Cuteness Proximity: Difference between revisions

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[[File:cat proximity.png|link=Xkcd|frame|[[Alt Text|Yes you are! And you're sitting there! Hi, kitty!]]]]

{{quote|''My bro-in-law is a tough rancher and he turned into a total cream puff when his daughter brought a kitten home.''~~|'''MavenOTF''' of [[YouTube]] (in the comments section of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}0Bmhjf0rKe8 this video])}}~~

{{quote|''My bro-in-law is a tough rancher and he turned into a total cream puff when his daughter brought a kitten home.''

|'''MavenOTF''' of [[YouTube]] (in the comments section of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}0Bmhjf0rKe8 this video])}}

''The closer a character is to something cute, the more likely [[Cuteness Overload]] will happen. Get close enough and, if the character has any susceptibility to [[Cuteness Overload]] at all, it is certain to happen.''

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== Anime & Manga ==

== Anime and Manga ==

* ''[[Bleach]]''

** Occurs during the Bount arc in the anime version. When a decision needs to be made about which person each of the three mod souls would be paired with, Rukia (the possessor of a long standing rabbit obsession) positively melts over the plushie (a rabbit-like purse) inhabited by Kurodo.

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* Oboro Kashiwagi in ''[[Zettai Karen Children]]'' really likes baby seals.

* Kaido Kaoru of ''[[The Prince of Tennis]]''. While he doesn't quite "disintegrate into a pile of gloop", the most antisocial member of the team attempting to play with a cat while still coming off as intense and a little scary was hilarious in its own right.

* ''[[RahXephon]]'''s Haruka Shitow takes all but two seconds to shift from, "One more step and I'll shoot!" to "Daaaaaw, it's so ~~CUTE~~! ~~can~~ we keep it? Pwetty pwease?" upon encountering a stray cat in the third episode. {{spoiler|An especially good scene, because in those two seconds she mentally jumps 12 years back in time... and into a completely different dynamic. Ayato has NO idea what's going on.}}

* ''[[RahXephon]]''{{'}}s Haruka Shitow takes all but two seconds to shift from, "One more step and I'll shoot!" to "Daaaaaw, it's so ''cute!''! Can we keep it? Pwetty pwease?" upon encountering a stray cat in the third episode. {{spoiler|An especially good scene, because in those two seconds she mentally jumps 12 years back in time... and into a completely different dynamic. Ayato has ''no'' idea what's going on.}}

* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''

** Misty slips into this when a stray Teddiursa wanders into their camp and looks her in the eyes. Of course, once they find out it's been scarfing down all their food behind their backs and making Ash's Totodile take the heat for it, the little thing seems much less cute. Even better: it ''continues to try to invoke this trope'' after it evolves into the much more feral-looking [[Everything's Worse with Bears|Ursaring]].

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* In an issue of ''[[She Hulk]]'', the title character visits a prison where supervillains are shrunk down before they are incarcerated. She starts cooing when she sees the tiny Wrecking Crew.

{{quote|'''She-Hulk:''' Who's the cutest little Wrecking Crew? You are! Yes you are!}}

== Comic Strips ==

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* ''[[Baby Blues]]''

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** In one of the early Sunday strips, Daryl and Zoe are passing by a fat construction worker, who's yelling over the noise of a jackhammer and swearing like a sailor... Until he spots Zoe in her little stroller, undergoes a complete [[Personality Shift]], and coos to her like a mother. In Daryl's words to her, "How do you ''do'' that??"

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** An early story arc revolves around Daryl suddenly finding himself unable to ''stop'' using baby talk. Wanda digs up a baby book which explains that this condition is commonly brought on by babies' cuteness and recommends "exposure to the baby during peak non-cute periods" as the cure.

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{{quote|'''Daryl:''' Wot's dat 'posed to mean?

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'''Wanda:''' It means you get the night shift, Tweety Bird. }}

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* An entire ''[[Bloom County]]'' story arc consisted of Oliver making contact with a race of aliens planning to enslave much of Earth's human populace. Now they may have had flying saucers with lasers and the like on them, but their biggest advantage by far over the humans was that all of them took on the shape of puppies with big innocent eyes. Said arc was [[It Makes Sense in Context|making a serious political statement]] about how Oliver North was handled with kid gloves at a Congressional hearing.

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* Bo from ''[[Bo Nanas]]'' once asked his roommate to put him on a leash as they went outside, trying to make a message on how wrong it was for him to be constrained as a mere "cute" animal. Naturally, once they begin their stroll, every stranger they encounter can't help but gush and babytalk him. "... Well, you ''are'' cute." "It's my curse."

== Fan Works ==

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The ~~Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the~~ Abridged Series]]''

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]''

** Marik, as shown in Episode 31:

{{quote|'''Marik:''' I shall defeat you and then conquer the world! Ahahahaha, Ahaha! Oh, hey, look, a bird! Isn't it just the cutest little guy? I mean, No! I-In my new world, all birds shall be enslaved! Especially this one, and he shall be named, Mr. Tweetums! For it is very evil! Ahahahahaha! Now be gone, Mr. Tweetums! I am trying to stalk my nemesis!}}

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* In the ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7471458/1/The_First_Guardian The First Guardian]'', [[Bleach|Ichigo]]'s (and later Rukia's) reaction to Ururu.

* ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC~~|I'm a Marvel And Im ADC~~]]'': Occurs every single time Random Cat shows up on BlogTV.

* ''[[I'm a Marvel And I'm a DC]]'': Occurs every single time Random Cat shows up on BlogTV.

* ''[[The Tainted Grimoire]]'': Kanin and Maria when they see Auggie's pet Dreamhare.

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== Music ==

* French singer Richard Gotainer wrote a whole song -- "Le Youki"—in baby talk, precisely to mock this habit of dog owners. You can find [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx7vKvQ4axQ the clip there] (and you probably don't need to understand French to get the gist of it). Warning: [[Ear Worm]] (and slightly [[NSFW]] too).

== Newspaper Comics ==

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* ''[[Baby Blues]]''

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** In one of the early Sunday strips, Daryl and Zoe are passing by a fat construction worker, who's yelling over the noise of a jackhammer and swearing like a sailor... Until he spots Zoe in her little stroller, undergoes a complete [[Personality Shift]], and coos to her like a mother. In Daryl's words to her, "How do you ''do'' that??"

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** An early story arc revolves around Daryl suddenly finding himself unable to ''stop'' using baby talk. Wanda digs up a baby book which explains that this condition is commonly brought on by babies' cuteness and recommends "exposure to the baby during peak non-cute periods" as the cure.

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{{quote|'''Daryl:''' Wot's dat 'posed to mean?

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'''Wanda:''' It means you get the night shift, Tweety Bird. }}

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* An entire ''[[Bloom County]]'' story arc consisted of Oliver making contact with a race of aliens planning to enslave much of Earth's human populace. Now they may have had flying saucers with lasers and the like on them, but their biggest advantage by far over the humans was that all of them took on the shape of puppies with big innocent eyes. Said arc was [[It Makes Sense in Context|making a serious political statement]] about how Oliver North was handled with kid gloves at a Congressional hearing.

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* Bo from ''[[Bo Nanas]]'' once asked his roommate to put him on a leash as they went outside, trying to make a message on how wrong it was for him to be constrained as a mere "cute" animal. Naturally, once they begin their stroll, every stranger they encounter can't help but gush and babytalk him. "... Well, you ''are'' cute." "It's my curse."