History DeathOfAChild / ComicBooks

* The viewpoint character of ''Generation M'', Sally Floyd, lost her four-year-old daughter Minnie and ended up turning to alcoholism to cope. We don't find out the exact circumstances of Minnie's death until the end of the series: [[spoiler:she was a mutant whose powers caused her to [[DeathByDeaging de-age uncontrollably]]. To add insult to injury, Minnie's death happened a couple months shy of [[ComicBookHouseOfM M-Day]], which could have de-powered and thus saved her.]]

* The death of Arthur Jr., Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'s infant son during ''ComicBook/DeathOfAPrince'' in TheSeventies, who was killed in issue 60 after he was suffocated by Aquaman's nemesis, Black Manta. Notable in that the death occurred at a time when UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode of Authority's censorship standards were still rather strict.

* The death of Arthur Jr., Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'s infant son during TheSeventies, who was killed in issue 60 after he was suffocated by Aquaman's nemesis, Black Manta. Notable in that the death occurred at a time when UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode of Authority's censorship standards were still rather strict.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' had Buddy Baker [[OutlivingOnesOffspring outlive]] his 9-year-old son Cliff and his 5-year-old daughter Maxine after they and his wife Ellen were murdered, but later Morrison's AuthorAvatar uses their AuthorPowers to [[DeathIsCheap resurrect]] Buddy's family at the end of their run. Cliff Baker would later be killed ''again'' in the ''ComicBook/New52'' series by Creator/JeffLemire, but this time his death would stick and wouldn't even be undone after ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' in spite of the primary purpose of the Rebirth initiative being to restore the DCU to how it was pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}''.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' had Buddy Baker [[OutlivingOnesOffspring]] outlive his 9-year-old son Cliff and his 5-year-old daughter Maxine after they and his wife Ellen were murdered, but later Morrison's AuthorAvatar uses their AuthorPowers to [[DeathIsCheap resurrect]] Buddy's family at the end of their run. Cliff Baker would later be killed ''again'' in the ''ComicBook/New52'' series by Creator/JeffLemire, but this time his death would stick and wouldn't even be undone after ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' in spite of the primary purpose of the Rebirth initiative being to restore the DCU to how it was pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}''.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' had Buddy Baker [[OutlivingOnesOffspring]] outlive his 9-year-old son Cliff and his 5-year-old daughter Maxine after they and his wife Ellen were murdered, but later Morrison's AuthorAvatar uses their AuthorPowers to [[DeathIsCheap resurrect]] Buddy's family at the end of their run. Cliff Baker would later be killed ''again'' in the ''ComicBook/New52'' series by Creator/JeffLemire'', but this time his death would stick and wouldn't even be undone after ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' in spite of the primary purpose of the Rebirth initiative being to restore the DCU to how it was pre-''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}}''.

** Cú Cullan comes across the corpse of a child at the beginning of the invasion of Ulla, in which Morrigan taunts him over not being there to protect the child in time.

* "The Gauntlet" arc from the ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'' story sees longtime recurring Franchise/SpiderMan character Billy Conners [[spoiler: getting eaten alive by his own father after the Lizard side completely takes him over.]]

** In ''Comicbook/{{Flashpoint}}'', Joe Chill accidentally kills 8 year old Bruce Wayne instead of his parents.

* In ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine''. The entire point of the recurrence is that the gods are incarnated as young adults, who will die within two years. Minerva, the youngest, will be dead before she's ''fourteen''.

* ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost'':

* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Ulysses Armstrong accidentally kills his brother and sister when he sets off a bomb right next to the parked car they're sitting in. While his brother was a young teen his sister was quite young and as he [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes actually cared about them]] he blames Robin for their deaths even though he's the one who built the bomb and pressed the button to set it off.

* A particularly [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] example is New 52 ComicBook/HarleyQuinn giving out various handheld video games to both children and adults, then setting off the bombs while crying and being portrayed as an outright hero in another book in the same continuity the next week.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has a sequence with Death doing her rounds. One of the people she collects is a young baby, a victim of cot death when its mother leaves the room to warm a bottle for it.
--> '''Infant's Spirit:''' That's it? That's all I get?
--> '''Death:''' I'm afraid so.

* In Franchise/MarvelComics ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' series, Genis time-travels to the future and meets his own evil, power-mad son, Ely. To defeat him, Genis [[spoiler:time-travels again and murders his son in the cradle. 'Cause raising him not to be evil and power-mad would be too much work]]?

* ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'' has a particularly disturbing example, on-panel and [[CensoredChildDeath uncensored]]: [[spoiler: in the last issue its protagonist, the mostly-good child incarnation of Loki, has to ritually sacrifice himself and be replaced as part of a MemoryGambit by the original, evil adult Loki. It involves eating the magpie containing a copy of the original Loki's memories and then placing Mephisto's Fear Crown on his head, and it's bloody and PlayedForHorror and tragedy.]]

* The ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' issue introducing the {{Big Bad}}s has them disposing of the [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent local-reality analogues]] of Franchise/GreenLantern, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and Franchise/WonderWoman before they assume their Super Hero identities. Naturally, the Superman analogue is a baby at the time, and is killed entirely offhandedly. And let's NOT go into how Drummer was rescued... Worst. Rescue. Ever. Indeed.
* In the "One Man's War" one-shot of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', a young girl gets half of her head blown off in the crossfire between special forces operatives and terrorists.

* Creator/MarvelComics: One of the things that made ComicBook/{{Magneto}} from ''Comicbook/XMen'' turn into a psycho would-be world conqueror was the death by fire of his daughter Anya, who was somewhere between the ages of 2 and 5. A group of humans were attempting to beat Magneto, possibly to death, for having extorted his full pay out of a cheating boss with powers he had just manifested that day, while at the same time his daughter was screaming out the window of the second story of an inn on fire. Having just learned he ''had'' powers, he couldn't control them well enough to free himself of his attackers and save his daughter until she had burned to death, at which point he went temporarily insane and killed everyone except his wife (everyone on the street, at least, and some sources indicate possibly everyone in the city). This led his wife to run from him in terror. It is possible that the fire at the inn was arson, given the remarkable coincidence of the inn burning down at the ''same'' time as the gang attacking him.

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* The [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' opens with members of the tribe butchering a father vacationing in Washington, D.C. with his son.... and then as the child starts crying they slaughter him too. It all goes downhill from there, folks...

** Two ComicBook/{{Robin}}s have died. Damian was around ten while the above mentioned Jason was fifteen. Both ended up revived in the end, though Jason CameBackWrong.

* "The Gauntlet" arc from the ''ComicBook/BrandNewDay'' story sees longtime recurring Franchise/SpiderMan character Billy Conners [[spoiler: getting eaten alive by his own father after the Lizard side completely takes him over.]]
* In Franchise/MarvelComics ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' series, Genis time-travels to the future and meets his own evil, power-mad son, Ely. To defeat him, Genis [[spoiler:time-travels again and murders his son in the cradle. 'Cause raising him not to be evil and power-mad would be too much work]]?
* Quite horrifically portrayed in the series ''Crawlspace: [=XXXombies=],'' when the zombie outbreak hits a maternity ward.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Fray}}'', Urkonn the demon Watcher kills a young girl Fray regards as her little sister, then [[MotivationalLie blames it on the vampires in order to spur her into defeating the vampires]].
* A particularly [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]] example is New 52 ComicBook/HarleyQuinn giving out various handheld video games to both children and adults, then setting off the bombs while crying.
* The ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'' issue introducing the {{Big Bad}}s has them disposing of the [[AlternateCompanyEquivalent local-reality analogues]] of Franchise/GreenLantern, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and Franchise/WonderWoman before they assume their Super Hero identities. Naturally, the Superman analogue is a baby at the time, and is killed entirely offhandedly. And let's NOT go into how Drummer was rescued... Worst. Rescue. Ever. Indeed.
* In the "One Man's War" one-shot of ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', a young girl gets half of her head blown off in the crossfire between special forces operatives and terrorists.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'':
** It's revealed in a flashback that [[spoiler:General Zakharov, in order to draw an enemy force out of hiding, THREW A BABY OFF A CLIFF]].
** In another story arc Mafia boss Nicky Cavella killed a rival boss' young son and fed him to him.

* Creator/MarvelComics: One of the things that made ComicBook/{{Magneto}} from ''Comicbook/XMen'' turn into a psycho would-be world conqueror was the death by fire of his daughter Anya, who was somewhere between the ages of 2 and 5. A group of humans were attempting to beat Magneto, possibly to death, for having extorted his full pay out of a cheating boss with powers he had just manifested that day, while at the same time his daughter was screaming out the window of the second story of an inn on fire. Having just learned he ''had'' powers, he couldn't control them well enough to free himself of his attackers and save his daughter until she had burned to death, at which point he went temporarily insane and killed everyone except his wife (everyone on the street, at least, and some sources indicate possibly everyone in the city). This led his wife to run from him in terror. It is possible that the fire at the inn was arson, given the remarkable coincidence of the inn burning down at the ''same'' time as the gang attacking him.
* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel
** ''ComicBook/UltimateXMen'' had a Sentinel incinerating a young mutant mother and her infant.
** ''ComicBook/UltimateVision'': During the final battle Tarleton overrides Dima's personality (an artificial girl) and turns her into a living bomb, that blows up the Gah Lak Tus module. It granted victory and saved the world, but enraged Vision.
* In ''[[ComicBook/RobinSeries Robin]]'' Ulysses Armstrong accidentally kills his brother and sister when he sets off a bomb right next to the parked car they're sitting in. While his brother was a young teen his sister was quite young and as he [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes actually cared about them]] he blames Robin for their deaths even though he's the one who built the bomb and pressed the button to set it off.
* ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'': [[spoiler: Gert]] dies, becoming one of the first teen superheroes to do so.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has a sequence with Death doing her rounds. One of the people she collects is a young baby, a victim of cot death when its mother leaves the room to warm a bottle for it.
--> '''Infant's Spirit:''' That's it? That's all I get?
--> '''Death:''' I'm afraid so.

* ''ComicBook/LesLegendaires'' plays with this trope interestingly: the story takes place in a world where, thanks to a curse, everyone is trapped in a children's body and unable to grow up beyond the age of twelve. And the series is not afraid to kill off characters, so we ''do'' see children being killed ''every time'' someone die onscreen, but they aren't necessarily technically children.
* In the ''ComicBook/MaximumCarnage'' storyline Carnage killed several children in his rampage.
* ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost'':
** ComicBook/{{X 23}}'s first mission is the assassination of a presidential candidate. It ends as a bloody rampage in which she killed the candidate, his wife, his children, and ''everyone else in the room''.
** It's strongly implied that Laura killed other children on her missions for the Facility, as well.
* In ''ComicBook/TheUnfunnies'', Troy Hicks murders a lot of people in the universe of his comic strip ''The Funnies'', and that includes children.
* In ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'''s [[WhamEpisode Wham Issue]], [[spoiler:Rick's baby]] is among the ''many'' casualties. Aside from that, several of the zombies in the background are children.

* In ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine''. The entire point of the recurrence is that the gods are incarnated as young adults, who will die within two years. Minerva, the youngest, will be dead before she's ''fourteen''.

* In ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW'', Hamato Yoshi's sons were killed. The titular turtles are their {{reincarnation}}s.