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* ''[[Fragment]]'': One reason the island organisms pose such a danger to the global ecosystem is that they're ''all'' this trope.
* ''[[Ringworld]]'': City Builders are extremely fertile, such that every act of mating within their species automatically results in offspring. Females also go into heat periodically, making abstinence all but impossible for them. They consciously subvert this trope by mating with other sorts of hominid.
* ''Henry Huggins'': One of the books in [[Beverly Cleary|Beverly Cleary'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 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.
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** There are also Pyjacks, which are much like the Gizka before them in KOTOR. These were formerly called "space monkeys" in Mass Effect 1 and have become a major pest on the Krogan homeworld.
* ''[[Starcraft]]'': The [[Zerg Rush]]. In fact, their gameplay mechanics are based around in producing millions and millions of little creatures.
* Here's a fun experiment: Take any two [[
** If one of them has a different Trainer ID (was traded for), but they're both the same species, breeding will go insanely fast, and the Day Care owners will even comment that they seem to like each other a lot.
* In ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', Oswald the rabbit has 420 Bunny Children. They're adorable and eat [[Foot Soldier|mooks]].
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* ''[[The Angry Beavers]]'': The beavers decide to stay up all night because they're not tired. After a night of shenanigans and fun, they find themselves still not tired so they use various methods, including using a herd of sheep to sleep, to no avail. However little did they know the power of their alarm clock was off, leaving it the same time. They realize they have been awake for thousands of years when they find their house in the middle of a futuristic world over-populated entirely with sheep.
* ''[[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.
* The Jakovasaurs on ''[[South Park]]''. The two that are the last of their kind breed and children keep popping out. When the town tries to get rid of them with a fixed game show, the prize is a trip to France for himself and 50 of his closest relatives.
** Oddly inverted with St. Peter Rabbit, who apparently had just ''one'' descendent (Snowball) despite being of this trope's archetypal species.
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* Internal parasites must invoke this trope in spades, as only a tiny fraction of their eggs or larvae will be lucky enough to make it into a new host organism. Tapeworms, the [[Up to Eleven|uber-example]], are basically a continuous strand of gonads with an anchor at one end.
* All mites are born with a half dozen embryos already inside of them. {{spoiler|Each one has one male embryo, and a handful of females. The females all take turns being impregnated by their brother. When they're ready to be born, they eat their way out of their mother, and leave their brother to die.}}
* Their extremely short reproduction cycle is one of several reasons why ''Drosophila melanogaster'' (fruit flies) are very useful as model organisms, e.g. for genetic experiments.
* In population biology, "k-selected" species are limited by competition for resources in their environment, which is why they invest heavily in a few offspring to insure their survival. "r-selected" species are in environments which allow rapid population expansion (e.g., flowers in spring time). They have as many offspring as possible but invest little to insure individual children's survival. The "Explosive Breeder" is r-selected.
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