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* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies in their mind and then manifest]].
* '''Downplayed:''' While it looks like parasitism, the Xenonians have a relatively normal way to reproduce. It just looks a bit strange.
* '''Downplayed:''' While it looks like parasitism, the Xenonians have a relatively normal way to reproduce. It just looks a bit strange.
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies in their mind and then manifest]].manifesting them]].
* '''Downplayed:'''While it looks like parasitism, the Xenonians have a reproduce in relatively normal way similar ways to reproduce. It just looks a bit strange.humans, but they usually give birth to six babies at once, rather than one.
* '''Downplayed:'''
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** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
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** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus Thus, their reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
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-->"[[OhMyGods Oh Xamaz]], is the female carrying its baby in itself!?"
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-->"[[OhMyGods Oh Xamaz]], is the female carrying its baby in itself!?"inside its body!?"
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** Humans upon first encountering how simple Xenonian reproduction are flummoxed as they realize in retrospect just how needlessly complicated the reproductive processes of everything on earth is.
* '''Subverted:''' While a xenoian birth may superficially look [[{{Squick}} gross and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing biology.
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** Which is still parasitism.
* '''Implied''': (See Inverted) The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown nor stated, but they are {{squick}}ed out by the mere idea of carrying a baby within the parent's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
* '''Subverted:''' While a xenoian birth may superficially look [[{{Squick}} gross and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing biology.
* '''Double Subverted:'''
** Which is still parasitism.
* '''Implied''': (See Inverted) The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown nor stated, but they are {{squick}}ed out by the mere idea of carrying a baby within the parent's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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** Humans upon first encountering how simple Xenonian reproduction are flummoxed as they realize in retrospect just how needlessly complicated the reproductive processes of everything on earth Earth is.
* '''Subverted:''' While axenoian Xenonian birth may superficially look [[{{Squick}} gross gross, and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] Lovecraftian]], it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing human biology.
* '''DoubleSubverted:'''
** Which isSubverted:''' Upon further research, however, human scientists find that it's still parasitism.
parasitic.
* '''Parodied:''' Xenonians produce offspring by disco dancing for twelve days straight.
* '''Implied''':(See Inverted) The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown nor stated, but they are {{squick}}ed out by the mere idea of carrying a baby within the parent's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.us.
* '''Discussed:''' "I guess it makes sense that aliens wouldn't reproduce like we do, but it's still weird to see their babies burst from another animal's skin."
* '''Conversed:''' "The aliens in this show lay eggs in other animals like parasitic wasps. Sounds weird, but I think it's a clever way to make them seem more alien."
* '''Played For Horror:''' Xenonian eggs start out extremely small, then rapidly grow larger in a few hours before finally hatching. The babies burst through the host's skin, causing excruciating pain and eventually killing them. When invading humans wage war on the Xenonians, the aliens fight back with stingers. Or at least, they're believed to be stingers, until a human biologist discovers the truth: They were ovipositors, and the humans only have a few hours to surgically remove the eggs from their bodies before they hatch.
* '''Subverted:''' While a
* '''Double
** Which is
* '''Parodied:''' Xenonians produce offspring by disco dancing for twelve days straight.
* '''Implied''':
* '''Discussed:''' "I guess it makes sense that aliens wouldn't reproduce like we do, but it's still weird to see their babies burst from another animal's skin."
* '''Conversed:''' "The aliens in this show lay eggs in other animals like parasitic wasps. Sounds weird, but I think it's a clever way to make them seem more alien."
* '''Played For Horror:''' Xenonian eggs start out extremely small, then rapidly grow larger in a few hours before finally hatching. The babies burst through the host's skin, causing excruciating pain and eventually killing them. When invading humans wage war on the Xenonians, the aliens fight back with stingers. Or at least, they're believed to be stingers, until a human biologist discovers the truth: They were ovipositors, and the humans only have a few hours to surgically remove the eggs from their bodies before they hatch.
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* '''Implied''': (See Inverted) The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown nor stated, but they are [[{{Squick}} squicked]] {{squick}}ed out by the mere idea of carrying a baby within the parent's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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** Which os still parasitism.
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** Which os is still parasitism.
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* '''Played Straight:''' The Xenonians reproduce by parasitism, laying their eggs in other animals.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies in their mind]].
* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies in their mind]].
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* '''Played Straight:''' The Xenonians reproduce by parasitism, laying their eggs in other animals.
animals while they're alive.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies in theirmind]].mind and then manifest]].
* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies in their
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** [[HumansThroughAlienEyes The Xenonians think humans have a very strange way of reproducing.]]
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** Which os still parasitism.
* '''Implied''':See Inverted: (See Inverted) The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown nor stated, but they are [[{{Squick}} squicked]] out by the mere idea of carrying a baby within the parent's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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** The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
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** The Xenonians think we humans have a very strange way of reproducing.
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* '''Implied''': The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown, but they are squicked out by the idea of carrying a baby within the mother's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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* '''Implied''': See Inverted: The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown, shown nor stated, but they are squicked [[{{Squick}} squicked]] out by the idea of carrying a baby within the mother's parent's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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* '''Implied''': The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown, but they are squicked out by the idea of carruing a baby within the mother's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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* '''Implied''': The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown, but they are squicked out by the idea of carruing carrying a baby within the mother's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.us.
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* '''Exaggerated''': The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies.
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* '''Exaggerated''': [[YourMindMakesItReal The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies.babies in their mind]].
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* '''Inverted:''' '''Justified:'''
** The aliens are StarfishAliens and come from another planet, and they evolved different methods of reproduction.
** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
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** The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
** The aliens are StarfishAliens and come from another planet, and they evolved different methods of reproduction.
** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
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** The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
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* '''Justified:''' The aliens are StarfishAliens and come from another planet, and they evolved different methods of reproduction.
** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
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* '''Double Subverted:'''Subverted:'''
* '''Implied''': The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown, but they are squicked out by the idea of carruing a baby within the mother's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
* '''Implied''': The Xenonians' reproduction is never shown, but they are squicked out by the idea of carruing a baby within the mother's body until birth, suggesting they don't reproduce like us.
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* '''Subverted:''' While a xenoian birth may superficially look [[Squick gross and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing biology.
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* '''Subverted:''' While a xenoian birth may superficially look [[Squick [[{{Squick}} gross and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing biology.
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** Humans upon first encountering how simple Xenonian reproduction are flummoxed as they realize in retrospect just how needlessly complicated the reproductive processes of everything on earth is.
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* '''Subverted:'''
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** The aliens were created by precursors instead of evolving. Thus reproduction requires a high degree of technology and actions like purifying solvents and testing its properties.
* '''Subverted:''' While a xenoian birth may superficially look [[Squick gross and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing biology.
* '''Subverted:''' While a xenoian birth may superficially look [[Squick gross and perhaps downright lovecraftian]] it is essentially just a cosmetically different birth which many analogs to existing biology.
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Basic Trope: Aliens have very unusual reproduction cycles:
* '''Played Straight:''' The Xenonians reproduce by parasitism.
* '''Played Straight:''' The Xenonians reproduce by parasitism.
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* '''Played Straight:''' The Xenonians reproduce by
* '''Exaggerated''': The Xenonians reproduce by thinking up babies.
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-->"[[OhMyGods Oh Xama]], Xamaz]], is that the female carrying its baby in itself!?"
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* Basic Trope: Aliens have very unusual reproduction cycles:
** '''Played Straight''': The Xenonians reproduce by parsitism
** '''Inverted''': The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
** '''Played Straight''': The Xenonians reproduce by parsitism
** '''Inverted''': The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
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** '''Inverted''':
* '''Downplayed:''' While it looks like parasitism, the Xenonians have a relatively normal way to reproduce. It just looks a bit strange.
* '''Inverted:''' The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
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-->"Yeah. That's messed up.""
* '''Justified:''' The aliens are StarfishAliens and come from another planet, and they evolved different methods of reproduction.
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* '''Justified:''' The aliens are StarfishAliens and come from another planet, and they evolved different methods of reproduction.
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* Basic Trope: Aliens have very unusual reproduction cycles:
** '''Played Straight''': The Xenonians reproduce by parsitism
** '''Inverted''': The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
-->"[[OhMyGods Oh Xama]], is that female carrying its baby in itself!?"
-->"Yeah. That's messed up."
** '''Played Straight''': The Xenonians reproduce by parsitism
** '''Inverted''': The Xenonians think we have a very strange way of reproducing.
-->"[[OhMyGods Oh Xama]], is that female carrying its baby in itself!?"
-->"Yeah. That's messed up."
