History Main / WeaponizedOffspring

** One of the Squid Baron's attacks in ''Risky's Revenge'' involves calling down his baby warp squids to attack Shantae. This gets a LampshadeHanging in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noxolWl3Ics introductory trailer]] for ''Shantae and the Pirate's Curse''

** 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 Empress Bulbax of ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 2'' lays [[GoddamnedBats Bulborb larvae]] to attack you when you face it, except in the first encounter.

* ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'' has some monsters that do this. The Mulligans are an unwilling example, as they are [[BodyHorror living insect hives]], but there's also the gray spiders that attack by ocassionaly spawning an egg sac that periodically shoots smaller spiders, Chub, who among her boss battle tactics is to spawn Chublings and, of course, there's It Lives, who is [[spoiler: Isaac himself, as a fetus, fighting inside his mother's womb]].

** Then Sticky becomes a giant incest baby named Naruto Smith, at first the US government wanted summer to raise him as a super weapon but then she made him escape and help her save Rick from being betrayed ad killed by the Gotron rangers

* In ''WesternAnimation/Antz'', the ant queen partially knowingly does this as she is giving birth to all ants every 10 seconds to have a formidable army, although she does love and care for her children subjects, what she doesn't know is that social darwinist General Mandible is conspiring to kill her and the "weak" ants by lying that the termites are declaring them war to get rid of the soldiers that are loyal to the crown, tricking the worker ants to make a "mega tunnel" that would provide food for everyone, but in reality is connected to a lake (puddle) to drown them all, and keep his own soldiers in the dark to avoid a rebellion, fortunately Z was able to save everyone with a ant ladder and Cutter rebelled against Mandible for his betrayal, then both Z and Mandible fell from the tunnel but Z landed in water and Mandible landed in a root

* In ''WesternAnimation/Antz'', the ant queen partially knowingly does this as she is giving birth to all ants every 10 seconds to have a formidable army, although she does love and care for her children subjects, what she doesn't know is that social darwinist General Mandible is conspiring to kill her and the "weak" ants by lying that the termites are declaring them war to get rid of the soldiers that are loyal to the crown, tricking the worker ants to make a "mega tunnel" that would provide food for everyone, but in reality is connected to a lake (puddle) to drown them all, and keep his own soldiers in the dark to avoid a rebellion, fortunately Z was able to save everyone with a ant ladder and Cutter rebelled against Mandible for his lies, then both Z and Mandible fell from the tunnel but Z landed in water and Mandible landed in a root

* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'':The Tainted Coil are a faction that kill and dominate humans as they are flawed and bootleged copies of the old metal gods, they breed with the use of some special demons Battle nun, War father and Overhauler that impregnate themselves to the ground and make womb egg where other demons spawn, also from syringes being shot from their stage

* Several stages in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' contain birds that fly across the top of the screen, dropping an egg partway through. If the egg hits a solid platform, it will hatch into a swarm of tiny birds that can be hard to avoid.

* ''Anime/HunterXHunter'':The chimera ants are a race of sentient anthropomorphic ants that had the purpose of ruling and eating all living being they encounter, the queen had the ability to get pregnant from the creatures she eats, mostly humans, their new king Meruem killed his own mother when he forcefully birthed in chestburster style and killed anyone he wanted and anyone who he sees disrespectful, that was until Meruem learned to have empathy after losing serveral games of gungi against Komugi and value individual lives, then Meruem decided being a tyrant wasn't what he really wanted so he decided to set his subjects free and die happy along side Komugi

* ''Anime/HunterXHunter'':The chimera ants are a race of sentient anthropomorphic ants that had the purpose of ruling and eating all living being they encounter, the queen had the ability to get pregnant from the creatures she eats, mostly humans, their new king Meruem killed his own mother when he forcefully birthed in chestburster style and killed anyone he wanted and anyone who he sees disrespectful, that was until Meruem learned to have empathy after losing serveral games of gungi against Komugi, then Meruem decided beingg a tyrant wasn't what he really wanted and decided to set his subjects free and die happy along side Komugi

* Mother Smiles in ''VideoGame/{{Killer 7}}'' lay eggs that roll towards the player. They hatch if they get close to the player, or if they're shot, turning into a vanilla ActionBomb Heaven Smile.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter''

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}''

* In the original ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft I}}'' the Zerg's Queen units could spawn broodlings, in ''VideoGame/{{StarCraft II}}'' the Brood Lord does that [[spoiler: as does Kerrigan]].

* This is the attack of the final boss of ''{{VideoGame/Apidya}}'', a giant hornet that keeps releasing bees at you.

* ''Comicbook/XMen'': The minor villain Tusk can create smaller copies of himself.
* ''Comicbook/SavageDragon'': The villain Mother Mayhem is an alien harbinger for a cosmic being. She resembles an old hag with three goblin-like babies on umbilical cords attached to her. She can fly on these children or send them to attack foes.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'':
** There is a space crime lord named Dregg that breeds lots of drones that he uses as minions, and he uses the drone eggs as projectiles for his ship
** In a further episode, Stockman fly has been making alot of mutation experiments with insects which he was able to create a mutant ant that can instantly give birth to clones of itself from its back

* The Gigginox in the ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'' series will periodically lay a cluster of eggs on the ground, from which [[PersonalSpaceInvader Giggi]] will emerge. In G Rank, it'll start laying the eggs on its back, for the sake of making it more difficult to destroy them. The eggs, however, are far preferable to the alternative of dangerous poison bombs.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', all gems are created to serve a purpose assigned by the gem empire and the diamonds, pearls are the diamonds' servants, quartzes, jaspers, amethiysts and rubies are foot soldiers, sapphires are prophets, lapizes are terraformers, bizmuths are weapon blacksmiths, etc. The main purpose of their existance is to expand the gem empire by invading, collonizing and consuming planets to rise their population, even it it requieres genocide on alien civilizations, extermination of imperfect gems,execution of expendible and rebel gems and morally questionable practices on their culture and methods. All that changed after Steven convinced White diamond that perfection is overrated and freedom is much better

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':

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* There's a ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' villain called Evil Star who makes Starlings that are dwarf copies of himself.
* The minor ''Comicbook/XMen'' villain Tusk could create smaller copies of himself.
* The ''Comicbook/SavageDragon'' villain Mother Mayhem is an alien harbinger for a cosmic being. She resembles an old hag with three goblin-like babies on umbilical cords attached to her. She can fly on these children or send them to attack foes.

* In the board game ''TabletopGame/{{Evo}}'' (which is about dinosaurs mutating and surviving in a hostile environment), there is a card called "Tough Babies", which allows newborn dinosaurs to attack enemy dinosaurs, which they normally cannot. Amusingly, the card depicts a baby dino poking a machine gun out of its eggshell...
* 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]]...
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' world Roma Universalis (detailed in ''Pyramid'' magazine), the Martians are masters of biotechnology, and their standard weapon is the bug-bow or bug-spitter, an insect that fires its offspring as ammo.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/GlithTechs'', there is a fish-like glitch call spawner that vomits clones of itself

* In Teenage mutant ninja turtles, there is a space crime lord named Dregg that breeds lots of drones that he uses as minions, aswell he uses the drone eggs as projectiles for his ship