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11	Every now and then the hero runs across a big animal he would rather not disturb. It's a bear, or a tiger, or Cerberus.
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13	Correct procedure is to back away slowly, making placatory sounds such as "Niiiice kitty... good kitty...", and then run just before the pounce. A FluffyTamer may stand a better chance of getting this to work than the average person.
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15	Occasionally the Kitty turns out to be an actual Nice Kitty, and acts like a [[AllAnimalsAreDomesticated giant kitten]].
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17	Contrast ScareTheDog for occasions when the hero responds by getting louder and more intimidating rather than trying to placate the animal with soft noises. Also contrast ShutUpScaryThing.
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20	!!Examples:
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23	[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
24	* Complete inversion on ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': The animal is tiny, not big; the character approaches it while placating it instead of backing away, and instead of it turning out to be nice, it turned out to be [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily exactly as dangerous as it didn't look.]] Said character is Sakaki, a KindheartedCatLover who has the [[AnimalsHateHim world's worst luck with cats]].
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* ''ComicBook/{{Robin\|1993}}'': Tim Drake once found himself stuck in a pit in the Armstrong's basement with an old circus lion "The General" had stolen. As he backed away and murmured placating things to the lion and it prepared to pounce he recalled that the lion's trainer was originally from Germany and snapped off a command in German it actually obeyed giving him enough time to get out.
29	* ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen2019'': Downplayed. Dealing with a grouchy and ferocious-seeming house cat (which turns out to be [[Franchise/GreenLantern Dex-Starr]]), Jimmy talks to him pleasantly in a sing-songy voice.
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32	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
33	* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}''. Aladdin says to Rajah, "Down kitty...Look! A mouse!...Scat...C'mon, good tiger... Take off and go!...Down kitty". Infamously, many people misheard it as "Good teenager, take off your clothes," which led to it being edited out of the Platinum Edition DVD release.
34	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'': Edgar runs into trouble with farm dogs Napoleon and Lafayette and tries to placate them as they snap at his heels.
35	--> "Nice doggy, nice doggy, roll over, play dead!"
36	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', Ernesto (pictured above) tries in vain to sooth an [[UnstoppableRage absolutely berserk]] Pepita as the latter approaches him on stage for a final ass-kicking.
37	* Mike in the Teaser Trailer for ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'': "Nice doggy. Nice ''big'' doggy."
38	* In ''WesternAnimation/RugratsGoWild'', Tommy says "nice kitty" while the kids and an amnesiac Nigel Thornberry are face to face with a Clouded Leopard. Thankfully Donnie comes in to save the group.
39	* Donkey in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek1'' when he's cornered by Dragon. "My, what big, sharp teeth you've got!... I mean, what ''white, sparkling'' teeth you've got, and do I detect a hint of minty freshness?" She ends up falling in love with him, which gives him a whole different set of problems.
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42	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
43	* Inverted in ''Film/{{Alien}}'' when Brett calls out "Here kitty kitty" while looking for the ship's cat, only to run into the eponymous alien which has grown a ''lot'' bigger since he last saw it.
44	* In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', Catwoman and the Penguin use this on each others' pets (a canary for the Penguin and a black cat for Catwoman). It's an ironic example in that both are the aggressor rather than the victim, the two animals being completely harmless to humans.
45	* In ''Film/BlackHawkDown'', [[TrappedBehindEnemyLines Twombly]] feels the need to address a donkey trotting down the street near him:
46	-->'''Twombly''': Nice donkey.
47	* In Chaplin's ''Film/TheCircus'', the Tramp ends up locked in a cage with a lion. Fortunately, the big cat is too lazy to go after him.
48	* In ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' when Louis Tully is confronted by the monstrous Vinz Clortho, he tries to soothe it with, "Good doggie...nice little pooch..."
49	* In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Film/JamesBond commands a tiger to "Sit!" (in Barbara Woodhouse's distinctive tone). And it does.
50	* ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' - stranded in the middle of nowhere in pitch dark, Pee-Wee hears nearby growling and nervously goes "nice kitty..." When he turns on a light, he finds himself surrounded by big predatory animals that absolutely don't belong in the American desert southwest.
51	* You think Creator/TimAllen's character is going to do this when he sees a dog in his first foray as Santa in ''Film/TheSantaClause'', but he subverts it: "Nice... teeth!"
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54	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
55	* ''Series/MadAboutYou'' had a case with a regular-sized "cat", in the indicatively named episode "There Is a Puma in the Kitchen".
56	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Crow has a habit of saying "Kitties!" whenever lions or tigers are shown. A fan even writes asking Crow to say "Kitties!" a few times.
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59	[[folder:Oral Tradition]]
60	* There's an old saying that goes: "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock."
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63	[[folder:Radio]]
64	* ''Radio/OurMissBrooks'': Happens with "Peanuts, the Great Dane" in the episode of the same name.
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67	[[folder:Video Games]]
68	* ''VideoGame/Fallout4:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1elDo5b2sF8 Uh, good Deathclaw.]] Good boy. Stay."
69	* [[https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Cornered_Sentry Cornered Sentry]] from ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'' summons 3 1/1 raptors for the enemy when played. Her summoning quote?
70	-->'''Cornered Sentry:''' ''Nice little raptors...''[[labelnote:*]]''Run for it!''[[/labelnote]]
71	* In a ''[[VideoGame/KingsQuestVAbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder King's Quest V]]'' death, Graham says "nice birdie" to a roc hatchling about to eat him. [[spoiler:Of course, that death is averted if he [[MercyRewarded gave the remaining meat to an eagle]] and grabbed the pendant on the roc's nest before the egg hatched.]]
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74	[[folder:Web Animation]]
75	* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', Bakura tries that offscreen with a tiger. [[TheChewToy Doesn't help, obviously.]]
76	* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhGXTheAbridgedSeries'' Jaiden attempts this with a dog that mauls him off screen.
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79	[[folder:Western Animation]]
80	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Aang flees a big horned gorilla thing until he realizes it's King Bumi's pet. Then he tentatively asks, "...Flopsy?" To which Flopsy responds by grabbing him and cuddling him.
81	* WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck does this after he roughhouses a mountain lion, who he initially thought was his nephews in disguise.
82	* A subversion in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': Barney sees a Bantydactyl and cheerfully says "Here, pussy pussy" to it until it cheerfully opens its mouth and grabs him leaving only his feet exposed.
83	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'': When the shapeshifting MonsterOfTheWeek from the episode "Drool, the Dog-Faced Goblin" transforms into a giant cockroach, Peter slowly backs away from it, saying that he loves cockroaches and always does nice things to them, like leaving dirty dishes in the sink and never cleaning the counters.
84	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
85	** Homer is terrified of some grizzly bears he and Bart run into while on a camping trip, and murmurs "Nice grizzlies...Nice grizzlies..." Bart, meanwhile, is completely unafraid ("Later, grizzly-dudes").
86	** After Homer and Ned get kicked out of Las Vegas, they decide to walk(!) back to Springfield. They are quickly set upon by a pair of vultures.
87	--> '''Homer:''' "Why, hello little birdie- AAAAAHHH! COVER YOUR EYES!!!"
88	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' called Spongicus shows Patrick trying to do this with a lionfish...while trying to lure him away with sausage. But he eats the sausage, so this fails.
89	* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': At the end of "[[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS3E5LittleBigHeadMan Little Big Head Man]]", Superman sends Mxyzptlk to "help" Bizarro on his planet for three months to fulfill the "community service" the judges of his own dimension assigned him. As Mxy rolls a rock to "threaten" Bizarro's "town", he grumbles about quitting, and then sees Krypto, Bizarro's small, aggressive alien pet, running towards him. Mxy ends up treed, yelling commands at Krypto like one would a dog...much to Superman's amusement.
90	-->'''Superman''': Life am good.
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