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Pouting is typically demonstrated with a protruding lower lip and/or puffed-out cheeks. Some characters may throw in a LuminescentBlush for added measure.

Pouting. Everyone's done it at some point in their lives. Pouting is frequently used, in real life and in fiction, by children. Fiction can also use it with characters who act childish for their age. In fact, narratively it can be used to show the childish nature of a character, regardless of age.

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** Kim has a patented version of a pout she calls the "Puppy Dog Pout"[[note]] It combines the soulful PuppyDogEyes with a heavily protruding bottom lip[[/note]]. She's even pulled it against some of her arch-enemies, to great effect. However, she apparently inherited it from her mother Anne, who once wielded it against Kim herself, causing Kim to protest, "Not the Puppy Dog Pout! That's mine!", but relenting and allowing her mother to accompany her on a mission for Mother's Day.

* ''Manga/{{Chihayafuru}}'': In episode 21, Chihaya is matched up against a child prodigy, Ririka Tachibana. When Chihaya manages to score a card, Ririka pouts, "She got one, but she's still slow." This repeats a few times in Chihaya's memory, with extra focus paid to Ririka's protruding lips to emphasize the pout.

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[[caption-width-right:350:When in doubt, pout.]]

* ''Anime/SpiceAndWolf'': For a harvest deity who is [[Really700YearsOld much older than she looks]], Holo is prone to using pouting as a tactic against Lawrence on many occasions, usually to him relenting and giving in to her whims. The fact that she can accompany her pout with [[LittleBitBeastly drooping dog ears and an angrily swishing tail]] probably enhances the effect for her.

There is also an interesting gender dynamic to pouting. Male and female children pouting is expected. While teenagers and adults pouting can be done by either gender, and will serve to make both appear childish (with the exception of mock-pouting, where it's done playfully), female characters have a higher success rate engaging in a pouting session than do their male counterparts, and female characters also seem to have a higher degree of resistance to pouting when it's employed against them. That said, male characters tend not to respond favorably to other males pouting, particularly not if the one pouting is old enough to know better.

* ''Anime/BangDream'': Season 2, during the "joint culture fest" between the two schools, an impromptu band was formed called the "Part Timers". During their performance, Ran can be seen with her arms crossed, a small pout on her face, as the temporary band has two of her own band's regulars, Tsugumi and Moca, performing. The other two members of Afterglow, Tomoe and Himari, are fine with it, cheering from the audience.

** Kim has a patented version of a pout she calls the "Puppy Dog Pout"[[note]] It combines the soulful PuppyDogEyes with a heavily protruding bottom lip[[/note]]. She's even pulled it against some of her arch-enemies, to great effect. However, she apparently inherited it from her Mother, Anne Possible, who once wielded it against Kim herself, causing Kim to protest, "Not the Puppy Dog Pout! That's mine!", but relenting and allowing her mother to accompany her on a mission for Mother's Day.

-->'''Jackie:''' Fine. (pouts) Please?

When a character doesn't get their way, a pout can fall somewhere between quietly accepting this outcome and TantrumThrowing. Indeed, some characters, if a pout fails, may then devolve into the latter.

Pouting is typically demonstrated with a protruding lower lip and/or puffed out cheeks. Some characters may throw in a LuminescentBlush for added measure.

* ''Anime/SpiceAndWolf'': For a harvest deity who is [[Really700YearsOld much older than she looks]], Holo is prone to using pouting as a tactic against Lawrence on many occasions, usually to him relenting and giving in to her whims. The fact that she can accompany her pout with [[LittleBitBeastly drooping dog ears and an angrily swishing tail]] probably enhance the effect for her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/BabyLooneyTunes'': In "Pouting Match", Lola finds that pouting to get she wants is quite useful when the kids refuse to put on her favorite show. However, the other kids start to use the same tactic so she can know how it feels. As such, Granny tells Lola that she can't always get what she wants, but she should at least ask nicely for it.

* Jackie does it in the ''Series/That70s Show'' episode "Christmas" when she wants Hyde to take her to the Christmas Eve dance:

Hyde: No.
-->'''Jackie:''' ...then you'd understand that, as my boyfriend...

* ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'': In the ''Paint By Letters'' novel "Lime Green Dojo Clean", when the janitor decides what to do when all of their options of stopping the Dojo from being vandalized fail, and the player has the option to either [[SuddenlyShouting shout]] or pout, which results in [[StoryBranching one of two endings]]. When choosing to pout, a penguin inside the vat of lime green paint pops out, and she suggests using an inflatable rubber octopus to clean up the paint after the party's over.

-> ''"Not the Puppy Dog Pout! That's mine!"''
-->-- Kimberly Anne Possible, ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''

--> ''"Shirou!" Ilya was seriously pouting now, hands thrust down by her sides as she stood rigidly, "I don't like it when you tease me like this!" She had a tremulous, wide-eyed look as she stared at Shirou. Asuna thought she'd never looked more like a little girl than right now, reacting pitifully to getting teased.''
--> ''With a sigh that was kind rather than exasperated, Shirou reached out in front of him and decisively tapped a menu selection.''
--> ''"Hooray!" Ilya shouted, breaking forward as she half-ran and half-skipped to throw her arms around Shirou's neck and hug him.''