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"'''You're Cute When You're Angry'''" is a [[Stock Phrase]].

Bob succeeds in [[Berserk Button|pissing Alice off]]. Instead of running away fast, Bob tells Alice she's funny/cute/sexy when she's mad. [[Compliment Backfire|This goes over as well as one might expect]], though Bob probably wasn't trying to diffuse the situation in the first place. Expect Alice to storm off, attack Bob, [[Slap Slap Kiss|"attack" Bob]], or inexplicably burst into tears.

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Flip says this to Princess Camille in ''[[Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland]]'', and gets a hook to the jaw for it.
* Spoken pretty much word-for-word by [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Ranma]] to [[Tsundere|Akane]] in an early issue of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', which catches the girl off-guard. A little later, she looks in a mirror, and thinking on Ranma's words, goes to smile... at which point Ranma pops his head in and asks if mirrors make her smile or if she's just testing her cheeks. She punches him out.

== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Jesse Custer in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' uses this on Tulip, with not very good results. May be drawing on the inspiration of his Dad, who snarkily approves of John Wayne as [[WTH Casting|Ghenghis Khan]] using the line "Yer beautiful in yer wrath".

== [[Film]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[Spaceballs]]'':
{{quote|"Well, what have we got here? Will you look at her? Those flashing eyes, those flushed cheeks, those trembling lips. You know something Princess? You're ''ugly'' when you're angry."}}
* ''Brief Encounter'':
{{quote|'''Albert Godby''': ...you look wonderful when you're angry...just like an avenging angel.}}
* ''G.P.S.'':
{{quote|'''Frankie''': Is that a date, Bob? You get so cute when you're angry.}}
* ''High School U.S.A.'':
{{quote|'''Beau Middleton''': Who's kinda cute?
'''Beth Franklin''': You, of course. Especially when you're angry. Your dimple twitches. }}
* ''[[Robin Hood]]'' (1991):
{{quote|'''Robin Hood''': Don't play games with me.
'''Maid Marian''': You're so handsome when you're angry. }}
* ''[[The Breakfast Club]]'':
{{quote|'''Bender''': You're kind of sexy when you're angry.}}
* ''The Sea Chase'':
{{quote|'''Capt. Karl Ehrlich''': Did anyone ever tell you that you're beautiful when you're angry?}}
* ''Two Moon Junction'':
{{quote|'''Perry''': You're sexy when you're angry.}}
* ''The Conqueror'':
{{quote|'''Bortai''': For me, there is no peace while you live, Mongol.
'''Temujin''': You're beautiful in your wrath.  }}
* ''[[Adams Rib|Adam's Rib]]'', where Adam Bonner is telling his wife over the phone that he's been assigned to prosecute Doris Attinger for shooting her husband:
{{quote|'''Adam''': The boss wants a quick conviction, and I'm just the little guy who can get it for him--so he says.
'''Amanda''': You great big he-men make me sick!
'''Adam''': What?
'''Amanda''': An outrage, that's what I think!
'''Adam''': You're getting awful dramatic...
'''Amanda''': Why, why, what's so funny?
'''Adam''': Ha, ha, ha--nothing. You just sound cute when you get cause-y.
'''Amanda''': Oh-- ''(hangs up)'' }}
* Also used in ''[[Revenge of the Nerds]]'' during the [[Panty Thief|panty raid]] scene.
* Tom says it to Hallie at least twice during [[The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance]]

== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Older Than Radio]]—courtesy of John Keats;{{context|reason=What work is this from?}}
{{quote|Or if thy mistress some rich anger shows,
Emprison her soft hand, and let her rave.
And feed deep, deep upon her peerless eyes. }}
* ''[[The Truth]]'': This line flashes through William de Worde's mind when a very, very angry Sacharissa Crisplock comes storming into his office, against a general backdrop of terror.
* ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'': Edward Cullen is all about this in [[Midnight Sun]]. "Furious kitten that thinks it's a tiger" much?

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Turlough from ''[[Doctor Who]]'' uses this on Tegan, who already thinks he's an annoying, condescending public school sneak, and does not soften at being told she looks "so sweet" when she gets angry.
* Said by [[Mata Hari]] to Indiana in ''[[The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles]]'' episode "Paris, October 1916."
* ''[[The Stand]]'' miniseries, part 3 "The Betrayal":
{{quote|'''Larry Underwood:''' You're awful cute when you're angry, Stu.}}
* Invoked in [[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]].
{{quote|'''Zack''': Has anyone ever told you that you're really pretty when you're angry?
'''Maddie''': WELL I MUST BE GORGEOUS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I AM FURIOUS! }}
* Whenever Major Burns wanted to complain to Colonel Blake in early seasons of ''[[M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]'', he'd bring Major Houlihan into Blake's office with him, and just stand or sit there glaring while she did all the talking. At one point, after Margaret delivers an angry tirade on Frank's behalf, Hawkeye says to her, "You know, you're beautiful when he's angry."

== [[Music]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO0REksubMQ "When You're Mad"] by Ne-Yo is this.
* "One Week" by Barenaked Ladies. "Can I help it if I think you're funny when you're mad? Trying hard not to smile though I feel bad..."

== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Explained in [http://i488.photobucket.com/albums/rr250/ngomez0077/LifeInHell1.jpg this] ''[[Life in Hell]]'' strip.
* In ''[[Peanuts]]'', Lucy once said this after telling Schroeder that she would be taking piano lessons, on a real piano.
* In ''[[Mutts]]'', Earl said this to Mooch, [[Irony|who was complaining about humans finding them cute]].

== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Bully (video game)|Bully]]'':
{{quote|'''Lola''': Oh I love it when you get angry, Johnny. I really do. You're so... bestial!}}
* Happens in ''[[Evolution: The World of Sacred Device]]'' when Chain is having a go at Mag, then he defuses the whole confutation by title dropping the trope.
* In the [[Play Station 3]] version of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]] Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay'', when Guybrush gets Morgan LeFlay angry by repeatedly checking out the mast while battling her on the Screaming Narwhal, one of the bronze trophies that the player is awarded is "She's Cute When She's Angry".

== [[Web Comics]] ==
* A variant of this line is said in ''[[Kid Radd]]''.
* In ''[[Candi]]'', Linda is told that her breasts get larger when she's angry.

== [[Western Animation]] ==
* One song in ''[[Animaniacs]]'' ends with Yakko saying this to Dot. The song is about Dot bragging about being so cute, so it actually fits in that case instead of just being a male not taking an angry girl seriously, since Yakko may have been apologizing for ruining Dot's song (since that's why Dot was angry in the first place).
* Said by Riven to Bloom in the ''[[Winx Club]]'' episode "The Day of the Rose."
* ''[[Thundercats]]'' had an... awkward example in the first episode, where Wilykat frog-marches his sister into a [[Human Popsicle|suspension capsule]] and locks her in. When she orders him to let her out or else, he tells her, [[Incest Subtext|"You're beautiful when you snarl."]] This scene was [[Edited for Syndication|cut from later showings and the DVD.]]

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