Basic Trope: A character who likes to cuddle.
- Straight: Alice is affectionate, and likes to show her sweet side by hugging.
- Exaggerated: No Sense of Personal Space
- Downplayed: Alice likes cuddling, but doesn't love it.
- Justified:
- Alice is very affectionate or a little kid.
- Alice is touch-starved.
- Inverted:
- Hates Being Touched
- Alice doesn't like receiving hugs or giving hugs.
- Subverted: Alice is actually feigning affectionate behavior as part of a setup.
- Double Subverted: But she then receives the idea of affection in friendship and becomes cuddly.
- Parodied:
- Alice lists cuddling several times on her list of hobbies.
- Alice is a would-be Fluffy Tamer except her "fluffies" never reciprocate. Despite the regular maimings, she never learns.
- Zigzagged:
- Alice sometimes loves giving hugs, other times Hates Being Touched depending on her mood.
- Alice likes to cuddle some people/things, but not others.
- Averted: Alice does not like cuddling, or, No Hugging, No Kissing played literally.
- Enforced: The anime company enforces Rule of Cute elements to market towards it's demographic.
- Lampshaded:
- "Alice cuddles all the time."
- Alice: "I'm a hugger. I think of it as a full-body handshake."
- Invoked: Alice wants to become The Heart, so she hugs her teammates more, either to celebrate after a victory or to cheer them up after a defeat.
- Exploited:
- The cats like being cuddled, so they like Alice.
- Alice discovers her recipient's liking to hugs, and uses it to befriend them.
- Bob knows Alices loves a hug, and uses it to borrow her wallet.
- Defied: Alice may be affectionate, but she tries not to start a hug.
- Discussed: "Why does Alice cuddle so much? Sometimes people don't like cuddles."
- Conversed: "Some characters are just too cuddly."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice unwittingly hugs an ill person who is contaminated and becomes ill as well.
- Alice hugs someone who Hates Being Touched and lashes out at her.
- Reconstructed: She becomes more cautious of who she can hug.
- Implied: In a photo album, all photos of Alice have her cuddling.
- Played for Laughs:
- A sitcom where Alice is a cuddle bug but Bob Hates Being Touched, making a Running Gag.
- Alice is much stronger than she looks and literally squeezes Bob like a squishy toy.
- Alice singlehandedly defeats the Monster of the Week... by hugging it.
- Played For Drama:
- A man takes advantage of Alice's affectionate ways and gropes her mid-hug.
- Alice is much stronger than she looks...much to Bob's detriment and her despair.
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