History CreepyChild / LiveActionTV

** "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 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.]]

%%* On {{Series/Extant}} from time to time Ethan can be this.
* ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'': In the episode "He Came From Four", a creepy child with telepathic and telekinetic abilities is sent to Section One to assist in a mission.

* 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.

** The unnamed schoolgirl in [[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]].

** Chloe Webber of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer "Fear Her"]] 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 carried a bright red balloon. It never popped. 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 appeared on screen, they also had the same IronicNurseryTune. And what happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': CreepyChild:

* In ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'', 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...

* Anthony Fremont from ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Literature/ItsAGoodLife" is omnipotent. He's no more evil than any other three-year-old who's never been told "No" in his life, but his ignorance, capriciousness, and lack of empathy holds Peakville, Ohio in complete terror.
** The sequel in the 2000 remake features Anthony's daughter, who is able to bring back everything her father "sent away".

* 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.

%%* Mordred in ''Series/{{Merlin}}''.

** 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 [[MeanCharacterNiceActor because it was so different from who she actually was in real life]].

%%* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [[SuperSpeed Emily Dinsmore]] in "Accelerate".
* In ''Series/TheWhispers'', just about all the children are this trope. The show is somewhat built on it.
* 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's 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 ''Law And Order Special Victims Unit'' episode "Conscience".
** Elle Fanning played a creepy/disturbed kid in the ''Law And Order Special Victims Unit'' episode "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.
* ''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.)
** "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.

** The unnamed schoolgirl in the serial [[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]].
** The more recent series two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] involved one of these as well, who always carried a bright red balloon. It never popped. 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 appeared on screen, they also had the same IronicNurseryTune. And what happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.
** Jamie, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]] in the episode of the same name, 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]].
** Chloe Webber of "Fear Her" is a rare example of a black Creepy Child.
** ''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.
** 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.
* Jasmine in the ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' episode "Small Worlds".
** The [[WaifProphet tarot reading girl]] in series 2.
** And in ''[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'', [[spoiler: every child on the planet becomes this when 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."
* {{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 ''TheRing''.)
* Anthony Fremont from ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Literature/ItsAGoodLife" is omnipotent. He's no more evil than any other three-year-old who's never been told "No" in his life, but his ignorance, capriciousness, and lack of empathy holds Peakville, Ohio in complete terror.
** The sequel in the 2000 remake features Anthony's daughter, who is able to bring back everything her father "sent away".
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is in love with the Creepy Child.
** The very [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot first episode]] has a creepy brother and sister.
** "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.
** "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 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.]]
** 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 five episode "The Real Ghostbusters": "Oh look, more creepy children brought to you by Supernatural."
* 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]].
* ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'': In the episode "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.
* The LittlestCancerPatient on ''Series/{{House}}''.
** And the older brother of a bitty IllGirl, 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.

* Not as scary as Megan but Rico from ''Series/HannahMontana''. Same with Sophie from ''Series/CoryInTheHouse''.
* The ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise is full of these, which is understandable sometimes. There are [[TheMasquerade monsters who take human form]] and [[OneWingedAngel humans who take monster form]], and some of them look like kids. And then there are kids who are just creepifying ''without'' actually being evildoers.
* Tina from ''Series/StillStanding'' is pretty creepy with her unblinking stare and vindictive nature. Her aunt Linda and older sister Lauren are particularly wary of her.
* By the end of ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'', Caleb has come to resemble this.
* ''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".
** William could qualify as creepy too, if he wasn't intimately connected with Mulder and Scully. After all, he is/was genetically alien and had a habit of moving things with his mind. But he's just so darn cute.
** 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.
* Hera in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' is somewhat creepy.
* The Denton twins, Chloe and Radcliffe, from ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' definitely meet this trope.
* Wednesday and Pugsley Addams from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', although it's played for laughs here.
* ''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...
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
** 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 Borg children on their first appearance, being Borg.
** A nightmare version of Naomi Wildman (usually an ordinary nice kid) in "Dark Frontier."
** Kes, kind of, being physically adult but very innocent (thanks to her species' culture and BizarreAlienBiology) sweet, and understanding. Except for a couple of times when her latent psychic powers get a little scary.
* ''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.
* 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.]]
* Ally from episode two of ''Series/{{Demons}}'' who kidnaps children for Gilgamel.
* 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.
* 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.

* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' has [[spoiler:Iris.]]

* Mordred in ''Series/{{Merlin}}''.
* [[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/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."
* Karen from ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}''
* 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)
* 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.
* 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.
* Series/{{Dexter}} was one of these as a child, killing animals and getting though a psych test only by answering the opposite to what was true.
* 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...
* ''Series/{{Millennium}}'' has Jordan Black, Frank's younger daughter. She has power's similar to Frank's except the manifest themselves as metaphorical dreams.
* ''Series/TheCloser'' has Skander Marku from the Season 6 [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas two-parter]], who acts unnaturally calm and almost smug amidst his whole family ending up dead. He appears to care more about his dog than the fact that his home is a crime scene, smirks at the cops when his (newly-met) aunt and uncle take him home, and when arrested, makes up a [[BlatantLies patently false]] story of how the arresting officer tied him up and threatened him. [[spoiler:Subverted in the second half; when he's told that all the family he knew about had been killed, he breaks down crying. His odd behavior at the police station was most likely due to his family's mistrust of the police; he acts more like a normal child after he realizes that the police are trying to protect him.]]
* Alicia, from the Spanish series ''Series/LosProtegidos''. If you know Spanish you should [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3woMLVYPiE shit bricks]]
* 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.

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

* Bill Adama from Caprica was going to be like this. Apparently naming someone after their dead older brother is a bad idea.
* 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 creepyness in no small part due to being [[YoungerThanTheyLook younger than she looks]].

* The opening montage of ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'' had little Adolph portrayed this way, ending with him appearing to kill his father with a DeathGlare.
* On ''Series/{{Believe}}'', Bo Adams is a little girl with psychic powers that often manifest in scary ways.
* On {{Series/Extant}} from time to time Ethan can be this.

* Beth Thomas, the subject of the documentary ''Child of Rage''. Prior to being adopted, the child was terribly abused, and then took out her sociopathic rage on her little brother. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-Re_Fl_L4 Watching her talk calmly about horrific things is creepy as hell]].
* ''Series/HammerHouseOfHorror'': The werewolf children in the episode "Children of the Full Moon".
* ''Series/AmericanGothic2016'' has Jack. While not a suspect in the serial killings done by a member of his family, he is seriously creepy. He is obsessed with death and his actions [[spoiler: Torturing the neighbor's cat, throwing a toy on a tarp covering a pool to trick his young cousin to go out on it and drown]] make you shutter for the future of the family.
* 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]].
* ''Asia's Got Talent'' (and ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'' afterwards) introduced "The Sacred Riana", a young stage magician with some decidedly sinister acts. Her stage persona (which she never seemed to break, even after the acts were done) involved wearing an old-fashioned school uniform, having hair hanging over her face, constant twitching, and never speaking other than making sinister utterances and unintelligible spells. The judges were ''terrified'' of her, especially since her acts involved placing pentagrams on their hands, appearing as a ghost in photos she took herself, and summoning far too many zombies out of a box painted like the [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Lament Configuration]]. On the other hand, she received nothing but praise and ovations, leading up to winning the whole thing.

** 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.

** The more recent series two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] involved one of these as well, who always carried a bright red balloon. It never popped. Odd. Most likely a reference to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature original book]], in which the little girl's balloon behaved like [[Series/ThePrisoner Rover]]. When either girl appeared on screen, they also had the same IronicNurseryTune. And what happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.

* ''Asia's Got Talent'' introduced "The Sacred Riana", a young stage magician with some decidedly sinister acts. Her stage persona (which she never seemed to break, even after the acts were done) involved wearing an old-fashioned school uniform, having hair hanging over her face, constant twitching, and never speaking other than making sinister utterances and unintelligible spells. The judges were ''terrified'' of her, especially since her acts involved placing pentagrams on their hands, appearing as a ghost in photos she took herself, and summoning far too many zombies out of a box painted like the [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Lament Configuration]]. On the other hand, she received nothing but praise and ovations.

* Anthony Fremont from ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "ItsAGoodLife" is omnipotent. He's no more evil than any other three-year-old who's never been told "No" in his life, but his ignorance, capriciousness, and lack of empathy holds Peakville, Ohio in complete terror.

** The more recent series two-parter [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]] involved one of these as well, who always carried a bright red balloon. It never popped. Odd. Most likely a reference to the [[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures original book]], in which the little girl's balloon behaved like [[Series/ThePrisoner Rover]]. When either girl appeared on screen, they also had the same IronicNurseryTune. And what happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.

* Because the child actor betraying him is too young to correctly convey the emotion behind the dialogue he is delivering, Able from ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'' often comes off this way with most of his lines delivered in a soft, shaky monotone and with an intense stare as he looks to the adult actor in the scene for reassurance that his lines are correct.

* [[TheCaligula Caligua]] is portrayed this way in the TV version of ''Series/IClaudius''. He becomes [[SelfMadeOrphan partially responsibly for the murder of his father]] when he was just hitting puberty.

** 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.

* In ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', [[SuperSpeed Emily Dinsmore]] in "Accelerate". '''ZCE'''

* Shane Botwin in ''{{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...

** 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 on his own several times with Shaggydog.