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* In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Casey Brinke accidentally gets Terry None pregnant. Because this is the famously weird Doom Patrol, both of them are a) [[HomosexualReproduction female]] and b) not quite real. Casey's a comic-book character (as in, she's a [[ItMakesSenseInContext comic book character even within the story]]) and Terry is a Nobody (as in, she's the daughter of Mr Nobody). Also, the baby (which is a nothing and a nobody) is born by the end of the day, and [[spoiler: ends up being turned into a sort of clone of ComicBook/{{Superman}} called Milkman Man. Yeah.]]

'''Shmi Skywalker:''' There was no father that I know of. I carried him, I gave birth to him. I can’t explain what happened.

** Mary is pregnant with Burt's child, but she's not sure it's his -- she conceived at around the same time when he had been kidnapped by aliens & replaced by an alien doppelgänger, so it might be half alien.
--->'''Mary:''' Oh thank God, it's white!\\

* ''Franchise/TheVampireDiariesUniverse'': Both Hope Mikaelson and Landon Kirby in ''Series/TheOriginals'' and ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' defy the laws of nature with their existence. Hope, the worlds first and only witch-vampire-werewolf hybrid, was born to a werewolf mother and a thousand years old vampire-werewolf (and witch gene carrier) hybrid father, Klaus Mikaelson. Landon is the result of his father's, Malivore's, thousand years quest of creating an immortal, flawless and fertile heir to continue the bloodline. Despite Malivore being an artificial creation of mud and thus infertile, he was able to engineer a biological child (Landon) from a human and monster DNA he has absorbed over time
* A classic example occurs early in the run of ''Series/TheXFiles'', as Scully finds herself impregnated by aliens. Towards the end of the series, she has ''another'' Mystical Pregnancy.
-->'''Mulder:''' You want to know who the father is, that's Scully's business. But if you're asking me how a woman who was diagnosed as barren and unable to conceive is about to give birth in a couple days, that's an answer I can't honestly give.

* In ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Episode 2x04 -- "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E4GardenOfBones Garden of Bones]]", a pregnant priestess gives birth to a shadow demon, conceived by magic, to use it as a magical assassin.

* On ''Series/TheMagicians2016'', one character gets raped by the TricksterGod Reynard and finds herself pregnant. When she tries to get an abortion, the magic (whether from the baby itself or Reynard) forces the doctor to commit suicide. Eventually she finds someone who can do a magical abortion, and it succeeds, but causes her to [[spoiler: lose part of her soul in the process. Julia, Kady and Penny also find the result of one of these pregnancies carried to term, and he's a Congressman with latent CharmPerson powers.]]
* On ''Series/OnceUponATime'', Cinderella was pregnant when the Dark Curse brought her to Storybrooke, where because of being essentially frozen in time, she was pregnant for 28 years. Delivery was also complicated because she had tried to renege on a deal with Rumplestiltskin.

* In ''Series/{{Resurrection}},'' Rachel was pregnant when she [[DrivenToSuicide killed herself]], though she didn't realize it. When she [[BackFromTheDead returns]], she's still pregnant, and the baby is growing unusual quickly. At one point, all of the other Returned go into a weird trance and stare towards Rachel's apartment in the morning; this leads to the belief that the baby is some kind of AntiChrist or something, with the finale focused on the BigBad trying to kill it. [[TheChrisCarterEffect Maybe]] this all would have been explained had the series continued.

* Both Hope Mikaelson and Landon Kirby in ''Series/TheOriginals'' and ''Series/{{Legacies}}'' defy the laws of nature with their existence. Hope, the worlds first and only witch-vampire-werewolf hybrid, was born to a werewolf mother and a thousand years old vampire-werewolf (and witch gene carrier) hybrid father, Klaus Mikaelson. Landon is the result of his father's, Malivore's, thousand years quest of creating an immortal, flawless and fertile heir to continue the bloodline. Despite Malivore being an artificial creation of mud and thus infertile, he was able to engineer a biological child (Landon) from a human and monster DNA he has absorbed over time.

* The infamous "Rape of ComicBook/MsMarvel" in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #200. Carol Danvers is [[MindRape mind raped]] in Limbo by Marcus, son of Immortus, into falling in love with him and he impregnates her with his own essence. He is born on Earth and rapidly ages to adulthood. He has to return to Limbo to survive and Carol goes with him. The Avengers beamingly voice their approval as if this is a wonderful thing instead of a horrifying violation of her mind and body -- though it has generally been assumed since that they were also {{Mind Rape}}d into going along with it, even if Carol was deeply skeptical when she reamed them out for it.

* In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Casey Brinke accidentally gets Terry None pregnant. Because this is the famously weird Doom Patrol, both of them are a) [[HomsexualReproduction female]] and b) not quite real. Casey's a comic-book character (as in, she's a [[ItMakesSenseInContext comic book character even within the story]]) and Terry is a Nobody (as in, she's the daughter of Mr Nobody). Also, the baby (which is a nothing and a nobody) is born by the end of the day, and [[spoiler: ends up being turned into a sort of clone of ComicBook/{{Superman}} called Milkman Man. Yeah.]]
* ComicBook/ScarletWitch and the ComicBook/TheVision are married, but can't have kids, what with him being a RidiculouslyHumanRobot. So instead, she gets pregnant by channelling raw magic into her. It actually gets weirder once the kids are born, with the ultimate reveal that her children are actually soul-shards taken from Mephisto, one of Marvel's expies of Satan. Grief ended up driving her insane, resulting in ''Avengers Disassembled'' and ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'', before the reveal that she'd sort of resurrected them as the technically unrelated but nevertheless identically Billy Kaplan a.k.a. Wiccan and Tommy Shepherd a.k.a. Speed.
* {{Inverted}} with ComicBook/{{Superman}} and ComicBook/LoisLane--it was an ongoing plot point that they could not conceive a child because of their InterspeciesRomance. However, when Superman was BroughtDownToNormal during ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}},'' Lois did get pregnant, and everything through the birth was entirely normal. (Well, she was [[PregnantHostage kidnapped]] by an alternate version of her husband and the baby was delivered by ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} ComicBook/{{Batman}}, but the pregnancy ''itself'' was normal.)
* ''Mantra #19'' (from ''ComicBook/TheUltraverse''): The separated and restored Lukaz and Eden make love and conceive a child. A fact they discovered when they awake the next morning with Eden [[ExpressDelivery sporting a full-term belly.]] They figure it's because of Eden's still largely-unknown magical powers, but [[spoiler: we immediately find out [[EvilCounterpart Necromantra]] had possessed the child and used it to restore herself to life.]]

* The infamous "Rape of Ms. Marvel" in Avengers #200. Carol Danvers is [[MindRape mind raped]] in Limbo by Marcus, son of Immortus, into falling in love with him and he impregnates her with his own essence. He is born on Earth and rapidly ages to adulthood. He has to return to Limbo to survive and Carol goes with him. The Avengers beamingly voice their approval as if this is a wonderful thing instead of a horrifying violation of her mind and body -- though it has generally been assumed since that they were also {{Mind Rape}}d into going along with it, even if Carol was deeply sceptical when she reamed them out for it.

* [[spoiler:Aurora]] in ''Film/BabylonAD'' is pregnant while never having been with a man. [[spoiler:It turns out her father used gene therapy to "enhance" Aurora to get pregnant at a certain time in order for the Noelites to become a "bona fide religion" by having a virgin birth. Aurora ends up dying immediately after giving birth to twins (black and white), as she was programmed to do, and the protagonist ends up adopting and raising them]].

-->-- ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIThePhantomMenace''

* In ''Anime/FairyTail'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10150808/1/Second-Son Second Son]]'', through a spell Lucy becomes nine months pregnant over the course of one night. Needless to say she is rather freaked out by it. [[spoiler: The purpose of the pregnancy is for a wizard to drain her of her life force and magic energy by using the unborn child as a funnel. The team tries to have the spell undone by hunting the wizard down. The constant fighting and running around causes enough stress that Lucy's water eventually breaks and she gives birth to the child. Which in turn screws the wizards plans over.]] [[spoiler: The child however is formless and will eventually die. Having gone threw the stress of pregnancy and child birth in a short time Lucy, who beforehand didn't want a child, wants to keep the child and save them. So they continue their hunt. Eventually they are able to confront the wizard and defeat him. He gives them the means to save the child through which a mixture of Lucy and, accidentally, Natsu's blood is used. The now baby girl is theirs.]]

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* ''Film/{{Blade}}'''s mother was bitten by a vampire not long before he's born. The result: He's a {{Dhampyr}}.

* In ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'': A character [[note]][[spoiler:Bella]][[/note]] ends up impregnated by a vampire [[note]][[spoiler:Edward]][[/note]] and giving birth to a HalfHumanHybrid {{dhampyr}} that ends up growing supernaturally quickly.

* ''Webcomic/OlympicDames'' provides a rare example of the mother(s) ''benefitting'' from a Mystical Pregnancy, as [[TeenPregnancy five teenagers]] [[SuperEmpowering develop magical powers after becoming pregnant]].

* In ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'', Casey Brinke accidentally gets Terry None pregnant. Because this is the famously weird Doom Patrol, both of them are a) [[HasTwoMommies female]] and b) not quite real. Casey's a comic-book character (as in, she's a [[ItMakesSenseInContext comic book character even within the story]]) and Terry is a Nobody (as in, she's the daughter of Mr Nobody). Also, the baby (which is a nothing and a nobody) is born by the end of the day, and [[spoiler: ends up being turned into a sort of clone of ComicBook/{{Superman}} called Milkman Man. Yeah.]]

* In the 3rd OVA to ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', Miaka and Tamahome [[WeddingEnhancedFertility conceive a baby on their wedding night]]. Three months later, Mayo finds the Book of the Four Gods [[spoiler: again]], and the pregnancy is supernaturally transferred to Mayo [[note]] Who is [[TeenPregnancy 16 years old]], has no boyfriend to speak of, and is presumably [[VirginPower a virgin]]. [[/note]] (while Miaka goes into a coma), because Mayo has such strong feelings for Tamahome. (She takes full advantage of the pregnancy and her status as Priestess, much to Tamahome's dismay.) Even though it seems all is lost, [[spoiler: it's actually a XanatosGambit on the part of Miaka, in order to save the Universe of the Four Gods.]] After the fetus is used as a LivingMacguffin in a MetaphysicalPlace to summon Suzaku, the baby is transferred back into Miaka, who wakes up and the pregnancy continues normally. (Mayo, too, goes on to live a normal life.)

-->-- ''Film/StarWars: Episode I -- Film/ThePhantomMenace''

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'':

* In the 3rd OVA to ''Anime/FushigiYuugi'', Miaka and Tamahome [[WeddingEnhancedFertility conceive a baby on their wedding night]]. Three months later, Mayo finds the Book of the Four Gods [[spoiler: again]], and the pregnancy is supernaturally transferred to Mayo [[note]] Who is [[TeenPregnancy 16 years old]], has no boyfriend to speak of, and is presumably [[VirginPower a virgin]]. [[/note]] (while Miaka goes into a coma), because Mayo has such strong feelings for Tamahome. (She takes full advantage of the pregnancy and her status as Priestess, much to Tamahome's dismay.) Even though it seems all is lost, [[spoiler: it's actually a XanatosGambit on the part of Miaka, in order to save the Universe of the Four Gods.]] After the fetus is used as a LivingMacguffin in a MetaphysicalPlace to summon Suzaku, the baby is transferred back into Miaka, who wakes up and the pregnancy continues normally. (Mayo, too, goes on to live a normal life.)

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'':

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}}'': The pregnant Queen Arianna becomes deathly ill, so the army seeks out a mystical [[FountainOfYouth flower]] that could heal her. When she ingests it, she is cured, and her daughter, Rapunzel, is born with blonde hair that has healing powers.

* In the ''{{Film/Alien}}'' franchise, the Xenomorphs are a form of this. The embryos gestate inside a human host (though the third film suggests any animal will do) and forces its way out once it's big enough. The alien in the first film is even referred to as "Kane's son" at one point.

* Film/{{Blade}}'s mother was bitten by a vampire not long before he's born. The result: He's a {{Dhampyr}}.

* In the '' Elder Races'' stories by Thea Harrison, the pregnancy resulting from the marriage of Dragos Cuelebre and Pia Giovanni was complicated to say the least. For starters, Dragos is actually an immortal dragon in human form and Pia is [[spoiler: the offspring of a human and a unicorn in human form; Pia herself can turn into a unicorn.]]. Since the pregnancy was utterly unprecedented, no one knew for sure how long it would go on or what form the offspring would take. Fortunately [[spoiler: at nine months, the fetus transformed itself ''in utero'' to a human baby and was born normally]].

* In [[VideoGame/TheBookOfUnwrittenTales The Book of Unwritten Tales 2]], Ivo finds herself pregnant, with no clue as to how it happened. As it turns out, her pregnancy is [[spoiler:due to an all-powerful wish-granting artifact she wore for some time. Residues of its magic stayed with her, and when her boyfriend started to dream of building a family with her, the magic made it come true.]]

* Can happen in ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' if the player makes use of the Tombstone of Life and Death. This enables Sims to produce babies [[HomosexualReproduction with same-sex partners]], Sims that don't live in their household but are visiting or even just passing by, etc. It also enables Sim women to become alien pregnant. (Men can become pregnant by aliens if they spend too much time looking at the telescope. Women can be abducted by aliens, but never become pregnant as a result.)
** [[BlackWidow Olive Specter]] is the mother of Nervous Subject. The father? ''The Grim Reaper''. Apparently Olive had an affair with Grim when he kept coming for her husbands. This isn't actually possible in game bar the Tombstone of Life and Death.
* VideoGame/SuperRobotWars: Ryusei Date gained PsychicPowers as a result of experiments that were performed on his mother when she was pregnant with him.

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* In ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', nine-year-old Maria Ushiromiya reveals that she believes this is how she was born. Her mother Rosa would angrily deny that Maria had a father whenever Maria tried to ask her about him, and later on a priest came to Maria's school and read to them about Jesus' immaculate conception. By her own logic, this made Maria come to the conclusion that she was a "child of God" who came into this world without an earthly father like Jesus did.
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* In ''Webcomic/ProfessorAmazingAndTheIncredibleGoldenFox'' Isla Grace's three pregnancies only lasted seven months each due to her transformations into a fox. She was also pregnant when she first started transforming and had little to no control over it.

* ''Series/Lucifer2016'': As revealed in season 2, Chloe Decker was conceived through a miracle. Her parents originally had difficulty conceiving, before they met Amenadiel, an angel sent by God to bless them to have a child. Since Chloe is immune to Lucifer's mojo and can make him vulnerable around her, some characters speculate that God specifically put her in Lucifer's path, which becomes a major dilemma when both learn about the information. It's later disclosed that the vulnerability thing is a choice Lucifer made, not Chloe's, although Chloe's immunity to Lucifer's mojo seems to be connected to her mystical conception (as it's unique to her alone).

* In ''Series/{{Being Human|UK}}'', Nina discovers the hard way that her birth control doesn't work when she's a werewolf. The pregnancy progresses at about twice the normal rate, but the baby is born ''human'' (though it is also the subject of an ancient vampire prophecy).
* Every pregnancy on ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' is mystical simply by the fact that the main characters are witches with a tendency to hook up with other supernatural creatures.

* In ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', Fauxlivia is subjected to horrifying medical experiments to artificially accelerate her pregnancy, both because the pregnancy would kill her and because Walternate wants the baby's blood to power a DoomsdayDevice.

* ''Series/{{Lucifer|2016}}'': As revealed in season 2, Chloe Decker was conceived through a miracle. Her parents originally had difficulty conceiving, before they met Amenadiel, an angel sent by God to bless them to have a child. Since Chloe is immune to Lucifer's mojo and can make him vulnerable around her, some characters speculate that God specifically put her in Lucifer's path, which becomes a major dilemma when both learn about the information. It's later disclosed that the vulnerability thing is a choice Lucifer made, not Chloe's, although Chloe's immunity to Lucifer's mojo seems to be connected to her mystical conception (as it's unique to her alone).

* ''Series/{{The Sandman|2022}}'': In "[[Recap/TheSandman2022S01E08PlayingHouse Playing House]]", Lyta dreams that she is visited by her late husband, they make love, and she falls pregnant; when she wakes up, she's visibly pregnant in real life. In the following episode, she falls asleep again and dreams of spending months with her husband while only a few hours pass in the waking world, and when she wakes her pregnancy has advanced the same amount as it had in the dream. In the episode after that, she gives birth to a healthy baby boy, who has some special (but as yet unspecified) destiny due to being conceived and carried to term in the Dreaming.

[Black nurse gives dirty look]

* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' Deanna Troi is impregnated by glowing space energy and gives birth to a mysterious rapidly-aging child, an alien life form that comes and goes this way.

* On ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'' during the Elseworlds crossover event Lois is pregnant with Clark's baby. It isn't clear whether this is the trope in action or an inversion as the circumstances of conception are not discussed. The couple is going to stay on Argo (a surviving fragment of Krypton) for the duration of the pregnancy for Lois's safety (also providing a solid explanation for why we won't see Superman for the foreseeable future).

** Episode 5x06 -- "I Believe the Children Are Our Future", a virgin woman is possessed and impregnated by a demon, giving birth to the Antichrist.

* In the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Something Borrowed", Gwen wakes up on her wedding day hugely pregnant with an alien parasite. The team manages to kill it (and its mother) by the end of the episode.

* In the ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'', The 43 are the result of multiple random women simultaneously becoming pregnant and minutes later giving birth to superpowered kids.

* While most sorcerer bloodlines in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' are inherited (either in [[HalfHumanHybrid the traditional way]], a [[LamarckWasRight Lamarckian way]] or in some cases a mystical Other (like your family having a destiny attached to them)), some have something happening at conception or pregnancy as suggested possibilities for how you got the bloodline, and in one case (the Nanite bloodline) it's the sole suggestion.

-->-- ''Film/ThePhantomMenace''

* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'': [[spoiler: Aku was impressed enough by his cult's worship of him to lend them a bit of his essence, which the High Priestess then drank and became pregnant with septuplets. Now, what makes this especially outstanding is that normally, anyone who drinks Aku turns into an Aku clone]].

* In the ''Series/TheUmbrellaAcademy2019'', all of the Umbrella Academy kids are the result of multiple random women simultaneously becoming pregnant and minutes later giving birth to superpowered kids.

** The first pregnancy was Phoebe, who didn't realize that her husband, Cole, was [[FaceHeelRevolvingDoor once again]] evil, this time because he was possessed by [[UltimateEvil the Source]]. Cole actually went through extra effort to create the perfect little demon baby by secretly making their wedding a demonic rite and conceiving the baby at a certain time.

* ''Literature/TheQuran'' also acknowledges ''`Īsā'' (Jesus' name in Islam) from Maryam (Mary) as a miraculous virgin birth (to an infant that could give sermons and prophecy from his crib), but makes it clear that God is the creator of this child/prophet not the father as equating anything to God is Islam is the gravest sin as God is above His creation. (It's kinda complicated, but basically, in the Muslim conception, ''[[TrulySingleParent Mary alone]]'' is the actual biological parent of Jesus--instead of being the Son of God by Mary, the Muslim Jesus has a mother but ''has no father at all''. Mary became pregnant with a son because God willed it.)

* ''Literature/TheQuran'' also acknowledges ''`Īsā'' (Jesus' name in Islam) from Maryam (Mary) as a miraculous virgin birth (to an infant that could give sermons and prophecy from his crib), but makes it clear that God is the creator of this child/prophet not the father as equating anything to God is Islam is the gravest sin as God is above His creation. In Islam, (It's kinda complicated, but basically, in the Muslim conception, ''[[TrulySingleParent Mary alone]]'' is the actual biological parent of Jesus--instead of being the Son of God by Mary, the Muslim Jesus has a mother but ''has no father at all''. Mary became pregnant with a son because God willed it.)

* ''Literature/TheQuran'' also acknowledges ''`Īsā'' (Jesus' name in Islam) from Maryam (Mary) as a miraculous virgin birth (to an infant that could give sermons and prophecy from his crib), but makes it clear that God is no more the parent of this amazing child/prophet than He is of every other human. (It's kinda complicated, but basically, in the Muslim conception, ''[[TrulySingleParent Mary alone]]'' is the actual biological parent of Jesus--instead of being the Son of God by Mary, the Muslim Jesus has a mother but ''has no father at all''. Mary became pregnant with a son because God willed it, but He did not impregnate her. Don't think about it too much lest your head explode.)

* ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' provides the page quote, though it doesn't wind up happening. Also, Vicki is impregnated by [[PointyHairedBoss the Big Giant Head]]; the pregnancy lasts only a few hours, but the baby is actually remarkably normal.

* ''Series/{{Pandora}}'': Jax finds she's pregnant in Season 2 to her surprise, since both she and her partner were using birth control. However, it turns out that she's pregnant with a clone of herself somehow, and the pregnancy continues far quicker than normal, so that she delivers that same day or the next.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', Shmi Skywalker says that Anakin has no father and she doesn't remember having ever slept with a man in the right period to have become pregnant by him, which Qui-Gon assumes to mean that he was conceived by the will of the Force. In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', Palpatine's discussion about Darth Plagueis includes a pointed comment that suggests Plagueis' experiments may have been responsible for Shmi's pregnancy.

->'''Evil Dick:''' Stay and witness my moment of glory as I impregnate the entire population of Ohio with my demon progeny!\\
'''Tommy:''' Wait, wait, wait, even the men?\\
'''Evil Dick:''' ...Okay, not the men.\\
'''Sally:''' Not little girls?\\
'''Evil Dick:''' No... no, not them.\\
'''Tommy:''' Wait, what about elderly women?\\
'''Evil Dick:''' I don't think so.\\
'''Harry:''' What about women who are already pregnant?\\
'''Evil Dick:''' Oh shut up, all of you! ''[pause]'' Okay, so apparently I won't be impregnating the ''entire'' population of Ohio, but all fertile women of childbearing age who are not currently pregnant — and that's ''a lot'', we're talking ''lots'' of women here — will soon find themselves now pregnant... by me!
-->-- ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun''

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1077049/1/Cheaper-by-the-Dozen Cheaper by the Dozen]] revolves around the idea that Ranma's attempting to cure himself of his GenderBender curse with Nannichuan water has GoneHorriblyWrong and instead left him {{mode lock}}ed and with an internal testicle. As a result, every ovulation triggers a counterpart release of sperm, [[TrulySingleParent resulting in Ranma impregnating herself]]. By the time Ryoga finds her twenty years later, she's given birth to [[MassiveNumberedSiblings 24 daughters]], [[StrongFamilyResemblance all clones of her female self]], and is pregnant with a 25th child in the form of a Mousse-fathered [[OutnumberedSibling son]].