History Main / WhaleEgg

* There are a few animals that lay eggs, even though you wouldn't expect them to, such as the Duck-Billed Platypus and the Echidna.

*** And, you know, [[CaptainObvious whales]].

* See: Every single ''Pokemon'' ever. Including the [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction whales.]] And the plants. And the ''rocks''. And the ''ghosts''. And the ''eggs''.

* See: Every single ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' ever. Including the [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction whales.]] And the plants. And the ''rocks''. And the ''ghosts''. And the ''eggs''.

** We should also note that Leda herself supposedly hatched from an egg, when Zeus impregnated her mother Nemesis in exactly the same way (i.e. in the form of a swan). [[{{Squick}} You may vomit now]].
*** Of course, ParentalIncest was nothing new in Greek myth...

** The real kicker? Leda, according to most versions of the myth, had also had sex with her human husband Tyndareus on the same day, and had conceived. The children so conceived ''also'' hatched out of eggs, in the most bizarre way possible: Pollux (Zeus' son) and Castor (Tyndareus') hatched out of one egg, while Helen (yes, ''[[TheIliad that]]'' [[TheTrojanWar Helen]], and daughter of Zeus) and Clytemnestra (yes, ''[[TheOresteia that]]'' Clytemnestra) hatched out of the other.

* In Greek mythology, Leda, a ''human,'' lays an egg. The father, Zeus, was a swan during conception. ...Yeah.

* ''RockosModernLife'' gives an InterspeciesRomance example, when Dr. Hutchinson, a cat married to a turtle, lays an egg. Even weirder, ''four'' kids come out of it, and since Heffer was the primary "[[IncrediblyLamePun egg-sitter]]," [[LamarckWasRight one of them is a cow]].

In fiction, it's often simplified into laying eggs like a chicken, [[YouFailBiologyForever even if the biology of the creature in question should indicate otherwise]]. This is very useful in bypassing the complications of an InterspeciesRomance and the {{Squick}} of a live birth.

Popular {{Mons}} trope, pretty much every Mons series uses it. Especially the ones that originate in {{Video Game}}s, where it also serves to simplify game mechanics.

** As if this weren't enough, Ryo-Ohki looks like a rabbit and turns into a [[LivingShip spaceship]].

* ''RockosModernLife'' gives an InterspeciesRomance example, when Dr. Hutchinson, a cat married to a turtle, lays an egg. Even weirder, ''four'' kids come out of it, and since Heffer was the primary "[[IncrediblyLamePun egg-sitter]]," [[LemarckWasRight one of them is a cow]].

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* Inverted in DarthWiki/SealedWithAKiss.

** Subverted by Digimon, where Digimon can have children!

In fiction, it's often simplified into laying eggs like a chicken, [[YouFailBiologyForever even if the biology of the creature in question should indicate otherwise.]] This is very useful in bypassing the complications of an InterspeciesRomance and the {{Squick}} of a live birth.

* ''TheSimpsons'' does this when the family win a trip to Africa; a baby Rhinoceros is seen breaking out of its egg, with Homer berating Lisa for pointing out that Rhinos do NOT come out of eggs.

* In JusticeLeagueUnlimited, when referencing Shayera's pregnancy with his son, Static tells Green Lantern, "That was one big egg..." Luckily, he was just kidding.

* ''{{Gargoyles}}'' hatch from eggs roughly the size and shape of watermelons. [[WordofGod According to Greg]], the egg shells are malable and leathery at first, but soon harden.

* ''{{Creatures}},'' as well. The Norns and Ettins look mammalian (and one popular [[GameMod third-party breed]] for the second game was able to nurse their young,) but all three creature types lay eggs (of course, they were all genetically engineered by an entire ''species'' of extremely absent-minded scientists, so they don't necessarily have to make that much natural sense)

* And ''VivaPinata''.
* ''{{Spore}},'' too.

** Though, strangely enough, there is one exception. A diary entry in the Cinnabar laboratory states that "Mew gave birth." Mew is also among a subset of Pokémon that are functionally genderless and never lay eggs.

* Judging from a story in ''[[AllThereInTheManual Eastern and Little Nature Deity]]'', {{youkai}} in ''{{Touhou}}'' lay eggs. Only a few of them are based on things that you'd expect to lay eggs, and they all look human.