Topic: This just occurred to Philosoraptor...

[TheouAegis]

This popped into my head while cooking up scrambled eggs for breakfast (try putting a little sugar in with the eggs before you cook them, trust me):



And I'm not just referring to Super Meat Boy. There have been a lot of games in VG history to feature fetal bosses. Even that one incarnation of Legion was fetal in design (although I guess that was already dead).

[Mooning Freddy]

Contra had them. Also some shmup games, I believe. The only question is, what were they thinking?

[KaZudra]

inb4 Giygas conspiracies

[PFG9000]

Yes, they do promote abortions.  They promote abortions of those giant, self-sufficient fetuses that attack you with fireballs, lasers, and homing missiles.  I hate those things.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Super R-Type comes to mind.

[TheouAegis]

HAHAH! WTF? Google scares me with what it can find for me sometimes.

http://www.giantbomb.com/fetus-as-a-final-boss/92-4317/games/

... But to be fair, I shouldn't be scared by Google......

[Gunlord]

To be serious for a moment, though, I assume games with fetal bosses/enemies are less interested in promoting abortion--or making any political point, for that matter--and more interested in freaking out the player. Mutant babies are just an effective way of doing that. XD

[X]

If people want to be freaked out by fetuses the look no further then the images painted/drawn by H. R. Giger. He has a serious dislike of fetuses (or babies for that matter).