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* Cilan from ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'', probably. At first it appeared as though his burst came from his battle with [[Unknown Rival|Burgundy]], but in later episodes he starts slipping into this more and more. His flip-outs are mostly played for laughs, though. {{spoiler|Except for episode 69 where he flips his shit at Skyla because he didn't like her attitude problem as well as her not taking her job as a Gym Leader seriously. Just because he snapped though doesn't mean it's a good thing given he loses a Pokemon battle to her.}}

^^** Burgundy herself is a good qualifier too.

* [[Renamed Tropes|The original]] trope name, "yangire", originated as a reference to Nanoha Takamachi's uncharacteristically cold-hearted attack on Teana Lanster, blasting her out of the sky to teach her a lesson in Episode 8 of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]''. She ultimately [[Subverted Trope|subverts]] the trope, in that she felt remorseful having to do so, and the next episode reveals that she only wanted to discourage Teana from overexerting herself in training {{spoiler|as Nanoha herself once did, almost killing herself and nearly becoming permanently crippled as a result of [[Heroic RROD|pushing herself]] [[Training Fromfrom Hell|beyond her physical limits]]}}.

* ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro Nini]]'' features some of the more well-known ones, such as Rena Ryugu up there in the page image. It's implied that that Rena is actually bipolar, though it may be a misdiagnosis. A lot of the times the characters are delusional, so that either makes them [[Cute and Psycho]] or makes them [[Unreliable Narrator|appear]] [[Cute and Psycho]]. The page image is from when {{spoiler|Keiichi is hallucinating all of Rena's behavior, but she does ''genuinely'' fall under this trope in her own arc, Tsumihoroboshi-hen, where Rena rather than Keiichi succumbs to Hinamizawa syndrome. It's all implied that all the central characters except Rika, Rena included, contracted it during many other iterations of the [[Groundhog Day Loop]] each; Rena would be a straight example in every one where she did. We're just only shown one.}}

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni (Visual Novel)|Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'''s [[Creepy Child|Maria Ushiromiya]]. In some scenes, the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A23uoWinmVc cutest little girl imaginable]. At others, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS-8iJ2Yn1s&NR=1 well...]

** Wrath from [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|the first anime]]. He starts off as naively adorable, but upon being awakened... ''Yikes''.

* ''[[Gundam (Anime)|Gundam]]'' has a long history of psychotic cute girls:

** Four Murasame and Rosamia Badam from ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (Anime)|Zeta Gundam]]'', both of whom were some of the earliest Cyber-Newtypes and completely insane because of it. Not evil, just frightened and confused girls with a warped sense of reality (it is not coincidence that they pilot something called the Psyco Gundam). Then ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ (Anime)|Gundam ZZ]]'' introduces Elpeo Puru and her clones. Puru herself is mostly harmless but is still a [[Child Soldier]] with a deep-seated obsession with Judau, while her clones were all mentally conditioned to serve "Master Glemy" and were coldly classified by Zeon as equipment rather than people.

** ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam (Anime)|Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' has Katejina Loos, who doesn't look especially bad at first - she's initially rough around the edges and a touch apathetic at times, but fundamentally good-natured, until Chronicle gets his mitts on her (and main character Uso even states she's changed since joining Zanscare and used to be nice and kind deep down). To further complicate things, in the novels it's strongly implied she {{spoiler|underwent Cyber-Newtype treatments, which are known across the series for making those who undergo them violently unstable}}.

** Ghinias Saharin from ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'' starts as a [[Workaholic]] [[Hot Scientist]], but as his health gets worse and {{spoiler|his Apsalus project is cancelled}}, he becomes more and more unhinged. Granted depending on how much you factor his clingyness towards his sister and the aforementioned project into the cause of his breakdown, he might count as a somewhat unusual manifestation of [[Yandere|the other thing]] instead.

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' has Stella, one of the Extended members of Phantom Pain. Adorable, childlike, happy... and a supersoldier with mental conditioning and enhanced physical skills from a complex, long-term treatment of drugs (which she can't survive without). She ends up torching half of Europe with a superweapon not out of malice... but because she was scared and had been told that the people there were "bad things" that were going to get her.

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00 (Anime)|Gundam 00]]'' features [[Dark Action Girl|Gundam Throne pilot]] Nena Trinity, a [[Genki Girl]] redhead who likes to wink, mock-fight with her [[Knight Templar Big Brother|violently overprotective brother]] and fellow Throne Michael and throw up the [[Victory Pose|V-sign]]. She also gives Setsuna his [[Sacred First Kiss]] (also the first kiss for the series), [[Hates Being Touched|much to his disgust]]. Exactly one episode later, Nena blows up a civilian wedding while on her way to the next mission to vent her frustration with having a hard day of work while others have fun. When asked by her brothers why she fired on civilians, Nena simply giggled and replied, "Heehee, sorry, I pressed the wrong button." Makes one wonder if she actually wanted to press the [[Macross Missile Massacre|missile button]] instead of the [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser button]]. Well, {{spoiler|the girl and her brothers ''are'' [[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]]s bred and born ''only'' to pilot their Gundams}}, but still... Sheesh.

* Parodied in ''[[Galaxy Angel (Animeanime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' with the [[Character Exaggeration]] of Chitose, who already had some belonging issues; when the Angels left her behind or otherwise slighted her without knowing it, she went absolutely crazy with revenge, once even trying to turn them into rice and eat them. (Don't ask.)

* [[Played for Laughs]] with Kafuka Fuura of ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou Sensei-sensei]]''. This eternally happy, cheerful girl has an [[Dark and Troubled Past|obvious and horrible past]], involving suicidal parents, relatives in jail, ostracization at school, and at least one ''exorcism'', and yet there she is, [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|enjoying life... for a value of it]]. She shows no signs yet of snapping, though people are scared of her and fear the day she does. (On one memorable, her classmate, resident [[Little Miss Snarker]] Meru Otonashi, tries to "read" what Kafuka is communicating through her eyes at her prompting; she sees nothing but a red screen with the words "die die die die die killy kill die die die" and so forth, despite Kafuka never once dropping her happy appearance.)

** For that matter, virtually ''the entire cast'' has some sort of vicious or crippling psychosis -- itpsychosis—it's just that the fifty percent of them who aren't capable of hiding it make the rest look well-adjusted by comparison.

** Lithuania's younger brother Latvia is potentially [[Cute and Psycho]], having been abused so much by Russia that he comes close to snapping in the "Lily of the Valley" incident. It's not mentioned later.

** Some of the most popular [[Fanon|fanon]] [[Alternative Character Interpretation|renditions]] of Spain revolve make him into this during the darkest periods of Spanish history (the Conquest of the Americas and the Spanish Civil War. ''Specially'' during the Civil War.) It's known that Himaruya stated early on that Spain was supposed to have these qualities, but they've only been mentioned ''once''... and were completely [[Played for Laughs]]. ([[Never Live It Down|Go tell that to the fan dumb, though.]])

** Most fans speculate Romania ''might'' this, hence he is either drawn like this [http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23800000/Romania-hetalia-23827448-600-660.jpg most] [http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/24700000/ROMANIA-HUNGARY-hetalia-hetalia-24765439-1000-600.jpg of] [http://www.zerochan.net/full/672335 the] [http://www.zerochan.net/683411 time]{{Dead link}} or he just looks really [http://www.zerochan.net/680186#full calm] and [http://www.zerochan.net/655235 sweet]. Alternatively, if the fans ship him with Hungary, he's likely to be shown as being [[Yandere]] for her instead.

* Akira Sakura from ''[[Naru TaruNarutaru]]'' may count on some levels. She's ordinarily a [[Shrinking Violet|cripplingly shy]], [[Driven to Suicide|suicidally depressed]] girl who hates hurting other people, even to the extent where she's reluctant to hit her sparring partner in a martial arts class. This is, however, also the same disturbed girl who eventually {{spoiler|stabs her own father to death, [[Calling the Old Man Out|calling him out]] for the sexual abuse she's implied to have suffered at his hands}}. Furthermore, in an early chapter it's subtly implied she may have tried to kill her own [[Mon|shadow dragon]], just because [[I Just Want to Be Normal|she wants to be (relatively) normal]].

* Tsukuyomi of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is like this in her earlier appearances. As of her latest appearance, she's dropped the facade and become a [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|full]] [[Depraved Bisexual|blown]] [[Yandere]].

* Played for laughs with Otae from ''[[Gintama (Manga)|Gintama]]'': while she ''seems'' to be settled firmly on the [[Tsundere]] side of the fence, piss her off enough (or simply ''exist'', if you're unlucky enough to be [[Stalker Withwith a Crush|Kondou]]) and she'll wallop you straight into the ground.

** Yumiko Takagi is a sweet, gentle soul who calls herself Yumie and ''go off her fucking gourd'' if her glasses are taken off.

* Although she's canonically a [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant]], [[Fanon]] leans toward treating Osaka from ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]'' as one of these. Essentially, she is interpreted as being a cute [[Cloudcuckoolander]] on the surface, but has the potential if angered to wake you up with her [[Girl Withwith Psycho Weapon|"frying]] [[Knife Nut|pan"]].

* [[Fooly CoolyFLCL|Haruko Haruhara]]. To the maximum degree.

* Several in ''[[ToA AruCertain Majutsu noMagical Index]]'' and its spinoff. From the ''Railgun'' anime, we have {{spoiler|Telestina, who appears to have some kind of magic power related to choosing jelly bean colors}}. From the novels, we have {{spoiler|Anyeze, who goes from ditzy, innocent fanservice girl to psychotic religious freak proclaiming Catholics believe that marriage with 'outsiders' is bestiality in the course of a single scene. Which is offscreen.}}

** The 4th level 5 esper "meltdowner" isn't much better while usually cold and calculating once you kind of annoy her she kind of...[[Incredibly Lame Pun|melts down]]: her speech turns horribly vulgar and starts tearing apart her opponents with sadistic delight capitalizing on her massively powerful ability to basically blast holes through anything and surprising physical strength

* A good example would be {{spoiler|Czeslaw Meyer}} from ''[[Baccano (Light Novel)|Baccano!]]'' -- you—you know, his whole reason to come to NYC...

** Technically speaking, Rolo ''started'' out as [[Cute and Psycho]] due to his raising in the Geass Cult. Once Lelouch started manipulating him, he switched to [[Yandere]], and predictably [[It Got Worse]].

* Diva, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Blood Plus+]]'' often acts like an amusingly spacey example of [[The Ophelia]], but she's pretty horribly evil.

* A lot of child Contractors in ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' come across this way, especially the female ones, who channel a similar idea to [[Girl Withwith Psycho Weapon]]. Mai in the first season of the anime, and both Azuza and Bai (in a flashback) in the interequel are shown killing or maiming people horrifically while having a [[Moe Stare]] expression on their faces. Maki might also count along with being a [[Yandere]]. He sometimes comes off as an [[Adorably Precocious Child]], but is completely psychotic and has an obsession with his leader, Amber.

* ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'''s Alois Trancy. Throughout the first episode of the second season, he flips from sweet and innocent to [[Ax Crazy]] so many times, it could make someone dizzy.

* Light Yagami of ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]''... [[media:lightbedtimefanart.jpg|utterly]] [http://www.macrochan.org/view.php?u=DWFPNREYPYS4DFJWR35L6US637WUVJST adorable] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110923183047/http://view.thespectrum.net/series/death-note-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+01&page=46 mass murderer].

** Also Misa Amane is this and a [[Yandere]] as well.

** Beyond Birthday from the ''[[Another Note (Light Novel)|Another Note]]'' spinoff novel. Take {{spoiler|L's}} more [[Moe]] qualities and then add crazy-evilness into the mix. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150925165440/http://robbuz.deviantart.com/art/Beyond-Birthday-100342651\] [http://locust-713.deviantart.com/art/BB-s-first-love-133948383\]{{Dead link}} As you might imagine he has quite a few fangirls.

* In ''[[Love Hina (Manga)|Love Hina]]'', Motoko's sister Tsuruko is usually a calm and graceful [[Yamato Nadeshiko]], but when Motoko makes the mistake of [[Berserk Button|being... creative with the truth in front of her]], she drops that facade and out comes her [[Ax Crazy]] side. Because of this and her [[Implausible Fencing Powers]], Motoko goes back and forth between admiring her and being scared shitless of her.

* Mairu and Kururi from ''[[Durarara!!]]''. Of course since they're {{spoiler|Izaya's}} little sisters, it was obvious. Other examples include {{spoiler|[[Torture Technician|Erika, Walker]] and [[Deliberately Cute Child|Aoba.]] (Who just ''happened'' to share a kiss with ''both'' Mairu and Kururi, hilariously.)}}

{{quote| '''Mildo''': Valmet, you're all I ever think about. How you live. How you fight. How bout we beat the living shit out of each other, then I kill you. Sounds fun, eh? Kinda poetic.<br />

* {{spoiler|Mikael}} from ''[[Tenshi Nini Narumon]]'' is usually a cute, easily agitated boy, but when under great stress and when things don't go they way he wants them, can turn into a really scary and obsessive psycho {{spoiler|though it can be argued that it's a side effect of his halo falling off}}.

* Yukino-sensei in ''[[Hohzuki Island]]'', who at one point sneaks around the school in the dark, naked, with a wooden sword, ready to beat one of the children to death. {{spoiler|Later turns out to be a subversion--yes, she's snapped and is fucking creepy, ''but'' it was because [[Poor Communication Kills|she thought one of the children]] was [[Cute and Psycho]] themself, due to her best friend and fellow teacher turning up murdered. The fact the kids were acting very suspiciously (though only because ''they'' were afraid that all the teachers were planning to kill them) didn't help matters. By the end of the manga, she realizes everything she thought was wrong, clears up some misconceptions about her, and then pulls a [[Big Damn Heroes]] on the ''real'' [[Sadist Teacher|murderous teacher.]]}}

* Henri Claytor from ''[[Future GPX Cyber Formula (Anime)|Future GPX Cyber Formula]]'', who appears to be a cute and cheerful rookie racer in ''ZERO'', actually has a homicidal obsession with making Hayato pay for ruining his life. This is due to {{spoiler|his father ignoring and abandoning him after Hayato wins the championship instead of him}}, and he's also partially responsible {{spoiler|for the crash between Hayato and Randoll}}.

* If there are types of criminals that [[Detective Conan|Shinichi Kudo aka "Conan Edogawa"]] absolutely ''loathes'', it's either this and/or [[Yandere|Yanderes]]s. And there's '''no''' shortage of those in such a [[Long Runner|long runner]] of a series.

* Apparently, Dead Master in ''[[Black RockBlack★Rock Shooter: Innocent Souls (Mangamanga)||Black Rock Shooter]]: Innocent Soul'', as right before devouring a soul she calls the ([[Les Yay|naked]]) Rock tasty, ending it [[Say It Withwith Hearts|with hearts]].

* Fear from ''[[Cube X Cursed X Curious]]'' can become quite creepy when she decides to go fully psycho. Also it does'nt help that [[Girl Withwith Psycho Weapon|she IS a weapon]] able to become all kinds of torture devices.

* Michio Yuki from ''[[MW (Manga)|MW]]''.

* [[Batman|Harley Quinn]], a [[Canon Immigrant]] from the animated ''Batman''.

* {{spoiler|Libbie/Boltie}} from ''[[Super (Film)|Super]]''. And ''how''.

* Norman Bates in ''[[Psycho]]''. He's a pleasant, polite fellow until you mention his mother.

* Please think long and hard before taking the polite and beautiful {{spoiler|, seemingly}} nine year old Russian ''[[Orphan (Film)|Orphan]]'' Esther home with you... [[Ax Crazy|It's]] [[Clingy Jealous Girl|not]] worth it.

* Becky from ''[[Drop Dead Gorgeous (Filmfilm)|Drop Dead Gorgeous]]'' is a pretty, smiling beauty queen... until someone gets in her way. Then out comes her shotgun.

* The girl from ''Neighbor'' is a gleefully sadistic torture porn example of this.

* Brenda Bates from ''[[Urban Legend (Filmfilm)|Urban Legend]]''.

{{quote| '''Annie''': [[Madness Mantra|"You. Murdered. My. MISERY!!"]]}}

* Elle Bishop in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', a cute, childish, and sociopathic woman who delights in killing, hurting, and controlling people.

* ''[[All That]]'''s "Ask Ashley" featured a sickeningly sweet little girl with an insanely unstable temper answer moronic viewer's mail. [[Hilarity Ensues]].

* Gem and Gemma of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]'' are a mild case. Mentally, they're about kindergarten age, and their favorite things in the whole wide world are ''[[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]]''. Especially when it's the evil [[Killer Robot|Killer Robots]]s going boom. The reason they're only a "mild" case is that they don't really want anyone hurt (though there was one time they had to be reminded that there were civilians enslaved in a factory they planned to "vaporize from sub-orbit").

* Hooch from ''[[Scrubs (TV)|Scrubs]]''. He's normally friendly and even charismatic, but pissing him off triggers his [[Ax Crazy]] tendencies. This leads to J.D. and Turk frequently playing pranks on him to trigger his psychotic side, at one point even eating popcorn while Hooch is throwing death threats around. It becomes clearer with every appearance that the catchphrase "Hooch is crazy" thrown around by other characters is ''not'' exaggeration. After another of J.D. and Turk's pranks, he takes four people ''hostage'' and is subsequently fired from the hospital. In the very last episode of season 8, we see him in a strait jacket, proclaiming "Hooch ''is'' crazy."

* Rachel Berry definitely is a high-intensity-low-stability kind of girl on ''[[Glee (TV)|Glee]]'', with her [[Serious Business]] approach to... well... pretty much everything. It's absolutely ''adorable'' when it's not just infuriatingly annoying, especially to her fellow Glee Clubbers who just seem visibly tired of her antics at times.

* In ''[[Sherlock (TV)|Sherlock]]'', awkward, [[Adorkable]], [[Camp Gay]], Jim from IT, whose last name is {{spoiler|Moriarty}}.

* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'s'' River is generally a cute, sweet teenage girl who is friendly and playful. She's also a [[Super Soldier|government-manufactured killing machine]] with [[Psychic Powers]] and spent three years being [[Playing Withwith Syringes|experimented on, trained, and surgically enhanced]] until her [[Mind Rape|mind could no longer filter or control incoming stimuli]]. As a result she is an unstable schizophrenic with [[Waif Fu|ingrained martial arts and assassination training]] who often flips out without warning.

** Loki. Handsome, clever, funny, well-liked--butliked—but sadly, not at all mentally stable...

** Similar to the Maenads mentioned above, there were presumably some [[Berserker|berserkersberserker]]s who were somewhat endearing, or at least relatively non-threatening, when they weren't going berserk.

* [[Forgotten Realms (Tabletop Game)|Forgotten Realms]] [[Sourcebook]] ''Shining South'' got a sample NPC like this. A smiling half-drow (and both halves ''do'' work in her favour) cutie with [[Girlish Pigtails]]. In a ''tasteful'' armor, with short sword and composite bow. According to stats, [[Psycho Electro|Talos]]-worshipping [[Neutral Evil]] ranger / shadow marauder. As in, a Dambrath noble pillaging neighbour countries more [[Blood Knight|for fun of it]] than economical benefits and trained to not be stopped by boring things like fortifications for longer than an eyeblink.

* Dahlia Hawthorne, Phoenix Wright's girlfriend in ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'' seems [[Yamato Nadeshiko|nice, pleasant, frail and feminine]]... {{spoiler|but when Mia finally brings her to justice for her various crimes, she glares at her with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] while swearing revenge. Said revenge involves coming [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]] to murder Mia's sister Maya, who had done nothing to Dahlia, simply because [[Sins of Our Fathers|Mia was already dead and beyond direct punishment]].}}

* Selphie Tilmitt in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VIII]]'' is a cute, bubbly [[Genki Girl]] who likes trains and having fun with her friends. She's also invariably the first person to suggest breaking out horrifying levels of violence, like when she suggests blowing the President of Galbadia's train off the tracks with a rocket launcher, or when she suggests skinning a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|moomba]] and wearing it as a disguise.

* [[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Bulleta/B.B. Hood]]. Adorable, [[Moe]]-laden [[Token Mini-MoeLoli]] on the outside. [[Ax Crazy]] [[Psycho for Hire]] [[Bounty Hunter]] on the inside.

* Mimi from ''[[Super Paper Mario (Video Game)|Super Paper Mario]]''. Hoo boy, Mimi.

{{quote| '''Mimi''': I'll shred you all like bits of confetti!}}

* Clem Foote and Crystal Flowers Snagrash in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]''. A couple of kids who like to write cheers and think everyone is awesome...{{spoiler|who appear to be trying the old Obi-Wan Kenobi bit without waiting for someone else to strike them down.}}

** That was a [[Shout-Out]], but for the most part, it's not some sort of weird theory---they're just depressed and suicidal. Supplemental materials (like the characters' canonical [[My SpaceMyspace]] pages) imply it comes from other kids picking on them and possibly family troubles.

* Alice from ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'' applies to this: While she appears to be a cute, innocent girl, she's actually the leader of a terroristic army, being called a sadist by one of the [[Clingy Jealous Girl|main characters]].

* Twins Mireille and Mischka in ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume]]'', the former being female and the latter male. They kill purely for fun and hold a total lack of compassion for those they fight againsts, and ultimately kill - even when it is not nescessary, such as butchering a soldier who surrenders. Neither of them care to even hear the plight of rebel leader Natalie, who they kill. {{spoiler|She is implied to be their mother, unbeknownst to them.}} This disgusts even Wylfred, a character who sacrifices his own friends and childhood companions for the sake of revenge.

* In ''[[Blaze Union]]'', we get Eimi, also known as Garlot/Gulcasa's sister Emilia. Nothing could be more adorable than her in the whole game... But if you go for the B route and field her too many times in battle, her love for her Brother Captain and her other friends, together with her desire to be useful to them, ends up turning into what drives her over the edge. As a result, Brongaa's blood manifests at full power in her, and she becomes a monstrosity that will remind many [[Dept. Heaven|Deptheavenites]] of Brongaa Possessed Gulcasa. At this point, she is bent on nothing but destroying anything that stands in her way, and Garlot is forced to put her to the blade, both to [[Mercy Kill|put her out of Brongaa's torment]] and to assure his survival and that of everyone else.

* ''[[Professor Layton and Thethe Unwound Future]]'''s {{spoiler|Klaus/[[Dub Name Change|Clive]]}} is sweet and polite in his mannerisms, and especially helpful to those in need. At least, until he {{spoiler|reveals his plan to completely level London in order to rid it of the corruption that covered up the explosion that killed his parents.}} Double points for being voiced by Oguri Shun, who has also portrayed [[Detective Conan|Kudou Shin'ichi]], an [[Amateur Sleuth]] who absolutely despises this kind of character, in a live-action drama. For English is [[Playing Against Type]] [[Yuri Lowenthal]].

* Sander Cohen from ''[[BioBioShock Shock(series)]]''.

* {{spoiler|Iris Sepperin}} from ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' is generally a prim and proper little girl over the course of the first game's story. {{spoiler|Then, just before the final battle, she starts laughing madly and quickly shifts from her affable attitude to motormouthed insanity and arrogance during her [[Villainous Breakdown]]. This shows just how [[Cute and Psycho]] a little girl like Iris herself can get.}}

* {{spoiler|Kozue}} in ''[[Chaos Head (Visual Novel)|Chaos ;Head]]''. {{spoiler|For a [[Cute Mute]] }}, she sure seems awfully indifferent to the idea of killing people. Well, killing jerks. Hell, she got her sword in the first place so she ''could'' kill.

* Played for laughs with Riko in ''[[A Profile (Visual Novel)|A Profile]]''. As Masayuki's stepmother, she's very easily influenced, strong willed and tends to have thought processes at right angles to any normal person. Thus, she is prone to brainwashing her children and any number of other odd things.

* Ilya in ''[[Fate/stay Stay Nightnight]]'' fits this trope rather well, which is rather [[Token Mini-MoeLoli|baffling]] to Shirou. Eventually he decides it's because she has no sense of right and wrong, and instead acts on any desire she has, no matter what it is.

* {{spoiler|Kazuaki Nanaki}} (aka {{spoiler|Hitori Uzune}}) in ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend (Video Game)|Hatoful Boyfriend]]''. He's a {{spoiler|sleepy, gentle teacher}} who just happens to be so traumatized by {{spoiler|the death of his brother Nageki that he's constantly haunted by a shadowy manifestation of his guilt that he believes to be Nageki's ghost hating and blaming him for his own death}} that drives him to do some truly creepy things near the end of the Bad Boys Love route when {{spoiler|he begins talking about how "Nageki's calling for me" and how he's going to "take Nageki home with me" as he attempts to slice Ryouta open with a knife so that he can remove Nageki's organs that were implanted in him}}, descending into a [[Madness Mantra]] as he does so:

{{quote| {{spoiler|'''Kazuaki/Hitori:''' Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki. Nageki.}}}}

* [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209160352/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3692 Fuchsia] from [[Sinfest]], though she had [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20140209191958/http://sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3232 a short period] of [[Yandere]].

* Three examples come to mind on [[That Guy With theThe Glasses]]; Ask That Guy, with his poshness and suaveness hiding a [[Complete Monster]], Bennett The Sage, who looks sweet and cute but can terrify [[Ask That Guy With theThe Glasses (Web Video)|Ask That Guy]] and [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]], who really is girly and generally decent, but has a mess of issues and sociopathic qualities underneath.

* [[The Gaming Pixie]], apparently, particularly when she [https://web.archive.org/web/20120815072000/http://www.gamingpixie.com/99/all-videos/gamereviews/game-review-eversion-halloween-special/ reviewed Eversion]. The review starts off [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cheerfully]] enough... and slowly descends into fearsome.

* Ren from ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' definitely IS this trope. Your mileage may vary on the cuteness, due to the often grotesque art style of the show, but he IS a rather cute little chihuaua with big eyes... who's also prone to psychotic breakdowns and acts of uncontrollable violence.

* Terra from ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' is somewhat like this. She seems friendly, funny, and kind, although her [[Dark and Troubled Past]] has saddled her with destructive tendencies that can, and if helped along by [[Manipulative Bastard|Slade]], ''will,'' manifest as homicidal psycopathy. Her switch from a cool gal-pal to {{spoiler|Slade's [[Apocalypse Maiden]]}} was astoundingly dark, given the show's track record at the time.

* Princess Bubblegum from ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|Adventure Time]]'' is not only a [[Lady of War]]; she's a [[Science Hero]] who's capable of resurrecting the dead-- anddead—and she's [[Moe Moe|completely]] [[Princesses Prefer Pink|adorable]] to boot. However, she does not have a [[Berserk Button]]--she—she has a berserk ''[[Up to Eleven|keyboard]]'', and she will go [[Laughing Mad]] [[Ax Crazy]] on you if you happen to hit a button. Usually though? [[Spoiled Sweet|She's genuinely very nice]].

* Fluttershy, the [[Shrinking Violet|shyest]], [[The Cutie|sweetest]], [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|one of the most precious]] of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|ponies]] in Equestria... until you refuse her offer of friendship.

** And then there's [[Cute Bookworm]] Twilight Sparkle, who often seems like the [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Pony]]...[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E3/E03 Lesson Zero|most of the time, at least.]]

{{quote| "HIII, GIRRRRRLS!"}}

* ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename: Kids Next Door]]'': [[Asian Airhead|Numbuh]] [[Genki Girl|Three]], [[Beware the Nice Ones|when you get her angry enough]].. {{spoiler|Her little sister is ''even worse''}}.

* [[The Simpsons (animation)|"Nobody ever suspects the BUTTERFLY!"]] - Bart Simpson on why he wants to be reincarnated as a Butterfly.

* Izzy from ''[[Total Drama Island (Animation)|Total Drama]]'' is this in spades. In ''Revenge of the Island'', {{spoiler|Zoey}} is this ''and'' [[Beware the Nice Ones]] personified after she's pushed too far.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'':

** [[The Hero|Aang]]. A sweet, cheerful twelve-year-old boy--unlessboy—unless he's in the [[Super Mode|Avatar]] [[Unstoppable Rage|State]]...

* Squeaky Fromme and Sandra Good of the Manson Family.

[[Category:Subverted Innocence Tropes]]