History Main / CutenessOverload

** In the SpinOff ''GirlsNextDoor'' [[Film/{{Labyrinth}} Jareth]] knows fully well that his [[OwlBeDamned owl]] form has this effect on people and takes advantage of it shamelessly.

->''Man, we're so good about not posting a certain onomatopoeia[[hottip:*:HNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!]], and then somebody posts something like [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/828 this]], and the hearts hit the fan.''

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'', during Annie's visit to Foley House. Or rather when she suddenly found herself in the center of a cuddlepile formed from ''the whole class'' of cheering ex-[[FairFolk fairies]], even more cute to the [[SpiritWorld ether sight]].

* [[http://askfluttershyandpinkiepie.tumblr.com/ Ask Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie]]: Fluttershy apparently drew a picture of Pinkie ([[TakeOurWordForIt which we never get to see]]) and shows the party pony. Pinkie collapses with a "HNNNGGG" noise. Bear in mind, this is based on ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and already TastesLikeDiabetes.

* ''{{Clannad}}'''s Fuko Ibuki is this way about starfish. [[InsistentTerminology Not stars.]]

** PENGUIN CHIYO. She will cause this reaction to occur in anyone who sees her, except for [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Osaka]]

* Happens frequently in ''{{K-ON}}'' ([[{{Moe}} what a shocker]]), such as the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09t2lCOolAg&feature=related Azunyan Incident]]"

** Tomoya gets this way when he spends a day with [[{{TokenLoli}} Mei.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0ztVSeJEY&feature=related Specifically, when she calls him "onii-chan."]] [[{{Lolicon}} Everyone is concerned.]]

Not to be confused with CutenessProximity (in fact, that one functions more as a subtrope), since this describes the ''state'' the character is in, whereas Cuteness Proximity requires the character suffering from the effects of Cuteness Overload to be within a particular distance from the cute thing — and often the cute thing in question must be a physical being or object. However, the former can obviously result in the latter, and the two tropes often do overlap. It may also result in [=~I'm Taking Her Home With Me!~=]

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* ''TheHillOfSwords'': When Sylphid hits people with her {{Moe}} even Emiya Shirou, the hardened veteran of countless conflicts who went through seven different kinds of hell ends up being blown away by her cuteness. She once incapacitated an entire room.

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* In {{Girly}}, this manifests in Lucy the veternarian as a [[http://girlyyy.com/go/329 literal explosion of cute]]. [[YourHeadAsplode Lucy's head exploded.]]

** And in the manga, Akasaka gets a minor (um, no [[{{Lolicon}} pun intended]]) case upon meeting Rika.

* [[MemeticMutation Memetically]], Hisao Nakai of ''KatawaShoujo'' has to avoid these due to his congenital arrhythmia. HHHHHHNNNNGGGGHHH!!!

* [[MemeticMutation Memetically]], Hisao Nakai of ''KatawaShoujo'' has to avoid these due to his congenital arrhythmia. [[http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/2/2c/SogonnaHHNGher.jpg HHHHHHNNNNGGGGHHH!!!]]

-->Imagined Chiyo (in a cat costume): I'm a kitty cat!

* In ''{{Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', the first time Kyon called Mikuru by her first name he "completely blew past her threshold for withstanding cuteness." [[spoiler:She couldn't help herself from kissing Kyon while saying it's forbidden at the same time.]]

* [[{{Clannad}} Fuko Ibuki]] is this way about starfish. [[InsistentTerminology Not stars.]]

* HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi. [[{{GenkiGirl}} Rena Ryuuguu.]] ''[[{{RunningGag}} All the time.]]'' In her case, it almost always ends with a shout of "[=~I'm Taking Her Home With Me!~=]"

* Happens frequently in {{K-ON}} ([[{{Moe}} what a shocker]]), such as the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09t2lCOolAg&feature=related Azunyan Incident]]"

* In ''[[{{Fanfic/Ptitle0028gzjm}} Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', the first time Kyon called Mikuru by her first name he "completely blew past her threshold for withstanding cuteness." [[spoiler:She couldn't help herself from kissing Kyon while saying it's forbidden at the same time.]]

* In TheHillOfSwords when Sylphid hits people with her Moe even Emiya Shirou the hardened veteran of countless conflicts who went through seven different kinds of hell ends up being blown away by her cuteness. She once incapacitated an entire room.

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* The entire ''point'' of the website Cute Overload.

* In {{Girly}}, this manifests in Lucy the veternarian as a [[http://girlyyy.com/go/329 literal explosion of cute]].

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[[caption-width:360:After five minutes, she'll dial 911]]

-> ''Man, we're so good about not posting a certain onomatopoeia[[hottip:*:HNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG!]], and then somebody posts something like [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/828 this]], and the hearts hit the fan.''
-> -- [[http://shimmie.katawa-shoujo.com/post/view/828#1000 An anonymous commenter]] on the ''KatawaShoujo'' image database.

* In {{Girly}}, this manifests in Lucy the veternarian as a [[http://girlyyy.com/go/329 literal explosion of cute]].
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* In one episode of ''The State'', a skit portraying a grandmother taking her grandson clothes-shopping has this happen. As her overly-adorable descendant models his new suit for her, she flips out (borderline orgasmic-like) and asks the merch-worker who she had been chatting with, "Is there anything cuter than that?!?!" The worker proceeds to push her cute-button up to 11, with a step-by-step escalation, adding items to the boy's ensemble such as a bow-tie, puppy-dog earmuffs, and a little piggy-tail. When the grandmother inevitably reaches her threshold and goes violently berserk on her grandson (hey, it was the 90s), the worker and the store manager are forced to lure her into a bear-trap (a room containing an "emergency bear" that rips the lady to shreds off-camera), in order to "save the child". The worker blames himself for her death, while the manager blames the kid and abruptly pimp-slaps him for being "as cute as 2 little hamsters riding around in a little toy car."