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13	->''"I don't give a shit HOW old you are. Maybe think before you pick a fight next time."''
14	-->-- '''Sol Badguy''' (to an unconscious May), ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearXrd''
15
16	In fiction and in the media, both heroes and villains often agree on one thing: they WouldntHurtAChild.
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18	This creed exists for various reasons: it may be because ChildrenAreInnocent, and thus should be protected and kept out of harm's way at all costs; it may be because, to MoralGuardians, seeing a child being brutalized is HarmfulToMinors and thus should be avoided; it may also be because even writers mostly disagree with the idea of writing about harming a child.
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20	But sometimes, some people just don't agree with that. Or just don't care. And, they ''do'' hurt children, sometimes even kill them, in defiance of the ImprobableInfantSurvival. Indeed, the act of harming a child usually comes off as the [[MoralEventHorizon ultimate act of villainy]].
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22	This trope is almost always a KickTheDog moment. Hence, the presence of Would Hurt A Child is often telltale of a CrapsackWorld or at least a DarkerAndEdgier series. However, it is surprisingly easy to subvert this trope simply by using KidsAreCruel (the flip side of ChildrenAreInnocent) and combining it with PayEvilUntoEvil. Does a soldier shooting a child soldier still seem like an ultimate villain?
23	And want to go all the way? Make the children {{creepy\|Child}} or, even better, make them [[EnfantTerrible Enfants Terrible]]. Hurting said children will look much less like a MoralEventHorizon crossing, even though there will always be some MoralGuardians or PapaWolf / MamaBear to complain. This may also be done by a CompleteMonster to establish that even a villain [[EvenEvilHasStandards has lines they won't dare cross]]. Naturally, the FriendToAllChildren sees this type of character as a mortal enemy, with an exception sometimes for religious figures in some cases.
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25	In Western works, this trope is rare and almost always done off-panel when played straight (read: when the violence towards the child isn't being [[BigDamnHeroes stopped in the nick of time]] and causes actual damage) largely due to [[ThinkOfTheCensors broadcast standards]]; it's a little more common in literature but still not very much so. In Japanese fiction, child brutality may be more common but is often framed in a very specific way (again, to conform to ''their'' [=S&P=]) and has actually faded somewhat in the new millennium over content concerns.
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27	'''Important Note''': This trope is about '''adults physically hurting children, or deliberately placing them in life-threatening situations''', fatally or not. '''The following are not examples''': psychological/verbal abuse ([[AbusiveParents very common]] but [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant not that trope]]), abduction (only applies if the child dies or gets effectively hurt), depriving a child of food (that's DeniedFoodAsPunishment and only counts as this trope if taken to the point where the child is at risk of serious harm from lack of food), child on child violence (unless adults are forcing the children to hurt each other, that's KidsAreCruel), exploitation for profit by the parents if they aren't hurt (that is FinancialAbuse). Violence to teenagers, with the exception of some of those in their early teens, isn't an example either since teenagers are physically [[TruthInTelevision stronger]] than children and lack the "completely defenseless" element, especially if TeensAreMonsters. However, teenagers harming children qualifies.
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29	There is also an interesting DoubleStandard when it comes to characters to which this trope applies, since they are almost AlwaysMale. %%(Oddly enough, this is not representative of real life, as women are more likely to abuse children than men, probably because they are around children more in general).%%
30	Rarely are women described as being ''physically'' violent to children. Even rarer are the instances when they actually ''kill'' them. Indeed, killing children is among the few things that permanently prevent a woman from a convenient HighHeelFaceTurn. Extra points if the killing is done ''directly'' and at the woman's hands (i.e. stabbing, strangling etc...). Compare PaedoHunt, another child abuse trope where female perpetrators are similarly unheard of.
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32	A SubTrope of KickTheDog. BurnTheOrphanage is a particular form of this. See also ChildHater, who hates kids but isn't necessarily physically abusive and NiceJobBreakingItHerod, which is often an extreme version. If they're not stopped in time by the heroes, this overlaps with DeathOfAChild. Contrast ImprobableInfantSurvival and WouldntHurtAChild. Compare KidsAreCruel, ChildrenAreInnocent. Related to EatsBabies and ChildEater. Usually applies to the SadistTeacher. If a villain who is quite capable of bothering adults prefers to spend his time as an antagonist for kids or teenagers, it's fair to say PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize. For the role-reversed example of this trope, see DoubleStandardViolenceChildOnAdult, in which case it's a ''child'' physically harming an adult for comedic effect.
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34	Compare and contrast DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff, which deals more with [[CorporalPunishment physical discipline]] from a parent to a child, the big difference being that Would Hurt A Child always implies deliberate malevolence and cruelty towards the child, whereas DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff does not, unless explained otherwise by the story.
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36	OffingTheOffspring would also apply if the one doing the hurt is the parent of the child, and death of the latter results.
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39	!!Example subpages:
40
41	[[index]]
42	* WouldHurtAChild/AnimeAndManga
43	** WouldHurtAChild/{{Doraemon}}
44	* WouldHurtAChild/ComicBooks
45	* WouldHurtAChild/FanWorks
46	* [[WouldHurtAChild/AnimatedFilms Films – Animation]]
47	* [[WouldHurtAChild/LiveActionFilms Films – Live-Action]]
48	* WouldHurtAChild/{{Literature}}
49	* WouldHurtAChild/LiveActionTV
50	* WouldHurtAChild/VideoGames
51	* {{WouldHurtAChild/Webcomics}}
52	* WouldHurtAChild/WebOriginal
53	* WouldHurtAChild/WesternAnimation
54	[[/index]]
55
56	!!Other examples:
57	[[foldercontrol]]
58
59	[[folder:Advertising]]
60	* Advertising/SegataSanshiro has been known to beat up teenagers who don't play enough Sega Saturn, though he draws the line at harming younger kids.
61	* Several [[AbusiveParents child abuse]] [[PublicServiceAnnouncement PSAs,]] of course.
62	* One infamous Pop Tarts commercial has a cruel nurse preparing to eat a baby pop tart while the parents are ForcedToWatch.
63	[[/folder]]
64
65	[[folder:Arts]]
66	* ''Art/TheApotheosisOfWashington'': The soldiers Freedom battles in are seen holding torches facing the direction of a small child who recoils away. While it seems like Freedom will stop them, the implication is that they are fully willing to burn a child alive if Freedom wasn't there to restrain them.
67	[[/folder]]
68
69	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
70	* ''Animation/BlackCatDetective'': The second episode's villain, Monkey-Eating Eagle, is a ChildEater. Who abducts other animal kids and locks them in cages, even threatening to beat them before eventually swallowing kids at random. Said character got his name from an infamous scene where he devours a monkey child ''onscreen''.
71	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Huo Haha attempts to hit a little girl who wants him to get her kite off of a roof in Season 8 episode 18. The girl grabs his toilet plunger wand right before he can actually hit her with it and uses it to get the kite down.
72	* ''Animation/{{Mechamato}}'': Paintasso states that besides stealing paintings, he is also a kidnapper. Then he shoots acid-like paint in a classroom of preschoolers and abducts one of them before flying away.
73	[[/folder]]
74
75	[[folder:Comedy]]
76	* Mike [=MacDonald=], when he and his wife were trying to conceive a child, noted in his act he was going to do his best not to hit his kids, ever -- unless, you know, they were coming at him with a knife or something.
77	-->''I don't wanna be one of those liberal parents who gets stabbed to death by their kid while saying, "Son, I'm sensing hostility OH GOD!"''
78	* One of Creator/BernieMac's punchlines in his act was threatening to beat his kids "till the white meat shows".
79	* Creator/DenisLeary, in a larger bit about celebrity entitlement, said that he was looking ''forward'' to beating the shit out of his kids.
80	-->'That's therapy for you: mowin' the lawn while cryin'.''
81	[[/folder]]
82
83	[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
84	* "Literature/TheDevilWithTheThreeGoldenHairs": The king attempts to murder a baby only because he might get married to his daughter when he grows up.
85	* ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'': Hansel's and Gretel's parents abandon their children in the woods (as they believe, to certain death) because the family is threatened by starvation. Things go from bad to worse when Hansel and Gretel meet a witch who intends to eat them.
86	[[/folder]]
87
88	[[folder:Music]]
89	* CountryMusic has approached the topic in several hit songs about child abuse. The video for Music/MartinaMcBride's "Concrete Angel" comes the closest to actually showing parent-on-child abuse on-screen - a young boy watches as shadows on a wall depict a woman (an actress shaking a stunt dummy) shaking her daughter viciously. "Alyssa Lies" by Jason Michael Carroll strongly implies that a young girl had been viciously beaten by her father.
90	* Averted in the video for Music/GarthBrooks' "The Thunder Rolls." In the video, a young man (Brooks, wearing a fake beard) horribly beats his wife up (after confronting him over one an affair of his she found out about) and their young daughter witnesses it and begs for it to stop. Daddy doesn't take it too kindly and advances on her. He's just about to grab the little girl when the wife tells him to stop or else he gets his head blown off. The man presses his luck and is killed.
91	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=944acfctdik Formula 86 by Razakel.]] Allso Razakel's stage persona.
92	* Music/{{Macabre}}: Many songs are about children being hurt, killed or raped. Most infamous being Albert Fish, who they multiple songs covering the horrific acts he preformed on innocent children.
93	* In Music/MonsterMagnet's "See You In Hell", the protagonist reveals himself to be driven towards killing himself and his significant other, by the voice of the infant they killed and dumped in a landfill.
94	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUmJDVRDRTQ&feature=feedu WHIP YO KIDS featuring Nice Peter by Yourfavoritemartian.]] I'll punch a baby in the face just for cryin' on a plane.
95	* Music/{{GWAR}} does this on occasion, an example happening in the climax of The Animated Tales Of GWAR.
96	* The folk-song based on the old tale of "Literature/TheLambtonWorm" makes it explicit that the "worm" of the title is a ravening monster that will happily ''"swally little bairns alive"''.
97	* The narrator of Music/{{Swans}}' "Beautiful Child".
98	-->''"I love a child\
99	I love a beautiful child\
100	I will hold this child in my arms\
101	And caress his soft head\
102	Listen to him cry\
103	Listen to him cry\
104	I can kill the child\
105	The beautiful child\
106	I will kill the child\
107	The beautiful child..."''
108	[[/folder]]
109
110	[[folder:Myths & Religion]]
111	* ''Literature/TheBible'':
112	** King Herod did this in order to try to kill UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}. [[NiceJobBreakingItHerod It didn't work]].
113	** Earlier, Pharaoh killed Hebrew sons to keep the Hebrews from becoming strong enough that in case of a war they could join the enemy and fight against Egypt. Fortunately for the Hebrews, Moses escaped slaughter.
114	** God Himself kills the firstborn of Egypt as one of the Ten Plagues, as well as David and Bathsheba's firstborn (to punish David). The second example is especially horrible in that the child isn't killed quickly, but is subjected to pain and suffering for ''seven days'', [[ForcedToWatch with David watching the whole thing and begging God for forgiveness.]] This tends to be a habit of the God of the Old Testament (He will test or punish His enemies ''and'' followers by targeting their children). This is arguably the most contentious part of God's character in theology.
115	** One oft-misquoted law in the Old Testament supposedly requires parents to have their offspring stoned to death for being disobedient, however, the [[https://biblehub.com/deuteronomy/21-20.htm exact wording of that law]] specifies - regardless of translation - that the accused is both a [[VillainousGlutton glutton]] and a [[TheAlcoholic drunkard]]. [[AvertedTrope Obviously, this is not a kid]].
116	** Solomon seems willing to do this to a baby that two women both want custody over, but it was really a test to see which woman truly cared about the baby. One woman was fine with the "cut the baby in half" thing while the other was horrified by the suggestion.
117	** According to ''Literature/BookOfJudges'', the Canaanites are notorious for burning their children for their idols, resulting in God telling the Israelites to [[LeaveNoSurvivors purge all of the gentiles in Canaan]] so they would not be tainted by idolatry.
118	** ''Literature/BooksOfSamuel'': In Samuel I, King Saul is ordered to exterminate the Amalekites: every man, woman, child, and animal.
119	* Myth/ClassicalMythology: Many Greek myths punish a parent by slaughtering their children. Probably the best known example is {{Theatre/Medea}} with the addition that the children in question were ''her own'' and their deaths were to get back at the philandering Jason.
120	* Myth/NorseMythology:
121	** Gudrun kills her own children who she births, then feeds them to to Attila the Hun.
122	** Signy, sister of Sigmund (and therefore the aunt of Sigurd the Dragonslayer), is an even more cruel example. She casually offs the sons she bore with her husband, deeming them unfit. When she gives birth to her brother's son, she willingly drives a needle through his arm, and he doesn't blink. ''THAT'' is the son she deems to be fitting.
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124
125	[[folder:Podcasts]]
126	* The cult of the Nameless God in ''Podcast/DarkDice'' kidnapped an entire village's worth of children in order to sacrifice them in an effort to release their god. By the time the party reaches the cultists, only four children are left alive.
127	* Tuatha and Solvin from ''Podcast/TheFallenGods'' are both perfectly willing to fight and kill a child in episode 7. Flint, less so. [[spoiler: To be fair, the child ''does'' want to kill and eat them]].
128	* The guards in ''The Chimera Program'' arc of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'', despite being ordered to "subdue and contain" the escaping child experiments, are shooting to kill.
129	* ''Podcast/SickSadWorld'':
130	** The hosts note one of the reasons the Jonestown murder-suicide was so tragic was that infants were among the casualties.
131	** "2 Cruel 4 School" covers a mass shooting at a school, which got multiple kids as young as six killed.
132	* ''Podcast/PretendingToBePeople'' features strange hordes of children. [[TheMafia Marvin Glass]] uses them as competitors in [[BloodSport blood sports]]. Clark Bishop is forced to fight one of said children, brutally beating him and leaving him to be [[CruelAndUnusualDeath be crushed to death]] by a DescendingCeiling
133	[[/folder]]
134
135	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
136	* Wrestling/BryanDanielson threatened to backhand a girl flipping him off while he was cutting a promo in Wrestling/RingOfHonor. She started flipping him off again while he continued his promo, leading to him getting out of the ring to confront her, with the crowd chanting for her to "fuck him up".
137	* An infamous instance came during an episode of WWE ''Smackdown!'' in 2004, when – during a storyline involving Lita, Matt Hardy and their baby – Gene Snitsky brought a wrapped towel to the ring while Lita was in the ring, claiming it was Lita's baby. After taunting Lita with harm toward the baby, he took the towel, dropped it and then punted it into the crowd.
138	* Melissa Coates slapped a boy booing prior to her challenging Wrestling/MercedesMartinez for the Wrestling/{{WSU}} Title. Hailey Hatred went so far as to push over two adults then lift a little girl out her seat and throw her while in search of something to hit Martinez with.
139	* While many of the wrestlers of Wonder Ring STARDOM would not have been considered legal adults at the time, nine year old HARUKA being put against men near their physical prime like Wrestling/KennyOmega took the cake. Ice Ribbon did similar with Riho, who was ''eight''.
140	[[/folder]]
141
142	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
143	* TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}: {{MegaCorp}}s that want stable, loyal [[BrainInAJar cyborgs]] have learned that children make the best candidates. HMHVV-infected are cannibalistic so it's assumed that they'll eventually eat children. Mr. Johnson may want your group to kidnap, hurt, or kill a target child for reasons he's unwilling to divulge.
144	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
145	** The Dread Emperor, a villain introduced in the {{Splat}} book ''The Book of Vile Darkness'', not only gladly hurts children, he uses this behavior to benefit him in the most selfish way. An imposing, two meter tall man in golden armor, the Dread Emperor keeps children chained to his armor at all times with any damage done to the Emperor himself transferred to the children via the armor's magic. An unrepentant SerialKiller, the Emperor uses these children as a bait for any heroes foolish enough to take him on and does not limit his hostilities to children; he will often destroy entire city blocks when he's a mind to. When a hero challenges him, the Dread Emperor feels no compunction slaying hundreds simply to kill a target or mentally enslaving any civilians nearby and using them to attack his opponent for him.
146	** Pale Night is a powerful demon lord. Many eons ago, she tricked Morwell, the queen of the eladrin, into a vile pact that resulted in an entire generation of eladrin children being trapped in the Abyssal layer of Androlynne; since then, Pale Night and her forces have been hunting them down one by one at her leisure. To this day, armies of eladrin try to protect the children (who remain forever young due to the pact) and find a means for them to escape. Morwell's current consort Faerinaal leads the armies presently, and even though his predecessor (and the one before that one) perished doing so, less than a third of the children survive to the present day.
147	** The 4th Edition introduces hideous monsters called banderhobs who kidnap mortals, some of them actually taking children from their bed at night. (The illustration for the creature in the ''Monster Manual 3'' shows one about to do just that.) Where they take their victims and what they ''do'' with them is a mystery.
148	[[/folder]]
149
150	[[folder:Theatre]]
151	* ''Theatre/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'': Injun Joe is determined to kill Tom after he testifies against him.
152	* In ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'', Erik and later on a separate occasion [[spoiler: Meg]] kidnap and threaten Christine's son Gaston.
153	* In ''Theatre/PokemonLive'', Giovanni is perfectly willing to kill Ash with [=MechaMew2=]'s Hyper Beam, and he engages him in a fistfight shortly before that.
154	* The ''Theatre/MrsHawking'' play series: In part V: ''Mrs. Frost'', the eponymous villain sends one of her men, Joe Quinn, after Nathaniel's children as a tactic to break him in captivity.
155	* In plays by Creator/WilliamShakespeare:
156	** The title character in ''Theatre/RichardIII'' is responsible for condemning his nephews to death in the Tower of London, [[TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower a popular real-life historical theory]] as well.
157	** ''Theatre/TitusAndronicus'': Chiron and Demetrius attempt to kill a newborn child [[spoiler: that is the result of an affair between their mother Tamora and her servant Aaron]].
158	** ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'':
159	*** RareFemaleExample occurs with Lady Macbeth. The violence is only implied, but at this point in the play, she seems perfectly capable of going through with it.
160	--->'''Lady Macbeth''': I have given suck, and know\
161	How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me:\
162	I would, while it was smiling in my face,\
163	Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums,\
164	And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you\
165	Have done to this.
166	*** Not just implied with Macbeth, who has assassins murder Macduff's wife and young son. His wife is horrified by this, though not because of the children — it screws up her political machinations. That said, those particular murders do feature among the things she [[MadnessMantra mentions]] in the infamous [[FreakOut sleepwalking scene.]]
167	--->''The Thane of Fife had a wife; where is she now? What, will these hands ne'er be clean?''
168	*** The witches also mention [[HumanResources using a dead baby in one of their spells]], just to show how [[MagicIsEvil witches are evil.]]
169	* In ''Theatre/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', Hyde casually knocks down a flower girl who gets in his way when he's in a bad mood.
170	* ''Theatre/WesterosAnAmericanMusical'':
171	** The fact that Gregor Clegane killed Elia Martell and her children is brought up a couple of times.
172	** The whole "should we use Edric Storm as a HumanSacrifice or not?" debate in Stannis' faction in Act II stems in part from the fact Edric is still quite young and some members of the group are more willing to look past this than others.
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175	[[folder:Theme Parks]]
176	* [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Orlando]]'s Theatre/HalloweenHorrorNights implied this with their 2010 haunted maze, The Orfanage: it's heavily implied that the entire house takes place after the orphanage has burned down and you're being assaulted by the ghosts of the children, with various imagery and audio hinting at various tortures that the children were put through by their caretakers until Cindy demonstrated her [[PlayingWithFire abilities]] and [[KillItWithFire burned down the orphanage with all the kids trapped inside]].
177	* Knott's Scary Farm features the Tooth Fairy, the main antagonist of the haunted attraction of the same name, who is obsessed with teeth and will break into the homes of children who have just lost teeth to violently kidnap them and take them to a realm of her own. There, she and her minions will brutally and painfully [[TortureTechnician imprison and torture them]], ripping out their intestines, bones, organs, and [[TheToothHurts teeth]] until they are dead. She commands her minions to [[ColdBloodedTorture make things as horrific as possible]], using massive drills, saws, hooks, and knives to mutilate and torment the innocent children.
178	[[/folder]]
179
180	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
181	* [[spoiler:[[SinisterMinister Kirei Kotomine]]]] of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' rounded up all the surviving orphans of the Fuyuki Fire and [[spoiler:cut off their limbs before sealing them in coffins that drained their prana. They were alive and aware for the entire ''ten years'' between the two wars]].
182	** Zouken Matou has no issues with Shinji treating Sakura harshly or [[spoiler:raping her. In fact, he has gone to significant lengths to break her psychologically]].
183	* Some culprits in ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' set their murderous sights on younger people, although their age usually never drops below teenage years. The youngest target, [[spoiler:Vera Misham,]] was 12 when [[spoiler: Kristoph Gavin gave her poisoned nail polish as a long-term backup plan to cover up his forgery plot -- he took advantage of her agoraphobia and convinced her that the nail polish was a good luck charm that would keep her safe if she ever went outside, knowing that she often bit her nails and that in the event she went outside to testify against him in court, her habit would kill her. She didn't actually use it until she was 19, and although it was a close shave, she did survive.]] And then there's prosecutor [[{{Slimeball}} Gaspen Payne]], who encourages the judge to give Albi Ur'gaid, a ''nine-year-old boy,'' the '''death penalty''' because he wants Phoenix Wright to suffer the same fate under the [[LoonyLaws Defence Culpability Act]]. The only child to actually be murdered in the series is a victim of spree killer Joe Darke in the backstory of the first game's fifth case.
184	* The Bad Ends of ''VisualNovel/TheCradleOfRuin'' tend to result in Tsuna, and sometimes Hotarou dying. [[spoiler:In the Bad Ends for Route B, Demonica kills Tsuna if Hotarou chooses to let her die. Demonica will either kill Hotarou or consider dismembering him depending on the choice.]]
185	* In ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', Yousuke Suzumi dismembers [[spoiler:his young daughter and rapes the young-looking Saya after getting the same type of Agnosia the protagonist suffers from.]]
186	* In ''VisualNovel/AtomGrrrl'', this is revealed to be the case for Anna, upon a mother begging to leave [[spoiler:during Dave's attempted robbery]]:
187	-->'''Anna:''' Did I fuckin' say you could talk? Just keep your head down, you old cunt.\
188	'''Lady:''' Eeeek!\
189	'''Anna:''' And keep your brats quiet or I'll bring 'em down to Mexico and sell 'em! We're doin' business right now, so shut the hell up!
190	* ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'': The DeadlyGame's organizers threw 3 kids into it alongside the rest of the participants. [[spoiler:One of them is already dead by the time it officially begins, another can die depending on your actions, and the last one will almost certainly be scarred for life if he manages to survive.]]
191	[[/folder]]
192
193	[[folder:Web Video]]
194	* ''WebVideo/AirProTexts'': [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEMrGxhljMg Alex's mother Casey]] locked him in the trunk of her car just [[DisproportionateRetribution because he wanted to live with his father instead of her]]. Fortunately he was rescued and Casey was arrested.
195	[[/folder]]
196
197	[[folder:Web Animation]]
198	* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': Whenever one of the combatants is a minor, expect this trope to apply to their opponent.
199	* Blitzo from ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'' is perfectly willing to take contracts out on children. I.M.P's jingle even has the line "Kids die for FREE~!" In the pilot, once he learns that the boy he had (accidentally) shot was his client's target, he shoots him dead, dismembers his body, and then [[CrossesTheLineTwice gives the remains to the boy's mother]]. Probably didn't help that the kid was a total SpoiledBrat who insulted him and his employees.
200	* Carl from ''WebAnimation/LlamasWithHats'' once created a machine for the specific purpose of crushing orphans to death. In the second episode, Paul also mentions him head butting children off the side of a sinking ship.
201	* The ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'' episode "Lobo for President" had the Main Man shoot an alien baby for peeing acid in his face.
202	* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': Karin hit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ibUlHqjG6U Kanade]]'s baby Haru on the head to shut her up because she was annoyed by her crying. Bakura stopped her before she can hit Haru again.
203	* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Dave has no problem with hurting Bear, Snake, Duck, and Balloon, who are the 4 "kids" of the main cast.
204	* ''WebAnimation/{{Chadam}}'': Viceroy ends up kidnapping eight-year old Ripley as another living person to dissect.
205	* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': Church makes it very clear that he is [[FantasticRacism disgusted]] by Tucker's alien son, Junior; if the other characters weren't constantly stopping him, Church would have gone through with his plan of stepping on Junior's neck and killing him.
206	* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyMeets'': When Spike retrieves Rapunzel's rare gems from the Diamond Dogs, they [[spoiler:beat him until he is mortally wounded]]. Rarity deals them comeuppance, and [[spoiler:Rapunzel uses her hair to bring him back]].
207	* WebAnimation/WolfSongTheMovie: there have been scenes where the Death Keep pack have done the canine equivalent of this: traumatising/scarring/killing pups. Heck, even Cobalt, the second in command of said pack, had his StartOfDarkness be getting ordered to kill his friend by the Death Alpha… when he was just a year old at the time. Also Arrow did have to witness the Pack kill his brother and mutilate his sister, when they were both quite young. [[spoiler: the death keep also have the adolescent wolf Alador tortured to death due to his defiance, with some scenes hinting at him facing stuff much worse.]]
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211	%%Mod note: No real life examples.
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