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2[[caption-width-right:200:[[ChainsawGood Awwwww yeeeeaaaah.]]]]
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4->''"...and he kept stabbing them, again and again... He's a halfling, he's supposed to be jolly... Why isn't he jolly? WHY ISN'T HE JOLLY???"''
5-->-- '''Belkar's [[GoodAngelBadAngel Conscience]]''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
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7GenericCuteness is taken for granted. You have all manner of strange things depicted as cute. But way past the [[CuteMonsterGirl vampire girl]], you have the deliberately over-the-top depictions, where SickeninglySweet saccharine cuteness is depicted with wild, graphic violence.
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9For obvious reasons, these situations are more common in shows dabbling in satire.
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11See also: CuteAndPsycho, EnfantTerrible, KillerRabbit, GirlWithPsychoWeapon, CuteMonsterGirl, UltraSuperDeathGorefestChainsawer3000, ArtStyleDissonance. Can be a pretty deep well of NightmareFuel. Based on the same principle as FanDisservice and MoodDissonance.
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13Compare with {{UsefulNotes/Kawaisa}}.
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15Not to be confused with UglyCute or finding [[TheGrotesque Joseph Merrick]] [[TheWoobie intensely lovable]] (see WhatMeasureIsANonCute).
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18!!Examples:
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23* The PSA ''Advertising/DumbWaysToDie'' consists of friendly-looking little blob things with smiley faces [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin meeting their ends]] in graphic ways due to [[TooDumbToLive their own idiotic decisions]]. In each chorus, all the characters killed so far sing and dance -- while still covered in blisters, on fire, headless, etc. And those who still have faces are still smiling.
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27* ''Manga/AlienNine'', the manga gets worse.
28* ''Anime/CarnivalPhantasm'': Grail-kun is an adorable SuperDeformed representation of Angra Mainyu as [[EldritchAbomination All the World's Evil]], the corrupted Greater Grail. It appears in a series of running gags where various characters ask it for advice and it offers the same solution to their problems: a kitchen knife.
29%%* ''Manga/ExcelSaga''
30* ''Manga/ElfenLied''. The Diclonii are, to a one, [[{{Moe}} completely adorable]] girls with a pair of small horns on their head that make them look something like catgirls. Unfortunately, they are, with only a single exception, also [[EnfantTerrible heartless, murderous, superpowered psychopaths]] who can (and frequently do) forcibly and violently separate anyone nearby from their limbs and/or head with their telekinetic vectors.
31* From ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', [[spoiler:[[LivingShadow Pride]]. Aww, look at the cute little boy. Say, why are the shadows moving towards me and why do they have eyes and sharp teeth? Wait... ARGH!]]
32* Road Kamelot in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' certainly qualifies. She looks no more than 12 -- yet in one of her first appearances she stabs the main character's eye with a candle, then licks the blood off afterwards.
33* ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' prominently features rabbit masks, which have cartoonish proportions but also blood-red eyes and stitches.
34* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'' and ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'', with the latter being even worse
35* ''Anime/CatSoup'' and related animations.
36* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'''s CreepyTwins, Hansel and Gretel.
37%%* ''Anime/MagicalWitchPuniechan''
38* ''Manga/ShadowStar'', once the MoodWhiplash kicks in. Things keep getting worse from there.
39* The main ''VisualNovel/SchoolDays'' series was already infamous for its bloody finale... And then comes the ''Magical Heart Kokoro-chan'' OVA, with the eponymous young lady helping pilot a giant Hello Kitty, [[ChainsawGood chainsaw-wielding]] CombiningMecha, ripping apart the enemy and drowning the city in a sea of blood. Yeah...
40* The giant milk-bleeding stuffed animals in ''Manga/{{Akira}}''.
41* ''Manga/KarakuridoujiUltimo'' has elements of this. Especially with characters like [[GoodIsNotNice Ultimo]], Mizho, and [[EnfantTerrible Hana]].
42* ''Manga/FrankenFran'' veers back and forth between this and horrific.
43* Many of the creations by Henmaru Machino, where {{Hentai}} and extreme sexual pathology meets ''Kawaii''.
44* The manga ''Death Panda'' by the notorious [[{{Gorn}} guro]] artist Uziga Waita.
45* The theme park from the Mad Pierrot episode of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' uses this a lot. Some scenes of the destruction of cutesy park mascots, and their use as weapons, are terrifying.
46* Everyone in ''Manga/FutureDiary'', mainly thanks to a certain [[{{Yandere}} Yuno Gasai]]...
47* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica''. [[DisguisedHorrorStory At first]] the show lets you believe that it's a typical MagicalGirlWarrior show with a PuniPlush design. Then episode three hits, where [[spoiler:CoolBigSis Mami gets her head chomped off by a candy-themed monster inside its LevelAte lair]]. The same scene in the manga version is even ''worse''.
48* Shizuku from ''Manga/HunterXHunter'' embodies this trope, being essentially a childish collection of moe tropes who happens to be a member of the most bloodthirsty group of criminals on the plannet.
49** Her first appearance has her acting completely moe and scatterbrained, losing a round of arm wrestling to Gon because she [[IAmNotLeftHanded forgot that she's left handed.]] Her second appearance has her smashing two [[MauveShirt named characters']] heads into paste with a completely stoic expression.
50* ''Manga/PandoraHearts''. EVERYONE works with this trope, but the ultimate would have to be Lily. She's an adorable little girl....who has a demonic dog who can and will rip your throat out. And [[spoiler:that's ignoring the fact that she made [[https://www.readmng.com/pandora-hearts/51/32 THIS FACE]].]]
51* ''Manga/HappySugarLife''. [[YuriGenre Girl meets girl]]. Girl falls in love with girl. [[NoYay Girl is a grade schooler that the MC (who is a high-schooler) has kidnapped.]] [[FromBadToWorse And that's just before the murders begin...]]
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54[[folder:Comic Books]]
55* Roman Dirge's comic book ''ComicBook/LenoreTheCuteLittleDeadGirl'' is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
56* Max in ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' -- threatening cruel and unusual punishments while extolling his own "marketability".
57* ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies Returns'' #1 has Zombie Spidey in a world that is like a late '60s-early '70s Spider Man comic. Everything's so happy UNTIL SPIDEY RIPS OUT KRAVEN'S THOAT WITH HIS TEETH!!
58** Everyone (except Zombie Spidey and Sandman) ends up infected and killed or just eaten alive.
59* ''ComicBook/IHateFairyland'' is a series in which an AxCrazy woman trapped in [[OlderThanTheyLook the body of a child]] in a SugarBowl world brutally destroys everything in her path in her quest to find the key that will get her back home. The protagonist herself counts in a way, as she looks like a little girl, but has a maniacal and ragged air to her.
60* ComicBook/New52 ''[[Comicbook/HarleyQuinn Harley Quinn]]'' on several occasions, especially in the covers of issues [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/4/48/Harley_Quinn_Vol_2_2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/500?cb=20140123155416 #2]] and [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/a/a7/Harley_Quinn_Vol_2_3.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/389?cb=20140219193857 #3]].
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64* Calvin's snowmen in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''.
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68* Mentioned [[ShoutOut by name]] in the ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' chapter of ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6809475/1/Puella_Magi_Madoka_Magica_in Puella Magi Madoka Magica in]]'' regarding Charlotte, the Witch that Mami more or less adopts.
69-->''The LittlestCancerPatient with mutated hands and teeth fit for tearing through raw meat was making low, growly sounds. She was also poking at her dairy products in dainty, neat motions. It was kind of adorable... in a freakish, disgusting way. Was there a word for that? Grotesque cute? [[UglyCute Ugdorable?]]''
70* When [[Fanfic/AkatsukiKittenPhoenixCorporationOverhaul Diamond]] comes around... Either hide, run, or be very prepared to hear an adorable [[VagueAge girl/young woman]] babble on happily about how best to kill a man if you want the most artistic blood splatters. Also be prepared to see her [[BloodMagic stab her own hand through her upper arm to make blood whips]], [[YourHeadAsplode explode]], [[GigglingVillain giggle as she]] [[PsychopathicManchild shoves her hand through a man's chest]], and a myriad of other things. If you still haven't run away, she'll treat you to seeing her with [[DevilInPlainSight horns, a tail, bat wings]], and maybe a little illusion of a nice little battle among [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] that she recently participated in.
71* Quite a few ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanworks are this, ranging from humorously gory to genuinely disturbing. The fact that many of the fandom's popular works are DarkFic certainly helps this.
72** Fluffy Ponies are this concept incarnate. One rarely has to look any further than the front page of the fandom's [[http://www.fluffybooru.org/ biggest site]] to find something grotesque happening to a cute fluffy.
73** Blog/AskPinkaminaDianePie. Take the idea of a serial killer [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie]] and roll with it.
74** Similarly to the above, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqVVtaWd8Pw Smile HD]]''.
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78* From ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', we have the baby birds that [[spoiler:eat Hopper alive]].
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81[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
82* ''Film/BatmanReturns''. Psycho clowns, rocket-mounted penguins, PVC bodysuits covered in weird stitches, Creator/DannyDevito's makeup, and... Creator/ChristopherWalken.
83* ''Film/CoolWorld'': Nails, {{Toon}}s when they're not acting AxCrazy, [[NonStandardCharacterDesign most]] anyway.
84* There's a certain element of this to V in ''Film/VForVendetta''. Round, pink cheeks; EyesAlwaysShut; huge smile; little upturned nose (at least in the comics); silky, shoulder-length hair... and he kills people with his bare hands!
85* The [[WickedWeasel weasels]] of the QuirkyMinibossSquad in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', especially the [[MeaningfulName appropriately-named]] Psycho. Despite his disturbing mannerisms and glee in killing ("Time to kill the raaa-biit ... [[LaughingMad heehee]]!"), a surprising number of the fans think he's adorable.
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89* ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokuroChan'' is illustrated in a cute art style in the original light novels as well as the anime and manga adaptations, but it thrives on BlackComedy and has a RunningGag of an adorable angel brutally murdering a boy with a club, then resurrecting him to do it all over again.
90* In Creator/DeanKoontz's book, ''Literature/BrotherOdd,'' the title character encounters a [[spoiler:manufactured]] animal who is the epitome of mindless cuteness. Mindless, in that it has no mind or soul and is therefore profoundly disturbing rather than cute.
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94* The puppets in the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "Smile Time".
95* The suicidally depressed giant teddy bear in the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' episode "Wishful Thinking".
96* The ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Uncanny Valley" was aiming for this as a general feel. It was an episode where the Unsub, [[spoiler:who had her dolls taken away from her by her father]] kidnapped humans to serve as her dolls. It came complete with very kid-friendly music throughout.
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99[[folder:Music]]
100* Invoked in the music video for "''Bloodline''" by Music/{{Slayer}}, where a kitten can briefly be seen lapping up a pool of blood.
101* ''Music/{{Vocaloid}}'': Too many Rin and/or Len songs to count. A few examples? Any [[Music/{{Mothy}} Evillous]] video where they play an incarnation of Hansel or Gretel, Trick and Treat, Karakuri Burst....et cetera.
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104[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
105* The titular {{Mons}} in TabletopGame/{{Pokethulhu}} are cute. [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]], granted, but [[UglyCute cute Eldritch Abominations.]] They'll also attack you and try to devour your soul if you're not careful.
106* TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade's vampires keep the looks (and age) they had at a moment of their death and vampiric transformation. So, it's possible to meet (or play as) a hundreds of years old undead monster, who looks like an angel-faced 10 years old.
107** In the old (and ''VERY'' disturbing) Montreal sourcebook (made by Creator/WhiteWolf's "Black Dog" imprint, which in itself should be considered a warning), not only is there an angel-faced 10-year-old vampire -- who's her pack's ''warrior'' -- but the local vamps' unofficial mascot is a limbless dwarf Samedi (vampires who look like rotting corpses) who they use in a variety of gory "games", like "bob the apple" but with humans stuck up to their necks in a flour silo. No points for guessing the place is a Sabbat stronghold.
108* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' goblins can fall into this, when their funny little songs and childish antics crash hard against their general violence and destructiveness.
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112* Some of the ''Toys/PlushieDreadfuls'' look pretty monstrous, but they're still very huggable.
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115[[folder:TV Tropes Wiki]]
116* The page image for DeadUnicornTrope.
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120* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' turrets are a combination of this, MoreDakka and PsychopathicManchild, [[spoiler:but without the blood or gore shown]].
121** "Dispensing product."
122* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' (a game widely known for its {{Gorn}}) has the Big Heads mutator, which gives everyone a near-SuperDeformed appearance plus a higher pitched voice.
123* ''Peggle Extreme'', a demo of the Creator/PopCap game included with [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 The]] [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Orange]] [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Box]], features ''VideoGame/{{Peggle}}'''s lovable unicorn mascot Bjorn being eaten by a headcrab.
124* Child Alma from ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon''.
125* ''VideoGame/SDSnatcher'', despite the SuperDeformed characters, is just as gory as the original ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}''. There's something strangely beautiful about seeing an [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/SDSnatcher/Update%206/96-scr00551.gif adorable chibi with his head grotesquely twisted off]].
126* The player characters in the Playstation Network game ''VideoGame/FatPrincess'' are adorable chibi fighters, wizards, and such... who bleed copiously when injured or killed.
127* Freeware game ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' has this in spades.
128** Even more so does the spinoff game ''VideoGame/DotFlow''.
129* [[http://www.adultswim.com/games/game/index.html?game=meowcenaries Meowcenaries]]
130* ''VideoGame/CannonFodder'' is a(n in)famous example--it's the trope namer for WarHasNeverBeenSoMuchFun, but it also attempts to avert DoNotDoThisCoolThing, with bloody results.
131* Robbie the Rabbit, the mascot of the ''Franchise/SilentHill'' Amusement Park is a pink bunny wearing a blue overall whose most prominent feature is the blood-stained mess on his mouth and clothes. Heather from the [[VideoGame/SilentHill3 third game]] says that "it is more creepy than it is cute". Coming from a girl who has [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan snarked]] her way through the eponymous town, without batting an eye to the overall gory insanity around her, this says a lot.
132* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' and ''Conker Live and Reloaded''.
133* ''VideoGame/AmericanMcGeesGrimm'' seems to have taken this direction in its art design.
134* Ms. Fortune in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' is a cute CatGirl, [[BadassAdorable in more ways]] [[MsFanservice than one]]. Then she attacks with {{High Pressure| Blood}} BloodyMurder and DetachmentCombat.
135* Dahlia Hawthorne in ''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations]]'' is extremely cute and beautiful, even with pure white butterflies flitting about her. However, [[spoiler:at the end of the first trial, after she's been proven guilty of murder, she actually ''incinerates her butterflies with pure rage.'']]
136* PETA's ''VideoGame/CookingMama'' [[http://www.peta.org/cooking-mama/index.asp?c=pcmgb08 ripoff]] ''VideoGame/CookingMamaMamaKillsAnimals''. The cute jingly music doesn't make it any less hilariously {{Narm}}ful.
137** Same goes for their ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' Kentucky Fried Cruelty game. For that matter, probably anything they market to children.
138** And now PETA is three-for-three with ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndBlue''. And then Nintendo [[DudeNotFunny told them to cut that shit out]].
139* ''VideoGame/{{Eversion}}'': An adorable little orange flower [[CosmicHorrorStory travels through increasingly warped and unsettling dimensions]], to the point where he starts [[LudicrousGibs brutally splattering his enemies]] when he jumps on them.
140* Many of The Behemoth's games, such as ''VideoGame/AlienHominid'', ''VideoGame/CastleCrashers'', and ''VideoGame/BattleBlockTheater'', combine a cutesy art style with [[BloodyHilarious comically over-the-top blood and violence]].
141** Dan Paladin's artstyle in general. See [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/254456 Dad 'n Me]].
142* The Creeper from ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Advance Wars: Days of Ruin]]''. Flowers are pretty. Which makes a bio-weapon that makes flowers sprout from underneath and fatally turn you into a floral display in a most painful manner all the more disturbing.
143* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'''s Iiti Kitty, a mummified Franchise/HelloKitty.
144--> ''She wrenches open the lid of a nearby sarcophagus, and countless articles of stationery, toiletries, and household goods with her face on them pour out. My god, she's everywhere! Aargh!''
145** In the Kingdom of Loathing universe, seals aren't adorable fuzzy flopping creatures as in real life; they're [[MonstrousSeal hideous, shambling, bloodsucking monstrosities]] that happen to look like adorable fuzzy flopping creatures, one of which looks more like a mutated leech than any land mammal. That said, one familiar you can acquire as a Seal Clubber is an Adorable Seal Larva, which intersperses descriptions of it sucking the blood from your opponent and bursting into an enemy's corpse so it can regurgitate a healing fluid into your body with gushing about how adorable the thing is.
146* Considering how cartoony the characters in the ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' series are, some of them die in fairly bloody ways.
147* ''VideoGame/{{Messiah}}'' has the contrast between Bob, a sweet, chubby cherub who looks like a winged baby in a diaper, and the violence and brutality throughout the game (a lot of it inflicted by Bob himself.)
148* The Nephilim in ''Videogame/ElShaddaiAscensionOfTheMetatron'' are surprisingly adorable. Then they start swallowing each other whole, becoming insane gigantic fiery beasts.
149* ''VideoGame/SpookysJumpScareMansion'' uses this as a large part of its premise. At first the game seems cute, until you encounter [[DisguisedHorrorStory the legitimately creepy monsters]]. Even the cute cardboard cutouts can get pretty terrifying. [[CuteGhostGirl Spooky herself]] provides a lot of this. The mini games all star her, and also feature bloody murder. [[spoiler:It's revealed that the entire reason for her gathering a house full of monsters is so she can raise an army of ghosts from the people who died in it. Why? Because she hates it when people call her cute, of course.]]
150* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' has Namira, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of the [[DarkIsNotEvil Ancient Darkness]], associated with [[NightmareFetishist all things revolting]], [[NatureIsNotNice decay]], [[BodyHorror disfiguring diseases]], and [[ImAHumanitarian cannibalism]]. She usually associated with things most would consider disgusting or repulsive, such as slugs, insects, or disfiguring diseases. In fact she only allows those considered ugly to summon her, and she ''hates'' attractive people.
151* ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' keeps its {{Animesque}} {{Moe}} aesthetic even as the DisguisedHorrorStory hits. It makes bits like [[spoiler:Sayori's suicide by hanging, the obvious glitching, Yuri's SanitySlippage, the player being forced to watch Yuri's body decay after she commits suicide by stabbing, and Monika's {{Yandere}} obsession with the player]] all the more disturbing.
152* Many of Creator/EdmundMcMillen's games are this, most famously ''[[VideoGame/MeatBoy Super Meat Boy]]'' and ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac''. Basically, games with cute, simple characters full of {{Gorn}}, BodyHorror, [[GrossoutShow grossout]], and BlackComedy.
153* ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' is another excellent example. The cutesy Animesque art-style doesn't stop truly horrible deaths or abnormalities being depicted. [[spoiler:It's In-Universe too -- in an attempt to protect the manager's sanity from the full consequence of their actions.]]
154* ''VideoGame/GoriCuddlyCarnage'' revolves entirely around this, with the protagonist being an artificial cat using a neon hoverboard to disembowel mutant zombie {{Unicorn}}s in a toy-dominated, rainbow-colored, post-apocalyptic {{Cyberpunk}} world.
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158* The ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/collection/retardedanimalbabies.html Retarded Animal Babies,]]'' ''WebAnimation/PrettyBlood'', and anything by [[http://www.fat-pie.com David Firth]], creator of ''WebAnimation/SaladFingers''.
159%% * The [[SugarApocalypse Sugar Zombie Apocalypse]] known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNwCojCJ3-Q "Meow".]]
160%% * Safe Seth of ''WebAnimation/TheFlashTub'' is pretty adorkable, and then come his antics...
161%% * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldKqikAqO9s/ Action Bunnies]].
162%% * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UsyGYnXgos Maxwell's Silver Hammer animation,]] which makes sense, given the LyricalDissonance of [[Music/TheBeatles the song]].
163* The ''WebAnimation/SockSeries'' artstyle is quite at odds with the apocalyptic scenario and carnage, which is to be expected when the main antagonist is a satanic hamster.
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167* ''Webcomic/EverythingIsFine'''s story revolves around a bunch of characters with cute big cat-heads living in a pastel-colored suburbia. But every now and again, the comic shifts to show the reader intensely creepy moments, like the cut to [[spoiler:Winston's dead, rotting corpse]] in episode 1.
168* ''Webcomic/NanasEverydayLife'', has the art style of a manga for little children; plays the mental, emotional, physical and sexual abuse of an underaged girl [[PlayedForLaughs for laughs]]. [[GallowsHumor Very]] [[BlackComedy dark]] [[BlackComedyRape laughs]]. Until it [[TearJerker stops being funny]].
169* [[https://somethingpositive.net/comic/pony-struggles/ This]] ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' strip.
170** If you think that's bad, try [[https://somethingpositive.net/comic/day-two-pt-4/ this one]]..
171** The Little Blue Thing, aka Fluffmodeus. He's like an '80s cartoon character who Care-Bear-Stared a little too long into the abyss...
172--->'''"It only takes seven pounds of pressure to break a human skull... FROM THE INSIDE. Kisses now!"'''
173* Kiki playing with No Content from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': it [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070324 gets]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070331 bloody]] [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070407 quick]].
174* Ursula Vernon's [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/uvernon/littlecreature/series.php?view=archive&chapter=4602&mpe=1&step=1 Little Creature]].
175* ''Webcomic/CharbyTheVampirate'' is described as an ultra-violent Saturday morning cartoon, with adorable characters who will occasionally eviscerate or suffocate their many victims, brutally, with no GoryDiscretionShot. The combo is especially obvious with Mye, the zombie girl who smells sweet despite 315 years of decay, plus the unhealed slit in her chest where she got a sweet heart transplant. Her Evil Eyes are bubblegum pink.
176** Mye isn't decaying,(she is a traditional zombie, not a Hollywood/Romero zombie)the sweet smell is candle wax and gummy bears, two things she spends a lot of time with. And her brother's eyes are pink, too!
177* ''ComicStrip/ThePerryBibleFellowship''. [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF048-Suicide_Train.gif Where]] [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF024-Puppy_Wish.gif to]] [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF057-Raft_Friends.jpg even]] [[http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF041-Sun_Love.gif begin]]?
178* ''Webcomic/ErfWorld'', with the incredibly cute and adorable-looking, child-like midgets engaged in brutal, unending wars for [[ForeverWar no real, discernible reason]].
179* Arcturus Winrock from ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' is downright ADORABLE with those big PuppyDogEyes of his but he DOES have a dark side to him.....
180* ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'' presents [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=676&overview=1&chibi=1&cover=1&page=1&check=1 the amaceing Mili'ani]]!
181* ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom'' is a LighterAndSofter look at the Franchise/CthulhuMythos--for instance, its cartoonishly-drawn "Cthulhoo" says "yum yum" every time he eats an unfortunate cultist. But it's still the Cthulhu Mythos, and the gore factor actually goes ''up'' compared to Lovecraft's work. It'd be MoodWhiplash if the death and dismemberment weren't so heavily integrated into the comic alongside the silliness.
182* ''Webcomic/GhostEyes'' has rather simple and cute character designs and the horror storyline goes side by side with a very SliceOfLife -esque story of [[YaoiGenre gay teenager boys]] developing crushes on one another [[ArmouredClosetGay much to their dismay.]] HilarityEnsues. It would be a cutesy ComingOutStory if said boys [[CastFullOfCrazy weren't all mentally disturbed in one way or another]] and if [[ISeeDeadPeople one of them]] in particular wasn't being followed around by [[HumanoidAbomination a sadistic being who calls himself a "Grey Man".]]
183* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' starts off simply being about a kid who is celebrating his [[BirthdayBeginning thirteenth birthday]] by playing a new game. Then the game turns out to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and summon monsters wearing jester hats to torment the protagonist, and it only gets worse from there on out.
184** It becomes more clear later on, with an army of anthropomorphic chess pieces [[spoiler:being slaughtered by Jack Noir]], a children's show's characters [[spoiler:turning out to be representations of [[EldritchAbomination "Horrorterrors"]]]] and comic relief character Gamzee [[spoiler:going AxCrazy and deciding he needs to kill all his friends]].
185** The various trolls all tend to qualify as this. Mindfang's diaries suggest that it is not only normal, but expected and encouraged of trolls of Gamzee's rank; in troll society, such traits are considered the mark of strong leadership skills. It's so prevalent that the main 12 trolls outright [[InvokedTrope decide to call themselves]] "Team Adorabloodthirsty". The most spectacular example among them is Nepeta Leijon, who is a {{Moe}} CatGirl with a fondness for [[ShipperOnDeck shipping]] and cutesy roleplaying... and who [[BadassAdorable kills wild animals for food]] with her WolverineClaws.
186** [[spoiler:Caliborn.]] One of the first things we see him do after his proper reveal is gnaw off his own leg, leaving him spattered with his own blood. As for personality, he's a sociopathic JerkAss [[spoiler:who seems to find the sight of his sister's friends dying/being knocked out hilarious. And he likes firing rounds into people until they look like a bloody mess]]. All that being said and done, he still has large, rather adorable eyes with doll-like eyelashes, [[spoiler:and as a [[{{OurAngelsAreDifferent}} cherub]]]], he's the pinnacle of UglyCute.
187* In an attempt to tone down the violence and make the strip more viewer friendly ([[UnreliableNarrator or so we are told]]), ''Webcomic/{{Kagerou}}'' brings us "cute chibi blood".
188* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': The stick figure art makes everything look much cuter than it would in a more realistic style. And yet you still get characters like Xykon and [[HeroicComedicSociopath Belkar]] and quite a bit of violence. In particular, [[ILoveTheDead Tsukiko]] sleeps with an adorable Xykon plushie, and Belkar is a fuzzy-footed halfling of [[SuperDeformed chibi]] proportions who gleefully stabs everyone who crosses him or has something he wants. Then you get the Implosion spell shown in its full gory glory. Or [[spoiler:Familicide: just... ''everything'' about it as the implications just ''snowball'']].
189* ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'' is more or less about taking some cute animal people and then breaking them physically and mentally in horrible, horrible ways.
190* ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' unintentionally falls into this. It looks a lot like something your seven year old child would draw, with characters that are a combination of VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog and Pokémon, an AuthorAvatar that is the mayor of the town, and cartoony villains. However, it features graphic sex scenes and true to this trope, scenes where a bunch of Internet [[{{Troll}} trolls]] are tortured to death, including one getting drilled [[GroinAttack in the groin]] by a [[CreepyChild little girl]].
191* ''Webcomic/SerenityRose'', in its currently ongoing [[http://heartshapedskull.com/ second issue]], makes the entire plot revolve around this.
192* Considering how cute most of the doctors at ''Webcomic/{{Sparklecare}}'' are, it's easy to forget that almost all of them are {{Mad Doctor}}s who torment or kill their patients with no remorse.
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196%%* ''[[http://www.giantmicrobes.com Giant Microbes]]''.
197%%* ''[[http://www.s-inc.com/hangry-angry/ Hangry and Angry]]''
198%% * Junko Mizuno.
199* {{Moe}} Franchise/CthulhuMythos [[http://f25.aaa.livedoor.jp/~moecmyth/ creatures]].
200* The video for Music/OfMontreal's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cCPH1qnYI Wraith Pinned to the Mist (and other games)]]. Good God. (And yes, this is the song that inspired their Outback Steakhouse jingle.)
201* This is the design philosophy for all the monsters in [[http://bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen]], and the author's list of favorite monsters shows a definite personal preference for that style.
202* The same artist's literal [[http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/bogleechcoms-old-fashioned-nightmare-fuel-coloring-book-for-children-you-dont-love/13391122 Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book]], which has a calvacde of horrifying things, all drawn in a cutesy, cartoonish style. [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d30dcox Some]] [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d30uovg samples]] [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d30prbb for]] [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d31npse you.]]
203* [[http://skary.net/ Childrin R Skary]] Adorable children? Check. Copious amounts of blood and gore? Oh, you better believe it!
204%%* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxPeTB-JDxg Little Pink, Little Pink Beaaaaaar!]]
205* A contest once resulted in Manowar's "Hand of Doom" being given [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSqx7uYyOM a music video featuring mass-murdering Muppets]].
206* ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared''. The characters are UglyCute puppets and the videos appear to be quite innocent and childish ''at first''.
207* The UsefulNotes/FurryFandom has a subcategory of art known as "candy gore", in which [[AmazingTechnicolorWildlife brightly colored]] furry characters are mutilated in some way but bleeding a [[AlienBlood bright, candy-like substance]] in place of blood or organs.
208* ''Blog/HamstersParadise'': The first sapient species to evolve on the planet are the harmsters, they are [[KillerRabbit small in size and have round chubby faces]] but are also naturally sadistic sociopaths that [[MonstrousCannibalism maul their own disobedient young]] and rule their societies through fear.
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212* ''WesternAnimation/BambiMeetsGodzilla''.
213* ''WesternAnimation/TheChubbchubbs'' seem to be an alien combination of cute fuzzy hamsters and chickens, with soft fur and big blue eyes. Until they bare their mouth full razor teeth and eat everything in their path, anyway.
214* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Elmyra Duff.
215* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' gets a lot of mileage out of clashing the cutesy, colorful, and simplistic animation that looks like it's for and by pre-schoolers with the extreme violence, vulgar dialogue, and generally disgusting things that actually happen. In this instance, the art style helps the show get away with a ''lot'' more than if it was more realistic looking.
216** The Woodland Critters are seemingly adorable and friendly, but are really insane, violent satanists who have blood orgies and want to bring about the AntiChrist.
217* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'', with the characters Strawberry Sweetcake and Ling Ling.
218* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' once had an episode entitled "Wishbones" in which a skull granted people's wishes, [[JerkassGenie with results of varying degrees of misfortune]]. Pud'n's wish was that he had a little talking bunny that always loved him. Although the bunny wasn't THAT cute, it proceeded to chase Pud'n around, beating him and trying to murder him multiple times, ending with HALF OF HIS FACE BLOWN OFF OF HIS HEAD IN DETAIL WITH THE WORDS "Sometimes love hurts, Pud'n, and I love you....to deeeaaaattthhh...." as he hopped towards Pud'n slowly. [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Kids are sure to enjoy it!]]
219---> [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmZAzVS8Nw4 "Pud'n, have you ever heard of ''tough'' love?"]]
220* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. It has quirky humor, a more-or-less chibi art style (albeit an oddly angular one), and a wacky [[RobotBuddy robot sidekick]] who frequently wears an adorable dog costume... and it's still one of the darkest shows to grace Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, featuring BlackComedy, people turning inside out, and an entire episode about OrganTheft. There's even an episode where Zim tries to exploit this by turning a hamster into a giant monster, the idea being that the hamster {{Kaiju}} would be [[CutenessProximity too cute]] for anyone to bring themself to stop it.
221* ''[[ShowWithinAShow The Itchy and Scratchy Show]]'' in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. A relatively cute cat-and-mouse cartoon akin to those made during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, but [[SubvertedKidsShow with over-the-top gore]] instead of bloodless slapstick.
222* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has dabbled in this on rare occasion. Particularly the death scene of the clones from ''The Mean Six'', which was so graphic it [[https://trixiebooru.org/1750459 had to be toned down]].
223* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'': They're a trio of [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/powerpuff/images/7/7c/V.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/670?cb=20140104042322 perfectly-adorable little girls]] -- with over-sized eyes, no noses, and limbs that end in rounded stumps. They're also about as violent as they can possibly be.
224* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' ''loves'' this, frequently taking cutesy kid's shows or products and [[CorruptTheCutie corrupting]] [[SugarApocalypse them]], like the Four [[Franchise/MyLittlePony My Little Ponies]] of the Apocalypse, or the Franchise/CareBears committing genocide on the Care Bear Cousins.
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228* Japanese fashion [[http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/gurokawa-grotesquely-cute-fashion-styles Gurokawa]]. Literally. It ''is'' short for "grotesquely cute''. They are moe products with [[http://im5-a.mbokimg.dena.ne.jp/2/7/778/422403778.2.jpg blood splatter everywhere]], or with bones and entrails visible, or [[http://keizine.net/wordpress/wp-content/tumblr_m0hvkkdQNV1qz4s3wo1_500.png products]] [[http://art27.photozou.jp/pub/224/408224/photo/141703764_624.jpg based]] [[http://news.mynavi.jp/articles/2008/09/26/message/images/013.jpg off]] [[http://news.walkerplus.com/article/15593/58063_400.jpg body parts]] [[http://www.zakka39.jp/images/material/item_XL/aa5-2.gif itself]].
229** When Gurokawa meets ElegantGothicLolita it's called [[http://web.archive.org/web/20151029042801/http://hellolace.net/styles/guro GuroLoli]].
230* Frequently happens in nature. [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter Ridiculously Cute Critters]] can kill or eat each other just like any other animals.
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