Cute Kitten: Difference between revisions

* [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.

* Yune of ''[[Croisée in a Foreign Labyrinth]]'' has a knack for finding cats wherever she goes, and she just can't... help... petting... them-- '''scuse me, gotta chase a cat!'' Even the ending theme and mid-episode transition cards feature her with cats.

* 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 ==

* 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.

{{quote|'''Susan''': I wonder what happened when the man who did this met [[The Grim Reaper|my grandfather]].

'''Lobsang''': Would he have met your grandfather?

** 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}}.

* ''[[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].

* [[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

=== Tabletop RPG ===

* Swords and Scorcery Creature Collection - Moon cats. Magical kitties that appear after moonrise. Those who encounter them get good luck afterwards. Although sought by mages believing them to hold access to powerful magical energy, there are no known instances of them being captured. The rare times a moon cat has been caught, it vanished by sunrise.

 

== Video Games ==

{{quote|Carmilla: "No hurting the cute kitty!"}}

* 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 ==

** "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 ==

** And of course she then went and [http://instagr.am/p/Sn8jP/ adopted]{{Dead link}} one.

*** [[Comically Missing the Point|What, she adopted]] [[Literal-Minded|a kitten card?]]

 

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