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* ''Film/{{Scarface}}'': Tony Montana fails to kill one of his enemies after seeing his little kids in the back seat of his car. Tony "never fucked over anyone who didn't have it coming to him".

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* Averted hard in FanFic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum-
** The TCB Ponies have zero qualms about potioning small children, even shoving it down their throats if needed. [[CreepyChild This does not]] [[MindRape end well for them.]]
** And on the other side, it's perfectly acceptable to ''shoot'' said newfoal children, especially since they're now the enemy and would happily force potion down people's throats, all in the name of [[InsistentTerminology spreading]] [[YouKeepUsingThatWord harmony]]. It's even seen as a MercyKill of sorts.

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* In UweBoll's film adaptation of ''{{Postal}}'', there is a particular shootout scene where the camera focuses on only the ridiculous number of children being shot. Later the replacement TV reporter, whilst gloating over her predecessor's death, is standing in essentially a massive pile of dead, at least a good 30 of them were under 15.

* Viciously averted in ''UweBoll's'' ''Darfur'' No one is safe from the Janjaweed, children get killed just as often as adults, and at one point [[spoiler: a baby is impaled on a wooden spike, and it's shown in full detail]] What makes this even more heartbreaking is that it's TruthInTelevision.

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

* ''MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'': A bunch of abandoned children in a desert outpost. What could possibly happen? Swallowed up by sand, for one.

** Rather brutally averted ''twice'' in the season 4 mid-finale. First [[spoiler: Meghan is bit after accidentally finding one buried in the mud she was playing in]] and later [[spoiler: it is implied that Judith was also killed by walkers]].

** There is a filler scene in the original Manga/DragonBall where Snow, the girl from Jingle Village, grabs a rifle from a fallen King Castle soldier and takes aim at Piccolo Daimao as his back is turned, but gives up. Piccolo then turns right around and fires eye-lasers in her direction. When the smoke clears, we're relieved to see that he wasn't aiming for Snow at all, but another soldier directly behind her. This scene sort of doubles as an example of MenAreTheExpendableGender.

* Indie horror game VideoGame/CalmTime is all about people who get murdered during a NastyParty in a countryside house. There is a little boy among the characters, and he can be killed just like everyone else. In fact, he is ''easier'' to kill than the other guests.

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

* The turning point in King Vidor's silent classic ''TheCrowd'' comes when the protagonist's little daughter is run over and killed by a truck.

* Averted in Anime/KillLaKill, where Ragyo Kiryuuin is shown conducting horrible experiments on her newborn daughter, and then, when the experiment fails and she dies, drops her down a trash chute in the laboratory without even giving her a name. [[spoiler: But it's then subverted when it's revealed that the newborn daughter was actually Ryuko, the protagonist!]]

* Speaking of volcanoes, in ''{{Film/Volcano}}'', all the small children survive. And so does a small Jack Russell named Bill. Just in case that wasn't enough to assure you no innocents were harmed there is even a brief news report on vets setting up an emergency pet shelter.

* [[spoiler: Averted in ]][[InstructionsNotIncluded No se Aceptan Devoluciones]][[spoiler: , in which little Maggie dies at the end.]]

* Despite decorating his boiler room with dismembered dollies and crushed tricycles, infamous dream-haunting child murderer [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kreuger]] was never shown on screen in the act of killing a child. Menacing them, yes, and their apparent ghosts do turn up in dream scenes, but actual murders were confined to teenagers and adults.

** In "The Stolen Earth" we see a family of three, with a child about ten years old, retreat back to their house after being ordered out by the Daleks. And then the Daleks blow up the whole house.
** In "Survival,'' the Doctor pursues the predatory Cheetah People to Earth. The first person he meets is a little girl in tears because someone has killed her cat.

* In the season 4 finale of StarWarsTheCloneWars, [[spoiler: Darth Maul slaughters a village, including children, to get the Jedi's attention. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath For once]], Clone Wars plays it safe and keeps the slaughter largely offscreen.]]

* SergioLeone obviously liked averting this trope. At the beginning of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', Lee Van Cleef's character shoots a man he was paid to kill, then shoots his young son, who was rushing down the stairs with a rifle to investigate. True to this trope, however, the younger son does survive.

* Averted in ''LittleSweetheart''. [[spoiler:Or not.]]

* ''{{Armageddon}}'': Many people die in the opening cataclysm. A small pug is spared.
* Taken to semi-extremes in ''{{Blade}} Trinity''. Dracula kidnaps an infant, and threatens to throw it off a skyscraper. He doesn't though, but instead tosses it in the air, letting it fly for roughly twenty feet, and then is caught hard by Blade. The infant survives all of this.

* ''{{Cube}}'' [[spoiler:is an example of a mentally handicapped adult being the only survivor of the nastiness.]]
** If one takes ''{{Cube}} 2'''s extended ending into account, [[spoiler:it's very likely he too was murdered.]]
* In the disaster movie ''DantesPeak'', the dog (an adorable Picardy Shepherd) disappears about halfway through the movie, while the family are escaping from the erupting volcano. At the end, it turns up alive and unharmed about of ''absolutely nowhere''. This is the film that gave Grandma third-degree burns with sulphuric acid.

* ''MadMax'': there is a high-speed car chase and a baby wanders onto the road. After playing the suspense for all it's worth, both cars miss the child by ''centimeters''. Later in the movie, a mother and her 3-5-year old are brutally run down off-screen.

* ''{{Scarface}}'': Tony Montana fails to kill one of his enemies after seeing his little kids in the back seat of his car. Tony "never fucked over anyone who didn't have it coming to him".
** ''"I don't need this shit in my life!"''

* ''SnakesOnAPlane'': the baby is saved from the vicious snakes despite being a handy size and ending up on the opposite side of the plane from the last time we saw it. The person that saved the baby is shortly rewarded with death (and it was her [[{{Retirony}} last day on the job]], too). It's then subverted with a man throwing an annoying dog at a snake to save himself; he's also promptly rewarded with death and [[AssholeVictim as he was such an ass nobody cared]].

* ''Franchise/StarTrek: [[Film/StarTrekGenerations Generations]]'' -- Spot the cat survived the crash of the USS Enterprise (much to the distaste of the actor Brent Spiner, who played Data (the cat's owner) and who in real life hates cats).

* Subverted and played straight in ''TheWitches'', the Grand Head Witch (as is the case with any witch) hates children and wishes to ride the world of them. While they seem to never kill children outright though, they still have no problem [[ImAHumanitarian turning kids into food to be eaten]], [[TakenForGranite turning them into stone]], [[BalefulPolymorph turning them into animals that will be killed soon after]], or [[AndIMustScream trapping them in paintings]]. The book also implies that several transformed children (including two frogs and [[spoiler:Bruce]]) would be killed shortly after in various ways and the Witches' main plan in the book and movie involves turning children into mice so that they will be killed by their parents and teachers. On the other hand, the main character survives and the movie has a scene in which the Grand Head Witch seems quite taken with an infant in a carriage - before pushing it down the hill. The hero saves it (justified in that it was mainly to serve as a distraction, rather than trying to kill it).

* Averted (though not shown) by Fat Bastard in the 2nd ''AustinPowers'' movie to show just how bad he is:

* Averted in ''TheWayBack''. Out of a group of eight gulag escapees, only half of them survive, and [[spoiler:the sole young girl isn't one of them. She doesn't just die, either; she dies horribly of heatstroke and dehydration in the desert.]]
* Brianna in ''MysteryTeam''. She barely appears once the film grows darker and the conflict more dangerous, preventing her from being kidnapped by either Leroy or [[spoiler: Roger]]. A more literal example with Eric, who has apparently been shot three times.

** [[PlayingAgainstType Henry Fonda's]] character Frank from ''OnceUponATimeInTheWest'' kills Jill's family in his introduction scene, including a little boy.

* Ambiguous in ''XenobladeChronicles''. Near the end of the game, [[spoiler:the pure-blooded High Entia are turned into monsters, and for all intents and purposes killed. You can look at the affinity chart screen after this point, and many of the High Entia [=NPCs=] have their icons darkened indicating they've been transformed. This includes two young children. However, unlike many of the adults, there isn't a quest that opens up after this point requiring you to kill the monsters that the kids turned into. There's another quest that indicates that there may be a way to return the transformed people to normal, so it's up to the player's imagination whether the children will live or die.]]

* ''Film/TheSixthSense'': Among the dead people seen is a preteen girl [[spoiler: poisoned to death by her mother.]]

** Doesn't change how powerful off an effect it is, for both the character and the audience.

* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' follows this to a T. You can slaughter whole towns, but not the children in them. Apparently it's better to let the children get along without their parents that you slaughtered than to also kill them. Then again, given respawn, that's not an issue...so it begs the question of why one can't kill a level 5 child since they'd just come back anyway.

** Several soaps (AsTheWorldTurns, OneLifeToLive, The Bold And The Beautiful) have featured characters being within weeks of delivery a healthy baby, only for tragedy to strike -- car accident, premature labor -- resulting in the baby's stillbirth.
** Even more disturbing is that the likelihood of this often seems to be inversely proportional to the mother's or couple's feelings about the pregnancy -- if she's happy about it and looking forward to motherhood, odds are, the child is doomed. If she's miserable and/or the child was conceived under dicey circumstances, such as an affair, the kid will make it.