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| 17 | ->''"A little child, she was. But also a fierce killer... Now capable of the ruthless pursuit of blood, with all a child's demanding."'' |
| 18 | -->-- '''Louis''', ''Film/InterviewWithTheVampire'' |
| 19 | |
| 20 | The Enfant Terrible is an adorable child. An angel, one might say, with a cherubic face. One just wants to pick them up and hug them. |
| 21 | |
| 22 | But they're [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior dangerous]]. An Enfant Terrible ''knows'' people think they're cute, and will [[DeliberatelyCuteChild use that to their advantage]]. When one person finds out, said hero usually has a hard time convincing others, [[WoundedGazelleGambit who will turn on them for even suggesting such a thing about the poor, poor child]]. |
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| 24 | An Enfant Terrible may be supernatural, or simply a child born [[TheSociopath without a conscience]]. They may also be a SelfMadeOrphan. |
| 25 | |
| 26 | A form of the DevilInPlainSight. Might overlap with GirlScoutsAreEvil, if they do more than just sell you cookies, and with KidsAreCruel, if the kid's behaviour also transpires in his relationship to other children. Akin to the CreepyChild, except Enfants Terribles are ''truly'' dangerous and vicious at heart, whereas a CreepyChild isn't necessarily psychopathic or evil. |
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| 28 | It is common for an AbusiveOffspring to be an Enfant Terrible, although they are not exclusively this, or vice versa. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | Of course, such a character almost always plays the WouldntHurtAChild and ChildrenAreInnocent cards to get away with their actions, which almost always works--for a while. They're [[ImprobableInfantSurvival unlikely to be directly killed by any heroic character in the story]], but they have a habit of becoming {{Self Disposing Villain}}s. |
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| 32 | Virtually defenseless in a direct physical battle and hindered by their undeveloped bodies, Enfants Terribles with no super powers are usually obliged to operate by proxy. Thus, CorruptionByAMinor is often their favourite technique to get what they want. |
| 33 | |
| 34 | SubTrope of SuperiorSuccessor (assuming it's unusual). |
| 35 | |
| 36 | See also UndeadChild and EvilOrphan, which are common subtypes. Often the nemesis of a KidHero. Not related to {{Child Soldier|s}} but the two can overlap. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | Compare {{Tykebomb}}, LittleMissBadass, CuteIsEvil, FetusTerrible, CuteAndPsycho, FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon. Contrast with PsychopathicManchild, where an already-grown psycho behaves like a child. Contrast GooGooGodlike, in which the child is not evil, just playful and way too powerful. See also TeensAreMonsters, the aggregate adolescent equivalent of this trope. |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Not to be confused with [[VideoGame/MetalGear Les Enfants Terribles]], which instead both fall under {{Tykebomb}}. |
| 41 | |
| 42 | It is sufficient to say that psychopathy manifests itself from a very young age, and there is some TruthInTelevision in this trope. However, any specific RealLife examples…[[Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease no, thanks]]. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | [[noreallife]] |
| 45 | ---- |
| 46 | !!Example subpages: |
| 47 | [[index]] |
| 48 | * [[EnfantTerrible/AnimeAndManga Anime & Manga]] |
| 49 | * EnfantTerrible/ComicBooks |
| 50 | * EnfantTerrible/FanWorks |
| 51 | * [[EnfantTerrible/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]] |
| 52 | * EnfantTerrible/{{Literature}} |
| 53 | * EnfantTerrible/LiveActionTV |
| 54 | * EnfantTerrible/VideoGames |
| 55 | * EnfantTerrible/WesternAnimation |
| 56 | [[/index]] |
| 57 | |
| 58 | !!Other examples: |
| 59 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 60 | |
| 61 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 62 | * A condom commercial directed by David Jiblaze entitled [[https://youtu.be/Eh9XwSgCigc "Better Safe Than Sorry"]] displays the dangers of this trope. The commercial shows the descending life of a menace to society, and while committing a bank robbery at age 73, murdering a mother and daughter at age 46, and causing his friends to bike headlong into traffic at age 18 are bad enough, the criminal also [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals cooked his pet cat alive in the oven]] at age 4, and causes his mother to experience DeathByChildbirth. And all this because [[ScareEmStraight his parents didn't use protection]]. |
| 63 | [[/folder]] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 66 | * Little M. from ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' is young enough to be in the same classroom as the Supermen, who are in third grade (placing all of them at around 8 years old). He also has no problem actively helping Big M. to take over Planet Xing, though it's usually Big M. who does most of the heavy lifting when it comes to their evil schemes. |
| 67 | * ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': The wolves are the villains and are generally loathed by the goats for wanting to eat them. Angelalily, the daughter of Wolnie's cousin Fragrant Wolf, is young enough that she is just entering school for the first time and has already caught upwards of ''100 goats''. (Mind you, this may not be considered so bad for the wolves, since they just want something to eat, but seeing a child wolf trying to capture goats would be a bit concerning for the goats themselves -- especially since both species are {{Funny Animal}}s in this show.) |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Fairy Tales]] |
| 71 | * "Literature/LittleOtik": The eponymous character is an endearing-looking living wooden baby whose insatiable hunger causes it to eat people. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Films -- Animated]] |
| 75 | * Darla Dimple from ''WesternAnimation/CatsDontDance'' is a psychotic child actress. |
| 76 | %%* [[spoiler:Hansel and Gretel]] in ''WesternAnimation/HoodwinkedTooHoodVersusEvil''. |
| 77 | * ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda4'' has a trio of adorable bunny kids... who viciously attack Po when provoked, and generally prove to be [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior a bit too excited about violence]]. They fit right in with the other ruthless and violent criminals in Juniper City's underground. |
| 78 | [[/folder]] |
| 79 | |
| 80 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 81 | * ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' have a few: |
| 82 | ** ''Literature/BeneathNightmareCastle'': While strolling through the crime-infested streets of Neuberg, you might be pickpocketed by a child thief, a little girl around 9 years of age who took advantage of your surprise to slash at you with a knife. She runs off after a single round of combat, and if you chase after her, she'll lure you into a back alley where three boys her age armed with weapons will ambush you. |
| 83 | ** ''Literature/AppointmentWithFear'': An installment set in the modern day, at one point you come across a child trying to shoplift a chocolate bar. If you decide to talk to the child, the kid will guiltily stick his hand into his pockets, as if to take out the chocolate bar he had stolen... only to pull a gun on you instead. Cue a BoomHeadshot |
| 84 | ** ''Literature/LegendOfZagor'': One of the rooms in Castle Argent contains a trio of thieves, all of them younger than you, the youngest at around 8 years old... and they'll try slashing at you with knives. Although you're given an option to talk to them instead, where it turns out they ''can'' be reasoned with, and the youngest thief can be hired as an AssistCharacter during fights, helping you by stabbing at orcs and zombies. |
| 85 | [[/folder]] |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 88 | %%* Music/ChiefKeef, full stop. |
| 89 | * The previous page-quote, "The Curse of Millhaven", by Music/NickCave and his aptly-named backup band, The Bad Seeds, is about a 14-year-old mass murderer, who drowns the neighbour's kid, burns down property, decapitates the handyman (with the [[ChainsawGood circular saw]] in his garden shed), stabs an old lady to death, and is directly responsible for a class of children drowning, but did ''not'' [[AndYourLittleDogToo Crucify the Dog]]. Nothing odd about the mass murdering, especially on an album like Murder Ballads, but it just goes to show- even a cute, blonde-haired small-town girl can be evil to the core. |
| 90 | -->''Since I was no bigger than a weevil\ |
| 91 | They've been saying I was evil\ |
| 92 | That if bad was a boot then I'd fit it\ |
| 93 | That I'm a wicked young lady\ |
| 94 | but I've been trying hard lately\ |
| 95 | [[PrecisionFStrike Aw, fuck it]]. [[IgnoredEpiphany I'm a monster, I admit it.]]'' |
| 96 | :: The band references two earlier examples: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have an album called "The Good Son". |
| 97 | * Independent L.A.-based band Music/CreatureFeature has a song called "Such Horrible Things," which follows the birth, life, various horrors, and final institutionalization of an unnamed psychotic individual whose deeds include but aren't limited to: |
| 98 | ** Pouring super glue into his father's hair at the age of two. |
| 99 | ** Attempting to leave a "friend" in the woods to die at age six. |
| 100 | ** Burning down his family's house at the age of eight because he hated the color of the place. |
| 101 | ** And at fourteen "[[NoodleIncident there was that one time]]" which, on the actual song, is conveyed only by a musical interlude and lots of screaming. |
| 102 | * Music/EdgeOfSanity's "Crimson II" is about a demonic child born to a nun who read a cursed book. The child can read minds and kill victims by projecting "images too hideous for human minds to bear". |
| 103 | * Cruella de Ville's song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vze3NVumZ2g "Those Two Dreadful Children"]] details an allied ''pair'' of Enfants Terribles: |
| 104 | -->''We've got a sense of humor but we haven't any cares.\ |
| 105 | Oh how I had to laugh when we kicked granny down the stairs.\ |
| 106 | On our tippy-toes we crept right up where she was standing,\ |
| 107 | And the tears ran down my face as she lay bleeding on the landing.\ |
| 108 | And when we called out "Mama! Quick! We think our granny's dying!"\ |
| 109 | And when Mama came a-running we pretended to be crying.\ |
| 110 | We said "We saw her trip"; they couldn't tell that we were lying\ |
| 111 | And since Granny was unconscious she was doing no denying!\ |
| 112 | Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.'' |
| 113 | * And to top that, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efGO1UvIO0o "The Cat Is Dead"]] by The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo (the predecessor group to the better-known Music/OingoBoingo), gleefully delineates the actions of a trio of psychopathic children: |
| 114 | -->''The cat is dead, the cat is dead,\ |
| 115 | And Mikey too, and Uncle Fred\ |
| 116 | Expiring oh so suddenly while sipping down some tea.\ |
| 117 | The tea was hot, the tea was nice\ |
| 118 | With strychnine and a little spice\ |
| 119 | To cover up the funny taste\ |
| 120 | Of our conspiracy.\ |
| 121 | When Grandpa saw what we had done\ |
| 122 | He went straight for his hunting gun.\ |
| 123 | But we were quick, we stole the clip;\ |
| 124 | The rest is history.\ |
| 125 | To make sure Grandma wouldn't flee\ |
| 126 | We gave her a lobotomy\ |
| 127 | And now she's just as happy as can be.'' |
| 128 | * Music/TomLehrer's "The Irish Ballad", from ''Music/SongsByTomLehrer''. |
| 129 | -->''About a maid I'll sing a song\ |
| 130 | Sing rickety-tickety-tin\ |
| 131 | About a maid I'll sing a song\ |
| 132 | Who didn't have her family long\ |
| 133 | Not only did she do them wrong\ |
| 134 | She did ev'ry one of them in, them in\ |
| 135 | She did ev'ry one of them in'' |
| 136 | * "That's My Boy" by Creator/StanFreberg, a smarmy ParentalLoveSong about a son whose most endearing habits include setting the mailman on fire, pouring acid on the rug and taking potshots at his dear old Dad (''*BANG*'' "Missed me!"). |
| 137 | * "Tug-O-War Intestines" by Music/{{Skinless}}, involving a pair of kids playing schoolyard games with the internal organs of a car crash victim. One who ''made it to the hospital''. [[spoiler: Not to mention that said victim reveals it's ''his own grandkids'' who've torn him apart to use his guts for playthings]]. |
| 138 | * ''Pretty Little Girl'' by The Pine Box Boys, The Poet reminisces about a time he peered through a fence to watch the eight-year-old neighbor girl having a tea party with another neighbor, who she poisons and drags into the cellar. |
| 139 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPTk6ogsazE "Daughter of Evil"]], about a 14-year-old [[TheCaligula tyrannical]] [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen princess]] who steals money from her people and executes those who defy her. At some point she becomes so [[GreenEyedMonster enraged with envy]] when the prince she loves falls for another princess, ''[[DisproportionateRetribution that she sets fire to the latter's kingdom]]'', resulting in the loss of many innocent lives. Eventually everyone revolts against her and she is supposedly [[WouldHurtAChild sent to the guillotine]], [[spoiler: although the song "Servant of Evil" revealed that her twin brother took her place in being executed]]. |
| 140 | [[/folder]] |
| 141 | |
| 142 | [[folder:Myths & Religion]] |
| 143 | * OlderThanFeudalism: the [[Myth/GreekMythology Greeks]] had Zeus, whose mother saved him from being eaten by his father Cronos (trying to avoid KarmicDeath for overthrowing ''his'' father); Zeus then served up some nasty poison to Cronos while posing as a servant; his son Hermes tops this by stealing a herd of Apollo's cattle almost as soon as he was born and then [[KarmaHoudini sweet-talking his way out of being punished]] for said theft (and, on top of that, killing one of the cattle as a sacrifice to himself). |
| 144 | * Kullervo, of course, in Literature/TheKalevala. |
| 145 | * Jesus, according to the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, which is most likely Gnostic heresy. When Jesus was five years old and making sparrows out of clay while collecting and purifying a bowl of water, a boy comes and drains the water out of the bowl, then Jesus curses the boy to dry up, and he dies. Later on, a boy runs by Jesus and bumps Him on the shoulder, and Jesus curses that boy, and he also dies. When the parents of the children Jesus killed come to Jesus' parents and complain about the situation, Jesus causes those parents to go blind. |
| 146 | * A way to square the incident with the bears with Elisha's many acts of compassion and pity is to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he was dealing with a violent juvie gang (and that this would have been clear to readers of the time). |
| 147 | [[/folder]] |
| 148 | |
| 149 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 150 | * ''Podcast/ComedyBangBang'' has the recurring character played by Bobby Moynihan named Fourvel, introduced in episode 150, who is a seemingly innocent young orphan who is actually a murderous psychopath who's prone to getting "a little stabby". |
| 151 | ** Also there's JJ and Murphy O’Malaman, introduced in episode 355, a pair of incestuous kid detectives who murdered and flayed their own mother. |
| 152 | * ''Podcast/TheKingmakerHistories'' features Dieter, the 13-year-old nephew of a mob boss who has mind control powers and is set to inherit a criminal empire. |
| 153 | * In ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'', [[spoiler: Maggie Cook]] was this as a child growing up in a facility run by the [[TheConspiracy Circle of Knowledge]]. |
| 154 | * ''Podcast/TheStoragePapers'': "The Cold in the Cabinet" features an infant EldritchAbomination birthing itself into existence through the titular cabinet. While it's left ambiguous how malevolent it actually is, the damn thing is absolutely terrifying, and [[OccultDetective Ron]] understandably decides to KillItWithFire just to be safe. |
| 155 | [[/folder]] |
| 156 | |
| 157 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 158 | * The Child from the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'' audio drama ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]]''. The child in question is a five-year-old boy who has been imprisoned in a dungeon ever since he was born so he would grow up untainted by the world, divine and all-powerful. His first few scenes confirm that he's all-powerful alright and that he's a dyed-in-the-wool sadist. |
| 159 | -->''Do you think I'll be the best torturer in the world? Do you think my father will be proud of me? WELL? WILL MY DADDY BE PROUD?'' |
| 160 | * In the radio adaptation of ''Radio/DrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde's evil emerged in Jekyll at a very young age, terrifying his parents and peers. |
| 161 | * ''Radio/OldHarrysGame:'' Thomas Crimp, when he was a child. Even by the age of five, other children hated him because he scared them, when he wasn't just stealing from their parents. Thomas responded by killing them. And his parents, when they wouldn't buy him an expensive toy. And possibly one of his siblings. As an adult, Thomas is in many ways still that little child. He just got a lot better at getting what he wanted... until he winds up in Hell. |
| 162 | [[/folder]] |
| 163 | |
| 164 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 165 | * In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', both [[SorcerousOverlord Arawn]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Yurius]] were truly horrible even when they were still young. Yurius gleefully set people on fire, and Arawn massacred his foster family as well as plenty of other people who annoyed him but still had the nerve to act innocent in order to fool the mages investigating the murders. |
| 166 | * ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'' features [[ProudMerchantRace Remillia]], which deploys {{tykebomb}} special forces known as Angels. They begin active duty at the age of 13, and the younger ones tend to use their age to fool targets of their assassinations. SenselessViolins are just one of their many weapons. |
| 167 | * ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'': |
| 168 | ** Kimmy Redmond, a girl who has the look of somebody five years her junior, complete with carrying a lollipop around. A ''unicorn'' lollipop. She also has very few compunctions about causing harm to her classmates. Although it hasn't happened yet, it's very likely this will transfer to ''killing'' them too. ([[spoiler: It didn't, but she tried.]]) |
| 169 | ** A more accurate example of this trope is 12-year-old [[WiseBeyondTheirYears prodigy]] Brandon Cuthbert, who, before the game, sliced up various woodland creatures for experiments. This carries over to when he [[spoiler:dissects the former featherweight boxing champion of the world with a box cutter after suffocating him to unconsciousness with an X-box controller.]] He seems to show some remorse for his actions right before [[spoiler:his death at the hands of Sera Wingfield]] though. |
| 170 | [[/folder]] |
| 171 | |
| 172 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 173 | * ''TabletopGame/BlackbirdsRPG'': Caoimhe-Ailis was the only daughter of a brutal warlord named Caoimhe-Ondrej, and had the charming habit of torturing small animals and parts of their corpses as decoration. When Ondrej joined the [[GodhoodSeeker Oligarchs]] in their quest to usurp the gods, Ailis murdered him and stole his divinity by tearing his throat out ''with her teeth'' at the age of ''10''. She is now the Child of Longing, a [[MothMenace mothlike]] EldritchAbomination who has corrupted the ancestral Caoimhe clanlans, and often afflicts innocent travelers with nightmarish fates worse than death for her own amusement. |
| 174 | * There is a sequel to TabletopGame/{{Cyberpunk}} 2020 called Cyber Generation, where the Edgerunners of [=CP2020=] have mostly been either killed or grown complacent by buying cushy corpjobs with retirement, leaving the rebellion to their children. It's very possible to play this kind of character in this game, especially if your character is a type of [[WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture YoGanger]] referred as a Beaver Brat. Beaver Brats mostly come from suburban areas and specialize in talking their way out of trouble by convincing adults that there has been a big misunderstanding and they couldn't ''possibly'' have done it. |
| 175 | * The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons 3''.5 manual ''Heroes of Horror'', incidentally, introduces a template called Unholy Scion, which is a creature whose soul has been substituted with a demonic/devilish/evil essence while ''still in the womb''. Already at birth, the resulting child holds his/her/its own mother in thrall through evil power alone and gains terribly destructive powers as it grows in Hit Dice. Oh, and it is so evil that its merest touch can grievously harm good-aligned characters. |
| 176 | * In ''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension'', widderslaint were reincarnated Nephandi (mages who were evil because of their malformed souls, or whose souls were malformed by their evil). Even before their awakening as mages, they're irredeemably evil (the fiction introducing them describes an infant crawling into his twin brother's crib to strangle him to death, then falling asleep hugging the corpse like a teddy bear). |
| 177 | * In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Handlers/Image.ashx?multiverseid=370698&type=card Blood Bairn]] depicts a vampiric child who has just killed two travelers. |
| 178 | * In ''[[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness World of Darkness]]: Innocents'', where the player characters are children, a character who hits zero on the KarmaMeter becomes one of these. They aren't necessarily evil, but they have absolutely no empathy or conscience. As the book puts it, they'll probably end up institutionalized. |
| 179 | ** The TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness game ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' includes Fetchspawn, one of the options for the children of the fake people that the [[EldritchAbomination Gentry]] leave to replace Changelings. They have no KarmaMeter. They have no empathy. Most people just assume they're autistic because of their total inability to relate to other human beings on an emotional or social level. They tend to kill things just because. This is all exacerbated by the fact that their touch automatically opens all doors, springs all locks, they cannot be bound or imprisoned, and people tend to ignore them, so they're able to slip around without notice. They are immune to Changeling superpowers, and their touch drains the Lost of magical energies. Oh...and did we mention that at the age of 21 they get sucked back into the Hedge, likely to become Gentry themselves? |
| 180 | [[/folder]] |
| 181 | |
| 182 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 183 | * In the 2013 adaptation of ''Theatre/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Mike Teavee is upgraded from the SpoiledBrat of the book to this. The reason his mother allows electronic media -- i.e. ShootEmUp video games -- to babysit him is because it's [[ItAmusedMe the only thing that he enjoys that doesn't result in actual destruction and injury to those around him]]. Otherwise, he's setting a cat on fire, chloroforming a nurse, stealing a German tank, etc. "[T]he authorities request/That little Mike not leave the house", she explains, and all the adults in his life seemed too cowed by what he might do to them to attempt more than token efforts to discipline him. Poor Mrs. Teavee has become a Type A StepfordSmiler in response to all this. It's telling that he didn't find his Golden Ticket, but rather managed to hack into the Wonka Factory computers and get one without having to buy a Wonka Bar -- and he does it just because he can, not because he wants to see the factory. With all this in mind, [[spoiler:and unlike in other versions, his mom is quite happy when he is reduced to a few inches tall...]] |
| 184 | * Mary Tilford from ''Theatre/TheChildrensHour'' is a malicious girl who tells a lie about her two teachers just to get out of going to school. She then blackmails another girl into saying ''she'' started the lie, pulls the other girl's arm out of its socket (albeit accidentally), and steals some jewelry. |
| 185 | * Orin Scrivello's VillainSong in ''Theatre/LittleShopOfHorrors'' details how he enjoyed torturing animals as a child, which led his mother to push him toward a career in [[DepravedDentist dentistry]]: "People will pay you to be inhumane!" |
| 186 | * Kerchak falsely believes this of a young Tarzan in the stage version of [[WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}} the 1999 Disney film]], when he comes upon the child fashioning a spear. |
| 187 | [[/folder]] |
| 188 | |
| 189 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 190 | * Ilyasviel Von Einzerbern of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' is the TokenMiniMoe of the cast... but is also a ruthless Master with a NighInvulnerable force of insane destruction as her Servant. |
| 191 | * The Warriors of Hope in ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls''. All of them are around 10-11 years old, and they're killing every adult in Towa City. Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Monaca Towa, for deceiving all the other Warriors of Hope into almost committing suicide and, at the end of the game, taking over as the successor to Junko Enoshima]]. |
| 192 | * [[spoiler:Dahlia Hawthorne]] from ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'' was a prime example of this trope before [[spoiler:she had even committed her first murder]]. When she was just fourteen, [[spoiler:she staged a fake kidnapping with Terry Fawles and her stepsister Valerie in order to extort ransom money from her father, and then got Terry put on death row as a result of Dahlia faking her own death, with him as the only suspect. Of course, Valerie wasn't much better, but Dahlia was the one who came up with the plan in the first place. And she later ''killed'' her stepsister]]. |
| 193 | * [[CreepyChild Maria Ushiromiya]] from ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' isn't one normally, but she definitely was one when she [[spoiler:became a witch in the 4th arc and ''repeatedly'' killed her own mother.]] Though this is implied to either be AllJustADream or an IndulgentFantasySegue, it definitely says something about her [[FreudianExcuse troubled relationship]] with her [[AbusiveParents mother]]. In Bernkastel's game during the 8th arc, it's stated with the purple truth that Maria is incapable of directly murdering anyone, furthering the implication that while Maria might entertain thoughts of killing people in order to cope, she wouldn't be able to pull it off in real life. |
| 194 | [[/folder]] |
| 195 | |
| 196 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 197 | * Many/most of the kids from ''WebAnimation/ChildrinRSkary'' [[http://skary.net/]] fit this. |
| 198 | * Various kids in ''Platform/GoAnimate'' videos are this, to the point where many of them kill without hesitation and are completely fine with committing terrorism and other crimes. |
| 199 | * ''WebAnimation/DrMonster'': The eponymous MadScientist introduced his son who's every bit as evil as his dad as stated by himself in his IAmSong: |
| 200 | -->''Father, what have you done?\ |
| 201 | Who needs those freaks when you've got a son?\ |
| 202 | I'm gonna be the new Monster M.D.\ |
| 203 | Cuz the apple doesn't fall far from the tree!\ |
| 204 | I'm gonna run the family biz for sure!\ |
| 205 | You're the sickness, I'm the cure.\ |
| 206 | I'm a bouncy, blue-eye bundle of joy, with just one mission: DESTROY!\ |
| 207 | I'm the Sinfant! A Diabolical delinquent!\ |
| 208 | I might look sweet but don't be fooled\ |
| 209 | All shall suffer under my rule!\ |
| 210 | Cuz I'm the Sinfant! I snatch your soul in a instant!\ |
| 211 | You cannot hide or run away!\ |
| 212 | Defeating you is child's play!'' |
| 213 | * ''WebAnimation/TheMostPopularGirlsInSchool'': |
| 214 | ** Mikayla is just as bratty and malicious as her teenage sisters. She even threatened to throw Mackenzie's little sister down a flight of stairs. |
| 215 | ** Brittnay was also very bitchy and violent in the Third Grade. Becoming friends with Mackenzie has put her a bit more under control. |
| 216 | * ''WebAnimation/RevengeFilms'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYIfL9axWWE Jill]] is a creepy little girl who bullied OP's daughter and even ''assaulted her with a pair of scissors'' while OP went for cake and a Coke as her daughter requested, which turned out to be for Jill. What's more, she blinded a classmate before and even beat the neighbor's dog with a shovel. |
| 217 | * ''WebAnimation/VeryBadChildren'': It is about a trio of macabre, troublesome children who threaten the lives of anyone who disrupts their life with their senile grandmother in their spooky mansion, including a smug social worker in the short "Social Call" and a bossy nanny in "Sweet and Sauerkraut". |
| 218 | [[/folder]] |
| 219 | |
| 220 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 221 | * In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', The Onion Kid is mistaken for this after the deaths of his family and several foster families afterward. [[spoiler: Black Mage did it in reality.]] |
| 222 | ** BM might have been one of them but we don't know if he was cute (we can guess he was not though). |
| 223 | * ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Baby Heads Worm. Not only did it try to attack Fern and Celia, but it also succeeded in killing JBE 12837. |
| 224 | * The webcomic/video series ''Webcomic/ContemplatingReiko'' stars the daughter of Satan and her three older sisters, who tend to do a lot of terrible things including murder (this is especially the case with the titular Reiko). |
| 225 | * ''WebComic/EerieCuties'': Chapter 9 introduced [[LaughablyEvil Tia]] [[JerkassGenie Darkness]], a pint-sized demoness who may be [[OlderThanTheyLook older than she appears]][[note]]which was subtly implied when she refers to Nina as [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/hot_cocoa_at_my_house "little one"]], despite appearing to be the same physical age[[/note]]. She soon established herself as an antagonist, by using her powers to severe friendships [[EmotionEater so she can feed of the victims' misery.]] By the same token, kindness and happiness weakens her, [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/aura_of_innocence to the point of making her physically ill.]] So in all likelihood, she has to sow discord [[NecessarilyEvil in order to sustain]] [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/strips-ec/so_much_more_to_do her existence.]] |
| 226 | * [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Megaweapon]] from ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'' certainly [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1136492/page-329-and-now-back-to-plot-a/ acts the part]] (and the things we only hear about [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1130462/page-327-boys-will-be-hellspawn/ are even worse]]). |
| 227 | * Slippery Weasel of ''Webcomic/FrogRaccoonStrawberry'' is an incredibly evil wizard who is still in diapers. |
| 228 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': While none have appeared in story just yet the Heterodynes have a history of having truely uncontrollable kids. When Gil rides out with the "devil dogs" to defend Castle Heterodyne until it's fixed and goes into full-on Spark mode, [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111024 this conversation happens]]: |
| 229 | -->'''Council Member:''' But--I thought you said the new Heterodyne was a ''girl''.\ |
| 230 | '''Vanamonde:''' She is. ''That's'' just the ''boyfriend''.\ |
| 231 | '''Council Member:''' ''That's--''\ |
| 232 | '''Vanamonde:''' Uh-huh.\ |
| 233 | '''Council Member:''' We're...we're going to have to break out those ''little iron cages'' for their children, aren't we?\ |
| 234 | '''Vanamonde:''' Uh-''huh.'' |
| 235 | * ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': [[http://guildedage.net/webcomic/chapter-4/chapter-4-page-14/ Taro Iwatani]]. |
| 236 | * Apparently normal to some extent for ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'''s trolls. Backstabbing and mutilating each other is rife among troll kids, and [[spoiler:Eridan and Gamzee]] went on killing sprees at the equivalent age of thirteen. |
| 237 | ** One thing a lot of readers forget until the killing sprees begin is that Vriska and Eridan had ''already'' murdered countless other troll kids and their guardians, ''prior'' to the game. AMillionIsAStatistic, except when it's ''not''. |
| 238 | ** As soon as Calliope and Caliborn's personalities split, Caliborn became an insufferable little brat whose first act was to bite into his adoptive father [[spoiler:Gamzee's]] shoulder. He only gets worse with age. |
| 239 | * Ruby Gem in ''Webcomic/{{Monsterful}}'': She's plain open evil, especially with her mother Diamond. On recent chapters, her evilness has evolved to the point of [[http://www.monsterful.com/chapter15page30.php sacrificing virgins]] and wanting to gut her [[http://www.monsterful.com/chapter15page30.php teacher like a fish.]] |
| 240 | ** On the Monsterful 2010 Xmas Special, [[spoiler: Ruby wanted to kill Santa because he brought her coal, not really a shocker.]] |
| 241 | * ''Webcomic/{{Killstagram}}'': In the DeadlyGame of the second season, the youngest participant is a cute fourteen-year-old girl who turns out to be a deranged killer. [[spoiler:She has been killing other children since she was ''six'']]. |
| 242 | * Happens multiple times in ''Webcomic/LastPlaceComics''. |
| 243 | ** The children in [[https://lastplacecomics.com/kidz-zone/ "Kidz Zone"]] seem like ordinary children, except that they throw another kid into a ball pit [[DisproportionateRetribution for having facial hair]]. |
| 244 | ** [[https://lastplacecomics.com/candy-house/ "Candy House"]] has a group of children devouring the titular candy house after a witch's attempt to capture children to eat backfires. One of them even bites her! |
| 245 | ** Exaggerated in [[https://lastplacecomics.com/alpha-baby/ "Alpha Baby"]], where a baby that was born moments ago can ride a motorcycle and threatens a doctor with a switchblade. |
| 246 | * ''Webcomic/{{Noblesse}}'' has Kalvin & Regis. Kalvin is an Enhanced Human assassin who specializes in poison. Regis, while 199-years-old, is still a child in both appearance and by the standards of his species, and while a good guy, he spends a considerable amount of time trying to kill people. |
| 247 | * In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': |
| 248 | ** Elan's EvilTwin Nale was a jerk even as a baby, complete with an evil goatee. Baby Nale would constantly DopeSlap poor Elan's [[ChildhoodBrainDamage soft undeveloped baby skull]], which is why Elan is TheDitz. |
| 249 | ** Xykon was far more depraved as a child, having murdered his own parents with a zombie at the age of 12. |
| 250 | * In ''Webcomic/TrueVillains'', Bayn Pheonix and Mia Jalek are both children that work for an evil demon. Bayn is a more direct example -- he fights alongside the demon and his minions. Mia builds golems that fight in her stead. Neither of them is ''quite'' a straight example, though: Bayn was an old (evil) man who was severely aged down, while Mia is a genuinely kind, sweet girl trying to help out her friends... who happen to be, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin villains]]. |
| 251 | [[/folder]] |
| 252 | |
| 253 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 254 | * In ''WebVideo/DrJekyllAndMrHydeTheGameTheMovie'', Billy Pones's father takes pride in the fact that he attacks Jekyll unprovoked with a slingshot. Pretty much everyone agrees that the pride is well-deserved. |
| 255 | -->'''Bartender:''' The little laddie Billy Pones...\ |
| 256 | '''Everyone:''' Aye!\ |
| 257 | '''Mr. Pones:''' That's my boy!\ |
| 258 | '''Bartender:''' He's a good boy.\ |
| 259 | '''Man:''' I like him already! |
| 260 | * From Website/{{Killerbunnies}}, we have Malou, Visceraline, Snow, Atlasnaya, and Creamline and they seem to have a fairly messed up view of the world and enjoy doing fairly harmful things. Although, in Snow and Atlasnaya's case, this is fairly justified, seeing that they've only known violence and thus act they see fit, although the same cannot really be said for Malou, Visceraline, and Creamline. |
| 261 | ** As a child, Computer Virus was this or starting out that way. |
| 262 | ** According to their profile, Hattie is this. |
| 263 | ** Corrine "Cori" Andrews is a serial arsonist with several counts under her belt. |
| 264 | ** There is also Frankie, who ran a meth lab when she was four, caused an explosion in the family's basement when she was five, poisoned a cousin with chemicals, and used pets as test subjects, [[ChronicPetKiller the none of which survived]]. Apparently, she likes to look for guinea pigs. |
| 265 | * Within the world of ''Literature/MagicalGirlHunters'', some of the magical girls joined to save the world. Some just like the excuse to kill stuff. Captain Kawaii... ''shudder''. |
| 266 | * The Mwa Mwa Penguins you can find at the Pet Shop in Club Penguin embody this trope. |
| 267 | * On Creator/RogerEbert's website, he once posted a letter from a female reader who noted that it would be possible to save any number of mediocre movies by adding a scene at the very end which showed an otherwise normal looking child whose eyes suddenly glow. The example she used was the movie ''Film/{{Volcano}}''. |
| 268 | * Bonesaw, from ''Literature/{{Worm}}''. A pre-teen MadDoctor with the personality of a five-year-old. She has one Hell of a FreudianExcuse, though; [[spoiler: she was forced to heal her dying family. Over and over and over again, until she was too tired to continue. After such, Jack, the man who killed her family, took her in, and Bonesaw followed the last request of her mother to 'be good' by putting on the superficial mask of a cheerful, well-behaved child while using her powers the way Jack wanted in order to stay alive.]] |
| 269 | [[/folder]] |
| 270 | |
| 271 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 272 | * ''WebVideo/BedtimeStoriesYoutubeChannel'' has an episode that covers the so-called Black-Eyed Children, mysterious kids with black eyes that are said to inflict psychological and physical pain to anyone that stares into their eyes for a given amount of time. |
| 273 | * As part of the ''WebVideo/DrHorriblesSingAlongBlog'' DVD release, "L'enfant Terrible" was one of the chosen winners for the Evil League of Evil Application contest. The application video can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj6WUZGIPrg here.]] |
| 274 | * By all appearances, [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/EarthBound1994 Ness]]]] and [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/Mother3 Lucas]]]] ''look'' cute. Too bad that in ''WebVideo/ThereWillBeBrawl'', [[spoiler:they're murderers who tore the organs out of two mob bosses, a policeman, a Pokémon, and Princess Peach. Even ''Ganondorf'' was scared of them.]] |
| 275 | * Jonathan in Robert Glickert's [[http://vimeo.com/5692657 "The Descendent"]]. Also MuggingTheMonster. |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
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