History Main / CryingLittleKid

* When Yahiko has to fight a crazed Kujiranami to protect Tokyo while Kenshin [[spoiler: is having his HeroicBSOD after Kaoru's "death"]], one of his objectives is to save a crying kid who got separated from his dad during the chaos.

* In the film ''{{Agora}}'', there is a TearJerker scene [[spoiler: that is also the MoralEventHorizon for the Christians of the story where the Jews of Alexandria are being attacked]], and inserted in among scenes of death, destruction, mass murder and rape is a shot mere seconds long of a girl sobbing.

** In the episode "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E4Dragonfire Dragonfire]]", as the villain's forces overrun the planet, there's a shot of a little girl who has lost her mum.

* An episode of ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has a pair of kids and their dad nearly get crushed by a falling statue. Luckily Blue Beetle steps in and uses his shield to protect them.

* In one of the movie adaptations of ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', during the fighting in Troy scene, Odysseus spots a little boy cryig (or just standing there looking petrified) with blood on his face. Odysseus makes his way to the boy, picks him up and either carries him out of the battle or puts him in the arms of another adult.

* Kyrie and Nero also save a crying little kid from an invading demon army at the beginning of ''DevilMayCry 4''.

** Played straight, kind of, with Cal. After his attempt to buy a seat on a lifeboat fails, he finds a crying, abandoned child and gets passed the "women and children first" officer by saying "I'm all she has in the world." Done for selfish reasons, of course.

* In one of the movie adaptations of ''TheOdyssey'', during the fighting in Troy scene, Odysseus spots a little boy cryig (or just standing there looking petrified) with blood on his face. Odysseus makes his way to the boy, picks him up and either carries him out of the battle or puts him in the arms of another adult.

--''DoctorWho'', "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]"

* The most obvious ''DoctorWho'' example is probably the screaming girl in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride The Runaway Bride]]". Stands in front of an incredibly slow moving electricity weapon and is pushed out of the way just in the nick of time.

* In Chris Roberson's {{Warhammer 40000}} BloodRavens novel ''Dawn of War II'', one squad happens on two boys searching for [[MissingMom their mother]]. They bring them back all the way. Part way through, one Marine [[TheCombatPragmatist pragmatically]] suggests leaving them, to have Thaddeus declare that any Marine who says that will be left himself; Thaddeus looks at the boys who are not crying, though they have tear tracks. They realize their mother is almost certainly dead, and want {{Revenge}}; when Thaddeus suggests they could be BloodRavens, they are eager for it.

* The protagonists of ''The Andromeda Strain'' discover one of the two alien disease survivors, a small baby, by hearing his crying.

->"Never get involved... except when children are crying"\\

* ''Series/TeenTitans'' - one episode has a villain threatening a child with her mother with his robotic dog until Starfire shoots it out of the way.

** True, but a few scenes later, Rose's ex-fiance discovers a small girl crying her eyes out behind a pipe. He picks her up and shoves her into the arms of a lady in a lifeboat. Which is kind of nice, even if he does do it for his own selfish reasons.

--'''DoctorWho''', [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]

* ''TeenTitans'' - one episode has a villain threatening a child with her mother with his robotic dog until Starfire shoots it out of the way.

* In one of the movie adaptations of "The Oddessy", during the fighting in Troy scene, Odysseus spots a little boy cryig (or just standing there looking petrified) with blood on his face. Odysseus makes his way to the boy, picks him up and either carries him out of the battle or puts him in the arms of another adult.

* Sort of spoofed in the reality show ''WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'', where one of the very first challenges of the first season is race where the true goal is to help the lost crying child.

* A deleted scene from the theatrical release of ''{{Superman}} IV: The Quest For Peace'' has Nuclear Man create a tornado, only for a girl to get caught up in it, leaving Superman to rescue her. It's much, much, ''much'' more {{Narm}}y than it sounds.

* In the ''ThePrinceOfEgypt'', children are everywhere, crying, ducking and generally miserable, when God sends his wrath against the Egpytians. This is supposed to make us dislike the Pharaoh instead of God, however. After all, it's the Pharaoh's fault (kinda) for not agreeing to release the Hebrews. Inverted in the song "When You Believe" are the reverse scenes which produce even more {{Tear Jerker}}ing without all the MoralDissonance. Count 'em, people: A little girl guiding her Grandmother out from slavery's shadow, children racing around Ethiopian followers, a tiny girl leading giant oxen, a baby girl ''and'' her doll on Daddy's head, Moses carrying children on his back, a man lifting his infant into the air and teenage girls dancing together.

-->"Never get involved... except when children are crying"\\
-- DoctorWho, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]

"Never get involved... except when children are crying"
--> -- DoctorWho, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E02TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]

* Averted in ''Titanic''. Jack and Rose are trying to find a way out and find a small child. Another man finds them, shouts at them in a language they can't understand, and likewise he doesn't understand their warnings not to go that way because the hall behind that door is flooded...
** True, but a few scenes later, Rose's ex-fiance discovers a small girl crying her eyes out behind a pipe. He picks her up and shoves her into the arms of a lady in a lifeboat.

--> -- DoctorWho, TheBeastBelow

** Don't forget that this is the story of a rose-cheeked Hebrew baby and both God and Pharaoh kill first-borns just to prove points. Won't someone think of the children?
** This Troper likes to think the death of the first born was God's way of hoisting Pharaoh with his own petard.

* Massively averted in ''EurekaSeven'', where when the Coral Monsters are attacking a town. Little boy starts to cry, and his mother ''suffocates'' him to get him to be quiet. They all die anyways.