Sweet Tooth: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Pictured above, from ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Ranma Saotome. He's such an ice-cream lover that he's perfectly willing to use his much-hated [[Gender Bender]] curse to go with Akane to the local ice-cream parlor and gulp down all the parfaits he can without being recognized by others.

** On one hand, in Ranma's case, there's an implication (which is eerily plausible, given what we know of Genma) that he's actually never eaten ice cream before in his life until he came to Nerima. On the other hand, however, Genma also has a sweet tooth in the anime; in fact, he actually threatens to disown Ranma after Ranma eats some sweets that Genma was saving (he won't really go through it, though; he's just throwing a temper tantrum in hopes of intimidating Ranma into apologising. It doesn't work, as Ranma knows Genma too well).

*** Note that all of these sweet-toothed characters may possibly only be such in the [[Alternate Character Interpretation|anime version of the series]].

** Hinako Ninomiya is seriously obsessed with candy while in her child form.

* Count D (''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]''). Leon regularly gets information out of him by bribing him with chocolate.

** Mello takes after him in this regard, but only for chocolate. His calling card is biting into a chocolate bar, which makes a snap like a thunderclap... [http://www.deviantart.com/download/58009904/Mello_likes____CHOCOLATE_by_DragonSpirit469.jpg To Memetic Levels.]{{Dead link}}

* Tsuzuki Asato in ''[[Yami no Matsuei]]''.

* Abel Nightroad of ''[[Trinity Blood]]'' is a slightly milder version. He drinks tea with 13 sugars in it, but he'll eat pretty much anything regardless of its sugar content.

** And IIRC, the tea thing was because it was the only food or drink he could afford at the time, so he put lots of sugar into it to make it more substantial.

* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'': Skuld, of the [[Gadgeteer Genius]] variety. She adores her ice-cream and cookies.

** Understatement. This is a girl who starts with a container full of sugar and adds tea.

* Suzu from ''[[Nagasarete Airantou]]'' will do almost anything for ''mame daifuku'', a type of dessert.

** This eventually bit him in the ass with the Amazing Fighting Jawbreaker.

*** [[Heh Heh, You Said "X"|Heh-heh]]...''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Jawbreaker]]''...

* Yukino from ''[[Candy Boy]]'' loves sweets so much that she can be bribed with the goods—much to the dismay of her twin sister Kanade.

* Subaru of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' has normal dietary habits [[Big Eater|for a modern Belkan mage]], but have her a go at ice cream and she'll really stack them up on her cone. "Suki suki daisuki!"

* Hiro of ''[[Hidamari Sketch]]''. Like ''eating meal replacements with sweetened condensed milk''.

* In ''[[Real Drive]]'', Minamo and her friends are often seen gulping down enormous parfaits at their favorite boutique. It helps explaining why all of them rather plump and healthy looking lasses.

* Xerxes Break from ''[[Pandora Hearts]]'' is a spectacular example: not only he can eat a dozen portions of cake at one scoop and never parts with his precious box of candies, but he steals sweets from other characters, and is capable of pushing into his mouth half of a saucer with cake remains on it - in order to lick it off.

* Usagi of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' has a sweet tooth combined with being a [[Big Eater]], which is [[Running Gag|constantly mocked]] in ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]''.

* Killua from ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' managed to spent several millions in sweets in DAYS. The chocolate shop couldn't keep up.

* Anko Mitarashi of ''[[Naruto]]'' (whose name refers to ingredients used in dumplings), enjoys eating dumplings for lunch, often eating dozens of sticks in one sitting. In one of the video games, she goes into withdrawal when she is unable to obtain dumplings, leading to a mission to get some for her.

* Apart from (or perhaps related to) his [[Trademark Favorite Food|apparent addiction to lactose]], ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima also apparently has a Sweet Tooth. In fact, his first demonstration of [[Unstoppable Rage]] was in response to his little brother [[Hair-Trigger Temper|stealing his pudding]].

* Blossom/Momoko from ''[[Demashita! Powerpuff Girls Z]]''.

* Erza from ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' [[Berserk Button|will]] [[Unstoppable Rage|snap]] if you mess with her and her strawberry cake.

* Kyouko Sakura from ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]] '' is always munching on something sweet, even in battle.

* In ''[[The Secret Agreement]]'', Iori has one and even tells his lover "if you are always surrounded by sweet and delicious things, it is very attractive." In comparison Yuuichi is more moderate, but still treated as pariah for eating sweets at all by his uncle because they should (and eventually begin to) [[Weaksauce Weakness|kill him]].

* Yuusuke in ''[[Ame Nochi Hare]]'', who asserts that lack of sugar slows down his mind.

* Jennifer Satou from ''[[C: The Money of Soul and Possibility Control]]''.

* Kurumu Kurono from ''[[Rosario + Vampire]]''. To the point of devouring a batch of poisoned cookies she made herself in an attempt to win Tsukune's affections by knocking Moka out of the picture for a bit.

* Natsumi in ''[[Nicoichi]]'', who will [[Berserk Button|turn violent]] if she was intentionally deprived of sweet foods. She is very embarrassed of this personality shift though.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* Sam of ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'', often seen with popsicles and ice-cream sandwiches.

* Skinner [[Meaningful Name|Sweet]] of ''[[American Vampire]]'', a notorious bank robber and murderer who retains his sweet tooth even after becoming a vampire.

 

* Brutally [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] in the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]'' fan fic ''[[Bittersweet (fanfic)|Bittersweet]]'', where Pinkie Pie (mentioned below) gets diabetes, [[Driven to Suicide|and commits suicide]] [[Death by Irony|through a final sweets binge]].

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The Bug in ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'', while wearing his nice new Edgar suit (but then again, he is a giant cockroach, and cockroaches love sugar):

{{quote|'''Bug/Edgar''': Give me sugar. In water. More. More.}}

* Norman Bates from ''[[Psycho]]''.

* Maguire in ''[[Road to Perdition]]'' pouring tons of sugar into his coffee, with horrendously rotten teeth to match.

* It's subtle, but it's suggested Egon Spengler is this in ''[[Ghostbusters]]''. For instance, when he tells the others that he knows how they could actually catch and hold a ghost, Venkman gives him a chocolate bar, saying 'you've earned this,'. He's also eating a Twinkie when he describes the uptick in paranormal activity to Ray and Winston.

** [[Harold Ramis]] supposedly thought that scene up; Ramis himself was a fan of them too. After his death, ''many'' fans remembered this, and brought Twinkies to place at the grave site.

** This seems normal to him, though, because he was [[Raised by Wolves|Raised By Elves]].

* Owen in ''[[Let Me In]]''. Usually seen eating Now and Laters for dinner.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The [[Villainous Glutton]] Count Fosco of ''[[The Woman in White]]'' loves to eat various sweets, and this preference was contemporary stereotype of Italians.

* Carrying on from the Italian example noted above, Salieri of ''[[Amadeus]]'' has an obsession with sweets, especially marzipan, and after making his [[Faith Heel Turn]], that's one of the first things he is able to indulge in to the fullest. As an example of stereotypes sometimes being [[Truth in Television]], this aspect (unlike the killing Mozart one) was true of the actual Salieri as well.

** And anyone who's been Dementor'd will seriously appreciate a chocolate bar.

* Rooster Cogburn from ''[[True Grit]]'' is described as having a "sweet tooth" (in those words). He is partial to eating his honey cakes with butter and preserves.

* [[Stephanie Plum]] loves cake so much her grandmother calls her a cakeaholic.

 

* The main character of ''[[The Closer]]'' (2008), Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson. Counts towards the "genius feeding her brain" subtrope, as she is a certified [[Southern-Fried Genius]] (particularly at extracting information/confessions).

* This troper recalls an episode of, he thinks it was, ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street]]'' where an informant was a drug addict—who also had a thing for sugar. They kept him calm by feeding his sweet tooth...until, towards the third act, he was getting really bad withdrawal symptoms, and said "There ain't a Dinky Dog big enough in the world for this one...", so they have to give him a small amount of some of the hard stuff to keep him from crashing.

* The Trickster from ''[[Supernatural]]''.

* Fez from ''[[That '70s Show]]''. When given an apple while trick or treating in Halloween, he yells [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"WHERE IS MY CANDY, YOU SON OF A BITCH?!".]]

** In a Valentines episode, he buys a box of bonbons for his [[Huge Schoolgirl]] girlfriend. He is shown trying to resist the temptation of eating them, and in the end, he gives in.

** Sylar loves pie so much that he demolished an entire one by himself.

* Speaking of pie, Emerson Cod in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' has a piece of pie whenever he walks into the Pie Hole.

* For Lorelai and Rory of ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'', candy is a major food group, much to the disgust of Luke.

** Ironically, Marina Sirtis herself doesn't really like chocolate.

* ''[[All That]]'' had Kenan Thompson frequently play a character named Randy, a chef who coated everything he ate in chocolate.

* Compo from ''[[Last of the Summer Wine]]'' tends to put five, six, or even more teaspoonfuls of sugar in his tea whenever he gets the chance.

* Leslie of ''[[Parks and Recreation]]'' is rather fond of sugar.

 

== [[Music]] ==

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Calvin from the ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' comic strip was a demonstratively very intelligent, uber-active (to a fault) little kid whose imagination knew absolutely no bounds. His favorite food was a breakfast cereal named, "Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs". With a lot of added sugar. And chocolate milk. They make it with marshmallow bits but his mum won't buy that for him. He once tried it with soda instead of chocolate milk, but the bubbles went up his nose.

** The was also the time that Calvin made sandwiches for himself and Hobbes as rations for an ill-planned journey to Yukon, Alaska. They were marshmallow sandwiches, with one containing honey and the other chocolate syrup.

* [[Cathy]] loves anything sweet, especially chocolate. She can even devour an entire pie in one sitting.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Georg Prime in ''[[Suikoden]]'', a [[Badass]] swordsman who never forgets to bring several cheesecakes in his inventory.

** In ''[[Suikoden III]]'', Aila spends a lot of time musing over her obsession with soda.

** And Tyrell Badd with his constant lollipop.

* Tytti Noorbuck from ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' likes sweets. Unfortunately, she lets her feelings override her preference (or sense) of taste, thereby turning her into a [[Lethal Chef]]. Ibis Douglas, however, is a honest Sweet Tooth and looks very [[Moe]] while eating cheesecake.

* Leon Magnus in ''[[Tales of Destiny]]''

** Yuri Lowell in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''.

* Kimmy Eckman of ''[[Backyard Sports]]''. [[Catch Phrase|CAAAANDYYYY!]]

* Classic computer [[Video Game]] star [[Commander Keen]], might count. Pretty much every bonus-point item is candy, ''especially'' from ''[[Gaiden Game|Keen Dreams]]'' onward. In fact, the 5,000-point item in the fifth game is a plain 'ol bag of sugar.

* Much like Juliet, ''[[Bayonetta]]'' uses lollipops as [[Power-Up Food]] (but just lollipops in her case) and when she does, [[Ms. Fanservice| given the type of woman she is]], it borders on [[Erotic Eating]].

* Zack, the young pirate hero half of ''[[Zack and Wiki]]'' loves his chocolate bars.

* Laharl and Etna from ''[[Disgaea]]'' both have enormous sweet teeth, and the former's confiscation of the latter's expensive snacks is a frequent point of contention between the two, particularly in ''[[Disgaea Infinite]].''

* Sugar, or at least its aroma, is known to attract [[Boss in Mook Clothing|witches]] in the ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' series. One part of the "Hard Rain" campaign in ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'' revolves around navigating a sugar mill completely infested with this strain of infected – [[Oh Crap|they may be as many as]] ''[[Oh Crap|twenty]]'' [[Oh Crap|of them]],<ref>(if you find two witches in any other single segment of a campaign, it's a sign that the Director is going sadistic on you)</ref> '''[[It Got Worse|sometimes right beside each other]]'''. Thankfully, they disperse when the rain starts and the smell (presumably) dissipates.

* The [[Monster Clown]] from ''[[Twisted Metal]]'' named Sweet Tooth (Actually his name is [[My Name Is Not Spock|Needles Kane]] but is rarely referred to it even in game, suggesting it is an alias he uses for himself) is rumored to have a massive craving for sweets which he keeps in the freezer of his ice cream truck, along with his victims.

* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', the Heavy can use the Dalokohs bar for infinite healing.

* Chip from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise. He loves chocolate, and he loves [[Good Samaritan| sharing it with others.]]

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* Robin DeSanto of ''[[Walkyverse|Shortpacked]]'' is prone to attacks of ludicrous hyperactivity when she engages in her habit. Famously, on one occasion she enjoyed a breakfast cereal of Cadbury cream eggs in chocolate syrup; she regained consciousness to find she'd been elected to congress.

** Another time Robin ate Cadbury cereal she brought (temporary) World Peace, but also made a sex tape from a one night stand with another congress member which she then accidentally leaked.

* Grace of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' as seen [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-03-14 here].

* The two teeth, ickle and Lardee, from ''[[My Milk Toof]]''... there's a horrible pun to go along with that but let's not start.

* Hom from ''[[Welcome to Room 305]]'' loves sweet things, to the extent that he puts [[Lethal Chef|honey in everything]].

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Nutty from ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' basically ''personifies'' this trope. It usually gets him killed.

* Inverted in ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'', in which Mac can't have any sugar, lest he go into a berserk frenzy.

* Everybody in Springfield in the episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where sugar is outlawed.

* ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'': Dee Dee

* Angelica Pickles from ''[[Rugrats]]''.

* There was a one-shot villain in ''[[The New Adventures of Batman]]'' called Sweet Tooth. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|He was a big fan of sweets.]]

** Gideon himself is no better. In that episode, his [[Evil Laugh]] is cut off when he [[Delicious Distraction| hears the ice cream truck.]]

* ''[[Miraculous Ladybug]]''.

** Tiki likes everything in the bakery run by Marinette's parents, the cookies in particular. Her favorite is the chocolate chip biscuits.

** Chloe scarfs down an entire tray of chocolates for [[Comfort Food]] in one episode.

* On ''[[Family Guy]]'', this is the [[Fatal Flaw]] of [[James Woods]] (a recurring villain on the show [[As Himself]]). Every time he attempts something sinister, Brian, Stewie, and/or Peter can use his insatiable love of candy to lure him into some trap, and he never learns.

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