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Cuteness Aggression

A three-panel comic about misjudging a sleeping cat. Panel one: A wide-eyed person in a green shirt sees Tater Tot (a buff tabby cat) napping and says, 'He's so cute! I just have to pick him up!' Panel two: A green, white, and buff blur of thrashing limbs, claws, and red scratch marks — the attempt going catastrophically wrong. Panel three: The person's headless body stands holding their own bloody, severed head. The joke: the gap between how cats look and how they react to being picked up.
Transcript

Panel 1:

A wide-eyed person in a green shirt leans toward Tater Tot (a buff tabby cat) napping peacefully on a couch, hands raised eagerly. The person's pupils are dilated to massive black circles — the visual shorthand for cuteness aggression.

Person: 'He's so cute! I just have to pick him up!'

Panel 2:

A chaotic green, white, and buff blur fills the panel — thrashing limbs, slashing claws, and arcing red scratch marks. The attempt is going catastrophically wrong.

Panel 3:

The aftermath. The person's headless body stands on the left, a bloody stump where the neck used to be. He is holding his own severed head — Tater Tot has decapitated him.