Basic Trope: A child is forced to kill someone.
- Straight: 10 year old Charlie is forced to kill someone.
- Exaggerated:
- 2 year old Charlie is forced to kill someone.
- All of the children are forced to kill someone.
- Downplayed:
- 15 year old Charlie is forced to kill someone.
- Charlie is forced to severely injure someone.
- Justified: Charlie is a Child Soldier.
- Inverted:
- Young Charlie is forced to bring someone back to life.
- Someone is forced to kill a child.
- Subverted:
- Charlie is implied to have been forced into killing someone, but he reveals he did it by his own accord.
- Charlie didn't actually kill the person.
- Charlie is Older Than They Look.
- Double Subverted: Despite being an Enfant Terrible, Charlie actually was forced to kill someone this time.
- Parodied: Charlie's preschool
- Zig-Zagged: The fate of Charlie's victim is unknown.
- Averted: Children aren't forced to kill anyone.
- Enforced: "We should give Charlie a very tragic moment in his childhood. How about him being forced to kill someone?"
- Lampshaded: "What kind of pussy uses children as assassins? You intentionally cause a death and scar a child for life, but pulling the trigger yourself is too much?"
- Invoked: Kyle uses Child Soldiers because they are more feeble and unable to rebel as easily.
- Exploited: The local child killer signs up to the opposing army specifically to kill them without getting arrested.
- Defied: Charlie refuses to kill anyone.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: A young Charlie is seen holding a weapon while near a dead body, as he asks "My God, What Have I Done?"
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