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Evil Egg Eater
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Ovivory is when animals eat others' eggs. While humans do this all the time with poultry (albeit those eggs are usually eaten unfertilized, meaning they can't hatch into anything), non-human animals who do so tend to be depicted as cowardly, awful thieves that eat the eggs of innocent animals; it's usually a bird, though reptiles like crocodiles, dinosaurs, and (in fantasy works) dragons and griffins can also be victims.note Make what you will that these are all creatures who lay eggs of the hard mineralized shell kind, it's fairly rare for soft-egg layers like arthropods and amphibians to be on the end of it. It's often a foe of the Egg MacGuffin the heroes need to guard against, who don't necessarily need to be its parents who are absent for whatever reason. The angry mother or father (or both, frequently at once) will instead often show up at the climax Big Damn Hero-style and terrify the thief into fleeing. These egg-eaters woll usually be depixted incredibly thin, filthy, and even malodorous, stand with a hunched-over posture, and slink around like there's no tomorrow. In many cases, they're merely comic relief minions of the Big Bad, often in duos or trios. More serious cases will have lots of them Zerg Rush the nest and try to overwhelm the defenders. Species that routinely get this treatment include: Monitor lizards Snakes (heck, there are even species specialized for this in real life) Rats Weasels Mongooses Certain wild canines, like foxes, coyotes, and jackals Cats Some dinosaurs, especially Oviraptor (whose very name means "egg thief"), Troodon, and, in older works, ornithomimids.note This is a case of Artistic License – Paleontology crossed with Science Marches On for older works since no dinosaur we know of appears to have been specialized for an ovivorous diet (though many dinosaurs may have supplemented their diet with eggs on occasion). This trope often overlaps with Scavengers Are Scum, another trope about ecological niches unfairly demonized in popular culture. The fact that many species associated with one also do the other may or may not help. If a human or humanoid being does it, this usually falls under Evil Poacher (not like the cooking kind), though they can still have the traits mentioned here. Attempts to devour the seeds of sentient or otherwise-precious plants might qualify as a variant, if the would-be eater is sufficiently villainous. Finally, compare Would Hurt a Child, Offing the Offspring, and Eats Babies for when after the eggs hatch. NOTE: A creature seen hunting eggs can't qualify for this trope alone. It has to be depicted and treated as cowardly and evil for it. No Real Life Examples, Please!. Animals are not inherently evil in Real Life. |
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Finding Nemo: In the prologue of the film, a menacing barracuda eyes a cave full of Marlin and Coral's 400 eggs. Marlin insists the eggs will be fine as long as the parents remain in the anemone, but Coral's maternal instincts causes her to immediately swim to the cave, provoking the predator to attack and eat her and 399 of her eggs. Nemo's egg is the Sole Survivor, causing Marlin to become an helicopter parent to his only son. | |
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Monster Hunter: Debuting in Monster Hunter Generations, the Great Maccao is portrayed as a Dirty Coward therapod bird wyvern, often abandoning its pack to the hunters when its life is on the line. Unlike other therapod bird wyverns before it, the Great Maccao doesn't even attack herbivores to replenish its stamina. Instead, it goes to a local monster nest and feast on the eggs there. Debuting in Monster Hunter: World, the dodo-like Kulu-Ya-Ku is depicted as an egg-stealer and, unlike most large monsters, a cowardly bird wyvern that prefers to run than fight. In Monster Hunter: Rise, the Kulu-Ya-Ku is seen stealing an egg from a Rhenoplos and is given the title Ovivore Outlaw. |
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Redwall: The various "vermin" villains frequently mention eating eggs. In a setting where all animals — or at least all land vertebrates — are sapient, it's one of the habits that's used to mark them as the bad guys. The protagonists never eat any other animals except fish. One in particular, brownrat warlord Gruntan Kurdly, gets himself killed trying to obtain swan eggs for his dinner. | |
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The Simpsons: Krusty the Clown is a rare human example. In "Marge Gets a Job", he swipes and devours an egg from an eagle on his show, causing the eagle to maul him. | |
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Debuting in Monster Hunter Generations, the Great Maccao is portrayed as a Dirty Coward therapod bird wyvern, often abandoning its pack to the hunters when its life is on the line. Unlike other therapod bird wyverns before it, the Great Maccao doesn't even attack herbivores to replenish its stamina. Instead, it goes to a local monster nest and feast on the eggs there. | |
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Haven (2020): The one time the lizardlike Dorago makes an appearance it's shown feasting on some eggs belonging to the resident Katefulai. For this it earns Kay's ire, even after he and Yu pacify it and scare it off; he refuses to show any affection to it after the fact and asserts that baby-eating creatures have no place in nature. | |
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Bonkers: Wacky Weasel, a Toon weasel criminal who loves eggs (he broke into a jail because it had "bad eggs"). | |
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Star Fox Adventures: Right at the start of the quest for the third SpellStone, Fox is tasked by a grieving dinosaur mother in ThornTail Hollow to defend a nest from egg stealers swarming it during a time limit. | |
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The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales: Subverted. The titular fox steals chicken eggs to eat, only for the eggs to hatch and the chicks to imprint on him. | |
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Dinosaur! features a Struthiomimus stealing Maiasaura eggs from a nest while the mother isn't present. It's helped by having a snake-like appearance and movements, especially in its slit eyes. It does get its comeuppance in a fashion when two Deinonychus pursue it and bring it down. | |
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Dinotopia: Defied. The theropod dinosaur Oviraptor ("egg thief") is known as Ovinutrix, "egg nurse", on the island, reflecting updated findings since the species was discovered, and are first introduced assisting at the dinosaur hatchery. This is a subset of the books' general attitude that even carnivorous dinosaurs aren't evil solely because they can't subsist on only plants. | |
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Pokémon Adventures had Gold trying to keep his newly-obtained Pokémon egg from being eaten by a hungry Gligar. The egg then hatches into a surprisingly violent and aggressive Togepi, who proceeds to defeat the Gligar with its Metronome attack. | |
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Adventures in Zambezia: The main villain is a monitor lizard who wishes to eat all of the eggs in the titular bird paradise. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In "Escape From Forbidden Valley", Scrooge and the triplets encounter a pack of scaly Velociraptor feeding on dinosaur eggs. Scrooge muscles his way through the pack to get a couple eggs to bring back, only for the raptors to turn on him. | |
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Dragon Tales: Cyrus the Slinky Serpent is the only recurring antagonist in the show, and both times he appears, he tries to steal eggs to eat. | |
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Prehistoric Planet: Combined with Monstrous Cannibalism in Season 1. One of the most shocking scenes in the "Fresh Water" episode has a mother Quetzelcoatlus briefly leaving her nest to go hunting, only to return and find that another female Quetzalcoatlus has raided the nest and eaten most of her eggs. Season 2's episode "Badlands" features Kuru kulla, a dromaeosaur relative to Velociraptor, sneaking into a nest colony of Corythoraptors, a relative of Oviraptor, at night and feasting on their eggs in one of the unattended nests before the Corythoraptor fathers notice the thief amongst their midst. However, the segment later subverts the evil stereotype by revealing that Kuru is actually a parent of its own, giving the stolen egg to its babies to teach them how to open it and eat the contents for their survival. |
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The Magic School Bus: In "The Busasaurus", the class is transported 67 million years in the prehistoric past, an Ornithomimus steals Arnold's unfossilized egg (that belongs to a paleontologist that he promised to keep safe), causing both Arnold and Pheobe to go after it. It's depicted as a very shifty-looking dinosaur, with slit yellow eyes and a snake-like head. It's even speculated by the two kids that it only eats eggs rather than plants or meat. | |
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T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous: When 16-year-old Ally Hayden somehow ends up in the Late Cretaceous period, she finds a T. rex nest with five eggs and an Ornithomimus trying to raid the nest. Ally defends the nest despite the Ornithomimus being much bigger and more ferocious than her, until mother T. rex shows up and chases away the egg eater. | |
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Walking with Monsters: An amphibian called Seymouria is seen stalking around a female Dimetrodon and her nest, eager to eat her eggs. It literally waits for the female Dimetrodon to simply tire out from starvation — which lasted for nearly an entire year — before it makes its move. Fortunately for the mother, another Dimetrodon intercepts the Seymouria when it tries to raid the nest for the eggs as well, and decides that the Seymouria would make a better meal instead. | |
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The Land Before Time: The ornithomimids in this film series are referred as "Egg Stealers" and are not the pleasant bunch. Ironically, the TV spin-off features an Oviraptor as one of the protagonists with an omnivore diet and is referred as a "Fast Runner" rather than an "Egg Stealer". In the prologue of the first film, a sinister-looking Ornithomimus attempts to steal Littlefoot's egg before he could even hatch. Mama Longneck put a stop to the egg thief, but it's implied the Ornithomimus had better luck in the past given that the other eggs were broken and Littlefoot is described as being the only baby left in the sauropod herd. The first sequel, The Great Valley Adventure, had a pair of Struthiomimus, named Ozzy and Strut, as the villains. They have their own Villain Song about it, simply titled "Eggs." |
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Debuting in Monster Hunter: World, the dodo-like Kulu-Ya-Ku is depicted as an egg-stealer and, unlike most large monsters, a cowardly bird wyvern that prefers to run than fight. In Monster Hunter: Rise, the Kulu-Ya-Ku is seen stealing an egg from a Rhenoplos and is given the title Ovivore Outlaw. | |
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Wild Kratts: Egg thieves show up a few times, even if they're ultimately normal animals trying to survive and treated accordingly. The first episode for instance has a Nile monitor lizard serving as the closest thing to its villain, trying twice in the episode to raid a Nile crocodile's nest. Both the croc itself and later the Kratt Brothers chase it off before it does. Gourmand occasionally targets eggs for his endangered-species culinary experiments; in his debut episode, he sought to cook platypus eggs as an exotic breakfast treat. | |
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Walking with Dinosaurs: The six-part Mockumentary series depicts the various hazards that the dinosaurs faced during the Mesozoic era. One of the most common dangers are egg eaters. In "Time of the Titans", an Ornitholestes raids a nest full of Diplodocus eggs to feast, even snatching up a newborn Diplodocus just as it was about to hatch. The Ornitholestes species are depicted as the go-to sinister antagonist for baby dinosaurs, only losing their relevance and intimidation when the babies soon grow into giants. In "Spirit of the Ice Forest" and "Death of the Dynasty", small mammals like Steropodon and Didelphodon are depicted as shrewd scavengers seizing every chance they got to raid dinosaur nests, only to be driven off by the angry mothers. In addition to the Didelphodon in "Death of the Dynasty", a Dromeosaur is seen sneaking up to a T. rex nest in the hopes of snatching an egg, only to be scared off by the mother who is resting nearby. The Dromeosaurs are later seen trying to kill and eat a baby Torosaurus. |
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Ice Age: Collision Course has a Terrible Trio of raptors who fight Buck for a Triceratops egg. | |
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Pokémon Sneasel is stated to feed on the eggs of bird Pokémon such as Pidgey. It is also a Dark-type, which is associated with cruelty and underhandedness. The Poison-type Ekans (a snake) is stated to feed on eggs. In Pokémon: The Series, the most prominent Ekans belongs to Jessie, one of the main villains (though one episode reveals it's not actually evil and only does wrong at the directives of its trainer). |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Nest Robber is essentially a feathered Oviraptor that robs eggs from nests with its winged claws. Itzama the Crested unfavorably compares sailors to this dinosaur, stating they live off the hard work of others. | |
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In The Flight of Dragons, Sir Orrin describes the circumstances of Gorbash's birth. While questing, he came upon a nest of dragon eggs and stopped to sketch them, but while he was drawing, Bryagh came upon the nest and started eating all of the eggs. Sir Orrin fought back and just barely managed to drive off Bryagh, only after he had eaten every other egg. The remaining egg hatched a green dragon that he named "Gorbash" because it had been a "gory" affair and Sir Orrin had been "bashed" up a bit. He then gifted baby Gorbash to Carloinus, Melisande, and Smrgol. | |
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Chicken Run: Downplayed with rats Nick and Fletcher. While they are fairly shifty and very insistent that they want eggs in payment for their smuggled goods, which naturally the hens are reluctant to turn over, they are overall helpful to the chickens' efforts to escape. They also don't get to eat any eggs, as first they're tricked into being promised all of Rocky's eggs — Rocky being a rooster — then all the real eggs they're given end up being used as catapult ammo, Nick and Fletcher weeping as they load and fire. One thing that makes the two rats a lot more palatable is that they are only interested in unfertilised eggs. | |
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Tappy Toes: Subverted with the skuas. They appear to be antagonists at first and the narration even describes them as "nasty little scavengers". They steal Ozzy and Gertie's egg with the intention to eat it, but when it hatches before they can do so, they end up lovingly raising the chick, who they call Pingo. | |
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Anne of Green Gables: In Anne of the Island, a stray cat follows Anne home. She and her friends try to kill the cat, but it doesn't work. Their housekeeper Aunt Jamesina comments that it's wrong to wantonly kill cats... unless they steal eggs. | |
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You Are Umasou: The beginning features a flock of Troodon rampaging through a Maiasaura nesting grounds, devouring (and inadvertently smashing) several of the hadrosaurs' eggs. The whole ordeal leaves a mother Maiasaura with only two eggs, one hatching into a Maiasaura that gets named Light and the other — an abandoned one that she finds and decides to adopt — a Tyrannosaurus that gets named Heart. | |
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Jurassic Park: One of the themes with the cloned dinosaurs is the danger they pose to children, especially babies, and thus the egg-stealing stereotype is frequently mentioned in the book. Dr. Alan Grant poses a theory that small, free-roaming carnivores like Velociraptor would likely eat the eggs in the nests of herbivores along with rats and other wildlife on Isla Nublar, explaining why the breeding dinosaurs saw a large increase in carnivores and yet low increase in herbivores. Consequently, this means there are 37 Velociraptors rather than the designated 8, and they happen to be the most dangerous dinosaurs on the island. At the climax of the novel, Grant injects poison in several dinosaur eggs and rolls them toward the investigating Velociraptors, hoping they would eat them. In this scene, Grant notes how Velociraptors are like Oviraptors and Dromaeosaurs, small carnivores long thought to have stolen eggs. While the park's dinosaurs have frequently debunked several pre-Dinosaur Renaissance misconceptions, Grant does note that modern birds would eat eggs of other birds, so egg eating wouldn't be out of the question. However, the raptors initially ignore the eggs on the floor, and only by rolling a loud one across the floor does Grant get a raptor to unwittingly eat the poisoned egg. |
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64,000,000 Years Ago: An Ornithomimus attempts to feast on the eggs of a Triceratops nest while the mother is distracted by a vicious Tyrannosaurus. It fatally overestimates its window of opportunity as the mother Triceratops successfully wards off the T. rex in quick fashion, and proceeds to brutally impale the cowardly egg eater with its horns. | |
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The Tale of the Great Bunny: The weasels and their king kidnap the Great Bunny when he's starting his Easter Egg run one day. | |
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole: The owls of St. Aegolius Academy kidnap and brainwash young owl hatchlings, and were already portrayed as villainous. The revelation that not only do they kidnap owlets, but that they eat the eggs of other owls is treated with complete horror and disgust by the main characters beyond their other crimes and spurs them to immediately plan an escape. | |
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The Angry Birds Movie: Like their video game counterparts, the pigs are primarily motivated by wanting to eat the birds' eggs. The pigs had never seen one before arriving on the island and became obsessed with them after doing so. | |
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Tales of Kaimere: While egg-eating non-therian mammals only ate dinosaurs' eggs in moderation, the Dire Badger, a relative of the wolverine, is an outright glutton. It will eat any eggs and hatchlings it finds in surplus, which drove many dinosaurs to endangerment or extinction. The dinosaurs that were able to successfully rear their offspring (and thus pass down their genes for future generation) were the ones with heightened instincts to preemptively kill any Dire Badger or similar animal from getting close. This means that they see any mammal (humans included) as potentially this trope, and will attack them outright to protect their nests. | |
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Angry Birds: The premise of the game is that the Bad Piggies stole the birds' eggs, which made them angry and tries to get them back. | |
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The Lion Guard has an episode where Ono the egret has to protect a hamerkop's egg from a hungry African harrier-hawk. | |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Joanna, Percival McLeach's pet monitor lizard, is obsessed with eggs and wants nothing more than to eat the eggs of the giant eagle Marahute. She is also, notably, one of the only animals in the movie that doesn't speak, only communicating in hisses and snarls. Bernard replaces Marahute's eggs with several large rocks and successfully hides the eggs while Joanna tries and fails miserably to break open the rocks. | |
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The first sequel, The Great Valley Adventure, had a pair of Struthiomimus, named Ozzy and Strut, as the villains. They have their own Villain Song about it, simply titled "Eggs." | |
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