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  • In the mid-2000s, a creepy little girl appeared in several shows, including CSI, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Close to Home and The Inside. Despite going by different names and having different mothers on each of them, she always acted the same and was always played by the same actress, Jennette McCurdy (who later went to iCarly). She would always pretend to be a Cheerful Child who just happened to have overheard or seen damming evidence against a person that implicates them as a murderer; however, it always turns out that the little bitch is lying to them, and the person she claims did it is completely innocent, just convenient patsies who were easy to frame. After proving that her story is bull, the police confront her about it, and she tries to blame somebody else. About half the time, it doesn't work, and they expose her as the Enfant Terrible she really is. The other half, they go after the second person she blames for the crime and arrest them not even suspecting that the little girl is actually a murderess. McCurdy got roles in several Nickelodeon kids' shows playing the same character, except that around other kids, she seemed less creepy and more simply violent. She once said in an interview that the reason she liked playing this type of character was because it was so different from who she actually was in real life.

  • Sunny Capaduca from 15/Love was a scary little girl with a heavy — nearly untraceable — accent, Jerk Jock and Manipulative Bitch tendencies, and a liking for frightening the other (much older) kids at the school. She stopped just short of being an Enfante Terrible.
  • Wednesday and Pugsley Addams from The Addams Family, although it's played for laughs here.
  • American Gothic (2016) has Jack. While not a suspect in the serial killings done by a member of his family, he is seriously creepy. He is obsessed with death and his actions Torturing the neighbor's cat, throwing a toy on a tarp covering a pool to trick his young cousin to go out on it and drown make you shutter for the future of the family.
  • Alma from the American Horror Story: Double Feature storyline "Red Tide". Even before she became a vampire, she was a little creepy, having a fascination with death. After she takes the black pill to increase her violin skills, she becomes a full-on vampire, starting out by feeding on animals and slowly losing empathy for everyone around her, including her parents. She commits her first murder by killing a policewoman who was finding out the truth about the series of murders, and she only gets worse from then on.
  • Angel:
    • Wolfram & Hart's conduit to the Senior Partners is a little girl. She's also the dark reincarnation of Ra, representing the sun at sunset and the evil of humanity.
    • The episode "I've Got You Under My Skin" revolves around a creepy child possessed by a demon who corrupts the souls of those it possesses. When the heroes exorcise the demon, they learn that it hadn't been controlling him, but had possessed him and been trapped inside by the soulless child.
  • Asia's Got Talent (and America's Got Talent afterwards) introduced "The Sacred Riana", a young stage magician with some decidedly sinister acts. Her stage persona (which she never seemed to break, even after the acts were done) involved wearing an old-fashioned school uniform, having hair hanging over her face, constant twitching, and never speaking other than making sinister utterances and unintelligible spells. The judges were terrified of her, especially since her acts involved placing pentagrams on their hands, appearing as a ghost in photos she took herself, and summoning far too many zombies out of a box painted like the Lament Configuration. On the other hand, she received nothing but praise and ovations, leading up to winning the whole thing.
  • Awaken: The child in the prologue (later known as Jung-woo) claims to be responsible for everyone in the village going mad and attacking each other, and he doesn't bat an eyelid at seeing people killed in front of him.
  • Hera in Battlestar Galactica (2003) is, for the most part, fairly normal, but in "Guess What's Coming to Dinner?", her mother wakes up in the night to find Hera standing over the bed creepily saying "Bye-bye". The next day, Athena finds that Hera has filled her sketchbook with drawings of Number Six, Gaius Baltar's Not-So-Imaginary Friend.
  • In Believe (2014), Bo Adams is a little girl with psychic powers that often manifest in scary ways.
  • Yandere Rhonda Vollmer from Big Love is a non-supernatural variant: behind her artless demeanor and expressionless blue eyes lurks the brain of a baby sociopath and master-manipulator-in-training (and a disturbing fondness for rhinestones). She's got something of an excuse, having been raised in an abusive cult and married off at the age of fourteen to a man in his seventies, but it doesn't do much to make her less terrifying. (Amusingly, she's played by Daveigh Chase, who portrayed the ultimate Creepy Child in the American version of The Ring.)
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • The Anointed One is a creepy child vampire. In a typical Joss Whedon moment, however, when Spike shows up, he takes "The Annoying One" down within an episode. (According to rumour, he was killed off because the actor was growing too rapidly for an Undead Child.)
    • "Gingerbread" features two murdered children (later revealed to be Hansel and Gretel themselves) who appear as ghosts and force the Brainwashed and Crazy town to try to kill Willow, Buffy and Amy.
    • "Hush" opens with Buffy dreaming of a spooky little girl, complete with an Ironic Nursery Tune. What makes the girl spookier is that she looks like a kid-version of Buffy.
  • Beth Thomas, the subject of the documentary Child of Rage. Prior to being adopted, the child was terribly abused, and then took out her sociopathic rage on her little brother. Watching her talk calmly about horrific things is creepy as hell.
  • The Closer has Skander Marku from the Season 6 Christmas two-parter, who acts unnaturally calm and almost smug amidst his whole family ending up dead. He appears to care more about his dog than the fact that his home is a crime scene, smirks at the cops when his (newly-met) aunt and uncle take him home, and when arrested, makes up a patently false story of how the arresting officer tied him up and threatened him. Subverted in the second half; when he's told that all the family he knew about had been killed, he breaks down crying. His odd behavior at the police station was most likely due to his family's mistrust of the police; he acts more like a normal child after he realizes that the police are trying to protect him.
  • In Cougar Town, Ellie, Grayson and Tom have a brush in with three creepy Homeschooled Kids. They deal with them by acting creepier still.
  • Criminal Minds:
  • While not creepy in a supernatural sense, Insufferable Genius Hannah from a two-episode "arc" of CSI definitely qualifies. In her first episode, she helps get her brother out of a murder conviction by convincing the jury that she did it, while gaining CSI Sara Sidle's sympathy (she was also a gifted child), only to smugly reveal to her that her brother did indeed set up the prank and that she's going to get a lot of book deals once she's out of juvie. In her second episode, the two siblings are in college (their parents are mysteriously dead), with the brother as a student and Hannah as his professor. Several plot twists and one Break Them by Talking speech directed at Sara later, it is revealed that Hannah had begun to envy of her brother's growing independence and framed him for murder in order to put him in jail, under her control and at her side forever. Her brother could no longer stand his sister's truth-destroying plans and killed himself, and "arresting officer" Sara is simply disgusted, which probably contributes to her eventual two-season leave of absence.
  • The entire X7 series from Dark Angel, scary mute Child Soldiers with a unit Hive Mind, the ability to communicate with each other ultra-sonically and freaky goddamn black eyes.
  • Ally from episode two of Demons, who kidnaps children for Gilgamel.
  • Dexter was one of these as a child, killing animals and getting though a psych test only by answering the opposite to what was true.
  • Doctor Who:
    • The unnamed schoolgirl from "Remembrance of the Daleks", who is eventually revealed to be the Renegade Daleks' living battle computer and is able to shoot lightning from her hands.
    • "The Empty Child"/"The Doctor Dances" has Jamie, the titular Empty Child, although this is the result of being infected by The Virus. In a humorous moment, the Doctor realizes that despite being dangerous, he's still a child, and "defeats" him temporarily by sending him to his room.
    • Chloe Webber from "Fear Her" is a rare example of a black Creepy Child. She's been possessed by an alien with the power to trap people in drawings, and they are using this power to cause children to disappear.
    • Sister of Mine from "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", who always carries a bright red balloon which never pops, most likely a reference to the original book, in which the little girl's balloon behaved like Rover. She also has the same Ironic Nursery Tune as the schoolgirl from "Remembrance of the Daleks" ("Five, six, seven, eight, there's a doctor at the gate..."). What happens to her in the end will make you afraid to look in mirrors.
    • The 8-year-old Master in "The Sound of Drums". Russell T Davies noted in the script that the child should be "Damien-like". Keep in mind we only see him for a very brief scene as he looks into the Time Vortex. Kudos to the actor, managing to creep us out with a few seconds of standing there looking at the camera, no lines spoken or actions taken.
    • In "The Eleventh Hour", the shapeshifting Prisoner Zero takes the form of 7-year-old Amelia Pond to mock the real Amy.
    • In "The Beast Below", a little girl appears in a recording reciting a creepy nursery rhyme just before an unfortunate boy is dumped below to become fodder for the Beast.
    • In "The Lodger", one of the forms taken by the AI of the time engine luring in people to try and find a new pilot is a little girl with her Face Framed in Shadow at all times.
    • The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "Ghosts of the Northern Line" has Monster of the Week Mnemosyne take on the form of a little girl ghost, who at one point stands on the tracks in front of a tube train, prompting the driver to slam the brakes on — giving the other ghosts time to feed on the living.
  • Dotty/Kirsty Cotton from EastEnders. She's a little girl of no older than nine or so, seemingly dumped on her grandmother Dot by her criminal father Nick. At first, she seems saccharine sweet, but it soon becomes clear that something is wrong. Her hymn-singing, baking, little 1930s cardies and general innocence take her beyond the realms of 'normal but goody-two-shoes kid' and into the realms of creepy. You can tell that she has to be hiding something — and she is. It turns out that she has a pact with her father to kill Dot for her money, and it doesn't seem like she's being threatened by him or otherwise coerced into it; she appears to be doing it willingly, off her own back. She presses on with this plan until the last minute, when she gets cold feet and attempts to drug Nick instead. Nick survives, but as he leaves, he shouts not to be fooled by Dotty's traumatised tears: she's rotten to the core, and the plan to kill Dot had been all her idea.
  • Sylvie, the lost little girl Lucas and Dorothy run into in the Emerald City episode "Science and Magic", who can turn people into statues. "Beautiful Wickedness" reveals that she's a witch, so it makes sense.
  • La Femme Nikita: In "He Came from Four", a creepy child with telepathic and telekinetic abilities (played by none other than Michael Cera) is sent to Section One to assist in a mission.
  • River in Firefly can approach this at times, though usually her Woobie-ness overrides the creepy elements. She's also somewhat older than the typical Creepy Child, though her behaviour tends to be very childlike.
  • FlashForward (2009) has Charlie, who has an unspecified vision that she simply (and in monotone) describes as "dreaming that there were no more good days".
  • Game of Thrones:
    • The child wight in "Winter is Coming" is creepy enough to provide the trope image for Occult Blue Eyes.
    • In "The Pointy End", after disappearing for several episodes, Rickon Stark suddenly appearing in Bran's room and making a deadpan declaration that his family won't come home is very unsettling. He also spends the time he is forced to hold court with Bran in Winterfell cracking nuts in the most aggressive way possible. He also wanders off on his own several times with Shaggydog.
    • Bran himself gets quite unnerving after becoming the Three-Eyed Crow. He even creeps out Littlefinger.
    • The assassin sent by the Warlocks of Qarth in "Valar Dohaeris" looks like a little girl, but has blue lips and hisses like a snake.
    • Robin Arryn. "Mummy, I want to see the bad man fly." The fact that his crazypants mother is still breastfeeding him at age EIGHT or so doesn't help. When he returns in Season 4, the first thing he does upon meeting Sansa is to bring up her family's horrible deaths at the Red Wedding, in a tone that would be better suited a discussion of the weather. He maintains the same calm demeanor when explaining that his own father was poisoned.
    • By Season 3, Arya Stark is starting to rapidly become a Creepy Child in her own right, though not nearly as quickly as in the books. She's reached this completely by Season 4; Melisandre of all people is creeped out by her. To recap some instances of her coldness:
      • She declares Death to be her one true God.
      • In "Mhysa", she walks up to a group of Frey men around a campfire who are mocking Robb and Cat's demises. Arya acts like an innocent child, asking if she can warm herself by the fire, even offering to pay. She casually drops the coin, and when the man leans to pick it up, she stabs him repeatedly in the neck with a dagger. When she's done, she doesn't seem at all disturbed by what she just did.
      • She calmly informs Sandor Clegane that she will put a sword through his eye and out the back of his skull someday. Later on, she turns out to actually have a knife she got from him without him noticing. His reaction is priceless.
      • In "Two Swords", she calmly and methodically taunts Polliver before sticking Needle through his neck, clearly enjoying the deed.
      • In "Mockingbird", she notes Rorge was never on her list of people to kill because she didn't know his name. When he gives it to her, she thanks him with a little smile, then stabs him through the heart.
      • In "The Children", the Hound begs her to give him a Mercy Kill after being badly wounded, trying to provoke her into anger — but she just crouches and stares at him icily for a very long time... before robbing him and leaving him to die.
      • The show seems to have ultimately subverted this, however, thanks to the timing differences. The show's Arya has reached her mid-teens before she could slip fully into the Creepy Child territory.
    • Jojen Reed comes across as a bit of this — his Greensight contributes to this — but he's really very nice once you get to know him. He can invoke this to threatening effect, though, like when he intimidates Karl Tanner right as he's about to rape his sister Meera.
    • Subverted with Shireen Baratheon, who has a disfigured face and is introduced singing an eerie song but quickly shows herself to be a perfectly sweet little girl, despite having no friends and living inside a tower.
    • The reanimated child corpses in the Battle of Hardhome.
  • Madison from Harper's Island. She tends to creep out her mother late at night by waking her up and telling her everyone is going to die. During the first episodes, she almost crosses the Narm-line. In the last episodes, however, despite doing creepy things offscreen, her ghost-like aura is not the same again.
  • The opening montage of Hitler: The Rise of Evil has little Adolf portrayed this way, ending with him appearing to kill his father with a Death Glare.
  • House has at least three examples: one Littlest Cancer Patient, a psycho pre-teen boy (and older brother of a Delicate and Sickly sister) with an obsessive Precocious Crush on Cameron, and the Chase-substitute kid on the plane from "Airborne" who thinks it's cool that he will have to help House operate on someone. The look on the face of the Cameron-substitute next to him seals it.
  • Chip Chambers from iCarly. He's a vicious kid and extremely loyal to his older brother, Chuck. When Spencer sends Chuck to military school for ambushing him, Chip mercilessly takes his anger out on Spencer... and the kid is only 9 years old.
  • Caligula is portrayed this way in I, Claudius. He becomes partially responsible for the murder of his father when he was just hitting puberty.
  • Interview with the Vampire (2022): Claudia acts normally and is a cheerful girl mostly, although her predatory nature as a vampire makes her seem "off" to humans sometimes — usually just before she bites them.
  • Jam features a sketch about a six-year-old hired "cleaner"/killer, Maria. She looks like an adorable little girl but carries a gun, swears continually and is very proficient in chopping up bodies. When one of them turns out not to be dead, she shoots him in the head and then carries on cutting him up. The radio series features even more sketches about Maria, in which she's only four years old and is revealed (among other things) to have a penchant for killing farm animals.
  • The Kamen Rider franchise is full of these, which is understandable sometimes. There are monsters who take human form and humans who take monster form, and some of them look like kids. And then there are kids who are just creepifying without actually being evildoers.
  • In Katla, the unsmiling Mikael initially seems creepy mostly because he has mysteriously returned from the dead — but so have a couple of other characters, who seem to be confused but more or less sane. It quite soon becomes clear that Mikael is not only downright psychopathic, and indeed murderous, but was like that before his death; his own father is scared of him.
  • Law & Order:
    • In "Cherished", a rich couple's 7-year-old very disturbed adoptive kid is accused of killing his also adoptive baby sister. He didn't.
    • Two of the creepiest girls ever seen on TV are in the episode "Killerz", which is Green's second case. The older one has a strange look and behaves in a way that just seems off; however, she's innocent, and the way she acts makes sense after it's revealed what her little friend had done. The younger girl at first seems like a Cheerful Child who is better adjusted then the older one; however, it turns out that she Does Not Like Men and is a sociopathic Serial Killer of little boys. What makes her especially scary is that despite Dr. Skoda's diagnosis, Dr. Olivet actually defends the Enfant Terrible and is able to get her off. As she's leaving, we see the murderess eyeing her next victim: a very scared little boy.
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
    • In "Damaged", Ari Graynor plays a girl whose younger sister is shot in a video store robbery. Then we learn that she arranged for the sister to be molested and then killed to prevent her talking. The explanation is that she was an abused child and a total sociopath. When they get her, she says "You think I'm scared of the death penalty? You can't kill me — I'm already dead." Brrr.
    • In "Conscience", a ten-year-old boy targets a younger boy he used to play with at a birthday party and after kidnapping him kills him by forcing him to consume rocks. Once he is implicated in the murder, it is implied that he had been abused sexually and physically while at summer camp. When Detectives Stabler and Benson investigate, they find out that the boy taunted many of the children he went to camp with, was prone to picking fights, and would injure himself to gain sympathy from the adults, and so most children actually avoided him completely. He is revealed to be an undiagnosed sociopath, having absolutely no sympathy for his actions or even any reason for wanting to kill the younger child other than he felt like it. When the boy's distraught father, a child psychologist, lashes out at him for his actions the boy, feigns sympathy and taunts him further. Convinced that he'd kill again once he was released from juvenile custody, the father shoots him dead in front of the police, justifying his actions on the belief that the kid was beyond all help.
    • Elle Fanning played a creepy/disturbed kid from an abusive foster home in "Cage". Detective Dani Beck her takes home; that night, the girl wakes her up because she can't sleep, and Beck finds that the girl has set fire to the curtains in an attempt to kill them both so they can be together.
    • Elliot Stabler's replacement, Amaro, is forced to confront a pre-teen sociopath named Henry while he holds another child to him and pointed a gun at his head. Henry's other deeds include drowning a neighbor's dog, tying his little sister to a bed and setting her trash can on fire in front of her, threatening his mother with a knife before slicing her hand when she went to remove it from him, and slyly telling Detective Rollins that she's really pretty. Although at the end of the episode, it is determined that Henry must be remanded to a mental health center for extremely disturbed young people, he tearfully tells his parents that he loves them (something he never, ever did before), which means they will probably always forgive his behavior.
  • In Lost, Walt generally seems like a normal kid, but also has the habits of appearing in places he shouldn't be, knowing the future, and smacking birds into nearby windows. He manages to creep out his stepfather to the point of relinquishing custody. Then in Season 2, he scares the Others enough that they give him back to his father.
  • The Mentalist has Haley in the fourth season episode "Red Rover, Red Rover", who approaches Jane in the middle of a cemetery to deliver him a message from Red John. However, she's redeemed of creepiness when it turns out that she was lured there and had no idea she was acting as the messenger for a deranged Serial Killer.
  • The Mick: Ben has shown signs of this, such as weirding his teacher out through sitting and blankly staring at her during recess instead of playing.
  • Millennium (1996) has Jordan Black, Frank's younger daughter. She has powers similar to Frank's except they manifest themselves as metaphorical dreams.
  • Mouse (2021):
    • Jae-hoon, and how. He kills his father's dog and poisons his father's fish, tries to bury his brother alive, and doesn't bat an eyelash when he finds his father's corpse. Unsurprisingly he grows up to be a serial killer.
    • When he was a child Hyung-chul murdered his sister.
  • Mystery Science Theater 3000: In the "Parts: The Clonus Horror" episode, Pearl runs into a band of creepy, reality-warping "Space Children" who proceed to pester her, Bobo, and Brain Guy.
  • Odd Squad:
    • Most, if not all, of the Enfant Terrible villains seen on the show qualify. A majority of the things they do range from tormenting their co-workers through non-lethal means to straight-up trying to murder them, all in the name of taking down the organization that wronged them in one way or another.
    • Oceana, an Odd Squad Librarian working in Chicago, is a downplayed creepy child. When Oswald and Omar meet her for the first time in "Orla's Birthday", she is very nice to them and is more than willing to help them find the things they need. However, she types incredibly slow and often wears a very unnerving smile, which comes off as creepy.
  • Once Upon a Time in Wonderland: Alice's past self in the Great Divide who actively encourages Alice to kill the Red Queen. Subverted in that it's all a Secret Test of Character.
  • The Outpost has Ilyin, the girl who accompanies Ambassador Dred everywhere. She never speaks, rarely blinks, her eyes are lightly discolored, and everything about her body language is just wrong.
  • Person of Interest:
    • A flashback shows the death of Shaw's father in a car accident when she was a child. The firefighter tries to explain that he's fallen asleep and will never wake up, to which Shaw calmly responds that he means "dead". She then calmly asks for a sandwich, as she's feeling hungry.
    • Season 4 introduces Gabriel Hayward, a Child Prodigy ten-year-old boy acting as an analogue interface for Samaritan. Relaying the A.I.'s words in Creepy Monotone and acting utterly indifferent to the claims it makes, Gabriel comes across as quite disturbing.
  • Max in Ravenswood who is actually a demon.
  • Both lampshaded and played straight in Rose Red: There's the classic and indeed creepy ghost girl April and then there's Annie Wheaton, one of the team of explorers in the haunted house. She's mostly a sympathetic character but slightly creepy due to being autistic screen as well as, among other things, telekinetic. At one point another (much less sympathetic) explorer calls her "that creepy child with that creepy doll". By the way, both Annie and April have their own theme music, but Annie (whose theme is a rather nice big band song) soon picks up April's creepy nursery rhyme theme.
  • Oscar from The Sarah Jane Adventures episode "The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith". At the end of Part One, he turns out to be a Graske in disguise.
  • Adria the Orici from Stargate SG-1 is definitely one of these as a child, with her fixed stare and calm monotone. Even when she grows up, she retains some of her creepiness in no small part due to being younger than she looks.
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation: A little girl's Imaginary Friend comes to life on the Enterprise in an episode titled... "Imaginary Friend". But she (it?) isn't really her imaginary friend, oh no. "Isabella" is an energy being who hardly smiles and is perfectly capable of screwing over the whole ship on a whim, or a misunderstanding! It takes a while for the crew to catch on instead of thinking she's still imaginary.
  • The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Miri" has an Earth-like planet inhabited by only children who are actually hundreds of years old due to the same disease that kills them as soon as puberty kicks in. Add that they are rebellious and don't like "grups" such as the Enterprise crew...
  • Star Trek: Voyager:
    • Susperia in "Cold Fire", being an incredibly powerful alien from another plane of existence who is trying to get Revenge on Voyager — and takes the appearance of a little girl.
    • The Borg children on their first appearance, being Borg.
    • A nightmare version of Naomi Wildman (usually an ordinary nice kid) in "Dark Frontier".
    • Kes, kind of, being physically adult but very innocent (thanks to her species' culture and Bizarre Alien Biology) sweet, and understanding. Except for a couple of times when her latent psychic powers get a little scary.
  • Tina from Still Standing is pretty creepy with her unblinking stare and vindictive nature. Her aunt Linda and older sister Lauren are particularly wary of her.
  • Stranger Things: 001 has grown by present day, but flashbacks reveal he was obsessed with and collected black widows, tortured and killed animals and eventually killed his mother and little sister leaving his father to take the blame all while he was a child prior to him being abducted and renamed 001 by Dr. Brenner.
  • In Supergirl (2015), a scary kid turns out to be J'onn's traitorous brother Ma'alefa'ak. He sometimes continues to take that form even after we know who we're really looking at. You gotta admit nobody would ever suspect...
  • Supernatural is in love with the Creepy Child.
  • In a rare sympathetic example, the male lead in Till the End of the Moon, Tantai Jin, alarms the two nursemaids sent to look after him by suckling on blood rather than milk to feed as a baby. He later grows up to be cold, expressionless and prone to asking alarming questions about what emotions feel like and whether it's okay for him to kill people who are making their lives difficult, much to the women's alarm. It isn't clear how much of this is due to his nature and how much of it is because he grows up starving and abused, however.
  • Torchwood:
    • "Small Worlds" has Jasmine, the girl being targeted by the fairies.
    • The tarot reading girl in Series 2.
    • And in Children of Earth, every child on the planet becomes this when they freeze and speak in unison. In a deliberately creepy moment, the two daughters of the minister turn to him and start saying, in unison, "We want a pony. We want a pony."
  • The Twilight Zone (1959):
    • In "Nightmare as a Child", Markie is a strange, demanding child with a deadly serious manner. She tells Helen Foley that she knows every detail of her life. It turns out that Markie, a manifestation of Helen's Repressed Memories concerning the murder of her mother by Peter Selden, has good intentions but she is still creepy.
    • In "It's a Good Life", the six-year-old Anthony Fremont has extensive powers which allow him to rewrite reality however he wants. Having all the maturity of a typical kid his age, Anthony fails to consider the feelings of others and punishes those who displease him by either making them disappear or subjecting to a horrifying transformation. As such, everyone in Peaksville, Ohio, including his parents Bill and Agnes, lives in mortal fear of him. The The Twilight Zone (2002) sequel "It's Still a Good Life" features Anthony's daughter Audrey, who is able to bring back everything her father "sent away".
  • The Twilight Zone (1985): In "The Burning Man", Doug and Aunt Neva pick up a strange boy in a white suit while driving through Kansas. They soon discover that he is the genetic evil whom their earlier passenger, a seemingly crazed, disheveled man, warned them about. It is implied that the boy kills them.
  • In Twin Peaks, Ms. Tremond's creepy grandkid not only wears a suit, speaks in aphorisms, and has a flat affect, he seems to have actual magical powers. Made worse when people return to the house a few episodes later and no evidence of his existence is anywhere to be found.
  • Ultra Series:
    • One episode of Ultra Q was called "The Devil Child", and it dealt with a girl named Lily, who due to a magician's performance gone wrong, goes through Astral Projection that splits her into a good body and an evil soul. Guess which one of them is utterly spine-chilling.
    • An episode of Return of Ultraman dealt with a malevolent alien named Zelan in the disguise of a mute little boy visiting MAT headquarters. While the rest of the team thinks he's cute, the kid shows his true colours as he communicates with Goh telepathically, complete with some of the most nightmare-inducing sequences in the series as he psychologically torments Goh and gets away with it.
    • Vakishim from Ultraman Ace takes on the form of a little boy to hide from TAC during the episode, but also uses the form to go on a murdering spree, killing the kid's family and razing his village to the ground.
    • Flying Saucer Creature Blizzard from Ultraman Leo takes on the form of a mute little girl carrying a Creepy Doll. In this form, the monster wanders about town searching for scientists researching the Flying Saucer Creatures, and murders them with blasts of icy mist from the doll's mouth.
  • The Walking Dead (2010):
    • Carl is turning into one of these. Justified, because he is growing up during a Zombie Apocalypse. First, he is forced to shoot his mother in the head after she dies, to prevent her from turning into a walker. Then he kills a child soldier from Woodbury in cold blood during the ambush on the prison.
    • Lizzie. She feeds rats to the walkers because she thinks of walkers as pets, then she eventually progresses to killing her sister and threatening to kill Judith as well.
  • Shane Botwin in Weeds is an interesting case — viewers get to observe the evolution of a Creepy Child, from "slightly affected by seeing his father die" to "13-year-old violent drug dealer and murderer", over the course of five seasons. It's anyone's guess where he'll go in Season 6...
  • The X-Files has a bunch of creepy children, all very disturbing.
    • Among the most iconic are Eves 9 and 10 in "Eve". They are look-alike cloned girls with super-strength, super-intelligence and murderous tendencies.
    • Michelle (Andrea Libman) from "Born Again" is the reincarnation of a murdered cop channeling his desire for revenge. Even her mother is scared of her. During therapy sessions, she keeps disfiguring dolls in exactly the same way, always gouging out one eye and cutting one arm. This was how Charlie Morris's body had been mutilated to make it look like a signature execution.
    • In "The Calusari", we have troubled Charlie, who is very un-child-like, and much eviler Michael, who is his deceased twin. His presence kills his baby brother, father and grandmother... and he was about to murder a few more people, including Scully. His actor is pretty impressive.
    • The army of small identical children, dark-haired girls and blond boys, in "Herrenvolk" have no language and just keep staring blankly at people. They were created to work as drones in a secret government project with genetically changed corn and bees. To creep and psyche Agent Mulder out even more, the girl drones look exactly like his little sister Samantha who was abducted as a child. The situation implies that her DNA was used in said project.
    • Polly, a girl with a Creepy Doll in "Chinga". She's an autistic girl, but the creepiness comes mainly from the doll.
    • Gibson Praise who appeared in some Myth Arc episodes (e.g., "The End", "The Beginning", "Within", "Without", "The Truth"). He can read people's minds and at his first appearance, he avoided death by ducking. The man who died was shot right in front of him, but does he show the slightest bit of worry or fear, not just that someone was killed right in front of him, but that he was the intended target? Nuh-uh. He is also completely devoid of emotion at all other times and has no issue with pointing out how cruel and heartless people are.
    • Billy Underwood in "Invocation".
    • William could qualify as creepy too, if he wasn't intimately connected with Mulder and Scully. After all, he is/was genetically alien and had a habit of moving things with his mind. But he's just so darn cute.
    • Tommy Conlon from "Scary Monsters", who appears to be harassed by monsters, but it turns out that he was the cause of all the strange occurrences by conjuring them up in his imagination, causing several people to kill themselves.


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