Egg MacGuffin/Playing With


 * Basic Trope: A character must care for an egg
 * Played Straight: Alice finds an abandoned nest. She takes the egg home and keeps it warm until it hatches.
 * Exaggerated:
 * The egg hatches out something unusual, such as a fairy, a dragon, a demon, a monster, etc.
 * The egg is a Cosmic Egg, with the beginnings of a whole new universe (or deity) inside.
 * Justified:
 * Eggs can often contain something cool, and may be found or otherwise obtained by a character.
 * Alice participates in an Easter Egg Hunt (Bonus Points if it's rather a Calvin Ball-like variation thereof.)
 * Inverted: Alice is curled up inside the egg.
 * Subverted: The egg is nothing too impressive, only a duck egg.
 * Double subverted: But the duckling imprints on Alice and follows her everywhere.
 * Deconstructed: Alice may not know how to care for the critter in question.
 * Reconstructed: Alice does her homework and learns how to go about it.
 * Parodied: The egg hatches out...candy.
 * Zig Zagged: Some eggs are significant to the plot, others are not.
 * Lampshaded:
 * Averted: Alice does not find any eggs.
 * Enforced:
 * Invoked: Alice trips and lands just in front of an abandoned nest.
 * Defied: Alice decides to leave the nest alone, just in case the mother bird/dragon/dinosaur/whatever comes back.
 * Discussed:
 * Conversed:
 * Played For Laughs:
 * Alice is chased away when she tries to pick up the egg.
 * The egg hatches out Marshmallow Cheeps
 * Played For Drama: Alice has to teach the hatchling to be whatever its species is, but (obviously) can't do that.

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