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... Admit it, how long did you spend looking at the picture to the right before you started reading this article? Looking at the picture with automatic Bambi eyes setting in, with brain geared to [[Cuteness Proximity|"Such wee small biddy kitties?]] [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Whosa cute kitty? Sleepy kitty."]]

 

Contrast with [[Cats Are Mean]]. (Except when [[Cute Is Evil]], in which case they go hand-in-hand.)

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== Advertising ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZxEcNUi_I This Nexus S 4G Advertisement. Featuring a cameo of Nyan Cat!]

* There was a commercial with live kittens as office workers.

* Every advert for cat related products, such as cat litter (one UK advert involved a white kitten searching the house for the litter tray with a child-like voice over) and cat food. They're also going to be on some of the packages of said products (especially for food that's specifically designed for kittens).

* [http://youtu.be/z0hq4bBnYIM This advertisement for Sauza Tequila], in which a fireman (who has just rescued a kitten from a burning building) teaches you how to make a margarita. With the kitten's help.

 

* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s "Astro Cat": In a world where Astro Boy is just a cartoon show, a bullied Astro Boy obsessed kid is forced to take his little tomcat away from home. When a group of aliens disguised as humans accidentally run over him and his pet cat, they try to cover it up by healing both the boy and cat up and erasing their memories of the event. However, because they have never seen a cat before, they unwittingly give the near-death tomcat all the powers of Astro Boy based from their readings of the injured boy's memories. With the ability to speak, lift heavy objects and fly, Astro Cat spends the rest of the series saving his sweetheart, Mink, or his owner from danger, both mundane and supernatural.

** Subverted by one of Astro Cat's enemies, Mephisto, a devil-like feline with supernatural powers who's lived since Egyptian times, who attempted to make Mink his bride.

* Tailmon from ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]''... which makes it even funnier when [[Lightning Bruiser|she kicks your ass]].

* Nya from ''[[Zatch Bell]]''. Sadly, this is a filler Mamodo.

** Additionally, Chiyo in a cat costume in Sakaki's imagination. Awwwww!

** And if that weren't enough for you, Sakaki likes to fawn over Nekokoneko ("neko" meaning "cat", and "koneko" meaning "kitten"), a pair of white cats with [[Blank White Eyes]] (more accurately, a kitten [[Head Pet|resting on top of a cat's head]]).

** Kamineko only plays it straight only when luring Sakaki in for the kill. Otherwise, [[Cats Are Mean|he's an evil little bastard.]]

* Cute kittens seem to be all over ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' omakes...Al taking in a stray is probably part of the reason "Flame vs. Fullmetal" is a favorite in the first anime. (bear in mind, Al is an animated suit of armor.)

'''Al''': I know, I'm the only one who is! [[Hypocritical Humor|[Cut to the kitty holding on to Al for dear life] ]] }}

** In another omake even Scar loves them, then things got weird...

* [[Those Two Guys|Suzuka's]] house in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' is filled with lots and lots of cute kitties, including one that got its wish to become a [[Mega Neko|bigger kitty]].

** ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid]]'' later increases its usage of [[Rule of Cute]] by introducing Asteon, Einhart's Device which Hayate, Rein, and Agito made in the form of a snow leopard kitty.

** Also, MISAKA. Aw, she's taking care of the kitty and {{spoiler|oh shit [[Mood Whiplash|Accelerator just ruptured all her veins by making her blood flow backwards]].}}

** Mikoto from ''[[Mai-Otome]]'', on the other hand, ''is'' a cat. {{spoiler|Well, one of the Mikotos is, anyway. The other one is a cat-themed god with the sleeping habits of a cat.}}

* When [[Tokyo Mew Mew|Ichigo Momomiya]] gets excited, the extreme result is turning into an adorable black kitten.

* A "small black cat" appears, randomly and inexplicably, in each episode of ''[[Trigun]]''. Her name is Kuroneko-sama and you ''will'' refer to her as such! <ref>Kuroneko-sama means "esteemed black cat".</ref>

* ''[[Cat Soup]]'' uses kittens as the "cute" half of [[Grotesque Cute]].

* The [[Absurdly Powerful Student Council|Student Council]] mascot Arthur in ''[[Code Geass]]''. He enjoys biting Suzaku, his unofficial owner, but he's much nicer toward pretty much everyone else in the show.

** [[Word of God]] says that Arthur ''does'' like Suzaku. His bites are supposed to be his way to show his affection.

** Meanwhile, the [[Alternate Continuity]] series ''Negima!?'' includes a kitty character in the form of Shichimi. While the cat may be annoying at times (although not as annoying as Motsu), Shichimi also has her share of cute moments (especially when said moments involve Nodoka in some way).

* ''[[The Cat Returns]]'' exists solely because of this trope. It's about a girl who's taken to the magical world of cute, talking kitties and then herself begins to transform into a cute, talking kitty.

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' stars Luna, Artemis, and in later seasons, their [[Kid From the Future|Kitten From The Future]] Diana.

* No wonder why ''[[Lucky Star]]'' has a kitty mascot, who turns out to be Kagami Yoshimizu's [[Author Avatar]]. The character is sometimes referred to as Nyamo.

* Yoruichi from ''[[Bleach]]'' has the ability to turn into a black cat, which for some reason makes [[Viewer Gender Confusion|her voice sound male]]. Rather amusingly though, one of Yoruichi's first appearances consists of Urahara [[Lampshade Hanging|perhaps succumbing to this trope]], and tossing her up and down in the air in a playful manner, while saying [[Cuteness Proximity|something nonsensical]].

* [[Prince of Tennis]] Ryoma's adorable cat Karupin exists to show that he's [[Sugar and Ice Personality|not a complete]] [[Jerkass]].

** Heck, the cat had a ''whole'' episode dedicated to him and his cute. It's a mix of [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] from the start to the end.

* A black cat named Amy in the opening of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''. Other than a drama CD, [[Covers Always Lie|she doesn't exist anywhere else.]]

** [http://wiki.puella-magi.net/Amy According to the PMMM wiki], Gen Urobuchi admits that he was not aware of any cat and that he was surprised when he saw it at the storyboard of the OP. Amy was never part of the original storyline as she was fabricated by SHAFT for the OP of the Anime to mislead viewers and fans with a [[Red Herring]]. However, SHAFT approached Urobuchi for the Drama CD and asked him to include the cat in it, so Urobuchi accepted and she was included in the drama CD. {{spoiler|Amy is actually the reason why Madoka was a [[Magical Girl]] in the third timeline; her wish to Kyuubey was to save the kitty's life when she was seriously injured.}}

* While not a kitten, [[Naruto]] gets help from an adorable cat named Ishi in completing the first step of the [[Sphere of Destruction|Rasengan]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* Ruffles the Rage Cat (known in canon as Dex-starr) uses this to his advantage by being a) aggressively adorable and b) adorably aggressive. Then he blows your head off with his [[Green Lantern|Red Lantern]] powers. His [[Start of Darkness|tragic]] [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds|backstory]] just makes him more desire-to-hug inducing.

* The (not so) pious Helene (a story by [[Wilhelm Busch]]) has one. Though the trope gets subverted when [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/gutenb/wbusch/helene/bilder/helen703.gif her cat and] [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/gutenb/wbusch/helene/bilder/helen705.gif another one (a tom)] first [http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/gutenb/wbusch/helene/bilder/helen704.gif kill Lene's canaries] and then wreak havoc in the house.

 

== Fan Works ==

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7208415/1/The_Adventures_of_James_Vega_and_Sergeant_Whiskers The Adventures of James Vega and Sergeant Whiskers,] a [[Mass Effect]] story done as a takeoff of a forum meme postulating that Vega likely owns a cat.

 

== Film ==

* ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'''s film counterpart likes kittens even more than his comicbook version, keeping entire litters of kittens in his room. In the first film's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], he whups a baddie while ''simultaneously'' rescuing a basket of itty-bitty kitties.

* Invoked in the DVD commentary of ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' where Daniel Handler, assuming his Lemony Snicket persona, spends most of the movie [[Snicket Warning Label|trying to convince viewers to watch something else]]:

* Several kittens appear in ''Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers''. Strangely enough, Michael, who is known to kill dogs, completely ignores the kittens.

* Now who can forget Jonesy in ''[[Alien (franchise)|Alien]]''? Not even the xenomorph can resist thinking the cat is cute.

* ''[[The Spirit (film)|The Spirit]]'' establishes that the main character likes cats, and The Octopus the villain pretends like cats and introduces us to a cute kitten, Muffin, "his favorite" who he then proceeds to... melt to death.

 

== Literature ==

** Nanny Ogg's possibly demonic tom cat Greebo, on the other hand, found an encounter with her [[Beware the Nice Ones|somewhat disquieting, to say the least.]]

** Death, who is normally dispassionate about his job, has a soft spot for cats and gets really upset when he has to collect a bunch of kittens at once because someone drowned a sack of them in a rain barrel.

'''Susan''': Oh, yes. And my grandfather is rather fond of cats. }}

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', one of the ways it's [[Pet the Dog|made clear]] that Tommen Baratheon isn't bad is that Tommen is given a pair of kittens, whom he becomes very fond of. This is in contrast to his older brother Joffrey, who {{spoiler|was once told that a cat was pregnant with kittens, so he [[Moral Event Horizon|cut them out of her with a knife]]}}. It is mentioned that Princess Rhaenys also had a black kitten; after her death it is implied that her kitten grew up to become a true Targaryen; it is the toughest, meanest old cat in the Red Keep. Martin has even basically confirmed [http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Entry/Jeyne_Poole_and_the_Black_Cat/ this]

** And of course, fan artists will always fall back on this trope when it comes to drawing chibis.

* In the ''Cat Who'' series of books by Lillian Jackson Brown. There is a cast of several Kitties, but the main stars are the Psychic cat Koko, and his partner Yum Yum.

* Subverted by Umbridge in ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. Just because she likes (moving!) pics of kittens, this doesn't mean she's one of the [[Tyrant Takes the Helm|good ones]].

* In ''Whispering Nickel Idols'', Garrett acquires a bucketful of kittens whose very presence seems to radiate feelings of happiness, contentment, and party-time good cheer. It turns out that they're {{spoiler|disguised lesser avatars of a goddess of merriment and the night}}.

* Subverted by the kitten trees in ''[[Vorkosigan Saga|Cetaganda]]''.

** Only one of his stories features the helpful moon-cats. Another features the same cats in a creepier context, where they eat a couple of cat-haters to the bone for revenge of killing a kitten.

* In ''[[The Witch of Blackbird Pond]]'', Hannah's cure for sad children is blueberry cake and a kitten. It never fails.

* ''[[Letters Back to Ancient China]]'' has the narrator/protagonist often talking about his Shiao-shiao and how misses her.

 

* In an episode of ''[[Scrubs]]'', after the guest star psychiatrist told JD about "Takotsubo cardiomyopathy" (broken heart syndrome), where the heart muscle weakens due to emotional stress, JD wonders how he's supposed to treat emotions. Cue an [[Imagine Spot]] where he dumps a box of kittens over a patient having a heart attack ("Get the kittens! Stat!") and then [[Yes but What Does It Do|lists the possible side-effects of kittens]]. Namely, allergies, tiny scratches, and erectile dysfunction.

** Just to make you go "Awwww!", here's a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ1mYHWlnNA link].

* Earlier on in their run, ''[[X-Play]]'' sometimes [[Relax-O-Vision|censored scenes of horribly gory, mangling violence with poorly cropped photos of kittens]].

* Not even the Doctor is immune to the power of kittens, as the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Gridlock" shows.

* Extremely subverted in ''Hyperspace'', where anyone who is sentenced to their equivalent of rehab gets put in a room where all they see is kittens, and a voice saying stuff like, "Look at the kitten. The kitten obeys authority. The kitten is happy. Be like the happy kitten. Obey authority and be like the kitten." Everyone who goes in comes out brainwashed, although it does appear to wear off, otherwise the entire show would be full of people wandering around singing silently.

** ''Cats'' obeying authority? Definitely science fiction!

* In the "Charlie" episode of ''[[The Mighty Boosh]]'', Naboo advises Howard to look at a picture of kittens in a barrel to soothe himself whenever he feels himself getting too angry. The kittens in a barrel reappear during the end credits of the episode, apparently entirely for the viewer's benefit.

* ''[[The Daily Show]]'', during the healthcare debate, had the great toss-up between healthcare and a video of kittens playing in an empty tissue box.

** Stewart tried using pictures of cute kittens as a form of [[Brain Bleach]] on the segment about [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-7-2010/pope-opera cover-ups of child molestation in the Catholic Church]. They didn't take.

** Not even Professor Butterscotch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9vQl-YcDE\] can keep John from losing it over the bank bailouts.

* ''[[The Closer]]'' provides a possibly deliberate example in introducing Joel, Brenda's new kitten, given that the case the episode revolves around is particularly draining emotionally.

* Orange Kitten and Periwinkle of ''[[Blue's Clues]]'' are of the [[Talking Animal]] variety.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm6x91utqJo Mimsie], the adorable kitten in the MTM Enterprises [[Vanity Plate]].

* ''[[Animal Planet]]'' uses footage of kittens at play as the "half-time show" for its annual ''[[Puppy Bowl]]''.

* Data's cat, Spot, in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Possible subversion swinging back towards a straight play when Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome causes her to de-evolve into an iguana and then have a litter of perfectly normal kittens.

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' starts when Lister doesn't want to give up on his cat.

** In an alternate universe, Kochanski discovered Lister's kitten when he smuggled it on board, and its [[Puppy Dog Eyes|Kitten Eyes]] convinced her not to disintegrate it.

* [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]: Crow had a tendency to exclaim "Kitties!" with delight whenever a kitten showed up in a movie...or any kind of cat...or, well, pretty much any animal at all, especially if it happened to be deadly.

* ''[[The Chaser's War on Everything]]: The Hamster Wheel'''s "[[Australian Politics]], as told through [[YouTube]] videos of cats" segments play on this.

 

== Music ==

* In the song ''Wretch'' by the Canadian band Protest The Hero, there is meowing at 3:31.

* "Jakdo" by pinknruby has purring most of the way through. The band made a stop-motion animation of the first 30 seconds featuring the sleeping cat and some scrunched up paper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyY9Y7XUCRU

* "Black Cat" by [[Gentle Giant (band)|Gentle Giant]] has the band making various cat meows with guitars and violins.

* Subverted hard by Presidents of the United States of America's song "Kitty." After a few verses of petting the kitty, {{spoiler|it scratches}}.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** It's something of a [[Running Gag]] among the fandom that the World Eaters are less psychotic in their downtime. [[Memetic Mutation|And that Kharn is a hell of a guy.]]

** A fanwiki for it, Lexicanum, [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Cat has an entry for cats in the fourth-first millenium]. An example is an Astrophat's pet cat, who is described as being killed along with the entire planet's population after the planet it lived on was hit by [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Exterminatus]].

 

== Video Games ==

** Telma's cat is a very plot important kitty.

*** Remlits from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]'' also count, but only during the day. [[Cats Are Mean|At night...]]

* In ''[[Castlevania]]: Order of Ecclesia'', there are cats hiding in some areas. Upon picking a cat up, it will go back to the village. Normally you can't do anything with them (aside from [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|hitting them to make them freak out]]), but if you have a particular glyph, you can transform into a [[Catgirl]] and talk to them to get some hints. Also, the cats are all [[Theme Naming|named after various ingredients]] (like Soybean, Flour and Tofu), which makes them all the more cuter.

** Not to mention that holding the stylus on the screen while one of the cats is present will cause a toy mouse to appear, allowing you to tease the cats with it and make them jump after it.

** She canonically ''tries'' to have cat subordinates. They don't listen to her and only hang around because she feeds them.

** GENTLEMEN... be''hold''... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui1s2oqHv7k Chen is sleeping].

** Jeane returns in the sequel, much chubbier. A major sidequest is to bring her back down to [[Cuteness Proximity|brainshattering cuteness]], which also nets a nice extra.

*** But chubby Jeane was already brainshatteringly cute!

** One of the jobs in the first game has Travis wondering around picking up runaway cats.

** ''[[Mushroom Kingdom Fusion]]'' brought him back as one of Roll's weapons. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]].

* ''[[Monster Hunter]]'': Your character can interact with the simply adorable [http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Felyne Felyne], a race of cat people. Keeping one as a partner has beneficial effects such as decreasing damage taken, enhancing the benefits of food consumed, reducing field tool breakage, affecting the size of your bombs, improve cooking results, negating the intimidation effects of some monsters, and much more. But watch out for the [http://monsterhunter.neoseeker.com/wiki/Melynx Melynx]; behind their cuddly appearance lies master thieves and pickpockets.

* You can easily buy kitten 'companions' (pets) in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', provided you have enough gold.

* Oh so subverted in ''[[Dragon Age]]'' ''Origins'' "The Stone Prisoner" DLC. Kitties aren't nearly as cute {{spoiler|when possessed by demons}}.

** Played straight in ''Awakening''. You can give Anders a cute little kitten that he will immediately gush over, naming it "Ser Pounce-a-lot". Anders' love of cats has a tragically hilarious backstory: {{spoiler|the only fond memories he had of his time in the Circle Tower were the times he played with a cat that lived in the Tower named Mr. Wiggums. Sadly, Mr. Wiggums somehow became possessed by a Rage Demon and had to be put down -- but not before Mr. Wiggums ''killed three Templars by himself''.}} Also, sadly Anders had to give up Ser Pounce-A-Lot after he nearly gotten him killed during an expedition to the Deep Roads (though he still has a deep love for cats).

* ''[[Cat Planet]]'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|of course!]]

* Several kitties in the ''[[Pokémon]]'' series, though getting into the evolutions will take too long. Meowth, Skitty, Glameow, and Purrloin are the proper kitten Mons.

* The ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series has Blaze.

* An enigmatic black cat makes an unexplained appearance early in ''[[Ghost Trick]]''. {{spoiler|Turns out that cat is Sissel's ''real'' corpse, animated by another ghost's powers. At the end of the game Sissel rearranges the timeline so his body (currently a young kitten, since this is ten years before his death) was pierced by the Temsik meteorite shard rather than Yomiel, and he is adopted by Jowd's family. [[Living Forever Is Awesome]], but it's extra awesome when you're an adorable kitten.}}

* The musk cats from the ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' series, anyone? They're cute kittens that talk! In the first game, one is even a playable character!

* In ''[[Shadow of Destiny]]'', doing an extra side quest can result in the library being filled with cute cats. {{spoiler|You just go back into the past and give the little girl there a kitten. Back to the future, and bam. The place is filled with it's descendants.}}

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'': "[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/09/07/ And every twenty minutes, a kitten comes out!]", [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/9/10/ though that turned out to be too much of a cute thing].

** More recently, [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]] pondered the unintended consequences of sending a kitten to college. [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/27/ The other students would never accept him. He would always be an outcast.]

* Random kitties go [http://rufftoon.deviantart.com/art/Avatar-Finale-6-5-Epilogue-46688187 here.]

** Another MSPA example, this time actually in canon and from ''Homestuck'': [http://images.wikia.com/mspaintadventures/images/b/b3/Mutie.png Vodka "Mutie" Mutini]/Dr. Meowgon Spengler

* When the mad scientist of ''[[Narbonic]]'' has her superintelligent gerbils begin their [[Genre Savvy|inevitable]] rebellion against their creator, she sends in a cute kitten named [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=9818 Sir Pounce]. The gerbils' human intelligence causes them to [[Cuteness Proximity|coo and aww]] over the kitten even as he eats them one by one. After his death, Sir Pounce is spotted in Hell.

"It was an evil kitten. We can't give leniency for cuteness." }}

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': Selenium, the kitten that acquires Amanda.

* ''[[Squid Row]]'' [http://squidrowcomics.com/?p=1442 A good reason to take in a cat: it's really a kitten!]

* ''[[Wooden Rose]]'' [http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter2/50.html Oh, aren't they darling?]

* [http://www.tnemrot.com/?p=244 Brittany] from [[Domain Tnemrot]]. Also, [http://www.tnemrot.com/?p=243 her owner].

* ''[[Papi Nyang]]'' is all about cats and that gives us Socks, the newborn who is adorable once they start walking and talking.

 

== Web Original ==

* The ''Hey! Answerman'' column on ''[[Anime News Network]]'' has a flake of the week section where Answerman responds to a stupid e-mail sent to him with a cute baby animal picture. This used to be of kittens only, but now is more varied.

* Probably one of the reasons [[LOLcats]] is so popular.

** To say nothing of kitten-only websites such as [http://www.dailykitten.com/ The Daily Kitten], ''[http://thedailykitten.com The]'' [http://thedailykitten.com Daily Kitten], [http://kittenwar.com/ Kittenwar], and [http://www.theittybittykittycommittee.com/ Itty Bitty Kitty Committee].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49jKeGyUCJE He's a cat (meow) flushing the toilet!]

* [http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/02/15/ume-neko-moe-assassin/ Ume: Neko Moe Assassin] is a series of videos of a little kitten doing what he does best, which is... well, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|being cute]]. Being very very cute.

* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] has an adorable "death kitty" named Boo that he unleashes on some of the games he's reviewed.

* On /b/, every Saturday is "Caturday" and there will be at least one thread involving pictures of cats.

* I've heard of cats perched on shoulders, but I've never heard of cats perched on heads. This cat is so comfortable it doesn't mind using his owner's head as a blanket while she rinses and flosses her teeth. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExZ0i04pSeY He's a cat AND a hat!]

* New [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je1leMpnNa4&feature=related Earthenware Pot Kittens] coming to a market near you!

* Every Friday night on [[Cartoon Network]], they would have a short skit called "Whiskers, the kitten that can name fruit" which was exactly what it says on the tin. I enjoyed it so much that I would look forward to every Friday night until it was pulled off the air. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRwtt85A67c Here's a collection] of all the fruits said by an adorable kitten.

* Prepare to have your mind holes blown [[JAM Project|by]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxcvDakqjmo SKILLCAT] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrIVU4hbz9w GONGCAT]

* From ''[[asdfmovie]][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKB4h9gvmm0 2]'':

'''Man 2:''' No! Wait! ''I'm allergic to adorableness!'' }}

* [[The Cinema Snob|Brad Jones]] has several cats, who will on occassion serve as a [[Funny Background Event]] in his v-logs and reviews.

* [[YouTube]] personality [[Tobuscus]] has a video clip series called "Cute Win Fail". Needless to say, the "Cute" segment has a disproportionately high number of cats doing absurdly cute things, with babies and [[Precious Puppies|dogs]] as the other favorites.

* Even ''[[It Got Worse|utterly hopeless]] [[Our Zombies Are Different|zombie]] [[Zombie Apocalypse|apocalypses]]'' are [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwCojCJ3-Q better with kittens].

* [[Whateley Universe]]: in the Timeless stories, James has a pet kitten even though you're not supposed to bring pets to [[Super-Hero School]] Whateley Academy. It's so cute that even [[Eldritch Abomination]] Carmilla finds it adorable.

* Subverted by [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2559-j SCP-2559-J] which is a gigantic oncoming mass of kittens who crushed a researcher and her assistants when they tried to open a portal to an alternate Nazi universe, but instead ripped open another dimension known as the "Plane of Infinite Kittens" which is apparently where all kittens come from. The mass of kittens, or kitten pile as it's commonly called, are proven to be invulnerable to conventional weapons and can exist without harm from extreme temperatures and pressures.

 

== Western Animation ==

* This trope + [[The Woobie]] = Furrball from ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]''. Thankfully, he's a bit luckier than [[Looney Tunes|Sylvester]] or [[Tom and Jerry|Tom]].

** Unless he's filling the role of [[Enemy to All Living Things|Elmyra's]] current [[And Call Him George|mangle-critter]].

* In ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'', the cat wearing Catwoman wannabe Katnappe uses genetically altered super-kittens as weapons against the Xiaolin.

* Elisa's cat Cagney from ''[[Gargoyles]]''.

** There are metric tons of fanart where BB is in kitten form -- [[Fetish Fuel|and being stroked, petted, or otherwise admired]] by Raven or Terra. I'll leave the obvious [[Double Entendre]] to you guys.

* ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' averted this trope in the cartoon "Triplet Trouble" when Mammy Two Shoes adopted three kittens who turned out to be complete brats that terrorized Tom and later went after Jerry. It was one of the few times Tom and Jerry teamed up against a greater foe.

* [[Chuck Jones]] did a very effective series of cartoons where an adorable kitten brings out the protective, loving side of a big tough bulldog.

* Sylvester is an alley cat who gets out of the cold when Elmer takes him in - then finds his position in jeopardy when an alley kitten gets taken in too. "I can't keep you both...hahaha, baby kittens are ''so cute!''"

* Sagwa and her siblings in ''[[Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat]]''.

* Puss-in-Boots in ''[[Shrek]]'', the [[Cute Bruiser|cutest badass]] ever. He knows it and uses it to his advantage.

* ''[[Oliver and Company]]'' is ''[[Oliver Twist]]''... only the main character's a kitty.

* ''[[The Aristocats]]''. One must wonder why it took so long for Marie to make her appearance in Disney World, considering Japan's equivalent just had to have one of the kitties appear in TokyoDisney.

* Many people find Mittens from ''[[Bolt]]'' cute.

* In ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', Flint uses what is basically [[LOLcats]] to distract Sam. It is amazing effective.

* ''[[The Emperor's New Groove|The Emperors New Groove]]'' - Villainess Yzma gets dosed with a vial of her own transformation serum and turns into an evil, terrifying... floofy little kitten.

* The ''[[Archer]]'' episode "El Secuestro" has Archer finding out that Cheryl, the ISIS secretary, is secretly a heiress with a pet ocelot... and the notably [[Jerkass]] secret agent is instantly smitten with the exotic cat. "Oh my God, you guys! Look at his little spots! And his tufted ears!"

* White Kitty from ''[[Goodbye Kitty]]''. His rival Black Kitty, however, [[Jerkass|is a completely different story]].

* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' episode "May the Best Pet Win", one of the pets involved is an adorable little "putty tat". She makes her glorious return in "Read it and Weep" as part of a group of [[Panthera Awesome|large predators]] trying to maul the hero of the [[Show Within a Show]].

** The new version of [[Team Pet|Snarf]] is this trope incarnate.

* Edmund from ''[[Rock-a-Doodle]]'' gets turned into a cat by the evil owl because he finds kittens "more digestable."

** "Jeepers, I'm all furry!"

* Ruff is the brains side of Hanna-Barbera's do-gooding duo of [[The Ruff and Reddy Show|Ruff and Reddy]].

 

== Real Life ==

* When the (extremely popular) Sheffield branch of Virgin Megastore finally closed, they left a sign in the window reading "Thank you and goodbye. We love you all. P.S. HMV kills kittens for profit."

** [[Older Than They Think|Any relation to TS Eliot's Skimbleshanks]]?

* This is closely related to the idea of killing/eating kittens as a definite sign of evilness, as in [[wikipedia:Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet|this rather elaborate insult hurled at a Canadian politician]].

* Some studies have indicated that having a cat "may" have limited beneficial effects on the health and well-being of people, especially older adults. Also, medical researchers have demonstrated that stroking a purring cat can lower human blood pressure and pulse rate, as well as increase feelings of peace and well-being.

* Just search for most popular [[YouTube]] videos for "Pets And Animals" and see how many you get featuring cats.

 

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