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Keep in mind that [[Tropes Are Not Bad|extremely over-the-top lightness is not necessarily a bad thing]]. With proper usage, it may result in an enjoyable series wherein the cuteness is there as, essentially, an afterthought. It's when it consumes the entire series, when it puts being adorable ahead of things like actual plots or likeable characters, that it becomes a problem.

 

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* [[Rule of Three|The aggressively adorable kids]] in the Motts Juice commercials.

* [[Running Gag|The aggressively adorable kids]] in the Wuzzles commercials.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF6PyIML0hI Television ads], too. Look at the cute bunnies!

* Any commercial for Snuggle. Goddamn that bear...

 

== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==

** Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWexebzZaE4 episode 22].

** How about Chibi-USA? He's adorable, isn't he?

** Basically, if they're not a bishie-sex god, they are the most adorable thing to ever rot you teeth out, ever.

** o/ Cooking is so fuuuuun, cooking is so fuuuuun o/

** The scene with Marco the kitty is caramalized sugar dipped in a cup of sugar with glaze and powdered sugar on top. [[Animals Hate Him|Poor Sakaki-san]].

* The main character from ''Because I'm The Goddess''.

* The two sisters Kyou and Asu in ''[[Binbou Shimai Monogatari]]'' are really ''just'' endearing enough to pull off their saccharine sweet interaction, depending on how much sweetness you can take in.

** The level of saccharine is mostly offset by the appearance of the Echigoya sisters. Thank goodness for them!

** Note that this is not the case with the manga, only the anime suffers from this.

** 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.

** Subverted (Tastes Like Insulin?) with Misaki Matsuya's encounter with one. She is momentarily entranced by a Puchuu, only to suddenly axe it in half, while saying "I don't like cute."

** The same with Excel, except substitute the axe with a karate chop.

{{quote| '''[[Refuge in Audacity|Excel]]''': Aw, it's so cute! ''([[Crowning Moment of Funny|punches Puchuu]])'' ''But who the heck cares?!?!?''}}

** [[Battle Couple|Sig and Izumi]] occasionally have [[Sickeningly Sweethearts|moments]] like these in which those nearby are literally pelted with hearts and flowers.

** Which doesn't even make sense because not only is said male protagonist drawn to look just as cute as the girls, cutting out the romances he shares with the girls actually makes the show LESS cute. But the anime director likely did this for the sake of [[Pink Bishoujo Ghetto]]. Blargh indeed.

* The titular heroine of ''[[Hayate Cross Blade]]'' is a [[Badass Adorable]] to begin with, but cranks it [[Up to Eleven|way up]] when she spends the school festival in a [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/hayate_x_blade/v05/c030/17.html duck suit].

* [[Hello Kitty]]. Pretty much anything from Sanrio or San-X, really.

* [[Hidamari Sketch]]. The character designs and [[Slice of Life]] situations will have you fearing for your [[Memetic Mutation|nutbladder]].

** [[Verbal Tic|Mii]]...[[Most Wonderful Sound|Nipaa!]]

* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCrkmWSHlo0 Jewel Pet]''. The intro speaks for itself.

** Azunyan. When she has her cat-ears on, when she calms down for some reason (eating cake or being pet by Yui), etc. It is impossible to not love her.

** Does this series really need examples? Every second of every episode qualifies for this trope really.

* Elizabeth Middleford from ''Kuroshitsuji''

* ''[[A Little Snow Fairy Sugar]]''... the epitome of overly-cutesy [[Moe Moe]] if there ever was one.

** Note that the word "sugar" is right there in the name, as is "fairy". That might actually count as a [[Lampshade Hanging]].

* In ''[[Lucky Star]]'', Konata's little cousin [[Ill Girl|Yutaka]] qualifies. From the first moment you see her, she rots your teeth--and as soon as you think it can't get any worse, just wait till you see her interaction with Iwasaki's dog in the [[OVA]].

** Hell, the entire series [[Tastes Like Diabetes]], or more like chocolate cornets.

* Aqua, a minor villain from ''[[MAR]]'', was so sickenly adorable that she was {{spoiler|''[[Kill the Cutie|killed by one of her own allies]]''.}}

* The whole purpose behind ''[[Nyanpire the Animation]]''

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]''. [http://www.nanoda.com/public/wallpapers/honey-senpai-wallpaper-big.jpg Honey-Sempai]. Enough said.

* [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!]

** The Chansey family also falls into this, especially Happiny, the baby form of Chansey. It has a diaper! D'awww...

** The film short ''Pikachu and Pichu'', which plays at the beginning of one of the movies, is SO cute. Heck, any time Pokémon are interacting in a friendly manner without their trainers present probably counts.

* The [[Super S]] season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' was notorious for this.

* ''[[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!"''

* ''[[Sugar Sugar Rune]]''. The first half of that anime feels like diabetes heaven.

** Tea's deck in the anime has some cuties in there, such as Shining Friendship.

** No mention of [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Rescue_Cat Rescue Cat] and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Rescue_Rabbit Rescue Rabbit]?

* ''[[Yumeiro Patissiere]]'' is ridiculously shojo.

* Any [[Magical Girl]] anime shows can have such a diabetes syndrome - notable examples include ''[[Pretty Cure]]'' and ''[[Ojamajo Doremi]]''.

** [[Suite Pretty Cure|Sweet Pretty Cure!]] It's even in the title <ref>It's actually Suite Pretty Cure, but it's written the same in Japanese</ref>

 

 

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

* Lampshaded in Mark Waid's Empire with the line "I need insulin listening to you!"

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

* [[Carl Barks]] found Christmas stories with [[An Aesop]] like this. Unfortunately, he was so good at it, that he got assignment after assignment.

{{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.}}

* This trope is invoked in the fanfic ''"[[Harry Potter|Dumbledore's Army]] and the Year of Darkness,"'' when Hannah tells Neville that her Aunt has some sickeningly cute collectible china witch figurines. Apparently, "It's like trying to eat half of Honeydukes in one sitting. You can feel your teeth start to rot the second you cross the front door."

* [[Captain Obvious|Parodied]] in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3750836/24/Parody_of_Symphonia "Parody of Symphonia"], where the particular character achieves the title "''So saccharine, she gives you diabetes!''"

 

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

* The [[John Hughes]] movie ''Baby's Day Out''. Yes, it exists, and it's 99 minutes of Baby Bink giving you diabetes by being just a cute little baby, while [[Butt Monkey|the three kidnappers that have held him for ransom]] get their butts handed to them trying to get him back.

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

* During the film ''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'', the rescue of the [[Littlest Cancer Patient]].

* The classic animated films of Disney (Like Bambi) have been accused of this, despite the [[Family-Unfriendly Violence]] sequences.

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08NzDB_i3bw first three minutes] of ''[[Enchanted]]'' was a parody of things that taste like diabetes.

* ''[[High School Musical]]'' Note that it is still ''so popular'' -- right up there with ''[[Hannah Montana]]''-- it's spawned [[Sequelitis|two sequels]] and a spinoff movie, and the franchise still doesn't look dead.

{{quote| '''Wayne''': ''(holding a stuffed bunny toy)'' You know what I was thinking, Big Bunny?<br />

'''Big Bunny''': What?<br />

* Parodied in the [[Marx Brothers]] film ''Horse Feathers''. Thelma Todd's character is going out with Groucho, in an attempt to steal some football signals for a rival college. She adopts an extremely cutesy and high pitched voice and says "If Big-Strong-Man don't let Icky-Baby see the football signals, Icky-Baby gonna cry!". To which Groucho somehow manages an ''even more'' cloying voice and responds "If Icky-Girl don't stop talking like that, Big-Strong-Man gonna [[Crowning Moment of Funny|kick all her teeth right down her throat]]!"

* The first half of the musical and film ''[[Mamma Mia]]!'' is ridiculously cheerful. It is a musical based on ABBA songs, after all.

* ''[[My Neighbor Totoro]]'': Mei, the 4-year-old girl who would often repeat the last thing her older sister Satsuki says.

** ''[[Ponyo]]'', another movie from [[Hayao Miyazaki]], is even heavier on the cutesy stuff, and that includes the English dub's theme song.

* ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' is notorious for this, just because it didn't have the same [[Cerebus Syndrome]] as ''[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'', but the Ewoks, of which exactly one dies, [[Rock Beats Laser|despite taking on bad guys who can blow up planets and only being primitive hunter-gatherers]], get the worst of it. And then there was an Ewok cartoon series afterward. This was the first time ''[[Star Wars]]'' was [[Ruined FOREVER]], but would not be the last.

* Being an adorable puppy voiced by five-year-old ''[[American Idol]]'' contestant Kaitlyn Maher made Tiny from ''Santa Buddies'' [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|ridiculously cute]]. To some, irritatingly so.

{{quote| "Lupita, no!"}}

* Parodied in the opening scenes of the film ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' about "[[Fake-Out Opening|The Littlest Elf]]".

* Some of [[Don Bluth]]'s later films, especially ''[[A Troll in Central Park]]'' exhibit such cuteness in their characters that it is undoubtedly unhealthy to watch.

* The ending of ''[[The Legend of the Titanic]]''. Everyone, I mean, EVERYONE survives, two couples get married (a human couple and a mouse couple), there's this whole celebration involving pretty much every good character, even the only two that [[Disney Death|appeared to have actually DIED]] reappear alive and well with no real explanation as to how they survived, the whole cutesy she-bang. What makes this even more disgusting, though, is when you take into consideration that this is a movie based around one of the most infamous REAL-LIFE 20th century tragedies, and they treat it like some lame fairy tale and add in a giant talking octopus that saves everybody and a blatant anti-whaling message. Ugh, appaling.

* Pretty much any Hallmark original movie shown on the Hallmark channel. All the characters (especially the CHILDREN) are so sappily unrealistic, you just may want to gag, leave the room, or both. Extra sap points when it's a Christmas movie.

** Double Bonus Points when said Christmas movie features a helpful old man with a beard. Could he somehow be the really for real...?

* ''[[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.

 

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[Harry Potter]]''

** Rowling sends up this trope with [[Harry Potter (Franchise)/Characters|Dolores Umbridge]] in ''Order of the Phoenix'', as she's described as having images of insipid kittens mewling on the walls of her office wherever she works and her voice is described as "high, girlish" and sounding like "poisoned honey", she wears a black hairbow, and in the movie she is seen putting loads of sugar (PINK SUGAR) in her tea (also pink). This is a subversion, because she's actually a [[Sadist Teacher|sadistic,]] [[Complete Monster|evil,]] and downright [[Fantastic Racism|racist]] old hag.

** The fate of Norbert the baby dragon's teddy waaaaay back in book one.

** Then there's the epilogue: "All was well"... a bit too well for those sensitive to excessive cuteness.

* The late Dorothy Parker considered the [[Winnie the Pooh]] book ''The House At Pooh Corner'' to fall into this trope: "And it is that word 'hummy', my darlings, that marks the first place in ''The House at Pooh Corner'' at which Tonstant Weader Fwowed up."

{{quote| '''Susan''': Real children don't go hoppity-skip unless they are on drugs.}}

* The new dog book epidemic ([[The Dog Only A Family Could Love]], [[The Pup After Mertle]], [[Marley and Me]]), adorable stories of man's best friend are this.

** In the words of one reviewer from [[Entertainment Weekly]] - "Not to be callous, but I've had it! I'm sure Oogy and Pukka are great pooches, but their cloyingly cute books are enough to give you a case of canine diabetes."

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* Lampshaded in ''[[Psych]]'' when Lassiter tries to win back his estranged wife with sugary-cutesy figurines and an equally nauseating card. When she rejects him, he takes the sugary-cutesy figurines down to the shooting range and happily blows each one away.

* Oh boy Willow and Tara in the early stages of their relationship in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', the episode "Family" being the sappiest episode ever. It ended with the two of them hugging while floating in the air. Thankfully they became a much more realistic couple towards the end of season 5.

** Then there's the singing ring...

* The [[MTV]] Miley Cyrus New Year's Special ''A Miley-Sized Surprise'': The Veronicas dressed up as fairies, a high-pitched sugary voice reading horrible poetry with the most [[Totally Radical]] [[Painful Rhyme|Painful Rhymes]] imaginable, and all the gushing about making a difference combined.

* 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 ending voice over segments in ''[[Modern Family]]''.

* This trope is a staple of a video known as the Palate Cleanser on ''[[Web Soup]]'', which immediately follows the segment "Things You Can't Un-See".

* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has several episodes taking place on the resort planet Risa. It's supposed to be the Federations greatest vacation place, but both the environment and the locals are sickeningly nice and hospitable.

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

* Semi-parodied among [[The Muppets]] with Bean Bunny. The Muppet that Henson Studios learned to love to hate.

* Animal Planet's ''Too Cute'' documentary series contains graphic depictions of CUTENESS.

** [http://animal.discovery.com/videos/too-cute-kittens-extra-footage/ There's even scenes] that are TOO CUTE FOR T.V.!

* The [[Star Wars Holiday Special]]. It's particularly jarring when you consider that at the end, Luke and Leia join them, and their families were killed in the movie. It's even more jarring when you consider that [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|in a couple decades, Chewie will have the moon dropped on him]].

* This was a major complaint about [[Full House]] back in the day. But hey, if the show didn't fit this, it wouldn't be the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Full House Music]].

** And this being Goldsboro, that's just for starters.

* Disney pop. Even the ''break-up'' songs are cute and ''bouncy.''

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL871Wbi1oc Even without a video to accompany this, your blood will turn into syrup.]

** Then there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVtTNN8jJXU Neko Miko Reimu]...

** Then there's [[Dancing Theme|Hare Hare Yukai]]... [[Ear Worm]], anyone?

*** And even happier than the above, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERGGVE7HRfM this.]

* Speaking of Vocaloid, Oliver is often portrayed as this. It's parodied in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXO3pNOgF6o this song.]

** Takoluka. If you're not grossed out by her, you're probably fawning over the mere sight of her.

*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R0i7BKi-p4 Tako Luka * Tuna Fever]. I can't be the only one who ships [[Interspecies Romance|Takoluka / Ooma-san]].

*** There's a line of [http://extrovertedotaku.blogspot.com/2011/04/shinryaku-tako-luka-musume.html official Takoluka plushies], with seven different possible facial expressions. They have magnets on their tentacles, allowing you to stick 'em on fridges and cabinets. The end result may cause you to pass out from cuteness overload.

** Subverted (rather cruelly) in one part of AMV Hell 4, with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTAEwkSnBFk BABY!Sasuke and his big brother Itachi].

*** There's also a parody featuring [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|the first Rei and Naoko Akagi]]...

** Good luck finding a better aversion than [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCMqcFAigRg "Picture To Burn"], though.

** "This One's for the Girls" deserves special mention. Clearly intended to be about female empowerment, this song's lyrics were [[They Just Didn't Care|not]] [[Narm|well]] [[Department of Redundancy Department|written.]] For example, she puts the spotlight on various walks on life, but for the 25-year-olds, she forgets to give any real encouragement.

* The entire genre known as "Twee Pop", a subgenre of indie rock. Mind, some of their lyrics are biting or even angsty, but the presentation is wrapped in pink.

** And another of her songs, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUOcSoHBcJA Mother]''.

* Doubling as an [[Ear Worm]], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSvOowL7rkU Moji Pittan.] Even more so if you understand the lyrics. It's a lot better with the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rle2zmmMzS0 Angry German Kid] treatment.

** Don't forget "Will You Be There", in which he delivers a maudlin, sobbing monologue.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJlIGDImiU&feature=av2e Hero]" by [[Music/Enrique Iglesias|Enrique Iglesias]], a song so ridiculously syrupy that you can feel your teeth rotting out of your head while listening to it.

* Everything that Hellogoodbye has ever recorded. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNbgZmYa0sg&ob=av2em This] is their latest song, and it's not even near their previous hit, ''Here In Your Arms,'' on the cute-o-meter.

* Similarly, anything by Mika. His reign of cuteness teams up with a large-scale rampage of [[Lyrical Dissonance]], with songs including not getting too caught up in love [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6md5RSnVUuo&ob=av2el (with an adorable cartoon video as well, which includes nearly everything in the precautionary list at the top of this page)] and a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX0AJbRjJRE married doctor who gets in a secret relationship with another man.]

* Anything made by [[Owl City]]. The song "Fireflies" makes insomnia sound saccharine.

* It's odd for Within Temptation, but In Perfect Harmony creates cavities with each repeat of the chorus.

 

== Theater ==

 

 

== Toys ==

* [[My Little Pony]], [[Ear Worm|My Little Pony...]]

** The original series wasn't so sugary. In fact the pilot cartoon was a down-right [[Sugar Apocalypse]]. Around G3 is when it really started becoming this.

* Littlest Pet Shop. Those eyes are ''horrifying.''

* That darn [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx6mxDIKnYs Squinkies commercial]. I cringe everytime I hear it.

 

 

* Princess Anastasia, [[In the Past Everyone Will Be Famous|yes]], ''that'' Anastasia in ''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant'' takes this trope and runs with it. And she [[Enfante Terrible|damn well knows it, too.]]

* [[Phantom Brave|Marona]]. Especially any scene with both her and Castille in it.

{{quote| "Dolls! I made them. They're dolls! Go and see them for yourself. They're so cute they'll give you diabetes! The instantly-lethal kind!"}}

** Not to mention ''Nanako...''

* ''Eternal Sonata'', pretty much every time Polka is on screen. Several other characters qualify as well.

* ''[[Eversion]]''. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Wait]], '''[[Crap Saccharine World|NO!]]'''}}

* ''[[Loco Roco]]''. Wait, what?

* ''[[Touhou]]'' fan art often tries to underscore the Moe when they aren't trying to underscore the sexy. Some artists simply know no moderation. Espescially vulnerable (to both, actually) are [http://img42.imageshack.us/i/1200266592883.png/ Remilia and Flandre], who, being [[Friendly Neighborhood Vampire|Friendly Neighborhood Vampires]] that are [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]] due to being [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], are sometimes victim to infantile "Moe Blob" [http://img43.imageshack.us/i/1202057862009.jpg/ makeovers].

** This Trope is also both played straight and subverted with the Yukkuris: small, character-sembled heads filled with various foodstuffs. The cuteness is possibly intended for self-defense to try to prevent others from hurting them, [[Humans Are Bastards|except it]] [[Gorn|doesn't work]].

** Sukusuku Hakutaku, a cute and cuddly version of Ex-Keine's hakutaku form whose [[Cat Smile]] is [[Expy|rather reminiscent]] of [[Nyoron Churuya San|Churuya]].

*** 4-2 could also apply because of the Blurps, right?

** ''[[Yoshis Island]]'', while indeed more difficult, is just as adorable. You're a cute dinosaur, and you have to relay a cute baby across a colorful, crayon-drawn, (mostly) happy island environment to another cute dinosaur. Rinse and repeat until the baby is reunited with its missing twin brother.

** Also from that same game, we have the Mystery Egg. You can buy it from the blue-spotted Toad in Moleville after getting the 5th Star Piece, and it can only be hatched by Peach while she's wearing the B'Tub Ring and using the Egg 10 times. Afterwards, it becomes the Lamb's Lure, in which a cute, chubby, little lamb rolls around, turns an enemy into another lamb, and they fly up into the sky. If you do that 48 times, the Lamb's Lure becomes the Sheep Attack, which summons a bunch of these cute little lambs darting across the screen turning all enemies into even more lambs. If you don't find that cute, then ''get help.''

* ''[[Beatmania]] IIDX 16'': Empress is already cute and happy and ''pink'' from the get-go. Then someone goes and plays [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d0HiykFZQs I'm Screaming LOVE] and it all goes to hell. Fluffy-bears-swimming-through-candy-carrying-spoons hell.

** There's ''plenty'' of precedent for this. Raspberry Heart. Sweet Lab. Romeo and Juliet. With Your Smile. Sigsig. Poodle. Silvia Drive. Eco-G. ICF 5800. Not to mention Wish, Double Loving Heart, and Sun Field...from DISTORTED.

* Xbox title ''Raze's Hell'' really let the player loose on those goddamned cuddlie-wuddlies. Eliminate them all.

** Though don't feel bad about it; said adorable creatures take [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]] to [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|"slight" extremes]].

* Hilariously parodied in [[Creatures|Creatures II]], (and probably in Creatures I as well) where the baddies and goodies taste like diabetes but commit all sorts of bloody acts of violence on each other.

* In the ''[[Dungeon Keeper]]'' games, this seems to be one of the reasons for the war against the surface, or at least so suggest the mission briefings. Eg: "Sing Song. A joyous realm, filled with life and music. Let us silence their wailing voices once and for all."

** So they're ''not'' the creepiest things ever to be put together from ones and zeroes?

* This trope has been played straight, exaggerated, lampshaded, parodied, deconstructed, exploited, and who knows what else in the ''[[Ar Tonelico]]'' series. Saki from ''[[Ar Tonelico 3]]'' even has an attack that turns enemies (including people) into ''cake''.

* A literal version in [[The Several Journeys of Reemus]] -- the honey made by Sugar Bees is so potently sweet that ingesting even a small amount will cause a temporary diabetic coma while the body sorts out all this extra sugar. Injection works just as well, so any schmuck with a dart gun can ''weaponize'' the effect.

 

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* The Jinxlets of the webcomic ''[[Starslip Crisis]]''. The Jinxlets get nourishment through SNUGGLING.

* Heavily lampshaded in [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Dragon_Doctors/index.php?p=536182 this] ''[[The Dragon Doctors]]''. Oh, and then the author demanded someone put it on here. So I did.

* ''[[My Milk Toof]]'' even has a ridiculously adorable title!

* Lampshaded quite effectively by [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_373.php this] ''[[DMFA]]'' comic.

** 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...]]}}

** Then there's Nepeta, who exemplifies [[Badass Adorable]] with a particular strength on the latter.

* ''[[Slightly Damned]]'''s romance is cemented firmly in the diabetic range, which can grate against some of the less romanticly inclined chartacters.

** And then there's [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-01-28 this.] Justin's response two pages later sums up everything that can be said about that...

* [[The Perry Bible Fellowship]] plays with this very often: lots of strips start too sweet, but end in some horrible bloody mess. Also, in the strip [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF048-Suicide_Train.gif Suicide Train] shows a character who has such an aversion to a too sweet world.

* The titular giant [[Killer Rabbit]] in ''Big Bunny'' gives his thoughts on the matter:

{{quote| Too many sweet things can make your brains ''sticky'' and '''''unpalatable'''''.}}

* 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]]...

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIAoEbNR14o&feature=channel_page/ These puppies. GAZE UPON THE FUZZY]

** THEY'RE SO FLUFFFY IM GONNA DIEEE

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne3L99fjhyo Munchkin/scottish fold mix kitten]. Such lethal doses of cuteness could make your head explode.

* [http://www.peta.org/sea_kittens/ This] PETA website. Admittedly, though, the concept of a fish with cat ears and a Fu Manchu beard is a mite disturbing. And then we have the [[Grotesque Cute|"Sea Kitten Stories"]] bit...

* Several Squiby user-created adoptable lines, including [http://www.squiby.net/user/Fouf Foufs]. Just ''looking'' at the holiday-edition Foufs will give you a toothache.

* The [http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/903 Disgustingly Adorable] pool on Danbooru is dedicated to this sort of stuff.

{{quote| "Pictures that invoke so much adoration that they cause near physical harm to occur. This is far above the level of just cute. Pictures that are HHHNNNGGGGG worthy."}}

* [http://www.springhole.net/writing_roleplaying_randomators/fuzzlewuzzlenames.htm This name generator] creates names ''intended'' to provoke this kind of reaction.

* Team Wondercute of the [[Whateley Universe]]. As if schoolgirls like [[Crazy Awesome|Jade]] and [[The Ditz|Misty]] and [[Meganekko|Molly]] and [[Wrench Wench|Bunny]] aren't cutesy enough individually, they team up with some other students who like this stuff, and wreak havoc accordingly.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Duckman]]''. Duckman's two teddy bear assistants' Fluffy and Uranus sweeter-than-sweet behavior often results in Duckman ''literally'' pulling the stuffing out of them in the most violent way possible.

* The ''[[Care Bears]]'' have a reputation for this (it's what "The Dummi Bears", a [[Show Within a Show]] on ''[[Rugrats]]'', was inspired by) - and they ''are'' a group of pastel-colored teddy bears, but the extent of its [[Tastes Like Diabetes]] status is more a case of the [[Weird Al Effect]].

** Though the overbearing cuteness in the first two movies are thankfully eclipsed by the films' ''darker'' undertones which, like any series or movie with a [[Vile Villain Saccharine Show]] position, pretty much kill off any chance of it being ''completely'' saccharine. Plus, in retrospect, the so-called saccharine scenes in the first two movies and the original TV series are nothing compared to the Care Bears movies and TV series of today, as well as some other kids' franchises, to say the least.

* ''[[Dinosaur Train]]''. Cute neon-colored child dinosaurs explore the friendliest possible universe where all species across all eras have non-stop fun. Even children deserve better than this.

* That scene from the [[He-Man]] and [[She-Ra]] Christmas special. "Loooove and caaaariing..."

* Just about any scene from ''[[The Flintstones]]'' featuring Pebbles. Not only does sappy "nursery" music play whenever she comes crawling in but Fred, normally an amusing [[The Honeymooners|Ralph Kramden]] type, [[Cuteness Proximity|starts going all "Oh my little Pebbly-poo" whenever she's around]].

** In ''[[The Man Called Flintstone]]'', she and Bam-Bam get [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfkgPieX4zY one of the most saccharine musical numbers in history].

{{quote| '''Pebbles:''' I know a way to make wishes come true/Easy as climbin' a tree/Just close your eyes and open your heart/Slowly repeat after me.../Tickle, toddle, nickel-y noddle/Toodle-a bell and a shoe/These are the magical words I say/ when I want a wish to come true}}

** Therefore, the episode where Lila becomes Olga's "little sister" as part of a program is absolutely rife with this stuff.

** Somewhat ironically, Giggle Pies actually taste of manure when eaten themselves.

{{quote| '''Stewie:''' Oh yeah I forgot. This is a Disney universe....}}

** In the episode "The Former Life of Brian", Brian gushes about his {{spoiler|son}} to extremes. When he finally leaves, Joe remarks to his owner, "Peter, your dog is giving me diabetes."

{{quote| '''Tom''': Don't act any cheerier, Diane, you'll give us all diabetes.<br />

'''Diane''': Bite me, Tom! }}

** And it certainly helps that he's voiced by [[Tara Strong]], the '''Ultimate Mistress of Cuteness.'''

** Right up until [[Mood Whiplash|Zeus shows up and]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|crashes]] [[Mood Whiplash|the party]].

* Parodied in ''[[Time Squad]]'', where they portrayed ''[[Edgar Allan Poe]]'' of all people as this. It's only until the characters start criticizing his pink cake that he's [[Maddened Into Misanthropy]] and becomes the poet that history knows him for.

* In ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'', [[Evil Twin|Drew Monday]] is very much like this to Zak, when pretending to be his mother. She does later say:

{{quote| "You do ''not'' know how nice it is to not have to pretend to ''care'' about you anymore."}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ohps2nDs4C0 ARE YOU DYING YET?]

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' is very found of using this trope the same way Happy Tree Friends does. Apocalypse Pony anyone?

* We have this line from ''[[Despicable Me]]'':

{{quote| '''Agnes:''' It's so fluffy I'm gonna die!}}

** Lampooned mercilessly in the episode "Love and Rocket", and summed up nicely by Lrrr (Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8):

{{quote| "This notion of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us!"}}

* Many of [[Chuck Jones]]'s pre-''Dove Boys'' shorts such as the Sniffles series. He revisited his earlier penchant for the cutesy in ''[[Feed the Kitty]].''

** And of course there's his little penguin, who brings out rare protective reactions from [[Bugs Bunny]], quite against his will.

** The trope is subverted from the very first with the [[Title Sequence]] that initially begins with the usually treacly melody, until it explodes into a rock tune following the sequence's fast cutting making it clear that this incarnation is under new management.

** Well, it is a show about babies, so the entire show could be considered this.

* The direct-to-video and DVD ''[[Recess]]'' special "All Growed Down", with the main six as kindergarteners.

* The Land Of Dreams in ''[[The Dreamstone]]'' is a surprisingly undiluted in this regard, especially with the Noops, Rufus and Amberley (this only worsened in later episodes, [[Flanderization|which dissintegrated what few obnoxious traits they initially had]]). Possibly played deliberately as they were to some extent [[Hero Antagonist|Hero Antagonists]].

* Ed Otter from ''[[Brandy and Mr. Whiskers]]'' when he tells that Dougie the turtle story: "It was a misty morning in the amazon, much like today, and Dougie the turtle was wondering why his shell was so hard while his heart was so soft. Oh whiskers, you had never seen colors so bright and pretty. Dougie knew right away that this was a very special cesspool. And so the happy magic piggies laughed and danced and played until the wee-wee hours of the morning. The end!"

* ''[[Puppy In My Pocket]]'': "Let the spirit of the friendship heart light the way the the magic fountain".

** It gets exceptionally painful when one of the show's hyper-sugary theme songs starts blaring over it all. Parents joining their children are advised to cover their ears if they have sensitive kidneys.

* (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.

 

== Other ==