History WouldHurtAChild / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': Black Manta won notoriety by killing Aquaman's infant son.
* Marcus Brutus in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}} and Son'' fits this trope. He burned down Asterix's village, and nearly kills the baby boy Asterix is trying to protect [[spoiler:because the boy is really Ptolemy XV Caesarion, the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, and that killing would solidify Brutus' power in Rome]]. A rare departure from the comedy of the usual comics.

** DependingOnTheWriter, the Dark Knight himself has been known to strike teenagers (as seen in ''[[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman Incorporated]]'' when he clocks a schoolgirl in the face), and he has slapped or punched both Dick and Tim. While the former is justifiable self-defense, since said schoolgirl is attacking him and Batgirl, the latter is plain ManipulativeBastard {{jerkass}}ery/EarlyInstalmentWeirdness.

** The original Clayface, Basil Karlo, is just as awful as the Joker in this department. During ''No Man's Land'' he enslaves and abuses the children under Poison Ivy's care to force them to make produce he can sell. A later story has him forming a cult out of mentally unstable teenage fans of his movies who offer themselves to be devoured by him. All in all, he's definitely the most unambiguously vile to take the Clayface name and ''is not'' the reluctant monster from the animated series (or at least, he wasn't until DC Rebirth, which reinvented him as TheAtoner).
** Early in the Dark Knight's career (as depicted in ''Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight''), Doctor Randolph Porter sacrificed his own daughter to be kidnapped and drowned, just to manipulate Batman into becoming an unwitting test subject for the drug that would come to be known as [[PsychoSerum Venom]] (the girl's death prompted Batman to seek out a means of enhancing himself physically, which led to him becoming briefly addicted to Porter's drugs).

* In ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', Deadpool states that he would kill a child -- wouldn't like it, but would do so, as he's a mercenary and this is his job. He later attempts to kill a child [[spoiler:version of Cable, although he's been brainwashed and has just ''rescued'' Little Nate]].
* In ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', this starts showing up once the CerebusSyndrome kicks in, with the most notorious example being Pope Cerebus blessing an infant after his mother begs Cerebus to do so and then hurling it away to illustrate the point that "you can get what you want and still not be very happy".

* ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'': In the graphic novel ''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'', Riccio (after his SanitySlippage has hit its zenith) {{Bitch Slap}}s Ato to shut him up when the latter protests to his EvilPlan. Never mind how Riccio at this point intends to [[spoiler:blast open the walls which protect the Iwi village from suffering horrible deaths by Skull Island's predators]] regardless of there being children in there.

* In ''ComicBook/SupermanRebirth'', Eradicator repeatedly attempts to murder Superman and Lois's young son Jonathan, as him being a HalfHumanHybrid makes him an "impure Kyrptonian" in Eradicator's eyes.

* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'': Logan, much like ComicBook/{{Batman}}, has being written as capable of this, [[DependingOnTheWriter contrary to other comics]] in which he's a PapaWolf who hates children getting endangered. The most notable example is ''ComicBook/AvengersTheChildrensCrusade'', in which he beats up the teenage [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Wiccan]] to the extent that Magneto of all people has to go [[PapaWolf Grandpa Wolf]] to stop Logan from killing his grandson.