Basic Trope: A creature is insanely cute, even in ways that wouldn't be possible in the real world.
- Straight: Alice's puppy is incredibly cute, with big eyes, a fluffy body, and a large head in proportions to the rest of its body.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice's pet isn't even an identifiable animal, but whatever it is, it sure is cute.
- Alice's puppy is a comically fluffy blob with tiny legs and big droopy ears.
- All animals in the work are incredibly cute.
- Downplayed:
- Alice's puppy has a pretty big head, but otherwise looks normal.
- Alice's puppy just has a simplistic looking face, with is jarring compared to other dogs.
- Enforced:
- Rule of Cute.
- Alice's puppy was a result of the character designer designing for the heaps of merchandise it will get.
- Justified:
- Alice's pet was genetically engineered specifically to look as adorable as possible to humans.
- The artstyle in the series Alice is in reflects this, so her pet looks normal to the surroundings.
- Subverted: Alice's puppy is cute on the surface, but is actually a part of a horrifying alien race.
- Double Subverted: It's still pretty stinkin' cute anyway, plus it's quite kind to Alice despite its race being known for violence.
- Parodied: Alice's puppy is impossibly cute by design, but biologically it requires ridiculous amounts of care and an odd diet consisting of raw flesh.
- Lampshaded:Bob: How is it even biologically possible for a dog to be this cute?Alice: I don't know, but who cares?
- Exploited: Alice's puppy is secretly badass and uses its cuteness to make bad guys let their guards down, and totally kicks their asses!
- Defied: The very instance Alice's puppy even appears on screen, it is swiftly Ret-Gone.
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