Tropescilloscope: Children Are Innocent

Young children, uncorrupted by the world's evils. (read more at tvtropes.org)

More Tropes The Alcoholic Big "NO!" Dual Wielding Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Eyepatch of Power Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Genre Shift Bald of Evil Male Gaze The Atoner Those Two Guys Reality Is Unrealistic O.O.C. Is Serious Business Card-Carrying Villain Vampire Fiction Sci-Fi Horror NO INDOOR VOICE Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy MacGuffin Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Gorn The X of Y Spiteful Spit Television Movie Index Bland-Name Product Stylistic Suck Children Are Innocent Meet Cute May–December Romance Freeze-Frame Bonus Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Bloodless Carnage Lock and Load Montage Martial Arts Movie And I Must Scream Mama Bear Never Found the Body How We Got Here The Bully Unresolved Sexual Tension Put on a Bus Love Triangle Artistic License – Military Belligerent Sexual Tension Death Glare The '90s Arch-Enemy Serious Business Blood from the Mouth Darkest Hour Suspiciously Similar Substitute Idiot Ball Awesome, but Impractical British Films Pragmatic Villainy Moment Killer Fire-Forged Friends Adaptation Name Change Historical-Domain Character What Happened to the Mouse? Science Fiction Films Time Skip Adaptational Villainy Ambiguously Gay Black Dude Dies First Slasher Movie folderlabel Faux Affably Evil He Knows Too Much There Is No Kill Like Overkill Dull Surprise The Load Bond One-Liner Eye Scream Framing Device Red Oni, Blue Oni Arc Words Artistic License – Geography Hero Antagonist Conspicuous CG The Mafia The '60s Corpsing Took a Level in Jerkass Throwing Your Sword Always Works Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Slasher Smile Offscreen Moment of Awesome Adaptation Distillation Overly Long Gag Hidden Depths Beware the Nice Ones Even Evil Has Loved Ones Animal Motifs Translation Convention Bar Brawl Our Vampires Are Different Ungrateful Bastard Sadistic Choice Straight Gay Chewing the Scenery Fingore Villain Protagonist Jerkass Has a Point Important Haircut Epic Movie Sequel Escalation Award-Bait Song Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Demonic Possession Interrupted Suicide I Did What I Had to Do Boom, Headshot! All for Nothing Age Lift The Voiceless Affectionate Parody Monumental Damage Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Man on Fire Famous Last Words Disguised in Drag Jump Scare Adapted Out Too Dumb to Live Rated M for Manly Manipulative Bastard Bound and Gagged Have a Gay Old Time Our Zombies Are Different Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Skewed Priorities Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Loads and Loads of Characters Destination Defenestration Film Noir Index Eureka Moment Pay Evil unto Evil Vomit Discretion Shot Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue In Name Only Apocalypse How Pragmatic Adaptation Older Than They Look Wretched Hive Black Comedy Sanity Slippage Historical In-Joke Mythology Gag Face Death with Dignity Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other The Big Guy Slashed Throat Fanservice Extra Would Hit a Girl Sacrificial Lion N-Word Privileges Film Series Amusing Injuries Flipping the Bird Off-into-the-Distance Ending Humans Are Bastards Batman Gambit Fanservice Mind Screw Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Mundane Made Awesome Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Defiant to the End Take That! Eiffel Tower Effect Country Matters Dirty Old Man Leaning on the Fourth Wall Didn't Think This Through Zombie Stories timeperiod Deus ex Machina All Just a Dream Jerk Jock Police Brutality Take a Third Option Guns Akimbo Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass She's Got Legs Rasputinian Death Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hope Spot Love at First Sight Black and Gray Morality Guile Hero Very Loosely Based on a True Story Smug Snake Scary Black Man Worthy Opponent Asshole Victim The Stoner Camera Abuse Sole Survivor Rich Bitch Reckless Gun Usage Punny Name Genre Savvy Bi the Way Wicked Cultured Stuff Blowing Up And the Adventure Continues Shipper on Deck Non-Indicative Name Genre Throwback Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Reality Ensues Evil Brit Badass Bookworm Grievous Bottley Harm Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Dark Reprise Super Strength Call-Forward Dissonant Serenity Casting Gag Expy Getting Crap Past the Radar Re-Cut Tranquil Fury Vitriolic Best Buds Silence Is Golden A Date with Rosie Palms Affably Evil Early Installment Weirdness Overprotective Dad The Casanova As You Know Villain Ball Exactly What It Says on the Tin Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Only in It for the Money Hair-Trigger Temper Death by Adaptation Insane Troll Logic Not So Stoic Christmas Movies Index Dumb Blonde Cloudcuckoolander Fainting Meaningful Background Event Gender Flip Earn Your Happy Ending Soundtrack Dissonance Mexican Standoff Brutal Honesty Everyone Has Standards Protagonist Title Attempted Rape Gold Digger Nice Guy Calling the Old Man Out Dramatic Irony Cain and Abel Improbable Aiming Skills Aluminum Christmas Trees Body Horror Beta Couple Tempting Fate Shut Up, Hannibal! As Himself Running Gag It Can Think Hero of Another Story Dies Wide Open Fish out of Water Token Minority The Great Depression Intergenerational Friendship French Films The Film of the Book "Well Done, Son!" Guy Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Sinister Minister Villain Opening Scene Author Appeal Blatant Lies No Antagonist Mood Whiplash Truth in Television Hollywood Darkness Crucified Hero Shot Double Entendre Kick the Son of a Bitch Married to the Job Parental Substitute Alliterative Name Only Known by Their Nickname Pretty Little Headshots Plot Hole Horror Films Superhero Papa Wolf Deal with the Devil Parental Abandonment Character Development Australian Movies Nothing Is Scarier Groin Attack Mr. Exposition Becoming the Mask Revenge Pimped-Out Dress Pyrrhic Victory Line-of-Sight Name Maybe Ever After Corrupt Corporate Executive Greater-Scope Villain Adult Fear Rule of Three Department of Redundancy Department Death by Sex Big Bad Duumvirate Never Trust a Trailer Naïve Newcomer Vacation Films Evil vs. Evil Redemption Equals Death Undying Loyalty Not So Different Cool Old Guy Bare Your Midriff Bullying a Dragon Heroic BSoD Retired Badass Evil Counterpart He Who Fights Monsters Index of Film Westerns Catch-Phrase Did Not Get the Girl Final Girl Ascended Extra The Place Dutch Angle Spiritual Successor Fiery Redhead Cold-Blooded Torture Diabolus ex Machina Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Betty and Veronica Downer Ending Nice Hat Adaptational Heroism Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Smurfette Principle Obfuscating Stupidity Green-Eyed Monster The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite The '50s True Companions Deliberate Values Dissonance Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Anguished Declaration of Love Missing Mom One Steve Limit Self-Deprecation Central Theme Improvised Weapon Roaring Rampage of Revenge A Minor Kidroduction Celebrity Paradox Evil Is Hammy No Celebrities Were Harmed Names to Run Away from Really Fast Deliberately Monochrome Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Would Hurt a Child Adorkable Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism She Cleans Up Nicely Epic Fail Military and Warfare Films Manchild Badass Boast Villainous Breakdown Fat Bastard Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Manic Pixie Dream Girl No-Sell Break the Haughty The Ghost Your Cheating Heart Anachronic Order Men Are the Expendable Gender Bad Boss Hollywood Law Make It Look Like an Accident Distracted by the Sexy The Dragon Really Gets Around Action Girl Real Life Fake Shemp Noodle Incident Video Credits The Sociopath Ominous Latin Chanting Lampshade Hanging The Cameo Toplessness from the Back Every Car Is a Pinto Dirty Cop Butt-Monkey Major Injury Underreaction My God, What Have I Done? Due to the Dead Funny Foreigner Whole Plot Reference Friend to All Children Insult Backfire Red Herring Eldritch Abomination Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fourth Date Marriage Cool Old Lady Intrepid Reporter "Awesome McCool" Name '80s Hair Foregone Conclusion Combat Pragmatist Public Domain Feature Films Evil Sounds Deep Precision F-Strike Show Within a Show Broken Bird Mighty Whitey Canon Foreigner Breaking the Fourth Wall This Is Gonna Suck Bowdlerise Dying Moment of Awesome Hypocrite Anyone Can Die Kill It with Fire B-Movie Auto Erotica Car Fu Villain with Good Publicity Animal Title Index Rule of Symbolism Large Ham A God Am I Ship Tease You Have Failed Me Damsel in Distress One-Word Title Big Applesauce Unspoken Plan Guarantee The Alleged Car Not So Above It All Cowboy Cop Chiaroscuro Race Lift Totally Radical Creative Closing Credits No Ending Based on a True Story Never My Fault Gone Horribly Right Chekhov's Gunman Shower Scene Posthumous Character Daddy's Girl Big Bad Bunny-Ears Lawyer Shout-Out Suddenly SHOUTING! Alas, Poor Villain Parental Incest Silent Movie Only Sane Man Let's Get Dangerous! Heel–Face Turn Defrosting Ice Queen Off with His Head! Fantasy Films Artistic License – Gun Safety Bond Villain Stupidity All Girls Want Bad Boys Tap on the Head Gory Discretion Shot Works Set in World War II More Dakka The Hero Spell My Name with an "S" Badass Longcoat The Brute Easily Forgiven Author Avatar Unusually Uninteresting Sight Soft Glass Hooker with a Heart of Gold Imagine Spot Bloodier and Gorier Outrun the Fireball Fatal Family Photo Shell-Shocked Veteran Made of Explodium Victoria's Secret Compartment Artistic License – Law Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Failed a Spot Check Police are Useless BFG Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Jerk with a Heart of Gold Humiliation Conga Psychological Thriller Not What It Looks Like Curse Cut Short Disney Death Irony Homage Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Bolivian Army Ending Retcon Romantic False Lead Black Comedy Rape Freudian Excuse Death by Irony Redshirt Army Femme Fatale "Shaggy Dog" Story Captain Obvious A.I. Is a Crapshoot Punch-Clock Villain Ass Shove Fate Worse than Death Refuge in Audacity Manly Tears Logo Joke Call-Back Smoking Is Cool Stealth Pun Mr. Fanservice Expository Hairstyle Change Bilingual Bonus Bury Your Gays Obviously Evil The Ace Sequel Hook Gratuitous English World of Ham Paper-Thin Disguise Beard of Evil The Power of Love Covers Always Lie Face–Heel Turn Actually Pretty Funny Psycho for Hire Closed Circle It's Personal Implacable Man Reasonable Authority Figure Adaptation Dye-Job Captain Ersatz Room Full of Crazy As Long as It Sounds Foreign Knife Nut "The Reason You Suck" Speech Arranged Marriage You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Mercy Kill Big Damn Heroes Daylight Horror Instant Death Bullet Action Survivor Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Disproportionate Retribution Adults Are Useless The '70s The Stoic Ghost Fiction Neck Lift Determinator My Greatest Failure Bavarian Fire Drill German Films Eagleland Enemy Mine Not Using the "Z" Word For the Evulz Broken Pedestal Depraved Bisexual Driven to Suicide Gilligan Cut Wham Shot Dirty Coward Race Against the Clock As the Good Book Says... Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Dogged Nice Guy Artistic License – History Laser-Guided Karma Shirtless Scene Big Eater Demoted to Extra Not Even Bothering with the Accent Meaningful Echo Ironic Echo Does This Remind You of Anything? Unreliable Narrator Composite Character Domestic Abuse I Have Your Wife Karmic Death Broken Aesop Hypocritical Humor Be Careful What You Wish For Mystery and Detective Films From Nobody to Nightmare Documentary Brick Joke The Reveal The Chessmaster Fantastic Racism The Dog Bites Back It's All About Me The Oner Mugging the Monster The Stinger Star-Crossed Lovers Cat Fight Good Is Not Nice The Hero Dies Motor Mouth Ax-Crazy The Chick Henpecked Husband Psychopathic Manchild Real Life Writes the Plot Adaptation Expansion A Father to His Men Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Disney Villain Death Cat Scare Took a Level in Badass Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Action Prologue Rape as Drama Does Not Like Shoes Rule of Cool Funny Background Event Scare Chord An Arm and a Leg Four-Temperament Ensemble Chase Scene It Will Never Catch On Dwindling Party Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Training Montage Death of a Child Immune to Bullets Bait-and-Switch All There in the Script Suspiciously Specific Denial Amoral Attorney Camp Gay Rewatch Bonus Bad "Bad Acting" Novelization Unwitting Instigator of Doom Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Jitter Cam Cool Car Those Wacky Nazis Only One Name Wham Line Unusual Euphemism Artistic License – Physics Sexy Discretion Shot Stepford Smiler Title Drop Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Lighter and Softer Kids Are Cruel Horror Comedy Continuity Nod In the Back Bittersweet Ending Cluster F-Bomb Accidental Misnaming Red Eyes, Take Warning Knight Templar Leave the Camera Running Up to Eleven Anti-Villain Adaptational Badass Karma Houdini Kubrick Stare The Musical Sir Swears-a-Lot Russian Films The Bad Guy Wins Product Placement Rousing Speech Well-Intentioned Extremist Sassy Black Woman Not Quite Dead Jerkass Back from the Dead Heroes Want Redheads Madness Mantra The Lost Lenore Anachronism Stew Woman Scorned Grey and Gray Morality Kill 'em All Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Death Seeker Ripped from the Headlines Disappeared Dad Drowning My Sorrows The Cavalry Scenery Gorn Deconstruction The Ditz Cassandra Truth Crazy-Prepared Establishing Character Moment Despair Event Horizon All There in the Manual From Bad to Worse Together in Death Break the Cutie 20 Minutes into the Future Yandere Evil-Detecting Dog Artistic License – Biology Antagonist Title An Axe to Grind Dropped a Bridge on Him Badass in a Nice Suit The Remake I Need a Freaking Drink Fatal Flaw Random Events Plot Villain Song Laughing Mad Action Genre Italian Films Fun with Acronyms Decoy Protagonist Cool Shades Japanese Films Shown Their Work Book-Ends Reality Has No Subtitles Peek-a-Boo Corpse Dark Action Girl Killed Mid-Sentence Fan Disservice Foil Offscreen Teleportation Half the Man He Used to Be War Is Hell The Dreaded Annoying Younger Sibling Left the Background Music On Male Frontal Nudity Slap-Slap-Kiss Music Stories Shoot the Shaggy Dog Babies Ever After Taking the Bullet Even Evil Has Standards Credits Gag Extreme Doormat Properly Paranoid Heroic Sacrifice You Killed My Father Leitmotif Once More, with Clarity! Agony of the Feet What You Are in the Dark Flashback Parental Neglect Malevolent Masked Men Armor-Piercing Question Chekhov's Skill Badass Grandpa Setting Update Creepy Child Taking You with Me Big-Bad Ensemble Romantic Comedy La Résistance Bloody Hilarious Ms. Fanservice Stalker with a Crush Ambiguous Ending Storming the Castle Blood Knight Badass Normal After the End The Mole Big Brother Instinct I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Small Name, Big Ego Blackmail Abusive Parents No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mooks Morality Pet Faking the Dead Red Shirt Canadian Movies Developing Doomed Characters Say My Name Anti-Hero Cool Guns Sports Stories Exact Words Hate Sink Heterosexual Life-Partners Berserk Button Those Two Bad Guys Abhorrent Admirer Aside Glance Spared by the Adaptation Historical Villain Upgrade Double-Meaning Title Your Head A-Splode Evil Is Petty Bottomless Magazines Poor Communication Kills What the Hell, Hero? Only a Flesh Wound The Quiet One Sealed Evil in a Can Empathic Environment Catapult Nightmare Thriller Darker and Edgier Tagline Cruel and Unusual Death Improbable Weapon User An Aesop The Lancer In Medias Res Loophole Abuse Determinator aka: The Determinator Brainless Beauty No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Black Best Friend Dramedy Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Same Language Dub Pet the Dog Heel Realization Get Out! Playing Gertrude Big Fancy House Biopic Drill Sergeant Nasty One-Man Army Retirony Dramatic Gun Cock Authority Equals Asskicking Crazy Jealous Guy The Faceless Mad Scientist Neck Snap Hong Kong Films Deadpan Snarker Politically Incorrect Villain Pre-Mortem One-Liner Spanner in the Works Bring My Brown Pants Dressing as the Enemy Pretty in Mink Oh, Crap! The '80s Better to Die than Be Killed Visual Pun Happily Married The End... Or Is It? Crapsack World Evil Plan Plucky Comic Relief Animated Credits Opening Wrong Genre Savvy Twist Ending Brother–Sister Incest Market-Based Title Hoist by His Own Petard Frame-Up Riddle for the Ages Serial Killer Wounded Gazelle Gambit Costume Porn Naked People Are Funny Contrived Coincidence No Name Given All Men Are Perverts And Starring I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Comically Missing the Point Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Almost Kiss Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! My Beloved Smother Handicapped Badass Advertised Extra Alpha Bitch Air-Vent Passageway Early-Bird Cameo Dark Is Not Evil Scenery Porn The Starscream I'm a Humanitarian Stock Footage Chekhov's Gun Light Is Not Good Mistaken for Gay Honor Before Reason Woman in White Film Noir Gainax Ending No OSHA Compliance Facial Horror Dark and Troubled Past Danny Peary Cult Movies List Informed Ability Extremely Short Timespan Red Right Hand Last-Name Basis Accidental Murder You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Here We Go Again! Actor Allusion Kick the Dog Foreshadowing The Smart Guy For Want of a Nail Word of God Hell Is That Noise The Un-Reveal Trailers Always Spoil Vomit Indiscretion Shot Curb-Stomp Battle Ambiguous Disorder Match Cut Insistent Terminology Five-Man Band Drives Like Crazy Recycled IN SPACE! Rule of Funny Drugs Are Bad Historical Hero Upgrade Obstructive Bureaucrat Made of Iron Needs Wiki Magic Love Creator Cameo Stealth Hi/Bye Narrator Evil Laugh Adaptational Attractiveness Meaningful Name Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies The Vamp Coming-of-Age Story