History Main / UglyCute

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* Pugs, as well as bulldogs and similar breeds, as seen in the page image. Unfortunately, they often suffer from severe breathing problems as a result of their small, wrinkled snouts.
* Peke-faced Persian and Sphynx cats have quite a thing for this.
* A lot of baby mammals or birds that haven't grown in their fur or feathers yet.
* Dachshunds. They are commonly (and sarcastically) called "sausage dogs" due to their weird body proportions, even by dog standards.
* Naked mole rats.
* Bats, especially the ones with freaky-looking noses.
* Hyenas are this to many people, both as pups and adults.
* Chinese crested dogs.
* Baby orangutans are essentially physically identical to human babies but with bizarre wrinkled skin and lanky arms, and are incredibly endearing. Sadly, many people in their native home of Indonesia decide to take them as pets, which is a very bad idea to do with a very powerful, very intelligent great ape.
* In fact, most Old World monkeys (including apes) have that creepy-cute look as babies thanks to the lack of fur exposing their thin, wrinkly faces. Human babies, with their bountiful facial fat, are the odd ones out here.
* Opossums (not to be confused with the possums of Australia which are ordinary-cute), especially the babies.
* Tasmanian devils.
* Mudskippers, due to their bulging eyes, short beaks, and tiny fins that they nonetheless are able to use to get around on land, end up looking like a fish that was designed by Creator/JimHenson.
* Salamanders in general, but especially the rare, carnivorous Axolothol that's only found in two lakes in Mexico.
* Common pleco or suckermouth catfish, a large black and gold algae eater.
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* Chinese Crested dog
* Baby Orangutans are essentially physically identical to normal babies but with bizarre wrinkled skin and lanky arms, and are incredibly endearing. Sadly, many people in their native home of Indonesia decide to take them as pets, which is a very bad idea to do with a very powerful, very intelligent great ape.
* Opossums, (not to be confused with the possums of Australia which are ordinary-cute) especially the babies.

Compare TheGrotesque, {{Gonk}}, UnkemptBeauty, FreakyIsCool, FaceOfAThug, CreepyCute, and the nicer versions of FluffyTheTerrible. But see also WhatMeasureIsANonCute and BeautyEqualsGoodness as those tropes will probably and unfortunately, directly affect these characters. See GrotesqueGallery for when character designers try for this kind of appeal and fail. Badly.

* Dachshunds. They are commonly (and sarcastically) called "sausage dogs" due to their weird proportions, even by dog standards. Especially the smooth-haired ones.

* Dachshunds. They are commonly (and sarcastically) called "sausage dogs" due to their weird proportion, even by dog standards. Especially the smooth-haired ones.

* Dachshunds. They are commonly (and sarcastically) called "sausage dogs" due to their weird proportion, even by dog standards.

* Pugs, as seen in the page image.

* Peke-faced Persian cats have quite a thing for this.

* UglyCute/WebComics

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* Persian cats have quite a thing for this.

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* Crocomire from VideoGame/SuperMetroid, especially when you consider that it doesn't attack Samus until she hurts it herself.
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