Basic Trope: A bad character abhors anything cute and sweet.
- Straight: Emperor Evulz stares daggers at puppies and orders them gone.
- Exaggerated:
- Emperor Evulz not only can't stand anything pastel-colored, cuteness is literally toxic to him!
- Emperor Evulz is dragged off to Heaven, and it's so cute and adorable, he treats it as if he's been Dragged Off to Hell.
- Downplayed: Emperor Evulz briefly shudders at the sight or mention of puppies.
- Inverted:
- Bob absolutely abhors cuteness.
- Evulz is powered by cuteness.
- Evulz himself is a puppy.
- A cute character likes jagged and creepy stuff.
- Bob is powered by cuteness, and always keeps puppies on standby.
- Parodied: Evulz himself resembles a big fluffy rabbit, and despises anything reminding him he's cute.
- Exploited:
- Care-Bear Stare
- The Mole (but for the good guys), who resembles a chubby mole, makes himself look ugly to appeal to Evulz' sensibilities.
- Averted: Evulz is as affected by the Cuteness Proximity as everyone else. That is to say, a lot.
Back to Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness. And I, as a known natterer, word crufter, AND edit warrior, I HATE everything cute!
