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1	[[quoteright:300:[[Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/nanoha-kewpiecarosurprise.jpg]]]]
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3	Female {{anime}} characters, when surprised, shocked, or threatened, will frequently throw their arms up in the air at a forty-five degree angle, just like a Kewpie doll. {{Moe}} characters are more likely to do this than others.
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5	The trope can take one of two forms: either the character doing it will freeze into a {{tableau}}, or she'll flap her arms up into the kewpie doll pose and down again. Mere surprise more commonly elicits the first reaction; terrified or frantic characters are more likely to perform the second. The trope is largely confined to comedy series.
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7	Compare HumanHummingbird, when a character's limbs flail so fast, you can barely see them.
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9	!!Examples:
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12	* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': Tomo frequently flaps her arms up and down whenever she's excited, distressed, or otherwise emotional, tying in with her nature as a self-described "[[GenkiGirl crazy-go-nuts high schooler with energy and spunk]], if nothing else."
13	%%* ''Manga/GAGeijutsukaArtDesignClass''
14	%%* ''Manga/{{Kobato}}'' does this quite often.
15	%%* ''Manga/LoveHina'': Shinobu in the title sequence, as well as in the 19th episode.
16	%%* ''Manga/{{Mahoraba}}'': Every Chance it gets.
17	* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'':
18	** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'': Nanoha does this when Vita gets her name wrong.
19	** ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'': The page image is Caro Ru Lushe.
20	* ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'': When Hanon and Rina see Lucia's clothes in Kaito's house hung just at the window, they enter this state as they wonder what naughty/perverted things are happening there. When the scene changes again, it shows them and their Kewpie doll versions of them in their hands.
21	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
22	** In the first season, Kasumi does the first type upon first seeing Akane's shorter haircut (flinging a frying pan into the air in the process, forcing Ranma to rescue it and its contents).
23	** Girl-type Ranma does the second when facing her [[AchillesHeel mortal fear of cats]].
24	%%* ''Franchise/SailorMoon''
25	%%* ''Manga/{{Sketchbook}}'': Especially Kate does this a lot.
26	* ''Manga/{{Wagnaria}}'': Popura is prone to this.
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28	%%[[AC:Literature]]
29	%%* ''Literature/MazeMegaburstSpace''
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31	[[AC:Visual Novels]]
32	* ''VisualNovel/ToHeart2'': [[HumanAlien Ruuko Kireinasora]] does this as her greeting.
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34	[[AC:Webcomics]]
35	* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'':
36	** Susan does it [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1737 here.]]
37	** This [[http://www.egscomics.com/comic/2013-11-21 is used]] to illustrate [[StraightGay Justin's]] thoughts protesting that Elliot's [[GenderBender female form]] is adorable.
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39	%%[[AC:Western Animation]]
40	%%* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeMe'' does this to an irritating degree.

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