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* There are a lot of things like this in ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'', although the ones that spring to mind immediately are the [[Hive Mind|Slivers]], [[Eldritch Abomination|the Eldrazi]], and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=180455 this.]

* In the 1998 American ''[[Godzilla (film)|Godzilla]]'', the species of the mutant lizard was capable of laying up to two hundred eggs asexually, threatening to replace humans as the dominant species on Earth. {{spoiler|Imagine if the original Godzilla was capable of that?}}.

* This applies to Dracula and his 3 brides in 2004's ''[[Van Helsing]]'', who have laid hundreds of vampire egg sacks and try to find any living creature suitablsuitable to revive them. The first attempt with a werewolf failed as the newly -hatched baby vampires exploded during their short lives attacking a nearby village, while the second attempt with Frankenstein's monster was a sucess for the second batch of vampires (presumably laid right after the first batch died).

* ''Henry Huggins'': One of the books in [[Beverly Cleary|Beverly Cleary's]]'s series has Henry buy a pair of guppies, only for the guppies to breed until his room is covered in fishbowls and feeding fish takes up all of his free time.

* ''[[The Rolling Stones]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]]: Martian Flat Cats. One flat cat produces a litter of eight kittens every thirty days or so. Not so bad comparatively, unless you're on the spacegoing equivalent of a RV and your trip lasts almost six months.

* The Gryphons in ''[[The Wayfarer Redemption]]'' were born pregnant -- with nine more Gryphons. Gorgrael's advisor intended them to only breed for three generations (Giving a total of 820 Gryphons), but Gorgrael found a way to make it self-sustaining. Since he kept the pregnant generation away from the front lines until they gave birth, getting rid of them was a serious problem for the heroes.

* ''[[Star Trek]]'': The most famous example is the tribbles, which did mention that they reproduce asexually. In fact, they are actually ''born'' pregnant, and as long as they're fed, they'll keep making more tribbles. [[Word of God]] states that the tribbles were based on the rabbits in Australia <ref>In ''The Trouble With Tribbles: the Birth, Sale, and Final Production of One Episode'' David Gerrold says "Look — I thought I was telling the “rabbits in Australia” story. When rabbits were first introduced to Australia, they multiplied at an incredible rate because there were no predators or natural enemies to keep them in control. It was an ecology story -- and a spaceship is the perfect setting for it because a spaceship must be a balanced ecology."</ref>. It's probably a good thing the Klingons and tribbles instinctively hate each other, since otherwise they would have wiped out all life on several planets. Nuking their homeworld was probably a bit much. "Do they still sing songs about the Great Tribble Hunt?"

* On a season-finale episode of ''[[Hoarders]]'', a [[Truth in Television]] example played out for a man who'd let his three pet rats -- one male, two females -- escape from their cage months earlier. He didn't have the heart to let them starve, or to separate the females from the litters they'd hidden in the walls, so just kept putting down food for them. Result? A ruined house from which over ''three thousand'' fancy rats were removed by humane-society workers.

* ''[[The Basil Brush Show]]'' used this as a [[Running Gag]]. In one episode. They bought two rabbits. However as the scenes pass, more and more appear.

* ''Moria'', ''[[Angband]]'', and other related [[Roguelike|Roguelikes]]s have several mostly low-level monsters which, as the in-game descriptions say, "can breed explosively." The most notorious of these are the worm masses, in all their [[Underground Monkey|annoying]] [[Palette Swap|color variants]]. Even worse is in ''[[ADOM]]'', where creatures get stronger as you kill more of them.

* The ''[[Minecraft]]'' rabbits mod allows two rabbits to breed a baby rabbit when placed in close proximity. The issue it that this gets going exponentially when put in a small enough space: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2clZL-9AIM\]

* ''[[Chakona Space]]'' has the Faleshkarti, when they reach maturity they become obsessed with sex, sex triggers a hormone that decreases their intelligence, and the only way to slow the hormone's progression is to get pregnant. Also, they're [[Hermaphrodite|Hermaphrodites]]s so every single one of them can give birth. When the Federation makes contact with them every inch of land on their homeworld is covered with arcologies and the oceans had been converted into massive algae farms. {{spoiler|Federation geneticists eventually discover a way to prevent the neural degradation and lower their sex drives, which was rather fortunate as they were breeding more quickly than they could colonize new planets}}

* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'': The Parasprites from "Swarm of the Century". Like the famous tribbles, they also reproduce asexually and end up eating everything.