There ’s still only one manner to wreak a new person into this universe . Many skill fable / fantasy stories have feature the dramatic event of childbirth … and some have done it better than others . Here are the best and worst SF / fantasy vaginal birth scenes .
observe : We ’re allow out most of the “ human gets pregnant and gives nascency all in the same day ” stories , which are like their own weird little writing style . ( Troi on Star Trek : TNG , Cordy on Angel , Gwen on Torchwood , that woman on Fringe , etc . ) With that out of the way , here goes …
Worst:
V : The Final Battle :
Robin give birth to her half - alien offspring … in a slammer cell . This notorious scene features a very disgraceful end , including gross - but - totally - fake - looking foreign babies , admit the one that has a shocking Hydra clapper just when you least expect it , and then the green veiny one that creep out of Robin under its own steam . Truly a high water score of hideousness :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvwfdLdEdVA
V ( the remake ):
The same shot in the new Phoebe is a destiny less breadbasket - churning , but is actually worse in some fashion . Val dies in childbirth , off screen , after being bustle off early on in the installment — after this bit , we do n’t see her again until she ’s dead , and it feels like she ’s just being written out in the speediest , most convenient fashion :
Star war : Episode III : retaliation Of The Sith :
Here ’s another panorama in which a female graphic symbol is kill off in childbearing . Padme ’s been fundamentally a walk plot twist throughout the prequels , and now she stick to see her baby super briefly before she snuff it . Special points for the turquoise cone shape of birthing concealment . The way in which Padme ’s childbirth and demise are juxtaposed with Anakin ’s transformation into Darth Vader make it clear this is really all about Anakin . ( And it ’s eldritch , because the original trilogy includes shadowy jot that Leia remembers her mom from when she was little . ) For more on why this scene is messed up , here’sa discussion from a homebirth site :
Peculiarly , the droid say they involve to execute an operation to write the baby and then in ready succession whip out two babies from between Padme ’s legs ! Huh ? … Umbilical electric cord , placenta ? Ah , egg to that . The bloodline was being save for Anakin ’s shift into Darth Vader .
Also kind of underwhelming is the birth of Han and Leia ’s counterpart in the Expanded Universe books .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB6-L_D5ZqA
Invader :
An alien impregnates a schoolteacher with a babe that will uprise up to be the “ Eve ” of this exotic species . The nascence fit does sport a high - technical school tricorder - looking thingy , but otherwise , it ’s just a collection of giving birth - scene cliches , punctuated by unearthly flashback :
Greenwich Village Of The Damned :
The 1995 John Carpenter remaking , found in the beginning on John Wyndham ’s The Midwich Cuckoos , gets single out for more mockery from that homebirth site . Eight women get enigmatically knocked up , and then give birth all on the same sidereal day , in a reborn barn , with their beds arranged in a eldritch hemicycle , albeit with privateness curtains . It ’s a “ birthing orgy , ” as the Homebirth situation place it :
The scene is a fairly typical movie birth , adult female on her back , lots of screeching and didactics to advertize . In fact , I intend this nascence prospect may take hold the PUSH ! world record . Anyone worry to count ? Oh , and Mark Hamill is in it and we have it off he was an absurd birth , so no curiosity this one is not much better .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zq5nhEtS4Ag
The ecstasy - Files :
allusion to the parentage of Christ , when done well , can be powerful . And then there ’s this . Casting the Lone Gunmen in the role of Magi is not the way to achieve aroused resonance with the Book of Luke . And give how much mileage this show got out of reproductive hysteria , you ’d have thought the polar birth shot would be more compelling . Here ’s a fanvid that let in a few parturition scene snip :
Star Trek V : The Final Frontier :
If you were number all the thing that are wrong with William Shatner ’s directorial first appearance , chances are this birth scenery would not even be on the listing . But that says more about the movie than this view . They ’re in some form of a shadowy cave with a ceremonial headdress and a sinister babe silhouette . It ’s got a variety of ancient Egypt vibe . And Spock ’s dad is wearing his good lucky childbirthing Nehru crown . Just kind of … odd .
Twilight : Breaking Dawn :
This is the grand - pappa ( so to talk ) of ooky birth aspect , the one against which all others will be judged . Bella becomes pregnant with Edward ’s half - lamia babe , which break her rib when it kicks , and she ’s forced to guzzle tons of blood to parent the widdle matter . Then Edward has tochew through Bella ’s wombto get the baby out , and then Bella gets grow into a lamia as she ’s dying as a result of the messy childbirth . And then when the baby is still a neonate , Bella ’s other love interest , Jacob“imprints ” on baby Renesmee , fundamentally take her as his mate for life sentence , whether she care it or not . That ’s romanticist ! Here ’s a fanvid :
Coneheads :
And then … . there ’s the comedy version of Twilight , with Dan Aykroyd seize with teeth through Jane Curtin ’s umbilical corduroy . Plus tons and tons of fluid and flakiness . We were n’t trusted whether to put this in “ best , ” “ bad ” or just “ weirdest . ”
Xtro :
Here ’s another one that we do n’t recognize whether to put in “ Best ” or “ bad . ” count how you await at it , I guess . Thanks , SpammerOvTheGods !
Best:
Space Island One :
This criminally under - praise British / German / Canadian television set show jell on a place station capped off its first time of year with an instalment in which Henrietta “ Harry ” Eschenbach is trapped in the hydroponics lab and break giving birth to her son . It ’s a tense , striking scene , but also the producers seem to have gone to a circumstances of trouble to make it look realistic — Harry is upright rather than supine , and my friends who ’ve done homebirthing have praise this episode for its credibleness . This also gear up up a slap-up plot line about the “ first babe born in space ” and all of the commercial-grade exploitation theory this infant opens up .
Dune by Frank Herbert :
The birth of Alia Atreides is awesomely aware , because her female parent salute the Water Of Life while pregnant . As a resultant , she ’s bear a fully fledge Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother — in spite of some people who require to get rid of her before she ’s endure . She ’s already as level-headed as an adult , which makes her slip ex utero strange and unique and all mysterious .
The Handmaid ’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The powerful birth scene in this novel hold Atwood ’s point very intelligibly . The way this society treats giving birth is entail to thaw any connection between the biologic mother and her fry , keeping her as a brood mare rather than a married woman . There are parallel deliveries : The servant give way birth , surrounded by other handmaids , then the infant is handed off to the Wife , surrounded by other Wives . The work of reproduction and child - rearing are split decent down the midriff , denying the mothers any influence over society ’s futurity .
Star Trek ( 2009 ):
That homebirth web site also did n’t wish the giving birth of James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams ’ new Trek movie , but we feel it was a beautiful scene that do work dramatically . If you did n’t get a bit torn up watching George Kirk give his life to turn back Nero while his married woman give parturition in the escaping shuttlecraft , then you ’re probably a Vulcan . Or mayhap a Horta . It ’s just such a brilliant objet d’art of dramatic play .
Star Trek : The Next Generation :
There ’s also Midwife Worf . It ’s a long - fourth dimension telecasting bromide to make the most incongruous character help someone give nativity , and TNG fully die for it here :
Farscape : The Peacekeeper war :
Thanks to everyone who direct this out ! As Emma C. Moore puts it :
She ’s lay down covering fire with a political machine gun during most of the trade union movement , and gives birth in a fountain . Plus , the bit where she and Crichton wonder at the little boy is , like , the one nanosecond of unrestrained joyousness they ’ve had in their intact relationship thus far .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBDJjgNi8gA
lose :
The birth of Aaron , towards the end of the first season , was one of the more touching moment of the show , with Claire manage with her care that Aaron would know that she was going to give him away , somehow .
Dragonriders of Pern :
The opening chapter of Dragonflight really spend - kick you in to Pern . There ’s grass growing on the ridges ( an open invitation to the Thread ) , there are spider creeping around the Great Hall , the concubines have n’t bathed in so long even their perfume is rancid . It ’s easy to see why Lessa is so very angry , and it ’s light why F’lar is so serious all the time — these two have a quite a little of workplace arrange this world back together . But what really crystalize the earth - building and Lessa ’s fibre is when Lady Gemma give parentage to Jaxom . A sample :
But the woman ’s agony was so intense she could just breathe . Her eye seemed to start from her head . Lessa , hardened to all emotion spare retaliation , was shocked to the rich feminine inherent aptitude of easing a cleaning lady ’s pain in her extremity .
The scene is violent and awful and evocative , making it clean however these people get to Pern , we ’re cryptical in the Middle Ages now .
Alien Nation :
We ’re a sucker for scenes where a human helps an noncitizen give birth , but this one is especially screaming , as the alien George apprise his human partner in the complex mechanics of childbirth among his the great unwashed . As the Chicago Sun - Timesput it back in 1990 , the sequence “ nuke(s ) the jurisprudence of nature as we know them by having the father give birth to the child . ” I love that George is telling Matthew to push and to rest , instead of the other way around .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WJ0qWsqjNo
Enemy Mine :
Oh , did we mention we ’re suckers for scenes where a man helps an alien give birth ? This is the all - time classic . It ’s the culmination of the human relationship between Davidge and Jeriba , and it ’s utterly emotional and intense as Davidge pledges to take concern of Jeriba ’s infant and come before the council to recite his lineage . And then Jeriba ups and expire , forget Davidge to save the baby .
Men In Black :
And then there ’s the comedy interlingual rendition of the “ humans aid an exotic give nativity ” view … in which broker J and K intermission to help a pregnant alien out . Will Smith is pretty amusing , Tommy Lee Jones play the straight homo with his common funniness , and the octopus - same alien sister is hella cute .
2001 : A Space Odyssey :
And then there ’s the all - time classic , when Dave pass away into the blank space / time warp and emerges as a fetus in space , the next microscope stage in human evolution . Also Sprach Hell yeah .
Angel :
Thanks to everyone who suggested this one . The birth of Connor is just amazing , with Darla literally staking herself to save her baby . Darla vanishes and her baby is abruptly there , out in the world , for Angel to protect to the upright of his ability . Which , you know … Angel .
Children of Men
This whole film is astonishing , but the nascence setting in particular had to be right or it would have sink the entire output . It ’s the minute where we see how far Theo has come as a fibre — he starts the motion-picture show a boundary line alcoholic , and here we see him use the last of his strong drink to moisten his hands for the deliverance . The protagonists , Theo and Kee , are in a cruddy , tragic refugee refugee camp and civilization is disintegrating around them . But the birth goes off without a hitch and then they ’re just laughing with relief and it ’s such a rejoicing import . The scene manages to invoke the human element from the fib of Christ ’s nascency , without descending into preachiness .
Miracleman # 9 , “ Scenes from the Nativity ”
Extremely in writing and exceedingly elaborated , this birth scene is legendary . This deserves to be on list just for sheer refusal to flinch . Other great comics nascency let in Tefe in Swamp Thing and John Constantine in Hellblazer , but they ’re nowhere virtually as epic . As comedian Should Be Good notes :
Alan Moore had been deeply moved by the parentage of his own child and wanted to somehow put the joy of that moment across in this tale . It was the only subject of the serial publication to put a parental consultive musical note on the cover – a Federal Reserve note editor program Cat Yronwode said was only mean “ ironically , ” but as it turned out , it render them some insurance coverage and probably make unnecessary their Francis Bacon .
More graphic imagery from the issueat the link .
Update , 4:52 p.m. , May 5 , 2020 : This mail has been updated to take away a broken video embed .
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