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I think some franchises should have their own pages, like Pokémon for example. Does anyone else think so too?

Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Ambiguous Name, started by OffTheDeepEnd on Oct 17th 2016 at 6:15:30 PM

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help, started by tryourbreast on Jul 16th 2012 at 3:34:10 PM

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help, started by Zerukin on Oct 29th 2020 at 3:42:58 AM

I'm barely scratching the surface with how many creatures from Winx Club fit this trope.

There are a whole lot of examples on this page that are commented out and some of them don't look like they should be, or look like they could be fixed easily. What does an example need to be considered good enough to keep on the page?

I put bear cubs on the Real Life examples. Do you feel like squeezing them?

Removed the following Zero Context Examples:

• Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok: Ecchan.
• Kimba The White Lion.
• Chis Sweet Home
• It's easy to forget how late in Azumanga Daioh it is before Maya shows up.
• Kuroneko-sama from Trigun.
• And we can't forget P-chan, Mr. Panda, Shampoo-neko and MuMu-chan from Ranma One Half, even if they'd rather not suffer from Jusenkyo's Involuntary Shapeshifting curses.
• Potemayo and Guchuko have all these beat. None can stand against their moe.
• Johnny Joestar's stand, Tusk, from the Jojos Bizarre Adventure story "Steel Ball Run".
• Katekyo Hitman Reborn has been recruiting a lot of these lately. And they're loads more deadly than they look.
• Bonta-kun from Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu.
• Deconstructed to hell and back with Maromi in Paranoia Agent, a symbol of Japan's persistent refusal to grow the hell up.
• Doraemon
• Polly, Francine and the Ninja Crows from Samurai Pizza Cats.
• THE iDOLM@STER - Hamzou
• Almost all the puppies shown in Inubaka

EDIT: ZCE's, round two:

• Mogwai from Gremlins. As long as you stick to the rules.
• Thumper and Flower from Bambi.
• The Chipmunks and Chippettes from Alvin and the Chipmunks and its sequels.
• F.T in Attack of the Killer Tomatoes! qualifies since it is completely useless : its only role is to make Tara say "it's so cute" and try to protect it from the baddies.

• Doctor Who: People want plush Adiposes now.
• Daniel Striped Tiger.

• Tarepanda (pictured above)
• OOKPIK!!!
  • Flickies and Wisps (other than Purple/Violet Wisps, but Eggman twisted those ones anyway,) fill this niche. Cream◊ is pretty adorable too.
  • The irritating, yet loveable little Chip!
  • Amy Rose in the classic titles.
  • Charmy Bee from Sonic Heroes.
  • Bean from Sonic the Fighters.
• Mieu from Tales of the Abyss.
  • While we're still in Tales Series, the Oresoren.
• The Mimigas of Cave Story. It would take a Complete Monster to do any harm to them.
• Several monsters from Monster Rancher count, most notably Mocchi.
• The titular Pikmin.
• Felynes from Monster Hunter
• The Grunties from Dot Hack games, oink! G.U. also adds Chim-Chims to the list.
• Guars in The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind.
• Moglins from the AdventureQuest series of online games. With the exception of Zorbak. To say nothing of Trobbles and Fuzlees.
• Meeps from GURPS Illuminati University.
• The Pooka race from Odin Sphere.
• The Loco Roco, and some of the creatures in their world.
• The Patapon. Even some of the creatures they fight are adorable.
• Mr. Saturn.
  • Salsa from Mother 3 also counts.
• Om Nom, the candy-eating little green monster from Cut The Rope.
• The Starfy series is chocked full of these.
• The titular character of Dewy's Adventure.
• The titular creatures of Elebits The Adventures Of Kai And Zero, but a lot of the Omegas, especially. Take one look at the Ice Omega and try to say it's not cute.
• The Nopon in Xenoblade Chronicles. They stand out in stark contrast from the other denizens of the world with their overly cute looks.

• Dust Puppy from User Friendly.
• The Marshmallow Kitty in Girly. It's squishy!
• Reynardine in his plushie form, in Gunnerkrigg Court. Even more so in his "inanimate" plushie form.
• The titular character from the webcomic Weesh.
• RED Scout's pet chicken Peep-peep in Cuanta Vida certainly qualifies.
• Squiddles from Homestuck's Show Within a Show.
  • Tinkerbull, Tavros's lusus is a delicate, flying, fairy bull.
• The Shadowchild from Digger. more so if you consider it's dialogue.
  • "Feel cold? Can I really? Would that be all right?" "Ummm, sure. Knock yourself out." "Yay!" and “I just ate a sock!” come to mind, as does the “ What’s A [amusing blank] Am I a [amusing blank]?” running joke.
• XZ/Nutsedge from Nature Of Natures Art at first, albeit she's far from ugly or even un-cute even than.
• Fritz, the dog from Zombie Waffe.

• Dr. Insano's fluffy pink, freakish, orb-shaped son belongs here. Awwww.
• While not exactly a critter, Marshmallow from The Annoying Orange definitely qualifies. Midget Apple to a lesser extent.
• Two words: Nyan Cat.

• The Woodland Critters from the Season 8 finale episode of South Park, Woodland Critter Christmas. They also appear in Season 11's Imaginationland trilogy.

• Ding-A-Ling Wolf from the Hokey Wolf cartoons is arguably the most adorable Hanna Barbera sidekick of all.
• Chucklewood Critters is full of them.
• On Teen Titans, no one can resist The Face◊.
• Cerbee, Jimmy's pet "dog" on Jimmy Two-Shoes.
• SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick, especially in their baby forms.
  • Baby Mr. Krabs.
  • Gary.
• Meap from Phineas And Ferb.
  • Also, as we see in flashbacks, baby Perry◊
• Every living thing in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, but especially the parasprites.
  • Kneel before newborn Spike◊, bronies!
  • This is an interesting dynamic, in that the ponies are all adorable, so for anything to stand out it has to be absurdly adorable.
  • Dinky Hooves and another filly qualify in the Crowd Song from Winter Wrap-up, when they're hopping with the bunnies.
  • The My Little Pony franchise as a whole thrives on this trope.
• Scaredy Bat and Doom Kitty from Ruby Gloom.
• Shifty Dingo from Blinky Bill (and Blinky Bill and Nutsy).
• Dot Warner and Skippy Squirrel from Animaniacs.
• Furrball, Fifi, Sweety, and Little Sneezer from Tiny Toon Adventures.
• Baby Pepe from Baby Looney Tunes.
• Pos from Skippy Adventures In Bushtown.
• Betty Boop's puppy, Pudgy, from the time when the Hays Code took effect.

So where do these pandas come from? I've seen them before.