Rule of Cute



If it's adorable enough, then it doesn't have to make sense.

For example, anatomically improbable creatures can be perfectly justified in the right setting.

Compare Rule of Glamorous, Tiny Tropes.

Contrast Gonk, Hollywood Homely (where someone isn't supposed to be cute or beautiful, but is), Informed Attractiveness (where someone is supposed to cute or beautiful, but isn't more than anyone else).

Tropes running on Rule of Cute include:

 * Adorkable
 * Adorable Abomination
 * Adorably Precocious Child
 * Animal-Eared Headband
 * Badass Adorable
 * Cheerful Child
 * Cuddle Bug
 * Cute and Psycho, which applies to cute characters that can notably go Ax Crazy at the same time.
 * Cute Bookworm
 * Cute Bruiser
 * Cute but Cacophonic
 * Cute'Em Up
 * Cute Giant
 * Cute Is Evil is when a cute character turns out to be evil.
 * Cute Kitten
 * Cute Little Fangs
 * Cute Machines
 * Cute Monster
 * Cute Monster Girl
 * Cute Mute
 * Cuteness Equals Forgiveness
 * Cuteness Overload
 * Cuteness Proximity
 * Cute Sports Club Manager
 * The Cutie
 * Deliberately Cute Child
 * Eggshell Clothing
 * Hair Decorations
 * Everything's Better With Penguins
 * Everything's Better With Plushies
 * Everything's Cuter With Lucky Charms
 * The Fake Cutie
 * Fun Size
 * Generic Cuteness
 * Grotesque Cute
 * I'm Taking Her Home With Me
 * Kawaiiko
 * Kawaisa
 * Killer Rabbit
 * Little Miss Badass
 * Meet Cute
 * Meganekko
 * Mega Twintails
 * Meido (but not French Maid)
 * Moe
 * Moe Stare
 * Not Allowed to Grow Up
 * Piggyback Cute
 * Precious Puppy
 * Puni Plush
 * Puppy Love
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter
 * Series Mascot
 * Shoulder-Sized Dragon
 * Sprouting Ears
 * Strawberry Shorthand
 * Sugar Bowl
 * Super-Deformed
 * Tastes Like Diabetes
 * Token Mini-Moe
 * Ugly Cute is when this is pulled off against unlikely odds.
 * What Measure Is a Non-Cute?