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can not only be a way to tame fluffy but also a result of having tamed it - the other way round
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Aww, isn't this little guy cute? I'm gonna [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|take him home]] [[Cuddle Bug|and hug him and kiss him and squeeze him with all my heart]] and be such a great friend and...
 
[[Self-Demonstrating Article|...and for some reason he fell asleep]]. [[Please Wake Up|You OK, little guy?]]
 
[[He's Dead, Jim|Little guy?]]
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This trope, like [[Fluffy the Terrible]], [[Grotesque Cute]], [[Enfante Terrible]], [[Killer Rabbit]], and [[Psychopathic Manchild]], plays off the conflict between "cute" and "terrifying."
 
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]].)
 
Sadly this is a bit of [[Truth in Television]] as children often kill small animals by accident in [[Real Life]]. This Trope is not to be be confused with [[wikipedia:Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George"|naming conventions of Sleeping Car Porters.]]
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== [[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]]s her. As for Flandre, well, those that she "plays with" down in the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement frequently end up "broken."
* Poor [https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/2831196?q=parent%3A2831196 Passionlip] from ''[[Fate/Grand Order]]''. (Website contains NSFW images, but these images are SFW).
 
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' Toc the Younger is subjected to a horrifying variant of this. After being captured by the enemy, he's given as a plaything to an insane K'Chain Chemalle Matriarch. Desperate for a child to cling to, the enormous beast promptly began hugging Toc the Younger, crushing and distorting his body... but the magic applied to Toc kept him alive and healing, leaving his body a twisted, pitiful wreck.
* In [[Tad Williams]]' ''[[Otherland]]'', the Other, [[A.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.
* In Alan Dean Foster's Spellsinger volume IV, The Moment of the Magician contain an example where a sentient swamp refuses to let our protagonistsgo because "They are new and interesting". It likes new and interesting. In order to coax it to let them leave, Jon-Tom conjurs up a variety of objects from his own world such as a grandfather clock or a flea circus to entertain it, and eventually it is overcome by...tv commercials.
 
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Beasts of Nurgle in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' 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 ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' creature ''Affectionate Indrik'' wants to affectionately nuzzle a creature off a bridge https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=489356.
 
== [[Theatre]] ==
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* In ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'', B.O.B. enthusiastically hugs Susan's mom, and since he's [[The Blob]], accidentally absorbs her. Susan orders him to spit her out before she suffocates, then apologizes for him. "He's just a hugger."
** Later, Susan herself goes to her fiancee Derek, and as she is [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|ten times taller than he is]], she very nearly crushes him and almost snaps his head off with a kiss.
* 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.
** Her bow has the skull of some poor small animal, supposed to be her very first pet, according to forgotten sources.
** In a [[Tales from the Crypt]] parody, she is seen looking through a photo album of deceased pets, including a fish that she didn't realize couldn't live out of water, and a horse that [[Driven to Suicide|deliberately jumped off a cliff]]. Said pets end up coming back as zombies to try and get revenge, only to endure more torture from Elmyra.
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'':
** 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]].
** Also note that the voice actress for the [[Captain Ersatz]] was Cree Summer who also voiced Elmyra
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* The unnamed girl who captures Snoopy and Woodstock (naming Snoopy "Rex") in ''[[Peanuts|Snoopy, Come Home]]''.
* 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.
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'':
** While he doesn't actually ''kill'' them, Spongebob himself has this behaviour towards Squidward, Ms. Puff, Gary, and Barnacle Boy.
** A little girl named Suzanne plays this role in the 1955 [[Friz Freleng]]-directed short "A Kiddies Kitty". Subverted in that she doesn't actually own any pets, since her mother refuses to get her one until she learns to take care of her things - enter one Sylvester, running from a dog pursuing him... While she thankfully doesn't manage to kill Sylvester, she's still overly affectionate enough that, when the mother discovers Sylvester and ultimately decides to let Suzanne keep him, he decides he'd rather take his chances with the dog.
* Junyer Bear of [[Looney Tunes]] was a classic embodiment of this. In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfU4QHZqswY "A Bear For Punishment"], Junyer is determined to give dear ol' Dad a memorable Father's Day. At one point, he tried to give his father a shave with a jagged straight razor. A moment later, he tells his mother, "Ma? Pa won't talk to me. I nudged him and I nudged him... he's awfully still." Subverted a moment later {{spoiler|when a tattered arm reaches through the door and yanks Junyer back through it, followed by the sound of Pa beating the crap out of his son. "Pa is all right now, Ma!"}}
* 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.
** He has also said "Puppies can't fly, or at least mine couldn't" while holding back tears.
* 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.
 
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