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* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeRedemption'',this is oddly averted with Ghoul Spider eggsacs: if you approaches, they releases a few Ghoul Spider hatchlings. However, if you manage to kill them from a safe distance, the spider's death cry soundclip plays and the eggsac becomes inert.

* DoubleSubverted in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Fry Am the Eggman". Fry takes an egg from an unknown species and tries to hatch it. Eventually he drops it, and at first it appears to be just a yolk inside. But then an alien creature crawls out of the mess and starts spraying acid everywhere.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island (2023)'': Ripper almost wins a challenge where the players needed to retrieve a cassowary egg, but he spikes it into the ground like a football when he reaches Chris. The cassowary chick is unharmed, and immediately hostile to him, and breaking the egg cost him the victory.

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* Dr. Rumack in ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' pulls eggs from a sick lady's mouth, cracks them open and a bird flies out.
* At the end of the 1960 film adaptation of ''Literature/{{The Lost World|1912}}'', a large egg is dropped and cracks open, revealing a tiny "[[{{Slurpasaur}} baby ]]''[[{{Slurpasaur}} T. rex]]''".
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', the title character accidentally steps on a Cy-Bug egg at the top of the tower in ''Hero's Duty'', releasing a baby Cy-Bug that he ends up dragging outside into Sugar Rush.
* In Creator/DingoPictures' ''Wabuu the Cheeky/Little Raccoon'', a bird couple's egg falls out of the tree that Wabuu chops down to create a bridge for Wuschel, and the parents proclaim "[[MemeticMutation Child murderer!]] Child murderer! Wabuu's killed our baby!". When Wabuu finds the cracked egg, the chick fortunately hatches unscathed.
* Done relatively realistically in ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo''. A barracuda eats Marlin's wife Coral and destroys all of her eggs. The one egg that isn't completely crushed hatches into Nemo, but he still has a deformed fin as a result.

%%* Happens to [[Literature/TheAdventuresOfPinocchio Pinocchio]] when he attempts to make himself a meal.

* The Turbo Toilet 2000 battering the treehouse in a ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' novel causes the pterodactyl[=/=]hamster eggs that are on a table inside it to fall, crack, and release the hybrids within.

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s M14 set, there is a card called [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=370660 Dragon Egg]] that creates a Dragon creature token when it dies.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** The Rookery in Upper Blackrock Spire (home of the original WebVideo/LeeroyJenkinsVideo) is a chamber filled with hundreds of dragon eggs. Stepping on the eggs causes them to hatch, quickly overwhelming your raid party if you're not careful.
** During the quest "The Clutches of Evil", you are tasked with destroying 15 Proto-Drake Eggs, which have a random chance of spawning a battle-ready Proto-Whelp upon destruction (note that the "Proto" refers to them being the evolutionary ancestors of the dragons, not that they are not-quite whelps).
** A boss in the Darkheart Thicket dungeon, Dresaron, is a corrupted dragon that attempts to weaponize this. Around the edge of the boss arena is a ring of eggs that spawn the dragon's whelpings when a player smashes through them. The boss has a move that actually pushes the players back in an attempt to push them into the eggs, so that more enemies will spawn.
* ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'':
** There are a series of "egg" minions, which have 0 Attack but spawn a battle-ready minion when destroyed (or in the case of Dragon Egg, each time it takes damage). The original and most iconic is [[SpiderPeople Nerubian]] Egg from ''Curse of Naxxramas'', which seemingly contains an adult Nerubian.
** A number of game boards have eggs that can be hatched by [[StopPokingMe poking them repeatedly]]. Naxxramas has spider egg sacs that release baby spiders, Blackrock Mountain has dragon eggs can be destroyed and either contain nothing or a baby whelp that flies towards the screen, and Un'goro has a [[TRexpy devilsaur]] egg that can be cracked open to reveal the dinosaur's eye.
* ''VideoGame/{{Firefall}}'' has Aranha egg sacs that explode when shot or when in proximity of the player, revealing combat-ready Aranhas inside.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Rift}}'', during the quest "Creepy Crawlies," you're tasked with collecting Venom Sacs from two kinds of giant spiders. One of these types of spiders come from Egg Sacs, which you attack, causing several spiders that are each larger than the egg sacs to emerge.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'':
** Subverted in ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission''. There is a point where Samus wanders into a nest filled with alien eggs, but cracking one causes it to leak into goo. However, she doesn't get away with this that easily. The angered mother of those eggs appears, initiating a BossBattle.
** In ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'', when Samus enters the Metroid's nest, one egg hatches and the infant Metroid imprints on her. This Metroid then becomes the LivingMacGuffin of ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''.
* A variant occurs in the old ''[[VideoGame/XCOMUFODefense X-COM]]'' game with the Chryssalid zombies - killing them would instantly spawn a fully matured Chryssalid in its place, unless finished off with incendiary ordnance ([[NintendoHard which does piddling damage]]). In [[VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown the 2012 remake]]'', [[AvertedTrope if you kill the zombie, the gestating Chryssalid dies with it]].
* A bonus ScoringPoints opportunity in ''Dynomite!'' (a ''VideoGame/PuzzleBobble'' clone from [=PopCap=] Games); the gameplay involves smashing dinosaur eggs to progress, but eggs which are shaking are ready to hatch, and smashing them while they are still shaking results in the release of a cute baby dino which squeaks "Mama!" as it falls.
* In ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'', Air Man's, Crash Man's, and Wood Man's stage, as well as the first Dr. Wily stage, have an enemy who is a bird that drops eggs. Upon hitting the ground, the eggs hatch into smaller birds. Potentially justified by the fact they're robots and don't have to be built to follow the rules of the biological creatures they resemble.
* ''Videogame/MightyGoose'' has the mines stage, filled with giant insects and their eggs. Shooting those eggs will hatch more enemies at you; ignore them, and the eggs hatches anyway and creates more onscreen enemies for you to deal with.
* In ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'', in the Dino Might! level, you can find a T-rex egg and then jump on it to smash it open, revealing a baby T-rex inside for you to ride it.

* Occurs repeatedly in ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'', where eggs often contain baby spiders or Nerubians when destroyed (some contain items).
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'': One arc has you look for a monster preventing progress on clearing a mountain path. The cave leading to the monster is filled with eggs that contain a minor winged snake enemy when cracked (despite the monster referring to the eggs as her children, she's a dragon-dinosaur that looks nothing like a snake).
* One of the Divine Beasts in ''VideoGame/{{Solatorobo}}'' averts this, since grabbing the eggs and throwing them into one another prevents them from hatching tiny birds that attack you.
* ''VideoGame/RealmOfTheMadGod'': Some rooms are filled with eggs which turn into fully capable spiders when they are broken. Breaking them too fast results in an enormous wave of spiders attacking.

* In ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', the first step of Eyrie the Eagle's quest is to help baby Eyrie 'hatch' by smashing its egg open.
** Averted in the sequel, where Kazooie learns a move called Hatch, which involves her sitting on plot-relevant eggs and (somehow) causes them to hatch naturally.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' add-on Dawnguard has this in form of pupae rather than eggs. A common enemy in cave dungeons is the chaurus, an insectoid monster which can be found as a roach-like larva (found in all versions of the game) and the mosquito-like imago (found only with the DLC Dawnguard). One transforms into the other by going through a pupal stage, just like real insects do; however, if you smash a pupa, a healthy chaurus imago emerges and attacks you.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'', destroying or stealing Mirelurk eggs will cause nearby eggs to hatch into Mirelurk Hatchlings that immediately attack you.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Yoshi is found within eggs that are scattered throughout ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', as a CallBack to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''. You need to break him free by destroying said eggs in order to ride him. Justified in-game as the eggs were designed to trap the already long-hatched Yoshi rather than as a container for an unhatched Yoshi.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'' has a boss fight where the heroes attack an egg, causing it to hatch and reveal Birdo.
** The fight against Sunnycide in [[WombLevel Yoob's belly]] in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'' features this as a mechanic. Normally, the player can only do ScratchDamage to Sunnycide because of the boss's abnormally-high defense. However, should the player target the eggs that the boss summons for its attacks, the eggs will break open and free the Yoshi trapped inside, who will then begin pushing a large rock like the ones found earlier in the area. Once five Yoshis have been liberated, they'll be able to knock over Sunnycide with the boulder, lowering its stats and changing its attack pattern until it gets back up.
* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo 3}}'': Spider eggs, most frequently found in the Caverns of Aranea, are waiting to hatch hostile spiderlings whenever the player approaches or breaks one. Some areas have cocoons that serve the same function.
* In ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeRedemption'',this is oddly averted with Ghoul Spider eggsacs: if you approaches, they releases a few Ghoul Spider hatchlings. However, if you manage to kill them from a safe distance, the spider's death cry soundclip plays and the eggsac becomes inert.

* Inverted in ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}''. The deadly Queen periodically releases harmless larvae that can be easily squished by swinging your sword at them (or stepping on them), though you'll probably be preoccupied by the Queen and her giant blade limbs. If you ''don't'' dispatch the larvae, they'll be able to enter another Gloople. But that's fine, just smack the Gloople or let it leave the screen. The trouble comes if a Gloople has a larva inside after you've killed the Queen, because said Gloople will immediately transform into ''another Queen''.
* One puzzle in ''VideoGame/{{Gobliiins}}'' has a large bird's egg that is about to hatch, and only the chick's legs are protruding out of it, jumping in place. The protagonists need to have Bobo, their strongman, punch the egg with his fists so that it cracks and the chick's wings come out, making it fly and carry Hooter, their wizard, to the other side of a cemetary.
* ''VideoGame/GragyrissCaptorOfPrincesses'' has you start the game with a dragon egg, which you need to hatch by dropping several sheep on it.
* Crack-Tweets from ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2'' appear in eggs that hatch when attacked or inhaled.
* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'': The Egg Corridor full of giant Sky Dragon eggs is destroyed in an explosion. In a more realistic outcome, save for the one Kazuma hatched and the optional DualBoss the Sisters, the dragons in the eggs all either died or became malformed [[{{Dracolich}} "Dragon Zombies"]] due to hatching prematurely.
* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'':
** The level "Muncher Marathon" really kicks off when you smash a few of the spider eggs to clear the way forward, creating a chain reaction where the entire level ''bursts'' with spider hatchlings and you have to outrun an {{advancing|WallOfDoom}} {{wave|OfBabies}} of them.
** In the penultimate boss battle of that game, Colonel Cluck throws eggs which reveal robotic chickens that attack Donkey and Diddy.

* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', the fastest way to hatch a Chao egg is via throwing it at a wall to break the egg. The only downside of doing so is that the Chao will be unhappy when it hatches due to having been thrown at a wall.
* ''VideoGame/WariosWoods'': In the SNES version's VS mode, destroying multiple intersecting lines of monsters with the same bomb will spawn an egg on the opponent's field. If left alone, it will hatch into a monster and drop in six more of its kind. Picking up and dropping the egg, on the other hand, will cause it to hatch early into a single monster.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': usually averted. If an enemy appears out of a smashed egg (Mitites or Sunsquishes), it's noted to be a parasite that infected the mother creature and is using the egg as a host to propagate itself. But there is one possible example: in the first game, there is a giant egg in the Distant Spring that, if attacked, hatches into the Smoky Progg, which is believed in-game to be a partially developed Mamuta embryo that was hatched prematurely.

* Subverted in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' franchise. Certain quests require the player to carefully transport large monster eggs back to base. Instead of a risk of eggs hatching into vicious baby monsters, the player has to worry about being attacked by the [[MamaBear very angry mother dragon whose unborn babies were just kidnapped.]] Likewise, dropping the egg will just result in the egg breaking and the player having to go back to the nest and start over again.
** Justified with the Giggi. In the games, the adult Gigginox will deposit a large egg sac which contains several baby Giggi. If the player gets too close, the Giggi will immediately hatch out and latch onto the player. Considering that Giggi are parasites that feed on the blood of their hosts, it makes sense that they'd hatch and attach themselves to the first potential meal that passes by.

** The Rookery in Upper Blackrock Spire (home of the original Machinima/LeeroyJenkinsVideo) is a chamber filled with hundreds of dragon eggs. Stepping on the eggs causes them to hatch, quickly overwhelming your raid party if you're not careful.

* Recently, a group of Japanese high-schoolers [[http://www.sciencealert.com/watch-a-chick-develop-and-hatch-outside-of-the-egg got a chick to develop without an eggshell]].

* In ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'', the level "Muncher Marathon" really kicks off when you smash a few of the spider eggs to clear the way forward, creating a chain reaction where the entire level ''bursts'' with spider hatchlings and you have to outrun an {{advancing|WallOfDoom}} {{wave|OfBabies}} of them.
** In the penultimate boss battle of that game, Colonel Cluck throws eggs which reveal robotic chickens that attack Donkey and Diddy. Justified for the same reasons as VideoGame/MegaMan2 above.