Chest Burster/Playing With

Basic Trope: An nasty parasite leaves the body in a nasty way.

• Straight: The alien erupts from Bob's chest.
• Exaggerated: Bob explodes, leaving a brood of aliens squirming amid the gore.
• Justified: The alien was going to make a less messy Orifice Evacuation, but then something in Bob's body made it leave in a hurry.
• Inverted:
  • An alien burrows into Bob's chest to make its home.
  • Bob is eaten whole by an alien and bursts out of the alien's chest.
• Subverted: After having an alien embryo placed inside him, Bob clutches his chest and screams in agony, but he's just having a heart attack.
• Double Subverted: Bob's heart attack turns out to be the result of the alien living inside him. *burst*
• Parodied: Bob's chest has a door inexplicably built in, and the alien parasite leaves in a very civil manner. Then the parasite suffers a Chest Burster.
• Deconstructed:
  • The aliens purposely burst out of peoples' chests as a form of psychological warfare...
  • Bob is really a Worm That Walks made of a colony of snake-like aliens, he's doing this to attack without revealing himself, or because he's in trouble and ejecting a single Worm is the only way he can escape without raising suspicion.
• Reconstructed: ...but it turns out the aliens need to burst out of something to survive in the outside world (much like a butterfly breaks out of its chrysalis to stimulate its wing muscles).
• Zig Zagged: An alien bursts out of Bob's chest, he successfully kills it and patches up the wound, and another alien bursts out of his chest a while later.
• Averted: The aliens in this story are not parasitic.
• Enforced: "We need to make our aliens more terrifying. Let's have them burst out of their victims!"
• Lampshaded: "Why do they always come out of the chest?"
• Invoked: A Mad Scientist bred chestibursticus horriblis as a terror-inducing bioweapon.
• Defied:
  • Anyone discovered to be harboring an alien parasite is promptly killed and burned.
  • Alternatively everyone in an area even remotely suspected to harbor one is dosed with a drug that kills the eggs if they get into their system.
• Discussed: "If one of those beasties stings you, it's really laying eggs. So hold on to your ribs."
• Conversed: "The aliens are chestbursters? Gross!"

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