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** Earlier, ''[[Moving Pictures]]'' in its parodies of movie tropes included a wheelchair crashing into a barn and emerging surrounded by clucking chickens... much to the farmers' surprise, since the last time they looked it was full of cabbages.
** And in ''[[Wintersmith]]'', a mishap with a cornucopia leads to Nanny Ogg's house being filled with hundreds of live chickens. ''Werk...''
*** Not a bad thing, as Rincewind in ''[[The Science
** Methodia Rascal, the [[Mad Artist]] appearing in flashbacks in ''[[Thud!]]!'' thought he was being stalked by a giant chicken. And that he was the giant chicken himself. He was found dead, mouth full of chicken feathers, with the paint of his greatest work, "Battle Of Koom Valley" still wet.
** Quetzovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, is, or rather ''was'', a demon worshiped by the Tezumen, described in ''[[Eric]]'' as half man, [[Murder Arson and Jaywalking|half chicken]], half jaguar, half serpent, half scorpion and half mad.
* 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.
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* 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.
* Edward Hoch's "The Homesick Chicken" has some genetically-engineered chickens breaking out to cross a road... and an investigator has to figure out why.
== Live Action TV ==
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* [[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.]
* [[wikipedia:Cockfight|Cockfighting]]. A very brutal sport where two roosters [[Duel to the Death|fight to the death.]] Two enter a pit or arena where they precede to kick, scratch and peck each other. In communities where cock fighting is a
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