- In the very loosely based-on-a-true-story film Anastasia, Rasputin attempts to murder Anastasia as a child in retribution for her father exiling him for treason. It is all but stated that he succeeded in getting her child-aged brother along with their sisters and parents killed.
- One of the Bolshevik rioters knocks a young Dmitry out by pistol-whipping him with the butt of a rifle when the former helps Anastasia and her grandmother escape.
- In Ballerina obsessive Stage Mom Regine tries to murder Félicie after she gets the part of Clara in The Nutcracker, instead of her daughter Camille. She also hits Victor in the back of the head with a heavy tool.
- Barbie films:
- In Barbie as Rapunzel, Gothel kidnapped Rapunzel as a baby and raised the the girl as a servant. She also uses her magic to almost murder Prince Stefan's little brother and sisters. The brother was only saved because Stefan pushed him out of the way at the last minute.
- In Barbie of Swan Lake, Rothbart turned the children in the Enchanted Forest into animals against their will.
- In Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses, Duchess Rowena emotionally abuses King Randolph's daughters when they are put under her supervision. She later tries to trap the girls forever in the magic pavilion. When that fails, she orders the guards to put the girls in prison if they see them. The youngest three daughters are barely five! Finally, she attempts to curse the teenage Genevieve to dance forever.
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker: As revealed in the flashback sequence, Harley Quinn (and The Joker) would hurt Robin. With that said, Harley retired after this night because she knew that what she did was downright terrible. Without the Joker's influence, she became The Atoner afterward.
- In The Boxtrolls, Snatcher has no qualms with attempting to kill Eggs on multiple occasions as well as Winifred Portley-Rind when She Knows Too Much. He eventually threatens Winnie's life if her father doesn't initiate him into the White Hats.
- In Despicable Me, Gru thinks he's capable of this but over time grows to love the three orphans he adopted as a true father. His rival, Vector, actually is not above child endangerment to accomplish his schemes.
- In Despicable Me 3, Bratt kidnaps Gru's daughters and holds them for ransom, similar to what Vector did with them in the first film.
- Disney Animated Canon:
- The Coachman in Pinocchio infamously lures misbehaving children to his Pleasure Island, only to turn them into donkeys and sell them to salt mines... or keep them around for his other nefarious purposes.
- Captain Hook of Peter Pan puts a bomb in a house full of children, makes a teenage girl walk the plank, and sics his pirate crew on the children when they try to escape from him... and just watch him go all Ax-Crazy in the climax against Peter. He even pulls a false surrender on Peter after the latter agrees to spare Hook's life.
- Earlier, the Native Americans capture the children, suspecting that they have hidden Princess Tiger Lily, and threaten to burn them at the stake if she is not returned to the tribe by sunset.
- Madam Mim in The Sword in the Stone tells 12-year-old Wart she's afraid she's going to have to kill him... by turning herself into a cat while he's transformed into a little bird. It's downplayed because Merlin intervenes in time, but still.
- In the same movie, Wart has to avoid being attacked by his older foster brother Kay at least twice and to make matters worse, Kay openly encourages his father Sir Ector to "box Wart's ears" at one point.
- Shere Khan in The Jungle Book is insanely devoted to slaughtering a certain human boy.
Baloo: What does he have against the kid?
Bagheera: He hates man with a vengeance, everyone knows that! Because he fears man's gun and man's fire.
Baloo: But little Mowgli don't have those things!
Bagheera: Well he won't wait until he does! He'll get Mowgli while he's young and helpless!- The Great Mouse Detective: The Faux Affably Evil Ratigan is revealed — in song, no less - to have drowned widows and orphans. During the Big Ben battle in the climax, he's shown kicking Olivia off a large gear, directly into the path of being crushed by two other gears. Luckily Basil is able to rescue her, just barely in time — which ultimately triggers a Villainous Breakdown in Ratigan.
- Sykes from Oliver & Company arranges for and perpetrates the abduction of the titular kitten's new owner, Jenny Foxworth upon discovering her identity, intent on having her mauled to death by his two vicious Dobermans, Roscoe and DeSoto if her upper-class family, consisting of her unseen parents and butler Winston doesn't surrender his extorted ransom, yet he's likely determined to execute her either way. In the climax, he even attempts to summon his dogs to attack Jenny, alongside Oliver, Dodger, Georgette, & the rest of Fagin's dogs, and eventually goes as far as to endanger her by dragging her over the electrified subway tracks, where she could potentially slip out of his grasp to a horrible demise. Sykes is additionally blinded from his own impending doom at the hands of an upcoming train, proving an even more horrific threat to the young wealthy heiress.
- Roscoe and DeSoto are probably no better. In addition to above, they attack Oliver after the latter scratches DeSoto in the nose, & during the final battle, they make one last attempt to kill the kitten just before Dodger comes to the rescue and forces the duo to their electrifying demises.
- Percival McLeach from The Rescuers Down Under ties up Cody and suspends him from the crane in his truck with the intention of lowering the boy into a river full of crocodiles and even if that didn't eventuate, the boy would have either drowned or fallen to his death down the nearby waterfall. Earlier in the movie, McLeach threw knives at Cody as part of an interrogation, as pictured above.
- Notably, McLeach doesn't want to just kill Cody, but specifically wants to feed him to the crocodiles, as he dunks him once before pulling him back up to lower him again, and when Bernard steals the keys to his rig so he can't lower Cody any more, he gets his shotgun out...to shoot the rope, not Cody. He's not just willing to hurt/kill a child, he wants to do it in the most horrifying way he can at the moment.
- The Lion King (1994): The Hyenas and Scar. The former nearly eat Simba and Nala after they wander onto the elephant graveyards (only stopping when Mufasa shows up) and Scar, who shows no qualms about putting his own nephew in extreme danger to achieve his ultimate goal –- becoming king of the Pride Lands. First, he tricks Simba into the gorge below Pride Rock before sending –- with the hyenas' help –- a stampede of wildebeest through, forcing Simba to hang on for dear life. Mufasa is able to rescue Simba, but this results in Scar murdering the injured Mufasa by throwing him back into the stampede. Later, as a mourning Simba is exiled from the Pride Lands, Scar sends the hyenas after Simba, who would have died if not for sheer luck.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame: Judge Claude Frollo, in the first few minutes of the film, would have dropped baby Quasimodo down a well if not for the intervention of the Archdeacon, who demanded that Frollo raise the infant to atone for killing Quasimodo's mother. He also tries to burn an innocent family alive in their own house, two children included.
- Shan-Yu from Mulan is the most terrifying animated example of this trope. He picks up a little girl's doll that his scout bird brought him, talks about having to return it to her. And the next time we see the doll, it's lying in the barren wasteland of a town that was burned to the ground.
- King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph tried to delete Vanellope from the game's code, and when that failed turned her into a glitch. Then when she races him, he slams into her, tries to knock her out using a dislodged gearshift and finally pushes her in front of his car intending to smash her into a stalactite. This trope may be slightly out of place due to all characters being ageless video game characters, but Vanellope was programmed as 9-years-old.
- Big Hero 6 opens with the 14-year-old protagonist nearly being viciously assaulted by a Sore Loser gangster and it's quite clear that had Tadashi not shown up when he did, it would have ended very badly.
- Happily Never After: Frieda changes the story of Little Red Riding Hood so the wolf eats her, and also threatens to feed the baby Rumpelstiltskin stole to the crocodiles.
- In Ice Age, the sabertooth tigers and especially the leader Soto plan to catch a human baby so that he can eat it (and makes a point of wanting it alive), and continue to hunt the baby after the mother dies in her escape attempt from his second-in-command Diego. Diego, however, has a change of heart after spending time with the baby and growing fond of him.
- The Iron Giant: Kent Mansley. When he thinks Hogarth can lead him to the Giant, he follows the boy aggressively. When that fails, he overpowers Hogarth and subjects him to Perp Sweating and knockout by chloroform. He finally threatens to use his power as a government agent to take Hogarth away from his mother.
- In Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, the alternate-timeline Wonder Woman has no qualms killing children, shown when she uses her lasso to trick Captain Thunder to say "Shazam", reversing his transformation. In this timeline, Captain Thunder's true identity is a team of kids.
- Krishna Aur Kans: Putna is a demonic sorceress who's so powerful and sadistic that she's offended when tasked with killing only one kid, going on a rant as to how she's much better suited to killing kids in at least the triple digits.
- The Rat Leader in Lucky and Zorba was ready to let the rats eat Lucky (a young seagull) and Yoyo (a kitten)
- ParaNorman:
- Agatha, an eleven-year-old girl who can talk to dead people like Norman can, is executed when the town's elites come to the conclusion that she is a witch.
- The modern-day townspeople are enthusiastically planning to burn Norman alive.
- Pixar:
- A Bug's Life: Hopper has no compunction against threatening baby Princess Dot through his psychotic lap-hopper Thumper.
- A plan involving Randall and Mr. Waternoose in Monsters, Inc. may not have specifically aimed at killing children, but the results of the Scream Extractor seem anything but harmless.
- Both Played Straight and Discussed in The Incredibles. Helen explains to Dash and Violet that yes, the Mooks would hurt a child. And they try to. Fortunately, the kids are resourceful enough to fight back... It was already demonstrated when Bomb Voyage planted a bomb on Buddy's cape, which forced Mr. Incredible to save him while Bomb Voyage escapes. The fact that this is also the case with Syndrome is a contributing factor to Mirage's Heel–Face Turn.
- Toy Story 3: Once Big Baby learns about Lotso's true nature, Lotso does not hesitate to beat Big Baby right in the stomach with his wooden mallet. This eventually causes Big Baby to pull an epic The Dog Bites Back moment towards Lotso by throwing him into the dumpster.
- The other PG Pixar Film, Up, has the villain send dogs to attack the kid there, and before he died, almost shot the kid as well. Pixar seems to tell people that villains can, and will, harm and kill children if they have the option.
- Coco has the villain Ernesto De La Cruz throw the main character Miguel, age 12, off a building and before that, attempt to prevent him from leaving the Land of the Dead, which would have killed him.
- In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: The Tiger Prowess, Lord Japper, Leopold, and Counselor Gecko don't see a problem with forcing the children to work at the amusement park with no breaks.
- The Prince of Egypt:
- The Pharoah Seti, as per the original Biblical story, ordered the mass slaughter of Hebrew babies out of fear that their numbers would become too numerous (thus making them a potential threat). The discovery of this act, along with finding out that he was very nearly one of those babies, is what drives Moses to leave the kingdom.
- Also applies to God Himself, as per the tenth plague, the killing of all the first-born children of Egypt. Notably, Moses feels nothing but sorrow over this, despite it being the plague that finally sees the Hebrews released from slavery.
- After allowing the Hebrews their freedom, Rameses later changes his mind and leads his army to chase them down, catching up to them during the crossing of the Red Sea. When he's thrown from his chariot, he commands his men to keep going and kill them all, despite knowing that there are many children among them.
- Recess: School's Out shows us that the villains will attack children, though they fail for the most part.
- Rise of the Guardians: Pitch Black a.k.a. the Bogeyman gives children nightmares and wants to remake the world into one of "nothing but fear and darkness." Once he realizes that one kid is the only thing left between him and victory over the titular Guardians, he angrily lunges at the kid saying, "There are other ways to snuff out a light."
- The Grand Duke of Owls in Rock-A-Doodle, near the film's climax, asphyxiates child protagonist Edmund when the boy-turned-kitten refuses to give up, in a supremely dark example of Mood Whiplash. A combination of Disney Death and All Just a Dream makes it better, but it's still shocking. In one deleted scene, the Grand Duke bakes a baby skunk into a pie. Don Bluth removed the scene because a test audience cited that "most cases of child abuse happen in the kitchen, and involve baking instruments".
- Rugrats/Wild Thornberrys shared universe:
- The Rugrats Movie: Scar Snout the Wolf has no qualms whatsoever about targeting six innocent babies (ages ranging from newborn to 3) just to eat them. While we can't hear his thoughts, he's sapient given Rugrats sharing the same universe as The Wild Thornberrys, so therefore, it's logical to believe he knows he's targeting human babies.
- Rugrats in Paris:
- Coco LaBouche at one point is told that Mr. Yamaguchi's successor "must have the heart of a child" and under her breath, she not so theoretically states: "I must have one in a jar somewhere".
- Jean Claude, Coco's right hand man, uses a giant RoboSnail animatronic to go after the babies in a Reptar animatronic and nearly kills them at least once.
- Rugrats Go Wild!: Siri the Clouded Leopard doesn't come off as sadistic as Scar Snout, but she's shown to be aware of the babies' presence and all too gleeful to seek them out to feed on them nonetheless.
- The Wild Thornberrys Movie: Sloan and Bree Blackburn viciously target animals regardless of age, abducting an innocent cheetah cub just so Bree can get a coat from his fur and Sloan threatens the Thornberry kids without any conscience too, throwing Eliza from their helicopter into the river when she interferes with trying to takeout the entire herd of elephants (including at least one child there, too).
- White Snake (2019): The "Little Daoist" has his soldiers threaten to kill a baby to get the snake catcher villagers to give him information on Blanca.
