThat to ''Queen Bee'') when an officer on a spaceship 'accidentally' maroons himself on a planet with several attractive female survivors (though one is somewhat older than he expected) and tries to invoke this trope. They eventually figure out what he's up to, fix the LifePod's engine and take off without him.

* The controversial 1958 sci-fi story ''The Queen Bee'' by Creator/RandallGarrett. A spaceship crashlands on the planet and the women are told they are legally required to help populate the planet. When one women objects she's beaten into compliance, so another woman murders the remaining women to make herself too valuable to mistreat. So as punishment she's given a {{lobotomy}} so she'll still be available as breeding stock.

* The controversial 1958 sci-fi story ''The Queen Bee'' by Creator/RandallGarrett. A spaceship crashlands on the planet and the women are told they are legally required to help populate the planet. When one women objects she's beaten into compliance, so another woman murders the remaining women to make herself too valuable to mistreat. So the men then lobotomize her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': before [[spoiler: Harmonic Convergence, which brings with it a host of new airbenders,]], Tenzin seems to see his wife Pema as this. While he loves and respects her, he thinks it is his responsibility to bring back the Air Nation as the last airbender in the world. So, he has lots of children with Pema, who as an air acolyte is someone he's confident that will be able to give birth to airbenders. She even laments on this at one point.
--> [[Pema:]] All I want is one child like me, a nice normal nonbender who won't blow air in my face every five minutes.
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* While discussing the plan that [[spoiler:Eren and Zeke]] had to keep the people in the Walls safe once and for all, this subject is brought up in regard to Historia Reiss. She being the [[LastOfHerKind last of the royal family]] around, and the plan required access to the Founding Titan's powers ''and'' a royal family member, this would mean that she would have to have children as soon as possible [[spoiler:because she was going to eat Zeke, who was [[YourDaysAreNumbered approaching his 13-year limit]], then be used to keep the people of Marley away with the threat of the Rumbling for another 13 years, before her descendants would repeat the cycle]]. There was talk about trying to find a way to ''prevent'' Historia from being needed as this trope, but the eventual TimeSkip showed that it didn't work and she was currently pregnant, resigned to take on this role.