Spawn or spawning may refer to:

  • Spawning, the eggs and sperm of aquatic animals

Arts, entertainment and media

  • Spawn (character), a fictional character in the comic series of the same name and in the associated franchise
  • Spawn: Armageddon, a 2003 video game based on the comic series for sixth-generation consoles
  • Spawn: In the Demon's Hand, a 1999 arcade game based on the comic series
  • Spawn (1997 film), a cinema adaptation of the comic series
  • Spawn (1999 video game), a video game for the Game Boy Color
  • Spawn (upcoming film), an upcoming American superhero film
  • Spawn: Godslayer, a spin-off comic series
  • Todd McFarlane's Spawn (also known as Spawn: The Animated Series), an American adult animation television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999
  • Spawn (novel), a 1983 horror novel by Shaun Hutson
  • Spawn, a 1993 album by Rise Robots Rise
  • "Spawn Again", a song on the 1999 album Neon Ballroom by Silverchair
  • Spawn (Again): A Tribute to Silverchair, a 2017 compilation album by various UNFD artists
  • Spawning (video games), the in-game creation or re-creation of an entity
  • "SPAWN", a 2025 track by Toby Fox from Deltarune Chapters 3+4 OST from the video game Deltarune

Other uses

  • Spawn (computing), a function that executes a child process
  • SPAWN (Salmon Protection and Watershed Network), a project of the Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN), a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit environmental organization
  • Spawning bed, an installation used in fishery management to increase fish reproduction
  • Spawning networks, a type of computer network

See also

  • Respawn (disambiguation)