Line #39 Main/CorruptionOfAMinor


1	->''"You call it 'brainwashing'. I call it 'making it a game'."''
2	-->-- '''Big Daddy''', ''Film/KickAss''
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4	In many countries, there is a crime with a name similar to Corruption of a Minor, which is basically an adult teaching a kid [[ChildrenAreInnocent things they "shouldn't" know]]; generally things that could increase the kid's risk of becoming a criminal. Things like bringing the kid along while committing a crime such as shoplifting, for instance, or outright having the kid help in the commission of a crime. The purpose of these laws is to try to prevent future criminals by stopping those who would try to CorruptTheCutie in this way.
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6	Contrast CorruptionByAMinor. See also HarmfulToMinors.
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9	!!Examples:
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14	* ''Manga/HidokuShinaide'': In Volume 6, it's revealed that Maya's apprehension of Naoya comes from the fact that he's actually known the older guy since he was a young teen. When his parents were getting divorced and he was getting rebellious, Naoya was there and taught Maya "fun and dangerous stuff". From what's shown in the manga, that looks like underaged drinking, smoking, and getting his ear pierced.
15	* ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'':
16	** Evangeline occasionally being TheVamp around [[AdorablyPrecociousChild ten year old]] Negi. Such as the time she told him to lick her feet. This resulted in a MegatonPunch from Asuna.
17	** Later she starts doing KissOfTheVampire feedings on him as payment for her training. It's presented the way you're thinking, and she gets away with it.
18	** Then there was the time that [[YaoiFangirl Haruna]] brought Negi to a manga convention, prompting Chisame to have a major FreakOut when he started to read a [[BoysLove Yaoi]] manga.
19	** In general, lots of girls in the class pull stuff like this on him, especially MarshmallowHell. His ability to be NotDistractedByTheSexy is incredible. Though not so surprising when you realize that he's only ''ten''. He wouldn't be able to be DistractedByTheSexy even discounting the fact that he treats his students like family.
20	* In ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'', Gold invokes a softer version of this trope; he gets the Togepi egg, and gambles and cheats around it, so when it hatches, it naturally follows such behaviors and becomes mischievous.
21	* Yayoi from ''Manga/KoeDeOshigoto'' does this to her own sister, giving her TheTalk and a lecture on eroge so she could become a good eroge seiyuu. To be fair, Yayoi didn't really push her into the profession and Kanna volunteered.
22	* Ali Al-Saachez from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'' influenced Krugis children (including TheHero) to [[SelfMadeOrphan kill their parents]] to prove their devotion to god. The truth is he just wanted to turn them into his ChildSoldiers.
23	* ''Manga/{{Monster}}'': Johan Liebert does this, to little surprise.
24	* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'': One of Hayate's skills is spotting forged art -- because when he was ''four'', his father used him in an art-selling scam, and taught him to not accidentally give the real stuff to the people they were swindling.
25	* The villain [[GreaterScopeVillain All For One]] from ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' actively went out of his way to target young Tenko Shimura/Tomura Shigaraki to get back at [[BigGood All Might]] because of Tenko's relationship to All Might's teacher, and raised him [[spoiler: after Tenko, mostly accidentally, killed his own family when his [[TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening Quirk awakened]]]] with the explicit intention of making him as much of a violent sociopath as possible.
26	* In ''Anime/Kite1998'', Akai and Kanie are in the business of turning orphaned young children into ruthless assassins-for-hire.
27	* Genma in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' taught Ranma things like theft and took him along while stealing stuff. Happosai used the young sickly Miss Hinako to help in his panty thefts.
28	* Hody Jones and his New Fishman Pirates in ''Manga/OnePiece'' grew up idolizing Fishman villain Arlong and living in a slum full of Fishmen and merfolk that despised humans. This ultimately led to the New Fishman Pirates having an almost religious fanaticism when it came to exterminating humans and those who sought peaceful co-existence.
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32	* [[PapaBear Big-Daddy]] of ''ComicBook/KickAss'' molds his daughter, 11-year old [[LittleMissBadass Hit-Girl]], into a murderous BadassNormal LaserGuidedTykebomb through TrainingFromHell. She comes out with a love of butterfly knives, an affinity with swords and expert marksmanship with handguns.
33	* Similarly, assassin David Cain attempted to turn his daughter into the perfect killer; not even teaching her how to talk (so that the language centers of her brain would focus on ''body language'' and make her that much more perceptive and deadly in combat). However, she rebelled after her first murder and fled (because reading the body language of a dying man was so horrific), ultimately becoming ComicBook/{{Batgirl\|2000}}.
34	* Similarly yet ''again'' is Laura Kinney aka ComicBook/{{X 23}}, an OppositeSexClone of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} created by the Facility, a civilian offshoot of the Weapon X program, to be the perfect assassin and killing machine. Her "test run" was at age ''nine''. She didn't escape their control until about four years later, and it's implied she amassed a body count in the ''hundreds'' during that time. The end result is one of the most dangerous and lethal killers in the Marvel Universe (ComicBook/CaptainAmerica ''personally'' took on the task of bringing her to justice) with ''severe'' [[BrokenBird emotional issues]].
35	* A major theme in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'':
36	** The title [[SerialKiller homicidal maniac]] has a beloved six-year-old neighbor, and he desperately wants to [[AvertedTrope avert]] this when interacting with him. Of course, being [[AxCrazy who]] [[MoodSwinger he]] [[TalkativeLoon is]], he's not good at it, but somehow the kid seems to stay pretty okay.
37	--->'''Johnny:''' It must be nice to be able to save the cohesion of your pretty mind. The best some of us can hope for is to better manage the damage.
38	** In the SpinOff ''ComicBook/{{Squee}}'', the aforementioned child -- Todd Casil -- has a conversation with {{Satan}} and TheAntichrist where Satan attempts to convert Todd to the LegionsOfHell. Todd [[SubvertedTrope politely declines]].
39	* ''ComicBook/Rorschach2020'' features this as the backstory of Laura "The Kid" Cummings: raised by her [[GunNut gun-collecting]], ConspiracyTheorist father in a small rural town, she was taught by his local militia group how to shoot guns and develop the will to one day free America from [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} "the squids"]] that were telepathically controlling everyone. Disturbingly, her first murder was her own father, and it was by his own request -- having begun questioning the nature of his own morality relative to his conspiracy theory, [[RedemptionRejection he assumed he had become brainwashed by the squids]] and allowed Laura to murder him, setting it up like it was an accident. [[BoomHeadshot She happily obliged]].
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43	* One of the central themes of ''Fanfic/ALoudAmongDemons'' is how being trapped in Hell is negatively affecting Lincoln. As the story goes on, his idealism is broken piece by piece and he grows increasingly desensitized to the violence and general depravity that he is surrounded by. For Lincoln, he fears that this is a sign that he's losing his humanity, which could hinder his chances of returning home.
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47	* In ''Film/TheWickerMan1973'', the deeply Catholic Sgt Howie accuses the pagan schoolteacher of "corruption of the young" when she teaches her class about the dominants of phallic symbolism in the Celtic religion.
48	* In ''Film/LittleSweetheart'', this is given a unique twist. The corruption of a minor is done by a psychopath who is actually slightly younger than her, but has the mind of an adult and the manipulation skills of a [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]].
49	* In ''Film/TheProfessional'' (aka ''Leon''), an assassin befriends a 12-year-old girl, who demands that he teach her how to kill. In the American theatrical release, he gives her some lessons, but she never participates in an actual murder. In the overseas version, she helps kill at least a dozen people, making her instant rehabilitation at the end a little dubious.
50	* In ''Film/LittleMissSunshine'', the parents sneak the dead body of the grandfather out of a hospital because they didn't have time to be burdened with paperwork just then. Both their children, a teenager and a 7-year-old, are involved in the operation. Furthermore, in one of the alternate endings in the DVD version, the family is seen [[spoiler:stealing a trophy from the pageant that Olive had lost.]]
51	** Olive's grandpa taught her the [[spoiler:burlesque dance]] routine.
52	* In ''Film/{{Changeling}}'', Sanford Clark is forced by his SerialKiller uncle to help kidnap other young boys, and later on to dispose of the bodies.
53	* In ''Film/AnAmericanCrime'', Gertrude encourages her children as well as other children in the neighborhood to abuse Sylvia. Because an adult gave them "permission" to burn her with cigarettes and so on, they get into it pretty quick.
54	* Film/{{Hanna}}, from the movie of the same name, has been trained by her father to avenge her mother since her birth. It helps that she's a [[spoiler:bioweapon.]]
55	* In ''Film/TheHunt2012'', Klara's brother unwittingly helped to set the stage for a wrongful PaedoHunt by showing his sister a photo of a "giant stiff rod" which disturbed her enough to use it against Lucas after he rejected her PrecociousCrush.
56	* ''Film/KickAss'': Damon [=McCready's=] old police partner is ''not'' happy that Damon has dragged his daughter into his revenge plot against the D'Amico crime family that killed his wife (and Mindy's mother). Damon flippantly says that all he did was "make it into a game."
57	-->'''Marcus:''' You owe that girl a childhood.\
58	'''Damon:''' You know who does? [[SuddenlySHOUTING FRANK D'AMICO!]]
59	* ''Film/RoboCop2'': The Detroit druglord Caine allows a young boy, Hob, to join his gang. While Hob appreciates the "badass" things this allows him to do (like shooting at [=RoboCop=]), he is less appreciative when Caine forces him to watch a DirtyCop being vivisected in front of him.
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63	* ''Literature/TwentySixSixtySix'': Subverted with Lalo Cura, a child hired to bodyguard Pedro Rengifo's family. He eventually becomes part of the Santa Teresa police force, [[spoiler: but he remains a far more honest and straightforward officer than his mentors.]]
64	* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': Darth Bane takes on Darth Zannah as his apprentice when the latter is about ten (and he didn't [[MemeticMutation need any cookies to do it]]). Bane didn't need to do too much. Zannah had just killed a pair of Jedi with the Force after they killed her bouncer friend mistaking it for a threat. When he warns her that he has killed people, including children, she simply answers that she's a killer too.
65	* In an early mystery novel by Creator/ElleryQueen [[spoiler:''The Tragedy of Y'', as by "Barnaby Ross"]], the entire mystery is [[spoiler:the result of a dead man's attempt at writing a murder mystery being found by a demented teenager and carried out literally; for instance, where the mystery outline calls for a "blunt instrument", the teenager uses a mandolin.]]
66	* ''Literature/TheFragilityOfBodies'': Rivero is part of TheCartel, and works as a coach in soccer clubs in order to recruit kids for the GameOfChicken competition he organizes. His coaching methods always try to bring out the worst in kids, with him encouraging them to beat each other up and shaming them if they hesitate, which is all part of his plan to get them ready for the GameOfChicken.
67	* Subverted in ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird''. When Dill is crying during Tom's trial, he and Scout go outside and talk to Dolphus Raymond, the town's alcoholic. To help Dill stop crying, he offers him a drink out of his paper sack. Scout tries to warn Dill against it, but it turns out [[spoiler:that it's just soda, and Raymond only pretends to be an alcoholic so the townsfolk can think that's the reason he lives with a black woman.]]
68	* Fagin in ''Literature/OliverTwist'' ([[ValuesDissonance almost exclusively referred to as "The Jew"]]) spends his time teaching young boys how to pickpocket and get away with it.
69	* In ''Literature/MaximumRide'', Jeb teaches the flock how to do illegal things like hot wire a car. {{Justified\|Trope}}[=/=]{{Subverted\|Trope}} in that they needed to know that stuff to survive.
70	* Fancy Zing from ''I Have A Bed Made Of Buttermilk Pancakes'' commits the unintentional variety with her daughter Cassie. Cassie knows that her mother writes erotic fiction (without reading the examples we get to see), and can spell words like "fuck" and "cunt". She's also extraordinarily perceptive. So when she submits her entry for the school play, she writes a story where two teachers get their students to teach the class while they have sex. She also includes the two aforementioned swear words, without realising that they're unacceptable in school. And she's also ''seven''.
71	* ''Literature/HarryPotter'':
72	** The whole [[spoiler:Tom Riddle and Ginny Weasley situation]] in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' might sort of count as this. [[spoiler:Except Riddle is 16 and the wizarding age of majority is 17, so he's a minor corrupting a younger minor. Still, Ginny is only 11 and Riddle may be 16, but he's also 66 [[MetaphoricallyTrue depending on how you look at it]]. ItMakesSenseInContext.]]
73	** [[spoiler:Draco Malfoy]] becomes a Death Eater at 16. Voldemort encourages the kid to murder and torture people. He achieves this with some subtle encouragement, like [[spoiler:threatening to kill Draco's whole family.]]
74	** Voldemort recruited Death Eaters straight out of school the first time round as a matter of course. He also pursued the Hogwarts post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher for this same purpose.
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78	* In a third season episode of ''Series/VeronicaMars'', Veronica's client is a young man who was forced to join a militia in Africa at the age of six.
79	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'': The fate planned by Kai and Winter for Ozymandias.
80	* An episode of ''I Almost Got Away With It'', centered around a couple of thieves, a man and a woman, and her young daughter, who was just a toddler at the time, that drove around the country breaking into empty homes and stealing cars. If the couple needed help unlocking a house, they would jimmy open a back window, put the girl through, and have her unlock the back or side door, which the couple would use to enter and ransack the place. After the couple accidentally killed a family friend that tried to call the police when he found out they were wanted in several states, the authorities stepped up their efforts to track them down and arrested them soon after. The couple were tried and convicted of: breaking and entering, grand theft auto, grand larceny, knowingly transporting stolen items across state lines, murder, and corruption of a minor. As punishment, they were both given lengthy prison sentences, and the woman was told that she had lost legal custody of her daughter and was forbidden from trying to contact her. When her sentence would be over, she couldn't have talked to her, since, according to the show, the girl was adopted by another couple who were advised from letting the girl contact her mother. The woman was so distraught at the fact that she most likely would never see her daughter ever again, [[DrivenToSuicide that she took her life in jail.]]
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84	* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'':
85	** Lemy Abelard is a child who was trained by the BigBad to be a SerialKiller.
86	** Ney Futapie was raised by the BigBad to be a psychotic assassin.
87	* Music/{{Eminem}}
88	** Slim Shady's love of corrupting children is a core element of his persona, starting on ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'', and eventually developing into him being a [[FriendToAllChildren Friend To All (fucked up) Children]].
89	*** Slim loves using hip-hop to corrupt the audience, especially on ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'' and ''Music/TheMarshallMathersLP'', where he (often using his SubvertedKidsShow aesthetic) urges his child audience to take drugs, drop out of school, kill people, shoot up their schools, and commit suicide. (This was to [[TheNewRockAndRoll satirise the moral panic about rap]] that existed at the time, as well as the moral panic about Eminem's music specifically.)
90	---->[[EstablishingCharacterMoment Hi, kids! Do you like violence?]] Wanna see me stick nine-inch nails through each one of my eyelids? Wanna copy me and do exactly what I did?
91	*** In "The Real Slim Shady" and various songs on ''Music/TheEminemShow'', Slim announces he's an EscapistCharacter for kids who were already being bullied and exploited, letting them turn their unfocused rage into strength and defiance.
92	*** Even after he toned down the SubvertedKidsShow style of his work as he got older, Slim still occasionally mentions his ability to corrupt kids. A good example is the final verse of "Venom", in which he states that he made the listeners' parents' lives hell while the listener was growing up, so everything wrong with you is something he probably put there.
93	** In "'97 Bonnie and Clyde", [[TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether Slim-as-Marshall teaches his baby daughter to help him dispose of murdered bodies]].
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97	* ''Webcomic/ForestHill'': Benni and [[spoiler:Talitha]]'s AbusiveParents have raped them, forced them to have sex with each other and other kids, and have done other horrible things to them. As a result, Benni is a bully with [[HairTriggerTemper serious anger issues]] and possibly would have raped Tanya if Kaleb hadn't stopped him, and [[spoiler:Talitha]] actually does rape [[spoiler:Hunter]] [[ObliviouslyEvil because she doesn’t understand that sexual assault is not an appropriate way to show affection towards someone you like.]]
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101	* One of the many [=SCPs=] contained in the ''Website/SCPFoundation'' is [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-993 SCP-993]], an anomalous [[HarmfulToMinors children show]] hosted by a being known as [[MonsterClown Bobble the Clown]]. In the episodes of the show, Bobble teaches the kids below 10 to do horrible things like cannibalism, stalking, torture, etc., ingraining these concepts into their minds and [[CorruptTheCutie turning them into sociopaths]]. Even worse, [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou Bobble is aware]] that the Foundation tries to keep him contained, and is now trying to teach the kids to release dangerous [=SCPs=] and murder the researchers containing him.]]
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105	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': This is the explanation behind [[TheDragon Princess Azula's]] borderline sociopathic behavior. From a very early age, [[BigBad her father]] molded her into his own personal foot soldier, encouraging and rewarding her cruel behavior, while mistreating Prince Zuko, her more kindhearted big brother, as an example to her.
106	* Then there's stuff like both Brock and Molotov teaching Hank and Dean how to kill people in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''. And that isn't even getting into the time Jonas, Sr. made Rusty kill a man with a house key when he was 9.
107	* Ignignot and Err teach Meatwad to smoke, drink and peruse pornography in ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' (in part by hitting him with the Foreigner belt's "Dirty White Boy" setting). Meatwad may or may not actually be underage, but he's certainly childish.
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111	* "Corruption of the youth" was the famous charge brought against Socrates that led to his execution. In this case, it may have, in part, meant something more like "making adults look stupid in front of the youth". However, a second interpretation has been that he'd made them turn against Athens, since one of his students had been a leader of the Thirty Tyrants, a puppet regime which the Spartans installed after defeating the Athenians which then inflicted a bloody ReignOfTerror which killed thousands in under a year. Socrates refused to help purge people, but this didn't stop his condemnation due to [[AssociationFallacy guilt by association]].
112	* The (late) senior member of the "Beltway Sniper" serial killer duo was convicted of multiple murders, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and Corruption of a Minor]] because his fellow killer was 17 at the time of the murders.
113	* Joseph Kony, head of the Lord's Resistance Army, ordered children to be kidnapped to [[ChildSoldiers serve as soldiers]] for him. The documentary [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Children Invisible Children]] shows [[TearJerker exactly what they went through]].
114	* In some places where HonorRelatedAbuse is practiced (but criminalized), the family members will often get a son or nephew who is under 18 (i.e. still ''legally'' a child) to do the deed(s), [[LoopholeAbuse because he would either get a lighter sentence or get off scot-free because of his age.]]
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