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8	* ''Series/TwentyFour'':
9	** Memorably subverts this in its second season. At one point Jack [[spoiler: orders the execution of an innocent child while his terrorist father watches]] in order to trick him into revealing where a nuclear bomb is being hidden. [[spoiler: Then after the terrorist is taken out of the room, it's revealed that the entire execution was elaborately staged and the boy is alive.]] On the other hand, villains can play it very straight, such as some of the fifth season's antagonists.
10	** In Season 5, [[spoiler:Evelyn Martin and her 8-year-old daughter]] are killed offscreen.
11	** In Season 7, Renee Walker threatens to hurt and/or kill a baby as she becomes more and more like Jack Bauer. She's already tortured a man to near death for retribution by this point, but her actions here sicken even her.
12	* ''Series/The100'':
13	** After Murphy is nearly executed for a murder committed by [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior 12-year-old Charlotte]], he demands that the ''real'' murderer be strung up like he almost was. In the crowd that had been previously cheering Murphy's execution, only a handful are onboard with this.
14	** Rare heroic example (for what "heroic" is worth on a GreyAndGrayMorality show). When Clarke, Bellamy, and Monty irradiate Mount Weather, they kill everyone inside, children included. While none of the corpses of the children are shown, we'd seen them playing soccer earlier, and after the deed is done, [[EmpathyDollShot we see their soccer ball amid the pile of bodies]].
15	** Clarke even does this to her own daughter. In the Season 5 finale, Madi tries to run off and lead an army into battle, having recently risen to commander. Clarke forces a shock collar around Madi's neck and repeatedly shocks her to keep her from running off.
16	** In the Season 5 finale, Clarke threatens this by pointing a gun at Diyoza's pregnant belly. This even shocks [=McCreary=], who has been almost purely chaotic evil up to this point. He is the father, but has shown almost no emotional attachment or standards in any of his actions all season.
17	** Josephine's eugenics program on Sanctum involves taking "null" infants out to the woods to be eaten by the carnivorous trees. We're also told that the first attempt to implant Josephine's mind into a new body was done using a six-month-old who did not survive the procedure.
18	** After discovering that Clarke has killed his wife and daughter, Russell kidnaps Madi, Clarke's 12-year-old daughter, intending to kill her while making sure Clarke hears everything.
19	* ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': In "Tiny Machines", the Marked in control of [[spoiler:Tom Baldwin]] sedates Maia and injects her with the promicin inhibitor so that she won't have any visions about him. She becomes sick as a result.
20	* ''Series/AlexRider2020'': Played with to hell and back by many different characters.
21	** Alan Blunt is happy to force Alex to work for him and his actions result in everything else on this list.
22	** The paramilitary group who kidnap Alex and interrogates him. They ''do'' subject him to some pretty unpleasant things, but are far from happy about it and have actually decided to call the whole thing off when Alex escapes anyway. [[spoiler: It's a SecretTestOfCharacter planned by Blunt.]]
23	--->'''Snake:''' What part of our job involves torturing kids?
24	--->'''Eagle:''' What she said.
25	** [[BigBad Dr Greif]] and [[TheDragon Eva Stellenbosch]]. Alex is shocked when Stellenbosch slaps him, hard enough to leave a mark, for talking back to Dr Greif, but that's not even the tip of the iceberg. [[spoiler: The school is kidnapping its pupils and sending clones of Dr Greif, surgically altered to look like their targets, back home to inherit their fortunes. He's holding the originals in cages, it's all but spelled out that they've been tortured, and planning to kill them as soon as the plan's finished.]]
26	* ''Series/Adam12'': Several episodes dealing with child abuse; the assault itself would never be seen on camera. The most memorable child abuse-themed episode is "He ... He Was Trying to Kill Me" (from the spring of 1969), where a 6-year-old girl lets on to juvenile protection that her 'daddy' hits her. [[spoiler:He didn't. Little Charlie was trying to protect her ''mother''.]]
27	* ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'': Marie Laveau sacrifices an infant child every year as part of a deal to maintain her immortality.
28	* ''Series/{{Andor}}'':
29	** Gorst gleefully informs Bix that the recording he's using to torture her with is mostly the sound of children being slaughtered.
30	** The Republic officer who survived his ship's crash landing on Kenari wakes up to see a young teenager examining the corpse of another officer, who had obviously been killed by the same toxic leak on the ship that had knocked him out, and shoots her in the back. Then when her even younger friends start yelling at her murder he starts shooting at them too.
31	* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
32	** Both Angelus and the torture expert vamp from "[[{{Recap/AngelS01E03InTheDark}} In the Dark]]". In fact, Angelus's first act as a vampire was to murder his young sister after she invited him into the house.
33	** "[[Recap/AngelS01E14IveGotYouUnderMySkin I've Got You Under My Skin]]" revolves around a young boy possessed by a demon. At one point the demon tries to kill the child by making him walk into traffic, which would have ended the demon's life as well. It turns out the reason behind his attempt on both their lives is that the child himself was more evil than the demon, so much so that the demon was willing to die just to be free of him.
34	* ''Series/TheBarrier'': Different degrees of this are present, ranging from Alma and Alejo's "would let multiple children die for science" to the President's "would [[spoiler:order a bunch of children to be killed because their existence inconveniences me]]".
35	* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003''
36	** In the pilot miniseries, shortly before the Cylon attack, Six snaps a baby's neck while the mother is distracted. There has been much [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation fan debate]] on why she did that.
37	** In "Razor", Kendra Shaw deliberately picks a young girl as her first target in the Scylla massacre, so determined is she to follow Admiral Cain's ruthless philosophy.
38	* ''Series/BarbariansRising'': UsefulNotes/{{Boudica}}'s segment is one of the nastiest. Her segment starts with has her flogged and her teenage daughters raped by Roman soldiers. [[PayEvilUntoEvil In retaliation]], Boudica and the Britons burn three Roman cities to the ground and slaughter the inhabitants to the last man, woman, and child, including personally setting fire to the Temple of Claudius with women and children inside begging for mercy. The segment ends with Boudica's battlefield defeat; one of her daughters is run down by a Roman cavalryman.
39	* ''Series/TheBlacklist'':
40	** The series premiere had a terrorist who kidnaps a girl, straps a bomb to her and plans to detonate it in an area frequented by children.
41	** The second episode features the Everheart Cartel, a criminal organization that specializes in child-slavery.
42	* ''Series/BoardwalkEmpire'': [[TheWoobie Fan favorite]] Richard Harrow has a very sweet connection with Margaret's two young children [[spoiler:and in Season 3, Jimmy's son Tommy]]... but he doesn't hesitate to offer to kill the entire D'Alessio family, [[WouldHitAGirl including the mother and sisters]], and does in fact shoot the youngest brother in the face. He's only 14 and is crying as he frantically attempts to load his own gun, before raising his hands, trying to surrender. Whoops.
43	* ''Series/TheBoys2019'':
44	** While he doesn't hurt them directly, [[BigBad Homelander]] is perfectly willing to let a child die to achieve his objective. This is in sharp contrast to [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Billy]], who is remarkably more gentle with children.
45	** [[ThoseWackyNazis Stormfront]] is a cruel {{sadist}} who's perfectly happy to go out of her way to slaughter innocents, including children.
46	** TheBaroness Little Nina is the head of TheMafiya in New York and has no qualms about putting hits out on the entire families of her rivals, [[RetiredOutlaw and used to use Frenchie to do it]].
47	** Soldier Boy is an amoral {{narcissist}} [[spoiler:like his son Homelander]] who has no qualms about [[DestructiveSavior children dying as collateral damage]] [[spoiler:and [[GruesomeGrandparent even tries to kill his own grandson]]]].
48	* ''Series/TheBradyBunch'': Humorously troped in "Bobby's Hero," where in a dream sequence, Jesse James shoots and kills Bobby's siblings (along with his parents and Alice) during a train robbery ... all to make the point that the famed outlaw was nothing more than a "mean, dirty killer."
49	* ''Series/BreakingBad'' seems fond of this trope:
50	** In Season 2, some street drug dealers draw 11-year-old Tomas Cantillo into their gang, having him kill Jesse's friend Combo as a rite of initiation. He's later killed by said dealers, either on their own accord or on the orders of Gus Fring, upon being told that they can't use child assassins.
51	** A more significant example comes when Brock Cantillo is poisoned by Walter, in an attempt to make it look like Gus had poisoned him so that Jesse would turn on Gus. Walter sinking low enough to poison an innocent child ([[EvenEvilHasStandards albeit non-fatally]]) to [[DirtyCoward save himself]] goes to show how far Walt had fallen. When [[FriendToAllChildren Jesse]] finds out it permanently turns Jesse against Walt and Jesse nearly burns down Walt's house.
52	** And later, in Season 5's "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E5DeadFreight Dead Freight]]", Todd Alquist shoots 14-year-old Drew Sharp for accidentally stumbling across their heist. The wildly diverging reactions to the killing between Jesse and Walt emphasize how little humanity Walt has left from the start of the show: Jesse is completely traumatized while Walt puts a shallow mask of guilt over an obvious reality of indifference.
53	** Todd's uncle Jack Welker and his gang of Aryans get Skyler's and Jesse's cooperation by threatening to kill, respectively, Holly and Brock. Considering all the other horrible things they had done (as these are the same guys who organized the shankings of 10 inmates in 2 minutes, who massacred Declan and his crew, who killed Hank and Gomez, and who kill Andrea when Jesse makes an attempt to escape their compound; not even counting the aforementioned child murder that Todd committed), it's almost certain they would go through with their threats if Walt hadn't gotten to them first.
54	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
55	** Every thirty or so years the Mayor feeds newborn babies to a sewer-dwelling demon named Lurconis.
56	** Oh Adam, you get up to such shenanigans in your first few minutes of life.
57	** Drusilla: [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E7LieToMe "What will your mummy sing when they find your body?"]]
58	** Spike kills the Annointed One in [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS2E3SchoolHard his very first episode]], although the kid ''was'' a vampire, so evil and undead. Spike later tells Dawn a story about his violent slaughter of a whole family, culminating in his finding their little girl hiding in a coal cellar... whom he says he [[BlatantLies rescued and got adopted into a nice family who didn't lock her in coal cellars]], as soon as [[ObliviousToLove Buffy]] walks in.
59	** Monroe and his group have no qualms attacking Bayarmaa even though she is carrying an infant.
60	* ''Series/BurnNotice''
61	** Natalie Rice held children hostage so their father would act as her fall guy. When held at gunpoint by Fiona, she blended into a passing crowd of children so she would back off. As an extra incentive, Natalie warned she would kill one at the first sign of trouble.
62	** Tyler Brennen would not only happily take a kid hostage to make his mother do his dirty work to steal an important item, he'd strap a bomb to the kid just to make sure she doesn't get any ideas during the exchange. This was just his introduction, and in a later episode where Michael is bluffing that he'll kill Brennen's own daughter if Brennen goes through with murdering Nate and him after refusing to help him steal another item, Brennen tries to call the bluff by stating Michael [[WouldntHurtAChild would never cross that line]]. Michael just responds that they're playing by ''Brennen's'' rules now, and Brennen [[MoralMyopia ultimately gives up as he won't bring himself to risk his daughter's life]].
63	** In the final season, Michael himself acts as an assassin ready to kill an asset's child to get him to talk. The asset gives up his information before anything happens, but given how deep undercover Michael was, it's uncertain whether he would've pulled the trigger.
64	* ''Series/ChariteAtWar'':
65	** Artur initially protests against his boss Bessau sending an ill, blind child away to a place where she can't be treated and is thus sentenced to death, but he still tests his tuberculosis vaccine on disabled children.
66	** A mother is disturbingly willing to send her own daughter to almost certain death because the kid has Down Syndrome.
67	** Both Professor Bessau and nurse Käthe think it'll be for the best if little Karin will be "sorted out" and Artur and Anni just make new, healthy children.
68	** Subverted with Anni, who passively went along with the Nazi horrors for long, but [[WrongSideAllAlong snaps out of it]] when she realizes the extent of the eugenics measurements and tries to save a bus load of children from deportation.
69	** There's also nurse Christel who willingly allows a group of Hitler Youths (fanatically indoctrinated boys of 13 to 15 years) to prepare for an armed fight in the hospital during the [[DarkestHour fall of Berlin]], though that is stopped from taking place.
70	* ''Series/Charmed1998'': The Charmed Ones come across a trio of children in "We All Scream For Ice Cream" that are actually the spawn of upper-level demons. Initially reluctant to hurt them, the children use their powers and the sisters fight back. Notably, Prue uses her telekinesis to fling a little girl into a fence.
71	--> '''Prue:''' Oh, you need a time-out missy.
72	* ''Series/TheConfessionsOfFrannieLangton'': Langton planned to medically experiment on a black albino boy. It's unclear whether he ever did.
73	* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': Certain criminals like Carl Buford in "Profiler Profiled" and Karl Arnold in "The Fox" have no trouble hurting and killing children. Some even specifically target kids!
74	* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': The guy who killed Lindsay's friends in her backstory.
75	* ''Series/Cursed2020'': The Red Paladins show no compunctions toward killing or torturing children.
76	* ''Series/{{Dallas}}'': The original series finale, "Condundrum," has J.R. viewing an alternate reality for his one-time child-bride, Cally Harper, and what life would be like had J.R. never been born. Basically, Cally is trapped in an abusive marriage in a remote Appalachian region, wherein one night her drunken husband, Jeb, begins beating her (again, because supper wasn't ready and he got yelled at at the feed mill for showing up drunk) ... when the kids begin crying. That's where the trope kicks in, or Jeb threatens to invoke it by threatening to beat the kids after he's done with Cally! J.R. is horrified at what he's witnessing, but even moreso when Cally averts this by shooting Jeb dead when he dares her to try and stop him.
77	* ''Series/DeadLikeMe'': The series finale has a serial killer who targets several people on Halloween. Two of his victims are a little boy and a teenage girl. George herself was almost a victim of the killer when she was a child.
78	** The reapers also count to a certain degree, as their reaps will occasionally be children. The reapers are usually clearly upset at doing so and only do it because they have to.
79	* ''Series/{{Dexter}}'':
80	** In the Season 2 finale, [[spoiler:Lila kidnaps Cody and Astor -- both young children -- and locks them and Dexter in her loft before setting it on fire. Thankfully, they escape.]]
81	** In the fourth season, [[spoiler:it is shown that the Trinity Killer]] has no qualms about kidnapping ten-year-old boys, holding them prisoner, drugging them, and then killing them by [[spoiler: BuriedAlive BURYING THEM IN WET CEMENT. WHICH THEN SETS]]. This is also why he went uncaught for so long. The killer's name, MO, all of it, was an accidental misnomer because nobody ever knew about the FOURTH victims in each set representing himself.
82	** The sixth season's villain proved he was more than willing to kill a child.
83	* ''Series/{{Diablero}}'':
84	** The villain of season 1 is kidnapping the children [[spoiler: so she can sacrifice them to summon Tezcatlipoca.]]
85	** Likewise, the villain of season 2 kidnapped a young boy and manipulated and groomed him into becoming a monster, then [[spoiler: tried to kill him once he'd served his purpose—operative word being tried, at least.]]
86	* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
87	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E3SchoolReunion "School Reunion"]]: The Krillitanes occasionally eat children who they don't think will be missed, and are implied to do the same to those who [[YouHaveFailedMe fail them]].
88	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones "Smith and Jones"]]: The [[OurVampiresAreDifferent plasmavore]] is wanted for the murder of the Child Princess of Patrovolt Regency 9. She's proud of her crime, and insists the kid had it coming for being cute:
89	--->"Oh, those blonde curls and that ''simpering'' voice. She was just ''begging'' for the bite of a plasmavore!"
90	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]]/[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E9TheFamilyOfBlood "The Family of Blood"]]: A little girl is kidnapped for Daughter of Mine to take as a host, which permanently kills the body's original owner.
91	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E14TheNextDoctor "The Next Doctor"]]: The Cybermen have, at the instigation of Miss Hartigan, been kidnapping children to work on the Cyberking's starter engine. When the engine's power is at 100%, the Cybermen attempt to dispose of them before the Doctor and company intervene.
92	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS36E3ThinIce "Thin Ice"]]: Lord Sutcliffe isn't all that worried about the age of the people he feeds to his sea monster, with children explicitly being among his victims.
93	** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E4NikolaTeslasNightOfTerror "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"]]: One of the Skithra agents nearly vapourizes a street urchin after getting information from the kid, but Yaz pulls him away just in time.
94	** Ashad, a partially-converted Cyberman from a three-part story arc starting with [[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E8TheHauntingOfVillaDiodati "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"]], boasts that he slit his own children's throats when they refused to undergo cyber conversion.
95	* ''Series/TheFive2016'': Jakob Marosi is a serial rapist/killer of children who's serving a life sentence.
96	* ''Series/{{Forever\|2014}}'': The VillainOfTheWeek in "The King of Columbus Circle" tries to kill [[spoiler: Lydia's]] infant child.
97	* ''Series/ForeverKnight'' had [=LaCroix=] make a child vampire once and a killer in the present day part of that story trying to kill a girl who saw him kill someone.
98	* ''Series/AFrenchVillage'': In the first episode, a German fighter plane shoots at a group of French school children on a field trip with their teachers, killing and wounding several. However, they may have been mistaken for soldiers and this was accidental, it's never made clear. Later Milice leader Janvier orders his godson Alban to murder a resistance fighter's children. He does, and [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone loathes himself for it]].
99	* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'':
100	** Dear, loveable MadScientist Walter Bishop... experimented on children, occasionally frightening them to obtain results, and with often devastating consequences for them in adulthood; he also kidnapped his alternate-universe son and lied to him (for his own good, admittedly).
101	** Meanwhile, [[WouldntHurtAChild his ruthless alternate-universe counterpart, Walternate, absolutely refuses to experiment on children]] (though he apparently has few qualms about potentially lethal adult trials). At least until the end of Season 3. Then he does try to kill a child... specifically, [[spoiler: his own grandson.]] This leads to much debate in both universes about [[GrayAndGreyMorality which Walter is the greater evil.]]
102	* ''Series/TheFugitive2020'': Or, would use a child. Pritti decides she wants to go interview Pearl about "what it's like to be raised by the Manson family" and her boss signed off on this. The actual bomber then takes her hostage while he threatens to shoot her. He doesn't however.
103	* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
104	** Jaime Lannister defenestrates [[note]]Pushes out of a window.[[/note]] [[spoiler:Bran Stark]], rendering him temporarily comatose and permanently crippled after the boy witnesses the {{Twincest}}. He "hoped the fall would kill him".
105	** In fact, this series has quite a bit of child deaths at the hands of villains and anti-heroes, such as [[spoiler: The Hound cutting down Mycah the butcher's son when Joffrey commanded it (and when he learns Arya did the deed that Mycah was accused of, he says he should have killed her)]], [[spoiler: Lommy being speared through the throat by Polliver, who let him think he'd survive just ForTheEvulz (in addition Polliver is a paedophile, even by the lax age requirements of Westeros)]], and, most gruesomely, [[spoiler: corrupt City Watch commander Janos Slynt killing a newborn baby in front of its mother, which is part of Joffrey (though outwardly denying the rumours of his true parentage) taking preventative measures against any future claimants to the Iron Throne by ordering the Goldcloaks to engage in a citywide massacre of bastard children of King Robert, slitting the throats of infants and drowning children, thus ensuring no-one can use one of these bastards to rally behind and attempt to seize the throne; luckily, Janos gets his comeuppance in various ways]].
106	** Quite possibly the most innocent character on the show, [[spoiler: Shireen Baratheon, is burned alive by ''her own parents'' and Melisandre as a sacrifice]].
107	** Ramsay [[spoiler:feeds his newborn half-brother (and stepmother) to his hounds]], then follows that up by [[spoiler: shooting Rickon Stark in the back during a prisoner exchange]].
108	** Brandon Stark nearly killed Littlefinger, slashing him about a dozen times and would have killed him if Catelyn hadn't intervened.
109	** After [[spoiler:Jon's resurrection, he]] must have one of his murderers, Olly, hanged for treason along with the rest of the men who killed him. This weighs heavily on him, though, and it’s clear how much this devastates him, leading to how ''utterly'' destroyed he feels after this and everything.
110	** Driven mad by grief and rage, Karstark brutally and mercilessly murders Martyn and Willem Lannister; two young children who were barely squires, all for the crime of having a Lannister name.
111	** Tywin Lannister is infamous for this, as discussed by Lady Stark who was dead worried about Sansa and Arya because the Targaryen children were butchered in their sleep by Gregor Clegane on the orders of Tywin during the Lannister army's sack of King's Landing. The children of House Reyne weren't spared either, as Cersei ''boasts'' to Margaery. During the present-day campaign in the Riverlands, it's reported that Gregor and his contingent slaughtered every peasant they could find, including the rape and murder of children.
112	** During the siege of Riverrun, Jaime threatens to kill Edmure Tully's son if Edmure doesn't get Riverrun to surrender.
113	** Bronn will do this, depending on the price, of course. He does directly tell Tyrion that while he'd probably still do it, unlike Janos, he'd at least think about it for a moment.
114	** The Hound also punches Arya in the face at one point while she's Water Dancing, knocking her to the floor and giving her a split lip. Though in all fairness, he largely did this to demonstrate his point to her, about the tradeoffs of power vs speed: she outmaneuvered him with fast Water Dancing moves and a light rapier...only for her stab to accomplish nothing, because he was wearing heavy armor, and her fast moves didn't help block the raw power of a heavy mailed fist.
115	** After Oberyn's death, Ellaria Sand conspires with the Sand Snakes to murder [[spoiler: Cersei's innocent daughter Myrcella,]] (who is currently in Dorne for an ArrangedMarriage) out of spite. She eventually succeeds, secretly poisoning her before [[spoiler: Jaime takes her on his ship and heads back to King's Landing.]] If that didn't make her despicable enough, [[spoiler: she then sends two of the Snakes to assassinate Trystane, ''her own nephew.'' [[EvilIsPetty Because she saw him as a challenger for the right to rule Dorne.]]]]
116	** Prince Daemon Targaryen ordered the death of Aegon II's sons.
117	** Drogon burns and half-consumes a young girl, prompting Dany to tearfully lock up her dragons for Meereen's protection. This is somewhat [[SubvertedTrope subverted though --]] being a dragon, Drogon has no distinction between right and wrong. In the end, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday it was just another day of hunting for him.]]
118	** After the Lannisters killed the Targaryen children, Robert pardoned and condoned Tywin Lannister's offer of loyalty, much to Ned Stark's horror, which resulted in a rift between them. As king, he is fully willing to kill Daenerys and her unborn child. The very fact that he would hurt any child with Targaryen blood that he could get his hands on is what has prevented Ned from ''ever'' bringing up Jon Snow's true identity, as Ned spent his life protecting Jon from Robert. However, he later regrets his order to kill Daenerys and asks Ned to cancel this last order but it's too late — though, luckily, the assassination of Daenerys fails anyway.
119	** Renly supports Robert's proposed assassination of Daenerys Targaryen.
120	---> '''Renly:''' We should have had them both killed years ago.
121	* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'': Dean Lerner admitted he struck a child for insulting Marenghi's writing, hard enough to leave a bruise. It's implied that this was a contributing factor to the ShowWithinAShow getting cancelled.
122	* ''Series/GoodTimes'': Though little to none of the actual assaults were shown on-screen, the four-part 1977-1978 season opener, revolving around 10-year-old Penny Gordon (Janet Jackson's series acting debut) more than left no doubt she was struck. The vicious so-and-so who hit Penny was her own mother (Chip Fields), a single parent who took her frustrations out on the innocent girl. Several infamous scenes were shown, including Mrs. Gordon stalking her with a hot iron (the scene cuts before she places the iron on Penny) and Penny shrieking in pain because of a broken arm.
123	* ''{{Series/Hanna}}'':
124	** All of the Utrax girls who were in the center Hanna was rescued from got euthanized. Marissa mentions having to cremate infant corpses.
125	** Carmichael has no qualms about ordering Hanna's assassination, or ordering Clara and Sandy to kill Kat Gelder.
126	** [[spoiler:Gordon Evans goes ahead with ordering a young girl murdered since she's a witness to Pioneer's assassinations, despite his own lieutenant's objections.]]
127	* Francis Dolarhyde on ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' kills entire families, and seems to save the children for last.
128	* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'': Has an AntiHero example in Noah "HRG" Bennet, who is willing to shoot [[spoiler:Molly Walker, whom the Company is using as a human superhero-tracking system, in order to keep them from finding his own daughter, Claire. He is at first prevented by Mohinder holding him at gunpoint, but only lowers his gun when his temporary partner, Matt, recognizes Molly as the girl he saved earlier in the series]].
129	* In one episode of ''Series/HoratioHornblower'', Horatio only just manages to talk an expatriate French count out of shooting a young boy for singing "Le Marsailles" when the count returns with the anti-Napoleon rebels to take back his land.
130	* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': It's shown in "[[Recap/HouseOfTheDragonS1E9TheGreenCouncil The Green Council]]" that many people in Flea Bottom have no problem profiting from young ''children'' fighting and injuring each other, or betting on it. Perhaps worst of all, Aegon's a frequent patron of the fights, while some fighters are his ''children'' (implied to be fathered with prostitutes he visits).
131	* ''Series/IClaudius'': Children get executed without so much as a blink. When reminded that it's against the law to execute a virgin, "Then make sure she's not a virgin when you kill her!"
132	* ''Series/TheIndianDetective'': Gopal had a young girl murdered because her father was going to testify against him.
133	%%* ''Series/{{JAG}}'': SerialKiller Charlie Lynch in the fourth season.
134	* ''Series/{{Justified}}'': In Season 3 [[spoiler: Robert Quarles ]] carjacks a mother and her two sons. He uses the two boys as hostages to get Raylan to give up his guns and then drive them all to Noble's Holler. It is clear that once he gets what he is looking for, he will kill Raylan and the children.
135	* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'': This is done in an ''extremely'' horrific fashion by Basco. In an attempt to get one of the Great Powers, he uses his Ranger summons to stop a badly hurt young boy from being taken to get medical attention, knowing full well the boy could die. He then one ups himself [[MoralEventHorizon by lowering his gun to shoot the kid!]] And is ''smiling the entire time!''
136	* ''Series/KingdomAdventure'': Gorf has no moral qualms with feeding children to Gulp, and is indeed eager to please his boss by dropping Keena and Pokum into Gulp's pit. Napps and Pitts have no problem threatening them either, for that matter.
137	* ''Series/TheKingsWoman'': Ying Zheng orders the deaths of his illegitimate half-brothers, both of whom are children, just in case they might become a threat later. He also threatens to kill Gongsun Li's baby.
138	* ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'': Long before Basco was even a draft sketch, Bandora the Witch from was ''all about'' tormenting children, being your classic "evil kid-hating witch." We find out in the final episodes that it's because she lost her son. The series is for the most part LighterAndSofter, so nothing excessively brutal happens to them, but whenever she can endanger an elementary schooler with one of her plans it's always a bonus -- [[EvilIsPetty sometimes, making kids cry for its own sake is the whole plan]]. Naturally, this carries over to Rita in ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', though not to quite the same degree.
139	** In fact, in that series, it was implied that most monsters that Rita had at her disposal would ''not'' cross this line, seeing as when she needed one that was willing to kidnap or hurt a child, she had to tell Finster to create one that was especially cruel. Apparently, Eye-Guy and the Chunky Chicken fit the bill. The second one was actually willing to ''kill'' Kimberly and Trini's young friend after taking her hostage.)
140	* At least half the perps on ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' would harm children.
141	* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': Darken Rahl, unsurprisingly. Not only ordering every baby boy in a village massacred, but he also promises to have Princess Violet be {{made a slave}} as punishment for her mother's failure. He ordered his own son with Cara killed at birth as a potential threat (in the books he wanted a gifted child as his heir, and killed his children because they were ungifted).
142	* ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Several episodes about child abuse. Although the actual assault was rarely seen, they were seen in a flashback in at least one episode (where Charles is helping reform a budding juvenile delinquent, and the boy -- upon being given a present -- snaps when he sees a shirt, identical in style to one that he was viciously assaulted in by his own father). In another episode, where Charles and Caroline are debating whether to adopt orphans James and Cassandra Cooper (whose biological parents were killed in a wagon accident), the orphans' temporary foster father whips James (off-camera) after being unfairly accused of stealing; his screams were heard as Cassandra was forced to watch. At least once, a teen-aged boy of 16 kicks and repeatedly punches a little girl less than half his age at recess -- one that also earns Mary (who is 14) a punch in the mouth when she tries to stop it.
143	* ''Series/LockwoodAndCo2023'': Winkman and the other relic men are perfectly fine with torturing and killing kids in pursuit of their own interests.
144	* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Neither Adar or Waldreg have any qualms about hurting children. When Adar asks Waldreg to kill Rowan to prove his loyalty, the later complies immediately.
145	* ''Series/{{Lost}}'': [[spoiler:Sayid]] shoots a 12-year-old boy in the chest [[spoiler:(Ben Linus in 1977)]], believing it to be for the greater good.
146	* ''Series/LostLoveInTimes'': Noble Consort Yin poisons Yuan Ting, her own ''grandson'', to frame Yuan Ling.
147	* ''Series/MaddigansQuest'': This seems to be the mark of a bad guy, in which it's asserted that [[BigBad the Nennog]] would kill Timon, Eden and baby Jewel without a second thought if they returned to their own time, and in ''Greentown'', henchman Maska threatens to 'break' Jewel if Boomer doesn't return his bag. In ''Laketown'', [[spoiler:Timon tries to kill Jewel whilst under the Nennog's influence, but can't bring himself to do it (whether or not he would have done it if the Fantasia had failed is a moot point, though he certainly seems to think he would).]]
148	* ''Series/MagnificentCentury'':
149	** Suleyman is implied to kill his young grandson Mehmet.
150	** Nurbanu holds Defne’s sister hostage to blackmail her into killing Bayezid.
151	** Selim kills Bayezid’s young sons as well as their father.
152	* ''Series/MagnificentCenturyKosem'':
153	** Halime tries to poison pregnant Mahfiruz. Later on, she tries to have Kösem’s sons strangled. Osman is [[DawsonCasting meant to]] be fourteen. Ibrahim is a baby. A few episodes later, she nearly burns Ahmet’s remaining sons (Murad, the oldest, would have historically been ten) alive.
154	** Fahriye joins the plot to kill Ahmet and Mustafa. Mustafa can’t be any older than 10.
155	* ''Series/TheMandalorian'' has a lot of this.
156	** Yes The Child [[spoiler: aka Grogu]] is old for a baby at 50, [[ProportionalAging but it's still technically an infant]] by standards of its species. Yet all the antagonists in the series such as the Imperials: The Client, Moff Gideon, many Stormtroopers or other bad guys such as Toro Calican and Mayfield (before his HeelFaceTurn) are all perfectly willingly treat The Child roughly, threaten to kill him and actually attempt to. In Chapter Chapter 8: "Redemption" one Scout Trooper [[MoralEventHorizon actually punches The Child]] in a massive KickTheDog moment, leading to PapaWolf IG-11 brutally killing him in response.
157	** A lot of the Droids in the show namely the Battle Droida and Assassin Droids are programed to kill anyone when required, regardless of age. A tragic FlashBack to the Clone Wars shows a Super Battle Droid about to blast the cowering and terrified protagonist [[spoiler: Din Djarin]] as a boy, before he was saved by the Mandalorians. Particularly [[MoodWhiplash jarring]] portrayal given the Battle Droids weren't remotely [[DarkerAndEdgier that threatening]] in previous ''Star Wars'' media. This instance instilled Mando with a intense dislike of droids and seeing IG-11 (before he was reprogramed) and Q9-0 raise a blaster to The Child triggers his PapaWolf instincts.
158	* ''Series/MastersOfHorror'': The show featured several villains who were so evil or monstrous that they would kill children.
159	** "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road": A dessicated baby corpse is amongst Moonface's "trophies".
160	** "Dreams in the Witch-House": The witch ritualistically sacrifices infants for unexplained reasons, forcing various helpless men to do so. In the end, it's revealed that the house's walls contain corpses going back all the way to the ''1600s''.
161	** "Jenifer": Jenifer [[ChildEater devours a little girl]]. This is when it finally gets too much for Frank.
162	* ''Series/MayfairWitches'' The modern witch-hating Christian extremists kidnap Tessa Mayfair, who's just a girl, after having openly advocated [[BurnTheWitch burning witches alive]] (she's one). [[spoiler:She's later killed by one, Keith.]]
163	* ''Series/TheMentalist'':
164	** In the backstory, SerialKiller Red John killed Patrick Jane's wife and daughter, just to take Jane down a peg.
165	** A child witnessed Volker overseeing the murder of a man and was promptly discovered. After two minions [[MercifulMinion defied]] or [[WouldntHurtAChild outright refused]] orders to kill the child, Volker tried to do the deed himself.
166	* In the ''Series/MidnightCaller'' episode "A Cry in the Night," a drug dealer dangles his client's toddler in the air and threatens to drop him if he isn't paid.
167	* ''Series/MidnightSun2016'':
168	** A man murdered Sparen's son Johan right in front of him.
169	** Kahina chases a suspect who grabs an infant and threatents to kill the child if she goes after him. Though she does anyway, no harm comes to the baby.
170	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': [[PaperThinDisguise Adolf "Hilter"]], in the Minehead By-Election sketch.
171	-->'''Vox Pops:''' Well, I gave him my baby to kiss and he bit it on the head.
172	* ''Series/MoonLovers'': Queen Yoo holds a knife at Wang So's throat and threatens to kill him if Taejo marries another woman. Wang So is just a child at the time (and also Queen Yoo's ''son'').
173	* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'':
174	** The Spree kill children among the other {{muggles}} in their attacks.
175	** The Camarilla have no compunction about killing witch children.
176	* ''Series/Mouse2021'':
177	** The Head Hunter attacks and almost kills a young boy.
178	** Jae-hoon kidnaps a child and threatens to kill him unless Mu-chi can answer a question. Mu-chi answers the question correctly... and Jae-hoon kills the child anyway.
179	** Byung-tae murders one child and attempts to murder another.
180	* ''Series/Nightwatch2015'': One episode features a seven-month-old baby who was pepper-sprayed by a stranger for no apparent reason.
181	* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': There is an extreme example in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E16TheDeprogrammers The Deprogrammers]]". After they conquered Earth, the Torkor had millions of children put to death as they were of no use to them.
182	* ''Series/OddSquad'': Pretty much a majority of the adult villains fall under this trope. Their primary enemies are in fact children (who work for a government organization, no less), and they aren't above using their odd powers to bring harm to them.
183	* ''Series/PennyDreadfulCityOfAngels'':
184	** [[spoiler:Adelaide]] had a man's entire family, including his children, murdered because Molly's affair with him might be a hindrance to her work.
185	** Frank relates the story of a girl whose kidnappers mutilated and murdered her even after being paid the ransom and we see a vision of this later. It's clearly based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marion_Parker Marion Parker's murder]].
186	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'':
187	** Root would hurt a child. She would hurt anyone, actually.
188	** Carl Elias forced Reese to tell him [[spoiler:the location of a rival Mob boss]] by locking him in a refrigerated truck with a baby. He claimed the baby was never in danger because he knew Reese would tell him what he needed to know, but even if he wholeheartedly believed that the gambit alone still qualifies him for the trope.
189	* ''Series/ResurrectionErtugrul'': A number of the antagonists fall under this trope, namely:
190	** [[spoiler: Bogac and Doruk]] at the end of Season 2. The former [[spoiler: brutally dispatches Halime’s kid brother Yigit]], while the latter [[spoiler: runs away with an infant-age Gunduz and comes very close to ''stabbing him'', prompting Hayme Ana to fire an arrow at Doruk before he can get away with it]].
191	** Titus in Season 1 is revealed to be like this after [[spoiler: slashing a pre-teen Dundar across the waist, leaving him unconscious for almost the entire rest of the season]].
192	** Season 4 gives us [[spoiler: Titan and Ares]]. The former [[spoiler: slaps a juvenile Gunduz across the face before kidnapping him, while the latter imprisons Gunduz and almost tries to murder the kid, only being stopped by Titan, who informs him that they need the child alive]].
193	** Yet another Season 4 instance involves [[spoiler: Almila/Alangoya]], who plans on butchering all three of Ertugrul’s sons and [[spoiler: attempts to ''strangle'' baby Osman, only to be interrupted by Sugay Hatun entering the marquee]].
194	** The Mongols in general have a tendency to exterminate children and babies as they would with adults, which is especially horrifying during the massacre at the beginning of Season 2.
195	* ''Series/{{Revolution}}'':
196	** Neville -- sort of. Danny technically is not a child anymore, but most characters treat him as such, because of his age, and probably also because he has demonstrated impulsiveness and rudeness and other negative traits common to teenage boys. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And his]] asthma.
197	** Also, the Militia soldier mentioned above. He really wants revenge on Danny.
198	** Lieutenant Slotnick, the DrillSergeantNasty in "Children's Crusade", does this on a regular basis as part of the Monroe Militia's TrainingFromHell.
199	* ''Series/SamAndCat'' has Nora Dershlit return, one of the main villains of ''Series/ICarly''. While she was never far from this trope, as she kidnapped three teenagers and locked them in her basement for several hours on the original show, in ''Series/SamAndCat'' she fully embraces it by abducting Dice (a twelve-year-old kid), holding him hostage in a well, depriving him of any food and, to make it extra horrifying, she does all this simply to make Sam suffer, it's heavily implied she has no intention whatsoever to return Dice at some point. Back on ''Series/ICarly'', her plan was to keep them for some hours during her birthday as she was extremely lonely (still a horrible way to make friends, but somewhat understandable), now she just kidnaps a young boy for her own pleasure...
200	* ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'': Most of the villains do this to some extent due to the majority of the protagonists being minors, but special mention goes to Elijah Spellman/Odd Bob the Clown from [[Recap/TheSarahJaneAdventuresS2E3E4TheDayOfTheClown "The Day of the Clown"]] who essentially amounts to a SerialKiller of children, having spent hundreds of years kidnapping children in order to sustain himself from their parent's fear and taking them to his realm, where they eventually [[CessationOfExistence fade out of existence]].
201	* ''Series/Scandal2012'': [[spoiler: Becky, Huck's girlfriend, actually kills a family, including three kids. She did this because Huck tried to take her down, and she knew he cared about them so she did this to spite him]].
202	* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': Moriarty takes a child hostage and straps him to a bomb -- one with a very short time-to-explosion -- to taunt the title character in "The Great Game".
203	* ''Series/TheShield'':
204	** Armadillo Quintero silences a prepubescent witness against him by raping her and tattooing a dove on her cheek to "claim" her.
205	** Antwon Mitchell murders a teenaged informant, both to pay her back for snitching on his drug operation and to frame two cops for her death.
206	* ''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'': [[spoiler:Cameron Hayes]] holds [[spoiler:Abel Teller]] at knifepoint and then kidnaps him. As part of her effort to get him back, [[spoiler:Gemma Teller]] holds another baby at gunpoint.
207	* ''Series/Stargirl2020'': The Injustice Society of America has no qualms about killing children if their plans require it. This is somewhat reasonable in regards to Courtney and her friends who have superpowers and are actively trying to stop them, but Icicle also wants to off Mike, Pat's adolescent and entirely non-super son to avoid [[GenreSavvy "creating a legacy"]]. They also kill The Magician's son for no real reason, and [[spoiler:Brainwave kills his own son when it becomes clear he'll rebel]]. And the less said about [[spoiler:Eclipso]], the better.
208	* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': In "The Crying Child", a teacher discovers that one of her young students has deep gashes on his back, and the titular duo starts to look for who had harmed the kid [[spoiler:and manage to find out it was the boy's own mother]].
209	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
210	** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E9HideAndQ Hide and Q]]", [[TheWorfEffect Worf gets impaled by aliens with a bayonet]], and when [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] tries to help him, he gets impaled, too. This prompts Riker, now endowed with the powers of the Q, to stop the situation and save them.
211	** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS1E3TimeAndAgain Time and Again]]", the activists threaten to kill Latika, a ten-year-old boy, if Janeway doesn't help them get inside the plant. The problem is she's not the security agent they think she is, so her only option is to tell the guard at the gate they're being held hostage. One of the activists shoots at the boy but Tom Paris, also being held, [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of him]].
212	** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Blood Oath]]", the old Klingon warriors Kor, Kang, and Koloth take revenge against a pirate called the Albino with assistance from Jadzia Dax. This was to fulfill a BloodOath the Klingons and Curzon Dax made after the Albino murdered the children of the three Klingons.
213	** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' reveals that when [[HalfHumanHybrid Spock]] was a child, he was nearly assassinated by logic extremists for being a "[[HalfBreedDiscrimination half-human abomination]]".
214	* ''Series/Supergirl2015'': When Lex's pet Kryptonian Red Daughter starts questioning whether America is really the villain Lex has made them out to be, Lex casually orders the murder of Red Daughter's only friend, a young boy named Mikhail. He has his minions hijack an American missile and blow up his house, knowing Red Daughter will find the remains of the missile and jump to the obvious conclusion. She fails to wonder why the Americans would attack a completely random child in a poor country. [[spoiler:Subverted with Otis, who couldn't go through with it. While he set up the targeting laser as ordered, he got Mikhail out first. Otis advises him to play dead if he ever so much as sees a bald man]].
215	* ''Series/StrangerThings'':
216	** Dr. Martin Brenner is willing to use children for his [[MadScientist twisted experiments]]. He had experimented on Eleven to bring out her psychic powers prior to her escape.
217	** Billy Hargrove almost runs over Mike, Lucas, and Dustin. He's also implied to have [[BigBrotherBully physically abused his adoptive sister Max]], and threatens Lucas.
218	** [[EldritchAbomination The Mind Flayer]] qualifies. It's willing to possess the 13-year-old Will Byers in season 2. In Season 3, it kills several people, including children, to form a physical body, and then attempts to kill the main cast.
219	** The Russian soldiers in Season 3 are also willing to kill the main cast, including a 10-year-old girl.
220	** Jason and rest of his JerkJock cronies in Season 4, during their WitchHunt of Eddie, start targeting the teenage members of the Hellfire Club such as Dustin and Mike. They also threaten and attack Erica, who's barely out of her pre-teens. By the finale, a [[SanitySlippage completely unbalanced]] Jason is willing to kill Lucas and his aforementioned little sister.
221	** Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan means to kill the teenage Eleven for most of the same season, believing that she's responsible for the deaths in Hawkins. By episode 9, he orders a kill shot on Eleven which his SociopathicSoldier complies to; unfortunately for them, Eleven has her MindOverMatter powers back and puts the sniper and the helicopter he's in down.
222	** [[spoiler:BigBad of Season 4, Henry a.k.a. One a.k.a. Vecna, fully reveals his cruel sociopathic nature during the {{Flashback}} by killing the rest of the PsychicChildren (essentially his siblings) at the Hawkins lab, some of who are as young as five and six. He also tried to kill Eleven when she was 9, and in the present, he kills Chrissy, Fred, and Patrick, and maims and blinds Max, are of whom all teenagers. Not to mention he killed his own sister during his childhood.]]
223	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Children are rarely the MonsterOfTheWeek, but that doesn't mean never. When it does happen, it's always a debate about what to do.
224	** One episode had Castiel try to stab a child to death before the boy realized he could [[RealityWarper warp reality]] as he what was TheAntiChrist.
225	** In another episode, Sam was steeling himself to kill a little girl possessed by Lilith. At the last minute Dean, temporarily given demon sight because of his impending damnation, tells him that Lilith isn't in the girl anymore.
226	* ''Series/TeenWolf'':
227	** Geriatric antagonist Gerard Argent is a master of this trope with teenagers: he violently drowns the (admittedly not innocent) [[spoiler: Matt]], kidnaps Erica and Boyd and holds them in prolonged electrical torture, kidnaps and beats the absolute snot out of Stiles, stabs Scott in the gut, and tries to murder [[spoiler: his own granddaughter, Allison]]. It's a little disturbing to watch.
228	** At the beginning of Season 2, Isaac Lahey's father throws a glass at him and the shards nearly put his eye out. We also see implied evidence of his severe physical abuse.
229	* ''Series/TidelandsNetflix'': Adrielle has Dylan tear out one of [[EyeScream Gilles' eyes]] for spying on her when he won't reveal who told him to. He's just a little boy aged maybe 10 at most.
230	* ''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'': The 456 remotely mind control all of Earth's children to coerce the world's governments into letting them kidnap several million kids in order to make drugs out of them. [[spoiler:In the final episode, Jack Harkness uses his grandson Stephen to transmit a lethal signal to drive away the 456, killing Stephen in the process.]]
231	* ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'': Major villain Oswald Danes is a repeat child molester who raped and killed a twelve-year-old schoolgirl and plans to hunt her down in Hell when he dies so he can do it again.
232	* ''Series/TroyFallOfACity'': Odysseus very reluctantly drops Hector and Andromache's infant son from the walls of Troy to his death, at Agamemnon's order. Andromache curses him for this.
233	* Present to a ''horrifying'' level in Season 1 of ''Series/TrueDetective''. The season is based on a Louisiana criminal cult, like the real-world Santa Muerte and similar cults, which came about from the state's 19th-century criminal gangs and pirate raiders, that accumulated great power to the present day. The series is filled with Lovecraftian elements, [[CosmicHorror cosmic horror]] and dark references to some of the writers who ''inspired'' Lovecraft himself (especially Robert Chambers), above all due to the series' concept of the "sprawl", through which the cult is able to "replicate" itself through generations of traumatized children and child sacrifice.
234	** The details of how the cult does this, mainly revealed in Rust's [[spoiler:storage trailer]], from years of obsessive research [[spoiler:after he'd officially left the police force]], are pure [[NightmareFuel nightmare fuel]]. Young kids from the bayou country and across the state are brought into the cult's churches and other institutions, where many of the boys are subjected to terrible physical abuse and even torture which many don't survive--those that do (including [[spoiler:the [[BigBad Big Bad]]]], who turns out to be one of its [[spoiler:high priests and hates his own father who abused him]]), become abusers, murderers and criminals themselves, serving the state power elite who are [[GreaterScopeVillain the cult's true leaders]]. Women and little girls--above all pre-teen girls, to further magnify the horror--are molested and ritually sacrificed, and by the time Rust and Marty discover the culprits, the cult has had hundreds of child victims in the past couple decades alone.
235	* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'':
236	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E6 Examination Day]]", the totalitarian government gives tests that identify {{child prodig\|y}}ies [[spoiler:who are then killed before they can grow up to question or threaten the power structure]].
237	** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E10 The Shadow Man]]", the titular entity attacks several of Danny Hayes' classmates at Willow Creek Junior High School, including Mark, Wendy and Chip Murphy. [[spoiler:In the final scene, Danny is himself attacked by a Shadow Man who lives under someone else's bed.]]
238	* ''W11 - Wydział Śledczy'' (W11 - Department of Investigation): Pretty common in this Polish police show; many murdered victims in episodes happen to be children. Police even when they talk to suspects, warn them what type of horrible fate awaits child killers in prison. Examples are:
239	** ''Bez Śladu'' two-parter ("Without Trace") is how two men kidnap a 13-year old girl for ransom but when they find out they kidnapped wrong girl, they murder her. And when the ransom gets paid for the actual girl, one guys still doesn't plan on letting her go and plans on doing "same thing to her I did to the other one!" He doesn't realize a sniper is hiding and shoots him just as he is about to kill her.
240	** ''Karate'' is about a 10-year-old boy who fell out of the window and died. It is revealed his karate coach did it and it is also revealed that karate coach was a mass pedophile who generally sexually harassed little boys. He also took boy's friend to the forest and threatened he will kill him as well if he speaks to the police. Thankfully police arrive just in time and arrest a pedophile.
241	** ''Trociny'' ("Scobs") involves a mother who starved her own baby son to death and all he desperately tried to eat where titular scobs which didn't save him in the long run.
242	** ''Bagna'' ("Bagna") has a serial killer of little girls as young as 6 years old; he murders them and then throws their bodies into marshes. And when police arrive on scene, he hangs himself.
243	** ''Kim Ty Jesteś?'' ("Whom Are You?") is how 13-year old boy got kidnapped for ransom after going biking. The kidnapped is revealed to be a man from his mom's past and he murders the boy before a mother is even able to pay the ransom. Since the police find the boy's body, they arrest the man but the boy is sadly dead.
244	** ''Baranek'' ("Little Lamb") is about how a 7-year old boy fell of the balcony of the tenement and lost his life. It's established in the beggining that the murder was most certainly an adult because of the prints that were left on boy's neck and they pointed out to hand of an adult. At the end it's revealed that it was boy's middle-aged uncle who did it after the boy accidently saw him having a romance with a woman and uncle did it only to prevent him from telling anything. Episode ends with uncle getting handcuffed and taken away.
245	** ''Agusia'' episode has a 8-year-old girl be savagely beaten up by a woman who expolited her, just for taking home more money than she was allowed. The woman gets arrested while attempting to beat up a boy. This arguably is a slightly less extreme example since the girl in contrast to previous examples, doesn't die.
246	** ''Porwanie Toli'' ("Kidnapping of Tola") has a psychopath who put a bag on 12-year old's head that resulted in the young boy choking slowly to death and attempts to bury alive a titular 13 year old girl who thankfully is saved.
247	** In ''Szczyl'' ("Piss"), a 4-year old girl gets kidnapped for ransom and it is revealed that the kidnapper wants revenge on her father for snitching on him to the police 15 years ago. Even after ransom is paid, Moskal argues "Money isn't enough; you child will pay for your stupidity!" Moskal's sister and accomplice turns on him after he gives her a phone call and asks her to murder the girl. Thankfully, police rescues the little girl while both the psychopath and his sister get arrested.
248	* Seemingly PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/WandaVision''. When Billy and Tommy are reluctant to stay with NosyNeighbor Agnes while their mother Wanda is having a mental breakdown Agnes assures the boys she doesn't bite -- only for there to be a ConfessionCam where Agnes does admit she bit a kid once. [[spoiler:Becomes FridgeHorror when it's revealed by the end of the episode Agnes is a EvilAllAlong WickedWitch.]] ''Not'' played for laughs in same series when Hayward opens fire on Billy and Tommy in the finale.
249	* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'': More than once, the villains would hit children -- sometimes ''beating them viciously'' or otherwise putting them in extreme danger -- as they would hold them hostage, either as bargaining tools or just to show how ruthless and sadistic they were, always without conscience or fear of the consequences. Examples include burying a busload of children inside a school bus at a landfill and burying another alive in a casket. There were other episodes involving child abuse but said abuse is by a parent who happens to be the main villain and is used to frame his evil personality. Walker and the Rangers would arrive to give the baddies a taste of their own medicine, with extra force as Walker had zero tolerance for child abuse.
250	* ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'': Numerous antagonists have demonstrated that they have no qualms with hurting or killing children.
251	** Notably, one man tries to rape Carl in the Season 4 finale while another threatens to break baby Judith's neck in the Season 5 premiere.
252	** A surprising non-villain example happened in the Season 6 midseason premiere when [[spoiler:Michonne kills Ron, after he almost shoots Rick, blaming him for his family dying. But as he dies, he gets one shot off that hits Carl in the eye. Carl survives]].
253	* ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds2019'': The aliens' killer robots target children and adults equally. [[spoiler: A little French girl whom Sophie finds is killed after being discovered hiding.]]
254	* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime2021'': The [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Myrdraal]], unsurprisingly. Mat sees Helga Grinwell, a sweet little girl he spoke with, has been cut down by one when he escapes their attack along with Rand.
255	* ''Series/TheWhiteQueen'' deals with TheFateOfThePrincesInTheTower. Turns out that UsefulNotes/RichardIII WouldntHurtAChild but [[spoiler: Henry Tudor's mother Margaret Beaufort would]].
256	* ''Series/TheWildWildWest'': Many of the villains. Highlighted in "The Night of the Amnesiac" when Furman Crotty steals and then holds for ransom the vaccine supply during a smallpox epidemic. While trying to recover the vaccine, one of the main characters comes across a funeral service in progress. The coffin is a small one. Very, very small.
257	* In ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' there’s an exorbitant amount of characters and monsters who are perfectly willingly to hurt or kill children and teenagers, such as Renfri who threatens to slit the young Marilka’s throat when Geralt gets on the way of her plans or the Doppler and other villains hunting Ciri. But babies in particular have no luck in the show, in episode 4 the assassin who is targeting the infant and mother Yennefer is protecting throws a dagger that goes through Yennefer’s torso and to her despair kills the baby she was sheltering (after the mother abandoned her child to save her own skin), in Season 2 the poor elven baby of Filavandrel and Francesca gets killed in her crib [[spoiler:by Nilfgaard ruler Emhyr aka Duny]] and in some horrific MisplacedRetribution a grief-stricken Francesca uses her magic to kill all the human infants of Redania.

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