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** 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 suitable spot it uses the sugars in the the ants body to live on and eventually leaves the ant as a husk. [[Nightmare Fuel|It will then grow out of the
* 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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