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* The [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30600000/crescent-forest-friends-happy-happy-clover-30675399-200-200.jpg "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga]] is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[FragileFlower Mal]][[http://www.myanime.me/screenshots/114985-episode-12-screenshot-007.jpg low]] and [[GenkiGirl Clo]][[http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/oqvrunktqcvubig.jpg ver.]]

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* The [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30600000/crescent-forest-friends-happy-happy-clover-30675399-200-200.[[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Va5RS-AlDNw/UCkW7tnn9YI/AAAAAAAADmY/XRWDkpGjkZM/s1600/8979679220d100d7bcf032b12148b968_0.jpg "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga]] is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[FragileFlower Mal]][[http://www.myanime.me/screenshots/114985-episode-12-screenshot-007.jpg low]] and [[GenkiGirl Clo]][[http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/oqvrunktqcvubig.jpg ver.]]
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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[FragileFlower Mallow]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]

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* The [[http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/30600000/crescent-forest-friends-happy-happy-clover-30675399-200-200.jpg "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga manga]] is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[FragileFlower Mallow]] Mal]][[http://www.myanime.me/screenshots/114985-episode-12-screenshot-007.jpg low]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.Clo]][[http://stagevu.com/img/thumbnail/oqvrunktqcvubig.jpg ver.]]
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With their long ears, twitchy noses, and rounded fluffy bodies, bunnies are often used in media to invoke feelings of sweetness, innocence, childishness and general cuteness. Real rabbits can be used for this, but so can stuffed rabbits or other types of toy rabbits or rabbit related accessories. Characters meant to be viewed as cute might have an rabbit related AnimalMotif.

When the associated between rabbits and cuteness is being subverted, see HairRaisingHare. Compare to PlayboyBunny.

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With their long ears, twitchy noses, and rounded fluffy bodies, bunnies are often used in media to invoke feelings of sweetness, innocence, childishness and general cuteness. Real rabbits can be used for this, but so can stuffed rabbits or other types of toy rabbits or rabbit related accessories. Characters meant to be viewed as cute might have an rabbit related AnimalMotif. \n\n

Stuffed bunnies might also be used to invoke the concept of children caught in a horrific situation if used in an EmpathyDollShot.
When the associated between rabbits and cuteness is being subverted, see HairRaisingHare. Compare to PlayboyBunny.
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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[TheCutie Mallow]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]

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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[TheCutie [[FragileFlower Mallow]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Island'' reimagining, ''Fanfic/TheLegendOfTotalDramaIsland'', the gentle and inoffensive [[GentleGiant D.J.]] finds and adopts a bunny during the camping challenge, as per canon; but where the original played the trope more or less straight, the reimagining subverts the trope when the bunny's grisly demise [[DueToTheDead triggers a conflict storyline]].
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*In ''Film/RiseOfTheGuardians'' there is Bunnymund, which [[spoiler:is reverted to the size of an adorable little rabbit, once children all over the world stopped believing in the Easter Bunny.]]
-->'''Jamie''': What happened to him? He used to be huge and cool, and now he's cute

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* In ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'', Bean Bunny's role as the RidiculouslyCuteCritter is repeatedly lampshaded.



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* In ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'', Bean Bunny's role as the RidiculouslyCuteCritter is repeatedly lampshaded.
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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially {{Moe Mallow}} and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]

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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially {{Moe Mallow}} [[TheCutie Mallow]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]
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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[Moe Mallow]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]

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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this.]] Especially [[Moe Mallow]] {{Moe Mallow}} and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]
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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. Just about every rabbit is like this. Especially Mallow and Clover.

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* The "Happy Happy Clover" anime and manga is fond with this trope. [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation Just about every rabbit is like this. this.]] Especially Mallow [[Moe Mallow]] and [[GenkiGirl Clover.]]
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* Snuggle Bunny ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnuffel Schnuffel]] in the original German) is one of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamba! Jamba!]]'s more well-known mascots. He's an adorable gray and white rabbit who sings adorable, [[AlvinAndTheChipmunks Chipmunks]]-eqsue songs, many of which are complete [[EarWorm ear worms]].

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* Snuggle Bunny ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnuffel Schnuffel]] in the original German) is one of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamba! Jamba!]]'s more well-known mascots. He's an adorable a cute little gray and white rabbit who sings adorable, [[AlvinAndTheChipmunks Chipmunks]]-eqsue songs, many of which are complete [[EarWorm ear worms]].
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* Snuggle Bunny ([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schnuffel Schnuffel]] in the original German) is one of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamba! Jamba!]]'s more well-known mascots. He's an adorable gray and white rabbit who sings adorable, [[AlvinAndTheChipmunks Chipmunks]]-eqsue songs, many of which are complete [[EarWorm ear worms]].
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** Negi Springfield wears a bunny costume during a part of the festival arc. While he is wearing the outfit, his normally serious behavior is replaced childish enthusiasm, and other characters comment on how cute the outfit makes him.

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** Negi Springfield wears a bunny costume during a part of the festival arc. While he is wearing the outfit, his normally serious behavior is replaced with childish enthusiasm, and other characters comment on how cute the outfit makes him.
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** Estella ends up killing 25 baby bunnies.

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** Estella ends up killing 25 baby bunnies. Not because she felt bad, mind you, but because she got ''bored''... and Pip takes that as evidence that she's got a heart.
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* A rare dramatic example in ElGoonishShive. At one point late into a story arc [[spoiler: Susan]] angsts majorly and begins to awaken magical powers, which are about to go haywire. [[spoiler: Jerry the Immortal]] manages to cast serenity magic to calm her down, which manifests itself as cute, fluffy bunnies surrounding her.

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* A rare dramatic example in ElGoonishShive.''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive. At one point late into a story arc [[spoiler: Susan]] angsts majorly and begins to awaken magical powers, which are about to go haywire. [[spoiler: Jerry the Immortal]] manages to cast serenity magic to calm her down, which [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-07 manifests itself itself]] as cute, fluffy bunnies animals surrounding her.her, two of which are bunnies.
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* A rare dramatic example in ElGoonishShive. At one point late into a story arc [[spoiler: Susan]] angsts majorly and begins to awaken magical powers, which are about to go haywire. [[spoiler: Jerry the Immortal]] manages to cast serenity magic to calm her down, which manifests itself as cute, fluffy bunnies surrounding her.
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* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' Blooms pet rabbit Kiko.
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* ''FruitsBasket'' has Momiji, who is [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting possessed]] by [[EasternZodiac the Spirit of the Rabbit]]. He's the only Member of the Zodiac who really embraces his Zodiac form, as evidenced by the bunny plushies, bunny hoodies, bunny backpacks, bunny stationary, and [[ItMakesSenseInContext being the first male Juunishi to hug Tohru on purpose]]. Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], though, since he's actually one of the most emotionally mature of the Sohmas ([[OlderThanHeLooks even though he looks like the youngest]]).
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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Fluttershy, to emphasize her shy cuteness, has a pet rabbit, although he doesn't always act cute and cuddly. She also mentions "cute bunnies" in one of her songs.

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* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Fluttershy, to emphasize her shy cuteness, has a pet rabbit, rabbit (named [[IronicName Angel]], no less), although he doesn't always act cute and cuddly. She also mentions "cute bunnies" in one of her songs.
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* Subverted (in a non-HairRaisingHare way) in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Pip" (parodying ''Great Expectations''). Pip tries to prove to Estella that she is not an unfeeling monster, because an unfeeling monster wouldn't hurt a cute little bunny rabbit (which Pip pulls from {{Hammerspace}}).

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* Subverted (in a non-HairRaisingHare way) in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Pip" (parodying ''Great Expectations'').''Literature/GreatExpectations''). Pip tries to prove to Estella that she is not an unfeeling monster, because an unfeeling monster wouldn't hurt a cute little bunny rabbit (which Pip pulls from {{Hammerspace}}).

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* ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' - The title character has bunny ears. Why? It makes her look cute. (And it does.) And her name is Bunny.

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* ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' - The title character has bunny ears. Why? It makes her look cute. (And it does.) And her name is Bunny. Bunny.
* In ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', when [[ShipperOnDeck Sara]] gushes over how "cuuuuute" she finds [[spoiler:the title characters]] as a couple, dancing bunny faces appear around her head.
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* Inverted in ''Webcomic/CestLaVie'', where cynical and hard-to-love Frenchwoman Mona has meaningful conversations with her childhood stuffed rabbit Monsieur Smokey. M.Smokey is a louche and very French rabbit with a Serge Gainsborough attitude towards women, and a tendency to intrude on the personal space of the lady bunny toy belonging to Mona's flatmate Donna.

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With their long ears, twitchy noses, and rounded fluffy bodies, bunnies are often used in media to invoke feelings of sweetness, innocence, childishness and general cuteness. Real rabbits can be used for this, but so can stuffed rabbits or other types of toy rabbits or rabbit related accessories. Characters meant to be viewed as cute might have an rabbit related AnimalMotif.

When the associated between rabbits and cuteness is being subverted, see HairRaisingHare. Compare to PlayboyBunny.

See also CuteKitten, PreciousPuppy, PandaingToTheAudience, and RidiculouslyCuteCritter.

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* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''
** Negi Springfield wears a bunny costume during a part of the festival arc. While he is wearing the outfit, his normally serious behavior is replaced childish enthusiasm, and other characters comment on how cute the outfit makes him.
** Nodoka sometimes wears a bunny backpack as a cute accessory to her adventuring outfit.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' uses a bunny motif for the "Boy Lolita" character Honey to help establish his identiy as the cute character of the Host Club. He frequently carries a stuffed rabbit called "Usa-chan", uses a "bunny kick" as one of his martial arts moves, and is himself sometimes compared to a rabbit. He also has bunny patterns on many of his belongings, and a bunny background pattern is sometimes used in the manga in panels that feature him.
* ''Manga/PitaTen'' has an angel named Misha who wears bunny shaped HairDecorations which signify her childish and cute characterization.
* Vivio in the ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' series has a bunny motif associated with her, fitting her [[GenkiGirl bright and positive personality]]. In ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaViVid'', even her [[TransformationTrinket Device]] is shaped like a bunny.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Standoffish and cool Rukia has a soul candy dispenser with a cute bunny face on it.
** Lampshaded when Ichigo learns that Rukia was trying to get that one for ''him'' when she got Kon (who came in a duck-faced dispenser). He calls her on the cutesyness and, in a sort of nervous anger, she responds that she likes bunnies.
* In ''Manga/NurarihyonNoMago'', Kana Ienaga has pink bunny decorations on her bag.
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* In ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'', Bean Bunny's role as the RidiculouslyCuteCritter is repeatedly lampshaded.
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* Creator/BeatrixPotter used this trope many times in her childrens books, like ''Literature/TheTaleOfPeterRabbit'' and ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheFlopsyBunnies''. The bunnies were always presented as cute and adorable.
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* ''Music/DoctorSteel'' flirted with adorkableness once; after visiting a music website who's anime-inspired animation seemed to consist of "Tiny Little Bunnies Eating Hamburgers", he wrote a song about it.
* In the video for ''{{Ladytron}}'s Ghosts'', many rabbits add cuteness to imagery that would otherwise be quite dark.
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* Used for humorous effect in ''Videogame/{{Doom}}'' in the episode "Thy Flesh Consumed": The tough-as-nails SpaceMarine has to go after the hellish demons that took his pet bunny. [[spoiler:Unfortunately he comes too late and all he finds is the bunny's head on a spike]].
*In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' series, we have the SpinOff {{Yonkoma}} manga ''Inaba of the Moon and Inaba of the Earth'', which is filled with borderline TastesLikeDiabetes cute bunnies. [[http://www.batoto.net/read/_/51373/touhou-bougetsushou-tsuki-no-inaba-to-chijou-no-inaba_ch2_by_gaku-gaku-animal-land/3 This page]] is just one of the many examples.
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* Inverted in ''Webcomic/CestLaVie'', where cynical and hard-to-love Frenchwoman Mona has meaningful conversations with her childhood stuffed rabbit Monsieur Smokey. M.Smokey is a louche and very French rabbit with a Serge Gainsborough attitude towards women, and a tendency to intrude on the personal space of the lady bunny toy belonging to Mona's flatmate Donna.
* ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' - The title character has bunny ears. Why? It makes her look cute. (And it does.) And her name is Bunny.
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* Doki and a few other rabbits from ''WebAnimation/ThereSheIs''
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* The Noops of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'' are basically green anthropomorphic rabbits, and the almost sickly sweet residents of the [[SugarBowl Land Of Dreams]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Fluttershy, to emphasize her shy cuteness, has a pet rabbit, although he doesn't always act cute and cuddly. She also mentions "cute bunnies" in one of her songs.
* Subverted (in a non-HairRaisingHare way) in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Pip" (parodying ''Great Expectations''). Pip tries to prove to Estella that she is not an unfeeling monster, because an unfeeling monster wouldn't hurt a cute little bunny rabbit (which Pip pulls from {{Hammerspace}}).
-->ESTELLA: I told you, Pip. I have no heart.
-->PIP: But you do! And I shall prove it to you once and for all! Look at this adorable little bunny.
-->ESTELLA: Oh my. 'E's very cute.
-->PIP: You see that? A heartless person wouldn't care at all about this bunny. They'd just as soon break its neck. ''Estella breaks its neck'' ...Oh. But look at ''this'' bunny. There. You see that? You have too big a heart to kill two baby bunnies.''Estella kills bunny #2''...Right...
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