History WouldHurtAChild / LiveActionTV

* The Series/{{Charmed|1998}} Ones come across a trio of children in "We All Scream For Ice Cream" that are actually the spawn of upper-level demons. Initially reluctant to hurt them, the children use their powers and the sisters fight back. Notably Prue uses her telekinesis to fling a little girl into a fence.

** Ramsay [[spoiler: feeds his newborn half brother (and step mother) to his hounds]], then follows that up by [[spoiler: shooting Rickon Stark in the back during a prisoner exchange]]

* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': SerialKiller Charlie Lynch in the 4th season.

* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': In the episode "The Crying Child", a teacher discovers that one of her young students has deep gashes on his back, and the titular duo starts to look for who had harmed the kid [[spoiler:and manage to find out it was the boy's own mother]].

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': More than once, the villains would hit children -- sometimes ''beating them viciously'' or otherwise putting them in extreme danger -- as they would hold them hostage, either as bargaining tools or just to show how ruthless and sadistic they were, always without conscience or fear of the consequences. Examples include burying a busload of children inside a school bus at a landfill, and burying another alive in a casket. There were other episodes involving child abuse, but said abuse is by a parent who happens to be the main villain and is used to frame his evil personality. Walker and the Rangers would arrive to give the baddies a taste of their own medicine, with extra force as Walker had zero tolerance for child abuse.

* The Series/{{Charmed}} Ones come across a trio of children in "We All Scream For Ice Cream" that are actually the spawn of upper-level demons. Initially reluctant to hurt them, the children use their powers and the sisters fight back. Notably Prue uses her telekinesis to fling a little girl into a fence.

** Drusilla: [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayer2E7LieToMe "What will your mummy sing when they find your body?"]]

** In fact, this series has quite a bit of child deaths at the hands of villains and anti-heroes, such as [[spoiler: The Hound cutting down Mycah the butcher's son when Joffrey commanded it (and when he learns Arya did the deed that Mycah was accused of, he says he should have killed her)]], [[spoiler: Lommy being speared through the throat by Polliver, who let him think he'd survive just ForTheEvulz (in addition Polliver is a paedophile, even by the lax age requirements of Westeros)]], and, most gruesomely, [[spoiler: corrupt City Watch commander Janos Slynt killing a newborn baby in front of its' mother, which is part of Joffrey (though outwardly denying the rumours of his true parentage) taking preventative measures against any future claimants to the Iron Throne by ordering the Goldcloaks to engage in a citywide massacre of bastard children of King Robert, slitting the throats of infants and drowning children, thus ensuring no-one can use one of these bastards to rally behind and attempt to seize the throne; luckily, Janos gets his comeuppance in various ways]].

** Both Angelus and the torture expert vamp from 'In the Dark'. In fact, Angelus's first act as a vampire was to murder his young sister after she invited him into the house.

** And later, in Season 5's "Dead Freight", Todd Alquist shoots 10 year old Drew Sharp for accidentally stumbling 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.

** Drusilla: "What will your mummy sing when they find your body?"
** Spike kills the Annointed One in his very first episode, although the kid ''was'' a vampire, so evil, undead, and possibly [[OlderThanTheyLook a lot older than he looked]]. Spike later tells Dawn a story about his violent slaughter of a whole family, culminating in his finding their little girl hiding in a coal cellar... whom he says he [[BlatantLies rescued and got adopted into a nice family who didn't lock her in coal cellars]], as soon as [[ObliviousToLove Buffy]] walks in.

** After the Lannisters killed the Targaryen children, Robert pardoned and condoned Tywin Lannister's offer of loyalty, much to Ned Stark's horror, which resulted in a rift between them. As king, he is fully willing to kill Daenerys and her unborn child. The very fact that would hurt any child with Targaryen blood that he could get his hands on is what has prevented Ned from ''ever'' bringing up Jon Snow's true identity, as Ned spent his life protecting Jon from Robert. However, he later regrets his order to kill Daenerys and asks Ned to cancel this last order but it's too late — though, luckily, the assassination of Daenerys fails anyway.

** In fact, this series has quite a bit of child deaths at the hands of villains and anti-heroes, such as [[spoiler: The Hound cutting down Mycah the butcher's son when Joffrey commanded it (and when he learns Arya did the deed that Mycah was accused of, he says he should have killed her)]], [[spoiler: Lommy being speared through the throat by Polliver, who let him think he'd survive just ForTheEvulz (in addition Polliver is a paedophile, even by the lax age requirements of Westeros)]], and, most gruesomely, [[spoiler: corrupt City Watch commander Janos Slynt killing a newborn baby in front of its' mother, which is part of a citywide massacre of bastard children of King Robert; luckily, Janos gets his comeuppance in various ways]].

** In fact, this series has quite a bit of child deaths at the hands of villains and anti-heroes, such as [[spoiler: The Hound cutting down the butcher's son]], [[spoiler: Lommy being speared through the throat by Polliver, who let him think he'd survive just ForTheEvulz (in addition Polliver is a paedophile, even by the lax age requirements of Westeros)]], and, most gruesomely, [[spoiler: corrupt City Watch commander Janos Slynt killing a newborn baby in front of its' mother, which is part of a citywide massacre of bastard children of King Robert; luckily, Janos gets his comeuppance in various ways]].

** Tywin Lannister is infamous for this, as discussed by Lady Stark who was dead worried about Sansa and Arya because the Targaryen children were butchered in their sleep on the orders of Tywin. The children of House Reyne weren't spared either, as Cersei ''boasts'' to Margaery.

** In fact, this series has quite a bit of child deaths at the hands of villains and anti-heroes, such as [[spoiler: The Hound cutting down the butcher's son]], [[spoiler: Lommy being speared through the throat by Polliver, who let him think he'd survive just ForTheEvulz (in addition Polliver is a paedophile, even by the lax age requirements of Westeros).]], and, most gruesomely, [[spoiler: corrupt City Watch commander Janos Slynt killing a newborn baby in front of its' mother, which is part of a citywide massacre of bastard children of King Robert; luckily, Janos gets his comeuppance in various ways]].

** In fact, this series has quite a bit of child deaths at the hands of villains and anti-heroes, such as [[spoiler: The Hound cutting down the butcher's son]], [[spoiler: Lommy being speared through the throat by Polliver]], and, most gruesomely, [[spoiler: corrupt City Watch commander Janos Slynt killing a newborn baby in front of its' mother, which is part of a citywide massacre of bastard children of King Robert; luckily, Janos gets his comeuppance in various ways]].

* ''Series/{{Justified}}'':
** 14-year-old Lorretta is kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car by a pedophile. In a later episode she is almost killed by Coover Bennett. A season later Dickie Bennett breaks into her house and it is clear he would hurt or even kill her to [[spoiler: get the millions that Mags Bennett left Loretta]].
** In season 3 [[spoiler: Robert Quarles ]] carjacks a mother and her two sons. He uses the two boys as hostages to get Raylan to give up his guns and then drive them all to Noble's Holler. It is clear that once he gets what he is looking for, he will kill Raylan and the children.

* ''Series/{{Deadlikeme}}'': The series finale has a serial killer who targets several people on Halloween. Two of his victims are a little boy and a teenage girl. George herself was almost a victim of the killer when she was a child.
** The reapers also count to a certain degree, as a few children's souls are reaped throughout the series. The reapers are usually clearly upset at doing so and only do it because they have to.

* ''Series/{{DeadLikeMe}}'': The series finale has a serial killer who targets several people on Halloween. Two of his victims are a little boy and a teenage girl. George herself was almost a victim of the killer when she was a child.

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

** After Jon's resurrection, he must have one of his murderers, Olly, hanged for treason along with the rest of the men who murdered him. This weighs heavily on him, though, and it’s clear how much this devastates him, leading to how ''utterly'' destroyed he feels after this and everything.