History Main / DeliverUsFromEvil

If she ''doesn't'' pull a HeelFaceTurn, but keeps the kid, she is a {{Dark|ActionGirl}} ActionMom.

* The title character in ''JenniferGovernment'' used to be a greedy corporate climber before she got pregnant with her daughter.

* [[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. In the end, it is actually because she is so wicked otherwise that she is able to perform a HeroicSacrifice for her daughter's sake (by convincing a being which can see her entire life and soul that she is far too self-interested to be willing to perform a SuicideAttack).

* In BaldursGate II, in her paired ending with the protagonist, it is stated that Viconia became a lot nicer once they had a child.

* In [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7371457/1/The-Best-Mother-s-Day-I-Ever-Had this]] ''TheSecretShow'' fanfic, Doctor Doctor, after reforming from villainy due to an unexpected pregnancy, gives birth to [[spoiler: twins]] fathered by Professor Professor.

* Averted in ''{{Nexus}}'': Ursula doesn't become a better person when she has Scarlet and Sheena, although since she had them as part of her plot to take over the galaxy, and conceived them in the first place [[spoiler:[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale by raping Horatio]]]], this is hardly surprising. Ursula does appear to develop real feelings for Horatio though, but given that these feelings lead her [[spoiler:to plot the death of his girlfriend Sundra]], it's pretty clear she's still evil.

* Inverted in the WorldOfWarcraft {{fanfic}}s ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5567638/1/The_Last_Days_of_Grace The Last Days of Grace]]'', ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5567650/1/Criminals_and_Sinners Criminals and Sinners]]'', and ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5571296/1/Forget_To_Remember Forget to Remember]]'': It's a ''male'' villain (the Lich King) who does a HeelFaceTurn on account of a DeusExMachina, a [[RelationshipSue Mary]] [[FixerSue Sue]], and babies.

* On ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice,'' [[CheshireCatGrin Cheshire]] apparently did a HeelFaceTurn during the TimeSkip and [[LoveRedeems married Roy]], only to leave him and return to crime. She later returns and reveals that she's had a daughter, Lian, and wants to help [[CloningBlues Roy]] get his life together so that the three can form a coherent family.

* Jace in ''DarkAngel'' faints in the middle of a fight with Max and it turns out that she's pregnant. After that, she overcomes ten years of Manticore brainwashing with surprising ease.

* Subverted in ''TheDrewCareyShow'', where Mimi, Drew's nemesis and all-around-horrible woman that she is, tries to be nice and motherly when her baby is born. However, the baby doesn't recognize this nice, clean-mouthed woman as his mother, and in order to get the baby to stop crying every time she holds him, she goes back to her old ways.

* Inverted in the Victorian novel ''VanityFair'': Becky Sharp starts out as a somewhat likeable AntiHero but then has a major KickTheDog in her treatment of her son, who she neglects and has no affection for.

* In FanFic/UltimateReImaginings, [[spoiler: Madame Masque]] gives up [[spoiler: Blair Flannigan]] so she can [[GiveHimANormalLife live normally]] before the story started. Although the woman ''was'' incarcerated at the time, so it's not surprisingly she didn't pull a HeelFaceTurn.

* A slightly complicated example appears in the movie ''TheLongKissGoodnight''; the main character, an assassin, loses her memory shortly before learning that she's pregnant, and lives the next eight or so years of her life as a loving mother. When her memories of being an assassin eventually [[AmnesiacDissonance return and override the "mother" persona]], her first instinct is to dump the kid as it's not really "hers" and pick up things where she left off. This instinct lasts right up until her daughter is kidnapped by the bad guys, whereupon she goes MamaBear.

* One episodes of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' featured a number of female North Korean spies. One of them was killing all the others, and Gibbs was the one who figured out she had turned on her country once she became a mother. Of course, a couple of the other spies were also mothers, and that didn't seem to slow them down at all.

* In ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', Natasha states that the people running the Black Widow program are quite aware that a child is the one thing that can be stronger that all the conditioning. [[spoiler:As such, [[TearJerker all the trainees are sterilized at the end of the program]].]]

* [[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.
** Her love is shown to be extremely possessive and more than a little unhealthy, but it still motivates her to do some good, eventually.
*** In the end, it is actually because she is so wicked otherwise that she is able to perform a HeroicSacrifice for her daughter's sake (by convincing a being which can see her entire life and soul that she is far too self-interested to be willing to perform a SuicideAttack).

* [[spoiler:Visser One]] from ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' is somewhere between this and a subversion of the trope played out in full. [[spoiler:She originally had every intention of keeping her twins and being the full Visser famous for conquering Earth, using her status to protect them. The revelation makes her sympathetic, but nowhere near good. Visser One does want her kids to love her, but if they don't... she can always infest them, and they will be ''forced'' to love her.]]

If she ''doesn't'' pull a HeelFaceTurn, but keeps the kid, she is a [[DarkActionGirl Dark]] ActionMom.

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* While not a villain herself, [[spoiler: Hotaru Enjouji]] from ''Manga/{{Kizuna}}'' had ties to the {{Yakuza}}. When she got pregnant with the baby [[spoiler: of the Yakuza leader she was TheMistress of]], she inmediately ran away from him and his group, keeping her child in the dark in regards to the past life. [[spoiler: The boy, Kei Enjouji, didn't learn about his dad until Hotaru died of illness and left him a letter where she told him about his heritage. And he was '''not''' thrilled.]]

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* ''Film/KillBill''

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* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'' getting pregnant does not stop [[spoiler: Kij Porter]] from continuing to work on her evil plans. To be expected, as she doesn't view herself as evil, and would want her child to follow in her footsteps. For many women, the desire to get pregnant is actually their ''motivation'' to turn to a life of crime in the first place, due to male GenderRarityValue.

* [[spoiler: Eragon's]] mother in the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle''. When the series starts, all we know is that his mom has been dead for a while, and that she ran away from his dad who was some kind of evil person. Then we find out his dad [[spoiler: was TheDragon]] and his mom [[spoiler: was a DarkActionGirl whose [[DevotedToYou incredible devotion to her husband]] was only overruled by her desire to see her second child live a better life, away from his ArchnemesisDad.]]
** Played with in that [[spoiler: Eragon's father is actually Brom, and Selene's HeelFaceTurn was a result of her saving her lover's child.]]

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** 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?]]

* Cylon Number Eight copy Athena in the new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' turns on her Cylon brethren when she becomes pregnant with Helo's child and falls in love with him. After she loses her child due to its premature birth [[spoiler:...or functionally kidnapping]], she [[spoiler: doesn't go back to being evil.]]

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* 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 ComicBook/LadyShiva's official StartOfDarkness.

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* ''XenaWarriorPrincess,'' whose son was cursed in the womb by Xena's evil adviser Alti to never know the love of either of his parents. Alti wanted Xena to stay bad, and knew that "the light on a child's face" would turn her good.

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* In SandyMitchell's TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} DarkHeresy novel ''Innocence Means Nothing'', Jenie lies to inquistorial agents, claiming she can lead them into the tunnels. After her ruse is discovered, she reveals that she was desperate to escape: as a Gatherer of Diversity, her duties are to whore herself out to passenger and get pregnant, so that her sons will be raised by other castes (to introduce new genes to the gene pool) and her daughters will become Gatherers, too, and she is pregnant and wants better for her daughter. The KnightTemplar Kiera is awed at someone going to such efforts to escape her sinful life.

* While not a villain herself, [[spoiler: Hotaru Enjouji]] from {{Kizuna}} had ties to the {{Yakuza}}. When she got pregnant with the baby [[spoiler: of the Yakuza leader she was TheMistress of]], she inmediately ran away from him and his group, keeping her child in the dark in regards to the past life. [[spoiler: The boy, Kei Enjouji, didn't learn about his dad until Hotaru died of illness and left him a letter where she told him about his heritage. And he was '''not''' thrilled.]]

* Avoided with ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'''s Mystique. When she had the child who'd go on to become Nightcrawler, she briefly [[GlamourFailure reverted to her true form]] and Nightcrawler was obviously inhuman, so her cover was blown. She tossed 'Crawler into the drink, and happily returned to her evil ways. She does genuinely care about her foster daughter, Rogue, but turning away from her evil ways for love of Rogue alone... not gonna happen.

* A RareMaleExample took place in the backstory for ''ShingetsutanTsukiHime''. Kiri [[spoiler: Nanaya]] was ever exactly evil, even when he was a BadassNormal assassin, but the birth of his son [[spoiler: Shiki Nanaya]] changed him significantly. He retired from being an assassin and came to view life as something precious... [[spoiler: Bad thing, Makihisa Tohno decided that Kiri's decision wasn't the best one, and sent out Kouma Kishima to slay the whole Nanaya clan. The SoleSurvivor was Shiki.]]

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 mother, 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.

* Cylon Number Eight copy Athena in the new ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' turns on her Cylon brethren when she becomes pregnant with Helo's child and falls in love with him. After she loses her child due to its premature birth [[spoiler:...or functionally kidnapping]], she [[spoiler: doesn't go back to being evil.]]

* '''Very''' common example in {{Fanfiction}} is Shego from ''KimPossible'' {{Fandom}}. Countless stories have her setting down and having children, with said children often being the cause.

Not to be confused with the novel by David Baldacci or the 2006 AcademyAward-nominated documentary feature by Amy J. Berg. (Or with The Lord's Prayer, which both titles, like this Trope's name, were inspired by.)

* Lampshaded in ''[[Film/ChildsPlay 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 Creator/JenniferTilly's body, but those murders are "just a little slip".]]

* The Bride from ''Film/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.]]

* Almedha in the backstory of ''VideoGame/FireEmblem: [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Radiant Dawn]]'' was pretty much a BloodKnight until she had a baby, [[spoiler: who'd grow up to become Soren]].
* In FireEmblemAwakening, [[spoiler: a woman from [[ReligionOfEvil the Grimleal cult]] ran away with her young son/daughter to protect him/her from becoming the SoulJar of [[EvilGod Grima]]. The kid's father? The local EvilSorceror and leader of the Grimleal. The kid? [[PlayerCharacter YOU (Sorta)]]. ]]