History Main / SweetSeal

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/@sealookofficial/ SEALOOK]]'' is filled with a whole colony full of seals, with the shorts focusing on their everyday lives. Among the seals featured in the series include four adorable white seal pups: TheWoobie 031 and the triplets 041, 042 and 043.

Seals are almost universally beloved for their cute appearance and playful behavior. Their face looks similar to a dog or cat[[note]]For good reason; all three are members of the mammalian order ''Carnivora'', along with, among others, bears and raccoons[[/note]], making them the aquatic version of a PreciousPuppy or CuteKitten. This often carries over into fiction, when seals are portrayed as adorable and benevolent characters. One common kind of seal that is depicted are baby harp seals, which have plump bodies in snow white coats, big dark eyes and are entirely helpless on the ice. To make them even cuter, they may be depicted [[BallBalancingSeal balancing a ball on their head or nose]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SealTeam2021'' is an animated movie featuring a heroic team of seals battling it out against sharks.

* In the live-action Disney film ''Film/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', Captain Nemo(and later, Ned Land) gets a NonhumanSidekick in the form of Esmeralda the Sea Lion, in true Disney tradition.

** Spheal is a little ball-like seal with little tusks like Dewgong.

Seals are almost universally beloved for their cute appearance and playful behavior. Their face looks similar to a dog or cat, making them the aquatic version of a PreciousPuppy or CuteKitten. This often carries over into fiction, when seals are portrayed as adorable and benevolent characters. One common kind of seal that is depicted are baby harp seals, which have plump bodies in snow white coats, big dark eyes and are entirely helpless on the ice. To make them even cuter, they may be depicted [[BallBalancingSeal balancing a ball on their head or nose]].

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/@sealookofficial/ SEALOOK]]'' is filled with a whole colony full of seals, with the shorts focusing on their everyday lives. Among the seals featured in the series include four adorable white seal pups: the {{Woobie}} 31 and the triplets 41, 42 and 43.

[[caption-width-right:350:A [=TVTropes=] seal of adorableness!]]

[[quoteright:350:[[WesternAnimation/MickeyAndTheSeal https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_mickey_and_the_seal.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Behold, [[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse one]] RidiculouslyCuteCritter holding another!]]

* Real seals and sea lions zigzag this trope depending on the species and individual. While some larger species like elephant seals, leopard seals, and the larger sea lions are certainly large enough and sport lethal dentition to be dangerous; attacks on humans are extremely rare. Still it's often wise to give any wild pinniped, especially the multi-ton species, their space.

** Elephant seals are typically gentle giants around humans despite their enormous size and the males' tendency to fight each other. Still, again, give them their space as a 4,000-kilogram elephant seal might throw its weight around without meaning to.

Seals are almost universally beloved for their cute appearance and playful behavior. Their face looks similar to a dog or cat, making them the aquatic version of a PreciousPuppy or CuteKitten. This often carries over into fiction, when seals are portrayed as adorable and benevolent characters. One common kind of seal that is depicted are baby harp seals, which have plump bodies in snow white coats, big dark eyes and are entirely helpless on the ice.

* This trope is invoked and exploited with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro_(robot) Paro]], a therapeutic robot in the form of a baby harp seal that responds positively to being petted, and is intended to calm people with anxiety and other emotional problems.

* ''Film/NimsIsland'' has a sea lion who serves as a pet and companion to a young girl who lives on a island with her father. When her father leaves the island for a while it's up to the girl and the sea lion to protect the island from any trespassers.

* In the story "The White Seal" from ''Literature/TheJungleBook'', the protagonist is Kotick an albino fur seal. At the beginning of the story, he is a cute and naive pup. However, he grows up over the course of the story and by the finale he is a huge, [[TookALevelInBadass badass fighter]] capable of [[BewareTheNiceOnes frightening off ''every other seal on the beach.'']]

* Robby the Seal (Robbe), from the German children's book series ''Literature/TheLittlePolarBear'' (Lars der kleine eisbär). The protagonist named Lars first befriends him after exploring the Arctic by himself but later stumbles upon a young seal. Robby and Lars decide to play together and even head back to Lars' home where he asks his father if he can go play with his new friends. However, after Lars learns that he can't become friends with Robby, he decides to walk back to him and tell him that they can't be friends. Robby is already aware of the situation and can be seen crying quietly by himself. Eventually Lars' father and the other seals come to terms and agree that [[InterspeciesFriendship Lars and Robby are now best friends]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SealTeam'' is an animated movie featuring a heroic team of seals battling it out against sharks.

* WesternAnimation/WeBareBears has an episode where Ice Bear befriended and took care of a baby harp seal.

* Robby the Seal (Robbe), from the German children's book series ''Literature/TheLittlePolarBear'' (lars der eisbär). The protagonist named Lars first befriends him after exploring the Arctic by himself but later stumbles upon a young seal. Robby and Lars decide to play together and even head back to Lars' home where he asks his father if he can go play with his new friends. However, after Lars learns that he can't become friends with Robby, he decides to walk back to him and tell him that they can't be friends. Robby is already aware of the situation and can be seen crying quietly by himself. Eventually Lars' father and the other seals come to terms and agree that [[InterspeciesFriendship Lars and Robby are now best friends]].

* Saoirse from ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' is an adorable little girl who is a [[SelkiesAndWereseals selkie]], and thus can shapeshift into an equally adorable little seal. She is friends with some actual, non-shapeshifting seals who are almost as cute as her.