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Mascots Love Sugar (trope)
It's raining sweets, hallelujah.
Mascots and other tiny or cute characters generally love sugar. It often happens that the hero, or more often heroine, will find a small and cute creature, bring it into their room to take a closer look at it just to find out that has a huge sugar addiction. After the initial shock has worn off the startled main character now has to not only hide, but also provide for, something that is 60cm or less tall and eats enough sugar to put a horse in a diabetic coma. On top of this, the mascot's sweet tooth will usually cause trouble for their caregiver at least once, whether or not they find out.

This trope is not necessarily limited to the above situation; sometimes a main but not central character will end up taking care of the sugar-loving mascot and occasionally we'll even see a villain have one.

Compare Mars Wants Chocolate, when aliens become enamored with Earth's food. Other characters typically being characterized as having a Sweet Tooth are geniuses. Contrast Sinister Sweet Tooth, when loving sugar is shorthand for villainy.


Examples:

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    Advertising 
  • Trix Rabbit: The reason behind his dogged persistence to obtain a box of cereals? Because he loves their sweet, fruity flavor.

    Animation 
  • Flower Angel: Kukuru has quite the sweet tooth and will instantly eat any sweet foods that are set in front of him, though this characteristic is only ever prominent in Season 1.

    Anime & Manga 
  • Aikatsu: While Otome is human, she's the official mascot of Pop'n Popcorn and is constantly seen eating all sorts of candy and pastries. Her idol aura reflects this seeing that it prominently features sweets and fruits.
  • Cardcaptor Sakura:
    • Kero constantly eats sweets despite the fact that he not only doesn't need to eat but is also just barely larger than the utensils. This has caused problems on several occasions, including briefly living in another house after getting drunk off chocolates that contain brandy, giving random answers on Sakura's math homework sheets to get it out of the way so she'll buy him pastries and, of course, being fed by Sakura for over a year for his own amusement.
    • Spinel enjoys sweet things, but only after eating them when he is put in a state of alcohol-free drunkenness.
  • Kumappuri: The title character enjoys pudding to the point that it is a part of the series' theme items.
  • A Little Snow Fairy Sugar: Sugar has to have at least one waffle every day.
  • Mirumo de Pon!: Mirumo is supposed to be helping Kaede find love, but spends most of his time dodging his fiancee and eating chocolate. At one point Kaede is even put in crisis when she eats a piece of chocolate that was made to poison Mirumo in order to save him.
  • Natsume's Book of Friends: In "To You From Bygone Days", Nyanko-sensei can be distracted from his job as Natsume's yokai bodyguard by the prospect of eating dango. He spots the suneko jump from a cyclist passing by, it's just that he's too preoccupied with the treats Natsume is buying him. Consequences of being a Big Eater, huh?
  • Noramimi: The title character's, a literal mascot, has mizuame syrup as his Trademark Favorite Food.
  • One Piece: Tony Tony Chopper is known in-universe for his love of sweets, earning the epithet "Cotton Candy Lover"
  • Ouran High School Host Club: Honey is arguably the mascot of the series and is shown eating large amounts of cake in each episode. In one episode, he even goes through withdrawal symptoms after getting a cavity and not being allowed to eat cake until the cavity is fixed.
  • Rascal the Raccoon: The titular character likes to eat sweets such as sugar cubes and candies.
  • Sgt. Frog: Tamama has rarely, if ever, been shown eating normal food, yet almost always has a bag of some sweet or snack food on hand. While it hasn't really presented any problems to his partner, Momoka, at one point Keroro has to take responsibility for Tamama trying to eat a giant candy house on a television set.
  • Sonic X: Bokkun at one point goes against his instructions and helps the heroes twice, with the promise of getting apple pie and strawberry cake as a reward for his efforts. More than a bit odd considering that he's a robot, but there you go.

    Fan Works 
Goosebumps
  • Goosebumps Adventure: Parodied as Weasel Mascot Oogie loves eating lint, a soft cloth use for dressing wounds. You could say it becomes sweet when the cellulose is degraded into sugar but honestly, Oogie is just weird like that.

Pokémon

World of Warcraft

  • The Winewood Clan: Vendelia's wretched servant, Drogwed, has a massive sweet tooth.

    Live-Action TV 
  • Farscape: Rygel is small and mascot-like and he does have a SERIOUS sugar addiction.
    Rygel: Crichton! How illegal is this dren? You gotta get me more! I don't care what it costs!

    Tabletop Games 

    Video Games 
  • Cut the Rope: Om Nom is a green, adorable Cartoon Creature who loves sweet foodstuffs such as donuts, jello, and, most prominently, candy. The game's goal is to solve puzzles to feed him the sweets hanging on a rope.
  • Feral: The Twiggles love sweets. One quest has you help a Twiggle find some sprinkles for its burrito because even with chocolate syrup, whipped cream, brownies, and cookie dough, it still isn't sweet enough.
  • Flappy Dragon: Flappy's Flavor Text reveals his love for donuts.
  • Garfield's Scary Scavenger Hunt: Perfection Pastries are about the only thing that can put both Garfield and Odie content enough to obey when you tell them to go to their boxes.
  • Pokémon: Pokémon in general have Sweet Teeth. Lots of Power Ups you use on them are sweet foods, like Soda Pop and Lemonade in all the games, which restores their HP, along with Lava Cookies, Old Gateau (sponge cake), Casteliacones (ice cream), and Lumiose Galettes (cookies again), and Shalour Sables (shortbread biscuits) which cure Condition, each one unique to a certain Generation. Rage Candy Bars and the chocolate Sweet Hearts can restore a little HP for a Pokémon in most versions (but they usually have other uses too). There were also Poffins in Diamond and Pearl, which you made from Berries and fed them to enhance their Contest stats, and more recently, X and Y introduces Poké Puffs, cupcakes you can feed them during the Poké Amie Mini-Game that they clearly love, and Poké Juice, special drinks made from berries that give them a variety of benefits.
  • Sonic Unleashed: Chip, an amnesiac, small being whom Sonic stumbles upon, has a strong fondness for sweets, particularly chocolate. Sonic names him in reference to his obsession with the stuff.
  • Yo-kai Watch: Each and every one of the Series Mascots love sugary treats.
    • Jibanyan loves to eat chocobars, so much that the future-robot version of himself, Robonyan, has an onboard factory in his body. The majority of his variants also have chocobars as their favorite food. The reason for this is because his owner used to feed them to him when he was a regular cat.
    • Komasan and his variants all love soft serve ice cream.
    • Usapyon is a fan of sugary donuts.

    Webcomics 
  • Bardsworth: Upon receiving some pixie stix, Fawn falls into a Played for Laughs sugar addiction.
  • Girl Genius: Agatha's wasp eater tries to eat a waffle cone whole while in Paris and was seen eating chocolate truffles and other sweets in the dining car on the train to Paris.
  • Homestuck: The Cherubs subsist entirely on meat and candy. The first thing a newly hatched Cherub eats is its own sugary eggshell.
  • My Milk Toof: The two teeth, Ickle and Lardee, prefer candy for a diet... there's a horrible pun to go along with that, but let's not start..
  • Sluggy Freelance: Team Pet Kiki the ferret loves sugar almost as much as shiny things. When she gets her paws on sugar in large quantities or very concentrated form, she gets incredibly, hyperkinetically active. Riff weaponizes this at times by giving her pixie sticks, after which she tends to leave Kiki-shaped holes in walls or anything else that gets in her way.

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    Western Animation 
  • Extreme Ghostbusters: The ghost Slimer is the Ghostbusters' mascot, and while he's a Big Eater and in some cases an Extreme Omnivore, he clearly prefers sugary things. When a spirit that makes people see their worst nightmares targets him, he sees... broccoli.
  • The Fairly OddParents!: Wanda has an affinity for chocolate, candy and other sweet foods. While she's not a conventionally cute critter, she's still one of Timmy's fairy companions. In this case, she and Timmy share the Sweet Tooth to the point that when he wises for all meals to be replaced by desserts, she throws her Only Sane Woman role out of the window and eagerly agrees.
  • The Magic Roundabout: Dougal's love for sugar stands out as one of his defining character traits.
  • Miraculous Ladybug:
    • Tikki, the cute Kwami that allows Marinette to transform into Ladybug, very much loves macarons and cookies; sugary treats are, in fact, her preferred food to recharge her magic after a transformation. It's convenient for both the plot and Tikki's sweet tooth that Marinette knows how to bake all sorts of pastries because her parents run a bakery.
    • Played for Drama in "Dearest Family". Tikki's craving for candy gets so out of control that she uses her creation powers without her holder to create the biggest galette to satiate her hunger. This puts everyone at risk as the gigantic object threatens to crush a sizeable portion of Paris when it lands. Plagg comments that, in a similar incident far in the past, Tikki summoned an 8-week rain of chocolate mousse.
    • In contrast, Adrien's Kwami Plagg prefers chunks of pungent Camembert cheese, making him an inversion.
  • Pinkalicious & Peterrific: In "Frost Fairy", Pinkalicious and Peter befriend a fairy and expose her to human food—which causes her to develop such a sweet tooth that she ends up destroying a gingerbread house they built.
  • She-Ra: Princess of Power: Imp, a villainous case (he's the Big Bad's pet spy), is a Cute Monster with a fairly big sweet tooth, as demonstrated in "The Red Knight."

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