History WouldHurtAChild / WesternAnimation

** Belos himself fights Luz in the season 1 finale and is implied to be physicaly abusive towards his nephew. In "Hollow Minds" [[spoiler: he tries to kill Luz and Hunter once both outlived their usefulness. Also, given that he plans on wiping out all witches and demons on the Day of Unity, that would undoubtably include all the children present on the Boiling Isles. This gets disturbing proven in "Labyrinth Runners", where his Coven soldiers, led by the illusionist head Graye, try to trick the Hexside students into receiving sigils, which would [[FinalSolution kill every last one of them]] through the draining spell]].
** Terra Snapdragon, Head of the Plant Coven, tried to impale Luz on a thorn-covered root, and forced students to fight each other under the pretence of a test for her amusement, planing to poison the last ones standing. Which she couldn't do, because it's illegal, just like she couldn't kill the losers of the contest and use their corpses as fertilizer for her greenhouse.

** Belos himself fights Luz in the season 1 finale and is implied to be physicaly abusive towards his nephew. In "Hollow Minds" [[spoiler: he tries to kill Luz and Hunter once both outlived their usefulness. Also, given that he plans on wiping out all witches and demons on the Day of Unity, that would undoubtably include all the children present on the Boiling Isles. This gets disturbing proven in "Labyrinth Runners", where his Coven soldiers, led by the illusionist head Graye, try to trick the Hexside students into receiving sigils, which would [[KillEmAll kill every last one of them]] through the draining spell]].

* Considering ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' stars a child superhero it would be pretty boring if this trope wasn't in effect.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': As the main characters are child superheroes, and all of the villains they face know it, every villain on the show is willing to attack and harm kids. The one-shot villain Dick Hardly takes it a step further than the others, though, as he almost successfully ''kills'' the girls (and all in front of Professor Utonium, to boot).

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'', villains rarely care that Wilykit and Wilykat are children, often taking advantage of that fact to use them as hostages. This becomes especially bad in some episodes like the one with Safari Joe; the Thundrainium he used to restrain the team was hurting them far worse than it was the adults, as Cheetarah pointed out. (Of course, bad guys in the series can be rather cruel bullies, kidnapping, enslaving, and tormenting the peaceful races of Third Earth on a regular basis.)
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats 2011}}'', Mumm-Ra and his army consider all surviving cats a threat, including kittens [=WilyKat=] and [=WilyKit=]. The task force consisting of Slithe, Kaynar, Sauro, and Kask is especially nasty in this regard.

-->'''Tom''': Yeah, they tried to fight back, and they nearly got me, but, y'know, I handled it.
-->'''Demon Hunter''': They were children, Tom.

** Bleos himself fights Luz in the season 1 finale and is implied to be physicaly abusive towards his nephew. In "Hollow Minds" [[spoiler: he tries to kill Luz and Hunter once both outlived their usefulness. Also, given that he plans on wiping out all witches and demons on the Day of Unity, that would undoubtably include all the children present on the Boiling Isles. This gets disturbing proven in "Labyrinth Runners", where his Coven soldiers, led by the illusionist head Graye, try to trick the Hexside students into receiving sigils, which would [[KillEmAll kill every last one of them]] through the draining spell]].

** Kikimora, one of [[BigBad Emporer Belos']] followers tries to assassinate a 16-year old.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' with a random {{Mook}} named Tom who is ''way'' too enthusiastic about throwing Luz, Willow, and Gus off a cliff when ordered to do so. When asked if this is really the sort of thing he wants to do with his life, [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder he blithely confirms that it is]], adding that [[BlackComedy he's dreamed of throwing children off cliffs ever he was a boy]]. Later, he starts ''boasting'' about it to his fellow villains as if he took down some huge monster, much to their bafflement:

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': As the main characters are child superheroes, and all of the villains they face know it, every villain on the show is willing to attack and harm kids. The one-shot villain Dick Hardly takes it a step further than the others, though, as he almost successfully ''kills'' the girls ([[AdultFear and all in front of Professor Utonium, to boot]]).

* The Villians in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' can be considered obvious examples, considering most of them are [[ChildHater Child Haters]] (In this series, children more often than not fight back.)

** Implied in "Dream Goat!", when the citizens run after Timmy, Timmy makes comments on how his life would be cut short.

--->'''Bender''': Wow, your kid is great. How hard did you say you had to hit him?
--->'''Woman''': Fairly hard.

---> '''Robot Devil''': Wow! [[EvenEvilHasStandards That was pretty brutal even by my standards!]]
---> '''Bender''': [[CrossingTheLineTwice No backsies!]]

--> '''Dib:''' Well... stop him.
--> '''Tak’s Ship:''' Right then. Tracking Zim’s garbage signature for the earthbaby with no plan.

*** [[ThirdPersonPerson The]] [[LargeHam Boulder]] once felt conflicted about attacking a young, blind girl. The Boulder soon overcame his conflicted feelings and tried to bury her in a Rockalanche! The Boulder [[CurbStompBattle got completely trashed in the ensuing fight]]. Then again, this section is a parody of the WWF and The Boulder seems to know Toph well enough later in the show, it's quite possible all of this was just a play for the audience.

*** This definitely be applied to Sozin. He ordered the deaths of Airbending children. Who were raised to be pacifists. ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids All of them.]]''

*** In Season 2, [[spoiler: Korra's [[EvilUncle Uncle Unalaq]] [[ExaggerTrope ups it to eleven]] and threatens [[DeaderThanDead to destroy Jinora's soul]] if Korra doesn't open the northern spirit portal for him. Despite Korra's compliance, he sends Jinora to the Avatar's version of Hell, making Unalaq one of the worst examples of this trope in a children's show.]]
*** In Season 3, the Dai Li show up again, unlike the average earth kingdom guards, who find Jinora and just scold her, they're willing to engage children with a lot more force [[spoiler: the air benders forcibly conscripted, are frequently hit with earth discs to train them, and Kai is taken down with a barrage of them when he gets uppity]].
*** And now, we have [[spoiler:the Red Lotus threatening to kill ''everyone'' at the Northern Air Temple]]. In fact, [[spoiler:[[ColdSniper P'Li]] actually shoots Kai out of the air]], leaving it briefly ambiguous as to whether or not the latter even ''survives''. [[spoiler:(He does.)]]

* At the end of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Villainous}}'' short "The Missing Cases of the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Kids Next Door]]", when the KND is hacking into the Hatbot arm they got, they get a transmission from Dr. Flug, who warns them that if they keep investigating into Black Hat Organization, they won't show any compassion to them, even if they are children. And remember, this is Dr. Flug, who is a wimpy scientist scared to death of his BadBoss, [[TheDreaded Black Hat]]. You can bet his boss is ''far more evil''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' had a villain called Cardiac who ''only'' targeted children; according to WordOfGod, this was because he was supposed to be more of an [[{{Animesque}} anime-style]] villain.

* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'':
** ComicBook/TheJoker purposely singles out Robin in battle, which makes sense considering his [[Franchise/{{Batman}} archenemy]].
---> '''The Joker''': I've always wanted to carve this bird.

** Count Vertigo was willing to let his own niece, Queen Perdita, who needed a heart transplant, ''die on the operating table'' because it would make him the King of Vlatava. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, Kid Flash reveals the young queen with a recording of the Count's EngineeredPublicConfession, as he thought he succeeded. It's enough to strip him of his "diplomatic immunity" for treason, and Kid Flash tells the security guards, "Take him to Belle Reve." There the Count is laughed at by the inmates for his failing.]]

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* [[spoiler: Eddy's Brother]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. [[spoiler: He has no qualms over beating his little brother mercilessly to other people's disgust.]] [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even the Kankers, Sarah, and Kevin are disgusted by him...and for good reason too.]]
** That's not all, the bastard actually got a job at an amusement park ''just so he could torment kids some more''...or at least it's assumed that he did.

** In "The Boys of Bummer", ''[[UngratefulTownsfolk the entire city of Springfield]]'' is willing to mercilessly bully Bart [[DrivenToSuicide into suicide]] ([[SuicideDare and even encourage him to do so]]) [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for losing a baseball game]]. Even worse, they ''[[LackOfEmpathy continue]]'' to bully him after he gets hospitalized from his suicide attempt. Fortunately, [[MamaBear Marge]] [[ShamingTheMob calls them all out on it]].

*** In Season 2, [[spoiler: Korra's [[EvilUncle Uncle Unalaq]] [[UpToEleven ups it to eleven]] and threatens [[DeaderThanDead to destroy Jinora's soul]] if Korra doesn't open the northern spirit portal for him. Despite Korra's compliance, he sends Jinora to the Avatar's version of Hell, making Unalaq one of the worst examples of this trope in a children's show.]]

* ''Westernanimation/{{Amphibia}}'': King Andrias [[spoiler: didn't hesitate with dropping Sprig to his (presumed) death or with stabbing Marcy.

* ''Westernanimation/{{Amphibia}}'': King Andrias [[spoiler: didn't hesitate with dropping Sprig to his ([[FakeOutDeath presumed]] death or with stabbing Marcy.

** In "The Boys of Bummer", ''[[UngratefulTownsfolk the entire city of Springfield]]'' is willing to mercilessly bully Bart into suicide [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for losing a baseball game]]. Even worse, they ''[[LackOfEmpathy continue]]'' to bully him after he gets hospitalized from his suicide attempt. Fortunately, [[MamaBear Marge]] [[ShamingTheMob calls them all out on it]].

** Adult-on-child violence is rare ... except for instances where Homer chokes Bart (usually when Bart says something he shouldn't and it gets Homer in trouble). The strangulation issue with Homer is the most common instance of this trope, but Bart Simpson in general seems to have this effect on many adults in the show.

** The infamous ending to "Jared Has Aides" has Butters getting brutally beaten by his parents after Cartman tricks them.

[[caption-width-right:350:For [[CorruptCoroporateExecutive him]], it's nothing but a small price to pay to accomplish his nefarious deeds.]]

*** The adult green dragon in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]" tries to kill Spike after the latter enters his cave uninvited (not realizing it belonged to another dragon) and eats some of his gems.