History Main / WouldntHurtAChild

** Jesse Pinkman may be a little rough around the edges, but if there's one thing that sets him off, it's seeing harm come to children.
** Mike Ehrmantraut is well aware he's not a good man but he has a strong code of NeverHarmAnInnocent.
** Saul Goodman is a sleaze of the highest order, but he draws the line at harming children.

* Dexter Morgan of ''{{Series/Dexter}}'' may be a psychopathic serial killer but one line he'll never cross is hurting a child. He once goes out of his way to murder a man who didn't fit Harry's Code because he was stalking his young step-daughter and is generally pretty wrathful towards those who hurt kids.

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'' has the Rogues. One of their rules is that they won't kill women and children, with the exception of Mirror Master, who will ''try'' to refrain from killing women, but still definitely won't hurt a child. This is part of their PragmaticVillainy. They know that doing certain things will just bring all sorts of trouble upon them. Their business model is based on there being AlwaysABiggerFish for the heroes to concentrate on.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14247956/1/Assassin-x-Monkey Assassin x Monkey]]'': Even as a pre-teen member of the Garden, [[Characters/SpyXFamilyYorForger Yor Forger]] is willing to kill anyone for her assignments, as seen when she killed [[Manga/DragonBall General Blue]] in single-combat to prove herself to the Red Ribbon Army. However, she is adamantly against children like Upa or Son Goku, hoping to find an alternate to complete her and Tao Pai Pai's mission to get the Dragon Balls. Yor is also against hurting children ''indirectly'', as she stops herself from killing Bora [[HeelRealization when she realizes she was about to turn Upa into an orphan just like her and her brother Yuri]].

* Jesse Pinkman from ''Series/BreakingBad'' may be a little rough around the edges, but if there's one thing that sets him off, it's seeing harm come to children.
** Inverted with Todd. Unlike Jesse, he's very polite and soft-spoken, but he proves willing to murder a child without hesitation if he feels it's necessary.

** Zig-zagged with [[spoiler:the Green Goblin]]. On one hand, he hates the Shredder for attempting to kill Splinter's kids just to hurt his enemy more (even [[EvenEvilHasStandards chewing him out for it [[spoiler:before stabbing him]]]]). But two chapters later, [[spoiler:he unites the Sinister Six under their shared dislike of Spider-Ninja, who he knows is a young teenager.]]

** Zig-zagged with [[spoiler:the Green Goblin]]. On one hand, he hates the Shredder for attempting to kill Splinter's kids just to hurt his enemy more (even [[EvenEvilHasStandards chewing him out for it [[spoiler:before stabbing him]]). But two chapters later, [[spoiler:he unites the Sinister Six under their shared dislike of Spider-Ninja, who he knows is a young teenager.]]

* Averted by CADMUS in ''Fanfic/Ben10Unlimited''. Like in canon, [[spoiler:Dr. Hamilton (despite being a friend to the Kryptonians for years) betrayed Superman and Supergirl when he stole DNA from Kara (who was a young teenager at the time) while giving her medical care and used it to clone Galatea for CADMUS. Then he lied about it to her face when she, Four Arms, Green Arrow and Question came to ask about it.]]

** The shooter in "Unspoken" follows an injured Lindsay to the hospital, knowing she can identify him. He decides against killing her when he sees the picture Lucy had drawn for her...killing a mom would be detrimental to a kid.
** One of the kidnappers in "Exit Strategy" tells the other they've been tied down by the little girl they snatched (during a robbery so she wouldn't identify them) for long enough and hands him a gun so he can shoot her. Instead, he pistol whips him with it and takes off with the child, raising her as his own for several years until Mac & Co finally catch up to him.

* In ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'', [[HitmanWithAHeart Lainya Vantrik]]'s "code of honour" includes never killing or endangering kids -- and killing any would-be clients who try to trick her into doing so. She's got quite a generous definition of "children" too, objecting to being made to assassinate a 19-year-old in ''[[https://thecrewofthecoppercoloredcupids.wordpress.com/2021/04/16/century-smith-and-the-time-terror/ Century Smith and the Time Terror]]''.

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* The giant [[SnakePeople naga]] Katrika of {{Website/Deviantart}} user Karbo's ''Felarya'' loves children, and often goes out of her way to protect any kids she finds lost in the jungle. This behavior is especially noteworthy because Felaryan nagas (including Katrika) are typically man-eaters.

** Casey Jones, as usual, is this trope, drawing the line at going after innocent women and children, even admitting to Raph that he regularly beats up people who subvert this trope.

* ''Film/BlazingSaddles'': Jim was forced to kill an insane number of challengers back when he was known as the FastestGunInTheWest, but threw his guns down and walked away the time he was challenged by a 6-year-old. For taking the high road, he wound up ShotInTheAss by the kid. (The way he tells his story is a parody and subversion of Al Denton's backstory in ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', where the last challenger Denton shoots [[AccidentalChildKillerBackstory turns out to be a 16-year-old boy]].)

* ComicBook/SpiderMan: [[Characters/MarvelComicsOttoOctavius Dr. Octopus]] has no problem murdering adults, but due to his AbusiveChildhood seeing someone harm a kid is his BerserkButton. This is somewhat DependingOnTheWriter, since he once tried to wipe out 95% of Earth's population.

* ''Fanfic/SpiderNinja'': Doctor Connors refuses to conduct experiments (neither with nor without permission) on the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtles]] because of this trope, [[EveryoneHasStandards believing that it's wrong to experiment on teenagers]]. [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn He later subverts it]] when he steals some of [[OrganTheft Raphael's blood]] for his experiments]].

* In the ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'' movies, the eponymous Predator is a nearly unstoppable alien killing machine with a code of honor; Predators view children as innocents, off-limits to being hunted, and sometimes even protect them from harm. According to the ExpandedUniverse, [[EgomaniacHunter predators hunt things depending on how worthy they are at giving them a good hunt]]. A predator would kill a child soldier in self-defense in a blink, but if it tried to hunt one and collect the skull as a trophy the other predators would punish him.
** This is exemplified in ''Film/Predator2'' when he refrains from killing a pregnant cop and a child who was pointing a toy gun at him.

* ''Series/{{Hunter}}'': In the episode "Sniper", an army Sergeant goes on a shooting spree with a sniper rifle to kill random women in public parks who remind him of his ex-wife. When a young boy runs into him during one of these while chasing after a football, he tells the kid to get the hell out of dodge. This backfires when the boy alerts a police officer and the sniper has to flee the scene.

* ''Fanfic/{{Spider-Ninja}}'': Doctor Connors refuses to conduct experiments (neither with nor without permission) on the [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Turtles]] because of this trope, [[EveryoneHasStandards believing that it's wrong to experiment on teenagers]]. [[spoiler:[[FaceHeelTurn He later subverts it]] when he steals some of [[OrganTheft Raphael's blood]] for his experiments]].