History Main / EggLayingMale

A form of AnimalGenderBender. Compare MisterSeahorse for when a biologically male character is revealed to somehow be pregnant, which can come in many forms, including [[{{Squick}} mammalian]]. If a presumed-male animal is discovered to be female after laying an egg, that's YourTomcatIsPregnant. If a creature that has ''no business whatsoever'' laying an egg still ends up laying one, it's WhaleEgg.

* Professor Bird Brain from ''WesternAnimation/TUFFPuppy'' has laid eggs for comedic effect in several episodes, despite being a male blue-bottomed booby bird.

* Chicago-based Eagle Insurance had the infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4-e4nlfdRI&ab_channel=sibe74 "Eagleman" commercial]], where Eagle''man'' lays an egg on top of a car.

* While Yoshi's case generally isn't [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] in his ''own'' series, in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros4'' (and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', where the conversation is re-used), [[VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising Viridi]] can't help but wonder what the deal is and [[DiscussedTrope discusses it with Pit]], who wonders why Viridi can't figure it out considering [[MotherNature she's the Goddess of Nature]]. (Her response: "There's nothing natural about this guy!") Palutena [[HandWave concludes]] that all living things have both male and female elements, and Yoshi is no different.

* Infamously, the Tobis Film logo depicts a rooster laying an egg, which becomes the "I" in the company name.

* ''WesternAnimation/MaryAndMax'': Discussed when Mary says she thinks her pet rooster [[GenderBlenderName Ethel]] will lay an egg someday.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Bloom and Gloom", Apple Bloom startles a rooster, who [[BowelBreakingBricks lays an egg]]. [[spoiler:Although this turns out to be AllJustADream.]]

A form of AnimalGenderBender. Compare MisterSeahorse for when a biologically male character is revealed to somehow be pregnant, which can come in many forms, including [[{{Squick}} mammalian]]. If a presumedly-male animal is discovered to be female after laying an egg, that's YourTomcatIsPregnant. If a creature that has ''no business whatsoever'' laying an egg still ends up laying one, it's WhaleEgg.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGarfieldShow'': In "Virtualodeon", there is a character in a childrens' show named Rob the Giant Chicken, a man disguised as a chicken who claims that he'll lay an egg unless the audience sings with him.

* ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'': The episode "Ed's Benedict" has Edward think he's laid an egg after he finds one in his bunk. The end of the episode reveals it's just a bird egg that Dave and Ping Pong put in his bunk to get back at him.

** The male fairy Cosmo spends a large chunk of the episode "Odd Pirates" [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifted]] into an ostrich. He lays a lot of eggs in this form, often [[BowelBreakingBricks when startled]], but also [[ProjEggTile as a weapon]] at one point. At the very end, while in his usual goldfish form/disguise, he [[BrickJoke inexplicably lays one final egg]]. Possibly [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that Cosmo is a [[FairyCompanion magical being]] and can do a lot of strange stuff.

* Foghorn Leghorn was the victim of a cruel practical joke by the Barnyard Dawg, by being led to believe he actually laid an egg, in “Mother Was a Rooster.” (The Dawg had stolen an ostrich egg from a local wildlife hatchery and placed it underneath Foggy’s belly as he slept.) Dawg gets as much amusement from Foggy declaring he’s a mother as he does by viciously (and darkly) insulting the ostrich chick.

** In "Golden Yeggs", a gold egg is laid at [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]]'s farm, and he asks who did it. The one who did it is a goose with a male voice, but since he doesn't want to end up dead like in the story of the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, he pins it on WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck instead. Mobster Rocky kidnaps Daffy and orders him to lay a gold egg, but after trying to escape, he is shot at and the shock somehow makes him actually lay a gold egg. Never in the cartoon is it questioned whether male birds should be expected to lay eggs, let alone gold ones.

* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'': Murky is a male frog-like thing called a murloc. His main mechanic is the ability to place eggs on the battlefield that he will then respawn at if he dies, circumventing both the usual respawn timer and lowering the xp enemies earn from killing him. The game does acknowledge and mock both the fact that he somehow lays eggs and that he can spawn from his own eggs, but then again this is a game that's famous for it's intro tutorial telling the game to 'not think to hard about it' when asked why everyone was fighting, so it's not that out of keeping with the overall tone.

-->--Perry's theme song in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''

* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Perry's theme song calls him a "semi-aquatic, egg-laying mammal of action". Although this could just be a case of an unreliable singer, since he's never actually shown laying an egg.

** In "Pyramid Scheme", Beast Boy does this while going into labor with the other Titans around him like he's a mother delivering a baby, making him learn AnAesop about "hard labor." He does it again in "Chickens in the Cradle when he lays another egg, though this time his parenting style is ParentalNeglect, letting the other Titans raise his son until he finds out the hard way his son's fallen in with some [[LiteralMetaphor bad eggs]], going PapaWolf on them.

* On ''Series/MorkAndMindy'', the title couple become parents after Mork lays an egg, which then grows to an enormous size and hatches a newborn grown man. Mork explains to Mindy that on Ork, people age backwards.

A form of AnimalGenderBender. Compare MrSeahorse for when a biologically male character is revealed to somehow be pregnant, which can come in many forms, including [[{{Squick}} mammalian]]. If a presumedly-male animal is discovered to be female after laying an egg, that's YourTomcatIsPregnant. If a creature that has ''no business whatsoever'' laying an egg still ends up laying one, it's WhaleEgg.

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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouthbrooder Mouthbrooding species]] are animals (mostly fish and frogs) who hold their eggs in their mouths until the eggs hatch. In some species the male is the one to carry the eggs.

* In mythology and folklore, a male bird, usually a rooster, who lays an egg is the surrogate father for the monster known as the [[BasiliskAndCockatrice cockatrice]], half-bird and half-serpent, who is an embodiment of un-natural evil.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Yoshi, despite being male cartoony dinosaur, is [[VideoGame/YoshisIsland capable of laying eggs]], which he uses as [[ProjEggTile projectiles]].

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* Infamously, the Tobis Film logo depicts a rooster laying an egg, which becomes the "I" in the company name.
* In the ''Advertising/RespectThePouch'' game and webseries, the [[HalfHumanHybrid chicken/human hybrid]] Chuck the Clucker is able to lay eggs despite being male.
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---> '''Nick:''' Right, just like the ones that rooster was gonna lay. Only roosters don't lay eggs, do they?
--->'''Fetcher:''' Don't they?
--->'''Nick:''' No, it's a lady thing, apparently. Ask your mum.

* An old riddle/trick question involves asking "If a rooster lays an egg on a church roof, will it roll left or right?". The answer, of course, is "Roosters don't lay eggs".

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Yoshi, despite being male cartoony dinosaur, is capable of laying eggs, which he uses as [[ProjEggTile projectiles]].* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has the Chicken Kiev, a cosmetic item for the Heavy Weapons Guy class. When he dons this cosmetic, Heavy's head gets replaced by that of a robin. While in this form, he gains a few different voice lines, including many where he threatens his enemies with "laying eggs in [their] mouths".

* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'': In the episode "Chicken Pox," Kyle turns into a chicken due to his [[ChickenpoxEpisode titular ailment]] and has to lay an egg to get back to normal. Justified, since it's all the result of rather strange wizardry.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s FairyTaleEpisode , Stewie plays the role of the golden goose from Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk , though that may be a case of CrossCastRole .

* ''WesternAnimation/XialinChronicles'': In episode 19 "Chase Lays an Egg", Jack accidentally spills a bottle of some kind of strange orchid rum over Chase's food, which causes him to lay an egg in his reptile form.

* Infamously, the Tobis Film logo depicts a rooster laying an egg which becomes the "I" in the company name.
* In the ''Advertisements/RespectThePouch'' game and webseries, the [[HalfHumanHybrid chicken/human hybrid]] Chuck the Clucker is able to lay eggs despite being male. [[/folder]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In "Super Robin", Robin fuses himself with a robin bird to get super powers, which doesn't work, but it could somehow make him lay an egg. He cooks it.