# What's the deadliest cute thing? (Or the cutest deadly thing?)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 25, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438 "2010-02-25T20:27:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/1 "2010-02-25T20:27:18Z")
Usually cute and harmless go together. Hamsters are cute and not deadly. Alligators are not cute and very deadly.
But there’s got to an exception to this rule. What’s the cutest most adorable thing capable of ripping your freaking face off?
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### Author:  [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/2 "2010-02-25T20:29:33Z")
Poison dart frogs are pretty adorable, and also poisonous. Thus the name.
I think some of the more ill-tempered of God’s creatures are pretty cute - wolverines, badgers, Tasmanian devils, etc.
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### Author:  [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/3 "2010-02-25T20:33:24Z")
A baby operating heavy machinery
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/4 "2010-02-25T20:33:35Z")
[The Rabbit of Caerbannog.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg)
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/5 "2010-02-25T20:33:39Z")
Well, any of the large cats – tigers, lions, bobcats – have adorable kittens. Who, at a not very advanced age could totally rip your face off.
Same with baby grizzlies.
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### Author:  [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/6 "2010-02-25T20:35:34Z")
I agree with **Zsofia**. It might not rip your face off, but [Phyllobates terribilis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Poison_Frog) has some badass toxin. And I think they’re kinda cute.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/7 "2010-02-25T20:40:23Z")
Hippos are somewhat cute, and IIRC kill more people worldwide than any other critter or are at least certainly near the top of the list.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/8 "2010-02-25T20:40:44Z")
At 5’3" and looking for all the world like a friendly nordic peasant, I’d say [Simo Hayha](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_Hayha).
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### Author:  [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/9 "2010-02-25T20:49:37Z")
Giant pandas have attacked people in zoos.
I think polar bears are cute, and they’ll certainly rip your face off.
Dogs are cute, and they can kill a person. Wolves and coyotes are also cute, and also capable of attacking and killing humans.
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### Author:  [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/10 "2010-02-25T20:53:04Z")
For me, the Platypus!
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### Author:  [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/11 "2010-02-25T21:02:13Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#):
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> But there’s got to an exception to this rule. What’s the cutest most adorable thing capable of ripping your freaking face off?
[Elin Nordegren](http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/clips/tiger_woods_accident/1182383/)
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### Author:  [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/12 "2010-02-25T21:03:09Z")
Depending on your individual tastes, the [Blue Ring Octopus](http://www.weichtiere.at/Mollusks/Kopffuesser/blauring.html). Cutest little buggers, very huggable, 5 inches long and packs one of the deadliest toxins on the planet, in quantities that would make you weep if you weren’t already dead.
They live in Australia, where else ?
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### Author:  [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/13 "2010-02-25T21:03:45Z")
> [@Poysyn](#):
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> For me, the Platypus!
It squeaks by on the “cute” parameter, but loses on “deadly”. The venom causes severe, crippling pain, but shouldn’t kill an adult.
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### Author:  [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/14 "2010-02-25T21:12:40Z")
A [Bichon Frise](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bichon_Frise) made of anti-matter.
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### Author:  [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/15 "2010-02-25T21:22:27Z")
Chimpanzees are pretty cute, until one bites your eyelids, nose, lips, hands, and genitals off.
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### Author:  [@SanDiegoTim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanDiegoTim)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/16 "2010-02-25T21:33:01Z")
My ex-wife fits the bill.
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### Author:  [@F.Pu-du-he-pa-as](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.Pu-du-he-pa-as)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/17 "2010-02-25T21:40:59Z")
How about [Giardia](http://biology.unm.edu/ccouncil/Biology_203/Images/Protists/giardia-trph.jpg)? Those big, beautiful eyes, that winning smile… They won’t rip your face off, but they’ll sure give you the runs, which can, in some instances, be fatal.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/18 "2010-02-25T21:41:01Z")
[Fugu fish](http://gothamist.com/attachments/food_laren/2005_11_food_fugu.jpg)are adorable and each mature fish carries enough toxin to kill 32 human adults.
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### Author:  [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/19 "2010-02-25T21:43:47Z")
Koalas are mean little bastards, but I don’t know that they’ve ever actually killed.
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### Author:  [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2010, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-deadliest-cute-thing-or-the-cutest-deadly-thing/530438/20 "2010-02-25T21:44:41Z")
> [@Kobal2](#):
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> Blue Ring Octopus
In a similar vein, the [Irukandji jellyfish](http://www.irukandjijellyfish.com/). If you are really unlucky you can get stung by one of these delicate, fragile 1-2cm living neurotoxin syringes [25m above the water.](http://www.maritime-connector.com/NewsDetails/6250/lang/English/Man-stung-by-irukandji-jellyfish-while-fishing-from-bulk-carrier.wshtml)
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