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[[Self-Demonstrating Article|...and for some reason he fell asleep]]. [[Please Wake Up|You OK, little guy?]]

Some monsters don't want to kill people; they just want to love them into iddy biddy pieces. No malice is intended, the monster just [[Does Not Know His Own Strength]] -- but—but the "pet" is fully aware of the danger. Usually played for laughs, although there are exceptions. Possibly a deconstruction/satire of the [[Gentle Giant]].

If the monster [[Humans Are Cthulhu|is a human]], this may be the way they [[Fluffy Tamer|tame Fluffy]]. If not, it is a type of [[Non-Malicious Monster]]. (Although in that case, taming Fluffy may have [[Gone Horribly Right|caused Fluffy to do this]].)

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== [[Art]] ==

== Fanworks[[Fan Works]] ==

* In ''[[Touhou]]'' fanworks, Flandre Scarlet and Koishi Komeji are sometimes depicted as being a little too energetic in their pursuit of cuddles. Poor Okuu gets all bent out of shape and ruffled when Koishi [[Glomp|glompsglomp]]s her. As for Flandre, well, those that she "plays with" down in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement frequently end up "broken."

* One of the [[Trope MakersMaker]] here is undoubtedly Lennie Small, in John Steinbeck's ''[[Of Mice and Men]]''. Lennie was a childlike man who [[Does Not Know His Own Strength|didn't know his own strength]], and so ended up crushing the mice and puppies he tried to pet, and eventually {{spoiler|killed someone by accident}} in much the same way. George was the name of his sidekick (or rather, Lennie is ''his'' sidekick), hence the [[Looney Tunes]] and MGM examples are [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]].

* In [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'', the Other, [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|quasi-sentient]] operating system of the titular network, [[Friend to All Children|loves children]] and seeks them out, but the combination of its [[Psychopathic Manchild|ignorance of real life]], [[Psychic Powers]], and the [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|horror of its existence]] means that its attempts to "play with them" ends up inadvertently [[Mind Rape|Mind Raping]] them into comas. Oops.

* ''[[Discworld]]'' has an [[Expy]] of [[Cthulhu Mythos|Shub-Niggurath]] -- [https://web.archive.org/web/20120428192936/http://wiki.lspace.org/wiki/Tshup_Aklathep Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young]. She shows pictures of them all to anyone she can catch. Until her new friends' [[Your Head Asplode|brains implode]] or they kill themselves.

== [[Live -Action TV]] ==

* Beasts of Nurgle in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' only want to play with all the friends they meet on the battlefield. However, since they're living embodiments of disease strong enough to crush a man's bones to powder, you can guess how well that goes.

* The [[Video Game Remake]] of ''[[Resident Evil]]'' for Gamecube introduced a deformed mutant who, in your first encounter, doesn't hurt you--justyou—just knocks you out. One of her "diary" entries reads:

* [[Image Boards|/tg/]] loves this trope -- whattrope—what with "[[The Juggernaut|The Tarrasque]] is [http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5789941/ actually a pretty swell guy]" and "Unyuufex" - a [[The Butcher|Carnifex]] who [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Unyuufex only wants to hug]. From [https://demonmads.deviantart.com/art/ArtDump-2-Unyuufex-60010116 here]; [https://demonmads.deviantart.com/art/Hug-The-Nought-62436116 some things] can survive his attention for a while, however.

* [[Something Awful|Shmorky]]'s parody of ''[[Video Game/Homestar Runner|Homestar Runner]]'' (viewable [http://www.somethingawful.com/d/flash-tub/tub-bites-vol.php here]): "I petted 'The Sheep' too much. Now he don't move no more!"

* Pictured above is Elmyra of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. lovedShe loves animals, but didndoesn't know how to treat them. Sheand wasis honestly confused when the adorable animals she meant no harm towards objected to being put in too-small cages, bathed via near-drowning, and other overly-affectionate acts. One of her pets ''falls apart in the sink,'', having been dead already [[Please Wake Up|unbeknownst to her]]. Hands with carcass go in, empty hands come out as she looks on in confusion.

** AOne segmentsketch of ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' featuredfeatures a giant robot coming to life and innocently harming everyone he meets;: he picks up a group of people to hug and crushes them to death, splattering their guts all over himself, then picks up a dog and crushes it when he pets it. When police open fire to try to stop his apparent rampage, he decides to "play" too... and "wins".

** Another ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch features an Elmyra [[Captain Ersatz]] who is so cuteness-crazed that she traps a pegasus in a bear trap, ''hacks off his wings'', paints him pink, and [[Roots|whips him until he accepts that his new name is Sunnymuffins]]. Definitely [[Crosses the Line Twice]].

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* A seemingly kind old woman turns out to be this type in the ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' episode, [[SpongeBob SquarePants/Recap/S4/Have You Seen This Snail?|"GaryHave ComeYou Home.Seen This Snail?"]] When Gary, the pet snail, Gary runs away from a neglectful Spongebob, he is rescued by the old character.woman Beforeand hesmothered iswith smotheredattention. byShortly attentioninto his stay, however, he finds the bodies of other pet snails that she's loved to death, or alternatively fattened up with food and affectionbeats soa thatquick shepath couldhome eatbefore them.the Hesmothering beatsbecomes a quick path homeliteral.

* The animated short, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8CordF1nl8 The Terrible Thing of Alpha-9].

* In one episode of ''[[American Dad]]'', Barry mistakes a girl in a cat costume as the ghost of his pet cat Mr. Whiskers and says "I'm sorry Mr. Whiskers, I didn't know you couldn't breathe under water" while sobbing.

* In the ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' movie, when fighting the superpowered monkeys, Bubbles picks up Cruncha Muncha, thea littlestsmell capuchin monkey., Sheand hugs him really tight and startswhile swinging him around in her arms when, suddenly,causing hehim goesto go limp in her arms, and she begins to cry.