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* The ''ComicBook/GreenLantern Amnee'' almost defeats the baby-stealing villain Kryb in single combat while heavily pregnant. At one point, she uses her GreenLanternRing to create a huge construct in the form of a newborn baby, complete with umbilical cord, and makes it beat Kryb up for her.

* [[spoiler:Top Speed]] in ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' is in the killing game while being three months pregnant; her magical girl form hid the fact she was pregnant at all. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Swim Swim kills her after a difficult battle against Calamity Mary.]]

* [[spoiler:Top Speed]] in ''LightNovel/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'' is in the killing game while being three months pregnant -- her magical girl form hid the fact she was pregnant at all. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Swim Swim kills her after a difficult battle against Calamity Mary.]]

* ''Film/KillBill''

** If you apply some thought to the gap between ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears its sequel]] (and remember an early scene between her and Dark Knight Cecil), [[TheChick Rosa]] is implied to be one during most of the former, being that she manages to be 19 in the original game and 36 in the sequel with a 17-year-old kid. Perhaps unfortunately, though, the latest UpdatedRerelease of ''IV'' and ''TAY'' {{retcon}}s the kid's age to 15, thus removing the primary evidence for Rosa being a Pregnant Badass. Fandom disagrees over whether to accept this retcon, as some people find the idea of Rosa beating up Zeromus while pregnant just too good to give up. Even if the retcon is accepted, Rosa is playable in the interlude that takes place between the two games, where she later states that she is pregnant.

* Marge Gunderson in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'' is a police officer investigating a kidnapping. She is seven months pregnant and realistically slower than usual, but brave and tough enough to face dangerous criminals.

* Oak, the heroine of ''Film/{{Mohawk}}'', is two months pregnant when she embarks on her RoaringRampageOfRevenge and wipes the patrol of American soldiers who killed her two lovers.

-->-- '''Kazumi Kato''' (see image), ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''

* Kazumi Kato in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0587.html #586]], as is shown in the image above, defending herself and her husband from a team of ninja assassins. This is also a quiet parody of the fact that there are no pregnancy rules in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' (there's really no need for them), so there's nothing stopping her from fighting at full capacity. Or ''more'', if your campaign happens to have MamaBear house rules.

* The Thunder Serpent Narwa of ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' is an enormous Elder Dragon with what appears to be a pregnant, swollen belly. She actually just has the appearance of one, as it's actually an electrified organ she uses to generate magnetic fields to [[PowerFloats float.]] She's still capable of delivering quite the walloping nonetheless.

* Arguably the original of this trope occurs in Irish myth. In the ''Ulster Cycle'', Macha, the daughter of Sainrith mac Imaith, is married to Crunniuc, who foolishly boasts of her running speed in front of the King of Ulster. Though she is heavily pregnant with twins, the king forces her to run a race with his chariot horses. (She appeals to those around her to stop it, but the Ulstermen fail to stand up for her.) She wins the race easily, delivers twins at the finish line, and lays a curse on all Ulstermen to endure the pangs of labor for five days and four nights in their times of greatest difficulty for not helping her. The curse endures for nine generations, thus proving it is a Bad Idea to Piss Off The Pregnant Lady.

* According to WordOfGod, in the future, Maria from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'' will face off against Chela the Bandit Princess while pregnant.

* Mudflap in the ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'' season three premiere Earsy Rider. Also doubles as ''Main/BikerBabe''
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In the beginning of "Petarded", Bonnie jumps while shooting.

* A slightly more plausible example than many, but Shogun Yoshimune from ''Manga/{{Ooku}}'' refuses to call off a meeting with her advisors just because her labour pains have started, and continues to debate economic policy with them even during the climactic stages.

If they ''really'' want to emphasize what a badass we're dealing with, they'll run into a major battle nine months pregnant, go into labor while fighting, harness the pain of a ScreamingBirth to become a ScreamingWarrior, retire just long enough to deliver the baby, then pick up their weapon with one hand and return to the fray ''while [[BadassAndBaby cradling the newborn]]'' in the other. Take it UpToEleven in situations where magic is involved and the unborn child can PowerUp its mother in some way, lending support in what is usually a terrible strain on their mind or soul.

* In ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', pregnancy doesn't affect creatures in any way, so you commonly have pregnant dwarves beating goblins to death with warhammers, sometimes [[UpToEleven giving birth in the process]], sometimes using the newborn infant as a shield... Foals and puppies, if born during combat, may actually join in, as a memorable scene of ''LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}'' demonstrated:

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': The ColdOpen of season 1, episode 7 shows a heavily pregnant Aiel woman ([[spoiler: AKA Rand's mother, Tigraine]]) dispatching several fully armored Illian soldiers while fighting off labor pains.

If they ''really'' want to emphasize what a badass we're dealing with, they'll run into a major battle nine months pregnant, go into labor while fighting, harness the pain of a ScreamingBirth to become a ScreamingWarrior, retire just long enough to deliver the baby, then get up and return to the fray ''while [[BadassAndBaby holding the newborn]]''. Take it UpToEleven in situations where magic is involved and the unborn child can PowerUp its mother in some way, lending support in what is usually a terrible strain on their mind or soul.

Contrast ImperiledInPregnancy and PregnantHostage: anyone who tries these on this character [[MuggingTheMonster will regret it]]. A Pregnant Badass might be part of a BattleCouple.

* Similarly, Wrestling/BeckyLynch successfully defended her championship against Shayna Bazsler in ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 36'' while oblivious that she's a few weeks pregnant with her and Wrestling/SethRollins's child.

* ''Series/DesperateHousewives'' has Lynette Scavo, who [[spoiler:pushes a young girl out of the way of a crashed plane barreling down the street while pregnant with twins. Unfortunately, the event causes her to miscarry one of those twins.]]

** Played more straight before in the same season, she saved Nathan of a car attack and took the shock at his place. Pregnant and high school student don't prevent her to have a *tragic though) HeroicSacrifice.

* Haley from ''Series/OneTreeHill'' slapped Rachel while pregnant with Jamie.

** In the same season, she saved Nathan of a car attack and took the shock at his place. Pregnant and high school student don't prevent her to be badass.