History Main / ImprobableInfantSurvival

* ''Film/TheUntouchables:'' Pushed to the very limits of SuspensionOfDisbelief. Ness helps a woman trying to get a BabyCarriage up the stairs of Union Station. At the very top, he and Stone are ambushed by a group of Al Capone's goons, and the carriage starts bouncing down the steps. Not only is the baby completely unharmed by the dozens of flying bullets, but Stone and Ness manage to catch the carriage safely at the bottom of the steps. This scene spawned of several parodies.

* ''Film/NewYearsEvil:'' Downplayed, but out of the five women Evil attacks before Diane, the only survivor is the youngest one, a teenaged girl.

* ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}''

** Both an example and exception in ''VideoGame/{{Siren}}: Blood Curse''. On escort missions, you can hurt and kill the person you have to protect. Except for 10-year-old Bella. Your weapon has no effect on her. Likewise, enemies can hurt and kill escorts... but when Bella "dies" it's by covering her head and cowering in fear. And when you play as Bella, instead of taking damage from enemy attacks and eventually dying, you cower in fear and scream "NO!" if an enemy gets too close to you, causing you to lose. Technically a way of avoiding showing Bella's obvious death. Yet, the game also creates an exception later when [[spoiler:Bella is shown later on having turned into a shibito, the zombie-like creatures in the village. The condition for becoming a shibito is to die, so obviously something happened to Bella. An earlier cutscene shows a large log rolling towards her and a quick cut to black, indicating that's what might have killed her]].

* Tails from ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' cannot die if you play as both Sonic and Tails in ''Sonic 2 and 3''. If something happens to him that puts him into his DeathThrows (such as drowning, falling into BottomlessPits or getting crushed,) he'll merely fly back on-screen after a few seconds.

** ''Film/JurassicPark'': Lex and Tim go through the most danger of anybody in the movie (that even includes Alan) but survive (although they certainly are in a mess by the end). Other characters face a lot less danger but die. Tim, especially, who falls down a cliff in a half-crushed car and gets shocked by a very powerful electric fence.

* Since Tommy and friends on ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' can safely pass through areas such as garages, attics, restaurants, post offices, miniature golf courses, bowling alleys, shopping malls, museums, fairs, Las Vegas, or [[WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie the forest]] on their own, they don't really need the "supervision" that they get.

* ''Fanfic/TheChoicesThatMakeUs'': Eliphias Doge's six-year-old granddaughter Bryony is captured by Death Eaters, several of whom show some WouldHurtAChild indications, only to escape when seeing Kreacher causes her to call out for her own family house elf, who appears, grabs her, and disappparates them both to safety.
* ''Fanfic/TotalDramaComebackSeries'' has an interesting example of this. In ''Battlegrounds,'' half of the challenges are done in a hyper-realistic VR game, meaning that characters can "die" (though they're obviously fine once the game is over). That said, the ChildProdigy OC keeps surviving, often in contrived ways. Eventually enough people commented on this that [[SubvertedTrope he does start dying]], with this trope {{Lampshaded}} by the other characters' shock.

** While Rogue has a TouchOfDeath in ''CComicBook/XMenMessiahComplex'', Mystique places a baby on her adopted daughter, as this is supposed to awaken her from her coma. Gambit notes that Rogue wouldn't have wanted the baby to die at her expense, but the baby survives anyway.

** ''[[ComicBook/TheBatmanAdventures Batman: Gotham Adventures]]'' #26 features an almost identical cover to that of the ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' example below, Batman rooftop-jumping with a baby in his arms. In a mild subversion of the trope, instead of the baby surviving Batman's patrol against all odds, Batman actually avoids a fight by threatening violence far in excess of his usual if the thugs he's captured make him do anything that might hurt the baby. They surrender, and one even tells him he's holding the baby's head wrong.

** Creator/KevinSmith's run of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' was advertised with the image of DD carrying a baby as he engaged in his usual rooftop-jumping. The baby, whom he believed was either the second coming of Christ or TheAntichrist, did come along on some patrols for a while, and the adventure ended with him unharmed.

* [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] (or rather his SuperPoweredEvilSide, the Magus) weaponizes this by possessing the bodies of children so that the Avengers wouldn't dare to attack him.
* Used in ''ComicBook/{{Civil War|2006}}: Young Avengers/Runaways'', when the evil mad scientist who has no problem secretly experimenting on prisoners and aliens takes a moment to order his BrainwashedAndCrazy slave to open a locked door and rescue a baby for the mother.
* Creator/KevinSmith's run on ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' was advertised with the image of DD carrying a baby as he engaged in his usual rooftop-jumping. The baby, whom he believed was either the second coming of Christ or the AntiChrist, did come along on some patrols for a while, and the adventure ended with him unharmed.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanGothamAdventures'' #26 featured an almost identical cover, Batman rooftop-jumping with a baby in his arms. In a mild subversion of the trope, instead of the baby surviving Batman's patrol against all odds, Batman actually avoids a fight by threatening violence far in excess of his usual if the thugs he's captured make him do anything that might hurt the baby. They surrender, and one even tells him he's holding the baby's head wrong.
* DoubleSubverted in Creator/NeilGaiman's run on ''ComicBook/TheEternals''. Zuras kills [[spoiler:Sprite for erasing all the Eternals' memories and almost destroying the world as part of his quest to BecomeARealBoy. Though it worked & he is physically an eleven-year-old human child, when Sprite weakly tries to wheedle out of his execution by bringing this up, Zuras dryly reminds him that that still doesn't change the fact that he's a million years old & hasn't been a child for a very long time.]]
* [[DarkActionGirl Tenebris]] and [[TheDragon Korbo the Red Shadow]] from ComicBook/LesLegendaires mercilessly killed a couple of brilliant inventors who provided the rebellion with weapons, but they couldn't summon up the resolve to eliminate their baby and ended up giving her up for adoption. This actually is of some use to the plot, as the baby grows up and comes back for revenge.
* Ancient comics book example: In ''Creator/MarvelComics'' #8 (from 1940), [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], in an all-out attack on the city of New York, detonates a bomb in the Hudson Tunnel, flooding it and killing everyone inside, kills a random pilot by ripping the propeller off his plane, breaks a lot of animals out of the zoo, including many poisonous reptiles, and then saves a baby from a stampeding elephant before flying off to destroy the George Washington Bridge.
* Played seriously in the ''Crossgen'' comic book series ''Negation''. The baby in question is seen surviving a nuclear explosion among many, many other horrors tossed at it by the bad guys.
* ''Nomad'' from Marvel Comics thought it was okay to bring a baby with him on his 'walking the earth' quest. He did have access to many reliable babysitters (think underground good-guy mafia) but he still got himself involved with many a super-fight. Nearly once an issue someone would be shocked he had a baby with him in a dust-up.
* ComicBook/PowerGirl's baby developed defensive powers in the womb.
* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse CrisisCrossover ''ComicBook/WorldWarHulk'', it is revealed that the Hulk is, in fact, an idiot savant, capable of calculating his rampages so that he does the maximum amount of damage but never leaves any casualties.
** A long-term story in his regular series had him hunted by government forces (even more than before) because he was seen on film squashing a kid. The veracity of the film is in doubt.

* ''ComicBook/{{X 23}}'':
** In ''ComicBook/X23InnocenceLost'', X-23 is sent by Xander Rice to murder his boss/father figure, the man's wife (and Rice's lover), and his boss's toddler son (actually ''Rice's'' son from the affair) because his lover was going to confess, and Rice wanted total control of the X-23 project. X kills the parents but spares the boy. When X then reveals to her creator/mother the truth of what happened, it convinces Sarah to rescue X from the Facility.
** Her "cousin" was kidnapped by a serial killer who preys on children and is implied to have already killed a number of other girls before he took Megan. Fortunately, X's creator brought her in, and X killed the man before he could hurt her.
** During her solo series, it's {{retcon}}ned that Laura failed or refused to kill children on other missions, as well.
* While Rogue had a TouchOfDeath in ''ComicBook/XMen'' "Messiah Complex", Mystique placed the baby's face on her adopted daughter as this was supposed to awaken her from her coma. Gambit notes that Rogue wouldn't have wanted the baby to die at her expense, but the baby survives anyway.

* Used in ''ComicBook/CivilWar: Young Avengers/Runaways'', when the evil mad scientist who has no problem secretly experimenting on prisoners and aliens takes a moment to order his BrainwashedAndCrazy slave to open a locked door and rescue a baby for the mother.

* In [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/ask-thatguy/521-ask-thatguy-episode-43 episode 4.3]] of the ''WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses'' segment of ''Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses'', he is asked what the plot of a movie with no cliches would be. He responds: "I would say, 2 1/2 hours of blowing up a baby. Think about it: have you ever seen a baby blow up in a movie before?"

* ZigZagged in ''Film/LittleMonsters.'' On the one hand, everyone in Ms. Caroline's kindergarten class survives to the end of the movie. On the other, we actually ''do'' see zombie kids, notably during the scene when the ChildHater [[DepravedKidsShowHost Teddy McGiggles]] is fighting his way through them.

* ''Film/TheBay'': Though hundreds of people die in Claridge, including both of his parents, baby Andrew survives, despite the fact that he was sitting right next to a crawling parasite.

* In one rather infamous example of foreign censorship, the Grey Child monsters in [[VideoGame/SilentHill1]] were removed in all European releases of the game. They were replaced with the Mumblers, long clawed monsters around the height of a child (these monsters ''do'' appear in other versions, but only in one point in a sewer). The Grey Children were likely removed since they had the laugh of a child that was slowed down when attacking or being damaged. The Mumblers, on the other hand, make vague belching noises. Additionally, while the Grey Children actively wield knives, the Mumblers just use their claws.

* In the notes and letters scattered about the campaign in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' and its [[''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4Remake remake]]'', it explicitly states children could not survive the Plagas infection and died off en masse when the parasite began being distributed. We get no explicit details, and there is no evidence of children seen anywhere in the game. Likely done as a way to ensure the rating didn't jump to AO and explain why Leon isn't shooting hordes of both insane adults ''and'' children.