Basic Trope: A person does something bad, but gets away with it because he/she is cute.
- Straight: Bob breaks Alice's computer, but he's so cute and innocent-looking that Alice can't bring herself to blame him.
- Exaggerated: Bob gets out of blowing up a building because of cuteness.
- Downplayed: Bob gets away with minor breeches of etiquette being overlooked.
- Justified:
- Bob's cuteness is magically based, and no one can resist it.
- Bob is a small (and thus cute) child, who naturally cannot be expected to know any better.
- Bob is an adult, and Alice is in love with him.
- Inverted:
- Bob's cuteness makes Alice angrier at him.
- Bob sincerly apologises for breaking Alice's computer, but because he has a rough and haggard appearence his apology is rejected.
- Charlie gets away with something because he is ugly.
- Subverted: Alice looks at Bob's cute face and pauses, but then says, "Nice try."
- Double Subverted: But then Bob's lips quiver and she relents.
- Parodied: Alice uses this as a defense ''in court' for a murder trial. Successfully too to a stern faced judge and jury who never change their outward expression.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Everyone is blind, so whether Bob is cute or not doesn't matter.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "Bob gets away with everything just because he's so cute!"
- Invoked: Emperor Evulz brainwashes cute children to do his bidding.
- Exploited: Bob does a lot of bad stuff because he knows he can get away with it.
- Defied: Alice takes a class in how to resist cuteness.
- Discussed: "You know, Bob's so cute I bet he could get away with anything."
- Conversed: "Quick! Look cute. People in TV always fall for it."
- Deconstructed:
- Alice fails to discipline Bob for his actions and gives leeway for his cuteness, which results in him getting in trouble with the law when he grows up.
- Bob's appearance won't stop the jury from landing a guilty verdict on him.
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