History Main / InfantImmortality

* ''TheButterflyEffect'' is almost an exception: [[spoiler: a baby ''and'' a dog both suffer gruesome deaths, but the movie's protagonist uses freshly-discovered revisit-the-past skills to go back in time and prevent either death from happening.]] In the AlternateEnding, however, [[spoiler: the main character travels back in time to when he was a fetus in the womb and strangles himself with his own umbilical cord to prevent all the suffering he has unwittingly caused. Almost certainly the only pre-natal suicide scene ever.]]

* In ''ShootEmUp'', Hertz (Paul Giamatti) and his {{Mooks}} are gunning for baby Oliver, but Smith (Clive Owen) foils him at every turn with gun(s) blazing, starting from Oliver's delivery, and Smith even [[spoiler: fakes Hertz out with an animatronic baby that Hertz runs over in the street with his van]].

* {{Eraserhead}}'s climax starts [[spoiler: with [[FetusTerrible Henry's baby]] being murdered by him.You'll wish it had stayed dead.]]
* Played semi-straight in ''TropicThunder'': [[spoiler:despite the movie subverting ChildrenAreInnocent, by having the two children in the film being a ''12-year-old ringleader of a massive drug ring'' and a toddler who ''stabs'' one of the main characters ''repeatedly on the neck'', they managed to survive unscathed from being apparently crushed by a falling Jack Black and being tossed off a bridge respectively. However, the latter could count as a lampshade/parody seeing as when the toddler is shown to be OK, he crosses his arms and pouts.]]

* In the Godfather part II, 9-year-old Vito Andolini is the last survivor of his family but the local crime boss has put a price on his head. He escapes. The crime boss' vendetta begins when Vito's dad insulted him. The dad is killed. Vito's older brother tries to avenge his father but is also killed. His age is not given but he seems quite young (his body is found onscreen).

* Averted in ''Reiko the Zombie Shop'' by child murdering psychopath Saki Yurikawa. Introduced in the first volume, Saki's a teenage serial killer who has murdered over twenty little girls. She initially takes an interest in them being her "little sister", and when they refuse she snaps and utterly butchers them. Even after [[spoiler: her death and zombification by titular heroine Reiko]] children still die in this series.

* Both invoked and averted in ''Science Ninja Team Gatchaman". A child or children directly involved with the main cast in some way will survive. The nameless, faceless children either unseen or briefly seen on the streets when a mecha comes stomping through are screwed.

* In the classic ''Shape of Things to Come'', during the prelude to war, the young son of one of the main characters is shown marching and playing his toy drum. As the war breaks out, we see the same boy lying dead amid the rubble, still wearing the toy drum.

* Mentioned in [[http://www.goldcoincomics.com Gold Coin Comics]], when Lance survived a childhood fire where everyone else appears to have died.

* In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam: The 08th MS Team'', Shiro and his team are completely sickened when they see Zeon soldiers gun down a mother and her child for leaving their house at night.

* Another aversion from MarvelComics: One of the things that made Magneto from ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' turn into a psycho would-be world conqueror was the death by fire of his daughter Anya, who was somewhere between the ages of 2 and 5. A group of humans were attempting to beat Magneto, possibly to death, for having extorted his full pay out of a cheating boss with powers he had just manifested that day, while at the same time his daughter was screaming out the window of the second story of an inn on fire. Having just learned he ''had'' powers, he couldn't control them well enough to free himself of his attackers and save his daughter until she had burned to death, at which point he went temporarily insane and killed everyone except his wife (everyone on the street, at least, and some sources indicate possibly everyone in the city). This led his wife to run from him in terror. It is possible that the fire at the inn was arson, given the remarkable coincidence of the inn burning down at the ''same'' time as the gang attacking him.

* In the exploitation film ''SS Hell Camp'', Nazi soldiers have no problem snatching babies out of their mothers' arms and tossing them in the air for target practice.

* Averted (though off-camera) in ''Session 9''.
* In ''TheRaidRedemption'', one of the first people killed by the SWAT Team in the apartment complex is a child, who tries to alert the mobsters to the police's presence.
* ''Them!'' began with a very young girl wandering the desert in a catatonic state. It was later discovered that she had been in a camper with her family, including a brother of about the same age. None of the others survived.

* In ''The Mortal Instruments'' books, all the teenage protagonists survive the final battle.... but the cute, manga-reading little brother who wasn't allowed to fight is brutally murdered.

* Very very VERY averted in the Flash game: Gretel and Hansel, most of the achievements are based on finding all the different ways to die in the game. And they are heartrendingly painfull to watch.

* In "Homestuck", most of the main characters are between 13 and 16 years old, and there is most certainly a lot of dying involved.

* ''TwentyTwelve'' - Nothing bad will happen to you, so long as you keep hold of one or more children, or the dog. The Russian trophy wife learned this lesson the hard way.

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* ''CanYouSurviveTheZombieApocalypse'' averts - an elementary school's worth of children can die, and you run into many child zombies.

** All of the Silent Hill games seem to have a little bit of this; a lot of them refer to [[CreepyChild Alessa Gillespie]] being burned alive by [[ApocalypseCult the Order]], and in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' you can occasionally hear babies cry in the background, though it's unclear whether this is [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness real]]. It was originally planned for the player to hear crying babies when standing in certain locations during ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', but the sounds were removed because it was [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel "too much'']].

* Averted in ''Film/RoboCop2'', in which the child gangster Hob, for once a deliberately unlikeable underage character, seems to be on his way to a redemption storyline (RoboCop cannot bring himself to shoot Hob, even as the kid fires on him with an SMG, because he resembles Alex Murphy's son)...[[spoiler:until the titular ''RoboCop 2'', a hulking war machine, guns the kid and all his goons down with a minigun.]]

* The reason why there aren't any children in ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' - so they can't be killed. The game designers turned it at their advantage though: the childless city was explained in-game by a "suppression field" which prevents certain protein chains necessary for embryonic development from forming, according to Doctor Kleiner. There's a great atmospheric moment at the start of the game, when you pass by a playground and, if you look at the deserted swing and the broken doll on the ground, you can hear a distant, fading kid's laughter.

* In the "They Hunger" mod for ''{{Half-Life}}'', in the hospital, you hear a baby crying. When you get to the room, near a window and press the button to call for the nurse, you see the nurse open the window, and it's revealed she was zombified. When you take a look at the baby crib, you see a blanket and bloodstains.

* In ''{{Predator 2}}'', the eponymous alien bounty hunter spares a pregnant cop, and later lowers his sights on a child with a plastic gun after realising the harmless nature of the kid's "weapon." This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] by the creature's personality as an honour-bound warrior; there's no challenge or sport in killing unarmed children.
* Averted in ''RoboCop2'', in which the child gangster Hob, for once a deliberately unlikeable underage character, seems to be on his way to a redemption storyline (RoboCop cannot bring himself to shoot Hob, even as the kid fires on him with an SMG, because he resembles Alex Murphy's son)...[[spoiler:until the titular ''RoboCop 2'', a hulking war machine, guns the kid and all his goons down with a minigun.]]

** Though it is highly unlikely he survives [[spoilers:any of the endings where the whole facility goes up in an explosion]].

* Averted in season 2 of ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' with [[spoiler: Sophia, who gets lost and is found later as a walker]].
** TheWalkingDead as a whole is rather notorious for this. In one scene, [[GentleGiant T-Dog]] is searching through cars for supplies, and then he searches through one car with a baby seat in the back. The seat is coated with blood and bits of flesh. He's as freaked out by this sight as quite a lot of viewers.

** About three times you see a curly-headed Irish girl named Cora, who doesn't look much older than seven or eight-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.

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* In the ''LawAndOrder'' franchise, there are the occasional episodes where juvenile deaths are investigated.

** All of the Silent Hill games seem to have a little bit of this; a lot of them refer to [[CreepyChild Alessa Gillespie]] being burned alive by [[EvilCult the Order]], and in ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' you can occasionally hear babies cry in the background, though it's unclear whether this is [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness real]]. It was originally planned for the player to hear crying babies when standing in certain locations during ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'', but the sounds were removed because it was [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel "too much'']].

* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', [[spoiler:the protagonist]] {{MercyKill}}s a toddler.

* In {{TheAdventuresOfPinocchio}} Pinocchio's friend Candlewick dies as a donkey as a result of exhaustion and the injuries inflicted by his master, and who knows how many children suffered similar fates in The Land Of Toys.

** ''Film/TheSwarm'' showed a grammar school under attack by killer bees. Not all of the children made it inside in time.