Examples in Fiction
- Many of Philip K. Dick's works have an "unborn" twin, such as Dr. Bloodmoney.
- Jonas Venture Jr. of The Venture Bros. cartoon series is a fetus in fetu who manages to survive extraction from his encapsulating twin, Doctor Thaddeus Venture.
- Stephen King's The Dark Half proposes the possible delayed awakening of an unborn twin in the protagonist's body and mind.
- In the 1990 film Total Recall, George/Kuato, the mutant leader of the resistance attached to his unmutated brother
- Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka has a chapter dealing with the condition. After being removed, the fetus in fetu is given a prosthetic body and becomes the title character's sidekick for the rest of the series.
- The concept is also the central theme of the novel Passenger by Billy Cowie (published by Old Street Publishing 2008) where the main character Milan discovers his sister Roma is embedded in himself and spends the remainder of the book attempting to communicate with her.
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding's Aunt Voula casually mentions a "lump" that turned out to be her "unborn twin" in passing after the Miller family is accepted as in-laws to the lead character.
- The TV show X-Files episode "Humbug" (Season 2) centers on a fetus in fetu that is able to leave the host-twin's body for a limited time.
- The comedy/horror film Basket Case centers on a man's murderous parasitic brother.
- In the comedy series The Office (U.S. TV series) Dwight attributes his strength to the dead fetus he absorbed at birth.
- In the comedy series Community (TV series), Chang states that he consumed his twin siblings' fetus un utero.
- In the first episode of the Korean drama Dr. Jin, a patient undergoing surgery to remove a brain tumor surprised everyone when instead of a tumor, something that appeared to be a fetus in fetu or perhaps a teratoma was removed from his brain.
- In the animated comedy South Park, Nurse Gollum is said to have a fictional but related condition called "conjoined twin myslexia".
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