History Main / FluffyTamer

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation, as part of their ongoing attempts to destroy NighInvulnerable OmnicidalManiac [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-682 SCP-682,]] introduced it to [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-053 SCP-053,]] a seemingly ordinary little girl whose presence induces homicidal rage and then lethal heart attacks or seizures in those who interact with her. [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/experiment-log-t-98816-oc108-682 682 did not attack 053 either by its own intentions or by her influence,]] and by the end of the experiment was ''tolerating being drawn on with crayons''. This has raised questions about SCP-053.

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'': Regina George works as an animal tamer in her father's circus, and can get lions, tigers, and even a wild alligator to follow her commands. She's introduced with her tiger, Regent, who she calls "cute".

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

* Shephard from ''Machinima/FreemansMind'' spinoff, ''Shepard's Mind'' has his little alien weapon critters, [[FluffyTheTerrible named Sparky (the shock roach), Gil (the spore launcher), and Barney (the barnacle grapple)]].

** O-Tama's unnamed Devils Fruit allows her to create dango that tames any animal that eats one. Lion dogs, giant baboons, [[spoiler: users of artificial animal-type Zoan Devil Fruit called [=SMILEs=]]], any beast is fair game.

** ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "Three Girls and a Monster" features Blossom and Buttercup arguing Brains VS Brawn to deal with a new monster. Bubbles flies up to it, asks it to leave "pretty please with sugar on top" and it peacefully walks away.

* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', Kagura was this to Sadaharu, the massive dog left on Gin's doorstep. While watching the girl and her dog play, Shinpachi noted that Sadaharu was actually attacking Kagura, but her SuperStrength allowed her to fend off the dog's attempts to maul her.

** Most editions have various "Beastmaster" kits. Naturally raising UpToEleven in settings like ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'', where a dumb lizard the size of a house is but one of many usual means of transportation and the desert has [[DeathWorld more than enough]] powerful beasts and semi-sentient monsters one could persuade to cooperate.

** Jack takes it UpToEleven in ''[[{{DLC}} Citadel]]'' with a formerly abused ''biotic'' varren. Shepard ends up using a frying pan to play fetch with him.

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 the FluffyTamer 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.

** Veonica Weasley of the ''Fanfic/WeasleyGirl'' series, is a literal FluffyTamer, as she befriends Fluffy the Cerberus.

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

* On ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'', Michael Burnham is the only person on the USS ''Discovery'' who can approach the giant space tardigrade nicknamed "Ripper" without being mauled. This is mostly because she's the first person to treat it as an animal to be observed, rather than a monster to be either killed or dissected, so it recognizes her as a non-threat.

** Alder in ''VideoGame/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'' is this way too, once he quits goofing off. The guy is able to flip a Gigalith which was rampaging through a town and destroying everything over with his bare hands, after realizing it's got a nail in its foot. Throw in a Potion to heal the wound, and the thing calms right down. Of course, it didn't seem to work all the time. His Bouffalant goofed off during his battle with Ash.
** Bonnie of all people in ''VideoGame/PokemonTheSeriesXandY'' 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 Pokémon and ''evolve'' it. Then there's a fact that she's taking care of a ''Legendary Pokémon''.

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]].

* In Episode 13 of ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Mitsuko Kongo arrives to a gathering with a snake wrapped around her. Everyone freaks, except Uiharu who coos over the snake and rushes over to pet it. Also, [[TertiarySexualCharacteristics the snake wears a bow]]. The snake's name is Ekaterina and is Kongo's pet; a later story shows her buying whole, frozen mice from a pet shop for its food, to the disgust of the heroines.

* ''Literature/DemonCityShinjuku''. Sayaka Ram in the 1988 OVA. She tames the vicious two headed mutant Doberman called Kuro just by talking to him, while her kindness brings peace to the Fire Demons who haunt the ruined park and allows them to pass on to the hereafter.

** Ascot himself makes a living out of this. His "friends" are huge caterpillar-monsters, the aforementioned canine beast, gargoyle-like creatures, etcetera. And he really cares about them, and gets very upset when the Magic Knights kill them. His whole motive for serving Zagato is because Zagato promised that his creatures would no longer be shunned.

** 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]]''.

** Luffy's new Haki abilities seem to give him this power as a bit of a secondary effect. That tends to happen when you're taught to stare at people in a way that tells even the most hardened criminal to shut the hell up and do what they're told. Or simply knock them unconscious depending on the strength of your 'will' vs. their's.

** James seems to be particularly fond of carnivorous or otherwise dangerous Grass-type Pokémon, 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 ''Sun and Moon'' 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.

* ''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}}.

* 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 the photorealistic approach the artist took.
* In the ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'' story "Rescue 911 a.d.," the unnamed hero goes goes into the dragon's lair not to kill it or take its treasure but to "ease its loneliness." May not count because [[spoiler: he's half-dragon]].

* Thor, Loki, Rocket and Gamora all view Nick Fury as this in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/15032681/chapters/51711547 Been There, Blown That Up]]'', when Fury brings Goose the tabby cat/[[TheDogIsAnAlien flerken]] to the tower. The four of them are cowering in sheer panic and holding Fury in awe at his effortless handling of such a [[KillerRabbit deadly creature]], while Fury is warning them away from his pet and Clint has absolutely no idea what's going on.

* In ''Fanfic/TheMansionverse'', the Ghost Host was one when he was alive, having such [[PetMonstrosity Pet Monstrosities]] as a man-eating bat, an elephant and an equally carnivorous octopus ([[http://haunted-mansion-fandom.wikia.com/wiki/PHU_DA_005 whom he likes to hug]]).

* In the 1994 live action film of ''Film/{{The Jungle Book|1994}}'', 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]].

* In the Russian movie ''Film/PolosatyReys'' (''Striped Freight''), a whole bunch of tigers and lions are set loose upon a cargo liner they've been freight by (no gore, it's a comedy). The stewardess suddenly finds herself in favor of the predators, grooms them and even manages to herd them back into their cages. Doubled since she's played by an actual tiger trainess.

* In [[AllThereInTheManual supplemental material]], it's revealed that the guy who cried after Luke Skywalker killed the Rancor in ''Franchise/StarWars [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Episode VI: Return of the Jedi]]'' was one of these. That same supplemental material reveals that Rancors are FluffyTheTerrible of the GentleGiant variety; they're sort of like big, lovable apes with strong parental instincts. The particular Rancor from the movie fell victim to Jabba the Hutt's prejudices; because it ''looked'' big, mean, and nasty, he ordered it starved and mistreated so that it would make a good show when he threw people into it's pen. That's right, the Rancor is the Star Wars equivalent of a pit bull. If a pit bull were large enough to eat you in a single bite. They are even used as beasts of burden on their homeworld of Dathomir.

* Rob Korrigan of ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'' is a Dinosaur Master, a job which entails taming, training and preparing dinosaurs. He loves them all fiercely, to the point of crying when he sees them wounded.

** Hodgesaargh, Lancre's royal falconer, is somewhat of an example, although he doesn't name his charges "Fluffy". Still, he's successfully reared the most lethal feathered hunters in the world (which is, after all half the point of falconry). He just hasn't managed to tame them completely (admittedly, this is the other half). And that's still better than some people could manage, given that Lancre's native birds of prey are described as having "a certain 'sod-you' disposition".
** This is how Letitia demonstrates she has more depth than Tiffany thought she did in ''Literature/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.

** During his years at Hogwarts, Ron's second-oldest brother Charlie Weasley liked animals and magical creatures; he later went to Romania in order to study about dragons.

* Vicki Pallister from ''Series/DoctorWho''. Much to the Doctor's consternation, she finds a tame Zarbi "cute", and even christens it "Zombo". Unfortunately this works against her in her first episode, when Barbara mistakes her beloved pet Sandy for a threat and shoots him.

* [[Myth/GreekMythology Heracles]] was mainly known for killing monsters as part of his twelve labors, but for one of them he had to bring back Cerberus. Instead of fighting the beast and getting on Hades's bad side, he just asked Hades if he could borrow his dog, to which the god agreed as long as he returned it unharmed. May count as a subversion, since Cerberus was technically already "tamed".

* In ''VideoGame/CivilizationBeyondEarth'', a civ that follows the [[NatureHero Harmony affinity]] will also be able to domesticate alien critters and use them as attack animals or mounts, their FantasticNuke is a trigger that lures gigantic Siege Worms to attack the city, and the Harmony civ's ultimate unit is the Xeno Titan, basically a {{Kaiju}} with the highest melee strength of any unit in the game. Any civ, regardless of affinity, that has an alien nest in it's territory for 60 turns will be able to control the aliens spawned from it, as if they were their own units. The''Rising Tide'' expansion gives Harmony players the ability to "leash" wild alien creatures and convert them into controllable units, including Siege Worms and Kraken.

** The Ranger Specialisation for Rogues allows them to summon a Wolf, Bear or GiantSpider to fight alongside them in battle.

** Meanwhile, his sister Madchen shares daddy's love for monsters, and often laments their bad reputation.

** This was the job of a Dungeon Master in older versions. Having one lets you tame anything with the [PET_EXOTIC] tag, which means you can greet a siege with a flock of War Giant Eagles or Giant Cave Spider web-turrets. The Dungeonmaster was eventually phased out entirely: now how well you can tame an "exotic" animal depends on your dwarfs' experience with that specific creature. So with enough time you can have an entirely ''civilization'' of Fluffy Tamers. It's also easy to mod the proper tags onto almost any creature and make them into potential exotic pets.

* The Sole Survivor from ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' can gain the Wasteland Whisperer perk and with it can pacify any mutated animal below their level. This includes [[BearsAreBadNews Yao Guai]] and ''[[TheDreaded Deathclaws]]''. Sadly, this is only a temporary ability that only works as long as the Sole Survivor has a weapon drawn. With the Wasteland Workshop DLC, the Sole Survivor can build traps that allows him/her to catch mutated animals at settlements and use them as guard beasts. So it's quite possible to have half a dozen Deathclaws roaming around Sanctuary to act as guard animals.

* In the ''Website/GaiaOnline'' MMO, ''[=zOMG!=]'', a [[MadScientist labtech]] asks you to acquire technology from vicious prairie dog/cyborg aliens, in hopes that he can build a translator to communicate with them. [[spoiler: When you meet him again in the Sealab Compound, he indicates that he ''can'' communicate with [[KillerRabbit Grunnies]], and that they gave him a heads-up you were coming.]]

** ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'' brings it to the logical extreme with Pokémon-Amie. From the tiniest kitten-like critter to gigantic, snarling behemoths, all are fair game for petting, cuddling, playing and feeding Puffs.

* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory'' series lets you tame monsters, name them, pet them, and make them do chores or fight with you. A monster "wooly" is known for being so cute that almost everyone in-game like them, especially the in third game, where a few heroines have a common quest to discover a certain golden wooly. [[spoiler: That golden wooly is the protagonist in his monster form.]]

** In later spin-offs, many other agents exhibit this trait towards large monsters of the unfriendly and canonical variety, and nearly all agents towards minis.

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

** 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 Conquerer and [[ShroudedInMyth described as a 10ft tall giant of a man with the strength of 20]].

* The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' ''attempts'' this with his former sidekick Foamy The Freakadog, a stray mutt Freakazoid found in the back of a dogcatchers truck. Said dog is clearly rabid, incredibly vicious, and constantly attacks him, not that Freakazoid notices.

** Lilo single-handedly turns a rampaging, gentically-modified alien into a loving pet. She procedes to do the same to 625 other such creatures in ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'', as well as 625[=/=]Reuben and Gantu in ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' by finding "their one true place" and helping Gantu get reinstated as Captain in the Galactic Armada with Reuben as his first mate and galley cook.

** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E19TradeYa Trade Ya!]]" has Fluttershy able to calmly walk up to and calm a vicious orthros[[note]]A two headed dog and brother of Cerberus, who is mentioned in the "It's About Time" example[[/note]] just by rubbing the chin of one of its two heads, after watching it break a chain with its two heads. At the end, as part of Rainbow's deal to get a first edition Daring Do, she almost ends up going to Manehatten to spend months training the orthros because of how much it likes her, before Rainbow realizes she made a big mistake and has Twilight call off the trade.

** Bizarro adopts a vicious reptilitan alien from the menagerie Superman liberated from the Collector in the two parter "The Main Man", and refers to it as "Krypto". Thanks to Bizarros invulnerability, he takes the creatures attempts at mauling him as affectionate cuddling.
** Superman himself is this, having a large zoo of sorts in his Fortress of Solitude for the various alien beings he rescued from the Collector, most of which are of the StarfishAlien variety. This actually comes back to bite him in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' as its revealed that one of these aliens is the DCAU version of Starro The Conquerer.

* This is the job of César Millán as featured on the Creator/NationalGeographicChannel, his speciality being breeds that are (unfairly) thought of as Fluffies... Pitbulls and Rottweilers.

* An episode of ''That's Incredible'' featured an otherwise normal American family that reared a brood of large cats - 10 cougars, 4 bobcats, a jaguar, and a lynx. All were treated affectionately as if they were housecats.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGJUREA0cmQ This brave fellow]] shows that if you raise Polistes wasps from an early age and desensitize them to your fingers they will happily eat whatever you hand them on your finger. It's implied he's not only feeding a wasp, but a queen wasp whose behavior could determine whether the colony will accept him or sting him mercilessly.

* Tarot Cards. Many versions depict The Strength of the Major Arcana as a beautiful woman holding a ferocious looking lion in a headlock, clearly dominating the beast.

* Real life [[AngryGuardDog untrained guard dogs]], kept specifically for their natural aggressive and/or violent behavior by private owners or low-budget businesses, can occasionally be an excellent example of this trope. Anyone else stepping foot near the fence faces mauling, but the keeper who bottle raised them risks only [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu being playfully presented]] [[AndCallHimGeorge the remains of the latest attempted burglar by]] [[BadassAdorable a proud tailwagging fluffy]].

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV''**

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has [[CheerfulChild Parry Gotha]] taking interest in [[TheHero his father's]] ability to capture and tame monsters. Meanwhile, his sister Madchen shares daddy's love for monsters, and often laments their bad reputation.[[spoiler:The Hero inherited this power from his own mother, a woman who could purge the evil out of monsters.]]

** Leela is devoted to her adorable extraterrestrial pet [[FluffyTheTerrible Nibbler]], a tiny carnivore who eats animals many tens of times his size and isn't above wreaking a little havoc on Leela's friends. His gentleness to her is [[JustifiedTrope justified]], however; [[spoiler: he's fully sapient and only pretends to be a dumb animal.]] When Leela similarly tries to adopt a deadly space bee, [[RealityEnsues things goes south]] ''[[RealityEnsues very]]'' [[RealityEnsues quickly]].

* [[Series/CrocodileHunter Steve Irwin]] may not have given them cutesy names, but he definitely was good with dangerous animals.

** In Third Edition, a Druid could start out with a pet wolf or cobra (or, admittedly, some cuddlier critters), and after gaining experience has the opportunity to tame larger and fiercer animals, such as a 35-foot-long (10.7m) dire tiger or a ''TyrannosaurusRex''.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has [[CheerfulChild Parry Gotha]] taking interest in [[TheHero his father's]] ability to capture and tame monsters. [[spoiler:He inherited this power from his own mother, a woman who could purge the evil out of monsters.]]

See also NightmareFetishist, TheBeastmaster, DomesticatedDinosaurs. Has nothing to do with [[Creator/GabrielIglesias a guy named Fluffy]].

* 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.

* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth''

%%* Konoka of ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' had this sort of reaction to a dragon once.

* ''Manga/OnePiece:''

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

** Alder in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is this way too, once he quits goofing off. The guy is able to flip a Gigalith which was rampaging through a town and destroying everything over with his bare hands, after realizing it's got a nail in its foot. Throw in a Potion to heal the wound, and the thing calms right down. Of course, it didn't seem to work all the time. His Bouffalant goofed off during his battle with Ash.
** 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 Pokémon and ''evolve'' it. Then there's a fact that she's taking care of a ''Legendary Pokémon''.

** Also in ''Sun and Moon'', some of Ash's friends seem to try to one-up each other with Lillie helping raise the pre-evolutions of the legendary Pokémon, Solgaleo, Mallow befriending the mythical Pokémon, Shaymin ([[TearJerker long story]]), and Ash's ''Rowlet'' of all characters befriending the mythical Pokémon, Meltan, but none of these feats held a candle to [[spoiler: Lana practically and '''''single-handedly''''' saving a massive legendary Pokémon, ''Kyogre'' from some poachers with antidote bait (while she had help from Ash, it was mostly to keep the Pokémon belonging to said poacher and his hired goons 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 to be confused with the move known as Sing mind you, as no one who heard it fell asleep), after which she befriended it]].

* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim:''

* ''Videogame/FallenLondon'': The local zoo analogue, the Labyrinth of Tigers, is staffed to the brim by these, what with having to deal with cranky serpents, a [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Rhino]], a very, very playful giant octopus, among others. And if you want to start making progress inside it, you'll have to learn their ways.

* The Sole Survivor from ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' can gain the Wasteland Whisperer perk and with it can pacify any mutated animal below their level. This includes [[BearsAreBadNews Yao Guai]] and ''[[TheDreaded Deathclaws]]''. Sadly, this is only a temporary ability that only works as long as the Sole Survivor has a weapon drawn. With the Wasteland Workshop DLC, the Sole Survivor can build traps that allows him/her to catch mutated animals at settlements and use them as guard beasts. So it's quite possible to have half a dozen Deathclaws roaming around Sanctuary to act as guard animals.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy:''

* Any hero in the ''Videogame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' series who has an affinity for {{Hellhound}}s is probably one of these. Fiona from the third game and Lorhish from the sixth were, respectively, a circus animal tamer and an imperial kennel-master before they were recruited by the demons, and use the skills from their old jobs to keep their hellhounds in line, while Grawl from the fifth game considers hellhounds to be the only creatures he can truly empathise with.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect:''

* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}:''

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* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender:''
** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch:''

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' has a [[CheerfulChild cheerful boy]] Parry Gotha taking interest in [[TheHero his father's]] ability to capture and tame monsters. [[spoiler:He inherited this power from his own mother, a woman who could purge the evil out of monsters.]]