Supergirl Pregnant


Are there any episodes in which the villains try to impregnate Supergirl or use her DNA to create offspring? It’s one of my favorite plot tropes in sci-fi/superhero movies/shows.

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Considering Melissa Benoist is pregnant in real-life, they just may use one of your ideas. No way to hide the baby bump in that costume.

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Gal Gadot was pregnant during the filming of Wonder Woman, so I think there is. I'm not sure how much that would cost vs. the TV show's budget, of course...

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Gal Gadot was not pregnant during main shooting. She was three months pregnant during reshoots and they had a much larger budget than Supergirl to CGI.

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Didn't know it was the reshoots, but I did acknowledge the budget difference. Still, they have hidden pregnancies on other shows with far less tech. The question isn't whether or not they can, but whether or not they will. They could always front-load all of Benoist's action scene stuff, do a bunch of it on green screen and then use doubles and close-ups to do the rest. They might also write her out of the action for awhile in some other way.

Or, who knows, maybe they'll go with a pregnancy storyline, whether alien or "local".

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Correct me if I'm wrong. (I'm really not sure) But didn't they postpone the season 6 premiere until she would be through her pregnancy?

If so then maybe the cancellation is for another reason

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I don't know. I watched the first season of Supergirl but I haven't really kept up with it, and I was never into the behind-the-scenes stuff. This thread is the first I heard of the pregnancy.

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Unasked for science experiment pregnancy is your "thing"...?

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Not necessarily, but I do find movies like Species and Splice and the episode “Hathor” from the TV show to be fascinating with their storylines involving alien conceptions/pregnancies or combining human and alien DNA through sexual reproduction to create a new species or alien offspring.

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Why is that? Or have you thought about it at all? Is it just something you find cool/creepy/fun/intriguing/symbolic?

What's your favourite movie or television show featuring this storyline?

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I think it’s a cool and intriguing storyline because it gives sex more of a purpose than just gratuity or romance. There also is something fascinating about a female having an unnatural pregnancy and/or giving birth to something that isn’t human. My favorites probably are the episode “Hathor” from Stargate SG-1 in which an alien goddess has sex with one of the main characters and gives birth to snake alien babies. Also there are some implications of Uma Thurman’s Poison Ivy giving birth to seeds in Batman & Robin.

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Sex is usually unnecessary in film and television, yeah. Usually they're just throwing in gratuitous nudity to titillate viewers (who I guess have no recourse to such things in real life). It doesn't give us new character information or plot points. It's the same with action scenes that just drag on and on without meaning anything or doing anything other than just "look at the flashies!" (*cough* Anakin vs. Obi-Wan *cough* MCU *cough, cough*)

One of the better sex scenes I've seen was in A Very Secret Service - a French Netflix comedy about spies. It actually uses a couple sex scenes to advance plot and character development instead of just "we couldn't think of a way to show these two in love, so here they are in bed".

As to the specific trope you're talking about, the alien or bizarre pregnancy, I think I understand it in terms of its creep factor. Pregnancy and birth is something that remains as unsettling as it is beautiful, so jacking up the strangeness and the allure (that "glow") into these tropes gives us something strange, attractive, and uncanny. It's very unsettling. One of the reasons Alien works is because it takes our fears surrounding birth and pregnancy and jacks it up. I don't like the idea of unwanted pregnancies, though, and it's not something that arouses me or interests me in an erotic or romantic fashion, but in an eerie way; it's good horror, to me anyway.

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SO...RAPE?

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Not rape. More so seduction.

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