History WouldHurtAChild / LiveActionTV

** Quite possibly the most innocent character on the show, [[spoiler: Shireen Baratheon, is burned alive by her own parents and Melisandre as a sacrifice]].

** Ramsay [[spoiler: feeds his newborn half brother (and step mother) to his hounds.]]

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Jamie Lannister defenestrates [[note]]Pushes out of a window.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Bran Stark]], rendering him temporarily comatose and permanently crippled.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'':
** [[spoiler: In the final episode of the third season, Children of Earth, Jack Harkness uses his grandson Stephen to transmit a lethal signal to drive away the 456, killing Stephen in the process.]]

*** Ramsay [[spoiler: feeds his newborn half brother (and step mother) to his hounds.]]

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Jamie Lannister defenestrates [[note]]pushes out of a window[[/note]] [[spoiler:Bran Stark]], rendering him temporarily comatose and permanently crippled.

* ''Series/Torchwood'':
** [[spoiler: Jack Harkness uses his grandson Stephen to transmit a lethal signal to drive away the 456, killing Stephen in the process.]]

* Numerous antagonists in TheWalkingDead have demonstrated that they have no qualms with hurting or killing children. Notably, one man tries to rape Carl in the season 4 finale while another threatens to break baby Judith's neck in the season 5 premiere.

* ''Series/BreakingBad'':
** Some gangsters draw a kid into their gang, having him kill a competing drug dealer as a hazing. They later [[spoiler:kill this kid after being told by their druglord boss they weren't allowed to use kids anymore.]]
** A more significant example comes when [[spoiler:Brock is poisoned by Walter, in an attempt to make it look like Gus had poisoned him, so that Jesse would turn on Gus. It's a clear KickTheDog moment as well as something of a MoralEventHorizon for Walter.]]
** And later, in Season 5's "Dead Freight", [[spoiler:Todd shoots a 10 year old boy who accidentally stumbles across their heist. The wildly diverging reactions to the killing between Jesse and Walt emphasize how far the latter has fallen: Jesse is completely traumatized while Walt puts a shallow mask of guilt over an obvious reality of indifference.]]
** The Aryans get [[spoiler: Skyler's and Jesse's]] cooperation by threatening to kill children. Considering all the other horrible things they had done, there is no doubt that they would do it.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Children are rarely the MonsterOfTheWeek, but that doesn't mean never. When it does happen, it's always a debate about what to do. One episode had Castiel try to stab a child to death before the boy realized he could [[RealityWarper warp reality]] as he what was TheAntiChrist.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Jamie Lannister defenestrates [[note]]pushes out of a window[[/note]] [[spoiler:Bram Stark]], rendering him temporarily comatose and permanently crippled.

* ''BoardwalkEmpire'': [[TheWoobie Fan favorite]] Richard Harrow has a very sweet connection with Margaret's two young children [[spoiler:and in season three, Jimmy's son Tommy]]...but he doesn't hesitate to offer to kill the entire D'Alessio family, [[WouldHitAGirl including the mother and sisters]], and does in fact shoot the youngest brother in the face. He's only 14 and is crying as he frantically attempts to load his own gun, before raising his hands, trying to surrender. Whoops.

** Meanwhile, [[WouldntHurtAChild his ruthless alternate-universe counterpart, Walternate, absolutely refuses to experiment on children]] (though he apparently has few qualms about potentially lethal adult trials). At least until season four. Then he does try to kill a child...specifically, [[spoiler: his own grandson.]] This leads to much debate in both universes about [[GrayAndGreyMorality which Walter is the greater evil.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Every thirty or so years the Mayor feeds newborn babies to a sewer-dwelling demon named Lurconis.