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Egg MacGuffin
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Sometimes, an episode of a series may involve a character discovering an egg of some sort which later hatches. Occasionally, the protagonists may save the egg from a terrible fate: either from being smashed or from being something or someone's lunch. The egg eventually hatches and the character gains a Pet Baby Wild Animal. Usually the baby is a Sidekick Creature Nuisance (though it may actually be a gargantuan creature with the mind of a small annoying one) that thinks the first person (usually the discoverer) it sees is its "mama". Usually, the baby may be far too much for the character to handle and they have to somehow find its real parents. A common variant has the egg hatching into something evil. The trope can get even more unusual when the resulting offspring ends up taking on the characteristics of the hatcher, rather than who actually contributed to the genetics. If the plot revolves around the unknown origin or result of a different kind of egg, it may be Who's Your Daddy?. Technically speaking, this is basically what happens in any mammalian or internally fertilised species, where legions of sperm race each other to get to the ovum. A frequent cartoon scenario has a Talking Animal, or more often a Speech-Impaired Animal, is trying to keep an egg warm without being interrupted or losing the egg in a offbeat chase scene. When the egg hatches, this often results in the (usually male) babysitter being referred to as Mommy. Compare Egg Sitting, where the egg is just a stand-in for a baby. Despite the trope name, the egg itself does not necessarily need to be a MacGuffin. The trope's name is a silly pun on Egg McMuffin, the McDonald's breakfast sandwich. |
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Natsume's Book of Friends: Natsume takes care of a small egg found in a nest — which hatches into a "dragon". At first, however, it appears to take the form of an extremely tiny version of whatever creature it sees first — namely Natsume. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Hagrid gets ahold of a dragon egg, which hatches into Norwegian Ridgeback which Hagrid dubs Norbert. Little Norbert, with his vicious, fire-breathing ways, quickly becomes a liability (especially as keeping dragons is illegal), and he is dispatched to Romania, much to Hagrid's distress. | |
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Much of Guild Wars 2's second Living World Season as well as the Heart of Thorns expansion revolves around a McGuffin initially held by the Master of Peace, leader of the Zephyrites which turns out to be a crystal egg. In Season 3, the egg finally hatches into the baby dragon Aurene, last child of Glint. | |
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In Digimon, digi-eggs are the beginning and end of a Digimon's life cycle, with a Digimon reverting to egg form after "death." (There are exceptions to this, such as season three, which began the trend of new seasons being AU and thus had different rules, and season five, in which rebirth was automatic again... making it all the more horrible when the villainous Kurata creates a means of corrupting a Digimon's data so it can't ever be reborn. Once, Seraphimon, a god/king to the season four version of the Digital World, had to be toted around by Bokomon, who had it strapped to his stomach and acted pregnant for well over ten episodes until Seraphimon hatched as Patamon. And then proceeds to refer to Bokomon as his "papa-mon". No reference or mention is made of the fact that Bokomon could, if he wanted to, become The Man Behind the Man ruling 1/3 of the digital world. | |
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Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost Stories: In "Marco Comes Late", Marco's story starts out with a mother bird laying an egg on his book while he's walking to school. He ends up standing still pondering what to do while an increasing number of creatures weigh in on whether he should continue to school or make sure the egg is safe at all costs. Eventually the egg hatches and the bird inside tells Marco to tell his teacher he was the reason for Marco being late. | |
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Mr. Drake's Duck revolves around an egg full of uranium yolk after being laid by one of Mr. and Mrs. Drake's sixty ducks. Hilarity Ensues once the British army is alerted and tries to remove the egg from the farm and look for the duck that laid it. | |
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The Sphere of Light in Dragon Quest III is actually the Dragon Queen's final egg. | |
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In the Shake it Up episode "Heat it Up", Tinka (the comedic relief) enters an egg into a science fair that she genetically engineered. It hatches and proceeds to attack her. | |
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The Simpsons: in "Bart the Mother", Bart Simpson has to look after a nest of bird eggs, after accidentally killing the mommy bird. Except that when they hatched they turned out to be Bolivian tree lizards. Apparently the female lizard eats the bird eggs and lays its own eggs in their place. The baby lizards then eat the bird. | |
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The Cyberchase episode "The Poddleville Case" follows the Cybersquad trying to retrieve stolen "pods" that help power the city of Poddleville. The original 1999 pilot is an early version of this episode, and is mostly the same from its final 2002 version aside from the pods being referred to as "eggs". | |
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The egg that Skuld's angel Noble Scarlet hatches from in Ah! My Goddess. | |
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In NetHack if an egg hatches while in your inventory, the resulting monster may become your pet. Not all eggs you find hatch though. | |
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In Teen Titans Go! — Art of the Ninja, Robin keeps telling the Titans that they are looking for a well sought object called the "McGuffin" and never specifies what it is until the end when they discover It's just an egg muffin which then is revealed to be Beast Boy in disguise | |
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In the The Backyardigans episode "Tale of the Mighty Knights", Tyrone and Uniqua are tasked with guarding the king's egg, which promptly rolls away. | |
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Kinda subverted in An Untitled Story, as your character is an egg that runs around and does stuff (until you hatch it). | |
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Dragaera: In Taltos, young Vlad takes care of the jhereg egg that he'd obtained from its mother in Jhereg. When Loiosh hatches, he calls Vlad "Mama", although he switches to "Boss" once he's grown some. | |
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In season one of Under the Dome, a glowing egg found inside a mini-dome is one of the plot drivers until it's dumped into the lake at the end of the season. At the start of season two, that action wound up resurrecting a teen girl who'd been killed near the egg twenty years earlier. | |
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The entire plot of Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit occurs because Prince Chagum is carrying the egg of a water spirit within his body, at first leading many people to believe that he's possessed by a demon. The entire cast becomes very concerned both with making sure the egg hatches successfully (since there will be a horrific drought if it doesn't) and with making sure that Chagum isn't killed in the process, with much of the drama of the latter half of the series coming from the fact that the two goals may be mutually exclusive. | |
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Dream SMP: A villainous example; characters corrupted by the Crimson are brainwashed into the Eggpire in order to spread its parasitic influence across the server, and continuously make plans to sacrifice anti-Eggpire server members' life forces to the Egg so that it hatches. This results in the Red Banquet, which is one such plan in Season 3 which is foiled by the Eggpire being Out-Gambitted, and ultimately renders the Crimson dormant. This lasts until Season 4, when Crimson vines start spreading across the server again, and one final massacre at the end of the season allows the Egg to hatch. | |
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Twinken the dream maker in Barney's Great Adventure. | |
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Rocko's Modern Life has a relationship with a Cat and a Turtle which resulted in an egg that contained four children: One of them looking like Heffer (a steer). | |
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One episode of Earthworm Jim has Psycrow using a magic orb which turns out, after Jim ends up sitting on it, to be an egg that promptly hatches. The entity inside the egg makes all sorts of vague promises about how it will help usher in a wonderful new age for the universe, at which point a cow lands on its head for no reason. | |
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In World of Warcraft, a Quest Chain in the Badlands results in you stealing a Black Dragon Egg. You end up purifying it, creating the only known uncorrupted Black Dragon Egg in the entire World. Naturally, Deathwing wants it destroyed and he thinks he has succeeded when he kills Rhea. She was smart enough to have a Fake with her instead of the real thing, ensuring her sacrifice wasn't in vain. In the final patch of the expansion, the egg hatches into Wrathion, who proves that the Black Dragons are fairly nasty, corrupted or not. | |
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An episode of The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss involves a girl named Megan and her friend Horton the Elephant trying to retrieve the priceless Zubble-Wump egg which was stolen by the Grinch. | |
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The Mandalorian When Mando has to buy back his own ship from the Jawas, he has to go find "the egg" to trade. This is ultimately subverted when you find out that they just like how the egg tastes; though evidently they like it enough to sell a ship in exchange. In another episode, Mando takes a job escorting a frog-like alien and a big jar of her eggs back to her homeworld so her husband can fertilize them. Not only do they meet with trouble along the way that puts the eggs in danger, the Child keeps covertly snacking on them for a bit of Black Comedy. |
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A classic cartoon example has Daffy Duck looking after his own egg. It's a rare setting that has him married. His wife goes out and tells him rather sternly to be responsible for a change and don't let anything happen to Junior. After a while he gets bored and starts playing with the egg. He does a little stage magic and vanishes it. The third time he does that, the egg doesn't come back. Daffy gets hauled into divorce court for the egg's disappearance, and after playing the suspense for all it's worth, he manages to bring the egg back in perfect condition. | |
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In The Last Express, Tyler Whitney got mixed up in a deal where he planned to sell a golden, jeweled egg for money and then using that money to give weapons to terrorists. Unfortunately, that egg was stolen around the time he was murdered. Since you are impersonating Tyler, you need to find the egg and make the two deals go through in order to prevent Tyler's creditors from dishing out consequences. And as it turns out the egg, which can turn into a mechanical bird, is what killed Tyler, answering the big question of the game. | |
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In Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers season 3, Rita's brother Rito Revolto brings a number of eggs to his sister and brother-in-law as a wedding gift. After some prodding, it's revealed that they are Tenga warriors (the Tengu warriors from the 1995 film with a name change), with one egg being what ends up being the next MOTW. | |
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A major plot point in Homestuck is the Matriorb, the egg required to hatch a Mother Grub and resurrect the troll species. | |
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The Deptford Histories book Thomas focuses on the heroes trying to prevent fragments of a jade egg from ending up in the hands of the enemy. If all the pieces are put together, the evil serpent god Sarpedon will be reborn within it. | |
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In Ready Player One, 'gunters (egg hunters), including the protagonist, devote their lives to finding a virtual Easter egg (an actual in-game egg) to inherit his fortune. | |
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Cosmic Dash: The pilot comic Egg MacGuffin'' involved transporting a holy giant egg towards a ritual site. The ceremony involves cooking and eating said egg. | |
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In Pokémon Adventures, Gold receives the Togepi egg, which at one point nearly gets eaten by a wild Gligar. Thankfully, it hatched into a Killer Rabbit with a gambling problem and took the Gligar down itself. | |
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As it turns out, that was the same egg Sakura had to retrieve in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- in Acid Tokyo as payment for a wish. | |
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In Peter and the Magic Egg, Mother Nature gives the animals an egg that contains something that'll save Peter. | |
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In Shining Force III there is a hidden character that requires you to go through a lot of work to get, probably falls under Guide Damn It! territory. You first have buy some chicken food and lure a chicken to follow you. Later in the game you have to find a couple boiling an egg, buy the egg for 1000 gold, find the chicken your lured sitting in your HQ and then place the egg under the chicken and it'll instantly hatch. The creature will run off and then right near the end of the game you'll find the character "Penn" who turns out to be a Joke Character as he starts at level 1, unpromoted, when all your other characters are promoted at level ~15. | |
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The Batman Beyond episode "The Eggbaby" involves Terry keeping track of an egg-shaped simulation of a baby that he needs to take care of for a grade. | |
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She may be the most hardboiled and badass of Nintendo's protagonists, but in the closing of Metroid II: Return of Samus even Samus Aran couldn't bring herself to exterminate the last Metroid, a mere baby that mistook her for its mother. She instead turned it over to scientists, proving to be both a good thing and bad thing when the Space Pirates steal it in the beginning of Super Metroid. | |
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Jackie Chan Adventures: Season 3's episode The Invisible Mom has the cast trying to find the noble snake that inherited the power of the Snake talisman. It turns out that "The Talisman power of invisibility lies within the snake... within the egg." | |
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Shugo Chara!: The Embryo, and heck, the Heart's Eggs themselves, are there within order towards creating Dreams. | |
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A subversion from Avatar: The Last Airbender. When the episode "The Fire Bending Masters" had a large golden egg feature, many fans speculated that it would hatch into a dragon and be crucial to the plot. It didn't. | |
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In the third Avalon: Web of Magic book, "Cry of the Wolf", Ariadne accidentally gets transported to Aldenmore and finds herself protecting a seemingly sentient rock that the Dark Sorceress is after. The rock turns out to be a dragon egg. Dragons are one of the most powerful creatures in existence, explaining why the Dark Sorceress is seeking after it. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The entire point of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is to collect the eight instruments and play them in front of a giant egg (belonging to the Wind Fish). The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has Link storm a fortress swarming with Gerudo pirates and an underwater pit full of giant sea snakes to retrieve Lulu's stolen Zora eggs, which are necessary to gain access to the Great Bay Temple. |
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Super Mario World Bowser has sealed Yoshi inside an egg. In several levels, Mario (or Luigi) can rescue Yoshi, who becomes the Power Up Mount. Meanwhile, the seven Koopalings have kidnapped seven Yoshi eggs. Mario can recover the eggs from the Koopalings' castles, but they do not hatch until the end credits, when they become baby Yoshis. Yoshi returns as a Power Up Mount in Super Mario Sunshine, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, and Super Mario Galaxy 2. Mario only needs to find the egg; except in Sunshine, Mario must bring the correct fruit to the egg. The Egg MacGuffin in Yoshi's Island DS is one of the seven star children. It is baby Yoshi, who hatches during the end credits. |
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×××HOLiC: Watanuki is once given a magical egg as payment for a job. He is told that he just has to sleep with it and anything he wishes will come out. He uses it to hatch a little bird, Tampopo, that is immune to Himawari's bad luck curse to make her happy. As it turns out, that was the same egg Sakura had to retrieve in Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE- in Acid Tokyo as payment for a wish. |
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An episode of the Super Mario World episode "The Koopa Shuffle" uses this. The twist: it was Luigi, transformed into an egg by a Magikoopa. | |
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In the Our Miss Brooks: episode "The Egg", Mrs. Davis gets a chicken egg from her brother's farm. Mistakenly, he had given her an egg soon to hatch. Miss Brooks and friends try to safely hatch the egg, and keep Mr. Conklin from frightening the chick by flashing a photo as it emerges from its shell. | |
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In Super Mario Bros. (1993), Princess Daisy is born from an egg that her mother left at a convent. In earlier drafts of the film, the egg was necessary alongside her pendant for Koopa to merge the dimensions. | |
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In the The Aquabats! Super Show! episode "Mysterious Egg!", Jimmy the Robot finds a giant egg and the team eagerly awaits its hatching with contrived imagine spots. The egg hatches and the resulting chicken-thing wreaks havoc and runs off. Jimmy is torn between his attachment for the hatchling and protecting the rest of the band from it. | |
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The entire point of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is to collect the eight instruments and play them in front of a giant egg (belonging to the Wind Fish). | |
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In Mike the Knight - Journey to Dragon Mountain, an egg that everyone believes to a be a jewel hatches into the dragon Squirt's baby sister after he finds his Disappeared Dad and Missing Mom. | |
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In the Eddie Murphy film Dr. Dolittle, Dolittle's daughter Maya has an egg throughout the movie that she believes is a swan egg. At the end of the film, it hatches, and it turns out to be an alligator. | |
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In Gargoyles, Princess Katherine and her friends have to take care of thirty-six Gargoyle eggs because their parents are all either dead or unavailable. They do a good job in protecting them, though. | |
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The Land Before Time: The final series episode has the gang needing to work with the older dino kids who tend to bully them in order to move a nest of Sharptooth eggs farther from the Great Valley so the predators will be less of a threat. Some of the adults want the eggs destroyed. | |
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In Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, the last two living dinosaur eggs in the world are something both the heroes and villains devote a lot of energy to getting. Their true significance isn't revealed until the final arc. | |
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Played with in the Kirby: Right Back at Ya! anime, where the giant steel bird Dynablade lays an egg that later disappears, with fragments of its shell around. The other characters suspect that Kirby has eaten the egg, and Dynablade ain't happy... | |
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In Wings of Fire, the protagonists start out as this, with the prologue featuring the guardians stealing the eggs from the various kingdoms and then raising them in a cave under a mountain to fulfill the prophecy. Unfortunately, one of the eggs and two of the guardians don't survive the journey. | |
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American Dragon: Jake Long, "The Egg": Jake has to take care of a griffin egg ready to hatch — and loses it in a factory full of candied eggs. | |
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In the Chrestomanci book The Pinhoe Egg, the main character finds a gryphon egg in an attic, and cares for it until it grows up. | |
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Subverted in Shrek, when Princess Fiona accidentally causes a mama bird to expire, leaving a nest of orphan eggs. Her solution? Fry them for breakfast. | |
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The Egg MacGuffin in Yoshi's Island DS is one of the seven star children. It is baby Yoshi, who hatches during the end credits. | |
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The forged (and real) Fabergé egg in the first half of Octopussy. | |
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The Dragon Prince's first three seasons revolves around a quest to return the titular prince's egg to the magical land of Xadia, in hopes that it will stop the oncoming war. At the end of the first season, the egg hatches. He's actually not that annoying, being more like an puppy that gives [[ "zappy kisses" after Callum accidentally electrocutes him.]] | |
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Revolutionary Girl Utena has an aptly-titled episode — "Nanami's Egg" — in which Nanami believes she's laid an egg in her sleep and no one (except Utena) has the heart to tell her that it doesn't make sense. Nanami was already considered a character that straddled the Cerebus Syndrome, with both serious duel episodes and comic relief episodes based around her haughtiness and animals abusing her, but the 27th episode manages to marry both comedy of the absurd and very touching character development. Its Insert Song is "Hello, Baby.". | |
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The Dofus in Wakfu. These dragon eggs are extremely valuable due to the incredible amount of Wakfu contained in them. | |
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In U.S. Acres, Orson the Pig took care of two abandoned eggs, from which hatched Booker and Sheldon. | |
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Subverted in Maison Ikkoku, where Yotsuya gives an egg to Godai with no explanation before leaving on a trip. The entire episode revolves around the rest of the cast dealing with the fallout resulting, some helpful, others not so much. In the end, it is revealed Yotsuya had just found the egg that morning. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The Daenerys subplot in A Game of Thrones features three fossilized dragon eggs. Once Dany figures out the meaning of her family's motto and its origins in Valyrian sorcery, it turns out her eggs are not so much dead as dormant — which is why in the subsequent books she's called Daenerys the Unburnt, Mother of Dragons. | |
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Septimus Heap: The rock that Jenna finds in Magyk turns out to be one. | |
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In a weird example, there's the Hummingbird Egg / Egg of Light from Mother 3, which appears to be more of a Fabergé egg than a real one. Apparently it's so important that Wess would implement a trap that would drop thieves into a watery pit just to protect it. The egg doesn't actually do anything in the story, but it's plot-important because it has all of the original memories of everyone who came from Earth. Since life on the islands turned out to be a true utopia, it might have been made when there were doubts about how well the plan was going to work. | |
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The main conflict of Scrambled Egg revolves around a sorceress teaming up with a mountain troll to protect a giant egg that may contain a demon, an angel, or nothing useful at all, from the Big Bad Duumvirate. It turns out that yes, the egg does contain a creature, which the mountain troll mauls to death after realizing the creature will grow up and possibly destroy the world. | |
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In Chrono Cross, one of the first key items Serge can obtain in Another World is a Draconian Egg. Near the endgame, he can take it to an incubator in Fort Dragonia, where it will hatch into Draggy, a rainbow-colored infant dragon. | |
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Two of them in Bastion; they're minor and barely relevant to the plot, aside from spawning a couple of purely cosmetic pets in the Bastion, which will prompt some remarks from your companions. | |
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The plot of SaGa Frontier 2 revolves around a magical egg that causes grief for a family of adventurers and influences the history of the world. | |
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In the Diamond is Unbreakable story arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Koichi's stand Echoes actually takes the form of an egg when he first gains it. Later, when he needs its power, it hatches into its first effective form. | |
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Temeraire: In an alternate version of Earth where dragons exist, a French ship is captured by the British transporting a ship...forcing the captain to harness and bond with the dragon that comes out. Laurence and Temeraire have another one to deal with two books later in The Black Powder War. | |
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Angel's Egg: The plot centers on a girl who's determined to protect the egg she carries around. The movie's a Mind Screw, so it's not clear what her motives are or what would hatch from the egg. She fails in the end because the man accompanying her breaks it; not even his motives for doing so are explained. | |
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Episode 20 of Fairy Tail is a flashback centered around Natsu and Lisanna taking care of a mysterious egg that dropped out of the sky. It hatches into a certain flying blue kitty. | |
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John Hurt's character is this to the crew of the Nostromo in Alien. | |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has Sid's scuffle over the egg of a baby T-Rex with the rest of the herd. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has Link storm a fortress swarming with Gerudo pirates and an underwater pit full of giant sea snakes to retrieve Lulu's stolen Zora eggs, which are necessary to gain access to the Great Bay Temple. | |
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The Time Egg from Chrono Trigger. Or, more accurately, the Time Egg is the Chrono Trigger. What's it do? Well, it stops time. You use it in a Tricked Out Time loop to save Crono from his Plotline Death. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The Phoenix egg in the episode "Dragon Quest". It plays a pivotal role in the climax of the episode when Spike decides to stand up to the teenage dragons rather than smash the helpless egg and decides that Twilight and the other ponies are his real family. In the last minute of the episode it hatches. Spike adopts the phoenix chick as his pet and names it Pee Wee. Speaking of eggs and Spike, in "The Cutie Mark Chronicles" Twilight Sparkle's test to enter the school for gifted unicorns was to hatch a dragon egg. After her first attempt failed miserably, Rainbow Dash's Sonic Rainboom triggered her latent magic and she hatched Spike. Then her magic went out of control and Hilarity Ensued. |
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In the short film Eiga Tamagotchi: Himitsu no Otodoke Dai Sakusen!, the item that Mametchi and friends have to deliver to the Gotchi King is a giant egg that's getting ready to hatch. | |
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Buddha's Palm has a Macguffin in the form of a golden, magic egg that houses a powerful chi spirit. | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In the Great War in the Bizarre World story arc in Season 1, the bees in the Bizarre World guard a giant egg that they believe to be sacred since it is being used to keep the evil Dark Handsomey imprisoned; the bees go as far as to punish the goats by boiling them when Paddi touches it, not knowing its importance. Wolffy accidentally removes the seal on the egg, causing it to release Dark Handsomey. | |
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Pokémon: The Series: Ash and his friends found and looked after an egg for a while which eventually hatched into a Togepi (that became the Team Pet for a while). This Togepi saw Misty as its mother. Perhaps slightly spoofed in that Ash was the one who found the egg, and is pissed that the Togepi didn't therefore attach to him. Most of the cast members have received a Pokémon through this fashion. Ash received an egg with hatched into a Phanpy, and another one much later that hatched into a Scraggy, and then another one that hatched into a Noibat, and another that hatched into a Riolu. May received one that hatched into an Eevee, Brock received one that hatched into a Happiny, Dawn received one that hatched into a Cyndaquil, and Lillie received one that hatched into an Alolan Vulpix. This happens in the games quite a lot as well. One could also consider the GS Ball to qualify in a way, but that's a case of Aborted Arc. |
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In Sam & Max: Freelance Police Chariots of the Dogs, the chicken was the McGuffin to answer an old mariachi's philosophical obsession. He's Sam and Max's TV Co-Star Mr. Featherly from the first season of the games, to be specific. He was somehow teleported to the beginning of time by their antics in the previous season. In order to rescue him and answer the Mariachi's question, you have to replace him with an egg from another time period. This leaves forever unanswerable, the question of "which came first, the chicken or the egg?" | |
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Not an egg, but in Perdido Street Station, Isaac rears a caterpillar-like larva to adulthood in a similar manner to this trope, mostly to see what it'll grow up to be. This backfires spectacularly when the larva grows into a monstrous, mind-devouring slake moth. | |
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The whole plot of Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg revolves around hatching an egg by feeding it fruit. And then there's the eponymous Giant Egg, which does get hatched by Dark Raven. | |
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The plot of Angry Birds revolves around three eggs, which are repeatedly stolen by the Bad Piggies. The birds highly value these eggs and fight hard to protect them. This is because they believe these eggs to be the only offspring of their species, as the birds themselves are quite rare.*Indeed, only twelve are known throughout Piggy Island — Red, the Blues (Jim, Jake, and Jay), Chuck, Bomb, Matilda, Hal, Terence, Bubbles, Stella, and Mighty Eagle Meanwhile, ancient pig law decrees that only the King Pig is allowed to eat eggs. However, the latest pig to take the throne, Smooth Cheeks, has never eaten, much less tasted, any eggs in his life. He only inherited the throne from his father, King Mudbeard. His loyal subjects never suspected this, assuming he eats eggs because he's so fat. If Smooth Cheeks is ever found out, he would be dethroned. This secret drives him into an obsession in stealing the Angry Birds' eggs, usually through his minions. In the meantime, he has fake eggs prepared for egg-eating ceremonies. | |
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DragonFable starts out with the hero recovering the Black Dragon Box, which contained a dragon egg. After several quests involving the egg and its fate, it eventually hatches into the dragon that you use for titan battles. | |
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Inheritance Cycle starts with Eragon finding a dragon egg and looking after it. | |
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In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Bad Eggs", the students are given an egg to take care of to show them the responsibilities of parenthood. The eggs hatch into some kind of prehistoric mind-controlling parasites. (Discovered when Xander cooks and tries to eat his.) | |
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A Family Guy episode had Peter growing a beard, which a bird nested in. Due to the bird's endangered status, Peter has to put up with it until it leaves of its own accord (to get away from the music he was blaring to annoy it). He's elated until he discovers that it left behind three eggs, which he then has to care for until they hatch, becoming emotionally attached to them in the process. In the end, he has a hard time letting go when it's time for them to leave the nest/his beard. | |
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The plot of Spyro: Year of the Dragon revolves around the fact that the 150 dragon eggs have been stolen, and it's up to Spyro to recover them. Each of them hatches upon discovery, with many of the babies having their own unique animation. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Parturition" Neelix and Paris find a nest of repto-humanoids, one of which hatches, leading them to care for it until the mother returns. | |
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Gor: In Nomads of Gor Tarl is tasked by the Priest-Kings to retrive the last egg of the Priest-Kings, the only female, to start their cycle anew. | |
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In the Leviathan trilogy, there is a very mysterious Egg Macguffin in the first book. In Behemoth, the sequel, the egg hatches, and a Sidekick Creature Nuisance is introduced in the form of Bovril. Bovril latches onto Alek and they become A Boy and His Rapidly Learning Skunk Thing. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow has Nate and Zari chase after one in the 1930s in the aptly named season four episode "Egg MacGuffin". | |
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In Merlin, Merlin and company go looking for a dragon egg in "Aithusa". | |
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In the opening arc of YuYu Hakusho, Yusuke is given an egg that will feed off his spirit energy and hatch when he can come back to life. It is ignored completely when Yusuke is brought back to life for a different reason, and seems to be forgotten for another few arcs — until the Dark Tournament, when Koenma reveals that it's finally ready to hatch. Instead of the huge, horrible beast the characters feared, it hatches into a little blue penguin-y thing. Keiko dubs it "Puu" and it becomes her pet. Then in the next arc, Yusuke dies and reincarnates as a demon. Cue Puu growing into a huge demonic version of itself. It is much different in the anime form - partway through, Yusuke finds out that his apartment has caught on fire due to his mom passing out with a lit cigarette. Keiko rushes in to save Yusuke's body, but is threatened with the flames. Yusuke is put in a Friend-or-Idol Decision and decides to use the egg save her. This turns out to be a Secret Test of Character and Koenma reveals that, oh yeah, the creature that hatched would have eaten your soul if hatched normally. Yusuke's selfless act, though, allows him to return to life. |
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In the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers episode "Three Men and a Booby", a booby bird loses an egg to an eggcentric collector. They retrieve the egg, but the booby is captured; part of the plot revolves around the guys caring for the egg (and later, the hatched booby) while Gadget builds a Trojan Easter basket... | |
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In Super Smash Bros. Melee there was a mission where you had to keep an egg from breaking. | |
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The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure has an egg stolen from Ducky's family by egg-eating dinosaurs. Littlefoot and the group go after it and get it back only to find that the Swimmer egg is already back in the nest. They make a nest for the mystery egg and it hatched into Chomper, a baby Sharptooth. After initially being afraid of him, he later goes on to become a regular group member in the TV series. | |
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