History Main / ChildHater

* In ''WesternAnimation/SantaInc'', the protagonist Candy is an elf who wants to become the new Santa but when put in an environment with children proves to be extremely uncomfortable with them. Upon seeing this, [[spoiler:the current Santa states that while she has the necessary business skills for the position the fact that she hates kids (which in turn causes them to hate her) means that she would be a poor fit for the position]].

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-956 SCP-956]] is a [[KillerTeddyBear living pinata]] that despises children for obvious reasons, and [[ChildEater kills them]] by [[ForcedTransformation transforming them into pinatas]] and bludgeoning them to death. When given [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3392 SCP-3392]], a set of enchanted Halloween masks that make monsters look like human children, it visibly retched before clawing at its face in an attempt to remove it. The Foundation had to relocate it to another site after they caught it staring ominously at an elementary school... ''several miles away''.

A Child Hater can be either gender, and often either a [[RichBitch glamorous woman with a shallow personality]], or a [[GrumpyOldMan bitter, cantankerous old man]]. The fact that they themselves were once a child never seems entirely relevant to them, though, in a few cases, said child hater [[FreudianExcuse may have had]] [[MaddenIntoMisanthropy a difficult childhood]] filled with trying to deal with [[KidsAreCruel other, less than kind children]], or may have become embittered by an early adulthood of dealing with kids at their worst. Ironically, for some reason they have a tendency to have a career that involves working with children, such as a camp counselor or a SadistTeacher. They may be in a job that focuses on children (teacher, host of a children's TV show, toymaker), or as a particular type of DepravedKidsShowHost. Otherwise, they are likely to become a CrankyNeighbor who [[FunHatingConfiscatingAdult confiscates any toy or other plaything of theirs that lands on their property]].

* Yahtzee of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' has made it clear that he finds children annoying.

'''George''': No -- a mistake, not a joke. Nature, my boy, has no sense of humor. Nature goofed.

** [[JerkAss Severus Snape]] is very-much-portrayed-as hating kids. Why does he take a job as a professor who deals with young, vulnerable, impressionable children only for the sake of the plot, which requires him to be at Hogwarts? He is never once shown in the books to be comforting, mentoring, or in any way acting as a positive role model for his students, with the only possible exception of Draco Malfoy. He fights for the "good guys", but not out of love for Harry or any other child, but rather [[spoiler: due to his promise to be a spy in exchange for Dumbledore protecting two of his own soldiers]] This could be due to his [[FreudianExcuse abusive father]] and generally [[FantasticRacism terrible childhood]].

* All of the villains from ''Film/ChildrensPartyAtThePalace''. Especially the Child-Catcher and the Grand High Witch (the latter talking about boiling and frying children as well as pulling a FishOutOfTemporalWater by talking about “selling their [[UsefulNotes/GameBoy GameBoys]] on Website/EBay”).

* [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Cat Shepherd]] and [[MustHaveCaffeine Moka]], in ''WesternAnimation/{{Nocturna}}''. The Cat Shepherd is a non-villainous example, who finds kids to be ''really'' annoying, but slowly warms up to Tim. Moka meanwhile, [[spoiler:is also a non-villainous example, as it was part of act to goad Tim into journeying across Nocturna and confront [[LivingShadow the Shadow]]]].

** Robyn Starling's "Aunt" Pristine Figg. She raises Robyn more like a slave than a "neice", mentally and physically abusing her by sending her to bed without supper and ''locking her in the attic'' at night. She has the titular characters, Tom and Jerry, dropped off at the pound and hires its owner, Dr. Applecheek to exterminate them in order to prevent them from informing Robyn that her father survived the avalanche. She was even ''[[WouldHurtAChild unwilling to rescue Robyn when the Starling cabin was set on fire]]'', strongly believing she deserves it. Obviously, Figg despises Robyn, only looking after her so she can maintain the fortunes belonging to the Starling family and isn't hers to begin with.

** The Penguin only kidnaps the rich boy firstborn and ignores the girls because he's pissed at how his own parents abandoned him when ''he'' was a kid (he himself having been born to a rich family). His plan was to make all of Gotham suffer because of what his parents did to him.

** In the stage musical version, she's so terrified of children, just hearing the 'C' word causes her to scream in terror or have a panic attack.

* In the ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' films (but not the book), Dr. Alan Grant starts out not liking kids very much. He doesn't exactly hate them, he just doesn't particularly ''like'' them. in his introductory scene he goes out of his way to scare the hell out of a mouthy kid who annoys him, then gives his colleague Ellie Sattler a list of all the reasons he dislikes children. However, after getting lost in the park with two kids who have only him to help them while the park's ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' is on the prowl, [[AnAesop he finds his natural parental instincts getting the better of him]]. By midway through the film, he doesn't mind them [[SleepCute napping on his shoulder and such]].
* Aunt Dorothy in ''Film/{{Krampus}}'', who says that she has never been able to stand kids, even when she was one. Her idea of keeping the kids occupied is to show them how to make peppermint schnapps, and let them have some. However, when the chips are down she does show some protective instincts towards them.

-->" Here they come, With their pimples and their braces..., and their rickets and their lice, Their snot-nosed, baggy-pantsed..., high-pitched,squealing voices."

* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': Freddy Krueger is an extreme version of this trope, being a child murderer -- though if you take [[PaedoHunt his original concept]] into consideration, he liked kids in entirely the wrong way. It's also played ambiguously in the case of [[spoiler:his own daughter, Kathryn]].

* Men who don't like children are looked upon unfavorably in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice''; because they are so [[GenderRarityValue rare]], [[MandatoryMotherhood Childfree Is Not Allowed]] and they are expected to take on many of the nurturing aspects of childcare. Some of the Whistlers dislike Balin Brindle for wincing and doing nothing every time his little sisters/possible incestuous children start to cry in public. The fact that Keifer never could stand being around the little princesses or even fake any degree of liking for them is yet another mark in a very long list against him. There doesn't seem to be any cultural antipathy towards women who don't like children, as demonstrated by Captain Raven Tern, whose discomfort around the Whistler girls is PlayedForLaughs and generally accepted, since her sisters will presumably handle carrying on their family line.
* Almost every staff member (except for Mr. Fyde and The Lunch Ladies) in ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' that works in Jerome Horwitz Elementary School comes off as this to the students.

* Cormoran Strike of the ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'' is a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example. He definitely never really wanted to have children, even when he still had a girlfriend. He can make a decent pretense of getting along with them when he has to, and has a godson, but throughout a dinner with his godson's family (which has recently grown) is somewhat secretly uncomfortable and the screaming and antics of the children reminds him of exactly why he never wants to have any.

-->'''Nanny:''' If you think Esme Weatherwax'd curse kids you've got the sense of a earthworm. She'd cuss 'em, yes, all day long. But not curse 'em. She don't aim that low.
** Susan is another ironic variant: she's very good with children and content to work with them, but she detests ''childishness'' and treats kids like inconveniently-small adults. As a result, they adore her and learn much, ''much'' faster from her lessons than from "See Spot Run" books or curricula aimed at children.

* One Polish crime novel (''Drugi Watek'' by Joanna Chmielewska) subverts this. The protagonist's father abandons her and her mother since he hates children and acknowledges he wouldn't make a good father, and pays his child support. [[spoiler: He's a decent man, and not the murderer in this case.]]

** [[Characters/HarryPotter Argus Filch]]. Filch's hatred of students comes from the fact that he is a squib who hates most magical folk while having a job with children who enjoy using magic than genuine hatred for children in specific. It does not help that Filch's job is to clean up after children and fix the things they break, which is a full-time job.
** Voldemort appears to be one in a flashback sequence depicting his attempted murder of Harry. At first he is casually mulling about killing an innocent child who just happened to speak to him about his outfit, mistaking it for a Halloween costume. When baby Harry starts to cry, Voldemort wants to kill him even more, as he really dislikes the sound of crying children.
** While [[SadistTeacher Dolores Umbridge]] explicitly says she hates children in the [[FilmOfTheBook film of the fifth book]] this trope is averted in the books themselves, as she doesn't particularly hate children, but rather all people who challenge her power. The only reason why she abuses children in the books, is simply because it's a way to assert power over them and because she can get away with it.
** [[JerkAss Severus Snape]] is very-much-portrayed-as hating kids. Why he took a job as a professor who deals with young, vulnerable, impressionable children is only for the sake of the plot, which requires him to be at Hogwarts. He is never once shown in the books to be comforting, mentoring, or in any way acting as a positive role model for his students, with the only possible exception of Draco Malfoy. He fights for the "good guys", but not out of love for Harry or any other child, but rather [[spoiler:edue to his promise to be a spy in exchange for Dumbledore protecting two of his own soldiers]] This could be due to his [[FreudianExcuse abusive father]] and generally [[FantasticRacism terrible childhood]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' hints that Lady Richington doesn't like children very much in the episode "The Wool of the People", where General Specific and Sheep run for mayor. There is a chase sequence near the end of the episode where General Specific and Sheep stop their chase so they can both [[PoliticiansKissBabies kiss a baby]]. Lady Richington is handed the baby after General Speific and Sheep resume chasing, prompting her to make an uncomfortable expression and have her butler kiss the baby instead.

* Men who don't like children are looked upon unfavorably in ''Literature/ABrothersPrice''; because they are so [[GenderRarityValue rare]], [[MandatoryMotherhood Childfree Is Not Allowed]] and they are expected to take on many of the nurturing aspects of childcare. Some of the Whistlers dislike Balin Brindle for wincing and doing nothing every time his little sisters/possible incestuous children start to cry in public. The fact that Keifer never could stand being around the little princesses or even fake any degree of liking for them is yet another mark in a very long list against him. It doesn't seem to matter to most how women feel about children, as demonstrated by Captain Raven Tern, whose discomfort around children is PlayedForLaughs and generally accepted, since her sisters will presumably handle carrying on their family line.

* [[BigBad William Afton]] from ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys''. While it’s unclear if his preference in murdering children is due to hatred or [[AmbiguousSituation some other reason]], the fact that his top priority in life (or undeath) seems to be murdering children lands him in this category regardless. The novels imply that [[ForTheEvulz it's just fun]] [[TheSociopath for him]].

* [[spoiler:The Hameln Director from ''VideoGame/AmandaTheAdventurer'' runs a business that involves abducting children one by one using the titular television program to lure them by some means. These children are then implied to have become the sentient objects that appear in the show, a FateWorseThanDeath.]]

** Robyn Starling's "Aunt" Pristine Figg. She mentally and physically abuses Robyn by sending her to bed without supper and ''locking her in the attic'' at night. She has the titular characters, Tom and Jerry, dropped off at the pound and hires its owner, Dr. Applecheek to exterminate them in order to prevent them from informing Robyn that her father survived the avalanche. She was even [[WouldHurtAChild unwilling to rescue Robyn when the Starling cabin was set on fire]], strongly believing she deserves it. Obviously, Figg despises Robyn, only looking after her so she can maintain the money that actually belongs to the Starling family and isn't hers to begin with.

* [[BigBad William Afton]] from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''. While it’s unclear if his preference in murdering children is due to hatred or [[AmbiguousSituation some other reason]], the fact that his top priority in life (or undeath) seems to be murdering children lands him in this category regardless. The novels imply that [[ForTheEvulz it's just fun]] [[TheSociopath for him]].

* [[spoiler:The Hameln Director from ''VideoGame/AmandaTheAdventurer'' runs a business that involves abducting children one by one using the titular television program to lure them by some means. These children are then implied to have become the sentient objects that appear in the show.]]