Basic Trope: A villain who preys on children, especially for sustenance.
- Straight: Monny the Monster targets young children.
- Exaggerated: Monny the monster Eats Babies.
- Downplayed: Monny mostly targets teenagers.
- Justified:
- Monny hates all children.
- Monny is starving, and there isn't much else to eat other than children.
- Children are said to be an especially delicious delicacy to Monny's species.
- Monny is a pedophile and prefers hunting younger prey despite him being perfectly capable of killing an adult member of the child's species.
- Inverted: Monny is a child who hunts down adults.
- Averted:
- No one targets children.
- There are no children in the story.
- Enforced: "Well, let's make the monster creepier by having it target children!"
- Lampshaded: "Watch out! That monster wants to take children! And you're next!
- Discussed: "Why does that monster hunt down children? I don't know."
- Conversed: "What? Every monster I saw hunted down the children in seconds!"
- Played For Laughs: Monny just suffers from Peter Pan Syndrome and takes it out on the children.
- Played For Horror: Monny kills and eats any children he finds.
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