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	* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05) [not "Satan" per se but a similar sort of bad guy]		* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05) [not "Satan" per se but a similar sort of bad guy]
	* The late fourth-season story arc on [[Angel (TV series)\|Angel]]		* The late fourth-season story arc on [[Angel (TV series)\|Angel]]
			* "[[Pro-Life]]" dir. by John Carpenter

	==see also==		==see also==

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	Note that some films in the genre occasionally tweak some of these tropes, suggesting or partially instantiating a feminist perspective.		Note that some films in the genre occasionally tweak some of these tropes, suggesting or partially instantiating a feminist perspective.

			==List of works==
	Films (and occasional other works) in this genre include:		Films (and occasional other works) in this genre include:

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	* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"		* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"
	* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento		* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento
	* "[[Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist; not Satan, just a random demon)		* "[[Terms of Endearment (X-Files episode)\|Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist; not Satan, just a random demon)
	* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05) [not "Satan" per se but a similar sort of bad guy]		* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05) [not "Satan" per se but a similar sort of bad guy]
	* The late fourth-season story arc on [[Angel (TV series)\|Angel]]		* The late fourth-season story arc on [[Angel (TV series)\|Angel]]

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	* "[[Rosemary's Baby (film)\|Rosemary's Baby]]" (and the [[Rosemary's Baby\|novel]] by [[Ira Levin]])		* "[[Rosemary's Baby (film)\|Rosemary's Baby]]" (and the [[Rosemary's Baby\|novel]] by [[Ira Levin]])
	* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"		* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"
	* "[[Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist)
	* "[[The Omen]]" (story about the child more than the mother)
	* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento		* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento
	* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05)		* "[[Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist; not Satan, just a random demon)
			* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05) [not "Satan" per se but a similar sort of bad guy]
			* The late fourth-season story arc on [[Angel (TV series)\|Angel]]

			==see also==

	Related thematically:		Related thematically:
	* "[[The Seventh Sign]]" (1998 film written by Clifford Green and [[Ellen Green]]; directed by Carl Schultz; starring Demi Moore) - Demi Moore is a pregnant woman whose baby may be the first of a slew of unsouled babies heralding the end of the world. wtf?		* "[[The Seventh Sign]]" (1998 film written by Clifford Green and [[Ellen Green]]; directed by Carl Schultz; starring Demi Moore) - Demi Moore is a pregnant woman whose baby may be the first of a slew of unsouled babies heralding the end of the world. wtf?

			Child of Satan:
			* "[[The Omen]]"
			* "[[Point Pleasant]]" (TV series)

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	[[Category:Relationship themes]]		[[Category:Relationship themes]]

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	* "[[The Omen]]" (story about the child more than the mother)		* "[[The Omen]]" (story about the child more than the mother)
	* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento		* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento
	* Xena ~~episode~~ with Gabrielle as mother		* Xena arc with Gabrielle as mother: "[[The Deliverer]]" (3x04) and "[[Gabrielle's Hope]]" (3x05)

	Related thematically:		Related thematically:

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	They involve numerous gender-specific tropes, many of which are explicitly or implicitly sexist, including:		They involve numerous gender-specific tropes, many of which are explicitly or implicitly sexist, including:
	* womankind bringing about the fall of ~~humankind~~		* womankind bringing about the fall of humanity
	* women as a vessel for evil		* women as a vessel for evil
	* women as passive, acted upon		* women as passive, acted upon
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	* women as deluded by their hormones		* women as deluded by their hormones
	* women as pawns who need to be protected, rescued, manipulated, have decisions made for them		* women as pawns who need to be protected, rescued, manipulated, have decisions made for them
			* women who can only act through self-sacrifice often in childbirth

	Note that some films in the genre occasionally tweak some of these tropes, suggesting or partially instantiating a feminist perspective.		Note that some films in the genre occasionally tweak some of these tropes, suggesting or partially instantiating a feminist perspective.
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	* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"		* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"
	* "[[Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist)		* "[[Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist)
			* "[[The Omen]]" (story about the child more than the mother)
			* "[[La Setta]]" (aka "The Sect", "The Devil's Daughter"; a 1991 film directed by Michele Soavi (aka Michael Soavi), and co-written & produced by Dario Argento
			* Xena episode with Gabrielle as mother

			Related thematically:
			* "[[The Seventh Sign]]" (1998 film written by Clifford Green and [[Ellen Green]]; directed by Carl Schultz; starring Demi Moore) - Demi Moore is a pregnant woman whose baby may be the first of a slew of unsouled babies heralding the end of the world. wtf?


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	'''Satan-baby films''' are films which are premised on late 20th century Christian mythology and eschatology: the idea that evil incarnates in a demonic being, who seeks to bring about the end of the world by fathering a child on a human woman.		'''Satan-baby films''' are films which are premised on late 20th century Christian mythology and eschatology: the idea that evil incarnates in a demonic being, who seeks to bring about the end of the world by fathering a child on a human woman. See also [[alien impregnation]].

	Films in this genre include:		They involve numerous gender-specific tropes, many of which are explicitly or implicitly sexist, including:
			* womankind bringing about the fall of humankind
			* women as a vessel for evil
			* women as passive, acted upon
			* women's agency as directed through their fertility and reproductiveness, particularly through giving birth to male heirs
			* [[abortion]] as a "sin" is often an implicit view
			* women as deluded by their hormones
			* women as pawns who need to be protected, rescued, manipulated, have decisions made for them

			Note that some films in the genre occasionally tweak some of these tropes, suggesting or partially instantiating a feminist perspective.

			Films (and occasional other works) in this genre include:

	* "[[Rosemary's Baby (film)\|Rosemary's Baby]]" (and the [[Rosemary's Baby\|novel]] by [[Ira Levin]])		* "[[Rosemary's Baby (film)\|Rosemary's Baby]]" (and the [[Rosemary's Baby\|novel]] by [[Ira Levin]])
	* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"		* "[[End of Days (1999 film)\|End of Days]]"
			* "[[Terms of Endearment]]" (X-Files episode with a twist)

	[[Category:Films]]		[[Category:Films]]

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'''Satan-baby films''' are films which are premised on late 20th century Christian mythology and eschatology: the idea that evil incarnates in a demonic being, who seeks to bring about the end of the world by fathering a child on a human woman.

Films in this genre include:

* "[[Rosemary's Baby (film)|Rosemary's Baby]]" (and the [[Rosemary's Baby|novel]] by [[Ira Levin]])
* "[[End of Days (1999 film)|End of Days]]"

[[Category:Films]]

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	* "[[The Omen]]"		* "[[The Omen]]"
	* "[[Point Pleasant]]" (TV series)		* "[[Point Pleasant]]" (TV series)

			* [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FetusTerrible Fetus Terrible] at TVTropes wiki

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