Basic Trope: A male member of an egg-laying species can lay eggs.
- Straight: Chuck is a rooster, but he lays an egg when frightened.
- Exaggerated:
- Chuck is a male cat and somehow he lays an egg.
- A chick later hatches out of it.
- Chuck lays multiple eggs.
- Downplayed: Chuck can't lay eggs, but is of a species that carries their eggs (such as lobsters), and is often shown carrying them.
- Justified:
- Chuck is a transgender or intersex male.
- Chuck is of an unheard species of chicken that can lay eggs regardless of gender.
- Inverted:
- Chuck is a rooster that somehow gives live birth to baby chicks.
- Claire is a hen that is unable to lay eggs.
- Subverted:
- Chuck turns out to actually be female.
- Chuck is seen with an egg next to him. However, it's not his.
- He didn't lay it, he pooped it.
- Double Subverted: The egg belongs to his friend, Thomas the toucan.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Male animals are unable to lay eggs.
- Enforced:
- Rule of Funny.
- "We should have a Bowel-Breaking Bricks gag with this character, but since he's a bird, let's make it a little more species-appropriate and have him lay an egg." "But male birds don't lay eggs." "Who cares, let's do it anyway, it'll be funny!"
- The producers didn't check if Chuck's 'actor' is capable of laying.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: Chuck gives himself the ability to lay eggs.
- Exploited: Chuck throws the eggs at the enemy who startled him as a distraction.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "Why in the world is Chuck laying an egg? I thought he was a rooster!"
- Implied:
- A bird with male coloration can be seen laying an egg, but it's ambiguous as to whether this is an example of the trope or just a case of Animal Gender-Bender.
- Chuck is often described as an egg-laying animal, but has never been seen with the ability to lay eggs.
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