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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Frank Reynolds is a CorruptCorporateExecutive ''par excellence'' who brags about owning multiple sweatshops, once manipulated the entire city of Philadelphia into buying guns and water filters just to make a profit, and engages in every shady business practice imaginable. But the one line he [[EveryoneHasStandards absolutely refuses to cross]] is hurting kids.

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* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'': Frank Reynolds is a CorruptCorporateExecutive ''par excellence'' who brags about owning multiple sweatshops, once manipulated the entire city of Philadelphia into buying guns and water filters just to make a profit, and engages in every shady business practice imaginable. But the one line he [[EveryoneHasStandards absolutely refuses to cross]] is hurting kids.kids (though it's at least partially due to the fact that it's a crime that he doesn't think he can get away with).


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** In ''The Gang Goes to Ireland'', Frank reveals that he was a business associate of Jeffrey Epstein and had even gone to Little St. James, but insists that he had no idea of the sex crimes with kids going on and was only there to go snorkeling.
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--> '''Ethical Bug:''' You wouldn't shoot a puppy, would you?

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* ''Fanfic/{{Bruises}}'': [[spoiler:When Callaghan's actions are made known and he's arrested, everyone is utterly horrified, viewing him as a monster.]]
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* ''Fanfic/PapaBear'': The Dupain-Chengs, Child Services, and literally ''everyone'' who hears about it is horrified at the emotional abuse and neglect Adrien suffered at his father's hands for years. [[spoiler:Thanks to Tom Dupain's actions, Adrien is removed from his father's custody... especially once Adrien and Marinette learn that Gabriel is Hawkmoth and get him arrested]].
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Subtrope of ChildHater. Often coincides with AbusiveParents, PimpingTheOffspring, ParentalAbandonment, ParentalNeglect, OrphanageOfFear, and WouldHurtAChild. Can sometimes cross over with ParentsAsPeople, with the abuser not realizing until much later that their behavior was wrong and [[ToughLove thinking that they were doing the right thing]]. This can invoke VillainousParentalInstinct (for when villains object to hurting their ''own'' children). May also overlap with RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil. If the child is an animal (normal, [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]], or FunnyAnimal), then it's a crossover between this trope and BadPeopleAbuseAnimals. Contrasts with GoodParents, FriendToAllChildren, OrphanageOfLove, and AdoptingTheAbused. May occasionally lead to a moral of FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent.

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Subtrope of ChildHater. Often coincides with AbusiveParents, PimpingTheOffspring, ParentalAbandonment, ParentalNeglect, OrphanageOfFear, and WouldHurtAChild. Can sometimes cross over with ParentsAsPeople, with the abuser not realizing until much later that their behavior was wrong and [[ToughLove thinking that they were doing the right thing]]. This can invoke VillainousParentalInstinct (for when villains object to hurting their ''own'' children). May also overlap with RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil. If the child is an animal (normal, [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]], or FunnyAnimal), then it's a crossover between this trope and BadPeopleAbuseAnimals. If the children ended up in an abusive environment due to misjudgment on the part of Child Services, then this trope crosses over with DepartmentOfChildDisservices. Contrasts with GoodParents, FriendToAllChildren, OrphanageOfLove, and AdoptingTheAbused. May occasionally lead to a moral of FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent.



* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Wade Wilson is an assassin who's been known to do terrible things for money and doesn't always care who he's working for. But there are some lines [[EveryoneHasStandards he'll never cross]]. One of the biggest lines he'll never cross? [[WouldntHurtAChild Hurting kids]]. And he shows no mercy to any child abuser he finds. On at least two occasions, he's brutally killed people who he learned abused kids, and he did so [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness for free]].

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* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'': Wade Wilson is an assassin who's been known to do terrible things for money and doesn't always care who he's working for. But there are some lines [[EveryoneHasStandards he'll never cross]]. One of the biggest lines he'll never he won't cross? [[WouldntHurtAChild Hurting kids]]. And he shows no mercy to any child abuser he finds. On at least two occasions, he's brutally killed people who he learned abused kids, and he did so [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness for free]].
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* ''Fanfic/SymposiumOfSupremacy'': Leo and Himika Akaba are despised by actually ''Devils'' for how they corrupted and abused children for their own gains, to the point that they were sent off to the ''Arc-V'' version of ''Hell''.
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For obvious reasons, many works of fiction portray treating children like this as a particularly evil thing to do, with those who abuse children often being villains or at least [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains completely unlikable characters]]. Sometimes a character who abuses their child will eventually have a HeelRealization (possibly followed by a MyGodWhatHaveIDone) and try to [[HeelFaceTurn make things right]]. Other times, though, the abuser will be BeyondRedemption and face punishment (sometimes LaserGuidedKarma) for what they've done (or at least be hated/called out by others for what they've done). As for the abused, oftentimes others will be appalled and shocked at how they've been treated, and will [[AdoptingTheAbused take them in]] or find them [[FamilyOfChoice a new, healthier family]].

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For obvious reasons, many works of fiction portray treating children like this as a particularly evil thing to do, with those who abuse children often being shown as villains or at least [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains completely unlikable characters]]. Sometimes a character who abuses their child will eventually have a HeelRealization (possibly followed by a MyGodWhatHaveIDone) and try to [[HeelFaceTurn make things right]]. Other times, though, the abuser will be BeyondRedemption and face punishment (sometimes LaserGuidedKarma) for what they've done (or at least be hated/called out hated/[[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech called out]] by others for what they've done). As for the abused, oftentimes others will be appalled and shocked at how they've been treated, and will [[AdoptingTheAbused take them in]] or find them [[FamilyOfChoice a new, healthier family]].



Subtrope of ChildHater. Often coincides with AbusiveParents, ParentalAbandonment, ParentalNeglect, OrphanageOfFear, and WouldHurtAChild. Can sometimes cross over with ParentsAsPeople, with the abuser not realizing until much later that their behavior was wrong and [[ToughLove thinking that they were doing the right thing]]. This can invoke VillainousParentalInstinct (for when villains object to hurting their ''own'' children). May also overlap with RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil. If the child is an animal (normal, [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]], or FunnyAnimal), then it's a crossover between this trope and BadPeopleAbuseAnimals. Contrasts with GoodParents, FriendToAllChildren, OrphanageOfLove, and AdoptingTheAbused. May occasionally lead to a moral of FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent.

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Subtrope of ChildHater. Often coincides with AbusiveParents, PimpingTheOffspring, ParentalAbandonment, ParentalNeglect, OrphanageOfFear, and WouldHurtAChild. Can sometimes cross over with ParentsAsPeople, with the abuser not realizing until much later that their behavior was wrong and [[ToughLove thinking that they were doing the right thing]]. This can invoke VillainousParentalInstinct (for when villains object to hurting their ''own'' children). May also overlap with RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil and KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil. If the child is an animal (normal, [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]], or FunnyAnimal), then it's a crossover between this trope and BadPeopleAbuseAnimals. Contrasts with GoodParents, FriendToAllChildren, OrphanageOfLove, and AdoptingTheAbused. May occasionally lead to a moral of FriendsAreChosenFamilyArent.
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** In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Matilda's parents [[TheUnfavorite view her with apathy at best and scorn at worst]], because she's highly intelligent while they detest most forms of learning. While they never beat her, they do emotionally abuse her, doing things such as ripping up her books in her face. The Trunchbull, the headmistress at Matilda's school, was the abusive step-mother of [[CoolTeacher Miss Honey]], and now uses her job as a means of abusing (in various ways) children for the simplest of reasons (throwing one little girl like a javelin because she didn't like that she braided her hair). By the end, all abusers get their just desserts: [[spoiler:Trunchbull, through a prank pulled by Matilda's telekinesis, believes that she's being haunted by her late brother-in-law that she murdered, and is scared out of the country, never to be seen again. As for Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, they are found to be running a business selling stolen cars, and thus flee to Spain, willingly leaving Matilda with Miss Honey when the latter said she'd be happy to take care of her.]]

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** In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Matilda's parents [[TheUnfavorite view her with apathy at best and scorn at worst]], because she's highly intelligent while they detest most forms of learning. While they never beat her, they do emotionally abuse her, doing things such as ripping up her books in her face. The Trunchbull, the headmistress at Matilda's school, was the abusive step-mother of [[CoolTeacher Miss Honey]], and now uses her job as a means of abusing (in various ways) children for the simplest of reasons (throwing one little girl like a javelin because she (she didn't like that she one girl braided her hair).hair, so she threw her like an Olympic track and field hammer ''by the braids'' out of the schoolyard). By the end, all abusers get their just desserts: [[spoiler:Trunchbull, through a prank pulled by Matilda's telekinesis, believes that she's being haunted by her late brother-in-law that she murdered, and is scared out of the country, never to be seen again. As for Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, they are found to be running a business selling stolen cars, and thus flee to Spain, willingly leaving Matilda with Miss Honey when the latter said she'd be happy to take care of her.]]
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** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Averted. For many years Jean-Luc Picard had considered his father to be emotionally abusive to both him and his mother Yvette. Finally Picard came to realize his father wasn't the abusive man he regarded him as since Yvette struggled with severe mental illness which [[DrivenToSuicide drove her to commit suicide]], and that he had been trying to help both her and their son in the only way he knew how as Yvette had refused all mental treatment.

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** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Averted. Subverted. For many years years, Jean-Luc Picard had considered his father to be emotionally abusive to both him and his mother Yvette. Finally Finally, Picard came to realize his father wasn't the abusive man he regarded him as since Yvette struggled with severe mental illness which [[DrivenToSuicide drove her to commit suicide]], and that he had been trying to help both her and their son in the only way he knew how as Yvette had refused all mental treatment.
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For obvious reasons, many works of fiction portray treating children like this as an evil thing to do, with those who abuse children often being villains or at least [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains completely unlikable characters]]. Sometimes a character who abuses their child will eventually have a HeelRealization (possibly followed by a MyGodWhatHaveIDone) and try to [[HeelFaceTurn make things right]]. Other times, though, the abuser will be BeyondRedemption and face punishment (sometimes LaserGuidedKarma) for what they've done (or at least be hated/called out by others for what they've done). As for the abused, oftentimes others will be appalled and shocked at how they've been treated, and will [[AdoptingTheAbused take them in]] or find them [[FamilyOfChoice a new, healthier family]].

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For obvious reasons, many works of fiction portray treating children like this as an a particularly evil thing to do, with those who abuse children often being villains or at least [[JerksAreWorseThanVillains completely unlikable characters]]. Sometimes a character who abuses their child will eventually have a HeelRealization (possibly followed by a MyGodWhatHaveIDone) and try to [[HeelFaceTurn make things right]]. Other times, though, the abuser will be BeyondRedemption and face punishment (sometimes LaserGuidedKarma) for what they've done (or at least be hated/called out by others for what they've done). As for the abused, oftentimes others will be appalled and shocked at how they've been treated, and will [[AdoptingTheAbused take them in]] or find them [[FamilyOfChoice a new, healthier family]].
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* Roald Dahl's children's books often showed people who abused or disliked children as villains, with them more often than not getting their comeuppance by the end of the book (or at least making it so that the child protagonist never has to see them again). In life, Dahl was a noted hater of abusive foster homes/schools (aka places meant to ''protect'' children), having spent a portion of his childhood in a school where he was regularly bullied by the other boys and his teachers.

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* Roald Dahl's Creator/RoaldDahl's children's books often showed people who abused or disliked children as villains, with them more often than not getting their comeuppance by the end of the book (or at least making it so that the child protagonist never has to see them again). In life, Dahl was a noted hater of abusive foster homes/schools (aka places meant to ''protect'' children), having spent a portion of his childhood in a school where he was regularly bullied by the other boys and his teachers.
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* In the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'', the single most unambiguously evil organization in the series is the DG Cult, which kidnapped children to use them as guinea pigs for their various experiments, most of them eventually lethal. One branch also subsidized their operations by using their test subjects as a child brothel. By the start of the series proper, the cult had been wiped out by a variety of other parties, including ''other villainous organizations'', but the surviving children all have issues more than a decade later.

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* In the ''VideoGame/TrailsSeries'', the single most unambiguously evil organization in the series is the DG D∴G Cult, which kidnapped children to use them as guinea pigs for their various experiments, most of them eventually lethal. One branch also subsidized their operations by using their test subjects as a child brothel. By the start of the series proper, the cult had been wiped out by a variety of other parties, including ''other villainous organizations'', but the surviving children all have issues more than a decade later.
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Often TruthInTelevision, as the abuse of children is considered evil in many cultures. This is especially true in prisons: inmates with a history of abusing children are famously known to not fare well and are often [[EveryoneHasStandards attacked by their fellow inmates for their actions]].

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Often TruthInTelevision, as the abuse of children is considered evil in many cultures. This is especially true in prisons: inmates with a history of abusing children are famously known to not fare well and are often [[EveryoneHasStandards [[PariahPrisoner attacked by their fellow inmates for their actions]].
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* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': When Lelouch explains his backstory to the Autobots, they are so shocked and horrified by how Charles treated him and Nunnally, that they offer to groundbridge to Pendragon and blast him to smithereens. While Lelouch admits that he finds their offer tempting, he turns it down as killing Charles would lead to a power vacuum for which the EU and the Chinese Federation would take advantage of, and would lead to innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.

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* ''Fanfic/CodePrime'': When Lelouch explains his backstory to the Autobots, they are so shocked and horrified by how Charles treated him and Nunnally, that they offer to groundbridge to Pendragon and blast him to smithereens. While Lelouch admits that he finds their offer tempting, he turns it down as [[SimpleSolutionWontWork killing Charles would lead to a power vacuum for which the EU and the Chinese Federation would take advantage of, and would lead to innocent civilians getting caught in the crossfire.crossfire]].
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* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in the ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' episode "Perversions of Justice." A boy named Jimmy says that his teacher, Leonard Grissom, has molested him, and the police take the case extremely seriously. But it's not enough to stop a witch hunt from breaking out: the new editor of the town paper digs up dirt on Leonard's past (including the fact that he was mysteriously let go from another school without anyone knowing why and that he was found guilty of indecent exposure), Jimmy's father prepares to go full PapaWolf via vigilante justice, the principal bows to public pressure to fire Leonard, and Chief Gillespie can't do his job because the citizens treat his (completely normal) investigation as covering up the crime. The fervent belief in this trope only makes the situation worse--especially when it's revealed Leonard is completely innocent: Jimmy's story is full of inconsistencies, the "indecent exposure" Leonard committed was a stupid prank he played in college, and he ''voluntarily'' left his previous job after he had a mental breakdown over the death of his parents, which he didn't share publicly because he knew it might keep him from getting another teaching position. Ultimately, the truth isn't enough to stop the public's campaign, and Leonard, knowing that he'll inevitably be found guilty and treated horrifically in prison, chooses to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]] to escape. The episode ends with a furious Chief Gillespie chewing out the editor (and, by extension, the rest of the townspeople) for using this trope to ignore the facts and not giving Leonard the due process that he deserved.

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* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in the ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' episode "Perversions of Justice." A boy named Jimmy says that his teacher, Leonard Grissom, has molested him, and the police take the case extremely seriously. But it's not enough to stop a witch hunt from breaking out: the new editor of the town paper digs up dirt on Leonard's past (including the fact that he was mysteriously let go from another school without anyone knowing why and that he was found guilty of indecent exposure), Jimmy's father prepares to go full PapaWolf via vigilante justice, the principal bows to public pressure to fire Leonard, and Chief Gillespie can't do his job because the citizens treat his (completely normal) investigation as covering up the crime. The fervent belief in this trope only makes the situation worse--especially when it's revealed Leonard is completely innocent: Jimmy's story is full of inconsistencies, the "indecent exposure" Leonard committed was a stupid prank he played in college, and he ''voluntarily'' left his previous job after he had a mental breakdown over the death of his parents, which he didn't share publicly because he knew it might keep him from getting another teaching position. Ultimately, the truth isn't enough to stop the public's campaign, and Leonard, knowing that he'll inevitably be found guilty and treated horrifically in prison, chooses to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]] to escape. The episode ends with a furious Chief Gillespie chewing out the editor (and, by extension, the rest of the townspeople) for using this trope to ignore the facts and not giving Leonard the due process that he deserved.



---> '''Picard:''' [[TranquilFury Compensation?]] You've stolen our children away from their classrooms, away from their bedrooms, and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world and [[SuddenlyShouting yet you've just committed an act of utter barbarity!]]

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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarosa is shown to be one of the worst villains of the series when she whips her daughter Fate after Fate retrieved a number of Jewel Seeds on what could easily be described as a successful mission, only because Precia decided it wasn't successful enough. Fate's familiar Arf - who [[WouldHurtAChild had earlier threatened to kill Nanoha, herself a child]], if she kept interfering - is so horrified by Precia's treatment of Fate that she can barely stand to listen to it. And then at the climax of the first season, Precia delights in breaking Fate by revealing that [[spoiler:she's not her daughter, just a copy of her real daughter, Alicia, who died in an accident of Precia's own making. She'd tried to bring Alicia back, creating Fate in the process, but rejected her for not being the true Alicia.]]

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* ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'': Precia Testarosa is shown to be one of the worst villains of the series when she whips her daughter Fate after Fate retrieved a number of Jewel Seeds on what could easily be described as a successful mission, only because Precia decided it wasn't successful enough. Fate's familiar Arf - -- who [[WouldHurtAChild had earlier threatened to kill Nanoha, herself a child]], if she kept interfering - -- is so horrified by Precia's treatment of Fate that she can barely stand to listen to it. And then at the climax of the first season, Precia delights in breaking Fate by revealing that [[spoiler:she's not her daughter, just a copy of her real daughter, Alicia, who died in an accident of Precia's own making. She'd tried to bring Alicia back, creating Fate in the process, but rejected her for not being the true Alicia.]]



--> '''Ethical Bug''': You wouldn't shoot a puppy, would you?
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-->'''Dick Tracy''': We've got a place for people who beat up kids.

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-->'''Dick Tracy''': Tracy:''' We've got a place for people who beat up kids.



-->'''Shaw''': [[TranquilFury You were gonna shoot a baby?]] ''Really?!?'' You sick ''bastard!'' (''to baby Brian'') You're [[NotInFrontOfTheKid not gonna want to see this]]. (''turns the baby carrier so Brian doesn't see Shaw beat the mook's face into a wall'')

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-->'''Shaw''': -->'''Shaw:''' [[TranquilFury You were gonna shoot a baby?]] ''Really?!?'' You sick ''bastard!'' (''to baby Brian'') You're [[NotInFrontOfTheKid not gonna want to see this]]. (''turns the baby carrier so Brian doesn't see Shaw beat the mook's face into a wall'')



** In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Matilda's parents [[TheUnfavorite view her with apathy at best and scorn at worst]], because she's highly intelligent while they detest most forms of learning. While they never beat her, they do emotionally abuse her, doing things such as ripping up her books in her face. The Trunchbull, the headmistress at Matilda's school, was the abusive step-mother of [[CoolTeacher Miss Honey]], and now uses her job as a means of abusing (in various ways) children for the simplest of reasons (throwing one little girl like a javelin because she didn't like that she braided her hair). By the end, all abusers get their just desserts: [[spoiler: Trunchbull, through a prank pulled by Matilda's telekinesis, believes that she's being haunted by her late brother-in-law that she murdered, and is scared out of the country, never to be seen again. As for Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, they are found to be running a business selling stolen cars, and thus flee to Spain, willingly leaving Matilda with Miss Honey when the latter said she'd be happy to take care of her.]]

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** In ''Literature/{{Matilda}}'', Matilda's parents [[TheUnfavorite view her with apathy at best and scorn at worst]], because she's highly intelligent while they detest most forms of learning. While they never beat her, they do emotionally abuse her, doing things such as ripping up her books in her face. The Trunchbull, the headmistress at Matilda's school, was the abusive step-mother of [[CoolTeacher Miss Honey]], and now uses her job as a means of abusing (in various ways) children for the simplest of reasons (throwing one little girl like a javelin because she didn't like that she braided her hair). By the end, all abusers get their just desserts: [[spoiler: Trunchbull, [[spoiler:Trunchbull, through a prank pulled by Matilda's telekinesis, believes that she's being haunted by her late brother-in-law that she murdered, and is scared out of the country, never to be seen again. As for Mr. and Mrs. Wormwood, they are found to be running a business selling stolen cars, and thus flee to Spain, willingly leaving Matilda with Miss Honey when the latter said she'd be happy to take care of her.]]



** We first see this side of him when he is forced to confront two meth users who ripped off one of his dealers and is horrified to find their young son home alone in squalid conditions. When the parents eventually arrive, he berates them for their neglect, and after [[spoiler: the mother violently kills the father in front of them both]], he carries the poor kid out and sincerely wishes him a great life.

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** We first see this side of him when he is forced to confront two meth users who ripped off one of his dealers and is horrified to find their young son home alone in squalid conditions. When the parents eventually arrive, he berates them for their neglect, and after [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the mother violently kills the father in front of them both]], he carries the poor kid out and sincerely wishes him a great life.



---> '''Picard''': [[TranquilFury Compensation?]] You've stolen our children away from their classrooms, away from their bedrooms, and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world and [[SuddenlyShouting yet you've just committed an act of utter barbarity!]]

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--->'''Batman''': I don't pass judgement; that's for the courts. But this time, '''''this time''''', I'm sorely tempted to do the job myself!

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--->'''Batman''': --->'''Batman:''' I don't pass judgement; that's for the courts. But this time, '''''this time''''', I'm sorely tempted to do the job myself!
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* ''Manga/{{xxxHolic}}'': Kohane Tsuyuri's mother is quite a StageMom who physically abuses her and takes advantage of her reputation as an exorcist so she can use her fame and wealth for selfish reasons. What's worse is her mother refuses to call her by name and touch her. When Kohane befriends Kimihiro Watanuki, her mother is against their relationship and at one point, hits Watanuki, causing Kohane to realize that she had enough and leave her mother instead. As much as Kohane wishes her mother to love her again, Yuko reveals that she cannot fulfill her wish because her mother has to be willing to change.
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* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'': During "Evacuation," the family's forced to take shelter in the high school gym due to a massive chemical spill (unknowingly caused by Hal leaving an old couch on the train tracks). Lois had told Malcolm he was grounded earlier in the day and extends the punishment while they're in the gym, forbidding him from leaving his cot for any reason. Malcolm eventually grows sick of his mother's unreasonable demands, calling her out in front of everyone to which she responds by spanking him. As in lightly tapping him on the behind in front of all their neighbors. ''Everyone'' who sees this is horrified and disgusted that Lois would go that far, regardless of the lack of force, and she's thus forced outside alongside Hal, Reese and Dewey (who were kicked out for different reasons).

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* ''Film/DickTracy'': The titular detective takes chase after witnessing the robbery of a pocket watch committed by [[StreetUrchin The Kid]]. The reason for the robbery is soon revealed when the Kid arrives at a small shack owned by Steve the Tramp, a homeless crook who took The Kid under his wing, making him to commit petty thefts in exchange for food. In response to The Kid reaching for a piece of chicken after delivering the watch, Steve harshly pushes the kid into furniture, just in time for Dick Tracy to catch him in the act. After a small brawl that destroys Steve's shack, Tracy states his disgust while cuffing him.
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* Film/DickTracy: The titular detective takes chase after witnessing the robbery of a pocket watch committed by [[StreetUrchin The Kid]]. The reason for the robbery is soon revealed when the Kid arrives at a small shack owned by Steve the Tramp, a homeless crook who took The Kid under his wing, making him to commit petty thefts in exchange for food. In response to The Kid reaching for a piece of chicken after delivering the watch, Steve harshly pushes the kid into furniture, just in time for Dick Tracy to catch him in the act. After a small brawl that destroys Steve's shack, Tracy states his disgust while cuffing him.
-->'''Dick Tracy''': We've got a place for people who beat up kids.
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** This is also Stabler's {{berserk button}}, with there being multiple instances of him coming close to or outright violating department policy or even the law when dealing with suspects who abuse children, especially when it's they're own children they're abusing.

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Children are considered precious by many. A lot of people [[FriendToAllChildren like them and want to protect them]]. Even the worst villains can honestly say that they WouldntHurtAChild [[EvenEvilHasStandards and are appalled by people who would]].

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Children are considered precious by many. A lot of people [[FriendToAllChildren like them and want to protect them]]. Even the worst villains can honestly say that they WouldntHurtAChild and [[EvenEvilHasStandards and are appalled by people who would]].
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* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': In the episode "Our Mrs. Reynolds", Book mentions a "special hell" reserved for child molesters ([[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and people who talk in the theater]]).
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--> '''Picard''': [[TranquilFury Compensation?]] You've stolen our children away from their classrooms, away from their bedrooms, and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world and [[SuddenlyShouting yet you've just committed an act of utter barbarity!]]

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--> ---> '''Picard''': [[TranquilFury Compensation?]] You've stolen our children away from their classrooms, away from their bedrooms, and you talk about compensation? You claim to be a civilized world and [[SuddenlyShouting yet you've just committed an act of utter barbarity!]]

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* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Despite not being very good with children, Captain Picard is extremely protective of them. He's fond of his young nephew (who idolizes him) and has been shown to completely go off whenever someone does anything to hurt children. This is shown as early as the episode "When The Bough Breaks" in season one:

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''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': Despite not being very good with children, Captain Picard is extremely protective of them. He's fond of his young nephew (who idolizes him) and has been shown to completely go off whenever someone does anything to hurt children. This is shown as early as the episode "When The Bough Breaks" in season one:


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** ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': Averted. For many years Jean-Luc Picard had considered his father to be emotionally abusive to both him and his mother Yvette. Finally Picard came to realize his father wasn't the abusive man he regarded him as since Yvette struggled with severe mental illness which [[DrivenToSuicide drove her to commit suicide]], and that he had been trying to help both her and their son in the only way he knew how as Yvette had refused all mental treatment.
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* Film/DickTracy: The titular detective takes chase after witnessing the robbery of a pocket watch committed by [[StreetUrchin The Kid]]. The reason for the robbery is soon revealed when the Kid arrives at a small shack owned by Steve the Tramp, a homeless crook who took The Kid under his wing, making him to commit petty thefts in exchange for food. In response to The Kid reaching for a piece of chicken after delivering the watch, Steve harshly pushes the kid into furniture, just in time for Dick Tracy to catch him in the act. After a small brawl that destroys Steve's shack, Tracy states his disgust while cuffing him.
-->'''Dick Tracy''': We've got a place for people who beat up kids.
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** Then partway through Season 5, Walt, Jesse, and their new associate Todd celebrate a successful train heist, [[spoiler:except they turn to see a kid watching them. Todd instinctively pulls out a gun and shoots the kid dead.]] The incident drives Jesse to a deep depression and leads to him breaking off his partnership with Walt, who disturbingly isn't phased by the incident to show just how far he's fallen.

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** Then partway through Season 5, Walt, Jesse, and their new associate Todd celebrate a successful train heist, [[spoiler:except they turn to see a kid watching them. Todd instinctively pulls out a gun and shoots the kid dead.]] The incident drives Jesse to a deep depression and leads to him breaking off his partnership with Walt, who disturbingly isn't phased fazed by the incident to show just how far he's fallen.
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** This is also Stabler's [[berserk button]], with there being multiple instances of him coming close to or outright violating department policy or even the law when dealing with suspects who abuse children, especially when it's they're own children they're abusing.

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** This is also Stabler's [[berserk button]], {{berserk button}}, with there being multiple instances of him coming close to or outright violating department policy or even the law when dealing with suspects who abuse children, especially when it's they're own children they're abusing.
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** In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E5SE5SevenSeconds Seven Seconds]]", a girl goes missing from a mall. The team determines that the [=UnSub=] is [[spoiler:Katie's aunt, who's husband was sexually abusing Katie. In a case of MisplacedRetribution, she abducted the girl and left her to die.]] Prentiss gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for [[BlamingTheVictim blaming Katie]] for [[spoiler:her husband's actions]].

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** In "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E5SE5SevenSeconds "[[Recap/CriminalMindsS3E5SevenSeconds Seven Seconds]]", a girl goes missing from a mall. The team determines that the [=UnSub=] is [[spoiler:Katie's aunt, who's husband was sexually abusing Katie. In a case of MisplacedRetribution, she abducted the girl and left her to die.]] Prentiss gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for [[BlamingTheVictim blaming Katie]] for [[spoiler:her husband's actions]].

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