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** Bonnie of all people in ''VideoGame/PokemonXandY'' is this. She calls what some would find terrifying to be cute (like say, a Dusclops). While she is not a trainer due to her young age, she manages to befriend a baby tyrannosaurus rex equivalent of Pokémon and ''evolve'' it. Then there's a fact that she's taking care of a ''Legendary Pokémon''.
** James seems to be particularly fond of carnivorous or otherwise dangerous Grass-type Pokemon, and vice-versa. As examples, he's had a Victreebel (a giant pitcher plant), a Cacnea (a mobile cactus), and a Carnivine (a giant venus fly-trap), and all have a tendency to glomp onto James when he releases them. This doesn't just apply to grass-types though as in the ''VideoGame/PokemonSunandMoon'' part of the anime he also catches a Mareanie who glomps his head to straight up ''poison'' him because when his face is purple, his hair and face reminds the Mareanie of her former crush, an alternately colored Mareanie.
** In the ''VideoGame/PokemonSunandMoon'' part of the anime, some of Ash's friends seem to try to one-up each other with Lillie helping raise the pre-evolutions of the legendary pokemon, Solgealo, Mallow befriending the mythical pokemon, Shaymin and Ash's ''rowlet'' of all characters befriending the mythical pokemon, Meltan but none of these feats held a candle to [[spoiler: Lana practically '''''single-handedly''''' saving a massive legendary Pokemon, ''Kyogre'' from some poachers with antitode bait (while she had help from Ash, it was mostly to keep the pokemon belonging to said poacher and his hired hands from attacking Lana), then later placating it's rage '''''by reeling it in''''' and having her newly evolved Primarina sing it a beautiful song (not with the attack known as Sing mind, as no one who heard it fell asleep), after which she befriended it]].

** Rubeus Hagrid has raised a giant spider (Aragog), a baby dragon (Norbert), and a three headed dog (Fluffy). He breeds the aggressive and dangerous Blast-Ended Skrewt hybrids and would never believe that anybody doesn't love them as much as he does -- and he tends to underestimate how dangerous they can be. Hagrid's half-giant heritage grants him some natural strength and dexterity for dealing with dangerous creatures but it constantly gets him into trouble. Tom Riddle used Aragog to frame Hagrid for opening the Chamber of Secrets and Hagrid receives some bad publicity from the Skrewts, which threatens his job as the professor of the Hogwarts course, 'Care of Magical Creatures'.

One man's snarling three headed dog is another man's cute little puppy.

** O-Tama's unnamed Devils Fruit allows her to create dango that tame any animal that eats one. Lion dogs, giant baboons, [[spoiler: Zoan Fruit users]], any beast is fair game.

** Misty is known to adore all Water Pokémon, finding even Tentacruel beautiful. The only Water Pokémon she ever disliked was Gyarados, due to having crawled straight ''into the mouth'' of a sleeping Gyarados as a baby. A spinoff episode later in the series shows her overcoming this fear. After that, she not only battles with the same Gyarados that originally traumatized her, but also ''kisses its Poké Ball'' before throwing it. Her Fluffy Taming doesn't extend beyond Water Pokémon however. She finds Bug Pokémon repulsive.

** Bonnie of all people in ''VideoGame/PokemonXandY'' is this. She calls what some would find terrifying to be cute (like say, a Dusclops). While she is not a trainer due to her young age, she manages to befriend a baby tyrannosaurus rex equivalent of Pokémon and ''evolve'' it. And then there's a fact that she's taking care of a ''Legendary Pokémon''.
** James seems to be particularly fond of carnivorous or otherwise dangerous Grass-type Pokemon, and vice-versa. As examples, he's had a Victreebel and a Cacnea, a giant venus fly-trap and living cactus respectively, and both have a tendency to glomp onto James when he releases them. This doesn't just apply to grass-types though as in the ''VideoGame/PokemonSunandMoon'' part of the anime he also catches a mareanie who glomps his head to straight up ''poison'' him because when his face is purple, his hair and face reminds the mareanie of her former crush, an alternately colored mareanie.
** In the ''VideoGame/PokemonSunandMoon'' part of the anime, some of Ash's friends seem to try to one-up each other with Lillie helping raise the pre-evolutions of the legendary pokemon, Solgealo, Mallow befriending the mythical pokemon, Shaymin and Ash's ''rowlet'' of all characters befriending the mythical pokemon, Meltan but none of these feats held a candle to [[spoiler: Lana pratically '''''single-handedly''''' saving a massive legendary Pokemon, ''Kyogre'' from some poachers with antitode bait (while she had help from Ash, it was mostly to keep the pokemon belonging to pocher and his hired hands from attacking Lana), then later placating it's rage '''''by reeling it in''''' and having her newly evolved Primarina sing it a beautiful song (not with the attack known as Sing mind as no one who heard it fell asleep), after which she befriended it]].

*** This seems to be a [[FriendToAllLivingThings talent of Wander's]], as he also pulls this on an [[BrutishBulls enormous horned space beast]] that Hater tries to feed him to in "The Birthday Boy" and on the "fierce Tigrex of Nil" in "The Epic Quest of Unfathomable Difficulty!!!"

* Annie, the Dark Child, of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is an eight year old mage who tamed a [[BearsAreBadNews Shadow Bear]] at the age of two, named it Tibbers, and carries him around in the form of a plushie teddy bear. Unless she wants to sic him on her enemies.

*** Wander also pulls this on an enormous horned space beast that Hater tries to feed him to in "The Birthday Boy," winning its affection with dog biscuits. It goes from [[BrutishBulls bull]] to [[AllAnimalsAreDogs bulldog]] on the spot.

*** Wander also pulls this on an enormous horned space beast that Hater tries to feed him to in "The Birthday Boy," winning its affection with dog biscuits. It goes from [[BrutishBulls bull]] to [[AllAnimalsAreDogs bulldog]] on the spot, and Hater has a PetTheDog moment with it in the end tag.

*** Wander also pulls this on an enormous raging space beast that Hater tries to feed him to in "The Birthday Boy," winning its affection with dog biscuits. It goes from [[BrutishBulls bull]] to [[AllAnimalsAreDogs bulldog]] on the spot.
---->'''Wander:''' [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Happiness is a happy puppy]], right, Hater?

*** Wander also pulls this on an enormous raging space beast that Hater tries to feed him to in "The Birthday Boy," winning its affection with dog biscuits. It goes from [[BrutishBull bull]] to [[AllAnimalsAreDogs bulldog]] on the spot.
--->'''Wander:''' [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Happiness is a happy puppy]], right, Hater?

*** Wander also pulls this on a raging space beast that Hater tries to feed him to in "The Birthday Boy," winning his affection with dog biscuits.

** Fry to the dragon-like "Bone Vampire" he raises from an egg in "Fry Am the Egg Man."

** In "The Pet" episode of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', Wander finds the spider creature ''adorable'' naming it "Captain Tim," unknowingly after the ship captain who was eaten by the monster ([[BlackComedy it coughed up his dog tag]]). Wander treats it like a pet, but even finds raising it to be a challenge ("He's stolen my heart... HE'S STEALING MY HEART!"), [[spoiler:he and Sylvia "give" it to Lord Hater, who's also very fond of it]].

** In "The Pet" episode of ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'', Wander finds the spider creature ''adorable'' naming it "Captain Tim", unknowingly after the ship captain who was eaten by the monster. Wander treats it like a pet, but even finds raising it to be a challenge ("He's stolen my heart... HE'S STEALING MY HEART!"), [[spoiler:he and Sylvia "give" it to Lord Hater, who's also very fond of it]].

* While perhaps more of a KillerRabbit Tamer, Tamako of ''Anime/DennouCoil'' is the controller of the [[ImplacableMan Satchii and Kyuu-chan]] anti-virus programs. She's also prone to giving them affection pet names like "Tama", a Japanese equivalent to "Fluffy," and praising them like one would a pet.

* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch:''

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* ''Podcast/PokemonWorldTourUnited:'' Cobalt at one point notes that Rose has an affinity for monsters. While many of her Pokemon, such as Bango the Growlithe or Sakura the Bulbasaur, are conventionally cute and otherwise normal Pokemon. Others on her roster include Scramble the KillerRabbit Togepi and Pepper the ghost Charmander. Pepper, in particular, freaks people out regularly just by being the ghost of a Charmander and having the traits thereof. The creepiness factor increases significantly when Pepper evolves to Charmeleon. Despite this, Rose adores her "sweet boy" and regards him as being every bit as cute as Scramble or Bango. The fact Pepper can regularly take down threatening Pokemon is simply a plus, since she's a trainer on a Pokemon journey.

** Despite all evidence to the contrary, Nanny Ogg can only see her [[CatsAreMean tomcat]] Greebo as the sweet little kitten she first took in. This would be the Greebo that is said to be able to fight and/or rape anything up to and including a four-horse logging wagon, and has killed at least two vampires: he ate one in ''Discworld/WitchesAbroad'' (said vampire was in bat form at the time), and the other one in ''Discworld/CarpeJugulum'' he just attacked violently for disturbing his nap.

** This is how Letitia demonstrates she has more depth than Tiffany thought she did in ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight''. Her reactions to a headless ghost and a screaming skeleton were to give them, respectively, a pumpkin to carry under her arm and a teddy-bear.

Such characters are frequently a FriendToAllLivingThings. 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.

* In the 1994 live action film of ''Film/TheJungleBook'', Mowgli is this. The end of the film centers on him [[spoiler: being able to look into Shere Khan's eyes and stop him in his tracks]].