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* ''Literature/{{Renegades}}'' opens with Nova's infant sister being shot and killed.
* ''Literature/WhereAreTheChildren'':
** Siblings Peter and Lisa Harmon were intentionally smothered to death when they were just five and four years old, respectively.
** Thurston Givens' only child died of flu when they were just five years old, so he empathises with Nancy and Ray when they face a similar situation.
* ''Literature/WhereTheRedFernGrows'': After Billy's dogs Old Dan and Little Ann manage to tree the raccoon, Billy cannot bring himself to kill it. Billy tries to stop the Pritchards from killing the raccoon, leading to a fight with Rubin and the Pritchards' dog Old Blue joins. Old Dan and Little Ann attack Old Blue and drag him away from Billy. Rubin tries to scare Billy's dogs away with an axe, but [[AccidentalSuicide trips and falls on the blade, killing himself]]. Billy is deeply troubled by the tragic turn of events, but does not regret his choice to spare the ghost coon.
** Siblings Peter and Lisa Harmon were intentionally smothered to death when they were just five and four years old, respectively.
** Thurston Givens' only child died of flu when they were just five years old, so he empathises with Nancy and Ray when they face a similar situation.
* ''Literature/WhereTheRedFernGrows'': After Billy's dogs Old Dan and Little Ann manage to tree the raccoon, Billy cannot bring himself to kill it. Billy tries to stop the Pritchards from killing the raccoon, leading to a fight with Rubin and the Pritchards' dog Old Blue joins. Old Dan and Little Ann attack Old Blue and drag him away from Billy. Rubin tries to scare Billy's dogs away with an axe, but [[AccidentalSuicide trips and falls on the blade, killing himself]]. Billy is deeply troubled by the tragic turn of events, but does not regret his choice to spare the ghost coon.
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* ''Literature/{{Renegades}}'' opens with Nova's infant sister being shot and killed.
* ''Literature/WhereTheRedFernGrows'': After Billy's dogs Old Dan and Little Ann manage to tree the raccoon, Billy cannot bring himself to kill it. Billy tries to stop the Pritchards from killing the raccoon, leading to a fight with Rubin and the Pritchards' dog Old Blue joins. Old Dan and Little Ann attack Old Blue and drag him away from Billy. Rubin tries to scare Billy's dogs away with an axe, but [[AccidentalSuicide trips and falls on the blade, killing himself]]. Billy is deeply troubled by the tragic turn of events, but does not regret his choice to spare the ghost coon.
* ''Literature/WhereTheRedFernGrows'': After Billy's dogs Old Dan and Little Ann manage to tree the raccoon, Billy cannot bring himself to kill it. Billy tries to stop the Pritchards from killing the raccoon, leading to a fight with Rubin and the Pritchards' dog Old Blue joins. Old Dan and Little Ann attack Old Blue and drag him away from Billy. Rubin tries to scare Billy's dogs away with an axe, but [[AccidentalSuicide trips and falls on the blade, killing himself]]. Billy is deeply troubled by the tragic turn of events, but does not regret his choice to spare the ghost coon.
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* In ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'', serial killer Patrick Bateman stabs a little boy to death in a zoo, just to see if he'd enjoy it. He doesn't (not because of guilt). He also kills a dog once (along with its owner).
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* In ''Literature/AmericanPsycho'', serial killer Patrick Bateman stabs a little boy to death in a zoo, just to see if he'd enjoy it. He doesn't (not because of guilt). He also kills a dog once (along with its owner).
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* One of the major traumas haunting protagonist Oliver Winslow in ''Literature/BarberBlackSheep'' is the death of his little sister, Lucy, as an infant.
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* The plot of ''Literature/TheMayorOfChristMountain'' is kicked off by the main character witnessing his young son being shot dead.
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* ''Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection'': In ''[[Literature/AmericanGirlsKirsten Meet Kirsten]]'', as Kirsten, her family, and their fellow Swedish immigrants are traveling by riverboat from Illinois to Minnesota, her best friend Marta, a nine-year-old like herself, contracts cholera and dies. This serves as a harrowing lesson to young readers about the sad historical fact that many 19th century immigrants and pioneers, including children, never reached their destination.
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* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'':
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* ''Literature/{{Stray}}'':''Literature/{{Stray|1987}}'':
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* In Norma Fox Mazer's ''Saturday, the Twelfth of October'' Lishum has a series of feverish delusions, then slips into a coma and dies.
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* In Norma Fox Mazer's ''Saturday, the Twelfth of October'' Lishum is stung by a bee and apparently gets meningitis. He has a series of feverish delusions, then slips into a coma and dies.dies. His death profoundly affects the 20th-century young woman who is living with his people, because he looks and acts very much like her own brother.
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* ''Raiders of {{Gor}}'': a band of slavers has destroyed a small village which Tarl had been a slave in. He's glad that they were all killed or taken prisoner, until he sees the body of a small boy who had been nice to him once. Cue BerserkButton.
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* ''Raiders of {{Gor}}'': a band of slavers has destroyed a small village which Tarl had been a slave in. He's glad that they were all killed or taken prisoner, until he sees the body of a small boy who had been nice to him once. Cue BerserkButton.anger.
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* In the ''Literature/KeeperOfTheSwords'' series by Creator/NickPerumov, DarkMagicalGirl Sylvia, being in a city overrun with monsters, hears a plea for help, coming from a 6-year old girl. She rushes in, but cannot save the girl anymore. This sets Sylvia in a [[BerserkButton deep rage]]. Cue Sylvia inviting all monsters in a city to feast on her, and when they really come proceeds to hack them all in pieces with her sword. She single-handedly defeats a monster army capable of overrunning dozens of local wizards.
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* In the ''Literature/KeeperOfTheSwords'' series by Creator/NickPerumov, DarkMagicalGirl Sylvia, being in a city overrun with monsters, hears a plea for help, coming from a 6-year old girl. She rushes in, but cannot save the girl anymore. This sets Sylvia in a [[BerserkButton deep rage]].rage. Cue Sylvia inviting all monsters in a city to feast on her, and when they really come proceeds to hack them all in pieces with her sword. She single-handedly defeats a monster army capable of overrunning dozens of local wizards.
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* Legend has it that Creator/ErnestHemingway composed the following short story, a Dead Baby Drama that clocks in at six words:
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* Legend has it that Creator/ErnestHemingway composed [[Literature/HemingwaysSixWordStory the following short story, story]], a Dead Baby Drama that clocks in at six words:
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* ''Literature/TheGiver'': A 4-year-old boy named Caleb wanders away and drowns in the river near the Community.
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* In ''Literature/FateZero'' Caster brutally kills a young boy after giving him a cruel HopeSpot by making it look like he was letting him go from where his master, Uryuu, had kidnapped the child and intended to kill him. In the anime the actual death happens offscreen but what we [[SoundOnlyDeath hear]] is more than enough to convey how terrible it was.
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* ''Literature/QualiaThePurple''. Not only is [[spoiler:Yukari's death]] ''the'' biggest event in the manga that starts off the story proper, there are implications that several of Hatou's parallel universe selves ended up dying at varying young ages. The youngest seems to currently be her parallel universe self that lives in a universe where magic is real and she died trying, and failing, to teleport through a brick wall...
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* In ''Literature/TheLeapfroggedConsoleWars'', Prince William is only thirteen when he and his father Charles are among the 50 killed in an IRA car bomb on March 1, 1996.
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* Creator/RobertFrost's long narrative poem "Home Burial" details the breakdown of a couple's marriage as they have a fight after their first child has died. It is generally regarded as the most depressing thing he ever wrote.
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* Creator/RobertFrost's long narrative poem "Home Burial" details the [[GriefInducedSplit breakdown of a couple's marriage marriage]] as they have a fight after their first child has died. It is generally regarded as the most depressing thing he ever wrote.
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* ''Literature/HannibalRising'': The plot revolves around Hannibal seeking revenge on the Nazis who killed and [[ImAHumanitarian ate his sister.]]
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* ''Literature/HannibalRising'': The plot revolves around Hannibal seeking revenge on the Nazis who killed and [[ImAHumanitarian ate his sister.]]sister]].
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* In ''Literature/MurderOnTheOrientExpress'', the plot is triggered by the backstory death of little Daisy Armstrong, who was kidnapped and murdered [[spoiler:by the train passenger who is murdered by other passengers, all of whom are relatives, friends, or former employees of the Armstrong family or otherwise connected to the case]]. Daisy's still-gestating sibling dies as well, when the shock of Daisy's death triggers premature labor. Mom does not survive the premature birth either, triggering Dad's suicide.
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* ''Literature/TheDiariesOfTheFamilyDracul'': In ''Children of the Vampire'', Abraham comes across the body of a young girl recently bitten by a vampire, and is forced to kill her as she rises from the grave as a newly-transformed vampire.
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* ''Literature/InTheMidstOfWinter'': Richard's DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:he accidentally killed his daughter Bibi by hitting her with his car while in a drunken stupor]].
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** Toklo's twin brother Tobi [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath graphically dies]] early in the first book of starvation and [[IllGirl illness]]. Tobi's death causes Oka to [[ParentalAbandonment abandon Toklo]] because she has lost her previous litters and didn't want to see more of her cubs die.
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** Toklo's twin brother Tobi [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath graphically dies]] early in the first book of starvation and [[IllGirl [[DelicateAndSickly illness]]. Tobi's death causes Oka to [[ParentalAbandonment abandon Toklo]] because she has lost her previous litters and didn't want to see more of her cubs die.
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** A squad of reformed criminals located a creche containing the eggs of a race of evil humanoid snakemen, and destroyed every last one, dooming the race to extinction. Justified by the fact that all snakemen are inherently evil from the moment they hatched, demonstrated when one hatched while the squad was busy.
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** A squad of reformed criminals located a creche containing the eggs of a race of evil humanoid snakemen, and destroyed every last one, dooming the race to extinction. Justified by the fact that all snakemen are inherently evil from the moment they hatched, hatch, demonstrated when one hatched while the squad was busy.
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