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Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • One of the points of divergence in Ash and Petals is that 12-year old Aang is killed by the Fire Lord.
  • In Survival (ATLA), a four year old Water Tribe girl dies of what is most likely starvation. Seeing this leads Katara to cut down her meals even more in hopes that she'll leave more food for others.

Crossovers

  • Child of the Storm has the example of Luna Lovegood, in particularly unpleasant fashion, choking on her own blood after a stray HYDRA bullet took her in the lung - though she ends up becoming the new Delirium of the Endless. Additionally, Harry, in a blind rage thanks to the former, ends up dying. Since his protection is, in fact, a fragment of the Phoenix Force, this ends very badly for his enemies.
    • More generally, Doctor Strange explicitly refers to the death of a child being the one thing that, despite his near-universal irreverence, he will always take completely seriously and never treat lightly.
  • The first chapter of Ferris ends with Eamon and the readers learning that HYDRA killed a kid, and in the Moscow Terror Mission, an entire school is attacked and implanted by Chryssalids.
  • Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail:
    • An Apex child dies by drowning in the Fog Car (aka the Train's version of Silent Hill) due to Paul (the Pokemon Trainer) attacking him with Electvire's Thunder Punch into Toluca Lake and walking off...not knowing until it was too late that the boy couldn't swim and was crying for his mom.
    • Chloe dies this way after Simon (transformed into a giant dragon) drops her from a tall height and prevented everyone from saving her. Thankfully she is revived by the Pendant of Life Atticus was wearing.
  • In The Institute Saga, the Bio-Sentinels arc explicitly states many children died at the hands of the Bio-Sentinels when they detected the X-Gene in them.

Encanto

Danganronpa

  • Fractured Fates deals with this through a character's backstory. In the final part of Chapter 2, Monokuma talks about the incident in which Kaneki's younger sister, Yuna (who was seven years old at the time), was killed; Kaneki took her out to explore the woods near their home, resulting in the two becoming caught in a bad storm and Yuna ultimately falling from a large drop-off to her death.

Final Fantasy VI ROM hacks

  • In Antinomia Final Fantasy VI, the player takes control of Terra during the first part of World of Ruin as she tries to nurse a small boy back to health. If the player fails, the boy dies.

Haibane Renmei

  • In Before We Had Wings, the Haibane are all deceased children. The fic shows how several of them died.

Harry Potter

  • In Saving the Saviour, after a six-year-old named Sheila dies in St. Mungo's, Harry swears to make the Death Eaters pay.

Jurassic Park

  • It's not the Raptor DNA: Bridges rejects an organ match for Hart's daughter Clementine, resulting in her death.
  • The Geeky Zoologist's reimagining of Jurassic World:
    • Children aren't spared during the fall of Jurassic World and Gray Mitchell, the main kid character ends up counting among the Indominus' victims.
    • A baby is also abducted and eaten by an Ornitholestes in the epilogue.

The Lion King

  • The Female of the Species:
    • The lack of cubs during the latter part of The Lion King is explained as being due to this trope. It wasn't that the lionesses weren't having cubs, it's that none of the cubs survived in the withering Pridelands.
    • Simba and Nala weren't the only cubs in the first film. They were just the only ones that survived. The lions have a ceremony where new kings sacrifice all cubs that aren't theirs to the Great Spirit and the past Great Kings. Nala only survived the ritual because Sarabi convinced Scar to kill his sickly son Mheetu instead.
  • In From Behind Bars, Scar became a Hollywood Atheist after his young son Mheetu died.

Mass Effect

  • In 'Crucible, this trope is used to hell and back with all the numbers of dead children and babies. Unless you're baby!Gaius, chances are you're gonna die a horrible death. One can even say that you're lucky to simply be killed and not having something terrible done to you before and after your death.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Here features Alya getting sued for defamation of character and defamation of the deceased. The latter charge stems from the fact that Manon Chamack was killed by a reckless driver... and two months later, Alya and Lila posted a video blog where they gossiped about the latter supposedly babysitting her while her mother was interviewing Prince Ali, making her out to be a Spoiled Brat.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • Ace Combat: Wings of Unity: The town of New Saddle is attacked and almost completely destroyed in the first chapter and a baby pony is one of many victims.
  • An Apple Sleep Experiment ends with Applejack having killed her younger sister Apple Bloom in a sleep deprivation-driven psychosis. The sequel subverts this, revealing that Apple Bloom survived but was left paralyzed in her hind legs.
  • A Brief History of Equestria: In one chapter, Smart Cookie mentions in a letter to her husband that of the seven fillies to whom she gave birth, only four survived to adulthood. Naturally, this is going to happen in a pre-industrial society with limited medical knowledge. Then remember Smart Cookie is one of the better off ponies of her day, and what that means for the average pony. Also invoked later, when Talonhoof The Reviled makes an "example" of a pony one of his soldiers spared previously.
  • Scars of War: Baby Bouncy, Baby Grafitti, and several other young ponies died in the war.
  • In The Black Stallion, the protagonist's younger brother Retari recently died of an unknown illness.
  • The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum:
    • The ponies fighting for the Solar Empire have zero qualms about ponifying small children, even shoving potion down their throats if needed. This does not end well for the kids, who are turned into simple-minded mockeries of ponies as a result.
    • And on the other side, it's perfectly acceptable to shoot said ponified children, especially since they're now the enemy and would happily force potion down people's throats themselves, all in the name of spreading harmony. It's even seen as a Mercy Kill, since ponification is a Fate Worse than Death.
    • Due to the continued loss of manpower and increasing desperation of Earth's fighting forces, Child Soldiers make up a decent chunk of the PHL's forces, and they're just as vulnerable to getting killed in battle as their adult counterparts.
  • In Dear Scootaloo, it is mentioned that three of the youngest foals in the Cloudsdale Home for Wayward Pegasi perished from smoke inhalation after an "arson" (turning clouds into smoke) attack.
  • In Friendship is Failure, Count Logan rips off Flurry Heart's head, in a rather gratuitous display of cruelty, which the author put in for two reasons: 1) shock value and 2) to spite her mother, Cadance, for being Happily Married to Shining Armor (who's killed almost immediately afterward).
  • The Traitor Legions of The God Empress of Ponykind aren't too picky when it comes to massacres; when Celestia's forces arrive in Manehattan shortly after a battle, they find plenty of dead civilians, including foals and unborn children.
    • Scorpan in the sequel The Warmistress of Equestria kills an entire family of griffons in order to use Blood Magic, even taking time to note that the family had three children.
  • To show that life as an Earth pony isn't easy in Paradise, a young Celestia and her sister Luna come across a friend killed by wolves.

Omen IV: The Awakening

Onward

  • In New Mushroomtown 47, a young boy is killed while the hostages try to flee the lab to scare them into behaving.

Pokémon

  • In Broken Legends, Ubume discovers the true cost of Ho-Oh's blessing when her own lover attempts to kill her while she's pregnant. She revives; her unborn child doesn't. Not only does Ho-Oh refuse to bring her child back, he also tells her that they'll never be reunited, since she can't die.
  • Essence: Team Rocket's attack on the S.S. Anne is more violent than in canon. They kidnap Silph Co's CEO and attempt to blow up the boat. Two grunts murder a ten year old boy because he accidentally overheard them talking.
  • Pokémon Reset Bloodlines and its sidestories feature a few examples. The first child to die on screen is Kibou, a little girl who was the only friend of then-future Team Galactic Admin Mars, and her death pushed Mars into the Despair Event Horizon. Additionally, there's a Serial Killer on the loose who targets Bloodliners, whose youngest known victims were a pair of ten-year-old twins.

The Powerpuff Girls

  • Ladder:
    • Ashley was biologically five years old and physically under a day old when she killed herself.
    • Princess was murdered by a Serial Killer who targeted villains.
    • All three of the Powerpuff Girls died individually. They also die repeatedly off-screen and on-screen. Their father keeps on bringing them back to life and killing them off when they aren't perfect enough.
  • The Fan Animator Antoons has a video called The Powerpuff Girls' Deathbed where girls die. The punchline? That the 2016 reboot has a new season. This was followed up by Powerpuff Girls' Funeral.

Redwall

  • What Lies Beyond the Walls has used this trope on multiple occasions. Chances are, if there's a giant battle going on and young ones are nearby, or if there's a child, teenager, or pregnant character that appears to be in danger, more than likely, he or she will die. Unless his name is Tegast.

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Sherlock Holmes

  • All God's Little Creatures: An animal variant. Alfie and Bert explain that they caught another kid, Ratter, and his gang being mean to a group of new kittens; Ratter meant to kill them all because of how noisy they were and he succeeded with one of the kittens before the two Irregulars fought him and escaped with the rest.

Sonic the Hedgehog

  • In Frenzy, 12-year old Amy Rose is murdered by a Serial Killer that turns out to be Metal Sonic. 8-year old Tails narrowly avoids the same fate.
Star Wars
  • Legacy of the Red Sun: Luke Skywalker dies at the age of the four - and that's just the beginning of the fic (though no other children die).

Super Smash Bros.

  • In the ninth episode of There Will Be Brawl, Wario has Pokemon Trainer's house bombed, killing him and his Pokémon.

Touhou

  • In Gensokyo 20XX, children can and will die, especially in stories past 20XXII, as those take place after a nuclear war. This is especially the case with Ran's pups, as, so far, before 20XXV, we've only had one live long enough to be named (Yume Ni) and she eventually dies, too.

Star Trek

Warrior Cats

  • Molekit dies of illness in the third chapter of Clémentine. His death stuns the Clan. It especially fills Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw with adult fear for their own children.
  • Spottedleaf's plot: To show she means business, Spottedleaf kills one of Mapleshade's kits. As he was already dead, he truly died this time.


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