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[[Body Horror]] where an alien parasite or a [[Fetus Terrible]] within someone else decides it's about time to move out and find a body of its own. Often times, it does this in a fairly messy, painful and ''always'' fatal manner.
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Not to be confused with [[Chest Blaster]] or [[Chest Monster]].
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== Advertising ==
* Parodied in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMF4VpwMS-c the 2004] Nik Naks advert where the eater of the Nik Naks (crisps) has a giant one explode out of his chest, as everybody around him is splattered with dusty cheese. After an awkward moment they all start dancing.
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* HUMANOID Szayel Aporro Grantz does this in ''[[Bleach]]'', thanks to his [[Naughty Tentacles]]. He impregnates the victim with himself, being "reborn" fully grown upon death. Believe it or not, that's not the most [[squick]]y part of this scene or its aftermath.
* The [[Six Gates World]] franchise is fond of this. In ''[[Mon Colle Knights]]'', Oroboros does this to its host, the Dread Dragon. In ''[[Majuutsukai No Shoujo]]'', Kashe uses her own body as host for a demon, which ends up growing through her skin from all sides and eventually around her. After overcoming its mindrape from the inside, Kashe then chestbursts from it.
* ''[[Immortal Rain]]'': This is how
* Several of ''[[Berserk]]'''s nastier monsters are born this way, such as the Trolls of the Qlippoth and the demon soldiers of [[Complete Monster|Emperor Ganishka]].
** And while it isn't ''born'' this way, during the Eclipse an unusually small Apostle [[Your Head Asplode|bursts out of Gaston's head]] in a similar manner.
* The USBM from ''[[Bio
* Parodied in the final episode of ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]''.
* Parodied in one of the omake for ''[[Blue Exorcist]]''. Rin hides his tail under his shirt and uses it to mimic the chest burster scene around Shiemi, who passes out from shock. Yukio is not amused.
* Meruem from ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' was a bad dude so early in his life, that he chose to be born prematurely giving his mother injuries that proved fatal.
== Comic Books ==
* In one of the first issues of ''[[Spawn]]'', the hellion comes up against a heavily armored cyborg. As Spawn notes, that armor is like a safe: meant to keep people ''out,'' not ''in.'' And now he has an array of reality altering powers at his command....
{{quote|Spawn: [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|Ever see
Alien''?]]}}
* In the ''Accursed'' volume of ''[[The Darkness]]'', Jackie creates a woman out of The Darkness to [[Kiss Me I Am Virtual|satisfy his needs]]. She ends up becoming pregnant with a [[Fetus Terrible|child made of pure darkness]], which, naturally, emerges by ripping her stomach apart.
== Film ==
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* Spoofed in ''[[Spaceballs]]'', when a spoiled sandwich in a greasy spoon diner resulted in a chestbursting alien that then grabbed a top hat and cane and made a further parody of [[One Froggy Evening Cartoon|Michigan Frog]] from ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.
** Made even funnier by the fact that [[Hey, It's That Guy!|the guy]] it happened to was played by [[John Hurt|the same actor]].
{{quote|[[Oh, No, Not Again|"Oh, no, not ''again''!"]]}}
* ''[[Species]] 2'' had a wonderful scene with a woman who just had sex becoming visibly pregnant almost immediately, and splitting open.
* An homage appears to the chestburster scene in ''[[Shrek]] 2'', when fighting Puss. Puss comes bursting out of Shrek's shirt at chest level, hissing and clawing.
* Happens to Jesse in ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street
* The first ''[[Xtro]]'' has a woman being impregnated by an alien entity, with the offspring (a fully grown man) exploding out of her the next day.
* This is oddly the method in which {{spoiler|[[The Devil]]}} possesses people in ''[[The Dark Side of the Moon (film)|The Dark Side of the Moon]]'', leaving a perfect triangle-shaped hole in their lower torso when he exits.
== Literature ==
* The "shit-weasels" in [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Dreamcatcher]]'' have a particularly nasty exit: chewing out of people's butts.
* {{spoiler|Reneesme}} from the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' series. An odd version given that she is the {{spoiler|daughter}} of the two lead characters. Yep. Pure.
* Implied of A.E. van Vogt's Ixtl.
* In the first book of ''[[The Dresden Files]]'', Harry has to investigate a series of murders in which the victims' {{spoiler|chest cavities exploded and their hearts flung out.}}
** In addition, in one of his short stories he goes up against the grendel, a super-powerful beast from
* In ''[[Ender's Game|Speaker for the Dead]]'', it is revealed that {{spoiler|infant piggies eat their way out of their mother's body as a natural part of their reproductive cycle. This is actually one of the ''less'' [[Bizarre Alien Biology|weird aspects of their biology]].}}
* The eponymous Rawhead Rex from one of Clive Barker's short story anthology was mentioned as having a reproduction cycle that involved impregnating human women and having their young burst out of their bodies.
== Live-Action TV ==
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* The TV Show ''[[Fringe]]'' really enjoys this one, and in just one and a half seasons has featured monster larva, monster parasites, giant slug/monster viruses, and monster babies all bursting out of unwitting human hosts.
* ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' had these in "Time," {{spoiler|repeatedly}} popping out of the away team's bodies after burrowing in to eat their juicy insides. {{spoiler|They got better}}.
* Happened in ''[[CSI]]'', of all places. To clarify, it was a rat that burst out of a drowned body's squishy chest (freaking out Grissom and Doc Robbins) and ran amok in the lab. Robbins
* ''[[Angel]]:'' The episode "Lonely Hearts" had a parasitic demon that
* Done at least once on ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' with a Go'auld which had to exit one host and transfer to another in order to survive. (Tanith, the seeming [[Double Agent]] turned triple agent.)
== Mythology ==
* Good ol' [[Classical Mythology|Zeus]] has survived more than his fair share of this trope: first, when Athena sprang (fully formed and clad in armor) out of his head, and another time, when Dionysus was born out of his leg (though in this case Zeus had actually ''stitched him up in there beforehand'').
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Parodied in ''[[The Far Side]]'', which shows a [[Alien (franchise)|xenomorph]] family sitting down for dinner and one of the juveniles playing with the food—actually, ''in'' the food.
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Mortasheen]]'', this is the creature [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/depraven.htm Depraven's] main attack.
* The alien scene is spoofed in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' adventure ''Castle Drahenfels''.
** ''[[Warhammer
*** Almost, but not quite. The Genestealers (as the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|name suggests]]) infect the victim and subvert their DNA, as well as basically [[Mind Control|controlling their behaviour]]. The victim's offspring will be mutants, their children will be mutants (although a little less gribbly), and so on for several generations. The best example for this trope is the Barbed Strangler weapon which, in early rules, would instantly kill the target due to a seed pod [[When Trees Attack|instantly growing into a sentient mutated vine cluster from inside the body]] and scything through people nearby.
* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'':
**
** Carrion crawlers also lay their eggs inside other creatures, though they kill the creatures immediately prior to doing so. Typically, they paralyze their victims a couple days before laying eggs, and kill them right before the laying so the corpses will provide a reasonably fresh meal for their spawn.
** One prestige class called the [[Blood Magic|Blood Magus]] has, as
** The Ixtl-[[Expy]] xill and an [[Feathered Fiend|obscure creature called a gryph]] have a similar ''modus operandi''.
** In the ''Monster Manual II'', there was also the Neogi, strange spider-like evil slavers whose method of reproduction involved laying eggs in aged demented Neogi called Great Old Masters. Said masters exist in constant rage and pain until they start spitting neogi spawn, which eat their way out of the thing's body.
** In ''[[Ravenloft]]'', the Red Widow downplays this trope; they at least have the courtesy to kill the victim before implanting their eggs in his corpse.
== Theatre ==
* The creation of Eve in the [[Reduced Shakespeare Company]]'s play ''The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)''.
== Video Games ==
* One of Q-Bee's EX [[Special Attack]]s in the ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' series has her sting the enemy and encase them in a cocoon, whereupon she ''dies'' (she's a bee, after all) and another Q-Bee bursts out of the victim's back and continues the fight.
* Parodied in ''Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti'', the NES-only [[Super-Deformed]] sequel to ''[[Splatterhouse]]''. At one point Rick encounters an unconscious girl on an operating table: suddenly, the girl's belly inflates and bursts, releasing lots and lots of little spiders. When Rick kills all of the spiders, the girl wakes up, being perfectly fine, and goes away!
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* ''[[Devil Survivor]]'' has the boss battle with Belzeboul and his maggot minions, who spawn eggs in your party members and their demons. It's implied that this trope is at work when an egg hatches, because not only does a squad of maggots spawn next to the victim, the victim takes massive damage.
* In ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' {{spoiler|Heaven's Feel route, True Assassin comes to being by "eating" Assassin from inside.}}
*
* Zuul reproduction in ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' can result in this. They are marsupials, and the mothers' milk is a potent narcotic. As long as the mother is alive and produces milk, her children are in dreamland inside her pouch. If she dies, or becomes unable to produce milk... She becomes their first meal. More commonly (and less fatally to the Zuul), the Zuul mother removes the children from the pouch and leaves them near a suitable source of meat.
* In ''[[
== Web Comics ==
* [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/971014 Aylee] from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Not surprising, given the fact that she was introduced as a parody of the alien from ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''. And then later [http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/19980121 parodied] in a... rather interesting way. Let's just say Bun-bun is ''quite'' [[Badass]].
* [http://www.explosm.net/comics/1850/ This] ''[[Cyanide
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=499#comic uses this] combined with [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]] and [[Precious Puppies]].
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004008 used this] to parody ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]'' in conjunction with ''[[Pokémon]]'', of all things.
* ''[[Evil Inc.]]'' has it [http://evil-inc.com/comic/home-life-4/ as a result of] eating at at the Evil Inc cafeteria. Apparently.
{{quote|'''Dr. Rosencrantz''': ...And to be honest, I'm less worried about seeing it in you than I am about seeing it out of you.}}
== Web Originals ==
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== Western Animation ==
* In the first episode of ''[[Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi Show]]'' after Ami & Yumi get to the moon to ditch their Number 1 fan,she ends up bursting out of the front of Yumi's shirt.
* Parodied in the "Itchy & Scratchy" segment in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' episode "Deep Space Homer"
* ''[[Ace Ventura Pet Detective]]''
** In the crossover episode with ''[[The Mask (animation)|The Mask]]'' Ace thinks an Alien is inside him, but it turns out Spike was in his clothes.
** In the "Halloween Special" Ace does this with Spike and scares a high school principal.
* In ''[[Rick and Morty]]'', one of the many ways Rick has used to cheat death is a dart-gun device that can implant his genetic material into a victim, creating a chest-burster clone of himself that grows to full-size within seconds of killing the victim, with his consciousness transferred into it.
== Real Life ==
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* If that qualifies.... Look up scabies. Mites [[Body Horror|burrowing into your skin]] and laying eggs which hatch to produce more mites that lay more eggs... also they periodically fall off and get all over everything, spreading them to everyone who dares to set foot anywhere you've been.
* Several insects reproduce in this way, planting their eggs inside another insect. Voracious larvae eating their way out of a fat caterpillar are a fine [[Real Life]] example of [[Nightmare Fuel]].
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** Other parasitism wasps (such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs ''Cotesia glomerata''])[[Face Full of Alien Wing-Wong|outright impregnate]] their host.
* While not nearly as violent as some of the other examples, the human bot fly certainly qualifies. There is a story about a man who became attached to his little bot fly. He decided to "carry it to term," so to speak, instead of having it removed. Then it started tearing its way slowly out and he basically said, "Get this freaking thing outta me!"
** Leaving the thing in is actually often the better option, as killing it is likely to cause the wound to be infected unless the entire maggot can be removed;
* There is a type of fungus called ''Ophiocordyceps unilateralis'', which possesses ants and controls them so it can make them crawl into a good spot to grow and reproduce in. After it forces the ant to go into a
* Sea louse larvae do this to their mother.{{context}}
* The [[wikipedia:Dracunculiasis|guinea worm]] is another example of this trope.
* When a female Surinam toad lays eggs, the male fertilizes them and presses them into his mate's back. The eggs form pockets under the skin, and when they hatch, the tadpoles develop into mature frogs in these pockets. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCayq56wHSA Eventually, the frogs burst from their mother's back.] (WARNING: Not for the faint of heart.) Oddly enough, this is a completely benign example of the trope.
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