History Main / EggMacGuffin

Despite the trope name, the egg might or might not be a MacGuffin. The trope's name is a [[IncrediblyLamePun silly pun]] on Egg [=McMuffin=], the breakfast sandwich.

* The Behelits of the ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' take on the shape of an egg with human facial features strewn all over it. There are two egg-grades of Behelits: the normal brown-grade Behelits that give you [[EldritchAbomination average evil nutrition]], and then the red-grade Behelits that give you ''humongous'' [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils God-like evil nutrition]] (and hence, this grade is also known as, "The Egg of the Conqueror/King"). And don't forget, these are also [[ClingyMacGuffin Clingy MacGuffins]], as they always find their way back to their master when the time is right. So, [[LamePun they ain't going rotten anytime soon.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'' episode "Three Men and a Booby", a booby bird loses an egg to an [[IncrediblyLamePun eggcentric]] collector. They retrieve the egg, but the booby is captured; part of the plot revolves around the guys caring for the egg (and later, the hatched booby) while Gadget builds a Trojan Easter basket...

* She may be the most hardboiled and {{Badass}} of Nintendo's protagonists, but in the closing of ''{{VideoGame/Metroid}} II'' even Samus Aran couldn't bring herself to exterminate the last Metroid, a mere baby that mistook her for its mother. She instead turned it over to scientists, proving to be both a good thing and bad thing when the Space Pirates steal it in the beginning of ''SuperMetroid''.

* In ''[[HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone]]'', Hagrid gets ahold of a dragon egg, which hatches into Norwegian Ridgeback which Hagrid dubs Norbert. Little Norbert, with his vicious, fire-breathing ways, quickly becomes a liability (especially as keeping dragons is illegal), and he is dispatched to Romania, much to Hagrid's distress.
* In the ''{{Literature/Leviathan}}'' trilogy, there is a veeeeeeery mysterious EggMacGuffin in the first book. [[spoiler:In Behemoth, the sequel, the egg hatches, and a SmallAnnoyingCreature is introduced in the form of Bovril. Bovril latches onto Alek and they become [[{{ABoyAndHisX}} A Boy and His Rapidly Learning Skunk Thing.]]]]

Usually the baby is a SmallAnnoyingCreature (though it may actually be a gargantuan creature with the mind of a small annoying one) [[{{ObliviousAdoption}} that thinks the first person (usually the discoverer) it sees is its "mama".]] Usually the baby may be far too much for the character to handle and they have to somehow find its real parents. A common variant has the egg hatching into something evil.

* The Behelits of the ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' take on the shape of an egg with human facial features strewn all over it. There are two egg-grades of Behelits: the normal brown-grade Behelits that give you [[EldritchAbominations average evil nutrition]], and then the red-grade Behelits that give you ''humongous'' [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils God-like evil nutrition]] (and hence, this grade is also known as, "The Egg of the Conqueror/King"). And don't forget, these are also [[ClingyMacGuffin Clingy MacGuffins]], as they always find their way back to their master when the time is right. So, [[LamePun they ain't going rotten anytime soon.]]

* Episode 20 of ''Manga/FairyTail'' centered around Natsu and Lisanna taking care of a mysterious egg that dropped out of the sky. It hatches into a certain flying blue kitty.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'' has an aptly-titled episode -- "Nanami's Egg" -- in which Nanami believes she's laid an egg in her sleep and no-one (except Utena) has the heart to tell her that it doesn't make sense. Nanami was already considered a character that straddled the CerebusSyndrome, with both serious duel episodes and comic relief episodes based around her haughtiness and animals abusing her, but the 27th episode manages to marry both comedy of the absurd and very touching character development. It's InsertSong is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSDSFaIvJwM "Hello, Baby."]].

* in ''Manga/XxxHOLiC'', Watanuki is once given a magical egg as payment for a job. He is told that he just has to sleep with it and anything he wishes will come out. He uses it to hatch a little bird, Tampopo, that is immune to Himawari's bad luck curse to make her happy.

** Most of the cast members have received a Pokémon through this fashion. Ash received an egg with hatched into a Phanpy, May received one that hatched into an Eevee, Brock received one that hatched into a Happiny, and Dawn received one that hatched into a Cyndaquil. This happens in the games quite a lot as well.

* The Time Egg from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Or, more accurately, the Time Egg '''[[TitleDrop is]]''' the Chrono Trigger.

* In ''WorldOfWarcraft'', a Quest Chain in the Badlands results in you stealing a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Black Dragon]] Egg. You end up purifying it, creating the only known uncorrupted Black Dragon Egg in the entire World. Naturally, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Deathwing]] wants it destroyed [[spoiler:and he thinks he has succeeded when he kills Rhea. She was GenreSavvy enough to have a Fake with her instead of the real thing, ensuring her sacrifice wasn't in vain. In the final patch of the expansion, the egg hatches into [[JerkAss Wrathion]], who proves that the Black Dragons are fairly nasty, corrupted or not.]]
* The plot of ''[[SpyroTheDragon Spyro: The Year of the Dragon]]'' revolves around the fact that the 150 dragon eggs have been stolen, and [[GottaCatchEmAll it's up to Spyro to recover them.]] Each of them hatches upon discovery, with many of the babies having their own unique animation.

* In the DrSeuss book (and ''BobClampett'' cartoon adaptation) ''Horton Hatches the Egg'', an elephant takes on the task of hatching the egg of a irresponsible bird. The offspring ends up being a bird with the head of an elephant.

* A ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode had Peter growing a beard, which a bird nested in. Due to the bird's endangered status, Peter has to put up with it until it leaves of it's own accord (to get away from the music he was blaring to annoy it). He's elated until he discovers that it left behind three eggs, which he then has to care for until they hatch, becoming emotionally attached to them in the process. In the end, he has a hard time letting go when it's time for them to leave the nest/his beard.

[[IReadThatAs Has nothing to do with breakfast sandwiches.]] You're probably thinking of an Egg [=McMuffin=], [[IncrediblyLamePun for some silly reason]].

* The seven Yoshi eggs in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''.

* The forged (and real) Fabergé egg in the first half of''{{Film/Octopussy}}''.

* ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'': Yoshi's main gimmick revolves around this.

* In the Eddie Murphy film version of ''DoctorDolittle'', the Maya character has an egg throughout the movie that she believes is a swan egg. At the end of the film, it hatches, and it turns out to be an alligator.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' involves Terry keeping track of an egg that he needs to take care of for a grade.

* In Creator/DianaWynneJones's book ''[[{{Chrestomanci}} The Pinhoe Egg]]'', the main character finds a [[spoiler:gryphon]] egg in an attic, and cares for it until it grows up.

* In DianaWynneJones' book ''[[{{Chrestomanci}} The Pinhoe Egg]]'', the main character finds a [[spoiler:gryphon]] egg in an attic, and cares for it until it grows up.

* The Behelits of the [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Berserkerverse]] take on the shape of an egg with human facial features strewn all over it. There are two egg-grades of Behelits: the normal brown-grade Behelits that give you [[EldritchAbominations average evil nutrition]], and then the red-grade Behelits that give you ''humongous'' [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils God-like evil nutrition]] (and hence, this grade is also known as, "The Egg of the Conqueror/King"). And don't forget, these are also [[ClingyMacGuffin Clingy MacGuffins]], as they always find their way back to their master when the time is right. So, [[LamePun they ain't going rotten anytime soon.]]

[[IReadThatAs Has nothing to do with breakfast sandwiches.]] You're probably thinking of an Egg [=McMuffin=], for some silly reason.