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[[File:picresized_th_1257702634_ushiopicresized th 1257702634 ushio.jpg|link=Clannad (visual novel)|frame| "[[Third Person Person|Fuko]] will go ahead and make her a younger sister." Can you blame her?]]

There are times when something is just so pure, innocent, right and '''[[Kawaisa|adorably cute]]''' that even the most level-headed persons are struck by a quaint phenomenon we Tropers like to call "[[Cuteness Proximity]]", in which all pretences of stoic maturity are dropped to reveal [[Tastes Like Diabetes|an affectionate and nurturing, sweet-tongued]] [[Cuddle Bug|teddy bear who wants to]] to [[Glomp|hug the subject of cuteness all day long]]. Sometimes, it can get so bad that said persons [[Cuteness Overload|cannot comprehend and withstand the intense emotional effects.]]

More so than Cuteness Proximity, this will either endear the audience to what is obviously a very warm and loving person, or creep them out by revealing what is a dangerous and perverted [[Lolicon]] or [[Shotacon]].

* In ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'', the adorably innocent [[Cloudcuckoolander|Ibuki Fuko]] says she wants to do this to little Ushio-chan, {{spoiler|Tomoya's daughter}}, and to be her older sister. Pictured above.

* ''[[Ranma ½|Ranma One Half]]'': [[Kawaiiko|Azusa Shiratori]] is very prone to this, grabbing new "cute" items and giving them a French name, and then claiming ownership of them. If it resists, she'll knock it out. If it's yours, and you resist, she'll knock ''you'' out.<br /> In the anime version, she tries to "adopt" a half-eaten rice cake soon afterward. When Genma manages to polish it off before she can steal it, she screams in horror and beats him senseless. Her collection, in the few glimpses we've seen of her mansion, has been shown to include an octopus balloon, a stop sign, and even weirder things. In an anime-exclusive episode, she adopts a [[Youkai|Tanuki]] statue --— and when Kunô cuts his way out of it (it fell on him beforehand), she promptly adopts him as well, thinking he must be a ''real'' tanuki.

* The pet store clerk in ''[[Chi's Sweet Home|Chi's New Address]]'' does this even after discovering Chi has an owner. The reason she ''can't'' have one is because her little brother [[Animals Hate Him|is afraid of cats]] --— but as it turns out, her brother happens to be Yohei's friend Ryu, who got over his fear about 20 episodes before this was revealed.

** Yuki Nagato, [[The Stoic|of all people]], reacts this way in ''The Melancholy of [[Haruhi-chan]] Suzumiya'' when she finds the newly revived "Achakura", proceeding to place her in her bag and ''literally'' take her home. This might be a case of maintaining the [[masquerade]]... but Achakura is ''very'' cute.

* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]''

** Sôsuke evidently elicited this kind of response when he was [[Adorably Precocious Child|young]]. Just like in the trope description, his Cuteness Proximity was so incredibly intense, it managed to melt the hearts of ''war-hardened veterans'' and pretty much made them internally [[Squee]] that they want to take him home and make him their child. Which they then proceed to attempt to do. He certainly never lacked people who were all too eager to take him in as their own. Starting with Majid, an <s>Afghanistani</s> Helmajistani rebellion leader whom Sôsuke had ''tried to assassinate'', who liked him so much that he adopted him as his "Son of Bdakshon's Tiger", and raised him with complete kindness. And then there was Kalinin, who wanted Sôsuke as his son from the very beginning, and took him as a prisoner of war ''after Sôsuke tried to assassinate him''. He then proceeds to persistently try to get Sôsuke to agree to be his adopted son (which he refused, since he already had Majid as his "father" -- yes—yes, it got to the point of being a first-come-first-serve basis). After Majid dies, Kalinin ''finally'' manages to force his way and get Sôsuke to be his legally adopted son. And all while that was going on, [[Ax Crazy|Gauron]] has tried to take Sôsuke for himself [[Love At First Sight|ever since the moment he first set eyes on the boy]]. He ''literally'' did a double take, parked his jeep, and tried to lure Sôsuke to come with him by promising him food and ammunition. Sôsuke refuses, and Gauron ends up [[Stalker with a Crush|being unable to forget him for the next five years]]. (Though in Gauron's case, it's more of a [[Shotacon|pedophile rapist, sexual version]] of wanting to take him home, unlike the previous two).

** The follow-up series, ''[[Negima Second Season|Negima!?]]'', has a scene where [[Bodyguard Crush|Setsuna]] is carrying [[Ojou|Konoka]] in her [[Tastes Like Diabetes|super-cute]] "[[Magic Misfire|dud]]" form. As dud Konoka repeatedly comments on how comfortable she is in her arms, Setsuna [[Did I Just Say That Out Loud?|comments out loud that]] [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me|she wishes she could "take her home like this."]]

* In ''[[Baccano!]]'' Isaac and Miria do this on someone else's behalf, when they decide that the perfect gift for {{spoiler|Ennis}} would be a little {{spoiler|brother}}. So, they give her {{spoiler|[[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Czeslaw]]}}.

* Referenced in episode 9 of the new season of ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]''. [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]] Kiko and her like-minded friend see Suo, who happens to look like some anime character that they like. The friend suggests they take her home with them. Kiko, who has [[Wrong Genre Savvy|finally figured out]] she's [[Genre Savvy|not in a show where that's a viable option]], says:

{{quote| '''Kiko:''' I'm not into lolicon. Besides, that's illegal.}}

* In chapter 12 of ''[[Honey Hunt]]'', Q-Ta hugs Yura before leaving to go on a trip to record something and tells her that she's cute. So cute that he [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427130631/http://manga.animea.net/honey-hunt-chapter-12-page-5.html just wants to put her in his suitcase and take her with him].

* This is Kyrie's reaction toward Toppi from the ''[[World Destruction]]'' manga when Toppi and Morte save his life. Toppi does not take being called "cute" well.

* In ''[[Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt|Panty and Stocking With Garterbelt]]'', Stocking has this reaction when she sees the Sperm Ghosts. Admittedly, for being the ghosts of vengeful wasted sperm, they ''are'' pretty adorable.

* A creepy (though hilarious) version happens in chapter 210 of ''[[D.Gray-man|D Gray Man]]''. A random gangster who, according to his crony, "loves all beautiful things to a sick degree," decides that Kanda is the most beautiful person he has ever seen and declares, "I'm going to kidnap him and bring him back home!" Kanda promptly beats him to a pulp.

* Katanashi in ''[[Working!!]]'' is a minicon -- someoneminicon—someone who thinks anything tiny is inherently cute. Showing him anything small is guaranteed to get this reaction from him -- whichhim—which can be creepy when the object in question is a four year old girl who got separated from her mom.

** Gross example: Larfleeze wants his own Guardian, so when our heroes encounter Scar --— an evil, half-undead Guardian who serves the story's [[Big Bad]] --,— he wants to do this. Of course, Larfreeze ''is'' the embodiment of [[Greed]]; he wants ''everything''.

{{quote| Seal her away<br />

Overlook her<br />

* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series]]'': "And I shall call you Mr. Tweetums! For it is very evil!" And in a later episode: {{spoiler|"Fool! There is no one who I would want to remember~... Mr. Tweetums! [[Big No|Nooo!!!]] [[Tranquil Fury|You made me forget my very best friend"]]...}}

* In the ''[[Fan Fic/My Little Hangover|Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fanfic ''[[My Little Hangover]]'', a drunken Rarity does this with a full-grown panda.

* ''[[The Hill of Swords]]'': Any time Tabitha shows her vulnerable side, [[The Hill of Swords|Shirou]] has to suppress an urge to take her home and give her "adorable ponies and dollies and pretty dresses".

{{quote| '''Liz:''' It was like highway hypnosis -- you know, when you pull into your driveway and you don't remember driving home.<br />

* Perhaps Guy Kyser -- frontmanKyser—frontman of Thin White Rope -- tossedRope—tossed a few too many oblique words into the [[Word Salad Lyrics|salad]], but (in the song "Take It Home") he seemed to be evoking this trope. Or attempting to explore the boundaries of its inherent futility:

{{quote| ''Something moving in an airtight room<br />

Doesn't age a minute for a year in a vacuum<br />

But dies on the way home[...]<br />

I can't take this one home<br />

{{quote| ''I'm taking her home with me, all dressed in white<br />

** The story of [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Noh Noh], about a group of adventurers who find the guardian in a [[Secret Test of Character]] too adorable to leave behind.

* In the Ork campaign of ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]: Retribution'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvmgs6BPmZ4#t=3m58s Mistah Nailbrain decides to take "Daisy" home.]

* ''[[Cyanide and& Happiness]]'' has a disturbing take on this trope [http://www.explosm.net/comics/463/ in this strip] (albeit without bothering to declare the intention).

{{quote| '''Marena:''' Aw, but she's so cute. Let's keep her.}}

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508040757/http://www.drunkduck.com/Batman_Retold/?p=725261 These] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120508040831/http://www.drunkduck.com/Batman_Retold/5258297/ two] ''Batman Retold'' strips.

* ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'' has this from Canada and Denmark with [http://satwcomic.com/epic-battle cute puppie "Hans"] -- standing—standing in for the territorial dispute over Hans Island, close to Greenland.

* ''[[(The Customer is) Not Always Right]]'' got [http://notalwaysright.com/fritzl-be-one-of-those-days this case].

* In the ''[[MSF High Forum]]'', Demona has this reaction to Lily, the chibi-Pettanko-Succubus. Lily, at present, is begging for death.

* Elmyra of ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' has no problem with snatching pets (in a world of [[Funny Animal|Funny Animals]]s) and declaring them her pets. Compounding matters, she's also a [[And Call Him George|negligent owner]] whose pets invariably die. In many ways more sinister than her mentor, Elmer Fudd, who would simply shoot at them.

* ''[[Generator Rex]]'': One episode has Breach kidnap Rex to put in her dollhouse while referring to Rex as her "new favorite" and "shiny thing."

* In ''[[Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness|Kung Fu Panda Legends of Awesomeness]]'' this was Po's inital reaction to Peng, before [[Green-Eyed Monster]] set in.

{{quote| '''Po:''' Oh please, please can we keep him? Can we keep him ''pleeeeease''? He's even [[Just for Pun|pottery trained!]]}}

* The reason inter-species adoptions are possible --— e.g. a dog with puppies adopting a baby bunny it might have normally had for breakfast, a [[Older Than Feudalism|she-wolf adopting]] a [[Raised by Wolves|a human infant]], etc. More specifically, facial features with certain proportions (huge eyes, tiny nose, tiny mouth, round head) really hit an onlooker's maternal instincts, and happen to be pretty much universal among mammals, so that sometimes, under the right circumstances, the instinct to take it home and care for it overweighs the instinct to snack on it.