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* [[AirborneMook Yellow Paragoombas]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' attack by releasing [[MiniMook Microgoombas]] from the air, the microgoombas are not its offspring. The Big Bertha fish and Blooper nanny are accompanied by young cheep-cheeps/bloopers respectively.

->'''Boomstick''': What is it with creatures from the Mario universe usin' their babies as weapons? Is it that effective? I'm gonna have to test this out, maybe some sort of baby-launcher...
->'''Wiz''': Boomstick! That is a terrible idea! Anytime you wanted to reload, you'd have to wait nine months!

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** Cell creates miniature clones of himself to battle the "lesser" members of the Z team. These "Cell Jr." are not that much weaker than Cell himself...so imagine [[OhCrap his shock]] when Gohan finally gets serious and [[OneHitKill kills each of them with one punch]] to rescue his friends.

** Piccolo done this in the original Dragonball

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The "Bluegill" neural parasites were controlled by "mother-creatures"- large parasites- that appeared to produce the smaller mind-controlling bug-like parasites.
* The Visitors in ''Series/{{V 2009}}'', having the characteristics of BeePeople in this regard, used this trope: Anna (the Queen) spawned a huge number of eggs to raise an army of warriors.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Y2K parody episode [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom "Da Boom"]], the nuclear holocaust mutates Stewie into a half-human-half-octopus creature, who then lays a huge pile of eggs. Next scene, an army of human-octopi march through the town chanting "victory is ours", and attack the people by jumping at them and grabbing their faces with their tentacles.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the leader of the Daughters of Aku cult gets pregnant with the essence of Aku and gives birth to 7 daughters which she raises to kill Jack, the leader and only survivor is Ashi whom now learns that everything the cult taught her are lies and is now Jack's lover, she then turns against her parents and manage to kill her mother and help Jack go back to the past and kill Aku, but because Jack killed Aku before she was born, she was erased from the timeline
** However this is retconned in the new videogame Battle through time
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', the changelings at first were a race of pony parasite insects that fed on love leaving their victims as empty husks, their queen Chrysalis is the mother of all the drones, then a drone named Thorax convinced the other drones to evolve from being parasites and they became beautiful beetle ponies and Thorax became their king, Chrysalis sworn revenge on those who ruined her hive
** In a later episode, all the changelings adapted to a more free and balanced lifestyle, except Pharrinx, Thorax's hatch brother whom stayed as a parasite and hates that everyone else become peaceful. At the same time, as the changelings don't have an army anymore, they are vulnerable to a giant mole to attack them, Trixie and Starlight attracted one to convince Pharrinx to be part of the hive and defend it, but he left as he's not welcome there. Pharrinx's tenacity inspire the other drones to form an army and defend themselves from the mole, then Pharrinx evolve too

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* The [[MrSeahorse seahorse]] in some ''VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin'' levels does this, spitting out baby seahorses from his pouch.

* This is the entire point of the highly controversial Quiverfull movement. Based on a verse from a Psalm that compares having many children to a quiver full of arrows, the idea is for Christians to have as many children as possible to combat perceived threats to their faith. Metaphorically, each child is an arrow in a quiver, ready to be fired at an enemy.

* In ''[[VideoGame/GhostsAndGoblins Super Ghouls and Ghosts]]'', the boss of the first stage is a giant bird which spits eggs out of its mouth which hatch into smaller, groundbound bird monsters which attack you.

* Cerberi in the first ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' game spit out puppylike Cerberus Seeds that, if given enough time, will grow into full grown Cerberi.

** In a later episode, all the changelings adapted to a more free and balanced lifestyle, except Pharrinx, Thorax's hatch brother whom stayed as a parasite and hates that everyone else become peaceful. At the same time, as the changelings don't have an army anymore, they are vulnerable to a giant mole to attack them, Trixie and Starlight attracted one to convince Pharrinx to be part of the hive and defend it, but he left as he's not welcome there. Pharrinx tenacity inspire the other drones to form an army and defend themselves from the mole, then Pharrinx evolve too

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** Gohma in ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' lays eggs as you fight her, which if not destroyed hatch into baby spiders.

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A sister trope to TykeBomb, and subtrope of MookMaker and AbnormalAmmo. Daughter of MonsterIsAMommy. Related to FlunkyBoss and AsteroidsMonster. Also a subtrope of LivingWeapon and NaturalWeapon (since the ability to produce offspring is pretty inherent). Compare DoppelgangerAttack. Contrast SpawnBroodling: this trope is about attacking or creating allies by giving birth; SpawnBroodling is about attacking or creating allies by ''making the enemy give birth''. See also DroneDeployer.

** The Empress Spider in ''Shantae and the Pirate's Curse'' will lay eggs in one of her moves.They will then hatch to release baby spiders that will attack Shantae.

** The move "Egg Bomb" is naturally learned by Chansey, Blissey, and Exeggutor.

* Heroic example, the Yoshis in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' use their eggs as projectiles. Birdo has this trademark move of shooting eggs out of her mouth in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2''.

* Echidna from ''Franchise/DevilMayCry 4'' uses her Chimera Seeds as weapons, both as projectiles and as a MookMaker. She then has the nerve to act outraged when you blow said seeds out of the sky or smash them with your Devil Bringer.

** Another creature in ''MetroidPrime3Corruption'', the Fargul Hatcher, which is not a boss but appears in only one spot on the planet Bryyo, also uses this form of attack by spawning a wave of Fargul Wasps at Samus.

** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime 2'' has the Chykka, guardian of Dark Torvus, who spawns Chykklings during the fight against her. This generally makes the fight easier, since Chykklings are easily destroyed and usually drop profuse amounts of health and ammo.
** Another creature in ''Metroid Prime 3'', the Fargul Hatcher, which is not a boss but appears in only one spot on the planet Bryyo, also uses this form of attack by spawning a wave of Fargul Wasps at Samus.

** In the non-canon Lord Slug movie, Slug's minion Medamatcha can spawn smaller versions of himself to swarm enemies.

** The Tyranid Tervigon is a walking incubater that spawns swarms of Termagants.

* A lot of cards in ''''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' can produce token creatures. Sometimes it's a captain calling troops into battle, or a monster tamer calling on some pets, but a few creatures do use their own offspring as troops, usually {{Hive Queen}}s. Case in point: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5233 Sliver Queen]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191063 Ant Queen]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238141 Hornet Queen]]...

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* In ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', the move "Egg Bomb" is naturally learned by Chansey, Blissey, and Exeggutor.

* Happens too many times to count in ''WorldOfWarcraft''. Perhaps the most infamous example was [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Onyxia]] and whelps which she spawned occasionally. The same whelps would also spawn when a player came too close to piles of eggs in the room, and Onyxia happened to have a fearing attack which caused characters to run uncontrollably, often leading to [[MemeticMutation MANY WHELPS!]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04 NOW, HANDLE IT!]]

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* There's a ''GreenLantern'' villain called Evil Star who makes Starlings that are dwarf copies of himself.
* The minor ''[[Comicbook/XMen X-Men]]'' villain Tusk could create smaller copies of himself.

** The Tyranid Tervigon unit spawns Termagants.
** The special character organism "The Parasite of Mortrex" has a similar deal with Ripper Swarms. On a smaller scale, a lot of Tyranid guns work on this principle - their ammunition consisting of their grubs propelled at high speed with muscle spasms.

* Mother Pissrock does this with her brood in Webcomic/AwfulHospital.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Family Guy}}'' Y2K parody episode [[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom "Da Boom"]], the nuclear holocaust mutates Stewie into a half-human-half-octopus creature, who then lays a huge pile of eggs. Next scene, an army of human-octopi march through the town chanting "victory is ours", and attack the people by jumping at them and grabbing their faces with their tentacles.

* This is the entire point of the highly controversial Quiverfull movement. The idea is for Christians to have as many children as possible to combat perceived threats to their faith. Metaphorically, each child is an arrow in a quiver, ready to be fired at an enemy.

** The Deku Toad from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' is first seen when tadpoles drop from the ceiling and attack you (it repeats this tactic later on).

* Yellow Paragoombas in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'' attack by releasing Microgoombas from the air.

* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' has Sonic Boom, a griffin whose children are cursed to constantly be reborn as eggs. Because of this, she decides to train her children to fight as soon as they hatch, so that they can be able to defend themselves at any time. It can be upgraded in various ways, including the ability for the eggs to inflict damage before the babies hatch from them. They also manage to inherit her sonic abilities.

* A lot of cards in ''''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' can produce token creatures. Sometimes it's a captain calling troops into battle, or a monster tamer calling on some pets, but a few creatures do use their own offspring as troops, usually {{Hive Queen}}s. Case in point: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5233 Sliver Queen]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191063 Ant Queen]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238141 Hornet Queen]]�

->'''Wiz''': Boomstick! That is a terrible idea! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Anytime you wanted to reload, you'd have to wait nine months!]]

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* A lot of cards in ''''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' can produce token creatures. Sometimes it's a captain calling troops into battle, or a monster tamer calling on some pets, but a few creatures do use their own offspring as troops, usually {{Hive Queen}}s. Case in point: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=5233 Sliver Queen]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=191063 Ant Queen]], [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238141 Hornet Queen]]…

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* Some mushrooms and plants, such as peat, reproduce by shooting their own seeds and spores so that they embed themselves in a carrier and can be spread further.

* This is the entire point of the highly controversial Quiverfull movement. The idea is for Christians to have as many children as possible to combat perceived threats to their faith. Metaphorically, each child is an arrow in a quiver, ready to be fired at an enemy.