History Main / CutenessEqualsForgiveness

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* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Boa Hancock (pictured right) 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.

* In the US, conviction rates for women charged with violent crime tend to be lower (sometimes significantly so) than men accused of the same, and moneytary punishments or prison sentences are proven to often be as low as 60% compared to what men get for the same crimes; lawyers and psychologists hypothesize this trope is at least partially to blame.

* In ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'', Keifer Porter gets 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 the injuries.

* In the US, conviction rates for women charged with violent crime tend to be lower (sometimes significantly so) than men accused of the same; lawyers and psychologists hypothesize this trope is at least partially to blame.

A SubTrope of ScrewTheRulesImBeautiful. See also WhatMeasureIsANonCute and BitchInSheepsClothing.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, Assassin Rivka ben-Devorah often gets this treatment - people don't believe anyone who looks that cute and can't see past her doll-like prettiness tend to get very badly surprised when LittleMissBadass emerges. Rivka (a character very explicitly based on Mathilde in ''Film/TheProfessional'') is not above exploiting the mental confusion this arouses in people who aren't ''always'' clients for Assassin attention.

* In the Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove sequel "Kronk's New Groove" during the climax of one story from Kronk's memory about the Senior getting tricked into thinking they are getting young from Yzma's potion. In the middle of a chase scene between her and the angry seniors. She warns the old citizens about what she is going to do with the potion she is about to drink. This causes her to turn into a cute pink bunny for a moment until she gets carried away by a bird.

* In the Disney/EmperorsNewGroove sequel "Kronk's New Groove" during the climax of one story from Kronk's memory about the Senior getting tricked into thinking they are getting young from Yzma's potion. In the middle of a chase scene between her and the angry seniors. She warns the old citizens about what she is going to do with the potion she is about to drink. This causes her to turn into a cute pink bunny for a moment until she gets carried away by a bird.

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* Murumo from ''MirumoDePon'' uses his cuteness in this way, easily winning the hearts of anyone with his adorable antics and PuppyDogEyes. Only his older brother is immune, though it's not like anyone listens to him (when he warns Kaede about this, her response is "You're just jealous that you're not as cute as he is!")

A character is forgiven for an otherwise serious offense just because (s)he is cute. This occurs because cuteness implies innocence and vulnerability. You're more likely to forgive someone if they were ignorant of the harm they caused, after all.

* ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney: Trials and Tribulations'': When [[BitchInSheepsClothing Dahlia Hawthorne]] reveals that she faked her death and let a man be sentenced to death for murdering her, the judge is completely unfazed and continues to treat her as an innocent girl he feels sorry for.

* In ''Anime/AbenobashiMahouShoutengai'' [[CreepyCrossdresser "Aunt Aki"]] says it as a NonSequitur joke.

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

* Several times during her presidency, Maria of ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'' does some things similar to Boa Hancock above, including smashing a tape/video recorder and burning a 'love letter'.
** Given that Hinagiku might have cases of this as well, it almost seems that this trope follows the school presidents in the story.
* Subverted in ''RanmaOneHalf''. Ranma Saotome has tried this technique [[GenderBender in his girl form]] before [[http://www.anymanga.com/ranma/002/008/010/ without much success]].

* Heloise tries this on Jimmy in ''JimmyTwoShoes''. He doesn't buy it, though.
* On ''TheLegendOfKorra,'' [[TheArtfulDodger Kai]] can pull this with [[NiceGuy Bolin]], but not [[SugarAndIcePersonality Mako]].

* Megan from ''DrakeAndJosh'' is a prime example of this.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', after attacking Shrek, Puss-In-Boots asks for forgiveness and a chance to help on the adventure and puts on his famous PuppyDogEyes. Shrek thinks he looks adorable and takes him along. (Puss manages to pull this trick on guys who are much nastier than Shrek later, too.)

* On ''TheLegendOfKorra,'' [[TheArtfulDodger Kai]] can pull this with [[NiceGuy Bolin]], but not [[FireAndIcePersonality Mako]].

* A recurring theme in ''{{Frank}}'' strips is that the slightly rude actions of the ugly pig man read as reprehensible, while adorable animal Frank's psychotic destructiveness read as totally forgivable.