History Main / CorruptionByAMinor

* The film ''LittleSweetheart'' plays with this, having a pretty much normal nine year old girl, Elizabeth, being corrupted by the slightly younger Thelma, who is an amoral psychopath [[ThEcHeSsMaStEr chessmaster]].
* In ''LawnDogs'', 10 year old Devon and 21 year old Trent become friends... at ''Devon's'' insistence. Devon later convinces Trent to accompany her while they steal chickens from a barn, and even convinces him to moon her father and a police officer.

* CompleteMonster Dahlia Hawthorne got her start at an early age in ''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' by convincing/seducing Terry Fawles into [[spoiler: conspiring with her to fake a kidnapping.]]
* Somewhere in the ''KingdomHearts'' continuity, scientist Ansem the Wise's youngest apprentice (eight-year-old Ienzo) was the one who convinced him to [[spoiler:build a laboratory designed specifically for studies of Darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty. For the record, the result was Ienzo and the other Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it.]]

* CompleteMonster Dahlia Hawthorne got her start at an early age in ''AceAttorney'' by convincing/seducing Terry Fawles into [[spoiler: conspiring with her to fake a kidnapping.]]
* Somewhere in the KingdomHearts continuity, scientist Ansem the Wise's youngest apprentice (eight-year-old Ienzo) was the one who convinced him to [[spoiler:build a laboratory designed specifically for studies of Darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty. For the record, the result was Ienzo and the other Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of nothingness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it.]]

* Somewhere in the KingdomHearts continuity, scientist Ansem the Wise's youngest apprentice (eight-year-old Ienzo) was the one who convinced him to [[spoiler:build a laboratory designed specifically for studies of Darkness and the heart, with varying levels of cruelty. For the record, the result was Ienzo and the other Apprentices condemning Ansem to a world of eternal Darkness after their experiments got too inhumane and he started to take a stand against it.]]

Sometimes children can convince adults to break the law. [[ChildrenAreInnocent Like-OMG!! How on earth is that possible?]] They could turn on the charm, particularly on a gullible adult or one with low self-esteem, or one who just likes kids and wants to be nice, or maybe one who sees the kid as an equal or a friend. Other times, the kid simply bribes the adult.

* Kuroshitsuji: Little Ciel Phantomhive tells his butler to kill 3 men & burn down a house full of children. This only happens in the manga.

* Not suprisingly, many Loli and Shota hentai have an plot along these lines.

* Not suprisingly, much {{Lolicon}} and {{Shotacon}} hentai have an plot along these lines.

Sometimes children can convince adults to break the law. [[ChildrenAreInnocent How on earth is that possible, you ask?]] They could turn on the charm, particularly on a gullible adult or one with low self-esteem, or one who just likes kids and wants to be nice, or maybe one who sees the kid as an equal or a friend. Other times, the kid simply bribes the adult.

See also TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior, FromTheMouthsOfBabes, CorruptionOfAMinor, and EnfanteTerrible.

See also TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior, FromTheMouthsOfBabes, CorruptionOfAMinor, and EnfanteTerrible.

** In a strange reverse, Kotaro has slowly been turning Ayaka towards hating kids.

* Not suprisingly, much {{Lolicon}} and {{Shotacon}} hentai have an ExcusePlot along these lines.

* Goth-loli Katarina in the near-hentai ''SeikonNoQwaser'' immediately identifies Hana's repressed predilections, and brazenly tells her she will be Katarina's sex slave. It's been a downward spiral into decadence for Hana since, as Kat teases and manipulates her through her vulnerability.

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* In the original ''{{Lolita}}'' book, the pedophile protagonist Humbert Humbert claimed he was seduced by the titular girl, who had known about sex well before she met him. A not uncommon reading of the story has the reader believe Humbert's claim, even though he's an UnreliableNarrator who was just trying to justify his child molestation.

* In ''LawnDogs'', 10 year old Devon and 21 year old Trent become friends... at ''Devon's'' insistence. Devon later convinces Trent to accompany her while they steal chickens from a barn, and even convinces him to moon her father and a police officer.
* Dewey from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' does this every so often.
* The movie ''Matchstick Men'' does this, though [[spoiler:the girl isn't actually a minor.]]
* Also movies where runaway children convince unwilling adults to play along with a "kidnapping" scheme in order to have some impact on their parents...
* The not-too-notable {{Disney}} film NoDepositNoReturn features a pair of kids who talk a couple of honest, inept crooks into kidnapping them to pay off some not-so-honest crooks.

** And in the original ''{{Lolita}}'' book, the pedophile protagonist Humbert Humbert claimed he was seduced by the titular girl, who had known about sex well before she met him. A not uncommon reading of the story has the reader believe Humbert's claim, even though he's an UnreliableNarrator who was just trying to justify his child molestation.
** Would you believe the sexual version was also a [[ShowWithinAShow story within a story]] in a PiersAnthony book, ''Firefly''? ([[AuthorAppeal Okay, maybe you would]].)
** Goth-loli Katarina in the near-hentai ''SeikonNoQwaser'' immediately identifies Hana's repressed predilections, and brazenly tells her she will be Katarina's sex slave. It's been a downward spiral into decadence for Hana since, as Kat teases and manipulates her through her vulnerability.
* [[{{Negima}} Negi Springfield]] has, [[ChasteHero unintentionally]], [[ChickMagnet turned about a third of his class into Shotacons]].

* It could be argued that this is what happened to Artie of {{Concession}}, as [[spoiler:Chelsie was revealed to be hypersexual, and Artie wasn't capable of understanding what he was doing when he slept with her. However, Artie was at the time under the psychic influence of Joel, which probably had a bigger impact on his behaviour.]]

* TruthInTelevision:
** Underaged children sometimes ask adults to illegally buy liquor and/or cigarettes for them at stores ("Shoulder Tapping"). The police have responded by setting up sting operations with an underaged kid asking an adult to do this: if the adult does it, they're arrested.
*** Isn't that entrapment?
*** There was a bit in The Man Show where the Man Show Boy stood outside a liquor store asking the patrons to buy him beer, telling one guy he had a hottie back at his treehouse. In the end, one guy did get him a six-pack. I still wonder if he got in trouble for it, since he was taped.
*** There was also another segment where the boy was actually selling the beer like a lemonade stand.
** Likewise, underaged kids sometimes try to persuade store clerks to sell them the liquor/cigarettes illegally. The cops run the same type of sting operation, with the clerk getting arrested if they sell the kid an illegal product.
*** Note that in all of these cases, the child is never punished for attempting to help break the law.
**** Actually not in all cases, because you can get charged and punished for it in some parts of the US. Obviously not if it's a sting, mind you, but otherwise, yes it can happen. Probably lesser punishments, but not none.
*** Note that the kids in the sting operations do not actually attempt to persuade, they only try to make the purchase and see if the clerk cards them. If the kid takes it further and tries to convince a reluctant clerk it becomes entrapment.
*** Further note that in many states in the US it is not illegal for the minor to buy the illicit substance but for an adult to sell or give it to them.
*** The same principle applies to MurderSimulators as well. Children get either get [[AdultsAreUseless clueless parents]] to buy games for them or try to buy them directly. Games industry trade associations even organize stings to catch shopkeepers that sell adults-only games with no questions asked.
** This is the same reason why being of legal age makes you so popular among your brother's middle school friends.
** In 1950s England, there was the notorious Bentley case (portrayed in the movie ''Let Him Have It''), where 19-year-old Derek Bentley (who however had a mental age of about 11) and his 16-year-old accomplice Chris Craig were interrupted by police in attempting to burgle a warehouse. Craig shot and killed a policeman (it has also been claimed that PC Miles was actually killed by a stray bullet from a police gun), and both Bentley and Craig were found guilty of this; Bentley was hanged because Craig was too young. This case is said to have led to the abolition of capital punishment in Britain.

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See also TroublingUnchildhoodBehavior, FromTheMouthsOfBabes, CorruptionOfAMinor

This is the inverse.

* Johann in ''{{Monster}}''.

* Rokudo Mukuro in {{KatekyoHitmanReborn}}, to Lancia.

* The movie ''Matchstick Men'' does this.

*** As someone who managed to finagle cigarettes, alcohol and porn as a minor, I find that insanely unjust.