Cute Is Evil: Difference between revisions

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''Cute is... [[Uncanny Valley|disturbing and unnatural]].''

 

 

Parents and older siblings tend to hate cute. Brothers especially hate cute, as it is contrary to more manly forms of expression. Male television executives in charge of programming try to keep girls liking cute as long as possible.

If they succeed at causing death and destruction, this trope will likely overlap with [[Grotesque Cute]].

 

 

* [[Shaman King|Iron Maiden]], but her alignment is more [[Lawful Stupid]] than evil.

* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' has featured both an evil Teddiursa and an evil Togepi.

* ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'' Lucemon anyone?

* The Amazon Quartet and Sailor Iron Mouse from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''.

* {{spoiler|Kyubey}} of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. When you first see it, it's [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|the most adorable thing in the world]], but the {{spoiler|blank [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|red eyes]] and [[Frozen Face|unchanging]] [[Cat Smile]]}} just get creepier and creepier every time you look at it. {{spoiler|[[Starfish Aliens|There is a very good reason for this]].}} This is also an [[Invoked|invocation]] of this trope, as [[Nitroplus|Gen Urobuchi]] specifically asked character designer [[Ume Aoki]] to make it "as cute as possible."

** And there's Charlotte, who's incredibly adorable [[One-Winged Angel|until you see]] [[Sand Worm|her true]] [[Monster Clown|form]]...

* ''[[Popotan]]'' [[Puni Plush|being what it is]], it still provides an example in the form of the little girl from episode 4. She appears to be a normal child at first, {{spoiler|but is actually a ghost who wishes to trap people where she can be with them forever}}.

 

** Of course, tag-a-long crew-member [[Red Shirt|Guy]] [[Parodied Trope|Fleegman]] ''doesn't'' fall for it for a second, but that's because he [[Ascended Fan|watched the TV show]] [[Genre Savvy|and knows the drill]].

 

* This trope is inherent to many a ''[[Power Rangers]]'' monster, but also some villains. If the [[Five-Bad Band]] has a small child, expect her to be [[The Starscream]].

 

* Baby [[Wicked Weasel|Veil]] in ''Outcast of [[Redwall]]'' sends Bryony into paroxysms of [[Cuteness Overload]], even when he's actively in the process of biting her. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't work when he's in his teens and {{spoiler|starts playing with poisons}}.

 

* [[Eminem|"I'm sick of you little girl and boy groups/All you do is annoy me/So I have been sent here to destroy you . . ."]]

 

* Nermal in ''[[Garfield]]'' has attracted serious [[The Scrappy|Hatedom]] for being cute and preoccupied with his own cuteness.

 

 

* A ''lot'' of monsters in RPGs, but especially Tonberry (If you're in any way experienced, it can manage a [[One Hit KO]].) and Cactuar (not so bad when they can just do 1000 damage, but they often can do [[One Hit KO|10000]]) in ''[[Final Fantasy]]''.

* Lakitu in most ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'' games. He rides around on a smiling cloud, has cute glasses, is harder than hell to kill, and drops eggs on you that hatch into [[The Spiny|spinies]] when they hit the ground. The obvious exceptions are ''[[Super Mario RPG]]'', where he's just another enemy, and the ''Kart'' games, [[Bottomless Pit Rescue Service|where he actually grabs you if you fall off the track.]]

* In [[Kingdom of Loathing]], one of the most evil, foul, reprehensible creatures of in the world is... seals. Adorable little seals. Naturally, one of the character classes is the Seal Clubber.

 

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' [http://i35.tinypic.com/fk0hnl.png K I T T E N]. Now in a compiled volume called "Little Evils", with [[Killer Rabbit|Bun-bun]] featured front and center, brandishing his knife.

 

* The ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]'' episode "Attack of the Twonkies" is all about this—cutsie little fuzz balls morph into {{spoiler|POINTY BALLS OF TERROR when they hear music.}}

* On ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', Duncan is afraid of Celine Dion music store standees.

* Jimmy, the effeminate squeaky kid on ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', generally isn't the most affable sort. But he has on occasion demonstrated [[The Chessmaster|Chessmaster]] prowess—and ruthlessness—to rival Machiavelli.

* Kitty, a cute white cat who happens to be a {{spoiler|minor villain}}, from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''.

* The Woodland Critters from ''[[South Park]]''.

* Adam Lyon from ''[[My Gym Partner's a Monkey]]'' has a run-in with the "Petting Zoo Kids" in one episode. These are a clique of doe-eyed miniature animals that use cuteness as a cover to pilfer unsuspecting victims who succumb to a "huggie". Adam loses all of his clothes following a few encounters and losing his good judgment around them. Eventually he turns the tables by cornering and shaving off their fur, removing their cute charm.

* On ''[[Drawn Together]]'', we have a Strawberry Shortcake [[Expy]], whose people [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|almost completely exterminated Wooldoor's]]. Since nobody but the two characters had ever heard of this, we can assume they have been as successful at denying it as the Turks have been in denying the Armenian genocide. Oh, and she tries to kill [[The Last of His Kind|Wooldoor]].

* The Flores from the ''[[My Little Pony]]'' episode "Fugitive Flowers" look like cute and harmless talking flowers, but are really monstrous invasive weeds who trick [[Granola Girl|Posey]] into protecting them from the creepy-looking Crabnasties who are trying to capture them, then proceed to [[One-Winged Angel|transform]] and go on a rampage.

 

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