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Chickens—small flight-inhibited birds with a tendency to break out in screeching panics over the smallest things—are inherently funny, like [[Everything's Better with Penguins|penguins]] and [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|monkeys]], maybe because they're being [[Comically Serious]]. Unlike penguins and monkeys, they're also regularly eaten (they [[Shaped Like Itself|taste like chicken]]). And that's pretty much it. This isn't really a family of tropes that has a whole heck of a lot of logic behind them.

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Ayanoi Gakuen in ''[[GA Geijutsuka Art Design Class]]'' apparently has chickens in their courtyard worth tens of millions of yen each and everyone calls them the very respectful name of "oniwatori-sama," or Lord Chickens.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In the "Transfer of Power" arc of ''[[The Authority]]'' after a year of hell at the hands of the G7 nations and some of the richest people in the world, as well as having "The Twenty Billion Dollar Bastard" Seth beating everyone on the team, including virtually killing the Midnighter (only a combination of the Doctor's magics and Engineer's surgical skills saved him), Swift (a nominal pacifist) has the Doctor turn Seth into a coop of chickens and dumps them on the doorstep of his own hillbilly family. His future was short.

* Chickens are [[Serious Business]] in the world of ''[[Chew]]'', because of their tasty-but-illegal-due-to-bird-flu-meat. That or their superior cock-fighting skills in the case of Poyo!

 

 

== Literature ==

* In later ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' novels, the Weasleys create fake wands that turn into other objects when you try to use them. Among the alternatives: rubber chickens.

** And let's not forget that in addition to the gnomes, the Weasleys have chickens in their garden. It's a pretty funny coexistence.

* In ''Bad Prince Charlie'', one running gag is a discussion of how a wizard tried to banish all the snakes from the kingdom, but botched the spell and banished all the chickens instead (And since he never figured out why the spell went wrong, he couldn't reverse it). As a result, it is impossible to get any kind of food that involves chicken or eggs, except on an annual festival where they import the meat and eggs from a neighboring country.

* In one chapter of ''I'll Mature When I'm Dead'', [[Dave Barry]] tells that when he and his friend Gene Weingarten felt they wanted to write a movie, they wanted to write something really original, and so came up with the concept of evil mutant superhuman chickens wreaking havoc on Iowa during the caucuses. One of the notes they wrote down was "METHANE--chickenshit raining down on Wolf Blitzer in Des Moines," though Dave Barry couldn't recall why; "maybe we were just responding to the universal human longing to see Wolf Blitzer inundated by chickenshit." Eventually they realized that their movie would actually be better ''without'' chickens, so they wrote them out.

 

== Live Action TV ==

== Professional Wrestling ==

* While training to face [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|"Stone Cold" Steve Austin]], [[Shane McMahon]] urged his father [[Vince McMahon]] to chase a chicken around a pen. Exactly what this was supposed to accomplish, neither seemed to know, but it resulted in wrestling fans everywhere getting to watch the 50-year-old CEO of the company hunched over, running through snow and mud after an uncooperative chicken.

 

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** [[Sourcebook|Where]] in the Nine Hells is it?

*** Dragon Magazine #330, page 87.

* Live chickens form the base of your dungeon's food chain in ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]''. You can also just swat or possess them [[Rule of Funny|for fun]], though there's generally not much point to it.

* The [[Platform Game]] ''Flood'' featured an awesomely destructive flamethrower, but after drawing it a few times, your character Quiffy would pull out a rubber chicken instead, which clucked loudly to Quiffy's shock. (Then you pull out the flamethrower again.)

** It gets better then that! One quest has you infiltrate the chickens lair to which you are greeted by [[The Dragon|Black Dragons]] some of the most feared creatures in the game.

** There was also a chicken sword given out for an event at some point.

* If [[Deep-Fried Whatever|a roasted kind]] counts, then ''[[Tekken]] 3's Tekken Force'' heath powerup ''had'' to be mentioned.

** [[Most Wonderful Sound|* gulp* CHICKENN]]

* ''[[Drakan]]: The Ancients' Gates'' had, as a semi-hidden mini-[[Bonus Boss]], a ten-foot tall man-eating chicken with glowing red eyes. It was actually a bit [[Nightmare Fuel]]-ish, as its cave was littered with blood and dead bodies, and it was perfectly possible to run into it in the beginning of the game without knowing about it.

* ''[[Call of Duty]] [[Modern Warfare]] 2'' has a map which includes, amongst other things, many caged chickens. Of course, there is an achievement you can get for [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|killing a certain number of chickens in so many seconds.]]

* Some of the enemies found in Level 2 of ''[[Stinkoman 20 X 6]]'' are robotic chickens known as Terrells (the ones that resemble bouncing, disembodied chicken heads), Grundies (the ones that run back and forth), and Stobats (the ones that spit bones at you). The level's boss is even a giant chicken robot called Brody, who actually tries to stomp Stinkoman with his feet!

* ''[[Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg]]''.

* ''[[Gears of War]] 3'''s multiplayer map "Old Town" has chickens wandering around aimlessly. You can shoot them, kick them, and even ''grenade tag'' them to make them explode in a puff of red mist.

* Burn Rooster of ''[[Mega Man X]] 8'' gives the term "[[Playing with Fire|fried chicken]]" a new meaning.

* [[Older Than Feudalism|When]] [[Plato]] gave [[Socrates]]' definition of man as "featherless bipeds" and was much praised for the definition, [[Troll|Diogenes]] [[Exact Words|plucked a chicken and brought it into Plato's Academy, saying, "Behold! I've brought you a man."]] After this incident, [[Moving the Goalposts|"with broad flat nails"]] was added to Plato's definition.

* [http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/index.php Mike the Headless Chicken.]

 

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[[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|Heh heh,]] [[Double Entendre|Cock]].

 

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[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]

[[Category:Avian Tropes]]

[[Category:Everything's Better with Indexes]]