History Main / CutenessProximity

* ''Literature/WearingTheCape'': Hope mentions several times that she has this reaction to ''Bengal tigers''. She's NighInvulnerable, so she has no reason to be afraid of them, leaving them as nothing but adorable cats big enough to cuddle with.

* Judy the gorilla in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'', naturally, has a thing for [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/18p3/ kittens.]] And King Radical, of all people, appears to be susceptible to...[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/25p27/ little toy space shuttles?]]

* [[http://www.ustream.tv/SFShiba#more There are thousands of people who watch these little guys for hours on end, even though all they do is eat, sleep, walk around, and sometimes play with each other.]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiba_Inu_Puppy_Cam The same goes for the previous litter, except there were millions of people instead.]]

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', a lot of cats pounce on Dr. Orpheus in one episode, leading him to giggle and say "They smell ''my'' cat!"

* ''LetsPlay/{{Critikal}}'': Behold! [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_RMSY2Jw2k Charlie's reaction to a kitten.]] His famously deadpan and monotone voice wavers and wanes and he treats the kitten like his firstborn.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E21CatchAndRelease Catch and Release]]", it's revealed that the villain [[spoiler:Peridot]] is, in reality, only as tall as Steven and appears to be wearing footy pajamas. Upon learning this, rather than actually asking the question he freed her to ask, Steven is completely distracted by how adorable [[spoiler:Tinydot]] is. A similar effect applied to the fandom, who rapidly created a meme about ignoring the big revelations in that episode to gush over the cuteness of "Smol Child". [[spoiler:Peridot]] HatesBeingCalledCute, and even has some cat-like habits like running away on all four or hissing when scared. Propensity for CatSmile also comes in.

* In an issue of ''ComicBook/SheHulk'', the title character visits a prison where supervillains are shrunk down before they are incarcerated. She starts cooing when she sees the tiny Wrecking Crew.

* Newcomer Nautica in ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has this reaction when she meets a cat. Said cat happens to be [[CatsAreMean Ravage]].
* [[Characters/DCComicsLobo Lobo]], of all people. He's a violent, psychopathic mercenary for hire. However, he absolutely adores a species of space dolphins.
* [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]], an ArtificialHuman created as a LivingWeapon, was decanted by his creator when he was physically about six to check his progress and given {{Technobabble}} clothing to wear in the meantime. This clothing just so happened to resemble an adorable set of pyjamas, and little Nate had ''enormous'' blue eyes. The effect was so startling that his creator was briefly stunned by how cute he was, [[PetTheDog using one of his machines to replicate a toy bear that Nate took a shine to before putting him back under]]. His creator? None other than ''[[Characters/XMenMarauders Mister Sinister]]''.

* ''{{ComicBook/Gwenpool}}'' has Gwen's pet, Jeff the Land Shark, who is... astoundingly cute for a baby abomination of nature (it helps that [[AllAnimalsAreDogs he acts like a puppy]]). Enough that ''Elsa Bloodstone'' of all people immediately declares that she'll obliterate anyone who threatens him. Heck, he even wears down Quentin Quire, which takes some doing.

** More recently, the channel put out a compilation video of every time Ellen lost it while playing ''{{VideoGame/Stray}}''. The official count is 124. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzm68AsFKKg In the first two hours of gameplay.]]

* The circumspect English bobby at the start of ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''.

** Weaponized, so to speak, by Meilin's parents when she claims she has gotten her emotion-fueled transformations under control. After photos of a clear-cut forest, a caged orangautan, and her [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers placing second in a Grade 2 spelling bee]] fail to set her off, her father (with all due drama, and then some) sets before her... ''[[CuteKitten The Kitten Box]]''. It actually comes close to cracking her, and later on Ming brags about how easily Meilin passed every trigger test "Even...the Kitten Box!" to her family's amazement, indicating that this is a typical test of panda control.

* ''SMPLive'': Despite his serious-business facade, Schlatt tends to have a major soft spot for anything that melts his heart - whether that be Ty giving him a gift, or Zach's silly doorbell that makes a noise that greatly amuses him.

* The [[AnimeChineseGirl kyonshī sister]] from ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'' has a rather… annoying habit of ''mofu-mofu''-ing any cute animals in the vicinity, Kohaku included. Her victims are often annoyed at first but eventually soften from the petting.

* ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'' has [[NotSoAboveItAll Nick Fury]] suddenly and [[RunningGag repeatedly]] break down in cooing over a friendly cat as it happily accepts pets from him. [[spoiler:When the [[TheDogIsAnAlien cat turns out to be a flerken]], a rare and dangerous alien species that can swallow people whole, he discovers you DoNotTauntCthulhu after Goose responds to him cooing over it again by [[CatsAreMean clawing his face]], causing Fury to lose an eye, in response using a {{bowdleri|se}}zed version of "motherfucker". This makes Fury's assertion in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'' that "the last time I trusted somebody, I lost an eye", HilariousInHindsight.]]

* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', the current Archive is a human girl (nicknamed Ivy by Harry) with magical access to everything ever recorded by humanity, as well as the combined memories of all previous Archives. She is articulate, mature and scarily powerful, and when she states that if Dresden backs out of his duel she'll take it personally and kill him, Dresden realizes she ''is'' fully capable of doing so without breaking a sweat. But when Dresden's cat Mister suddenly appears, she shouts "KITTY!" and starts playing with him, making you realize she's still a 7-year-old girl. Her bodyguard (a HalfHumanHybrid SociopathicHero CombatPragmatist with a thing for explosions)'s reaction to this: "Now that's just creepy." Mister is [[MegaNeko the size of a small tiger]] and isn't above pushing Harry around, but he seems to quite like Ivy. Maybe a little of this goes both ways.
** The next time we see her, Dresden immediately knows where she's going to be at the meeting place (an Aquarium) after she's vanished from where she was supposed to be sitting -- the otter pens. As he explains to Kincaid, "She's a kid. Kids love cute."
* ''Literature/AFireUponTheDeep''. Ravna has this response to some butterfly-like aliens with enormous eyes until she discovers they're out to KillAllHumans.
-->'''Blueshell:''' Those were Aprahanti. Just the look of them fills you with dread, does it not?
** In the prequel, "A Deepness in the Sky", humans are this for giant spiders. You see, spider babies and children have two eyes on top of their heads, like humans do, but when they get older those eyes merge together and form a single sensory organ. The instinctual reaction to find us cute is so strong that even jaded military personnel finds it hard to resist human charm, despite the fact that humans have bombed spiders at that point in the story.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'':
** Noel Vermillion is a somewhat incompetent but serious-minded officer for the NOL, the government which rules ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'''s world. But when put in close proximity to a panda, well, [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120310231222/blazblue/images/thumb/5/54/Noel_Vermillion_%28Calamity_Trigger%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_6%29.png/786px-Noel_Vermillion_%28Calamity_Trigger%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_6%29.png this happens.]]

* ''Webcomic/TheHammer2022'': While Chloe is naturally inclined to be kind to everyone, she has a particular love for cute, weak-looking things. Tiny wonders if this is why she stopped to give him her ring when he was starving on the streets of Invader.

* On ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'', the penguins were tasked with hatching an egg. Most of them don't last very long before succumbing to their brooding instinct despite their leader's insistence that they think manly thoughts. Then again, they may have been doing just that -- as Kowalski points out, "incubation ''is'' a guy thing for penguins". Cuteness Proximity comes up again in the episode "Cute-astrophe", when Private discovers how to turn his own cuteness up to [[ExaggeratedTrope 132%]], which makes people faint on sight.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Meapless in Seattle" features "cutonium", a substance which renders the drinker hypnotically, irresistibly cute, inducing effects of this kind in anyone who sees them. When Mitch drinks it, Meap warns everyone to cover their eyes. Phineas...doesn't, and he's basically incapacitated until Isabella snaps him out of it.

** In "Simpson Tide" where all the guys join the Navy and their sub is filling up with water, their thoughts go to their loved ones and in Moe's thought balloon he's stroking his kitty and talking baby talk to it before angrily turning to the audience shouting, "What are YOU lookin' at!?"

** In the episode "Spot Returns", this trope is demonstrated by Karen, of all people. She's so happy to see Spot's new puppies that she experiences an overload and spends most of the episode undergoing a system reboot. Once she's back online, she's quite pleased to see even more amoeba puppies.
** [[KillerRabbit Puffy Fluffy's]] cute state in "A Pal For Gary". [=SpongeBob=] is so touched by such that he only pays attention to him and not Gary, and scolding him for not being nice to his "friend". Naturally, this comes from [=SpongeBob=] ignoring the seller's warning that the pet hates other pets, and he's too enticed by the pet's cuteness to even listen.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Catch and Release", it's revealed that the villain [[spoiler:Peridot]] is, in reality, only as tall as Steven and appears to be wearing footy pajamas. Upon learning this, rather than actually asking the question he freed her to ask, Steven is completely distracted by how adorable [[spoiler:Tinydot]] is. A similar effect applied to the fandom, who rapidly created a meme about ignoring the big revelations in that episode to gush over the cuteness of "Smol Child".
** [[spoiler: Peridot]] loathes being called cute and even has some cat-like habits like running away on all four or hissing when scaredy. Propensity for CatSmile also comes in.

** [[ChineseGirl Litchi]] tends to get a little ''[[LesYay too]]'' friendly when she's drunk. Put a girl near her and [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120310230746/blazblue/images/thumb/4/4a/Noel_Vermillion_%28Calamity_Trigger%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_3%2C_Type_A%29.png/786px-Noel_Vermillion_%28Calamity_Trigger%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_3%2C_Type_A%29.png this]] and [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100809145329/blazblue/images/thumb/c/c3/Tsubaki_Yayoi_%28Continuum_Shift%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_3%2C_Type_C%29.png/786px-Tsubaki_Yayoi_%28Continuum_Shift%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_3%2C_Type_C%29.png this]] and even [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131102194155/blazblue/images/4/4c/Gag_Reel_%28Chronophantasma%2C_Story_Mode_Illustration%2C_4%2C_Type_C%29.png this]] happens. In fact, Noel's example above is also a result of this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' sequel ''WesternAnimation/KronksNewGroove'', Yzma turns herself into a [[BunniesForCuteness pink bunny]] to distract the angry citizens who were going to make her Empress, but just found out that her "youth potion" is a lie. It actually works for a moment... and then she gets snatched up and carried off by a bird.