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'''Chiyo:''' Where did you go, Tomo?
'''Tomo:''' Advertising. I was sprinkling cuteness all over school.
'''Yomi:''' Topped off with a nice heavy dash of scary.
|''[[Azumanga Daioh]]''}}
{{quote|''...and he kept stabbing them, again and again... He's a halfling, he's supposed to be jolly... Why isn't he jolly? [[Madness Mantra|WHY ISN'T HE JOLLY???]]''
|'''Belkar's [[Good Angel, Bad Angel|Conscience]]'''|''[[The Order of the Stick]]''}}
[[Generic Cuteness]] is taken for granted. You have all manner of strange things depicted as cute. But way past the [[Cute Monster Girl|vampire loli]], you have the deliberately over-the-top depictions, where [[Sickeningly Sweet]] saccharine cuteness is depicted with wild, graphic violence.
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{{examples}}
▲== Anime/Manga ==
* ''[[Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan]]''
* ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]''
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*** It was awesome (give it a crown ;) ).
▲== Fanfiction ==
* Mentioned [[One of Us|by name]] in the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' chapter of ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6809475/1/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_in Puella Magi Madoka Magica in]'' regarding Charlotte, the Witch that Mami more or less adopts.
{{quote|''The [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] with mutated hands and teeth fit for tearing through raw meat was making low, growly sounds. She was also poking at her dairy products in dainty, neat motions. It was kind of adorable... in a freakish, disgusting way. Was there a word for that? Grotesque cute? [[Ugly Cute|Ugdorable?]]''}}
== Film ==
* ''[[Batman Returns]]''. Psycho clowns, rocket-mounted penguins, PVC bodysuits covered in weird stitches, [[Danny
* There's a certain element of this to V in ''[[V for Vendetta]]''. Round, pink cheeks; [[Eyes Always Shut]]; huge smile; little upturned nose (at least in the comics); silky, shoulder-length hair... and he kills people with his bare hands!
* The [[Wicked Weasel|weasels]] of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', especially the [[Meaningful Name|appropriately-named]] Psycho. Despite his disturbing mannerisms and glee in killing ("Time to kill the raaa-biit ... [[Laughing Mad|heehee]]!"), a surprising number of the fans think he's adorable.
== Literature ==
* In Dean Koontz' book, ''Brother Odd,'' the title character encounters a {{spoiler|manufactured}} animal who is the epitome of mindless cuteness. Mindless, in that it literally has no mind or soul and is therefore profoundly disturbing rather than cute.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The suicidally depressed giant teddy bear in the ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' episode "Wishing Well".
* The puppets in the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "Smile Time".
== Tabletop Games ==
* The titular [[Mons]] in ''[[Pokethulhu]]'' are cute. [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, granted, but [[Ugly Cute|''cute'' Eldritch Abominations.]] They'll also attack you and try to devour your soul if you're not careful.
* In ''[[Mortasheen]]'', this is invoked by the [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/schmeep.htm Schmeep], who is completely adorable, and is meant to heal your party. Of coruse, it does this by [[Let's Meet the Meat|cheerfully letting itself be eaten alive]]. [[Word of God]] says it was based on the [[Li'l Abner|Schmoo]].
== Video Games ==
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* The player characters in the Playstation Network game ''[[Fat Princess]]'' are adorable chibi fighters, wizards, and such... who bleed copiously when injured or killed.
* Freeware game ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' has this in spades.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830062412/http://www.adultswim.com/games/game/index.html?game=meowcenaries Meowcenaries]
* ''[[Cannon Fodder (series)|Cannon Fodder]]'' is a(n in)famous example—it's the trope namer for [[War Has Never Been So Much Fun]], but it also attempts to avert [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]], with bloody results.
* Robbie the Rabbit, the mascot of the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' Amusement Park is a pink bunny wearing a blue overall whose most prominent feature is the blood-stained mess on his mouth and clothes. Heather from the [[Silent Hill 3|third game]] says that "it is more creepy than it is cute". Coming from a girl who has [[Deadpan Snarker|deadpan snarked]] her way throught the eponymous town, without batting an eye to the overall gory insanity around her, this says a lot.
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** In the Kingdom of Loathing universe, seals aren't adorable fuzzy flopping creatures as in real life; they're hideous, shambling, bloodsucking monstrosities that happen to look like adorable fuzzy flopping creatures, one of which looks more like a mutated leech than any land mammal. That said, one familiar you can acquire as a Seal Clubber is an Adorable Seal Larva, which intersperses descriptions of it sucking the blood from your opponent and bursting into an enemy's corpse so it can regurgitate a healing fluid into your body with gushing about how adorable the thing is.
* Considering how cartoony the characters in the ''[[Metal Slug]]'' series are, some of them die in fairly bloody ways.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Nana's Everyday Life]]'', has the art style of a manga for little children; plays the mental, emotional, physical and sexual abuse of an undersged girl [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]]. [[Gallows Humor|Very]] [[Black Comedy|dark]] [[Black Comedy Rape|laughs]]. Until it [[Tear Jerker|stops being funny]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130703110849/http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp05282008.shtml This] ''[[Something*Positive]]'' strip.
** If you think that's bad, try [https://web.archive.org/web/20130510032652/http://somethingpositive.net/sp11172008.shtml this one]..
** And of course the Little Blue Thing, aka Fluffmodeus. He's like an '80s cartoon character who Care-Bear-Stared a little too long into the abyss...
{{quote|'''"It only takes seven pounds of pressure to break a human skull... FROM THE INSIDE. Kisses now!"'''}}
* Kiki playing with No Content from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'': it [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424095808/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070324 gets] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120424095519/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070331 bloody] [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070407 quick].
* Ursula Vernon's [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/uvernon/littlecreature/series.php?view=archive&chapter=4602&mpe=1&step=1 Little Creature].
* ''[[Charby the Vampirate]]'' is described as an ultra-violent Saturday morning cartoon, with adorable characters who will occasionally eviscerate or suffocate their many victims, brutally, with no [[Gory Discretion Shot]]. The combo is especially obvious with Mye, the zombie girl who smells sweet despite 315 years of decay, not to mention the unhealed slit in her chest where she got a sweet heart transplant. Her [[Evil Eye]] are bubblegum pink.
** Mye isn't decaying,(she is a traditional zombie, not a Hollywood/Romero zombie)the sweet smell is candle wax and gummy bears, two things she spends a lot of time with. And her brother's eyes are pink, too!
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]''. [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF048-Suicide_Train.gif Where] [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF024-Puppy_Wish.gif to] [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF057-Raft_Friends.jpg even] [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF041-Sun_Love.gif begin]?
* ''[[Erfworld]]'' pretty much runs off this, with the incredibly cute and adorable-looking, child-like midgets engaged in brutal, unending wars for [[Forever War|no real, discernible reason]].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20080424111847/http://www.partiallyclips.com/erfworld/blowups/BLOWUP_nomnomnom_640.jpg Go ahead], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130830155746/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0106.html tell me] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131127091442/http://www.giantitp.com/comics/erf0150.html I'm wrong].
* ''[[Double Happiness]]''
* Arcturus Winrock from ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' is downright ADORABLE with those big [[Puppy Dog Eyes]] of his but he DOES have a dark side to him.....
* ''[[Drowtales]]'' presents [https://web.archive.org/web/20110918134551/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=676&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&page=1&check=1 the amaceing Mili'ani]!
* ''[[The Unspeakable Vault of Doom]]'' is a [[Lighter and Softer]] look at the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]—for instance, its cartoonishly-drawn "Cthulhoo" says "yum yum" every time he eats an unfortunate cultist. But it's still the Cthulhu Mythos, and the gore factor actually goes ''up'' compared to Lovecraft's work. It'd be [[Mood Whiplash]] if the death and dismemberment weren't so heavily integrated into the comic alongside the silliness.
* Nepeta Leijon from ''[[Homestuck]]'' qualifies for this. She's a [[Moe]] [[Catgirl]] who kills wild animals for food with her [[Wolverine Claws]].
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'': The stick figure art makes everything look much cuter than it would in a more realistic style. And yet you still get characters like [[Complete Monster|Xykon]] and [[Heroic Sociopath|Belkar]] and quite a bit of violence. In particular, [[I Love the Dead|Tsukiko]] sleeps with an adorable Xykon plushie, and Belkar is a fuzzy-footed halfling of [[Super-Deformed|chibi]] proportions who gleefully stabs everyone who crosses him or has something he wants.
* ''[[Sonichu]]'' unintentionally falls into this. It looks a lot like something your seven year old child would draw, with creatures that are a combination of [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] and Pokémon, with an [[Author Avatar]] that is the mayor of the town and cartoon-y villains. However, it features graphic sex scenes and true to this trope, scenes where a bunch of Internet [[troll]]s are tortured to death, including one getting drilled [[Groin Attack|in the groin]] by a [[Creepy Child|little girl]].
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Ruby Quest]]'' is more or less about taking some cute animal people and then breaking them physically and mentally in horrible, horrible ways.
* [[Two Words]]: Junko Mizuno.
* [[Moe]] [[Cthulhu Mythos]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006014831/http://f25.aaa.livedoor.jp/~moecmyth/ creatures].
* The video for [[Of Montreal]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cCPH1qnYI Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and other games)]. Good God. (And yes, this is the song that inspired their Outback Steakhouse jingle.)
* This is pretty much the entire design philosophy for all the monsters in [http://bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen], and the author's list of favorite monsters shows a definite personal preference for that style.
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* ''[[Serenity Rose]]'', in its currently ongoing [http://heartshapedskull.com/ second issue], makes the entire plot revolve around this.
* ''[http://www.giantmicrobes.com Giant Microbes]''.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20100108012819/http://www.s-inc.com/hangry-angry/ Hangry and Angry]''
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mo5_PFiUMg0 Disney's Evangelion]''
* [http://skary.net/ Childrin R Skary] Adorable children? Check. Copious amounts of blood and gore? Oh, you better believe it!
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPeTB-JDxg Little Pink, Little Pink Beaaaaaar!]
* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' may fall into this category, as it has cute, cuddly animals and [[Nightmare Fuel]]-ish gore. [[What Do You Mean It's Not for Kids?|Does this sound familiar?]]
* The [[Sugar Apocalypse|Sugar Zombie Apocalypse]] known as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwCojCJ3-Q "Meow".]
* Safe Seth of [[The Flash Tub]] is pretty [[Adorkable]], and then come his [[Nightmare Fuel|antics]]...
* [http://askpinkaminadianepie.tumblr.com/ Ask Pinkamina Diane Pie] Take the idea of a serial killer Pinkie Pie and roll with it.
== Western Animation ==
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* The baby goldfinches that {{spoiler|eat Hopper}} in ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]''. It's not gory, but pretty gross.
* ''[[Drawn Together]]'', with the characters Strawberry Sweetcake and Ling Ling.
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
{{quote|[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}wmZAzVS8Nw4 "Pud'n, have you ever heard of ''tough'' love?"]}}
* ''The Itchy and Scratchy Show'' in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''.
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