History CreepyChild / LiveActionTV

** Elle Fanning played a creepy/disturbed kid from an abusive foster home in "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E8Cage Cage]]". Detective Dani Beck her takes home; that night, the girl wakes her up because she can't sleep, and Beck finds that the girl has [[spoiler:set fire to the curtains in an attempt to kill them both so they can be together]].

** In one episode, a ten-year-old boy targets a younger boy he used to play with at a birthday party and after kidnapping him kills him by forcing him to consume rocks. Once he is implicated in the murder, it is implied that he had been abused sexually and physically while at summer camp. When Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate, they find out that the boy taunted many of the children he went to camp with, was prone to picking fights, and would injure himself to gain sympathy from the adults, and so most children actually avoided him completely. He is revealed to be an undiagnosed sociopath, having absolutely no sympathy for his actions or even any reason for wanting to kill the younger child other than he felt like it. When the boy's distraught father, a child psychologist, lashes out at him for his actions the boy, feigns sympathy and taunts him further. Convinced that he'd kill again once he was released from juvenile custody, the father shoots him dead in front of the police, justifying his actions on the belief that the kid was beyond all help.

** A 13-year-old sociopath kills his younger neighbor in "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E6Conscience Conscience]]".

** The unnamed schoolgirl from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", [[spoiler:who is eventually revealed to be the Renegade Daleks' living battle computer and is able to shoot lightning from her hands]].

* In the mid-2000s a creepy little girl appeared on several shows including ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', ''CloseToHome'' and ''Series/TheInside''. Despite going by different names and having different mothers on each of them, she always acted the same and was always played by the same actress Jennette [=McCurdy=] (who later went to ''Series/ICarly''). She would always pretend to be a CheerfulChild that just happened to have overheard or seen damming evidence against a person that implicated them as a murderer; however it always turns out that the little bitch was lying to them and the person she claims did it was completely innocent, just convenient patsies which were easy to frame. After proving her story was bull the police would confront her about it and she would try to blame somebody else. About half the time it wouldn't work, and they exposed her as the EnfantTerrible she really was. The other half they went after the second person she blamed for the crime and arrested them not even suspecting that the little girl was actually a murderess.
** Jennette [=McCurdy=] got roles in several {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} kids' shows playing the same character, except that around other kids she seemed less creepy and more simply violent. She once said in an interview that the reason she liked playing this type of character was because it was so different from who she actually was in real life.
** Ari Graynor was on an episode where her younger sister was shot in a video store robbery. [[spoiler: Then we learned she arranged for the sister to be molested and then killed to prevent her talking. The explanation was that she was an abused child and a total sociopath. When they got her she said "You think I'm scared of the death penalty? You can't kill me - I'm already dead." Brrr.]]
** In one episode of SVU, a ten-year-old boy targets a younger boy he used to play with at a birthday party and after kidnapping him kills him by forcing him to consume rocks. Once he is implicated in the murder, it is implied he had been abused sexually and physically while at summer camp. When Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate, they find out the boy taunted many of the children he went to camp with, was prone to picking fights, and would injure himself to gain sympathy from the adults, and so most children actually avoided him completely. He is revealed to be an undiagnosed sociopath, having absolutely no sympathy for his actions or even any reason for wanting to kill the younger child other than he felt like it. When the boy's distraught father, a child psychologist lashes out at him for his actions the boy feigns sympathy and taunts him further. Convinced he'd kill again once he was released from juvenile custody, the father shoots him dead in front of the police, justifying his actions on the belief that the kid was beyond all help.

* Alma from the Series/AmericanHorrorStory storyline “Red Tide” even before she became a vampire she was a little creepy having a fascination with death, after she takes the black pill to increase her violin skills she becomes a full on vampire starting out by feeding on animals and slowly loses empathy for everyone around her including her parents, she commits her first murder by killing a police woman who was finding out the truth about the series of murders, and she only gets worse from then on.

** Wolfram & Hart's conduit to the Senior Partners was a little girl. And she was also the dark reincarnation of Ra, representing the sun at sunset and the evil of humanity.
** There is also an episode revolving around a creepy child possessed by a demon that corrupted the souls of those it possessed. When the heroes exorcised the demon they learned that it hadn't been controlling him, but had possessed him and been ''trapped inside'' by the soulless child.
%%* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' loved this. We've got "The Lonely Ghost", "The Frozen Ghost", the girl from "The Tale of the Unfinished Painting" and that scary boy from "The Tale of the Silver Sight".

* Hera in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is, for the most part, fairly normal but in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?" her mother wakes up in the night to find Hera standing over the bed creepily saying "Bye-bye". The next day Athena finds that Hera has filled her sketchbook with drawings of Number Six, Gaius Baltar's NotSoImaginaryFriend.
* On ''Series/{{Believe|2014}}'', Bo Adams is a little girl with psychic powers that often manifest in scary ways.
* {{Yandere}} Rhonda Vollmer on ''Series/BigLove'' is a non-supernatural variant: behind her artless demeanor and expressionless blue eyes lurks the brain of a baby sociopath and master-manipulator-in-training (and a disturbing fondness for rhinestones). She's got something of an excuse, having been raised in an abusive cult and married off at the age of fourteen to a man in his seventies, but it doesn't do much to make her less terrifying. (Amusingly, she's played by Daveigh Chase, who portrayed the ''ultimate'' Creepy Child in the American version of ''Film/TheRing''.)

** The Anointed One was a creepy child vampire. In a typical Creator/JossWhedon moment, however, when Spike shows up he takes "The Annoying One" down within an episode. (According to rumour, he was killed off because the actor was growing too rapidly for a dead kid.)
** "Gingerbread" features two murdered children (later revealed to be Hansel and Gretel themselves) who appear as ghosts and force the BrainwashedAndCrazy town to try to kill Willow, Buffy and Amy.
** "Hush" opens with Buffy dreaming of a spooky little girl, complete with the nursery tune. What makes the girl spookier is that she looks like a kid-version of Buffy.
%%* Bill Adama from Caprica was going to be like this. Apparently naming someone after their dead older brother is a bad idea.

* On ''Series/CougarTown'' Ellie, Grayson and Tom have a brush in with three creepy HomeschooledKids. They deal with them by acting creepier still.

** In the episodes "[[spoiler:The Boogeyman]]" and "[[spoiler:A Shade of Gray]]" it turns out a child was the [=UnSub=] and neither of them felt guilt for their actions.
** In the episode [[spoiler: "In Name And Blood (In Birth And Death)"]], there was this very creepily quiet kid named David. [[spoiler: His dad was a SerialKiller of women [[MoralEventHorizon who actually *forced the kid* to help him lure his victims inside his home and crime scene]].]] No wonder the kid was fucked up.
* While not creepy in a supernatural sense, InsufferableGenius Hannah from a two episode "arc" of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' definitely qualifies. In her first episode she helps get her brother out of a murder conviction by convincing the jury that ''she'' did it, while gaining CSI Sara Sidle's sympathy (she was also a gifted child), only to smugly reveal to her that her brother did indeed set up the prank and that she's going to get a lot of book deals once she's out of juvie. In her second episode the two siblings are in college (their parents are mysteriously dead), with the brother as a student and Hannah as his ''professor''. Several plot twists and one BreakingSpeech at Sara later, it is revealed that Hannah had begun to envy of her brother's growing independence and framed him for murder in order to put him in jail, under her control and at her side forever. Her brother could no longer stand his sister's truth-destroying {{plan}}s and killed himself and "arresting officer" Sara was simply disgusted, which probably contributed to her eventual [[PutOnABus two season leave of absence]].
* The entire ''X7'' series from ''Series/DarkAngel''. Scary mute {{child soldier}}s, with a unit [[HiveMind hive-mind]], the ability to communicate with each other ultra-sonically and freaky goddamn black eyes. The X8 series, however, seems to be identical to the X5 and X6 series, bizarrely.
** It was mentioned in the novels that finish the film that after the experiments became stable (X5) each series was designed for specific goals in mind. The X5's are boosted with feline DNA and were used as commandos. The X6 are similar but either due to genetics or training are much less independent. The X7 seemed to have been designed to work as squads, given their abilities they were most likely meant for a more straight forward attack style. The X8 were never shown in combat (only one was seen on the show), maybe the X7's scared the military or they only needed one group with those specific abilities? There's also the anomalies, failures that were occasionally used for very specific goals (lizard man Mole apparently helped kill Saddam while a blue guy he argued with was involved in some mission in the Arctic).
* Ally from episode two of ''Series/{{Demons}}'' who kidnaps children for Gilgamel.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks "Remembrance of the Daleks"]]: The unnamed schoolgirl[[spoiler:, who is eventually revealed to be the Renegade Daleks' living battle computer and is able to shoot lightning from her hands]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] has Jamie, the titular Empty Child, although this was the result of being infected by TheVirus. In fact, to hell with infected -- he ''was'' TheVirus. In a humorous moment, the Doctor realizes that despite being dangerous, he's still a child, and "defeats" him temporarily by [[SwiperNoSwiping sending him to his room]].
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]]: Chloe Webber is a rare example of a black Creepy Child. [[spoiler:She's been possessed by an alien with the power to trap people in drawings, and they are using this power to cause children to disappear.]]
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: Sister of Mine, who always carries a bright red balloon. It never pops. Odd. Most likely a reference to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature original book]], in which the little girl's balloon behaved like [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Rover]]. When either girl appears on screen, they also have the same IronicNurseryTune. And what happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: The 8-year-old Master. Russell T. Davies noted in the script that the child should be "Damien-like". Keep in mind we only see him for a very brief scene as he looks into the Time Vortex. Kudos to the actor, managing to creep us out with ''a few seconds of standing there looking at the camera'', no lines spoken or actions taken.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour "The Eleventh Hour"]]: Shapeshifting Prisoner Zero in the form of 7-year-old Amelia Pond, who spends its time in that form mocking the real Amy.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow "The Beast Below"]]: A little girl appears in a recording reciting a creepy nursery rhyme just before an unfortunate boy is dumped ''below'' to become fodder for the Beast.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger "The Lodger"]]: One of the forms taken by the AI of the time engine luring in people to try and find a new pilot is a little girl with her FaceFramedInShadow at all times.
** ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip "Ghosts of [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground the Northern Line]]" has MonsterOfTheWeek Mnemosyne take on the form of a little girl ghost, who at one point stands on the tracks in front of a tube train, prompting the driver to slam the brakes on -- giving the other ghosts time to feed on the living.

* Dotty/Kirsty Cotton from ''Series/EastEnders''. She was a little girl of no older than nine or so, seemingly dumped on her grandmother Dot by her criminal father Nick. At first she seemed saccharine sweet, but it soon became clear that something was wrong. Her hymn-singing, baking, little 1930's cardies and general innocence took her beyond the realms of 'normal but goody-two-shoes kid' and into the realms of creepy. You could tell she had to be hiding something -- and she was. Turned out she had a pact with her Father Nick to kill Dot for her money, and it didn't seem like she was being threatened by him or otherwise coerced into it; she appeared to be doing it willingly, off her own back. She pressed on with this plan until the last minute, when she got cold feet and attempted to drug Nick instead. Nick survived, but as he left he shouted [[WoundedGazelleGambit not to be fooled by Dotty's traumatised tears]]: she was rotten to the core and the plan to kill Dot had been all her idea. It sounded like a bitter rant, but this is ''[=EastEnders=]'' we're talking about, so there will almost definitely turn out to be some truth to his words.
* Sylvie, the lost little girl Lucas and Dorothy run into in the ''Series/EmeraldCity'' episode [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic "Science and Magic"]], who can turn people into statues. [[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E6BeautifulWickedness "Beautiful Wickedness"]] reveals that [[spoiler:she's a witch, so it makes sense]].
%%* On ''Series/{{Extant}}'' from time to time Ethan can be this.
* ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'': In "He Came From Four", a creepy child with telepathic and telekinetic abilities is sent to Section One to assist in a mission.
** That child is none other than Creator/MichaelCera.
* River in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' can approach this at times, though usually her [[TheWoobie Woobie-ness]] overrides the creepy elements. She's also somewhat older than the typical Creepy Child, though her behaviour tends to be very childlike.

*** In "Mhysa", she walks up to a group of Frey men around a campfire who are mocking Robb and Cat's demises. Arya acts like an innocent child, asking if she can warm herself by the fire, even offering to pay. She casually drops the coin, and when the man leans to pick it up, she stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a dagger. When she's done she doesn't seem at all disturbed by what she just did.
*** She calmly informs Sandor Clegane that she will put a sword through his eye and out the back of his skull someday. Later on she turns out to actually ''have'' a knife she got from him without him noticing. His reaction is priceless.
*** In "Two Swords", she calmly and methodically taunts Polliver before sticking Needle through his neck, clearly enjoying the deed.
*** In "Mockingbird", she notes Rorge was never on her list of people to kill because she didn't know his name. When he gives it to her, she thanks him with a little smile, then stabs him through the heart.
*** In the Season 4 finale, the Hound begs her to give him a MercyKill after being badly wounded, trying to provoke her into anger -- but she just crouches and ''stares'' at him icily for a very long time... before robbing him and leaving him to die.
*** The show seems to have ultimately subverted this, however, thanks to the timing differences. Show!Arya has reached her mid-teens before she could slip fully into the Creepy Child territory.
** Jojen Reed comes across as a bit of this -- his Greensight contributes to this -- but he's really very nice once you get to know him. He can invoke this to threatening effect though, like when he intimidates Karl Tanner right as he's about to rape his sister Meera.

** The child wight in "Winter is Coming" is creepy enough to provide the trope image for OccultBlueEyes.
** In "The Pointy End", after disappearing for several episodes, Rickon Stark suddenly appearing in Bran's room and making a deadpan declaration that his family won't come home is very unsettling. He also spends the time he is forced to hold court with Bran in Winterfell cracking nuts in the most aggressive way possible. He also wanders off on his own several times with Shaggydog.
** Bran himself gets quite unnerving after becoming the Three-Eyed Crow. He even creeps out Littlefinger.
** The assassin sent by the Warlocks of Qarth in "Valar Dohaeris" looks like a little girl, but has blue lips and hisses like a snake.
** Subverted by Shireen Baratheon, who has a disfigured face and is introduced singing an eerie song but quickly shows herself to be a perfectly sweet little girl, despite having no friends and living inside a tower.

* Madison from ''Series/HarpersIsland''. She tends to creep out her mother late at night by waking her up and telling her everyone is going to die.
** During the first episodes, she almost crosses the {{Narm}}-line. In the last episodes, however, despite [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu doing creepy things offscreen]], her ghost-like aura is not the same again.
* The opening montage of ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'' had little Adolf portrayed this way, ending with him appearing to kill his father with a DeathGlare.
* The LittlestCancerPatient on ''Series/{{House}}''.
** And the older brother of a DelicateAndSickly sister, a psycho pre-teen boy with an obsessive PrecociousCrush on Cameron.
** And the Chase-substitute kid on the plane from "Airborne" who thinks it's cool that he will have to help House operate on someone. The look on the face of the Cameron-substitute next to him seals it.
* Chip Chambers from ''Series/ICarly''. He's a vicious kid and extremely loyal to his older brother, Chuck. When Spencer sends Chuck to military school for ambushing him, Chip mercilessly takes his anger out on Spencer... ''and the kid is only 9-years-old''.
* [[TheCaligula Caligula]] is portrayed this way in the TV version of ''Series/IClaudius''. He becomes [[SelfMadeOrphan partially responsible for the murder of his father]] when he was just hitting puberty.
* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Claudia acts normally and is a cheerful girl mostly, although her predatory nature as a vampire makes her seem "off" to humans sometimes — usually just before she bites them.
* ''Series/{{Jam}}'' featured a sketch about a six-year-old hired "cleaner"/killer, Maria. She looks like an adorable little girl but carries a gun, [[ClusterFBomb swears continually]] and is very proficient in chopping up bodies. When one of them turns out not to be dead, she shoots him in the head and then carries on cutting him up. The radio series featured even more sketches about Maria, in which she was only ''four''-years-old, and was revealed (among other things) to have a penchant for killing farm animals.

* In ''Series/{{Katla}},'' the unsmiling Mikael initially seems creepy mostly because he has mysteriously returned from the dead — but so have a couple of other characters, who seem to be confused but more or less sane. It quite soon becomes clear that Mikael [[spoiler:is not only downright psychopathic, and indeed murderous, but was like that before his death; his own father is scared of him]].
* Two of the creepiest girls ever seen on TV were in the ''Series/LawAndOrder'' episode "Killerz", which was Green's second case. The older one had a strange look and behaved in a way that just seemed off, however she was innocent and the way she acted made sense after you found out what her little friend had done. The younger girl at first seemed like a CheerfulChild that was better adjusted then the older one, however it turned out she DoesNotLikeMen and was a sociopathic SerialKiller of little boys. What makes her especially scary is that despite Dr. Skoda's diagnosis Dr. Olivet actually defended the EnfantTerrible and was able to get her off. As she was leaving we see the murderess eyeing her next victim: a very scared little boy.
** In the first episode of the series' ninth season (and the debut one of Angie Harmon as Abby Carmichael), a rich couple's 7-year-old ''very'' disturbed adoptive kid was accused of killing his also adoptive baby sister. [[spoiler: He didn't.]]
* A 13-year-old sociopath kills his younger neighbor in the ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' episode "Conscience".
** Elle Fanning played a creepy/disturbed kid in "Cage". Detective Dani Beck takes home the little girl who was from an abusive foster home. That night the girl wakes her up because she can't sleep, and Beck finds the girl has [[spoiler: set fire to the curtains in an attempt to kill them both so they can be together.]]
** Elliot Stabler's replacement, Amaro, was forced to confront a pre-teen sociopath named Henry while he held another child to him and pointed a gun at his head. Henry's other deeds included [[spoiler: drowning a neighbor's dog, tying his little sister to a bed and setting her trash can on fire in front of her]], threatening his mother with a knife before slicing her hand when she went to remove it from him, and slyly [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking telling Detective Rollins that she's really pretty]]. Although [[spoiler: at the end of the episode it is determined that Henry must be remanded to a mental health center for extremely disturbed young people, he tearfully tells his parents that he loves them (something he never, ever did before) which means they will probably always forgive his behavior.]]

%%* The Test Card F girl from the British ''Series/{{Life On Mars|2006}}''. [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eS6UI3HG3zo Watch her]] and be afraid.
* Walt on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' generally seems like a normal kid, but also has the habits of appearing in places he shouldn't be, knowing the future, and smacking birds into nearby windows. He manages to creep out his stepfather to the point of relinquishing custody. Then in Season 2, he scares ''the Others'' enough that they give him back to his father.
* ''Series/TheMentalist'' has Haley in the fourth season episode "Red Rover, Red Rover" who approaches Jane in the middle of a cemetery to deliver him a message from [[BigBad Red John]]. She's redeemed of creepiness though, when it turns out she was lured there and had no idea she was acting as the messenger for a deranged serial killer.
%%* Mordred in ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the "Parts: The Clonus Horror" episode, Pearl runs into a band of creepy, reality-warping "Space Children" who proceed to pester her, Bobo, and Brain Guy.

* In ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', a flashback shows the death of Shaw's father in a car accident when she was a child. The firefighter tries to explain that he's fallen asleep and will never wake up, to which Shaw calmly responds he means "dead". She then calmly asks for a sandwich as she's feeling hungry.
** Season 4 introduces Gabriel Hayward, a ChildProdigy ten-year-old boy acting as an Analogue Interface for Samaritan. Relaying the A.I's words in CreepyMonotone and acting utterly indifferent to the claims it makes, Gabriel comes across as quite disturbing.
%%* Alicia, from the Spanish series ''Series/LosProtegidos''. If you know Spanish you should [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3woMLVYPiE shit bricks]].

* Both lampshaded and played straight in Stephen King's four part movie ''Series/RoseRed'': There's the classic and indeed creepy ghost girl April and then there's Annie Wheaton, one of the team of explorers in the haunted house. She's mostly a sympathetic character but slightly creepy due to being autistic [[spoiler: screen as well as, among other things, telekinetic.]] At one point another (much less sympathetic) explorer calls her "that creepy child with that creepy doll". By the way, both Annie and April have their own theme music, but Annie (whose theme is a rather nice big band song) soon picks up April's creepy nursery rhyme theme.
* Oscar from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "The Temptation Of Sarah Jane Smith". [[spoiler: At the end of Part One he turns out to be a Graske in disguise.]]
%%* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [[SuperSpeed Emily Dinsmore]] in "Accelerate".
* Adria the Orici from ''Series/StargateSG1'' is definitely one of these as a child with her fixed stare and [[CreepyMonotone calm monotone]]. And even when she grows up, she retains some of her creepiness in no small part due to being [[YoungerThanTheyLook younger than she looks]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]" an Earth-like planet inhabited by only children [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who are actually hundreds of years old]] due to the same disease [[OnlyFatalToAdults that kills them as soon as puberty kicks in]]. Add that they are rebellious and don't like "grups" such as the ''Enterprise'' crew...

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': A little girl's ImaginaryFriend comes to life on the ''Enterprise'' in an episode titled... "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E22ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Friend]]". But she (it?) isn't really her imaginary friend, oh no. "Isabella" is an {{energy being|s}} who hardly smiles and is perfectly capable of screwing over the whole ship on a whim, or a misunderstanding! It takes a while for the crew to [[NotNowKiddo catch on instead of thinking she's still imaginary]].

* * In a rare sympathetic example, the male lead in ''Series/TillTheEndOfTheMoon'', Tantai Jin, alarms the two nursemaids sent to look after him by suckling on blood rather than milk to feed as a baby. He later grows up to be cold, expressionless and prone to asking alarming questions about what emotions feel like and whether it's okay for him to kill people who are making their lives difficult, much to the women's alarm. It isn't clear how much of this is due to his nature and how much of it is because [[TheWoobie he grows up starving and abused]], however.

* On ''Series/{{Believe}}'', Bo Adams is a little girl with psychic powers that often manifest in scary ways.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS1E29NightmareAsAChild Nightmare as a Child]]", Markie is a strange, demanding child with a deadly serious manner. She tells Helen Foley that she knows every detail of her life. [[spoiler:It turns out that Markie, a manifestation of Helen's RepressedMemories concerning the murder of her mother by Peter Selden, has good intentions but she is still creepy.]]
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]", the six-year-old Anthony Fremont has extensive powers which allow him to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality however he wants]]. Having all the maturity of a typical kid his age, Anthony fails to consider the feelings of others and punishes those who displease him by either making them disappear or subjecting to a horrifying transformation. As such, everyone in Peaksville, UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, including his parents Bill and Agnes, lives in mortal fear of him. The ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' sequel "It's Still a Good Life" features Anthony's daughter Audrey, who is able to bring back everything her father "sent away".
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "The Burning Man", Doug and Aunt Neva pick up a strange boy in a white suit while driving through Kansas. They soon discover that he is the genetic evil whom their earlier passenger, a seemingly crazed, disheveled man, warned them about. It is implied that the boy kills them.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' had in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]" an Earth-like planet inhabited by only children [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who are actually hundreds of years old]] due to the same disease [[OnlyFatalToAdults that kills them as soon as puberty kicks in]]. Add that they are rebellious and don't like "grups" such as the ''Enterprise'' crew...

** Susperia in "Cold Fire", being an incredibly powerful alien from another plane of existence who is trying to get {{Revenge}} on ''Voyager'' -- and takes the appearance of a little girl.

** A nightmare version of Naomi Wildman (usually an ordinary nice kid) in "Dark Frontier."

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': A little girl's ImaginaryFriend came to life on the ''Enterprise'' in an episode titled... "Imaginary Friend". But she (it?) wasn't really her imaginary friend, oh no. "Isabella" was an energy being who hardly smiled and was perfectly capable of screwing over the whole ship on a whim, or a misunderstanding! It took a while for the crew to [[NotNowKiddo catch on instead of thinking she was still imaginary]].
** Worf was the first to discover the "imaginary friend come to life" when he ran into her and the little girl on a security patrol.

* In ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}'', a scary kid turns out to be [[spoiler: J'onn's traitorous brother Ma'alefa'ak]]. He sometimes continues to take that form even after we know who we're really looking at. You gotta admit nobody would ever suspect...

** "The Benders" has a thirteen-year-old cannibal named Missy.
** "Playthings" has a creepy girl ghost manipulating the daughter of the owner of an inn.
** "All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1" has an Acheri demon appear as a [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Image:Acheri.jpg little girl]].
** "The Kids are All Right" has changeling children feeding off mothers' synovial fluid.
** "Bedtime Stories" has Callie, a little girl ghost who's actually [[spoiler: the restless spirit of a comatose woman]] and who is forcing innocent people into reenacting brutal and violent versions of the Brothers Grimm stories.
** "Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester" has two little girls terrorizing Bobby.
** "Jus in Bello" has [[spoiler:the new Big Bad [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith Lilith]] in the form of a [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Image:Lilith.png small child]], who is pure terror [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Image:3-16_Lilith.jpg and decided that the Creepy Child was so nice, she did it twice]] (She was played by Creator/SierraMcCormick, who later played a similar but G-rated version of her, ''Series/{{Jessie}}'''s "Creepy" Connie).]]
** Season 4's "The Rapture" has Claire Novak possessed by the angel Castiel informing Castiel's previous host (Claire's father Jimmy) that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness his (Jimmy's) work on Earth is done]] while poor Jimmy begs to be possessed instead.
** The episode "Family Remains" has this in the form of a feral, in-bred child and her brother who torment a new family that moves into their house.
** Though it's played straight then that same child returns several years later in "Season's Beatings" and that time he really IS the anti-Christ.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the Season 5 episode "The Real Ghostbusters": "Oh look, more creepy children brought to you by Supernatural."

** "Small Worlds" had Jasmine, the girl being targeted by the fairies.

** And in ''[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'', [[spoiler:every child on the planet becomes this when they freeze and speak in unison.]]
*** In a deliberately creepy moment, the two daughters of the minister turn to him and start saying, in unison, "We want a pony. We want a pony."

* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'' Ms. Tremond's creepy grandkid not only wears a suit, speaks in aphorisms, and has a flat affect, he seems to have actual magical powers. Made worse when people return to the house a few episodes later and [[ItWasHereISwear no evidence of his existence is anywhere to be found]].
* ''Franchise/UltraSeries''

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', Carl is turning into one of these. Justified, because he is growing up during a ZombieApocalypse. First, he is forced to [[spoiler: shoot his mother in the head after she dies, to prevent her from turning into a walker. Then he kills a child soldier from Woodbury in cold blood during the ambush on the prison.]]
** [[spoiler: Lizzie. She feeds rats to the walkers because she thinks of walkers as pets, then she eventually progresses to killing her sister and threatening to kill Judith as well.]]

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' had a ''bunch'' of creepy children, all very disturbing.
** Among the most iconic are Eves 9 and 10 in "Eve". They are [[CreepyTwins look-alike cloned girls]] with super strength, super intelligence and murderous tendencies.
** Michelle (Creator/AndreaLibman) from "Born Again" was reincarnation of a murdered cop and she was channelling his desire for revenge. Even her mother was scared of her. During therapy sessions, she kept disfiguring dolls in exactly the same way, always gauging out one eye and cutting one arm. This was how Charlie Morris's body had been mutilated to make it look like a signature execution.
** In "The Calusari", we have troubled Charlie who is very un-child-like. Much more evil Michael who is his deceased twin. His presence killed his baby brother, father and grandmother... And he was about to murder a few more people, including Scully. His actor was pretty impressive.
** Polly, a girl with a CreepyDoll in "Chinga" (an episode written by Stephen King). She's an autistic girl, but the creepiness comes mainly from the doll.
** The army of small identical children, dark-haired girls and blond boys, in "Herrenvolk" have no language and just keep staring blankly at people. They were created to work as drones in a secret government project with genetically changed corn and bees. To creep and psyche Agent Mulder out even more, the girl drones look exactly like his little sister Samantha who was abducted as a child. The situation implies that her DNA was used in said project.
** Gibson Praise who appeared in some MythArc episodes (e.g. "The End", "The Beginning", "Within", "Without", "The Truth"). He can read people's minds and at his first appearance, he avoided death by ducking. The man who died was shot right in front of him, but does he show the slightest bit of worry or fear, not just that someone was killed right in front of him, but that he was the intended target? Nuh-uh. He is also completely devoid of emotion at all other times and has no issue with pointing out how cruel and heartless people are.
** Billy Underwood in "Invocation".

** Tommy Conlon from "Scary Monsters", who appears to be harassed by monsters, but it turns out that he was the cause of all the strange occurrences by [[YourMindMakesItReal conjuring them up in his imagination]], causing several people to kill themselves.

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Claudia acts normally and is a cheerful girl mostly, though her predatory nature as a vampire makes her seem "off" to humans sometimes-usually just before she's biting them.

** And the older brother of a bitty IllGirl, a psycho pre-teen boy with an obsessive PrecociousCrush on Cameron.

* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': Alice's past self in the Great Divide who actively encourages Alice to kill the Red Queen. [[spoiler:Subverted; see SecretTestOfCharacter.]]

* ''Series/TheMentalist'' has Haley in the fourth season episode "Red Rover, Red Rover" who approaches Jane in the middle of a cemetery to deliver him a message from [[BigBad Red John]].
** She's redeemed of creepiness though, when it turns out she was lured there and had no idea she was acting as messenger for a deranged serial killer.

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E73ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]", the six-year-old Anthony Fremont has [[RealityWarper extensive powers]] which allow him to read people's minds and make those who are not thinking nice things about him to disappear. As such, everyone in Peaksville, UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, including his parents Bill and Agnes, lives in mortal fear of him. ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' sequel "It's Still a Good Life" features Anthony's daughter Audrey, who is able to bring back everything her father "sent away".

* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' has Jordan Black, Frank's younger daughter. She has powers similar to Frank's except they manifest themselves as metaphorical dreams.

* Wolfram & Hart's conduit to the Senior Partners in ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was a little girl. And she was also the dark reincarnation of Ra, representing the sun at sunset and the evil of humanity.
** There is also an episode revolving around a creepy child possessed by a demon that corrupted the souls of those it possessed. When they exorcised the demon they learned that it hadn't been controlling him, but had possessed him and been ''trapped inside'' by the soulless child.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had The Anointed One. In a typical Creator/JossWhedon moment, however, when Spike shows up he takes "The Annoying One" down within an episode. (According to rumour, he was killed off because the actor was growing too rapidly for a dead kid.)

* ''Series/CriminalMinds'' has the episodes "[[spoiler:The Boogeyman]]" and "[[spoiler:A Shade of Gray]]" where it turned out a child was the [=UnSub=] and neither of them felt guilt for their actions.

* In Series/{{Katla}}, the unsmiling Mikael initially seems creepy mostly because he has mysteriously returned from the dead — but so have a couple of other characters, who seem to be confused but more or less sane. It quite soon becomes clear that Mikael [[spoiler:is not only downright psychopathic, and indeed murderous, but was like that before his death; his own father is scared of him]].

%%* Hera in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is somewhat creepy.

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** In one episode of SVU, a ten-year old boy targets a younger boy he used to play with at a birthday party and after kidnapping him kills him by forcing him to consume rocks. Once he is implicated in the murder, it is implied he had been abused sexually and physically while at summer camp. When Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate, they find out the boy taunted many of the children he went to camp with, was prone to picking fights, and would injure himself to gain sympathy from the adults, and so most children actually avoided him completely. He is revealed to be an undiagnosed sociopath, having absolutely no sympathy for his actions or even any reason for wanting to kill the younger child other than he felt like it. When the boy's distraught father, a child psychologist lashes out at him for his actions the boy feigns sympathy and taunts him further. Convinced he'd kill again once he was released from juvenile custody, the father shoots him dead in front of the police, justifying his actions on the belief that the kid was beyond all help.

* Sunny Capaduca from ''Series/FifteenLove'' was a scary little girl with a heavy — nearly untraceable — accent, JerkJock and ManipulativeBitch tendencies, and a liking for frightening the other (much older) kids at the school. She stopped just short of being an EnfanteTerrible.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances "The Doctor Dances"]] has Jamie, the titular Empty Child, although this was the result of being infected by TheVirus. In fact, to hell with infected — he ''was'' TheVirus. In a humorous moment, the Doctor realizes that despite being dangerous, he's still a child, and "defeats" him temporarily by [[SwiperNoSwiping sending him to his room]].

** ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip "Ghosts of [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground the Northern Line]]" has MonsterOfTheWeek Mnemosyne take on the form of a little girl ghost, who at one point stands on the tracks in front of a tube train, prompting the driver to slam the brakes on — giving the other ghosts time to feed on the living.

* Dotty/Kirsty Cotton from ''Series/EastEnders''. She was a little girl of no older than nine or so, seemingly dumped on her grandmother Dot by her criminal father Nick. At first she seemed saccharine sweet, but it soon became clear that something was wrong. Her hymn-singing, baking, little 1930's cardies and general innocence took her beyond the realms of 'normal but goody-two-shoes kid' and into the realms of creepy. You could tell she had to be hiding something - and she was. Turned out she had a pact with her Father Nick to kill Dot for her money, and it didn't seem like she was being threatened by him or otherwise coerced into it; she appeared to be doing it willingly, off her own back. She pressed on with this plan until the last minute, when she got cold feet and attempted to drug Nick instead. Nick survived, but as he left he shouted [[WoundedGazelleGambit not to be fooled by Dotty's traumatised tears]]: she was rotten to the core and the plan to kill Dot had been all her idea. It sounded like a bitter rant, but this is ''[=EastEnders=]'' we're talking about, so there will almost definitely turn out to be some truth to his words.

** Robin Arryn. "Mummy, I want to see the bad man fly." The fact that his crazypants [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] is still [[{{Squick}} breastfeeding him at age EIGHT or so]] doesn't help. When he returns in season 4, the first thing he does upon meeting Sansa is to bring up her family's horrible deaths at the Red Wedding, in a tone that would be better suited a discussion of the weather. He maintains the same calm demeanor when explaining that his own father was poisoned.

*** In the Season 4 finale, the Hound begs her to give him a MercyKill after being badly wounded, trying to provoke her into anger — but she just crouches and ''stares'' at him icily for a very long time... before robbing him and leaving him to die.

** Jojen Reed comes across as a bit of this--his Greensight contributes to this--but he's really very nice once you get to know him. He can invoke this to threatening effect though, like when he intimidates Karl Tanner right as he's about to rape his sister Meera.

* Chip Chambers from ''Series/ICarly''. He's a vicious kid and extremely loyal to his older brother, Chuck. When Spencer sends Chuck to military school for ambushing him, Chip mercilessly takes his anger out on Spencer... ''and the kid is only 9 years old''.

* ''Series/{{Jam}}'' featured a sketch about a six-year-old hired "cleaner"/killer, Maria. She looks like an adorable little girl but carries a gun, [[ClusterFBomb swears continually]] and is very proficient in chopping up bodies. When one of them turns out not to be dead, she shoots him in the head and then carries on cutting him up. The radio series featured even more sketches about Maria, in which she was only ''four'' years old, and was revealed (among other things) to have a penchant for killing farm animals.

* Walt on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' generally seems like a normal kid, but also has the habits of appearing in places he shouldn't be, knowing the future, and smacking birds into nearby windows. He manages to creep out his stepfather to the point of relinquishing custody. Then in season 2, he scares ''the Others'' enough that they give him back to his father.
* ''Series/TheMentalist'' has Haley in the 4th season episode "Red Rover, Red Rover" who approaches Jane in the middle of a cemetery to deliver him a message from [[BigBad Red John]].

** Season 4 introduces Gabriel Hayward, a ChildProdigy ten year old boy acting as an Analogue Interface for Samaritan. Relaying the A.I's words in CreepyMonotone and acting utterly indifferent to the claims it makes, Gabriel comes across as quite disturbing.

** Susperia in "Cold Fire", being an incredibly powerful alien from another plane of existence who is trying to get {{Revenge}} on ''Voyager''--and takes the appearance of a little girl.

** "The Benders" has a thirteen year old cannibal named Missy.

** Season Four's "The Rapture" has Claire Novak possessed by the angel Castiel informing Castiel's previous host (Claire's father Jimmy) that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness his (Jimmy's) work on Earth is done]] while poor Jimmy begs to be possessed instead.

** Though it's played straight then that same child returns several years later in "Season's Beatings" and that time he really IS the anti-christ.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in the season five episode "The Real Ghostbusters": "Oh look, more creepy children brought to you by Supernatural."

** The [[WaifProphet tarot reading girl]] in series 2.

* Shane Botwin in ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' is an interesting case -- viewers get to observe the evolution of a Creepy Child, from "slightly affected by seeing his father die" to "13-year-old violent drug dealer [[spoiler:and murderer]]", over the course of five seasons. It's anyone's guess where he'll go in season six...