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Born from a Dead Woman

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Born from a Dead Woman	comment	A woman gives birth to a live baby minutes, hours, or even days after her own death. Depending on the child, they may be seen as a miracle, Born Unlucky, cursed, or anywhere in between. Also counts for cases where the mother was undead at the time of the birth, which can result in an Undead Child. Cases where the mother is brain-dead but kept alive by life support can also count. Despite the fantastic sounding concept, this has been known to happen in real life. Studies have shown that if the amniotic sac is intact, a fetus can survive the death of the mother for a short period of time. Accounts of this phenomenon go back centuries, where they were referred to as "coffin births", though only more recent cases are documented well enough to be considered real. Many historical cases are thought to be the result of the woman being Buried Alive back when it was more difficult to determine whether someone was really dead. The official term is post-mortem fetal extrusion. Compare Death by Childbirth, which usually occurs after the delivery. A Traumatic C-Section may or may not be fatal to the mother, but prior to modern medicine, it was usually performed when the mother had already died in an attempt to save the baby. A subtrope of Missing Mom, as well as Birth-Death Juxtaposition. May occur as a result of Imperiled in Pregnancy. Contrast with Tragic Stillbirth and Convenient Miscarriage, where it's the child who dies prior to the birth and the mother (usually) lives. As a Death Trope all spoilers will be unmarked. Examples
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_1214cdbd	comment	In Avesta of Black and White, the novel opens with a pregnant woman committing suicide by jumping off a cliff because she knows the child she is carrying will grow into an Archdemon. Unfortunately it doesn't work due to the child possessing Complete Immortality, and the unborn child psychically thanks her for being her first murder seconds before impact. The child later crawls out of her lifeless body and becomes the Archdemon Frederica.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_1370761	comment	Scream Queens (2015): The killers' origin story. Their mother gave birth in a bathtub, then suddenly died, and the second twin was born at the moment of the mother's death.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_13df792c	comment	Miracle McCoy from Dancing on the Edge got her name because she was born after her mother was hit by an ambulance.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_1bbdc803	comment	In Ghost in the Shell: Arise, this version of Motoko Kusanagi had her brain rescued from her pregnant mother's body after she was killed in an accident. It was then put in a cyborg body, and consequently her brain is the only organic part of her.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_1bdeba5a	comment	In The X-Men, Vulcan's mother Katherine Summers was murdered while he was still in the womb; he was subsequently cut out of her body and kept alive by Shi'ar scientists to be raised as a slave.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_2212773a	comment	Angel: After briefly being brought back to life as a mortal human then turned into a vampire again, Darla becomes pregnant from sex with Angel (also a vampire but with a soul). By the time the baby is due she's being affected by its soul and feeling compassion, empathy, etc and is terrified of what she might do (to her own child) after giving birth and losing these traits. But as a vampire, her undead body is incapable of giving birth and the labor continues until the child itself is in danger. She ultimately sacrifices herself, staking herself in the heart and causing her body to turn to dust, so that her child can be born.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: In "The Box," an unwed pregnant woman promises her baby to a couple, then changes her mind in her last month. She gets pushed down the stairs during a fight in their home. The husband realizes she's dead, but cuts the baby out of her and hides her body.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_28b53408	comment	F.E.A.R.: Alma rapes Becket, gets pregnant, and successfully gives birth, all after her own death. She was a very powerful psychic in life and has manifested as an equally powerful ghost.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_2dd58c73	comment	In the video to Travis Tritt's "Tell Me I Was Dreaming," the narrator's heavily pregnant wife suffers a fall. The resulting head injury proves fatal for her, but doctors then delivered her baby alive.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Attack on Titan: Before the Fall: Kuklo was extracted from his mother's body after she had been devoured and regurgitated by a Titan. This made him into an oddity, a freak to be put on display, until he escaped and found his way to the Survey Corps.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_426b9ab4	comment	Yaksha in The Last Vampire series was born after his pregnant mother had died and her corpse was possessed by a demon (and then slain again). He ended up becoming the progenitor of the vampire race because of the demonic influence on him as an unborn fetus.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_49c9285	comment	Gleams of Aeterna: When Queen Catherine is stabbed by a jealous admirer in the eighth month of her pregnancy, she bleeds out before the doctors can do anything, but they manage to save her son.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_51455a02	comment	Implied to be the case in Claymore with the being that emerges from Riful's corpse after she's killed. She immediately attacks her mother's killer, Priscilla, using what seems to be a combination of Riful's and her probable father Dauf's powers.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_57f80079	comment	The Mortal Instruments: The heavily pregnant CÃ©line Herondale committed suicide upon hearing her husband, Stephen's death. Valentine Morgenstern cut her womb and found the baby, Jace, alive.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_611b218d	comment	Call the Midwife: A first-time mother whose only pregnancy complication has been feuding grandmothers is abruptly killed in a car crash and Doctor Turner is forced to perform an emergency c-section in the middle of the road. Mrs. Turner talks the poor woman through the procedure as if she were still alive as the only form of Due to the Dead she can give her patient.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_6287577b	comment	Dark Wings: Albino wyvern Sleet was cut from the body of his mother after she was fatally wounded by villagers for her markings that outed her as a member of The Empire.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_69d9b72f	comment	GeGeGe no Kitarō's titular character was still healthy and in his mother's womb at the time of her death, but it took until she and her husband were as good as buried in the ground for Kitaro to finally be born.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Half-Undead are most commonly born to mothers who were transformed into undead during pregnancy, though for obvious reasons it's rare for the fetus to survive the process. This puts them in a Mortality Grey Area with a combination of living and undead traits.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim: Several hours after the Kaiju Otachi is killed, it turns out to have been pregnant and an infant kaiju emerges from its mother's corpse. It's born premature and quickly suffocates, but it's no less vicious than any other kaiju for the minutes that it's alive.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_701f0ece	comment	In Berserk, Guts was found under the corpse of his hanged mother, umbilical cord still attached. It goes to show how the world has had it out for him since before he was even born, but he survives regardless. His case seems to be inspired by a real account of a woman giving birth after being hanged by The Spanish Inquisition. In The Golden Age Arc trilogy, the first verse of "Blood and Guts" describes the nature of Guts' birth.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_7318210e	comment	Dragalia Lost: Pinon was born in such a way. Her parents die on a mission while she was in her mother, and Gabriel senses her within and forms a sigil with her to ensure her birth. After that, Gabriel raised the newly-born apostle herself.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_743277aa	comment	In +Anima, Cooro was found in a church by a group of nuns after falling from his deceased mother's body as she was being eaten by crows. The trauma of this event gave him his powers.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_89b7cf47	comment	On Rizzoli & Isles, Maura had to perform a caesarean on a heavily-pregnant woman who'd been fatally stabbed mere moments earlier, while Jane gave the already-dead woman CPR to keep blood moving long enough for the baby to be saved.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_89ce309d	comment	Macduff, from Shakespeare's Macbeth, revealed that he was not literally born but removed from his dead mother, completing the Prophecy Twist of No Man of Woman Born.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_b6546872	comment	Dawn of the Dead (2004) has a Zombie Infectee who is a heavily-pregnant woman, who ends up succumbing to the disease and is forced to be executed as a form of Mercy Kill. Seconds after her death, she gave birth to a little zombie girl who continues attacking the main characters.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_b9aed0de	comment	In the film universe, Blade was born soon after his mother was killed and turned by a vampire, turning him into a Dhampyr.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_bb3b5431	comment	Kane Series: In her Back Story Rehhaile from "Cold Light" was "torn out of her dead mother's womb" by a physician after the woman had succumbed to The Plague. Possibly because of the circumstances surrounding her birth, Rehhaile is blind but can connect to other people's minds to look through their eyes.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_be72870	comment	In Ode to Kirihito, Kirihito, Reiko, and Murakami discover the body of a woman with a Pretty Little Headshot and a still-living baby between her legs, still attached by the umbilical cord. Kirihito states that the shock of being shot caused the woman to give birth after her death. The starved baby dies shortly afterwards despite Kirihito's efforts to save it.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_cac1f772	comment	Doc Robbins on CSI once realized that a teenage girl who'd hanged herself just minutes before he and Nick arrived on-scene still had a living fetus inside her, so he hastily performed a c-section and was able to save the baby.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_d194b2db	comment	Death Stranding: Zig-zagged. The Bridge Babies (or BBs) are fetuses removed in the seventh month of pregnancy from their brain-dead parent (called "stillmothers") to be put in pods that stunt their growth, so that they can be used as BT detectors. The stillmother is still kept alive with the use of machinery in the medical ward of one of the Knot Cities, but they're pretty much beyond saving by now and there's no chance that they will ever wake up. The BB needs to be synced with its stillmother from time to time, to keep up the illusion that it's still actually inside the womb, otherwise, it will malfunction. Taking the BB out of its pod is illegal and there's a high chance that it will result in its death. However, there are at least two known examples of a BB surviving the procedure and one of them growing into a healthy adult.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_da861da1	comment	Veronica Mars: In Season 2, Meg Manning was pregnant when she went into a coma after the bus crash. She dies of a sudden brain aneurysm, but doctors were able to save the baby.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_db2abe02	comment	Shido in Zombie Loan is eventually revealed to have been born after his mother became a zombie. Even odder, she was pregnant for seven years.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_df1a6574	comment	In Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon, Pilate and Macon Dead II's mother Sing dies moments before Pilate comes out of the womb.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_f2041376	comment	In the Charmed (1998) season 9 comics, Paige witnesses a young, heavily pregnant woman get shot, and is too late to save her because Healing Hands don't work on the dead, so she resorts to directly teleporting the baby out of the womb. Paige and her husband end up adopting the baby themselves.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_f9742e61	comment	Jaxom in Dragonriders of Pern is born "premature and taken forcibly from the dead dame's belly". She wasn't dead long, though, as it was the attempt at childbirth that killed her. Still, the baby's survival came as a surprise to at least some characters.
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Born from a Dead Woman / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Galaxy's Child", our heroes are attacked by a Space Whale. They try to dissuade it with minimal powered phasers, but even this is enough to kill it. Then they discover that the creature was pregnant, so they have to cut it open to free the infant.
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