Egg MacGuffin/Playing With

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    • 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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