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FerrousFaucet Since: Feb, 2014
2025-09-03 19:09:33

I would say that makes that particular rock an egg. At least for me, once an animal hatches from it, it's not a rock that hatched an animal, it's an egg that looks like a rock.

In the movie Gamera vs. Barugon, some guys take a large opal from a cave. The opal is rounded and smooth due to the All-Natural Gem Polish trope. Later, a small animal hatches from the opal (actually an egg) and quickly grows into a Kaiju. At least in the English dub I watched, nobody refers to it as an opal anymore, but they never mention whether the eggshell remains would be valuable as a gem-quality opal because it becomes unimportant to the story. The movie proceeds as if it was a monster's egg that was mistakenly identified as an opal.

Edited by FerrousFaucet
Keane2005 Since: Oct, 2024
2025-09-04 00:05:06

There's no such indication of that here - unlike your example, the game only refers to it as a rock and not an egg.

Veanne Since: Jul, 2012
2025-09-04 08:34:13

If it hatches, it's an egg. If the game claims it's totally not an egg, honest, the game is engaging in Blatant Lies (likely for the funnies).

wingedsnake Since: Jan, 2014
2025-09-04 23:25:27

Maybe it's more about the fact that presents as something other than an egg or that people don't realize is an egg. Everyone thinks it's a rock or whatever, until the surprise reveal when it hatches.

Veanne Since: Jul, 2012
2025-09-05 09:49:44

Quite possibly, but I'm afraid we don't have such a trope. Hidden in Plain Sight ?

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