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->''We loved our daughter very much, but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Hid the remote.]] Really sick shit. My wife took her to the old family farm and drowned her in the well. I felt a simple time-out would have been sufficient.''
-->-- ''The Architect'', ''[[ScaryMovie Scary Movie 3]]''
[[ChildrenAreInnocent Kids should be kids]], at least that's how the saying goes. That means worrying about little kid things and doing little kid things, such as playing on the trampoline, watching TV, going fishing, or whatever it is that kids do locally. What we don't expect kids to do is to drink alcohol, smoke, have sex, use drugs, hitchhike, commit violent crimes, or do other things we associate only with teenagers or adults. Yes, many adults are upset when a teenager drinks beer, but it's disturbing when a 10-year-old does it.
In fiction, there's two ways this tends to occur. Sometimes the kid is shown engaging in such behavior as though it's normal for them, and this can be used to show that the child has had a harsh upbringing. Other times, the kid is trying an "adult" behavior for the first time, which may sometimes have [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin disastrous consequences]].
The CreepyChild, the EnfantTerrible and the EvilOrphan draw much of their force from this. FromTheMouthsOfBabes is the SubTrope where the child only ''says'' troubling unchildlike things.
The FilleFatale is considered this less than is plausible, since sexual precociousness is often a sign of sexual abuse.
ChildSoldiers are a particularly tragic and horrific example of this.
For when kids ''see'' things (or have things happen to them) that they shouldn't instead of ''do'' things they shouldn't, see HarmfulToMinors. A TeenageWasteland runs on this.
Contrast with WiseBeyondTheirYears, which is about positive strangely-adult behavior.
Note that if the kid is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and just has the physical appearance of a child, it doesn't count. This is for when actual children are the ones engaging in the unchildlike behavior.
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!!Examples of kids engaging in such behavior as though it's normal for them:
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2Xbu-XhCI This hilarious condom commercial.]]
** It shows a five year old getting a tattoo, cutting his teacher's chair with a chainsaw and being stopped by the police after stealing a car. He continuously explains that his mom said he could. It turns out he'd overheard her cry out "Yes! Yes! Yes!" during sex in another room and assumed that she was replying to him.
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* ''KodomoNoJikan'' is ''made'' of this trope. To expand on that: [[FilleFatale Rin]] is a nine-year-old who appears to have the sex drive of a [[LoveableSexManiac 20-something man]] — she's constantly saying and doing perverse things to attempt to get a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean rise]] out of her third-grade teacher.
* In ''FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke [[CuteShotaroBoy when he was a kid]], as seen in his and Kalinin's backstory. He kills [[TheStoic without batting an eye]], has an ''extremely'' nihilistic view of things, and is [[EmotionlessGirl creepily unemotional]]. Especially noticeable [[http://pics.livejournal.com/fmp_misha/pic/0003qgt1 here]].
* After adopting [[ArtificialHuman Pinoko]], BlackJack is more than a little disconcerted to discover that the [[YoungerThanTheyLook 10-day-old]] (who insists she's a "virgin maiden" of [[OlderThanTheyLook 18]] and looks about 6) [[PrecociousCrush has developed feelings for him]] -- but what ''really'' scares him is that she already knows what a virgin is
-->'''Black Jack:''' Good God, where did you learn that kind of language?
* Subverted in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. Dieter tosses back a shot like a pro, then jauntily salutes the rest of the patrons as he leaves with a toothpick in his mouth. Once outside, though, he immediately begins retching and questioning the sanity of adults who drink that stuff for fun.
** Also played straight with Johan, who by age 10 [[CompleteMonster had killed several sets of foster parents and calmly and smilingly]] [[CorruptionByAMinor talked all of Kinderheim 511 into killing each other]].
* Michio Yuki, the VillainProtagonist of ''{{MW}}'', has become this the moment he becomes AxCrazy by the titular chemical warfare.
* Lucy (and to an extent most of the Diclonii) in ''ElfenLied'' are extremely homicidal little girls.
* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' has Ciel, an aristocrat living in {{Victorian London}}. At the mere age of 13 (he starts off 12, but turns 13 early in the series) he is the head of the household, runs a successful toy and confectioneries company, and is the [[DirtyBusiness "Queen's Watchdog"]] which sends him out on often very dangerous and frightening missions such as helping to catch {{Jack the Ripper}}. Personality-wise, he's bitter and jaded... but his darker view on things is because of a traumatic past experience. Still, he's an {{Improbable Age}} character. Oh, did I mention he will command his [[BattleButler awesome butler]] to kill people without a second thought? In the manga he's also seen drinking champagne with his guests, but that could be because of his status, the time period, and the overall culture back then.
** Alois as well. For the whole first episode, he goes from acting completely innocent to downright crazy within a few seconds, and switches back and forth between the two personas. Not to mention how he acts as if he is trying to seduce any male character within five feet of him.
* [[CreepyTwins Hansel and Gretel]] from ''BlackLagoon''. The sheer number of people they kill (and how they do it) is just the start of how messed up these two are. And tragically, they can't even imagine the world any other way.
** Probably [[AxeCrazy Revy]]. From what can be gathered from the tiny flashbacks, she was raised on the streets of [[GangsterLand Chicago]] and probably learned her gun skills from gangsters, and killed someone using a pillow as a silencer when she was still pretty young.
* Seta Soujirou of ''RurouniKenshin'', given his [[AbusiveParents horrible childhood]] and subsequent "adoption" by a SocialDarwinist to act as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], slaughters people with a [[DissonantSerenity cheerful smile]].
** Kenshin too, when he buried all the bodies of his guardians and the men who killed them, instead of, say, trying to find help.
* In the ''{{Saiyuki}}'' manga, there is a scene of a pre-teen Gojyo smoking in his room while his [[ParentalIncest older brother calms his stepmother down.]]
* Meet [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Maria Ushiromiya]], 9-year-old walking encyclopedia of all things relating to Western occult lore and "black magic." Also has a rather [[AnnoyingLaugh irritating]] EvilLaugh and a habit of using it at [[CreepyChild incredibly inappropriate times]], like after seeing [[spoiler:her mother and 5 of her relatives']] horribly mutilated corpses.
* Essentially every child Contractor and Doll from ''DarkerThanBlack'' qualifies for this. LackOfEmpathy or becoming an ExtremeDoormat will do that to you.
* ''JapanTenguPartyIllustrated'' has a disturbing relationship between a [[{{youkai}} Tengu]] man and the human child he kidnapped ostensibly to be the vessel for their leader (when he uses her to speak, he ''[[NightmareFuelUnleaded swallows her and uses her as his tongue]]''). The child manages to escape the tengu, but the kidnapper is still concerned and obsessed with her. He eventually finds her phone number during a battle, but she never wants to see him again, and besides she's already safe in bed - ''with her teacher'' (she likes "magicians (the teacher) better then monsters (the tengu)") [[hottip:* : "RealLife" tengu are notorious for kidnapping children and returning them (if they do at all) "in a daze", and tales of monks (tengu dress as mountain aesthetics) and their child-novices don't even bother with {{Unusual Euphemism}}s.]]
* Vincent in ''PandoraHearts''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to [[spoiler:the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?]] That's not a good sign. It also borders on PsychopathicManchild behavior since he still does it as a young adult.
** In confusing flashbacks and illustrations, Alice [[spoiler: or more accurately, the Will of the Abyss... [[MindScrew sometimes...]]]] also does this, displaying [[http://dragonempress.net/curious/images/pandora-09-05-03.jpg somewhat unsettlingly flirty behavior]] with Jack and being cheerfully vicious with Vincent. Eventually leading to yet more of this trope from [[spoiler:''Gilbert'']], who tries to strangle her.
* Several [[ChildSoldier characters]] in ''NowAndThenHereAndThere'', especially Nabuca
* This is a staple of {{Shonen}} and sometimes {{Shojo}} manga along with HarmfulToMinors. It's usually treated lighthearted and without any real damage though, unless it's a plot device or a {{Deconstruction}}.
* The first time we see Akane Awakusu in ''{{Durarara}}'', she's gleefully chasing down Shizuo with a heavily modified stun gun and shouting "Die!" It turns out that this isn't exactly normal for her, as she was a CheerfulChild before she [[TheRunaway ran away from home]] and only did it because [[spoiler:Izaya told her that Shizuo was an assassin who would kill her family.]]
* The main cast of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' are well-known for their (usually) HatePlague induced paranoia and murder sprees, among many other troubling behaviors. The four oldest characters are only sixteen, with the youngest being somewhere between [[VagueAge nine and twelve]].
* Seeing how it's a story about ChildSoldiers, it's no surprise that this trope shows up a lot in ''GunslingerGirl''.
* ..And lets not even START with {{Narutaru}}.
* In ''Project: ARMS'', there are quite a few children who end up this way, mostly because the Egrigori are very into using them for evil and dangerous experiments. The first ones we see are Al and Jeff Bowen, who attempt to blow up a high school partly for their mission, but moreso because they themselves were teased in school. Al spends the rest of the series methodically working his way through various battles and trying to kill a Keith with a gun at one point. [[spoiler:Also, a flashback shows us that the twins murdered their own parents and killed a bunch of kids at their school with a poisonous gas that they invented to leave no traces]]. Then we get Carol, an adorable little girl who is introduced cheerfully telling Ryo that she has the power to twist and crush things like metal and human bones with her mind and that she very much enjoys the power that comes with doing this. It's implied that she only went through life by having people fear her, and Ryo [[StefordSmiler calls her bluff on her enjoying it]]. Finally, we get [[spoiler:Dark Alice, who is furious at the world for causing her death and is willing to nuke the entire planet to get her revenge.]]
* Broly in the eighth DragonballZ movie was shown in a flashback to destroy a planet, and then [[LaughingMad laugh hysterically]] as his father attempts to restrain him, all while he's a child. It's implied that this behavior stemmed from the trauma he endured on the day of his birth (Kakarot [Goku] crying next to him, his narrowly surviving execution by King Vegeta simply because the latter feared Broly's abnormal power level [he was born with a power level of 10,000], and later narrowly escaping Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta with his father.
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* Damian Wayne in GrantMorrisonsBatman. He's a ten-year-old who is firmly convinced that he's the natural successor to his father's legacy and Dick Grayson is an idiot. In addition to being a particularly grim (and potentially deadly) Robin, he is frighteningly efficient at running Wayne Enterprises.
* If you are in any way associated with organized crime, [[KickAss Hit-Girl]] will brutally chop you up and shoot you in the head while cursing like a sailor. [[LittleMissBadass She's a cute 10 year old.]]
** A short scene in the film [[InvertedTrope inverts this for a while.]]. Her father is very disturbed that she is acting like a normal girl, until she reveals she's screwing with him.
* ''{{Crossed}}'' children appear to be no less foul-mouthed, kill-happy, or rape-happy than their adult counterparts.
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* Halee Steinfeld's portrayal of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers' version of ''TrueGrit'' is, even though she isn't a child any more, very disconcerting in its seriousness and vengefulness.
* The controversial movie ''{{Hounddog}}'' has Lewellen, its 11-year-old main character, drinking alcohol. This is considered normal in her family.
* The movie ''[[LilyaFourEver Lilya 4-ever]]'' has its title character drinking, smoking and sniffing glue at the age of 14. Then family troubles (specifically lack of any family) force her to enter prostitution. [[TearJerker It all goes downhill from there.]]
* The movie ''Young Thugs: Nostalgia'' has protagonist 6th grader Riichi Nakaba get drunk twice in the movie. In one scene his family and the guests at the party encourage him to get drunk.
* The movie ''SugarCaneAlley'' has eleven-year-old José Hassan and his friends (one a girl who is probably no older than eight bought the vodka and said it was for her parents to the clerk) get so drunk that they laugh as they set a shack on fire.
* The sex worker Iris in ''TaxiDriver'' gives off an aura of grace, poise, and sexually-charged sophistication. She's also twelve. Jodie Foster's performance was by far the most unsettling thing about the film, even overshadowing de Niro.
* In the 2005 adaptation of ''[=~Tom Brown's Schooldays~=]'', Dr. Arnold is shocked that the students, some as young as ten or eleven, gamble, distill liquor, and keep guns.
* ''HomeMovie'' has this trope up to 11.
* This is what makes the old movie ''TheInnocents'' still terrifying even to a modern audience.
* ''{{Kids}}'' is almost entirely made of this + RefugeInAudacity.
* In ''CityOfGod'' Lil Dice [[spoiler: goes on a shooting spree in a hotel]]. Also, many children are involved in the gang war. (Horrifyingly enough, this is more or less TruthInTelevision.)
* In ''SweeneyTodd'', the title character finds Toby easy to bribe with Gin. As Toby tells Mrs. Lovett, they used to give the stuff to kids like him in the workhouse (child labor laws didn't exist way back when) so they could sleep -- though as he mentions, you wouldn't ever want to sleep there, "not with the things that happen in the dark."
** Don't forget the ending, when he [[spoiler:coldly and quietly slits Sweeny's throat.]]
* ''LawnDogs'' has a lot of this. Not to mention some in the form of CorruptionByAMinor, as Devon manages to convince her adult friend to [[spoiler:steal chickens from a barn, and later, moon her father.]] And no, Devon is not portrayed as wise beyond her years either. She otherwise acts like a normal preteen girl, who happens to do some messed up stuff, in a realistically childish way.
---> "Also, children are expected to be a certain way, and I like the unexpectedness of how children really are if you watch them. (...) Sometimes children just don't go by the rules, they often have a natural inclination not to, which we as adults have often lost." - Naomi Wallace, screenwriter for ''LawnDogs''
* In ''TheGoodSon'', 12 year old Henry (played by Macaulay Culkin) smokes, drinks alcohol, vandalizes property, builds homemade weapons, conducts horrible schemes,tortures and kills animals, and kills people all like it's an everyday thing.
* ''{{The Professional}}'' starts with 12 year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) smoking and hitting on the middle-aged neighbor. This is all before she becomes an [[LittleMissBadass assassin's apprentice]].
* ''BloodDiamond'' had ChildSoldiers swaggering around and swearing profusely in {{Engrish}}, which was funny until they started to shoot at [[LeonardoDiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio]].
* Speaking of LeonardoDiCaprio, he himself had portrayed a 14-year-old Catholic school boy's descent into heroin-addiction and prostitution in order to support his drug habit in 1995's ''TheBasketballDiaries''.
* ''TotalEclipse'', another {{LeonardoDiCaprio}} movie (boy, he surely went through a phase of acting in edgy, indie roles in 1995...). He plays Arthur Rimbaud, a wild and bratty teenager who gets into a sexual relationship with an older, married man. The entire movie highlights how sick and twisted their relationship is.
* Let's not forget scamming, scheming, stealing, swearing little Addie in ''PaperMoon''.
* In ''RoboCop 2'' there's Hob, the villain's main henchman, who is a boy of about 12 and very competent too.
* ''{{Tideland}}'' consists entirely of this, although Jeliza-Rosa does not fully realize everything that's going on around her and keeps acting and (probably) thinking like a child while she does stuff like preparing the syringe for her drug-addict father and [[CorruptionByAMinor seducing a grown man]]. (Thankfully, he's mentally about the same age, but it's still very, very disturbing.)
* ''TheHeartIsDeceitfulAboveAllThings'' has the protagonist drinking alcohol at the age of seven and [[DudeNotFunny seducing]] MarilynManson at the age of eleven. [[CrapsackWorld Among other things.]]
* Mindy/Hit-Girl of ''Film/{{Kick-Ass}}'' cusses like a sailor (from [[ClusterFBomb random F-Bombs]] to her introductory quote: "Ok you [[CountryMatters cunts]], let's see what you can do now"). [[PeripheryHatedom No small amount of controversy]] resulted from having an eleven-year old actress using such language on screen. Oh, and she's a '''[[LittleMissBadass trained killer]]''' who can drop a room full of other trained killers with just a couple of handguns. Her actress did all of her own stunts including [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZitQGc2XV8o the Butterfly Knife display]].
* Trish from ''AngelsRevenge'', though it might be {{justified}} since she's a young [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. She gets just a little ''too'' excited at a drug dealer's [[GroinAttack unwanted bris]], she latches onto another drug dealer's car in order to track him, and she fatally shoots a kingpin at the end of the movie.
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* ''{{Duumvirate}}'' lives and breathes this trope. Even the littlest kids are perfectly willing to kill at the drop of a hat. It's all just a game to them.
* Rather freakily lampshaded in ''BraveNewWorld'', where the childhood conditioning all the citizens are exposed to encourages children to act sexually towards each other at about ''pre-school'' age. The people administering said conditioning laugh about how those poor unenlightened souls way back when would have treated such behavior as disturbing.
* Although not really a disturbing or creepy example, in one of the {{Discworld}} novels [[DirtyOldWoman Nanny Ogg]] ruminates on the concept of people having "natural ages", levels of maturity they were designed for; her examples are herself, who is somewhere in her eighties but has always felt mentally nineteen or so, while some children appear to have been born thirty-five; she's referring to them being austere and boring rather than engaging in actual adult behavior.
** Wensleydale in ''GoodOmens'' is an example of such a child: "His parents called him 'Youngster', possibly in the hope that he'd take the hint".
* At the age of twelve, {{Lolita}} seduces her stepfather. He's not her first lover.( [[UnreliableNarrator Or at least that's what daddy wants us to think]] )
* ''{{Gone}}'' , by Michael Grant, has this in spades. The entire cast is aged fifteen and under, and Sam and Lana both dwell on how disturbing it is to see young children drinking, smoking, and doing drugs. Not to mention the plentiful violence.
* The ''{{Redwall}}'' series. Oh, Dark Forest Gates, the ''{{Redwall}}'' series. The titular first installment features a season-and-a-half year old squirrel -- described in the text as a baby and not talking yet -- who is personally responsible for the horrible deaths of ''at least'' ten vermin, and assists in the killing of many others by rolling a hedgehog over them ''in the middle of a battlefield''. He's also given a sharp dagger by a hare who thinks nothing unusual of a kid stabbing people with one hand and sucking the other. By comparison, the young, gangly teenager that goes on to see new friends and an adoptive father/Abbot poisoned to death, kills massive numbers of vermin, faces and decapitates a snake that could eat him alive, and comes plummeting from the top of an Abbey with a bird stuck in his shoulder, all by the age of thirteen seasons, seems almost reasonable. Oh, and gets married and has a son before he's sixteen seasons. Combines with AngstWhatAngst. This may have been intentional ValuesDissonance, as the series is set in pseudo-10th century England [[AC:[[FurryFandom WITH FURRIES]]]], but has been somewhat dialed down in the sequels... which still include the slavery of preteen children and [[HarmfulToMinors the murder of their slavers]].
* In the ''{{Green-Sky Trilogy}}'', [[IllGirl Pomma's]] addiction to [[FantasticDrug wissenberries]].
* ''TheAlienist'': multiple characters all over the novel.
* ''TheTomorrowSeries'': Aside from the fact that the viewpoint characters are only 16 - 17 years old, and essentially learning to become guerrilla fighters as the series progresses, the group of kids living in Stratton are a more depressing version of the trope: by ''The Night Is For Hunting'', when the main characters meet them, they are well-accustomed to gunfights and mugging people in alleyways.
* When [[TheDresdenFiles the Archive]] warns you that she will kill you if you challenge her authority or otherwise threaten her, [[CuteBruiser you'd]] [[LittleMissBadass better]] ''[[WiseBeyondTheirYears believe]]'' [[PersonOfMassDestruction it]].
* ArtemisFowl
* [[EndersGame Ender Wiggin]], at ''six'', beats a bully ''to death''. Because he knows that being merciless will let him win.
* Tom Riddle from ''HarryPotter'' was an ultimately creepy kid. As a child, he tormented his fellow orphans - even murdering one's pet rabbit. When he went to Hogwarts he learned to be sly and manipulative, continuing his evil acts and a couple of murders without being suspected by the older, more powerful wizards who could pose a threat. Then, of course, he became Lord Voldemort.
* Arya Stark from ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. Committed her first premeditated murder at age ten. It wasn't her first kill, just the first one she planned out deliberately. Oh, and she's one of the heroic characters.
* In ''IronKing'', Meghan is shocked to hear her four-year-old half-brother tell her best friend "Go [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] yourself!" Justified in that [[spoiler:the kid is actually a changeling. Her real half-brother is a perfectly normal, sweet kid]].
* Daine in Tamora Pierce's ''Immortals'' series [[spoiler: hunts down and slaughters the bandits who killed her family]], aged twelve. Justified by her grief and the fact that [[spoiler: her gift was making her think she was a wolf]], but made more unsettling by the fact that, when she does eventually tell her friends about it, most of them simply shrug it off.
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* In an episode of ''SexAndTheCity'', Samantha is jealous of a very rich 13-year-old girl for whom she organizes a Bat Mitzvah party. When she overhears the 13-year-old telling her friends about giving blowjobs to keep a man, Sam interrupts to say that this is wrong. When the 13-year-old replies that she has been giving blowjobs since she was 12 and that she knows how the world works, Sam is released from her jealousy as she realizes that at least she had a childhood.
* There's an episode of ''{{House}}'' where a mother brings her daughter into the clinic for possible epileptic behavior. House examines the girl, and determines that she's merely been "[[ADateWithRosiePalms ya-yaing the sisterhood]]". The mother is shocked, to say the least, but House says that it's reasonable behavior, if a bit atypical.
* In one episode of ''{{Bones}}'', the murderer turns out to be an 11-year-old girl, who shoots her tutor with a shotgun when he refuses to help her cheat on a school project.
* ''{{CSI}}'' had one in the form of a 12 year old girl who was taking senior level high school courses. At her older brother's trial for murder of a classmate, she testifies that she's the real murderer and produces evidence to support her case. She pulls off the plan so well that she convinces the court that there is too much doubt to her brother's involvement (mainly, that he was a D student in chemistry and the murderer needed to know how to handle pure Sodium) and that there was too much doubt to convict her (she was too small to move the victim's body). As if that wasn't the worst of it, she says to Sarah that had she been convicted, she could get her degree by 18 and/or write a book about the crime, since Nevada has no "Son of Sam" law. Finally, it was revealed that [[spoiler: she had no involvement in the murder and Sarah just got played.]]
** It's even worse in the continued episode later on, when it's revealed her Yandere fixation on her brother prompts her to murder his girlfriend and blame him for it. Her motivation is that it will get rid of any "obsticles between them" and that, by continuously visiting him while he's in prison, he'll fall in love with her.
* In one episode of ''GreysAnatomy'', a man is brought into the hospital after supposedly being accidentally shot by his six-year-old daughter, using a gun that had been carelessly left outside. However, scans show that this man has been shot 17 times. When the daughter is questioned about the event, she asks why her father wouldn't just die, since she had shot him so many times. As it turns out, the girl and her mother had been putting up with severe abuse at the hand of the alcoholic father. The girl, seeing her father begin another attack on his wife, grabbed the gun (which had been left in an easily accessible place) and shot her father.
* Parodied in a ''{{Jam}}'' sketch where a man believes he has accidentally killed his friend during an argument. He calls a professional killer/"cleaner" named Maria to dispose of the body, but she turns out to be only six years old. She [[ClusterFBomb uses language that would make a sailor blush]], carries a gun, and when the victim wakes up (revealing that he was only unconscious) she shoots him in the head then hacks him to bits with a saw blade. In the end, the police are called and Maria instantly reverts to a cutesy child act.
** ''Jam'' was based on the radio series ''Blue Jam'', which featured several sketches about Maria. More disturbingly, in this version she is only ''four'' years old!
* An episode of ''{{Criminal Minds}}'' focused on a series of murders of young children. They turned out to have been committed by a young boy [[spoiler: (the son of their original suspect)]], who, in his own words, did it "because I wanted to."
* Inverted in ''Series/GameOfThrones''; Robin Arryn is ten years old and ''still breastfeeding.''
* Francis Wilkerson, or heck, any of the kids from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', easily qualify. Francis, aside from attempting to douse his teddy bear (as noted in the subtrope "Kids trying this behavior out for the first time" below), also frequently tortured his younger brothers (barring Dewey), stole their toys, locked them in a closet, and scarred Reese with a bayonette, all as a child, and he also implies when telling Dewey this that this is ''exactly'' what being a good brother is all about. As a teen, he frequently goes on destructive rampages/rebellions, such as stealing his mother's car, sleeping around, smoking, drinking, getting four nose pierces, and other similar behaviors all just to spite his mother or [[ForTheEvulz just for the heck of it]]. Reese is very much prone to violence, and enjoys hurting people.
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* In "Brenda's Got a Baby" by [[TupacShakur 2Pac]], Brenda (then 12 years old) [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin gets into a relationship]] with her [[{{Lolicon}} 20-something]] [[IncestIsRelative cousin]] after becoming frustrated with life [[CrapsackWorld at]] [[BigScrewedUpFamily home]]. She becomes pregnant, but manages to hide the pregnancy from her family. She ends up giving birth on the floor of the girls' bathroom at school, and tries to dispose of the baby in a dumpster (only to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad]] and take it out). She and her mother are constantly at each others' throats, and finally Brenda is kicked out of the house. She is too young to be hired for honest work and has no place to go, so she sells drugs...until she is robbed at gunpoint and is driven to prostitution. [[DisposableSexWorker It does not end well.]]
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* Wicked witches in ''WitchGirlsAdventures'' and the comics that spawned it are big on [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking Evil Smoking]]. Children aren't an exception.
* Blood Claws in ''{{Warhammer 40K}}''. Granted, they're not actually children (more along the lines of 18+ due to how long it takes to become a Space Marine) but given that they just came into adulthood and will blindly charge towards a 40' towering monstrosity while laughing their heads off is not exactly behaviour suited to the average teenager (especially since many older warriors would run away in fear from said monsters).
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* The entirety of ''{{How I Learned to Drive}}.''
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* Sign on to any online shooter (preferably an Xbox 360 shooter RatedMForMoney and/or [[RatedMForManly Manly]] for maximum results) and prepare to be called a nigger, faggot, and just about any other offensive word you can think of by {{Internet Tough Guy}}s 12 and under.
* Mildly done in ''{{Psychonauts}}''. The protagonist and his peers are all ten-year-olds, yet some of the kids have an odd fascination with hooking up and making out.
* [[FateStayNight Illyasviel von Einzbern]] is a... [[PlayingWithATrope strange case.]] At first, she's trying to kill Shirou and Rin... then depending on the route [[ZigZaggingTrope she goes to play with Shirou, her "onii-chan", frequently.]] Then it turns out [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope she's a homunculus created as a vessel for the Holy Grail.]] Finally [[SubvertedTrope it's revealed that she's 18.]]]]
** Plus she also tries to have sex with Shirou at two points in Fate and one in Heaven's Feel. Which is... [[{{Lolicon}} a little disturbing.]]
* Does it bother ''anyone'' else that [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Mission Vao]], a fourteen-year-old twi'lek, can happily slaughter her way through hundreds of people when previously the worst thing she did was pick pockets and scam people?
* ''RuleOfRose'': Byzantine plotting, power struggles and even torture are everyday occurrances in the Aristocrat Club of the Rose Garden Orphanage, and depending on the player's interpretation, some of them don't even shy away from murder if they can get away with it. [[spoiler:And manipulating a serial killer to commit murders is definite canon for one of the characters, although that wasn't considered typical behaviour even for her.]]
* The imagery of cheerful mock suicide by teenagers (and, in one case, an elementary-school kid) in ''{{Persona 3}}'' is more than a little disturbing, and likely the primary reason for the game's "M" rating in North America.
** 'Cheerful' is a bit of a misnomer. Evokers (the guns used in these mock-suicides) are used to create the necessary levels of fear and stress to summon one's Persona in one spike.
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* [[spoiler: Ness and Lucas in]] ''ThereWillBeBrawl'' [[spoiler: are bad enough to make all of the other supposed ''BigBad''s nervous.]]
* The trolls of ''{{Homestuck}}'' do not, as a rule, have much in the way of childhoods - but some of them develop a strong interest in colectible card games or [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker]] romance novels, and others begin earnestly studying for a career in law enforcement or become mass murderers by the age of thirteen.
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* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane from ''CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
* When we see [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]] in a flashback to when she was about 8 years old she engages in typical activities such as teasing her brother and her friend who has a crush on him, doing cartwheels, throwing rocks at animals, throwing fireballs at people, hopefully suggesting that her uncle and cousin might die in battle so her father can inherit the throne, setting dolls on fire, mocking her uncle for leaving a battle after her cousin died, [[spoiler: cheerfully telling her brother and mother that her father has been ordered to murder her brother...]]
--->'''Ursa''': [[LampshadeHanging What is]] ''[[LampshadeHanging wrong]]'' [[CreepyChild with that child?]]
* Played for laughs in ''SouthPark,'' where pretty much all the kids ([[TokenWholesome except Butters]]) curse and do other adult behavior all the time. Taken to extremes with [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]], however, who has gone so far as [[MoralEventHorizon attempting to start new Holocausts]].
* On ''{{Daria}},'' [[DumbBlonde Brittany]]'s little brother Brian not only acts out of control, he is [[AllThereInTheManual apparently]] the reason why the family [[FridgeHorror doesn't even bother naming their pets anymore]].
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* Chelsie Warner, the CreepyChild of ''{{Concession}}''. [[spoiler:Apart from having taken up the {{Transsexual}} lifestyle at a very early age - her birth name is "Charles", and her parents gave up trying to stop her behaving like a girl - she displays violent tendencies in her very first appearance by stabbing Artie in the eye with a crayon. She then rapes him when he's too delirious to know what's going on. It was later revealed that her hypersexual behaviour was related to a form of bipolar disorder, and she joined a harem of preteen boys run by the practicing paedophile Kate, who specifically seeks out children with this disorder because she believes that allowing them to give in to urges which are already there doesn't count as abuse. The author points out that ''he'' knows that it does count, but Kate does not know that.]]
* Namah in ''{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'' is a milder version then people on this page, but she still did a SlasherSmile when she went into the ventilation system, stole knives, poured hot sauce in the eyes of one of her guards. [[spoiler:Considering that she is being kept in her room to prevent knowledge of a secret affair being leaked, it's kinda justified.]]
* Samantha Wight of ''{{Suppression}}'' has a habit of lecturing people about the [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech futility of everything]] and, at best, is only [[NighInvulnerable mildly annoyed]] at being stabbed through the heart.
* Nadia (and possibly Dark) in ''{{Kagerou}}'', although whether they're actually children, or even real, is highly debatable. Their actions are made more disturbing by the presence of Kid, who ''is'' very childlike.
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* Comedian Brendon Burns Tells a story about catching his 5 year old son masturbating with a soaped up shark toy, his advice was:
-->'''Burns:''' DON'T DO THAT!
-->'''Son:''' Why not?
-->'''Burns:''' Because adults don't like it when little kids do that, and I wasn't allowed to do it when I was your age and..... y'know what, go ahead, just don't do it at school.
-->'''Son:''' Why not?
-->'''Burns:''' See rule #1. (Rule 1 is "it'll suck, and you'll hate me for letting you do it")
* Played for laughs: Catholic speaker Chris Padgett tells a story of when his young son first learned a bad word- "boobie"- and would not stop saying it. Eventually, Chris's older daughter sits down to talk to him:
-->'''Daughter:''' You can't say that word anymore, it's bad.
-->'''Son:''' Yes I can, boobie.
-->'''Daughter:''' Jesus wouldn't want you to say that word, right?
-->'''Son:''' Yes I would.
-->'''Padgett:''' Great, my kid thinks he's Jesus.
* Chain smoking guerrilla leaders [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htoo_twins the Htoo Twins]]. [[CrazyAwesome They also claimed to be bulletproof and have armies of invisible soldiers.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4c_wI6kQyE&annotation_id=annotation_207174&feature=iv 2 year old smokes 40 cigarettes a day]].
* It's actually very common for babies and toddlers to masturbate. It's just pleasure to them though.
** Fetuses have been observed doing just that on ultrasound.
* KevinSmith, on one of the "An Evening With Kevin Smith"s, describes his daughter learning her first naughty word (bullshit) while she was a toddler. Unlike most examples of this trope, this was intensely hilarious to Smith and his wife, who egged her on; she even got creative with it (dogshit, mommyshit, daddyshit). Then they said, "Do you know what 'shit' means?" "No." They told her, and the girl got very quiet...
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!!Examples of kids trying out such troubling behavior for the first time:
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* The ''OnePiece'' manga showed Sanji started his smoking habit at age nine trying to be more adult.
* A little later, but in the ''IchigoMashimaro'' manga, Nobue started trying to smoke in middle school. It nauseated her when she first tried it, but she "powered through" until it didn't make her sick anymore, and now she's addicted. What started it all, however, is when a smoker left a pack behind on a park bench when Nobue was 11. Curious, she picked it up and looked at it. The warning label scared her off of starting for a while, although she did start holding a cigarette in her hand in an attempt to look cool.
* Expect this in any ''{{Lolicon}}'' or ''{{Shotacon}}'' work, such as ''BokuNoPico''.
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* In Belgian comic ''{{Violine}}'', the titular 10-year-old drinks whiskey and gets clearly drunk off it, when it's given to her as part of a celebration held by friendly natives in an African country.
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* Again in the movie ''{{Hounddog}}'', Lewellen is tricked into doing a naked dance for a much older man for Elvis tickets [[spoiler:and gets raped because of it]]. This carried over into RealLife, where many people were shocked that 12-year-old Dakota Fanning had played such a scene herself.
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* In the classic children's book ''NothingsFairInFifthGrade'', one of the main character's friends decides to hitchhike a ride to a local fair, as she's tired of walking. The rest of the kids are shocked, but go along so as not to get left behind. The hitchhiking adventure ends up having disastrous consequences for the kids. The man drives off away from their intended destination, and the kids jump out of his truck at a red light. But one of them, a 7-year-old, goes back for her purse which she forgot, and the truck drives off with her in it. Looking for a phone so they can call the police, the kids head towards the nearest building they can find: a tavern. Suffice to say everyone in the tavern finds the procession of fifth-graders and the one girl's 3-year-old brother to be a rather strange sight.
* In the novel ''OthersSeeUs'' the protagonists are quite startled when their grandmother insists they have a beer. [[spoiler: Though it's actually a trick to increase their psychic powers.]]
* In the JudyBlume children's novel ''Then Again Maybe I Won't'', main character Tony, his rich next door friend Joel and his old friend from the inner city, Frankie, are hanging out in Joel's basement when Joel jimmies into his father's liquor cabinet. The three boys get drunk. It was the first time Tony and Frankie had done this, but Joel had been drinking enough that he knew well the differences between the various kinds of alcohol.
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* The ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Lois Battles Jamie", there are two instances of this subtrope occuring. The first was Jamie trying to murder his mother by dropping a shelf on her (although it's subverted in that he's acting like this because his brother Reese fed him soda, which evidentially made himself uncontrollable). The second was with Francis in a flashback. When he was a toddler, Francis attempted to douse his teddy bear with lighter fluid and set it on fire (similar to certain people who kidnap other people) before Lois intervened.
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* From "Little Kids" by Deerhunter:
--> [-kids drinking gin on the front lawn-]\\
[-the kids see that man walking down the dirt road-]\\
[-these kids see the sky and they think of him dressed in flames-]\\
[-kids walk behind, slowly stalk, that old man-]\\
[- -]\\
[-these kids followed him to his shed-]\\
[-where he turns on the radio and smokes a cig-]\\
[-these kids come with gasoline and they strike a match-]\\
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* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking. Even better, their accomplice in this is [[HeartwarmingOrphan Tinny Tim]]. The robbery is his idea: "Gentle jerkwads! I know of a way we can emulate Bender ''without'' throwing up!" Best part: Tim's a robot, so alcohol shouldn't, logically, make him throw up anyway, because he runs on it, so this falls purely under RuleOfFunny.
* In ''{{Ben 10}}'', Ben meets Kevin 11, an eleven year old boy who gambles and steals things. This is troubling enough, but Ben still thinks Kevin's a cool guy to hang out with...until Kevin is willing to use his energy absorbing powers to crash two subway trains together and take the cash from the wreckage. When Ben points out that "hundreds of people could DIE!", Kevin shrugs and says "Hey; no pain, no gain."
* Eggy the duckling in ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' absorbed the knowledge of all four of the penguin squad while still in his egg and became a TykeBomb obsessed with the commando life. His mother wasn't pleased.
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* According to ''The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers'', 10% of serial killers make their first kill before the age of 10.
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* A mailman is making his rounds, but one of his deliveries is a package that requires a signature. So he goes up to the house, knocks on the door, and a 12-year-old kid with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other answers it:
--> '''Mailman:''' Uh... hi. Are your parents home?
--> ''The kid takes a puff from the cigarette''
--> '''Kid:''' What the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] do you think?
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[[caption-width:300:[[LittleMissBadass Shooting a man and threatening others with a gun is just the beginning...]] ]]
->''We loved our daughter very much, but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Hid the remote.]] Really sick shit. My wife took her to the old family farm and drowned her in the well. I felt a simple time-out would have been sufficient.''
-->-- ''The Architect'', ''[[ScaryMovie Scary Movie 3]]''
[[ChildrenAreInnocent Kids should be kids]], at least that's how the saying goes. That means worrying about little kid things and doing little kid things, such as playing on the trampoline, watching TV, going fishing, or whatever it is that kids do locally. What we don't expect kids to do is to drink alcohol, smoke, have sex, use drugs, hitchhike, commit violent crimes, or do other things we associate only with teenagers or adults. Yes, many adults are upset when a teenager drinks beer, but it's disturbing when a 10-year-old does it.
In fiction, there's two ways this tends to occur. Sometimes the kid is shown engaging in such behavior as though it's normal for them, and this can be used to show that the child has had a harsh upbringing. Other times, the kid is trying an "adult" behavior for the first time, which may sometimes have [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin disastrous consequences]].
The CreepyChild, the EnfantTerrible and the EvilOrphan draw much of their force from this. FromTheMouthsOfBabes is the SubTrope where the child only ''says'' troubling unchildlike things.
The FilleFatale is considered this less than is plausible, since sexual precociousness is often a sign of sexual abuse.
ChildSoldiers are a particularly tragic and horrific example of this.
For when kids ''see'' things (or have things happen to them) that they shouldn't instead of ''do'' things they shouldn't, see HarmfulToMinors. A TeenageWasteland runs on this.
Contrast with WiseBeyondTheirYears, which is about positive strangely-adult behavior.
Note that if the kid is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and just has the physical appearance of a child, it doesn't count. This is for when actual children are the ones engaging in the unchildlike behavior.
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!!Examples of kids engaging in such behavior as though it's normal for them:
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2Xbu-XhCI This hilarious condom commercial.]]
** It shows a five year old getting a tattoo, cutting his teacher's chair with a chainsaw and being stopped by the police after stealing a car. He continuously explains that his mom said he could. It turns out he'd overheard her cry out "Yes! Yes! Yes!" during sex in another room and assumed that she was replying to him.
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* ''KodomoNoJikan'' is ''made'' of this trope. To expand on that: [[FilleFatale Rin]] is a nine-year-old who appears to have the sex drive of a [[LoveableSexManiac 20-something man]] — she's constantly saying and doing perverse things to attempt to get a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean rise]] out of her third-grade teacher.
* In ''FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke [[CuteShotaroBoy when he was a kid]], as seen in his and Kalinin's backstory. He kills [[TheStoic without batting an eye]], has an ''extremely'' nihilistic view of things, and is [[EmotionlessGirl creepily unemotional]]. Especially noticeable [[http://pics.livejournal.com/fmp_misha/pic/0003qgt1 here]].
* After adopting [[ArtificialHuman Pinoko]], BlackJack is more than a little disconcerted to discover that the [[YoungerThanTheyLook 10-day-old]] (who insists she's a "virgin maiden" of [[OlderThanTheyLook 18]] and looks about 6) [[PrecociousCrush has developed feelings for him]] -- but what ''really'' scares him is that she already knows what a virgin is
-->'''Black Jack:''' Good God, where did you learn that kind of language?
* Subverted in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. Dieter tosses back a shot like a pro, then jauntily salutes the rest of the patrons as he leaves with a toothpick in his mouth. Once outside, though, he immediately begins retching and questioning the sanity of adults who drink that stuff for fun.
** Also played straight with Johan, who by age 10 [[CompleteMonster had killed several sets of foster parents and calmly and smilingly]] [[CorruptionByAMinor talked all of Kinderheim 511 into killing each other]].
* Michio Yuki, the VillainProtagonist of ''{{MW}}'', has become this the moment he becomes AxCrazy by the titular chemical warfare.
* Lucy (and to an extent most of the Diclonii) in ''ElfenLied'' are extremely homicidal little girls.
* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' has Ciel, an aristocrat living in {{Victorian London}}. At the mere age of 13 (he starts off 12, but turns 13 early in the series) he is the head of the household, runs a successful toy and confectioneries company, and is the [[DirtyBusiness "Queen's Watchdog"]] which sends him out on often very dangerous and frightening missions such as helping to catch {{Jack the Ripper}}. Personality-wise, he's bitter and jaded... but his darker view on things is because of a traumatic past experience. Still, he's an {{Improbable Age}} character. Oh, did I mention he will command his [[BattleButler awesome butler]] to kill people without a second thought? In the manga he's also seen drinking champagne with his guests, but that could be because of his status, the time period, and the overall culture back then.
** Alois as well. For the whole first episode, he goes from acting completely innocent to downright crazy within a few seconds, and switches back and forth between the two personas. Not to mention how he acts as if he is trying to seduce any male character within five feet of him.
* [[CreepyTwins Hansel and Gretel]] from ''BlackLagoon''. The sheer number of people they kill (and how they do it) is just the start of how messed up these two are. And tragically, they can't even imagine the world any other way.
** Probably [[AxeCrazy Revy]]. From what can be gathered from the tiny flashbacks, she was raised on the streets of [[GangsterLand Chicago]] and probably learned her gun skills from gangsters, and killed someone using a pillow as a silencer when she was still pretty young.
* Seta Soujirou of ''RurouniKenshin'', given his [[AbusiveParents horrible childhood]] and subsequent "adoption" by a SocialDarwinist to act as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], slaughters people with a [[DissonantSerenity cheerful smile]].
** Kenshin too, when he buried all the bodies of his guardians and the men who killed them, instead of, say, trying to find help.
* In the ''{{Saiyuki}}'' manga, there is a scene of a pre-teen Gojyo smoking in his room while his [[ParentalIncest older brother calms his stepmother down.]]
* Meet [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Maria Ushiromiya]], 9-year-old walking encyclopedia of all things relating to Western occult lore and "black magic." Also has a rather [[AnnoyingLaugh irritating]] EvilLaugh and a habit of using it at [[CreepyChild incredibly inappropriate times]], like after seeing [[spoiler:her mother and 5 of her relatives']] horribly mutilated corpses.
* Essentially every child Contractor and Doll from ''DarkerThanBlack'' qualifies for this. LackOfEmpathy or becoming an ExtremeDoormat will do that to you.
* ''JapanTenguPartyIllustrated'' has a disturbing relationship between a [[{{youkai}} Tengu]] man and the human child he kidnapped ostensibly to be the vessel for their leader (when he uses her to speak, he ''[[NightmareFuelUnleaded swallows her and uses her as his tongue]]''). The child manages to escape the tengu, but the kidnapper is still concerned and obsessed with her. He eventually finds her phone number during a battle, but she never wants to see him again, and besides she's already safe in bed - ''with her teacher'' (she likes "magicians (the teacher) better then monsters (the tengu)") [[hottip:* : "RealLife" tengu are notorious for kidnapping children and returning them (if they do at all) "in a daze", and tales of monks (tengu dress as mountain aesthetics) and their child-novices don't even bother with {{Unusual Euphemism}}s.]]
* Vincent in ''PandoraHearts''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to [[spoiler:the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?]] That's not a good sign. It also borders on PsychopathicManchild behavior since he still does it as a young adult.
** In confusing flashbacks and illustrations, Alice [[spoiler: or more accurately, the Will of the Abyss... [[MindScrew sometimes...]]]] also does this, displaying [[http://dragonempress.net/curious/images/pandora-09-05-03.jpg somewhat unsettlingly flirty behavior]] with Jack and being cheerfully vicious with Vincent. Eventually leading to yet more of this trope from [[spoiler:''Gilbert'']], who tries to strangle her.
* Several [[ChildSoldier characters]] in ''NowAndThenHereAndThere'', especially Nabuca
* This is a staple of {{Shonen}} and sometimes {{Shojo}} manga along with HarmfulToMinors. It's usually treated lighthearted and without any real damage though, unless it's a plot device or a {{Deconstruction}}.
* The first time we see Akane Awakusu in ''{{Durarara}}'', she's gleefully chasing down Shizuo with a heavily modified stun gun and shouting "Die!" It turns out that this isn't exactly normal for her, as she was a CheerfulChild before she [[TheRunaway ran away from home]] and only did it because [[spoiler:Izaya told her that Shizuo was an assassin who would kill her family.]]
* The main cast of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' are well-known for their (usually) HatePlague induced paranoia and murder sprees, among many other troubling behaviors. The four oldest characters are only sixteen, with the youngest being somewhere between [[VagueAge nine and twelve]].
* Seeing how it's a story about ChildSoldiers, it's no surprise that this trope shows up a lot in ''GunslingerGirl''.
* ..And lets not even START with {{Narutaru}}.
* In ''Project: ARMS'', there are quite a few children who end up this way, mostly because the Egrigori are very into using them for evil and dangerous experiments. The first ones we see are Al and Jeff Bowen, who attempt to blow up a high school partly for their mission, but moreso because they themselves were teased in school. Al spends the rest of the series methodically working his way through various battles and trying to kill a Keith with a gun at one point. [[spoiler:Also, a flashback shows us that the twins murdered their own parents and killed a bunch of kids at their school with a poisonous gas that they invented to leave no traces]]. Then we get Carol, an adorable little girl who is introduced cheerfully telling Ryo that she has the power to twist and crush things like metal and human bones with her mind and that she very much enjoys the power that comes with doing this. It's implied that she only went through life by having people fear her, and Ryo [[StefordSmiler calls her bluff on her enjoying it]]. Finally, we get [[spoiler:Dark Alice, who is furious at the world for causing her death and is willing to nuke the entire planet to get her revenge.]]
* Broly in the eighth DragonballZ movie was shown in a flashback to destroy a planet, and then [[LaughingMad laugh hysterically]] as his father attempts to restrain him, all while he's a child. It's implied that this behavior stemmed from the trauma he endured on the day of his birth (Kakarot [Goku] crying next to him, his narrowly surviving execution by King Vegeta simply because the latter feared Broly's abnormal power level [he was born with a power level of 10,000], and later narrowly escaping Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta with his father.
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* Damian Wayne in GrantMorrisonsBatman. He's a ten-year-old who is firmly convinced that he's the natural successor to his father's legacy and Dick Grayson is an idiot. In addition to being a particularly grim (and potentially deadly) Robin, he is frighteningly efficient at running Wayne Enterprises.
* If you are in any way associated with organized crime, [[KickAss Hit-Girl]] will brutally chop you up and shoot you in the head while cursing like a sailor. [[LittleMissBadass She's a cute 10 year old.]]
** A short scene in the film [[InvertedTrope inverts this for a while.]]. Her father is very disturbed that she is acting like a normal girl, until she reveals she's screwing with him.
* ''{{Crossed}}'' children appear to be no less foul-mouthed, kill-happy, or rape-happy than their adult counterparts.
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* Halee Steinfeld's portrayal of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers' version of ''TrueGrit'' is, even though she isn't a child any more, very disconcerting in its seriousness and vengefulness.
* The controversial movie ''{{Hounddog}}'' has Lewellen, its 11-year-old main character, drinking alcohol. This is considered normal in her family.
* The movie ''[[LilyaFourEver Lilya 4-ever]]'' has its title character drinking, smoking and sniffing glue at the age of 14. Then family troubles (specifically lack of any family) force her to enter prostitution. [[TearJerker It all goes downhill from there.]]
* The movie ''Young Thugs: Nostalgia'' has protagonist 6th grader Riichi Nakaba get drunk twice in the movie. In one scene his family and the guests at the party encourage him to get drunk.
* The movie ''SugarCaneAlley'' has eleven-year-old José Hassan and his friends (one a girl who is probably no older than eight bought the vodka and said it was for her parents to the clerk) get so drunk that they laugh as they set a shack on fire.
* The sex worker Iris in ''TaxiDriver'' gives off an aura of grace, poise, and sexually-charged sophistication. She's also twelve. Jodie Foster's performance was by far the most unsettling thing about the film, even overshadowing de Niro.
* In the 2005 adaptation of ''[=~Tom Brown's Schooldays~=]'', Dr. Arnold is shocked that the students, some as young as ten or eleven, gamble, distill liquor, and keep guns.
* ''HomeMovie'' has this trope up to 11.
* This is what makes the old movie ''TheInnocents'' still terrifying even to a modern audience.
* ''{{Kids}}'' is almost entirely made of this + RefugeInAudacity.
* In ''CityOfGod'' Lil Dice [[spoiler: goes on a shooting spree in a hotel]]. Also, many children are involved in the gang war. (Horrifyingly enough, this is more or less TruthInTelevision.)
* In ''SweeneyTodd'', the title character finds Toby easy to bribe with Gin. As Toby tells Mrs. Lovett, they used to give the stuff to kids like him in the workhouse (child labor laws didn't exist way back when) so they could sleep -- though as he mentions, you wouldn't ever want to sleep there, "not with the things that happen in the dark."
** Don't forget the ending, when he [[spoiler:coldly and quietly slits Sweeny's throat.]]
* ''LawnDogs'' has a lot of this. Not to mention some in the form of CorruptionByAMinor, as Devon manages to convince her adult friend to [[spoiler:steal chickens from a barn, and later, moon her father.]] And no, Devon is not portrayed as wise beyond her years either. She otherwise acts like a normal preteen girl, who happens to do some messed up stuff, in a realistically childish way.
---> "Also, children are expected to be a certain way, and I like the unexpectedness of how children really are if you watch them. (...) Sometimes children just don't go by the rules, they often have a natural inclination not to, which we as adults have often lost." - Naomi Wallace, screenwriter for ''LawnDogs''
* In ''TheGoodSon'', 12 year old Henry (played by Macaulay Culkin) smokes, drinks alcohol, vandalizes property, builds homemade weapons, conducts horrible schemes,tortures and kills animals, and kills people all like it's an everyday thing.
* ''{{The Professional}}'' starts with 12 year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) smoking and hitting on the middle-aged neighbor. This is all before she becomes an [[LittleMissBadass assassin's apprentice]].
* ''BloodDiamond'' had ChildSoldiers swaggering around and swearing profusely in {{Engrish}}, which was funny until they started to shoot at [[LeonardoDiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio]].
* Speaking of LeonardoDiCaprio, he himself had portrayed a 14-year-old Catholic school boy's descent into heroin-addiction and prostitution in order to support his drug habit in 1995's ''TheBasketballDiaries''.
* ''TotalEclipse'', another {{LeonardoDiCaprio}} movie (boy, he surely went through a phase of acting in edgy, indie roles in 1995...). He plays Arthur Rimbaud, a wild and bratty teenager who gets into a sexual relationship with an older, married man. The entire movie highlights how sick and twisted their relationship is.
* Let's not forget scamming, scheming, stealing, swearing little Addie in ''PaperMoon''.
* In ''RoboCop 2'' there's Hob, the villain's main henchman, who is a boy of about 12 and very competent too.
* ''{{Tideland}}'' consists entirely of this, although Jeliza-Rosa does not fully realize everything that's going on around her and keeps acting and (probably) thinking like a child while she does stuff like preparing the syringe for her drug-addict father and [[CorruptionByAMinor seducing a grown man]]. (Thankfully, he's mentally about the same age, but it's still very, very disturbing.)
* ''TheHeartIsDeceitfulAboveAllThings'' has the protagonist drinking alcohol at the age of seven and [[DudeNotFunny seducing]] MarilynManson at the age of eleven. [[CrapsackWorld Among other things.]]
* Mindy/Hit-Girl of ''Film/{{Kick-Ass}}'' cusses like a sailor (from [[ClusterFBomb random F-Bombs]] to her introductory quote: "Ok you [[CountryMatters cunts]], let's see what you can do now"). [[PeripheryHatedom No small amount of controversy]] resulted from having an eleven-year old actress using such language on screen. Oh, and she's a '''[[LittleMissBadass trained killer]]''' who can drop a room full of other trained killers with just a couple of handguns. Her actress did all of her own stunts including [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZitQGc2XV8o the Butterfly Knife display]].
* Trish from ''AngelsRevenge'', though it might be {{justified}} since she's a young [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. She gets just a little ''too'' excited at a drug dealer's [[GroinAttack unwanted bris]], she latches onto another drug dealer's car in order to track him, and she fatally shoots a kingpin at the end of the movie.
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* ''{{Duumvirate}}'' lives and breathes this trope. Even the littlest kids are perfectly willing to kill at the drop of a hat. It's all just a game to them.
* Rather freakily lampshaded in ''BraveNewWorld'', where the childhood conditioning all the citizens are exposed to encourages children to act sexually towards each other at about ''pre-school'' age. The people administering said conditioning laugh about how those poor unenlightened souls way back when would have treated such behavior as disturbing.
* Although not really a disturbing or creepy example, in one of the {{Discworld}} novels [[DirtyOldWoman Nanny Ogg]] ruminates on the concept of people having "natural ages", levels of maturity they were designed for; her examples are herself, who is somewhere in her eighties but has always felt mentally nineteen or so, while some children appear to have been born thirty-five; she's referring to them being austere and boring rather than engaging in actual adult behavior.
** Wensleydale in ''GoodOmens'' is an example of such a child: "His parents called him 'Youngster', possibly in the hope that he'd take the hint".
* At the age of twelve, {{Lolita}} seduces her stepfather. He's not her first lover.( [[UnreliableNarrator Or at least that's what daddy wants us to think]] )
* ''{{Gone}}'' , by Michael Grant, has this in spades. The entire cast is aged fifteen and under, and Sam and Lana both dwell on how disturbing it is to see young children drinking, smoking, and doing drugs. Not to mention the plentiful violence.
* The ''{{Redwall}}'' series. Oh, Dark Forest Gates, the ''{{Redwall}}'' series. The titular first installment features a season-and-a-half year old squirrel -- described in the text as a baby and not talking yet -- who is personally responsible for the horrible deaths of ''at least'' ten vermin, and assists in the killing of many others by rolling a hedgehog over them ''in the middle of a battlefield''. He's also given a sharp dagger by a hare who thinks nothing unusual of a kid stabbing people with one hand and sucking the other. By comparison, the young, gangly teenager that goes on to see new friends and an adoptive father/Abbot poisoned to death, kills massive numbers of vermin, faces and decapitates a snake that could eat him alive, and comes plummeting from the top of an Abbey with a bird stuck in his shoulder, all by the age of thirteen seasons, seems almost reasonable. Oh, and gets married and has a son before he's sixteen seasons. Combines with AngstWhatAngst. This may have been intentional ValuesDissonance, as the series is set in pseudo-10th century England [[AC:[[FurryFandom WITH FURRIES]]]], but has been somewhat dialed down in the sequels... which still include the slavery of preteen children and [[HarmfulToMinors the murder of their slavers]].
* In the ''{{Green-Sky Trilogy}}'', [[IllGirl Pomma's]] addiction to [[FantasticDrug wissenberries]].
* ''TheAlienist'': multiple characters all over the novel.
* ''TheTomorrowSeries'': Aside from the fact that the viewpoint characters are only 16 - 17 years old, and essentially learning to become guerrilla fighters as the series progresses, the group of kids living in Stratton are a more depressing version of the trope: by ''The Night Is For Hunting'', when the main characters meet them, they are well-accustomed to gunfights and mugging people in alleyways.
* When [[TheDresdenFiles the Archive]] warns you that she will kill you if you challenge her authority or otherwise threaten her, [[CuteBruiser you'd]] [[LittleMissBadass better]] ''[[WiseBeyondTheirYears believe]]'' [[PersonOfMassDestruction it]].
* ArtemisFowl
* [[EndersGame Ender Wiggin]], at ''six'', beats a bully ''to death''. Because he knows that being merciless will let him win.
* Tom Riddle from ''HarryPotter'' was an ultimately creepy kid. As a child, he tormented his fellow orphans - even murdering one's pet rabbit. When he went to Hogwarts he learned to be sly and manipulative, continuing his evil acts and a couple of murders without being suspected by the older, more powerful wizards who could pose a threat. Then, of course, he became Lord Voldemort.
* Arya Stark from ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. Committed her first premeditated murder at age ten. It wasn't her first kill, just the first one she planned out deliberately. Oh, and she's one of the heroic characters.
* In ''IronKing'', Meghan is shocked to hear her four-year-old half-brother tell her best friend "Go [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] yourself!" Justified in that [[spoiler:the kid is actually a changeling. Her real half-brother is a perfectly normal, sweet kid]].
* Daine in Tamora Pierce's ''Immortals'' series [[spoiler: hunts down and slaughters the bandits who killed her family]], aged twelve. Justified by her grief and the fact that [[spoiler: her gift was making her think she was a wolf]], but made more unsettling by the fact that, when she does eventually tell her friends about it, most of them simply shrug it off.
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* In an episode of ''SexAndTheCity'', Samantha is jealous of a very rich 13-year-old girl for whom she organizes a Bat Mitzvah party. When she overhears the 13-year-old telling her friends about giving blowjobs to keep a man, Sam interrupts to say that this is wrong. When the 13-year-old replies that she has been giving blowjobs since she was 12 and that she knows how the world works, Sam is released from her jealousy as she realizes that at least she had a childhood.
* There's an episode of ''{{House}}'' where a mother brings her daughter into the clinic for possible epileptic behavior. House examines the girl, and determines that she's merely been "[[ADateWithRosiePalms ya-yaing the sisterhood]]". The mother is shocked, to say the least, but House says that it's reasonable behavior, if a bit atypical.
* In one episode of ''{{Bones}}'', the murderer turns out to be an 11-year-old girl, who shoots her tutor with a shotgun when he refuses to help her cheat on a school project.
* ''{{CSI}}'' had one in the form of a 12 year old girl who was taking senior level high school courses. At her older brother's trial for murder of a classmate, she testifies that she's the real murderer and produces evidence to support her case. She pulls off the plan so well that she convinces the court that there is too much doubt to her brother's involvement (mainly, that he was a D student in chemistry and the murderer needed to know how to handle pure Sodium) and that there was too much doubt to convict her (she was too small to move the victim's body). As if that wasn't the worst of it, she says to Sarah that had she been convicted, she could get her degree by 18 and/or write a book about the crime, since Nevada has no "Son of Sam" law. Finally, it was revealed that [[spoiler: she had no involvement in the murder and Sarah just got played.]]
** It's even worse in the continued episode later on, when it's revealed her Yandere fixation on her brother prompts her to murder his girlfriend and blame him for it. Her motivation is that it will get rid of any "obsticles between them" and that, by continuously visiting him while he's in prison, he'll fall in love with her.
* In one episode of ''GreysAnatomy'', a man is brought into the hospital after supposedly being accidentally shot by his six-year-old daughter, using a gun that had been carelessly left outside. However, scans show that this man has been shot 17 times. When the daughter is questioned about the event, she asks why her father wouldn't just die, since she had shot him so many times. As it turns out, the girl and her mother had been putting up with severe abuse at the hand of the alcoholic father. The girl, seeing her father begin another attack on his wife, grabbed the gun (which had been left in an easily accessible place) and shot her father.
* Parodied in a ''{{Jam}}'' sketch where a man believes he has accidentally killed his friend during an argument. He calls a professional killer/"cleaner" named Maria to dispose of the body, but she turns out to be only six years old. She [[ClusterFBomb uses language that would make a sailor blush]], carries a gun, and when the victim wakes up (revealing that he was only unconscious) she shoots him in the head then hacks him to bits with a saw blade. In the end, the police are called and Maria instantly reverts to a cutesy child act.
** ''Jam'' was based on the radio series ''Blue Jam'', which featured several sketches about Maria. More disturbingly, in this version she is only ''four'' years old!
* An episode of ''{{Criminal Minds}}'' focused on a series of murders of young children. They turned out to have been committed by a young boy [[spoiler: (the son of their original suspect)]], who, in his own words, did it "because I wanted to."
* Inverted in ''Series/GameOfThrones''; Robin Arryn is ten years old and ''still breastfeeding.''
* Francis Wilkerson, or heck, any of the kids from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', easily qualify. Francis, aside from attempting to douse his teddy bear (as noted in the subtrope "Kids trying this behavior out for the first time" below), also frequently tortured his younger brothers (barring Dewey), stole their toys, locked them in a closet, and scarred Reese with a bayonette, all as a child, and he also implies when telling Dewey this that this is ''exactly'' what being a good brother is all about. As a teen, he frequently goes on destructive rampages/rebellions, such as stealing his mother's car, sleeping around, smoking, drinking, getting four nose pierces, and other similar behaviors all just to spite his mother or [[ForTheEvulz just for the heck of it]]. Reese is very much prone to violence, and enjoys hurting people.
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* In "Brenda's Got a Baby" by [[TupacShakur 2Pac]], Brenda (then 12 years old) [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin gets into a relationship]] with her [[{{Lolicon}} 20-something]] [[IncestIsRelative cousin]] after becoming frustrated with life [[CrapsackWorld at]] [[BigScrewedUpFamily home]]. She becomes pregnant, but manages to hide the pregnancy from her family. She ends up giving birth on the floor of the girls' bathroom at school, and tries to dispose of the baby in a dumpster (only to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad]] and take it out). She and her mother are constantly at each others' throats, and finally Brenda is kicked out of the house. She is too young to be hired for honest work and has no place to go, so she sells drugs...until she is robbed at gunpoint and is driven to prostitution. [[DisposableSexWorker It does not end well.]]
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* Wicked witches in ''WitchGirlsAdventures'' and the comics that spawned it are big on [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking Evil Smoking]]. Children aren't an exception.
* Blood Claws in ''{{Warhammer 40K}}''. Granted, they're not actually children (more along the lines of 18+ due to how long it takes to become a Space Marine) but given that they just came into adulthood and will blindly charge towards a 40' towering monstrosity while laughing their heads off is not exactly behaviour suited to the average teenager (especially since many older warriors would run away in fear from said monsters).
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* The entirety of ''{{How I Learned to Drive}}.''
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* Sign on to any online shooter (preferably an Xbox 360 shooter RatedMForMoney and/or [[RatedMForManly Manly]] for maximum results) and prepare to be called a nigger, faggot, and just about any other offensive word you can think of by {{Internet Tough Guy}}s 12 and under.
* Mildly done in ''{{Psychonauts}}''. The protagonist and his peers are all ten-year-olds, yet some of the kids have an odd fascination with hooking up and making out.
* [[FateStayNight Illyasviel von Einzbern]] is a... [[PlayingWithATrope strange case.]] At first, she's trying to kill Shirou and Rin... then depending on the route [[ZigZaggingTrope she goes to play with Shirou, her "onii-chan", frequently.]] Then it turns out [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope she's a homunculus created as a vessel for the Holy Grail.]] Finally [[SubvertedTrope it's revealed that she's 18.]]]]
** Plus she also tries to have sex with Shirou at two points in Fate and one in Heaven's Feel. Which is... [[{{Lolicon}} a little disturbing.]]
* Does it bother ''anyone'' else that [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Mission Vao]], a fourteen-year-old twi'lek, can happily slaughter her way through hundreds of people when previously the worst thing she did was pick pockets and scam people?
* ''RuleOfRose'': Byzantine plotting, power struggles and even torture are everyday occurrances in the Aristocrat Club of the Rose Garden Orphanage, and depending on the player's interpretation, some of them don't even shy away from murder if they can get away with it. [[spoiler:And manipulating a serial killer to commit murders is definite canon for one of the characters, although that wasn't considered typical behaviour even for her.]]
* The imagery of cheerful mock suicide by teenagers (and, in one case, an elementary-school kid) in ''{{Persona 3}}'' is more than a little disturbing, and likely the primary reason for the game's "M" rating in North America.
** 'Cheerful' is a bit of a misnomer. Evokers (the guns used in these mock-suicides) are used to create the necessary levels of fear and stress to summon one's Persona in one spike.
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* [[spoiler: Ness and Lucas in]] ''ThereWillBeBrawl'' [[spoiler: are bad enough to make all of the other supposed ''BigBad''s nervous.]]
* The trolls of ''{{Homestuck}}'' do not, as a rule, have much in the way of childhoods - but some of them develop a strong interest in colectible card games or [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker]] romance novels, and others begin earnestly studying for a career in law enforcement or become mass murderers by the age of thirteen.
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* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane from ''CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
* When we see [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]] in a flashback to when she was about 8 years old she engages in typical activities such as teasing her brother and her friend who has a crush on him, doing cartwheels, throwing rocks at animals, throwing fireballs at people, hopefully suggesting that her uncle and cousin might die in battle so her father can inherit the throne, setting dolls on fire, mocking her uncle for leaving a battle after her cousin died, [[spoiler: cheerfully telling her brother and mother that her father has been ordered to murder her brother...]]
--->'''Ursa''': [[LampshadeHanging What is]] ''[[LampshadeHanging wrong]]'' [[CreepyChild with that child?]]
* Played for laughs in ''SouthPark,'' where pretty much all the kids ([[TokenWholesome except Butters]]) curse and do other adult behavior all the time. Taken to extremes with [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]], however, who has gone so far as [[MoralEventHorizon attempting to start new Holocausts]].
* On ''{{Daria}},'' [[DumbBlonde Brittany]]'s little brother Brian not only acts out of control, he is [[AllThereInTheManual apparently]] the reason why the family [[FridgeHorror doesn't even bother naming their pets anymore]].
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* Chelsie Warner, the CreepyChild of ''{{Concession}}''. [[spoiler:Apart from having taken up the {{Transsexual}} lifestyle at a very early age - her birth name is "Charles", and her parents gave up trying to stop her behaving like a girl - she displays violent tendencies in her very first appearance by stabbing Artie in the eye with a crayon. She then rapes him when he's too delirious to know what's going on. It was later revealed that her hypersexual behaviour was related to a form of bipolar disorder, and she joined a harem of preteen boys run by the practicing paedophile Kate, who specifically seeks out children with this disorder because she believes that allowing them to give in to urges which are already there doesn't count as abuse. The author points out that ''he'' knows that it does count, but Kate does not know that.]]
* Namah in ''{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'' is a milder version then people on this page, but she still did a SlasherSmile when she went into the ventilation system, stole knives, poured hot sauce in the eyes of one of her guards. [[spoiler:Considering that she is being kept in her room to prevent knowledge of a secret affair being leaked, it's kinda justified.]]
* Samantha Wight of ''{{Suppression}}'' has a habit of lecturing people about the [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech futility of everything]] and, at best, is only [[NighInvulnerable mildly annoyed]] at being stabbed through the heart.
* Nadia (and possibly Dark) in ''{{Kagerou}}'', although whether they're actually children, or even real, is highly debatable. Their actions are made more disturbing by the presence of Kid, who ''is'' very childlike.
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* Comedian Brendon Burns Tells a story about catching his 5 year old son masturbating with a soaped up shark toy, his advice was:
-->'''Burns:''' DON'T DO THAT!
-->'''Son:''' Why not?
-->'''Burns:''' Because adults don't like it when little kids do that, and I wasn't allowed to do it when I was your age and..... y'know what, go ahead, just don't do it at school.
-->'''Son:''' Why not?
-->'''Burns:''' See rule #1. (Rule 1 is "it'll suck, and you'll hate me for letting you do it")
* Played for laughs: Catholic speaker Chris Padgett tells a story of when his young son first learned a bad word- "boobie"- and would not stop saying it. Eventually, Chris's older daughter sits down to talk to him:
-->'''Daughter:''' You can't say that word anymore, it's bad.
-->'''Son:''' Yes I can, boobie.
-->'''Daughter:''' Jesus wouldn't want you to say that word, right?
-->'''Son:''' Yes I would.
-->'''Padgett:''' Great, my kid thinks he's Jesus.
* Chain smoking guerrilla leaders [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htoo_twins the Htoo Twins]]. [[CrazyAwesome They also claimed to be bulletproof and have armies of invisible soldiers.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4c_wI6kQyE&annotation_id=annotation_207174&feature=iv 2 year old smokes 40 cigarettes a day]].
* It's actually very common for babies and toddlers to masturbate. It's just pleasure to them though.
** Fetuses have been observed doing just that on ultrasound.
* KevinSmith, on one of the "An Evening With Kevin Smith"s, describes his daughter learning her first naughty word (bullshit) while she was a toddler. Unlike most examples of this trope, this was intensely hilarious to Smith and his wife, who egged her on; she even got creative with it (dogshit, mommyshit, daddyshit). Then they said, "Do you know what 'shit' means?" "No." They told her, and the girl got very quiet...
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!!Examples of kids trying out such troubling behavior for the first time:
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* The ''OnePiece'' manga showed Sanji started his smoking habit at age nine trying to be more adult.
* A little later, but in the ''IchigoMashimaro'' manga, Nobue started trying to smoke in middle school. It nauseated her when she first tried it, but she "powered through" until it didn't make her sick anymore, and now she's addicted. What started it all, however, is when a smoker left a pack behind on a park bench when Nobue was 11. Curious, she picked it up and looked at it. The warning label scared her off of starting for a while, although she did start holding a cigarette in her hand in an attempt to look cool.
* Expect this in any ''{{Lolicon}}'' or ''{{Shotacon}}'' work, such as ''BokuNoPico''.
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* In Belgian comic ''{{Violine}}'', the titular 10-year-old drinks whiskey and gets clearly drunk off it, when it's given to her as part of a celebration held by friendly natives in an African country.
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* Again in the movie ''{{Hounddog}}'', Lewellen is tricked into doing a naked dance for a much older man for Elvis tickets [[spoiler:and gets raped because of it]]. This carried over into RealLife, where many people were shocked that 12-year-old Dakota Fanning had played such a scene herself.
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* In the classic children's book ''NothingsFairInFifthGrade'', one of the main character's friends decides to hitchhike a ride to a local fair, as she's tired of walking. The rest of the kids are shocked, but go along so as not to get left behind. The hitchhiking adventure ends up having disastrous consequences for the kids. The man drives off away from their intended destination, and the kids jump out of his truck at a red light. But one of them, a 7-year-old, goes back for her purse which she forgot, and the truck drives off with her in it. Looking for a phone so they can call the police, the kids head towards the nearest building they can find: a tavern. Suffice to say everyone in the tavern finds the procession of fifth-graders and the one girl's 3-year-old brother to be a rather strange sight.
* In the novel ''OthersSeeUs'' the protagonists are quite startled when their grandmother insists they have a beer. [[spoiler: Though it's actually a trick to increase their psychic powers.]]
* In the JudyBlume children's novel ''Then Again Maybe I Won't'', main character Tony, his rich next door friend Joel and his old friend from the inner city, Frankie, are hanging out in Joel's basement when Joel jimmies into his father's liquor cabinet. The three boys get drunk. It was the first time Tony and Frankie had done this, but Joel had been drinking enough that he knew well the differences between the various kinds of alcohol.
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* The ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Lois Battles Jamie", there are two instances of this subtrope occuring. The first was Jamie trying to murder his mother by dropping a shelf on her (although it's subverted in that he's acting like this because his brother Reese fed him soda, which evidentially made himself uncontrollable). The second was with Francis in a flashback. When he was a toddler, Francis attempted to douse his teddy bear with lighter fluid and set it on fire (similar to certain people who kidnap other people) before Lois intervened.
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* From "Little Kids" by Deerhunter:
--> [-kids drinking gin on the front lawn-]\\
[-the kids see that man walking down the dirt road-]\\
[-these kids see the sky and they think of him dressed in flames-]\\
[-kids walk behind, slowly stalk, that old man-]\\
[- -]\\
[-these kids followed him to his shed-]\\
[-where he turns on the radio and smokes a cig-]\\
[-these kids come with gasoline and they strike a match-]\\
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* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking. Even better, their accomplice in this is [[HeartwarmingOrphan Tinny Tim]]. The robbery is his idea: "Gentle jerkwads! I know of a way we can emulate Bender ''without'' throwing up!" Best part: Tim's a robot, so alcohol shouldn't, logically, make him throw up anyway, because he runs on it, so this falls purely under RuleOfFunny.
* In ''{{Ben 10}}'', Ben meets Kevin 11, an eleven year old boy who gambles and steals things. This is troubling enough, but Ben still thinks Kevin's a cool guy to hang out with...until Kevin is willing to use his energy absorbing powers to crash two subway trains together and take the cash from the wreckage. When Ben points out that "hundreds of people could DIE!", Kevin shrugs and says "Hey; no pain, no gain."
* Eggy the duckling in ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' absorbed the knowledge of all four of the penguin squad while still in his egg and became a TykeBomb obsessed with the commando life. His mother wasn't pleased.
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* According to ''The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers'', 10% of serial killers make their first kill before the age of 10.
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* A mailman is making his rounds, but one of his deliveries is a package that requires a signature. So he goes up to the house, knocks on the door, and a 12-year-old kid with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other answers it:
--> '''Mailman:''' Uh... hi. Are your parents home?
--> ''The kid takes a puff from the cigarette''
--> '''Kid:''' What the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] do you think?
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[[caption-width:300:[[LittleMissBadass Shooting a man and threatening others with a gun is just the beginning...]] ]]
->''We loved our daughter very much, but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Hid the remote.]] Really sick shit. My wife took her to the old family farm and drowned her in the well. I felt a simple time-out would have been sufficient.''
-->-- ''The Architect'', ''[[ScaryMovie Scary Movie 3]]''
[[ChildrenAreInnocent Kids should be kids]], at least that's how the saying goes. That means worrying about little kid things and doing little kid things, such as playing on the trampoline, watching TV, going fishing, or whatever it is that kids do locally. What we don't expect kids to do is to drink alcohol, smoke, have sex, use drugs, hitchhike, commit violent crimes, or do other things we associate only with teenagers or adults. Yes, many adults are upset when a teenager drinks beer, but it's disturbing when a 10-year-old does it.
In fiction, there's two ways this tends to occur. Sometimes the kid is shown engaging in such behavior as though it's normal for them, and this can be used to show that the child has had a harsh upbringing. Other times, the kid is trying an "adult" behavior for the first time, which may sometimes have [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin disastrous consequences]].
The CreepyChild, the EnfantTerrible and the EvilOrphan draw much of their force from this. FromTheMouthsOfBabes is the SubTrope where the child only ''says'' troubling unchildlike things.
The FilleFatale is considered this less than is plausible, since sexual precociousness is often a sign of sexual abuse.
ChildSoldiers are a particularly tragic and horrific example of this.
For when kids ''see'' things (or have things happen to them) that they shouldn't instead of ''do'' things they shouldn't, see HarmfulToMinors. A TeenageWasteland runs on this.
Contrast with WiseBeyondTheirYears, which is about positive strangely-adult behavior.
Note that if the kid is ReallySevenHundredYearsOld and just has the physical appearance of a child, it doesn't count. This is for when actual children are the ones engaging in the unchildlike behavior.
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!!Examples of kids engaging in such behavior as though it's normal for them:
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij2Xbu-XhCI This hilarious condom commercial.]]
** It shows a five year old getting a tattoo, cutting his teacher's chair with a chainsaw and being stopped by the police after stealing a car. He continuously explains that his mom said he could. It turns out he'd overheard her cry out "Yes! Yes! Yes!" during sex in another room and assumed that she was replying to him.
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* ''KodomoNoJikan'' is ''made'' of this trope. To expand on that: [[FilleFatale Rin]] is a nine-year-old who appears to have the sex drive of a [[LoveableSexManiac 20-something man]] — she's constantly saying and doing perverse things to attempt to get a [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean rise]] out of her third-grade teacher.
* In ''FullMetalPanic'', Sousuke [[CuteShotaroBoy when he was a kid]], as seen in his and Kalinin's backstory. He kills [[TheStoic without batting an eye]], has an ''extremely'' nihilistic view of things, and is [[EmotionlessGirl creepily unemotional]]. Especially noticeable [[http://pics.livejournal.com/fmp_misha/pic/0003qgt1 here]].
* After adopting [[ArtificialHuman Pinoko]], BlackJack is more than a little disconcerted to discover that the [[YoungerThanTheyLook 10-day-old]] (who insists she's a "virgin maiden" of [[OlderThanTheyLook 18]] and looks about 6) [[PrecociousCrush has developed feelings for him]] -- but what ''really'' scares him is that she already knows what a virgin is
-->'''Black Jack:''' Good God, where did you learn that kind of language?
* Subverted in ''Anime/{{Monster}}''. Dieter tosses back a shot like a pro, then jauntily salutes the rest of the patrons as he leaves with a toothpick in his mouth. Once outside, though, he immediately begins retching and questioning the sanity of adults who drink that stuff for fun.
** Also played straight with Johan, who by age 10 [[CompleteMonster had killed several sets of foster parents and calmly and smilingly]] [[CorruptionByAMinor talked all of Kinderheim 511 into killing each other]].
* Michio Yuki, the VillainProtagonist of ''{{MW}}'', has become this the moment he becomes AxCrazy by the titular chemical warfare.
* Lucy (and to an extent most of the Diclonii) in ''ElfenLied'' are extremely homicidal little girls.
* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' has Ciel, an aristocrat living in {{Victorian London}}. At the mere age of 13 (he starts off 12, but turns 13 early in the series) he is the head of the household, runs a successful toy and confectioneries company, and is the [[DirtyBusiness "Queen's Watchdog"]] which sends him out on often very dangerous and frightening missions such as helping to catch {{Jack the Ripper}}. Personality-wise, he's bitter and jaded... but his darker view on things is because of a traumatic past experience. Still, he's an {{Improbable Age}} character. Oh, did I mention he will command his [[BattleButler awesome butler]] to kill people without a second thought? In the manga he's also seen drinking champagne with his guests, but that could be because of his status, the time period, and the overall culture back then.
** Alois as well. For the whole first episode, he goes from acting completely innocent to downright crazy within a few seconds, and switches back and forth between the two personas. Not to mention how he acts as if he is trying to seduce any male character within five feet of him.
* [[CreepyTwins Hansel and Gretel]] from ''BlackLagoon''. The sheer number of people they kill (and how they do it) is just the start of how messed up these two are. And tragically, they can't even imagine the world any other way.
** Probably [[AxeCrazy Revy]]. From what can be gathered from the tiny flashbacks, she was raised on the streets of [[GangsterLand Chicago]] and probably learned her gun skills from gangsters, and killed someone using a pillow as a silencer when she was still pretty young.
* Seta Soujirou of ''RurouniKenshin'', given his [[AbusiveParents horrible childhood]] and subsequent "adoption" by a SocialDarwinist to act as his [[TheDragon Dragon]], slaughters people with a [[DissonantSerenity cheerful smile]].
** Kenshin too, when he buried all the bodies of his guardians and the men who killed them, instead of, say, trying to find help.
* In the ''{{Saiyuki}}'' manga, there is a scene of a pre-teen Gojyo smoking in his room while his [[ParentalIncest older brother calms his stepmother down.]]
* Meet [[UminekoNoNakuKoroNi Maria Ushiromiya]], 9-year-old walking encyclopedia of all things relating to Western occult lore and "black magic." Also has a rather [[AnnoyingLaugh irritating]] EvilLaugh and a habit of using it at [[CreepyChild incredibly inappropriate times]], like after seeing [[spoiler:her mother and 5 of her relatives']] horribly mutilated corpses.
* Essentially every child Contractor and Doll from ''DarkerThanBlack'' qualifies for this. LackOfEmpathy or becoming an ExtremeDoormat will do that to you.
* ''JapanTenguPartyIllustrated'' has a disturbing relationship between a [[{{youkai}} Tengu]] man and the human child he kidnapped ostensibly to be the vessel for their leader (when he uses her to speak, he ''[[NightmareFuelUnleaded swallows her and uses her as his tongue]]''). The child manages to escape the tengu, but the kidnapper is still concerned and obsessed with her. He eventually finds her phone number during a battle, but she never wants to see him again, and besides she's already safe in bed - ''with her teacher'' (she likes "magicians (the teacher) better then monsters (the tengu)") [[hottip:* : "RealLife" tengu are notorious for kidnapping children and returning them (if they do at all) "in a daze", and tales of monks (tengu dress as mountain aesthetics) and their child-novices don't even bother with {{Unusual Euphemism}}s.]]
* Vincent in ''PandoraHearts''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to [[spoiler:the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?]] That's not a good sign. It also borders on PsychopathicManchild behavior since he still does it as a young adult.
** In confusing flashbacks and illustrations, Alice [[spoiler: or more accurately, the Will of the Abyss... [[MindScrew sometimes...]]]] also does this, displaying [[http://dragonempress.net/curious/images/pandora-09-05-03.jpg somewhat unsettlingly flirty behavior]] with Jack and being cheerfully vicious with Vincent. Eventually leading to yet more of this trope from [[spoiler:''Gilbert'']], who tries to strangle her.
* Several [[ChildSoldier characters]] in ''NowAndThenHereAndThere'', especially Nabuca
* This is a staple of {{Shonen}} and sometimes {{Shojo}} manga along with HarmfulToMinors. It's usually treated lighthearted and without any real damage though, unless it's a plot device or a {{Deconstruction}}.
* The first time we see Akane Awakusu in ''{{Durarara}}'', she's gleefully chasing down Shizuo with a heavily modified stun gun and shouting "Die!" It turns out that this isn't exactly normal for her, as she was a CheerfulChild before she [[TheRunaway ran away from home]] and only did it because [[spoiler:Izaya told her that Shizuo was an assassin who would kill her family.]]
* The main cast of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' are well-known for their (usually) HatePlague induced paranoia and murder sprees, among many other troubling behaviors. The four oldest characters are only sixteen, with the youngest being somewhere between [[VagueAge nine and twelve]].
* Seeing how it's a story about ChildSoldiers, it's no surprise that this trope shows up a lot in ''GunslingerGirl''.
* ..And lets not even START with {{Narutaru}}.
* In ''Project: ARMS'', there are quite a few children who end up this way, mostly because the Egrigori are very into using them for evil and dangerous experiments. The first ones we see are Al and Jeff Bowen, who attempt to blow up a high school partly for their mission, but moreso because they themselves were teased in school. Al spends the rest of the series methodically working his way through various battles and trying to kill a Keith with a gun at one point. [[spoiler:Also, a flashback shows us that the twins murdered their own parents and killed a bunch of kids at their school with a poisonous gas that they invented to leave no traces]]. Then we get Carol, an adorable little girl who is introduced cheerfully telling Ryo that she has the power to twist and crush things like metal and human bones with her mind and that she very much enjoys the power that comes with doing this. It's implied that she only went through life by having people fear her, and Ryo [[StefordSmiler calls her bluff on her enjoying it]]. Finally, we get [[spoiler:Dark Alice, who is furious at the world for causing her death and is willing to nuke the entire planet to get her revenge.]]
* Broly in the eighth DragonballZ movie was shown in a flashback to destroy a planet, and then [[LaughingMad laugh hysterically]] as his father attempts to restrain him, all while he's a child. It's implied that this behavior stemmed from the trauma he endured on the day of his birth (Kakarot [Goku] crying next to him, his narrowly surviving execution by King Vegeta simply because the latter feared Broly's abnormal power level [he was born with a power level of 10,000], and later narrowly escaping Frieza's destruction of Planet Vegeta with his father.
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* Damian Wayne in GrantMorrisonsBatman. He's a ten-year-old who is firmly convinced that he's the natural successor to his father's legacy and Dick Grayson is an idiot. In addition to being a particularly grim (and potentially deadly) Robin, he is frighteningly efficient at running Wayne Enterprises.
* If you are in any way associated with organized crime, [[KickAss Hit-Girl]] will brutally chop you up and shoot you in the head while cursing like a sailor. [[LittleMissBadass She's a cute 10 year old.]]
** A short scene in the film [[InvertedTrope inverts this for a while.]]. Her father is very disturbed that she is acting like a normal girl, until she reveals she's screwing with him.
* ''{{Crossed}}'' children appear to be no less foul-mouthed, kill-happy, or rape-happy than their adult counterparts.
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* Halee Steinfeld's portrayal of the 14-year-old Mattie Ross in the Coen brothers' version of ''TrueGrit'' is, even though she isn't a child any more, very disconcerting in its seriousness and vengefulness.
* The controversial movie ''{{Hounddog}}'' has Lewellen, its 11-year-old main character, drinking alcohol. This is considered normal in her family.
* The movie ''[[LilyaFourEver Lilya 4-ever]]'' has its title character drinking, smoking and sniffing glue at the age of 14. Then family troubles (specifically lack of any family) force her to enter prostitution. [[TearJerker It all goes downhill from there.]]
* The movie ''Young Thugs: Nostalgia'' has protagonist 6th grader Riichi Nakaba get drunk twice in the movie. In one scene his family and the guests at the party encourage him to get drunk.
* The movie ''SugarCaneAlley'' has eleven-year-old José Hassan and his friends (one a girl who is probably no older than eight bought the vodka and said it was for her parents to the clerk) get so drunk that they laugh as they set a shack on fire.
* The sex worker Iris in ''TaxiDriver'' gives off an aura of grace, poise, and sexually-charged sophistication. She's also twelve. Jodie Foster's performance was by far the most unsettling thing about the film, even overshadowing de Niro.
* In the 2005 adaptation of ''[=~Tom Brown's Schooldays~=]'', Dr. Arnold is shocked that the students, some as young as ten or eleven, gamble, distill liquor, and keep guns.
* ''HomeMovie'' has this trope up to 11.
* This is what makes the old movie ''TheInnocents'' still terrifying even to a modern audience.
* ''{{Kids}}'' is almost entirely made of this + RefugeInAudacity.
* In ''CityOfGod'' Lil Dice [[spoiler: goes on a shooting spree in a hotel]]. Also, many children are involved in the gang war. (Horrifyingly enough, this is more or less TruthInTelevision.)
* In ''SweeneyTodd'', the title character finds Toby easy to bribe with Gin. As Toby tells Mrs. Lovett, they used to give the stuff to kids like him in the workhouse (child labor laws didn't exist way back when) so they could sleep -- though as he mentions, you wouldn't ever want to sleep there, "not with the things that happen in the dark."
** Don't forget the ending, when he [[spoiler:coldly and quietly slits Sweeny's throat.]]
* ''LawnDogs'' has a lot of this. Not to mention some in the form of CorruptionByAMinor, as Devon manages to convince her adult friend to [[spoiler:steal chickens from a barn, and later, moon her father.]] And no, Devon is not portrayed as wise beyond her years either. She otherwise acts like a normal preteen girl, who happens to do some messed up stuff, in a realistically childish way.
---> "Also, children are expected to be a certain way, and I like the unexpectedness of how children really are if you watch them. (...) Sometimes children just don't go by the rules, they often have a natural inclination not to, which we as adults have often lost." - Naomi Wallace, screenwriter for ''LawnDogs''
* In ''TheGoodSon'', 12 year old Henry (played by Macaulay Culkin) smokes, drinks alcohol, vandalizes property, builds homemade weapons, conducts horrible schemes,tortures and kills animals, and kills people all like it's an everyday thing.
* ''{{The Professional}}'' starts with 12 year-old Mathilda (Natalie Portman) smoking and hitting on the middle-aged neighbor. This is all before she becomes an [[LittleMissBadass assassin's apprentice]].
* ''BloodDiamond'' had ChildSoldiers swaggering around and swearing profusely in {{Engrish}}, which was funny until they started to shoot at [[LeonardoDiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio]].
* Speaking of LeonardoDiCaprio, he himself had portrayed a 14-year-old Catholic school boy's descent into heroin-addiction and prostitution in order to support his drug habit in 1995's ''TheBasketballDiaries''.
* ''TotalEclipse'', another {{LeonardoDiCaprio}} movie (boy, he surely went through a phase of acting in edgy, indie roles in 1995...). He plays Arthur Rimbaud, a wild and bratty teenager who gets into a sexual relationship with an older, married man. The entire movie highlights how sick and twisted their relationship is.
* Let's not forget scamming, scheming, stealing, swearing little Addie in ''PaperMoon''.
* In ''RoboCop 2'' there's Hob, the villain's main henchman, who is a boy of about 12 and very competent too.
* ''{{Tideland}}'' consists entirely of this, although Jeliza-Rosa does not fully realize everything that's going on around her and keeps acting and (probably) thinking like a child while she does stuff like preparing the syringe for her drug-addict father and [[CorruptionByAMinor seducing a grown man]]. (Thankfully, he's mentally about the same age, but it's still very, very disturbing.)
* ''TheHeartIsDeceitfulAboveAllThings'' has the protagonist drinking alcohol at the age of seven and [[DudeNotFunny seducing]] MarilynManson at the age of eleven. [[CrapsackWorld Among other things.]]
* Mindy/Hit-Girl of ''Film/{{Kick-Ass}}'' cusses like a sailor (from [[ClusterFBomb random F-Bombs]] to her introductory quote: "Ok you [[CountryMatters cunts]], let's see what you can do now"). [[PeripheryHatedom No small amount of controversy]] resulted from having an eleven-year old actress using such language on screen. Oh, and she's a '''[[LittleMissBadass trained killer]]''' who can drop a room full of other trained killers with just a couple of handguns. Her actress did all of her own stunts including [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZitQGc2XV8o the Butterfly Knife display]].
* Trish from ''AngelsRevenge'', though it might be {{justified}} since she's a young [[TeensAreMonsters teenager]]. She gets just a little ''too'' excited at a drug dealer's [[GroinAttack unwanted bris]], she latches onto another drug dealer's car in order to track him, and she fatally shoots a kingpin at the end of the movie.
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* ''{{Duumvirate}}'' lives and breathes this trope. Even the littlest kids are perfectly willing to kill at the drop of a hat. It's all just a game to them.
* Rather freakily lampshaded in ''BraveNewWorld'', where the childhood conditioning all the citizens are exposed to encourages children to act sexually towards each other at about ''pre-school'' age. The people administering said conditioning laugh about how those poor unenlightened souls way back when would have treated such behavior as disturbing.
* Although not really a disturbing or creepy example, in one of the {{Discworld}} novels [[DirtyOldWoman Nanny Ogg]] ruminates on the concept of people having "natural ages", levels of maturity they were designed for; her examples are herself, who is somewhere in her eighties but has always felt mentally nineteen or so, while some children appear to have been born thirty-five; she's referring to them being austere and boring rather than engaging in actual adult behavior.
** Wensleydale in ''GoodOmens'' is an example of such a child: "His parents called him 'Youngster', possibly in the hope that he'd take the hint".
* At the age of twelve, {{Lolita}} seduces her stepfather. He's not her first lover.( [[UnreliableNarrator Or at least that's what daddy wants us to think]] )
* ''{{Gone}}'' , by Michael Grant, has this in spades. The entire cast is aged fifteen and under, and Sam and Lana both dwell on how disturbing it is to see young children drinking, smoking, and doing drugs. Not to mention the plentiful violence.
* The ''{{Redwall}}'' series. Oh, Dark Forest Gates, the ''{{Redwall}}'' series. The titular first installment features a season-and-a-half year old squirrel -- described in the text as a baby and not talking yet -- who is personally responsible for the horrible deaths of ''at least'' ten vermin, and assists in the killing of many others by rolling a hedgehog over them ''in the middle of a battlefield''. He's also given a sharp dagger by a hare who thinks nothing unusual of a kid stabbing people with one hand and sucking the other. By comparison, the young, gangly teenager that goes on to see new friends and an adoptive father/Abbot poisoned to death, kills massive numbers of vermin, faces and decapitates a snake that could eat him alive, and comes plummeting from the top of an Abbey with a bird stuck in his shoulder, all by the age of thirteen seasons, seems almost reasonable. Oh, and gets married and has a son before he's sixteen seasons. Combines with AngstWhatAngst. This may have been intentional ValuesDissonance, as the series is set in pseudo-10th century England [[AC:[[FurryFandom WITH FURRIES]]]], but has been somewhat dialed down in the sequels... which still include the slavery of preteen children and [[HarmfulToMinors the murder of their slavers]].
* In the ''{{Green-Sky Trilogy}}'', [[IllGirl Pomma's]] addiction to [[FantasticDrug wissenberries]].
* ''TheAlienist'': multiple characters all over the novel.
* ''TheTomorrowSeries'': Aside from the fact that the viewpoint characters are only 16 - 17 years old, and essentially learning to become guerrilla fighters as the series progresses, the group of kids living in Stratton are a more depressing version of the trope: by ''The Night Is For Hunting'', when the main characters meet them, they are well-accustomed to gunfights and mugging people in alleyways.
* When [[TheDresdenFiles the Archive]] warns you that she will kill you if you challenge her authority or otherwise threaten her, [[CuteBruiser you'd]] [[LittleMissBadass better]] ''[[WiseBeyondTheirYears believe]]'' [[PersonOfMassDestruction it]].
* ArtemisFowl
* [[EndersGame Ender Wiggin]], at ''six'', beats a bully ''to death''. Because he knows that being merciless will let him win.
* Tom Riddle from ''HarryPotter'' was an ultimately creepy kid. As a child, he tormented his fellow orphans - even murdering one's pet rabbit. When he went to Hogwarts he learned to be sly and manipulative, continuing his evil acts and a couple of murders without being suspected by the older, more powerful wizards who could pose a threat. Then, of course, he became Lord Voldemort.
* Arya Stark from ''ASongOfIceAndFire''. Committed her first premeditated murder at age ten. It wasn't her first kill, just the first one she planned out deliberately. Oh, and she's one of the heroic characters.
* In ''IronKing'', Meghan is shocked to hear her four-year-old half-brother tell her best friend "Go [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] yourself!" Justified in that [[spoiler:the kid is actually a changeling. Her real half-brother is a perfectly normal, sweet kid]].
* Daine in Tamora Pierce's ''Immortals'' series [[spoiler: hunts down and slaughters the bandits who killed her family]], aged twelve. Justified by her grief and the fact that [[spoiler: her gift was making her think she was a wolf]], but made more unsettling by the fact that, when she does eventually tell her friends about it, most of them simply shrug it off.
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* In an episode of ''SexAndTheCity'', Samantha is jealous of a very rich 13-year-old girl for whom she organizes a Bat Mitzvah party. When she overhears the 13-year-old telling her friends about giving blowjobs to keep a man, Sam interrupts to say that this is wrong. When the 13-year-old replies that she has been giving blowjobs since she was 12 and that she knows how the world works, Sam is released from her jealousy as she realizes that at least she had a childhood.
* There's an episode of ''{{House}}'' where a mother brings her daughter into the clinic for possible epileptic behavior. House examines the girl, and determines that she's merely been "[[ADateWithRosiePalms ya-yaing the sisterhood]]". The mother is shocked, to say the least, but House says that it's reasonable behavior, if a bit atypical.
* In one episode of ''{{Bones}}'', the murderer turns out to be an 11-year-old girl, who shoots her tutor with a shotgun when he refuses to help her cheat on a school project.
* ''{{CSI}}'' had one in the form of a 12 year old girl who was taking senior level high school courses. At her older brother's trial for murder of a classmate, she testifies that she's the real murderer and produces evidence to support her case. She pulls off the plan so well that she convinces the court that there is too much doubt to her brother's involvement (mainly, that he was a D student in chemistry and the murderer needed to know how to handle pure Sodium) and that there was too much doubt to convict her (she was too small to move the victim's body). As if that wasn't the worst of it, she says to Sarah that had she been convicted, she could get her degree by 18 and/or write a book about the crime, since Nevada has no "Son of Sam" law. Finally, it was revealed that [[spoiler: she had no involvement in the murder and Sarah just got played.]]
** It's even worse in the continued episode later on, when it's revealed her Yandere fixation on her brother prompts her to murder his girlfriend and blame him for it. Her motivation is that it will get rid of any "obsticles between them" and that, by continuously visiting him while he's in prison, he'll fall in love with her.
* In one episode of ''GreysAnatomy'', a man is brought into the hospital after supposedly being accidentally shot by his six-year-old daughter, using a gun that had been carelessly left outside. However, scans show that this man has been shot 17 times. When the daughter is questioned about the event, she asks why her father wouldn't just die, since she had shot him so many times. As it turns out, the girl and her mother had been putting up with severe abuse at the hand of the alcoholic father. The girl, seeing her father begin another attack on his wife, grabbed the gun (which had been left in an easily accessible place) and shot her father.
* Parodied in a ''{{Jam}}'' sketch where a man believes he has accidentally killed his friend during an argument. He calls a professional killer/"cleaner" named Maria to dispose of the body, but she turns out to be only six years old. She [[ClusterFBomb uses language that would make a sailor blush]], carries a gun, and when the victim wakes up (revealing that he was only unconscious) she shoots him in the head then hacks him to bits with a saw blade. In the end, the police are called and Maria instantly reverts to a cutesy child act.
** ''Jam'' was based on the radio series ''Blue Jam'', which featured several sketches about Maria. More disturbingly, in this version she is only ''four'' years old!
* An episode of ''{{Criminal Minds}}'' focused on a series of murders of young children. They turned out to have been committed by a young boy [[spoiler: (the son of their original suspect)]], who, in his own words, did it "because I wanted to."
* Inverted in ''Series/GameOfThrones''; Robin Arryn is ten years old and ''still breastfeeding.''
* Francis Wilkerson, or heck, any of the kids from ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'', easily qualify. Francis, aside from attempting to douse his teddy bear (as noted in the subtrope "Kids trying this behavior out for the first time" below), also frequently tortured his younger brothers (barring Dewey), stole their toys, locked them in a closet, and scarred Reese with a bayonette, all as a child, and he also implies when telling Dewey this that this is ''exactly'' what being a good brother is all about. As a teen, he frequently goes on destructive rampages/rebellions, such as stealing his mother's car, sleeping around, smoking, drinking, getting four nose pierces, and other similar behaviors all just to spite his mother or [[ForTheEvulz just for the heck of it]]. Reese is very much prone to violence, and enjoys hurting people.
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* In "Brenda's Got a Baby" by [[TupacShakur 2Pac]], Brenda (then 12 years old) [[CantGetAwayWithNuthin gets into a relationship]] with her [[{{Lolicon}} 20-something]] [[IncestIsRelative cousin]] after becoming frustrated with life [[CrapsackWorld at]] [[BigScrewedUpFamily home]]. She becomes pregnant, but manages to hide the pregnancy from her family. She ends up giving birth on the floor of the girls' bathroom at school, and tries to dispose of the baby in a dumpster (only to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone feel bad]] and take it out). She and her mother are constantly at each others' throats, and finally Brenda is kicked out of the house. She is too young to be hired for honest work and has no place to go, so she sells drugs...until she is robbed at gunpoint and is driven to prostitution. [[DisposableSexWorker It does not end well.]]
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* Wicked witches in ''WitchGirlsAdventures'' and the comics that spawned it are big on [[GoodSmokingEvilSmoking Evil Smoking]]. Children aren't an exception.
* Blood Claws in ''{{Warhammer 40K}}''. Granted, they're not actually children (more along the lines of 18+ due to how long it takes to become a Space Marine) but given that they just came into adulthood and will blindly charge towards a 40' towering monstrosity while laughing their heads off is not exactly behaviour suited to the average teenager (especially since many older warriors would run away in fear from said monsters).
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* The entirety of ''{{How I Learned to Drive}}.''
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* Sign on to any online shooter (preferably an Xbox 360 shooter RatedMForMoney and/or [[RatedMForManly Manly]] for maximum results) and prepare to be called a nigger, faggot, and just about any other offensive word you can think of by {{Internet Tough Guy}}s 12 and under.
* Mildly done in ''{{Psychonauts}}''. The protagonist and his peers are all ten-year-olds, yet some of the kids have an odd fascination with hooking up and making out.
* [[FateStayNight Illyasviel von Einzbern]] is a... [[PlayingWithATrope strange case.]] At first, she's trying to kill Shirou and Rin... then depending on the route [[ZigZaggingTrope she goes to play with Shirou, her "onii-chan", frequently.]] Then it turns out [[spoiler: [[DeconstructedTrope she's a homunculus created as a vessel for the Holy Grail.]] Finally [[SubvertedTrope it's revealed that she's 18.]]]]
** Plus she also tries to have sex with Shirou at two points in Fate and one in Heaven's Feel. Which is... [[{{Lolicon}} a little disturbing.]]
* Does it bother ''anyone'' else that [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic Mission Vao]], a fourteen-year-old twi'lek, can happily slaughter her way through hundreds of people when previously the worst thing she did was pick pockets and scam people?
* ''RuleOfRose'': Byzantine plotting, power struggles and even torture are everyday occurrances in the Aristocrat Club of the Rose Garden Orphanage, and depending on the player's interpretation, some of them don't even shy away from murder if they can get away with it. [[spoiler:And manipulating a serial killer to commit murders is definite canon for one of the characters, although that wasn't considered typical behaviour even for her.]]
* The imagery of cheerful mock suicide by teenagers (and, in one case, an elementary-school kid) in ''{{Persona 3}}'' is more than a little disturbing, and likely the primary reason for the game's "M" rating in North America.
** 'Cheerful' is a bit of a misnomer. Evokers (the guns used in these mock-suicides) are used to create the necessary levels of fear and stress to summon one's Persona in one spike.
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* [[spoiler: Ness and Lucas in]] ''ThereWillBeBrawl'' [[spoiler: are bad enough to make all of the other supposed ''BigBad''s nervous.]]
* The trolls of ''{{Homestuck}}'' do not, as a rule, have much in the way of childhoods - but some of them develop a strong interest in colectible card games or [[OurVampiresAreDifferent rainbow drinker]] romance novels, and others begin earnestly studying for a career in law enforcement or become mass murderers by the age of thirteen.
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* The Delightful Children From Down The Lane from ''CodenameKidsNextDoor''.
* When we see [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Azula]] in a flashback to when she was about 8 years old she engages in typical activities such as teasing her brother and her friend who has a crush on him, doing cartwheels, throwing rocks at animals, throwing fireballs at people, hopefully suggesting that her uncle and cousin might die in battle so her father can inherit the throne, setting dolls on fire, mocking her uncle for leaving a battle after her cousin died, [[spoiler: cheerfully telling her brother and mother that her father has been ordered to murder her brother...]]
--->'''Ursa''': [[LampshadeHanging What is]] ''[[LampshadeHanging wrong]]'' [[CreepyChild with that child?]]
* Played for laughs in ''SouthPark,'' where pretty much all the kids ([[TokenWholesome except Butters]]) curse and do other adult behavior all the time. Taken to extremes with [[TokenEvilTeammate Cartman]], however, who has gone so far as [[MoralEventHorizon attempting to start new Holocausts]].
* On ''{{Daria}},'' [[DumbBlonde Brittany]]'s little brother Brian not only acts out of control, he is [[AllThereInTheManual apparently]] the reason why the family [[FridgeHorror doesn't even bother naming their pets anymore]].
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* Chelsie Warner, the CreepyChild of ''{{Concession}}''. [[spoiler:Apart from having taken up the {{Transsexual}} lifestyle at a very early age - her birth name is "Charles", and her parents gave up trying to stop her behaving like a girl - she displays violent tendencies in her very first appearance by stabbing Artie in the eye with a crayon. She then rapes him when he's too delirious to know what's going on. It was later revealed that her hypersexual behaviour was related to a form of bipolar disorder, and she joined a harem of preteen boys run by the practicing paedophile Kate, who specifically seeks out children with this disorder because she believes that allowing them to give in to urges which are already there doesn't count as abuse. The author points out that ''he'' knows that it does count, but Kate does not know that.]]
* Namah in ''{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'' is a milder version then people on this page, but she still did a SlasherSmile when she went into the ventilation system, stole knives, poured hot sauce in the eyes of one of her guards. [[spoiler:Considering that she is being kept in her room to prevent knowledge of a secret affair being leaked, it's kinda justified.]]
* Samantha Wight of ''{{Suppression}}'' has a habit of lecturing people about the [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech futility of everything]] and, at best, is only [[NighInvulnerable mildly annoyed]] at being stabbed through the heart.
* Nadia (and possibly Dark) in ''{{Kagerou}}'', although whether they're actually children, or even real, is highly debatable. Their actions are made more disturbing by the presence of Kid, who ''is'' very childlike.
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* Comedian Brendon Burns Tells a story about catching his 5 year old son masturbating with a soaped up shark toy, his advice was:
-->'''Burns:''' DON'T DO THAT!
-->'''Son:''' Why not?
-->'''Burns:''' Because adults don't like it when little kids do that, and I wasn't allowed to do it when I was your age and..... y'know what, go ahead, just don't do it at school.
-->'''Son:''' Why not?
-->'''Burns:''' See rule #1. (Rule 1 is "it'll suck, and you'll hate me for letting you do it")
* Played for laughs: Catholic speaker Chris Padgett tells a story of when his young son first learned a bad word- "boobie"- and would not stop saying it. Eventually, Chris's older daughter sits down to talk to him:
-->'''Daughter:''' You can't say that word anymore, it's bad.
-->'''Son:''' Yes I can, boobie.
-->'''Daughter:''' Jesus wouldn't want you to say that word, right?
-->'''Son:''' Yes I would.
-->'''Padgett:''' Great, my kid thinks he's Jesus.
* Chain smoking guerrilla leaders [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htoo_twins the Htoo Twins]]. [[CrazyAwesome They also claimed to be bulletproof and have armies of invisible soldiers.]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4c_wI6kQyE&annotation_id=annotation_207174&feature=iv 2 year old smokes 40 cigarettes a day]].
* It's actually very common for babies and toddlers to masturbate. It's just pleasure to them though.
** Fetuses have been observed doing just that on ultrasound.
* KevinSmith, on one of the "An Evening With Kevin Smith"s, describes his daughter learning her first naughty word (bullshit) while she was a toddler. Unlike most examples of this trope, this was intensely hilarious to Smith and his wife, who egged her on; she even got creative with it (dogshit, mommyshit, daddyshit). Then they said, "Do you know what 'shit' means?" "No." They told her, and the girl got very quiet...
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* The ''OnePiece'' manga showed Sanji started his smoking habit at age nine trying to be more adult.
* A little later, but in the ''IchigoMashimaro'' manga, Nobue started trying to smoke in middle school. It nauseated her when she first tried it, but she "powered through" until it didn't make her sick anymore, and now she's addicted. What started it all, however, is when a smoker left a pack behind on a park bench when Nobue was 11. Curious, she picked it up and looked at it. The warning label scared her off of starting for a while, although she did start holding a cigarette in her hand in an attempt to look cool.
* Expect this in any ''{{Lolicon}}'' or ''{{Shotacon}}'' work, such as ''BokuNoPico''.
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* In Belgian comic ''{{Violine}}'', the titular 10-year-old drinks whiskey and gets clearly drunk off it, when it's given to her as part of a celebration held by friendly natives in an African country.
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* Again in the movie ''{{Hounddog}}'', Lewellen is tricked into doing a naked dance for a much older man for Elvis tickets [[spoiler:and gets raped because of it]]. This carried over into RealLife, where many people were shocked that 12-year-old Dakota Fanning had played such a scene herself.
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* In the classic children's book ''NothingsFairInFifthGrade'', one of the main character's friends decides to hitchhike a ride to a local fair, as she's tired of walking. The rest of the kids are shocked, but go along so as not to get left behind. The hitchhiking adventure ends up having disastrous consequences for the kids. The man drives off away from their intended destination, and the kids jump out of his truck at a red light. But one of them, a 7-year-old, goes back for her purse which she forgot, and the truck drives off with her in it. Looking for a phone so they can call the police, the kids head towards the nearest building they can find: a tavern. Suffice to say everyone in the tavern finds the procession of fifth-graders and the one girl's 3-year-old brother to be a rather strange sight.
* In the novel ''OthersSeeUs'' the protagonists are quite startled when their grandmother insists they have a beer. [[spoiler: Though it's actually a trick to increase their psychic powers.]]
* In the JudyBlume children's novel ''Then Again Maybe I Won't'', main character Tony, his rich next door friend Joel and his old friend from the inner city, Frankie, are hanging out in Joel's basement when Joel jimmies into his father's liquor cabinet. The three boys get drunk. It was the first time Tony and Frankie had done this, but Joel had been drinking enough that he knew well the differences between the various kinds of alcohol.
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* The ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' episode "Lois Battles Jamie", there are two instances of this subtrope occuring. The first was Jamie trying to murder his mother by dropping a shelf on her (although it's subverted in that he's acting like this because his brother Reese fed him soda, which evidentially made himself uncontrollable). The second was with Francis in a flashback. When he was a toddler, Francis attempted to douse his teddy bear with lighter fluid and set it on fire (similar to certain people who kidnap other people) before Lois intervened.
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* From "Little Kids" by Deerhunter:
--> [-kids drinking gin on the front lawn-]\\
[-the kids see that man walking down the dirt road-]\\
[-these kids see the sky and they think of him dressed in flames-]\\
[-kids walk behind, slowly stalk, that old man-]\\
[- -]\\
[-these kids followed him to his shed-]\\
[-where he turns on the radio and smokes a cig-]\\
[-these kids come with gasoline and they strike a match-]\\
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* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking. Even better, their accomplice in this is [[HeartwarmingOrphan Tinny Tim]]. The robbery is his idea: "Gentle jerkwads! I know of a way we can emulate Bender ''without'' throwing up!" Best part: Tim's a robot, so alcohol shouldn't, logically, make him throw up anyway, because he runs on it, so this falls purely under RuleOfFunny.
* In ''{{Ben 10}}'', Ben meets Kevin 11, an eleven year old boy who gambles and steals things. This is troubling enough, but Ben still thinks Kevin's a cool guy to hang out with...until Kevin is willing to use his energy absorbing powers to crash two subway trains together and take the cash from the wreckage. When Ben points out that "hundreds of people could DIE!", Kevin shrugs and says "Hey; no pain, no gain."
* Eggy the duckling in ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' absorbed the knowledge of all four of the penguin squad while still in his egg and became a TykeBomb obsessed with the commando life. His mother wasn't pleased.
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* According to ''The Encyclopedia Of Serial Killers'', 10% of serial killers make their first kill before the age of 10.
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* A mailman is making his rounds, but one of his deliveries is a package that requires a signature. So he goes up to the house, knocks on the door, and a 12-year-old kid with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other answers it:
--> '''Mailman:''' Uh... hi. Are your parents home?
--> ''The kid takes a puff from the cigarette''
--> '''Kid:''' What the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] do you think?
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*A mailman is making his rounds, but one of his deliveries is a package that requires a signature. So he goes up to the house, knocks on the door, and a 12-year-old kid with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of scotch in the other answers it:
--> '''Mailman:''' Uh... hi. Are your parents home?
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* On ''{{Daria}},'' [[DumbBlonde Brittany]]'s little brother Brian not only acts out of control, he is [[AllThereInTheManual apparently]] the reason why the family [[FridgeHorror doesn't even bother naming their pets anymore]].
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* Nadia (and possibly Dark) in ''Kagerou'', although whether they're actually children, or even real, is highly debatable. Their actions are made more disturbing by the presence of Kid, who [i]is[/i] very childlike.
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* Nadia (and possibly Dark) in ''Kagerou'', ''{{Kagerou}}'', although whether they're actually children, or even real, is highly debatable. Their actions are made more disturbing by the presence of Kid, who [i]is[/i] ''is'' very childlike.
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* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking.
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** Their accomplice in this is Tinny Tim. The robbery is his idea: "Gentle jerkwads! I know of a way we can emulate Bender ''without'' throwing up!" Best part: Tim's a robot, so alcohol shouldn't, logically, make him throw up anyway, because he runs on it.
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* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after smoking.
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*** Well, this troper doesn't know exactly what Hermes puts in his rollups, but I'd be prepared to bet it could make Tinny Tim throw up, too...
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* Daine in Tamora Pierce's ''Immortals'' series [[spoiler: hunts down and slaughters the bandits who killed her family]], aged twelve. Justified by her grief and the fact that [[spoiler: her gift was making her think she was a wolf]], but made more unsettling by the fact that, when she does eventually tell her friends about it, most of them simply shrug it off.
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* Vincent in ''PandoraHearts''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to [[spoiler:the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?]] [[{{Understatement}} That's not a good sign.]] It also borders on PsychopathicManchild behavior since he still does it as a young adult.
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* Vincent in ''PandoraHearts''. Taking scissors to stuffed toys? Indicative of problems, but not completely unheard of. Taking scissors to [[spoiler:the eyes of Alice's cat? And what about ALICE HERSELF?]] [[{{Understatement}} That's not a good sign.]] sign. It also borders on PsychopathicManchild behavior since he still does it as a young adult.
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* In the ''{{Futurama}}'' episode "Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV", Dwight and Cubert take up smoking marijuana, smoking, robbery, and other activities to emulate Bender. It's played for laughs, and there are no dire consequences, but the kids do projectile vomit after the marijuana.smoking.
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* The main cast of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' are well-known for their (usually) HatePlague induced paranoia and murder sprees, among many other troubling behaviors. The four oldest characters are only sixteen, with the youngest being about nine or eight.
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->''We loved our daughter very much, but she was evil. Made the horses crazy. Killed our puppies. Hid the remote. Really sick shit. My wife took her to the old family farm and drowned her in the well. I felt a simple time-out would have been sufficient.''
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* ''HarryPotter'': Harry tries using [[spoiler:Crucio on [[CrazyAwesome Bellatrix Lestrange]] out of fury for her killing Sirius. He isn't very good at it, though. Since he's such a morally-bound person by default, he can't ''want'' to hurt another human being even if he says that he wants to. For the Unforgivable Curses to work, you have to ''want'' harm on the victim.]]
** He does it again in the last book, after Amycus Carrow spits in the face of one of his favorite teachers.
** He does it again in the last book, after Amycus Carrow spits in the face of one of his favorite teachers.
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* ''{{Persona 3}}'': Wanting to get stronger to help the team is fine considering the circumstances but [[spoiler: trying to avenge your mother's killer]] kinda pushes it for [[CuteShotaroBoy Ken]].
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** He does it again in the last book, after Amycus Carrow spits in the face of one of his favorite teachers.
** He does it again in the last book, after Amycus Carrow spits in the face of one of his favorite teachers.
