Polite Dissent

Given the storyline in Identity Crisis #1 (and Michael Hutchison wondering about “pregnancy-related threats” in his excellent annotations to the story), it seemed like a good time to post the updated list of Pregnancies in Comics.

Any additions are welcomed!

Heroes:
ADAM STRANGE
Alanna dies during childbirth.

AQUAMAN
Dolphin and Garth (Tempest) had a son, Cerridan. Mera’s pregnancy happened “off camera”.

AVENGERS
Scarlet Witch’s pregnancy was shown in the Scarlet Witch and the Vision mini-series, though her twins were later ret-conned out of exsistence.

BATMAN COMICS
Spoiler was pregnant and gave her shild up for adoption in Robin.
Francine (Man-Bat’s wife) was pregnant in Batman in the 1970’s.

KILLRAVEN
Carmilla Frost discovered she was pregnant in a Killraven graphic novel.

FANTASTIC FOUR
Sue Richards had Franklin, then lost her second pregnancy. A magical/time-stream induced third pregnancy recently gave the Richards a daughter, Valeria.
Lyja Storm was pregnant and gave birth to an egg.
Crystal and Pietro (Quicksilver) have a daughter Luna.

INCREDIBLE HULK
Betty Banner was pregnant, but miscarried.

IRON MAN
Pepper Potts was pregnant, but miscarried.

FLASH
Iris was pregnant with twins at the time that the silver age Flash (Barry Allen) died.
Linda West lost twins recently in the current Flash.

INFINITY INC.
Hippolyta Hall was pregnant a *long* time, and ultimately gave birth to Daniel.

MIRACLEMAN
Liz Moran gave birth in Miracleman #9.

ANIMAL MAN
Annie was pregnant and gave birth in the last issues of the series.

JLA
Sue Dibny was pregnant when she dies in Identity Crisis #1

JSA
Hawkgirl was pregnant as a teenager and gave the child up for adoption.

SABRE
Melissa Siren was pregnant and gave birth in Sabre.

STARMAN
Jack fathered children with the Mist (see below) and his significant other, Sadie.

LOSH (1)
Garth Ranzz (Lightning Lad) and Irma Ranz (Saturn Girl) had twins. (Twins are the usual on Garth’s home planet Winath; however, twins are determined maternally and Irma come from Titan. Plus are the twins fraternal or identical? Both have been shown on Winath in the series.)

LOSH (2)
In the “five years later” Legion, Night Girl was not only married to Cosmic Boy, but also pregnant.

LOSH (3)
Apparition (Tinya Wazzo) and Ultra Boy (Jo Nah) have married and had a child (Cub).

L.E.G.I.O.N.
Stealth had a child by Vril Dox.

MR. MIRACLE
Beautiful Dreamer was pregnant and gave birth.

AVENGERS
Ms. Marvel was pregnant*

TEAM TITANS
Donna Troy was pregnant at the beginning of this series. Her husband and child died in a car accident, then she died in Graduation Day.
Mirage was pregnant at the end of the series.

X-MEN
Madelynne Prior was pregnant with Scott Summer’s child (and gave birth to him) in the Uncanny X-Men.

Villains:
Punch & Jewlee
They showed up in Hawk & Dove toting a toddler, but I don’t know if the pregnancy was ever mentioned or shown in Suicide Squad or elsewhere.

Chesire
Gave birth to Lianne, fathered by Speedy/Arsenal (Roy Harper), but I don’t know if the pregnancy was shown.

Mist
Had a child by Jack (Starman). Do not recall if the pregnancy was shown.

Non-Super-Hero:
STRANGERS in PARADISE: Francine recently miscarried.

ELFQUEST is chock-full of pregnancies and births. I’m not conversant enough with the series to comment.

Characters UNABLE to become Pregnant:
1. Black Canary - Sustained tortue injuries in Green Arrow: Longbow Hunters that rendered her sterile. Her recent dip in a Lazarus pit may have reversed this.
2. Firestar - Using her powers will cause her to become sterile.

*Explanation per Matt Rossi: “Ms. Marvel was impregnated originally by Immortus’ son, who used the devices of Limbo to draw her to him, make her fall in love with him, and then implanted himself into her via some freaky Limbo technology. She then was sent back to Avengers mansion where she gave birth in an extremely short amount of time and the baby was Marcus, Immortus’ son (the one who impregnated her, remember) and then the baby, too, grew up rather remarkably quickly while time itself went ape because Marcus, concieved and born in Limbo, was a being out of time and his mere presence, not to mention the twisted nature of his self-conception into our world and the rapid time displacement, was shattering causality. Eventually Marcus agreed to go back to Limbo but pledged his love for Ms Marvel and asked her to come with him to Limbo, which she agreed to do and the Avengers let her (this was later pointed out to have been a really dumb move.) …I’ve simplified this immensely.”

Thanks to Laura, Johanna, Matt, Shane, Marc Laporte and Kevin for their assistance in adding to the list. All help is appreciated!