History Main / ImTakingHerHomeWithMe

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': [[{{Kawaiiko}} Azusa Shiratori]] is very prone to grabbing new "cute" items and giving them a French name, and then claiming ownership of them. If it resists, she'll knock it out. If it's yours, and you resist, she'll knock ''you'' out. In the anime version, she tries to "adopt" a half-eaten rice cake soon afterward. When Genma manages to polish it off before she can steal it, she screams in horror and beats him senseless. Her collection, in the few glimpses we've seen of her mansion, has been shown to include an octopus balloon, a stop sign, and even weirder things. In an anime-exclusive episode, she adopts a [[{{Youkai}} Tanuki]] statue -- and when Kunô cuts his way out of it (it fell on him beforehand), she promptly adopts him as well, thinking he must be a ''real'' tanuki.

* In ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'', [[PapaWolf Master Splinter]] did this when he found a freezing, starving four-year-old Petra Parker, and decided to raise her alongside his sons. Justified, in that Petra had just lost her entire family, was scared out of her mind and had literally no where to go.
** PlayedForLaughs in the third chapter: after April meets the Turtles and Petra, she passes out. Mikey asks if he can keep her, with Leo telling him that he can't keep a person. Petra then points out that Splinter basically did that to her.

* The reason inter-species adoptions are possible -- e.g. a dog with puppies adopting a baby bunny it might have normally had for breakfast, a [[OlderThanFeudalism she-wolf adopting]] [[RaisedByWolves a human infant]], etc. More specifically, facial features with certain proportions (huge eyes, tiny nose, tiny mouth, round head) really hit an onlooker's maternal instincts, and happen to be pretty much universal among mammals, so that sometimes, under the right circumstances, the instinct to take it home and care for it overweighs the instinct to snack on it.

* Liz does this accidentally on ''Series/ThirtyRock''. When handed the baby of a coworker, she has such an extreme case of CutenessProximity that she goes into a fugue state and realizes that she is now in her apartment...and still holding the baby.

* The kids in ''Webcomic/FarToTheNorth'' try this...on a fully grown dragon. When he wakes, the dragon decides it's an excellent idea and attempts to take one of them to be his pet instead. [[MamaBear Kelu]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu objects.]]

* In ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'', Marena was inspired to bring [[DarkActionGirl Secret]] along with the group after she attempted to say her full [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Abyssal title]]...and fainted after seventy words.

* ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'' has a [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=360 reciprocal example]]: while shopping for Christmas, Scarlet (a fox girl) gets the attention of a little girl fascinated by her fluffy tail, and they BOTH want to take the other one home.

* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'': "And I shall call you Mr. Tweetums! For it is very evil!" And in a later episode: [[spoiler:"Fool! There is no one who I would want to remember~...Mr. Tweetums! [[BigNo Nooo!!!]] [[TranquilFury You made me forget my very best friend"...]]]]

* ''Fanfic/RunningWithDeath'': Dumbledore's political plans were ruined forever when [[SpannerInTheWorks Uncle Fester found baby!Harry on the Dursleys' doorstep and took him to Gomez and Morticia, who adopted Harry that day]]. Meaning Harry Potter is now a member of the one magical family feared by both good ''and'' evil wizards.

* A particular exemple happen in ''Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes'', where a elementary school kid have this reaction upon seing the (self-proclaimed) TeenGenius Akechi Kokoro. She can't get over how cute Kokoro is and ask her to become her little sister. [[spoiler: She actually go through with it at the end of the episode.]]

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': ComicBook/{{Superman}} insists over and again that he is taking his cousin Kara home with him.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'', ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'': "Wonder World" features a version having more to do with awe and a desire for friendship when 15 year old Diana fresh into the wider world inserts herself into Riley's birthday gathering to deal with some bullies. One of Riley's other friends asks her where she found Diana and Riley responds that she doesn't really know but she's keeping her.

* In ''Manga/{{MissCaretakerOfSunoharaSou}}'', this is Matsuri's reaction upon meeting Yuzu. She claims that aside from Aki, she happens to be the cutest one there and ends up asking her to become her little sister.

* An early episode of ''Series/WouldILieToYou'' had panelist Ulrika Jonsson confide to opposing captain Creator/DavidMitchell that he behaved like a young schoolboy every time he lied, and that it made her want to take him home and put him on a shelf, much to the audience's amusement—and David's bemusement. The temptation quickly passed when the story he was telling[[note]]that he'd talked his way out of a fight with a paper boy at 23[[/note]] turned out to be true.

* In the original live-action ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' movie, when an unconscious April recovers in the Turtles' lair, Michaelangelo looks at Splinter and asks hopefully, "Can we keep her?"