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* The banana in this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTiXZYQNYec Wrigley Gum commercial].

* The little girl from this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUrftf3ndAw Haribo advert].

 

* ''[[Ask Dr. Rin]]'': Meirin Kanzaki.

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': has several adorable (and occasionally sexy as well) badasses on its roster, including Levy, Wendy, Lucy, and Mirajane.

** Shinji Ikari in the [[Alternate Continuity|alternate continuities]]. The original series leaves most of the badassery to his mecha on autopilot.

** People saying that Shinji is not [[Badass]] enough in the original series should one day just try holding red-hot pieces of metal for half a minute (never mind fighting someone in the process). Yes, his hands weren't damaged directly, but he ''felt'' all the damage to Eva-01 as if his own body was harmed.

* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'':

** Hayate

* Shion from ''[[No. 6]]'', the [[Adorkable]] [[Nice Guy]] [[Bishonen]] with big eyes and a huge heart. However, [[Beware the Nice Ones|get him pissed off enough]], usually by messing with Nezumi, and [[Yandere|take cover]].

* Sodom and Yuki from ''[[Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru]]''.

* [[Creepy Child|The Child]] from ''[[Berserk]]''. It's largely speculated that the once [[The Grotesque|misshapen fetus]] {{spoiler|that was Guts and Casca's tainted child caused by Griffith's [[Rape as Drama|very heinous act]] during the Eclipse}} has been reborn into the very cute and silent little boy that Casca found on the beach. And if the implications '''are''' correct, the little boy is still doing what he was doing when he was not-so-cute: warding off evil spirits that try to harm Casca. But the true badass part comes when {{spoiler|Guts is overpowered by [[Enemy Within|the Beast]], who constantly tries to goad him into killing Casca and all of his friends so he can get back to hunting Griffith. But whenever the Child is nearby, the Beast is always thwarted when the the boy manifests as a body of light within Guts' psyche and brings him back to the light by reminding him [[The Power of Love|of his love]] [[Morality Chain|for Casca]].}}.

** Guts was pretty cute as a [[Child Soldier]] himself, and he could hold his own ground on the battlefield.

* {{spoiler|Momoka Oginome}} in ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]''. A young girl no older than 10 who is capable of {{spoiler|rewriting reality via writing spells in her Destiny Diary [[Cast from Hit Points|at great risk to herself]]}}, and who had done a LOT to save two other children who ''badly'' needed her help.

* [[Kirby]], of course, in the anime ''Hoshi no Kirby''.

** And Knuckle Joe.

* In ''[[The World God Only Knows]]'' Haqua goes from [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v18/c176/12.html a menacing baddass] to [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/the_world_god_only_knows/v18/c176/13.html an apologetic, adorable girl] in a single page. Her [[Tsundere|dere]] is showing.

* It's quite hard to remember that Akira from ''[[Ai Ore Love Me]]'' is a badass when he's so small and cute that [[Even the Guys Want Him]].

* The titular ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' and though she may not seem like it at first, {{spoiler|Anthy}}.

* ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' gives us [[King Incognito|Seth]]. Looks to all the world like a cute teenage girl. If you [[Heroic RROD|somehow]] manage to hurt [[Person of Mass Destruction|her big brother]], [[Make Me Wanna Shout|kiss your ass goodbye.]]

* ''[[Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu]]'': Nogizaka Haruka rarely shows the badass part of the trope but the first time Ayase Yuto saw her doing it was enough to make him understand he must never make her angry. And that's because her anger was directed at a boy trying to take her from him.

** Some of her maids might count as well.

** And her mother.

* Polly from ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]''.

 

* ''[[Sam and Max]]'', especially Max. Max varies from being cute to psychotic at the drop of a hat. Sam is more reserved but can be aggressive if the time is right. And both can (and will) shoot people if they mess with them.

** It's worth noting that Molly felt terrible about the incident with [[Badass Normal|the Punisher]] afterwards, since she had assumed the the Punisher had actual powers and could take the hit. This, of course, only makes it more adorable.

** Molly did the exact same thing to Wolverine, only hard enough to send him flying about fifty yards.

* [[Squirrel Girl]]. Absurdly cute with the power to talk to squirrels... and has beaten the likes of Dr. Doom and Thanos.

* Gully from ''[[Battle Chasers]]''. Not yet nine and half, blonde, green eyed, utterly cute - and wields the Gloves of Aramas which give the wielder the strength of a thousand men. With them, she pwns a pack of werewolves (inadvertently beating one of them to death) and stops a demon at least ten times her size in its tracks long enough for her companion war golem to destroy the containment bracelet, sending it back to Hell permanently.

* The [[Mouse Guard]].

* Lord Noriyuki in ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]''. He rarely has to fight personally (his soldiers do it for him, plus he's about 10–11 years old), but he's good at throwing knives.

* Galacta, the daughter of Galactus. An adorable [[Meganekko]] young woman who goes by "Galli" who happens to be the daughter of one of the most powerful beings in the Marvel Universe—and she is almost as powerful as him.

* Miho from ''[[Sin City]]''. She's very small and cute but will decapitate you at the drop of a hat.

** For further proof of both sides of this trope, check out the Justice scene between the Big Red Cheese and the Big Blue Boy Scout in [[Big Damn Heroes]].

* ''[[Mini Marvels]]'' turns ''the entire [[Marvel Universe]]'' into this.

* Wolverine's daughter/clone [[X-23]].

* ''[[Tintin]]''. A [[Vague Age|youthful]], well-coiffed, baby-faced reporter who doesn't drink, talks to his pet dog, and upholds himself and the world to high moral standards. If you try to violate said standards in front of him, ''he will punch you through a wall.''

 

 

* Gizmo in ''[[Gremlins]] 2: The New Batch'' becomes this after he grows too tired of the gremlins' abuse and decides to [[Take a Level In Badass]] and start acting like [[Rambo]]... that is, if Rambo was an adorable furry... thing.

* Already mentioned in the literature section, but (because it bears repeating) [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BT9KDJ9OJM Reepicheep] from the ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' films. Modeled after [[Errol Flynn]] and voiced by [[Eddie Izzard]], Reepicheep goes mouse-to-man several times... and wins! Even though he is as cute as Lucy says (he prefers "courageous, courteous, or chivalrous"), he's a force to be reckoned with. He even tried to take on an army of Telmarines by himself!

** Anakin Skywalker in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]''. Born of the Immaculate Conception, incredibly sensitive to the Force, a mechanical genius on his spare time and one of the best podracer pilots in the galaxy, with his instant mastery when it comes to pilot a Naboo royal starfighter, destroying the Trade Federation's mothership thus putting an end to the conflict on Naboo in the process. And he was only 9 years old.

** R2-D2.

* Steve Rogers of ''[[Captain America: The First Avenger]]'' is a sweet-tempered, well-mannered and kind-hearted boy-next-door who just ''happens'' to possess a body rebuilt to human perfection.

* [[Monica Keena]] has played this character from time to time, like when she [[Freddy vs. Jason|decapitated Freddy Krueger with a machete]]. Ditto [[Maggie Gyllenhaal]], like when she [[The Dark Knight|kneed The Joker in the balls]]. Also [[Elliot Page]], who totally pwned [[X-Men (film)|The Juggernaut]], [[Memetic Mutation|bitch]]!

* [[Noomi Rapace]] as Lisbeth Salander in the ''[[Millennium Trilogy]]''. [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|Bikers, beware!]]

* In ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', the villain encounters some cute little dinosaurs, which turn out to be {{spoiler|the fearsome creatures mentioned at the start of the movie as some of the most vicious monsters in the park, but until then, never seen. After exhibiting some cute behaviour, acting like goofy, curious dogs, one refuses to fetch a stick, suddenly bursts out a spiked neck ruff and spits noxious poison into our villain's face. His buddies arrive and they gleefully finish him off.}}

* Morph from ''[[Treasure Planet|Treasure Planet.]]'' Seems like a cute, little blob reminiscent of Ditto, right? Not only is he capable of transforming into any given person or object (still remains the same size when in normal form), but can utter very [[Deadpan Snarker|snarky]] phrases like a parrot, and, when against [[Ax Crazy]] Scroop, is able to put up a decent fight for several minutes. Badass Adorable, indeed.

* Emily from ''[[Corpse Bride]]'' is pretty cute for an animated corpse and proves just how badass she is during the finale in the church against Barkis Bittern.

* ''[[The Incredibles]]'' has both [[Fragile Speedster|Dash]] and [[Goo-Goo Godlike|Jack-Jack]], the Parrs' young boys, but [[Adorkable|Violet]] also qualifies.

* EVE from ''[[WALL-E]].''

* Toothless from ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'', capable of going from [[Badass]] to Adorable in the blink of an eye.

* Then there is ''[[Oliver and Company]]'', where Oliver himself is adorable, and is somewhat [[Badass]] during his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|CMOA]]s.

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'' has at least a few of these. First there's the main protagonist, Po, who has badass kung-fu skills by the end of the first film. The adorable is, of course, the fact that he's a [[Pandaing to the Audience|chubby Panda]]. There's also Master Shifu, who is a small red panda, but he can kick just about anyone's ass.

* Even though he's a ''50-foot-something robot'', the Giant from ''[[The Iron Giant]]'' is an endearing [[Gentle Giant]], with a childlike naivety about the world he's come to. [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|Just don't point]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|a weapon at him...]]

 

** Dobby. {{spoiler|He's saved [[The Hero|Harry's]] sorry ass quite a few times, disarmed/attacked several wizards, and says the most awesome line an elf could ever say: "Dobby has no master!!!" He even died like a [[Badass]]! Hit by a knife thrown by a crazy chick you just dropped a Chandelier on while apperating three other people out of the domain of Voldemort.}}

* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'':

** Reepicheep: A cute two-and-a-half foot talking mouse with honor, dignity, and the ability to successfully take on an armed opponent twice his size. One of the few characters from Narnia aside from Aslan who shows up in ''three'' books; at one point, he even sails over the edge of the world.

** Lucy: The entire Telmarine army skidded to a stop in mid-retreat, scared stiff of one small adorable girl smiling sweetly at them from across the bridge (their only escape route) while brandishing a dagger. And that's before [[Big Damn Heroes|Aslan]] stepped up beside her.

** Mouse is pretty awesomely adorable, too. Sure, he's a dog that's [[Big Friendly Dog|around four foot tall at the shoulder]], but he plays the goofy [[Gentle Giant]] act up so well you forget about that and just want to snuggle with his big fuzzy self. Then he [[Power Glows|starts glowing]] and ''makes an eldritch horror run away in terror'' after ripping the back of its foot off. He also garners more respect from a powerful [[Fair Folk|Sidhe]] noble than his "master" does.

** The series' ''original'' Badass Adorable, Karrin Murphy. Blond, five foot nothing, with a cute little button nose, and she's proven so ''incredibly'' badass so very many times that she'd need her own subpage to list all the examples.

* In ''[[The Pale King]]'', Leonard Stecyk is an [[Cheerful Child|excruciatingly upbeat]],kind, and [[Child Prodigy|hard-working]] bully magnet. He's also the only one who {{spoiler|rushes in to save his wood shop teacher from dying of shock and blood loss after an accident with a machine. His little apron keeps his clothes from getting drenched in blood, and he makes a perfectly-tied tourniquet on the fly.}}

 

* [[Summer Glau|River Tam]] of ''[[Firefly]]'' owes her popularity to this trope.

* Speaking of [[Summer Glau]], Cameron from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' also fits this role nicely. Summer is just the perfect combination of [[Badass]] and [[Moe]].

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer|Bunny Ears Forensic Technician]] Abby Sciuto from ''[[NCIS]]'' typically bounces between [[Hot Scientist]] and [[Moe]]. Until you threaten her or someone she cares about; at which point, she'll thorougly kick your ass, and be totally adorable while doing it.

** And kill you without leaving '''a single shred of forensic evidence!!'''

* ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' has Anna. Cute, bookish and a badass vampire.

* ''[[Sherlock]]'' gives us Dr. John Watson. He's played by [[Martin Freeman]], wears cuddly jumpers, types with one finger from each hand, and spends most of the series being the most caring friend in the world. He's also an ex-soldier, {{spoiler|shot a bad guy in the shoulder in one building....from the other building}}, has stared down the most dangerous man in England, {{spoiler|Mycroft Holmes}}, and was prepared to do a [[Taking You with Me]] to the most psychotic one {{spoiler|Jim Moriarty}}. He also punched a police chief, breaking his nose and earning himself an arrest, because the guy called his best friend a "weirdo".

* The ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'' mini-series has Archie Kennedy, sweet, enthusiastic, and really likes fighting the French! The first hint of this comes in "The Duel/The Even Chance" after boarding a French ship and running up to Horatio afterward to babble about how he "killed two! Well, one, certainly." It's not always obvious in the first and third instalments due to the [[The Woobie|suffering he endures throughout]], but by the second series, he's no less adorable but exponentially more badass. This includes helping Horatio blow up forts and shooting an enemy soldier off a tower from about a hundred yards away.

* Rory Williams from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has two settings: [[Adorkable]] ([[Doctor Who/Recap/S31/E06 The Vampires of Venice|eg. fighting vampires with a broom]]) and [[Badass]] ([[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E07 A Good Man Goes to War|eg. facing down a Cyberlegion]]), and frequently overlaps the two ([[Doctor Who/Recap/S32/E10 The Girl Who Waited|eg. smashing a killer robot over the head with the Mona Lisa]]).

** Zoe and Jo Grant. The former being a perky little human calculator, whose hobbies include wrestling comic book heroes come to life and making giant computers destroy themselves with the power of confusion. The latter being cute, clumsy and pretty much [[The Ditz]]. And yet she's the only companion to have ever resisted the Master's hypnotising, as well as helping Three escape from whatever prison cell or bondage trap he'd got himself in that week.

 

* [[Rey Mysterio, Jr.]]. A tiny little guy with big [[Puppy Dog Eyes]] who would look like a kid playing superhero in his backyard, almost across the border into [[Moe]]...except he's held as many or more titles than any giant in the ring twice his size and can usually be found, especially recently, whomping the hell out of those same giants.

* NXT contestant [[Chick Busters|AJ]]. She looks a little like a [http://www.wrestlingrevealed.com/images/wrestlers/aj-lee.jpg squirrel]{{Dead link}}. Very petite, very energetic, absolutely adorable, and probably the most talented woman on the NXT roster.

** No! No! No!

 

* In the German game ''[[Pluesch Power Und Plunder]]'' (about [[Living Toy|living]] [[Everything's Better with Plushies|plushies]]), every [[Player Character]] and many NPCs are this, essentially. And is there a better example?

 

* [[Kirby]], the little {{color|pink|pink}} puffball of kickass. He is one tough creampuff.

** And Meta Knight, when you break his mask. Most characters in this series fit this.

* Meracle Chamlotte from ''[[Star Ocean: The Last Hope]]'' doesn't seem all that badass at first glance, being a [[Stripperific]] [[Moe Moe]] [[Catgirl]], but once you max out her Critical skill and get her some decent equipment her multi-hit killer moves become absurdly deadly; she can clear the field with a single [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|Claws of Fury]] that scores something on the order of a dozen consecutive critical hits.

* ''[[Bomberman]]'' with his cute face and outfit and BOMBS.

* [[Kid Appeal Character|Tails]] from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' fits this to a T. Young two-tailed fox who likes to invent things and go on adventures with his best buddy [[The McCoy|Sonic]].

{{quote|'''Tails''': ... Sonic...

** What about [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_spo0AXB2EY Cream and Cheese]?

** Speaking of [[Moe|Cream the Rabbit]] and [[Sidekick|Cheese the Chao]], in [[Sonic X]], {{spoiler|she manages to defeat and destroy Emerl, while her friends weren't able to do so}}.

** Most of the cast, including [http://media.sonicscanf.org/gallery/shadow-the-hedgehog-5/sonic-battle.png Shadow]. The resident badass [[Anti-Hero]] is three feet tall and fluffy.

* The entire point of ''[[Koihime Musou]]'', but especially Kan'u. Even more so in the first game.

** Grown-up Luigi is more badass than you'd think. And many fangirls consider him adorable.

** Also, the various assistants from ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' - Bombette, Goombario, Bow and, Watt.

** Mario himself qualifies, though perhaps he's not as adorable as Yoshi and Luigi on account on being more masculine than them.

* The four main protagonists of ''[[EarthBound]]''.

* ''[[Xenoblade]]'' keeps the tradition going with Riki. One of the battle quotes of this [[Adorkable]] "fur ball" is "Riki can win by himself!". And he's not all talk. Far from it!

** [[The Hero|Shulk]], [[The Chick|Fiora]] and Melia also count. Man, this is a [[World of Badass|World Of Badass Adorable]].

** Made even more adorable in ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom|Marvel VS Capcom 3]]'', in which Ammy is a playable character.

* ''[[Touhou]]''. Quite a ''lot'' of the Girls of Gensokyo are [[Moe|really, really cute]], and they all either have [[Superpower Lottery|crazy powers]] or plenty of [[Bullet Hell|danmaku]] with which to protect themselves.

** ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''—Anise Tatlin

** ''[[Tales of Eternia]]''—Meredy, one of the cutest video game characters ever but also capable of wiping out the enemy with her summons.

** ''[[Tales of Xillia]]''—Elise Lutus, the most adorable out of all the examples.

* May from ''[[Guilty Gear]]''. Bridget may also qualify [[Wholesome Crossdresser|if you're into that sort of thing]].

** [[Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones|Amelia]] can take this to an absurd degree if you make her into a General. She remains an adorable teenage girl in all of the cutscenes, but on the battlefield she's seven feet tall, covered from head to toe in plate mail, and wields weapons that make Cloud's Buster Sword look like a toothpick. Combine this with positively absurd stat-growth and you have what is basically a walking wall of certain death. An adorable, shy wall of certain death. Ross is a [[Hot-Blooded]] boy who idolizes his [[Retired Badass]] dad but is quite the sweetheart to others, and Ewan is a cheery prankster with a talent for magic. Raise them well and promote the first one into either a [[Boisterous Bruiser|Berserker or a Warrior]], while making the other [[Black Magic|a Summoner or a Druid]]. The ''three'' trainees absolutely [[Moe]] killing machines - and double if you [[Relationship Values|get any of the boys to A Support level with Amelia.]]

** Also Lilina from ''[[Fire Emblem Sword of Seals|Sword Of Seals]]'' and Nino of ''[[Fire Emblem Blazing Sword|Blazing Sword]]''.

* Yuria Bahara from ''[[Fire Emblem Genealogy of Holy War|Genealogy of the Holy War]]'' is a [[Princess Classic]] with a high amount of [[Moe]] ([http://i43.tinypic.com/1zwn1qq.jpg See her here.]), [[The Woobie|who's very shy and somewhat depressing (she's usually depicted as crying. A lot.)]] Mind you, she's a [[Glass Cannon]] stat wise, and would be that way but usually she's got one of two weapons, one is her trademark "Resire" which makes her practically invincible, the other is a stacked [[Game Breaker]]- as she is already, her [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus 20]] Tome, Naga, which, increases her stats by 20 (ignoring the [[Cap]]s, oh and that tome? It fires a Dragon at her hapless foes.

** And there's plenty more in the [[Fire Emblem Tellius|Tellius canon]]: Queen Elincia, Mia, Mist, Sanaki, Ilyana, Rolf, Marcia, Nephenee, Astrid...

** Also Ling Xiaoyu.

* Dog from ''[[Dragon Age]]'': he is a [[Big Friendly Dog]]... and also a Mabari: a breed of dogs who are basically part of [[The Kingdom|Ferelden's]] elite troops and are used among other things to stop charging knights. While traveling with the Warden, Dog will jump headfirst into the fray, tear his ennemies to pieces, then will come back, covered in blood, wagging his short tail and looking at his master with puppy eyes waiting for him or her to scratch Dog behind the ears

* [[Ecco the Dolphin]], being both a [[Captain Obvious|dolphin]] and the protagonist of an adventure game series, would obviously qualify as this, but it tends towards [[Fridge Brilliance]] when you consider that the label Badass Adorable applies to real-life dolphins as well. Then again, real dolphins tend towards [[Killer Rabbit|a more sinister variety of badass adorable]].

* Sunny from ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid 4]]''. Seven years old, cute as a button, and able to take down an AI that has effectively taken over the world.

* In ''[[Star Wars: The Old Republic]]'' one of the Bounty Hunter's companions is Blizz. He's a Jawa, ya know those cute robed little guys with glowy yellow eyes? He's a tank. He also ''[[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|wields a rocket launcher]]''.

* From ''[[Eternal Sonata]]'':

** Polka, a sweet young teen with [[Ill Girl|an unspecified illness]]. Her [[Parasol of Pain|parasol is a powerful weapon]], and she has some good magic in her arsenal.

* Many girls of the [[Rance]] Series qualify.

* ''[[Maple Story]]'' with its chibi-heroes and cute monsters. It's even focused on in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgvqpEwf4Oo the Armed and Adorable promotional short.]

 

* The [[Key Visual Arts]] games have a few in starring roles (see the entry for details).

* Pearl Fey from ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' is a powerful candidate, since she's saved the day quite a few times by channeling Mia. She even slapped Franziska Von Karma!

** Ilya is probably the most prominent there. She also happens to be a complete (but intensely sympathetic) psychopath loli who [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|isn't as young as she looks]].

 

* The [[Trope Namer]] is Green Mega Man (The Mega-speaking, mega-hyperactive, mega-side kick from ''[[Captain N]]''), from ''[[Captain SNES]]''. Even the Cynical, rude, and foul-mouthed bastard that is Alex Williams, thinks Green Mega is Adorably Badass.

* Ruby Gem, the little toddler vampire girl from ''[[Monsterful]]''.

** Taken up to eleven with Jade's {{spoiler|God Tier form, which gave her her pet dog's [[Reality Warper]] powers - and dog ears.}}

* ''[[Ronin Galaxy]]'': Cecil gives his opponent a cheesy little v-sign before [https://web.archive.org/web/20120715004551/http://www.roningalaxy.com/comics/chapter-1/page-23/ dispatching] of him. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120715011228/http://www.roningalaxy.com/comics/chapter-1/page-40/ Twice.]

* Several characters in ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'' qualify, but the undisputed champion is Coney Dewclaw, a three-year-old diaper-wearing bunny rabbit. She's also half-wolf (on her mother's side), and effortlessly devours slavering carnivores five times her size in a single panel.

* While the titular character of ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' is stuck looking like an cute if sharp toothed kid, he took out a ship full of pirates on his ninth birthday, and has only gotten cooler since then.

* Platypus from ''[[Vinigortonio]]'' may look like an ordinary platypus but can actually hold his own in a fight and even infiltrate the police department without being noticed.

 

* Jade Sinclair (Generator) of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. Cute as a button, looks like she's only eleven... and has scared the holy <censored> out of violent villains like Bloodwolf and Killstench. Bloodwolf controls a werewolf spirit and likes hurting people. He got stapled to a tree with railroad spikes. Do not make Generator mad at you. And then there's the Syndicate hardsite she destroyed... after being tortured nearly to death, stabbed through the heart, then {{spoiler|gives herself CPR and plays dead until her regen kicks in, then she goes about killing half the base herself with jagged metal objects and raising her victims as "zombies". It starts to cross the line into [[Grotesque Cute]].}}

* Flippy from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]''.

* Kid LeBron from ''[[The Lebrons (web animation)|The Lebrons]]''.

* feralAncient, oceanRising, flintlockEnthusiast, familyFun [[Loads and Loads of Characters|for starters]] from ''[[Adult Stuck]]''. Given most of the cast starts out at 11, this is probably to be expected.

* Ruby Rose, Nora Valkyrie, and Velvet Scarlatina from ''[[RWBY]]''.

 

* Nibbler from ''[[Futurama]]'' probably falls under this category. There's practically a whole episode devoted to how adorable the crew find him (much to Bender's chagrin), and in as the series progresses, it is revealed that {{spoiler|the Nibblonian race was already 17 years old at the time of the big bang, and are charged with protecting the Earth from the evil Brainspawn}} and also that Nibbler himself had a fairly big part to play in {{spoiler|getting Fry cryogenically frozen for 1000 years in the first place}}.

** As an ancient, super-intelligent beings, the Nibblonians resent being regarded as adorable. Nibbler, himself gets fed up with it in season six:

* Timmy Turner from ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' has confronted bullies, aliens, and {{spoiler|the Darkness}} ever since his Fairies showed up.

** Poof, at times, especially in episodes with his [[Evil Counterpart|Anti-Fairy counterpart]], [[Enfante Terrible|Foop]].

** And depending on who you ask, Danny himself.

* Meap from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. He's an intergalactic cop who roams the universe busting people who do stuff they're not supposed to do. He's two feet tall, doe-eyed, pink, and without his translator all he can say is "Meap!"

* Snap from ''[[ChalkZone]]''. He appears as a cute little chalk drawing with huge eyes and a big heart, but can get very aggressive if you harm one of his friends.

** Rudy can also be one to an extent. He's got the magic chalk! which can do anything!

* Sam, Clover, and Alex from ''[[Totally Spies!]].''

* [[Bugs Bunny]]. He can stare down the barrel of a shotgun and casually ask "What's up, Doc?".

{{quote|'''[[Wayne's World|Garth]]''': Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when [[Attractive Bent Gender|he put on a dress and played girl bunny]]?

* Heloise from ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'' is an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Enfant Terrible]] who beats and murders anyone who sets off her [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]...but she just looks so darn [[Moe]] while doing it.

* A lot of the G1 ''[[My Little Pony]]'' gang was this. Especially certain Ponies like Firefly, Gusty, and Galaxy.

** Fluttershy is normally a quiet, timid pegasus who is a [[Friend to All Living Things]], but ''do not'' hurt or otherwise threaten her friends!

** Rainbow Dash for [[Leeroy Jenkins|rushing in at every possible threat]],and being the only pony who can break the sound barrier.

** And in the [[Mickey Mouse Comic Universe|comics]] too—since the very start (in 1930). Watch him fight crooks, pirates, etc. with pistols, lead pipes (!) or just his fists; he might be a nice guy, but he's no sucker.

** His half-brother, [[Oswald the Lucky Rabbit]], ain't such a pushover himself. Notwithstanding his role in ''[[Epic Mickey]]'', stunts pulled in Oswald's shorts included beating up a [[Everything's Worse with Bears|huge bear]] and [[Fur Is Clothing|relieving it of its fur coat]] and grabbing a gun and pumping a live lion full of lead.

* The main six kids in ''[[Recess]]'', and they all [[Took a Level in Badass|take a level in badass]] in ''[[Recess: School's Out]]''. Spinelli is a small, adorable nine-year-old girl with her hair in [[Girlish Pigtails]], yet she's the toughest kid in school.

** T.J. Detweiler. Short, chubby, wide-eyed, sweet, and adorable. He's also the leader of the gang, who's responsible for all of their awesome moments.

* Rocko from ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' can be a real asskicker when he gets mad.

* Peng the snow leopard cub from ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]: Legends Of Awesomeness''.

** The [[Cute Kitten]] [[Trickster Twins]] the Thunderkittens can outwit giant trolls by dosing themselves with a fruit that induces [[Caffeine Bullet Time]] and leading them straight into carefully laid tripwire.

** The [[Lilliputians|Lilliputian]] [[Plant Person]] Emrick is a swordsman who counts a bird many times his size as his lifelong nemesis. The bird is as tall as a human, while Emrick would fit in one's hand.

** The Drifter is an ever-smiling [[Rascally Rabbit]] who manages to dance circles around highly-skilled (and highly agitated) swordsmen, all without much in the way of weapons himself.

 

* Far, ''far'' too many individual examples to list, but chances are that a good percentage of mammalian, reptilian, and avian predators (in their infancy, at least) are strong candidates. Realize that, cuteness aside, any animal that hasn't lived a completely domesticated life has to survive in nature, fighting for food and having to kill it, protecting its young, and every once in a while, beating the hell out of something that wants to eat ''it''.

** ''[[Cracked.com]]'' presents [http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html the six cutest animals that can (and will) destroy you.]