"Oh, I frequently think every now and then
Of the glorious fruit of the noble hen
Eggs, eggs, E-double-G-S eggs!"
Of the glorious fruit of the noble hen
Eggs, eggs, E-double-G-S eggs!"
—The Cat in the Hat, Dr. Seuss on the Loose
This index covers tropes related to eggs and hatching. If the way eggs hatch is depicted inaccurately, this overlaps with Pregnancy Does Not Work That Way.
Tropes:
- Chest Burster: A creature that hatches through another being's stomach.
- Cosmic Egg: A god or other cosmic being is hatched from an egg.
- Egg Folk: An anthropomorphic egg.
- Egging: A prank involving eggs being thrown at somebody's house or car, or at that person.
- Egg-Laying Male: Males of oviparous species are capable of laying eggs in fiction.
- Egg MacGuffin: Someone discovers a mysterious egg. It hatches.
- Eggshell Clothing: An eggshell being used as clothing.
- Egg Sitting: Someone (usually a student) taking care of an egg.
- Evil Egg Eater: Animals that eat eggs are treated as vile thieves.
- Pattern-Coded Eggs: A fictional animal's egg matches the color and pattern of the animal inside it.
- Proj-egg-tile: An egg is launched or thrown at an enemy.
- Raw Eggs Make You Stronger: The idea that eating raw eggs increases your strength.
- Smashed Eggs Hatching: An egg that releases a creature when broken.
- Whale Egg: A mammal or other creature that doesn't lay eggs hatches from or lays an egg.
