History Main / CutenessEqualsForgiveness

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Keifer Porter got away with beating one of his wives, who is only thirteen years old at the time, so badly that she's confined to her bed for weeks. And then, when caught red-handed by her eldest sister, he smiled sweetly and claimed poor Trini had "provoked" him. Fortunately, he died before Trini had recovered from her injuries.

* One segment on ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' comments on how the CuteClumsyGirl can get away with mistakes because of this. [[SuperOCD Chiri]] tries to become one and violent HilarityEnsues.

* Millie Bobby Brown managed to delay a filming day on ''Series/StrangerThings'' by showing up to set covered head to toe in glitter - and it took forty-five minutes to remove it. The creators found it ActuallyPrettyFunny considering this was a fourteen-year-old girl they were dealing with.

* [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] by Vtuber Gawr Gura of ''WebAnimation/Hololive'' during a ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' stream when she didn't want to update the counter she had on screen for one of her deaths, claiming that it didn't count. When chat eventually convinced her to update the counter and started joking that she was cheating, this was her response:

PuppyDogEyes may be used. Obviously abused by the DeliberatelyCuteChild.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Boa Hancock (pictured above) is considered to be so beautiful that she is never blamed or held accountable for anything she does. She even gets away with retaining her Pirate Warlord status by the world government despite pretty much fighting for Luffy's cause and slowing the other warlords down in a major battle.

* Believe it or not, implied to be the reason why [[CreatorsPet Wesley Crusher]] gets away with being so irritating. One early ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode has a fellow Starfleet cadet tell him "It's a good thing you're cute, Wesley, or you would really come across as obnoxious."

[[caption-width-right:300:This being right after she [[DestinationDefenestration chucked an old woman out of a window]].]]

* On an intellectual level, the reason people don't throw food back when a baby throws food at them is that the baby isn't developed enough to be expected to have a high level of maturity. However, the real reason they get away with it is cuteness. Babies are the ''reason'' why people react this way to cuteness. If people needed to ''rationally'' convince themselves that babies can't be expected to behave like adults, the human race would have died out long ago.

[[quoteright:346:[[Manga/OnePiece https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HancockCute_6188.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:This being right after she [[DestinationDefenestration chucked an old woman out of a window]].]]

* In ''Series/Community'', Evil Jeff manages to convince the jury and the judge to release his girlfriend (Evil Annie) from the asylum, because she is too beautiful to be locked up.

* In ''Series/Community'',Evil Jeff manages to convince the jury and the judge to release his girlfriend (Evil Annie) from the asylum, because she is too beautiful to be locked up.

* On an intellectual level, the reason people don't throw food back when a baby throws food at them is that the baby isn't developed enough to be expected to have a high level of maturity. However, the real reason they get away with it is cuteness.
** Babies are the ''reason'' why people react this way to cuteness. If people needed to ''rationally'' convince themselves that babies can't be expected to behave like adults, the human race would have died out long ago.

* This is why most people forgive their pets for the gradual destruction of their household. Bonus points if the pet if small animal.

* Debara [=LaFave=] and other women got probation (or less) for statutory rape; most people attributed it to her looks.
* This is why most people forgive their pets for the gradual destruction of their household.