History WouldHurtAChild / Videogames

** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidGroundZeroes'' contains a fairly gratuitous scene where Big Boss ''strangles'' a teenage boy to get him to stop shouting.

** Solid Snake (or rather, the player) in ''VideoGame/MetalGear2'' is actually given the option of murdering orphaned war children in Zanzibar Land, and despite being raised in a soldier nation, apparently they don't have orders to attack Snake or sound an alert (they just seem to just give advice and talk to him), although it does result in his health going down.

** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2'', Solidus Snake's depth of evil is characterized with how he used to be a warlord with an army exclusively made up of child soldiers (called the Small Boy Unit), killing their parents and then sending them off to die in the Liberian civil war. In the same game, the evil of the Patriots is highlighted by their kidnap of Olga's child, who they use purely to keep Olga under control.

** ''VideoGame/{{BioShock|1}}'':

** ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': [[spoiler:[[RebelLeader Daisy Fitzroy]]]] falls into this trope when she attempts to murder a young Founder child because she says that everyone who associated or grew up around them is tainted with their ideaology. This forces Elizabeth to [[spoiler:fatally stab Daisy with a pair of scissors to save the boy.]] However, [[spoiler:Burial at Sea: Episode 2 reveals that the Luteces told Daisy that Elizabeth needed to [[GainingTheWillToKill gain the ability to take a life]] in order to ensure that Comstock and his regime would fall, and that in order to do so, Daisy would have to stage the murder of the child so Elizabeth would be prompted to act and kill her. Daisy never actually intended to hurt the child at all, and never believed that it's the right idea to punish a child "for the sins of his father," but was willing to die for the greater good of all the oppressed people of Columbia.]]
*** Elizabeth, though, unlike the above, [[TookALevelInJerkass plays it completely straight]]; during the climax of Burial at Sea: Episode One, she goads Booker into cranking up the temperature in the Little Sister vent that Sally is hiding in, telling him that the heat will force her to climb out, but the plot twist that [[spoiler: this Booker is actually an amnesiac Comstock and Elizabeth came into his quiet life to kill him as part of her [[RevengeBeforeReason desire to see every Comstock dead]] evaporates this facade of goodwill: Elizabeth watches as Booker dies violently, and then calmly leaves Sally to burn to death in the vent, and even if she did escape, she'd still be trapped in the hellhole that is Rapture, where every splicer is out for her blood. Mitigated a bit when the beginning of Burial at Sea: Episode Two reveals that she's since been consumed with [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone immense regret for using and then abandoning Sally,]] and she finally gives in to her guilt-ridden hallucinations and [[ConscienceMakesYouGoBack goes back to Rapture to save her.]] Even the Luteces, who are by and large emotionally nonpartisan to the events they observe, say that Elizabeth "left the child to rot."]]

* The first two ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}s'' make you a Childkiller if [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you killed a child]][[note]]Well, at least two[[/note]], which would cause almost everyone, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even other renounced scumbags and lowlifes]], to hate you. At least the children were scripted to flee when accidentally hit, so they rarely got killed by [=NPCs=]. The 3D ones had invincible children (unless you use some mods...there is even a very famous one for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' which allowed [[EatsBabies eating a baby in exchange for the benefit of a perk which give you rads immunity]], you can see this marvelous sickness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Jl61n3YY8 here]])

** ''Fallout: New Vegas'' has two slaver traders making a note not to do any more business with the raider leader Cook Cook, as he burned a young boy they had sold to him to death. The Courier can also ask a prison rioter who goes by the nickname Scrambler [[WhatAreYouInFor what he was in for]]. He responds that he doesn't really care enough to keep track of his crimes, but he vaguely remembers something about killing a lot of people, and that some of them probably were kids.

** In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' there are children found in both the Prydwen and the Institute, [[spoiler: and you're forced to blow up one or both of them depending on who you side with.[[note]]You can warn the Institute to evacuate from Father's terminal. [[MoralEventHorizon If you don't, and you gloat about this to the Railroad]], they'll immediately try to murder you[[/note]]. Also, when blowing up the Institute, you can leave the young [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots synth]] version of Shaun to burn, which gets you some [[WhatTheHellHero harsh comments]] from your faction's tech specialist (unless you sided with the Brotherhood and tell Proctor Ingram that he's a synth, [[JustAMachine making her ok with abandoning him)]] because she thinks his series was designed to [[KillAndReplace kill and replace children]], [[AssholeVictim convincing her that the humiliation conga the Institute is having is well-deserved]]]].

* Most of the staff in ''VideoGame/{{Kindergarten}}'' and [[VideoGame/Kindergarten2 its sequel]].

* In ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'', [[spoiler:the Big Bad is Doctor Angus Bimby, a pedophile and sexual predator who has killed children, plain and simple in addition to enslaving them. This trope is his most defining "evil" trait.]]

* A horrifyingly sad example can be found in the game ''VideoGame/{{Off}}'', wherein [[spoiler:[[VillainProtagonist The Batter]] bludgeons his baby son to death with a baseball bat]].

* The North Korean army in ''VideoGame/{{Homefront}}''. [[NightmareFuel To an utterly horrific degree.]]

* The first two ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}s'' make you a Childkiller if [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you killed a child]][[note]]Well, at least two[[/note]], which would cause almost everyone, [[EvenEvilHasStandards even other renounced scumbags and lowlifes]], to hate you. At least the children were scripted to flee when accidentally hit, so they rarely got killed by [=NPCs=]. In ''Fallout 2'', once you've progressed through the game long enough in an attempt to go to another settlement, you'll get an encounter that shows an Enclave patrol led by [[BigBad Frank Horrigan]] coldly killing a small family, including an only child, which serves as an ominous {{Foreshadowing}} to their existence, who have no qualms in exterminating any being that isn't them or wasn't born in a Vault, and yes, that includes children. The 3D ones had invincible children (unless you use some mods...there is even a very famous one for ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' which allowed [[EatsBabies eating a baby in exchange for the benefit of a perk which give you rads immunity]], you can see this marvelous sickness [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7Jl61n3YY8 here]])
** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has [[DragonInChief Frank Horrigan]], who is introduced ordering the deaths of an entire family, including a young boy, because they were [[FantasticRacism surface dwellers.]]

** In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'''s Act 1 there are goblin children outside SixthRanger Halsin's cell who join the fight against you if you free him. You can ignore them as they'll flee, but if you don't kill them Halsin likely will. Since goblins are AlwaysChaoticEvil nobody cares. Case in point, if you side with the goblins they'll slaughter the children of the refugees you were supposed to protect with no remorse.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' has the gnome Jeb, who enjoys murdering street children. Unfortunately, you have to make allies with him in the first game in order to escape from prison; in the second game, however, you encounter him again, and can give him what he deserves. \\
As for the protagonist, while there is never a child enemy (with the exception of monsters and shapeshifters), attacking children results in their quick death and a considerable loss of reputation.
* In ''VideoGame/BatmanTheTelltaleSeries'', a flashback shows that Joe Chill attempted to kill young Bruce Wayne after murdering his parents, but is scared off by police sirens at the last second.

* Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, the Big Bad of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog''. He not only shoves little animals into robots, but his worst enemies also happen to be children. Even not counting Sonic himself (who is often placed at 15, though he's implied to be younger in the first few games), he is fighting 8-year olds and 12-year-olds on occasion (heck, Cream from the ''VideoGame/SonicAdvanceTrilogy'' is only ''6''). They are children with Superhuman abilities, and rather mature-acting children at that, but still.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'': If you read the newspapers scattered throughout the game, you'll find out that some guy had the decency to kill not one, but '''five''' children. Minigames in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' suggest the death toll may be even higher than that. ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' confirms a body count of at least five or six, and possibly up to eleven, kids. He's never even seen outside of minigames (where he's seen as an Atari-esque purple man) [[spoiler:and in ''3'', where his corpse is seen inside Springtrap]], much less named.

** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation'' has it even worse. The body count rises even higher with the addition of the killer's own '''daughter''' and possibly even his wife! And when they [[GenuineHumanHide do something unthinkable]], they're [[TheUnapologetic not even sorry!]]

* The Nine from ''VideoGame/DeadMansHand'' would kill anyone to silence any witnesses, including children. Your character used to be one of their members, but youe refusal to massacre children leads to your former comrades betraying you for the dead.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' the vampire Alva forces her thrall Laelette to murder a man's wife and young daughter as part of her plan to seduce him. Partially subverted by the fact that Laelette felt guilty about the whole situation and attempted turning the girl into a vampire and resurrecting her when that failed, but Alva had no qualms about killing the innocent.

* ''VideoGame/PeretEmHeruForThePrisoners'': Professor Tsuchida, alongside his assistant Dr. Kuroe, rope up a nearby tour group into exploring Khufu's tomb, with Tsuchida fully intending for them to get killed by the traps inside. Among the group is 9-year old Rin Tsukihara, and if you're not careful, [[spoiler:she ends up the first casualty]]. No wonder one player, in his review, described them as "greedy child-endangering assholes".

* In ''VideoGame/PacMan2TheNewAdventures'', it is possible to shoot Lucy, causing her to cry. However, [[WhatTheHellPlayer Pac-Man will not be happy with the fact you shot Lucy]], and this even counts as a death, one that ''doesn’t'' involve a situation that Pac-Man is on the receiving end of.

** ''VideoGame/Mother3'': [[spoiler:Not only does Porky try to kill the 12-year-old Lucas on a number of occasions, he also takes his twin brother, mind controls him, makes him a cyborg, and ultimately is the cause of his death.]] Just so you know, this game is rated ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids Japan's equivalent of E]]''.