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15	* ''Film/TenRillingtonPlace'': Christie kills Geraldine, who's just an infant, after he'd murdered her mother.
16	* ''Film/TwentyTwoJuly'': Anders kills scores of teenagers at the summer camp. He later makes it clear to his lawyer that the victims were specifically chosen for their young age as a way to torment their parents for their left-wing beliefs.
17	* ''Film/ThreeHundred'': The brutality of the Spartan culture is established right from the film's opening, which reveals that all male Spartan babies are examined as soon as they are born for any signs of physical weakness or illness. Those deemed unworthy are then tossed over a cliff to die. The camera gives a brief glimpse of the bottom of the cliff, revealing a ''lot'' of rejected baby skeletons. The ones who are spared don't get it any easier, as they then spend their entire childhood subjected to an absolutely punishing training regime designed to harden them into perfect warriors, and it's implied that many don't make it through alive (especially during the Agoge).
18	* ''Film/AbrahamLincolnVampireHunter'': On America's VampireMonarch Adam's orders, his sister Vadoma infiltrates the Lincoln household in the White House during Abe's presidency to kill his little boy.
19	* ''Film/AirBud'': Norm Snively catches Josh on his property helping Buddy escape being tied up. Snively then gives chase in his truck, and comes close to running them both over.
20	* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'': The xenomorphs kill anything.
21	* In ''Film/Alien2OnEarth'', the rock creatures' first victim is a young girl walking on a beach.
22	* ''[[Film/Annie1982 Annie]]'': This is the difference between Miss Hannigan and her brother Rooster. When Rooster intends to throw Annie off a ferris wheel in a fit of rage, Miss Hannigan chases him down yelling at him to leave her alone because "She's just a baby".
23	* In ''Film/Annie1999'', Miss Hannigan is not horrified, but instead outright gleeful at the prospect of Rooster making Annie ''disappear''.
24	* ''Film/{{Assassins}}'': Invoked by [[PsychoForHire Miguel Bain]] when he prepares to snipe a nearby girl playing football to make his rival Robert Rath back down, knowing that he holds [[WouldntHurtAChild the opposite view]].
25	* A little girl who didn't get the flavor of ice cream she wanted in the '76 ''[[Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976 Assault On Precinct 13]]'' infamously ends up with a bullet in her chest from the White Warlord, who'd just killed the truck's driver.
26	* In ''Film/AvatarTheWayOfWater'', the humans led by [[spoiler: a reanimated Avatar version of Quaritch]] have no issues with threatening Na'vi of all ages, including Jake and Neytiri's children.
27	* In ''Film/Batman1989'', Jack is perfectly happy to gun down young Bruce as well as his parents, and is only stopped by the insistence of his partner.
28	* ''Film/BatmanReturns'': The Penguin crosses the MoralEventHorizon when he tries to have every firstborn son of Gotham City, including very young children and babies, kidnapped and drowned in the sewer as revenge for his parents having tried to do the same to him long ago for being different.
29	-->'''Henchman:''' Penguin... I mean, killing sleeping children. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Isn't it that a little, uh...]]\
30	'''Penguin:''' ''(kills him)'' No! It's a lot "uh"!
31	* [[FatBastard Nibbio]] and Testamento from ''Film/BeautifulPeople2014'' have no qualms about killing a teenage girl. [[spoiler:The soldiers at the end of the movie find the Pontecorvo's youngest son, take him around the back, and shoot him.]]
32	* The kung-fu film ''Film/TheBellsOfDeath'' begins with the hero's family being massacred by bandits, with a lingering, particularly gory shot where one of the second-in-command graphically impales the hero's kid brother, who can't be older than 10.
33	* ''Film/BigGame'': Morris has no problem punching a thirteen-years-old Oskari in the face and would likely deliver him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown if Moore didn't stand in his way, taking the beating for the boy.
34	* ''Film/BlackCougar'': The villains of the movie are kidnapping children across the neighbourhood [[spoiler:to sell them in a [[HumanTraffickers Sex Trafficking ring]]]]. Also, they will murder any witnesses, regardless of their age.
35	* ''Film/TheBlackPhone'': The film's villain, the Grabber, is a serial killer that exclusively preys on young pre-teen and teenage boys, abducting them and subjecting them to various twisted tests before slaughtering them for "misbehaving". Finney and Gwen's father is also an abusive alcoholic who has no qualms about beating his kids, although he's somewhat of a subversion as he does show genuine concern and fear when Finney is abducted and later seems to be fairly remorseful over his past treatment of them both.
36	* ''Film/BloodOfTheTribades'': When the priests see the baby of the woman they just killed is a girl, they leave her to die.
37	* In ''Film/ABlueprintForMurder'', BlackWidow Lynne has no compunctions about poisoning her two stepchildren.
38	* ''Film/TheBoldCaballero'': On Isabella's birthday, the Commandante has a group of prisoners led into the bullring with their hands tied behind their backs and their feet hobbled: [[BeastlyBloodsports to die at the horns and hooves of the bull]] if Zorro does not reveal himself. One of the prisoners is a child. Isabelle is rightly disgusted and horrified at this, and demands that the Commandante at least release the child. He refuses, gloating that the child is necessary to the trap, as there is no way Zorro could refuse to appear to rescue a child. He then releases the bull into the ring.
39	* Duguay's ''Film/{{Boot Camp\|2008}}'' is about one of the [[TruthInTelevision very real "Tough Love" camps]] that parents send their misbehaving kids to for rehabilitation. Over the course of the movie, the teens get abused and brainwashed, one boy [[spoiler: drowns]], a girl [[spoiler: gets raped]] and three kids almost [[spoiler: get shot]]. A message during the credits mentions that the real camps have seen about 40 kids dead and an unclear number abused and/or traumatized.
40	* ''Film/BradleysSummer'': Notable for being made ''by'' kids, so naturally the taboo against hurting them doesn't hold. The bad guys hold a knife to a girl's throat, then later hold a gun to a kid's head.
41	* ''Film/BramStokersDracula'': The moment where Harker discovers exactly how much of a monster he's dealing with in Dracula is when he sees the Count give a ''live baby'' to his brides to feed upon. Later, when Lucy rises after being turned, she is shown returning to her crypt with a crying toddler she's abducted, also presumably to feed upon, although the child is saved by the intervention of Van Helsing, Holmwood and Dr. Seward.
42	* In ''Film/BulletTrain'', the Prince pushed Yuichi's son off a roof to force him to help with her plans. She even has a henchman on standby to finish the boy off should he refuse.
43	* ''Film/TheCabinInTheWoods'' has [[spoiler:the organization behind the monsters. Their Kyoto branch, invoking J-Horror tropes, has unleashed a StringyHairedGhostGirl into a class of nine-year-old schoolgirls. Amazingly, the children manage to contain her with no casualties, despite that branch previously having a 100% success rate, leading one of the Controllers to disbelievingly ask "How hard is it to kill nine-year-olds?"]]
44	* ''Film/CapeFear'': Max Cady spends the entire movie plotting to rape a little girl, and he almost succeeds at the end.
45	* ''Film/Carved2018'': The pumpkin has no qualms about murdering children, seeing as it [[spoiler:decapitated the daughter of the family and carved her head into a jack-o-lantern. He also gets ready to attack a trio of trick-or-treaters at the end of the film]].
46	* ''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn1984'': Said children have been brainwashed into thinking anyone over 19 should be killed. Burt and Vicky mostly attack the older children but the ending has a hilarious moment where they knock out a girl no older than eight (she was coming at them with a scythe).
47	--> '''Burt:''' Should we do something for her?
48	--> '''Vicky:''' Let's send her a get-well card from Seattle.
49	* ''Film/ColdSweat'': Katanga threatens to shoot Joe's 12-year-old daughter first if she and her mom try and escape.
50	* ''Film/ComeOutAndPlay'': As with the characters in ''Film/WhoCanKillAChild'', which it is a remake of, the protagonists are forced to this as the children are all killers.
51	* Exeggerated in ''Film/ChinaStrikeForce'', when TheDragon (played by Creator/MarkDacascos) shoots a woman ''and'' a baby to LeaveNoWitnesses.
52	* In ''Cost of a Soul'', wounded Iraq War veteran Tommy returns back to his criminal gang roots in Philadelphia, where he finds he owes a debt to Irish mobsters who paid for his young daughter's medical treatments. One of the mob bosses, angered by Tommy's inability to come up with the money, traps Tommy and the girl in a burning house, [[EvenEvilHasStandards to the shock of one of his loyal henchmen]], Tommy only narrowly escaping to rescue her.
53	* [[TheSociopath Cyrus the Virus]] from ''Film/ConAir'' has Poe at gunpoint and tells him this:
54	--> '''Cyrus:''' Before I kill you, Poe. I just wanted you to know the [[TheLastThingYouEverSee last thing that little Casey Poe ever gets to smell]] will be '''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis my. stinking. breath!]]'''
55	* In ''Film/CradleOfFear'', the SerialKiller Kemper used to rape, murder and [[ImAhumanitarian eat children]] (probably in that order). Inspector Neilson says that he doesn't know how many children Keller killed, but he is certain it is far more than the number he was tried for.
56	* In ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', Billy's father slaps him across the face for reading horror comics (and talking back).
57	* ''Film/CrookedHouse'': The murderer makes two attempts to kill the 12 year old Joesephine. [[spoiler:It is actually Joesephine herself.]]
58	* ''Film/TheCrowCityOfAngels'': Kali (RareFemaleExample), TheDragon to Judah Earl, kills Ashe's very young son without batting a lash.
59	* ''Film/CruelAndUnusual'': Julien drowned his children to punish their mother for something.
60	* ''Film/CryFreedom:'' The South African police [[spoiler:put acid on some T-shirts trying to promote black activist Steve Biko, and send them to the main character's family. The children put them on and are burned, though they eventually recover]]. They also gun down unarmed black children just for peacefully protesting.
61	* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Two-Face flips a coin to decide whether or not to shoot [[spoiler:Gordon]]'s son.
62	* ''Literature/TheDayOfTheLocust'': Homer Simpson[[note]] Not [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons that one.]][[/note]] ends up trampling EnfantTerrible Adore Loomis to death after the boy throws a rock at him, snapping him from a HeroicBSOD straight to his RageBreakingPoint.
63	* Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse:
64	** ''Film/ManOfSteel'': During his final rampage, General Zod ends up in an arm lock by Superman and starts using his EyeBeams to try frying a human family, including children. Superman has no choice but to NeckSnap him to stop him. Earlier in the film, Zod ordered his men to shoot down the ship containing the infant Superman.
65	*** [[Film/TheFlash2023 His Earth-89 counterpart]] is ''even worse'', since he intercepted and killed Superman before he was sent to Earth as an infant.
66	** ''Film/{{Justice League\|2017}}'' / ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': Some terrorists hold a group of people, including school children, hostage and set up a bomb next to them. When Diana/Wonder Woman shows up and gets rid of the bomb, the terrorists' leader immediately tries to gun everyone down, children included. Fortunately, Wonder Woman is fast enough to block the bullets.
67	** ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'': Dr. Sivana shows how far he's willing to go to get the power of the wizard Shazam:
68	*** When he captures Billy's foster siblings, he orders one of the demons inhabiting his body "Kill the little girl!", the only reason why the demon didn't eat Darla, a girl no older than eight, is because Billy/Shazam relented.
69	*** During the fight in the Christmas village, Sivana gets a hold of Billy and holds his head underwater, so that he can't say the word Shazam, and transform into his superhero persona. He's only able to do so because Mary, one of his foster siblings, distracted Sivana long enough for Billy to get his head out of the water.
70	** In ''Film/BirdsOfPrey2020'', everyone who's after [[MacGuffin the Bertenelli diamond]], including BigBad Roman Sionis, wants to cut open 12 year-old Cassandra Cain after she swallowed it.
71	** ''Film/WonderWoman1984'': During the ActionPrologue, one of the mall thieves takes a young girl hostage and threatens to drop her over the railing to the ground floor to get security to back off. [[EvenEvilHasStandards His fellow thieves are appalled that he would something like this]] and just like everybody else are shouting at him not to do it.
72	** ''Film/TheSuicideSquad'':
73	*** [[HeroicComedicSociopath Peacemaker]] pretends that he "cherishes peace with all [his] heart", and that it doesn't matter how many men, women and ''children'' he'll have to kill to bring peace.
74	*** [[MadScientist Gaius Grieves]]' Project Starfish expirements are all about sacrificing thousands of people ''including children'' to [[StarfishAlien Starro]] [[ForScience just for the purpose of science]]. Harley even kills [[PresidentEvil President Luna]] for his involvement in it, noting that [[EvenEvilHasStandards killing children is a "red flag"]].
75	*** Minor example: Weasel, one of the members of Team A, is stated to have killed 27 children before the events of the film.
76	** ''Film/BlackAdam2022'': [[BigBad Ishmael Gregor]] takes a young Amon hostage and [[HostageForMacGuffin barters his life in exchange for the crown of Sabbac.]] After reading the inscriptions and realizing he needs to [[spoiler:die]] in order to activate its power, he shoots Amon anyway to provoke Black Adam's PapaWolf instincts.
77	** ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'': [[spoiler:Black Manta takes Arthur's infant son whose blood he needs to free [[SealedEvilInACan Kordax]], and even gets ready to ''murder the child'' right on the table to do so.]]
78	* Towards the end of ''FIlm/DDay'', Ivan confronts TheDragon, Gelda, just as Gelda have Ivan's young daughter chained on a chair and is threatening to drop her into a pool.
79	* ''Film/DeadSnowRedVsDead'': Standartenführer Herzog and his Nazi Zombies really don't care about how old or young the victims of their murderous rampages are.
80	* ''Film/{{Deerskin}}'': George throws a rock at a child who was staring at him.
81	* The miners in the beginning of ''Film/{{Deewaar}}'' have no qualms about abusing and forcibly tattooing a little boy.
82	* ''Film/DennisTheMenace'': When Switchblade Sam takes Dennis hostage, he plans to use him as a HumanShield and then when he gets fed up with him, tries to kill him with his knife.
83	* ''Film/TheDevilsBackbone'': Jacinto threatens and harms the children of the orphanage. He threatens Carlos by cutting his cheek with a knife, and that's the least of his offenses. [[spoiler: He drowned an injured boy because he feared he will be blamed, and ultimately blows up the orphanage, killing some and injuring many children just to get to open a safe]].
84	* ''Film/DiamondsOnWheels'': Jock knocks out Charlie (off-screen) before [[PunkInTheTrunk stuffing him in the boot of Mercer's car]].
85	* From ''Film/DickTracy'': Steve the Tramp certainly would, but he finds out quickly that Tracy does ''not'' like guys who beat up kids. Nor is Steve very good at standing up to someone who can fight back, it seems.
86	* ''Film/DirtyHarry'': The Scorpio Killer, a psychopathic criminal whose mere existence seems to be to rob, kill, extort ... whatever, and humiliate San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan in the process, has no qualms about using violence against children. In one scene, he shoots a young African American boy (offscreen); in another, he kidnaps a young teen-aged girl, rapes her, and [[BuriedAlive buries her alive]] (before daring Callahan to find the girl, all for his own amusement). Later, he holds hostage a school bus full of children and ... when several of them refuse to sing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" he slaps them hard (including at least one girl and two boys). In the climactic scene, Scorpio holds a young boy hostage and threatens to kill him if Harry refuses to surrender; however, Callahan sees an opening and shoots Scorpio, badly wounding but not (instantly) killing him.
87	* RabidCop Christini in ''Film/{{Dobermann}}''. As an interrogation technique, he gives Oliver's infant son a live grenade to play with. Earlier, he threw the child across a room without really caring if his partner was there to catch it or not.
88	* ''Film/DoctorSleep'': The film's villains, the True Knot, are a group of monstrous beings who abduct and murder children in order to feed off their life force, referred to as "Steam". Even more horrifically, it's revealed that the Steam is stronger and more potent when the child is subjected to extreme pain and fear, meaning that the True Knot brutally torture their victims first for the best results. This is shown in horrifying detail with their murder of Bradley, who Rose the Hat carves up with a knife while he's still alive.
89	* After Mina rises from her grave as a vampire in ''Film/{{Dracula 1979}}'', her first order of business is to feast on the blood of a baby of one Dr. Seward's patients. To drive in further the horror of the deed, the poor boy's bloodless corpse is shown in a closeup.
90	* In ''Film/DraculaUntold'', Mehmet demanded a thousand boys to use as "[[CannonFodder soldiers]]" for their war, and planned to use [[TrainingFromHell brutal methods]] to train them, including making them fight to the death and use the survivors.
91	* ''Film/TheDry'': As well as Luke and Karen Hadler, their young son Billy is gunned down during the family massacre, although the killer draws the line at killing their infant daughter Charlotte, [[spoiler:because Charlotte is too young to be a witness]].
92	* ''Film/TheEagle2011'': Both Marcus and the Seal Prince kill boys in the film. Marcus to stop him bringing other Rogue Warriors, the Seal Prince as the punishment for betrayal (the boy is his son in fact).
93	* ''Film/EbolaSyndrome'' has it's main villain, Kai, who grabbed his old flame Lily's young daughter as a hostage when fleeing from the police. He killed the child via NeckSnap in the process, and barely shows any sign of remorse as he dumps her body aside.
94	* ''Film/EdenLake'':
95	** ''Brutally'' [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with [[FinalGirl Jenny]]. As a schoolteacher, she'd normally never lay a finger on any child, but as a result of the situation she's found herself in, and specifically after [[spoiler: being betrayed by Adam to the gang]], she's forced to take them on for self-defense. [[spoiler: And doing so has negative effects ''[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished each and every time]]''. She ends up killing two gang members by the end of the movie, both of which were the only ones to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone actually realize the harm they were causing]]. But the worst part is when [[PapaWolf the parents of those kids]] find out what she's done to them...]]
96	** Played straight with [[TheSociopath Brett]], who [[spoiler: kills both Adam and Harry.]]
97	* The 2019 horror film ''Film/{{Eli}}'' has [[KnightTemplar Dr. Horn]], [[spoiler: a religious extremist who runs a treatment center for "sick" children. The children aren't actually sick, but were fathered by Satan, and while otherwise normal, are beginning to develop special powers. It's revealed that she's been killing every child at the facility in the third stage of treatment, after the initial treatment was deemed a failure]].
98	* The setting of ''Film/EvilLaugh'' used to be an orphanage until its caretaker Martin killed all the children when he was accused of molesting them.
99	* The whole film ''Film/{{Evilenko}}'' revolves around a serial killer who targets children. This was based on a real child killer from the former Soviet Union, but rather loosely. For one thing, Evilenko has unexplained hypnotic powers.
100	* ''Film/{{Extraction}}'': [[BigBad Amir Asif]] kidnaps Ovi for ransom and has one of his friends killed in the process. He is also not averse to having much younger children killed to demonstrate his power.
101	* ''Eyewitness'' (or ''[[MarketBasedTitle Sudden Terror]]'' in the US): The film is about a young boy (Mark "Film/OliverTwist" Lester) who witnesses an assassination, and the assassins will kill ''anyone'' in their path to get him - including our hero's friend Ann-Marie, a little girl around his age.
102	* ''Film/FaceOff'': Though Castor Troy didn't intend to kill Archer's son in the carousel sniping instead of Archer, he's not really remorseful either, only looking bored when he attends Michael's grave with Eve. Plus, he is perfectly willing to aim a pistol at Sasha while his own child is in her arms (although there is no evidence that Castor knew Adam was his son). Heck, it's possible Castor might have been trying to hit Adam on purpose if he wasn't trying to off Sasha for talking to Archer. He'd also planted a chemical WMD to level Los Angeles, which certainly would have killed lots of children.
103	* ''Film/FatalTermination'': During the kidnapping attempt on the protagonist's daughter, the henchmen carrying out the hit grabs the child by her hair and lifts her (a six-year old girl) a couple of feet off the ground as their escape vehicle sped off, clearly hurting the child and nearly killing her. Later on in a hostage exchange gone wrong, the protagonist tries to save his family, succeeding in rescuing his wife but his little daughter gets shot by the BigBad in the process without batting an eye.
104	* ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'': Cipher threatens to kill Dom's baby to force him to betray his team and work for her. Even the Shaw brothers, who also hated Dom, [[EvenEvilHasStandards were horrified by this.]]
105	* ''Film/FinalDestination'': There's a baby onboard the plane that Death blows up in the first movie.
106	* ''Film/FinalDestination2'': Death crushes a young teenage kid under a plate glass window.
107	* In ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore'': El Indio ordering his men to kill a '''baby''', setting the tone for how horrible he really is.
108	* ''Film/FreeGuy'': Guy ends up saving a little girl NPC by moving her out of the way before she gets hit by a truck. This suggests that not only is killing children possible in the "Free City" game the movie takes place in, but that none of the players ever give it a second thought.
109	* ''Film/FreddyGotFingered'': Played for "laughs" in a scene where Gordon (Tom Green in the key "protagonist"(?) role) takes the umbilical cord of a newborn baby and - while still attached to the infant - twirls him around like a toy, as though it would do no harm.
110	* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'': The machine gunner in the helicopter is asked by Joker how he can shoot women and children. He misinterprets the question (probably deliberately).
111	--> '''Gunner:''' Easy! Ya just don't lead 'em so much!
112	* ''Film/Fury2014'': When the titular tank, and the rest of the armored column set off for their destination, a pair of [[HomeGuard Volkstrum]] soldiers pop out of the woods and shoot a rocket at one of the tanks, killing the crew. When they try to flee afterwards [[ShellShockedVeteran "Wardaddy" Collier]] jumps out and guns them down before they get far, and discovers they were two [[ChildSoldiers preteen Hitler Youth members.]] He briefly looks saddened by the necessity of having to kill kids, and then he goes back to the Fury and angrily berates [[NewMeat Norman]] for ''not'' shooting them when Norman first spotted them. When Norman justifies it by saying that he hesitated because they were kids, Collier slaps him, gestures to the destroyed tank and the bodies of the tank crew who horrifically burned alive, and says that Norman should kill anyone who looks suspicious, including children.
113	-->You see that? See what a kid can do? That's ''your'' fault! That's your fucking fault! Next German you see with a weapon, you rake the dogshit out of 'em! I don't care if it's a baby with a butter knife in one hand and momma's titty in the other, YOU CHOP HIM UP!!!
114	* ''Film/GhostInTheMachine'': The killer starts the movie by murdering a whole family, tries to kill Terri's adolescent son Josh multiple times, and at one point even attempts to murder an infant.
115	* ''Film/GhostShip''. The two murderous crewmen [[spoiler:and by extension, Ferriman,]] during the mass murder montage on the ''Graza'' have no qualms towards killing Katie, a scared young girl.
116	* ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'':
117	** ''Film/AllMonstersAttack'': [[Characters/{{Godzilla}} Gabara]]'s main victim on Monster Island is Godzilla's son.
118	** ''Film/GodzillaVsSpaceGodzilla'': Likewise with Spacegodzilla. What is the first thing he does when he comes to Earth? He attacks and torments the first thing he sees, Little Godzilla.
119	** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'':
120	*** [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]], upon finding Madison inside Fenway Park, immediately devotes his energy and attention to rooting her out of the stadium's indoor facilities and then killing her with extreme prejudice, either because he's pissed at her for using the ORCA to [[spoiler:disrupt his global control over the other Titans]] or just because [[{{Sadist}} he's that vicious]]. What's more, Ghidorah goes out of his way to kill Madison using ''all three'' heads' Gravity Beams true to his [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill tendency towards sadistic overkill]], and he actually manages to break the ORCA and cut off its signal once Madison's rooted out but he then sets about atomizing her anyway. [[spoiler: Madison only escapes because [[BigDamnHeroes Godzilla showed up in the nick of time]]]].
121	*** It's barely hinted at in the movie, but in the official {{novelization}}, the [[Characters/MonsterVerseEcoTerrorists eco-terrorist]] leader Alan Jonah twice threatens Madison himself. First, when she snaps at him ("Bite me, dickhead!"), he puts his hand on his gun holster and tells her to be careful what she wishes for; then later, to cement Emma into obeying him, Jonah casually instructs one of his men to slit Madison's throat if Emma takes one step out of line.
122	*** See the [[WouldHurtAChild/ComicBooks Comic Books page]] (''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'') and [[WouldHurtAChild/WesternAnimation Western Animation page]] (''Skull Island'') for more Franchise/MonsterVerse examples.
123	* ''Film/TheGoonies'': The Fratellis, a family of mobsters, have no problem rubbing out anybody who uncovers their criminal schemes, including children. But none of them show this as much as ChildHater [[EvilMatriarch Mama Fratelli]]: when the Fratellis successfully kidnap one of the eponymous {{Kid Hero}}es, she threatens to [[MutilationInterrogation puree his hand in a blender if he doesn't tell them where the others are]] and is more than ready to go through with it. [[spoiler:Later on, the Fratellis catch the Goonies on One-Eyed Willy's pirate ship and Mama proves to have no problem forcing children to WalkThePlank.]]
124	* ''Film/GuyanaCrimeOfTheCentury'': When three children are caught stealing food during late night, Johnson calls the whole population of the commune to the pavillion to expose the culprits. Their respective parents agree that they need to be punished, and the rest of the adults echo the sentiment. Johnson then orders his henchmen to pour snakes onto one of the children, to submerge another one up and down in a well, and electrocute the remaining one from the testicles. They're then jailed in a warehouse, while still being naked, and are only freed in the next day's morning when Johnson comes to see them.
125	* ''Film/TheHardWay'': The Party Crasher, whose previous victims include a four-year old.
126	* In ''Film/HeadlessHorseman'', Calvin Montgomery was a child murdering Satan worshiper before being killed and resurrected as the HeadlessHorseman.
127	* ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'': Pinhead decides to torture John Merchant's son to compel him to undo his designs that could destroy the Cenobites.
128	* ''Film/Hercules2014'': [[spoiler:Cotys]] threatened to kill his own grandson so that he could get his daughter's cooperation. Later, he cruelly has the boy dragged about by the hair, preparing to slit his throat.
129	* ''Film/HeroicTrio'': The BigBad is kidnapping babies in order to raise an evil army. At one point, he pretty randomly kills a baby.
130	* ''Film/HocusPocus'': The witches murder a child, turn another one into a cat, and the whole plot is driven by their intention to murder every other child in the town.
131	* ''Film/HomeAlone1'': Initially averted with Harry and Marv, who have no interest in hurting Kevin and just want to rob the house. However, after they fall victim to Kevin's traps, they begin to repeatedly threaten him before fully succumbing to this trope. They eventually capture him and would have managed this at the end [[spoiler: if Marley hadn't stopped them.]]
132	** In ''Film/HomeAlone2LostInNewYork'', Harry now owns a gun and is fully ready to kill Kevin once and for all once they have him cornered in Central Park[[spoiler:(right before the pigeon lady distracts the crooks by dousing them with birdseed and letting the pigeons do the rest)]].
133	--> '''Harry:''' I never made it to the sixth grade, kid. And it doesn't look like you're gonna, either.
134	* ''Film/HongKongGodfather'' have a brutal massacre scene halfway through where a lawful triad family gets exterminated. The seven-year-old grandson notably gets chucked fatally [[DestinationDefenestration through a tall window]].
135	* ''{{Film/Hostel}} II'': Sasha, the leader of the organization behind the kill club, confronts the gang of children that runs around the village and makes them pick one of their members to die. After pushing a reluctant member forward, Sasha executes the child with his pistol.
136	* ''Film/HotelRwanda'': During the Rwandan Genocide, the Hutu extremists have no restraint towards any Tutsi children they find. One particularly haunting moment is a Red Cross worker tearfully recalling how she was ForcedToWatch as the Hutu butchered Tutsi children, and one little girl pleaded "Please don't kill me! [[ChildrenAreInnocent I promise I won't be Tutsi anymore!]]" The Hutu killed the girl anyway.
137	* ''Film/TheHouseThatDrippedBlood'': In "Sweets for the Sweet", John slaps his daughter across the face while he teacher stands by; shocked, but doing nothing. (This is possibly a case of ValuesDissonance as it might have been seen at the time as a parent disciplining his child.)
138	* ''Film/TheIsland1980'': When Justin refuses to drink from the goblet Nau offers him, Nau shoves shoves him violently to the ground.
139	* ''Film/JamesBond'':
140	** ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'': A renegade and sociopathic Russian general, [[GeneralRipper General Orlov]], plans to invade Western Europe by nuking a US military base in West Germany by using Octopussy's circus as a cover. He [[LackOfEmpathy isn't bothered]] by the fact that thousands of civilians, including children, would die as a result.
141	** In ''Film/{{Spectre}}'', the audience gets to hear a progress report about the success of [[NebulousEvilOrganization SPECTRE's]] SexSlave operations, and how many women and children they've forcibly placed so far. Even 007, who had infiltrated the meeting to gather intel on SPECTRE's leadership, [[EveryoneHasStandards looked visibly disgusted]] by how casually they were discussing about the progress reports on their illegal activities. [[spoiler:Their foray into such barbaric crimes against humanity is what forced Mr. White [[EvenEvilHasStandards to resign from SPECTRE.]]]]
142	** In ''Film/NoTimeToDie'', BigBad Lyustifer Safin, in the very first scene of the movie, tried to kill a young Madeleine Swann after he broke into her house to kill her father and killed her mother; however, being the daughter of [=SPECTRE=]'s infamous assassin Mr. White, Madeleine [[LittleMissBadass was able to fight him back with a gun and escaped.]] Years later, Safin kidnaps Madeleine and [[spoiler: her toddler daughter Mathilde]] and brings them to his IslandBase to draw out Bond. [[spoiler: It gets even worse in the climax when Safin injects Bond with {{nanomachines}} coded to Madeleine and Mathilde's [=DNA=], ensuring that Bond would [[OffingTheOffspring kill them]] if he ever went back to be with his love and child.]]
143	*** In a further twist, Safin's actions in the first scene are partially subverted when he himself rescues Madeleine after she falls into a frozen lake after escaping him, indicating at least at the time that [[EvenEvilHasStandards he wasn't a complete psychopath (yet)]].
144	* ''Film/JesseJamesMeetsFrankensteinsDaughter'': At the start of the movie, the Frankensteins have already killed three village children in the course of their experiments.
145	* ''Film/JojoRabbit '': The Nazis have no compunctions at using the Hitler Youth in combat roles, knowing it will get them injured or killed, with one particularly dark moment showing Fräulein Rahm strapping live grenades to a couple of the kids to turn them into ''suicide bombers''. Similarly, the Soviet soldiers at the end want to shoot Jojo and other Hitler Youth boys (he's spared, the rest aren't).
146	* ''Film/JonahHex2010'': Several of the villains. Quentin Turnbull ''deliberately'' waits until some unsuspecting families come up to his bombs before detonating them.
147	* ''Film/KickAss'':
148	** Frank D'Amico manages to get the upper hand during the final showdown with Hit Girl (who, despite being a highly-trained costumed vigilante, is still an ''eleven-year-old child''), brutally beating her down, and nearly finishes her with a bullet to the head before she's saved by Kick-Ass.
149	** Also done to Hit Girl by her own father (it was just training).
150	* ''Film/KidDetective2020'':
151	** Abe, the titular protagonist (no longer actually a kid), learns that some high school drug dealers gave him deliberately false info as a joke. He then beats up their ringleader, and when the kid incredulously asks if it makes Abe feel like a big man to beat up a kid, Abe says that it does.
152	** For a darker example, the movie involves the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl, [[spoiler:later revealed to have been abducted, raped and held captive by her high school principal.]]
153	* ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'': An AffectionateParody of movies like ''Film/TheBlob1958'' and ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers'', a moment of true suspense occurs when one of the klowns tries to lure a young girl out of a burger joint so it can kill her. [[spoiler:Luckily, her mother steps in at the last minute and saves her.]]
154	* ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'': Under the influence of the HatePlague, [[spoiler:Michelle tries to murder her infant daughter]].
155	* ''Film/KissOfTheDragon'': The film's antagonist, the corrupt Inspector Richard, already a malicious and sadistic killer who torments the protagonists Agent Liu Jian and Jessica Kamen, [[HateSink ups his nastiness]] to another level when he takes Jessica's pre-teen daughter Isabel hostage and uses her as bait to lure Liu into a deadly trap. When Liu still fights his way through the villain's henchmen, Richard has no qualms about killing Isabel and mocks Liu for being powerless to stop him. [[spoiler:Liu however gets the jump on Richard]] and to Richard's dismay, saves Isabel while [[spoiler:using a well placed acupuncture needle to show Richard [[AssholeVictim the meaning of]] the film's title, with a painful lesson]].
156	* ''Film/LastActionHero'': "I've killed boys younger and smarter than you."
157	* ''The Lineup'' has AxCrazy VillainProtagonist Dancer, who in the second act is a hop and a skip away from murdering a little girl after he finds out that [[spoiler: she used the heroin he wanted to powder her priceless Japanese doll's face]], and in the climax attempts to use her as a human shield to get away from the police.
158	* ''Film/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'':
159	** Jadis in the Battle of Beruna. [[spoiler: She stabs Edmund when he smashes her wand]] and duels with Peter with the full intent of killing him. Overall, Jadis's whole plan involves killing the children.
160	** Zig-zagged for Tumnus: being in Jadis's employ, he begins with a plan to kidnap Lucy, but he finds [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he's unable to go through with it]] and instead sneaks her back to the portal back to Earth. This is not truly a subversion, though, as neither Lucy nor the audience realizes that he had been kidnapping her until he's already doubled back on that plan.
161	* ''Film/LongPigs'': Anthony has eaten a kid before, and the only thing stopping him from doing so again is [[PragmaticVillainy the heat missing kids bring]].
162	* ''Film/{{Looper}}'': Much of the plot revolves around [[spoiler: Old Joe finding and killing kids he thinks might grow up to become the future leader of the criminal organization he used to work for, and Young Joe trying to protect one of those kids.]]
163	* ''Film/LuckyNumberSlevin'': Mr. Goodkat was brought in for one last job in New York City because nobody else, [[EvenEvilHasStandards not even the rest of the muscle]], [[WouldntHurtAChild would accept the assignment of killing a kid]]. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope He could not do it, either]], and he wound up raising the child and helping him take revenge]].
164	* ''Film/{{Malice}}'': [[spoiler: It's revealed that Tracy got pregnant for the sole purpose of miscarrying and therefore looking even more sympathetic to the jury in her medical malpractice case--she's suing her surgeon for removing a healthy ovary, thus causing her not only to miscarry but robbing her of her chance to ever have children of her own. The viewers soon learn that she and the doctor are in on the scam together, and when her estranged husband threatens to reveal their scheme, she plans to kill the child who he claims has witnessed her and the doctor's nefarious activities]]
165	* ''Film/TheManWhoCameBack'': Billy Duke shows no hesitation in murdering Paxton's young son and tossing his body down the well. And, according to Paxton, during the war he bayoneted women and children in order to inflate his count of the number of Yankees he had killed.
166	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
167	** ''Film/IronMan1'':
168	*** Iron Monger[[spoiler:/Obadiah Stane]] tries to hurl a van with children in it at Iron Man during their fight. He had enough time to notice there were kids in the bus before he threw it; [[MoralEventHorizon he just didn't care]].
169	*** There’s Raza and Abu of the Ten Rings who have their men storm an innocent villages in Afghanistan such as Gulmira and shoot and blow up defenceless women and children in their homes. Thankfully, Tony rocks up in some PoweredArmour and [[BigDamnHeroes puts a stop to it]].
170	** ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'': When interrogating the church keeper during the beginning of the film, Red Skull threatens to kill everyone in his village if he doesn't tell him where the Tesseract is, including the church keeper's potential grandchildren.
171	** ''Film/IronMan3'': [[TheDragon Eric Savin]] holds Harley—a 10-year-old kid who was helping Tony fix his PoweredArmour—hostage when Tony gets caught under debris in an attempt to force him to hand over the file he stole. This naturally invokes a ''huge'' PapaWolf moment for Tony as he blasts Savin with his repulsor to save the kid.
172	** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Ronan the Accuser personally killed Drax's wife and daughter in cold blood. And ''[[KickTheDog laughed]]''.
173	** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': The titular Ultron uses a Quinjet to shoot at Hawkeye and a child whom the latter was protecting, but they were saved by Quicksilver's HeroicSacrifice.
174	** ''Film/AntMan1'': After [[spoiler: Darren Cross'/]]Yellowjacket's plans have been foiled, he [[spoiler: flies to Scott Lang's house and attempts to take his daughter hostage to draw him out]].
175	** [[Characters/MCUSpiderMan Peter Parker]], being in his mid-teens, naturally endures this trope from many bad guys. Notably in ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'', [[spoiler: Quentin Beck/Mysterio not only nearly kills Peter, but is willing to blow up an entire bus of Peter's high school classmates when only ''three'' of them found out he was [[FakeUltimateHero a murderous terrorist pretending to be a hero]]. [[LeaveNoWitnesses He wasn't taking any chances]].]]
176	** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': [[spoiler: Ego the Living Planet killed ''thousands'' of his own offspring when they failed to inherit his godlike powers, stopping only when it turns out that [[Characters/MCUPeterQuill Peter]] did. Buried deep inside the planet is a literal ''mountain'' of children's skeletons, which Gamora and Nebula discover.]] Nebula, who's described as one of the galaxy's biggest sadists, [[EvenEvilHasStandards is completely horrified by the sight]].
177	** ''Film/BlackPanther2018'': Killmonger's plan on assuming the throne is to launch a brutal campaign of slaughter against those in power outside Wakanda, explicitly saying it would include their children.
178	** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
179	*** Thanos is completely unbiased in which half of the universe [[WellIntentionedExtremist has to die]] in order to stop the oncoming OverpopulationCrisis. This includes children.
180	*** Thanos also makes for an interesting example, however, as he does genuinely like kids. This is shown in the scene where he adopts (read: abducts) little Gamora, treating her like any adult would treat a lost child looking for their mom. [[TykeBomb Well]], [[ChildSoldiers at first]].
181	** ''Film/AntManAndTheWasp'': Ghost considers kidnapping Scott's daughter to force him to comply. Subverted when her only ally puts his foot down and says in no uncertain terms that she is ''not'' allowed to do that. Ghost ends up finding another way.
182	** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': PlayedForLaughs when Rhodey nonchalantly suggests that the best solution to restore the universe by going back in time is to ''strangle Baby Thanos to death''. [[EveryoneHasStandards Even Bruce is understandably horrified by this]].
183	--->'''Rhodey:''' If we can do this -- you know, go back in time -- [[HitlersTimeTravelExemptionAct why don't we just go find Baby Thanos?]] You know, and... ''[[[BlackComedy makes expressions with his hands to suggest asphyxiating him with a rope]]]''\
184	'''Bruce:''' First of all, that's horrible!\
185	'''Rhodey:''' It's ''Thanos''!
186	** ''Film/BlackWidow2021'':
187	*** Dreykov’s in charge of the Red Room (the Black Widow Program) which puts little girls ''as young as three'' through TrainingFromHell and even forces them to undergo surgery to make them infertile. Judging by Natasha’s accounts and interaction with Dreykov, he abused her, her sister Yelena, and other little girls in a variety of horrible ways. [[spoiler: Thankfully, Yelena blows up him up in the climax]].
188	*** Natasha herself is a rare sympathetic example as to assassinate Dreykov in Budapest, she planted explosives in his office which also blew up his young daughter Antonia who was visiting him. This action severely haunted Nat for decades, [[spoiler: but turns out Antonia survived albeit severely burned and ReforgedIntoAMinion by her father]].
189	** ''Film/DoctorStrangeInTheMultiverseOfMadness'': [[spoiler: Wanda, having been consumed with power from the Darkhold, is determined to hunt down the 14-year-old America Chavez and steal her powers to find her children, not caring that the ritual would kill America]].
190	** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': Gorr the God Butcher kidnapped the children of New Asgard just to lure Thor into battle, caging them like animals.
191	** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3'': Among the several lifeforms the High Evolutionary captured across the galaxy are alien children. He leaves them all to die when his ship is about to get destroyed. He also blew up Counter-Earth knowing there were kids, as Peter stating he saw teenagers buying drugs is what convinced the High Evolutionary that Counter-Earth was a failure.[[note]]That, or he always planned to, he just waited until he thought he had Rocket.[[/note]]
192	* ''Film/Masquerade2021'': After Casey [[spoiler: shoots and kills the female intruder]], the masked male thief [[spoiler: has no qualms shooting the young girl back]].
193	* ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'':
194	** This trope is how Kid convinces Captain Mifune to overlook the fact that he's too young to serve in the military:
195	--->'''Kid''': The Machines don't care how old I am; they'll kill me just the same.\
196	'''Mifune''': ''(sighs sadly)'' Ain't that the goddamned truth...
197	** It is heavily implied that Smith assimilated Sati.
198	--->'''Smith:''' [[IronicEcho Cookies need love, like everything does.]]\
199	'''Oracle:''' [[YouMonster You're a bastard.]]
200	* ''Film/MenInBlack'' had the man who would be "Agent Jay" shoot a target that looked like a little girl named "Tiffany" at point blank range. Jay quickly rationalized his choice by pointing out the school books "Tiffany" is holding are WAY too advanced for her to be studying (one is "Relativity" and another is "Quantum Physics") and his GutFeeling was telling him she could be up to something (and thus be an alien in disguise). Zed shakes his head and leaves, but Kay rags that Jay was right.
201	* ''Film/MercenariesFromHongKong'': Madam He Ying, the ManipulativeBitch antagonist of the picture, had no qualms kidnapping one of the titular mercenaries' child - a DelicateAndSickly 8-year-old suffering from a blood diesease - to force the mercenaries out of hiding. And when things doesn'* t go her way, she ruthlessly orders a mook to shoot the child without batting an eye.
202	* ''Film/MissMeadows'': Skylar and the priest are both child molesters, who naturally count automatically.
203	* ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'': The bad guy, Mr. Big, is pushing around and slapping a girl right in front of Music/MichaelJackson simply to piss him off.
204	* None of the bad guys in ''Film/TheMountie'' have any problem with hitting Cleora, or using her as a HumanShield. And Amethyst tells Grayling how [[spoiler:Olaf threw her newborn child overboard on the voyage over because he could stand the shame of her bearing a Cossack baby]].
205	* ''Film/TheMummyReturns'': Ankh-Su-Namon threatens to put poisonous snakes in Alex's bed and Lock-Nah actually does stab his hand and only misses because Alex is wearing [[MacGuffin the bracelet of Anubis]]. He always manages to escape serious damage, but there's still plenty of evidence that evil does not have standards here.
206	* ''Film/MurderByDecree'': The purpose in causing so much suffering and death is to locate and kill Annie Crook's child fathered by the Duke of Clarence and Avondale.
207	* ''Film/{{Nightbooks}}'': Natacha shows no hesitation in threatening the children in her apartment, and seemingly is about to kill them at one point, [[spoiler:only stopped by the sleep potion. And then there's the original witch from ''Literature/HanselAndGretel'', who eats children.]]
208	* Freddy Krueger of ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. Prior to his death by fire, he was a serial killer who targeted little kids. Continued his killing ways after his death, now targeting mostly teenagers.
209	** In fact, ''Film/FreddyVsJason'' opened with him murdering a little girl in his boiler room. There's a GoryDiscretionShot as we hear her scream, but much later the girl appears in FinalGirl Lori's dreams with her ''eyes gouged out''. The same film reveals that Freddy's hell is being surrounded by the photos of past victims and being tormented by the fact that he can't kill more children. Freddy is so evil that this is the worst punishment Hell could inflict upon him.
210	** This is made double by the fact that Freddy was intended by Creator/WesCraven to not only be a child murderer, but also a child molester. [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet2010 The remake]] goes more in depth on this than the original series, however.
211	* ''Film/NightNurse'' has Nick and a ''doctor'' slowly starving two little girls, so they can get their trust fund money.
212	* ''Film/TheNightOfTheHunter'': [[SinisterMinister Reverend]] [[SerialKiller Powell]] threatens his stepchildren with torture in order to find out where they hid the money their dad had stolen in a bank robbery. He would have done it, too, if they hadn't escaped. The worst part? He wasn't just going to torture them. He was going to torture them ''in front of each other'' so that one of them would spill the beans in order to get him to stop torturing the other.
213	* In ''Film/NothingButTheNight'', the conspirators murder one of the children at the orphanage who gets [[HeKnowsTooMuch too close to learning the truth]], and then dump his body in the woods covered in occult symbols to make it look like the work of Satanists.
214	* ''Film/{{Nukie}}'' features two examples.
215	** Sangoma banishes the twins from the village with the expectation that one will die.
216	** The Corporal also attempts to shoot Toki driving off with his truck.
217	* ''Film/OmenIIITheFinalConflict'': A now-grown Damien (Sam Neill) gets his followers to kill all babies born on a certain date, in order to stave off the Messiah. These followers include Scouts ("We're here to do our good deed for the day") and a priest who drowns a baby (offscreen) during a baptism.
218	* ''Film/OnceUponATimeInTheWest'': One of the earliest evil deeds Frank does is kill a child. He doesn't plan to, but when they find the boy, one of his men ask him what they're going to do. Frank's response, as he takes his gun out: "Well, [[HeKnowsTooMuch now that you've called me by]] ''[[HeKnowsTooMuch name]]''..."
219	* In ''Film/OurFriendPower5'', The Shark Gang's first act on Earth is to shoot and kill some children they come across in the forest.
220	* ''Film/Paddington2014'': Millicent has no problem with killing the entire Brown family, including the children.
221	* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'': Captain Vidal [[spoiler:who fatally shoots his 12 year old stepdaughter in the stomach, [[PayEvilUntoEvil which makes his comeuppance right afterwards even more satisfying]].]]
222	** Not to mention the [[TheFairFolk Pale Man]]. [[ImAHumanitarian That thing doesn't stop at]] ''[[ImAHumanitarian hurting]]'' [[ImAHumanitarian children]]...
223	* ''Film/PerfectAssassins'': Greely kidnaps children and tortures them into becoming assassins who kill themselves afterwards.
224	* ''Film/{{Peppermint}}'':
225	** The gunmen who killed Riley North's family were no more bothered by killing her daughter than they were the husband that was the actual target of their drive-by shooting.
226	** [[BigBad Diego Garcia]] doesn't show any hesitation or remorse about threatening to kill a homeless child to lure Riley out of hiding.
227	* ''Film/PetesDragon1977'': The Gogan clan make this clear in their opening number, singing about torturing and killing Pete after he escapes from their clutches.
228	* In ''Film/ThePhenixCityStory'', the mobsters kill the young daughter of one of John's friends and dump the body on his lawn in order to intimidate him.
229	* ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldsEnd'': Cutler Beckett. And it's a short drop. With a sudden stop.
230	* Zigzagged with Count Rugen from ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. After he killed Inigo's father, he wasn't rotten enough to ''kill'' the ten-year-old Inigo or injure him seriously when the boy challenged him, but he did give Inigo two permanent scars on his cheeks, just to "teach him a lesson", as he later described it.
231	* ''Film/{{The Princess\|2022}}'': Julius threatens Violet, the princess' younger sister, to get her submission for their marriage, saying if she won't marry him then he'll wed Violet instead (who's ten or so) with [[MaritalRapeLicense all that entails]].
232	* ''Film/TheProfessional'': Norman Stansfield and his crew kill Mathilda's young brother off-screen. Even though she herself is only twelve years old at the time, Norman and his henchmen show little hesitation in hunting Mathilda down and kidnapping her too, eventually using her as bait to lure in Leon, a professional enforcer who becomes her protector.
233	* ''Film/PromNight2008'': Richard Fenton murdered Donna's younger brother years ago in his attempt to force Donna to be with him.
234	* ''[[Film/WhoCanKillAChild ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?]]'' (Translation: "Who can kill a child?"): The entire premise of this 1976's infamous Spanish horror film. A subversion, in a way, since the [[KidsAreCruel Kids]] [[CreepyChild Are]] [[TeensAreMonsters Evil]], of course - and how.
235	* In the climax of ''Film/RedWolf'', the [[BigBad First Mate]] (NoNameGiven) straps Alan's six-year-old niece to a TimeBomb while dangling the child [[UnwillingSuspension twenty meters in the air]] to intimidate Alan. The bomb goes off when the child touches the floor, since the detonator's switch is strapped to the sole of her left foot.
236	* ''Film/TheRaid'': One of the SWAT troopers shoots a young lookout in an attempt to stop him blowing their cover. Unfortunately, it fails.
237	* ''Film/RampageCapitalPunishment'' concludes with Bill, after successfully orchestrating another rampage and getting away with it, giving a gun to a random little girl and telling her to kill her parents and then herself.
238	* In ''Film/TheRawhideTerror'', Brent beats his stepson Jimmy hard enough that he requires serious medical attention.
239	* ''Film/TheRealMacaw'': Dr. Lance Hagen, after stealing the pirate treasure from Sam, throws him out of his boat, intending to LeaveNoWitnesses.
240	* ''Film/TheRedwoodMassacre'': In a flashback, the original killer of the Redwood murders killed his own children.
241	* ''Film/RichieRich'': The villains are more than willing to shoot children, turn them into bedpans and blast them with lasers.
242	* ''Film/RiotGirls'': Fish, a pre-teen boy, gets killed by a Titan even after Caine did exactly what the guy wanted.
243	* ''Film/RoadToPerdition'': Connor Rooney tries to murder his father's enforcer's elder son and murders the younger one instead, along with the boys' mother.
244	* ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'': The Sheriff of Nottingham. Similar to Cutler Beckett in the Pirates of the Caribbean example above, he has no compunction about condemning a young boy named Wulf to a short drop and a sudden stop. Fortunately for Wulf, however, Robin Hood is there [[ShootTheRope to save him from the noose]].
245	* In ''Film/RomasantaTheWerewolfHunt'', Romasanta shows no qualms about murdering children.
246	* ''Film/Ronin1998'': Gregor will kill anyone, and his onscreen victims range from a teenage girl to an old man. At one point he tries to shoot a young girl to prove the point.
247	* ''Film/RumbleInTheBronx'', some mooks beat the shit out of a little boy in a wheelchair.
248	* ''Film/RunSweetheartRun'': The First Lady tells Cherie that BigBad Ethan has been known to wipe out entire bloodlines, making it clear to Cherie that as long as he lives, her daughter Luze is in danger.
249	* Unsurprisingly, as it is set during [[UsefulNotes/TheSalvadoranCivilWar one of the bloodiest civil conflicts]] of the ColdWar in ''Film/{{Salvador}}'' many children are gruesomely murdered, including the brother of the protagonist's love interest, who is executed by the government forces for petty reasons.
250	* ''Film/{{Se7en}}'': The Sloth victim is established as being a drug-dealing child molester. As such, upon finding his [[spoiler:almost]] lifeless body, the police have little to no sympathy for him.
251	-->'''California:''' You got what you deserved.
252	* ''Film/Serenity2005'': As he flat out informs Mal, the Operative is not above killing children. When the characters return to Haven, they find everyone there dead in the aftermath of the attack he ordered. Driving home the horror of it, [[TheHeart Kaylee]] comes across a dead little boy that she had played with on previous visits. The Operative is under no delusions that ordering and carrying out this kind of slaughter is anything short of a MoralEventHorizon (though probably not his first nor his worst), but he also sincerely believes the things he does (and he himself) are NecessarilyEvil.
253	-->'''Capt. Malcolm Reynolds:''' I don't murder children.\
254	'''The Operative:''' I do. If I have to.
255	* ''Film/ASeriousShockYesMadam'': The DarkActionGirl and FalseFriend who antagonizes the main characters eventually straps a bomb on a child to intimidate the main characters.
256	* In TheWestern ''Film/{{TheSettlers\|2023}}'', the main characters slaughter native people, and they won't spare children.
257	* ''Film/ShaolinPrince'': The villains, led by the ruthless Lord Iron Fingers, would hurt ''babies''. Early on when attempting to slaughter the two baby princes in an attempt to terminate the royal family bloodline, they found out the emperor, before his death, had his servants flee with various babies (implied to be purchased from poor families) as {{Body Double}}s, and the villains doesn't even hesitate to hunt down and kill ''all'' the babies onscreen.
258	* This is a basic element in ''Film/TheShining'', both the backstory and current plot. The Overlook Hotel became "alive" with aggressive spirits from its founding, when it was built on a sacred native American burial ground amidst a bitter conflict between Anglo settlers and tribes indigenous to the region, and since then the unsettled spirits have tried to build their power through the souls of the hotel's guests.
259	** They do this most effectively by absorbing the power of psychic individuals and seem to have a special preference for kids who can "shine". They possessed the previous winter caretaker in charge before Jack Torrance, Delbert Grady, using him to murder his two young daughters who had some of this ability. (The girls appear at several points to both haunt and warn Jack's son Danny, even before Jack takes charge of the hotel)
260	** Then, sensing Danny's remarkable abilities, they target him aggressively, possessing Jack and aiding him [[spoiler:even physically, for example through Delbert's spirit opening a locked door,]] to kill his son. [[spoiler:However Danny, even at his young age, is able to elude the possessed Jack, ironically in part using a native American technique of retracing his footsteps in the snow.]]
261	* ''Film/SilentHill'': In both the original film and its sequel [[spoiler: a major element of the back story includes a group of cultists burning a small child alive. The age of the child and the reason behind the attempted murder differ between the two films, thanks to a {{Retcon}} intended to keep the second film closer to the video game series, but both are examples of this trope.]].
262	* ''Film/SilentNight2012'': One of the victims is bitchy tween, who gets electrocuted with a cattle prod, then impaled with a fire poker.
263	* ''Film/SleepyHollow1999'' (Creator/TimBurton's): The Headless Horseman is sent to murder the midwife of the town and her family. He gets the dad right away and the midwife hides her young son under the floor to protect him. She's killed next. The Horseman seems about ready to walk away...before stabbing his sword into the floor. The next scene shows him dropping something into his sack as he leaves the house.
264	** Another scene involves an autopsy of one of the female victims. When examining her abdomen, they notice a strange stab wound. It turns out the Horseman also beheaded her ''fetus''.
265	** Averted in a flashback scene where the Headless Horseman merely shushes the Archer girls rather than kill them.
266	* ''Film/{{Sleepers}}'': On-screen, the sleepers' molesters. Psychological, physical, and sexual abuse are hinted to be pervasive at the youth detention center, so the trope may apply to several other guards as well.
267	* In ''Film/SomethingWicked'' The main character runs over her sister-in-law and her recently HappilyAdopted daughter because they were loose ends in her revenge plot.
268	* ''Film/SpeakNoEvil'': [[spoiler:Patrick and Karin. They pose as a friendly family whose child supposedly has a congenital defect (being born without a tongue), and befriend other one-child families on vacation, who they then invite to stay at their home. Once the invited family arrive, the duo kill their "current" child, abduct the child from their victims, and [[TongueTrauma cut out the child's tongue]] before brutally murdering the parents. The cycle then begins all over again with the new child posing as their current one. The photos in the shed in their yard show that they've done this a ''lot''.]]
269	* ''Film/SpiderMan1'': The Green Goblin sets an apartment complex on fire, nearly killing a baby in the process. He then later breaks the cable on a lift car housing a group of school children in order to present Spider-Man with a SadisticChoice. He lets go of the cable, leaving the car to fall and crash. When Spider-Man grabs the cable, the Goblin attempts to beat him until he drops it.
270	* In ''Film/{{Starkweather}}'', Caril Ann bashes her kid sister in the face with a [[PistolWhipping shotgun butt]].
271	* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
272	** In ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'', a group of Jedi younglings turn to Anakin Skywalker for aid during the raid on the Jedi Temple, unaware that [[FallenHero Anakin is the one leading the raid]]. [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Cue the ignition of Anakin's lightsaber.]] That wasn't Anakin's first time, either; in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' he slaughtered a tribe of [[DesertBandits Sand People]] ("Not just the men, but the women and children too!") in revenge for his mother's death. In ''Series/ObiWanKenobi'', he does it ''again'' when he [[NeckSnap snaps a child's neck]] while mass-murdering civilians in an attempt to draw out Obi-Wan.
273	** A rare heroic example that's played for drama in ''Film/TheLastJedi''. Luke Skywalker almost killed a young Ben Solo in his sleep ([[NotAsYouKnowThem in a moment of weakness]]) when he sensed the DarkSide's influence coming from him, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero only for Ben to wake up and eventually destroy the new Jedi Order]].
274	* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Judge Turpin sentences a little boy to death by hanging.
275	** Plus Sweeney himself; though he doesn't actually end up killing Toby he demonstrates his willingness to do so on two separate occasions.
276	* In ''Film/Super8'', while the stranded alien doesn't target kids specifically, he shows no qualms in abducting a twelve-year-old girl, Alice Dainard, and other children into his lair as collateral damage in his fight against the military and townspeople of Lillard. When Joe Lamb and the other kids come to her rescue, [[spoiler:the alien at first doesn't hesitate to attack them too before Joe, who'd learned of previous contact with the alien, manages to communicate with the alien and get him to free Alice and the other townspeople.]]
277	* In ''Film/SupermanII'', Zod's crossing of the MoralEventHorizon (at least on-screen) was murdering a young boy for simply disobeying his order not to leave town, furiously hurling a police car siren he had torn free at the youth, who was fleeing on horseback. (The death wasn't shown, but given the great distance the impact could be seen and heard from, it likely wasn't pretty.)
278	* Wong from ''Film/ATasteOfKillingAndRomance'', a BloodKnight of a hitman who enjoys his job a little too much, was introduced eliminating a witness' family, which he executes in an unnecessarily drawn-out, sadistic manner. Killing the witness' five-year-old daughter by ForceFeeding the child liquid detergent is just the cherry on top.
279	* In ''Film/{{Ted}}'', John nonchalantly sucker-punches Robert, a CreepyChild charging at him. His girlfriend is horrified, to which he responds that someone had to [[PersonAsVerb Joan Crawford]] that kid.
280	* ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'': The T-1000 is a remorseless killing-machine, and thus perfectly willing to murder a ten-year-old boy.
281	* ''Film/Tetris2023'': Valentin makes it ''very clear'' to Alexey that he '''will''' go after his children, if he continues associating with Henk Rogers.
282	* ''Film/TheresaAndAllison'': Though it's officially forbidden, many vampires kill children and [[spoiler:it's revealed this was what Allison got in trouble for]]. Others apparently get women they hold captive forcibly pregnant simply to drain their babies later. Theresa is utterly horrified by this.
283	* ''Film/TheThirdMan'': The dead Harry Lime faced allegations of racketeering in diluted penicillin, which was lethal. Said penicillin made its way to children's hospitals to treat meningitis, and he allegedly continued the trade knowing where the fatal drugs were going. [[spoiler: All these allegations are true.]]
284	* In ''Film/ThirteenWomen'', Ursula makes multiple attempts to kill Laura's son Bobby. The attempts are only thwarted by Laura's paranoia.
285	%%* ''Those Who Want Me Dead'' is about Creator/AngelinaJolie's character's son witnessing a murder by the villains, who are then out to kill him.
286	* In ''Film/TowerOfLondon1962'', Richard and Sir Ratcliffe murder the princes in the tower by suffocating them with {{Vorpal Pillow}}s as they lie in their bed.
287	* ''Film/TrappedTheAlexCooperStory'': Forced [[CureYourGays conversion therapy]] of minors is pretty much this just by definition. However, [[HeteronormativeCrusader the Simms]], who brutally beat their charges, make things even worse.
288	* This is the main driver of plot events in ''The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2''. The Volturi are shown in flashbacks to directly target children turned into vampires, since they can't control their powers and often slaughter whole villages, and prepare to target Renesmee (mistakenly) for same reason.
289	* In ''Film/UnderworldUSA'', Connors' enforcer Gus has no issues with harming either women or children. He knocks Cuddles out before he goes to kill her (although he is stopped by Tolly), and murders Menkin's young daughter Jenny by [[CarFu running her over with his car]].
290	* ''Film/{{Unthinkable}}'': Invoked by "H" to make the captured terrorist believe that the torture expert [[TheUnfettered truly has no lines he wouldn't cross]] to get the information out of him that H needs to [[WellIntentionedExtremist save the lives of millions]]. He brings in the terrorist's children and pretends to take them to a separate room to torture them to death, which is enough to make his subject crack. H doesn't go through with it, but leaves it ambiguous whether he would really be prepared to do something ''that'' extreme.
291	* ''Film/TheUntoldStory'': The main character kills a family due to a money dispute. It would be one thing if the family only had one child but the filmmakers saw fit to give the husband and wife as many kids as possible.
292	* ''Film/TheUntouchables'': In the opening scene, gangster Frank Nitti leaves a bagful of bombs in a soda bar, right next to a little girl who's talking to the barkeep. Although the bombing was a for-profit crime, there's no obvious reason why he couldn't have waited until the girl left the premises before blowing the place up.
293	* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': A Hungarian gang visit Keysor Soze's house and takes his wife and children hostage, and to make sure he gets the message they murder his son in front of him. [[spoiler: Soze responds by '''killing the rest of his own family HIMSELF''' and ''then'' taking out all but one of the Hungarian villains.]]
294	* ''Film/Utoya22Juli'', a reenactment of the Breivik Massacre (which happened [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin on the island Utøya on 22. July 2011]]) from the perspective of the victims. One of the victims was a boy no older than ten.
295	* Dill, the most vicious of the robbers in ''Film/ViolentSaturday'', stomps on a small boy's hand. Later, he shoots one of the Amish children in the shoulder.
296	* In ''Film/{{Virtuosity}}'', SID, the virtual reality supervillain (designed that way) who becomes a killer android in the outside world, heightens his danger level when he captures Karin, the nine-year-old daughter of the film's investigative psychologist Dr. Madison Carter. SID himself was built partly from the personality of Grimes, a terrorist who killed the wife and daughter of the protagonist, Parker Barnes, and he uses this to taunt and threaten Barnes by preparing to kill Karin too with a booby-trapped bomb. [[spoiler:However Barnes is able to trick SID into revealing the girl's location, then saves Karin before the bomb goes off.]]
297	* ''Film/Warlock1989'': The title character skins a young boy because he was an unbaptized firstborn son, which means he can use the boy's fatty tissue for a spell that will allow him to fly unguided. He also takes note of a priest's pregnant wife, and threatens to kill the man's unborn children if he doesn't cooperate.
298	* ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'':
299	** The aliens kill any human who crosses their path, and Ray's main motivation is keeping 10-year-old Rachel safe from them.
300	** [[spoiler:Ogilvy]], albeit indirectly. During his FreakOut as a result of [[spoiler:learning that the Tripods are harvesting and spraying human blood]], he states that he doesn't care if his actions get Rachel taken. [[spoiler:He's completely delusional at this point, since they would obviously take all three of them, but that doesn't change the cruelty inherent in what he says]].
301	* ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'' movie: There's the child abductor the Rorschach kills, as in the comic version listed above, and also the Comedian, who gives us this line:
302	-->'''Comedian''':"''I've done some bad things.. I've done bad things to women..(sob) I even shot kids! But that was fucking war...''"
303	* ''Film/WhenAManLovesAWoman'': Alice, [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]], slaps her eldest daughter Jess at one point. After she gets sober, at an AA ceremony near the end, she admits that was her low point.
304	* In ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', one of the terrorists slaps the 11 year old daughter of the protagonist because she recorded the terrorists faces and uploaded it online in an attempt to help the government figure out what was going on. Throughout the film, she is threatened with guns and roughly dragged around by very strong men. Later, towards the end, the leader of the terrorists threatens to shoot her in the stomach if her father doesn't give up the president and kill her if the president doesn't give up his nuclear launch codes.
305	* ''Film/{{Winterskin}}'': In the prologue, after murdering [[spoiler:John Carver]] and his wife, the intruder fires a bullet into the floor, which goes through the boards and into the cellar, hitting and killing one of the kids hiding there.
306	* ''Film/{{Wolves}}'': According to John Tollerman, [[BigBad Connor's]] gang are responsible for an unspecified number of missing children. Probably [[YouDoNotWantToKnow best not to think]] [[ImAHumanitarian about why]].
307	* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries''
308	** [[Film/XMen1 The first movie]] has Rogue as a high school student when Magneto kidnaps her. He doesn't seem to ''enjoy'' hurting her, but he is completely willing to do so to serve his purpose.
309	--->'''Rogue:''' Are you going to kill me?\
310	'''Magneto:''' Yes.
311	** In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', when [[TheDragon Lyman]] asks Stryker why he's keeping the mutant children alive, his response is chilling.
312	-->'''Stryker:''' I'm a scientist, Sgt. Lyman. When I build a machine, I want to make sure it's working.
313	** In ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', Magneto's assault on Alcatraz involved killing Leech. When Juggernaut is ordered to do it, he replies "With pleasure."
314	** Bolivar Trask and the people working on the Sentinel program in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. It's subtly confirmed when Mystique finds the autopsy reports, one of which belongs to Sean Cassidy (Banshee). It's very likely that Sean was still a teenager when he disappeared.
315	** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' also has an example with Scott (Cyclops) in high school--presumably fairly early, since he's taking Spanish I. Sabretooth is, naturally, not above kidnapping him to be used in experiments and kept in a cage.
316	** The antagonists of ''Film/{{Logan}}'' have no qualms experimenting on little children and turning them into Mutants, nor do they see any issue with harpooning, shooting and beating up Laura aka X-23 who’s only 11 and small for her age. Unfortunately for them though thanks to Wolverine’s DNA she’s a LittleMissBadass berserker more than ready to hurt them right back.
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