History Main / Chestburster

Related to OrificeEvacuation (where the alien leaves not quite as violently), OrificeInvasion (where an alien wants ''in''), FaceFullOfAlienWingWong (how these alien pregnancies ''start''), and SpawnBroodling (often the point of this, and the weaponized version of this). Sometimes preceded by a PainfulTransformation. Compare KillItThroughItsStomach.

* In ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid: The Getaway'', Greg gets startled by a sea horse while snorkeling, and in a panic, swallows some water. Worried that he might've accidentally swallowed the seahorse, Greg imagines it bursting out of his midsection at school.
* The "shit-weasels" in ''Literature/{{Dreamcatcher}}'' have a particularly nasty exit: chewing out of people's butts.

* ''VideoGame/KabukiZ'': On of the bosses, the Dragon Warrior, hides the soul of two ''kunoichi'' inside himself. After you defeat the warrior, he then collapses, before his back starts moving with the motion of something about to burst out. And then two ''kunoichi'' jumps out of his dead body (who deflates away) and you fight them as a DualBoss.

%%* The USBM from ''Manga/BioMeatNectar''.

* The third game in ''VideoGame/DontEscape'' has the mysterious crystal being capable of doing this if it infects a human being's insides, eventually growing too large to contain.

* In ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'', Bonethieves have a disgusting habit of forcing themselves into the body of a victim and using it as a cheap suit to attack the bearers of the Tome of Eternal Darkness. When the host bodies have taken enough damage, the Bonethief will blow its way out in a shower of gore, greatly damaging your Sanity and proceeding to attack ''you''. It kills you, it gets a new host. Maximillian's ravings and paranoid fear of the Bonethieves are quite justified in-game, as it's revealed that at least one of the servants he slaughtered was indeed a Bonethief host.
* It is revealed in ''VideoGame/JurassicParkTheGame'' that this is how the [[spoiler:''Troodon'']] reproduce. [[RuleOfScary Note that there is absolutely no evidence for this happening in real life]].
* An example that doesn't involve chestburster-esque monsters or other monstrosities, but ''VideoGame/KabukiZ'' has a boss, called the Dragon Warrior, who hides the soul of two ''kunoichi'' inside himself. After you defeat the warrior, he then collapses, before his back starts moving with the motion of something about to burst out. And then two ''kunoichi'' jumps out of his dead body (who deflates away) and you fight them as a DualBoss.

** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'', either Ben or Chief Irons gets one of these from the [[OneWingedAngel mutated]] William Birkin. Canonically speaking, it winds up being Irons.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'', we get the Rasklapanje, a creature similar to the Regeneradors from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4''. They infect others by drilling a hole into the victim's face and planting a parasite, which, in seconds, bursts out from the victim's chest, fully-grown.
* Don't get kissed by the Xenomorph-lookalike in ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIIVohaulsRevenge'', or it will impregnate Roger with one of these, hatching out of him near the end of the game.

* In ''Literature/StormFront'', Harry has to investigate a series of murders in which the victims' [[spoiler:chest cavities exploded and their hearts flung out.]]

* Season 2 of ''Series/WolfLikeMe'' opens with Mary (a Werewolf) having a CatapultNightmare involving this trope, with [[spoiler: her unborn baby]] tearing its way out of [[spoiler: her womb]] and attacking the guests at [[BloodSpatteredWeddingDress her wedding]].

* '50s science fiction author Zenna Henderson is best known as the creator of ''The People'', full of Christian ideology and sugary goo, but she could write psychological horror with the best of 'em. In "The Last Step", she almost casually described alien invaders with zap guns that give you a little prick. In a few hours it swells up to the size of an orange and is extremely painful. Cutting it open relieves it, and also releases a zillion tiny creatures with pointy little feet — which scramble out and run everywhere, pricking your skin (and everybody else's) on the way. And then ''those'' pricked places...

* Parodied in one strip of ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'', which shows a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] family sitting down for dinner and one of the juveniles playing with the food -- actually, ''in'' the food.

* The Good Ending of ''VideoGame/{{Covetous}}'' ends this way, with the parasitic twin emerging from its brother's stomach, killing him.