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This is an audience reaction to works that are strongly [[Lighter and Softer|attempting to be kid-friendly]] — using almost all the tropes of cuteness and [[Idealism Tropes|idealism]], like there's some kind of checklist. '[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/saccharine Saccharine]' is the watchword. Viewers react to this with anything ranging from cutesy cuddling to violent revulsion.

 

 

* [[Arina Tanemura]]'s works falls into this, possibly due to the art style. As for the stories...not so much. She does some pretty dark stuff before the happy endings including {{spoiler|a six-year-old boy committing suicide in front of his mother.}} Something like that definitely shouldn't [[Taste Like Diabetes]]. If anything, Tanemura is more like a Japanese female version of [[Don Bluth]] where she does some major [[Break the Cutie|breaking the cutie]] before they [[Earn Your Happy Ending|earn their happy endings]].

* The [[Wholesome Crossdresser|cross dressing]] toddler form of Italy, Chibitalia, from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''.

 

 

* [[Deadpool]] [[Lampshade Hanging|Hangs A Lampshade]] on this when reminiscing about {{spoiler|his ex-wife}}: "...all this 'I love you snookie pie' and 'you too honey lips face head mush mush'...go into diabetic shock just walking by the place."

* Miss Martian of the DC Universe, which is especially interesting considering she's a [[Exclusively Evil|White Martian]].

** Which leads to fans thinking she's cuter in her [[Ugly Cute|true form]].

* Spoofed in the ''[[Batman]]''/''[[Judge Dredd]]'' crossover, where Scarecrow sprays Judge Death with his nightmare toxin, causing Judge Death to panic wildly over the sight of adorable ponies and cutesy little animals.

* The art of Bob Oksner. All his women, no matter how competent, kick-ass or super-powered, looked ''adorable''.

 

 

* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5690584/1/The_Vampoife_Dood_Who_Lifed Lilac Rosetta Cretan Veron].

{{quote|"Lilac, you're the most sickeningly sweet person ever to grace the planet, aren't you?" Lilac didn't seem to catch the insult, and just smiled broadly, apparently under the impression that her 'influence' had reached B as well.}}

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[August Rush]]''. And ''how.''

* Isn't [http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/CDDMSheets/DarlaMS01.gif Darla] from ''[[Cats Don't Dance]]'' just the ''cutest'' thing? Subverted when she's [http://www.cdd4ever.com/Backlot03/ProdArt/sketches/DDimple1.jpg being] [[Enfante Terrible|evil.]]

* This is [[A Christmas Story|Ralphie's]] reaction to Aunt Clara's gift. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908063823/http://acpress.com/a_christmas_story.jpg Poor Ralphie.]

* The movie adaptation of ''[[The Lorax (film)|The Lorax]]'' has shades of this. Examples include some of the woodland critters that the Once-ler meets (especially Pipsqueak) and some of the musical numbers like "Let It Grow", which really come across as sappy and unnecessary. However, the biggest offender has to be that little 3-year old girl that gets an entire verse to herself in "Let It Grow", and is basically just there for people in and outside of the movie to adore. UGH, if that doesn't qualify for this trope, I don't know what does.

* ''[[Happy Feet]]'' to a certain extent. An entire segment of it focuses on baby penguins learning to sing (and dance in Mumble's case), so you're bound to get at least some of this. However, the sequel takes it [[Up to Eleven]] in the form of even more of a focus on baby penguins. Then there's Mumble's son Erik, who takes the cuteness factor to absolutely ridiculous heights.

 

 

* Parodied in the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Soup Nazi". George and Elaine are disgusted by the sappy nicknames Jerry and his [[Girl of the Week]] constantly call each other. So George decides to strike back by doing the same thing with Susan. [[Hoist by His Own Petard|But the plan works too well, and Susan starts babbling like a two-year-old]].

** Also from ''Seinfeld'', a surprisingly straight example; for a show centered on four cynical [[Jerkass]]es (although Kramer and occasionally Elaine [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|could be very well-meaning]]), some of the child characters who appeared now and then could be pretty sugary. One example being the boy in the hospital Kramer accidentally donated the Yankee birthday card to.

* Connie Talbot from ''Britain's Got Talent''.

* In later episodes of ''[[Family Ties]]'' we get little Andrew Keaton, the youngest of the 4 Keaton children. It even affects the politics-obsessed Alex P. Keaton

* The Doctor's holographic family in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "Real Life" start out like this, but B'Elanna tells him how unrealistic this is and he agrees to let her alter the programme to make it more realistic.

** She also invokes it by first saying, "I am stopping this before my blood sugar levels overload."

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]], but the 1981 episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' with Linda Ronstadt was arguably a low point. No offense to any Ronstadt fans out there, but she wasn't really the best choice for a guest host. After so many high-spirited and even brassy celebrities who could at the very least hold their own alongside the Muppets - Peter Sellers, Dom DeLuise, Raquel Welch, even Rudolf Nureyev for goodness's sakes (and when [[Russian Guy Suffers Most|a]] ''[[Russian Guy Suffers Most|Russian]]'' [[Russian Guy Suffers Most|can appear jollier than you]]!) - Ronstadt just seems so quiet and demure (and, with that idiotic little grin, like a [[Stepford Smiler]]) that she winds up dragging down the entire show. The Muppets try their best to compensate with their trademark subversive and even ghoulish humor, and Linda's first number, Roy Orbison's "Blue Bayou", is fine (although she performs it in [[Fetish Retardant|nineteenth-century "granny" underwear]] [[WTH Costuming Department|for some odd reason]]), but the finale, with her singing "When I Grow Too Old To Dream", is just too sentimentalized and pathetic to make anyone feel good, made all the worse by resident [[Jerkass]] Rizzo the Rat actually ''shedding tears'' as he listens to the song. But perhaps the worst part is that (''[[Muppets Tonight]]'' and the odd special notwithstanding) [[Downer Ending|this was one of the last episodes the Muppets ever did on network TV]].

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has [http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Adipose these], essentially ''living fat''.

*** See also, Fear Her. [[Narm|"Feel the love!"]]

** Some fans complain that the Tenth Doctor and Rose got like this.

* (usually) Subverted by Bubbles Utonium on ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. She can induce diabetes in one moment then kick as much ass as her sisters the next.

* ''[[Winx Club]]'' has the prison of Lightrock expose the inmates to great amounts of cuteness to bring them to reform. It got mixed results with the Trix: while in prison they swore to be even more evil once they were out, but when they were about to be brought back in two seasons after breaking out they were ''absolutely terrifies'' of being imprisoned there again.

 

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