History WouldHurtAChild / LiveActionTV

** ''Bagna'' ("Bagna") has a serial killer of little girls as young as 6 years old; he murders them and then throws their bodies into marshes.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Hide and Q", [[TheWorfEffect Worf gets impaled by aliens with a bayonet]], and when [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] tries to help him, he gets impaled, too. This prompts Riker, now endowed with the powers of the Q, to stop the situation and save them.
** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Time and Again", The activists threaten to kill Latika, a ten-year-old boy, if Janeway doesn't help them get inside the plant. The problem is she's not the security agent they think she is, so her only option is to tell the guard at the gate they're being held hostage. One of the activists shoots at the boy but Tom Paris, also being held, [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of him]].

** ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E19BloodOath Blood Oath]]" the old Klingon warriors Kor, Kang, and Koloth take revenge against a pirate called The Albino with assistance from Jadzia Dax. This was to fulfill a BloodOath the Klingons and Curzon Dax made after The Albino murdered the children of the three Klingons.
* ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'': When Lex's pet Kryptonian Red Daughter starts questioning whether America is really the villain Lex has made them out to be, Lex casually orders the murder of Red Daughter's only friend, a young boy named Mikhail. He has his minions hijack an American missile and blow up his house, knowing Red Daughter will find the remains of the missile and jump to the obvious conclusion. She fails to wonder why the Americans would attack a completely random child in a poor country. [[spoiler:Subverted with Otis, who couldn't go through with it. While he set up the targeting laser as ordered, he got Mikhail out first. Otis advises him to play dead if he ever so much as sees a bald man]].

** Dr. Martin Brenner is willing to use children for his [[MadScientist twisted experiments.]] He had experimented on Eleven to bring out her psychic powers prior to her escape.
** Billy Hargrove almost runs over Mike, Lucas, and Dustin. He's also implied to have [[BigBrotherBully physically abused his adoptive sister Max, ]] and threatens Lucas.
** The [[EldritchAbomination Mind Flayer]] qualifies. It's willing to possess the 13 year old Will Byers in season 2. In Season 3, it kills several people, including children, to form a physical body, and then attempts to kill the main cast.
** The Russian soldiers in Season 3 are also willing to kill the main cast, including a 10 year old girl.
** Jason and rest of his JerkJock cronies in Season 4 during their WitchHunt of Eddie, start targeting the teenage members of the Hellfire Club such as Dustin and Mike. They also threaten and attack Erica who’s barely out of her pre-teens. By the finale Jason in a complete SanitySlippage is willingly to kill Lucas and his aforementioned little sister.
** Lt Colonel Jack Sullivan from the same season, means to kill the teenage Eleven for most of the season believing she’s responsible for the deaths in Hawkins. By episode 9, he orders a kill shot on Eleven which his SociopathicSoldier complies to, unfortunately for them Eleven has her MindOverMatter powers back and puts the sniper and the helicopter he was in down.
** [[spoiler: BigBad of Season 4 Henry aka One aka Vecna fully revealed his cruel sociopathic nature during the FlashBack by killing the rest of the PsychicChildren (essentially his siblings) at the Hawkins lab, some of who were as young as five and six. He also tried to kill Eleven when she was 9 and in the present he kills Chrissy, Fred, Patrick and maims and blinds Max who are all teenagers. Not to mention he killed his own sister during his childhood.]]

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': In the third season, Children of Earth, the 456 remotely mind control all of Earth's children to coerce the world's governments into letting them kidnap several million kids in order to make drugs out of them. [[spoiler: In the final episode of Children of Earth, Jack Harkness uses his grandson Stephen to transmit a lethal signal to drive away the 456, killing Stephen in the process.]]

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'': Numerous antagonists have demonstrated that they have no qualms with hurting or killing children.

** A surprising non-villain example happened in the Season 6 midseason premiere when [[spoiler:Michonne kills Ron, after he almost shoots Rick, blaming him for his family dying. But as he dies, he gets one shot off that hits Carl in the eye. Carl survives.]]

* ''Series/TheWheelOfTime'': The [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Myrdraal]], unsurprisingly. Mat sees Helga Grinwell, a sweet little girl he spoke with, has been cut down by one when he escapes their attack along with Rand.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': In "Hide and Q", [[TheWorfEffect Worf gets impaled by aliens with a bayonet]], and when [[CreatorsPet Wesley]] tries to help him, he gets impaled, too. This prompts Riker, now endowed with the powers of the Q, to stop the situation and save them.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Time and Again", The activists threaten to kill Latika, a ten-year-old boy, if Janeway doesn't help them get inside the plant. The problem is she's not the security agent they think she is, so her only option is to tell the guard at the gate they're being held hostage. One of the activists shoots at the boy but Tom Paris, also being held, [[TakingTheBullet jumps in front of him]].
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'' reveals that when [[HalfHumanHybrid Spock]] was a child, he was nearly assassinated by logic extremists for being a "[[HalfBreedDiscrimination half-human abomination]]".

** There was an episode in which the POI was a 15-year-old girl who was believed to have been killed two years earlier in a hit on her parents (who weren't so lucky) and Reese had to protect her from being KilledOffForReal.

-->'''Snake:''' What part of our job involves torturing kids?
-->'''Eagle:''' What she said.

* ''Series/AdamTwelve'': Several episodes dealing with child abuse; the assault itself would never be seen on camera. The most memorable child abuse-themed episode is "He ... He Was Trying to Kill Me" (from the spring of 1969), where a 6-year-old girl lets on to juvenile protection that her 'daddy' hits her. [[spoiler:He didn't. Little Charlie was trying to protect her ''mother''.]]

** Yes The Child [[spoiler: aka Grogu]] is old for a baby at 50, [[ProportionalAging but it's still technically an infant]] by standards of it's species. Yet all the antagonists in the series such as the Imperials: The Client, Moff Gideon, many Stormtroopers or other bad guys such as Toro Calican and Mayfield (before his HeelFaceTurn) are all perfectly willingly treat The Child roughly, threaten to kill him and actually attempt to. In Chapter Chapter 8: "Redemption" one Scout Trooper [[MoralEventHorizon actually punches The Child]] in a massive KickTheDog moment, leading to PapaWolf IG-11 brutally killing him in response.

* ''Series/MotherlandFortSalem'': The Camarilla have no compunction about killing witch children.

* Seemingly PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/{{Wandavision}}''. When Billy and Tommy are reluctant to stay with NosyNeighbor Agnes while their mother Wanda is having a mental breakdown Agnes assures the boys she doesn't bite -- only for there to be a ConfessionCam where Agnes does admit she bit a kid once. [[spoiler: Becomes FridgeHorror when it's revealed by the end of the episode Agnes is a EvilAllAlong WickedWitch]].

** [[ThoseWackyNazis Stormfront]] is a cruel sadist who's perfectly happy to go out of her way to slaughter innocents, including children. [[spoiler: She openly admits to enjoy killing and takes sadistic pleasure in watching people die, especially if she's the one stomping a life out.]]

** [[spoiler: While he doesn't hurt them directly, Homelander is perfectly willing to let a child die to achieve his objective.]] This is in sharp contrast to Billy, who is remarkably more gentle with children.
** Stormfront is a cruel sadist who's perfectly happy to go out of her way to slaughter innocents, including children. [[spoiler: She openly admits to enjoy killing and takes sadistic pleasure in watching people die, especially if she's the one stomping a life out.]]

** Neville -- sort of. Danny technically is not a child anymore, but most characters treat him as such, because of his age, and probably also because he has demonstrated impulsiveness and rudeness and other negative traits common to teenage boys. [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg And his]] [[IllBoy asthma.]]

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': [[spoiler: While he doesn't hurt them directly, Homelander is perfectly willing to let a child die to achieve his objective.]] This is in sharp contrast to Billy, who is remarkably more gentle with children.

** And later, in Season 5's "[[Recap/BreakingBadS5E5DeadFreight Dead Freight]]", Todd Alquist shoots 10-year-old Drew Sharp for accidentally stumbling across their heist. The wildly diverging reactions to the killing between Jesse and Walt emphasize how far the latter has fallen: Jesse is completely traumatized while Walt puts a shallow mask of guilt over an obvious reality of indifference.

* ''Series/TheFive'': Jakob Marosi is a serial rapist/killer of children who's serving a life sentence.

** In Season 8, Renee Walker threatens to hurt and/or kill a baby as she becomes more and more like Jack Bauer. She's already tortured a man to near death for retribution by this point, but her actions here sicken even her.

** [[spoiler:Stanton goes ahead with ordering a young girl murdered since she's a witness to Pioneer's assassinations, despite his own lieutenant's objections.]]