History Main / WeaponizedOffspring

* This tends to be the case with social insects; all of them except for queens are infertile and only exist to fight off threats or gather food. (And the males who exist only to mate with the queens.) Special mention goes to bees, whose reproductive organs are converted into stings (which kill them when they're used) and termites, which can [[ActionBomb explode]] to drive off intruders.

** Dragapult is a motherly Pokémon that carries several Dreepy within the holes on its head. It also shoots the Dreepy like bullets. The Dreepy actually look forward to this, for some reason.
** Mega Kangaskhan borders on this, letting its baby out of its pouch so the baby can fight alongside it.

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* In the original ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'' the Zerg's Queen units could spawn broodlings, in ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' the Brood Lord does that [[spoiler: as does Kerrigan]].
** The ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm Heart of the Swarm]]'' expansion to ''Starcraft II'' introduces the Swarm Host unit that spawns short-lived locusts. The Primal Zerg Pack Leader Slivan the Eternal Mother resembles a massive Swarm Host. In another mission the Brood Mother Niadra spawns several zerglings without the use of a hatchery.
*** Heart of the Swarm also had this as an upgrade option for Banelings: When it explodes it becomes two smaller Banelings.
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* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'' it's possible for a character polymorphed into a female monster ([[GenderBender regardless of what gender they were beforehand]]) to lay eggs. Cockatrice eggs can be thrown in order to [[TakenForGranite 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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* ''Anime/Naruto'': This is from Ninja villages raising their populations in a militaristic way, they have schools and academies training the children in combat and strategies, is until all nations unite for a common enemy of the Otsutsuki clan and the terrorist organization Akatsuki that there is world peace, but the ninja academies are still running as a peacekeeping method


** This is also suspected from jinjurikis as they have tailed beasts sealed inside them, but actually both the jinjurikis and the tailed beasts were normal people with personal feeling and agendas but biased humans suspected their are demonic entities that only enjoy carnage, it was greedy warmongers that made the tailed beasts and jinjurikis fuel their hatred for humanity for unfairly treating them as monsters and for wanting to use them as weapons for personal gain. Best case scenario was with Naruto and Kurama whom had people who cared for them and wanted them to be happy, worst case scenarios were Gaara whom his uncle tried to kill him as a child to prevent him from destroying the village and get revenge his mom died at childbirth, despite that isn't his fault, and Rin whom became an unwilling jinjuriki putting Isobu inside her to become a troyan horse.

* ''Anime/HunterXHunter'':The chimera ants are a race of sentient anthropomorphic ants that had the purpose of ruling and eating all living beings they encounter, the queen had the ability to get pregnant from the creatures she eats, mostly humans, their new king Meruem killed his own mother when he forcefully birthed in chestburster style and killed anyone he wanted and anyone who he sees disrespectful, that was until Meruem learned to have empathy after losing serveral games of gungi against Komugi and value individual lives, then Meruem decided being a tyrant wasn't what he really wanted so he decided to set his subjects free and die happy along side Komugi

* ''ComicBook/SavageDragon'': The villain Mother Mayhem is an alien harbinger for a cosmic being. She resembles an old hag with three goblin-like babies on umbilical cords attached to her. She can fly on these children or send them to attack foes.
* Wu Meixing/Mother of Champions of the ComicBook/GreatTen can birth 25 short-lived, superpowered warriors every few days.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Evo}}'': The "Tough Babies" card allows newborn dinosaurs to attack enemy dinosaurs, which they normally cannot. Amusingly, the card depicts a baby dino poking a machine gun out of its eggshell...
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': A lot of cards can produce token creatures. Sometimes it's a captain calling troops into battle, or a monster tamer calling on some pets, but a few creatures do use their own offspring as troops, usually {{Hive Queen}}s. Case in point: [[https://scryfall.com/card/tpr/211/sliver-queen Sliver Queen]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/mm2/139/ant-queen Ant Queen]], [[https://scryfall.com/card/c20/176/hornet-queen Hornet Queen]]...
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* In ''Literature/AClashOfKings'', [[spoiler:Melisandre]] gives birth to a {{living shadow}} which slays [[spoiler:Ser Cortnay Penrose]].
* In ''Literature/EndersGame'' (and sequels) the Formic queen gives birth to all her soldiers, since the Formics are an insect race.
* In ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'', The dragon’s poisonous vomit is also deadly because her serpentine offspring swim in it. The knight has to spend just as much energy shaking off snakes and vipers as he does blocking the dragon’s blows.

* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': In ''GURPS: TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'', in Roma Universalis (detailed in ''Pyramid'' magazine) the Martians are masters of biotechnology, and their standard weapon is the bug-bow or bug-spitter, an insect that fires its offspring as ammo.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' Y2K parody episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS2E3DaBoom Da Boom]]", the nuclear holocaust mutates Stewie into a half-human-half-octopus creature, who then lays a huge pile of eggs. Next scene, an army of human-octopi march through the town chanting "victory is ours", and attack the people by jumping at them and grabbing their faces with their tentacles.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the leader of the Daughters of Aku cult gets pregnant with the essence of Aku and gives birth to 7 daughters which she raises to kill Jack, the leader and only survivor is Ashi whom now learns that everything the cult taught her are lies and is now Jack's lover, she then turns against her parents and manage to kill her mother and help Jack go back to the past and kill Aku, but because Jack killed Aku before she was born, she was erased from the timeline. However this is retconned in the new video-game ''Battle Through Time''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Viren suspected this of Zym as it was his idea to kill his parents and believed Zym will grow up to hate and kill humans, but he is wrong, Zym was raised by humans in his birth and he loves them because unlike Viren, the humans that saved him aren't greedy oportunists that want to kill and exploit him and all the magic creatures they want for personal gain and that assume the worst of other species.
** Viren hypocritically asked his children to betray and kill their friends as he believes they are too stupid and weak to rule in his way of letting humans take all the resources they want, he also wanted to turn Soren into a super charged zombie against his will to help him win the war he started. Is not until he was resurrected and he witnessed Claudia becoming a psychopathic copy of himself that he realized he was wrong about doing the greater good and he just wanted excuses to kill and exploit other species.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', all gems are created to serve a purpose assigned by the gem empire and the diamonds, pearls are the diamonds' servants, quartzes, jaspers, amethysts and rubies are foot soldiers, sapphires are prophets, lapises are terraformers, bizmuths are weapon blacksmiths, etc. The main purpose of their existence is to expand the gem empire by invading, colonizing and consuming planets to rise their population, even if that requires genocide on alien civilizations, extermination of imperfect gems,execution of expendable and rebel gems and morally questionable practices in their culture and methods. All that changed after Steven convinced White diamond that perfection is overrated and freedom is much better
* In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': the fire nation has militaristic lifestyle and they are indoctrinated from childhood to be blindly loyal to the ideals of the firelord supposedly protecting them from foreign dangers, but more to appease the bloodlust, greed and pride of the nation
** In ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLegendOfKorra'': Crime lord Yakone raised his kids to get revenge that Aang took away his bending, until Noatak got sick of him using them and not letting them live their own lives
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'': Scar's mate Zira raised her kids to kill Simba and get revenge that Scar died, although Scar deserved to die because his greed and pride let the pridelands become a barren wasteland and only cared about feeling superior to Mufasa. Kovu was supposed to join Simba's pride to kill him when he gain his trust, but instead he fell in love with Simba's daughter Kiara, which deeply hurt her the son she pampered and nourished had betrayed her, also her other son Nuka that she neglected and scorned tried to kill Simba to appeased her and she only gave her a bit of love as he was dying crushed with some logs. Then Kovu and Kiara convinced everyone they should let go of the old grudges, Zira still tried to kill Simba but she fell in the river of a broken dam and she rather die than be saved by Kiara
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The changelings at first were a race of pony parasite insects that fed on love leaving their victims as empty husks, their queen Chrysalis is the mother of all the drones, then a drone named Thorax convinced the other drones to evolve from being parasites and they became beautiful beetle ponies and Thorax became their king, Chrysalis sworn revenge on those who ruined her hive.
** In a later episode, all the changelings adapted to a more free and balanced lifestyle, except Pharynx, Thorax's hatch brother whom stayed as a parasite and hates that everyone else become peaceful. At the same time, as the changelings don't have an army anymore, they are vulnerable to a giant mole to attack them, Trixie and Starlight attracted one to convince Pharynx to be part of the hive and defend it, but he left as he's not welcome there. Pharynx's tenacity inspire the other drones to form an army and defend themselves from the mole, then Pharynx evolve too.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'':
** There is a character in the Vindicators that is a human shaped sentient ant colony Million ants, his power include dispersing territory and taking enemy damage as the queen will give birth to many eggs that replace the dead ants. Although due to Rick being jealous that Morty would leave him to the vindicator, he killed Worldender and put the Vindicators in a Saw-like scenario, then the worst traits of each member came to light, that Million ants stole and impregnated Alan Rails' girlfriend and teammate Supernova, enraged, Million ants force fed himself into Alan and killed him from the inside, in retaliation, Supernova killed Million ant's queen and all other ants died
** In other episode, Rick supposedly got a planet named Gaia pregnant and she gave birth to many clay Rick-like children, Rick was about to abandon them but Beth forced him to take care of them unlike how he abandoned her. The clay children that were rejected by Rick and Beth were dumped into a garbage chute and started to follow Jerry as their king, whom then he started a war against Rick's clay faction to prove he is useful in nature. Then is revealed that Rick isn't the father but a zeus god named Reggie, that wanted to raise his children in a social darwinistic way, then Summer and Morty killed him by flying a stranded ship to his head like a bullet. Then Reggie's corpse fell from the sky crushing several clay children and Gaia killed most of the rest when she made alot of natural disasters and volcanic eruptions with her rage
** In other episode, Morty unintentionally starts a war against the people of a narnian dimension when he accidently made his friend Hoovy miss out living with his family and his son kills him thinking Hoovy abandoned them, in his dying breath Hoovy blamed Morty for that, which causes many generations of narnians to believe Morty is a demon determined to destroy them and they used all weapons, resources and technology to kill him
** It also unintentionally happened when Morty used the breeding mount at Beth's horse hospital, but he was too ashamed of admitting it before Rick used the horse semen to make a super bioweapon against the carnivore horse people CHUDS, because of not telling the truth, Rick made super mutant sperm that were about to conquer the planet, eat humans and use Morty to breed more super sperm. Then after the government uses Summer's egg to attract all the sperms, Morty comes clean and with the help of the CHUDS, they kill the sperms except Sticky
** Then Sticky becomes a giant incest baby named Naruto Smith, at first the US government wanted Summer to raise him as a super weapon but then she made him escape and help her save Rick from being betrayed and killed by the Gotron rangers
* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'':
** There is a space crime lord named Dregg that breeds lots of drones that he uses as minions, and he uses the drone eggs as projectiles for his ship.
** In a further episode, Stockman fly has been making a lot of mutation experiments with insects which he was able to create a mutant ant that can instantly give birth to clones of itself from its back.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAntz'', the ant queen partially knowingly does this as she is giving birth to all ants every 10 seconds to have a formidable army, although she does love and care for her children subjects and has kept peace with other insects, what she doesn't know is that social darwinist General Mandible is conspiring to kill her and the "weak" ants by lying that the termites are declaring them war to get rid of the soldiers that are loyal to the crown, tricking the worker ants to make a "mega tunnel" that would provide food for everyone, but in reality is connected to a lake (puddle) to drown them all, and keep his own soldiers in the dark to avoid a rebellion, fortunately Z was able to save everyone with a ant ladder and Cutter rebelled against Mandible for his betrayal, then both Z and Mandible fell from the tunnel but Z landed in water and Mandible landed in a root
** Princess Bala would also keep breeding the colony with her husband Z, starting with 1 million or 2

* Thanks to the detailed simulation and WideOpenSandbox nature of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', it's completely possible, even with a vanilla version, to use quickly reproducing non-pasture animals such as turkeys or peafowl as an infinite source of ammunition to blast off lava cannons onto enemy hordes. The trick is to [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential set the ammo on fire prior to launch]]. And of course, you probably have some dwarven kids running around as well, contributing nothing and learning nothing while depleting your booze stock for nine years. For a specific ''DF'' example, there's LetsPlay/{{Boatmurdered}}: "A few more war dogs ran out and attacked. I have to say I'm slightly terrified by them. One of the bitches actually ''gave birth'' while she was attacking, and her ''puppies'' joined in on the carnage." Militia dwarves tend to go into battle carrying their infants, which can lead to the poor kid being used as a club. Or a shield.

** Viren hypocritically asked his children to betray and kill their friends as he believes they are too stupid and weak to rule in his way in letting humans take all the resources they want, he also wanted to turn Soren into a super charged zombie against his will to help him win the war he started. Is not until he was resurrected and he witnessed Claudia becoming a psychopathic copy of himself that he realized he was wrong about doing the greater good and he just wanted excuses to kill and exploit other species.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingIISimbasPride'': Scar's mate Zira raised her kids to kill Simba and get revenge that Scar died, although Scar deserved to die because his greed and pride let the pridelands become a barren wasteland and only cared about feeling better than Mufasa. Kovu was supposed to join Simba's pride to kill him when he gain his trust, but instead he fell in love with Simba's daughter Kiara, which deeply hurt her the son she pampered and nourished had betrayed her, also her other son Nuka that she neglected and scorned tried to kill Simba to appeased her and she only gave her a bit of love as he was dying crushed with some logs. Then Kovu and Kiara convinced everyone they should let go of the old grudges, Zira still tried to kill Simba but she fell in the river of a broken dam and she rather die than be saved by Kiara

* In ''WesternAnimation/LionKingIISimbasPride'': Scar's mate Zira raised her kids to kill Simba and get revenge that Scar died, although Scar deserved to die because his greed and pride let the pridelands become a barren wasteland and only cared about feeling better than Mufasa. Kovu was supposed to join Simba's pride to kill him when he gain his trust, but instead he fell in love with Simba's daughter Kiara, which deeply hurt her the son she pampered and nourished had betrayed her, also her other son Nuka that she neglected and scorned tried to kill Simba to appeased her and she only gave her a bit of love as he was dying crushed with some logs. Then Kovu and Kiara convinced everyone they should let go of the old grudges, Zira still tried to kill Simba but she fell in the river of a broken dam and she rather die than be saved by Kiara

** Megs Kangaskhan borders on this, letting its baby out of its pouch so the baby can fight alongside it.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': Viren suspected this of Zym as it was his idea to kill his parents and believed Zym will grow up to hate and kill humans, but he is wrong, Zym was raised by humans in his birth and he loves them because unlike Viren the humans that rescued him aren't greedy oportunists that want to kill and exploit him and all the magic creatures they want for personal gain and that assume the worst of other species.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', all gems are created to serve a purpose assigned by the gem empire and the diamonds, pearls are the diamonds' servants, quartzes, jaspers, amethysts and rubies are foot soldiers, sapphires are prophets, lapises are terraformers, bizmuths are weapon blacksmiths, etc. The main purpose of their existence is to expand the gem empire by invading, colonizing and consuming planets to rise their population, even if that requires genocide on alien civilizations, extermination of imperfect gems,execution of expendable and rebel gems and morally questionable practices in their culture and methods. All that changed after Steven convinced White diamond that perfection is overrated and freedom is much better

* In ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the leader of the Daughters of Aku cult gets pregnant with the essence of Aku and gives birth to 7 daughters which she raises to kill Jack, the leader and only survivor is Ashi whom now learns that everything the cult taught her are lies and is now Jack's lover, she then turns against her parents and manage to kill her mother and help Jack go back to the past and kill Aku, but because Jack killed Aku before she was born, she was erased from the timeline However this is retconned in the new video-game ''Battle Through Time''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', all gems are created to serve a purpose assigned by the gem empire and the diamonds, pearls are the diamonds' servants, quartzes, jaspers, amethiysts and rubies are foot soldiers, sapphires are prophets, lapizes are terraformers, bizmuths are weapon blacksmiths, etc. The main purpose of their existance is to expand the gem empire by invading, colonizing and consuming planets to rise their population, even if that requieres genocide on alien civilizations, extermination of imperfect gems,execution of expendible and rebel gems and morally questionable practices in their culture and methods. All that changed after Steven convinced White diamond that perfection is overrated and freedom is much better

** In a further episode, Stockman fly has been making alot of mutation experiments with insects which he was able to create a mutant ant that can instantly give birth to clones of itself from its back.

->'''Boomstick:''' What is it with creatures from the Mario universe usin' their babies as weapons? Is it that effective? I'm gonna have to test this out, maybe some sort of baby-launcher...\\

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' while playing the in-universe video game "Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne" Abed reprograms his NPC wife to birth babies (which look like tiny versions of Abed) and uses them to fight the final boss.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'': Flukeman would bite people and inject its parasitic larvae into them.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The "Bluegill" neural parasites were controlled by "mother-creatures" -- large parasites -- that appeared to produce the smaller mind-controlling bug-like parasites.
* The Visitors in ''Series/{{V|2009}}'', having the characteristics of BeePeople in this regard, used this trope: Anna (the Queen) spawned a huge number of eggs to raise an army of warriors.

-->-- ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', on [[VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld Yoshi throwing his eggs]]

** The Gigginox from ''tri'' will periodically lay a cluster of eggs on the ground, from which [[PersonalSpaceInvader Giggi]] will emerge, sucking the health off of any Hunters they latch on to. In G Rank, it'll start laying the eggs on its back, for the sake of making it more difficult to destroy them. The eggs, however, are far preferable to the alternative of dangerous poison bombs.
** The Rakna-Kadaki from ''Rise'' can throw its Rachnoid offspring at Hunters and coordinate attacks with them.

%%** Piccolo done this in the original ''Dragon Ball''.

* This is the entire point of the highly controversial Quiverfull movement. Based on a verse from a Psalm that compares having many children to a quiver full of arrows, the idea is for Christians to have as many children as possible to combat perceived threats to their faith. Metaphorically, each child is an arrow in a quiver, ready to be fired at an enemy, which bears an UnfortunateImplications that children are disposable, just like arrows.

** Another creature in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', the Fargul Hatcher, which is not a boss but appears in only one spot on the planet Bryyo, also uses this form of attack by spawning a wave of Fargul Wasps at Samus.

* ''Anime/HunterXHunter'':The chimera ants are a race of sentient anthropomorphic ants that had the purpose of ruling and eating all living beings they encounter, the queen had the ability to get pregnant from the creatures she eats, mostly humans, their new king Meruem killed his own mother when he forcefully birthed in chestburster style and killed anyone he wanted and anyone who he sees disrespectful, that was until Meruem learned to have empathy after losing serveral games of gungi against Komugi and value individual lives, then Meruem decided being a tyrant wasn't what he really wanted so he decided to set his subjects free and die happy along side Komugi