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* ''[[Bio Meat]]'': The titular creatures. Unfortunately for [[The End of the World as We Know It|everyone]], they're also [[Extreme Omnivore|Extreme Omnivores]]s.

* ''[[Digimon]]'': In the second movie ,<ref>the first one, in the English versions</ref>, the villain replicates himself several million times in just a few minutes. This is justified in that he's on the internet, and is explained as being a type of virus. Furthermore, the copies don't have nearly the same resistance to damage that the original does, as a [[Spam Attack]] destroys everything ''except'' the original.

* A human example is Mother of Champions from [[DC Comics]]. Her power is to conceive a litter of 25 children each time she has sex, who complete gestation in 3 days, after which she gives birth. These metahuman offspring are [[Super Strength|superhumanly strong]], but [[Younger Than They Look|age ten years for each day they're alive]], so they are used as expendable cannon fodder by the Chinese government -- shegovernment—she has no contact with them once they are born. She has apparently given birth to thousands of these offspring, sports a perpetual [[Obvious Pregnancy|pregnant belly]], and relies on a robotic chair with six insectile legs to carry her around, as she gets too large to walk on her own.

** A ''literal'' [[Explosive Breeder]], in fact.

* The Gryphons in ''[[The Wayfarer Redemption]]'' were born pregnant -- withpregnant—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 -- onerats—one male, two females -- escapefemales—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.

* Rabbits and rodents tend to show this trope. [[Truth in Television]] -- but—but often comically exaggerated.

** Some microorganisms have a gestation period measured in ''[[wikipedia:Bacteria#Growth and reproduction|minutes]]''. Which is why they mutate so fast. What takes the average macroorganism (maturity at four years) to evolve -- sayevolve—say, seventy generations for it to be well entrenched and spread through the population -- takespopulation—takes the average bacterium ''one day''. Finish your antibiotics.

*** To give you an idea of just how fast bacteria populations can grow if unrestricted, if it takes ten minutes for one bacterium to become two, then in an hour you will have sixty-four. In five hours you will have one billion. In twenty-four hours you will have 2.2 times 10^43--about43—about ''one hundred times the mass of the entire Earth!'' In forty-eight hours they will have [[Up to Eleven|exceeded the mass of the visible universe]]. [[Captain Obvious|Most micro-organisms reach stationary phase due to space or food shortages, or environmental pressure, long before this happens]].