History Main / FetusTerrible

* ''RosemarysBaby''
* ''TheSeventhSign''
* ''TheFly'': Both films.

* "Blood Babies" from ''{{Deadlands}} Classic'' are "Abominations" that superficially resemble newborn human children and have a penchant for clawing their way out from inside a woman's uterus. [[spoiler:[[SpoofAesop And this, friend, is why you should always boil water before you drink it.]] ]]

* In the {{Drowtales}} Prologue, we are treated to a panel depicting an army of demon infested Drow, who have been twisted and deformed by the demons in them. One of the drow in the panel is visibly pregnant... Mainly because the demon infested fetus has clawed its way out of her stomach and its head and torso are sticking out...

* The A.I.M BURST from ''Manga/ToAruKagakuNoRailgun''. It is [[spoiler: the collective sorrow and despairs from the low-level Espers that used the Level Upper]]. Although it's not a ''human born'' fetus, it certainly qualifies for the ''terrible'' part. It's also the first arc's FinalBoss.

** Ganishka's demon soldiers, which are created by dropping pregnant women into a pool of liquid from captured Apostles and then burst from their mother's stomachs ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' style could count too. Trolls appear to be all male, who breed by raping human females, though I suppose consensual sex is possible even if the babies also comes out ''Alien'' style.

* The God of Machines in ''TheMatrixRevolutions'' has the shape of a baby's head. Any similarity ends there.

* In ''The Astronaut's Wife'', Jillian becomes pregnant after her husband returns home from a questionable space expedition, and it's suggested that the fetus isn't entirely human. At the end, we learn that she had [[spoiler:CreepyTwins]], and [[spoiler:they're possessed by aliens, as is she, after the being inhabiting her husband's body transferred into her when she killed him.]]
* {{Splice}}

* Zigzagged in the original ''{{V}}'' franchise, as Robin's pregnancy by a Visitor at first looks like this trope, causing her to crave raw meat and nearly killing her when an abortion is attempted. [[spoiler: She gives birth to twins: a daughter who looks human, then reveals a reptilian tongue and poison spit, but grows up to be one of the good guys; and a short-lived scaled son who's the carrier of a toxin that becomes the heroes' chief weapon against the alien invaders. So he's a FetusTerrible for humans in looks and ''for the aliens'' in physiology.]]

* [[spoiler:{{Splice}}]]

* In ''Series/AmericanHorrorStory'', [[spoiler: Vivian is pregnant with a demon spawn.]]

* This is how Genestealers from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' differ from [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Facehuggers]], [[HalfLife Headcrabs]] and most other providers of the FaceFullOfAlienWingWong - They corrupt the DNA of the victims, so that the offspring are horribly mutated but hypnotise the parents into looking after it.

* The Nihilanth from ''HalfLife'' resembles a giant fetus (with a third arm growing out of it's chest and a head that opens up).

* At the end of ''{{FEAR}} 2'', [[spoiler: Alma "rapes" Beckett and gets pregnant.]]

* The creation myth in some American Indian cultures features the Good Twin and the Evil Twin. The Evil Twin is evil from the womb, and typically kills his mother trying to get born too quickly. He goes on to create death, disease and the Rocky Mountains[[hottip:*:that's not ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, by the way, since the Rockies are an extremely dangerous mountain range for hikers]].

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Heather is "pregnant"[[hottip:*:her uterus isn't actually involved]] with a freakish God (or devil, whichever you like). Made more terrible when she vomits up quivering God-fetus. Made more more terrible when Claudia ''eats'' it.]]

* To avoid horrible spoilers, let's just say that this trope plays a plot-critical role in TadWilliams' ''{{Otherland}}'' as the [[spoiler:origin story of one of the major characters]].

* ''{{FATAL}}'' has a particularly depraved version in which people can be made pregnant by a ''rapist sword'' and give birth to ''another'' sword. And this, friends, is one of many, many reasons why you Should Not Play ''FATAL''.

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* As a specifically non-human example, many species of sharks that give live birth have this as regular behavior in the womb. The litter of shark pups starts out more numerous, but the pups predate and eat one another until only the survivors end up being born.
** Many shark species have two uteri, so will have two surviving pups. Call this an aversion if you will.
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has this, when [[spoiler:Sakura is (sort of) the mother of Angra Manyu, the world's evil in physical form.]]
** [[spoiler: In actuality though, Angra Manyu is just a poor nameless Persian man who his village sacrifice just so they can have some peace of mind.]]

* [[VideoGame/MeatBoy Dr. Fetus]] is probably the most actively evil fetus ever, and he does it all in his mechanical, tuxedo and monocle wearing preservative jar. Can possibly be an EnfantTerrible since he's out of the womb, but he's also still a fetus.

* Angie Levens in the ''CiemWebcomicSeries'' can permanently sever telepathic links; and send the ghosts that threaten her mother's dreams back to the abyss by throwing them across a (dreamland) room with strobe eyes. She can even heal Candi from the effects of YourMindMakesItReal. A rare heroic version of the trope, to be sure. [[MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning Even death cannot stop her completely]]!

* ''{{FATAL}}'' has a particularly depraved version in which people can be made pregnant by a ''rapist sword'' and give birth to ''another'' sword. And this, friends, is why you Should Not Play ''FATAL''.

* In ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'', it turns out that [[spoiler: Heather is "pregnant" with a freakish God (or devil, whichever you like.) Made more terrible when she vomits up quivering God-fetus. Made more more terrible when Claudia ''eats'' it.]]

* ''Series/{{Riget}}'': In the haunted Danish hospital, Dr. Judith Petersen's fetus develops much, much, ''much'' too fast. The mysterious father has disappeared, and her new boyfriend tries to convinces her to abort the F. T.. [[spoiler: However, the child gets born towards the end of the first season, just when they try to carry out the abortion, and we follow its trials and tribulations throughout the second season. ]]

* Isabelle Tyler of ''{{The 4400}}'', while in her mother's womb, managed to injure Jordan Collier in such a way that healer Shawn Farrell was never able to completely repair.

* Mordred Deschain in ''TheDarkTower''--while in the womb he forces his mother to eat frogs. He also has ''four'' parents, two of whom are human (and two of the main heroes). The other two are the BigBad and the gender-bending incorporeal [[HornyDevils sex demon]] who raped the aforementioned humans at various points in the story.

* ''{{Riget}}'': In the haunted Danish hospital, Dr. Judith Petersen's fetus develops much, much, ''much'' too fast. The mysterious father has disappeared, and her new boyfriend tries to convinces her to abort the F. T.. [[spoiler: However, the child gets born towards the end of the first season, just when they try to carry out the abortion, and we follow its trials and tribulations throughout the second season. ]]

* Hao from ''ShamanKing''. Of course, he was ReallySevenHundredYearsOld.

* ''{{Wumpscut}}'''s Womb is about the Fetus Terrible delivering a HannibalLecture to the mother.

->'''Cameron''': What happened?\\
'''Kim''': I was scanned. The woman in the waiting room...\\
'''Cameron''': She scanned you?\\
'''Kim''': No, not her. Her child. Her unborn child scanned me.
-->-- ''Film/{{Scanners}}''

The only thing creepier and more dangerous than the [[EnfanteTerrible Enfant Terrible]]. The Fetus Terrible hasn't even been born yet, but will become TheAntichrist or a demon [[ApocalypseMaiden prophesied]] to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt once it escapes from its womb. The woman carrying this (often literally) hellborn spawn is almost always an innocent, unwittingly impregnated by the Devil himself, and the other characters have to race to prevent the birth or stop the child from becoming the ultimate EnfantTerrible. Occasionally this can result of a perfectly normal pregnancy GoneHorriblyWrong pre or post conception, where the issue can be a [[{{Mutants}} mutant]], HybridMonster, UndeadChild or some other abomination. This trope can also overlap with BodyHorror, especially if the mother knows what's actually growing inside her.

* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has as one of the three last major enemies Noah, God of Solitude. Equal parts this trope, BodyHorror and pure terror.