History Main / CorruptionOfAMinor

* ''Anime/{{Monster}}'': Johan Liebert does this, to little surprise.
* One of [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler Hayate's]] skills is spotting forged art -- because when he was ''four'', his father used him in an art-selling scam, and taught him to not accidentally give the real stuff to the people they were swindling.

* An episode of ''I Almost Got Away With It'', centered around a couple of thieves, a man and a woman, and her young daughter, just a toddler at the time, that drove around the country breaking into empty homes and stealing cars. If the couple needed help unlocking a house, they would put jimmy open a back window, put the girl through, and have her unlock the back or side door, which the couple would use to enter and ransack the place. After the couple accidentally killed a family friend that tried to call the police when he found out they were wanted in several states, the authorities stepped up their efforts to track them down and arrest them soon after. The couple were tried and convicted of: breaking and entering, grand theft auto, grand larceny, knowingly transporting stolen items across state lines, murder, and corruption of a minor. As punishment, they were both given lengthy prison sentences, and the woman was told that she had lost legal custody of her daughter, and was forbidden from trying to contact her. When her sentence would be over, she couldn't have talked to her, since, according to the show, the girl was adopted by another couple who were advised from letting the girl contact her mother. The woman was so distraught at the fact that she most likely would never see her daughter ever again, [[DrivenToSuicide that she took her life in jail.]]

* One of the many [=SCPs=] contained in the ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-993 SCP-993]], an anomalous [[HarmfulToMinors children show]] hosted by a being known as [[MonsterClown Bobble the Clown]]. In the episodes of the show, Bobble teaches the kids below 10 to do horrible things like cannibalism, stalking, torture, and etc., ingraining these concepts into their minds and [[CorruptTheCutie turning them into sociopaths]]. Even worse, [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Bobble is aware]] that the Foundation tries to keep him contained, and is now trying to teach the kids to release dangerous [=SCPs=] and murder the researchers containing him.]]

* ''Film/RoboCop2'': The Detroit druglord Caine allows a boy, Hob, to join his gang. While Hob appreciates the "badass" things this allows him to do (like shooting at [=RoboCop=]), he is less appreciative when Caine forces him to watch a DirtyCop being vivisected in front of him.

* An episode of ''I Almost Got Away With It'', centered around a couple of thieves, a man and a woman, and her young daughter, that drove around the country breaking into empty homes and stealing cars. If they needed help unlocking a house, they would put the girl in through a window and have her unlock the back or side door, which the couple would use to enter and ransack the place. After they accidentally killed a family friend that tried to call the police when he found out they were wanted in several states, the authorities managed to track them down and arrest them. They were tried and convicted of breaking and entering, grand theft auto, grand larceny, transporting stolen items across state lines, murder, and corruption of a minor. As punishment, they were both given lengthy prison sentences, and the woman was told that she had lost legal custody of her daughter, and was forbidden fro trying to contact her. When her sentence would be over, she couldn't have talked to her, since, according to the show, the girl was adopted by another couple who were advised from letting the girl contact her mother. The woman was so distraught at the fact that she most likely would never see her daughter ever again, [[DrivenToSuicide that she took her life in jail.]]

* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' features this as the backstory of Laura "The Kid" Cummings: raised by her [[GunNut gun-collecting]], ConspiracyTheorist father in a small rural town, she was taught by his local militia group how to shoot guns and develop the will to one day free America from [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} "the squids"]] that telepathically control everyone. Disturbingly, her first murder was her own father, and it was by his own request -- having begun questioning the nature of his own morality relative to his conspiracy theory, [[RedemptionRejection he assumed he had become brainwashed by the squids]] and allowed Laura to murder him, setting it up like it was an accident. [[BoomHeadshot She happily obliged]].

* [[PapaBear Big-Daddy]] of ''ComicBook/KickAss'' molds his daughter, 11-year old [[LittleMissBadass Hit-Girl]], into a murderous BadassNormal LaserGuidedTykebomb through TrainingFromHell. She comes out with a love of [[ButterflyKnife butterfly knives]], an affinity with swords and expert marksmanship with handguns.

* "Corruption of the youth" was the famous charge brought against Socrates that led to his execution. In this case, it may have, in part, meant something more like "making adults look stupid in front of the youth". However, a second interpretation has been that he'd made them turn against Athens, since a couple of his students had been in the Thirty Tyrants, a puppet regime which the Spartans installed after defeating the Athenians which then inflicted a bloody ReignOfTerror which killed thousands in under a year. Socrates refused to help purge people, but this didn't stop his condemnation due to [[AssociationFallacy guilt by association]].

* In the ''[[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Han Solo Trilogy]]'', Han and Lando run into Bria Tharen (an old girlfriend of Han's, whom he doesn't really recognize) and Winter Celchu (an aide to Princess Leia), who at the time is around sixteen. Lando points them out, and Han notes that the one doesn't seem friendly, and the other would probably get you in trouble for CorruptionOfAMinor (which might seem to mean something more like pedophilia), but given this is the repressive Empire...). Oddly, Winter is about the same age as Leia, whom Han would marry later in life.
** A more solid Star Wars example is Darth Bane, who takes on Darth Zannah as his apprentice when the latter is about ten.
*** And he didn't [[MemeticMutation need any cookies to do it]].
*** Bane didn't need to do too much. Zannah had just killed a pair of Jedi with the Force after they killed her bouncer friend mistaking it for a threat. When he warns her that he has killed people, including children, she simply answers that she's a killer too.

* The whole [[spoiler:Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley situation]] in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' might sort of count as this. [[spoiler:Except Riddle is 16 and the wizarding age of majority is 17, so he's a minor corrupting a younger minor. Still, Ginny is only 11 and Riddle may be 16, but he's also 66 [[MetaphoricallyTrue depending on how you look at it]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]

* "Corruption of the youth" was the famous charge brought against Socrates that led to his execution. In this case, it may have, in part, meant something more like "making adults look stupid in front of the youth".

* Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army, ordered children to be kidnapped to serve as soldiers for him. The documentary [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Children Invisible Children]] shows [[TearJerker exactly what they went through]].

---->Hi, kids? Do you like violence?

* A core element of Music/{{Eminem}}'s Slim Shady persona.
** Slim loves using his music to corrupt the audience, especially on ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' and ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', where he (often using his SubvertedKidsShow aesthetic) urges his child audience to take drugs, drop out of school, kill people, and commit suicide. (This was to [[TheNewRockAndRoll satirise the moral panic about rap]] that existed at the time, as well as the moral panic about Eminem's music specifically.) In "The Real Slim Shady" and various songs on ''Music/TheEminemShow'', Slim announces he's an EscapistCharacter for kids who were already being bullied and exploited, letting them turn their unfocused rage into strength and defiance.
** Even after he toned down the [[FriendToAllChildren focus on children]] in his work as he got older, Slim still occasionally mentions his ability to corrupt kids. A good example is the final verse of "Venom", in which he states that he made the listeners' parents' lives hell while the listener was growing up, and everything wrong with you is something he put into you.

* ''Film/KickAss'': Damon [=McCready's=] old police partner is ''not'' happy that Damon has dragged his daughter into his revenge plot against the D'Amico crime family that killed his wife (and Mindy's mother). Damon flippantly says that all he did was "make it into a game."
-->'''Marcus:''' You owe that girl a childhood.\\
'''Damon:''' You know who does? [[SuddenlySHOUTING FRANK D'AMICO!]]

* ''Music//EvilliousChronicles'':

* Music/{{Mothy}} has two notable cases in his work the Franchise/EvilliousChronicles: Lemy Abelard, a child who was trained by the BigBad of the series to be a SerialKiller; and Ney Futapie, who was raised by the same BigBad to be a psychotic assassin.

* The whole [[spoiler:Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley situation]] in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' might sort of count as this. [[spoiler:Except Riddle is 16 and the wizarding age of majority is 17, so he's a minor corrupting a younger minor. Still, Ginny is only 11 and Riddle may be 16, but he's also 66 FromACertainPointOfView. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* Anime/{{Monster}}: Johan Liebert does this, to little surprise.

* Then there's stuff like both Brock and Molotov teaching Hank and Dean how to kill people in ''The [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers Venture Brothers]]''. And that isn't even getting into the time Jonas, Sr. made Rusty kill a man with a house key when he was 9.

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* An unavoidable aspect of ''VideoGame/TheWalkingDead'', explored through Clementine, a young girl, becoming the protagonist of the series following [[spoiler:the death of her caretaker, Lee Everett]], and the world has become just that harsh in the resulting years. Maintaining any sort of innocence during a ZombieApocalypse is a pipe dream. However, the player has ''some'' agency over how much they want her to be corrupted, by choosing more lighthearted dialogue options and the like. One late moment in ''Season Two'' has [[spoiler:Clem given the option of whether to watch Kenny brutally kill William Carver, the ArcVillain; taking this choice and then trying to act innocent later ''will'' make the characters call her out on her hypocrisy.]]
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* Similarly, assassin David Cain attempted to turn his daughter into the perfect killer; not even teaching her how to talk (so that the language centers of her brain would focus on ''body language'' and make her that much more perceptive and deadly in combat). However, she rebeled after her first murder and fled (because reading the body language of a dying man was so horrific), ultimately becoming ComicBook/{{Batgirl|2000}}.

* ''Webcomic/ForestHill'': Benni and [[spoiler:Talitha]]'s AbusiveParents have raped them, forced them to have sex with each other and other kids, and done other horrible things to them. As a result, Benni is a bully with [[HairTriggerTemper serious anger issues]] and possibly would have raped Tanya if Kaleb hadn't stopped him, and [[spoiler:Talitha]] actually does rape [[spoiler:Hunter]], [[ObliviouslyEvil because she doesn’t understanding that sexual assault is not an appropriate way to show affection you like.]]

* An episode of ''I Almost Got Away With It'', centered a couple of thieves, a man and woman, and her young daughter that drove around the country breaking into empty homes and stealing cars. If they needed help unlocking a house, they would put the girl in through a window and have her unlock the door, which then the couple would enter and ransack the place. After they accidentally killed a family friend that tried to call the police when he found out they were wanted in several states, the authorities managed to track them down and arrested them for murder, breaking and entering, larceny, grand theft, and corruption of a minor. As punishment, they were both given lengthy prison sentences, and the woman was told that she had lost any claim of legal custody of her daughter, and was forbidden to contact her. When her sentence would be over, she couldn't have talked to her, since, according to the show, the girl was adopted by another couple who were advised from letting the girl contact her mother. The woman was so distraught at the fact that she couldn't be with her daughter ever again, [[DrivenToSuicide she took her life in jail.]]