Line #50 CreepyChild/LiveActionTV


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8	* In the mid-2000s, a creepy little girl appeared in several shows, including ''Series/{{CSI}}'', ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', ''CloseToHome'' and ''Series/TheInside''. Despite going by different names and having different mothers on each of them, she always acted the same and was always played by the same actress, Jennette [=McCurdy=] (who later went to ''Series/ICarly''). She would always pretend to be a CheerfulChild who just happened to have overheard or seen damming evidence against a person that implicates them as a murderer; however, it always turns out that the little bitch is lying to them, and the person she claims did it is completely innocent, just convenient patsies who were easy to frame. After proving that her story is bull, the police confront her about it, and she tries to blame somebody else. About half the time, it doesn't work, and they expose her as the EnfantTerrible she really is. The other half, they go after the second person she blames for the crime and arrest them not even suspecting that the little girl is actually a murderess. [=McCurdy=] got roles in several {{Creator/Nickelodeon}} kids' shows playing the same character, except that around other kids, she seemed less creepy and more simply violent. She once said in an interview that the reason she liked playing this type of character was because it was so different from who she actually was in real life.
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11	* Sunny Capaduca from ''Series/FifteenLove'' was a scary little girl with a heavy -- nearly untraceable -- accent, JerkJock and ManipulativeBitch tendencies, and a liking for frightening the other (much older) kids at the school. She stopped just short of being an EnfanteTerrible.
12	* Wednesday and Pugsley Addams from ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', although it's played for laughs here.
13	%%* By the end of ''Series/AmericanGothic1995'', Caleb has come to resemble this.
14	* ''Series/AmericanGothic2016'' has Jack. While not a suspect in the serial killings done by a member of his family, he is seriously creepy. He is obsessed with death and his actions [[spoiler: Torturing the neighbor's cat, throwing a toy on a tarp covering a pool to trick his young cousin to go out on it and drown]] make you shutter for the future of the family.
15	* Alma from the ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryDoubleFeature'' storyline "Red Tide". Even before she became a vampire, she was a little creepy, having a fascination with death. After she takes [[FantasticDrug the black pill]] to increase her violin skills, she becomes a full-on vampire, starting out by feeding on animals and slowly losing empathy for everyone around her, including her parents. She commits her first murder by killing a policewoman who was finding out the truth about the series of murders, and she only gets worse from then on.
16	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
17	** Wolfram & Hart's conduit to the Senior Partners is a little girl. She's also the dark reincarnation of Ra, representing the sun at sunset and the evil of humanity.
18	** The episode "[[Recap/AngelS01E14IveGotYouUnderMySkin I've Got You Under My Skin]]" revolves around a creepy child possessed by a demon who corrupts the souls of those it possesses. When the heroes exorcise the demon, they learn that it hadn't been controlling him, but had possessed him and been ''[[TrappedInTheHost trapped inside]]'' by the soulless child.
19	%%* ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' loves this. We've got "The Lonely Ghost", "The Frozen Ghost", the girl from "The Tale of the Unfinished Painting" and that scary boy from "The Tale of the Silver Sight".
20	* ''Asia's Got Talent'' (and ''Series/AmericasGotTalent'' afterwards) introduced "The Sacred Riana", a young stage magician with some decidedly sinister acts. Her stage persona (which she never seemed to break, even after the acts were done) involved wearing an old-fashioned school uniform, having hair hanging over her face, constant twitching, and never speaking other than making sinister utterances and unintelligible spells. The judges were ''terrified'' of her, especially since her acts involved placing pentagrams on their hands, appearing as a ghost in photos she took herself, and summoning far too many zombies out of a box painted like the [[Film/{{Hellraiser}} Lament Configuration]]. On the other hand, she received nothing but praise and ovations, leading up to winning the whole thing.
21	* ''Series/{{Awaken}}'': The child in the prologue (later known as [[spoiler: Jung-woo]]) claims to be responsible for everyone in the village going mad and attacking each other, and he doesn't bat an eyelid at seeing people killed in front of him.
22	* Hera in ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' is, for the most part, fairly normal, but in "[[Recap/BattlestarGalactica2003S04E07GuessWhatsComingToDinner Guess What's Coming to Dinner?]]", her mother wakes up in the night to find Hera standing over the bed creepily saying "Bye-bye". The next day, Athena finds that Hera has [[NightmareFuelColoringBook filled her sketchbook with drawings of Number Six]], Gaius Baltar's NotSoImaginaryFriend.
23	* In ''Series/Believe2014'', Bo Adams is a little girl with psychic powers that often manifest in scary ways.
24	* {{Yandere}} Rhonda Vollmer from ''Series/BigLove'' is a non-supernatural variant: behind her artless demeanor and expressionless blue eyes lurks the brain of a baby sociopath and master-manipulator-in-training (and a disturbing fondness for rhinestones). She's got something of an excuse, having been raised in an abusive cult and married off at the age of fourteen to a man in his seventies, but it doesn't do much to make her less terrifying. (Amusingly, she's played by Daveigh Chase, who portrayed the ''ultimate'' Creepy Child in the American version of ''Literature/TheRing''.)
25	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
26	** The Anointed One is a creepy child vampire. In a typical Creator/JossWhedon moment, however, when Spike shows up, he takes "The Annoying One" down within an episode. (According to rumour, he was killed off because the actor was growing too rapidly for an UndeadChild.)
27	** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS3E11Gingerbread Gingerbread]]" features two murdered children (later revealed to be Hansel and Gretel themselves) who appear as ghosts and force the BrainwashedAndCrazy town to try to kill Willow, Buffy and Amy.
28	** "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]" opens with Buffy dreaming of a spooky little girl, complete with an IronicNurseryTune. What makes the girl spookier is that she looks like a kid-version of Buffy.
29	%%* Bill Adama from ''Series/{{Caprica}}'' was going to be like this. Apparently, naming someone after their dead older brother is a bad idea.
30	* Beth Thomas, the subject of the documentary ''Child of Rage''. Prior to being adopted, the child was terribly abused, and then took out her sociopathic rage on her little brother. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2-Re_Fl_L4 Watching her talk calmly about horrific things is creepy as hell]].
31	* ''Series/TheCloser'' has Skander Marku from the Season 6 [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas two-parter]], who acts unnaturally calm and almost smug amidst his whole family ending up dead. He appears to care more about his dog than the fact that his home is a crime scene, smirks at the cops when his (newly-met) aunt and uncle take him home, and when arrested, makes up a [[BlatantLies patently false]] story of how the arresting officer tied him up and threatened him. [[spoiler:Subverted in the second half; when he's told that all the family he knew about had been killed, he breaks down crying. His odd behavior at the police station was most likely due to his family's mistrust of the police; he acts more like a normal child after he realizes that the police are trying to protect him.]]
32	* In ''Series/CougarTown'', Ellie, Grayson and Tom have a brush in with three creepy HomeschooledKids. They deal with them by acting creepier still.
33	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'':
34	** In the episodes "[[spoiler:[[Recap/CriminalMindsS2E6TheBoogeyman The Boogeyman]]]]" and "[[spoiler:[[Recap/CriminalMindsS4E21AShadeOfGray A Shade of Gray]]]]", it turns out that a child is the [=UnSub=], and neither of them feel guilt for their actions.
35	** In the episode "[[spoiler:[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E2InNameAndBlood In Name and Blood]]]]", there's this very creepily quiet kid named David. [[spoiler:His dad is a SerialKiller of women [[MoralEventHorizon who actually forces the kid to help him lure his victims inside his home and crime scene]].]] No wonder the kid is fucked up.
36	* While not creepy in a supernatural sense, InsufferableGenius Hannah from a two-episode "arc" of ''Series/{{CSI}}'' definitely qualifies. In her first episode, she helps get her brother out of a murder conviction by convincing the jury that ''she'' did it, while gaining CSI Sara Sidle's sympathy (she was also a gifted child), only to smugly reveal to her that her brother did indeed set up the prank and that she's going to get a lot of book deals once she's out of juvie. In her second episode, the two siblings are in college (their parents are mysteriously dead), with the brother as a student and Hannah as his ''professor''. Several plot twists and one BreakThemByTalking speech directed at Sara later, it is revealed that Hannah had begun to envy of her brother's growing independence and framed him for murder in order to put him in jail, under her control and at her side forever. Her brother could no longer stand his sister's truth-destroying [[ThePlan plans]] and killed himself, and "arresting officer" Sara is simply disgusted, which probably contributes to her eventual [[PutOnABus two-season leave of absence]].
37	* The entire X7 series from ''Series/DarkAngel'', scary mute ChildSoldiers with a unit HiveMind, the ability to communicate with each other ultra-sonically and freaky goddamn black eyes.
38	* Ally from episode two of ''Series/{{Demons}}'', who kidnaps children for Gilgamel.
39	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'' was one of these as a child, killing animals and getting though a psych test only by answering the opposite to what was true.
40	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
41	** The unnamed schoolgirl from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Remembrance of the Daleks]]", [[spoiler:who is eventually revealed to be the Renegade Daleks' [[WetwareCPU living battle computer]] and is able to shoot lightning from her hands]].
42	** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild The Empty Child]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E10TheDoctorDances The Doctor Dances]]" has Jamie, the titular Empty Child, although this is the result of being infected by TheVirus. In a humorous moment, the Doctor realizes that despite being dangerous, he's still a child, and [[SwiperNoSwiping "defeats" him temporarily]] by [[GoToYourRoom sending him to his room]].
43	** Chloe Webber from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E11FearHer Fear Her]]" is a rare example of a black Creepy Child. [[spoiler:She's been possessed by an alien with the power to trap people in drawings, and they are using this power to cause children to disappear.]]
44	** Sister of Mine from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood The Family of Blood]]", who always carries a bright red balloon which never pops, most likely a reference to the [[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresHumanNature original book]], in which the little girl's balloon behaved like [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 Rover]]. She also has the same IronicNurseryTune as the schoolgirl from "Remembrance of the Daleks" ("Five, six, seven, eight, there's a doctor at the gate..."). What happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.
45	** The 8-year-old Master in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]". Creator/RussellTDavies noted in the script that the child should be "Damien-like". Keep in mind we only see him for a very brief scene as he looks into the Time Vortex. Kudos to the actor, managing to creep us out with ''a few seconds of standing there looking at the camera'', no lines spoken or actions taken.
46	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour The Eleventh Hour]]", the shapeshifting Prisoner Zero takes the form of 7-year-old Amelia Pond to mock the real Amy.
47	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]", a little girl appears in a recording reciting a creepy nursery rhyme just before an unfortunate boy is dumped ''below'' to become fodder for the Beast.
48	** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E11TheLodger The Lodger]]", one of the forms taken by the AI of the time engine luring in people to try and find a new pilot is a little girl with her FaceFramedInShadow at all times.
49	** The ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'' comic strip "Ghosts of [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground the Northern Line]]" has MonsterOfTheWeek Mnemosyne take on the form of a little girl ghost, who at one point stands on the tracks in front of a tube train, prompting the driver to slam the brakes on -- giving the other ghosts time to feed on the living.
50	%%* ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' has [[spoiler:Iris.]]
51	%%* Megan from ''Series/DrakeAndJosh''.
52	* Dotty/Kirsty Cotton from ''Series/EastEnders''. She's a little girl of no older than nine or so, seemingly dumped on her grandmother Dot by her criminal father Nick. At first, she seems saccharine sweet, but it soon becomes clear that something is wrong. Her hymn-singing, baking, little 1930s cardies and general innocence take her beyond the realms of 'normal but goody-two-shoes kid' and into the realms of creepy. You can tell that she has to be hiding something -- and she is. It turns out that she has a pact with her father to kill Dot for her money, and it doesn't seem like she's being threatened by him or otherwise coerced into it; she appears to be doing it willingly, off her own back. She presses on with this plan until the last minute, when she gets cold feet and attempts to drug Nick instead. Nick survives, but as he leaves, he shouts [[WoundedGazelleGambit not to be fooled by Dotty's traumatised tears]]: she's rotten to the core, and the plan to kill Dot had been all her idea.
53	* Sylvie, the lost little girl Lucas and Dorothy run into in the ''Series/EmeraldCity'' episode "[[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E4ScienceAndMagic Science and Magic]]", who can turn people into statues. "[[Recap/EmeraldCityS1E6BeautifulWickedness Beautiful Wickedness]]" reveals that [[spoiler:she's a witch, so it makes sense]].
54	%%* In ''Series/{{Extant}}'', Ethan can be this from time to time.
55	* ''Series/LaFemmeNikita'': In "He Came from Four", a creepy child with telepathic and telekinetic abilities (played by none other than Creator/MichaelCera) is sent to Section One to assist in a mission.
56	* River in ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' can approach this at times, though usually her [[TheWoobie Woobie]]-ness overrides the creepy elements. She's also somewhat older than the typical Creepy Child, though her behaviour tends to be very childlike.
57	* ''Series/FlashForward2009'' has Charlie, who has an unspecified vision that she simply (and in monotone) describes as "dreaming that there were no more good days".
58	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
59	** The child wight in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E1WinterIsComing Winter is Coming]]" is creepy enough to provide the trope image for OccultBlueEyes.
60	** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS1E8ThePointyEnd The Pointy End]]", after disappearing for several episodes, Rickon Stark suddenly appearing in Bran's room and making a deadpan declaration that his family won't come home is very unsettling. He also spends the time he is forced to hold court with Bran in Winterfell cracking nuts in the most aggressive way possible. He also wanders off on his own several times with Shaggydog.
61	** Bran himself gets quite unnerving after becoming the Three-Eyed Crow. He even creeps out Littlefinger.
62	** The assassin sent by the Warlocks of Qarth in "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS2E10ValarMorghulis Valar Dohaeris]]" looks like a little girl, but has blue lips and hisses like a snake.
63	** Robin Arryn. "Mummy, I want to see the bad man fly." The fact that his crazypants [[MyBelovedSmother mother]] is still [[{{Squick}} breastfeeding him at age EIGHT or so]] doesn't help. When he returns in Season 4, the first thing he does upon meeting Sansa is to bring up her family's horrible deaths at the Red Wedding, in a tone that would be better suited a discussion of the weather. He maintains the same calm demeanor when explaining that his own father was poisoned.
64	** By Season 3, Arya Stark is starting to rapidly become a Creepy Child in her own right, though not nearly as quickly as in the books. She's reached this completely by Season 4; ''Melisandre'' of all people is creeped out by her. To recap some instances of her coldness:
65	*** She declares Death to be her one true God.
66	*** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS3E10Mhysa Mhysa]]", she walks up to a group of Frey men around a campfire who are mocking Robb and Cat's demises. Arya acts like an innocent child, asking if she can warm herself by the fire, even offering to pay. She casually drops the coin, and when the man leans to pick it up, she stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a dagger. When she's done, she doesn't seem at all disturbed by what she just did.
67	*** She calmly informs Sandor Clegane that she will put a sword through his eye and out the back of his skull someday. Later on, she turns out to actually ''have'' a knife she got from him without him noticing. His reaction is priceless.
68	*** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E1TwoSwords Two Swords]]", she calmly and methodically taunts Polliver before sticking Needle through his neck, clearly enjoying the deed.
69	*** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E7Mockingbird Mockingbird]]", she notes Rorge was never on her list of people to kill because she didn't know his name. When he gives it to her, she thanks him with a little smile, then stabs him through the heart.
70	*** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E10TheChildren The Children]]", the Hound begs her to give him a MercyKill after being badly wounded, trying to provoke her into anger -- but she just crouches and ''stares'' at him icily for a very long time... before robbing him and leaving him to die.
71	*** The show seems to have ultimately subverted this, however, thanks to the timing differences. The show's Arya has reached her mid-teens before she could slip fully into the Creepy Child territory.
72	** Jojen Reed comes across as a bit of this -- his Greensight contributes to this -- but he's really very nice once you get to know him. He can invoke this to threatening effect, though, like when he intimidates Karl Tanner right as he's about to rape his sister Meera.
73	** Subverted with Shireen Baratheon, who has a disfigured face and is introduced singing an eerie song but quickly shows herself to be a perfectly sweet little girl, despite having no friends and living inside a tower.
74	** The reanimated child corpses in the Battle of Hardhome.
75	%%* ''Series/HammerHouseOfHorror'': The werewolf children in the episode "Children of the Full Moon".
76	%%* Not as scary as Megan but Rico from ''Series/HannahMontana''. Same with Sophie from ''Series/CoryInTheHouse''.
77	* Madison from ''Series/HarpersIsland''. She tends to creep out her mother late at night by waking her up and telling her everyone is going to die. During the first episodes, she almost crosses the {{Narm}}[=-line=]. In the last episodes, however, despite [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu doing creepy things offscreen]], her ghost-like aura is not the same again.
78	* The opening montage of ''Series/HitlerTheRiseOfEvil'' has little UsefulNotes/{{Adolf\|Hitler}} portrayed this way, ending with him appearing to kill his father with a DeathGlare.
79	* ''Series/{{House}}'' has at least three examples: one LittlestCancerPatient, a psycho pre-teen boy (and older brother of a DelicateAndSickly sister) with an obsessive PrecociousCrush on Cameron, and the Chase-substitute kid on the plane from "Airborne" who thinks it's cool that he will have to help House operate on someone. The look on the face of the Cameron-substitute next to him seals it.
80	* Chip Chambers from ''Series/ICarly''. He's a vicious kid and extremely loyal to his older brother, Chuck. When Spencer sends Chuck to military school for ambushing him, Chip mercilessly takes his anger out on Spencer... ''and the kid is only 9 years old''.
81	* [[TheCaligula Caligula]] is portrayed this way in ''Series/IClaudius''. He becomes [[SelfMadeOrphan partially responsible for the murder of his father]] when he was just hitting puberty.
82	* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': Claudia acts normally and is a cheerful girl mostly, although her predatory nature as a vampire makes her seem "off" to humans sometimes -- usually just before she bites them.
83	* ''Series/{{Jam}}'' features a sketch about a six-year-old hired "cleaner"/killer, Maria. She looks like an adorable little girl but carries a gun, [[ClusterFBomb swears continually]] and is very proficient in chopping up bodies. When one of them turns out not to be dead, she shoots him in the head and then carries on cutting him up. The radio series features even more sketches about Maria, in which she's only ''four'' years old and is revealed (among other things) to have a penchant for killing farm animals.
84	* The ''Franchise/KamenRider'' franchise is full of these, which is understandable sometimes. There are [[TheMasquerade monsters who take human form]] and [[OneWingedAngel humans who take monster form]], and some of them look like kids. And then there are kids who are just creepifying ''without'' actually being evildoers.
85	* In ''Series/{{Katla}},'' the unsmiling Mikael initially seems creepy mostly because he has mysteriously returned from the dead -- but so have a couple of other characters, who seem to be confused but more or less sane. It quite soon becomes clear that Mikael [[spoiler:is not only downright psychopathic, and indeed murderous, but was like that before his death; his own father is scared of him]].
86	* ''Series/LawAndOrder'':
87	** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS9E1Cherished Cherished]]", a rich couple's 7-year-old ''very'' disturbed adoptive kid is accused of killing his also adoptive baby sister. [[spoiler:He didn't.]]
88	** Two of the creepiest girls ever seen on TV are in the episode "[[Recap/LawAndOrderS10E2Killerz Killerz]]", which is Green's second case. The older one has a strange look and behaves in a way that just seems off; however, she's innocent, and the way she acts makes sense after it's revealed what her little friend had done. The younger girl at first seems like a CheerfulChild who is better adjusted then the older one; however, it turns out that she DoesNotLikeMen and is a sociopathic SerialKiller of little boys. What makes her especially scary is that despite Dr. Skoda's diagnosis, Dr. Olivet actually defends the EnfantTerrible and is able to get her off. As she's leaving, we see the murderess eyeing her next victim: a very scared little boy.
89	* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'':
90	** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS4E11Damaged Damaged]]", Ari Graynor plays a girl whose younger sister is shot in a video store robbery. [[spoiler:Then we learn that she arranged for the sister to be molested and then killed to prevent her talking. The explanation is that she was an abused child and a total sociopath. When they get her, she says "You think I'm scared of the death penalty? You can't kill me -- I'm already dead." Brrr.]]
91	** In "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS6E6Conscience Conscience]]", a ten-year-old boy targets a younger boy he used to play with at a birthday party and after kidnapping him kills him by forcing him to consume rocks. Once he is implicated in the murder, it is implied that he had been abused sexually and physically while at summer camp. When Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate, they find out that the boy taunted many of the children he went to camp with, was prone to picking fights, and would injure himself to gain sympathy from the adults, and so most children actually avoided him completely. He is revealed to be an undiagnosed sociopath, having absolutely no sympathy for his actions or even any reason for wanting to kill the younger child other than he felt like it. When the boy's distraught father, a child psychologist, lashes out at him for his actions the boy, feigns sympathy and taunts him further. Convinced that he'd kill again once he was released from juvenile custody, the father shoots him dead in front of the police, justifying his actions on the belief that the kid was beyond all help.
92	** Elle Fanning played a creepy/disturbed kid from an abusive foster home in "[[Recap/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnitS8E8Cage Cage]]". Detective Dani Beck takes her home; that night, the girl wakes her up because she can't sleep, and Beck finds that the girl has [[spoiler:set fire to the curtains in an attempt to kill them both so they can be together]].
93	** Elliot Stabler's replacement, Amaro, is forced to confront a pre-teen sociopath named Henry while he holds another child to him and pointed a gun at his head. Henry's other deeds include [[spoiler:drowning a neighbor's dog, tying his little sister to a bed and setting her trash can on fire in front of her]], threatening his mother with a knife before slicing her hand when she went to remove it from him, and slyly [[ArsonMurderandJaywalking telling Detective Rollins that she's really pretty]]. Although [[spoiler:at the end of the episode, it is determined that Henry must be remanded to a mental health center for extremely disturbed young people, he tearfully tells his parents that he loves them (something he never, ever did before), which means they will probably always forgive his behavior]].
94	%%* The Denton twins, Chloe and Radcliffe, from ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' definitely meet this trope.
95	%%* The Test Card F girl from ''Series/LifeOnMars2006''. [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=eS6UI3HG3zo Watch her]] and be afraid.
96	* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Walt generally seems like a normal kid, but also has the habits of appearing in places he shouldn't be, knowing the future, and smacking birds into nearby windows. He manages to creep out his stepfather to the point of relinquishing custody. Then in Season 2, he scares ''the Others'' enough that they give him back to his father.
97	* ''Series/TheMentalist'' has Haley in the fourth season episode "Red Rover, Red Rover", who approaches Jane in the middle of a cemetery to deliver him a message from [[BigBad Red John]]. However, she's redeemed of creepiness when it turns out that she was lured there and had no idea she was acting as the messenger for a deranged SerialKiller.
98	%%* Mordred in ''Series/Merlin2008''.
99	* ''Series/TheMick'': Ben has shown signs of this, such as weirding his teacher out through sitting and blankly staring at her during recess instead of playing.
100	* ''Series/Millennium1996'' has Jordan Black, Frank's younger daughter. She has powers similar to Frank's except they manifest themselves as metaphorical dreams.
101	* ''Series/Mouse2021'':
102	** Jae-hoon, ''and how''. He kills his father's dog and poisons his father's fish, tries to bury his brother alive, and doesn't bat an eyelash when he finds his father's corpse. Unsurprisingly he grows up to be a serial killer.
103	** When he was a child Hyung-chul murdered his sister.
104	* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': In the "[[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S08E11PartsTheClonusHorror Parts: The Clonus Horror]]" episode, Pearl runs into a band of creepy, [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] "Space Children" who proceed to pester her, Bobo, and Brain Guy.
105	* ''Series/OddSquad'':
106	** Most, if not all, of the EnfantTerrible villains seen on the show qualify. A majority of the things they do range from tormenting their co-workers through non-lethal means to straight-up ''trying to murder them,'' all in the name of taking down the organization that wronged them in one way or another.
107	** Oceana, an Odd Squad Librarian working in Chicago, is a downplayed creepy child. When Oswald and Omar meet her for the first time in "Orla's Birthday", she is very nice to them and is more than willing to help them find the things they need. However, she types incredibly slow and often wears a very unnerving smile, which comes off as creepy.
108	* ''Series/OnceUponATimeInWonderland'': Alice's past self in the Great Divide who actively encourages Alice to kill the Red Queen. [[spoiler:Subverted in that it's all a SecretTestOfCharacter.]]
109	%%* Karen from ''Series/{{Outnumbered}}''
110	* ''Series/TheOutpost'' has Ilyin, the girl who accompanies [[BigBad Ambassador Dred]] everywhere. She never speaks, rarely blinks, her eyes are lightly discolored, and everything about her body language is just ''wrong''.
111	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'':
112	** A flashback shows the death of Shaw's father in a car accident when she was a child. The firefighter tries to explain that he's fallen asleep and will never wake up, to which Shaw calmly responds that he means "dead". She then calmly asks for a sandwich, as she's feeling hungry.
113	** Season 4 introduces Gabriel Hayward, a ChildProdigy ten-year-old boy [[MouthOfSauron acting as an analogue interface for Samaritan]]. Relaying the A.I.'s words in CreepyMonotone and acting utterly indifferent to the claims it makes, Gabriel comes across as quite disturbing.
114	%%* Alicia, from the Spanish series ''Series/LosProtegidos''. If you know Spanish, you should [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3woMLVYPiE shit bricks]].
115	* Max in ''Series/{{Ravenswood}}'' [[spoiler:who is actually a demon]].
116	* Both lampshaded and played straight in ''Series/RoseRed'': There's the classic and indeed creepy ghost girl April and then there's Annie Wheaton, one of the team of explorers in the haunted house. She's mostly a sympathetic character but slightly creepy due to being autistic [[spoiler: screen as well as, among other things, telekinetic.]] At one point another (much less sympathetic) explorer calls her "that creepy child with that creepy doll". By the way, both Annie and April have their own theme music, but Annie (whose theme is a rather nice big band song) soon picks up April's creepy nursery rhyme theme.
117	* Oscar from ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E9E10TheTemptationOfSarahJaneSmith The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith]]". [[spoiler:At the end of Part One, he turns out to be a Graske in disguise.]]
118	%%* [[SuperSpeed Emily Dinsmore]] in the ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' episode "Accelerate".
119	* Adria the Orici from ''Series/StargateSG1'' is definitely one of these as a child, with her fixed stare and [[CreepyMonotone calm monotone]]. Even when she grows up, she retains some of her creepiness in no small part due to being [[YoungerThanTheyLook younger than she looks]].
120	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': A little girl's ImaginaryFriend comes to life on the ''Enterprise'' in an episode titled... "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E22ImaginaryFriend Imaginary Friend]]". But she (it?) isn't really her imaginary friend, oh no. "Isabella" is an {{energy being\|s}} who hardly smiles and is perfectly capable of screwing over the whole ship on a whim, or a misunderstanding! It takes a while for the crew to [[NotNowKiddo catch on instead of thinking she's still imaginary]].
121	* The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]" has an Earth-like planet inhabited by only children [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld who are actually hundreds of years old]] due to the same disease [[OnlyFatalToAdults that kills them as soon as puberty kicks in]]. Add that they are rebellious and don't like "grups" such as the ''Enterprise'' crew...
122	* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'':
123	** Susperia in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS2E10ColdFire Cold Fire]]", being an incredibly powerful alien from another plane of existence who is trying to get {{Revenge}} on ''Voyager'' -- and takes the appearance of a little girl.
124	** The Borg children on their first appearance, being Borg.
125	** A nightmare version of Naomi Wildman (usually an ordinary nice kid) in "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS5E15DarkFrontier Dark Frontier]]".
126	** Kes, kind of, being physically adult but very innocent (thanks to her species' culture and BizarreAlienBiology) sweet, and understanding. Except for a couple of times when her latent psychic powers get a little scary.
127	* Tina from ''Series/StillStanding'' is pretty creepy with her unblinking stare and vindictive nature. Her aunt Linda and older sister Lauren are particularly wary of her.
128	* ''Series/StrangerThings'': 001 has grown by present day, but flashbacks reveal he was obsessed with and collected black widows, tortured and killed animals and eventually killed his mother and little sister leaving his father to take the blame all while he was a child prior to him being abducted and renamed 001 by Dr. Brenner.
129	* In ''Series/Supergirl2015'', a scary kid turns out to be [[spoiler:J'onn's traitorous brother Ma'alefa'ak]]. He sometimes continues to take that form even after we know who we're really looking at. You gotta admit nobody would ever suspect...
130	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' is in love with the Creepy Child.
131	** The very [[Recap/SupernaturalS01E01Pilot first episode]] has a creepy brother and sister.
132	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS01E15TheBenders The Benders]]" has a thirteen-year-old cannibal named Missy.
133	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E11Playthings Playthings]]" has a creepy girl ghost manipulating the daughter of the owner of an inn.
134	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS02E21AllHellBreaksLoosePartOne All Hell Breaks Loose, Part One]]" has an Acheri demon appear as a [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Image:Acheri.jpg little girl]].
135	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E02TheKidsAreAlright The Kids are Alright]]" has changeling children feeding off mothers' synovial fluid.
136	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E05BedtimeStories Bedtime Stories]]" has Callie, a little girl ghost who's actually [[spoiler:the restless spirit of a comatose woman]] and who is forcing innocent people into reenacting brutal and violent versions of the Brothers Grimm stories.
137	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS03E12JusInBello Jus in Bello]]" has [[spoiler:the new BigBad [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilith Lilith]] in the form of a [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Image:Lilith.png small child]], who is pure terror [[http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Image:3-16_Lilith.jpg and decided that the Creepy Child was so nice, she did it twice]] (She was played by Creator/SierraMcCormick, who later played a similar but G-rated version of her, ''Series/{{Jessie}}'''s "Creepy" Connie).]]
138	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E02AreYouThereGodItsMeDeanWinchester Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean Winchester]]" has two little girls terrorizing Bobby.
139	** The episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E11FamilyRemains Family Remains]]" has this in the form of a feral, in-bred child and her brother who torment a new family that moves into their house.
140	** "[[Recap/SupernaturalS04E20TheRapture The Rapture]]" has Claire Novak possessed by the angel Castiel informing Castiel's previous host (Claire's father Jimmy) that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness his (Jimmy's) work on Earth is done]] while poor Jimmy begs to be possessed instead.
141	** {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the Season 5 episode "[[Recap/SupernaturalS05E09TheRealGhostbusters The Real Ghostbusters]]": "Oh look, more creepy children brought to you by ''Supernatural''."
142	* In a rare sympathetic example, the male lead in ''Series/TillTheEndOfTheMoon'', Tantai Jin, alarms the two nursemaids sent to look after him by suckling on blood rather than milk to feed as a baby. He later grows up to be cold, expressionless and prone to asking alarming questions about what emotions feel like and whether it's okay for him to kill people who are making their lives difficult, much to the women's alarm. It isn't clear how much of this is due to his nature and how much of it is because [[TheWoobie he grows up starving and abused]], however.
143	* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'':
144	** "[[Recap/TorchwoodS1E5SmallWorlds Small Worlds]]" has Jasmine, the girl being targeted by the fairies.
145	** The [[WaifProphet tarot reading girl]] in Series 2.
146	** And in ''[[Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth Children of Earth]]'', [[spoiler:every child on the planet becomes this when they freeze and speak in unison]]. In a deliberately creepy moment, the two daughters of the minister turn to him and start saying, in unison, "We want a pony. We want a pony."
147	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'':
148	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E29NightmareAsAChild Nightmare as a Child]]", Markie is a strange, demanding child with a deadly serious manner. She tells Helen Foley that she knows every detail of her life. [[spoiler:It turns out that Markie, a manifestation of Helen's RepressedMemories concerning the murder of her mother by Peter Selden, has good intentions but she is still creepy.]]
149	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E8ItsAGoodLife It's a Good Life]]", the six-year-old Anthony Fremont has extensive powers which allow him to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality however he wants]]. Having all the maturity of a typical kid his age, Anthony fails to consider the feelings of others and punishes those who displease him by either making them disappear or subjecting to a horrifying transformation. As such, everyone in Peaksville, UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}}, including his parents Bill and Agnes, lives in mortal fear of him. The ''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'' sequel "It's Still a Good Life" features Anthony's daughter Audrey, who is able to bring back everything her father "sent away".
150	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E8 The Burning Man]]", Doug and Aunt Neva pick up a strange boy in a white suit while driving through Kansas. They soon discover that he is the genetic evil whom their earlier passenger, a seemingly crazed, disheveled man, warned them about. It is implied that the boy kills them.
151	* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'', Ms. Tremond's creepy grandkid not only wears a suit, speaks in aphorisms, and has a flat affect, he seems to have actual magical powers. Made worse when people return to the house a few episodes later and [[ItWasHereISwear no evidence of his existence is anywhere to be found]].
152	* ''Franchise/UltraSeries'':
153	** One episode of ''Series/UltraQ'' was called "The Devil Child", and it dealt with a girl named Lily, who due to [[MagiciansAreWizards a magician's performance gone wrong]], goes through AstralProjection that splits her into a good body and an evil soul. Guess which one of them is utterly spine-chilling.
154	** An episode of ''Series/ReturnOfUltraman'' dealt with a malevolent alien named Zelan in the disguise of a mute little boy visiting MAT headquarters. While the rest of the team thinks he's cute, the kid shows his true colours as he communicates with Goh telepathically, complete with some of the most nightmare-inducing sequences in the series as he psychologically torments Goh and gets away with it.
155	** Vakishim from ''Series/UltramanAce'' takes on the form of a little boy to hide from TAC during the episode, but also uses the form to go on a murdering spree, killing the kid's family and razing his village to the ground.
156	** FlyingSaucer Creature Blizzard from ''Series/UltramanLeo'' takes on the form of a mute little girl carrying a CreepyDoll. In this form, the monster wanders about town searching for scientists researching the Flying Saucer Creatures, and murders them with blasts of icy mist from the doll's mouth.
157	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'':
158	** Carl is turning into one of these. Justified, because he is growing up during a ZombieApocalypse. First, he is forced to [[spoiler:shoot his mother in the head after she dies, to prevent her from turning into a walker. Then he kills a child soldier from Woodbury in cold blood during the ambush on the prison]].
159	** [[spoiler:Lizzie. She feeds rats to the walkers because she thinks of walkers as pets, then she eventually progresses to killing her sister and threatening to kill Judith as well.]]
160	* Shane Botwin in ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' is an interesting case -- viewers get to observe the evolution of a Creepy Child, from "slightly affected by seeing his father die" to "13-year-old violent drug dealer [[spoiler:and murderer]]", over the course of five seasons. It's anyone's guess where he'll go in Season 6...
161	%%* In ''Series/TheWhispers'', just about all the children are this trope. The show is somewhat built on it.
162	* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has a ''bunch'' of creepy children, all very disturbing.
163	** Among the most iconic are Eves 9 and 10 in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve Eve]]". They are [[CreepyTwins look-alike cloned girls]] with super-strength, super-intelligence and murderous tendencies.
164	** Michelle (Creator/AndreaLibman) from "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E22BornAgain Born Again]]" is the {{reincarnation}} of a murdered cop channeling his desire for revenge. Even her mother is scared of her. During therapy sessions, she keeps disfiguring dolls in exactly the same way, always gouging out one eye and cutting one arm. This was how Charlie Morris's body had been mutilated to make it look like a signature execution.
165	** In "[[Recap/TheXFilesS02E21TheCalusari The Calusari]]", we have troubled Charlie, who is very un-child-like, and much eviler Michael, who is his deceased twin. His presence kills his baby brother, father and grandmother... and he was about to murder a few more people, including Scully. His actor is pretty impressive.
166	** The army of small identical children, dark-haired girls and blond boys, in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS04E01Herrenvolk Herrenvolk]]" have no language and just keep staring blankly at people. They were created to work as drones in a secret government project with genetically changed corn and bees. To creep and psyche Agent Mulder out even more, the girl drones look exactly like his little sister Samantha who was abducted as a child. The situation implies that her DNA was used in said project.
167	** Polly, a girl with a CreepyDoll in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E10Chinga Chinga]]". She's an autistic girl, but the creepiness comes mainly from the doll.
168	** Gibson Praise who appeared in some MythArc episodes (e.g., "[[Recap/TheXFilesS05E20TheEnd The End]]", "[[Recap/TheXFilesS06E01TheBeginning The Beginning]]", "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E01Within Within]]", "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E02Without Without]]", "[[Recap/TheXFilesS09E19TheTruth The Truth]]"). He can read people's minds and at his first appearance, he avoided death by ducking. The man who died was shot right in front of him, but does he show the slightest bit of worry or fear, not just that someone was killed right in front of him, but that he was the intended target? Nuh-uh. He is also completely devoid of emotion at all other times and has no issue with pointing out how cruel and heartless people are.
169	** Billy Underwood in "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E05Invocation Invocation]]".
170	** William could qualify as creepy too, if he wasn't intimately connected with Mulder and Scully. After all, he is/was genetically alien and had a habit of moving things with his mind. But he's just so darn cute.
171	** Tommy Conlon from "[[Recap/TheXFilesS09E14ScaryMonsters Scary Monsters]]", who appears to be harassed by monsters, but it turns out that he was the cause of all the strange occurrences by [[YourMindMakesItReal conjuring them up in his imagination]], causing several people to kill themselves.
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Context CreepyChild / LiveActionTV