Created By: MavericGamer on May 22, 2012
Last Edited By: jormis29 on May 23, 2014
Nuked
Offspring Attack
An attack in which a character uses an egg, offspring, or smaller version of themselves to attack their opponent.
(Do We Have This One?)
A mother's protective instinct is unquestionable. Except when they are the proprietors of the Offspring Attack. A sub-trope of Abnormal Ammo, these moms use their doting children to inflict harm. Usually these characters have a seemingly endless supply of offspring to launch at potential attackers.Examples:
Video Games- Wasps from Video Game//Diablo 3 will shoot small, slow-moving, explosive versions of themselves at you.
- Half-Life: During the Boss Battle with the Gonarch, it will spawn baby headcrabs to attack Gordon. It will actually make mournful noises when they are killed.
- Yoshi from the Super Mario Bros. series launches eggs at his opponents in many incarnations
- Birdo from the same had the trademark move of shooting eggs out of his/her mouth.
- Crypt Fiends and Nerubians in Warcraft 3 attack with what seems to be tiny, floating spiderlings. You can also notice that said spiders will float back to the user after being cast. Furthermore, the description of the Nerubian unit imply this.
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DesertopaThe boss of the first stage of SuperGhoulsNGhosts is a giant bird which attacks by spitting egs out of its mouth, which hatch and release groundbound hostile chicks.
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kyeoThe Daedra Spiders in The Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion send little mini-versions of themselves to attack and paralyze you.
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Bisected8It's probably worth noting that eggs don't need to be fertilised. Also a subtrope of Living Weapon and Natural Weapon (since the ability to produce offspring is pretty inherent).
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HyperTurbinaIn Pokemon, the move "egg bomb" is naturally learned by chansey, blissey, and exeggutor.
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MauriWhy do I recall the case of Girly when the Marshmallow kitty children actually combo up.
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RyuumaCrypt Fiends and Nerubians in Warcraft 3 attack with what seems to be tiny, floating spiderlings. You can also notice that said spiders will float back to the user after being cast. Furthermore, the description of the Nerubian unit imply this.
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TiibaRelated: Asteroids Monster
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SingingRain
- Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum from American Mc Gees Alice can open up and spawn smaller, weaker copies of themselves.
- In Final Fantasy VII, the Grangalan outside Costa del Sol can spawn smaller versions of itself known Grangalan Jr. for the second generation and Grangalan Jr. Jr. for the third and smallest generation.
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chicagomelI'm not sure if it counts, but there's a Green Lantern villain called Evil Star who makes Starlings that are dwarf copies of himself...
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TuckerscreatorThe Empress Bulbax of Pikmin lays Bulborb larvae to attack you the second time you face it.
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aurora369Shial from Blood has spawning of regular spiders as its only attack.
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AndygalIn Nethack it's possible for a female character polymorphed into a monster to lay eggs. Cockatrice eggs can be thrown in order to stone an enemy. Throwing eggs you laid results in a luck penalty though. Alternatively a character that finds an egg can carry it with them, and it may become a tame monster upon hatching.
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Stratadrake
- In Skylanders Spyros Adventure, one of griffin Sonic Boom's moves is "Egg Toss" where she tosses out griffin eggs, which hatch into baby griffins that proceed to attack enemies independently. It can be upgraded in various ways, including the ability for the eggs to inflict damage before the babies hatch from them.
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electronshockMetroid Fusion has enemies in the water zone that launch rotating eggs (maybe they're eggs...?) from their abdomens.
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APWhy was this discarded?
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morenohijazo^ It was already launched as Weaponized Offspring.
