History WouldHurtAChild / LiveActionTV

* ''{{Series/Hanna}}'': All of the Utrax girls who were in the center Hanna's rescued from got euthanized. Marissa mentions having to cremate infant corpses.

** Drogon burns and half-consumes an infant girl, prompting Dany to tearfully lock up her dragons for Meereen's protection.
*** Somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted -]] being a dragon, Drogon has no distinction between right and wrong. In the end, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday it was just another day of hunting for him.]]

* ''{{Series/Hanna}}'': Some of the Utrax girls didn't survive getting their DNA modified. Marissa mentions having to cremate infant corpses.

* ''Film/PerfectAssassins'': Greely kidnaps children and tortures them into becoming assassins who kill themselves afterwards.

** An early episode revolves around a young boy possessed by a demon. At one point the demon tries to kill the child by making him walk into traffic, which would have ended the demon's life as well. It turns out the reason behind his attempt on both their lives is that the child himself was more evil than the demon, so much so that the demon was willing to die just to be free of him.

* Numerous antagonists in ''Series/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.
** A surprising non-villain example happened in the season 6 midseason premiere when [[spoiler:Michonne kills Ron, after he almost shoots Rick, blaming him for his family dying. But as he dies, he gets one shot off that hits Carl in the eye.]]

* ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'': The guy who killed Lindsay's friends in her backstory.

* ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Long before Basco was even a draft sketch, Bandora the Witch from was ''all about'' tormenting children, being your classic "evil kid-hating witch." We find out in the final episodes that it's because she lost her son. The series is for the most part LighterAndSofter, so nothing excessively brutal happens to them, but whenever she can endanger an elementary schooler with one of her plans it's always a bonus - [[EvilIsPetty sometimes, making kids cry for its own sake is the whole plan]]. Naturally, this carries over to Rita in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers,'' though not to quite the same degree.
** In fact, in that series, it was implied that most monsters that Rita had at her disposal would ''not'' cross this line, seeing as when she needed one that was willing to kidnap or hurt a child, she had to tell Finster to create one that was especially cruel. Apparently, Eye-Guy and the Chunky Chicken fit the bill. (The second one was actually willing to ''kill'' Trini's younger sister after taking her hostage.)

* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
** Memorably subverts this in its second season. At one point Jack [[spoiler: orders the execution of an innocent child while his terrorist father watches]] in order to trick him into revealing where a nuclear bomb is being hidden. [[spoiler: Then after the terrorist is taken out of the room, it's revealed that the entire execution was elaborately staged and the boy is alive.]] On the other hand, villains can play it very straight, such as some of the fifth season's antagonists.
** In season 5 [[spoiler:Evelyn Martin and her 8-year-old daughter]] are killed offscreen.

* ''Series/ForeverKnight'': Had [=LaCroix=] make a child vampire once and a killer in the present day part of that story trying to kill a girl who saw him kill someone.

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': In the pilot miniseries, shortly before the Cylon attack, Six snaps a baby's neck while the mother is distracted. There has been much [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation fan debate]] on why she did that.

** In the Season 5 finale, Clarke threatens this by pointing a gun at Diyoza's pregnant belly. This even shocks [=McCreary=], who has been almost purely chaotic evil up to this point. He is the father, but has shown almost no emotional attachment or standards in any of his actions all seasons.

* ''Series/TheFive'': Jakob Morosi is a serial rapist/killer of children who's serving a life sentence.

** In season 5 [[spoiler:Evelyn Martin and her 8 year-old daughter]] are killed offscreen.

** In season 2, some street drug dealers draw 11 year old Tomas Cantillo into their gang, having him kill Jesse's friend Combo as a rite of initiation. He's later killed by said dealers, either on their own accord or on the orders of Gus Fring, upon being told that they can't use child assassins.
** A more significant example comes when Brock Cantillo 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 "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E5DeadFreight 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.

* Natalie Rice of ''Series/BurnNotice'' held children hostage so their father would act as her fall guy. When held at gunpoint by Fiona, she blended into a passing crowd of children so she would back off. As extra incentive Natalie warned she would kill one at the first sign of trouble.
* ''Series/Charmed1998'': The 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.

** In the fourth season, [[spoiler:it is shown that the Trinity Killer]] has no qualms about kidnapping ten-year-old boys, holding them prisoner, drugging them and then killing them by [[spoiler: BuriedAlive BURYING THEM IN WET CEMENT. WHICH THEN SETS]]. This is also why he went uncaught for so long. The killer's name, MO, all of it, was an accidental misnomer, because nobody ever knew about the FOURTH victims in each set representing himself.

** Jaime Lannister defenestrates [[note]]Pushes out of a window.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Bran Stark]], rendering him temporarily comatose and permanently crippled after the boy witnesses the twincest. He "hoped the fall would kill him".

** 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]].

** After [[spoiler: Jon's resurrection, he]] must have one of his murderers, Olly, hanged for treason along with the rest of the men who killed 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.

** In fact, in that series, it was implied that most monsters that Rita had at her disposal would ''not'' cross this line, seeing as when she needed one that was willing to kidnap or hurt a child, she had to tell Finster to create one that was especially cruel. Apparently Eye-Guy and the Chunky Chicken fit the bill. (The second one was actually willing to ''kill'' Trini's younger sister after taking her hostage.)

* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': [[spoiler:Sayid]] shoots a 12 year-old boy in the chest [[spoiler:(Ben Linus in 1977)]], believing it to be for the greater good.

** "Dreams in the Witch-House": The witch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless men to do so. At the end it's revealed that the house's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.

** There was an episode in which the POI was a 15 year-old girl who was believed to have been killed two years earlier in a hit on her parents (who weren't so lucky) and Reese had to protect her from being KilledOffForReal.
** Carl Elias forced Reese to tell him [[spoiler:the location of a rival Mob boss]] by locking him in a refrigerated truck with a baby. He claimed the baby was never in danger because he knew Reese would tell him what he needed to know, but even if he wholeheartedly believed that, the gambit alone stil qualifies him for the trope.

* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Time and Again", The activists threaten to kill Latika, a ten-year-old boy, if Janeway doesn't help them get inside the plant. The problem is she's not the security agent they think she is, so her only option is to tell the guard at the gate they're being held hostage. One of the activist shoots at the boy but Tom Paris, also being held, [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of him]].

** In the beginning of Season 2, Isaac Lahey's father throws a glass at him and the shards nearly put his eye out. We also see implied evidence of his severe physical abuse.

* ''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.

** A surprising non-villain example happened in the season 6 midseason premiere when [[spoiler:Michonne kills Ron, after he almost shoots Rick, blaming him for his family dying. But as he dies he gets one shot off that hits Carl in the eye.]]

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]], the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent plasmavore]] is wanted for the murder of the Child Princess of Patrovolt Regency 9. She's proud of her crime, and insists the kid had it coming for being cute:
-->"Oh, those blonde curls and that ''simpering'' voice. She was just ''begging'' for the bite of a plasmavore!"