Line #109 WouldHurtAChild/WesternAnimation


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15	* The Earl of Lemongrab from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' goes COMPLETELY BATSHIT CRAZY in the episode "You Made Me!", and ends up electrocuting three young children and a 14-year-old boy, and ''assaulting a baby''. His more malicious side was hinted at in an unused storyboard for "Too Young," in which he screams at a candy child and sends him to the dungeon for no reason, making the kid cry. This aspect of his character was not confirmed until "You Made Me!".
16	** The Flame King ordered one of his minions to turf out Flame Princess when she was a baby and leave her to die. Fortunately, the minion couldn't go through with it.
17	* [[Characters/AmericanDadRogerSmith Roger Smith]] of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' would ''drown'' a child (an ''infant'', actually). [[DisproportionateRetribution For accidentally breaking a leg off of one of his collection of crystal spiders]]. He also hates Steve after he ruins his birthday.
18	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': King Andrias [[spoiler: didn't hesitate with dropping Sprig to his (presumed) death, with stabbing Marcy or ordering Anne's death; while his invasion of Los Angeles and Amphibia undoubtedly puts thousands of children at risk of getting hurt or worse]].
19	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arcane}}'':
20	** [[Characters/ArcaneSilco Silco]] would do ''[[TheUnfettered anything]]'' in the name of transforming the oppressed {{Undercity}} into the free nation of Zaun, including threatening and actually trying to kill children.
21	** Mel's mother is introduced as teaching her young daughter a harsh lesson in statecraft by beheading a girl as young as Mel in order to prevent future rebellion.
22	** Even the heroes get into it. [[spoiler: After Jayce accidentally kills a kid in the Shimmer factory, [[Characters/ArcaneVi Vi]] coldly states that he knew what he was getting into and wants to keep attacking the factories against Jayce's wishes, uncaring of any more children being hurt as collateral damage. At the same time, she is very much mournful over the boy's death and states there would only be more dead children if they did nothing.]]
23	** Marcus shot Ekko and would kill Caitlyn to cover his corruption, luckyly Ekko used a bullet vest
24	* ''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
25	** ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''
26	*** Many of the characters here are in children territory (ranging from 12 to 16), but nobody has any trouble attacking them since they ''are'' ChildSoldiers and powerful ones at that. But perhaps the most notable example is [[BigBad Fire Lord Ozai,]] [[AbusiveParents who torched his young son's face for]] ''[[DisproportionateRetribution speaking out of turn]]''.
27	*** He's also made a few attempts to [[OffingTheOffspring murder him]]. He was talked out of it the first time by his wife.
28	*** PlayedForLaughs when the Boulder competes against the Blind Bandit, Toph, in a tournament. Toph is a young, blind girl, but nevertheless a master Earthbender and the tournament's current reigning champion. The Boulder still feels conflicted about fighting his opponent until Toph taunts him. [[CurbStompBattle He gets thrashed in the ensuring fight]]. (Considering that this section is a parody of the WWF and The Boulder seems to know Toph well enough later in the show, it's possible all of this was just a play for the audience.)
29	----> '''The Boulder''': "The Boulder feels conflicted about fighting a young, blind girl."
30	----> '''Toph''': "Sounds to me like you're ''scared'', Boulder!"
31	----> [[{{Beat}} Beat]]
32	----> '''The Boulder''': "The Boulder is over his conflicted feelings, and is now ready to bury you in a rockalanche!"
33	*** Katara's mom Kya knew that Fire Nation soldiers would harm and capture whoever the last waterbender in their tribe was, regardless of age, which is why she [[HeroicSacrifice gave herself in]], and not her daughter. 'Harm' in this case actually meant 'kill'.
34	*** This definitely be applied to Sozin. He ordered the deaths of all Airbending children. Who were raised to be pacifists.
35	*** Koh the Face-Stealer was quite delighted to see Aang. It had been some time since he had taken the face of a child.
36	*** The KangarooCourt in "Avatar Day" had no qualms about boiling Aang, a twelve-year-old boy, in oil.
37	*** Hama threatens to make Sokka impale Aang with his space sword if Katara does not agree to learn bloodbending.
38	** ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'':
39	*** In the sequel, Tenzin's three kids are under 10, but this doesn't mean they're spared of being attacked [[spoiler: or being this close to being de-bended]] by the Equalists. Since they're [[BlowYouAway Airbenders]] like their dad, [[BadassAdorable they do their best to fight back.]]
40	*** In Season 2, [[spoiler: Korra's [[EvilUncle Uncle Unalaq]] threatens [[DeaderThanDead to destroy Jinora's soul]] if Korra doesn't open the northern spirit portal for him. Despite Korra's compliance, he sends Jinora to the Avatar's version of Hell.]]
41	*** In Season 3, the Dai Li show up again, unlike the average earth kingdom guards, who find Jinora and just scold her, they're willing to engage children with a lot more force. [[spoiler: The Airbenders forcibly conscripted, are frequently hit with earth discs to train them, and Kai is taken down with a barrage of them when he gets uppity]].
42	*** The Red Lotus [[spoiler:threatening to kill ''everyone'' at the Northern Air Temple]]. In fact, [[spoiler:[[ColdSniper P'Li]] actually shoots Kai out of the air]], leaving it briefly ambiguous as to whether or not the latter even ''survives''. [[spoiler:(He does.)]]
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44	* The main villain in WesternAnimation/{{Ballerina}} doesn't seem to have any qualms against killing a child, even bystanders, first by [[spoiler: hitting a boy on the head with a heavy metal wrench]], then by [[spoiler: trying to push a girl off a statue to make her fall to her death]].
45	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
46	** In "[[http://dcanimated.wikia.com/wiki/The_Underdwellers The Underdwellers]]". The Sewer King is exploiting and abusing children. Batman finds out and is less than thrilled. For just a minute, the viewer wonders about that train...
47	** ''The New Batman Adventures'' has the new Robin meeting Two-Face - who says he'll happily twist his neck.
48	** [[Characters/DCAUJoker The Joker]] displays this at first in the episode "Be A Clown", where he doesn't seem to care one way or the other if a party full of children gets blown up at the end of the first act; but in the ''Return of the Joker'' movie [[spoiler:he brainwashes Robin through horrific psychological and physical torture.]]
49	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', the Penguin acquires two statues capable of focusing light into a death ray capable of destroying buildings; when Batman finds him, he threatens to use it on Gotham Children's Hospital.
50	** One episode has Joker masquerading as Batman, the catch being that the "crimes" he stops are incredibly minor and he stops them by [[DisproportionateRetribution poisoning them with Joker Gas]]. One such scenario has him attempting to poison ''two elementary school-aged girls for drawing on the sidewalk''.
51	** A later episode has Joker recruiting a KidSidekick and then attempting to throw him in a vat of acid.
52	* Considering ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' stars a child superhero it would be pretty boring if this trope wasn't in effect.
53	* Chip Whistler of ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' says in one episode he LOVES being mean to kids, most especially Cricket Green. He "decimates" him with tomatoes when he tried to call a truce, violently attacks him and Tilly together and steals their Farm Con passes, has a bouncer hold him off from trying to stop him from taking over Big Coffee, and most especially after Chip got banned from Big City, tried to ''kill Cricket with his helicopter!''
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55	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Some of the Eco-villains — Blight, Nukem, Skumm, and Zarm mostly — will more than gladly attempt to hurt, sicken, manipulate, exploit, or outright kill children (including Ma-Ti in the first season, given that he's only twelve when initiated) if it benefits them. Skumm stands out as he'll do it simply ForTheEvulz, as seen in "Talkin' Trash".
56	* XANA of ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' may be a computer virus and therefore not have human emotions but the episode "Ghost Channel" showed us that he ''enjoys'' all of the suffering he causes and the Warriors, his main adversaries, are all in the 12 to 14 age range with some of their schoolmates that got targeted being even younger. And some of the ways he's tried to get rid of the Warriors would have been rather messy, including the incident in "Ultimatum" where he not only imprisons [[HostageSituation hostages]] Odd and Yumi in a freezer warehouse (which is clearly terrible for their health) but fully intends on killing them if he doesn't get what he wants with it being heavily implied he planned to electrocute them to death and [[ForcedToWatch force Yumi to watch him kill Odd]] since she was so weak at that point she could barely stand let alone fight.
57	* The villains in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' can be considered obvious examples, considering most of them are {{Child Hater}}s (In this series, children more often than not fight back.)
58	* ''WesternAnimation/CowAndChicken'': The Red Guy frequently attempts to hurt and/or kill Cow and Chicken in his various schemes.
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60	* ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' has the following examples:
61	** Not only does Ming never exclude Kshin from his various attempts to kill the Defenders (except by default if Kshin is absent from the scene in question) he directly targets the boy on more than one occasion.
62	** In the final installment of the "Book of Enigmas" arc, Kronos is prepared to reduce Kshin to ashes in order to get his hands on the Book.
63	** In the "Prince Kro-Tan" arc, Ming's son plants mind bombs on six of the Defenders, including Kshin, and [[ScarpiaUltimatum threatens to detonate them unless Jedda agrees to marry him]].
64	* ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'':
65	** [[Characters/TheDragonPrinceViren Viren]] wanted to kill the princes of Katolis because he thought they would be too weak and stupid to rule the way he would in letting humans take all the resources they want, also kill prince of Xadia Azymondias because he thought he would be biologically programmed to hate humans and will kill all of them for killing his dad whom was just defending himself and his son. Viren also asked his children to kill the princes and let each other die if they have to complete the mission. Viren also wanted to use Soren as a guinea pig for a zombie experiment to enhance his army without asking his conscent
66	*** This was later subjected when Viren refused to kill his son Sparklepuff, after realizing he was cowdunging about protecting humanity, he just wanted excuses to kill and exploit xadians for dark magic and deny is his fault things got worse
67	** Aaravos was coaching Viren in his world domination, it was him who told Viren to turn Lux Aurea in a decaying wasteland, to turn his army in brainless zombies, including Soren, and he has to kill Zym and Zubeia to obtain the power he wants
68	** Claudia and Soren did followed Viren's orders to betray and kill the princes, but Soren stopped after realizing Viren is a traitor and doesn't care for collateral damage, Claudia is still doing it because she blindly believes Viren is right, even after Viren reflected he was wrong
69	** Runaan also tried to kill Ezran and Callum, but unlike Viren, he was following orders from Zubeia which makes it slightly less bad than choosing on his own to kill them
70	** Amaya tried to kill Rayla, but in her defense she did it to protect her nephews but she didn't know Rayla was on their side
71	** The princes and Rayla were avoiding human towns because of fear they will kill Rayla and Zym for not being humans, one town did tried to
72	** Sol Regem tried to kill and eat Callum, Rayla and Zym because of his hatred for humans and because he smelled dark magic in Callum, despite he used it to save another dragon
73	** Viren's army also tried to kill the princes, but is unknown how much sentience they had in their zombie state
74	** Rex Igneous wanted to eat the dragang, at first because he didn't liked the gifts they brought him, then because Claudia used a sleep spell on him and he thought they all conspired against him, not listening Claudia is their enemy
75	** The drakewood riders tried to tame Zym for their own gain, lucky for them Zubeia wasn't there when they did it
76	** Akiyuu was going to feed the dragang to his sea sarlacc, but she didn't do it out of malice but to make sure noone would be looking for Aaravos' prison as only Akiyuu knows where is it, but she didn't know Claudia already knows
77	** Finnegrin was torturing the dragang to spite them that they conned him, they stole his tadpoles and he wanted Callum to tell him the spell that Viren used against Avizandum to kill Domina profundis
78	* Subverted in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers''. Martian Commander X-2 threatens grievous harm to a baby, but the instant said baby begins crying, he reassures the child that it is merely an empty threat and that he would never carry it out.
79	* The villains of ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' had no scruples about trying to hurt or kill the show's kids, though they seldom actually got a chance to take it too far before the kids escaped or the adult heroes intervened. Specific examples include:
80	** "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E2Armstrong Armstrong]]": When Louie charges him for melting the tires on the boys' bikes, Armstrong fires a laser at him.
81	** "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]": Alien overlord Bulvan threatens to mulch (literally, because the Kronks use "inferior beings" for fertilizer) the nephews and Doofus, and when he catches them trying to get away, he says he'll have them "stuffed."
82	** "The Money Vanishes": The Beagle Boys intend to use Gyro's transporter ray on the nephews and float them off the face of the earth. However, the triplets get ahold of the ray first.
83	** "The Land of Tra La La": The leader of Tra La La almost shoots Huey, Dewey, and Louie because of the chaos Fenton caused by introducing money to the village.
84	** "The Golden Goose": The Beagle Boys turn the triplets to gold when they interrupt their attempt to steal Scrooge's latest treasure (which turns things to gold). They get punished when the artifact almost causes an apocalypse and they're some of the first to get transformed.
85	* [[spoiler: [[BigBrotherBully Eddy's Brother]]]] from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy''. [[spoiler: He has no qualms over beating his little brother mercilessly to other people's disgust.]] [[EveryoneHasStandards Even the Kankers, Sarah, and Kevin are disgusted by him... and for good reason too.]]
86	** That's not all, the bastard actually got a job at an amusement park ''just so he could torment kids some more''... or at least it's assumed that he did.
87	*** What's worse is that, up until the movie, [[KarmaHoudini he never got any punishment whatsoever for harming children]].
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89	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
90	** This is basically the entire point of [[BabysitterFromHell Vicky’s]] character. The only thing that she cares about in life is trying to hurt children in every way that she can. It’s part of the reason why Timmy got [[FairyGodmother Fairy Godparents]], so he can defend himself against her.
91	** Denzel Crocker in particular. There are several examples, but the best one is at the climax of ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' when he was going to destroy Timmy Turner (Waste in Timmy's words) after the boy surrendered to him.
92	** Implied in "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS1E11DreamGoat Dream Goat!]]", when the citizens run after Timmy, Timmy makes comments on how his life would be cut short.
93	** Invoked in "[[Recap/TheFairlyOddParentsS6E19ChindredSpirits Chindred Spirits]]". When Timmy couldn't wish for Crimson Chin's love interest, Golden Locks, who had already turned into the villainous Hair Razor, to turn back into her hero self due to her being in love with her villainous side, he gets the heartbroken Crimson Chin to throw him off a tall building. This turns out to be a necessary evil, as it turns Hair Razor back into Golden Locks. When the Crimson Chin proposes to her with an engagement ring afterwards, she breaks up with him.
94	--->'''Golden Locks:''' Are you nuts? I could never marry a guy who throws kids off buildings.
95	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': The {{flanderiz\|ation}}ed [[Characters/FamilyGuyPeterGriffin Peter Griffin]] from the later seasons frequently attacks and occasionally murders people, and children are no exception. He punched out a child because he felt he had to hit someone, blew up a children's hospital (although that ''was'' an accident, but still), killed his own infant son Peter Jr. when he couldn't get him to stop crying, and threw his toddler son Stewie (who was in a coma with heavily infected wounds) under his wife's car so it would look like an accident.
96	** In one episode, a clean-cut teen-aged boy fires a gunshot and claims his 2-year-old brother accidentally shot himself ... all because Meg asked him to the dance!
97	** Another memorable segment saw Peter use Lucy Van Pelt (from the "ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' comic strips) as a punching bag after he grew tired of her picking on Charlie Brown.
98	** One episode has a ShowWithinAShow of Film/HomeAlone with competent robbers showing the robbers avoiding the traps and one of them shot the Kevin-expy kid dead in the head.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/FudencioESeusAmigos'':
100	** TheChewToy, Conrado, is only 9 years old, meaning that he often gets hurt by many characters, including adults. His teacher Cudi (who is female) has hit his head with a ruler and [[DisproportionateRetribution threatened him with a gun to force him back to class]]. He also gets hit with a baton by a police officer and has gotten punched by several adults in an episode, to the point he was ''hospitalized''.
101	** In "Sequestro", 34-year-old Popoto shoots his child friends and kills them because they wanted his family's money. Interestingly, Conrado was ''not'' a victim on this occasion.
102	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': "Parents, have you ever just tried turning the TV off, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
103	** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon's Head fails a [[LieDetector truthoscope]] after saying "I wouldn't hurt the child".
104	** And there's this exchange:
105	--->'''Bender''': Wow, your kid is great. How hard did you say you had to hit him?\
106	'''Woman''': Fairly hard.
107	** In ''The Beast with a Billion Backs'' the Robot Devil asks [[Characters/FuturamaBenderBendingRodriguez Bender Bending Rodriguez]] for his first-born child in exchange for an army. Bender punts the kid into a vat of lava with a cheery "Here ya go!".
108	---> '''Robot Devil''': Wow! [[EvenEvilHasStandards That was pretty brutal even by my standards!]]\
109	'''Bender''': [[CrossingTheLineTwice No backsies!]]
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111	* Many of the various oddities in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' don't seem to have a problem with harming or possibly killing Mabel and Dipper. Bill Cipher especially goes out of his way to try and kill or harm the two if the need arises (or he feels like being a dick), and [[spoiler: vaporized Time Baby when the latter tried to stop his TakeOverTheWorld scheme]]. Hell, he has ''three'' quotes on the Quotes page from ''one'' chase scene alone!
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113	* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'': [[Characters/HarleyQuinn2019TheCharacter Harley Quinn]] usually doesn't like killing "normies", but she nearly plays it straight with Robin. After the Joker sends a condescending message to Harley about her "rivalry" with Robin, Harley decides that she's going to kill Robin to make it stop boasting that she'd smash his head like a melon. Ivy believes she is capable of doing it, but that doing so will only validate everyone's belief that Robin is her nemesis, while the rest of her crew thinks that she would just be crossing the line.
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115	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': [[Characters/InvaderZimZim Zim]] and Dib may be the same height, but Zim is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld an adult Irken]] who underwent years of military training before coming to Earth. Dib, on the other hand, is in elementary school. Even though he's a science prodigy with access to [[MadScientist his father's]] equipment, he is by no means Zim's equal -- but this doesn't stop Zim from trying to destroy him. Tak's ship spells out the differences between the two in the second issue of the comic:
116	--> '''Tak’s Ship:''' You’re going after Zim. An Irken Invader with untold decades of military training and a history of violence and mayhem. You don’t know where he’s going or what he plans to do. And you are a feeble, unarmed human in a stolen ship that you have no idea how to use. When you catch Zim. You are going to... what exactly?
117	--> '''Dib:''' Well... stop him.\
118	'''Tak’s Ship:''' Right then. Tracking Zim’s garbage signature for the earthbaby with no plan.
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120	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'':
121	** Zipper set fire to a house ''full'' of {{Heartwarming Orphan}}s. The girls were fine but Jerrica needed to find a new place to make into Starlight House afterwards.
122	** Pizzazz and Roxy were perfectly fine with stuffing a thirteen-year-old girl into the trunk of a car and leaving her there. TokenGoodTeammate Stormer was the only one against it. It's likely a case of CharacterizationMarchesOn as the two are never ''that'' hands-on violent with people and even [[EvenEvilHasStandards once saved Jem And The Holograms from a bomb]].
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125	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfVoxMachina'': The Briarwoods. Their slaughter of the De Rolo family included their children, two of which looked no older than 6, and the brutal torture of Percy and his 13 year-old sister Cassandra. They later string several innocent people up from the Sun Tree dressed as Vox Machina's body doubles, with two human children used to represent the gnomes Pike and Scanlan.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' and ''WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies'': Several:
127	** "Ballot Box Bunny": Humorously invoked and parodied in this election politics satire, where WesternAnimation/BugsBunny tries to one-up rival Yosemite Sam by dressing as a baby and, while Sam kisses all the babies, screams out that "He bit my widdle nose! The bad man bit my widdle nose" ... leading to a bunch of old ladies letting Sam have it.
128	** "Honey's Money," another Yosemite Sam short where he really does it, frustrated at having to care for an innocent but dim-witted hulking oaf named Wentworth -- at his ugly nag of a wife's insistence -- tries to kill him off at least twice. First, Sam throws a ball into a busy four-lane highway to have Wentworth retrieve it, but after a round the wife puts a stop to it ... but only after making Sam go play fetch in the street! Next, Sam fills the park swimming pool full of hungry alligators; Wentworth jumps in with such a huge splash that the force causes the 'gators to be thrown onto Sam, who is still waiting in the truck.
129	** "Pappy's Puppy" involves Sylvester and a bulldog (named Butch in this short), who has just become a father. When the baby bulldog attacks Sylvester -- thinking at first his nose to be a ball he had let get away, and then realizing that he had just been trained to antagonize cats -- Sylvester tries a number of tricks to off the bothersome little pup. These include placing him under a tin can, swatting the kid as he plays with his tail, and playing fetch using a busy street as the park, which were harmless compared to the final two attempts to actually kill the baby bulldog outright: trapping him in a doghouse with a lighted stick of dynamite, and then rigging a booby trap where a bone is attached to a shotgun trigger. Each time, of course, Butch comes to save his son and force puddy to take the worst of everything.
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131	* Pretty much every villain from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHeroes'' had no problem with harming Diaper Man in spite of him being a baby.
132	* Although his exact age is never given, WesternAnimation/MightyMax is obviously a preteen boy. Not only are his enemies not afraid to attack him, most of them specifically want to kill him in the most horrible way they can think of, and they're not afraid to say so.
133	* [[Characters/MiraculousLadybugHawkMoth Hawk Moth]] of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' not only would hurt children, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy but brainwash them as well]]. Instead of fighting the heroes on his own, he finds normal people who are feeling negative emotions and turns them into supervillains under his command to do his bidding. Not only does he always tries to kill the main two teenage heroes Ladybug and Chat Noir [[spoiler:{the latter of whom is ''[[ArchnemesisDad his son]]'')]], he has no problem using teenagers, children, and even ''a baby'' as his brainwashed servants and sending them to fight the heroes. Those servants are often tasked to cause wanton destruction and target everyone including children.
134	** The episode "Oni-Chan" takes this up a notch - it's implied that Hawk Moth's main goal, for once, is ''not'' getting the heroes' Miraculouses but to have [[BitchInSheepsClothing Lila]] killed [[spoiler:[[KnightTemplarParent for possibly being a bad influence on Adrien]].]]
135	* ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'': The Paedofinder General tends to murder innocent people under the belief that they are sexual predators who pose a danger to children, [[{{Hypocrite}} yet is willing to murder children himself if he can find an excuse to believe they could be potential paedophiles as well]]. One sketch has him hanging a whole family at the beach, son and daughter included.
136	-->'''Father:''' But they're my children!\
137	'''Paedofinder General:''' Victims of abuse often grow up to abuse others! It's like werewolves.
138	* Both villain groups in ''WesternAnimation/{{Monsuno}}'' are constantly stalking Chase Suno and his friends to the point of this.
139	** This line in ''Monsuno: Combat Chaos'' justifies the implications:
140	--->"End Chase Suno's life!!"
141	* ''WesternAnimation/MyGoldfishIsEvil'': Admiral Bubbles has no problem with trying to kill his owner Beanie.
142	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
143	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTVSpecials'':
144	*** Tirek's threat to Scorpan in the first special is "A head will roll. His!" meaning Spike the baby dragon.
145	*** In the second special, Catrina threatens to toss Baby Moondancer into a well if the other ponies won't be her slaves and promptly does so when they refuse.
146	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE63ThePrinceAndThePonies The Prince and the Ponies]]", the Duchess has the newborn pony twins kidnapped and chained to use as pets. This proves to be her undoing, as Phillip is able to use this mistreatment of innocent children to shame her guards into turning on her.
147	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
148	*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E24OwlsWellThatEndsWell Owl's Well That Ends Well]]": The adult green dragon tries to kill Spike after the latter enters his cave uninvited (not realizing it belonged to another dragon) and eats some of his gems.
149	*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E21DragonQuest Dragon Quest]]", [[TeensAreMonsters the adolescent dragons]] attempt to steal and smash phoenix eggs [[ForTheEvulz just for the fun of it]], something they're implied to have already done on multiple occasions. When the eggs unexpectedly hatch, their leader decides that they'll [[MoralEventHorizon take the newborn babies instead]].
150	*** [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicQueenChrysalis Queen Chrysalis]] wants to control every stallion, mare, and ''foal'', and [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicKingSombra King Sombra]] seems willing to snack on Spike. Being the TagalongKid isn't easy.
151	*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E26TheCutieRemarkPart2 The Cutie Re-Mark, Part 2]]", [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicStarlightGlimmer Starlight Glimmer]] was willing to zap filly Rainbow Dash out of the sky with a magical blast, in order to prevent her from performing her first Sonic Rainboom.
152	*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS3E5MagicDuel Magic Duel]]", Trixie tormented Snips and Snails quite extensively, including with a whip. They ''did'' ruin her life and she was under the influence of an ArtifactOfDoom at the time.
153	*** In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2]]", [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicLordTirek Lord Tirek]] has no problem holding Spike hostage.
154	*** As far as the princesses genuinely do believe in redemption and ThePowerOfFriendship, none of them have any qualms about imprisoning even a foal in Tartarus, nor do they have any problem [[TakenForGranite sealing a foal in stone]] if they're [[GodzillaThreshold a serious enough threat to Equestria]]. Cozy Glow learned both of these the hard way at the end of "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E26SchoolRazePart2 School Raze]]" and "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E25TheEndingOfTheEndPart2 The Ending of the End]]", respectively.
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156	* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In "The Wisp of Wickedness", the first person possessed by the wisp attempts to drive his car through a playground, and the second attempts to drop a school bus into a furnace. Fortunately, Superman is on hand to save the day.
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158	* None of the villains in ''WesternAnimation/OscarsOrchestra'' have any hesitation about hurting Rebecca, who's 10.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall''
160	** The Beast intentionally works to get Wirt and Greg either so dispirited or so exhausted that they will submit and become part of the earth [[spoiler: and grow into Edelwood trees as fuel for his [[SoulJar lantern]]]]. It is implied he has done this many times before. He also has no qualms about making [[spoiler:the Woodsman think he has trapped the Woodsman's daughter's soul in the lantern]].
161	** [[spoiler: Adelaide]] wants to [[spoiler: stuff Wirt and Greg's heads full of wool so that they can be her mindless child servants]].
162	** The evil spirit [[spoiler: that has possessed Lorna]] tries to eat Wirt and Greg.
163	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse''
164	** PlayedForLaughs with a random {{Mook}} named Tom who is ''way'' too enthusiastic about throwing Luz, Willow, and Gus off a cliff when ordered to do so. When asked if this is really the sort of thing he wants to do with his life, [[RhetoricalQuestionBlunder he blithely confirms that it is]], adding that [[BlackComedy he's dreamed of throwing children off cliffs ever he was a boy]]. Later, he starts ''boasting'' about it to his fellow villains as if he took down some huge monster, much to their bafflement:
165	--->'''Tom''': Yeah, they tried to fight back, and they nearly got me, but, y'know, I handled it.
166	--->'''Demon Hunter''': They were children, Tom.
167	** [[Characters/TheOwlHouseEmperorBelos Emperor Belos]] himself fights Luz in the season 1 finale and is implied to be physically abusive towards his nephew. In "Hollow Mind" [[spoiler:he tries to kill Luz and Hunter once both outlived their usefulness. Also, given that he plans on wiping out all witches and demons on the Day of Unity, that would undoubtedly include all the children present on the Boiling Isles. This gets disturbing proven in "Labyrinth Runners", where his Coven soldiers, led by the illusionist head Graye, try to trick the Hexside students into receiving sigils, which would [[FinalSolution kill every last one of them]] through the draining spell]].
168	** Odalia, Amity's [[AbusiveParents abusive]] ControlFreak of a mom, was willing to kill Luz with the Abomaton 2.0 soldier she was presenting to her investors just so she doesn't fulfil her end of the deal of letting the human and her friends back into Hexside. In "Clouds on the Horizon", Odalia even went as far as to keep Alador in place by threatening to have their kids take part in the family business and has no problem turning in Luz to Belos since he deemed her a "wanted criminal" along with the other Owl House residents.
169	** Terra Snapdragon, Head of the Plant Coven, tried to impale Luz on a thorn-covered root, and forced students to fight each other under the pretense of a test for her amusement, planning to poison the last ones standing. Which she couldn't do, because it's illegal, just like she couldn't kill the losers of the contest and use their corpses as fertilizer for her greenhouse.
170	** [[spoiler:Jacob Hopkins]] in "Yesterday's Lie", he kidnaps [[spoiler:Vee]] while she's still disguised as [[spoiler:Luz]] and plans to dissect her. He's only stopped when [[spoiler:Camila [[MamaBear intervenes]].]]
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172	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'': As the main characters are child superheroes, and all of the villains they face know it, every villain on the show is willing to attack and harm kids. The one-shot villain Dick Hardly takes it a step further than the others, though, as he almost successfully ''kills'' the girls (and all in front of Professor Utonium, to boot).
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175	* None of the villains in ''WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite'' have much of an issue hurting the Color Kids or even the MuggleBestFriend, Brian. One even tried to harm a baby.
176	* [[EvilGenius Dr. Kamikaze]] of ''WesternAnimation/RobotBoy'' attempted to kill 10-year-old Tommy on several occasions as part of his various plans to steal his robot and use it to TakeOverTheWorld.
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178	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
179	** Adult-on-child violence is rare... except for instances where [[Characters/TheSimpsonsHomerSimpson Homer Simpson]] chokes Bart (usually when Bart says something he shouldn't and it gets Homer in trouble). The strangulation issue with Homer is the most common instance of this trope, but Bart Simpson in general seems to have this effect on many adults in the show.
180	** The villains aren't exactly above hurting children, especially Bart. Sideshow Bob has repeatedly attempted to kill Bart. Fat Tony has on several occasions had his crooks threaten Bart with violence up to and including murder. Burns threatens Bart with a gun prior to attempting to drown him as seen on the page picture, and that's apart from repeatedly letting [[AngryGuardDog The Hounds]] loose on him. Snake Jailbird has tried to run over Bart with his car, but as always, Bart's PlotArmor makes sure that the alley he is standing in is too narrow for Snake's car to pass.
181	** From "The Great Wife Hope" there's Chet Englebrit, commissioner of the [[UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts "Ultimate Fighting League."]] During a fight with [[WouldHitAGirl Marge]], Bart comes up to him to challenge him. His response is, "Heck, I'll fight anyone. Except a man my own size". Seeing Bart about to get hurt is what [[MamaBear puts Marge on the edge.]]
182	** In "The Boys of Bummer", ''[[UngratefulTownsfolk the entire town of Springfield]]'' is willing to mercilessly bully Bart [[DrivenToSuicide to suicide]] ([[SuicideDare and even encourage him to do so]]) [[DisproportionateRetribution simply for losing a baseball game]]. Even worse, they ''[[LackOfEmpathy continue]]'' to bully him after he gets hospitalized from his suicide attempt. Fortunately, [[MamaBear Marge]] [[ShamingTheMob calls them all out on it]].
183	** ...and he's pursued by a lynch mob in "The Telltale Head." It would probably be easier to name the adults in Springfield who ''haven't'' tried to hurt or kill Bart at some point.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/SkullIsland2023'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandKaijuAndOtherCreatures The Kraken]]. It tries to kill teenagers Mike and Charlie during its attack on the ''Once Upon a Maritime'', [[spoiler:and in the WholeEpisodeFlashback, a child can be seen among the corpses of the villagers that the newly-awakened Kraken murdered]].
185	** See the [[WouldHurtAChild/ComicBooks Comic Books page]] (''Skull Island: The Birth of Kong'') and [[WouldHurtAChild/LiveActionFilms Live-Action Films page]] (''Godzilla: King of the Monsters'') for more Franchise/MonsterVerse examples.
186	* Gargamel of ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' would even hurt Baby Smurf, which sets off Smurfette's MamaBear instinct when she was turned back into her Evil Self by the wizard who created her.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars:''
188	** In the PilotMovie, [[Characters/StarWarsCountDooku Count Dooku]] attempts to murder Jabba the Hutt's son Rotta as part of a FrameUp against the Jedi. The Hutts might be AlwaysChaoticEvil but he was still a ''baby''.
189	** [[Characters/StarWarsGeneralGrievous General Grievous]] shows on multiple occasions that he ''delights'' in killing Jedi at any age, and fantasizes about slaughtering the younglings in the temple on Coruscant. In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E7DuelOfTheDroids "Duel of the Droids"]] he tries to strangle Ahsoka to death while threatening her with her own lightsaber and in [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E10LairOfGrievous "Lair of Grievous"]] Kit Fisto and Nahdar Vebb discover among the trophies he keeps from his victims is a display table full of padawan braids.
190	** In the episode [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E3ChildrenOfTheForce "Children of the Force"]], [[Characters/StarWarsEmperorPalpatine Darth Sidious]] is perfectly fine with performing potentially lethal experiments on ''infants''. Cad Bane, who kidnapped the infants for Sidious, didn't really care what happened to them, so long as he was paid.
191	** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E6TheAcademy "The Academy"]] [[spoiler: Prime Minister Almec]] threatens to kill Satine's nephew if she doesn't give in to his demands.
192	** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS4E22Revenge "Revenge"]], [[spoiler: [[Characters/StarWarsDarthMaul Darth Maul]] butchered dozens of innocent people, including several young children, to attract Obi-Wan's attention]].
193	** In [[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS2E20DeathTrap "Death Trap"]], Aurra Sing displays no compunctions about the idea of abandoning an escape pod full of clone children to die in space -- saving only Boba -- because the kids are witnesses to their crime. She even seems faintly amused by it.
194	* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': The Inquisitors take sadistic glee in hunting down force-sensitive children to kill them, and take infants to Darth Sidious with the implication being that he never gave up on those horrific experiments he was doing during the Clone Wars. Vader also hunts down force sensitives of all ages but does not express anything resembling glee, but rather anger at the universe at large and pride in his own abilities and appears to kill those who don't have training he can take advantage of by turning them into Inquisitors.
195	* Gems in ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' are [[BornAsAnAdult born fully grown]], and so [[HumansThroughAlienEyes don't generally understand what children are]]. Combined with Homeworld gems' [[HumansAreInsects disregard for organic life]] and how most of them think [[KidHero Steven]] [[MistakenIdentity is his alien mother Rose]], most of them will readily physically attack him (and sometimes Connie).
196	* The Purple Pieman in the original ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake'' special certainly would, seeing as most of the cast is made up of children; he just [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain never truly managed to.]]
197	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', being [[BlackComedy the type of show it is,]] has this a '''''lot.'''''
198	** One episode has Barbara Streisand torture the boys with her awful singing.
199	** The episode "Stanley's Cup" plays this trope straight, with the Detroit Red Wings brutally beating the kindergarten hockey team to a bloody pulp.
200	** From "Terrance & Phillip: Behind the Blow", the Earth Day Brainwashing Committee (who might be the episode's antagonists) aren't above chopping off Kenny's limbs.
201	** The infamous ending to "Jared Has Aides" has Butters getting brutally beaten by [[AbusiveParents his parents]] after [[{{Jerkass}} Cartman]] tricks them.
202	** "The Death Camp of Tolerance" has the Tolerance Camp Warden, one of the most cruel and sadistic characters Trey and Matt have ever come up with (besides Cartman), routinely threatens to kill the kids if they don't meet up to his expectations, especially poor Kyle (because the episode in question is based on ''Film/SchindlersList'' and Kyle is '''Jewish'''.)
203	** The robbers from "Super Fun Time". They even threatened to kill Kenny and were seconds away from pulling the trigger when Stan intervened.
204	** In "Handicar", Timmy's business rivals sneak into his room and break his legs with baseball bats. This would be bad enough if they did this to a normal kid, but Timmy is ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice mentally and physically handicapped]]''. [[spoiler: Which is mainly the reason why he's no worse for the wear when we see him soon afterwards - he was crippled to begin with, so he can't move with his legs anyway.]]
205	** In "Bike Parade", Jeff Bezos callously orders [[AiIsACrapshoot Alexa]] to kill Kenny[[note]]who was shoehorned into protesting Amazon by his father[[/note]], which she agrees to. [[spoiler: The end of the episode reveals that [[TheyKilledKennyAgain she made good on that claim.]]]]
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207	* Don Karnage in the pilot of ''WesternAnimation/TaleSpin''. The worst part; Kit's reaction when Karnage [[spoiler: crumbles his board before having his pirates throw the kid off the plane]] indicates he thought that even Karnage wouldn't go that far...and it happening anyway terrifies him.
208	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has a villain called Cardiac who ''only'' targets children; according to WordOfGod, this was because he was supposed to be more of an [[{{Animesque}} anime-style]] villain.
209	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'', villains rarely care that Wilykit and Wilykat are children, often taking advantage of that fact to use them as hostages. This becomes especially bad in some episodes like the one with Safari Joe; the Thundrainium he used to restrain the team was hurting them far worse than it was the adults, as Cheetarah pointed out. (Of course, bad guys in the series can be rather cruel bullies, kidnapping, enslaving, and tormenting the peaceful races of Third Earth on a regular basis.)
210	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'', Mumm-Ra and his army consider all surviving cats a threat, including kittens [=WilyKat=] and [=WilyKit=]. The task force consisting of Slithe, Kaynar, Sauro, and Kask is especially nasty in this regard.
211	* Many villains on ''WesternAnimation/ElTigre'' have no issue whatsoever attempting to maim or even murder main character Manny/El Tigre, with Sartana once ''preparing to skin him'' and his father's ex-sidekick wanting him dead because White Pantera [[IncompatibleOrientation chose to marry the woman who would be Manny's mother instead of pursuing]] [[DepravedHomosexual him]]. Manny's best friend Frida is equally in danger between her relationship with Manny and her dad's status as Miracle City's police chief.
212	* Soundwave and Blackarachnia in ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' have threatened Sari. [[spoiler:The former even tried to make her own father murder her.]]
213	** There's also [[FreakLabAccident Meltdown]], who once kidnapped Sari with the intent to do unethical experiments on her.
214	* Megatron from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime''. When he found out that he near-fatally poisoned [[spoiler: Raf]] with Dark Energon while shooting at Bumblebee, he was downright ''pleased''.
215	--> '''Megatron''': Well, well. It looks as though I swatted a bee, and [[FantasticRacism squashed a bug]].
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218	* At the end of the ''[[WesternAnimation/VillainousCartoonNetwork Villainous]]'' short "The Missing Cases of the [[WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor Kids Next Door]]", when the KND is hacking into the Hatbot arm they got, they get a transmission from Dr. Flug, who warns them that if they keep investigating into Black Hat Organization, they won't show any compassion to them, even if they are children. And remember, this is Dr. Flug, who is a wimpy scientist scared to death of his BadBoss, [[TheDreaded Black Hat]]. You can bet his boss is ''far more evil''.
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222	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
223	** The Joker purposely singles out Robin in battle, which makes sense considering his [[Franchise/{{Batman}} archenemy]].
224	---> '''The Joker:''' I've always wanted to carve this bird.
225	** Queen Bee has no hesitation in placing the young boy Garfield under her thrall. If she wants, she can easily make him hurt himself. Even creepier, she acts affectionately (in a somewhat twisted manner) toward him while stating her threat.
226	** Count Vertigo was willing to let his own niece, Queen Perdita, who needed a heart transplant, ''die on the operating table'' because it would make him the King of Vlatava. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, Kid Flash reveals the young queen with a recording of the Count's EngineeredPublicConfession, as he thought he succeeded. It's enough to strip him of his "diplomatic immunity" for treason, and Kid Flash tells the security guards, "Take him to Belle Reve." There the Count is laughed at by the inmates for his failing.]]
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