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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has Korra with Naga. She is the first person to ever tame a [[MixAndMatchCritters polarbear-dog]]. Said polarbear-dog is also her spirit animal.

One man's snarling three-headed dog is another man's cute little puppy.
A Fluffy Tamer is a person skilled with animals and is especially good at the kind of snarling beasts which qualify to be called FluffyTheTerrible. A Fluffy Tamer isn't merely good with such creatures, they are the ones most likely to name them "Fluffy" in the first place. To them, such creatures are as adorable as any kitten or similar house pet. They would either be mortally offended by the idea of WhatMeasureIsANonCute or hold it in completely opposite regard than your average person. The main drawback of such a pastime seems to be having to [[HandsOffMyFluffy deal with consequences]] of {{Muggles}} and {{Idiot Hero}}es freaking out when they see a beast and mistake Fluffy Tamer for DamselInDistress or something. [[OverusedRunningGag Repeatedly]].

Such characters are frequently a FriendToAllLivingThings and/or AnimalLover. Other times this preference may only extend so far and won't encompass ''all'' scary beasts but perhaps just a particular kind. They may also be a NightmareFetishist, who finds beauty in all things terrifying.

A surefire sign of a Fluffy Tamer is speaking to such ravaging beasts in BabyTalk and ''not'' getting eaten. They can even get close enough to pet them. If this trope works by being terrifying to all animals, she's less likely to call him Fluffy and more likely to [[AndCallHimGeorge name him George]]. Compare AdmiringTheAbomination, where the character is more impressed than afraid of Fluffy's acid spit and fifteen-inch fangs; contrast AnimalsHateHim, who may ''think'' they're good with animals but really aren't.

See also NightmareFetishist, TheBeastmaster, DomesticatedDinosaurs, TrainingThePet. Has nothing to do with [[Creator/GabrielIglesias a guy named Fluffy]]. DragonTamer counts as a subtrope when dragons are the dangerous animal in question.

* ''Fanfic/TheOddsWereNeverInMyFavour:'' During the Magical Tournament, one of the few champions to get past the beasts in the first task is Eleonora da Riva, who offers food to the monster and then caresses the creature and gets it to give her a ride.

* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', one of the possible Guild Bounty targets is the skritt Brekkabek, wanted for illegally keeping ''bears'' as pets. In the fight to subdue him, one of his attacks is to ''throw bears at people''.

** A minor incident occurs on Jaya when Usopp happily [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNk7Am44c0 plays with a tarantula]] that freaks out Nami and Sanji. Especially noteworthy seeing as Usopp is [[CowardlyLion absolutely terrified of]] ''[[CowardlyLion everything else]]''.

* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Katie Aalto's childhood love for living creatures evolves into an academic interest in magical ecology, which turns into her gathering a small menagerie of magical creature allies. She starts by befriending [[OurTrollsAreAllDifferent Marco the troll]], and then successfully tames a griffin fledgeling to the point where the prideful creature will let her ride it, something few mages have ever achieved.

** In the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' Duchess is able to exert near-perfect control over an Extremosaur and even speaks to it with BabyTalk.

* When she and Carnage first encountered the Doppelganger, ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' foe Shriek stopped Carnage from killing it because she thought it was neat, and eventually turned it into a loyal little pet. To put things in perspective, Doppelganger is an animalistic, six-armed, fanged monster clone of Spider-Man with compound eyes. It got even freakier looking when it came BackFromTheDead, mostly due to the photorealistic approach the artist took.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'':
** Hiccup astounds his Viking community on how he is able to handle fearsome dragons without fear. However, this is because he has taken the time to seriously observe dragons and discovered that all the old negative assumptions about the beasts are wrong.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Lagoon Boy shows up in Gotham with his new pet "Spotty", a giant fish-crustacean mashup with several rows of serrated teeth and tentacles, that he found near a deep-sea trench. It probably helps that he's displayed some level of marine-telepathy à la ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}.

* In ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'', the alien creatures of Vertumna are highly dangerous, but if the protagonist has enough skill in Animals, they can tame them and make them their pets, which can be equipped as gear to provide card bonuses.

A surefire sign of a Fluffy Tamer is speaking to such ravaging beasts in BabyTalk and ''not'' getting eaten. They can even get close enough to pet them and find the MonstersFavoritePettingSpot. If this trope works by being terrifying to all animals, she's less likely to call him Fluffy and more likely to [[AndCallHimGeorge name him George]]. Compare AdmiringTheAbomination, where the character is more impressed than afraid of Fluffy's acid spit and fifteen-inch fangs; contrast AnimalsHateHim, who may ''think'' they're good with animals but really aren't.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'', [[HeadlessHorseman Celty]] turns out to have named her massive, undead, headless horse-turned-motorcycle [[FluffyTheTerrible Shooter]]. She thinks the way it terrifies random passers-by on the street is adorable.

** Hiccup's reputation as a dragon trainer has been taken to MemeticBadass levels by people outside the village, to the point that he is known as The Dragon Conqueror and [[ShroudedInMyth described as a 10ft tall giant of a man with the strength of 20]].

* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', [[KnowledgeBroker Talon Karrde]] keeps a pair of vornskrs, [[GratuitousGerman Sturm and Drang]], as pets. Wild vornskrs are quite vicious and dangerous, as Luke and Mara find, but apparently surgically removing their tails curbs their aggression. Even so, Sturm and Drang are both hostile to Force-Sensitives, even if they don't make instant diving leaps of death, and won't listen to his commands to relax. Karrde does have the sense to have one of his people take the animals away when he talks to Luke as soon as he learns about the hostility.
** Both Jacen Solo and later his daughter Alonna have this as a Force ability. Alonna has a pet nexu, a creature that’s usually rather vicious, though she adopted this one as an orphaned baby.

* In ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'', [[KnowledgeBroker Talon Karrde]] keeps a pair of vornskrs, [[GratuitousGerman Sturm and Drang]], as pets. Wild vornskrs are quite vicious and dangerous, as Luke and Mara find, but apparently surgically removing their tails curbs their aggression. Even so, Sturm and Drang are both hostile to Force-Sensitives, even if they don't make instant diving leaps of death, and won't listen to his commands to relax. Karrde does have the sense to have one of his people take the animals away when he talks to Luke as soon as he learns about the hostility.

* In ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick'', the titular character is found at one point happily patting what was up until that moment a large, vicious, bear-like creature that seemed more than happy to tear into whatever it could find that stood still for long enough (which even snapped and roared at the inmate that happened upon the odd pair) with no explanation from Riddick besides a nonchalant comment of "It's an animal thing". One possibility is that because the creature possesses eye-shine similar to Riddick, it may have originated on Furya at well.

%%* In ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'' you can tame T-rexes and call them fluffy.

A Fluffy Tamer is a person skilled with animals and is especially good at the kind of snarling beasts which qualify to be called FluffyTheTerrible. A Fluffy Tamer isn't merely good with such creatures, they are the ones most likely to name them "Fluffy" in the first place. To them, such creatures are as adorable as any kitten or similar house pet. They would either be mortally offended by the idea of WhatMeasureIsANonCute or hold it in completely opposite regard than your average person. The main drawback of such a pastime seems to be having to [[HandsOffMyFluffy deal with consequences]] of {{Muggles}} and {{Idiot Hero}}es freaking out when they see a beast and mistake Fluffy Tamer for DistressedDamsel or something. [[OverusedRunningGag Repeatedly]].

** Belkar, technically, can do this as well, being a ranger, but almost never tries. [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs The times he does, however...]]