History Main / EmpathyDollShot

* It's common for makefits memorial sites, especially if a child was killed, to have stuff animals as part of the tribute. This was the case following the Sandy Hook Shootings, where the 26 fatally shot at the school: 6 adult women and 20 school children, 12 girls and 8 boys.

* It's common for makefits memorial sites, especially if a child was killed, to have stuff animals as part of the tribute. This was the case following the Sandy Hook Shootings, where the 26 fatally shot at the school. The mother of the shooter was also fatally shot, then the gunman committed suicide.

** Some man-made disasters, accidentally or intentionally, can sometimes show this... especially if children were among the injuried and/or deceased.

* In the first episode of TheWalkingDead, Rick Grimes wakes from a coma and looks around to see a disaster zone. He sees through under a car of a teddy bear and a child, possible the bear’s owner, picking it up. Grimes go to see if the girl needs help [[spoiler: only to discover she’s a zombie, or “walker” and [[TearJerker is forced]] [[MercyKill put her out of suffering]] before he could be infected with the same disease.]]

* ''Film/ThisIsTheEnd'' - Two people walk past a charred swing set, and one of them says, "Ooh, lost innocence."

* Similarly to Plants vs. Zombies example above, ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' 2 features tricycle in one area. Average player use the game's logic, though, grabs it with Kinesis and then tests it, [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential if it can land a kill on Necromorph]].
** There also also some ship models throughout the game.

* In Agent Stone's storyline in ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal Black'', Calypso gave him the bloodied teddy bear. [[spoiler:It belonged to a girl whom he killed, along with her mother and his target in a rage and his anger cost the girl her life.]]

* Certain [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/38542206 'book covers']]for the Madgie, what did you do? Series. One also comebined with a DeadHandShot.

* Certain [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/38542206 'book covers']]for the Madgie, what did you do? Series. One eve has a DeadHandShot.

* [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/38542206 Certain 'book covers' (preview images) for the Madgie, what did you do? Series]]

In evacuation scenes, the toy is supposed to represent the loss of [[ChildrenAreInnocent innocence]] a child has suffered. In aftermath of war scenes, the doll is supposed to scream [[{{Anvilicious}} "KIDS DIED HERE!"]] without having to actually [[GoryDiscretionShot show a kid's corpse]]. That said, a really [[IncrediblyLamePun gutsy]] director may combine the doll with a DeadHandShot and show the child's hand still clutching the doll without showing the rest of their dead (and presumably mangled) body.

* ''{{Terminator}} 2'' shows "judgement day" (a nuclear attack on Los Angeles and many other major cities around the world) at the start of the film. At a playground with burning rocking horses. Subverted though: We get to see the bomb go off complete with the burning children in what's been praised by scientists to be the most horrifyingly-realistic representation of a nuclear attack ever committed to film.
* Averted in ''FullMetalJacket'' A soldier finds a doll in a deserted, bombed-out Vietnamese city... it was booby trapped.
* ''SupermanIV: The Quest For Peace'' features one in the scene when Nuclear Man starts the volcanic eruption.

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* Early on in ''{{Half-Life}} 2'', Dr. Freeman comes across the rusted and busted remains of a playground, complete with the sad remains of a plastic doll that makes sad little talking doll sounds when you throw it at a wall.

** Which makes that photo a subversion: When the extent of the nuclear catastrophe was realised, civilians, including children, were evacuated en masse. Barring some possible, long term aftereffects, no children died in Chernobyl. Although hundreds have suffered in it's wake.

* [[InvokedTrope American wartime photographers often place teddy bears in ruined buildings to add emotion to the shot.]]

* During the recent fighting in south Lebanon, a local stringer for APF was caught throwing around dolls and a Koran that had been "found" on the ground.

* The aftermath of a Hun attack in Disney's ''{{Mulan}}''. What makes it worse is that, earlier in the movie, the BigBad is holding the doll (his hawk stole it) and, as part of his justification for attacking the village, remarks that "the little girl will be missing her doll. We should return it to her."

* In ''AttackOnTitan'', a little girl drops her doll as her father carries her away during the evacuation of Trost.

* This happens commonly in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}''; as you wander around the Capital Wasteland, you come across toys, dolls, and rusted and bent playgrounds on a regular basis. Made even worse when you go into a house to explore and find what is clearly a child's bedroom due to there being toys on the floor, and laying in the bunkbeds are a couple of blackened skeletons.