History Main / InfantImmortality

** About three times you see a curly-headed Irish girl named Cora, who doesn't look much older than seven-years-old. A deleted scene shows her and her parents, screaming and crying, trapped behind a third-class gate and being submerged by water. Cameron stated that the scene was cut because it was just too upsetting.
** This happens a couple more times: first, a woman comforts her two children before their cabin is submerged; and second, a boy whom Jack and Rose tried to save earlier is swept away by a current along with his father.

** About three times you see a curly-headed Irish girl named Cora, who doesn't look much older than seven-years-old. A deleted scene shows her and her parents, screaming and crying, trapped behind a third-class gate and being submerged by water. Cameron explains it was cut because it was just too upsetting.

* The scene in ''Film/{{Titanic}}'' immediately after [[ItWasHisSled the sinking of the titular ship]] shows, among the frozen bodies floating in the ocean, a dead woman still cradling her frozen infant.
** This happens a couple more times first a woman comforts her two children before their cabin is submerged, and a boy whom Jack and Rose tried to save earlier is swept away by a current along with his father.

* In the [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/38542206 M,WDD?]][[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/43453866 Series]] seems to be pretty consistant with killing people off in a "Kenny Death", children, especially the titular Madgie, included.

* Elsewhere in the {{Toku}}satsu genre, the earlier ''Series/KamenRider'' series, which had far less problem offing random civilians in good-sized numbers to show how bad the MonsterOfTheWeek and his plan are than more recent series, have so many instances of death - in ''so'' many scary-despite-[[SpecialEffectsFailure Special-Effects-Failure]] forms - instantly taking adults but only hovering menacingly in the direction of children (who are snatched out of the way by Riders) it's hard to pick the best. However, one time in ''KamenRiderSkyrider,'' a child infected by something that had disintegrated everyone else affected by it [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse is not seen after]] the woman who'd been carrying her a second ago was kidnapped. By all rights that means she's dead, but we didn't see it.

* In ''Comicbook/Flashpoint'', Joe Chill accidentally kills 8 year old Bruce Wayne instead of his parents.

* In the M,WDD? Series[[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/38542206]][[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/43453866]] seems to be pretty consistant with killing people off in a "Kenny Death", children, especially the titular Madgie, included.
*** Actually the reason as to why she has it that is to usually make the story poignant and just to show anyone can die in those stories. Don't worry, they get better when time is reversed.

** And averted again by the description of one toddler falling into a well and dying there.

* ''{{Primeval}}'' played the trope straight throughout the first three seasons where if there was ever a child involved in an anomaly attack they would be rescued or helped out but it was brilliantly averted in the fourth episode of season 4 where an anomaly opened up in a school and a pack of prehistoric wild dogs ran loose. It resulted in a girl around 14 being eaten after [[TooDumbToLive she wandered out of detention and into the gym]].

** ''FridayThe13thHateKillRepeat'' had Jason attacking a family of campers, killing them all, including the little boy and baby girl.
** A zombie baby shows up in ''FridayThe13thTheJasonStrain''.
** Finally, ''FridayThe13thCarnivalOfManiacs'', after Jason's rampage in the titular carnival, a dead father is found holding his son's body in his arms.

* The backstory arc in ''WhenTheyCry'' has a reporter with a pregnant wife, who he left behind to cover Himezawa. He's told that by doing so, he'll come to regret it. His wife dies while he's away. [[spoiler:In the TimeSkip, we learn that they saved the baby.]]

* {{Batman}}'s arch enemy The Joker has killed many children, some examples include the brutal killing of 15 year old Jason Todd in "A Death in the Family" and on at least one occasion he blew up a school full of children.

* An episode of the original ''{{Dragnet}}'' regarded two parents who were so high on drugs that they forgot they put their baby in the bathtub. Whoops.

* It's only to be expected that ''ZooTycoon'' would honor this trope, being a family game. It's worth mentioning because of how blatantly the Infant Immortality rule is applied: if predators escape or a guest ends up in their enclosures, they'll leap on and attack adult guests, while completely ignoring children. Hence, a runaway lion or tyrannosaur will charge right past a dozen kids to pounce on a grown-up.

* The very premise of HarryPotter, who is ''The Boy Who Lived'' because the evil overlord wanted to kill a baby but wasn't able to. "Trying to kill a baby but not being able to" is probably the most pathetic thing a villain can do. It's hard to think of things that ''couldn't'' kill a baby, but apparently Voldy just had to get cute with the killing curse, instead of just going the much more reliable ''kick to the head''.

* ''HarryPotter'' is the exception that proves the rule. BigBad Voldemort tries to kill him when he's a baby, but fails (leaving the iconic lightning-shaped scar). In the end, the cause turns out to be ThePowerOfLove by way of magical AppliedPhlebotinum. Let's recap: '''''The BigBad can't even kill a baby'''''.

* In Japanese ''[[Series/SpiderManJapan Spider-Man]]'', in which adult characters are rarely spared from tragic deaths for the hero to angst over, one can always be sure that cute kids whose lives are in danger will always be spared. Moreover, one episode featured a heroic dog who was [[ShootTheDog shot]] and [[SlowMotionFall fell hundreds of feet]] off a dam. Cut to [[OldYeller tearjerker scene]] of the dog lying in the river... his owner calls and the dog struggles to his feet and limps over... and five minutes later, the dog is completely well again.

* In ''OnePiece'', a young boy finds out that the King of Alabasta attacking Nanohana is actually an impostor, and then gets caught by Mr. 1 and Miss Doublefinger. While in most cases, it would [[HeKnowsTooMuch seal his fate]], they injure him and leave him for dead, enabling him to expose the truth after Crocodile's defeat.

* The death of Arthur Jr., Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'s infant son during TheSeventies, who was killed in issue 60 after he was suffocated by Aquaman's nemesis, Black Manta. Notable in that the death occurred at a time when the ComicsCode of Authority's censorship standards were still rather strict.

** Several children die in the manga, but are spared in the TV series (notably Bat's younger brother Taki, who is murdered by one of Jackal's men; and the kid at Shuu's hideout who died eating bread that Souther and his men poisoned). Strangely, the TV series "made up" for it by having several adult characters who survived the manga die instead (like both Harn Brothers instead of just Haz). In the first ''Raoh Den'' movie, the child-poisoning scene is restored.

** Several children die in the manga, but are spared in the TV series (notably Bat's younger brother Taki and the kid who ate poisoned bread in Shu's hideout). Strangely, the TV series "made up" for it by having several adult characters who survived the manga die instead (like both Harn Brothers instead of just Haz). In the first ''Raoh Den'' movie, the child-poisoning scene is restored.

* The original JohnCarpenter directed ''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct13'' was considered quite violent for its time (1976), mainly because of the scene that triggers the plot. A young girl walks up to an ice cream truck just as a gang leader kills the driver for not paying protection money. In any other movie, she would have gotten away and become the MacGuffin of the story. Instead, the gang leader shoots her through the heart right on camera. Her father witnesses the act, kills the gang leader, and ''he'' becomes the MacGuffin.

* Young Tad Trenton dies in Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/{{Cujo}}''... but survives in the {{Film}}. King also kills off toddler Gage Creed in ''PetSematary'' (this death, crucial to plot, also happens in the movie version).