A rotting pile of gaming's cutest undead
Skeleton Bee (Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins)
Anoth🌜er fantastic example of how something that’s cute when alive can be even more charming when undead, the skeleton bee brings it with delightful body patterns and a very fashionable skull face. Like his landbound counterpart Dry Bones, Bee isn’t about to let some fat Italian stop him from delivering his death pollen - a simple stomping isn’t enough to slow down this harbinger of cutemageddon.
Cutest features: Turns being originally rendered in black and 🌠white from a liabဣility into an asset
Endearing flaws: Yes he’s a stinging insect, but he juꦉst wants to sting you with love.
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Mummified Cats (Tomb Raider)
We would be fired from the internet if we wrote an entire article about cute things and didn’t include at✃ least one kitten on our list. Thankfully, Lara Croft and her bizarre bestiary are here to save our ridiculous “jobs” b🌟y way of mummy kitties, hands down the cutest thing on the planet that’s been wrapped in bandages and had its brain liquefied. Cats that play the keyboard or lol a lot are fine we suppose, but we prefer our felines a little more ferocious, and in this case, considerably more dead.
Cutest features: Who needs soft ki𝔍tty fur when you💙’ve got desiccated bandages occasionally moistened by cat/adventurer blood?
Endearing flaws: Minor attitude problem, but you’d be ornery too if you coulꦇdn’t see anything and had to wﷺatch your brain trickle out of your nostrils in smoothie form.
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Cuter than: Imagine a picture of 𝔉y𒈔our cat with some band-aids on its face here.
Count von Count (Sesame Street: Countdown)
Oh, come the fuck on. A vampire muppet that wants to teach children/animals how to count and is called Count von Count? He’s married to a lady muppet named ? He vants to suck your fruit juice? Where slipping razor fanged corpses into children’s media is concerned (and being ridiculously adorable ꦓin the process), nobody beats the Stღreet.
Cutest features: As obsessions go, arithmomania’s gotta be the cutest. The Count once stopped Ernie from answering the phone because he wanted to count the rings. Swoon.
Endearing flaws: Any of hiꦬs flaws aܫre apparently too endearing for us to notice. Never change, Count.
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