History EnfantTerrible / ComicBooks

** And that's not [[spoiler: signs like lurking creepily in rooms or asking "Don't you want to play with me, Mother? We can play such wonderful games" It's signs like killing people with his bare hands without a shred of remorse in front of everyone.]]

* Ashley in ''ComicBook/HackSlash''. Beat his own brother to death with a toy truck for playing with it, and was smothered to death by his outraged mother with a teddy bear. Survived as a vengeful ghost [[YourWorstNightmare murdering other children in their dreams]]. Then ended up [[spoiler: possessing the teddy bear...]]

* ''Creator/Arkas'' has a few such characters, but Junior from ''Flying Starts'' stands out. He is '''very''' disrespectful to his father, hates everyone and everyone hates him, has kidnapped a baby, has set fire to a nest and is very full of himself.

* Later ''ComicBook/XForce'' villain Genocide is a ten-year-old boy. A giant, radioactive skeleton in an intimidating-looking containment suit, but a ten-year-old boy. He's got enough [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear firepower]] to blow up a town, and he curbstomped ''Wolverine''. Subverted in that he doesn't appear to be a "bad" kid, exactly, he just admires and tries to please really bad people (the followers of Apocalypse, if you must know).

* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald's nephews]] were this in their first appearance, with Della sending them to live with their uncle because they had blown up the chair their father was sitting on, but eventually grew out of this thanks to Donald raising them right.
** This is referenced in a story where the nephews had been kidnapped by two alien GalacticConqueror wannabes that brainwashed them into becoming their heirs: after [[PapaWolf beating the crap out of the kidnappers]], Donald went to rescue his nephews, got threatened by Huey... And immediately declared if he had already educated them out of that attitude once he could do it again. Two panels later he has spanked the brainwashing out of them.

* Same goes for the Cassandra Cain [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Batgirl]], minus the government. She was raised from birth to be the world's best assassin, to the point where her father never spoke to her so that she'd only be able to understand body language, and actually ''shot at her''. But, after her first kill, she read the body language of someone dying and realised how horrible it is, and thus ran away from home, drifting until she found herself in Gotham City.

* ''{{ComicBook/BPRD}} 1946'' has a demon that stayed on Earth in the guise of a little Russian girl.

* Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong, one of [[ComicBook/RobinSeries Tim Drake's]] recurring foes, definitely qualifies. He was a mass murderer by ten, nearly started a war by eleven, and graduated to full-on criminal mastermind by age fifteen.
* Jimmy Marks aka Hybrid. The son of a human woman and a [[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight Dire Wraith]]. He started out as a relatively normal child, but when a bunch of his dad's old comrades showed up looking for him, they took an "interest" in the boy and taught him the ways of power and evil. Jimmy took to their lessons like a fish to water and started terrorizing his parents (even his ''Dire Wraith father'' was terrified) and killing livestock ForTheEvulz. Even worse, around this time Jimmy's mutation -- extremely potent PsychicPowers -- also manifested itself. Psychic powers, the ability to go OneWingedAngel into a [[SuperStrength super strong]] NighInvulnerable monster even fouler than a typical Dire Wraith, and a penchant for evil that terrifies his own Dire Wraith father (who is a member of one of the most evil races in the Marvel universe, which is saying something) -- not a good combination. In his debut he ages his own mother to death, impales his father with a pitchfork when dad tries to kill him out of remorse for letting him become a monster, engineers a LetsYouAndHimFight scenario between Rom and the ComicBook/XMen by pretending to be a helpless child, and tries to abduct Kitty Pride for ''breeding purposes''. Hybrid was so evil that Rom was willing to set his weapon to "kill" when Hybrid proved too powerful to be banished to Limbo. Hybrid not only survives but gets ''worse'' with each later appearance. In ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', he pulls the exact same "helpless youth" act to get admitted into the Academy, all so he can enslave everyone there and make the men his soldiers and the women his breeding partners.
* In ''{{Comicbook/Squee}}'', the six/seven-year-old Pepito is this... on account of being literally TheAntichrist. His introductory scene has him disintegrating a child's head.

* In the comic book ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N. '94]]'' (the "modern-day" version of the ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}''), the superintelligent Lyrl Dox took control of the intergalactic police force L.E.G.I.O.N. from his father, Vril Dox (the son of Brainiac), brainwashed all but a handful of the force's members, and turned it into a fascist organization that nearly took over the universe. All of this before his second birthday.

* A 1990 ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' storyline has Tracy trying to figure out who is buying land in the Florida Everglades. It turns out to not be the CEO of a major corporation but his daughter, a child prodigy who is barely ten but already a genius who's a high-ranking VP. It turns out the girl is convinced that ClimateChange is inevitably going to raise ocean levels and buying up this land will give her company an edge when it happens. She explains to her stunned father that by her calculations, by the time she's 30, she'll be able to use the bought lands to her advantage and increase the company's bottom line. She smugly adds that there's nothing Tracy can do as she's technically broken no laws. Tracy says she's right...and then turns to her father who promptly removes the girl from his company, vows to cut her out of the will and "oh, yes, you're grounded until you're 20."

* Malice Vundabarr of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}'s Female Furies in Franchise/TheDCU.
* In the comic book ''[[ComicBook/LEGIONDCComics L.E.G.I.O.N. '94]]'' (the "modern-day" version of the ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}''), the superintelligent Lyrl Dox took control of the intergalactic police force L.E.G.I.O.N. from his father, Vril Dox (the son of Brainiac), brainwashed all but a handful of the force's members, and turned it into a fascist organization that nearly took over the universe. All of this before his second birthday.

* Jenifer, a teenage girl from a ''Creepy'' [[http://11oclockcomics.com/2017/02/14/house-of-horror-2-jenifer/ story]] by Bruce Jones (and drawn by Creator/BerniWrightson). Though [[ButterFace grotesquely deformed]] and mute, she's got some sort of preternatural power that she uses to seduce men and rob them of their logic, driving all their friends and family away and then ''raping'' them repeatedly, [[spoiler:before forcing them to take her out in the woods and poise to kill her, paralyzing them just as another man comes along to save her [[HereWeGoAgain and start the process all over]].]] (Try [=YouTubing=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Masters_of_horror_episode_jenifer_DVD_cover_art.jpg the TV version]], as well-- there's some pretty sick stuff there.)

* Oliver AKA Kid Omni-Man from ''ComicBook/{{Invincible}}'' - imagine an evil, ten-year-old Superman with super-intelligence slowly going more and more insane while everyone around him [[IdiotBall ignores all the obvious signs.]]
** And that's not [[spoiler: signs like lurking creepily in rooms or asking "Don't you want to play with me, Mother? We can play such wonderful games" It's signs like killing people with his bare hands without a shred of remorse in front of everyone.]]
** As of now, it appears that [[spoiler:this was a subversion, Oliver is very much one of the good guys]]. Probably.
* ComicBook/{{X 23}} of the ComicBook/XMen. She is Wolverine's clone and was raised from birth by a GovernmentConspiracy to be a killing machine through TrainingFromHell that descended into outright physical and emotional abuse, and often is able to carry out missions because she is so cute that no one suspects her. She even duped ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' after her "field test" by masquerading as [[WoundedGazelleGambit victim of a massacre she herself perpetrated]]. However, Laura is also ''not'' a straight example: She constantly fights against her upbringing and desperately [[IAmNotAGun wants to be more than just a weapon]].
* Same goes for the Cassandra Cain [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl 2000}} Batgirl]], minus the government. She was raised from birth to be the world's best assassin, to the point where her father never spoke to her so that she'd only be able to understand body language, and actually ''shot at her''. But, after her first kill, she read the body language of someone dying and realised how horrible it is, and thus ran away from home, drifting until she found herself in Gotham City.
* Similar to Cass, Batman's son Damian Wayne. Raised to be an assassin by his mom Talia, he has a major case of RaisedByWolves.

* ''{{ComicBook/BPRD}} 1946'' has a demon that stayed on Earth in the guise of a little Russian girl.

* [[ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy Klarion (bum..bum..BUM!) The Witch Boy]]. That said, Creator/GrantMorrison started a tradition of portraying him as more of an AntiHero than outright villain with ''ComicBook/SevenSoldiers''.
* [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Harrandatha_Estillo Prince Harrandatha Estillo]] from the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' comics. He's RoyallyScrewedUp.
--> "All those years of dipping from the same genetic pool caused a wrinkle, a flaw in an otherwise normal family line. We set out to keep ourselves above the common man and found ourselves with a thing from the deepest pit of the Sith."
* ''I Luv Halloween'' - Moochie, oh my dear motherf* cking god, Moochie!! She takes enfant terrible and ups it up to eleven (probably twelve)! She kills an obnoxious teenage couple and a young boy by bashing their heads in with a bra-slingshot, mutilates an unfortunate doctor (by applying him with electric shocks and stabbing scalpels into his thighs), pulls out teeth from dead and living alike (she was dressed as the tooth fairy), and her mile-wide pet cemetery implies no animal ever lasts more than five minutes in her care. She's also accompanied in her murderous hijinks by Spike, who is more of a creepy child than enfante terrible. All of this is for comedy.

* The villains of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' event "Schism" are a quartet of rich 11-to-12-year-olds who have joined the Hellfire Club. They include the new CorruptCorporateExecutive of the company that manufactures sentinels, who got the position by murdering his father and blackmailing the board of directors; a Bavarian child prodigy descended from Victor Von Frankenstein; an AxCrazy badass hotel heiress; and a West African SelfMadeOrphan who's taken over his family's slave trading empire.
* Later ''ComicBook/XForce'' villain Genocide is a ten-year-old boy. A giant, radioactive skeleton in an intimidating-looking containment suit, but a ten-year-old boy. He's got enough [[ILoveNuclearPower nuclear firepower]] to blow up a town, and he curbstomped ''Wolverine''. Subverted in that he doesn't appear to be a "bad" kid, exactly, he just admires and tries to please really bad people (the followers of Apocalypse, if you must know).
* Numerous characters from [[BritishComics British Humour Comics]] fit this trope, examples include ''Ivy the Terrible'' and ''Bea'' from ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' ''Cuddles and Dimples'' from ''ComicBook/TheDandy'' and Sweeny Toddler from ''ShiverAndShake'', Whoopee! and ''ComicBook/WhizzerAndChips''.
* Jimmy Marks aka Hybrid. The son of a human woman and a [[ComicBook/RomSpaceknight Dire Wraith]]. He started out as a relatively normal child, but when a bunch of his dad's old comrades showed up looking for him, they took an "interest" in the boy and taught him the ways of power and evil. Jimmy took to their lessons like a fish to water and started terrorizing his parents (even his ''Dire Wraith father'' was terrified) and killing livestock ForTheEvulz. Even worse, around this time Jimmy's mutation -- extremely potent PsychicPowers -- also manifested itself. Psychic powers, the ability to go OneWingedAngel into a [[SuperStrength super strong]] NighInvulnerable monster even fouler than a typical Dire Wraith, and a penchant for evil that terrifies his own Dire Wraith father (who is a member of one of the most evil races in the Marvel universe, which is saying something) -- not a good combination. In his debut he ages his own mother to death, impales his father with a pitchfork when dad tries to kill him out of remorse for letting him become a monster, engineers a LetsYouAndHimFight scenario between Rom and the ComicBook/XMen by pretending to be a helpless child, and tries to abduct Kitty Pride for ''breeding purposes''. Hybrid was so evil that Rom was willing to set his weapon to "kill" when Hybrid proved too powerful to be banished to Limbo. Hybrid not only survives but gets ''worse'' with each later appearance. In ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'', he pulls the exact same "helpless youth" act to get admitted into the Academy, all so he can enslave everyone there and make the men his soldiers and the women his breeding partners.

* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers:'' Ultron was one of these, trying to kill his creator Hank Pym within ''seconds'' of being turned on, while still calling him "dada", though this lasted only a matter of seconds.
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': James Gordon Jr. showed signs of psychopathy at a very early age, something which his father was able to see and sent him away to try to get help. Unfortunately, [[SerialKiller it only got worse]].
* [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald's nephews]] were this in their first appearance, with Della sending them to live with their uncle because they had blown up the chair their father was sitting on, but eventually grew out of this thanks to Donald raising them right.
** This is referenced in a story where the nephews had been kidnapped by two alien GalacticConqueror wannabes that brainwashed them into becoming their heirs: after [[PapaWolf beating the crap out of the kidnappers]], Donald went to rescue his nephews, got threatened by Huey... And immediately declared if he had already educated them out of that attitude once he could do it again. Two panels later he has spanked the brainwashing out of them.
* A 1990 ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' stoyline has Tracy trying to figure out who is buying land in the Florida Everglades. It turns out to not be the CEO of a major corporation but his daughter, a child prodigy who is barely ten but already a genius who's a high-ranking VP. It turns out the girl is convinced that ClimateChange is inevitably going to raise ocean levels and buying up this land will give her company an edge when it happens. She explains to her stunned father that by her calculations, by the time she's 30, she'll be able to use the bought lands to her advantage and increase the company's bottom line. She smugly adds that there's nothing Tracy can do as she's technically broken no laws. Tracy says she's right...and then turns to her father who promptly removes the girl from his company, vows to cut her out of the will and "oh, yes, you're grounded until your're 20."

* A 1990 ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'' stoyline has Tracy trying to figure out who is buying land in the Florida Everglades. It turns out to not be the CEO of a major corporation but his daughter, a child prodigy who is barely ten but already a genius who's a high-ranking VP. It turns out the girl is convinced that GlobalWarming is inevitably going to raise ocean levels and buying up this land will give her company an edge when it happens. She explains to her stunned father that by her calculations, by the time she's 30, she'll be able to use the bought lands to her advantage and increase the company's bottom line. She smugly adds that there's nothing Tracy can do as she's technically broken no laws. Tracy says she's right...and then turns to her father who promptly removes the girl from his company, vows to cut her out of the will and "oh, yes, you're grounded until your're 20."
* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': Ares' children are a group of boys who all look about eight, are closer to one, and run about spreading a HatePlague and personally inciting murder, and being dissapointed when things aren't violent enough.

* [[ComicBook/KlarionTheWitchBoy Klarion (bum..bum..BUM!) The Witch Boy]].