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* Almost everything about ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', from the openings, to the way all types of love are presented as wholesome and pure, and obviously the [[Moe|title character herself]]. |
* Almost everything about ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', from the openings, to the way all types of love are presented as wholesome and pure, and obviously the [[Moe|title character herself]]. |
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* The entirety, and especially the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq33dzbO840 opening sequence] of ''[[Chi's Sweet Home]]''. |
* The entirety, and especially the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq33dzbO840 opening sequence] of ''[[Chi's Sweet Home]]''. |
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* [[Bratty Half-Pint|Fuko Ibuki]] from ''[[Clannad]]'' when she enters "starfish mode." [http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/clubs/3/10949m.jpg This picture] should ring a bell. |
* [[Bratty Half-Pint|Fuko Ibuki]] from ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' when she enters "starfish mode." [http://cdn.myanimelist.net/images/clubs/3/10949m.jpg This picture] should ring a bell. |
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* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' with the Puchus, which are more like parodies of this trope, given the fact that when they are initially presented as being evil, and become considerably less cute when hit. |
* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'' with the Puchus, which are more like parodies of this trope, given the fact that when they are initially presented as being evil, and become considerably less cute when hit. |
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** They're also paralyzingly cute in-universe, with Nabeshin and Space Butler unable to resist the cuteness when they're trying to escape a Puchuu spaceship. |
** They're also paralyzingly cute in-universe, with Nabeshin and Space Butler unable to resist the cuteness when they're trying to escape a Puchuu spaceship. |
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* Aqua, a minor villain from ''[[MAR]]'', was so sickenly adorable that she was {{spoiler|''[[Kill the Cutie|killed by one of her own allies]]''.}} |
* Aqua, a minor villain from ''[[MAR]]'', was so sickenly adorable that she was {{spoiler|''[[Kill the Cutie|killed by one of her own allies]]''.}} |
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* ''[[Nanatsuiro Drops]]'' is so cute, that just watching 5 seconds of the opening will make your teeth fall out and your eyes pop of SO. MUCH. CUTENESS. Gah |
* ''[[Nanatsuiro Drops]]'' is so cute, that just watching 5 seconds of the opening will make your teeth fall out and your eyes pop of SO. MUCH. CUTENESS. Gah |
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* The whole purpose behind ''[[Nyanpire |
* The whole purpose behind ''[[Nyanpire: The Animation]]'' |
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* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. [http://www.nanoda.com/public/wallpapers/honey-senpai-wallpaper-big.jpg Honey-Sempai]. Enough said. |
* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. [http://www.nanoda.com/public/wallpapers/honey-senpai-wallpaper-big.jpg Honey-Sempai]. Enough said. |
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nee-ptoQ4E Oyayubihime Monogatari], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvg6WbZJyiQ its] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hH5HLvzqP0 American] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QoMh0DkXAI counterpart] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCxsu15QAwY EVEN] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jhFA0lFQU MORE] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDd_6zyJwRQ SO], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZuDbDI4nc HNNNN][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDym8EURK8 NNNNNNN][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221EHekXsQo GGGGGG!] |
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nee-ptoQ4E Oyayubihime Monogatari], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvg6WbZJyiQ its] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hH5HLvzqP0 American] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QoMh0DkXAI counterpart] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCxsu15QAwY EVEN] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5jhFA0lFQU MORE] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDd_6zyJwRQ SO], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIZuDbDI4nc HNNNN][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlDym8EURK8 NNNNNNN][http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=221EHekXsQo GGGGGG!] |
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* ''[[Potemayo]]'', on the surface. Then you get to the ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' references, crossdressing and toilet humour (and [[Ho Yay]]) and you begin to wonder [[Widget Series|just what the hell you're watching]]. |
* ''[[Potemayo]]'', on the surface. Then you get to the ''[[Brokeback Mountain]]'' references, crossdressing and toilet humour (and [[Ho Yay]]) and you begin to wonder [[Widget Series|just what the hell you're watching]]. |
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* Intentionally evoked for parody reasons throughout the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' series. Sammy's "Pretty Space" turns the area around her into a diabetic coma inducing place saturated by the color [[The Nostalgia Chick|piiiink]] and with hearts floating everywhere. This gets commented on by the other characters a few times. |
* Intentionally evoked for parody reasons throughout the ''[[Pretty Sammy]]'' series. Sammy's "Pretty Space" turns the area around her into a diabetic coma inducing place saturated by the color [[The Nostalgia Chick|piiiink]] and with hearts floating everywhere. This gets commented on by the other characters a few times. |
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* ''[[Risky☆Safety]]''. My teeth! |
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* The SuperS season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' was notorious for this. |
* The SuperS season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' was notorious for this. |
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* ''[[Serendipity the Pink Dragon]]'' is a sweet story of a boy and his pink, sappy-eyed sea monster. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSIsDRiuTw Look no further than the theme song.] ''"My, what a wonderful world we'd have if we all could be... loving and caring! Giving and sharing! Like my friend Serendipity!"'' |
* ''[[Serendipity the Pink Dragon]]'' is a sweet story of a boy and his pink, sappy-eyed sea monster. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbSIsDRiuTw Look no further than the theme song.] ''"My, what a wonderful world we'd have if we all could be... loving and caring! Giving and sharing! Like my friend Serendipity!"'' |
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== Newspaper Comics == |
== Newspaper Comics == |
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* ''[[Love Is]]''. Concentrated and undiluted example. |
* ''[[Love Is...]]''. Concentrated and undiluted example. |
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* ''[[Family Circus]]''. almost no one but 6-year-olds and grandmothers actually finds it anything but sickeningly sweet. |
* ''[[Family Circus]]''. almost no one but 6-year-olds and grandmothers actually finds it anything but sickeningly sweet. |
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* ''[[Rose Is Rose]]''. |
* ''[[Rose Is Rose]]''. |
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** There's also Fa'Lina's [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_590.php slight cynicism towards the traditional happy ending.] |
** There's also Fa'Lina's [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_590.php slight cynicism towards the traditional happy ending.] |
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* Tiny Kitten Teeth, especially the Tigerbuttah strips. It's enough cute to make your brain reboot. |
* Tiny Kitten Teeth, especially the Tigerbuttah strips. It's enough cute to make your brain reboot. |
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* Done (in a weird way) and lampshaded in [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02232010.shtml this] [[Something |
* Done (in a weird way) and lampshaded in [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02232010.shtml this] [[Something*Positive]]. |
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'' features the ever so lovable ''Squiddles''! You can even [http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MSPA-SQUIDDLE-PRINT&Category_Code=MSPA-ART buy a poster]! |
* ''[[Homestuck]]'' features the ever so lovable ''Squiddles''! You can even [http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MSPA-SQUIDDLE-PRINT&Category_Code=MSPA-ART buy a poster]! |
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** An album of its [[Show Within a Show|hypothetical soundtrack]] has also been released, and it's just as sickeningly adorable. {{spoiler|Until you listen to the [[Last-Note Nightmare|final track...]]}} |
** An album of its [[Show Within a Show|hypothetical soundtrack]] has also been released, and it's just as sickeningly adorable. {{spoiler|Until you listen to the [[Last-Note Nightmare|final track...]]}} |
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* The titular giant [[Killer Rabbit]] in ''Big Bunny'' gives his thoughts on the matter: |
* The titular giant [[Killer Rabbit]] in ''Big Bunny'' gives his thoughts on the matter: |
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{{quote|Too many sweet things can make your brains ''sticky'' and '''''unpalatable'''''.}} |
{{quote|Too many sweet things can make your brains ''sticky'' and '''''unpalatable'''''.}} |
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* The ''[[Clannad]]'' ending is pretty cute on its own but multiply its cuteness by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgJvKme5_U putting Moemon in it.] |
* The ''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]'' ending is pretty cute on its own but multiply its cuteness by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCgJvKme5_U putting Moemon in it.] |
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* Parodied in the 'Lost Notebook' episode of ''[http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]'', as the notebook is 'borrowed' by its owner's younger sister to doodle in. Thus surrounding the PTSD-suffering stick figures with fluffy, cutesy-talking friendly flowers, bees, teddy bears, and unicorns who join everyone's hands for the ''We're All Friends!'' song. Naturally, once her brother takes it back, [[Grotesque Cute|things go very, very wrong]]... |
* Parodied in the 'Lost Notebook' episode of ''[http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]'', as the notebook is 'borrowed' by its owner's younger sister to doodle in. Thus surrounding the PTSD-suffering stick figures with fluffy, cutesy-talking friendly flowers, bees, teddy bears, and unicorns who join everyone's hands for the ''We're All Friends!'' song. Naturally, once her brother takes it back, [[Grotesque Cute|things go very, very wrong]]... |
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* [http://www.cuteoverload.com Cute Overload.] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|That is all.]] |
* [http://www.cuteoverload.com Cute Overload.] [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|That is all.]] |
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* Lila, the "ever so" sickeningly sweet farm-girl from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'', and Olga at times. |
* Lila, the "ever so" sickeningly sweet farm-girl from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!'', and Olga at times. |
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** Therefore, the episode where Lila becomes Olga's "little sister" as part of a program is absolutely rife with this stuff. |
** Therefore, the episode where Lila becomes Olga's "little sister" as part of a program is absolutely rife with this stuff. |
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* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'' episode "So Totally Spaced Out", where little cutesy creatures that speak in [[Painful Rhyme]] known as "Giggle Pies" become a huge threat to the cuteness-hating, violence-loving inhabitants of the planet Yugopotamia. |
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** Somewhat ironically, Giggle Pies actually taste of manure when eaten themselves. |
** Somewhat ironically, Giggle Pies actually taste of manure when eaten themselves. |
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* The '[[Disney]] Universe' in ''[[Family Guy]]''. That is, until Mort Goldman the Jew shows up, prompting a reaction to the annoyingly persistant rumor of Walt Disney's anti-semitism. |
* The '[[Disney]] Universe' in ''[[Family Guy]]''. That is, until Mort Goldman the Jew shows up, prompting a reaction to the annoyingly persistant rumor of Walt Disney's anti-semitism. |
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** [[Word of God]] says that Molly was written that way in ''[[Tale Spin]]'' essentially to offset her mother Rebecca's nagging tendencies towards Baloo, and bring out her softer and often [[Mama Bear|more protective]] sides. |
** [[Word of God]] says that Molly was written that way in ''[[Tale Spin]]'' essentially to offset her mother Rebecca's nagging tendencies towards Baloo, and bring out her softer and often [[Mama Bear|more protective]] sides. |
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** Even more so Webigail Vanderquack from ''[[DuckTales]]''. Half her appearances were even accompanied by an [[Ear Worm|equally cutesy]] [[Leitmotif]]. And unlike Molly, she ''never'' seemed to be delibarately utilizing the trope. |
** Even more so Webigail Vanderquack from ''[[DuckTales]]''. Half her appearances were even accompanied by an [[Ear Worm|equally cutesy]] [[Leitmotif]]. And unlike Molly, she ''never'' seemed to be delibarately utilizing the trope. |
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* In ''[[KaBlam!]]'', when Henry or June turn the page to ''Life with Loopy'', this is what we expect.....and then we go five seconds into it. |
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* We have this line from ''[[Despicable Me]]'': |
* We have this line from ''[[Despicable Me]]'': |
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{{quote|'''Agnes:''' It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!}} |
{{quote|'''Agnes:''' It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!}} |
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