History Main / DeliverUsFromEvil

* Played with, but ultimately averted in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4975814/1/My-Wish-Order-Brother this]] {{Manga/Naruto}} fanfic with [[spoiler: Sakura's]] mother. Yes, she settled down and found a fake-husband so she could raise her daughter safely in peace. Yes, she wants [[spoiler: Sakura]] [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids to be a good little girl who grows up healthy and happy.]] That doesn't mean she can't [[MadDoctor continue performing inhumane experiments]] [[PsychoForHire through alliances with several co-conspirators]] or [[HarmlessLadyDisguise use her disguise as a helpless and loving mother]] to [[ManipulativeBastard subtly influence village politics]] without anyone suspecting her. MamaBear she may be, the kid is ''not'' a MoralityPet.

* Played with, but ultimately averted in [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4975814/1/My-Wish-Order-Brother this]] Anime/Naruto fanfic with [[spoiler: Sakura's mother]]. Yes, she settled down and found a fake-husband so she could raise her daughter well. Yes, she wants [[spoiler: Sakura]] [[EvilParentsWantGoodKids to be a good little girl who grows up healthy and happy.]] That doesn't mean she can't [[MadDoctor continue performing inhumane experiments]] [[PsychoForHire through alliances with several co-conspirators]] or [[HarmlessLadyDisguise use her disguise as a helpless and loving mother]] to [[ManipulativeBastard subtly influence village politics]] without anyone suspecting her. MamaBear she may be, the kid is ''not'' a MoralityPet.

* Analinde in ''Series/Grimm'' may be in this class, although she didn't give up the baby, but rather it was taken from her. She did show some signs of becoming if not good, then less evil, up to that point.

* Averted in ''BloodPlus''. While she takes time away from plotting to contemplate her unborn, yet already beloved children, Diva's idea of good motherhood is trying to wipe out most humans so that her daughters grow up as part of the dominant species on the planet. Considering [[RapeAsDrama how she went about conceiving them]] in the first place, however, this is really no surprise.

* In the movie ''Rosemary's Baby'' [[spoiler: almost the opposite of this happens at the end when Rosemary decides to stay and raise her baby, the anti-christ, with the Satanists. It's not clear whether she will become evil or not though.]]

* [[spoiler: Mrs. Coulter]] from The ''HisDarkMaterials'' trilogy of books becomes a much more sympathetic character once it is revealed that she is a mother and does care about her child, although she doesn't switch sides until the very end.

* Darla from ''Series/{{Angel}}''. By all means, the fact that her unborn child had a soul meant that technically, so did she for the duration of the pregnancy -- but she became a lot nobler than she was for most of the time she possessed a soul of her ''own''. Well apart from craving specifically ''innocent'' blood, but that stage passed. Creepiest example of WackyCravings ever?
** When she realizes that once the baby is born (if it's born at all, vampires anatomy not begin designed for labor) she'll no longer be able to ''love'' it without a soul and may even try to kill it, [[spoiler: she makes Angel promise to tell their son how much she loved him and then stakes herself, turning to dust and leaving behind only her (living) son]]. [[RedemptionInTheRain Did we mention it's pouring rain?]]

* Kitiara from ''{{Dragonlance}}'' got impregnated by Sturm Brightblade (though to be fair, she seduced him out of anger against her on-again, off-again lover of Tanis Half-Elven) and almost kept the baby. Almost. But she gave her child to a dark knight whom raised him as her own and went right back to her rise to becoming a Dragon Highlord as soon as she could get rid of the kid, though it ''did'' seem as if Kit ''almost'' had regrets over her decision. Almost.

All of a sudden, she just can't [[HeelFaceTurn seek redemption]] quickly enough. Sure, she's killed and looted for years without a shred of pity for her victims -- but now she's going to be a mommy, and she just can't stand the idea of her baby thinking ill of her. Or the coming baby forces her to look back on all she's done and realize that she does not want this for her child, and does not want him or her to become like her.

Not to be confused with the novel by David Baldacci or the 2006 AcademyAward-nominated documentary feature by Amy J. Berg.

** In the first movie, Vernita Green was an example that turned into a HeelFaceDoorSlam. She ''tried'' to go straight for the sake of her husband and newborn daughter, but the Bride didn't care. She ''did'' offer Vernita a chance to fight on her own terms, in a way she might have had an advantage, but at the last minute, Vernita reneged on this bargain, trying to shoot her enemy with a gun concealed in a cereal box. Fortunately, the Bride was fast enough the throw her knife and kill her before she could use it.

* Lampshaded in ''The Seed of Chucky'' wherein Tiffany, upon realizing that she has a child, is determined to give up killing in true twelve-step fashion, even to the point of leaving her hardened killer-doll boyfriend. [[spoiler: This does not actually prevent her from killing, even after using Voodoo to first impregnate and then take over actress JenniferTilly's body, but those murders are "just a little slip".]]

This does not generally happen to male villains. If they have children, they are more likely to want them to [[OverlordJr grow up to follow in their evil footsteps]].

* A partial example in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'': Demona doesn't exactly turn good when she finds out she has a living daughter, but it does seem that Angela is the one thing in the world she cares more about than her revenge on her enemies.
** Also in ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', David and Fox Xanathos turn from [[AntiVillain sympathetic bad guys]] to [[AntiHero something resembling good guys]] after their son is born.
** One of the best Face turns in animation. David Xanatos almost loses his newborn son the day he was born; [[PhysicalGod Oberon of Faerie]] wants to take him. Though he puts up a ferocious fight to protect him, it rapidly becomes clear that for the first time in his life, David Xanatos is absolutely, completely overmatched. Even with the assistance of his usually hostile (for good reason) father-in-law and the Gargoyles and his own father, plus Puck of Faerie and all his own technological resources, Oberon is just too powerful to defy successfully. In the end it's a [[MamaBear stroke of]] wild luck that saves them, and that was the night that David Xanatos ''grew up''. At the end of the episode, his characteristic adolescent smirk is gone.

*** Except that he might not have become the mutant-hating monster he is if his mother hadn't abandoned him, leaving him to be raised by his father, ''Sabertooth.''
*** Sabretooth didn't even know he had a son; Mystique gave Graydon up for adoption

* The Bride from ''KillBill'' not only made a 180 the moment she discovered she was pregnant, but [[spoiler: the woman trying to kill her suddenly agreed to spare her life. Though the fact that the Bride promised to abandon her mission probably helped.]]

* In the ''Webcomic/{{Jack}}'', it's outright stated that if Fnar's mother hadn't been killed while she was pregnant with him, she would probably have redeemed herself.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Batgirl| 2000}}'', Sandra Wu-San's handover of her child (eventually Batgirl III) to David Cain (complete with the execution of the midwife) is Lady Shiva's official StartOfDarkness.

* In ''TimeTrax'', Darien's mother -- a petty criminal at the time -- did not think she was fit to raise him and gave him up for adoption. When she turns up in the show, SELMA tells her that being responsible for a child might have helped her ''become'' fit.

* This is a possibility for Comicbook/{{Catwoman}}, who had her kid and tried raising it, but gave it up because she wanted to give her a normal life. She also seems to have turned her back on being part of the {{Batman}} Family.

* Morgause in the novel ''The Wicked Day'' averts this HARD. She never thought of Mordred, or any of her other sons, as anything more than little tools with which to further her evilness.

* The {{manga}} ''{{Parasyte}}'' also plays with this trope: Reiko Tamura ("Tamara Rockford" in the original Mixx adaptation) was a Parasyte who became pregnant; initially, she only plans to bear the (completely human) child out of dispassionate scientific curiosity, and is completely willing to kill it when the time comes. However, by the time the child is born, she's far enough into AntiVillain territory that, when she's finally killed, she goes out of her way to protect the child.
** This later happens to nearly all of the Parasytes, too -- they become so humanized they forget they're flesh-eating aliens, in a metaphor for cultural assimilation.