For This Troper, a lot of RealLife animals fall into this category, such as wolf eels, star nosed moles, and hairless cats.

Pug dogs especially, with their Big PuppyDogEyes and their widdle worried wook makes you go d'aww, whoza cute widdle puppy :3...

Pugs are adorable, period. They're ridiculous looking and are a slap in the face to evolution, but they're adorable. Look at dah shnookums, isn't he the cuuuuutest?? If you don't agree I'll be forced to resort to violence. (This troper is a little too in love with her dog)

Don't forget Puggles. Mine is precious!

Pugs, Shar-peis, and Chinese crested dogs were specifically bred with this in mind.

Don't forget the Boxer Dogs... After a certain age, they look weird, but they are so cuddly and playful! Having a boxer is like having an eternal puppy :3

No kidding. This troper's cousin has a dog who is (we think) part Mastiff, part Boxer, and part Great Dane. She's ''huge'' and not the prettiest thing -- but she is absolutely a RealLife incarnation of the BigFriendlyDog trope.

Sorry, but It Just Bugs Me: If we're talking about '''dogs'''... why is everyone using the '''cat''' smiley? :3

It's not a kitty smilie. It's a happy face smilie.

This troper has had a soft spot for the pug breed (despite his mom finding them hideous). His first dog to own on his own will be a pug, in a couple of years...

...This troper has never thought of pugs as ugly. She can understand why other people would, but the pug is just cute cute to her.

Similarly, Boston Terriers. They've got that same "ran into a brick wall at high speed" look as boxers and bulldogs, but with bonus bug eyes, big pointy ears, and no tail. In addition, they're prone to losing eyes (about half the older Bostons I've known have only had one), many of them are so overbred that they get all kinds of bizarre diseases, and they have gas like you wouldn't believe. They are also the absolute most adorable little tuxedo-wearing mutants since penguins. I mean, just look at this ugly-as-sin little guy and tell me you don't want to hug him.Terrier ''[[EverythingsPreciousWithPuppies puppies'', on the other hand, are conventionally cute. Like, REALLY.]]

My sister considers my black lab/border collie mix this mainly because he's old, dirty, and has smelly breath, he's still conventionally cute to my brother and I at least with his wide eyes, fluffy coat, and his reactions to certain things.

This troper has a soft-spot for unconventionally cute animals like you wouldn't believe. Just a quick list: Assassin Bugs, Caddisflies, Jumping Spiders, Horned Frogs, Molochs, Horned Lizards, Chuckwallas, Gila Monsters, Vine Snakes, Oviraptors, Bitterns, Spoonbills, Abelosaurs, Echidnas, Oppossums, Tarsiers, Armadillos, Babirusas, Beaked Whales and so on and so forth.

Heck, she was just recently reduced to a squeeing idiot in front of the Tawny Frogmouths at the Frankin Park Zoo. Can you blame her? The bird looks like a living Muppet! Observe!

Pretty much anything with large/prominent eyes triggers this troper's "awww, cute!" response, regardless of what the rest of it looks like.

Baby vultures. Dey are ickle cute scavenger pwedators, yes dey ''are''!

This troper's favorite animal for about five years was the pangolin (due to its page in a friend's "Wildlife Fact-File binder). Scaled (razor-sharp ones to boot) mammals? What could be cooler?

This troper finds bats and possums to be utterly adorable.

Well, they are.

Agreed.

Unless they play dead in the dark and they look like they're snarling at you with their razor-sharp fangs and you and your flashlight are at the perfect angle to 'admire' their teeth... But when they're right-side up and scurrying around on the fence? ADORABLE!!

To all who dare disagree about bats being cute...

I fail to see how the "ugly" part fits at all when it comes to pteropodidae and most other bats really.

This troper thinks that many cephalopods, especially squids and octopuses, are quite adorable.

More like ''cuddle''fish, amirite?

Octopodes are at their cutest when attempting to hide. There's something adorable about a section of sand or coral that is watching you nervously.

And don't forget ''baby'' octopodes! They're like little bug-eyed multi-colored grains of rice floating around.

Giant {{Squee}} in 3... 2... 1...

What about nautiluses? Awwwwww.

This troper finds ravens, squid, and ADULT vultures (their default expressions are hilarious) cute, but thinks that possums look like furred lizards (its the teeth. too many, and too homogeneous. And the jaws open much too wide). Basically, the smarter an animal is, the cuter I find it, regardless of its appearance. Rabbits are boring, raccoons are awesome.

This Troper, while at the zoo with her mom, made a comment about how some vultures kinda resemble {{Dr. Seuss}} characters, with their funny shaped head and that tuft around their neck.

This troper fell in love with snakes and all things reptile earlier this year. Have you ever seen a snake try and eat anything bigger than its head? Its face is frozen in a 8D expression. ADORABLE. Also, lizards are living muppets.

Baby snakes are ridiculously cute. Also, this troper knows someone who has a boa with an exclamation point shaped mark on her head, which is just plain awesome.

Did that person name the boa David?

Aye-ayes. Especially after the pair in this lurker's local zoo had a baby. D'awww...

this troper agrees. Cracked may have described them as "rat that ate all the crystal meth," but it's kinda cute in a crazy sorta way.

For this troper, who loves aye-ayes so much she named her ''user handle'' after them, Cracked's comment about aye-ayes was the one thing that really set her off. She loves the site and can handle them making fun of some of her favorite movies, bands, sites, fandoms, etc, but once they made a comment about how "Just because they're endangered, we're supposed to care".....

This troper thinks baby snapping turtles are cute. Grown up snapping turtles aren't so cute, but they're still awesome.

This troper hates all spiders except for jumping spiders. They're rather cute and try to keep their distance, making them much more bearable.

It's those big, buggie eyes.

Six of them, yet!

Awww...

And their mating ceremony involves impersonating a backfiring motorcycle.

Huzzah for Jumping Spiders!

This particular troper finds everything that makes cute noises adorable; be it dog, hyena or a very, very peed-off lion cub.

Trumpetfishes are adorable. Also, manta rays. And hermit crabs.

Everyone else in this troper's zoology class finds water possums hideous. But I kinda want one.

Maybe it's just because that's not the best picture of a Yapok. In ''The Life Of Mammals'', there's footage of a water possum swimming and hunting. My God, the little hands held out and ready to grab fish.

This particular troper seems to have a really indiscriminate love for lesser animals, with the only exceptions apparently being hairless cats, the more hideous breeds of dogs, and just about every parasitic organism ever to exist in the history of the world.. His favorites in no particular order are: Reptiles altogether, spiders other than the explicitly deadly ones and the necrosis inducing ones, especially likes jumping spiders, finds baboons to be rather bad ass, considers rays and skates the best form of marine life ever, and practically idolizes ants and bees.

Jumping spiders are probably one of my favourite animals and I like hermit crabs, eels, baby reptiles, including velociraptors of all things and tadpoles.

Tasmanian Devils. Adorable, but THEY WILL GNAW YOUR FACE OFF.

Go check out the listing of the Humboldt squid on the NightmareFuel: Animals page. This troper is the one who added it. Far from being scared of it, he thinks they are ''awesome'' - and yes, he lives in their territory.

It biology class, anything that makes my classmates go 'eww', makes me go 'awww'.

The blobfish. It looks like a half-melted Mr. Saturn.

Sorry to disappoint you, but it actually normally looks like this. Much like a jellyfish, its body is only slightly less dense than water, and it normally lives under extreme pressure in the ocean abyss, so when it was brought out of the water it basically collapsed in on itself, resulting in the image of a comical puddle of flesh.

Still cute. Look at that big ol' mouth!

Another one who coos over reptiles, birds of prey, and assorted prehistoric reptilians.

This troper firmly believes the star-nosed mole to be the most ugly-cute rodent imaginable. He also finds slugs and snails oddly adorable; its the way they just wander about, waving their little tentacles, and how they retract them back in so fast. Snakes are pretty cute too, with their little black eyes and curious wavering. And you can't forget the inexplicably shy coconut crab!

Coconut Crab approaches! Command?

This troper could never, ever, ''ever'' buy a lobster from the tank at the grocery store and take it home to ''eat'' it. Just look at those precious black beedy eyes! How can you want to eat ''that''?

This lurker's brother bought one. now inhabits the fish tank in the study. He likes tuna pieces.

This troper used to cry for hours whenever seeing lobster tanks in supermarkets or grocery stores :(

Quite a LOT of animals, such as the Japanese Giant Salamander and the Star-Nosed Mole.

I like Star-Nosed Moles for the song "Brown Car" (I go around town, in a brown car, its brown.)

This troper is completely terrified of snakes, but would like to mention that hognose snakes are adorable when their noses itch and they're rubbing their face on the wall to scratch it. They still creep her out, but in a cute sort of way.

Mole rats.

The naked mole rat exhibit is this troper's favorite at the zoo. They're hideously ugly, yet inexplicably adorable.

Elephants. Sure, they're adorable, but they're also huge, hulking grey things.

Honey Badgers. Possibly the most bloody-minded animal on the face of the planet. Even lions and hyenas avoid the little bastards, and they snarl constantly. Fortunately, they live on the opposite side of the planet from this troper, and she is free to squeal and clap her hands in delight at the sight of their sheer, fuzzy badassitude without fear of provoking snarling, claw-toothy badger retribution.

I ''love'' axolotls!

A fellow Axolotl lover then. I want to find a Neotonic one, but my parents wont let me get one anyway. They find the thing disgusting.

Me too is an Axolotl lover.

Ha ha! Woopers.

Pure evidence of axolotl adorability.

Deep down, one way or another, ''everything'' is cute.

* This troper has always had a special place in her heart for velociraptors and sharks. She squeals whenever the velociraptors in JurassicPark make those cute little noises. Also, have you ever looked at a flee under a microscope? They're actually kinda cute.

Agreed on the raptors. ^_^

This troper saw the faceless cat on NightmareFuel and just had to put it here.

This is Ugly ''Cute'' you're putting it under; I'm afraid you've got the wrong trope. The correct trope would be Ugly ''Adorable'', it just doesn't exist.

It's kind of odd, because I found her to be pretty disturbing at first, but the more pictures of her just engaging in normal kitty behavior I saw, the more cute and woobie-ish she became.

This troper finds tarantulas kind of cute with all those eyes and the fuzzy fur on them, and has a bit of a soft spot for wasps, believe it or not. This troper also happens to have a fear of wasps. I'm very conflicted...

I don't think Retro Studios intended the reaction to seeing the swarms of itty-bitty, newly hatched Metroids in ''{{Metroid}} Prime 2'' to be a fangirlish squee. Sure, the NightmareFuel kicks in once one of them wanders over to some Phazon, but... they're so ''tiny!'' And their "fangs" are just little stubby tentacles! And the squeaking! Eeeee!

And from the same troper: alligators are absolutely the cutest reptiles. Snakes are very close.

This troper once saw a documentary about a man who hand-raised hyena cubs, and now thinks that hyenas are absolutely adorable.

Baby aardvarks.

Sarcastic Fringeheads. They have faces that vaguely resemble Admiral Ackbar, tend to hide in barrels, tubes, or small caves and poke their heads out, and have a ridiculously muppety-looking way of fighting with each other.

Most baby birds are hideously ugly, with gigantic, oversized beaks, no feathers or pinfeathers, bulging eyes, etc. Yet for some reason I still find most of them cute on some level. Obviously, certain baby birds (ducks, chickens, etc.) are cute right from the start. Observe: Baby cockatiel.

This troper always found rollie-pollies -er, Pill Bugs to be particularly adorable, and tried to create a "Rollie Pollie Hotel" in her front steps as a child.

Wait a moment-you mean those animals aren't naturally considered cute?

Reader's Digest is stupid. That dog is the cutest thing ever! Like a little tame hyena!

This troper happens to find pretty much all amphibians cute. Including caecilians. Oh, he also has a ''humongous'' book called ''Animal'', and thinks the cutest thing in there is a close-up of a jumping spider. And he thinks anything with tentacles is cute. especially Elder Things and molluscs. Oh, and he also wants a tapeworm. It'd be easy to look after.

My chihuahua is constantly described by others as looking like a mangy rat. I wouldn't have him any other way.

This troper has a soft spot for all kinds of reptiles an amphibians. He also finds Cephalopods (especially nautiluses and cuttlefish) as well as crabs and lobsters adorable.

It helps that the cuttlefish's very ''name'' sounds sort of like "Cuddle fish".

This troper thinks that Egyptian hairless cats, tarantulas, cobras and Hatchet fish are cute.

This troper thinks Octopi and Sharks are just adorable!

Pigs. Especially piglets, but any age. They're just SO ADORABLY UGLY. ;A;

Owls. So expressive, so fluffy. This troper likes crows as well, but likes grackles better. Must be their eyes and iridescent feathers.

This editor just had a small flock of Grackles visit her backyard -- three fluffy fledglings with over-sized "training wheel" flight feathers and their mom, who was teaching them how to forage for snails. This crossed from Unconventionally Cute right into Straight-Up Adorable.

This troper is a female Radiohead fan who finds Thom Yorke insanely adorable, as do all other female Radiohead fans she knows.

And this Radiohead-enjoying troper was waiting for him to show up on this list. XD

The Ocean Pout. It looks almost ''exactly'' like the eponymous character in ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet'' (post-fishy transformation, of course).

This Troper thinks that the puppet in the video for Interpol's "Evil" is adorable. He's like a muppet and a human had a baby!

For This Troper baby snakes. Especially ball pythons. That is all.

This Troper really likes animals with fangs. It doesn't matter what the rest of it looks like, as long as it has fangs, It's adorable!

A former Hallmate to this troper would often visit tarantula forums, watch videos of tarantula bite symptoms, and even sent out an email on April Fool's Day stating she had lost her tarantula, "George" in the dorms, and instructed people to safely return him to her. We all dismissed it as fake until we discovered she actually HAD tarantualas hidden in her closet closer to the end of the year. She even named on after our R.A. Hey- after that one dies she promises to name the next one after me!

Babies under 5 or 6 months old tend to have strange shaped heads, bulbous eyes, and patchy, tufty hair, as well as habits of farting, throwing up and wailing like an air raid siren at any given moment... but then they smile at you or fall asleep in your arms and suddenly you never want to put them down.

This troper for whatever reason loves what he terms the "baby mohawk" - when their hair is mostly grown in, but only in the the center of the top of the head.

Oddly enough, Lobsters. Whenever this troper goes to a Red Lobster, he can't help but find them outright {{Woobie}}-esque.

For this Troper, it's bulldogs, kiwis, moles, and toads, seeing as bulldogs are usually seen as flabby and ugly, her mother thinks that kiwis are the ugliest creature to grace this Earth, moles are seen as Godless pests, and toads (not frogs) are always associated with warts. D'aaaaaaaaaw!

This editor finds {{Salad Fingers}} quite endearing, and doesn't see why so many people are freaked out about him.

Likewise; this troper finds him to be quite the woobie, mainly ''because'' he's so horrifyingly out of touch with reality that he's liable to unintentionally kill his friends.

BRELOOM! On contrast, I think Shroomish is plain hideous.

This troper finds bats, rats, gargoyles, and "scary" Halloween Decorations cute. Oh, and Daddy Long Legs. And Slugs. And most bugs, except for centipedes and silverfish.

This troper loves house centipedes... They eat the bugs I don't like.

On the human front, this troper has an enormous girlcrush on Timothy Spall. Best known to most people as Wormtail, Beadle Bamford, and "that creepy guy from ''{{Enchanted}}''". It helps that he actually has a pleasant, witty response to being perpetually cast as the creepy guy. And on the nonhuman front, I find Parktown prawns adorable and certain other prawns even more so. Like, majorly.

Holy moly, it's not just me? Thank god, I was getting worried.

The parasitic isopod called the Tongue Eating Louse is like a BodyHorror worthy of HPLovecraft, but...dangit, look at that face! It's like a little hand puppet on the tongue.

The Frogfish, or Anglerfish in Australia, is a medium-sized, fairly warty fish that comes in several varieties, such as the Hairy Frogfish, and use a lure on their heads to attract prey, which they then swallow in one gulp. So what's so cute about them? They don't swim, they WALK. On adorable stubby fin-legs. And when a pair of them mate, the male, which is much smaller than the female, starts following her around everywhere. The effect is so charming I fell in love at first sight.

This Troper remembers watching a movie in biology class, which included a fruit eating piranha snacking on a berry. The class' "Aww" was very noticeable.

This troper thinks newborn babies of most species (including human) are UglyCute. Many of them become conventionally cute after a few days or weeks, but let's face it, most creatures come into this world as ugly little things. And most people still find them adorable because, well, they're ''babies''.

This troper has a theory that the human tendency to find small, wrinkly, squashed-looking creatures adorable is the offshoot of a necessary survival instinct that gave our ancestors the incentive to take care of their newborns despite the helplessness, demandingness, and lack of conventional attractiveness of very new babies.

It's kinda weird that This Troper's friends find newborn babies ugly. Babies are ''always'' cute before they're one year old.

This troper has a...thing...for anything with duplication-based physical deformities. Extra heads, tails, limbs, you name it.

I know, right? Esspecially Two-headed kittens

This troper realizes that the general opinion about the bosses in WarioLand 4 is that they are nightmarish and hideous, but he thinks they are adorable. How can Catbat and Cractus not be cute?

Newborn babies. Someone had to say it... Stop looking at this one like that! *Hides*

Also, this one thinks that weevils, bats of all types, Abe and most creatures here are all adorable.

ALSO also, minus the first two, all creatures in this list are adorable (especially that Giraffe Weevil).

This Troper has just finished reading through the HighOctaneNightmareFuel page for animals. The number of "Awww"s the page got out of him greatly outnumbered the number of "Ack!"s. How anyone could not like angler fish and coconut crabs and spiders is beyond me.

ThisTroper finds Gharials to be one of the cutest animals on earth. Also Isopods.

Baby future predators. Not the grown up ones, just the babies. Awww.

You know what? Anemones. They're cute. There's just something very endearing about the way they retract when you poke them.

This troper has a pet Eastern Bearded Dragon, due to a girl I know also having such a lizard as a pet (named Boris). She called my lizard 'gorgeous'. And yes, he is adorable and likes watching TV, especially {{Godzilla}}. I'm a cat person, but I think Sandstorm here counts as an honourary cat.

Hugely so for tyranids from Warhammer 40k, especially the little ones like hormagaunts. Playing dawn of war 2 and building immense hordes of befanged ravenous monstrosities that are about the size of a dog and which run in a sort of loping waddle and leap over obstacles is utterly adorable. Especially when the entire screen is filled with them swarming across the map. The fact that they will inevitably strip the entire planet of all life and useful materials of any kind with months is entirely beside the point. ''Who's''aicklechitinousallconsumingabomina''shun?'' You are!

If the previous edition fluff is anything to go by none of the included Tyranids are dog sized. They start at about the size of a fully grown man and only get bigger, and by that I mean Gaunts are about 6', warriors about 10-12' and those are the swarming types. Rippers would make ideal pets if they were anything more than a mobile mouth, but the average person could likely use most tyranids as a mount rather than a pet. This hasn't stopped me painting my Carnifex bright pastel pink and charging it into tanks for the sake of it though, Tyranids are about as cute as galaxy devouring horrors get (though Cthulhu and co. are a close second.)

Hu'Szsersvn probably counts. She's an ugly insectoid from Champions Online that loves to touch people's faces. Her nickname? ''Hugs''.

This editor finds the Direhorses in ''Film/{{Avatar}}'' the cutest creatures on Pandora. It's probably due to the scene where one of them laps up honey from a flower. That ''face!''

Praying mantises. They're ADORABLE.

This Troper finds human embryos so incredibly CUTE! Also, manatees are just so incredibly lovably dumb you just wanna give them a big shnuglewuggleyboo!

The trappers from EternalDarkness.

Julia Pastrana, mostly due to her status as a real-life {{Woobie}}.

Bees, and the baby Skedar from PerfectDark. This troper's girlfriend has a soft spot for Breviceps and amphisbaenians.

I don't find any animal ugly, but I simply love pterosaurs. Pteranodon itself is just adorable, specially when it was recently discovered its belly was pot shaped

Going off the {{Eversion}} example, this troper is probably one of the few who finds X-8 things cute.

For this troper: Baby goats. Though they may not count as ugly to most.

Is it just me, or are anteaters adorable?

This troper thinks many "gross" creatures are adorable (or beautiful...in their own way). Two that come to mind are: little baby snakes, or small snakes (larger snakes aren't as adorable because their just too big) and bats (they look like little furballs between their wings)! Awwww.....

Opossums, guys, opossums! I mean, wookit the widdle itty bitty babies! [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Jmv4oU5K4LM/Sj8ZrOOs5lI/AAAAAAAAAlw/E9IhPR3tSSs/s400/ugly-possum.jpg

Baby owls. Seriously, go to Molly the Owl's Ustream feed and see how many people {{Squee}} over how cute the little owlets are. At the time of writing, all her owlets are a week old or younger and don't look anywhere near conventionally cute, but the channel is regularly breaking 20,000 viewers a day.

And now it is over. The total views have broken 14 million, and we're all gonna miss the fluffballs.

Bulldogs.

And bulldog puppies. Hairless, beady-eyed, wrinkly masses of ''adorable''.

Apparently, pleco fish are ugly, but I thought that they are cute, even those that grow to massive size.

I know most of the examples on here are animals, but I know one human example. She goes to my school. Her upper lip is torn, so it looks like she has a CatSmile. She is missing one of her teeth and needs braces. She has sort of a plump, lopsided nose. She is also one of the nicest girls I will ever know in my life, and by far one of the prettiest in my book which proves my point: Ugly+Nice=Pretty.

When this troper was a kid, she was fascinated by the two-headed snake at the zoo. I've later learned that two-headed snakes are more common than I'd previously thought, and that their life expectancy is short. I now feel sorry for them.

Is this troper the only troper around who finds the {{Scribblenauts}} version of Nuckelavees rather...cute?

This troper finds most real kids obnoxious, yet finds many of the kids in movies who are supposed to be scary to instead be adorable. Hmm...

Geckos and newborn crocodiles are scaly, have a mouthfull of tiny sharp teeth, big eyes, and make the cutest sounds in the world.

This troper considers uromastyx lizards (seriously, google them and try not to squee) to be the most pathetic, soft, stupid, clumsy bundles of scaly adorableness. Snakes and turtles have most of the same charm. Tarantulas too, minus the "soft and scaly" part.

Goomba.

Especially the partners from the VideoGame/PaperMario games!

You know, for villianous, sharp clawed/toothed little turtle-dragons, this troper always found the Koopalings kind of cute.

Most of the animals (and plants) featured in this blog are UglyCute.

This troper finds Zim adorable in a hideous, insectoid, psychotic way. I mean, just look at those big red eyes!

Corn Snakes. And they come in lots of pretty colors!

Rats! Fuzzy wuzzy rats with their big noses, cute little hands and love for tickles! Recently, this troper has begun to find the viperfish cute. It must be those big eyes and snaggletooth smile.

Sphynx cats (except for the ones that are ugly ''ugly''.)

I actually think that many portrayals of TheGreys fall into this.

I feel this way about those Ball Jointed Dolls. Yes, they're terrifying, yes, they fall right into UncannyValley, yes, some most of them look downright demonic, but at the same time....they have a sort of unexplainable charm to them.

Whale sharks! I wanna grab a fin and take a ride.

How the hell nobody has talked about sloths yet? They are the most adorable thing ever. Spending the day sleeping, with an eternal smile in it's faces... d'awww. Just look at it <3

Absolutely seconded. This troper thinks baby sloths are just about the cutest animals in the entire world.

Mudskippers! They look like little muppets, and something about a fish hopping around the beach on its front fins always makes me smile.

Anything with tendrils around its face is cute to this troper: catfish, Asian-style dragons, star-nosed moles, Cthulhu, Toki Wartooth... (Although given that Toki's an otherwise fairly ordinary looking 20-something year old man with washboard abs, he couldn't really be considered ''Ugly'' Cute.)

This troper really thinks scorpions are kind of cute. If you get past that stinger tail, they're pretty nice.

Female scorpions' habit of carrying their babies around on their backs is also rather endearing.

Pretty much anything with a long snout, big eyes and CuteLittleFangs is enough to make this troper melt. Examples: Scrat from IceAge, Salty from AlphaAndOmega.

This Troper has a fondness for reptiles. Except for turtles.

In school I used to know a kid with a pet hamster that was very old, blind and had lost all his fur. He looked like a little naked mole rat, but I thought he was really cute. Hairless animals that would normally have fur are generally very UglyCute. My own hamster might count, as he is old, has lots of bald patches and has several large and very noticeable warts (confirmed benign, don't worry) that are scarred from him scratching them, making them look much worse than they are. I nickname him the Zombie Hamster, and he is in my opinion the most adorable creature in the world. Of course, since these two examples are still hamsters, they might not really count.

This troper absolutely EXPLODED squeeing at a baby corn snake at a pet store.

Tardigrades! They're microscopic, sure, but you can't deny they resemble Appa in FunSize mode!

Tardigrade are famous for two things: Being the poster child for real life NighInvulnerability, and looking like an eight-legged gummi bear.

The World's Ugliest Dog Contest.

Hairless cats and dogs, at least to some people.

Professional wrestler MickFoley, both when he plays a face, and in real life. He's so good at this, he managed to land a super hot wife, and the nickname "The Human Muppet." He's like a cuddly teddybear, that can ''kick anyone's ass.''

Bats, turtles, pigs, toads, seahorses, poliwogs, baby alligators, inchworms...

Boston Terriers are an entire breed of this, but none more so than the one and only Derpy Dawg.

The Solenodons of Cuba and Hispanolia. Did we mention it's venomous?

The Giant Isopod definitely qualifies. It is strangely cute.

If you go deep enough into the ocean, you'll find that pretty much everything is either this or NightmareFuel (Or both). Looks won't get you far down in the deeps.

Crapbear, the World's Crappiest Bear.

Chase No-Face: a cat who lost her face in a car accident, but who still manages to be strangely adorable.

Ugly cute? More like '''''TERRIFYING''''' cute.

Bats anyone? There so sweet.

Especially the babies.

Correction: ''fruit'' bats are Just Plain Cute. ''insect-eating'' bats, on the other hand, are more this trope. Vampire bats qualify too.

BRUSHIE BRUSHIE BRUSHIE

Pacific Spiny Lumpsuckers. ''PACIFIC SPINY LUMPSUCKERS.''

Sojourner, the not-so-cute little robot rover that landed on and explored Mars.

Mexican Hairless Dogs, aka Xoloizcuintles. Reknown for being one of the ugliest races of dogs in the earth. Also reknown for being ridiculously loyal and good natured. And for, sometimes, naturally growing what amounts to a ''little doggie mokawk'' on its otherwise hairless head.

Hyenas. They're so cute that they think it's funny!

Ranchu goldfish. adorable!

Ocean sunfish. They're lumpy and grey, huge enough to be terrifying, and have that perpetual fishy gaze going on... but they're so adorably derpy, not to mention rather friendly for fish.

This troper's aunt used to work for General Motors. She described the Pontiac Aztek as being "so ugly that it's cute".

While he isn't ugly as much as he is just a faceless blob with a disturbing mask, I find Arakune to be just plain adorable.

Believe it or not, this trope doesn't just apply to animals for this troper. Sure, it's easy to have military nerd!lust for something sleek and sexy like an F-14, F-15, or (of course) F-22, and it's possible to qualify a small training jet like the HAL Tejas as MoeMoe. But for something slow and stubby and ugly like the A-6 or A-7? UglyCute is the only way to describe them, because ''dammit they deserve the same love that the cool fighters get.'' (Not surprisingly the gijinka artists disagree.)

I love aye-ayes. And axolotls. And platypi. And tarsiers. And naked mole rats. YMMV on the last one, however. Star-nosed moles are just plain hideous however.

I think that Seviper is the cutest pokemon ever, but nobody agrees with me. D:

A lot of people, even quite a few non-fans, would agree that musician Sonny Moore AKA Skrillex is completely adorable. Despite being short, stumpy, with bad skin, scraggly hair and a big nose, he's got a certain moe quality to him that makes him a totally cutie pie. (The big deer eyes help.)

Many around me shy away from pugs, chinchillas, chihuahuas; any ''slightly'' ugly animal you can name that belongs in the category. I, however, flock to these types of animals. To me, they are downright '''adorable'''! My family even has two chihuahuas now, and I'm considering buying a chinchilla. Give me an animal you consider to be unbearably disgusting to stare at? I'll be cuddling it within a matter of minutes.

Chinchillas. Aren't they just the cutest rodents ever? SO CUTE!

Rollie Polies. Seriously, Rollie Pollies.

Pillbugs are just plain cute. The fact that they're completely harmless to humans makes them even more so.

You like pillbugs too? So do I! I love those tiny bugs that are harmless and that you can have crawl across your hand, they're amazingly cute!

Sea cows, known officially as sirenia, are slow moving aquatic mammals with big lips and tiny eyes, and totally adorable.

To This Troper, SHARKS. Google image "Pelagic Thresher Sharks". Dawwww..... those wide eyes that just cry out "Wub me pweeze"..... Dawww..... So kyuuuuuuttttttttttteee!!!! :3

Sea urchins. They don't look like much, but watching them move their spines around has an almost hypnotic effect.